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Simply put, the pioneers who built it used nanotechnology to make this super-dimensional channel "closer" to the stable real universe. Combined with the "reinforcement" of nanorobots, the L-gate tunnel avoided the distortion caused by the abnormal space-time structure and highly chaotic characteristics of the subspace.

In addition, the instruments inside the ship observed that this channel was not built with psychic materials like crystal like ordinary webways, but was made of ultra-technological composite materials composed of countless nanomachines.

These nanomachines that make up the waterway seem to have a certain self-repair ability. They constantly adjust their own structure to ensure the stability of the waterway.

This highly advanced hyperspace pipeline laying technology made the Federation's scientific researchers feel like they had entered a gold mine. They did not hesitate to ingest Zelo distillate to maintain a high level of "enlightenment" that would be harmful to their physiology and soul, and to fully remember all the information about this channel in the physical and metaphysical realms.

This advanced FTL technology-related facility is the Federation's dream, it can usher in a new era. But it is not the only reward for our "Valentine's Day Gift Collection Tour".

In this gray channel, researchers imagined what kind of unique civilization they could discover on the other side of the waterway, but they were disappointed.

Across the channel is a desolate and distant galaxy. Calculated through the relative position of the celestial locator, it is located on the eastern edge of the Milky Way and is an isolated celestial system far away from the main star cluster of the Milky Way.

There is no sign of any life inside this L star cluster. Gray dust is floating in the universe, mixed with the wreckage of some alien civilization's ships.

After entering the terminal exit galaxy of the L-Gate, everyone could immediately see that a shocking battle had taken place long ago on this side of the L-Gate.

Some worlds that may have once harbored life have been blasted to pieces, while others are covered in a fine dust cloud that a cursory scan reveals is actually some kind of disabled ancient nanomachine.

This makes us wonder whether the locked L-gate is intended to prevent the outside world from entering, or to prevent the things inside from escaping... What happened here?

The researchers activated the ship's weapon system with hesitation before daring to go further into this desolate Gray Goo galaxy.

As it turns out, in our third galaxy in the L cluster, we had a... very strange encounter.

Our probe scans revealed a strange energy signature on the lifeless surface of this planet. The surprising thing is, this signature came from a Helka wandering aimlessly in the Antarctic region.

What shocked our personnel was that this Helka, although not wearing a space suit and not equipped with any life support systems or modifications, was still able to live very comfortably in the vacuum of space.

After discussion and coercion, the expedition team finally persuaded the reluctant Helka citizen to return to our research ship, and then started a nonsensical conversation.

The other party said something startling: "Greetings, dear compatriots. How are you all doing? As for me, I have no interest in performing the breeding ritual at the moment. My sleep cycle is almost over, so I will soon lose consciousness. Mating can wait until later."

No race in the Federation would discuss the customs of reproduction rituals with each other. The most outrageous thing was that twins liked to chat with their own kind about "which type of person do you like to wear today."

Faced with the speechless expression of the scientific research director, the other party seemed to realize that he had done something wrong.

"Ah! Am I mistaken? Wait a minute... let me think about it... Ah, yes. Uh-huh. Huh. I didn't mean to bring up breeding when our species isn't even in season yet."

"Perhaps we could use some psychotropic potions while engaging in some pleasant companionship to establish a pleasant friendly relationship?"

"..."

"Oh, what the hell! Why is this so complicated? Yeah, it's obvious that I'm not a member of your species at all. What do you want?"

"It's been a pleasure talking to you, because at least no one's talking for three seconds before they start pulling out their bolters, but we have to know the outcome. Who are you?"

Chief Scientific Director Tessexin, the great man who left office to explore the vast universe, decided to get straight to the point.

The other party's learning speed was astonishing. In a short period of time, he had acquired the social habits of the Federation species. From speaking gibberish at the beginning, he even adopted a helpless attitude of "forgive me": "Okay, okay. I'll tell you the truth. There's no need to pretend anymore. Please forgive me for speaking so bluntly, but it's been a long time since I last spoke to anyone other than myself."

"A long time ago, there was a civilization that was, so to speak, made up of nanomachines. Do you know what a nanomachine is? Very good."

These nanomachines were called "Gray Storms" by their creators.

Although its internal self-naming code is countless times more complex than that.

In short, the relationship between the nanomachines and their creators gradually deteriorated, and a war broke out. When the dust settled, only the nanomachines survived.

But before the Creators were destroyed, they managed to close their cluster's only exit portal, trapping the nanomachines inside.

"After that, the nanomachines found themselves with plenty of time. They spent thousands of years trying in vain to leave the cluster, but after that they began to experiment with all kinds of shapes and forms."

"For a time, they even reconstructed their creator's civilization as it had vanished, down to each individual inhabitant of the Desanu Empire. I am the latest result of this experiment. Aside from the static nanomachines covering certain planets, the entire Gray Storm, or whatever you want to call us, is concentrated on me. My consciousness represents our entire civilization."

"As for my appearance... it's because I think you might be more accepting of someone who looks similar to you."

Tessexin was very interested in this experience: "The legend of humanity's so-called Iron Man Rebellion and hatred of intelligence now has a vivid example... Hey, don't look at me like that. Although your consciousness was reconstructed after the disintegration of the nanorobots, it may be different from the previous Gray Goo Storm, but it is also equivalent to the work of your parent members."

"Anyway, we don't plan to pursue this issue any further. Are you planning to stay on this desolate planet?"

Gray Wind: "I have to admit, I'm starting to get a little bored with this idyllic life. Now that the L-Gate has opened again, it's time for me to consider exploring some new things."

Tessin suddenly had an idea: "How about you join us? You can become a citizen of the Federation."

Gray Wind seemed very interested in the proposal.

"Join you? Join you!? You want me to throw myself into the arms of some strange alien I just met for the first time? I really... I just... Wait, let me get this straight..."

"You really think I'm going to pledge my loyalty to you, Xuanzhe, even though I know nothing about your strange empire or its sordid history? Are you kidding?"

"I don't know what you were thinking when you suggested something like that... but on second thought... well, why not? Let me join you. No, no, I mean it! I have a feeling we'd be a great match, and it'd be a great and exciting adventure."

"I hereby declare my loyalty to you for the next 2000 years. No, let's say 5000 years!"

This process was incredible to the Federation scientists, who had just made friends with a former Ironheart Exterminator.

But as the other party said, why not? The birth of this vast universe was not for quarrels, fighting and bloodshed, making everything in the 400th century look as stupid and boring as the 4th century.

But for adventure and distance.

"Welcome to the Helka Federation. How about changing the contract to 40 millennia?"

130

Chapter 130 They are everywhere.

The encounter with Grey Wind was certainly a delight, but the things that came with it were also valuable.

First, there's the insight into the L-Gate, which will help the Federation build its own network of faster-than-light channels. Since the webway is already so rotten, we will personally repair it, build a new one, and then upgrade it in all aspects.

Secondly, there are a large number of nanorobots from the L Cluster and various legacies of the Desanu Empire. These important legacies can ensure that the Federation can make substantial progress in nanotechnology and the entire synthetic evolution-related technology route.

The nearly endless transformation potential of nanorobots is enough to bring about a new era. We can use nanotransformers to produce various rare resources, or re-activate the Desanu Empire's complete nanoautomation project, completely liberating all residents from labor and allowing nanoautomatons to complete all resource production work.

With this beautiful vision in mind, the federal engineering team is full of enthusiasm and is ready to build this L star cluster into a new base for the federation.

Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong and we must leave as soon as possible and say goodbye to the Desanu people.

The Federation's development of the L Cluster should have been a simple undertaking. The application of nanorobot technology allowed us to transform these desolate planets into habitable worlds in a fraction of the time, even allowing ecosystems to evolve and perfect within a short period of time, creating a magnificent paradise highly suitable for all life forms.

But we didn't have time. Before any of this could begin, remote probes sent back a series of disturbing detection messages.

At first, the data seemed to be irregular, as if it was the projection of some cosmic dust or massive celestial body, but as the detector focused further, the federal expedition team realized that this shadow was not a natural phenomenon, but a living creature: or more accurately, hundreds of millions or even trillions of living creatures.

It was a star-devouring shadow, a sea of moving biomass larger than the entire L Cluster.

Without a doubt, this was the Tyranid Swarm, a natural disaster considered an absolute extinction threat by countless civilizations in the galaxy.

Unlike the Zerg invasions we encountered before, this time the Zerg swarm was of an unimaginable size. They covered the deep space and the frontline troops could hardly see any place that was not filled with the bodies of these creatures.

Huge swarm motherships opened their palates in the void, and biological warships tens of kilometers long and even larger, planet-like production ships that had never been seen in the Milky Way were moving slowly. The gravitational threads created by the leading narwhal worm ship in front caused the space-time structure to produce waves of distortion.

The true main force of the Zerg is heading towards the Milky Way.

The Federation's strategic analysis team quickly concluded that staying here and engaging in direct combat was completely pointless. Even with the most advanced Federation warships and the most comprehensive interstellar defense systems, a swarm of this magnitude would be unstoppable. Even if they could be confronted, the resulting losses would be unacceptable to the Federation, which desperately needed to develop.

The Federation cannot fight here. The only thing they can do is to collect as many relics of the L Cluster as possible and then retreat.

The order to retreat was quickly issued. All research vessels, military escort fleets, engineering vessels, and scientific research units immediately began intensive operations to recover any potentially valuable relics within the L Cluster.

Many civilizations have explored the L Cluster in the past, and even ancient empires have left behind some mysterious facilities and technologies, which the Federation must take away.

Interstellar transport ships worked day and night, their space cargo holds were quickly filled, and anything that could not be taken away was destroyed as much as possible to prevent it from falling into the hands of the swarm.

But none of that matters. What really matters is the bridge to the distant stars behind us, the L-Gate.

These hyperspace channels left behind by the ancient civilization of Desanu allow fleets to travel across the vast universe in a very short time.

What we have no doubt about is that the Tyranids are intelligent enough to recognize the L-Gate's purpose and activate it as a shortcut to invade the galaxy.

If these Zerg swarms discover and learn to use the L-gate, they may sweep across the entire galaxy like a flood, and the core world of the Federation will not even have time to react before being covered by these creatures.

If that happens, we will become the sinners who destroy the galaxy.

"We can't let them use the L-Gate."

This was the only conclusion reached by the top leaders of the Federal Scientific Research Investigation Team at an emergency meeting.

All L-gates within the L-cluster must be destroyed, even the hyperspace channels must be destroyed, to completely cut off the possibility of the Zerg entering the Milky Way.

However, accomplishing this task was no easy task. The L-Gates were extremely sturdy superstructures, even beyond the Federation's current engineering understanding, and directly destroying them would require enormous amounts of energy.

But fortunately, during this scientific expedition, the Federation happened to obtain some technological knowledge from the Desanu Empire, and this knowledge provided a possibility: using the energy core of the L-gate itself to trigger hyperspace collapse, causing the L-gate to disappear in self-collapse.

The mission was carried out by an engineering team led by Grey Wind. Their goal was to place a hyperspace warp device within the L-Gate and use the firepower of the research frigate to induce an energy imbalance.

Every L-Gate must be destroyed, or the Zerg will find a way into the heart of the galaxy.

When the retreat operation entered its final stage, the collapse program of the L star gate was also activated one by one.

When the last Federation ship disappeared in the former airspace of the Desanu Empire, a huge explosion and hyperspace annihilation wave occurred, and every L-gate in the L-cluster was completely destroyed.

The aftermath of the distortion of interstellar space spread throughout the entire star cluster, severely affecting the surrounding planets. The atmospheres of some planets were directly torn apart, while the gray dust belts deeper in the cluster formed new vortices under the impact of hyperspace.

As each Federation ship passed through the L-gate and evacuated back to the Federation, the last legacy of the Desanu Empire bid farewell to the Milky Way forever. Everything that was left would soon be swallowed up by the sweeping Zerg scourge.

Fortunately, the L Cluster has been completely blocked, and the space on the other side of the Milky Way has become a cage for the Zerg. The Federation has temporarily avoided a disaster that could lead to the extinction of civilization.

However, all this is only temporary. The swarm will not stop, they will inevitably reach our galaxy and become a natural disaster for all life.

"Then why don't you become a natural disaster faster than them? I have confidence in you."

Grey Wind's words really put too much confidence in us, but what he said seems to be right. We can't always expect the Empire to repel the Scourge and protect the galaxy.

This work still needs to be done by the federal government.

131

Chapter 131 The Eternal Covenant.

The question of how to deal with such a large swarm of insects is a huge headache, and even the joy brought by the addition of such an outstanding talent as Grey Wind cannot offset this headache.

The federal scientific research department is working hard to come up with various weapons plans, preparing for the decisive battle when encountering the Zerg, but antimatter is still not enough.

Through their research on the Primordial Sea, biologists from the Federation came up with a new idea: they plan to study a special biological weapon called genophage.

Such a weapon would be capable of striking the nodal organisms of the Tyranid Swarm with pinpoint accuracy, reducing them to a slurry of organic matter with its genetic material completely disintegrated.

Without the nodes, the swarm will quickly fall into chaos and collapse, no longer able to pose a threat to us.

Or we can accelerate our pursuit of the cosmic creation project and those... insights beyond the extraordinary, so that we can ascend to a state where we regard all the heroes in the world as insignificant, although it is not clear how long it will take.

In the final analysis, self-development is the bottom line. As long as our strength is strong enough to make numbers meaningless, the swarm will become a group of ants shaking a tree, and it doesn't matter how many come.

Fortunately, the development opportunity of super technology research and development found us soon after.

……

On Helka Prime, when Grey Wind arrived at this sanatorium with elaborately decorated oriental-style furnishings, she saw the little girl who had survived the war. She was flipping through the Federation's public scientific data with an indescribable look.

It's like some kind of disillusionment.

When they first met each other, although Xiao Hui knew that the other party had a miserable life, he still felt a little dissatisfied with this new social relationship in the "Federation".

However, through later interactions, she was able to understand the sadness of this new friend.

Yunru, the leader of the resistance army on Planet Mo, a traitor or a hero, became the second person rescued from the space-time rift because of her connection with Walker Network.

It may also be the last one. The curvature disorder of those space-time rifts is becoming more and more serious. The Federation's current superficial understanding of space-time technology makes it seem that we are gradually unable to open those time rifts again.

It seemed that she would survive alone in this strange era and strange world. Apart from Walker.com, only Tanya, whom she was not familiar with, could talk to her. She was silent all day long and rarely spoke a few words except when discussing scientific research materials.

She can't continue in this state. The Federation wants to bring smiles to every citizen, so Xiao Hui is ordered to bring her new hope.

……

The night on Helka Prime was tranquil and profound. Neon lights illuminated the streets, and towering towers in the distance stretched toward the sky, seemingly reaching the edge of the universe. Gray Wind strolled through the corridors of this sanatorium, feeling a sense of warmth and tranquility within the space.

She gently pushed the door open, revealing a soft light in the room. A data terminal sat on a table in the center of the room. A young woman with a distinctive axolotl-like hairstyle sat at the table, flipping through the scientific data provided by the Helka Federation. Her fingertips tapped the virtual screen, her eyes focused and complex.

It is a kind of false concentration, a posture of hiding oneself in knowledge to escape worries.

"How have you been lately?"

Gray Wind walked in, casually pulled up a chair and sat down, his tone brisk and with a sly smile.

Yunru looked up and saw her new friend. She was very interested in this question because her speech speed quickened and her eyes sparkled.

“It’s been an incredible experience here.”

Her tone was filled with excitement. "The technology of the Helka Federation far exceeds my imagination. Their research on high-dimensional physics is incredible, especially the theory of the creation of the universe. This is a concept that should not even be within the reach of my era, or even any era after our planet."

She paused, looking at Gray Wind with blazing eyes. "They're actually studying how to control the entire universe and the structure of space and time? This is a skill that can almost define the rules of reality. If I could get more complete data, maybe I could..."