NOVEL NEXT Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Li Wenyuan had placed the scientist from the Turbulent Civilization in a research center on earth. With his participation, the efficiency of engineering research in the scientific research zone increased a little.
At this time, more than half of the synthetic humanoids on earth had been transferred to other galaxies by Li Wenyuan to act as human labor. Some things couldn’t be completed by construction robots alone, and people had to coordinate from the side.
The robot assembly plant was also producing new synthetic humanoids day and night and sending them to places that needed manpower. This made Li Wenyuan feel like a black-hearted boss who endlessly exploited robots.
But it was all worth it. He could see through the data that his production capacity was booming, and it was much better than when he first came here.
The almost destroyed facilities on earth had also begun a long repair project. At least, Li Wenyuan didn’t want his mother planet to still be in a state of chaos.
Today, after he was done with his internal affairs, he set his eyes on a solar system that was some distance away from the solar system.
There was a destroyed interstellar space project waiting for him to explore.
…
The Carlo Galaxy was a standard single-star galaxy system.
The six planets revolved around a G-shaped main sequence star in the center, forming the shape of the galaxy.
At first glance, it looked very ordinary, not much different from the many unremarkable galaxies in the Milky Way.
However, if one looked at the third planet, one would find a huge building floating near it.
Its size was far beyond the range of a normal building, and the city-sized giant on the planet was only a part of the structure of the building.
Countless of such structures combined to form a giant interstellar building that was not inferior to a planet.
Such a building was called a megastructure.
Their function tended to be singular, but their efficiency was also magnified countless times with such a huge volume base.
In the Milky Way, such a megastructure could often cause disputes between civilizations, and there were many civilizations that fought for it.
However, the megastructure in front of them was very deserted, and almost no one was interested in it.
A pirate underling was sitting in a confined space, biting on a low-quality energy bar he had found. He asked the pirate leader beside him,
“Boss, why do you think this place became our base? Not every civilization would want to control such a megastructure, so how could they allow us to build our nest inside?”
He ate it deliciously, chewing the rubber-like energy bar in big mouthfuls as if he was eating some delicious food.
However, the other pirates looked at the energy bars in their hands and silently threw them to the side.
As the most unpalatable and unnutritious thing in the galaxy, even the bee colony would shake its head at the sight of it.
The pirate leader was also chewing on an energy bar with great difficulty, but he still answered his younger pirate brother’s question in the gap between his gulps.
“This megastructure is so broken that there is no value in repairing it. Even dismantling it and selling it as waste can’t cover the cost of fuel, so no one cares about this place.
He swallowed the energy bar after much effort. He even spent a long time calming his breathing before he continued,
“But this is a good hiding place for us. Although it’s old, there are many closed cabins like this that can be used to repair and store supplies.
“And most of the civilizations in the Milky Way know that this place has been completely abandoned, so they won’t come here at all. Only those who have just entered the galaxy would be full of curiosity and inquire about this place.”
“Speaking of which, there used to be a group of pirates here other than us, but they’re all doing the terrible work of killing and robbing. They haven’t appeared for a long time now. Most likely, they’ve faced a roadblock.”
This pirate leader spoke eloquently and clearly, and it seemed like he had been in this world for a long time.
A pirate who swallowed his energy bar in disgust heard this and ridiculed without thinking,
“Bullying the weak? It seems that we often take action against newcomers in space. We’ve done everything we can except for not killing.”
The pirate leader’s eyes widened as he tried to defend himself. “That’s called letting them know the dangers of the galaxy in advance! Otherwise, with their naïvety, they’ll be scammed by those megacorps sooner or later!”
“Yes, yes, yes, the boss is right…”
In the end, the pirates endured their disgust and swallowed their low-quality energy bars. After all, they hadn’t made much money after being pirates for so many years and could only eat such things.
“Let’s go if you’re done eating. Isn’t there a rumor that the lost civilization of the Administrator has begun to expand? I heard they’re near this star field, if we stay here, we’ll probably be cleaned up like garbage, so let’s hurry up and move.”
The pirate leader ordered his men to take as much as they could, then hurriedly left the galaxy.
They were lucky because not long after they left, a small spaceship arrived.
This small ship was the research spaceship from the Administrator. It had a clear target, the megastructure on the third planet.
“The sensors show that there’s a megastructure here, but it looks like it’s completely destroyed.”
Li Wenyuan looked at the huge building on the screen and felt a little dispirited.
“That’s probably the case. Craybow’s star map also indicated that there was a damaged structure here. If it could be repaired normally, they would have occupied it long ago. How could no one have shown interest in it?”
Despite his thoughts, the research spaceship still sent out as many drones as possible to scan the megastructure.
Although it was a destroyed giant, it might be able to provide some data for the Level 6 megastructure construction project.
With the drone’s scan, more and more detailed information about the megastructure was revealed. At the same time, he also received good news.
[ Almost abandoned sentry formation ]
[ Introduction: This megastructure has almost been destroyed over a long time, but after analysis, we still have the possibility of repairing some of its functions. According to speculation, this megastructure was used as a giant monitor in the past. Its various facilities can perform space scanning over a large range, and the result is infinitely close to 100% accuracy by combining data calculation and simulation, thus achieving interstellar monitoring of the civilization on the space scale. ]
[ New technology has been added to the technology tree ]
Li Wenyuan didn’t expect that this almost-destroyed megastructure could be repaired, even if it was only a part of it.
He opened the technology tree and looked at the new technology. If he guessed correctly, this new technology could help repair the megastructure.
As expected, he saw a new technology in the living metal technology tree.
[ Living metal restoration project ]
[ Technology level: 5 ]
[ Introduction: This special metal can replace most materials. With it, we can repair those wonders despite the limited level of technology ]
[ Possible technology: Living metal giant construction (0.2%) ]
“Living metal? I have quite a lot of this stuff.” Li Wenyuan immediately built a star base in this galaxy to declare his sovereignty. At the same time, he also ordered the engineering ship to carry living metals to repair the megastructure.
Ever since he had the dimensions creation device, his living metal resources were no longer limited to those on earth. These magical machines could also produce living metals out of thin air.
Therefore, after a long time, part of the repair work was completed on the damaged megastructure that Li Wenyuan had been paying attention to.
It still looked as broken as before, but part of its functions had been restored with the help of living metal.
[ Established connection with the sentries ]
[ Sentry formation repair progress: 20% ]
[ Surveillance range: Small ]
[ Do you wish to activate the sentry formation? ]
“Can it only be repaired to this extent? I won’t ask for too much, let’s see its effects first.”
Under Li Wenyuan’s command, the ancient abandoned megastructure once again showed a dim life force.
Starting from the Carlo Galaxy, there was a momentary spatial fluctuation in the surrounding thousands of galaxies.
This fluctuation flashed past, and it did not have any effect on interstellar space.
However, a few civilizations that were within the sentry formation’s surveillance range were not so lucky.
Everything in their system was exposed in an instant. The wide area interrupter they used to prevent other civilizations from spying did not have any effect and burst like a layer of foam with a poke of the sentry formation.
The weaker civilizations were fine, as they did not realize that they had been ‘seen’.
However, some of the interstellar civilizations with a certain level of strength instantly fell into chaos. They realized that the wide area interrupter had failed, and the information in the star system was rapidly flowing out.
They frantically searched for the reason and quickly launched all kinds of accusations and threats to a starfield that was considered to be the mastermind.
Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for them to change the message to “Sorry, it was sent to the wrong recipient”, “Our diplomatic ambassador has a serious mental illness. This was a mistake, and we have sent him to prison”, “My pet accidentally pressed the message button, and now I have dealt with it, please don’t take it to heart”, and so on. Then, they dejectedly rebuilt their wide area interrupter.
Although they could not stop the surveillance of this mastermind, they could still guard against other civilizations.
Even though it was very embarrassing to do so, everyone’s embarrassment meant that no one was embarrassed, so no one had the right to say anything.
This was because they discovered that the mastermind seemed to be an artificial intelligence (AI) civilization with unfathomable technology. They had even repaired a megastructure that was deemed worthless.
And this civilization, from all aspects, seemed to be the lost empire of the Administrator, which had been in the limelight recently.