Chapter 74 - Chapter 74: The Lost Empires
Chapter 74: The Lost Empires
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It was just like how the Watcher had a taboo against colonizing the Holy Land Planet.
The lost empires in the Milky Way more or less had their own taboos, and violators had to be prepared to receive punishment from them.
It was the same for the Silent. As one of the Lost Empires with the least communications with the Milky Way, almost everything about them was unknown to the younger civilizations.
They didn’t issue missions like the Observer, nor did they improve the native civilizations like the Watcher and the Voyager. They seemed to be forever immersed in their own world, paying no attention to the outside world.
However, even such a lost empire had something that annoyed them, and that was a violation of their borders.
The Silent paid special attention to their territory and would never tolerate any border contact.
In the Milky Way, that meant that any border galaxy that was connected to their galaxy by a hyperspace channel would need to be in an unmanned state.
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Many people had tried to find out why they had such a taboo, but in the end, they had no idea.
As for how this taboo was discovered, the story starts with a very unlucky civilization.
This civilization was very familiar to everyone. They were-
“So the Pyro Alliance has such an interesting history?” Li Wenyuan looked at the information with great interest.
Because the Silent had made their move, he, who was also a member of the Lost Empire, simply looked at the history of the Milky Way.
A long part of it came from a very active interstellar civilization, the Pyro Alliance.
In the past, Li Wenyuan only knew that they had experienced a catastrophe and spent a much longer time than other civilizations to get onto the interstellar stage.
But from the looks of it, that catastrophe had actually been caused by the Silent.
“I didn’t expect such an unlucky civilization to exist in this world…” After reading the record, he could not help but sigh.
Indeed, there was no interstellar civilization more unlucky than them. As soon as they made contact with the starry sky, they found themselves at the territorial border of the Silent.
When the Pyro Alliance was still a native civilisation, they had long discovered that there was a mysterious interstellar civilization around them. They could even travel directly to them through hyperspace routes.
Therefore, after the Pyro Alliance developed their first hyperspace engine, they excitedly wanted to greet their neighbors.
However, they didn’t expect this neighbor to be the Silent, who was very sensitive to their borders. Before they could announce their existence in the galaxy, they received a warning from the Silencer.
“Don’t cross our borders, little one. You can choose to return to the primitive era, or move to another planet within 10 years. We will clear the borders in 10 years’ time.”
The Pyro Alliance, which had not had the time to explore the galaxy, was greatly shocked. They sent messages to question the Silent many times, but received no answer.
Of course, they knew that their neighbor had unfathomable technology. If they really fought, they would not be a match at all.
However, ten years was too short. They only had time to send a batch of ‘tinders’ to the distant galaxy before the purge arrived.
The ancient fleet destroyed the space station that they had painstakingly built and accurately sealed their technology, leaving behind an indigenous civilization that had regressed for hundreds of years.
The wandering ‘tinders’ struggled in the galaxy for a hundred years before they found a suitable place to live. It took them a long time to re-enter the galaxy.
The Pyro Alliance had secretly returned to their mother planet to investigate, only to find that it had returned to the era of war. They had even forgotten that such a batch of ‘tinders’ were still wandering outside.
After that, this batch of ‘tinders’ decided to call themselves the Pyro Alliance and stand on the stage of the Milky Way in place of their former mother planet.
Assuming that they were not unfortunately born in the border galaxy of the Silent, the current Pyro Alliance would have been a powerful interstellar civilization.
Due to such an encounter, they were very enthusiastic about saving the native civilizations and teaching them galactic knowledge.
The other civilizations in the Milky Way also knew that the Silent had such a taboo.
As for the wormhole that brought disaster to Pegchitti, it was because the Mingbow Science and Technology Nation had long discovered that the wormhole led to the territory of the Silencer.
Would the Silent, who did not even allow trespassing at the borders, tolerate civilizations coming and going freely in their territory through wormholes?
Mingbow clearly understood this logic in an instant. They immediately emptied the wormhole galaxy and waited for the smug ‘fated person’ to come here and cause trouble.
As for the once-powerful Pegchitti, they got thoroughly scammed by this trap. The Silent had taught them a harsh lesson.
They were no longer as arrogant as they were at the beginning. Most of their usable fleets had been destroyed.
Mingbow and a few other civilizations formed a temporary alliance and declared war on the Pegchitti, preparing to plunder the production capacity of this genocidal civilization before the Iron Heart Exterminators arrive.
Although Pegchitti was a race that was obsessively racist, their machines and factories were not. Their species could also be used in many ways under genetic modification.
Therefore, the extreme civilization named ‘Pegchitti’ disappeared in the galaxy. Nobody would remember them.
At the same time, in the dark markets of the Milky Way, lizardmen were sold to various parts of the Milky Way as a tradable resource.
Now, those who could stand on the stage were all kinds of winners, while the losers had already been swept into the trash heap of history.
After closing the galaxy information window, Li Wenyuan fell into a brief contemplation.
This was the first time he had witnessed the process of a civilization from its appearance to its demise in this universe.
Even though this was a civilization that was not worthy of sympathy, he still felt a sense of worry.
The worry was not from another civilization, but from the threat that even the humans could not completely deal with.
The production capacity of the circular world had already begun to take effect. His condition was unprecedentedly good, but this was far from enough.
“I have make preparations early. Receiving the complete inheritance of mankind was only the first step… I hope we can find some traces.” Li Wenyuan was once again determined to achieve his goal.
The unusual movements of the Lost Robotic Empire did not attract much attention. The current Milky Way was already used to the research spaceships from the Administrator flying everywhere.
Although they knew that the Administrator seemed to be looking for something, it had nothing to do with them.
Similarly, the newly emerged Lost Nano Empire only caused a brief shock in the Milky Way before returning to peace.
Because the civilizations of the Milky Way discovered that the Lost Nano Empire, which claimed to be the Mediator, had banned almost all civilizations from entering the special stargate, except for the Lost Robotic Empire.
Although there was almost no understanding of the Mediator and the Administrator, the Milky Way’s gossip about these two robotic Lost Empires had never stopped.
The most widely circulated rumor was that they were from the same ancient civilization. The reason was that the nanobots from the Lost Nano Empire and the robots from the Lost Robotic Empire looked very similar.
However, these two ancient robot civilizations had to be separated for some reason. They could only meet each other when the stargate was open for a short period of time.
As a result, all kinds of epic operas that were difficult to describe were spread. Li Wenyuan was almost embarrassed after watching it, but Gray Wind was very happy.
Regardless, the Observer maintained the attitude of an enthusiastic but never involved bystander. Other than searching for mystical Ifieforms, there was rarely news about them in the galaxy.
As for the Silent, after inflicting heavy damage on the Pegchitti, they fell silent again. They didn’t care about anything else, and there was no way for them to communicate.
The Voyager would still occasionally ask for genius scientists from the young civilizations and would not return them. However, the interstellar civilizations would view this as an honor.
What did this mean? It means that we have taught them well! Even the Lost Empire had taken a fancy to this scientist and had come to ask for him.
Because of this, some busybodies created a “Genius Ranking” to record the scientists who had been taken away by the Voyager over the years.
Only the scientists on this list could be called “geniuses”. The others were only inferior.
Other than these few lost empires, there was still the Watcher.
The news of their Prophet’s departure was widely circulated in the idealistic civilization, but the Watcher didn’t react much and remained calm.
However, this calmness gave people a feeling that a storm was coming.
Li Wenyuan’s research spaceship once again came to the border area of the Watcher for the purpose of searching for human relics.
Ever since he had been to the Emerald Tomb, he had thought that he would never have anything to do with this lost empire again, but now he had no choice.
His target was another Holy Land planet called “Walled Garden”.
At present, there were already two Holy Land planets that were related to humans. Li Wenyuan was already thinking about whether the third Holy Land planet had any ruins.
Then, what did the Watcher, who regarded these three planets as Holy Lands, have to do with humans?