Chapter 956: What a Magical Species the Upstarts Are

When I opened my eyes, a night had passed, as if it was dawn just after I closed my eyes. Except for a strange dream, I didn't remember that I was sleeping at all. I didn't even know that my daughter sneaked into the room. This energetic girl The little guy should be the only one in the family besides Dingdang who is always happy, because even Qianqian, who has always been silly and happy, sometimes feels depressed, but I can’t imagine what Little Paopao is like caring about the country and the people. appearance.

Seeing Little Bubbles lying on his chest and rubbing it vigorously, his mood, which was somewhat depressed due to the dark history of the empire, unexpectedly improved. It seems that having a well-behaved daughter is indeed a special medicine for treating psychological trauma. I feel like I can laugh while watching Les Miserables just by holding a cute little girl at home...

The mercury lamp got up very early today. I looked up and saw the large suitcase with the mercury lamp safely placed under the window. The suitcase was half opened and it was empty. Only a lot of white and black items could be seen. Feathers, the white feathers come from Alaya. I collected the feathers that my angel sister occasionally shed and used them as a mattress for the mercury lamp. The black feathers came from...

A certain little doll is moulting recently.

I think this is quite magical. What do you think it is? How did an alchemical creature produce the function of moulting?

Next to the box of the mercury lantern, there is a large row of boxes side by side. They belong to Zhenhong Jingshi and a bunch of little girls. Before going to bed last night, the mercury lantern carefully and carefully stacked all the boxes together. There are more than a dozen books pressed on it. This is her unbeatable repertoire when her sisters come to play at home. Anyway, I don’t know how that girl is so addicted to playing pranks on her sisters and never tires of it. Of course, what is even more amazing is that the Rose Girls who have been beaten many times have also learned the "Bad Sister Counter Technique" to deal with the pranks of mercury lamps every night. The specific method of operation is to let the box on top rise first. Then the Rose Girl in the second box below took the opportunity to jump out and rescue the other sisters one by one. This process sounds very simple. The only operational difficulty is that you need to keep in touch to know who is placed on top and who is pressed down on the second one. . In order to solve this problem, I heard that Zhenhong led a group of little dolls to learn Morse code. When you get up in the morning, knock on the box first. In fact, they had to use walkie-talkies at first, but the civilian communicator was jammed in the box, and they couldn't buy the military one - the Imperial Princess' mercury lamp was watching...

I no longer want to say anything about the depravity of mercury lamps.

This group of rose girls came from another world to visit their home and may stay for a few more days. Although Zhenhong claims to want to see what real royal life is like, everyone knows that this is just an excuse. The real reason is just a group of The troublesome sister just wants to play at her sister's house for a few more days. The excuse of being really famous is too lame. The life of the royal family has a certain value for inspection. Have you ever seen the royal life of getting up early every morning, eating a bowl of soy milk and four fried dough sticks, and then carrying half a fried cake to the door to walk the fox? Sandora woke up early and ate dozens of kilograms of fried cakes. The combined volume is larger than the Cuixingshi sisters stacked on top of each other. This kind of life obviously does not have any investigation value for the doll girl...

"Morning, Bingtis."

When I went downstairs, I met a certain female hooligan who was in a daze at the entrance of the stairs. I said hello to her casually, and then I found that Bingtis’s situation today was a bit strange: she was always running around like crazy to greet women who were playing cards and drinking. rogue. This morning, he was leaning on the corner of the stairs with a melancholy look on his face, swaying slightly with one foot on the ground. His long hair, which almost touched the floor, seemed to have lost its luster. The whole person was as decadent as the sun at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, which surprised people: "What's wrong with you? Last night, you sleepwalked into the kitchen and ate the food made by Sandora?"

Bingtis immediately punched him: "You can pull out so many details with nonsense, what else do you have to do?"

Of course I am no match for Bingtis, a professional gangster, in terms of traditional martial arts commonly known as King Ba Quan, so I quickly avoided the opponent's fist and asked with a smile: "Then why are you so melancholy!"

Bingtis took out a pile of shimmering scrolls from his chest (why is it his chest?), with a frustrated face: "There are many worlds under my rule. , these are a few daily reports that need to be processed. I was supposed to finish writing these reports yesterday... I played cards with Kense and the others until twelve o'clock yesterday and then I remembered, Damn, I missed all my attendance."

I was stunned: "Can't I just burst out and make up for it today?"

Sister Bing glanced at me, said nothing, and walked away in an extremely charming manner - she didn't even eat, maybe she really went back to the house to have an explosion.

I might have woken up late today. When I got to the living room, I found that the whole family was already sitting around the dining table, preparing to eat. Lilina and Mercury Deng were making fists to decide who would wake me up. I watched with my own eyes while Lilina diverted Xiao Deng's attention. At that time, Cuixingshi and Hinamei ate all the snacks of the latter. Apparently, a criminal alliance full of betrayal and conspiracy had been formed without the stupid Mercury Lamp paying attention - of course, it is also possible that Mercury Lamp didn't care about this at all. It's a small thing, others don't know, but I know that the 92.3 cm little doll is actually a good sister who is very gentle to her sisters.

"Are you here to eat again?" I raised my hand to say hello to the big guys, and then my eyes fell on Lin Xue habitually. This girl is getting more and more arrogant now, and she has completely regarded herself as the master of this family. First, of course, I personally think there is nothing wrong with this based on my relationship with Xue Yatou, but judging from the reaction of Lin Xue's parents - it is really possible that this girl was given away by her parents in exchange for phone bills.

"I guessed that you must have said this when I left last night."

Lin Xue looked nonchalant, and then got down to business: "About the exile fleet, I just discussed it with Sandora. Do you want to listen?" I had just sat down at the table and was serving pancakes. Spreading sesame sauce, he was stunned when he heard this: "Doing business early in the morning? This is not your style."

While I was stunned, Qian Qian, who was sitting next to me, stood up quickly with a naughty smile, and with lightning speed, Jingle Bells, she dropped her pancakes to mine. As soon as I lowered my head, I burst into tears. When she was about to come down, this girl came up with a new trick, but she couldn't eat it herself so she passed it on to others: she spread chocolate sauce on the pancake roll with green onions and sprinkled a handful of mustard...

"Arjun. Currently, there is no world suitable for the exile fleet to settle in the empire's reserves."

Sandora skillfully pulled the pile of weirdly colored pancakes in front of me and said as she ate them - what should I do with my pancakes?

"No?" I was surprised. "How much reserves do we have in our coordinate storage library?"

There is a reason for my surprise, because in my impression, the New Empire's cosmic coordinate reserve seems to be a quite large number - the so-called coordinate reserve refers to the New Empire's macro-world network, void scanning, reconnaissance fleet, and death garden system, etc. The coordinates of another world scanned by this method. This is the work we have been doing since the establishment of Shadow City. From the initial coordinate library, there were only a few other worlds such as Vidis. We now have thousands of pieces of information about the universe in our hands. A world that is accurately located and can be teleported to at any time will be placed in the "Imperial Reserve".

The concept of imperial territory should be explained here. Putting it into the reserve does not mean that the world becomes the territory of the empire, it just means that the target is in the empire's circle of influence. Since the Xiling Empire is a behemoth that divides its ruling areas in units of the universe, our understanding of a world The declaration of sovereignty is very different from the way ordinary civilizations draw national boundaries. Usually, the signs that a universe is listed as a territory directly under the jurisdiction of the empire are the following three points: First, through full-band broadcasting and other means, all living creatures in the universe are Intelligent civilizations capable of interstellar navigation know and obey the unified charter of the universe formulated by the empire. These intelligent civilizations still have the right to develop freely, but they need to abide by the laws of the empire in space. second. The world barrier of this universe is under the control of the empire. The Xiling military has the ability to completely control the inter-world navigation behavior of this universe. All behaviors that cross the world should be under the supervision of the imperial army. At the same time, the imperial army also has the ability to completely control the inter-world navigation in an emergency. Shut down the flow of external information in this universe. Third, a world classified as a territory must have an Imperial colony of sufficient size. These colonies usually consist of more than one administrative star, non-fixed military planets, several military bases, and an unlimited number of legions, which can ensure the empire's direct control of the universe, including violent control methods.

Among the worlds currently listed as 100% imperial territory, the most typical one is the world where the Pan-Galactic Civilization Community is located. The number of troops stationed there is already outrageous, and Sivis and Sandora are still trying their best to stuff the planet fortress inside... Because the celestial bodies in the Pan-Galactic Civilization Community are in chaos, the universe is in a state of correction, and missing people can be found everywhere. The abundance of basic materials on the planets in orbit directly led to that universe becoming the largest planetary fortress production base in the empire.

The above are some basic concepts of the empire's "sovereign zone". Of course, the universe we want to prepare for the exile fleet cannot be such a universe. They will definitely not be able to accept the terrifying daily life of seeing a Xiling starship hanging in the sky when they go out, so Sando Ra tried to find a previously scanned low-development universe from the reserve to give to the exiles.

"The first condition is that there cannot be any civilized civilization capable of interstellar colonization in the universe." Shandora dipped her soy milk and drew a circle on the table. "This is stipulated in the imperial charter. It is prohibited to arbitrarily colonize existing civilized civilizations." Foreign civilizations are implanted in the universe to prevent wars from breaking out among lower races. We cannot actively violate the laws we have formulated for others. This eliminates most of the reserves: when we originally rebuilt the void coordinate reserve, we The purpose is to find worlds suitable as new territories. The direction of the scan is the universe with civilized civilization, but now they are unusable. The second condition is to have sufficient resources and a habitable planet that can be inhabited without modification. Because of the exile The fleet is close to running out of fuel, and they have very few resources for transforming their new home. Moreover, they are not willing to accept direct help from the empire. This is not troublesome. Any material world that evolves normally has sufficient resource reserves. The void is in This aspect is fair. The third condition is the biggest trouble, and it suddenly makes all the world inappropriate..."

Speaking of the last point, Sandora's face was obviously a little tangled, which made me very curious: "What's wrong? Can't even live in it?"

Sandora sighed and suddenly tapped Pandora's little head with her index finger. The latter was sitting on a pile of books, carefully picking out the corn kernels in the porridge and eating them in advance, letting Sandora poke them with her finger. His chopsticks almost fell off the table, and he suddenly pursed his lips in regret: still without saying a word.

"You, my dear sister, have set up military depots in all the worlds. Regardless of whether they are imperial territories or not, battle puppets are stationed everywhere - the first thing she does every time she discovers a new world is to build a local arsenal! "

Me: "...I'll go! Pandora, when did you do this? Why didn't I know?"

"Daily work, no need to report." Pandora said without raising her head as she continued to pick corn kernels for herself. I suddenly lost my temper - I placed the arsenal where I thought it was suitable and started to attack. It seems that it is really Pandora's authority, and she doesn't have to report to anyone to do this. Now I finally know why we have millions of imperial soldiers available within three years of the new empire’s recovery—this war madman has done nothing else at all!

Of course Pandora is right to increase her army like crazy. But it would be great if she could concentrate all those military stations in a few universes. I have good reason to believe that the total of her military stations will not take up much space - one universe is so big, and the Imperial Army's most massive paranormal Death Star is there Isn’t the entire universe also a sesame in front of us?

But she just placed a base in every universe she discovered, completely ignoring the issue of land waste...

"After all, it's Pandora's occupational disease to frantically throw a bunch of military bases at every newly discovered place." Miss Lin looked at Pandora with a troubled expression, and I answered the second half of her sentence: "Follow the dog. It’s a principle to urinate to mark territory, right?”

Pandora shook her head and bumped into me. The eldest lady started to chase me with chopsticks: "You are sick! We are eating right now!"

"Then what should I do? I have to do what I have promised to others," I spread my hands. "And the total number of exile fleets is hundreds of millions of starships. It's not a problem to park in the void. By the way, if it really doesn't work, we can dismantle part of the base..."

As soon as I finished speaking, Pandora hit me with another headbutt. This girl has such a hard head!

"I am also weighing this matter, but those military depots have grown to a very large scale. It is not a wise move to dismantle military bases rashly: military depots are not temporary things like outposts. After a period of development, a military depot It is equivalent to a new military core, and any star port, heavy equipment factory and war laboratory are built based on the military depot." Sandora rubbed her forehead with a headache. She looked embarrassed, but at this moment Monina suddenly coughed softly: "Maybe we can help."

Seeing that everyone's attention had been successfully mobilized, Monina scratched her cheek and laughed: "The world reserves of Star Territory are an absolutely astronomical number. What we are most indispensable for is various templated universes. If necessary, Maybe I can think of something."

Sandora nodded clearly, but there was still a hesitant look on her face. Monina seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, lightly knocked on the table and said: "Actually, this is the most appropriate solution: the exile fleet and The relationship between you is still very complicated. Although they have generally resolved their misunderstandings with the empire, there is no guarantee that some of them will not be able to accept living in the territory you provided. But if their new home is provided by the Star Realm Gods, this will It doesn’t matter anymore.”

"Why do we have to go through so many twists and turns when doing something good?" I rubbed my forehead speechlessly, "It's such a laborious task to appease the people."

Monina nodded in agreement: "It's generally harder to be a good person than a gangster, because you have to think about many people."

I agreed: "Well, Bingtis has a much easier life than me."

"Speaking of which, transferring a world from the Star Territory is a big deal. Do I need to go through any formalities?" Sister asked carefully. I also think it is better to ask clearly. After all, this is not Borrowing a bottle of soy sauce and a bottle of vinegar! World, this is the transfer of the entire world! I have extremely good reasons to believe that even if Star Territory and Xiling are close friends, handing over a world cannot be as hasty as borrowing a toothbrush. Moreover, this requires a lot of follow-up work, such as how to transfer a world that was originally in Star Territory territory. The world below is transferred to the empire-controlled area. This is a technical task involving complex operations. I can only vaguely guess that this may be related to changing the "information frequency" of the entire world in the void. By changing the information attitude of a world, let It "moves" to a new "position". If you have to make an analogy, it is probably equivalent to cutting and pasting on a computer. According to the consistent style of the Starfield gang, it is probably such a cheating operation in the end.

But unexpectedly, Monina showed a very disapproving look. She shook her head easily: "The formalities will only be completed when handing over a world with advanced creatures. Generally, the worlds mass-produced based on ready-made templates are blank. Yes, after the evolution of the material level is completed, it is temporarily frozen. This kind of universe is a popular commodity and can be obtained everywhere. In fact, if you are not so demanding, I can contact a few old classmates and maybe their graduation homework Before you throw it away, if you activate it, you will find an unexplored and rich universe..."

I:"……"

These damn nouveau riche!

After Monina finished speaking, she thought for a while, and then said to us very excitedly: "By the way! I'll go to the group shopping to see if there are any suitable ones. The Temple of the Creator is having a store celebration recently, maybe I can find good things - you guys Are there any additional requirements? In the high-magic and high-energy world, there are generally many gifts but no invoices are given. In the ordinary material universe, there are fewer gifts but they are usually in stock. If you don’t bring the goods for installation, you can get a 20-30% discount..."

Although I said it once just now, I still want to say it again: These are the nouveau riche! (To be continued)