Shining world, morning star cluster.

The main ship Han Xiao was riding passed through the star gate, and instantly crossed the vast and desolate cosmic belt, jumping directly from the Broken Star Ring to the Glittering World.

The Imperial fleet is also stationed on the other side of the Stargate.

Han Xiao looked out the window, his eyes scanning the dense starlight distributed in patches.

Different from the bustling star field in memory, today's Glittering World is still very desolate and primitive, with not many traces of development. The quantum network is silent, without the bustling scene of the explored universe. At this time, the only quantum network that can be connected

The signal is the empire's military base station channel, which means that this new star field is not yet open to the outside world.

"Didi..."

Just after passing through the star gate, the main ship received a communication request from the imperial military.

After the call was connected, a three-dimensional projection appeared in front of everyone. It was an old imperial officer, not a stranger.

Hela on the side glanced at the dense badges on this man's body, then glanced at the rank insignia on the cuffs of the military uniform, and concluded that this guy was an imperial general, a proper high-level military personnel.

This person's eyes were fixed on Han Xiao, and he nodded slightly, but did not show his majestic side. He smiled gently and spoke:

"I am Tarrokov, the commander-in-chief of the Glittering World Development Force, Your Excellency Black Star, welcome to the Dawn Star Cluster."

"Commander-in-Chief." Han Xiao nodded.

Tarrokov is also an acquaintance. In his previous life, version 4.0, when players were active in Glittering World, Tarrokov was the commander-in-chief of the empire's troops stationed in Glittering World. At that time, many of the empire's development missions were in the form of military documents.

All releases and signatures are in Tarrokov's name. He is the highest person in charge of the empire in Glittering World. All empire tasks are issued by him, and players are naturally familiar with him.

Now that he is leading a team to explore the Glittering World, Tarrokov is equivalent to half a boss, liaising with many allies on behalf of the empire and delivering the empire's orders to them. Han Xiao knows that he will have to deal with this guy for a long time.

Fortunately, Tarrokov is a very senior military boss and a moderate. He has always been stable and not difficult to get along with. It is for this reason that the empire sent him to take charge of the affairs of Glittering World.

"I won't say any more. Heboar's War Domain and Krent arrived at Glittering World the day before yesterday. You can bring your troops over here as soon as possible. When you arrive, we will discuss and decide on a plan for on-the-spot exploration."

"good."

Han Xiao responded, and Tarrokov cut off the communication.

Open the three-dimensional star map, and the current map of Glittering World is displayed in front of everyone. Only the Dawn Star Region is marked with the green color of "explored", and the star map is relatively complete, while more than 90% of the other areas are gray and have no detailed information.

The empire has built strongholds one after another in the Dawn Star Cluster. The planet where the main stronghold is located is located on the edge of the Dawn Star Cluster and the unexplored area. It is an important transportation thoroughfare. It is named the Lighthouse Star, which means a lighthouse that guides the return of explorers.

The meeting place marked by Tarrokov is here.

"It will take some time for the entire fleet to pass through the star gate." Aurora swiped a few times on the console and called up the intelligently calculated countdown to the entire army's assembly.

Silvia, Melos, Leonard, Lackey and other cadres in important positions stayed in Broken Starlink to preside over the operation of the legion headquarters. Han Xiao only took away some senior cadres of the legion during this trip, such as Hela, Fording,

Hardaway and other guards officers, most of whom were idle personnel, were reassigned at this time and made these people responsible for different tasks in the exploration force.

A lot of miscellaneous subjects that Aurora took as electives came in handy, and she became Han Xiao's secretary to handle the chores here.

"Philip, plan a route." Han Xiao said.

"Okay buzz."

A glowing line immediately appeared on the star map, marking the fastest route to the Lighthouse Star.

The empire is well aware of the importance of transportation, and has deployed military stargate passages on a large scale in the Dawn Star Cluster. They are all marked on the star map to facilitate frequent jumps, greatly shortening the distance traveled within the star cluster, and the transportation convenience has reached the level of the Central Star Sea. However,

This is only a temporary situation during the closed exploration period. Han Xiao knows that after the Glittering World is opened, the empire will reclaim some of the military channels.

Han Xiao thought for a while and ordered: "Separate a few engineering fleets, let them leave the main force, and lay our legion's quantum communication base station in the Dawn Star Cluster. Don't hide it from the empire and just say that this is to facilitate our relationship with Broken Starlink.

Communicate with people at the headquarters.”

The quantum network is spread all over the explored universe, relying on countless ubiquitous base stations and network nodes. However, the Glittering World has not completed the infrastructure construction and has not yet connected to the quantum network of the explored universe. Currently, it can only be transferred through the empire's nodes and base stations.

Continuing. Han Xiao's move is to lay down the legion's network base station here and spread his own ears, eyes and mouthpieces. When the star field is opened in the future, it will be equivalent to a natural intelligence channel. Generally speaking, this is the power of advanced civilization.

But now, this is one of the benefits of the empire's allies. The empire will not stop them. As long as they don't dismantle the empire's base stations and replace them with their own, they will just let it go.

Legion warships passed through the star gate one after another, and soon everyone gathered in Glittering World and immediately jumped away and rushed to the lighthouse star.

There were no outsiders in the Dawn Star Cluster for the time being, and the fleet had a calm journey. It took several days to pass through dozens of military star gates connecting various strongholds, crossing the entire Dawn Star Cluster, and the Lighthouse Star was visible in the distance.

What appeared outside the porthole was a planet surrounded by densely packed warships.

At this time, the small planet gathered the three forces of the Imperial Direct Exploration Team, the War Realm Exploration Team, and the Krent Empire Exploration Team, plus the belatedly arrived Black Star Legion Exploration Team, the number of spaceships exceeded 100 million!

Very spectacular!

In the minds of many cadres, this scene was second only to the grand scene when the legion commander made an appointment with Heboar.

Among them, the direct forces of the empire are the largest, and the productivity of space-level civilization is extremely developed, accounting for about 70% of the total number of spaceships.

Not far from the planet, there are several star gate stations, but they are not activated at this time.

The surface of the Lighthouse planet was covered with machinery and metal, with no soil exposed. The Imperial exploration team used the Empire's famous fool-like planet base expansion pack on the Lighthouse planet to flatten the land with high pressure, increase the density of the planet, transform the landforms and crust, and directly transfer this

A planet has been transformed into a planet-level military fortress.

The fleet stayed in outer space, and Han Xiao took his guards officers on a small spaceship and landed at the ground dock of the lighthouse star.

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The hatch opens.

Han Xiao stepped onto the metal pier, his eyes slid across the rows of metal buildings, and landed on the most conspicuous building in the distance.

This is a tall tower that reaches the sky, thousands of meters high, and stands out among the crowd. All the surrounding buildings look like dwarfs under the feet of giants in front of this tower. This is the stronghold and headquarters of Lighthouse Star.

There were officers waiting on the pier for a long time. After giving a military salute, they invited Han Xiao and his party to board a ground vehicle and go all the way to the Lighthouse Star headquarters.

Whoosh whoosh... A group of people took a vehicle and shuttled through the bases on the surface, the wind howling.

Han Xiao observed it and found that the buildings on the ground were mainly hangars and material warehouses. Countless vehicles and mechanical assistants were like industrious ant colonies, carrying carts of materials.

"Lighthouse Star is the logistics base of the exploration force, and a large amount of supplies are stored here."

The accompanying officer saw everyone looking around, so he opened his mouth to explain.

Han Xiao nodded. The three star clusters in the first phase of land reclamation are Renoir, Gaolu, and Crown Ring. They are all adjacent to the Morning Star Cluster. The Lighthouse Star guards the traffic arteries and is the best transfer station.

The journey to the ground was very short. The group quickly entered the Lighthouse Star headquarters and took the anti-gravity suspension ladder all the way to the central floor of the headquarters, which was about 1,400 meters above the ground.

Following the instructions, he walked into a huge strategic conference room. There were already many people in the room. Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and saw Heboar at first sight. He was the most conspicuous because he was shaped like a small mountain.

Heboar also turned his head and looked over, and his eyes met Han Xiao's. His eyes were neither sad nor happy. He sat motionless in his position and nodded casually as a greeting.

Behind him were the eight vanguard officers in the war field, all of whom cast unkind glances at Han Xiao.

In particular, Chief Vanguard Officer Frostes seemed to want to use his gaze as a knife to pierce Han Xiao's body, and his eyes wanted to spit fire.

Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet each other. Although the Black Star Legion and the War Realm have reached an armistice agreement and promised not to interfere with each other during the exploration period, the hostility of the cadres of the War Realm towards Han Xiao will not weaken at all.

"snort."

Seeing this, Hela's face darkened, and she took a step forward. The guards behind her also followed suit, staring closely at the vanguard officer under Heboar.

Han Xiao's guard officers and Heboar's vanguard officers faced off, their eyes looking like lasers, as if they were about to collide with sparks in mid-air.

The eyes of Hela and Frothes were entangled, hostility subtly evaporated, and the atmosphere became tense.

Once, when Han Xiao attended the Tyrant's Gathering for the second time, Frothes once challenged Han Xiao's men. Hela, as the captain of the Guards, accepted the challenge. However, Heboar showed up and scolded Frothes.

, so that the two of them failed to fight.

When they met again at this time, this matter came to both of their minds.

One is the chief vanguard officer of the war field, and the other is the captain of the Black Star Legion Guards. Regardless of their identity, status, and strength, they are natural rivals. Whoever wins has the meaning of overpowering the other camp. The two have cold expressions.

Yea, I secretly listed the other party as an enemy who must fight.

Now that Aurora has sufficient security, Hela works for Han Xiao not only to repay her, but also to become stronger. Because of her experience of being controlled by others, she has a paranoid pursuit of power, although she has not gone to extremes like in her previous life.

, but also never give up the opportunity to challenge the strong.

Han Xiao didn't take it seriously and waved his hand to ask the guards to retreat.

It's impossible to fight under the eyes of the empire, so don't stare at the opponent, even if your eyes are sore, you still can't kill him.

Seeing that the people on both sides had settled down, Han Xiao smiled at Heboar:

"You came very early."

"I don't like being late like you do."

Heboar responded without a hint of saltiness.

He regarded Han Xiao as an equal, but he had no intention of making a deep reconciliation and becoming friends, and decided to go his own way.

The two sides have deep grudges, and they are reluctant to become allies only because of the empire. Although they are in peace at this time, they are still competitors in exploring the Glittering World.

Since they are business rivals, Heboar does not want to be too friendly. His previous initiative to cease war with the Black Star Legion has already caused his prestige within the war field to decline. At this time, he will not make people think that he is really afraid.

black Star.

Han Xiao laughed, knowing Heboar's thoughts very well and didn't bother to care about it.

Little Ba Ba has been having a hard time lately, and it’s hard to be tough.

Ignoring Heber, Han Xiao turned to look at Tarrokov who was standing next to the strategic analysis board, and said with a smile: "Commander-in-Chief, we finally meet."
To be continued...