Shining World, the middle part of the Gaolu Star Cluster.

Ever since the player expedition team received the legacy of the Great Cosmos Corps and set up the long-distance star gate, Han Xiao has led the fleet to the central area of ​​the star map. There are more famous planets in the central star cluster than the border star systems, and their quality is better.

Among them is Jinyao Star, which is listed in the "List of Two Hundred Shining Stars". It was extremely prosperous in its previous life and was the empire's first-line ruling star in the Gaolu Star Cluster. It is one of the unique landmark planets in the Glittering World. Many people come here every year. There are also

The core transportation hub of the Gaolu Star Cluster in its previous life, Resende Star, had more than 500 star gate entrances at its peak. It was the transportation heart of the star cluster, extending in all directions, and was a strategic location.

In addition, Han Xiao also occupied a large number of famous resource planets that were famous for producing various rare raw materials in his previous life.

In previous lives, these famous planets played a very important role in the Gaolu Star Cluster. Perhaps after the opening of Glittering World in the future, the empire will take back these planets and redistribute the territory. However, during the exploration period, these planets are the territory of the Black Star Legion. The Legion has

The right to share the planet's specialties is enough to accumulate massive amounts of rare resources.

The exploration has been going on for four months, and the progress of each exploration team is about the same. The war field is proceeding steadily, and they are almost finished exploring the Geraldun Galaxy. Although they have gained a lot, the results are within the empire's expectations, and everything is calm and calm.

.In contrast, although Han Xiao's exploration team's progress in the first galaxy was a bit slow due to the decentralized exploration plan, Han Xiao found a large number of famous planets from previous lives and gave the empire's senior officials many surprises.

Therefore, the empire favored him and provided him with increasing support.

Han Xiao heard rumors more than once that the Krent exploration team quietly imitated his method and sent teams to explore planets in other areas. Unfortunately, they did not know the specific conditions of the planet at all, gained nothing, and wasted time.

Over the past four months, the income from Glittering World has gradually become apparent. The Black Star Legion's income from Glittering World has almost reached the sum of the legion's other businesses, and batches of resources have been hoarded in various warehouses.

As more planets are explored by the Legion, the revenue continues to snowball.

There are countless ownerless planets waiting to be mined, otherwise Glittering World is a huge development opportunity.

The legion's income increased sharply, and the Glittering World Exploration Team returned to the Broken Starlink Base Camp. As funds became abundant, Silvia continued to expand under Han Xiao's instructions, recruiting more new members who were attracted, and the training camp also provided

With a lot of fresh blood, the base camp sent more manpower to the exploration team.

As for players, as there are more and more resource planets, guilds are running out of manpower, and they have begun to selectively mine resource points. The best resource planets are basically controlled by the four giants, and then there are the first-line guilds. Old Russia

The branch in He Lao'ao was bullied enough and no longer wanted to play on the same planet as the four giants and the first-tier guilds of China, so they chose some inferior planets to build resource points to compete with the second- and third-tier guilds of China.

In the past four months, the average level of players has increased a lot. Among them, Maple Moon has become the highest level player due to the generous rewards from hidden tasks, reaching level 113, with 7 levels left to reach the full level.

Taking Maple Moon's deeds as an example, other players were looking for hidden missions like crazy. Some people actually found them and handed them over to the camp. Unfortunately, the second [Bold Explorer] skill fragment reward did not appear for the time being.

Han Xiao has not been idle in the past four months. The experience penalty period of the Evolution Cube will last for another seven or eight months. He is not in a hurry to upgrade.

In addition to monitoring the exploration progress and browsing the forum every day, I spend time in the machine shop, constantly expanding the size of the mechanical army.

Nowadays, the number of mechanical soldiers exceeds tens of millions, and their performance is very powerful. With the addition of his high-intensity mechanical power at this time, such a mechanical army has the ability to destroy some relatively weak galaxy-level civilizations.

Among the five major superpower systems, the Transcendent A Grade powerhouses of the Mechanical Department have the greatest destructive power on civilization. The other four systems pay more attention to personal power. Generally, only the Transcendent A Grade Mechanical System that controls legions can provoke large-scale interstellar wars alone.

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In the bridge command room, Han Xiao was standing in front of the three-dimensional star map, staring at the communication channel, waiting for a special message.

Today is a special day. The task force led by Hardaway is about to complete the construction of the long-distance star gate passage. What he is waiting for is news from Hardaway.

However, the news from Hardaway has not yet arrived, but the news from Tarrokov has arrived in advance.

Didi.

Han Xiao took a look and answered the phone helplessly.

"Commander-in-Chief, what's the matter?"

"I have something to inform you. We have found traces of stowaways."

"Stowaways?" Han Xiao thought. "They are probably those forces that ignore the empire's announcement and want to enter the blocked Glittering World to get a share of the pie."

In the previous life, this was an event during the version update. Players could only know it from the background introduction and had no personal experience. When the players participated, the Glittering World had officially opened, other forces had obtained admission permission, and stowaways were basically a thing of the past.

According to the records of the empire, they had a protracted battle with the stowaways during their exploration. They were chasing each other and escaping. However, the star field was too large and there were many unexplored areas. Even the empire could not eradicate the stowaways and kill a group of them.

, a new batch will appear after a while.

Tarrokov nodded, "They should be the troops of some super-star cluster-level civilizations. You should pay attention to them. If you find any traces of stowaways, remember to report them to me. We need to find their secret star gates. If necessary, we will

Let your troops help."

"OK."

As soon as he finished speaking, a new task popped up on the panel. Han Xiao moved his eyes slightly and took a look.

[You trigger the mission [Stowaway’s Clues] (repeatable)!]

[Mission Introduction: The New Star Territory is a treasure. All forces that have the ability to get involved are not willing to watch the Scarlet Empire enjoy this benefit. Even if the Glittering World is nominally the territory of the Scarlet Empire, they cannot stop their ambitions. You

As an ally of the Empire, the stowaways are also violating your interests, and the Empire needs your help]

[Task requirements: Submit a valuable stowaway clue, kill a group of stowaways, and destroy the stowaways’ secret star gate]

[Task reward: 200w~5000w experience, 50~700 points of empire contribution]

[Note: This task belongs to the [Shining World] branch task]

This is a repeatable task. You can get rewards every time you deal with stowaways. The rewards are not bad. What Han Xiao values ​​​​is the contribution to the empire.

It's just that stowaways are elusive and not easy to find. You can only try your luck. Moreover, these stowaways are not indigenous. If they build a secret star gate, if they want to eradicate them, they will face a counterattack by a powerful fleet.

Han Xiao only intends to provide clues. He does not want to fight with the super star cluster level civilization casually. However, the empire is not afraid of offending them and is suitable for such an errand.

"Among these stowaways, there should also be Ethereal Sect..." Han Xiao muttered secretly.

Aesop predicted that the Ethereal Religion would bring danger to him in the Glittering World, and he was quite concerned about this.

"If Ethereal Religion wants to deal with me, they will definitely send a large number of combat forces. Because they need to hoard their troops, they won't be able to do it in a short time. However, I still have to be more vigilant recently." Han Xiao secretly said.

If Sisko can position himself, the Ethereal Religion will definitely let him join, so paying attention to Sisko's whereabouts can indirectly know when the Ethereal Religion will take action.

It's a pity that the observation mark he left on Sisko has been removed, otherwise things would be much more convenient. Although Sisko cannot remove the observation mark on his own, he can sense that he is being spied on, and he knew about Black Star when they fought

It has been more than half a year since they had done anything on him. He could not have ignored it for so long. He had already asked people from Ethereal Religion to help him erase the observation mark. Austin was not the only Transcendent A Grade magician.

Han Xiao told Tarrokov his worries, and Tarrokov smiled slightly, as if he had expected it.

"The empire has also considered this possibility. The Ethereal Religion may take advantage of you in Glittering World to snatch your evolution cube, so the empire will closely monitor the Ethereal Religion's Transcendent A Grade movements... Moreover, His Excellency the Head of State is preparing

Send a second batch of manpower to Glittering World, which includes many empire allies, and will also send a direct Transcendent A Grade from the empire to follow you and protect you temporarily."

Han Xiao's eyes flashed, the second batch of allies... these competitors are finally coming.

For the sake of the Evolution Cube, the Empire sent people to protect him personally, but Han Xiao knew that the Empire preferred that he not run around with the Evolution Cube.

After getting the ownerless cosmic treasure, I will go back to Lighthouse Planet for a while... Han Xiao thought to himself.

Now that he knew that the enemy was likely to attack him, Han Xiao decided to restrain himself. After all, the Ethereal Religion was still very difficult to offend.

To be on the safe side, it is much safer to stay at the Empire's outpost, Lighthouse Star, than to run around everywhere. Furthermore, you are still sitting in Glittering World, where you can still support the legion and supervise its exploration.

"Thank you, Head of State Ulan Riel, for your attention." Han Xiao was thinking about other things, but he did not forget to be polite.

"Haha, the head of state recently reviewed our exploration progress. She was very satisfied with your exploration results and expressed her appreciation to you specifically." Tarrokov smiled.

After chatting patiently for a while, Han Xiao hung up the communication.

At this moment, news about Hardaway finally came.

After four months of waiting, the Star Gate channel was finally set up!

"here you go!"

Han Xiao was delighted. With the passage, he could finally take away the unowned cosmic treasure in Glittering World.

Hardaway's message also expressed his resentment. He was very unhappy because he had not competed with Han Xiao for four months and wanted to return to Han Xiao immediately to be beaten. Han Xiao was in a happy mood and decided to wait for Hardaway to come back.

Beat him three times a day and exceed his demands.

Han Xiao immediately ordered the main ship troops to change direction and move towards the star gate passage.
Chapter completed!