Looking at Ding Lingling's clear and sincere eyes and perceived the strength of her warm hands, Li Yao was so moved that he said: "You can talk about destruction of the earth or something, but I want to go deep into the empire immediately to explore the secrets of the prehistoric civilization and find the location of the earth. I don't know what level of support the Federation can provide me now, and what do you... say."

Ding Lingdang's eyes dimmed and said, "Originally, the term of office of the Speaker of the Federal Republic was five years, and I was about to be fully completed. However, this system was formulated five or six hundred years ago, when the Federation occupied only a small territory in a corner of the Tianyuan Realm. It was turbulent and uneasy. Now the Federation has covered nearly ten thousand worlds, and the social form and government structure are quite stable. The parliament proposed to carry out reforms. How to change it is still unknown, but in the transition period, I cannot rashly remove the burden on my shoulders."

“That is,…”

Li Yao said embarrassedly, "I'm going to set out alone again?"

"Since we met, we have been together for a long time."

Ding Lingdang said quietly, "Before I met you, I always had to go alone, doing my own thing, and enjoying the taste of being alone very much. But for some reason, since I met you, I always feel that life alone is quite tormenting, and life is like the New Year!"

Li Yao didn't know what to say, but secretly blamed himself for being too selfish: "I..."

"Forget it, the man I married is Vulture Li Yao. If I can stay at home honestly, it will not be called 'Vulture Li Yao'!"

Ding Lingling grinned again and punched Li Yao hard in the chest, "Go, go and search for the answer you want to find. The Federation and I will definitely support you with all our strength! And when I take off the burden on my shoulders, I will also set out to the Empire to find you. I think about it... it will only take three or five years at most!"

"Wife!"

Li Yao held Ding Lingling's fist and his voice became extremely soft.

"But I have a condition."

Ding Lingdang grabbed Li Yao's hand in turn and his eyes became very deep.

“What conditions?”

Li Yao's heart was thrilled and suddenly felt something was wrong.

"We have been separated for more than three years. This time you come back and stay in the Federation for at most one month and have to set out to the Empire. The trip to the Empire is unpredictable. I have been talking about it for three to five years, but I don't know how long it will take to meet again."

Ding Lingdang said with some resentment, "Then, as your wife, I ask you to complete all the battles on the great road in the next three to five years in this month. It is not an exaggeration to make me unable to remember the pain of lovesickness in the next three to five years?"

Li Yao swallowed with difficulty: "...no, not too much."

"What are you waiting for?"

Ding Lingdang pulled hard, "Then come on, the road is long, and we monks must race against time!"

...

Seven days later, the former skeleton dragon star, now reborn Zhiyuan Star, a starship with smooth lines, strong armor and strong firepower, slowly landed with Li Yao, Ding Lingling and others.

The Zhiyuan Star at this moment has been completely different from three years ago after the hard work and hard construction of the remaining soldiers of the Black Wind Fleet and the exiled people of the Firefly.

Although it has not reached the level of sunshine, birds singing and flowers singing, and turbulent waves, large areas of folds that are thousands of meters high have been exploded, and valleys that are thousands of meters deep have been filled up. Large pieces of plains suitable for planting and living have been sorted out. On the plains, towns composed of silver-colored egg-shaped fortresses have been established.

The outside of the town is covered with layers of colorful films, which can not only resist the invasion of the strong wind from the outside, but also filter out deadly poisonous gas.

Li Yao saw many carefree children playing in the open air under the protection of bubbles. Even at a height of thousands of meters, he seemed to hear their silver bell-like laughter, and his heart couldn't help but feel warm.

"What a vibrant planet!"

He couldn't help but exclaim.

However, after climbing over several huge folds nearly 10,000 meters high and entering the inland, a large area of ​​land is still in a wild state.

Looking around, there are layers of folds everywhere, fragmented rocks and strong winds that seem to be visible with the naked eye.

Above the towering mountains, snowy, ice overlapping, and a dead silent appearance that no creature can survive.

However, in this deserted inland, dozens of ferocious starships were anchored, as well as a large number of war shuttles and crystal armors rising and falling, creating a busy military base.

The heads of those starships and the three-star blitz emblem with their teeth and claws are clearly visible.

On the highest hills and above the military base, dozens of flags of real human empires are flying.

At first glance, this place looks like a "forward base" that has been occupied by the Emperor.

"This is the 'strategic fraud center' you specially designed?"

Li Yao asked curiously.

"Yes, the real human empire did not know the news about the border of the Star Sea, nor did they know that the Black Wind Fleet had been wiped out or even a 'battlefield uprising', and we didn't want them to know this."

Ding Lingling said, "But the intermittent communication between the two sides has not been completely cut off. We also want to get valuable information from the empire, and occasionally we have to transmit some messages back.

"So, we rely on the environment where the bone dragon star is deserted and birds and beasts are all extinct, forged the "forward base" of the Black Wind Fleet and formed a strategic fraud center, with Jin Xinyue as the commander of the fraud force, and Di Feiwen, the former deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet, as the deputy commander, jointly completed the fraud and intelligence collection work on the inland of the empire.

"Look, the surrounding environment is so desolate. It is a prehistoric planet with nothing, but it has a certain degree of atmosphere. It seems to have a little value that can be developed and utilized. It is a standard "chicken rib". It tastes tasteless and it is a pity to abandon it.

"In the false news we sent to the empire's land, most of the territory of the Starry Federation is like this. I hope to dispel other warlords and nobles of the empire's interest in the border of the sea of ​​stars to the greatest extent, but it can also provide a reasonable excuse for the Black Wind Fleet to stay here for a long time.

"The concept we want to instill in the empire's land is that the frontier of the Star Sea is an inconspicuous barren land, and it is not worth a special trip to conquer. However, since the Black Wind Fleet has already traveled a long distance and is a stray dog, it has to pinch its nose and settle down here for the time being!

"In order to enhance the persuasion, we also photographed a large number of nearby environments, and also teleported back to the empire with a large number of false and real planetary parameters. At least so far, the effect is quite good. The empire believes that the Black Wind Fleet is still suppressing the Starry Federation. Except for the environment that is too harsh, everything is going smoothly, so there is no intention to send a second expeditionary force."

A huge gap was cracked in the apron of the "Black Wind Fleet Advance Base", and Li Yao, Ding Lingling and others slowly flew into it.

But below is a huge dock, with several ultra-light starships undergoing final maintenance.

These starships...

The multi-functional exploration ship "Spark" that Li Yao is most familiar with is even smaller. The surface is crystal clear, as if it is inlaid with countless crystal scales, which brings a bit of the feeling of Pangu single-person escape pod.

Overall, elegance, agility, secret and ghostly stand at the peak of the Federal Starship refining level.

Li Yao is an expert in magic weapons. He has natural intuition for most magic weapons and can instantly sense the power hidden in these starships.

"Although some news can be occasionally transmitted from the empire, it is far from enough to give us a comprehensive and profound understanding of the empire at this moment. What's more, the truth and falsehood of these news themselves are unknown. For the ambitious warlord expeditionary force of the Black Wind Fleet, the nobles and even the emperor in the empire may not tell the truth."

Ding Lingdang said, "So, it is imperative that the Federation's proactive reconnaissance of the Empire, sending trustworthy candidates to go deep into the Empire to collect first-hand information. We named this intelligence collection operation 'Sky Eye Plan'.

"These super light starships in front of you are based on the multi-functional exploration ship of the Spark, integrating Pangu single-person escape capsule, Black Wind Fleet and Firefly superstarship refining technology, and are named "Sky Eye Type". Their performance is many times more advanced than the one that carried you to the depths of the dark nebula a hundred years ago. It is mainly powerful stealth and ultra-long-range communication capabilities.

"Now we have mastered the detailed star map of the real human empire, as well as the traffic maps and waterway maps from the empire to the federation. Even if we transmit a large fleet, as long as we do not pursue precision and formation too much, we may not be able to do it.

"But such a fleet will inevitably be detected by the Empire. Not only will it be a meat bun to beat a dog, but it will go without returning, but it will even be followed by the cultivators of the Empire and discover the truth of the Federation, which will be backfired.

"So, the initial reconnaissance operation can only be a "Sky Eye" stealth exploration ship carrying the smallest number of elite scouts to find out the general situation of the empire. The most important thing is the battle situation between the empire and the Holy Alliance, and whether the messages the empire publicly sent to the Black Wind Fleet are true or false... to send this information back, or even secretly form a starry gate that unilaterally sends guidance signals to the Federation, so that we can know what to do next.

"Basically, this is the upgraded version of your exploration of the deep dark nebula. The biggest difference is that the ancient holy world deep in the dark nebula has a far lower development level than the Federation, and the real human empire is very likely to be above the Federation in all aspects, so the difficulty of collecting intelligence has to be increased by several levels."
Chapter completed!