mynovelweb Chapter 161: Panna Reunited
Chapter 161: Panna Reunited
Regarding Zhou Yuan and Aya Chu Xiaolu's marriage, George, the commander of Tianxing II and deputy commander-in-chief of the Earth Empire fleet, and President Adams of Planet Amos both offered their congratulations in their private capacities without making a public announcement.
After all, the Earth Empire's higher-ups didn't want outsiders to know about this kind of clonal marriage. If it weren't Zhou Yuan, but any other Earth human, the marriage might not have been permitted.
Blue Planet and Amos became neighbors, and the Empire accelerated the mining and refining of radioactive heavy element deposits on these two planets.
Compared to Planet Amos, Blue Planet is far behind in politics, economy, culture, technology, military and so on. Blue Planet is in the early stages of the industrial age, while Planet Amos is in the information age.
The Imperial fleet began transporting scientists from the planet Amos to the Blue Planet to assist in improving its productivity and to implement a series of reforms in its politics, economy, and culture.
When they saw the enormous warships of the Imperial Fleet, Aya, the Heavenly King, and the civil and military officials realized what it meant to be outmatched and to be in a world beyond our reach.
Given the unique nature of the Capital Star System—such as being the birthplace of four ancient civilizations and possessing radioactive heavy elements from shortly after the Big Bang—the Imperial Fleet began conducting a comprehensive search of interstellar space within the Capital Star System. However, no further planets with radioactive heavy elements were discovered. Scientists from the Tianxing II Science Branch began archaeological work on the cave ruins on the five continents of the Blue Planet. However, due to their extreme antiquity, the caves contained only relics of ancient civilizations, that is, the remains of their descendants, and therefore held little practical value for the Empire.
Time slowly passed. Three months after Tianxing-2 arrived in this space, in the capital star system, Tianxing-2 received a response to its hyperspace communication message. This response came from the Earth Empire's galactic base.
The twelve Earth Empire star system fleets were dispatched to the 28th star region of the 35th quadrant. These twelve Imperial star system fleets were sent to conquer the Kelly Universe Great Wall Group.
The Capital System and Tianxing II immediately accelerated and entered hyperspace, heading towards the Imperial Twelve System Fleets.
After nearly two months of hyperspace travel, the Capital System and Tianxing-2 finally reunited with the twelve star fleets.
Of the fourteen star systems, all except the capital star system which lacks the "Sky-Sniping Arrow" are celestial fleets. Each of these thirteen celestial fleets possesses a considerable number of starlight fleets, which are stellar cluster fleets.
The senior commanders of the fourteen star systems held a meeting, reporting on their respective situations. After learning of the capital star system's special status, the commanders of the twelve star system fleets unanimously agreed that the capital star system, lacking the Sky-Sniping Arrow, was unsuitable for participation in the war. If the capital star system were to participate, it would require escort from other star system fleets. Abandoning the capital star system by the Imperial fleet also seemed inappropriate. Since all Imperial fleets, including the Milky Way base, were to proceed to the 28th Star Region, some commanders suggested that Tianxing II escort the capital star system to a safer location within the 28th Star Region to await the Imperial fleet's rendezvous.
However, Deputy Commander-in-Chief George rejected the proposal, arguing that the 28th sector was already a dangerous sector, and many lords of the Cosmic Wall would vie for it. Therefore, the capital system should stay away from the 28th sector.
Zhou Yuan's suggestion surprised them. Wasn't there no supermassive black hole at the center of the capital star system? Why couldn't the Empire build one itself? It was truly a wake-up call.
The Imperial Star Fleet has exited hyperspace and entered normal space.
Four days later, a supermassive black hole formed in the center of the Capital Galaxy, giving the Capital Galaxy the function of a "sniper arrow".
The fourteen star system fleets of the Earth Empire accelerated into hyperspace, heading towards the headquarters of the Kelly Universe Great Wall Group.
"Gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news to share with you." Deputy Commander George frowned at the routine meeting of senior commanders of the Starfleet.
"Tianxing-2 and Tianxing-16 are respectively observing the Kelly Cosmic Wall and a more distant cosmic wall. The good news is that our hyperspace communication messages sent to the Pandora and Balu civilization fleets have received responses; both civilizations welcome us to join the battle and express their gratitude for our support. Tianxing-2 has observed that multiple fleets from our allies, the Pandora and Balu civilizations, are already engaged in battle with the Kelly Group fleet at the Kelly Cosmic Wall. The battle is extremely fierce, and we have currently observed over 60,000 star systems destroyed or disappeared. The bad news is that the dark forces have accelerated their invasion; in star regions 107 and 106, forty cosmic walls have already disappeared. Tianxing-16 has observed that in star regions 83, 84, 85, and 86, a significant number of cosmic walls are rapidly approaching each other. We speculate that the lords of these four cosmic walls have united and are building a true cosmic wall." The Great Wall will keep the forces of darkness at bay. This is confirmed by the responses from Pandora and the Balu civilization. Furthermore, the Pandora fleet informed us in their hyperspace communication that the Master has broadcast a universal hyperspace message, calling on all Great Wall lords to unite against the forces of darkness. Over ninety Great Wall lords have responded, over twenty are observing, and over twenty major lords have not responded; the Master believes these major lords are also secretly uniting. The Master plans to construct three Great Walls. The first Great Wall will be formed by many star systems in the aforementioned four star regions. The 64th star region, the birthplace of the Pandora and Earth Empire civilizations, together with the 65th star region, will form the second Great Wall. The 28th star region will be the third and final Great Wall. The Master clearly stated that the Kelly Great Wall Group must be eliminated so that the final Great Wall in the 28th star region can be successfully constructed.
After George reported the situation, the group discussed how the fourteen star system fleets could support Pandora and Baloo, and formulated a battle plan.
The Kelly Great Wall Group has twelve lords and owns more than 4,500 cosmic walls, with the 28th star field being its main territory.
The fourteen star system fleets of the Earth Empire headed directly towards the area of intense battle observed by Tianxing-2.
A month later, the fourteen Earth Empire star system fleets welcomed Panna and Badu, the human representatives of the Pandora and Balu civilizations, respectively. They met with Zhou Yuan, the Earth Empire's representative, on behalf of their respective civilizations. When Panna saw Zhou Yuan, she was overjoyed and took the initiative to step forward and shake hands with him.
"Zhou Yuan, hello, we meet again."
"Yeah, long time no see."
Badu shook hands with Zhou Yuan and exchanged a few polite words. Badu was a handsome young man.
Soon, the three got down to business.
"Gentlemen, it is our honor that our master has dispatched us to conquer Kelly. Zhou Yuan, our two great civilizations have already sent some of their fleets to the fortress system. The mission is twofold: first, to completely destroy the twelve star systems there and Kelly's reinforcements; and second, to annihilate our four star system fleets that have been controlled. I am very sorry that our four star system fleets have been controlled by the superbrain, and we have already completely replaced the superbrain systems of all fleets."
Zhou Yuan thought that the superbrain of the Balu civilization should be similar to the super artificial intelligence of the Earth Empire.
The Earth Empire's super artificial intelligence is unlikely to rebel at present, but Zhou Yuan remembered the Balu civilization's superbrain's rebellion.
“Zhou Yuan, your Earth Empire has fourteen fleets this time, and its strength should not be underestimated. This brings the total number of fleets of our three civilizations here to forty-six. My suggestion is that Badu and I continue to attack Kelly’s main camp, while you attack the edge of Kelly’s Great Wall Group from the 36th quadrant to cut off their reinforcements and also cut off Kelly’s Great Wall’s retreat.”
The beautiful Panna made the above suggestion, and Zhou Yuan guessed that the Pandora civilization was taking care of the Earth Empire's fleet. Seeing that Badu nodded, Zhou Yuan agreed as well. Besides, Panna's suggestion was a good one.
The fourteen star system fleets of the Earth Empire began their journey toward the 36th quadrant.
After the Pandora and Balu civilizations each sent human representatives to connect with Zhou Yuan, negotiations between the three civilization fleets became much easier and faster.
When Panna saw Wei Shan and Lefia, she couldn't help but feel happy. When she saw Aya and Chu Xiaolu, she glanced at Zhou Yuan and said, "Zhou Yuan, you really have a lot of luck with women."
Aya's mischievous spirit flared up, "Brother Zhou, why don't you take Panna in too!" Aya was fearless in her ignorance; she had no idea who Panna and Badu were. She only saw two humans, a beautiful woman and a handsome man.
Zhou Yuan was startled and quickly hid behind Badu, but Panna smiled slightly and shouted, "Badu, get out of the way!"
Badu was indeed obedient, disappearing into thin air and appearing behind Panna. Panna stared straight at Zhou Yuan, "Zhou Yuan, why are you hiding from me? I'm not going to eat you."
“Panna, Brother Zhou isn’t afraid you’ll eat him, he’s afraid your master will eat him.”
Pana paused for a moment, then burst into laughter, "Lefia, you four get off easy."
Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know what form the Pandora civilization was, but it had created a straightforward and frank "human representative" like Panna. In contrast, the "human representative" of the Balu civilization, Badu, was much more composed.
After Wei Shan quietly explained Panna and Balu's situation to Aya and Chu Xiaolu, Aya and Chu Xiaolu stuck out their tongues, not daring to joke with Panna. The only one who dared to joke with Panna was Lefia.
"Panna, I don't quite understand why you two are eating. Do you two even need to eat?"
"Lefia, isn't this all to accommodate you humans on Earth? But eating seems to be a wonderful thing, like this green vegetable, it's really quite delicious to chew."
Unexpectedly, Badu nodded, wiped his mouth, and said, "Hmm, Panna is right. You humans on Earth really know how to enjoy life. Although we can live with 'zero consumption,' we always seem to be missing something."
“Panna, Badu, what you’re missing is the process!” Wei Shan said carefully.
“Yes, that’s the process,” Panna chimed in. “Zhou Yuan, tell me about your time with those four beauties. Hey, why are you glaring at me like that?”
Zhou Yuan was both amused and exasperated. "Panna, if you keep being naughty, I'm going to report you to your master."
"Oh, no." Panna indeed calmed down and lowered her head to eat.
Zhou Yuan was overjoyed that this move actually worked, but he didn't show it on his face.
"Big brother, you're amazing." Lefia and Zhou Yuan linked mentally.
It was just a lucky accident.
“But Panna is quite cute, hehe.”
"Hmm, you two are quite compatible in personality."
"Big brother, are you scared?"
"Eat, eat."
Panna and Badu are really two foodies; they eat even more than Zhou Yuan and the other four.
About half a month later, the fourteen star system fleets of the Earth Empire had already seen the light ribbon of the Great Wall of the Universe. In another half month, the fourteen fleets would reach the 28th star field of the 36th quadrant.
(ps: The "frustrated" supermassive black hole was actually kicked out of the galaxy's center by gravitational waves.)
Tencent Science Popularization: 2017-03-25 09:38
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