Chapter 441: Chapter 261: Taking Advantage of the Situation
There must have been a significant upheaval within the Mude System!
Although there had been such speculation for a long time, Shen Shi could now completely confirm this point.
After all, for the defensive forces to weaken to such an extent is almost unimaginable for a powerful civilization like the Es Civilization.
How strong is the Es Civilization?
Their sphere of influence almost covers the entire Milky Way Galaxy! And it’s not just about existence; much of their power is concentrated in phase space like curvature foam, acting like monitors of the cosmos. Even the most ordinary person can easily become a ruler of a star domain dominator level cosmic civilization. With such a powerful status and thousands of years of growth, even without considering technology, their sheer size exceeds imagination.
What kind of upheaval could make the Es Civilization abandon their Mother Star and their roots?
You should know that unless it’s a civilization like the Gus Civilization that is developed as a traveling civilization, even a powerful civilization like the Es cannot possibly take everything from their Mother Star with them. They will inevitably be forced to leave behind, or even destroy, a large number of their installations.
This is a huge loss for a civilization like the Es.
Moreover, did they leave due to migration, or were they destroyed?
Shen Shi could not yet know the truth.
However, what he did know was that the opportunity for Human Civilization had arrived!
He did not rush to investigate but first convened the Human Supreme Assembly through the trading market.
It’s worth mentioning that, at this time, the trading market was long no longer just a trading market.
Both in name and nature, and in definition, it had evolved far from the initial black market trading market in Line One of the Future.
Humanity reveres it as the "Holy Land."
Yes, with no redundant titles or prefixes, it was simply the two words: Holy Land.
After all, ever since Shen Shi gained supreme authority over the Holy Land, he had canceled the rule where it was independently and randomly distributed to any individual within the Human Civilization, changing it so that all personal terminals were distributed directly by Shen Shi.
Admittedly, this would cause many people to lose the chance to change their destiny, but it would also highly concentrate the power of the Human Civilization.
Supreme members, dispatched officials, research elites, military leaders...
Every human who entered the Holy Land was carefully screened, whether it was their personal abilities, their loyalty to Human Civilization, or their needs for the Holy Land, all were strictly vetted.
The result of doing this made the Holy Land a concentration of rights and power within Human Civilization.
And it maximized the proper function of the Holy Land.
For example, at this moment.
Even though Shen Shi was deeply within the Mude System, he was able to gather the high-level personnel of Human Civilization in the Barren Land without any delay, sharing frontline intelligence and making major decisions affecting the entire Human Civilization in the shortest time possible.
"As stated above, the Es Civilization is continuously weakening the defensive forces in the region of their Mother Star, and there are currently no signs of being attacked. The reason causing this phenomenon does not lie within this star domain," Shen Shi briefly announced the situation to everyone.
At this moment, they were not communicating through consciousness links but were facing each other in a huge meeting.
This form of meeting had not appeared in Human Civilization for a long time.
Although not as advanced and convenient as consciousness links, holding such a meeting occasionally could invoke a sense of nostalgia. Moreover, in the Holy Land, although communication was unimpeded and seemingly everything could be materialized, many devices could only be seen but not used. As a result, the style became more ancient, and over time, a "retro" trend emerged among the high levels of humanity.
At this moment, someone deliberately raised their hand to speak, following past rules.
"If we can confirm the information, can we carry out targeted invasions, trying to plunder all the devices and data left behind by the Es Civilization?" This sentence, although direct, expressed the core purpose of this meeting.
What Shen Shi, or rather the Human Civilization, had to do was not to excavate what exactly happened within the Mude System.
They were far from qualified to participate in such matters now.
Making themselves stronger was what needed to be done.
And it is evident that the greatest opportunity brought by the decline in the defensive power of the Es Civilization’s Mother Star region is to acquire a large number of Es Civilization’s devices!
Not by trading, not by gifts under the guise of "support," but by taking them themselves!
Yes, it is about seizing while the opportunity arises!
"I do indeed have such thoughts," Shen Shi did not hide, "but clearly this is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The biggest problem at present is that the Es Civilization might rather destroy everything they cannot take than leave anything to us."
Shen Shi expressed it relatively tactfully.
It’s not a maybe, but a certainty!
The Es Civilization would not harbor any sentiment of "regret" for devices they could not take, nor would they gift these items to other civilizations. They would never give any weaker civilization the chance to become a threat. Shen Shi could guarantee that as soon as he showed any interest in these items, the Es Civilization would promptly and decisively destroy them.