Chapter 687 It's Over, the Minister's Body is Rampaging!

Captain Ketalun of the Talin Fleet has been having a slightly uneasy time on Earth recently.

Of course, it's not that the Earthlings are deliberately making things difficult. As the first alien civilization to establish diplomatic relations with Earth, the Talin Civilization, although not powerful, has fully participated in Earth's initial space engineering construction and provided enormous assistance in this area. This alone makes Ketalun, the Talin ambassador, highly favored.

He even received a Qingqiu fox (not a Heavenly Fox) as a pet, symbolizing the friendship between the two civilizations!

This is currently the highest level of diplomatic treatment on Earth.

To express his joy, Ketalun puts his pet fox on his head every day and even built a small, hat-like nest on top of his head.

So, Ketalun's worries are actually about his mother civilization, the Talin Civilization.

As everyone knows, the entire galaxy hasn't been very peaceful for the past two years.

Since the Nihilism Order's Annihilation Envoy was eliminated by Su Zhou, a strong individual from the Earth Civilization, the universe, which was originally relatively quiet and in a recovery phase, was suddenly accelerated. The excessively reactive Nihilism Order also awakened the major dormant civilizations that were still cautiously testing the environment.

This led to many primitive civilizations, who thought they were alone in the galaxy, suddenly realizing within a few months that hundreds or thousands of seemingly ordinary star systems were erupting with intense fluctuations.

One by one, interstellar civilizations tore off their disguises, dispatched warships, and headed to distant lands to fight ancient enemies.

Some primitive civilizations living on planets even trembled in fear, because within their star system's gas giants, there was another extremely developed gel collective consciousness civilization. They had been lurking deep within the gas giants, never discovered until they noticed the Nihilism Order's actions. Only then did this collective consciousness civilization begin to dispatch its shimmering, translucent warships, lighting up a luminous river in the star system.

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The Talin Civilization wasn't so unlucky. Although they were also a civilization that developed after the severance of spiritual energy, their interstellar travel technology was relatively mature and they weren't considered infants. Also, the Trade Alliance had completely collapsed and wasn't hiding.

But that's where the worry lies—they're a little too close to the Nihilism Order.

The Nihilism Order's headquarters is currently located in the former capital star system of the Galactic Empire, the super-civilization Trade Alliance, and the Talin people are within the former Trade Alliance's territory.

In other words, they are the closest to that group of Twilight Affiliates.

Although the main force of the Nihilism Order is currently chasing the Earth United Fleet all over the universe, and small interstellar civilizations like the Talin people won't attract attention, and with the arrival of the allied forces of other cosmic civilizations, the Third Spiral Arm is already a relatively safe area.

But, it's always best to be prepared.

So, even though stroking his pet fox can be comforting, Ketalun still feels a bit overwhelmed.

However, he will soon participate in a meeting that may make him feel less anxious.

A meeting convened by major civilizations in the galaxy to discuss measures against the Nihilism Order.

At this moment, Ketalun is on a spaceship, preparing to pass through the teleportation array located on the far side of the moon and arrive at the large spaceport in the orbit of Jupiter's satellites.

His modified mechanical body embedded in the spaceship's control center, this mechanized Talin, who looks a bit like a four-legged crab, turns its camera lens to look at the blue planet behind him.

In the two years since Su Zhou led the Earth United Fleet to the Huoxi Star to annihilate the Star Eaters, the Earth side has been vigorously developing space engineering technology and related interstellar spaceship studies.

Every week, Earth launches new satellites and space stations, and the space stations of various countries are united, eventually merging and combining into a huge Earth orbital port in the equatorial orbit. This port constitutes Earth's initial planetary defense system and faces the lunar spaceport on the moon.

Within the Earth-Moon defense circle, the first official colony city on the moon's surface is about to be completed. In a low-gravity and resource-rich environment, the speed of human spaceship manufacturing will obviously increase greatly.

Ketalun is departing from the Earth spaceport, arriving at the lunar colony port, and then transferring to Jupiter.

From the moon, Earth looks like a blue gem, a beautiful and pure blue, water-rich planet.

But the space-time distortion on this planet is so severe that its surface is fixed with many large and small space-time anchors. These space cracks and space-time gates flicker with light blue light in spiritual vision—and this light distorts the entire Earth, so that in the spirit world, one can only see a distorted form composed of large and small vortices.

Through high-precision observation lenses, Ketalun can see the scenes of large cities on Earth—buildings as towering as mountains rise from the ground, and various cultivators and flying cars intertwine between the buildings.

In the atmosphere, you can see light spots interwoven into a net, which are artificial formation networks used to regulate the global atmosphere. As the overlord Earth Immortals on Earth gradually increase, the transformation of this planet also begins to penetrate into all aspects, and weather manipulation is just the simplest thing.

After all, national cultivation has achieved initial results in the seventh year of the spiritual energy recovery: the weakest of the first batch of cultivators have reached the Awakening Intermediate Stage, and there are more than five billion Acquired Martial Artists on the entire planet, all of whom are spiritual energy users.

This kind of thing is not only amazing to Ketalun, but also cannot be ignored by other Galactic Empires.

These five billion spiritual energy users are no longer something that a mere Earth can accommodate, and various competitions and publicity about the exploration of different worlds have greatly attracted the attention of these new cultivators. As of now, whether it is the Beast God Realm, the Jiu Xuan Realm, the Tianchi Star Region, Qingqiu Star, or some regions in Europe and North America, all are open to all Earthlings, and they are encouraged to build settlements in different worlds and recreate the glory of the ancient Earth Immortal God Civilization.

Of course, unlike the Immortal God Civilization, this time, Earthlings are not only exploring other worlds, but also exploring the stars.

This is a new form of world development, not limited to the sky and the earth, the stars and other worlds.

Moreover, because of the threat of the Twilight Affiliates, the current Earth civilization is not confused at all—having an enemy can indeed effectively enhance civilization's cohesion.

Especially since this enemy can also bring a large number of allies.

Ketalun's spaceship is passing through the teleportation array from the Moon to Jupiter, and all around is the dark starry sky, but beyond the teleportation array, an orange-red star occupies half of the sky.

Many of Jupiter's icy satellites in Jupiter's orbit already have Earth civilization's observatories. Using this largest spiritual energy stabilization zone in the inner solar system as an external detection port, they check for signs of surrounding warp jumps. In addition, the near-Jupiter orbit is also an area extremely rich in spiritual energy. It is said that many Commander-level and Overlord-level experts have voluntarily applied to come to the Jupiter area for cultivation.

The Jupiter Space Observatory built on Ganymede is flashing in space like the light on a lighthouse. It is the network hub of the Earth civilization's construction around Jupiter. The spaceport next to it has the largest ecological dome after the lunar colony city, which is currently mainly used to house researchers and envoys and spaceships of major galactic civilizations.

That's where Ketalun's spaceship is headed.

The spaceship landed. As a frequent visitor to the observatory, Ketalun greeted the familiar inspector and quickly arrived at the area where the ambassadors of various civilizations lived inside the ecological dome via the transport track.

Since the Nihilism Order reappeared in the galaxy, their old opponents naturally wouldn't remain silent—in addition to the Selasthia Civilization, which confronted them head-on from the beginning, the other remaining Galactic Empires have also voiced their opinions.

However, since the spiritual energy recovery time isn't too long, major civilizations are still recovering their internal productivity. They can't hold a joint conference in the shining area of the inner galactic ring like in the past, so these civilizations simply regard the starting point and center of this Nihilism Order crisis, the location of the Earth Civilization, as the strategic center.

The Myriad Federation, the Hegemony Empire, the Ascension Empire, the Galactic Netway AI, and the Senostia Elder Council, envoys from four former Galactic Empire civilizations and one ancient lost civilization AI, are all gathered here to discuss how to deal with the possible conspiracies of the Nihilism Order.

In addition, there are naturally many other civilization's envoys, just like Ketalun himself, an ambassador representing ordinary interstellar civilizations like the Talin Civilization.

The meeting has already begun, and Ketalun is late, but it doesn't matter, because even using arthropod logic, one can understand that the protagonists of this meeting are the five Galactic Empire ambassadors and the host, the Earth Civilization. As long as these six aren't late, then other civilizations can simply be bystanders.

"It's really strange."

At this time, next to Ketalun, other civilization's envoys were whispering complaints: "Why do those Galactic Empire civilizations respect these Earthlings so much? Their space technology isn't as good as ours."

"Why don't they take some tough diplomatic measures?"

[Laughable.]

Captain Talin couldn't help but sneer in his heart—tough? Tough on whom?

Tough on a super spiritual energy civilization that possesses dozens of Ω-level spiritual energy inheritances (or even more)?

Tough on a multi-world civilization that has already begun exploring dozens of different worlds, and if only to evacuate people, can directly evacuate hundreds of worlds, and is blessed by space-time?

It's true that the Earth Civilization's space technology isn't great, but that's because they put their points in the wrong talents.

Moreover, the Earth Civilization is entrenched in the solar system, which is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Not to mention, their extraterrestrial colonies have actually developed a lot, but there isn't enough population to migrate yet. But if a war that could threaten the solar system were to occur, those habitable different worlds would immediately become their second capital.

What's more, there are too many spiritual energy users on Earth... and the speed of imitating technology is also very fast.

Relying on advanced spiritual energy technology, the technology they imitate may even be better than the original.

They even sell the improved knockoffs back to the original civilizations!

Truly galactic evildoers.

Ketalun has no doubt that with the Senostians' nearly selfless assistance, the Earthlings' space engineering capabilities will soon catch up with the top-tier interstellar civilizations and completely become the Third Spiral Arm Galactic Empire, replacing the Trade Alliance.

[What's more, you haven't seen Earth's strongest individual... already immortal, destined to become the Ω-level spiritual energy user, Su Zhou.]

This is undoubtedly a key point, and Ketalun is not the only one who thinks so.

When this Talin Captain arrived at the meeting room in the ecological dome, the first thing he heard was news about Su Zhou.

"We must know the current situation of the Earth United Fleet."

The speaker was the Hegemony Empire's diplomatic sub-individual.

The Hegemony Empire is a multi-collective consciousness group composed of seven Geta-style collective consciousnesses, with subtle differences in type. For example, the 'Overlord' focuses on developing war systems, the 'Gaia' focuses on ecological transformation, the 'Slumber' focuses on expanding and reproducing the population, and the 'Gaze' focuses on scientific research.

The one responsible for diplomatic communication and internal system coordination is a sub-individual belonging to the 'Plurality' collective consciousness. The Hegemony Empire's biotechnology is very developed, and in many ways, it can be compared to the Senostians. This diplomatic sub-individual's imitation of a human image is almost exactly like a real human, even the sincere and earnest expression is so realistic: "A powerful α-level spiritual energy user is enough to change the strategy of a star region. Only by knowing more about the situation can we make specific plans for assistance."

This proposal was undoubtedly approved by all the civilization ambassadors present: as probably the first existence in this galaxy who is not a dormant strong individual, but has personally cultivated to become an α or even Ω-level spiritual energy user after the return of spiritual energy, everyone wants to know the specific details of Su Zhou.

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The Earth Civilization undoubtedly wants to too, so Ketalun saw the Earth Civilization's representative nod and answer: "Without a doubt, we want to too."

"However, the Earth United Fleet is currently in the halo on the edge of the galaxy, which is a barren land of death. The Nihilism Order's fleet is closely following behind. Complex spiritual energy reactions have blocked communication. We must use some special methods to contact them."

Speaking of this, the representative spokesman smiled slightly and looked around at the foreign civilization ambassadors present: "Coincidentally, not long ago, the two Pioneer Space Explorers we dispatched have arrived at their 'mission destination' through the Pioneer Space's special positioning system, which is the area where the Earth United Fleet is located."

"Soon, their transmitted information will be fed back, and we can directly talk with the Earth United Army that is fighting the enemy on the edge of the galaxy here."

Pioneer Space Explorers.

Every interstellar civilization knows this term.

Any interstellar civilization that explores the sky must have a hint of romance for exploration in their hearts, and this romance will give birth to explorers.

Similarly, any interstellar civilization with a strong control over its society will notice that some people in their civilization suddenly disappear and then suddenly reappear, carrying powerful forces and technologies.

As for this group of mysterious people, only idiot governments would think of 'capturing' 'imprisoning' 'torturing'... they don't even know how the other party disappeared, and they still want to keep these people behind?

During the entire process, even one normal person wouldn't come up with such a plan.

Conversely, even if most of the pioneer explorers aren't very normal, if they can cooperate with their home civilization, it can certainly help them explore more different worlds, so they won't be too resistant to contacting the local government, except for those who originally had grudges.

So, when the Earth representative mentioned the pioneer explorers, most of the civilization ambassadors present showed knowing expressions.

The Earth side didn't lie. Ketalun soon saw the light curtain system in the center of the meeting hall start to operate, and a clear picture appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

That was the scenery of the edge of the galaxy.

A giant metal combat armor over one hundred and twenty meters high was speeding through the dark universe. Its location had already flown out of the galaxy's main stellar disk, and the environment was dim and cold.

At the edge of the lens, most of the stars in the galaxy's edge halo were reddish and orange, scattered sparsely throughout the universe, shining lonely.

When the combat armor's lens turned, it could be seen behind it, a galaxy formed by the condensation of endless starlight—and countless spiritual energy fluctuations caused by the Twilight Fleet's warp drives.

"Hello, hello, can you see me?"

At this moment, the voice of a young Earth female individual can be heard. She seems to be checking the transmission of voice and images: "How's the screen? Does it need to be adjusted?"

"No problem, Ms. Shao Shuangyue, it's already very clear."

The Earth representative answered with a smile, but he seemed a little puzzled: "But, wasn't the transmission target you selected the Earth United Fleet? Why didn't I see the shadow of the fleet just now?"

This question was obviously everyone else's question. The meeting place began to rustle, guessing that the Earth fleet might have encountered misfortune or something.

"This..."

In this regard, Shao Shuangyue was also a bit confused. Her perspective shifted to the front, and she said with some distress: "Actually, I found it, but I'm not sure if that's it..."

Broadcast directly from the Pioneer Space, it was Shao Shuangyue's personal perspective, so when she turned her head to look at the starry sky in front of her, everyone present noticed that in the vacuum of space in front of the giant robot, it was not just complete darkness.

There was a dark gray spherical metal behemoth, hanging in space like a star, quietly waiting.

"Don't tell me that's Brother Zhou..."

After hesitating for a while, Shao Shuangyue chose to initiate communication with that dark star that looked very unapproachable.

Soon, the result came out.

——That was indeed her Brother Zhou.

"Finally... you finally contacted us..."

A very tired male voice sounded. Ketalun was also very familiar with this voice. It was the voice of Su Zhou's secretary, Tang Yuan.

He sounded very tired, but thinking about it carefully, it wasn't strange. After all, as the actual manager of the fleet, after Su Zhou's soul left, he was naturally fully responsible for fleet command and strategic transfer. The intensity of the work was comparable to working 077 overtime for two consecutive years.

Ketalun even went to visit a little girl taken care of by Tang Yuan with Shao Shuangyue and others. Leng Xiaxia has been asking him for the past two years how to contact Tang Yuan, who is located on the other side of the universe. Ketalun, as an alien, was also powerless to help and could only comfort her, saying that Tang Yuan would be back soon.

Tang Yuan is currently working. The hurried and nervous voices of other fleet staff members can be heard around him.

The content of the transmission is basically 'This program is wrong, there's no way to control the Death Star's actions!' 'No, there's a bug in the control program here, there's no way to suppress the appetite, it's starting to get hungry again!' 'No, how is this program working? I don't understand it at all!' 'Anyway, a program that works is a good program, we'll talk about bugs when they come!' This is a very programmer-like voice.

Waiting for him was Shao Shuangyue's incredibly shocked voice: "No, Brother Tang, how did you raise my brother's body so fat?!"

"Aren't you afraid that he'll come back and make you work overtime again?!"

Tang Yuan was too tired to respond—especially since becoming fat had nothing to do with him? It was all eaten by the Death Star itself, and he didn't want to be responsible for such things.

The giant robot driven by Shao Shuangyue was landing on the giant black star, and Jiu Ming transformed into the prototype of a psychic giant dragon, floating around this Death Star for observation.

"How exactly does a dragon have to grow to become like this..."

He thought to himself, falling into great confusion.

The dragon-man youth thought for a long time, and finally an image of a dragon curling up his body appeared in his mind: "Is he coiled up? Or will he later turn from an egg into a big dragon, like the Winged Dragon of Ra?"

It has to be said that this idea may not be wrong.

Jiu Ming also has another light curtain as a perspective projection, but that is a special line for the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Saints of the Zheng Nation—after all, the South Sea Dragon King is part of the system.

He is responsible for analyzing and judging the Death Star's data from all aspects to determine the combat power of Su Zhou's new form.

As for Shao Shuangyue's side, after the girl asked about the current problems of Su Zhou's body on behalf of the Earth representative and received the answer that there was no sign of Su Zhou's soul returning, she began to inquire about the origin of the Death Star.

After hearing that the entire Earth United Fleet had been fused with the Death Star, everyone present, including the Earth representative and the foreign ambassadors, showed extremely subtle expressions.

——Wouldn't this be considered self-destruction?

"An α-level spiritual energy user's body can block the Nihilism Order's fleet attacks for two consecutive years?"

Ketalun could hear the discussions around him, and even among the Galactic Empire ambassadors, there were similar voices: "Although we knew long ago that the strong individual's soul had left to find a way to break the situation, no matter how you think about it, it seems a little impossible..."

"Can you show the combat power? Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to arrange the scale of the rescue force."

Somewhat skeptical, and wanting to get proof, the ambassador of the Ascension Empire, a geometric floating robot that had been modified even more thoroughly than Ketalun, buzzed and vibrated: "Our fleet is conducting Nihilism Order expulsion operations in the Second Spiral Arm, and has now located the coordinates of the Earth United Fleet. We can start rescue operations immediately."

"But we need to understand the situation of the Earth Fleet, otherwise, we can't arrange follow-up plans."

"Combat power? No problem, but probably not now."

At first, Tang Yuan nodded with a wry smile after hearing the voice from the transmission side, and then explained patiently: "There's a bit of a problem with the Judgment Death Star's control system. There may be a large number of Twilight Fleet ambushes in an isolated star system ahead, but the Death Star's orbit identified it as raw materials and food. To avoid trouble, we are correcting the operating system, which may require waiting for a while..."

But soon, his expression changed drastically: "Damn! There's a problem!"

Unable to explain to the Earth and foreign ambassadors, Tang Yuan turned to roar at the programmers, "Who was it? Didn't you say to let the Minister's body sleep now?! Who activated it again?!"

"It wasn't me!"

"How would I know what the results of this program would be?! This thing is running completely as a black box!"

"Captain, quickly terminate the action urgently!"

A series of noisy exclamations and suggestions drowned out Tang Yuan's indignation, and even Tang Yuan himself joined the crowd of exclaimers next.

At this moment, all the foreign ambassadors and Earth representatives who were observing the Judgment Death Star through Shao Shuangyue's perspective witnessed an extremely classic scene that could be passed down to future generations.

——A scene of a wild Judgment Death Star preying on a giant robot!

Boom!

In an instant, layers of mysterious runes lit up on the surface of the huge gray-black celestial body, and spiritual energy pulse light streams flickered along the regular patterns.

Then, countless dark mechanical tentacles, carrying the 'resource recovery port' that operated with extreme efficiency, which is to say, nanobot generators for decomposition, wrapped around the giant robot that Shao Shuangyue was riding in!

"W-what's going on?!"

In just one second, the Overlord-level super-combat robot, the towering metal giant, was wrapped in dark nanobots, as terrifying as tentacles preying on a magical girl!

Then, the entire robot, as if completely melted, fused toward the dark celestial body!

"My Conflict Ender—" the girl's desperate cry could be heard.

And Tang Yuan's even more desperate voice sounded: "It's over."

"The Minister's body is running wild!"