ε Eridani，Oort Cloud
When he just noticed this information, Hawk was taken aback. Hawke was even wondering if his central computer had been invaded. But it didn't follow the worst case scenario, and so far, it seems to be just a message.
Hawk did not rush to start analyzing the meaning of this message, but quickly launched a massive inspection of the main computer he was inhabiting. Hawk checked every corner of the array memory, analyzing every signal receiver, trying to analyze the context of this message.
But the results let Hawk disappointed, Hawk did not detect any traces of this information.
After the incident of the lizardman civilization, Hawk, who had perceived the face of the dark universe, had become a bird of prey and began to report the highest degree of vigilance to any extraterrestrial civilization. This situation of not being able to find any traces of the other side makes Hawk very uncomfortable.
After a full inspection without success, Hawk began to analyze the meaning of the message.
The first thing to analyze was the way the other side broadcast this message.
As far as we know, this method of broadcasting is not any means known to Hawke. Conventional radio signals will be a lot of distortion after a distance, such as the signal sent from the Earth, in a light year away from the place received, it is completely a murmur, which means that the radio waves above the signal carried by the lost.
Hawk can be sure that the source of this information is definitely in a light year away, or even, hundreds, thousands and thousands of light years away are possible. The most frightening thing is that this message can actually be translated directly into a language that Hawk can understand without Hawk's interference, which is very frightening.
"A signal with ... certain intelligence? How is it possible?" Hawke was somewhat incredulous.
The signal is a signal, just a section of the beam being emitted, how is it possible that the signal also carries intelligence? But if the signal did not carry intelligence, how could it appear in Hawke's computer by itself and translated into a language that Hawke could understand?
Huo Ke could not understand, and could only put this question in the back of his mind.
There is no doubt that this civilization, is definitely a super civilization that has surpassed itself by an unknown number of years. And ... the other side does not seem to be malicious.
But a sentence aroused Hawke's alarm.
"Please import this information into your central computer, the program will automatically start the manufacturing process, then please communicate with us so that we can locate your coordinates."
After encountering the lizardman civilization, Hawk decided that he would speculate on all alien civilizations with the worst of intentions, and naturally, this piece of information was no exception.
"A wireless signal with intelligence ... imported into the central computer? What if this piece of information with some malicious program, after building a hyper-range communication apparatus, reveals my coordinates, and the other side comes to kill me? After all, under the guidance of the principle that 'exterminating the rest of civilizations can lead to the enhancement of one's own civilization's qi', any civilization, in the eyes of the rest of higher civilizations, can be used as sustenance."
"It can be assumed that the other party's intelligent signal, for the time being, can only have the ability to know these capabilities, and no automatic access to control the ability to import it into the central computer this point, to be discussed later."
Hawke made up his mind. Because Hawke really dare not take the risk.
"Assuming that this message is true, then, there are four key words mentioned, sweepers, ghost race, guardians, safe zone. From the overall analysis, it seems that an existence called 'Guardian' has constructed an area called 'Safe Zone' to resist the 'Scavengers' and 'Ghost Nation'. Moreover, after the guardians, the word 'alliance' was added."
Hawk silently analyzed.
"Then first analyze, in the dark universe, the so-called 'alliance' such a thing, can not exist."
"Since it is an alliance, it must be more than two civilizations together, but since the extermination of the rest of the civilization can get their own civilization qi upgrade, then how can these two civilizations coexist peacefully? There is a possibility that these civilizations, in the beginning when they did not know the principles of the Dark Universe, have started to contact, and then after many years of coexistence, have fused together with each other, and can no longer be separated, before it is possible to form an alliance. But the chances are still very small. This possibility, moreover, is only suitable for a very small number of civilizations to form an alliance. In this message, since there is the phrase 'Guardian Alliance Third Star Area Detachment', then this possibility can basically be discarded."
"The second possibility, there is an extremely powerful civilization as the leading, contact many weak civilizations to form an alliance, under the powerful civilization suppression, the dark universe principle will be temporarily invalid. Just, what is the need for this powerful civilization to do so? Does it not know that eliminating these many weak civilizations will give it more benefits? Perhaps out of a purely benevolent, moral sense?"
"That's too much of a joke, basically impossible."
Hawke concluded.
"Since the claim of 'alliance' is basically not credible, how true would this information be?"
Hawke had serious doubts.
"According to the usual practice, in order to lie and deceive people, there must be truth and falsehood in the message in order to make the other party afraid and thus fall for it. So it seems that the Scavengers and the Ghosts seem to be true. I just don't know, what these two terms, represent. The Scavengers might be the existence that detonated the earth, and what is the Ghost Race?"
Faced with the terrifying unknown, Hawk's heart, vague apprehension rose.
Hawke is not yet ready to accept the principles of the dark universe, a new crisis has come again. This time, it was the 'Scavengers' and the 'Ghost Race' whose meaning was unknown to Hawke for the time being.
"The universe is so big, there are so many things that I don't know. Perhaps, with my current level of technology, to presume to speculate on that kind of existence is a bit ridiculous. Is it possible that what I know is originally wrong? After all, the Dark Universe Principle has only been verified by the Lizardman civilization and me, and it is unclear whether it is accurate or not."
"Then ... is it possible that this Guardian Alliance, the information stated is true? A safe zone? How good it would be if there really was a safe zone where I could develop technology at ease."
Hawk sighed, his heart began to faintly shake again.
"Should I take this information and try importing it into the central computer?" Hawk pondered, "This is a gamble, bet right, I will get a rare time of recuperation, and, and the rest of the civilization peacefully exchange, will let my technology development speed greatly increased, bet lost, I may be used by other civilizations as sustenance, be brutally slaughtered out, this in the universe removed."
It was a dilemma decision.
In the midst of tedious thinking, Hawk gradually made up his mind.
"At least the universe that I see is all darkness. Therefore, I must look at everything with a dark eye. Relying on others is always better than relying on yourself. Besides, I'm not necessarily that unlucky that I happen to meet the Scavengers and the Ghosts here. Now we are less than two light years away from ε Eri, less than six hundred years of voyage, let's reach ε Eri first!"
Hawk ruthlessly deleted this message, and then, without the slightest hesitation, accelerated all the way towards ε Eri.
Although this message said that it contains the primary ultra-long-range communication instrument manufacturing method, but Hawk does not think that he can get these technologies in a safe situation.
In order to get the manufacturing method of the hyper-range communication instrument, it is necessary to import this code into the central computer and let it run automatically. However, Hawke could not be sure whether this piece of information contained malicious code.
"I can't bring unnecessary danger to myself because of greed."
Huo Ke thought.
Four hundred years passed in a flash, and Hawke was still zero point six light years away from ε Eri, about six trillion kilometers.
After leaving the barren star, in the midst of a long voyage of more than a thousand years, Hawke finally saw for the first time the rest of the matter besides his own fleet.
It was a large meteorite of about thirty meters directly, with a total mass of about ten thousand tons, composed mainly of dry ice and iron.
Here, the ε Eri's Oort Cloud, was the boundary of the ε Eri territory. Beyond here, Hawk will truly be within the ε Eri star system.
Because of its smaller mass and age than the Sun, ε Eri's Oort cloud material is only 0.6 light years away from the main star, almost half the distance of the Sun's Oort cloud.
The brightness of ε Eri increases further, but of course, at this distance, her brightness is not fundamentally different from the rest of the star, remaining just a bright spot with no detailed features visible.
At the moment of seeing this meteorite, Hawke had a feeling of wanting to cry.
Five thousand years of long journey, the loneliness, coldness, the feeling, Hawk has no way to tell anyone.
Watching a ship damaged and then abandoned the kind of helplessness, and lizardman civilization and the battle of life and death moment, facing the vast universe of fear, at this moment, suddenly there is a gap to vent.
Because ... that is a star ah, all the time emits light and heat, can bring light and warmth, has a lot of material, no longer like the universe so cold star ah!
At this moment, Hawk only felt that his entire spirit had a feeling of relaxation down.
At the time of departure from the Barren Star, Hawke's fleet had 1,243 ships, and when it reached the ε Eri Oort Cloud, Hawke's fleet still had nine hundred and sixty-five ships left. Among them, all the losses were village class ships. Because a large number of village level ships were dismantled and used to repair the village and county level ships.
Among the long voyage, those who could not keep up with the large force were only dismantled.
But all this sacrifice is worth it, Hawk, finally to complete the first interstellar voyage of mankind.
"Here, will become my paradise, I will be here, to complete the basic physical theory development task, to complete the energy shield development task, to complete the research and development task ... of hyper-range communication I want to build a lot of ships, I want to get a strong power ... ..."
"ε Eri, here I come!"