Surprisingly Calm
The battle between the Rectangular Warship and 170 other warships came to an end when the light from the stellar explosion had spread to a distance of 0.3 light-years.
After the last Black Warship was destroyed, the Rectangular Warship forced itself into Warp drive amidst the raging energy surge of the stellar explosion and vanished from the visible universe. When it reappeared, it was already outside the range of the stellar explosion's energy.
Clearly, the Rectangular Warship won this small-scale conflict.
At this moment, the Rectangular Warship, propelled from Warp, hovers once again in the starry sky. The light cone of the stellar explosion has not yet reached this point. If the Rectangular Warship were to point its probe at that star, it would see its own reflection from four months ago and witness another stellar explosion.
Of course, these are all things that have already happened for it and the entire universe, and even if we see them again, we will only see light and shadow.
The Rectangular Warship hovered silently in the starry sky, just like the 170 Black Warship it had encountered and destroyed.
It stands proudly, unharmed, against the backdrop of the starry sky, like a peerless master who has just finished a duel.
And somewhere in the starry sky three light-years away from where it is, there is also a warship hovering, a warship whose body is shimmering with starlight.
"It's you!" The Rectangular Warship shook the surrounding spacetime, causing ripples. Its pilot knew that the Streamlined Warship three light-years away was watching them, just as they had already spotted the other side.
"You know it wasn't us."
Sure enough, the next moment, the warship, its surface shimmering with starlight, shook space and time, sending ripples through it in response.
"It doesn't seem like it either. The Perseus Commonwealth? Or the Silver Heart Alliance, the Silicon-Based Collective? You're following us! A civilization that broadcasts our messages all over the Milky Way Galaxy, you must know which civilization it is," the Rectangular Warship replied.
In fact, there was only one pilot inside the Rectangular Warship, just like the one that had encountered humans before. This pilot realized that the Rectangular Warship, which was shimmering with starlight, seemed to have misunderstood, but he didn't explain. He thought that sometimes such misunderstandings were quite nice.
"We are the Star River, the flagship of the Silver Heart Alliance. We are the civilization that is spreading your information throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. However, we are not tracking you, but rather the Harvesters fleet that you just wiped out."
The Silver Heart Alliance actually admitted to doing it, and after they said that, the Rectangular Warship miraculously didn't go berserk.
Instead, it calmly stirred up ripples in spacetime once more. "Tell me about the Harvesters, what kind of beings they are."
"The most powerful civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy, which has dominated the Milky Way Galaxy for tens of millions of years, with the aim of plundering the technology of other civilizations, is the common enemy of all civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy." The Silver Heart Alliance casually summarized it in a few words.
"Is this all the most powerful civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy?" The Rectangular Warship, which had just wiped out 170 Reaper warships Harvesters, looked disdainful. "So the purpose of your broadcasts is to incite conflict between the Harvesters and us, and then reap the benefits."
"No." For some reason, the Silver Heart Alliance did not directly respond to the Rectangular Warship's disdainful words, nor did it inform them of the Electron Warship's message. Instead, it directly replied to the Rectangular Warship's last sentence, "Friends from Extragalactic Civilization, the Harvesters have already discovered you. Our broadcast only slightly accelerated the process."
Believe it or not, we were just about to offer you assistance at any moment, but your fighting strength exceeded our expectations. You should know that if we truly harbored ill intentions towards you, we wouldn't have been able to be discovered so easily here.
Rectangular Warship: "So."
The Silver Heart Alliance: "Therefore, we should cooperate to deal with the Harvesters and eliminate them."
Rectangular Warship: "It seems unnecessary. The most powerful Milky Way Galaxy in the galaxy that you speak of doesn't seem to be at a level that requires us to unite with other civilizations to deal with!"
"It's good to be confident, but we want to tell you that the Harvesters warship squadron you just destroyed was just their regular combat force." The Silver Heart Alliance continued to convey their meaning through a series of spacetime vibrations, "Moreover, it was just a small-scale battle. The Harvesters don't care. On the contrary, they may have been testing whether you really have Characteristic Technology. Once the Harvesters confirm it, the force that comes may not be their regular combat force."
The pilot of the Rectangular Warship sensed that the Silver Heart Alliance was deliberately hiding something from him. He really wanted to go up and shoot the warship, but reason told him he couldn't do that.
Firstly, while the Silver Heart Alliance's widespread broadcasts were despicable, it was indeed the first Level Six Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy that did not actively attack its side. He felt that he could learn more about other Level Six Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy from the Silver Heart Alliance.
Secondly, this warship seems confident and even claims it's ready to assist at any time, which, judging from the current situation, doesn't seem like a lie. In other words, this warship, shimmering with starlight, is a powerful vessel, possibly possessing Characteristic Technology unknown to the user.
Thirdly, from the perspective of the Awakener Civilization, it must find out what the Silver Heart Alliance is hiding from it, and at the same time, the Awakeners is eager to know the attitudes of other Level Six Civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy towards the Great Voyage.
Therefore, he had no reason to make the first move.
"The Triangulum Galaxy, the Awakener Civilization, 'By'." With that thought, the pilot of the Rectangular Warship finally introduced himself.
"Milky Way Galaxy, Silver Heart Alliance, Star River," the Silver Heart Alliance responded.
After exchanging information, the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding. At this moment, the pilot who called himself 'You' caused the Rectangular Warship to create ripples in spacetime, "We need to know more about the Harvesters."
He still referred to himself as "we," clearly not wanting the Silver Heart Alliance to know that he was the only one operating the warship.
"You've been too active in the Great Universe lately. The Harvesters may have already discovered your Small Universe. As far as we know, the Harvesters have deployed an even larger fleet, possibly targeting you." The Silver Heart Alliance seemed to be well-informed, dropping this information directly after the Rectangular Warship's questioning.
Upon receiving this message, 'You' immediately began to scrutinize the Silver Heart Alliance, which he had somewhat underestimated, with a different perspective. This was because the Awakeners was completely unaware of the Harvesters's actions and the Silver Heart Alliance's detection capabilities.
The fact that the Silver Heart Alliance could say such a thing means that they already know the location of their own Small Universe. In other words, the Silver Heart Alliance unilaterally detected their own situation without their knowledge.
As both are Level Six Civilization, the other side's detection technology or concealment technology is superior to ours.
The individual life of the Harvesters, "You," thought to himself.
As fate would have it, just as the Silver Heart Alliance thought the Awakeners had mastered some kind of powerful detection technology, the Awakeners themselves now think that the other side's detection technology is stronger than their own.
While "You" was still pondering, the Silver Heart Alliance continued to tell him about the Harvesters' treatment of other civilizations, while also subtly implying that without eliminating the Harvesters, no civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy could leave Milky Way Galaxy. They also provided an exclusive analysis of the Harvesters' plundering of technology.