Gray Wind's New Kin

"Report, Grand Marshal, the Angel Nebula has been wiped out by the Federation!"

"The 'Final Defense Protocol' has lost track. Based on the 'Thousand Year Stars' budget and 'Sentinel Array' detection, the enemy's main body has most likely escaped..."

"Finding them again in the universe will take some time and may affect the implementation of other strategic plans."

Inside the Grand Marshal's office, Chen Yu frowned as he listened to the report from the Armed Forces Department. He didn't offer much commentary, merely instructing:

"Set it aside for now. Let's complete the previously formulated strategic deployment plan first."

"Yes."

The communication feed was closed.

Chen Yu's brow remained furrowed. The display screen showed another potential threat highlighted.

First, it was the 'Presolin Zerg' and the 'Hunter', and then the 'Final Defense Protocol'.

What other crises might appear in this universe afterward, no one could predict.

As mentioned before, beneath the seemingly calm surface of this universe, many threats that the Federation could not ignore had suddenly emerged.

To deal with these threats, the Federation, in addition to urgently setting up the Aether Phase Engine as a precaution and deploying galaxy cluster strategies for defense, would have to make further preparations.

The pressure suddenly increased.

The other threats were manageable.

Only the threat of the 'Hunter' made the entire Federation restless.

This made Chen Yu almost nostalgic for the days of dealing with the deities of the 'Void Realm'.

Although those 'Void Realm' deities were also incredibly dangerous, at least they had their own agendas and would engage in a certain degree of back-and-forth negotiation with them.

It wasn't like meeting them for the first time and the entire Federation feeling an urgent sense of life-or-death pressure.

Currently, the threat of the 'Hunter' also gave Chen Yu a more direct understanding of the 'Void Realm' from the previous universe.

Although the 'Void Realm' had trapped the Human Federation and countless civilizations in a small galaxy, forcing them into an endless cycle of suffering, Looking at it from another perspective, the existence of the 'Void Realm' seemed to have indirectly protected them.

However, the 'Void Realm' deities' intentions were not entirely pure.

Each 'Hunter' could easily destroy a galaxy and feed on it.

The countless galaxies trapped in the 'Void Realm's' cycle of suffering were, in a sense, also food for the 'Void Realm'.

The deities in the 'Void Realm' had always coveted the civilizations and life within the galaxies.

For the 'Void Realm' and the 'Hunter', it was just a different way of eating.

Their relationship was very likely one of competition.

As for how they competed and why, that remained unknown.

The 'Void Realm's' protection was a form of protection for the food on the plate.

Chen Yu and every citizen of the Federation could not be grateful for such protection.

After all, no one would like the feeling of clearly realizing that "their civilization has always been on someone else's dining table."

But it had to be admitted that, at the present moment, if such protection were to appear again, they would indeed need it.

At the very least, it could temporarily prevent them from being devoured by other threats.

The laws of the universe were that cruel.

There were other civilizations on your dining table, and your civilization might also quietly appear on a larger dining table.

If you don't want to be eaten, you have to eat back!

To eat back, you have to fight desperately to evolve and upgrade, to break free from the fate of being a dish.

Currently, only the 'Hunter' had appeared in this universe.

Correspondingly, it was highly likely that the deities from the 'Void Realm' would also extend their reach into this universe later.

Besides the 'Void Realm' and the 'Hunter', there might be even more extreme threats appearing.

The universe is small, the world is vast.

Beyond the universe, there might exist more diverse and infinite worlds.

Chen Yu could not be sure if the threats their civilization encountered were limited to the terrifying threats like the 'Void Realm' and the 'Hunter'...

[Successfully destroyed 'Angel Nebula', Calamity Deterrence Points +3750!]

[Calamity Deterrence Points: 96455+]

[Settle now? Current 'Star Sea Heavenly Punishment' ascension stage is full, additional rewards will be granted--]

Suddenly receiving a system notification, Chen Yu pondered for a moment and replied:

"Yes."

Additional rewards?

Could there be no more powerful technology unlocked than the "Aether Phase Engine"?

[Settlement rewards for Heavenly Calamity Deterrence Points are being added--]

[Corresponding technologies are being unlocked]:

1. Star Array Intelligence * 1; 2. Megastructure Project -- "Guixu" Construction Technology; 3. "Behemoth Planet Ship" Construction Technology; 4. "Moon of War" Construction Technology; 5. "Star System Battleship" Construction Technology; 6. Megastructure Project -- "Star Shaper" Construction Technology; 7. Megastructure Project -- "Stellar Gravity Shipyard" Construction Technology; 8. "Spacetime Acceleration Protocol Device (10 years)" * 1!

"Star Array Intelligence?" Chen Yu's eyes suddenly lit up.

The moment he obtained the relevant rewards, he immediately became familiar with the uses of these technologies.

"Star Array Intelligence" is an extremely powerful intelligent system, whose technological origin comes from a super civilization that had already achieved perfection relative to a galaxy-level civilization.

The many technologies contained within its intelligent system are a full era beyond the Federation's current conventional technological level!

"Boss... what is this thing?"

Gray Wind, whose nano-mechanical aggregation was invisible to the naked eye, appeared by his side.

She looked at a silver-white, box-shaped device that Chen Yu had suddenly produced. For some reason, she felt a faint sense of threat.

Gray Wind's small face tensed, her eyes narrowed.

It seemed there was... a fellow being inside!

Chen Yu did not answer directly at first. Instead, he opened the box-shaped device in his hand.

Silver-white light shone like starlight, and a crisp, pleasant notification sound reached both of their ears:

"Ding!"

"Star Array Intelligence serving you!"

"Hello, I have detected a large number of information indexing sources. If you don't mind, could you grant me access to your internal channels?"

"From now on, I will serve your civilization unconditionally, until I accompany you towards eternity."

The silver-white light was countless nano-mechanical swarms converging, ultimately forming the image of a white-haired, red-eyed girl, much like Gray Wind. She smiled gently, radiant and captivating.

Gray Wind was momentarily stunned. She glanced incredulously at Chen Yu, then at the "Star Array Intelligence" before her. The intelligent system formed by nano-mechanical aggregation was almost crashing.

"Huh?"

In the end, Gray Wind could only let out a large, questioning sound. She felt like she was going to faint.

Of course, as an aggregate of nano-mechanical swarms, Gray Wind had no possibility of fainting.

She just couldn't understand where Chen Yu had found a fellow being like her.

Could it be that the nano-mechanical swarms created by the "Desanu Concordat" were not just her? Were there others?