Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 138

Paradise Garden

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Zhang Han's Swarm When Tabi Star was developing, nothing was static. His enemies were also strengthening their military strength and developing themselves. The entire galaxy was in turmoil.

At the core of the Milky Way, the home galaxy of the Zeluo people.

From the perspective of natural environment, this galaxy is no different from an ordinary habitable galaxy. It is a healthy star that is still in its prime, with several planets orbiting it. Fortunately, two of them are located in the habitable zone.

At this time, this small galaxy is in a very busy state, with a large number of spaceships of different shapes sailing in the galaxy. These spaceships from various civilizations make the already crowded galaxy even more chaotic.

Each channel points to the wonder building orbiting closest to the star, the Garden of Paradise, also known as a giant art structure.

This is a miracle of the Milky Way that the Zeluo people spent a thousand years to build after exhausting their huge national power. The purpose of building it was to create a livable place like heaven.

Thanks to the designer's genius design, this place is both livable and beautiful. More and more Zeluo people choose to move to Paradise Garden.

Even many aliens are fascinated by this place. In order to allow intelligent life from different civilizations to enjoy the same comfortable life here, the Zeluo people continue to expand the scale of the Paradise Garden.

Later, they simply let other civilizations expand on their own, and the Zeluo people only charged management fees.

The aliens who came here not only expanded their habitat, but also used their artistic talents to build the habitat into an artistic and beautiful place.

This behavior became a positive cycle, more aliens came here, and more civilizations began to build their own artistic residential areas.

In the second millennium, the Paradise Garden became both diverse and inclusive with the joint efforts of more and more civilizations. At least a thousand civilizations built habitats here to display their artistic creations.

The reputation of Paradise Garden is getting bigger and bigger. It has really become a celestial body in people's mouth, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger. There are more than 50 billion people living in it.

This population is a drop in the bucket for the civilization of the entire galaxy. It's not that Zeluo and other civilizations don't want to continue to expand, it's because the technology has reached a threshold, and there is a risk of damage if it continues to expand.

It is natural for the Galaxy Trade Center and Stellaris Council to be established here. So many alien spacecrafts coming and going are all to attend the new council meeting.

It is said that this meeting will discuss several important topics, one of which is about the extragalactic invasion incident that has caused a lot of noise in recent years.

Those bugs from other galaxies have not been completely defeated. Although they have lost their leader, they still persist in fighting. Their terrifying fighting power and cruel nature make all intelligent life in the galaxy hate them.

Now it is becoming more difficult to exterminate them. They seem to have gained a foothold in the middle of the second cantilever of the Milky Way, within a range of about two thousand star systems.

In addition to discussing how to deal with this terrifying invasive creature, there is another equally important issue, which is the replacement of the third permanent member civilization besides the Zeluo people and Antilians.

The permanent members play a decisive role in the entire Stellaris Council, and are generally held by the three most powerful civilizations. Compared with the twenty non-permanent members, the positions of these three countries generally will not change.

Which civilization is the new council member this time? All galactic civilizations have great interest in it.

Whether on a spaceship or a planet, during a meal or while chatting, people will discuss a few words and name several candidate civilizations.

In the paradise garden, in the habitat of Antilians, Kunmao was holding his sword and looking through the window at the long queue of spaceships on the channel.

The colorful navigation lights emitted from these spacecrafts shined through the glass on his face, making his red skin colorful, which perfectly corresponded to his complicated mood.

Nearly ten months have passed since the war to exterminate insects. He thought it was the starting point of his career, but he didn't expect it to be the end of his career.

The scenery outside the window began to become unreal, turning into a military court full of red and black, with Kun Mao standing in the dock.

"Defendant Kunmao, as the fleet commander, you are accused of the following crimes."

"First, the superior fleet commanded by the empire was severely damaged by the inferior enemy. In destroying a low-risk Swarm area, half of the fleet was lost."

"Second, you were tricked by bugs and let go of the key Swarm unit. That was probably the extremely intelligent Swarm commander. Its value is infinite, but you let it go because of a command error."

"Third, expose the empire's secret weapon. The tachyon light spear is the most advanced scientific research product of the empire. This weapon puts us ahead of most civilizations in the galaxy. It is a felony for you to use it without permission."

"I propose that the criminal Kunmao be sentenced to death!"

"Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!" There was only one voice in the entire military court, and everyone wanted Kun Mao to die.

This is in line with the laws of the empire. He has committed too many crimes and can only be redeemed by death. But Kunmao knows that if he pleads guilty here and goes to death, it will affect not only him.

His family and his children will be humiliated. The empire's military academy will not be open to members of his family for at least twenty years, and his children will live in bullying and contempt.

Therefore, he could not give up the hope of survival or the possibility of a comeback.

He chose Antilians's traditional execution method in court, the Death Arena.

The rules of this execution method are very simple. In the ring arena with no way out, the executed person will face several death challenges.

Each crime is increased once, and each time the challenge is against the terrifying murderous monsters in the universe.

Some come from poisonous planets, some come from rainforest planets, and some monsters are created through genetic engineering.

In order to make up for the huge power gap between humans and monsters, Kunzhao can choose a set of imperial standard power armor and corresponding weapons.

But even if prisoners are given the most advanced armor and weapons, 95% of them will not survive the first round.

This is why this method of execution is called the Arena of Death.

Kunmao faces three charges, so he has to survive three rounds. Only if he persists in these three rounds can he have a chance of survival.

With his superb combat skills, Kunmao killed the first snow monster from the ice planet and became the 5% who survived the first round.

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