"Okay, but please don't move around once you're inside. You're not authorized, and if you move, the robots will shoot you dead."
"Okay, okay, okay, hurry up, friend, we're about to suffocate."
The hatch of a Grim Slayer opened, and two humanoid figures flew out of the small spaceship. After removing their equipment, an old man and a middle-aged man entered the life support pod. As soon as they entered, they collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, and it took them a while to recover.
While the two were catching their breath, the bio-scanner began to perform a deep scan and analysis on them. The results showed that the genetic structure of these two was the same as that of the Insect Race that Luo Zhigao had previously obtained. However, since humans can create artificial humans, it is not impossible for other civilizations to do so. For now, they should keep these two under control and find out what their origins are.
A large group of people gathered around Hu Yu, looking at the two people in front of them who looked similar to themselves through the four-dimensional channel. If the two people's clothes and hairstyles were changed and they were placed in a human group, almost no one would be able to notice the difference. Hu Yu projected his image into the life support pod.
"Tell me, what happened?" Hu Yu asked slowly, his face expressionless.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Wei Kaiyuan, and this is my successor, Guan Sengping. We are the successors from the breeding base, but this identity is meaningless now," the old man said.
"We are humans from the other side of the Milky Way. Due to the invasion of the Insect Race, we were forced to leave our original home and migrate as a whole to an ordinary planetary system in the First Spiral Arm of the Milky Way. At that time, our civilization level was the same as yours now, about to enter the Small Star Sector Civilization. However, just when we were about to break through to the critical stage, the allied civilization of the Fish Horse Star Civilization civilization appeared. They annihilated our warships, killed countless of our people, and later directly plundered our two inhabited planets, handing over all our people to the Mu Star Civilization to be kept in captivity. Every few hundred years, a large number of our people are taken away, but none of them have ever returned."
"Although the Mu Star Civilization employs indoctrination and brainwashing, our first planetary leader was secretly protected by his people at a crucial moment. He remained in a secret underground space hundreds of kilometers below the surface. Unfortunately, he was severely injured and lacked medical care, so he passed away not long after. Before he died, he found a second successor. Although our lifespan is very long, the Mu Star Civilization does not allow us to live that long. Every ten thousand years, everyone must be replaced; no one can escape it. During the term of successor, the next successor must be secretly chosen. The indoctrination is very severe, and successors are becoming increasingly difficult to find. I am now the eighth successor, Guan Sengping is the next one. The sole goal of the successor is to rescue all our people, to stop them from remaining ignorant, and to let them know the truth: the so-called gods are nothing but lies fabricated by the Mu Star Civilization."
"Year after year, generation after generation, the ordinary people in the Mu Star territory have completely degenerated. They have no concept of science. We had almost given up as well, because we saw no hope at all. Just when we were in despair, a gravitational wave traveled countless light-years to the Mu Star Civilization territory and was received by our only spaceship."
"To ordinary people, this gravitational force is nothing out of the ordinary, but we have gleaned hope from it. It turns out that when the accomplices of the Fish Horse Star Civilization plundered our planet, a small group of people escaped with their technology tree. After 100,000 years of development, they have broken through to the Small Star Sector Civilization. Now they are searching the entire universe for our traces to see if any of their people still survive."
"Upon receiving this message, we were both happy and worried. We were happy that we still had members of our people outside, and that they had even broken through to the Small Star Sector Civilization. We were worried because we couldn't send the message back, and our people wouldn't know how we were doing. Just when we were racking our brains and preparing to risk our lives, you arrived."
"At first, I was overjoyed when you claimed to be human. I thought my people had come to rescue us. But I soon discovered that although you also called yourselves human, you were not our original people. However, that's not important. What's important is that you are also enemies of the Fish Horse Star Civilization."
"Perhaps it was God's mercy on us, seeing how much suffering we've endured. Our spaceship has been operating for 100,000 years, and although we've been conserving energy, it's still running low. Just when we were at our wits' end, we discovered your fleet. It's truly fate, and that's how we ended up here."
"I sympathize with your plight. Although we are not of the same race, we have many things in common. I can tell you that the Mu Star Civilization is keeping you captive, intending to use you to feed the Insect Race."
"What?! Feeding the Insect Race! These demons, demons!!!"
"There's no use in being angry now. You should focus on developing your own civilization and find a chance to take revenge in the future."
"Sir, I'm not sure how to address you yet?"
"Oh, I am our commander, Hu Yu."
"So you are the General, my apologies for my rudeness."
" Wei Kaiyuan, could you tell me about the origins of your human race? I find it strange that there are two human races in the Milky Way. According to you, we were originally tens of thousands of light-years apart and had no contact with each other. You should know how likely it is that two identical civilizations could appear in the same galaxy."
"General, I was born in the Mu Star Civilization. My memories of our civilization were all taught to me by the seventh successor. Over the years, many things have been lost, but the seventh successor told me many times about the origins of our civilization and urged me to pass them on to the next generation."
"Our civilization originated about 2 million years ago, and it went through many twists and turns and hardships. Step by step, it finally developed into Star System-Level Civilization. If it weren't for the Fish Horse Star Civilization, we might have already broken through to the advanced stage of Small Star Region. Fate is truly unpredictable."
"Two million years?" Hu Yu muttered to himself.
"General, is there a problem?"
"Oh, no, you haven't left your territory at all during this time?"
"Leave? General, what do you mean?"
"Oh, for example, have you ever been to other spiral arms or places tens of thousands of light-years away from civilized territory?"
"General, I'm not too sure about that. The seventh one didn't tell me about these things, so I don't think so. As a Star System-Level Civilization or Stellar-Level Civilization, we don't need to operate over such a large area. There are no advanced civilizations around our planetary system, and we have plenty of resources."
"Oh."
"Does the general suspect that we created this group of humans?"
"That's a suspicion."
"General, I cannot give you a definite answer to this question. After all, I have not been exposed to our civilization and culture, and what I know is only fragmentary. If you are interested, General, why not take a trip to our current civilization?"
"There is a chance."
"General, we both wish to return to civilization, and we hope you can help us."
"Hmm." Hu Yu hesitated for a moment, "Sure, we can send you back, but these are all our warships, and they have missions to carry out. We'll arrange for a spaceship to take you back once the warships return to our base."
"Thank you, General! Our people are now on the Second Spiral Arm," Wei Kaiyuan and Guan Sengping said excitedly.