As the Strongest Clone began exploring more dangerous civilization ruins, the Reconnaissance Clone, having completed its training, passed through the Door Handle and once again headed to the Forging Alliance's homeworld.
In just one month, the environment here has changed dramatically.
The effects of the star's disappearance led to the replacement of the planet's cooling equipment with heating equipment. Meanwhile, the Forging Alliance specially built a top-level reception area for Wen Jing, the lord who regularly collected "knowledge taxes."
Perhaps in commemoration of her as a ' Star Extinguisher,' the reception building is a massive sphere.
Because this place is not only used by the Forging Alliance, as Wen Jing declared when he appeared, other primitive races in this star field must also follow the new order and come here to hand over their civilization information.
"Thank you for your help, friends of the Condensed Rock Tribe."
The leader of the ' Starshine People,' who was covered in a snail shell from which numerous transparent, jellyfish-like tentacles extended, was wearing life support equipment and spoke to several round stones about one meter in diameter beside him using a universal language translator provided by the Forging Alliance.
The cobblestones hummed and vibrated with their magnetic fields, and the language of the Forging Alliance was also translated through a translator.
"It's nothing... We are now... all civilizations under the command of the great Star Extinguisher..."
The Condensed Rock Tribe is a silicon-based life form. They transmit information between groups using special electromagnetic waves, while communicating with others relies on resonance, similar to the difference between speaking and typing. This process involves a translation, making the communication even more fragmented.
At this time, with the help of the Condensed Rock Tribe, whose bodies resemble round stones, a large number of luminous seashells, still damp with seawater, were transported here.
"Of course, your civilization is also a friend of our civilization." The Starshine Tribe leader waved his tentacles in thanks again, taking the initiative to build a closer relationship with the other party.
When the Forging Alliance invaded the Starshine Civilization, Wen Jing suddenly appeared and announced a new order.
The Starshine Civilization, a third party that hadn't even entered the Industrial Age, had no idea what had actually happened.
To them, what happened that day was a sudden divine punishment with a bright light, followed by a massive tsunami, and the fall of an unfamiliar behemoth into the ocean.
Later, the Forging Alliance surrendered under the threat of Wen Jing Jing's Star Devouring, and the news slowly reached the warship that had been transformed into a 'golden ship' in less than twenty minutes.
At that time, the Starshine People were still frantically organizing disaster relief efforts.
It was the Forging Alliance that, upon Wen Jing's new order, went to communicate with them and informed them of the relevant information.
The Starshine Civilization may be backward, but as an intelligent race, they certainly aren't fools.
The Forging Alliance was already so powerful that they couldn't comprehend it. They would be crazy to dare to resist an entity that could conquer them.
Not to mention that during the process of submitting information later, they came into contact with the Condensed Rock Civilization, which was enslaved by the Forging Alliance, and learned that they themselves had almost been enslaved as well. Naturally, they were sincerely grateful for this order.
As one of only three primitive civilizations in the surrounding star system to have passed 'official certification', the Starshine Civilization was well aware of its own weakness and needed to make efforts to win over the Condensed Rock Civilization, which had already entered the industrial age.
This aligns with the ideas of the Condensed Rock Civilization —weak groups naturally need to learn to band together.
The Forging Alliance has conquered four intelligent races in the history of interstellar pioneering. Two of them have perished in enslavement: the Condensed Rock Tribe and the Dwarves whom Wen Jing had seen.
The enslaved race is the lowest level of the Forging Alliance. They retain their original biological forms but are fitted with life-linking monitoring devices to facilitate enslavement.
The Condensed Rock Civilization has a unique life form and once reached the Industrial Age. However, the technological generational gap with the Forging Alliance was too great, resulting in the civilization being enslaved for more than sixty years.
Their civilization was greatly affected during this process, but at least it still had a foundation, and was liberated because of Wen Jing's appearance.
In contrast, the dwarf race, with its short lifespan, had completely lost its language system after being enslaved by the Forging Alliance for over forty years, degenerating from a civilized society and falling outside the protection of order.
Therefore, both the Condensed Rock Civilization and the Starshine Civilization took the matter of providing information extremely seriously and dared not be careless in the slightest.
Due to their technological backwardness, their information carriers were naturally enormous, piling up into a small mountain each time, with the Starshine Civilization being the largest, practically a seafood feast.
The Forging Alliance offered Wen Jing assistance with the record-keeping, but she refused.
If these two civilizations are too influenced by them, then what she will end up with is repetitive technology, which is meaningless to her.
Wen Jing found it simple to process the vast amounts of information from these two civilizations: read the content, memorize it, and then simply consume the information from the carrier.
Now her memory is comparable to a supercomputer. These two civilizations are underdeveloped and have a generational gap with the Forging Alliance. Learning and mastering their skills is just a matter of minutes.
The leaders of the Condensed Rock Tribe and the Starshine Tribe were oblivious to their conversation, and every word of their dialogue was observed by the Master of the Furnace Core who resided there.
Two civilizations that should have been enslaved by them have now reached a level of equality with them on some level. Although they are not happy about this, the thing that has made them the most upset in the past month is that Wen Jing has actually done nothing except ask them to provide information about their civilization!
They didn't enslave them, nor did they care what technology they developed, nor did they interfere with their continued expansion and exploration. As long as they didn't attack the territories of other primitive civilizations, it was fine; they simply collected information about civilizations.
If they had known it would be like this, they would have surrendered from the start. Why let their home system suffer like this?
The Forging Alliance's long-held worldview has been refreshed, sparking much reflection within their civilization. Their diplomatic strategies are now centered around how to communicate with Wen Jing, and there's even a tendency towards a pro-foreign stance...
"Strange, why hasn't the adult's detector appeared yet at this hour?"
The moment the Master of the Furnace Core had this question in mind, the pitch-black alien insects appeared out of nowhere.
"The Great Star Extinguisher!"
The leaders of the three civilizations quickly stepped forward to greet them respectfully.
However, Wen Jing ignored them and looked towards a certain spot in the spherical reception hall.
"What's this?"
Under the [ Key of Tuning ]'s perception, the abnormal system embedded in a large system was as conspicuous as a firefly in the dark, not to mention that she also had the senses of gravity and microwave thermal radiation.
Following the connections of the abnormal system, much like connecting to Ancient Wilderness civilization ruins through Secret Treasure Gate, she teleported out of the room and looked up at the sky.
The remaining two civilization leaders were bewildered and immediately became alarmed, while the Master of the Furnace Core tracked her down through surveillance equipment.
Wen Jing was in mid-air, facing one direction.
Under her gaze, a triangular spaceship suddenly emerged from the clouds, its technology and appearance completely different from those of the Forging Alliance.
"Drop!!"
The planetary alarm system finally sounded belatedly at this point.
"An unidentified flying object has broken through the atmosphere, how come it wasn't detected at all?!"
The Master of the Furnace Core were all shocked and their minds were shaken. They hurriedly and nervously asked Wen Jing, "Sir, is this your spaceship?"
They couldn't help but be nervous. Wen Jing's 'technology' never triggered any alarms, and if this were her technology, she probably wouldn't have reacted this way.
"No."
Wen Jing's answer struck the Master of the Furnace Core like a thunderbolt.
The Forging Alliance discovered some unnatural traces during early space explorations, but these traces were ancient and vague, and could not constitute conclusive evidence.
High-ranking officials and top scientists speculate that there may be, or even more advanced, civilizations in the universe. Therefore, while their expansion was aggressive, they still focused on concealment, keeping their signals confined to the star systems they could reach.
It was Wen Jing's appearance that prompted them to conduct a large-scale probe, disregarding their own safety.
They lived peacefully under her control, thinking the matter was over, until suddenly a strange spaceship appeared at their doorstep.
"Grown ups!"
The Master of the Furnace Core placed their hopes on the dark alien insects in the sky—this super-civilization should be stronger than their opponents... right?
Wen Jing looked up at the sky, no longer concealing the traces, at the spaceship descending at a steady speed.
She never expected that before she could actively seek out new traces of civilization and was still absorbing knowledge from the Forging Alliance, a completely unfamiliar and unknown civilization would take the initiative to approach her.
The bad thing is that while it's hard to tell exactly how much more advanced its technology is, it's clearly superior to the Forging Alliance!
While pondering how he, as a 'powerful individual of civilization,' could remain undetected in the face of such a civilization, Wen Jing scanned the mysterious spaceship with his mental power.
A quick glance at it and her mood instantly turned strange.
Chapter 186
Wen Jing's mood turned strange after he used his mental power to contact the unfamiliar spaceship.
She obtained a large amount of information, which was stored directly on the ship's hull.
Yes, the hull.
This triangular spaceship, whose technology surpasses that of the Forging Alliance, uses materials that serve not only as material carriers but also as information storage carriers.
It's like a super hard drive being turned into a spaceship, or a spaceship being printed with massive amounts of information.
This contains a massive amount of data, graphics, and electromagnetic fluctuations; translated, it's a lavish, flowery... praise for her.
It briefly introduces that they come from a silicon-based life civilization called ' Law String ' that upholds rationality and order. Their civilization's territory happens to be within the 30,000 light-years of the area circled by Wen Jing. They are willing to hand over information, abide by her order, and become a member of her civilization.
"Originally, it was just to solve the problems of the Light Language Civilization, but I didn't expect to reel in such a big fish..."