Chapter 440: Chapter 260: Staring at the Es Civilization_2
If technology brings quality, then resources bring quantity.
And for the current Human Civilization, the greatest value that quantity brings is the population size!
"It seems we need to learn from the Cosmic People." Shen Shi prepared to find a safe place to halt navigation, then hide the entire Solar System. Only in this way can they freely develop the population, rather than like the Gus People who can only limit population growth to prevent their entire Eternal Star System from being overcrowded.
Fortunately, humans do not need to constantly navigate to actively approach other civilizations for trade, so he just needs to hide humanity without continuously maintaining navigation.
In the vast and boundless desolate regions far larger than star systems, hiding a star, a civilization, poses little challenge.
Of course, before that, humans must first fill up the Solar System.
Once again, the population reproduction project has become the top priority in the development history of Human Civilization.
However, while this certainly brings more advantages to the future, mere three thousand years are not yet enough to allow this quantitative change to transform into a qualitative change.
One can only say that a longer future is awaited.
And corresponding to the real world, Future Line One is also focused on mad development; they did not opt to flee the Mude System, nor is it necessary. This future line did not receive as much attention as other future lines, not even qualifying for the "fission" possibly appearing within the Mude System—they have not yet encountered the Es Civilization.
Indeed weak, but also safe.
Supported by the other future lines, it embarked on a steady and rapid development path, while leveraging its inconspicuous nature to continuously investigate information on other C-level civilizations for Shen Shi, directly used for the Pirate Alliance plan on the modern world line and Future Line Three.
No matter how those civilizations imagined, they could not conceive that their intelligence would be leaked in another parallel cosmos without the Pirate Alliance.
And Future Line Two, as the most dangerous future line among all lines, has only one development route for the next period—to be sufficiently cowardly!
Surrounded by eleven incredibly powerful civilizations, each capable of completely destroying them. In such circumstances, Shen Shi could only dare to support using the mysterious "Thirteenth Position" identity, and even interactions and trades with other civilizations had to be conducted similarly. For the entire civilization, it seemed survival was its sole guarantee.
Development could not even be considered.
All benefits were difficult to obtain.
Therefore, nothing could really be done on this future line under the identity of "Sage Saint Shen Shi."
However, this does not mean Future Line Two is unimportant, because the "Thirteenth Position" identity has already gained enormous benefits within it, even establishing a unique alliance form with the Three-Day Civilization, all high-end power from other future lines could only originate from this future line. Although the timeline’s shifting is diminishing the changes brought to Future Line Three, the top devices can still exert great influence.
Only, acquiring top devices basically depends on Shen Shi’s personal ability, Human Civilization can only remain stagnant during this period, waiting for the day to be reborn from the flames.
Thus, Shen Shi actually spent the most time on Future Line Three!
Not only does it possess the strongest power among all the future lines, but it also contains the most thrilling variables!
Here, Shen Shi and the human-controlled Pirate Alliance face the terrifying Mude System—not powerless and able to resist—in fact, opposite is true. Leveraging devices traded from Future Line Two and the transaction market’s powerful capabilities, Shen Shi can even inflict damage on many civilizations within the Mude System that cannot be wholly overlooked!
This was a rare experience for Shen Shi.
Even somewhat becoming an obsession.
Unknowingly, five centuries passed rapidly like this.
The longer it goes, the more time Shen Shi spends in Future Line Three! Counting it, he has even stayed here for seventy years, and there must be a reason for such a long stay. Over seventy years, Shen Shi has persistently hovered around the Es Civilization, intensely focused on it, constantly challenging the Es Civilization’s authoritative sovereignty with the Pirate Alliance identity!
He wants to deepen his understanding of the Es Civilization, obtain information related to Es, keep eroding Es’s strength, and eventually, using Es as the breakthrough point, announce Human Civilization’s official stage presence in the Mude System!
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"Guangyang, the Es Civilization’s ambush is just a front, I’m certain your position is safe, now bring out your fleet and consume this small fleet!" Shen Shi commanded through the transaction market’s communication channel to the commander of another fleet thousands of light-years away.
This was already the year 4842 of the Starry Era.
Future Line Three.
Shen Shi devised an extremely bold strategy, using one-third of his B9-level battleships as bait to explore the Es Civilization’s reality. For decades, he found the Es Civilization’s power seemed to be continuously declining, or more precisely, continuously migrating!
Initially facing the Pirate Alliance’s first provocations, the Es Civilization’s reaction was overwhelming. As the Milky Way Galaxy’s ruler for nearly fifty thousand years, the Es’s power was totally beyond imagination, its warships vast enough even in the infinite cosmos. At that time, Shen Shi could only rapidly retract his fleet into personal space, trading it to Gong Chu far away and relying on his mastery over time to perfectly coordinate with Iwen in Future Line Three, ultimately leaving the encirclement successfully.
To replace any non-Pasture Master in the Mude System, facing such circumstances would only lead to death.
Nevertheless, that battle pushed the Pirate Alliance’s fame to true zenith.
However, this was not Shen Shi’s focus point, because he soon realized that afterward, the Es Civilization could no longer deploy the same formation to face the Pirate Alliance’s provocations.
Initially, Shen Shi thought this was because the Es Civilization believed even such formations couldn’t handle this mysterious Pirate Alliance, thus abandoning meaningless expenditure.
But as Shen Shi gradually deepened his understanding of Es Civilization, he quickly discovered that this possibility wasn’t high, because the previous encirclement was not Es’s strongest power, it was merely seriously equipping. Normal logic would suggest deploying stronger forces to amend the past defeat, not randomly slacking.
Moreover, Es Civilization seemed also to slow down cultural encroachments on other civilizations, as if ignoring results.
Additionally, Es’s Mother Star region seemed increasingly quiet over decades, traceable by clues from surrounding civilizations.
Furthermore, similar situations seem to emerge not just within Es Civilization. According to Pirate Alliance other members’ reports, other B-level civilizations appear to have varying degrees of lifelessness.
... These instances, this reality felt to Shen Shi like shifting more—and perhaps all—attention elsewhere, thus even when facing insect bites and blood-sucking, they didn’t take thunderous measures to slap them to death.
Hence, a daring probe emerged.
Once the Es Civilization wasn’t as Shen Shi imagined, then even with personal space it wouldn’t be feasible to take away all warships, for warships, when placed into personal space, must first ensure every intelligent life therein is in a dormant state.
And the probe results indeed emerged.
Though the specific reason is unknown.
Yet in this area, around their Mother Star, Es Civilization’s defenses seem to have lowered to an unimaginably past degree!