Chapter 392 Negotiation Expert Su Zhou (5200, First Update)

In this near-endless Milky Way, how many Black Zone forbidden areas exist?

A thousand? Ten thousand? Perhaps some might guess this, after all, the Milky Way is so vast and boundless, that even by the most conservative estimate, the entire galaxy has over a trillion stars, and countless nebulae and star clusters...

Within such a vast number, it wouldn't be strange for any number of forbidden areas to appear, even exceeding a hundred million would only be a probability of one in ten thousand, smaller than the probability of drawing two SSR cards in a row in a card game.

But in reality, the number of Black Zone forbidden areas is far fewer than anyone imagines.

Forty-three.

The entire Milky Way, in trillions of planetary systems, has a total of forty-three Black Zone forbidden areas.

On the dark cosmic curtain, twinkling starlight flickered, the black exploration ship was entirely enveloped in a layer of faint, deep-blue light, silently slicing through the silent vacuum.

[Preparing to perform a warp. Distance to target, 9.87 light-years, three warp points.]

After flying for a long time, the deep-blue light enveloping the ship suddenly shone and erupted, and then, there was the warp.

It arrived at the next warp point that met the standards.

The so-called Black Zone forbidden area has only one key point: whether it's a warship, an exploration ship, a reconnaissance beacon, or any man-made object attempting to obtain information from within, once it enters, it can never return.

Even the interstellar overlords of the Golden Age, the Galactic Empire, the Corporate Alliance, and other super-civilizations that occupied half an arm, or even delved into the 'shining segment' of the galaxy's center, these arrogant powers bumped their heads in front of these forbidden areas...

It is precisely because no one can escape unscathed that the forbidden zone is a forbidden zone.

[Warp completed. Engines are eliminating additional psionic energy flow interference... Distance to target, 7.21 light-years, next warp countdown, 17 hours, 22 minutes, 19 seconds.]

The exploration ship, which suddenly appeared in a brand-new starfield, had its deep-blue luster enveloped in chaos, with numerous flickering white and golden light spots covering it. This was the phenomenon of psionic energy accumulation and superposition brought about by traversing space-time. The warp technology, which twists the space between two locations through psionic energy and causes them to overlap, thereby traversing space-time, would inevitably condense the psionic energy surrounding the destination within the traversing object, causing psionic chaos within it.

Therefore, in a planetary system with a star constantly releasing large amounts of psionic energy, there are very few warp locations that meet the requirements. Forcing a warp would only cause the warship's engines to be damaged and implode.

At the bridge of the bullet-shaped black warship, a Klow ship captain stared at the 'unknown' marker on the star chart. His ten octopus-like multi-functional limbs were all connected to the control cabin, allowing his dodecahedral body to receive information from all parts of the ship.

"Forbidden zone..."

He murmured to himself, letting out a sigh that was unclear whether it was excitement or worry.

After the Silent Era, most of the forty-three Black Zone forbidden areas that were originally scattered throughout the galaxy had their mysterious veils lifted—those terrifying forbidden lands that left all visitors unable to return contained many powerful behemoths that were enough to shock many interstellar civilizations.

Ether dragons that orbit planets, using a molten planet as their nest, and hatch their offspring; Star-devouring behemoths rooted in stars, absorbing their nutrients; Fully automated recycling machines of ancient civilizations, wandering on ancient battlefields; Sovereign behemoth ships guarding the ruins of their creators' homeworlds, and have not given up their duties to this day...

Wandering mysterious signals, whether mechanical or living, as long as they enter, they will be bewitched and corrupted, becoming crazed and distorted in the large nebula; Locked by closed warp space-time, artificially created black holes of astonishing mass, or even a living planet that actively hunts other celestial bodies... The mysterious veils of those Black Zone forbidden areas have been lifted, and although they are still terrifying and no one dares to approach, they are no longer unknown black zones.

Just like this forbidden area located at the end of the third spiral arm of the galaxy, a secluded place for an Ω-level psionic civilization... This is certainly frightening. He certainly believes that this civilization will create brilliance again in the future, but...

But at the end of this Silent Era, can that psionic civilization really recover its vitality so quickly?

Klow exploration ship captain, K-Cole, doesn't think so.

Or rather, he must think so.

Because, he bears a top-secret mission given by the Klow Central Administration.

——Obtain the ship identification code of the ship that crashed 170,000 years ago, from the 'Corporate Alliance', formerly an important member of the 'Thousand Stars Trade Community', the 'Shug Military-Industrial Complex'.

As long as they obtain this code, the Klow people can open the door to the core star system of the Corporate Alliance!

Unlike the Tallinn people, who are merely observed by the Corporate Alliance, the Klow people were originally just artificial tool-life created by the Corporate Alliance. Although they were given a certain degree of intelligence, they were not considered true life with human rights, even lower in authority than Seventh-Class Artificial Intelligence.

However, when the Corporate Alliance's various members lost contact with each other due to the psionic energy disruption of the Silent Era, and then became extinct and silent one after another, the surviving Klow people gradually mastered some of the Corporate Alliance's legacy because their qualities as tools were simply too excellent. They then became a true interstellar race, whose technological strength was more than a notch higher than that of native civilizations like the Tallinn people.

However, because of the limitations deliberately created by the Corporate Alliance, the Klow people's psionic energy and creative talent are simply too low. They can master technology well and correct mistakes, but they cannot develop it and can only increase technology by recycling relics.

As for psionic energy... The strongest psionicists among the Klow people, who initially focused on psionic energy research and used the Corporate Alliance's new technology to strengthen themselves, are now only like him, at the initial level of the Fourth Order, and this is the limit of the Klow people.

So, in recent years, because they have not found any new Corporate Alliance relics, the Klow people, whose technological strength has stagnated, are extremely anxious and fearful when they discover that the Tallinn people's technology is climbing steadily.

In this galaxy, there are thousands upon thousands of powerful races, and countless civilizations, whether reborn or native, are being born. Even within the former territory of the Corporate Alliance, there are more than a dozen new civilizations being born... And the Klow people occupy such an advantage. If they cannot even defeat the Tallinn people and are surpassed by the other party, wouldn't they have to repeat the fate of becoming a tool race again?

Fortunately, the Klow people hold an absolute trump card.

They hold clues to the location of the Corporate Alliance's homeworld star system, the location of the super-civilization's industrial and economic center.

However, this star system, like most super-civilization's important star systems, is completely invisible to psionic energy radars and conventional scans. There is no way to warp and arrive. Only through specific frequencies and identification codes can one open the passage to the inside of the star system.

How could the Klow people, as a former slave race, hold this information? So, they are just holding clues in vain, facing the treasure house but with no way to enter, their hearts are extremely anxious.

Until a few months ago, they received a signal from this distant Black Zone forbidden area, from the Shug civilization's ship.

The Thousand Stars Trade Community was the predecessor of the trade alliance, and their homeworld star systems were originally the same. The Shug civilization's ship naturally held the identification code to the homeworld star system.

Ω-level psionic civilization? That is indeed a frightening thing. Even a behemoth like the Corporate Alliance would definitely not want to provoke a psionic overlord who could destroy celestial bodies... But for the Klow people, if they cannot continue to obtain the Corporate Alliance's legacy, then their future is destined to be bleak—especially obtaining the Corporate Alliance's former artificial life data for creating the Klow people, so that they can get rid of the 'factory settings' of low creativity and psionic talent through universal transformation.

"Hmph, those Tallinn crabs simply don't understand the importance of that ship..."

Seventeen hours passed, and the penultimate warp began. The black exploration ship arrived at a vacuum zone 3 light-years away from the target. This is the middle section of the target planetary system and another planetary system. Under K-Cole's order, the exploration ship began to activate psionic energy scans and corresponding sensors, feeding back the approximate situation of the target information to the star chart.

Obviously—nothing.

In the target star system, apart from the psionic energy reaction of the two stars, there is no psionic energy light spot representing a large-mass warship at all. They even found the aftershocks of the explosion produced by the Tallinn people's exploration ship. There were many laughter in the ship's public frequency. As arch-enemies, the death of every Tallinn person can bring happiness to the Klow people.

"Continue to move forward."

Issuing such instructions, K-Cole didn't feel strange, after all, they had just been scanned by high-performance psionic energy radar not long ago, but now they haven't found any large psionic energy signals. There must be something abnormal about this matter.

But the arrow is on the string and must be fired. He can't say now, 'Let's not explore, let's go home!' Not to mention whether the crew is willing, the Klow Central Administration will throw him into the gene recycling furnace.

What's more, maybe those Tallinn people used the wreckage of the crashed ship to piece together a psionic energy radar? Those crabs are indeed extraordinarily skilled in this regard, of course, the Klow people are even better.

Thinking like this, a dozen hours later, the Klow exploration ship was preparing to start the last warp.

But.

Just before the warp, it is not known whether it was a sensor failure, or something unexpected happened. Suddenly, a large number of unknown signal sources suddenly lit up on the exploration ship's star chart!

Located around the target location, densely packed, it was simply like psionic energy signal sources that appeared out of thin air, instantly arousing the exploration ship's emergency alarm—although each signal source was extremely small, and the sum of all signal sources was probably not even as powerful as the core engine of an exploration ship, it still made K-Cole's heart filled with doubts.

But it was too late.

The warp had already begun.

Between the bright, stardust-like, faint-blue psionic energy flashes, the black exploration ship disappeared from its original location.

And at the other end of space-time, on the back of a silver satellite orbiting a blue planet.

In the empty space of the universe, suddenly, a faint-blue psionic energy halo lit up, and then, the center of this halo began to become blurred, as if the scenery from the other side of distant space-time appeared here. After a moment, a huge bullet-shaped warship appeared in the center of the halo with flashing psionic energy.

When the psionic energy light flow covering the entire ship dissipated, the first thing K-Cole did after the warp was completed was to immediately restart the exploration ship's observation equipment and begin to comprehensively search for information about the surrounding area.

Then, he was stunned in place.

Because, surrounding the exploration ship, were circles upon circles, densely packed with warships and tiny exoskeletal armor.

"Detected more than five frigate-class ships!"

"More than two hundred Third Order psionicists, twenty-four Fourth Order psionicists—including one who is approaching the Fifth Order!"

"Captain, we are surrounded!"

In an instant, within the exploration ship, the exclamations of the observers and researchers rose and fell one after another—those warships were fine, they did not feel any threat from those frigate-class, seemingly empty, space warships, but those seemingly tiny exoskeletal mechs contained a strong sense of danger!

In the universe, warships simply controlled by AI are indeed just ordinary firepower bases. More than a hundred hydrogen warhead missiles have already locked onto the alien exploration ship. Although nuclear weapons are far less lethal in space than in the atmosphere, according to the Tallinn people, it is more than enough to paralyze the operation of the warship and signal transmission. Not to mention the exoskeletal armor sharpshooters who can reach speeds of over eighteen kilometers per second in a vacuum environment after acceleration, enough to break through the Klow people's warship defense circle and directly enter the ship to control the warship, and this is the source of the sense of danger.

The psionicists covered in full-coverage armor cannot see their expressions, but it can be detected that materialized psionic power is rotating in these giant psionic exoskeletons, which are more than ten meters high. The psionic vortex engine, as the energy source of this modern compound magic weapon, is releasing bright light that can be clearly observed in the universe.

Many transcendents belonging to the military forces of various countries silently surrounded the Klow people's exploration ship, and this encirclement was faintly headed by one person.

And this person did not even equip an exoskeleton armor.

June 30, 2017, on the back of the moon.

Su Zhou stood in the vacuum, his long hair tied into a ponytail fluttering slightly behind him. The young man held a long sword that had not been unsheathed, and calmly stared at the black spaceship in front of him.

In order to avoid stimulating the Klow people, he did not transform into his true form. Although the Earthlings are not prepared to let any aliens who know the true situation of Earth go back, they are not prepared to really kill all the aliens—wouldn't it be good to capture the opponent after defeating them, just like the Tallinn people, and let them teach relevant technologies to themselves?

With this thought, Su Zhou did not show hostility at the first time. Facing the Klow people's exploration ship, which seemed to be in chaos, he just slowly moved forward, and then tried to communicate with the other party through soul communication.

"Prepare to execute the escape plan! Force warp to leave!"

At the same time, inside the exploration ship, Captain K-Cole had reacted. Through the exploration ship's lens, he was shocked to discover the piles of various spaceship wrecks stacked up like mountains on the back of the moon—at the same time, he also noticed that the terrifying psionic reaction on the distant blue planet was so hot that it was like boiling!

——What, isn't this planetary system a binary star system?!

That is actually a life planet?! But how can any planet have such a terrifying psionic reaction, and this kind of space-time distortion fluctuation, it is simply hundreds or thousands of times that of an ordinary psionic energy planet...

Without time to think too much, he immediately issued an emergency order to warp away.

But obviously, he did not succeed.

"Want to run?"

In the Moonback base, the Tallinn people, Captain Kotaren, who was watching the battle with the master craftsman representative of the American Federation, Old Elderman, made a hum that was considered a 'sneer' in Tallinn language: "I didn't expect it, it only takes this group of Earthlings one hour and twenty-six minutes to hand-craft an anti-warp field generator!"

On the other side, many craftsman representatives, including Craftsman Saint, nodded slightly, but K-Cole, who noticed the warp failure, immediately had his mind hardened and cooled as if it were frozen.

——They clearly deployed a psionic energy stealth field, but they were still probed for the destination of the warp. As soon as the warp ended, they were directly surrounded by the other party's large forces. The plan to escape by emergency warp failed, and the exploration ship has no choice now!

Also, this abnormal information, the abnormal planet, the abnormal universe environment... the piles of spaceship wrecks...

"No, this information must be transmitted back to the homeworld!" Without any hesitation, this captain made a choice.

"Klow people."

And at this moment, he heard the voice from the front, the unknown race individual who walked in the void of the universe with his physical body. That lifeform, which exceeded the scope of an ordinary Fourth Order and was almost indistinguishable from the Fifth Order psionicists recorded in the Corporate Alliance, was approaching their spaceship step by step.

His voice vibrated through the psionic realm, resonating in the hearts of every Klow person in the exploration ship: "I am here on behalf of the human race of Earth to negotiate with you and discuss solutions to the Klow people's invasion of our Earth human race's homeworld star system."

Su Zhou believes that he is extremely sincere, but for the Klow people, his existence itself is a great threat.

So, in the next instant, as the exploration ship's weapon modules were fully activated, countless drones and attack units were released by the Klow people like locusts, and a thick beam of high-energy particles bombarded Su Zhou, who was gradually approaching, at near light speed.

Buzz—

Just as this high-energy beam hit Su Zhou head-on, the young man seemed to have foreseen it. He held the sheath of the sword, and the Blade of Annihilation lit up with a red fluorescent light. Although the divine sword, shining like blood, was still in its sheath, the deployed shield still completely enveloped its owner.

The light stream cut through the darkness and sped towards the distant cosmic vacuum.

The psionic light shield shattered, and the slightly annoyed young man frowned and walked out of it.

Immediately, all the Klow people on the entire exploration ship were speechless in shock.

An individual can actually withstand the attack of a psionic energy particle beam unscathed? This is an attack that even the Tallinn people's warship armor cannot withstand!

"Can you let me finish what I have to say?" Su Zhou couldn't understand the shock of the aliens, he just said patiently to the exploration ship in front of him with anger: "As long as you Klow people lay down your weapons and surrender to us, then the human race of Earth is willing to accept your surr..."

Then, there was the second beam.

For some reason, Su Zhou, who seemed to be able to foresee the future, dodged this particle beam, narrowed his eyes, and looked at the particle beam bombarding the moon's back, creating a furnace-like area.

Then, he calmly turned his head and stared at the Klow people's exploration ship.

"Okay, it seems that I have to fight you after all."

——Negotiations, broken.

Then, the battle began.

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