Chapter 729: Chapter 726: Investigate the Truth
Zhang Yuan sighed, carefully observing each photo on the screen. From both a humanitarian perspective and the need to investigate the cause of the accident, searching for survivors was indeed a good plan.
However, the probability of finding survivors among the wreckage of the spaceship was very slim, while the chances were significantly higher in the underground base.
The crisis had not been completely eliminated, yet after reaching so basic consensus, the eting quickly adjourned, and both parties began to restrict civilian activity, reduce surface operations, and strategically retreat.
The “Mountain and Sea” War Star of the New Human Civilization and the “The Karena” Planet of the Half-sphere Civilization activated their curvature engines, pulling back to a distance of 200 astronomical units from the Tos Civilization Relic—a distance now considered safe enough.
Only The Kyushu, the Planet Fortress, remained in its original position, serving as the Central Command Center for the frontline exploration force.
As a military planet, The Kyushu was also the most complete in terms of defense chanisms and could withstand a variety of rough handling. In other words, if faced with a truly insurmountable danger, abandoning this planet to cover their retreat was not out of the question!
All these safety asures had taken a total of three days to implent.
After that, the unmanned frontline investigation teams had also approached the destination and began sending back images they had captured. The entire reconnaissance force was divided into two parts: one approaching the spaceship ruins, and another starting to investigate the main base of the Tos Civilization’s colonial planet…
“What on earth happened?”
This matter had left Zhang Yuan feeling rather uneasy, disrupting his sleep and rest.
The Tos Civilization could also be considered an old friend of humanity, from whom people had learned a great deal. So nice electromagnetic technologies were provided by these large dollfish. But from the current situation, they seed to have encountered so sort of misfortune…
If such misfortune were to befall humanity, would they be able to withstand it?
This concern made him restless, almost desperate to uncover the truth imdiately.
In the conference room next door, several colleagues were discussing, “Ah, I wonder if any survivors managed to escape. Surely they didn’t all perish.”
They reflected deeply, finding it hard to believe that even a Fourth-level Civilization could fall on hard tis—it seed so fragile.
“There must be so,” one of them said. “I’ve noticed that all these spaceship wrecks are facing the sa direction, which suggests they were attacked while trying to flee. But theoretically, so ships must have escaped successfully. Their population totals over a hundred million; it’s not possible for just these few ships to carry them all.”
“That makes sense.”
“Do you think… it might not have been a Level 5 Civilization… but rather, an internal riot within the Tos Civilization?”
Zhang Yuan shook his head, “It’s unlikely. The social structure of these large dollfish is quite stable and hasn’t changed over the years. Could it really have undergone a drastic transformation in the four hundred years since we left? The probability is very low…”
“Of course, we can’t rule out that the Tos Civilization lost control of so Black Technology, resulting in an incident similar to our Radiant Galaxy’s downfall, sparking an internal riot.”
“Black Technology, huh?”
As they talked, the first batch of unmanned advance investigative teams had begun sending back the images they had captured.
From the satellite photos, one could see that this had once been a highly prosperous colonial planet, boasting as many as sixteen Space Ports, with large transport ships that had never left still docked.
These ships were almost completely undamaged, industrial-grade nuclear fuel transport ships, suitable for short-distance travel.
It seed they hadn’t even had the chance to start up before the entire civilization had collapsed…
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yuan furrowed his brow and fell into deep contemplation.
He had a nagging feeling that since there were still intact ships in the port, the likelihood of finding survivors within the base was not very high…
The surface base seed to have erupted in a ground war, with many of the infrastructures destroyed. The concrete floors that had been smoothed over now bore nurous craters. The soil, shiny as glazed glass, bore the marks of nuclear weapons attacks, along with various tallic chunks that had cooled and solidified, clumped together on the ground.
“Look at this!”
One of the technicians in front of the screen seed to have found sothing and exclaid loudly, “This looks like a crater made by a heavy armor-piercing bullet, right?”
Zhang Yuan turned his head and followed the technician’s gaze to that particular screen.
From inside the crater, the interior of the underground base could be seen.
Due to the complete power outage in the base, it was pitch-dark inside. The searchlights could only make out the wreckage of so robots.
Deeper underground, so lights were still flickering.
In the midst of this conversation, over a hundred Alliance exploration robots descended to the ground.
“Should we go in directly for investigation?”
“It’s too far, better not to command rashly.”
To ensure safety, the Kyushu’s command center maintained a signal delay of a full ten hours from the front line, so these robots were all set to explore autonomously.
If there was indeed an ergency, humans could still send instructions to assert control to so extent.
However, it would take ten hours for the robots to receive this information and react accordingly. Under such circumstances, it was better to let the robots handle it on their own.
chanical debris, craters, and so scattered corpses—the cruelty of the war left everyone breathless for quite a while.
“The Tos Civilization must have evacuated in a hurry.” Zhang Yuan’s brows were deeply furrowed. “They didn’t even have ti to gather their dead and fled in great haste. This indicates that they encountered a disaster they couldn’t resist and couldn’t afford to leave a second later.”
After a while, the investigation team for the spaceship wreckage also sent back their findings.
Judging from the destroyed flagship relic, it was covered with various bullet holes. These were standard weapons common to Third-level and Fourth-level Civilizations, such as electromagnetic guns, lasers, and so missiles—nothing out of the ordinary.
But what was even more bizarre was the discovery that so of the shells appeared to have been fired from the inside, as if a mutiny had taken place, causing the entire spaceship to self-destruct.
“How could this be?”
Zhang Yuan spotted a blackened mass of flesh and sighed again; it must be the body of a large dog “Momo Luo,” but now the dog was dead, frozen in the vacuum of space.
It was really strange. From what Zhang Yuan understood, those axolotls should be very pacific creatures. When they had co-developed the War Star together, the endurance of this species was far greater than that of humans. How could they suddenly change like this?
Li Zhendong, sitting next to Zhang Yuan, whispered, “External factors, it’s likely caused by sothing from outside!”
“We must be cautious. So unforeseen external factor must have caused them to descend into chaos instantly. During the evacuation, even the escape ships were thrown into disarray!”
Zhang Yuan frowned and said, “But have you guys noticed that all the robotic wreckage is from the Tos Civilization? We haven’t found any remnants of an alien civilization.”
“Maybe the battlefield was already cleared once. Or it could be so other reason.”
By now it was nine o’clock in the evening, and all those in the know were tirelessly discussing and speculating.
“If it was really the work of a Level 5 Civilization, what exactly are its thods of attack? Why would it attack the Tos Civilization? Could it simply be to seize the base?”
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