Chapter 214: Chapter 143: First Glimpse of Interstellar Society (Part 2)

Human civilization knows far too little about this starfield, to the extent that even a trivial bit of common knowledge can make them feel as if they’ve obtained a treasure.

And when Shen Yu distributed the knowledge he had gained to the other Shen Yus, the interstellar world Shen Yu finally began to understand something about his world, and this starfield.

There are indeed more than just three interstellar civilizations in the entire universe.

No one knows how many there are!

And even less is known about how powerful the strongest interstellar civilization truly is!

As for the blue-skinned civilization before him, they called themselves the Blue Spirit.

This name has been translated for convenience.

The “Blue” in front refers to the color of their skin, a racial trait, while the “Spirit” serves the same function as “Human” for humanity, signifying an intelligent species.

The Blue Spirit Race and the Void Spirit Race both belong to the same cosmic power.

A multi-civilization joint power that primarily develops by invading other civilizations, known as the “Star Hunting Alliance.”

Again, this is a translated name, but the nature of this multi-civilization alliance is already openly stated in its meaning, leaving nothing concealed.

The Void Spirit Race’s invasion of Human Civilization is definitely purposeful— they intend to sell the industrial planets, life planets, and all the technologies created by Human Civilization within the Star Hunting Alliance, in exchange for the technologies and resources their own civilization needs.

The Blue Spirit Race are the buyers.

Sometimes, that’s just how it is: simply coming into contact with a higher-level existence can instantly reveal information that was once shrouded in mystery and completely unknowable!

However, the answer isn’t exactly promising.

“There is more than just this alliance of civilizations in the entire interstellar expanse.” Shen Yu quickly spoke in his mind to the other Shen Yus, “This starfield is far grander than we ever imagined, and these civilizations that first entered interstellar society have already adopted the concept of civilization levels.”

They have established basic levels for universal civilizations by categorizing them according to their scope of influence.

Level One is a society with intelligent species, but without the concept of technological development.

Level Two indicates a civilization that has begun a technological path, but has not left its mother star.

Third-level means having left the mother star, but lacking the capacity for deep space travel, at most touching a single stellar system.

Level Four represents mastery of stable wormhole technology, granting the ability to explore multiple-star systems within their own civilization’s domain.

This is precisely the stage Human Civilization is at.

Level Five denotes having wormhole engine ships, allowing faster and wider exploration of the starfield.

Level Six means wormhole engine technology allows direct transit to other multi-star systems.

Level Seven signifies the capacity to observe the entire universe, the supreme civilization in universal concepts.

Level Eight means transcending the universe entirely.

Level Seven and Level Eight exist only as conceptual possibilities. However, within this “Star Hunting Alliance,” there truly exists a powerful Level 6 Civilization!

This is the strongest civilization that’s accessible in their knowledge!

They can directly cross unimaginably vast distances in warships, instantly arriving in far-flung multi-star systems.

Clearly, this tier far exceeds present-day Human Civilization.

In fact, Level Six is not even necessary— even the Blue Spirit Civilization is merely Level Four. They simply purchased wormhole engines from the Level Five civilization within the alliance.

That alone is enough to pose a massive threat to Human Civilization!

Although civilization level is fundamentally categorized by spatial technique, it goes without saying that it entails overwhelming superiority in most fields of technology.

Compared to the interstellar societies of this world, Human Civilization is too weak!

Even worse, the abilities Shen Yu and his group are now displaying— at most, instantaneous teleportation into fleet interiors— barely reach the higher-end technical level of Level Five civilizations.

This may frighten the Blue Spirit Civilization before them, but it cannot scare the Star Hunting Alliance!

The Star Hunting Alliance is exceedingly ruthless; when they encounter an unknown Level Five civilization, their excitement and aggression only intensify.

And clearly, they are unable to contain their information— at this moment, the other warships have already fled.

Even the Void Spirit Race’s bio-fleet is accelerating its escape.

So, what’s the plan now?

Shen Yu said no more, simply asking the interstellar world Shen Yu, “This is your world; you must make a swift decision.”

The structure of interstellar society in this world has already been revealed. None of the other Shen Yus can make the decision for the interstellar world Shen Yu.

And the interstellar world Shen Yu, after overcoming his initial shock, no longer hesitated.

“Use Gray Mist to obtain more intelligence directly!” interstellar world Shen Yu said gravely, “Especially on those civilizations we might be able to ally with; the Star Hunting Alliance is not invincible in the entire interstellar domain.”

Shen Yu nodded slightly.

Undoubtedly, this is the right choice.

Intelligence— in this starfield, its importance is self-evident!

Human Civilization must quickly enter interstellar society and acquire allies.

After asking through Gray Mist, his eyes also brightened.

“By using Gray Mist to dig deeper along the consciousness information network of these Blue Spirit People, we can extract intelligence at a much lower Gray Mist cost compared to direct inquiry.”

Which, of course, makes sense.

On the one hand, there is the approach of inquiring intelligence from nothing; on the other hand, this is actually invading the Blue Spirit Race’s information network.

The latter is clearly easier than the former.

“Then we have to hurry; otherwise, the Blue Spirit People may completely shut down these captives’ information channels.” Interstellar world Shen Yu smiled slightly, and seeing the Gray Mist Space greatly eased the immense pressure of understanding the true nature of the starfield.

Because, countless streams of Gray Mist were madly pouring into the Gray Mist Space!

Even though their methods were relatively direct and blunt, they nonetheless managed to stop a powerful enemy fleet’s assault.

Combined with the previous battle against the Void Spirit Fleet, the total amount of Gray Mist obtained reached 72 billion!

The entire Human Civilization has a total population just over 180 billion.

This means that, with just these two fleets, they possessed the power to destroy almost half of Human Civilization in a short period of time.

Without hesitation, they immediately burned Gray Mist, using these captive Blue Spirit People as anchors to invade their consciousness cloud network.

This kind of intrusion consumes a considerable amount of Gray Mist, too.

After all, it’s the consciousness core of a powerful civilization, with a scale not much smaller than that of the Goddess of Hope.

Yet the cost is still much less than direct inquiry.

Regrettably, the enemy reacted swiftly, shutting down all channels in an extremely short time.

Still, that brief window was enough for the interstellar world Shen Yu to obtain the crucial intelligence he sought.

—Star Map!

“It’s still an incomplete star map, but it contains the coordinates of many civilizations.” Interstellar world Shen Yu shared the incomplete star map immediately, “A dozen civilizations outside the Star Hunting Alliance, as well as a dozen alliance civilization strongholds!”

He marked one coordinate very boldly.

That is the mother star of the Void Spirit Civilization!

This civilization that had once tormented Human Civilization to the brink of despair is in truth merely a Level Four civilization— and relatively weak even among Level Fours.

And its mother star is, as expected, located in the same multi-star system as Human Civilization.

Clearly, even under such circumstances, interstellar world Shen Yu still harbors thoughts of revenge.

“Let’s tally the gains,” said Shen Yu. “Thirty-seven point one billion Gray Mist, an enemy mother ship, 1.12 million abandoned Blue Spirit captives, and relevant intelligence concerning this starfield.”

“And the Wutun Industrial Planet we recaptured!” interstellar world Shen Yu added.

From this perspective, Interstellar Human Civilization has fully accomplished its goals in this war.

The spoils surpass even the original expectations.

In fact, just seeing this mysterious fleet suddenly begin its retreat stirred jubilation across the Human Civilization’s command channels.

It was as if they’d journeyed from despair, straight to Heaven!

Although the five highest-ranking commanders hadn’t yet grasped what had happened, they nonetheless acted decisively, immediately ordering a pursuit of the Void Spirit Race’s bio-warship fleet.

And capturing the entire Void Spirit Race’s bio-fleet is only a matter of time.

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