Chapter 259: Reciprocity
"Will, we will soon arrive at the Serenas' home planet, and we can see their orbital rings clearly."
Dragging the pulse tail flame, the huge mothership creatures slowly approached Serena, and the Hogu and the others set out from the twilight, crossed the stars and finally arrived at their destination.
Of course, the "slowness" here refers to the current speed of the mothership creatures on the scale of the universe. Even if the fastest aircraft on the earth is more than several times faster, they will not be able to catch up.
Seeing that the destination was about to arrive, the heading of the mothership creature began to change, and the course was tangent to Serene's low-Earth orbit at an inverse angle.
"Will, I have a question to ask."
In the radio channel, Huogu received an inquiry from the collectors he traveled with.
“What’s the problem?”
"Why are we as child bodies surrounding organisms? Isn't it more convenient to use organisms directly?"
The individuals who were truly "messengers" did not enter the body of the mothership, but transformed into close-defense sub-body that intercepted physical shells or pops on the battlefield. Before leaving the night, Huogu asked these collectors to faithfully play the role of "sub-body" and go out to patrol from time to time like other ordinary close-defense sub-body.
The collectors of Huogu's orders will naturally do their best to complete it, but they cannot understand what Huogu's purpose is to ask them, so they have this question.
"You are too relaxed. Once you encounter an attack in space, you have no place to hide. Let organisms be used as a 'target', at least just in case."
"Remember, don't let go of your guard easily for guys you don't understand. It's okay to be kind, but guys with malice will never give you a second chance to fight back. Do you understand? The necessary caution can never be discarded."
"Understood."
Gradually, Huogu and his friends saw a light illuminating in Serena, which was very dazzling and extremely bright, and even obscured the star light on the background of the universe.
Each light source is parallel to other light sources. They form a huge array of square formations on the Serene track. It is so strange, but also familiar. Huogu has seen this scene. Sustainment was to let the mothership creatures form this square formation to welcome his return. Unexpectedly, the Serene people also use this square formation to welcome it.
At that time, the mothership creatures were waiting for the phalanx to greet each other. Huogu still felt something was wrong, but later the Serena did not say anything, and Huogu did not take it too seriously. But in this situation...
Is the square formation actually a way for the Serenas to express etiquette? Or it is a certain default custom of their civilization, so there is no record of this? Huogu thought in confusion and began to look at the square formation with the mentality of tourists enjoying the beautiful scenery.
However, the actual situation is that after the last time the phalanx was displayed to the Serines, the generals of the imperial court were put under a lot of pressure. They believed that the other party was showing off their force to the empire, so they planned to set up the phalanx when welcoming the envoy this time, and the modified phalanx was used to respond to the original "provocation" of diplomatic form.
Empire: Stupid Amoeba, you know nothing about the power of the Empire! Look at our formation, it is useless to draw cats and tigers, you are still far from it!
Huo Gu: It turns out that the fleet phalanx can still be arranged like this. I have gained some knowledge. It seems that they are still very friendly to our arrival. Should we try this kind of phalanx next time?
"This is Amoeba's messenger, we need a map of entry routes."
"This is Serene. The Empire warmly welcomes you Amoeba's arrival. Please adjust the frequency band to the 3THz dedicated data reception frequency."
The mothership creature successfully downloaded the route planning map of the Serenas, and after making some adjustments to the original course, they began another military parade browsing.
It was different from the time when Ming. The warships on both sides were full of futuristic sci-fi. This gave the three views of humanity, which was a unique experience. The mothership class and battleship were arranged neatly, and were no worse than the motherships rehearsed by Ming. Between the warships and warships, there were independent ships arranged in a folding formation to shuttle and patrol.
After traveling millions of kilometers, he still did not sail out of this square formation. It was not until now that Huogu realized that there were quite a few warships on the Serena.
"Why are there only these three? There were obviously a few other ones in the past, but I prefer the ones that come every time."
"I heard from the Serena that the Serenas said he was retired."
“Retired?”
"I just don't want to use it anymore, so I remove it and restore it to raw materials."
"Hey, it's a pity. Don't you give it to us? It's a waste."
"Will, look at that ship, it's so big."
"I've always been curious that Serene is so small and does not have the power of us. How did they do this big?"
"They must be monsters."
“Agree.”
...
The collector who was walking with Huogu was shocked and commented on the Serene's warship, without understanding the intention behind the Serene's formation. It can be said that the Serene's formation was a glimpse of the blind.
Through the square array, Huogu and his friends finally saw the artificial star ring up close. It was really huge, on the outer ring surface, and the area that looked like a thin line from a distance. At this time, Huogu and his friends looked like a huge wall standing in the starry sky.
There are entrances and exits of different sizes on the giant wall, and civilian spacecraft enter and exit in it, just like a bustling downtown street. If the individual units in the city on the ground are humans, then in this ring, the spacecraft is an individual unit. The Serenas living on it almost everyone has a spacecraft, but it is just a difference in size.
There is not only industrial docks on the Star Ring. People who work on the Star Ring are also people. They need entertainment. After meeting material needs, they also need to meet spiritual needs. In addition, the population is full, the empire arranged some people to settle down on the Star Ring, build Star Ring cities, open civilian positions, have red light districts, food streets, and mercenaries engaged in the transportation of ground goods, transporting an important person or valuable goods, aristocratic private orbit express delivery, etc.
Facts have proved that military-to-civilian transformation has always been a good job of making money. At that time, the Serene empire not only temporarily solved the population problem, but also created an additional amount of wealth to alleviate the fiscal deficit.
After entering the port, Huogu and others changed back to the form of collectors and came out of the mothership creatures. Not long after they came down, a group of Serena appeared to welcome him.
"I am the person in charge of the DZ-0039 port area here, Moluke Rashen, welcome you, Amoeba's messenger."
"Hello, I'm very happy to meet you, Moluke Rashen, my name is 'Tan'."
Chapter completed!