Chapter 1914: Arrival! Thousand Stars City
So the Starlight Troops commander quickly raised his hand and waved!
(ﾟoﾟ)ﾂ "Hey! I'm talking to you! Stop right there! Halt!"
The moment those words were spoken, the star pirates jolted and actually stopped dead in their tracks, then turned around in perfect unison!
Their movements were flawlessly coordinated as they immediately prostrated themselves on the ground!
_(>﹏<」∠) "Thank you, Handsome Devil Duo, for taking time out of your busy schedule to carry out justice! We are filled with gratitude and will remember this forever!"
"May you two lords have great fortune, boundless blessings, earn gold every day, and enjoy great luck and prosperity!"
The synchronized shouts left the Starlight Troops completely dumbfounded!
When did these vicious star pirates become so polite and respectful?
Prostrating themselves in the greatest of bows right off the bat?
The star pirate leader didn't even dare to look up, tears streaming down his face!
_(>̣̣̥᷄⌓<̣̣̥᷅」∠) "But... didn't you two lords just rob us a while ago? We really don't have anything left on us! The only thing we have left is this pair of shorts!"
"If you like them, feel free to take them. I'll gladly offer them with both hands, just spare our lives!"
As he spoke, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the elastic waistband of his shorts, and tore them off with a fierce rip!
With a "riiiip," the star pirate leader actually ripped his own shorts off and, with utmost respect, raised them high above his head!
The other star pirates followed suit, and the sound of "riiiip, riiiip" echoed as they tore off their shorts!
"A small token of respect, unworthy of your acceptance. Please take them as a gift, and you're welcome to come rob us again!"
The Starlight Troops commander's eyes bulged wide. What the hell kind of bizarre scene was this?
This was an eyesore! Were these really star pirates? The last time he came to suppress bandits, things weren't like this!
(ꐦ°᷄益°᷅) "Who the hell wants your shorts?! What would I do with those?! Put them back on right now!"
"What the hell is going on?!"
Some of the young women in the troops blushed at the sight.
The star pirates were stunned. They don't want our shorts? Then we really have nothing left to give?
They all looked up in shock and saw a well-equipped Starlight Troops unit.
It wasn't the Handsome Devil Duo? At that, they burst into wails and rushed over to hug the commander's legs!
(ɔ༎ຶ口༎ຶ(≖_≖C) "Waaah! You finally came! Saviors! Real saviors! That Handsome Devil isn't even human—he's a demon!"
"Do you have empty cells in the Ming He Death Prison? I'd like to apply to go in for a decade or two to lay low. The outside world is too terrifying!"
"Brother! Hurry! Hurry! Get the ship out of here and go back to call for backup! You guys aren't even enough to fill their teeth. Don't let them see you, or you'll be robbed down to your last pair of underwear!"
"Especially that Handsome one—he's completely insane! He even took apart my mechanical eye and mechanical prosthetic limb, dammit!"
At this moment, the now-exposed star pirates treated the Starlight Troops like saviors, clinging to their legs and bitterly complaining, snot and tears flowing freely!
Some even applied to go to prison!
The commander's eyelids twitched uncontrollably. What the hell? We came to clean up the Chaotic Star Sea, and now we're the saviors?
He thought there would be a big battle here, but it was completely different from what he'd imagined!
"What exactly happened?"
After some investigation, he learned that all the star pirate gangs in the Chaotic Star Sea had been robbed by a duo called the Handsome Devil!
Complete annihilation!
The commander was stunned. Where did this Handsome Devil Duo come from? Did they beat us to the punch?
Could they be the same ones who hacked the Starlight Alliance cargo ship?
"Is the Handsome Devil still in the Chaotic Star Sea?"
The star pirate leader shook his head like a rattle:
(*꒦ິ～꒦ີ) "We don't know if they're still here! But seriously, won't you consider arresting us and throwing us in for a few years? We're volunteering!"
The commander gritted his teeth: "Arrest you, my ass? The Ming He Death Prison isn't a place for small fry like you!"
"All units, conduct a carpet search of the Chaotic Star Sea and confirm whether the Handsome Devil is still in this star domain!"
∠(｀～´*) "Yes, Commander!"
The star pirate leader quickly said: "Don't go! Why won't you listen?! You'll be robbed down to your shorts!"
The commander kicked him away: "Get lost! Don't interfere with my mission!"
Just how deep was the psychological trauma that even these Chaotic Star Sea star pirates, who would slap a dog twice just for passing by, had turned into such cowards?
...
As the Starlight Troops carried out their search mission in the Chaotic Star Sea, Jiangnan's group had already arrived at the center of the universe, the gathering place of all races—Thousand Stars City!
On the north side of the Thousand Stars Domain stood an enormous metal ring, so massive that it was over ten times the diameter of a red giant star—a super-gigantic mechanical structure!
This was the famous Bei Xuan Gate Yuan Gui Wormhole of Thousand Stars City!
It was powered by countless stellar fusion reactors!
All Yuan Gui Wormholes in the star islands of the northern sector of the universe could link to the Bei Xuan Gate of Thousand Stars City!
At that moment, the stream of starships emerging from Bei Xuan Gate was like a river, moving in and out with orderly precision, just like salmon swimming upstream!
And Jiangnan's pirate ship was one of the most inconspicuous among them.
Inside the pirate ship's bridge, Jiangnan, Mo Mo, and Xing Cheng were pressing their faces against the porthole like children, staring at the massive Bei Xuan Gate.
Jiangnan's face was squished out of shape!
(｡)º﹃º| "Wow! Such a huge mechanical wormhole! How long did it take to build something like this?"
If you compared Blue Star to this massive Bei Xuan Gate, it was truly just a drop in the ocean!
Olivia wiped her forehead in exasperation:
(•́～•̀٥) "What's so amazing about that? You haven't been to Thousand Stars City before, have you? Yeah, forget I asked."
"With the abilities of the Silicon-based Mechanical Race, building such a giant Yuan Gui Wormhole doesn't take much time at all!"
"They have countless construction robots with clear divisions of labor and highly unified actions!"
"It didn't take long to rebuild the entire Thousand Stars City either. There are four such Yuan Gui Wormholes in the city—north, south, east, and west!"
Mo Mo was stunned: (•︠～•︡) "Rebuilt?"
Olivia's jaw dropped:
∑(°口°๑) "Huh? You don't even know about such a major historical event? Are you guys not connected to the network in your village?"
"Over three thousand years ago, Thousand Stars City was dismantled once by that certain existence. It was a huge incident. Although I didn't experience it myself, I've heard the elders in my clan talk about it!"
"That existence was truly formidable! I heard it even attracted the Watchers to come and record it!"
Mo Mo swallowed hard. Was it Jiang Fan?
A figure from over three thousand years ago on Blue Star, still so famous among the myriad races of the stars?
Olivia tilted her head, looking at their provincial expressions, and began to speculate.
Just which remote corner did Jiangnan and his group crawl out from?
Jiangnan grimaced, his heart surging with excitement.
This was where Jiang Fan once fought. Now he was setting foot here too?
Surpassing the ancestor—that started right here!
On the way here, since they were traveling at warp speed, the portable smart brain couldn't connect to the Star Network.
Jiangnan had learned quite a bit about Thousand Stars City from Ai Jiang.
2.2 billion years ago, the long-lasting Universe War that engulfed all races ended, and the race for dominance among the myriad races concluded.
The Bose Race solidified its position as the overlord of the starry sky, established the Sacred Law Council, and cooperated with the other races to govern the myriad races of the stars.
This gradually formed the current rules of the starry sky.
Thousand Stars City was built after the war, symbolizing the transition from chaotic, lawless warfare to an era of mutual exchange, progress, and common development among the myriad races.
It was a symbol of peace and a symbol of the existing order of the starry sky.
Over billions of years of development, the scale of Thousand Stars City had grown ever larger.
It was the center of all race civilizations and the center of the starry sky.
Thousand Stars City wasn't literally a single city—it was a reference to a vast star domain.
Once you came out of Bei Xuan Gate, you entered the territory of Thousand Stars City.
In fact, Thousand Stars City encompassed far more than a thousand stars—it was over ten thousand stars!
Every race that could enter the Star Domain Sequence had a settled planet here.
Even races like the Titan Race, ranked around six thousand, had their own settlement planet in Thousand Stars City.
Thousand Stars City was divided into inner and outer rings.
The outer ring's settlement planets were for races ranked outside the top hundred of the Star Domain Sequence.
To have a settlement planet in the inner ring, a race had to be in the top hundred of the Star Domain Sequence.
As for the central ring, only the top ten Sequences were qualified to have a presence there.
For example, the Silicon Race's Divine Machine Star Group, the Apocalypse Race's Canglan Star, and so on.
At the very center of Thousand Stars City was a single main planet—Wanxiang Star.
Wanxiang Star was so massive that it was beyond imagination.
It was so large that ten giant stars and hundreds of satellites orbited around it.
It single-handedly stabilized the orbital paths of all the stars in the entire Thousand Stars City.
Jiangnan couldn't understand how Wanxiang Star, with such immense size, hadn't collapsed into a black hole due to its own powerful gravity.
It was said that Wanxiang Star was a first-generation planet, born in the early days of the universe's formation.
Originally, it was the most ancient existence among the Celestial Star Race, but for some reason, its gestation failed, and it never formed into a planetary lifeform.
Instead, it maintained this state.
So it was brought here to serve as the central main star of Thousand Stars City.
Olivia murmured: (๑•̌～•̑) "What a pity. If Wanxiang Star had gestated into a planetary lifeform, who knows how powerful it would have been!"
"Then the Celestial Star Race might not have only made it to sixth place in the Star Domain Sequence."
Ye Yuan looked at Wanxiang Star, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
(๑¯ิ৺¯ิ) "Heh~ A pity, you say?"
And along the way, Jiangnan's eyes had been dazzled by the sights of Thousand Stars City.
Endless streams of starships came and went. In the starry sky, one could even see figures streaking across at incredible speeds like meteors.
Almost every planet was lit with lights, the surfaces adorned with buildings of all shapes and sizes, with space elevators extending into the stars.
He even saw several interstellar cities floating in space, their streets glowing with colorful lights.
As far as the eye could see, Thousand Stars City was extraordinarily brilliant—a prosperity and liveliness Jiangnan had never witnessed before.
It was like the brightest star in the pitch-black universe, its light splashing in all directions, illuminating the entire starry sky.
At that moment, Jiangnan's eyes reflected the countless stars, and his heart churned.
(๑ᵒ̴̶̷△ᵒ̴̶̷)
So this was where he would edit... ahem, make his mark?
He really wanted Xuexue, Wolfbane, and the others to see how splendid the world under the starry sky was, how dazzling Thousand Stars City was!
But although these countless stars shone brightly, not a single one belonged to humanity.
Jiangnan's fists gradually clenched.
Bread will come! Instant noodles will come too!
Humanity must have the most dazzling star in this Thousand Stars City!
For sure!
pS: Only this chapter tonight. The second chapter wasn't written. Starting a new map requires setting up a lot of world-building, races, factions, character relationships, etc. It's very extensive and can't all be done in a short time. Qingfeng has limited energy. Let me be lazy tonight. I've had ten rounds of nucleic acid tests recently, with more tomorrow and the day after. My throat has been swabbed raw. I can't sleep thinking about the settings, and I can't sleep even after dawn. My head hurts (◞‸◟). I'm not in good shape today. Please forgive me. I'll try to post in the afternoon!