The Uranus system, which was originally filled with rumbling artillery fire and countless shining stars, has now become quiet.
But the fierce battle that lasted only a dozen days still left an indelible mark in this galaxy.
In the orbit around Uranus and above the orbits of its satellites, there are all kinds of debris and fragments moving at extremely high speeds.
Warships that were blown in two, satellites with only a small part left, turrets riddled with holes, and so on can be seen everywhere.
Even Uranus has obvious traces of this war.
It was originally light blue, but now, there is a hint of gray in its light blue.
It was formed by the high-speed impact of countless projectiles and debris.
An electromagnetic cannon projectile, no matter how fast it is, can only disappear in the thick gas layer of Uranus like a micrometeor, and the little burning trace left behind will disappear in an instant.
But what if there are 100 million, 10 billion, or 1 trillion?
Moreover, there were countless equipment wreckages. Even an Earth-class battleship belonging to Li Qingsong crashed into Uranus irreversibly because its propulsion device was destroyed, and hundreds of clones in it merged with Uranus.
Under this continuous impact, Uranus became what it is today.
This battle was fierce and massive.
At this moment, facing the wreckage on the ground and the situation where hundreds of millions of his clones were killed, Li Qingsong was full of excitement.
No matter what, I win!
I repelled the attacking fleet and destroyed more than 20,000 of their warships!
In a trance, Li Qingsong recalled the technological breakthroughs over the past hundreds of years, the tireless pursuit of technological breakthroughs, and all the resources, brainpower and hard work that had been invested regardless of the cost...
I deserve this victory!
After a long period of excitement, Li Qingsong finally controlled his emotions and turned his attention to another problem.
In any case, we are on the defensive at this stage. So, how will the opponent fight in the next stage? How should we respond?
Controlling 200 million brains at the same time, with the assistance of Wukong AI, Li Qingsong once again began to think and speculate, and made corresponding adjustments and arrangements.
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The flagship of the Bluetook civilization, outside the head of state's office.
There was a hint of gray on General Harrier's silver-white scales.
It was a disastrous defeat, an unprecedented disastrous defeat. Facing a civilization whose technology was far behind theirs, they actually brought back such a disastrous defeat.
20,000 warships were destroyed, 500,000 elite soldiers died on the battlefield, and 500,000 families were broken up...
In a trance, he recalled the scene when the fleet hurriedly returned to the main base and the angry people were crying loudly and insulting him.
Public opinion is now boiling over, and I wonder how many people want to pluck their own scales one by one, eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood.
This time, I'm afraid I really can't escape death.
Even if the Führer understood that he had no choice, what else could he do?
The public resentment is so great that there must be an explanation. And except for my own life, nothing else can be explained...
But at this moment, in the head of state's office, the top leaders of civilization did not discuss how to deal with Harir.
They were discussing another issue.
"The enemy has now demonstrated a combat capability that exceeds our previous estimates. Based on this, is it possible to continue with the original plan?"
Faced with this problem, the head of state looked at the official in charge of the supply and storage of civilized materials.
"Are our current reserves sufficient to launch the next interstellar voyage? Even if it's just to the nearest star system?"
The official looked somewhat gloomy.
“Originally, we plundered some resources from the dwarf galaxy, and with the remaining resources from before, it was barely enough.
But now, it’s not enough…”
He sighed softly.
The greatest consumption of materials is war.
"Can't extract enough resources from dwarf planets?"
"The rest are easy to deal with, except for deuterium, a vital fuel, which can only be mined in sufficient quantities from large gaseous planets."
In the case where a large planet is occupied by an opponent, in order to obtain enough deuterium, one must either defeat the opponent or... make the opponent hand it over voluntarily.
After a long discussion, the top executives finally reached a consensus.
It is unwise and unnecessary to continue fighting with such a powerful opponent.
It's not that they really think they can't beat humans, but there's no need to.
Since you have shown enough strength, we will not hesitate to give you peace out of mercy.
"All right."
The leader sighed softly: "In this case, let's negotiate. As long as this human civilization agrees to send us the resources we need, then let them go this time."
An official whispered, "We need to be careful with public opinion."
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in the war, and countless families were broken up. At this time, the top leaders of the civilization wanted to negotiate with their opponents. This was really unacceptable.
How can I get rid of the anger in my heart unless I skin and kill all the humans!
"I will come forward to appease the people and demand that human civilization compensate all our war dead."
The leader said calmly: “During the negotiations, we might as well let humans know our internal public opinion and use it as a bargaining chip.
We need to make people understand that peace talks are concessions we make only for the sake of peace in order to avoid more innocent casualties.
But we don’t make concessions for nothing. We must see that humans are sincere enough before we grant them peace.”
A message came into the solar system and was received by Li Qingsong.
The arrival of this information was somewhat beyond Li Qingsong's expectations.
Finally you responded to me... I thought you couldn't communicate with other civilizations.
“Dear Head of Human Civilization:
Like human civilization, we are also a peace-loving civilization.
The solar system is not the end of our migration. We come here only to mine some materials for use on the journey.
But unfortunately, we saw some bad things happen.
Your civilization has disregarded its previous promise to provide us with resources and brazenly launched an attack on our resource-gathering fleet, causing heavy casualties on our side. Now the people in your civilization are outraged and demand that we severely punish your perfidious behavior.
But as mentioned earlier, we are a peace-loving civilization and we are willing to use our utmost sincerity to ensure that peace is not destroyed.
Based on this, we demand that you compensate our innocent victims, send high-level officials to the scene to apologize, and severely punish the internal murderers.
In addition, we also need you to provide us with the following materials as a gesture of sincerity to ensure peace.
The directory is as follows:
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