133: Coexistence of deformities

(Extra chapter for the reward given by Book Friend Big Boss 9.30)

(Currently still owe 18 chapters)

..."—In the previous historical stage, due to the human rulers—the tyrannical Human Federation—approximately 119.8765 billion species of intelligent life were permanently extinguished across the universe. Thus, every human being has carried the original sin of violence since birth."

"—Written by the Helagi species, Woshashabi."

The higher one stands, the harder one falls.

This saying perfectly describes humanity during the second era—the Second "Great Decay" was undoubtedly the most severe catastrophe in human history.

In that world-ending conflagration ignited by humanity itself, the former overlords of the galaxy lost nearly ninety percent of their territory and nearly seventy percent of their population.

Manifest Destiny ultimately turned into smoke, replaced by technological stagnation, civilizational gaps, and even the coordinates of the Mother Planet were lost.

Human civilization died.

But a centipede dies without falling stiff; even with only one-tenth of its territory remaining, human civilization was still a behemoth spanning dozens of superclusters.

Human Warships still blotted out the sky, and human military might still shook the universe—

At that time, if humanity had just pulled itself together, it could undoubtedly have survived and climbed back to its former position.

However, toward the end of the Second Great Decay, a sweeping conspiracy quietly began to brew.

The usurpers, who cried out for a Star Sea Republic, exploited the ignorance of the populace and incited a trend of settling scores against the Federal Government just as all of humanity was working together against the Great Decay and was about to achieve victory.

They won,

resulting in the most shameless defeat in human history.

The usurpers seemed to have a clear awareness of their own incompetence—if they followed the Federation's old path, they would undoubtedly be collectively swept into the trash heap of history by the people once they realized what was happening.

Therefore, they made a choice between the future and themselves:

"We humans have our own national conditions here. We shall quantify humanity's resources to win the favor of friendly races—"

That's right, they sold out the future to preserve themselves.

The Theory of Human Original Sin was heavily promoted, the Theory of Alien Superiority was widely touted, and brainwashing propaganda appeared in every corner of society.

They encouraged humans who formed natural families to intermarry with aliens, in order to "wash away humanity's inherent flaws";

They accepted a large number of aliens into the ruling system, in order to "learn the advanced and truly civilized experience of friendly races";

They took the lead in forming the so-called "Star Sea Alliance," sharing a large amount of original human technology with aliens—even customizing it specifically for them—and spearheaded the signing of a series of treaties restricting humanity.

It could be said that the raw materials and consumables from factories like power grids, food processing plants, and biomass fertilizer plants during the Human Federation era instantly became honored guests and VIPs!

And the entire set of equipment before Xi Hai's eyes was a product of this period of history.

After spending more than ten hours reading every piece of text, Xi Hai's eyes were bloodshot—

Although this clone body hadn't slept for dozens of hours, he didn't feel any drowsiness,

The contents were more outrageous than the last, and each one made his blood boil even hotter!

Every time he thought, "Surely this is the limit?" the content of the next document would always make him feel dizzy again—

A simple summary is:

Because of a bunch of worthless treaties conceived by who-knows-who, these aliens received a batch of "Void Bubble Engines" custom-made for them.

That's right, custom-made. Before human Warships even got to use them, the aliens were already using them.

And what did this bunch of aliens do after they received the engines?

It was like a bunch of baboons running wild in the streets getting a super cool motorcycle; the first thing they did was crash into everything everywhere!

The essence of these aliens was no different from those baboons—they were perhaps even worse!

They encroached upon the void, which only humans were truly qualified to access, and then used it to constantly attack humans!

Since this engine was introduced, the aliens probably didn't know how to turn off the automatically recorded navigation logs, so its hundreds of thousands of sorties were all recorded—

Almost every time involved harassment of human activity zones,

And—they almost never suffered a defeat.

Only three years ago, a Military Alliance fleet also equipped with void energy engines chased them all the way here, yet they were still protected by the Imperial Tax Administration Department.

Truly a bunch of inhuman bastards.

As Xi Hai finished reading the last word, night lamp's voice simultaneously sounded—

"Time-Space Walker progress bar advanced."

"third era: 0% -> 5%"

"Third Great Decay: 0% -> 1%"

"Reward: 12,000 proxima centauri coin, 16 Encrypted Technical Archive."

Xi Hai took a moment to calm his emotions.

Combining this with the knowledge he had previously accumulated: the Human Federation was xenophobic during the Second Era, the Republic was xenophilic during the third era, and the Empire was xenophobic again during the fourth era.

History truly is a loop, either spiraling upward or spiraling downward.

Shaking his head, Xi Hai cleared those terrible things from his mind.

Recovering human history aboard an alien Warship, ha, how ironic.

He couldn't go back in time and beat those guys up, so his current goal was simply to become stronger—only when he was powerful enough to grasp the rudder of all humanity would he have a chance to turn humanity back onto an upward track from its endless descent.

It's difficult, but—hope still exists, doesn't it?

As for now—

It's time to open some boxes.

He opened night lamp's "Research" interface; 22 Encrypted Technical Archive lay there, emitting an alluring glow.

"My edges have already been smoothed out by this abysmal drop rate,"

"But—I still firmly believe that the day I defy fate and change my destiny will come!"

"Open!"

"frigate Technology Value * 7"

"destroyers Technology Value * 4"

"Fighter Technology Value * 5"

"Escort Boat Technology Value * 3"

"Stinging Jellyfish-class Tactical frigate"

"balanced anderson SC020 - Reconnaissance Aircraft"

"Technology Reserve * 19"

Stinging Jellyfish? Two blueprints?

Xi Hai's expression instantly changed—

"likely a game, I love you."

Next up were 16,082 proxima centauri coin.

Xi Hai thought about it and decided to gamble on Norma Transport's Solar Whale, immediately buying four Norma Transport nine-in-one boxes (2,660 each);

For the remaining quota, Xi Hai decided to invest everything in Antonios—the King of Bombers in the game, the Vesta B010, was their masterpiece. He immediately bought two nine-in-one and one Three-in-One box (888 each)!

"Now—come on! Let me challenge fate!"

The four dark green Norma boxes were dragged onto the rail one by one, and blue light immediately shone—

"frigate Technology Value * 17"

"destroyers Technology Value * 9"

"Fighter Technology Value * 4"

"battlecruiser Technology Value * 2"

"Aircraft Carrier Technology Value * 1"

"Sand Dragon - Atmospheric Interceptor"

"Bullfrog-class Amphibious Bomber"

"Chimera-class Heavy cruiser"

!!!

Three blueprints, that's somewhat humorous—he finally drew a Norma Transport Warship.

Mental exhaustion prevented Xi Hai from expressing his inner delight—in fact, if so many boxes hadn't yielded anything, that would have been the anomaly,

At that point, he'd have to worry if he was being set up.

Thinking of Norma, who called him father and whom he had left in Ursa Major V12.22, Xi Hai was filled with emotion—he would build these and send them to him later.

Alright, next up is Antonios, which has been constantly overshadowed in this text until now.

Open!

The two nine-in-one and one Three-in-One boxes were dragged to the research station.

"frigate Technology Value * 11"

"destroyers Technology Value * 5"

"cruiser Technology Value * 3"

"Aircraft Carrier Technology Value * 1"

"Southern Cross Marshal-class Armed Aircraft Carrier"

"Technology Reserve * 21"

"Hmm, as expected... wait, what was that last one?"

Xi Hai felt that staying awake for dozens of hours must have made him stupid, otherwise why would he be hallucinating in broad daylight?

(Hallucination: Oh right, right, what you got was me.)

After repeatedly confirming it was not a hallucination,

Xi Hai felt like he was floating—

He finally got an Aircraft Carrier!

Although it wasn't the one that could carry the most, it was the coolest one!

Its streamlined matte hull, its naturally integrated ion cannon array... it was simply the dream Warship—even if it didn't turn into a Ship Girl.

"Now let's see who dares call me a Non-Chief!"

"Haha!"

"Next, there are 87 Technology Reserves left,"

"Guaranteed Box, activate!"

... (The Warship has accompanying pictures in the comment section)

(If not, it was swallowed. Please help me add it, thank you.)

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