Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones - Chapter 422: Unexpected Discovery
As expected, with Tom’s actions, thousands more hidden Star Beasts attempting to escape were sieved out by Tom and then killed one by one.
After a full year of busy work, as the last Star Beast was killed, and as the last larger remnant turned into an interstellar dust cloud in the light of a hydrogen bomb explosion, there were finally no more Star Beasts as far as the eye could see.
Whether there were any hidden Star Beasts deeper in space, Tom could not be sure, but he believed the probability was not high.
Given the ’character’ of these Star Beasts, if there were, they should have arrived to assist in the initial stages of the battle.
They had no concept of fearing battle or clinging to life.
Even if there really were, since they could hide until now, they must be extremely far away from him, and they might not even be able to clearly see who he was.
Controlling the risk to the current level was the limit of what Tom could do.
Since the matter here had been completely resolved, then...
Tom turned his head and looked at the large planet occupied by the Moraise Civilization.
"Finally, I have time to deal with you..."
The massive fleet once again set out, surging towards that planet.
At this moment, on First Planet, in the Moraise Civilization Chief’s conference room, a tall, slender official whose entire body was covered in long, thin tentacles burst into the conference room in a rage.
Inside the conference room, the Chief and a group of high-ranking officials were discussing something with heavy expressions. Seeing the official burst in, they all looked at him with some surprise.
The invading official’s dozens of tentacles converged into a hand-like shape and slammed heavily on the conference table, roaring: "Now that the Bluetoth Civilization has completely resolved the Star Beast Disaster, their fleet is already flying towards our planet!
What can we do now? What else can we do? The only way is to fight them! Fight! Fight until the last spaceship, fight until the last warrior!"
In the conference room, everyone was silent. Only the Chief, after a moment of silence, also stood up in a fit of rage and roared: "Fight, fight?! You speak so lightly!
That Bluetoth Civilization even destroyed that ice giant to kill those Star Beasts! Destroyed!
Is this something a proper Gravity Civilization would do? Have you ever seen a proper Gravity Civilization destroy an ice giant?!
Fight? What do we fight with?! We couldn’t even defeat those Star Beasts; we were almost wiped out!
Who would have thought that those Star Beasts could even master strategic weapons similar to ’gravity disruption’? Those Star Beasts didn’t even use their full strength when fighting us before!
But what about those Star Beasts now? They’ve been turned into interstellar dust clouds by the Bluetoth Civilization!
How do we fight? How do we fight?! Tell me, how do we fight?!"
Facing the Chief’s roar, the official who burst in trembled all over and shouted with grief and indignation: "What else can we do if we don’t fight? Surrender? This Bluetoth Civilization might be connected to the Grey Worm Civilization; they could be the Demonic Eye!
I’d rather fight to the death on the battlefield than be infected and become a Demonic Eye, I don’t want to! Wuwuwuwu..."
His tentacles converged into several hands, tightly covering his face, and then he burst into tears.
The Chief slowly sat down in his seat, let out a long sigh, his face ashen, and remained silent.
The high-level officials of the civilization attending this meeting were likewise. For a moment, there was no sound in the vast conference room except for the sound of crying.
After a long while, the Chief said tremblingly: "Surrender."
"Surrender to the Demonic Eye?! Never!"
"The Bluetoth Civilization may not be the Demonic Eye! Let’s surrender first! This is our only chance to continue our civilization, the only chance!"
...
"Esteemed Supreme Commander of the Bluetoth Civilization, our Moraise Civilization has decided to surrender unconditionally and accept any disposition from your esteemed civilization..."
Looking at this message, Tom smiled.
"If you had surrendered earlier, nothing would have happened. Sigh, after such a big detour and so much trouble, didn’t it still end up like this?"
With a few thoughts, Tom immediately replied: "Now, release all air defense control measures. Our side will dispatch robot troops to enter your civilization and conduct an investigation of your civilization. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Specific measures include, but are not limited to, taking over your civilization’s network, database, and supercomputing system, and interrogating key personnel.
If the investigation passes, as a benevolent civilization, our side guarantees that no harm will be inflicted upon your side."
Numerous Moraise warships returned to their base berths, abandoning all resistance. Tom’s robots, aboard numerous spacecraft, landed in various parts of the planet, under the mixed gazes of confusion, despair, fear, and anger from the Moraise people.
The first thing to do, of course, was to check and verify whether this Moraise Civilization was indeed infected by the Demonic Eye.
After a series of checks, Tom received a somewhat unexpected result.
The first batch of randomly selected, totaling 100 million Moraise people, showed no signs of Demonic Eye infection.
Since this first batch of selected individuals was not found to have the Demonic Eye, the probability of subsequent checks revealing it was also extremely low. It was almost certain that the Moraise Civilization was not a Demonic Eye Civilization.
"Since you’re not the Demonic Eye, why did you react so strongly to the Grey Worm Civilization?"
With this doubt, Tom, while conducting data reception and analysis, manipulated the robots to interrogate the Chief of the civilization, various high-ranking officials, and others.
"What is the relationship between your Moraise Civilization and the Grey Worm Civilization? Why is the style of your technological creations so similar? Why did you immediately self-destruct your warships and choose to be hostile to our side when you first heard our inquiry?"
In front of him, the person holding the position of Chief of the Moraise Civilization sighed and said in a low voice: "We know very well the Grey Worm Civilization you speak of.
Because... we were once the Grey Worm Civilization."
"Oh?"
"That was when our civilization was in the Electroweak stage, and we encountered the Demonic Eye calamity..."
He gave a wry smile: "The process was perilous, and also circuitous and long. In short, in the end, our civilization was not entirely infected by the Demonic Eye, but rather split.
We left our home planet to the part of the population infected by the Demonic Eye, and the remaining people formed a fleet and fled. This, then, was the predecessor of our Moraise Civilization."
Tom’s heart stirred slightly.
He had not expected that, besides completely surviving the Demonic Eye calamity or being entirely infected by the Demonic Eye, there was actually this third path: splitting.
Fleeing their native solar system in a hurry, entering the vast universe at the Electroweak stage, and being able to slowly develop step by step with the remaining members of their race, from the Electroweak stage to the current gravity stage, this Moraise Civilization must have experienced a great deal, with many perilous and magnificent stories.
Unfortunately, the universe does not care how splendid a civilization’s past is, nor does it care whether they are base or great.
This time, if he hadn’t happened to search here, this Moraise Civilization should have been wiped out by the Star Beasts.
"The original Grey Worm Civilization is a taboo for our civilization."
The Chief said with a heavy voice: "The damage caused by the Demonic Eye infection to our civilization, we have not been able to let go of it even to this day."
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