<strong>820 The Star of the Main Storyline and Stowaways</strong>


    The fleet stayed on Lighthouse for two days receiving all kinds of exploration devices from Tarrokov. Huge alloy containers were loaded into the transport ships of the ck Star Army and neatly arranged.


    These were all exploration supplies provided by the dynasty. There were stargate devices, Foolproof Base Expansion Packs, universe surveince buoys, and so on. These were all military devices that were unavable to the general public and only asionally appeared on the ck markets.


    Han Xiao told Phillip to do a count. They had received about five hundred sets of stargate devices, six thousand Foolproof Base Expansion Packs, and fifteen billion universe surveince buoys. These were not given but lent to him as mission items.


    Also, Tarrokov had dispatched a dynasty fleet that temporarily joined the ck Star Army’s teams to assist him in exploring the Garu Star Cluster. Themander of this fleet was a major under Tarrokov. His name was Senico.


    Tarrokov would be stationed on Lighthouse as the chiefmander, and the dynasty fleets he sent out all had their ownmanders. Senico was Tarrokov’s direct subordinate, as well as one of the dynasty officers stationed in the Flickering World ording to Han Xiao’s memories. Han Xiao had a faint image of him.


    As they would be working alongside each other during the exploration, Han Xiao met and spoke with Senico. They came to a simple consensus; Senico expressed that he would not interfere with ck Star’s exploration n and would only be assisting them mainly.


    After preparing for two days, the chiefmander finally announced the start of the operation. The fleets of various forces went in their separate ways to the Star Clusters of their choices.


    The Renault Star Cluster would be explored by the Bloodshed Land and Klent, Garu by the ck Star Army, and the Crown Star Cluster by the dynasty’s remaining fleet. Comparatively, the Crown Star Cluster had the most people, and the Garu Star Cluster had the fewest.


    The ck Star Army and Senico’s fleet headed to the most South Star System of the Garu Star Cluster.


    Before departing, Han Xiao had already announced the army’s exploration n to all the members, including the millions of yers.


    He had put up all kinds of tasks on the faction mission list, such as explorings and deploying buoys, which were also ssified into different areas. There were plenty of missions, but each one of them had a maximum participant limit.


    The many kinds of exploration missions sparked discussion on the forums. Different exploration missions gave different Exploration Points, and the Exploration Points relied on the actual results of those missions. The yers would only know how many Exploration Points they would get when theypleted them, so the yers could only specte and analyze for the moment, but they were still enjoying it.


    On the forums, the yers generally agreed that explorings theoretically would lead to the most results. As discovering resources and lives, digging up the’s history, mining the resources, and the other activities that would possibly happen during explorings all gave Exploration Points as a reward. At the same time, the process of it was filled with the joy of discovering the unknown.


    Inparison, those missions to deploy buoys, build stargates, and construct strongholds were considered hardbor tasks. They were the least popr missions among the yers.


    Han Xiao knew that once the yers were more familiar with the process of the exploration, the guilds would start fighting each other as therge guilds would want to makes with rich resources their guild resource point. Although they would only be able to obtain a small portion of the total resources mined, that would still be considered arge reward to the yers.


    In his previous life, there were two reasons for the yers of different nations to fight each other—faction wars ands with rich resources. Now, however, all the millions of the yers were in his faction, so there would be no faction conflicts. The only reason they would fight each other now would be for the ownership of resource points.


    Although things had yet to reach the stage of intense guild wars, he knew that there would definitely bepetition since there were club guilds from different nations in the army.


    One reason he encouraged socializing between yers was to reduce the impact of the guild conflicts on normal yers as much as possible. The conflict between yers was unavoidable, but he wanted to prevent the yers from having direct hostility toward each other.


    As long as the yers in his army were not divided to such an extent, thepetition between guilds would not affect his profit. After all, the yers would still have to repair their equipment in the army after they damaged it during battle.


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    After some days, the various fleets arrived at their respective locations and officially started their exploration tasks.


    The ck Star Army’s exploration team came to the southernmost Star System of Garu and built the first transit station ording to the n, connecting with the Dawn Star Cluster.


    The engineering team used a Foolproof Base Expansion Pack on a deste at the border of the Star System. The transport ship opened its cabin, and hundreds of thousands of gigantic mechanical bases that looked like needles flew out—they were all base nodes.


    The base nodes formed arge and shrouded the entire.


    Then, the thrusters of these nodes shot out orange mes and prated the’s atmosphere. Like hundreds of thousands of missiles, these nodesnded and plugged deep into the surface, stirring up endless dust.


    The next moment, all the base nodes were activated. A red light appeared on the top of these nodes as they started to modify the’s environment and terrain. Every node was vibrating and emitting impact waves one after another, triggering earthquakes and tearing the ground open.


    Gray and silver metal extended from these nodes and spread over the ground, turning the surface into a metal surface. ording to the preset program, bases, fortresses, and warehouses would rise from the ground.


    After dozens of hours, the initial modification wasplete. The once deste now lookedpletely different; it became a fortress in gray and silver. This was the first stronghold in the Garu Star Cluster.


    The dynasty’s engineering ships were not just watching. They dragged along gigantic parts of the stargate and were assembling it beside this stronghold.


    An unactivated stargate looked like a gigantic hollow mechanical ring. After it was activated, the inner circle of this mechanical ring emitted blue light and space energy, connecting to one of the stargates near Lighthouse.


    Then, the hollow part of the mechanical ring turned into a wormhole-like blue vortex, bing a fully functional stargate.


    Other than the team left behind to build the stronghold, the rest split up. Some went to deploy buoys nearby, and some went to explore the unknowns nearby.


    A Star System had about ten Star Zones. The main team of the ck Star Army was now exploring the first Star Zone.


    ording to the n, Han Xiao sent out a special task force led by Hadavy to move alone with a hundred and fifty stargate devices. Its goal was to cross the many Star Systems and head to the east of the Garu Star Cluster, building a long distance stargate route on the way.


    The spaceships given to this special task force were all high-grade transport ships that had a maximum speed of 14.1 warp speed. It would take about four months for them to reach the destination through nonstop hyperdrive.


    After the special task forcepleted building the long distance stargate route, the four-month trip would be reduced to a mere few hours.


    As countless army members were doing their part, Han Xiao led a group of army warriors and yers to a at the center of this Star Zone on the main ship.


    In his memories, this was a trade transfer station and one of the entrances into the Garu Star Cluster in his previous life. It was rather valuable. Furthermore, it did not have a harsh environment and was quite habitable. It also had a native civilization.


    Currently, this did not have a name yet and only had a serial number. He wanted to head there in advance and start its exploration.


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    Outside the border of the Shattered Star Ring was the edge of the known universe, the deste universe belt between the Shattered Star Ring and the Flickering World.


    Fleets left from the border one after another from different locations, turning into hyperdrive streams of light and entering the deste universe belt, heading in the Flickering World’s direction.


    News of the Crimson Dynasty exploring the Flickering World had spread across the entire gxy. Although the dynasty clearly stated that the other civilizations were not allowed to enter, the mere words on paper were not enough to scare those powerful forces away. They all wanted to enter the Flickering World in advance to grab the opportunities there.


    These fleets were from different civilizations and organizations; they all hid their identities.


    As they were unable to use the dynasty’s stargate, they could only sneak into the Flickering World, taking along stargate devices and nning to secretly build stargate routes without getting discovered by the dynasty.


    Even though these fleets were all extremely quick. it would still take a very long time for them to cross the deste universe belt and arrive at the Flickering World.


    Among these smugglers, some were doing it for profits, and some had ulterior motives.


    One of them was the group of people the Arcane Church secretly sent.