The Way Back to Civilization

Chapter 10: Technology Template

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The communication signal from the Horned Rats was still echoing in the communication channel of the ship.

Amidst the increasingly violent explosions, screams rose and fell like waves. It sounded like someone had left a communicator in a rat’s nest.

“Squeak squeak squeak!!!”

When Gu Fan rushed back to the command room, Xue Feng, who had already charged up, was displaying the images detected by the sensors on the holographic platform in the center.

On the screen, an exquisite and gorgeous medium-sized ship with golden patterns was being attacked by a raiding fleet of 35 frigates and three cruisers.

The battle happened in a nearby space zone, which was in the orbit of an unknown planet. At this moment, Xue Feng, who was observing the battle, made his judgment.

“According to the situation of the battle and the communication analysis of the scene, the attackers should be a group of pirates. They did not attack the core area of the ship, but accurately paralyzed the other party’s ability to move and counterattack ability.”

The intention of doing so was very obvious. It was obvious that they planned to capture these unlucky merchants’ spaceships and take the goods on them for themselves.

Even after nearly a thousand years, the pirates’ tactics had never changed. They were still as old-fashioned as ever.

According to the star map, the ship was still more than 1 AU away from the battlefield. In other words, the decision to lend a helping hand to the merchants was completely in Gu Fan’s hands.

Staring at the holographic scene, his rationality told him that he should avoid all unnecessary trouble. After all, the former enemy of humanity might still exist.

Gu Fan did not believe that such a powerful human civilization would really perish because of an inexplicable disease. In his opinion, there must be an outsider behind this.

Just as he was about to give the order to ignore the conflict and wait for the engine to recover to its optimum state before leaving the star sector…

Suddenly, a notification popped up on the main control screen and caught his attention.

[Technology template C238 has been detected.]

C-series engineering technology template?

Seeing the familiar code, Gu Fan looked at the battlefield in disbelief again. He wondered if there was something wrong with the ship’s system.

However, in the next second, one of the pirate cruisers actually shot out a beam of psionic energy from the bow.

Not long after, a dark green beam of light wrapped around the merchant’s hull like a rope. It effortlessly dragged the ship that was trying to escape to the center of the pirate fleet.

Seeing the actual scene, Gu Fan’s eyes lit up. Without a doubt, the pirate cruiser was using human engineering technology – the heavy particle tractor beam.

It could greatly increase the efficiency of the ship’s recovery of resources in space. If he could equip the engineering ship with these tractor beams, the effect would definitely be very pleasant.

However, Gu Fan was a little puzzled. Why would such precious technological achievements appear in the hands of a group of pirates?

Could it be that the technology that once belonged to humans had already spread to this extent in the universe?

For a moment, things seemed to be getting interesting.

At this moment, Gu Fan was eager to know where the pirates had obtained this thing.

At the same time, he also yearned to obtain this precious technological heritage. After all, it was very likely that there were technological samples that he did not know held by the other party as well.

After a brief consideration, Gu Fan stood up and gave an order to Xue Feng, who was controlling the battleship.

“Change the direction of the bow and set the navigation target to be an unobstructed space within 500 kilometers of the battlefield. Also, confirm the sovereignty over there.”

Sovereignty refers to the owner of the current starfield. Generally speaking, even the weakest space civilization would try their best to build some infrastructure on the territory they owned to prove that they were the masters of this starfield. This was almost the instinct of any intelligent creature.

And once an exchange of fire occurs in such a place, it often leads to serious consequences regardless of the cause, at least this was what was stipulated in the Galaxy Codex, which was written by humans themselves in the past.

“Confirmed that the target area is an unclaimed domain. According to the sensor’s second transmission, the ship has found a cluster of artificial buildings in the orbit of the planet around 1.3AU away. It’s presumed to be a pirate military port. It’s estimated that their civilization level is 2.8.”

Hearing Xue Feng’s report, Gu Fan smacked his lips in surprise.

Those guys were actually just a group of barbarians who had not even reached Level 3 Civilization?

It was no wonder that they did not reverse engineer the technological templates they had obtained. Instead, they directly brought them out and used them.

After all, for a civilization of this level, wanting to understand human technology was simply a fool’s dream.

To exaggerate, even a bread machine in the Glory Queen’s staff dormitory would probably be a magic or even a miracle to them.

Since he had already figured out the other party’s background and that they were in an uncontrolled Star Field, he did not need to be afraid for the time being.

At the same time, looking at the merchant ship that was being attacked, a plan suddenly began to slowly appear in his mind.

“All gun teams, enter a Level 1 state of alert. Calibrate and shoot all elements. Prepare all firepower.”

“Target set. Other than the traveling merchant and the cruiser with the technology template, leave no one alive.”

Staring at the fleet that seemed to be pieced together from space trash, Gu Fan said coldly.

“Ensure that we can eliminate the most targets at the first moment.”

The other party was just a group of pirates who were not protected by the law. This meant that there was no need for him to show mercy.

What’s more, those were the crystals of wisdom that belonged to humans. He only wanted to take back what belonged to him from these low-level insects.

As for the feelings of the insects, this was not something he needed to consider.

This battle was a warm-up prepared for the Glory Queen. At the same time, it was also the first performance that symbolized the return of mankind to the universe.

As soon as he finished speaking, the huge and complicated engine of the warship was revitalizing.

At the same time, the light spears and macro cannons, along with thousands of secondary cannon arrays, had already locked onto their respective targets. The warship’s sensors projected the pirates’ figures into the increasingly agitated fire control program.

At this moment, Gu Fan could clearly feel it.

This ancient battleship that had been asleep for a thousand years was eager to carry out a merciless and all-out massacre…