The Way Back to Civilization

Chapter 37: The Lost Empire Is Actually Me?

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Have you heard? The Great Khan is dead…”

“How is that possible? Did you get hysteria from inhaling drugs? That guy is in the limelight now. Even the allied forces of the Community can’t do anything to him for the time being. Could he explode on the spot just like that?”

“What he said might be true. This morning, a friend of mine who works for the Star Zone government revealed to me that the flagship of the Great Khan has been confirmed to have sunk in the 4th Star Zone, although we can’t be sure if he’s dead or not.”

Right now, in the galaxy market in the 5th Star Zone, the news of the Great Khan’s death had undoubtedly locked the number one spot on the local popularity rankings like a wildfire.

Some said that he had died in an accident, while others said that he had died in an internal struggle and in a rebellion. There were all kinds of unconfirmed news.

There were even some not-so-famous Psionic Associations who took the initiative to jump out and claim that the Great Khan had been cursed to death by their own actions.

Of course, compared to this unreliable news, most people were more inclined to believe that the Great Khan’s death was very likely related to an unknown lost imperial civilization.

A certain powerful existence launched an efficient assassination on the Great Khan himself for reasons that were temporarily unknown. As for the evidence, it was a blurry video.

On the screen, a silver light flashed through the Great Khan’s fleet without warning, followed by a series of violent explosions.

An active lost civilization with an unknown origin was undoubtedly news worth paying attention to for the entire Galaxy Community.

Who were they? What kind of attitude did they have towards the Galaxy Community?

In order to facilitate communication, some people combined the characteristics of this civilization and called this brand new force [Adjudicator].

For a moment, the entire Galaxy Community’s communication platform was filled with relevant discussions.

…

In the distant 4th Star Zone, Gu Fan’s mood was even happier than if he had eaten honey. After the tireless efforts of the engineer servants, the mothership that had sunk into the Hera Poisonous Swamp was successfully salvaged.

After some simple maintenance and cleaning, with the help of the rapid restoration function of nanomaterials, Gu Fan managed to restore the basic power of the huge ship that had been sleeping for a thousand years.

As an aircraft carrier modified from a battlecruiser, it was not much smaller than the Glory Queen in terms of size. After the extra gun emplacements and unrelated cabins were removed, a total of six flagship hangars were placed under the deck of the huge ship.

In theory, it could release 150 different types of naval aircraft at once. Such a number was enough for it to fight for the control of a certain starfield for the entire fleet. However, the prerequisite was that it was intact.

Currently, with the support of the engineering ship, the ship was being dragged slowly in the middle of the team like a giant beast on a stroll.

Although part of the engine’s power was barely restored, that was all. After a detailed inspection, most of the system components inside the mothership were not seriously damaged, but it was not something that could be recovered in a short period of time.

Even now, there was still a large amount of dirty poisonous mud in her pipes. Even the most important hangar and core cabin had a lot of foul-smelling mud left behind. Her dirty appearance made her look very pitiful.

It was as if he was a rich young lady who had just been rescued from the orcs’ nest. If not for someone holding her hand, even her walking posture would be shaky.

However, Gu Fan wasn’t too worried about that. Although the base on Kata still didn’t have the ability to build large warships, the repair work could still be done.

At this moment, he was excitedly reading a report from the frontline research ship. The content was about the Dyson Sphere device that had been taken away by the Great Khan.

However, when he saw the deformed building that had been modified beyond recognition, Gu Fan, who was sitting in the captain’s seat, could not help but smack his lips.

“Don’t these guys know what an illegal building is?”

According to the images sent back, the incomplete Dyson sphere had now been transformed by the Great Khan’s subordinates into a deformed product that combined factory outposts and residential areas.

A large number of abandoned spaceships and captured asteroid fragments were connected by their violent industrial technology through welding. Then, they were roughly connected to the frame of the Dyson sphere as a cluster of buildings.

Just like that, layer by layer, the raiders actually used this simple and crude method to move their capital onto the Dyson Sphere. From afar, it looked like an orbit of space trash.

Gu Fan could understand such behavior. After all, although they had the Dyson Sphere, which was a star-level energy production building, these low-level pirates did not know how to use the energy produced efficiently.

That was why they used such a direct method to connect the entire capital and the factory of the warship to the Dyson Sphere through physical means.

What a waste of God’s gift. Other than that, Gu Fan could not think of any other word that could describe the actions of these raiders. However, this was not important at the moment. After the mothership was repaired, Gu Fan planned to send a fleet to the galaxy where the Dyson Sphere was located.

His goal wasn’t to seize the ownership of the giant structure. That place was too remote, and it was at the core of the pirates’ power.

Although the Great Khan had died, the huge empire he had built would not immediately perish. Once he occupied that place at this time, he would definitely be attacked by all the raider tribes. This was obviously not in line with Gu Fan’s plan.

What he really wanted to do was to use the deconstruction device that he had obtained in Kata’s laboratory to do a technical scan analysis of the Dyson Sphere and try to create the technological template of the Dyson Sphere.

Once he succeeded, it would be equivalent to having the technology to build the Dyson Sphere. If everything went smoothly, he could even go back and record the Stargate technology he had encountered not long ago.

At the thought of this, Gu Fan silently raised his hand and stretched. He seemed to be in a good mood.

Relying on the efforts of the colony of Kata and the research ships, he accumulated his strength while searching for information about humans and observers. It seemed that everything was developing in a better direction, as long as he could maintain this momentum.

A moment later, Gu Fan turned on the ship’s radio station with a happy mood and tuned it to the Milky Way Public Channel. He planned to listen to the news from the outside and understand what major events had happened in the Milky Way today.

However, the moment he received the broadcast signal, he heard a familiar location coming intermittently.

“4th Star Zone…”

Hm? The 4th Star Zone?

Then, when the translator completely presented the contents of the broadcast to Gu Fan, the news inside confused him.

“After discussions with the Galaxy Community, the 4th Star Zone has been set up as a no-fly zone. The coalition government has already started the contact plan with the unknown civilization [Adjudicator]. At the moment, we can’t determine if it poses a threat to the Milky Way.”

Adjudicator? What the hell was that?

However, in the next second, when Gu Fan started to search for the content through the community’s public network, a headline suddenly caught his attention.

[Suspected scene of battle between the Adjudicator and the Great Khan.]

With trepidation, Gu Fan entered the public information section. However, when he saw the video that was displayed,

For a moment, Gu Fan felt as if countless Ramchis were crawling quickly on his body.

The content of the video was the entire process of him beating up the Great Khan in Hera’s orbit not long ago. Looking at the words about the Adjudicator and the Lost Empire, Gu Fan could no longer remain calm.