Ye Fei considered the problem purely from a military point of view.

If the technological level of these civilizations is similar to that of the Republic, then the military can participate in this alliance of dividing up resources through the method of overwhelming the territory of the army; If their technological level is higher than that of humans, the Republic will abandon the M67 to avoid provoking new enemies; The best outcome is that these civilizations are not as technologically advanced as humans, and they can be forced to accept humans through force.

The level of science and technology here does not refer to science and technology in a broad sense, but to military science and technology in particular!

On August 22, 2223, five warships led by the Xinyuan completed the exploration mission of the M67 star cluster, increasing the number of secessed civilizations to six.

After Ye Fei sent several other warships back to the base star, he commanded the Xinyuan to quietly lurk around M67, and through the more than 300 satellites laid during the mission, they observed the unknown civilizations here 24 hours a day, hoping to obtain enough information to judge the scientific and technological level of these civilizations.

The situation of M67 made Ye Fei and his team very puzzled, with the current understanding of extraterrestrial civilizations by human beings, most extraterrestrial civilizations are biological civilizations and cosmic biomes, and technological civilizations are not common, but there are six different types of technological civilizations concentrated here at once, which is really incomprehensible.

"Boss, there's a situation!" Ding Mengyao suddenly shouted.

Ye Fei, who was staring at the screen in a daze like an ant, immediately came back to his senses: "What did you find?" ”

In the blink of an eye, Xinyuan had been peeking at the edge of M67 for more than a week, and the target on the satellite surveillance screen had not occurred in any anomalies during this time. The construction machinery scattered all over the resource planet is fully automated except for mining, which is mining.

No matter how sophisticated an expert is, it is impossible to judge the technological level of a civilization just by the picture of construction machinery, and the most important thing now is to find the spaceships or warships of these civilizations!

"Here, screen four!" Ding Mengyao said, "Upper left corner! ”

Half of the screen on screen four is occupied by resource numbers, and the other half is the deep starry sky, the half that belongs to the starry sky has not changed in any special way, but now, there are a few inconspicuous silver bright spots there.

"See!" Ye Fei said excitedly. "Zoom in. Go to the home screen! ”

Ding Mengyao quickly completed the enlargement, and six spaceships similar to hexagonal flowers appeared on the screen.

"It's a spaceship!" Ding Mengyao was pleasantly surprised.

"Take a picture and give me the clearest picture." Ye Fei carefully observed the spaceship on the screen and said unexpectedly. "It's a recoil engine!"

At the very front of the ship are flower petals. There is also a flower stem at the back. A pronounced jet wake can be seen at the tail of the flower stem.

Hong Liang, who rushed to hear the news, leaned over to Ye Fei's side and whispered, "Boss, what do you think of the technical level of this kind of spacecraft?" ”

The tail rush engine has long been eliminated by humans, and it is compared from the power technology alone. This civilization is certainly far inferior to humans.

"It's hard to say." Ye Fei replied cautiously, "I'm afraid that they have special weapons that we haven't seen before...... Xiao Ding, pass the other party's coordinates to Yi Qi, let's go over and take a look. ”

It's not worth provoking just to find out what the other side is doing, but you can try to track these ships.

The officers on duty on the bridge immediately took action, and Yi Qi set sail as soon as he received the coordinates.

Unfortunately, the coordinates are on the edge of the other side of the cluster, and it will take at least seven to eight hours for the battleship to reach its target, and no matter how fast it is, it will be in danger of hitting the star.

The six petal ships on the screen flew over the resource star and stopped and adjusted the attitude of the spacecraft, and after a while, they landed on the resource star with their tail facing down.

Because the satellite is limited by its size, the magnification of the optical system is insufficient, and the location is far away from the resource star, Xinyuan cannot determine what the six Petal spacecraft did after landing through the monitoring screen of the satellite, and can only hope that when Xinyuan arrives, these spacecraft have not left.

However, in just over forty minutes, the six petal spaceships flew away from the resource star, Ye Fei couldn't help but be deflated, but soon the situation changed, in addition to the six spaceships, there were actually hundreds of petal spaceships on the resource star, and there were also hundreds of big-bellied spaceships with narrow fronts and round backs, similar to melons.

You don't have to ask to see that these big guys are not at all the same style as the petal spaceship, and they must be stuffed transport ships.

"Wow, they're so fast!" Hong Liang exclaimed, "We've been looking at it for more than a week, why haven't we found out that there are so many spaceships hidden on it before?" ”

"Where else can I hide under the ground?" Ye Fei said.

Hong Liang's brows slowly tightened: "Boss, it doesn't seem quite right, why did they hide the spaceship underground?" Is this necessary? ”

Ye Fei glanced thoughtfully: "Tell me what you think." ”

"What are they hiding?" Hong Liang said with great certainty, "I think the situation here is likely to be different from what we predicted, these six civilizations may not be in partnership with each other, on the contrary, they are likely to be in competition, and the reason why these ships come and go in a hurry is to reduce the stay time and avoid being intercepted by other hostile civilizations!" ”

Ye Fei looked strange: "What you said about this, why does it sound like black eating black?" ”

"The relationship structure is really similar." Hong Liang unabashedly admitted.

Ye Fei stared and thought for a while and said, "There is such a possibility, but why don't they just snatch the resource number?" ”

Hong Liang touched his nose: "I haven't figured this out yet, could it be that I want to eat ready-made?" ”

Ruan Peng said suddenly: "They may not be guarding against the other five civilizations, there may be a bandit civilization hidden inside M67 that we haven't discovered yet." ”

Hong Liang's eyes lit up: "There is such a possibility!" ”

The fleet on the screen gradually flew towards the periphery of the galaxy, and Ye Fei said dejectedly: "It's useless if there is any possibility, we have only flown a little more distance, and we will definitely not be able to catch up...... Xiao Ding, mobilize all the nearby satellites, point them all in this direction for me, monitor the fluctuations in space, and find out their flight direction for me! ”

"Yes!" Ding Mengyao immediately executed the order, but she quickly replied: "Boss, the target coordinates are on the periphery of the core area, and according to the current flight direction, there are only two satellites near the route. ”

The core area is the interior of the M67 star cluster, and extraterrestrial civilizations occupy areas with more resource stars.

Satellites are placed in the vicinity of stars, and although the density of stars in the cluster is extremely high, it is far from the level of comprehensive monitoring. (To be continued......)