Chapter 250: Starlight
The group followed the designated docking bay entrance and walked for nearly half an hour before discovering the spaceship in the innermost corner, its surface emitting a dark green glow.
This spaceship was about 50 meters in size, with a symmetrical oval hemispherical shape.
At its tail, there was an engine system identical to the one on the frigate previously piloted by Fox.
But upon closer inspection, this afterburning combustion system had some differences in certain details from the one used by Fox.
As the mount of a Level Five Civilization official, this spaceship’s construction material was extremely luxurious, using silver-like super metal processed with top-tier strong interaction force craftsmanship.
In terms of maximum speed, this spaceship’s maximum speed could reach a terrifying 25% speed of light.
At the same time, this spaceship was also equipped with the warp engine unique to the Five Great Super Civilizations.
It could perform point-to-point superluminal movement within a galaxy using gravitational sources from planets or large space structures.
This superluminal movement device was also one of the top technologies that humanity currently could only admire from afar, mastered only by the Five Great Civilizations.
This technology was currently one of the greatest threats to humanity.
This was why, previously in the strategy against the Hans Civilization expedition fleet, Liu Shengzhan’s strategic concept was to lure them in interstellar space and use the Conqueror to deliver the fleet, annihilating them at once 2 light years from the Solar System.
Because once they entered the Solar System, they could fully utilize this superluminal warp engine technology to toy with Human Civilization’s fleet and ultimately destroy it completely.
While the Conqueror might be able to deliver a fatal blow to their fleet in the same ambush manner as before.
But after all, as an ultra-large ship, its flexibility was far inferior, and if an accident occurred and the Conqueror was exposed, humanity could not bear the consequences.
And the Hans Civilization dared to send out this fleet of only 500 battleships mainly because their confidence stemmed from warp engine technology.
“Chairman, according to the manual Luowen gave me, this Starlight frigate can carry 50 personnel. I think we can fully use this spaceship to conduct legal activities in the Sirius Prime area after completing matters here.”
Xu Hongwei whispered softly into Fan Ren’s ear.
Hearing this, Fan Ren did not refuse this time. He then arranged for several operators to board the ship with the spaceship operation manual given by Luowen to familiarize themselves with the operations.
As for boarding the ship, Fan Ren had no such plans for the time being.
After all, this spaceship was the mount of an alien being, and as the Human Civilization Committee Chairman, considering safety, it was temporarily inconvenient for him to board.
Afterward, the group turned back and returned to the Peace Messenger. Under the operators’ control, the Peace Messenger and the ten Young Dragons slowly disengaged from the port and sailed out of the dock.
Next, they would head to the Galactic Alliance Central Bank to handle Human Civilization’s exclusive account.
And this process was completely handed over to Xu Hongwei.
Fan Ren, on the spaceship, maintained continuous communication with the operators of the Starlight spaceship.
Although he could not board to inspect it, in terms of spaceship research, Fan Ren’s knowledge and experience were among the top in Human Civilization.
Whether it was Fox’s half frigate or the Hans Civilization’s small aircraft carrier, he had been deeply involved in their targeted disassembly and research processes.
On the other side, Xu Hongwei, who had already interacted with officials from the Five Great Super Civilizations once, quickly completed all the work.
He returned to the Peace Messenger with the newly opened Central Bank exclusive account.
At the same time, he brought a piece of news that left Fan Ren somewhat conflicted.
Currently, Human Civilization’s account balance was zero.
Fan Ren had anticipated this point and planned afterward to collect various ores with Human Civilization and sell them at the starfield market.
At the same time, after understanding the starfield market, he considered whether Human Civilization currently had any products that could be sold there to exchange for the much-needed star coins.
After all, regardless, just the warp engine technology alone severely restricted Human Civilization’s industrial development and created passivity in military aspects.
In previous internal discussions, because this warp engine was not expensive, it was considered by all committee members as a material to continue procuring.
But now, Xu Hongwei brought news that created some room for change in the aforementioned predetermined plan.
The Central Bank offered interest-bearing loans for civilizations of all levels.
This loan used civilization level as the interest evaluation standard. Strangely, for advanced civilizations, the interest they had to pay was even higher.
For example, a second level civilization’s loan had a 5% annual interest, but if the borrower was a third level civilization, the interest rose to 10%.
Moreover, there was a strict restriction.
The lender was strictly prohibited from declaring war before repaying all loans.
However, as the party declared upon, there were not many restrictions, but it would undergo a Central Bank review of repayment ability.
And now, if Human Civilization wanted a loan, it had to agree to a strict loan qualification review of Human Civilization.
This made Fan Ren instinctively want to refuse.
After all, up to now, A’dai’s existence in Human Civilization had not been completely erased.
After all, as an existence that had served Human Civilization for nearly 80 years, A’dai had left a very deep impression in many high-level minds.
Although this existence now had extremely strict secrecy restrictions, the information still existed in human brains.
Once exposed, the consequences would be unimaginable.
“No rush for now. This matter needs to wait until we return and the relevant authorized committee members discuss it in detail before making a decision.”
Fan Ren sighed and did not rush to decide.
In his thoughts, the information about A’dai’s existence needed to wait for an appropriate time before it could be thoroughly erased on a large scale in Human Civilization.
And this timing depended on the progress of the brainwave research department led by Huang Wei.
Seeing Fan Ren’s serious expression, Xu Hongwei knew, although Human Civilization had a huge demand for star coins, as a top-ranking committee member, he knew the inside story about A’dai.
At this moment, he could only nod regretfully.
Fan Ren said no more, patted the other’s shoulder, and then ordered the Peace Messenger, leading the escorting Young Dragons, to slowly exit the docking dock at the Central Bank.
The next target was the starfield market that Fan Ren was most looking forward to.
This important institution of the Galactic Alliance that Fox and Mai Er had frequently mentioned.
It held such astonishing information.
This was not only something Fan Ren wanted to know urgently, but also something Human Civilization urgently needed to understand.
