Lin Yu didn't know what happened in the Zerg's cosmos, but even if he did, he wouldn't be too worried.
After all, apart from leaving behind the knowledge base that contained all technologies below Tier 3 technological civilization, he also left behind something else. Even if there was a chance, after seeing that thing, the Zergs wouldn't dare to go overboard for now.
Just like that, time flew by. Twelve years quietly passed.
Year 169 of the Federation.
Lin Fan, who had finally completed all his arrangements on time, finally decided to make a move against the Zerg.
It was time to get rid of this hidden danger in the Federation!
According to the latest intelligence, several new types of combat Zergs had been discovered in the Wills Special Supercluster. Their abilities were still unknown, but from Aliya's actions of nurturing them with all her might, they must have extraordinary combat power or some special ability.
The most important thing was that Aliya had broken through!
That's right, just three years ago, the Federation had already detected Aliya's breakthrough. At this moment, she had already become an individual of a rank 8 biological civilization.
This just so happened to confirm Only's deduction 15 years ago. After Aliya obtained a large number of Purgatory lifeform remains, and even the genes of rank 7 leader lifeforms, the Zerg would usher in a period of rapid evolution.
Of course, although the Zerg had been constantly growing stronger in the past decade, the Federation didn't just stand still.
A large number of scientific and technological achievements were constantly thrown out from the three major research institutes of the Federation. Especially Li Lizi's Flying Bird Research Institute and Only's Barland Research Institute. Under their joint efforts, they actually managed to touch the surface of the Black Chamber.
Although this surface knowledge didn't have any practical use, it allowed humans to have a deeper understanding of the universe they lived in. It was this understanding that allowed the various research institutes to make many breakthroughs in other types of technologies.
Therefore, the past three years were directly called the Golden Three Years by the scientific community!
It was like before one understood the operating rules of the universe, conducting research was like crossing a river by feeling the stones. One could only rely on one's imagination and constant trial and error. However, once one understood a part of the operating rules of the universe, no matter what kind of research one was engaged in, it would be like a divine blessing. One would be able to make breakthroughs!
After all, no matter what technology it was, it had to follow the most basic rules of the universe. There were no exceptions!
Other than technology, the Federation's development in other areas wasn't weak either.
Take the dark energy domain of the Federation as an example. Fifteen years ago, Lin Yu had been promoted to an S-class dark energy manipulator, so there were only two A-class dark energy manipulators left.
But now, the Federation had a total of 11 A-class dark energy manipulators.
This was only an A-rank dark energy manipulator. Just a month ago, the Federation's second S-rank dark energy manipulator was born. She was Zi Ling from the Tarak civilization, Lin Yu's adopted sister.
The improvement in this area directly strengthened the Federation's foundation by many times.
It could be said that if they were to encounter the Purgatory Legion I led by Haig again, the Netherworld Fleet and the Federation's Dark Energy Special Forces would be able to defeat them directly.
As for the Federation's fleet, due to the expansion of the population base, the size of the regular fleet had increased to 150 billion.
Don't underestimate the regular fleet. With the large number of technological breakthroughs in the past fifteen years of the Federation and the recent three golden years, the new generation of general-purpose battleships had been mass-produced. In terms of combat power, it wasn't any weaker than the Fearless Fleet from fifteen years ago.
Of course, the Fearless Fleet, which Lin Fan had obtained through cheating, still needed to exist. After all, it was one of the Federation's foundations. Therefore, the life of cheating took off again. With Lin Fan's cheating, after completing the equipment change, a brand-new Fearless Fleet appeared once again. It still maintained a combat power that was stronger than the regular fleet!
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Wills Special Super Cluster, Boötes Galaxy Void.
A battleship with a shell that looked like a stream of light was sailing out of the hyperspace window that had suddenly opened.
There wasn't any armor on its shell. There wasn't even any protrusion. On its streamlined body, one could only feel the infinite smoothness that accompanied the stream of light.
This was the Federation's only two battleships now. It was the first-generation Alpha-class mecha carrier, the Lancer. Moreover, it wasn't just a battleship. Even the first-generation Alpha-class mecha had two unique attributes. They were Lin Yu's Xuanming mecha and Zi Ling's Bi Fang mecha.
Although they were custom-made mecha, their performance was actually the same. The only difference was the appearance.
And this battleship was carrying the Bi Fang mecha. Unlike Lin Yu's mighty and rough Xuanming mecha, the Bi Fang mecha presented a kind of nobility and elegance.
"Deputy Commander, our ship has left hyperspace and has activated stealth mode. We are five AU away from the target!"
"Maintain stealth mode and approach the target at the sixth combat speed!"
"Understood!"
After Zi Ling graduated from the Interstellar Military Academy, she entered the Netherworld Fleet commanded by Lin Yu and directly gave birth to a commander of an army.
After all, the Netherworld Fleet was different from the other fleets of the Federation. What mattered here was not military rank, but command ability and dark energy manipulation level.
When Zi Ling joined the Undead Fleet, she was already a Grade-A dark energy manipulator. At that time, there were only five dark energy manipulators in the entire Federation, including Zi Ling. Coupled with her outstanding commanding ability, she was directly promoted to the commander of the Ninth Legion of the Undead Fleet. No one was dissatisfied with her. This was a fleet where strength spoke louder than words. No one cared about military ranks at all!
A month ago, after Zi Ling broke through to become an S-class dark energy manipulator, she was appointed as the deputy commander of the Netherworld Fleet.
However, after becoming the deputy commander, she made a request to Lin Yu.
As the final battle between the humans and the Zerg was about to begin, Zi Ling was afraid that the Zerg would harm the Tarlac civilization. Therefore, she asked Lin Yu to let her go to the Zerg's small universe first to protect the Tarlac civilization.
With regards to this request, even Lin Fan and the upper echelons of the Federation would not refuse, let alone Lin Yu.
After all, she was one of the two highest combat powers in the Federation's dark energy realm. If they did not even agree to this request, were they not afraid that she would be disappointed in the Federation and leave?
Therefore, this request was not met with any resistance and was directly approved.
This was also the reason why Zi Lin and his mount, Lancer, would appear here!
"Deputy Commander, we're here!"
"Mm!"
At this moment, Lancer had stopped. It was empty and there was nothing in front of it.
However, Zi Ling knew that although she could not see anything, the entrance to the Zerg's small universe was here. To open a temporary passage in this small universe without being detected by the Zerg …
This was a piece of cake for an S-class dark energy manipulator!