Chapter 265: The Disappearance of the Silk Road

The beginning of P=NP should have been exciting and beyond imagination, but when something happens in the vast starry sky, it is often accompanied by other events.

With the self-destruction of federal officials like Finney, a large number of federal citizens were put into cryogenic chambers. Everyone thought that this phase of the events on the Silk Road had come to an end.

However, after the rescued federal citizens were revived from the cryogenic chambers and sent to various medical clinics for treatment, it was discovered that their brain structures had undergone significant changes. The original federal life neural network system was very complex, and each race had its own unique system. But in the neural network system of these citizens, some wart-like structures began to appear and were present in all races.

These citizens were then directly quarantined. After treatment, some of them recovered and no longer had the desire to kill. These citizens were later released and gradually returned to their normal lives.

It should have been the end of it.

Until a citizen named "Ashleigh Wu" was captured. She was deliberately sending a set of coordinates deep into space, and she was doing it continuously without stopping.

This in itself wasn't a problem, but the power of the transmission was so strong that it disrupted the information flow of other citizens nearby, and she was arrested for disturbing public information.

One of the officers handling the case felt that something was amiss and looked into her past records. They discovered that she had been involved in the Olive Branch Civilization's asteroid incident.

At the same time, he began searching the federal criminal database and found that many people with similar backgrounds had also left similar criminal records in various parts of the federation.

He immediately realized that something was wrong and began to investigate the direction of the coordinate transmissions. In the end, he was shocked to find that they led to the end of the Silk Road.

He submitted this information to the Machine God.

Within just 10 hours, the Machine God issued a full alert, with the highest alert level of 5, and the alert was classified as espionage activity.

However, by this time, it was already too late.

In the year 55428 of the public calendar, the Silk Road disappeared.

It was observed that the Silk Road had physically vanished, and no one could make contact with it.

Every star city and planet was destroyed without any warning, and this destruction was so precise that it affected individual spaceships, starships, lives, and even ants.

It was as if a weapon with a diameter of several light-years had mercilessly swept through all life and objects on the Silk Road.

What was surprising was that planets without life and even asteroids on the Silk Road were not damaged at all.

This was a weapon that the Federation could not understand.

The Federation named it the "Life-Tracking Precision Range Weapon," a contradictory name, but the observed phenomenon was exactly like that. It was baffling how this weapon could cause the disappearance of life and its surrounding environment.

The only thing that all federal citizens were clear about was that 370 billion lives had perished on the cosmic Silk Road, and a single weapon had caused more damage in an instant than the civilizations of the Silk Road had suffered in thousands of years.

Panic and suppression spread, and no one knew what the Olive Branch Civilization would do next.

It had been two years since Yan Xia received this news.

"So, Aurora Nova has also disappeared?"

Most of the lives lost in this incident were citizens of Aurora Nova. At this stage, Aurora Nova had taken over nearly 80% of the Federation's battleship manufacturing, and its destruction meant that the Federation's millennium-long plan was ruined.

The massive industrial shift would prevent the Federation from producing battleships for the next 1000 years, and the prices of industrial products would skyrocket.

"It seems that Aurora Nova has disappeared without a trace." Aurora Nova had always been managed by Ella, but she didn't have much information to investigate because the disappearance was too sudden, and the distances in the universe were so vast. Ella couldn't monitor everything all the time, and she usually collected information on a yearly cycle.

"According to previous information, this incident should be related to the coordinates sent by those affected by the asteroid."

"But those coordinates couldn't have been that precise. The Olive Branch Civilization must have other means that we don't know about."

"Have all the personnel involved with the asteroid incident died?"

Ella shook her head. "This weapon was unknown to us before. There were billions of lives on the terminal star city, and although most of them were on the Silk Road after continuous flow, a small portion had entered the Tiancang star field."

Yan Xia was a little worried about the Tiancang star field.

"If the Olive Branch Civilization can destroy the Silk Road, then they can also destroy the Tiancang star field, the Shuwei star field..."

"After hundreds of years, the other party has probably already obtained what they wanted. Our only means of defense is to quickly find the source of their weapon."

Unknown.

Yan Xia was using her own computing power, but her mind was still blank.

"We can't keep going like this. We must forcefully make contact with the star city. Without the cosmic Silk Road, we can't even observe the star city now."

"What is Chu doing? Logically, he shouldn't side with the Olive Branch Civilization at this stage."

Finney's side had made no progress for 7000 or 8000 years, which was fatal for the Federation's intelligence system. It wasn't entirely their fault, but talking about it now was useless.

"If the star city has a similar weapon, then Chu wouldn't have used it against the Federation. The Holy Grail Project would have made Chu hesitate, but it wouldn't have stopped him from using the weapon."

"It seems that some of the Olive Branch Civilization's advanced technologies are completely controlled by the first and second leaders of the civilization, and not by the star cities."

"Our judgment of the Olive Branch Civilization also needs to be updated. Their strength is already close to 2.5-level, while we have been hovering in the middle of 2.4-level." Ella's judgment would have an impact on the subsequent war between the Federation and the Olive Branch Civilization.

"If the star city's combat power is compared to the Olive Branch Civilization, then it's likely that the star city is already in crisis."

If this was the case, they would have to consider whether the Federation should enter into a full-scale war with the Olive Branch Civilization.

That's why Yan Xia's proposed contact was so important.

If possible, Yan Xia hoped that Chu still had control over the star city. Afterward, they would provide full support to the star city because it was clear that the Federation alone was not enough to stand against the Olive Branch Civilization.

Yan Xia's nerves, which had been relaxed, tensed up again.