Chapter 2247 The Reaction of the Imperial Capital

Extreme Heaven Realm, Heavenly Extreme Star.

imperial capital.

One hundred thousand years of cultivation, the greatest and most glorious glorious world in the past and present, the heart of human civilization, the center of the sea of ​​stars.

Since the Monster Beast Dynasty ruled the Star Sea, all the unified Star Sea kingdoms have taken the Extreme Heaven Realm as their ruling center.

This is true of the Monster Beast Dynasty, the Star Sea Empire, the Star Sea Republic, and even the Real Human Empire.

And any ambitious person who tries to control all the stars in the sky will coincidentally regard the Extreme Heaven Realm as the ultimate goal that is inevitable.

The Extreme Heaven Realm tens of thousands of years ago was not such a rich world.

In terms of the position of the star field in the three-dimensional universe, it is not in the center of the sea of ​​stars where the stars are most dense.

But the three-dimensional space of this vast world has extremely mysterious properties, and the void is full of folds, gaps and stable wormholes.

From the perspective of the four-dimensional space, travelers from other great worlds can jump to the extreme celestial world with the least energy consumption; people in the extreme celestial world can also easily travel to all sides of the star sea through the ubiquitous space folds.

Such a characteristic makes the Extreme Heaven Realm the place where the heavens and the myriad worlds meet, a place where military strategists must contend, and it has also become the first choice for the capital of every unified country.

People who have traveled through the wormhole for the first time and jumped to the extreme heaven are often shocked by the metal-like cold texture of this world.

Over the past 40,000 years, from the dynasty of monsters to the empire of true humans, the metals and ore materials of thousands of worlds controlled by human civilization have been unremittingly transported to the extreme heaven, and the main star here, "Tianji Star", has been implemented. Highly modified, gradually turning this planet into an indestructible steel battle fortress.

This is the highest symbol of "human beings" using their own "will" to transform the "universe".

When a traveler enters the atmosphere from the synchronous orbital starport on the outer periphery of the planet, taking a vertically landing sightseeing floating platform, he can see the rolling metal buildings shining in the sun, all kinds of buildings in the most bizarre appearance and the most gorgeous. Colors express human ambition, desire and desperate impulse.

Except for the imperial palace and a very few noble manors, there is not much green on Tianjixing, but the ubiquitous air circulation pipes release fresh air rich in various trace elements day and night, which is beneficial to physical and mental health, making people On this planet, the nearly 100 billion people densely packed like a swarm of insects will not go crazy with depression.

Travelers who came to the imperial capital for the first time, after being shocked by these metal buildings like lions, giant eggs, gods and demons, and even pants, will soon see the second wonders spread all over the land, deep into the world. The gaps of tens of thousands of meters underground are like huge canyons criss-crossing across the entire land.

According to legend, 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Xinghai Empire, the emperor and the doomsday war mad blood god son had an earth-shattering battle in the extreme sky world and the extreme star. It was blasted by them abruptly and shattered into two halves.

This is of course nonsense. No matter how powerful human beings are, it is impossible to completely detonate such a large planet. This is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of psionic energy.

However, it is a true fact that the earth's crust is riddled with holes, the long-dormant seismic zone is activated, the geological plate changes violently, and the crisscross gaps are torn apart. Perhaps, it is also the limit of human combat effectiveness.

In the tens of thousands of years after the collapse of the Star Sea Empire, the surviving people carefully and painstakingly repaired the fragmented planet.

They were amazed to discover the ore veins hidden deep in the gaps, as well as the huge geothermal energy contained in the underground magma belts. They simply bombarded out the emperor and the blood god son, and built huge underground cities deep in the gaps as deep as 10,000 meters. , thrive here, making the living space of the imperial capital expand several times in an instant.

Naturally, nobles and powerful people would not live in the dark and sultry underground. Taking the sea level of the imperial capital as the standard, from tens of thousands of meters underground, there is a clear and distinct distribution map of the real human empire.

The primitive people and slave workers at the bottom all live tens of thousands of meters deep underground, running geothermal factories to provide energy to the entire planet for a living; thousands of meters underground are the residences of miners and smelters, and there are also large areas of underground crops planted There are a large number of low-level immortal cultivators and a small number of wealthy original people living on the ground. These primitive people are often inextricably related to the immortal cultivators, and they can only come into contact with the sunshine of the Celestial Pole under the protection of the immortal cultivators. , they are the top of the pyramid of the original human class, and they are also responsible for maintaining the industrial and commercial operations of the imperial capital.

As for nobles and powerful people, they often live on the twelve satellites of Tianji Star. Except for two natural satellites, ten of them are artificially built super space stations. It is said that the interiors are beautiful and extravagant fairyland on earth.

For thousands of years since the establishment of the human empire, the imperial capital has been operating in such a strict and orderly manner.

It's a pity that with the "collapse of rites and music", all the rules for cultivators formulated by the former Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi gradually peeled off and collapsed. The empire has embarked on the road of extinction, and the imperial capital has gradually lost its former glory.

As the great thousand worlds merged into the empire one after another, the empire became too large, and the Pole Heaven Realm and the Celestial Pole Star, which were the heart of the empire, inevitably became more bloated day by day.

In the past five hundred years alone, the population of the imperial capital has skyrocketed tenfold, and in order to maintain increasingly complex, chaotic and complicated rule, the number of offices stationed in the imperial capital by various bureaucratic agencies and the outside world, It is even ten times faster than the population growth rate. The resources of the Extreme Heaven Realm alone are not enough to support such a huge population, and the daily cultivation consumption of so many immortals. The ecological chain is on the verge of collapse every year. Relying on blood transfusions from the nearby world.

When the official statistics show that the total population of the Extreme Heaven Realm exceeds 80 billion, residents from the outside world are strictly prohibited from moving into the imperial capital at will. Not to mention the original people, even immortal cultivators in the qi refining period would find it difficult to obtain a long-term residence certificate in the imperial capital.

But the imperial capital is always the place where hopes and dreams lie, no matter how it is banned, it will not stop those poor boys with nothing but ambitions from flocking to it.

Now, the total population of the imperial capital according to the official statistics of the empire is 120 billion, but many demographers and economists estimate that there are at least 200 billion. Even if God gave the government 10,000 statisticians with the number of gods, they would never be able to figure out the real population.

With such a large population, the resource supply chains of Jitian Realm and Tianjixing are extremely fragile. As long as the outside world stops blood transfusion for one day, there will be riots in the imperial capital; if the outer world does not have blood transfusion for three days, the imperial capital may completely collapse.

When the population exceeds the critical point, it will also trigger a powerful chaotic effect, creating many lawless gray and even dark areas. Even the Nascent Soul and the cultivators of the Transformation God series are unwilling to touch it lightly. Countless people are on the most glorious and sacred planet in the empire, following the law of shady, people are not people, ghosts are not ghosts. alive.

Perhaps, this is exactly what the four major elector families hope to see.

Maintaining an imperial capital that is too powerful will not do them much good. A bloated, weak and filthy imperial capital like this is the paradise for adventurers, the stage for careerists, and the dining table for them to wantonly carve up the star sea!

It's a pity that now a new force has emerged out of nowhere, wanting to break into this paradise, trample on this stage, and smash this dining table!

The news that Lei Chenghu escaped from Shenwei Prison and took away a large number of political prisoners and the entire Shenwei fleet had reached the ears of the imperial capital and the Senate's dukes two days ago.

What is more frightening than Lei Chenghu's escape from Shenwei Prison is why and with the help of what power he was able to escape?

And this force helped Lei Chenghu escape, what exactly did he want to do?

This question is like a poisoned dagger, gently cutting the throats of the elders.

But the veterans knew that Lei Chenghu had returned to the third theater, but they couldn't do much with him.

Lei Chenghu is a well-known defense expert in the empire. In the past hundred years of defense against the black wind front, the army of the Holy League did not dare to go beyond the thunder pool.

The third war zone is the most important thing on the front line. It is Lei Chenghu who has exhausted his life's efforts, coupled with the countless resources sent from the rear, to build a copper wall and an iron wall, a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire, and a cave of dragons and tigers.

Even if the four major elector families mobilize all their forces to attack the third war zone, they may not be able to destroy the Thunder Fleet in a short time, and doing so is tantamount to triggering a full-scale civil war in the empire. Any one of the four major elector families, I can't bear to do this.

What's more, Lei Chenghu is destined not to foolishly wait for them to attack in the third theater.

Fleets are not planets, they come and go without a trace, and they can scurry among the stars and seas. Unless the other party is willing, searching for a fleet in the vast sea of ​​stars for a decisive battle is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack!

This is the case now.

Before the Senate reacted, Lei Chenghu had already cut off all communication between the third war zone and the outside world, and of course closed all the starry sky gates in the third war zone.

The third war zone has become a dark, unfathomable world of fog.

There was a lot of spitting and red-faced quarreling in the senate for a long time, and no one's fleet was willing to be the first to jump in and die in pieces.

We can only cut off all channels for the outside world to send supplies to the third war zone, hoping to trap Lei Chenghu to death, or force him to come out to negotiate.

But no matter how stupid people are, they can see that Lei Chenghu will never sit idly by. The resources he has are enough to launch an earth-shattering suicide attack! ——

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The imperial capital in this work is a tribute to Asimov’s great work "Foundation", the planet Trantor, the capital of the galaxy, whose details and inspirations are completely derived from "Foundation". I hereby declare and express my sincerity to the predecessors of science fiction writers Respect and infinite gratitude!