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Chapter 656 The Letter from the Kona Civilization

Tian Shu Underground City, Command Center.

A giant screen occupies the entire wall, displaying a real-time updated map of the Earth's situation.

A separate area next to it displays the situation map of the Kona star system.

Blue giant star, ten giant planets, the mother planet Kona, outer moons occupied by the Demon Race, and wormholes, etc.

Every so often, Lin Mo would send back new data packets to fill in the missing and blurred information on the map.

A young technician picked up his coffee, took a sip, and his face contorted instantly.

His colleague glanced at him:

"What's wrong?"

The technician whispered:

"Is this coffee or boiler cleaning fluid?"

My colleague didn't even look up.

"As long as you're awake, that's fine. With limited resources right now, it's good enough that you have something to drink."

The technician put down his coffee and said:

"I wonder if the Kona civilization received our message."

The colleagues remained silent, but in truth, everyone was waiting for a result.

The message from Great Xia has been sent, but will the Kona civilization be able to receive it?

After receiving it, will you respond?

Han Niba glanced at the time.

A considerable amount of time has passed since the first communication missile passed through the wormhole, and several more communication missiles have been launched from other wormholes since then.

Normal electromagnetic communication cannot possibly wait across three thousand light-years, but they are not using the normal route.

The demonic wormhole forcibly brought the two battlefields closer together.

"Report!"

A report suddenly came from the information desk.

An informant's hands were rapidly typing on a keyboard.

"Received a new data packet from Commander Lin, number 27, from an underground wormhole in the western equatorial region."

Han Niba immediately turned around.

"Analysis".

"yes!"

Will this data packet contain a reply?

A progress bar pops up in the lower right corner of the main screen, with data streaming line by line.

Forty percent.

Sixty percent.

Eighty percent.

The informant suddenly stopped what he was doing, his eyes widening.

He checked the frequency band again and exclaimed in surprise.

"Report! Electromagnetic wave signals detected in the data packet!"

Han Niba's eyes widened in surprise for a moment, then he quickly stepped forward to confirm:

"Is the source the Kona civilization, or did we post it ourselves?"

The informant's fingers were practically blurring out of focus as he typed.

"Comparing... the encoding structure matches the Kona civilization! It's not ours, nor is it the original warning broadcast; it's a new signal!"

The hall erupted in chaos.

"New signal?"

"Did they go back?"

"Haha! Finally, a reply! Let's see what the reply said!"

Han Niba raised his hand to suppress the noise.

"Everyone be quiet, let's start analyzing the main text."

The quantum computing module takes over the signal, first filtering out noise, and then performing semantic mapping.

On the main screen, unfamiliar symbols kept rearranging themselves before turning into Da Xia characters.

When the first line appeared, the entire command center fell silent.

[To the civilization of Earth, Great Xia.]

[The Kona civilization has received your message.]

Someone clenched their fist, but forcibly held back from shouting.

Han Niba's eyes flickered slightly.

They actually received it.

Three thousand light-years away, a civilization forced to the front lines of its home planet heard the voice of Earth.

The translation continues to be updated.

Thank you for responding to our warning broadcast under such dangerous circumstances.

Thank you for your help.

Based on your information, we confirm that the demons are a common enemy.

The Kona civilization is willing to establish a cooperative relationship with the Great Xia, sharing intelligence, exchanging technology, and working together to drive out and eliminate the demon race.

In the staff box, someone, barely suppressing their excitement, whispered:

"It's done."

The person next to him immediately said:

"Don't worry, there's more to come."

The text on the screen continued to scroll down.

The following is the current state of the Kona civilization.

All intelligent life in the Kona civilization became extinct 1,037 Kona Standard Years ago.

Cause of extinction: Planetary viral catastrophe.

The current Kona civilization is continued by the powerful artificial intelligence—the Watchers.

[We still retain a complete historical database, industrial production system, complete technology tree data, etc.]

Inside the command center, the previously excited voices suddenly quieted down.

Someone subconsciously asked:

"So... there are no living people on the other side?"

Everyone's heart sank.

I originally thought that there were still soldiers, civilians, government, and children on the home planet Kona.

But now the screen tells them that the flesh-and-blood people of the Kona people went extinct more than a thousand years ago.

The one that has been fighting the demons for two hundred years is a powerful artificial intelligence.

It carries the legacy of an extinct race, guarding a home planet devoid of living beings, and has stubbornly survived until now.

This is incredible.

A staff officer said in a dry voice:

"Academician Li, is this what you call civilized?"

Academician Li, standing to the side, frowned and thought for a moment.

"Calculate."

"It is strong artificial intelligence. Judging from the content of the response, it should have developed its own consciousness."

"Moreover, it is still continuing its civilization, still producing, and still fighting against the demons. As long as the civilization has not been destroyed, then it can be considered a civilization."

On the screen, the messages from the Kona civilization were still increasing.

[Sharing current war intelligence on Kona: Kona's First through Third Fleets have been completely destroyed.]

The six colony planets have fallen.

[Eighty-one-six percent of the home planet's geosynchronous orbit ring has been damaged.]

The remaining availability of the surface-based automatic defense cluster is 43%.

The core energy network has a remaining stable operational rate of 52%.

The remaining availability of the heavy-duty automated factory is 37%.

[Under current strength, the homeworld's defenses are expected to last for another Kona year.]

The technician immediately converted the definition of the word.

"Approximately equivalent to six hundred days on Earth."

The atmosphere in the hall became tense again.

Six hundred days.

For a civilization, this number is too short.

This number is too tight for an intergalactic collaboration.

Han Niba asked:

"Was there any mention of the demon race's situation in Kona?"

"There's more content; it's being analyzed."

New content pops up quickly.

The Demon Race has established a network of wormhole relay points on our outer satellites and multiple colonies.

Their military strength comes from more than one celestial body.

[It has been confirmed that high-ranking demonic individuals possess abilities such as energy shields, high-speed regeneration, long-range energy projection, and group mental linkage.]

[It has been confirmed that rare individuals can open and maintain the starting anchor point of a spatial wormhole.]

If this individual dies, or if the wormhole's originating anchor point is subjected to a high-energy bombardment, the wormhole structure will become unstable.

Our strategic weapons can destroy some anchor points, but the success rate is extremely low, and they will be intercepted.

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