Andromeda Galaxy, Mist Wind Star Region, Crimson Federation Capital Circle.
The once bustling Capital Circle of the Federation was now dead silent. The void was filled with the wreckage of battleships and space defense platforms.
As for the two natural life planets in the capital circle and the dozens of life planets that had been modified later, there were no survivors to be found.
The entire population of the Crimson Federation, numbering in the trillions, had been wiped out.
The reason was that they could not gather enough tributes this time!
Not far from the Capital Star of the Crimson Federation, a large fleet was lying there.
"Black Demon General, the cleansing of the Capital Circle of the Crimson Federation has been completed. There are no survivors!"
In the bridge of the flagship, the adjutant reported to Black Demon after he had compiled the reports of all the troops.
"Crimson Federation, sigh, what a pity!"
"However, any civilization that cannot pay the tributes must be destroyed. This is the cornerstone of the Purple Cloud Empire's rule over the Andromeda Galaxy. There are no exceptions!"
Speaking of which, the Crimson Federation was originally the most famous food civilization on the Andromeda Galaxy's Spiral Arm.
They were not very talented in scientific research and did not have too many precious resources in their territory.
However, the Crimson Federation, like the humans, had developed food to a new level. They were very famous in the entire Andromeda Galaxy. Every year, a large number of people from different civilizations would travel here to try the Crimson Federation's food.
And this included the Black Demon General!
In the Andromeda Galaxy, the Purple Cloud Empire had three ways of collecting tributes.
First, civilizations with outstanding scientific research talent could send all their best scientists to the Ziyun Empire. Every year, they would be graded based on the grade and number of scientists they sent, as well as the results of their research. If the score reached the standard, it would be considered as the completion of the tribute mission for a hundred years!
Second, civilizations with special resources in their territory would be given a hundred-year mission target by the Purple Cloud Empire. When the amount of special resources that were mined and sent to the Purple Cloud Empire were sufficient, the tribute mission would be completed.
Thirdly, for civilizations that did not have outstanding scientific research talent and did not have special resources, this was more tragic. The Purple Cloud Empire had given a standard cut-off, such as ten billion points. What you needed to do was to obtain all ten billion points within a hundred years.
However, if you want to obtain these points, you can only exchange them with various conventional resources.
Even though it was just a normal resource, the Ziyun Empire had the final say in pricing!
For example, take Latte as an example. You could mine asteroids to obtain large amounts of iron ore and exchange them for points in the Purple Cloud Empire. However, according to the Purple Cloud Empire's calculations, ten billion tons of iron was only worth one point.
Even if your entire civilization did nothing for a hundred years and just mined asteroids all over the world, you might not be able to gather 10 billion credits in the end!
Regardless of whether it was the Crimson Federation or the Brilliant Empire, they all belonged to the third category!
In the beginning, it was still fine. If they could not gather enough, they could use the savings of their own civilization. However, no matter how much savings a civilization had, it would be used up sooner or later under the situation of a blood transfusion once every hundred years.
When the accumulation of tens of thousands of years was exhausted and could no longer meet the requirements of tribute, the outcome of having the appearance of the Federation was the same. There was no exception!
The Ziyun Empire, on the other hand, relied on such a policy to gather the scientists and resources of almost all civilizations in the entire galaxy, allowing it to reach the height of a mid-level Level 5 technological civilization in just 5,000 years.
"Where's the next stop?"
Although it was a pity, it was only a pity. Regarding the matter of destroying the Crimson Federation, Black Fiend did not hesitate at all!
After all, no matter how delicious the food was, compared to the rule of the Empire, it was not worth mentioning at all.
Looking at the tragic starry sky outside the battleship, Black Fiend turned to his adjutant and asked.
"Reporting to the general, the tribute collection mission of the rear spiral arm has been completed. Next, we should go to the front spiral arm!"
"The front spiral arm, huh? Check the information of the intelligence department. In the end, we might not be able to gather the number of Level 4 civilizations that paid tribute this time?"
"There are three. They are the Brilliant Empire, the Black Sea Alliance, and the Nalan Federation!"
After opening the terminal and checking for a while, the adjutant reported.
"Hmm, I have an impression of the Brilliant Empire. Other than having a longer history, they are completely useless. They should have retired from the stage of history long ago!"
"Then let's go to the Brilliant Empire first. The earlier we destroy it, the earlier we can make room for the other civilizations there. Maybe in a few hundred years, there will be a civilization with outstanding scientific research talent in the Heiser Sector, thus making better contributions to the development of our Empire?"
Black Fiend did not have a good impression of the Brilliant Empire at all. In his impression, this was simply a rubbish civilization!
They had nothing, but they still occupied a very high-quality sector. This kind of civilization should be destroyed early!
However, due to the ruling policy of the Ziyun Empire, they could not attack the other party until they could hand over the stipulated amount of tribute.
Now that there was such an opportunity, Black Fiend immediately decided to go to the Brilliant Empire first!
"Understood, Black Fiend General!"
With the order, this huge tribute collection fleet immediately started the hyperdrive engine and began to move toward the front spiral arm.
However, although the Ziyun Empire had reached the level of a mid-level Level 5 technological civilization, they could no longer break away from the hyperdrive method of a Level 4 civilization. They could not go straight to the Heiser Sector. Instead, they had to first go along the back spiral arm to the center of the Andromeda Constellation, then go through a wormhole near the core of the system to the front spiral arm.
The entire journey was nearly 200,000 light years long, and it would take about 8 years. It was more than a year later than what Amoni had said.
After all, as Black Fiend said, there were more civilizations that could not hand over the tribute this time than usual. Therefore, they spent more time on the back spiral arm.
At the same time, in the Heiser Sector, at the edge of the star system Wharton.
The completed neutron degenerate state material production base was now fully operational.
A large number of asteroids were dragged in, quickly smelted and sent to the core of the production base.
Then …
Things about three meters in diameter that looked like iron balls were produced one after another.
These things that looked like iron balls were only five meters in diameter, which was not big.
However, these things were made according to one of Li Lizi's previous research results. They were made of neutron degenerate state material, and each one of them had the mass of tens of thousands of battleships. It was terrifying.
And in Li Lizi's plan, she would produce hundreds of millions of these terrifying things!