Galaxy Domination Guide

Chapter 57 051 Emergency

The orbital shuttle, resembling a circular hall, had all the members of the visiting delegation feeling as if they were walking into a dream. The shuttle enabled the outer view display, turning the entire cabin's inner walls into an image of the sky, making everyone feel as though they were strolling amongst the clouds.

However, this experience was perhaps too stimulating for some, so after a brief period, it reverted to normal. Passengers could still gaze at the impressive scenery outside through the windows. Especially when the spacecraft broke through the atmosphere and entered space—the sight was truly breathtaking.

In this era, space travel was nothing more than a dream for almost everyone, a dream that was exceedingly hard to realize. Despite having space giant Academician Ding among the visiting team, even he had never been to space. As someone in the field of space travel, he had endless imagination and yearning for space.

Now, at over seventy years old, Academician Ding had finally arrived in space without wearing a space suit, which made him feel that life was like a dream and he was particularly fortunate.

Scientists liked to clump together and chat, and the political idiots clearly could not comprehend much of their discussion. Especially since the Iridium Star people had given everyone an instant translator, making communication even less of a barrier.

A scientist from Germany exclaimed, "We have already entered space, and we can't feel any change at all, everything still has gravity—so does this ship actually possess its own gravitational environment?"

The Russians responded, "This is certain, if one lives in space for a long period of time, a zero gravity or microgravity environment is actually harmful to the human body. An environment with its own gravity will be very suitable for people's work and life. If our space stations had such technology, at the very least it would make things much more convenient for astronauts."

Another Dutch scientist added, "I bet that in Iridium Star's space city, there is also this kind of artificial gravity. Just thinking about it feels magnificent. Creating a gravitational environment for such a huge space city might be something our humanity cannot achieve even with hundreds of years of technological development."

Listening to the group of scientists' discussions, Academician Ding was also filled with various thoughts. At this moment, the scientists were conversing in their native languages, since the translator would perfectly translate their words to others, making all scientists accustomed to communicating in English or other languages feel quite amazed.

Academician Ding silently calculated the time. It took only a few dozen minutes for the orbital shuttle to travel from the surface of Earth to the space city, 200,000 kilometers away. The spacecraft was flying at an extremely high speed the entire time.

He thought that if such technology could be utilized for civilian purposes, it would make it more convenient and faster for humanity to bring back various resources from space, and even transportation within the atmosphere would become more convenient. As for military applications, Academician Ding did not want to think about them.

No matter how much Earth's national militaries advanced, they would not be able to contend with the Iridium Star people.

The more he encountered, the more Academician Ding revered the power of Iridium Star. Iridium Star's strength was comprehensive, a result of civilization accumulating to a certain extent. The more he felt this way, the more he hoped that Bai Zhongqi would pay more attention to the country, allowing the people to have a better life and the country to achieve better development.

Before long, the orbital shuttle arrived at Ruyi City. Like Ruyi City, a large space city would set up its own airport area for medium and small spacecraft to dock.

The members of the visiting team had already witnessed the magnificent and magical space city through the shuttle windows. The outer walls of the city's uppermost space, when viewed from the inside out, looked like a clear and clean sky, whereas viewed from outside in, it resembled a crystal ball containing a universe, with a fantastical city inside.

Just this visual impact alone had the Earth-born visitors in awe and filled with anticipation for their visit.

After the shuttle docked at Ruyi City, the flight attendants led the thirty members of the visiting team off the ship.

"Members of the visiting delegation, in accordance with the Iridium Star United Empire's astronautical safety regulations, before landing at Ruyi City, you will need to go through decontamination and sterilization to prevent Earth-originating microbes from unknowingly harming Ruyi City's ecology.

This quarantine process will not take much of your time, nor will it affect your health, so please rest assured," they said.

The members of the visiting team, upon hearing this, expressed their understanding. Especially the scientists, who naturally knew how much damage external microbes could inflict on an ecosystem.

One scientist whispered to another, "Indeed, this space city must have its own ecological system, capable of forming a self-sustaining cycle."

"Yes, it's incredible to think that what we've only imagined, the Iridium Star people have already realized. If we could carry out experiments in this space ecological environment, we could certainly gather a vast amount of valuable data."

As they discussed, similar to an airport security check, each visiting team member entered into a sealed, transparent chamber where an unknown gas and rays swiftly scanned them, and then they were allowed out.

One particularly meticulous scientist worried, "Is this sufficient to completely kill the microbes clinging to our bodies? Won't the probiotics in our digestive system also be killed?"

An adjacent Iridium Star individual, dressed in a one-piece experimental suit, explained, "It won't, we have confirmed that the probiotics inside the bodies of Earthlings are harmless microbes. We're only guarding against some potentially harmful microbes that may be on the body."

Academician Ding observed the situation, not only were there Iridium Star individuals in sci-fi one-piece suits, but also soldiers clad in black sci-fi battle armor, holding weapons with only their faces exposed, each looking tough and not to be trifled with.

The most eye-catching was a soldier who appeared to be over two meters tall, with a large physique. His expression seemed indifferent, not even scrutinizing the people from Earth, but Academician Ding, a man who had spent time in the military and seen countless soldiers, could sense that this man was like a ferocious tiger, quite dangerous.

Just then, the scientist from the United States walked into the quarantine passage. Just when everyone thought he would exit the transparent chamber like the rest, suddenly the electronic devices on the transparent chamber flashed with a blinding red light!

The health department personnel from Iridium Star who were sitting nearby carrying out the quarantine work turned pale and shouted to the soldiers in black armor on the other side, "Attention, there's something wrong with this person!"

The American scientist was terrified, frantically pounding on the glass, but his voice couldn't get through because it was completely sealed. From the shape of his mouth, it was clear that he was shouting for help, pleading to be let out.

A few European scientists and diplomats were also shocked, surrounding the Iridium Star flight attendants who had led them there, saying, "What's going on here? You can't treat him like this; it's inhumane. Let him out immediately!"

A tall and burly soldier in black armor, towering like a bear of a man, walked over, glanced at the quarantine staff's monitoring screen, and asked, "What specifically is the problem?"

Explore stories on empire

The quarantine staff's complexion had turned somewhat pale as well. Clearly, he too had seen something he had never encountered before. Pointing to his own head, he said, "Here, inside what should be the cranial cavity for the brain, is something completely different. It's like there's a parasitic organism in there."

The burly man in black armor chuckled and muttered to himself, "A monster, huh?"

His face mask swiftly slid down as his voice transmitted through the Tiberius Heavy Armor's speaker system, "All personnel who have passed the quarantine immediately evacuate, Iridium Star citizens evacuate as well, and leave a few people behind to isolate the visitors who haven't passed the quarantine."

He turned on his communicator and reported to his superiors, "This is Sergeant Major Wang Dong of the Orbital Airborne Corps. A situation has arisen at the quarantine checkpoint, and I'm currently dealing with it urgently. I request that the area be quarantined."

"Requesting permission."

The Sergeant Major turned to the quarantine staff and said, "Put on your protection gear, and when I give you the sign, open that containment unit."

The quarantine staff nervously nodded in agreement, fumbling to double-check his protective suit.

The Sergeant Major walked up to the containment unit, and a sinister smile appeared behind his mask as he looked at the "American scientist."

"Back in the day, I dealt with thousands, if not tens of thousands, of monsters in the chaotic borders. Never thought that after crossing over to this universe I'd encounter such creatures. Seems like the future won't be too boring after all."

At the Sergeant Major's signal, the quarantine staff immediately opened the sealed room's door. The guy inside ran out, constantly explaining something in English.

The Sergeant Major couldn't understand a word. After all, at Iridium Star, they don't test for English levels four and six. He chuckled, and his high-frequency short blade slid out from his waist. Before anyone could see what the Sergeant Major was doing, a flash of light passed by, and the "American scientist" had a neat cut right in the middle of his forehead.

An even more horrifying event unfolded before everyone's eyes. From this person's head emerged a creature larger than a human palm, covered all over in blood plasma with a pale white arthropod body resembling a brain. This thing was disgustingly grotesque, having eight legs and a set of mouthparts like an insect, now opened threateningly like an alien from the movies.

It moved very quickly, but it seemed a bit afraid of the Sergeant Major in his Heavy Armor. It appeared to be preparing to jump and attack someone else, but the Sergeant Major was faster, grabbing the disgusting creature with one hand.

With the Sergeant Major's light blade flashing again, he cleanly sliced off all eight legs of the creature. Its outer shell was rather tough, but it was no match for the powerful cutting ability of the high-frequency blade and was sliced apart.

With the creature in his grasp, the Sergeant Major held it like a legless crab. Two soldiers stepped forward with a container, and without a word, the Sergeant Major threw the creature into the experimental container, which the soldiers promptly sealed.

The visiting team members and Iridium Star quarantine staff were all stunned, but the Sergeant Major walked casually into the transparent chamber, calling out, "Give me a scan. I've been in contact with that thing, and who knows if it's harmful."

Everyone felt their eyelids twitching. This guy... he didn't even know if fighting that bug was dangerous before he pounced on it.

The quarantine staff yelled, "There's no problem, Sergeant Major. The creature's fluid is slightly corrosive, but it can't damage Individual Armor. We've already neutralized it for you."

The Sergeant Major walked out confidently, looking completely indifferent to the ordeal. Meanwhile, a herd of metaphorical wild horses seemed to stampede through the minds of the visiting team members. A perfectly normal person had a monstrous creature burst from their head—what in the world was going on?