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"Have some snacks first." Zheng Yichen casually drew some snacks for Lingling and fed her before seriously looking at the planning document.

After seeing the list, she understood why Lingling had said that.

They're all familiar faces. The Greatsword Squad goes without saying; they already have ample experience dealing with the Elder Children.

The fleet can be deployed directly.

Besides that, there are other people Zheng Yichen knows. Tessa is going to join as the chief scientist. She didn't have confidence in this before, but now she does.

Once the Whisperer's abilities were enhanced within her individual information field, she was able to completely 'decode' information—knowledge that was inferior to the technological knowledge of some advanced civilizations.

Banmu Fulan is also coming, not to take advantage of Zheng Yichen's upgrade abilities, but to study more special species.

Those ancient beings in their larval stages already possessed their own unique variations, and once the large device was gone, the changes in the ancient beings in their larval stages would become even more unrestrained.

Furthermore, influenced by the Dark Realm's information field, the life forms of the Ancients will become increasingly diverse, and Banmu Fulan will not miss this opportunity.

Besides that, there are the youkai in Gensokyo who crave battle and want to make good use of this opportunity to become stronger.

They have many reasons, all of which are on this list. In Zero Zero's plan, they won't stay in the fleet forever.

Once they can no longer enhance their individual information fields through upgrades, they will have to build their own fleets. If they find it too troublesome, they will act individually.

In short, just don't keep crowding into Zheng Yichen's fleet; crowding there is a waste of combat power.

Not only them, but Zheng Yichen's fleet members will also be constantly replaced in the future. Once they have grown to a certain level, they will be able to stand on their own and build their own fleet!

Besides that, there are some special applications.

Yuki Nagato applied to open the Hole of the World, requesting her physical body to come here and attempt to enhance her own performance by improving the form of her individual information field.

Then, we will conduct long-term observations of the immune planet and Zheng Yichen.

"We've already done so much, why bother with another application? Let's just follow this plan. We'll set off in two days."

Zheng Yichen was very anxious; he wanted to deal with the ancient beings in the Great Vortex as soon as possible.

The Blue Breath Civilization and Nagato Yuki made a prediction: no matter how efficient she is, this time will not be less than 10,000 years.

There were simply too many ancient larvae distributed within the vortex.

It's worth noting that this is just a picture for reference only; the actual product shall prevail.

If we don't work hard, the time will only exceed the predicted time, but if we work hard... we might get closer to the predicted time.

Tens of thousands of years may not be much for a living planet.

But if Zheng Yichen doesn't deal with this matter, then this time could be extended a thousand times, ten thousand times.

No one else can deal with the juvenile form of the Ancient One as efficiently as Zheng Yichen.

Zheng Yichen's fleet assembled very quickly, and his fleet didn't even need logistical support.

The Immunological Civilization gave Zheng Yichen a low-key send-off when he set off.

Among those seeing him off, Zheng Yichen saw many familiar faces, but he might not see them again the next time...

He could come back anytime, but he would only come back to see Hongwu.

"Goodbye." Xize, who looked older than before, said goodbye to Zheng Yichen.

"Goodbye." Zheng Yichen said goodbye to Xize and the others one by one.

"Old man, I'll come see you again after I've built my own fleet." Natalie in the group also said goodbye to Caesar.

"Then you'd better hurry, or you might not see me again."

Natalie asked in surprise, "You're not going to die so soon, are you?"

Xize shook his head with a slight sigh: "Of course not, I'm just planning to go check out other places."

He thought he could finally retire after the interplanetary war ended decades ago, but he ended up staying on the job for decades, not in charge of the old capital, but in charge of diplomacy with other civilizations.

Who would have thought that after solving the problem of the immune planet, they would encounter another planetary vortex?

Fortunately, this time everything is really alright.

Zheng Yichen assembled a fleet to clean up the ancient beings, maintain the stability of the planetary vortex on the immune planet, ensure the normal development of the immune civilization, and prepare for interstellar migration.

Since the immune planet is at the center of the vortex, the immune planetary system should also come to the vortex.

As for the impact of this migration on the New Covenant, this is the last thing Caesar will do.

"Oh, you're retiring now? You're really unlucky. You planned to retire, but it's been decades too late."

"It's actually quite worthwhile," Xize said with a smile. "Have a safe journey."

"Then I'm leaving." Natalie boarded the warship. She didn't have many ties to the immune planet and left decisively.

Jasmine does have family, so the time it took to say goodbye was a little longer, but not by much.

Jasmine is no longer the girl she once was, even though her appearance remains the same.

Zheng Yichen's fleet is not large. To others, there is only one warship. It is not the Leviathan warship, but a new type of warship designed by Tessa in recent years.

This warship was much larger than the Leviathan, and Zheng Yichen's fleet was on standby inside the warship... although this fleet was rarely used.

However, when needed, the people inside the warship can directly pilot it.

Inside the wheelhouse, a hand rested on Zheng Yichen's shoulder: "For the sake of Yonglin being the ship's doctor, give me the position of first mate."

"Then you might as well be my secretary." Zheng Yichen glanced at Kaguya. Given her personality, she would only be a first mate for a few days and then slack off for a while.

How many secretaries do you have now?

"I can't fill the schedule in a week, and I want to bring Kurareimu too, but she just wants to enjoy the battle."

Many people boarded the ship, including Reimu, who had become an old witch.

She didn't want to come at first, but Yukari Yakumo persuaded her.

Of course, these older women also have their own explanation: their age shouldn't be calculated based on this time, but rather on the timeline of their own time.

People arrive here, the World Hole closes, okay, they are still seventeen years old in Gensokyo, what does the age reversal here have to do with Gensokyo?

There are many reasons, but what hasn't really changed is the fact that people who have lived for a very long time are the ones who are already living.

Yukari Yakumo, Eirin Yagokoro, Kaguya Houraisan, and others—these beings are generally over a thousand years old, indicating that they haven't changed much over the years.

Everything was just like last year, and it didn't affect them at all.

"Then I'll reluctantly agree. How about I get you two more secretaries? You can use them as you like?"

"Who?"

“The Mianyue sisters, let’s bring them over so they won’t bother Yonglin every day.”

"Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

Kaguya crossed her arms and chuckled, "Those old fogies on the moon don't want to be left behind by the times, nor do they want to give up their persistence. Since they couldn't find a solution, they just sent them here."

"You can let Yonglin make arrangements for them; you can stay here."

"Hey, you're actually quite ethical."

"Then I'll have Mokou come."

Kaguya said with certainty, "She definitely won't come."

“She came when Huiyin came.”

“Oh dear, I think they’d be better suited to be librarians.” Kaguya’s eyes darted around. “The secretary job isn’t suitable for her. That’s settled then.”

After Kaguya left, a gap opened up from the side, and Yukari Yakumo, dressed in a white secretary's uniform, walked out: "It's my shift today."

"I didn't expect you to take this position voluntarily." Zheng Yichen glanced at the personal terminal in Yakumo Yukari's hand. In the interstellar era, paper documents are no longer needed for office work.

"This spot is close to you, and I'm the one who will stay with you until the end."

"Actually, I would prefer that you form a new fleet as well."

"This is too much trouble, I'd better stay here~" Yukari Yakumo sat down in her seat.

As time went on, the others gradually arrived at the cockpit, including the two vice captains appointed by Zheng Yichen.

Zheng Yichen adjusted his seat, checked the crew's landing status on the computer, and once everyone was assembled, Zheng Yichen started the warship.

As the warships departed via warp, the farewell party from the immune civilization also left.

Not many people knew about this farewell, and there were quite a few immune civilizations, like the warship that Zheng Yichen sailed away.

"The next period will be a long one of development." Xize took something off his wrist, which meant that his resignation was imminent.

There is war outside the Starry Sky Vortex, but war is beneficial to the New Star Alliance. The dominant civilizations in other sectors and star fields can be subdued by defeating them.

After all, the universe is so vast, and the vortex is in the most important place, so there needs to be someone who can completely speak to us.

Now that the immune planet is located at the center of the vortex, the only people who can speak with it are their immune civilization.

War is inevitable. As for other civilizations trying to study the Ancients from within the Great Vortex, let them study. They are not from the same sector as these other civilizations.

When it comes to studying them, they all remain silent. The New Star Alliance civilization has learned too many lessons and knows that such things must be completely eradicated.

Other civilizations have never experienced the threat of the Ancients. When they suffer losses and come to ask for help, they not only have to bear the cost of studying the Ancients, but also the cost of asking for help.

“If you want to live a long time, at least four thousand years,” Afried said to Caesar.

"That's too long, four hundred years... We'll see." Xize thought for a moment, not making his statement so absolute.

"But you've always been so energetic."

Caesar felt a pang of emotion for Afrikaans, whose appearance had remained unchanged.

She has no intention of stepping down; it's just that her responsibilities have changed from monitoring the health of the old capital to monitoring the health of the immune planet.

“That’s good.” Afried looked in the direction Zheng Yichen had left.

These past few days, she could feel the 'restlessness' of the immune planet, which was not a crisis, but a kind of joy.

In the planetary battlefield, all she could feel was the planet's anger and morbidity.

After the anger and killing intent accumulated on the immune planet were poured into Zheng Yichen, the immune planet was no longer in a pathological state.

For the next few decades, the immune planet remained normal, and the 'pleasure' overflowing from it these past few days was something she had never noticed before.

The immune planet is not sick; on the contrary, it appears healthier. Although the planet maintains its large vortex, it is more vibrant than before.

Afrida was quite curious about what had happened in the past few days, but she restrained her curiosity and did not delve too deeply into it.

As long as it's a good thing, that's fine.

"I'm going to work." Afrida got into the car.

"Well... see you later." Xize said goodbye to Afried. Zheng Yichen was leaving this time and would not be able to return normally for at least ten or twenty years.

After saying goodbye to these old colleagues, they will each go their own way.

We might meet again in a few years, or it might be decades later.

An immune civilization has developed. The center of the cosmic vortex is not a good place. People live here, but most people live in the immune planetary system outside the vortex.

The universe is vast; even a small separation results in a distance measured in light-years.

At distances measured in light-years, time seems to pass exceptionally quickly.

"Today, let's take care of the ten ancient infants as a sacrifice!" Inside the warship, Zheng Yichen stood up from his seat.

From now on, he will remain number one on the Ancient Kill Ranking.

Zheng Yichen will not waste the ancient beings' larvae that have been dealt with. He will obtain the last blood that flows from the ancient beings before they die and draw more things that will help cleanse them.

Zheng Yichen used the Main God Terminal to divide the Great Vortex into 100,000 ring zones. He set a small goal first: to clear out the outer 10,000 ring zones!

Volume 1: Chapter 1849 Later

"We're late." On a habitable planet teeming with monsters, Bai Yang looked through his warship at a large hole in the planet's surface and said with a hint of regret.

"Plan changed. Clean up the monsters on this planet."

They came here to deal with the Ancient Ones, but the Ancient Ones on this planet have already been dealt with. Since they've already come all this way, they might as well clear out the monsters on this planet.

While a complete cleanup is not possible, at least a high-risk habitable planet can be downgraded to a low-risk one, allowing it to be utilized and redeveloped.

Compared to his former youthful naiveté, Bai Yang is now mature and even has his own fleet.

“Did the ‘God Painter’ really do this? You’re from the Bai family, you should be able to find them easily, right?” A crew member also looked at the large hole.

The fleet has beings capable of blasting such large holes into planets, but if there were ancient beings inside those holes before, that's another matter entirely.