Antarctica, Antarctica.


    The imperial capital.


    One hundred thousand years of cultivation, the greatest and most glorious world of all time, the heart of human civilization, the center of the sea of stars.


    From the beginning of the reign of the monster Dynasty, all the unified Xinghai States took the polar realm as the ruling center.


    This is true of monster Dynasty, Xinghai Empire, Xinghai Republic and Human Empire.


    And any ambitious person who tries to control all the stars in his hands will also regard the polar realm as his ultimate goal.


    The polar world tens of thousands of years ago was not such a rich world.


    In terms of the location of the three-dimensional universe, it is not in the center of the star sea with the most dense stars.


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


    From the perspective of four-dimensional space, travelers from other worlds can use the least energy to jump to the polar realm; People in the polar world can also easily travel to all parts of the sea of stars through the ubiquitous spatial folds.


    Such a characteristic makes the extreme heaven the place where all the heaven and the world meet, the place where military strategists must fight, and the first choice for every unified country to establish its capital.


    For the first time, people who cross wormhole and jump to the polar realm are often shocked by the cold metal texture of this world.


    In the past 40000 years, from the monster Dynasty to the human Empire, the metal and mineral materials of thousands of worlds controlled by human civilization have been unremittingly transported to the polar realm, and the main star "Celestial Star" here has been highly transformed, gradually turning the planet into an indestructible iron fort.


    This is the highest symbol of the transformation of the universe by human beings with their own will.


    When tourists enter the atmosphere from the synchronous orbit star harbor outside the planet and take the vertical landing sightseeing floating platform, they can see the continuous undulating and row upon row of metal buildings shining in the sun. With the most bizarre appearance and the most gorgeous colors, all kinds of buildings show the ambition, desire and desperate impulse of human beings.


    Apart from the Imperial Palace and a few noble manors, there is not much green in the sky. However, the ubiquitous air circulation pipes release fresh air rich in various trace elements and beneficial to physical and mental health day and night, which makes the nearly 100 billion people on the planet, like insects, not feel depressed and crazy.


    The first time travelers to the imperial capital are shocked by these metal buildings, such as lions, giant eggs, gods and demons, and even underpants. They will soon be able to see the second wonder, which is all over the earth. It goes deep into the cracks tens of thousands of meters below the earth, like giant canyons crisscrossing across the whole land.


    It is said that at the end of the Xinghai Empire 10000 years ago, the emperor and the crazy blood god son of the doomsday war launched an earth shaking war in the polar world and the Celestial Star. The fierce battle really made the sky and the earth change color, the sun and the moon fade away, and even the Celestial Star was smashed by them, breaking into two parts.


    Of course, this is nonsense. No matter how strong human power is, it is impossible to blow up such a big planet completely. This is totally not in line with the law of conservation of psionic power.


    However, it is a true fact that the earth''s crust is riddled with holes, the dormant seismic zone is activated, and the geological plate changes violently, tearing up crisscross cracks. Perhaps, it is also the limit of human combat effectiveness.


    In the ten thousand years after the death of the Xinghai Empire, the surviving people carefully and painstakingly repaired the broken planet.


    They were surprised to find the hidden veins in the crevices and the huge geothermal energy contained in the underground magmatic belt. They simply bombarded the emperor and the blood god son, and built huge underground cities in the crevices as deep as 10000 meters. They multiplied here, making the living space of the imperial capital expand several times instantly.


    Naturally, nobles and aristocrats would not live in the dark and sultry underground. According to the sea level of the imperial capital, tens of thousands of meters from the bottom of the earth, there is a clear-cut map of the distribution of human imperial class.


    The primitive people and slave workers at the bottom of the earth live tens of thousands of meters deep, running geothermal factories to provide energy for the whole planet; Several kilometers underground are the homes of miners and smelters, and there are also large farms with underground crops; On the ground, there are a large number of low-level cultivators and a small number of wealthy primitive people, who are often closely related to the cultivators. Only with the protection of the cultivators can they come into contact with the sunshine of the Celestial Star. They are the top of the pyramid of the primitive class and also responsible for maintaining the industrial and commercial operation of the imperial capital.


    As for aristocrats and gatekeepers, they often live on the 12 satellites of Antarctica - except for the two natural satellites, 10 of them are artificial super space stations. It is said that the interior is a beautiful and luxurious fairyland on earth.


    For thousands of years since the establishment of Human Empire, emperors have been operating in such a hierarchical and orderly mode.


    Unfortunately, with the collapse of "rites and music", the various rules for the cultivation of immortals formulated by Wu Yingqi, the former Black Star emperor, gradually fell off and collapsed. The Empire was on the way to the end, and the imperial capital gradually lost its glory.


    As one world after another merged into the Empire, the Empire became too huge. As the heart of the Empire, the polar world and the Celestial Star inevitably became more and more bloated day by day.


    In the past five hundred years alone, the population of the imperial capital has skyrocketed ten times. In order to maintain more and more complicated, more and more chaotic and complex rule, the number of offices stationed in the imperial capital by various bureaucracies and the outside world is even ten times faster than the speed of the population explosion. The resources of the polar world alone are not enough to support such a huge population, As well as the daily cultivation and consumption of so many immortals, the ecological chain is on the verge of collapse every year and has to rely on the blood transfusion of the nearby world.


    According to the official statistics, when the total population of the extreme heaven exceeds 80 billion, it is strictly forbidden for the residents of the outside world to move into the imperial capital at will, not to mention the original people. Even those who cultivate immortals in the period of gas refining can hardly get the long-term residence certificate of the imperial capital.


    But the emperor is always the place of hope and dream. No matter how forbidden, it can''t stop those ambitious poor boys who have nothing to do.


    At present, 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 it is at least 200 billion. The vast majority of black households are like ants, dormant at the bottom of the crack thousands of meters deep. Even if the statisticians who have been given 10000 God levels by the old God can not figure out the real population.


    Such a large population makes the resource supply chain of the polar world and the Celestial Star extremely vulnerable. As long as the external world stops blood transfusion one day, it will cause riots in the imperial capital; If the outside world does not give blood transfusion for three days, the imperial capital may collapse completely.


    If the population exceeds the critical point, it will also lead to a strong chaotic effect, resulting in many lawless gray and even dark areas. Although it is only tens of thousands of meters away from the nominal highest ruling body of the Empire, the bottom layer of the underground fissure is the place where even Yuanying and the immortal practitioners of Huashen series are reluctant to touch easily, Countless people are living on the most glorious and sacred planet of the Empire, following the rule of no light. People live without people and ghosts.


    Perhaps, this is exactly what the four monarch families want to see.


    It''s not good for them to maintain a too powerful imperial capital. Such a bloated, weak and filthy imperial capital is the paradise for adventurers, the stage for ambitious people, and the dining table for them to carve up the stars!


    It''s a pity that now a new force is born, trying to break into the paradise, trample on the stage and smash the dining table!


    The news that Lei Chenghu escaped from Shenwei prison and took a large number of political prisoners and the whole Shenwei fleet came to the ears of the Lords of the Senate two days ago.


    What''s more terrible than Lei Chenghu''s escape from Shenwei prison is - what''s the reason for him to escape? What''s the power to help him escape?


    What does this force want to do to help Lei Chenghu escape?


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


    But the elders knew that Lei Chenghu had returned to the third war zone, but they had little to do with him.


    Lei Chenghu was a famous defense expert of the Empire. In the past 100 years, the Holy Alliance Army did not dare to cross the Leichi.


    The third war zone is the top priority of the front line. It is Lei Chenghu who has exhausted his whole life''s hard work, coupled with the transportation of countless resources from the rear, that has made it into an iron wall, a sea of swords and flames, and a tiger''s den.


    Even if the imperial families of the fourth general election now mobilize all their forces to attack the third war zone, they may not be able to eliminate the thunder fleet in a short time, and doing so is tantamount to setting off an all-round civil war in the Empire. No one in the imperial families of the fourth general election can afford to do so.


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


    The fleet is not a planet. It can come and go without a trace. It can scurry between the stars and the sea. Unless the other party is willing, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to search for a fleet in the vast sea of stars for a decisive battle!


    That''s how it is now.


    Before the Senate could respond, Lei Chenghu had cut off all communications between the third theater and the outside world, and of course closed all the star gates of the third theater.


    The third war zone became a dark and unfathomable world.


    The saliva was flying in the Senate, the face was red, and the ears were red. After a long quarrel, no one''s fleet wanted to be the first to jump in and die.


    We can only cut off all channels for the outside world to deliver materials to the third theater, hoping to trap Lei Chenghu to death or force him to come out for negotiation.


    But no matter how stupid people can see, Lei Chenghu will never wait to die. He has enough resources to launch an earth shaking suicide attack!


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    Well


    The imperial capital in this work is to pay homage to the Galactic capital planet Chuantuo in Asimov''s great work "base". Its details and inspiration are completely derived from "base". I hereby declare and express my sincere respect and infinite gratitude to the senior science fiction writers!