They say I'm a world-destroying anomaly.

Chapter 106 Interstellar Pacts and Aid

"You mean he discovered a high-altitude anomaly on the planet Taranis and needs our assistance to contain it?"

Luo's slightly hesitant voice drifted out from the cloud of smoke.

"Yes, Chief."

Hu Zhou had ended his call with Cheng Xu, and his face showed a somewhat unnatural expression.

He never expected that Cheng Xu's interstellar journey had only just begun, and that the first stop on his voyage would bring the Administration Bureau unexpected gains.

It's important to know that when the General Administration and Chengmingxing Branch jointly planned the route, the primary consideration was to avoid accidents, and only secondarily was the natural scenery of the route points taken into account Cheng Xu's preferences.

But at only the first point of contact, he discovered a high-alert anomaly hidden in the sand.

When this news reached the ears of others at the headquarters and branch offices, there was a sense of panic and shock, as the situation was beyond their expectations.

However, Hu Zhou believes that Cheng Xu's discovery on Sand Star is by no means a bad thing for the Bureau of Anomalies.

In the past, when he led his team to contain anomalies, alert-level anomalies were enough to pose a substantial threat to the worker bee action team.

If preparations are insufficient, or if unexpected situations arise, there could be a significant risk of injury or death.

Based on Cheng Xu's description, this alert-level anomaly was a voluntary acceptance of containment.

Hu Zhou didn't know whether this was due to Cheng Xu's strong professional skills or his high position. But in any case, being able to safely contain a high-alert anomaly was something everyone in the Administration Bureau was happy to see.

He quietly raised his eyes, observing the wisp of smoke that had been silent for so long.

Judging from Director Luo's tone, her thoughts should be similar to his own.

Which precinct is closest to Sandstar Taranis?

Sure enough, after thinking it over, the smoke gave its response.

The corresponding information flashed through Hu Zhou's mind—intelligence that had been investigated when planning Cheng Xu's itinerary.

"Chief, this is the Borderland Star Branch."

"Borderland Star Branch—Let me think, shouldn't the current director be Fabian?"

"Yes, Director, you're not mistaken."

"Alright, you don't need to worry about this. I'll contact Fabian."

"Yes, Chief."

"Did he mention anything else in the communication just now?"

Hu Zhou gathered his thoughts, carefully recalled the details of the conversation, and honestly shook his head to answer: "Nothing special was mentioned. He just asked me to send his regards to my colleagues at the Chengmingxing branch and hoped that I would apologize to the headquarters on his behalf."

"An apology?" The smoke trembled slightly.

Hu Zhou's expression became even stranger: "It seems that because the trip on the sand planet will be delayed, which is different from the original plan, he feels a little... guilty?"

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Luo Zhi didn't speak, but the fluctuating frequency of the smoke suddenly increased, indicating that the director was not at peace.

After a long silence, her voice finally rang out again in the temporary meeting room: "Captain Hu, isn't his humanity a bit too strong?"

"what?"

Hu Zhou thought to himself, "Isn't this a good thing?"

"For the Anomaly Management Bureau, it is naturally a great thing that a suspected terminal-level anomaly is full of humanity."

Her voice softened: "But in the entire interstellar society, not everyone is as humane as him—"

Hu Zhou suddenly raised his head and remained silent for a moment.

Soon, the smoke drifted upwards, and the temporary meeting room, which had been completely sealed off, was simultaneously unlocked, signifying that the meeting, originally intended for reporting and work scheduling, had ended.

"Human nature—"

Hu Zhou sat in the special equipment room, looking up at the snow-white ceiling, and seemed to let out a sigh.

"I hope nothing goes wrong."

He calmed himself down, left the equipment room, and went straight to the branch director's office.

The instructions from the Director General were very clear: he should complete the handover of his current work as soon as possible and prepare to go to the Director General to await further orders.

After speaking with Hu Zhou, Cheng Xu and Fields discussed it briefly and decided to use a spacecraft to take everyone to the Interstellar Court's outpost on Sand Star.

Looking at the entire interstellar society, the reputation of the Interstellar Court is no less than that of the Bureau of Anomalies.

The Interstellar Court is a supra-sovereign judicial institution jointly established by various interstellar civilizations in accordance with the Interstellar Convention. It does not belong to any civilization, any star sector regime, or any interstellar political alliance.

Its direct combat capabilities are much weaker than those of the Anomaly Management Bureau, and it mainly focuses on routine interstellar law enforcement and order correction operations.

The purpose of establishing this institution is to maintain the implementation of the Interstellar Convention as much as possible, so as to ensure a relatively fair order in the universe.

Before the advent of the Interstellar Court, the primitive interstellar society was a dark forest where the strong preyed on the weak, with constant wars and the fall of many unique civilizations in the conflicts.

Until one day, the most powerful interstellar civilizations finally realized that the universe is vast and its boundaries have not yet been explored, and it can accommodate more civilizations for everyone to explore.

Under the leadership and coordination of these interstellar civilizations, and after countless consultations and negotiations, the Interstellar Convention was finally signed and its effect covers every corner of the known universe.

In other words, since the Interstellar Convention, the prevailing trend in the universe has shifted from "fighting each other for a piece of the pie" to "striving to make a bigger pie together."

According to incomplete statistics, since the first version of the Interstellar Convention was published, wars between civilizations in the universe have decreased by at least 90%, and the progress of exploring the boundaries of the universe has also increased rapidly.

Some interstellar sociologists have even hailed the Interstellar Covenant as one of the most significant and iconic achievements in history.

One of the most important nodes in the development of international civilization.

Under the constraints of the Interstellar Convention, large civilizations can gain more benefits during the pioneering process, while smaller civilizations can share in the benefits while ensuring their own security.

At least there won't be a situation like in the past where a large civilization would covet the resources and population of a small civilization and then launch a war without warning.

For example, at the end of the story on Golun, new life emerged on the earth, which was also protected by the interstellar covenant.

Before new life grows into a completely new civilization, the Interstellar Covenant will ensure that the planet is not disturbed by other extraterrestrial civilizations, thus ensuring the smooth development of the new civilization.

As the core institution maintaining the Interstellar Covenant, the Interstellar Court has also established a post on the complex and unique sand planet Taranis.

Because the native inhabitants of the sand planet were exiled from other civilizations, some protective regulations do not apply to them.

However, after investigation and evaluation, the Interstellar Court still decided to establish special protection and support regulations for the two major tribes, the Sandblood and the Bone-Slaying Tribes.

The most important of these is to bring in several well-known interstellar corporations to develop tourism on Sand Star and the fluorescent oil mining industry.

From the perspective of the Interstellar Court, this move can both further promote the development of the two major tribal civilizations and allow...

The resources of Taranis have been fully developed and utilized.

Under this premise, the Interstellar Court also set strict terms to prevent these interstellar groups from interfering with the two major tribes in a "divine intervention" manner.

This system has been operating smoothly for many years.

Under the supervision of the Interstellar Court, the two major tribes were able to acquire more advanced technological products and resources, while the major interstellar corporations also made considerable profits on this planet.

A significant portion of these profits is forcibly allocated by the Interstellar Court and invested in the planning and infrastructure development of Taranis, creating a perfect virtuous cycle.

In the intergalactic court's work report that year, the special case of Taranis was presented as a major innovation, which was then widely reported by major intergalactic media outlets.

However, because this system had been maintained for many years, the people at the Interstellar Court's office in Taranis were somewhat surprised when Cheng Xu and his group arrived.

According to the interstellar covenant, indigenous people are not allowed to communicate with any extraterrestrial visitors, let alone in a situation like the one now where a large group of people are flocking to the outpost.

Others have also observed from their equipment and physical characteristics that among these indigenous people from the Sigu tribe, a brother and sister appear to be from the Shaxue tribe.

They were fully aware of the hatred between the two tribes, a common phenomenon in the course of civilization's development, and they had no right to interfere.

They were involved, but that doesn't mean they weren't surprised at this moment.

The post station was bustling for quite some time until Cheng Xu produced his identification, verified his identity, and explained his purpose, at which point things gradually calmed down.

Upon hearing the "alert level" anomaly, the staff at the outposts jumped up from their workstations and immediately tried to contact the station manager who was away on business.

"Mr. Cheng, our station manager is expected to return tomorrow. He has contacted your bureau and instructed us to cooperate fully with your work."

A man who looked like a junior manager wiped the sweat from his brow and bowed with a smile next to Cheng Xu.

Are you kidding me? An alert-level anomaly?

In reality, for the vast majority of people in interstellar society, "anomalies" are largely just topics of conversation over tea or dinner, and distant phenomena that are frequently seen in the news.

Many people go through their entire lives without ever seeing any anomalies, even the lowest level of security anomalies.

But the staff of the Intergalactic Court know all too well the influence that anomalies have in this universe.

Sometimes, interstellar covenants can only constrain the civilizations constructed by intelligent life, but cannot have a subjective influence on anomalies.

For example, many cases of civilizations requiring urgent protection recorded in the Interstellar Court's archives were caused by a dangerous anomaly.

It is precisely because of this that the Bureau of Anomalies and the Interstellar Court have a close relationship. They often travel together to civilized areas ravaged by anomalies, with one side responsible for containing the anomalies and the other responsible for assessing the extent of damage to the civilization and drafting aid proposals.

"Thank you for your help."

The other party was very polite, and Cheng Xu responded with the appropriate courtesy.

"I know the situation on the sand star is quite special, but they have all had direct contact with the anomaly, so we'll have to trouble you to make proper arrangements here."

"Our support team from the Abnormal Affairs Bureau should arrive soon, and they will conduct comprehensive physical and mental assessments for them."

The junior manager quickly waved his hand in response, "You're too kind. This is all part of our job. The occurrence of anomalies has a significant impact on the development of civilization, so cooperation is only right."

So, under his arrangement, Congrett and the others moved into temporary accommodations attached to the Interstellar Court's outpost, awaiting the arrival of assistance personnel from the Bureau of Anomalies.

That evening, a spaceship hastily landed on Sand Star.

The Bureau of Abnormalities' assistance has arrived.

To Cheng Xu's surprise, the visitor was actually the director of the Borderland Star Branch of the Anomaly Management Bureau.

What surprised him even more was that the director, Fabian, was actually a robot so pure it couldn't be purer.

When Cheng Xu first saw him, he hadn't realized that Director Fabian's true nature was that of a machine.

He had an appearance no different from ordinary humans, except that his skin shone with a cold, silvery light—Cheng Xu once thought this was a characteristic of some special intelligent species.

Just like Lancelot, who has four arms.

But as the two drew closer, Cheng Xu sensed through his abilities that the bureau chief's body was full of intricate parts, completely different from the internal structure of an ordinary person's body.

"Hello, you must be Investigator Cheng Xu? I am Fabian, the director of the Border Wasteland Branch, and I have been assigned by the headquarters to provide assistance."

Fabian stood in front of Cheng Xu, a smile plastered on his ordinary face, which looked no different from any other person's.

Half a day earlier, he unexpectedly received a communication from the General Administration.

The voice coming from the other end of the communication nearly caused Fabian's internal energy to short-circuit—a faint, yet authoritative, tone.

Quiet female voice.

Fabian remembered that voice; it was the voice that gave him instructions during the briefing before he took office as the head of the Borderland Star branch.

This voice belonged to the Director of the Bureau of Abnormalities.

Unlike the large-scale star system branch offices like Chengming Star, the remoteness of the Border Wasteland Star branch office is directly reflected in its name.

Although he was also at the level of a branch office director, Fabian's power was vastly different from that of a director like Copper; his role was more pioneering.

Within the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs, positions like his are more like being sent out for training, and only after achieving certain results will he be transferred to other normal branches.

So after Luo Zhi gave the order directly on the other end of the communication line, Fabian became extremely vigilant, took the most elite personnel in the branch, and rushed to the sand planet Taranis in the branch's fastest spaceship.

Even the junior manager of the Interstellar Court's outpost next to Cheng Xu was dumbfounded.

He certainly knew the head of the Border Wasteland Branch Bureau who was in charge of the area, but he had only met him once a few years ago at an exchange meeting with his superior.

His superior, who was also the head of the Sand Star branch station, bowed and scraped before this robot director, acting like a grandson and not daring to be the slightest bit presumptuous.

You said that aid workers would come, but you didn't say that the branch office chief would come in person.

Who exactly is this young man?

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