The times have changed and changed with each passing day, rights have been shuffled many times, some families have survived, but some surnames have turned into historical dust. As the political power center of the entire empire, Eve City is undergoing new changes every day. Dongcheng District, where the rich and powerful gather, is experiencing welcomes and departures every day. People make room.
There are only six major families who can live here for a long time in seven hundred years, and among these six major families, Gustav, who is a veteran political family, is a super-large manor-style building with more than 50 acres of land in Dongcheng District The group is five times the size of the old Dalton house.
Ordinary people live in a small apartment with a size of 40 to 50 square meters in a high-rise building, but as a powerful person, they can own a spacious mansion, a huge courtyard, beautiful gardens, etc. in Eve City, where every inch of land is expensive.
Of course, Alston and Ryan, who enjoy all of this, are not qualified to criticize anything, but they can change the resource inclination caused by class solidification.
That's something for later, now, let's talk about the land under Ryan's feet.
Seven or eight hundred years ago, Eve was not the capital city. At that time, the capital city was Adam, but due to geographical and political reasons, Adam was abandoned, and Eve came from behind. At that time, Qin Feng was not the president, and his cousin Qin Hao was only an intelligence officer. A small officer in the Ministry, the two seized the opportunity to buy a piece of land on the outskirts of Eve's city and built some houses. Later, Eve became the capital city, Qin Feng became the president, and moved into the presidential palace. That house was left to Qin Hao's family alone, but Qin Feng would still live there for a while from time to time.
There is a large basement under the house. Qin Feng has a full set of experimental equipment here, ensuring that he can conduct research without being disturbed. A large amount of heat energy generated during the operation of the mecha ensures the long-term operation of the mecha; the first set of mecha exoskeleton, after many adjustments and improvements by others, was equipped in the melee troops; it was the first time to solve the problem of the nerve center of the mecha , so that the mecha has a mechanical heart; the first compressed energy block is made, and the mecha has a power source...
All these are not secrets among the high-level empire. Almost everyone knows that the basement under the Qin family is the cradle of the empire's cutting-edge technology.
Not long after Qin Feng's death, the Qin family fell, and the Qin family's mansion became the property of the Dalton family through open and secret scrambles, until now.
"I heard from my father that when my great-great-grandfather bought this land, it went through many twists and turns. The Bromfield family was the biggest competitor. After my father became the patriarch of the family, the current power of the Bromfield family wanted I bought the house from my father. During Sera's tenure, he also mentioned to me that he was willing to exchange a 20-acre land in the Dongcheng District, and he was willing to give one billion star coins." Oston said: "Dad didn't I agree, and neither do I. When my great-great-grandfather bought this place, he said that it was an old house and that it would not be sold. Both my father and I suspected that the secrets of the Qin family were hidden here. Got it."
Although the Austons and his sons disagreed with the sale, there were always people in the family who turned their elbows outward, thinking that the old house was occupied by the family, so it would be better to sell it to the clan to share the money and improve everyone's life. The line handed down from the great-great-grandfather’s brother has always been at odds with the Auston family. They envy and envy Dalton, who also has the same surname. Why should their family be generals, live in a mansion, eat well and drink hot food, while I live in a crowded high-rise building? If you fart, you are afraid of hurting others.
Let's talk about the conflicts in the family later, let's talk about the current affairs first.
When Ryan learned that the old house of the Dun family was built on the ruins of the Qin family, he sighed and felt a lot of emotion. The fate between him and Auston is really inextricably linked.
Ryan thought for a while, and asked Alston: "Is the former basement of the Qin family still there?"
"I don't know if it belongs to the Qin family, but there is indeed a basement under the main house."
Ryan demanded, "Take me to see."
Auston didn't hesitate, "Okay."
The entrance to the basement is under the main stairs of the main house. When you open the small door, the dark space looks more like a storage room where sundries are piled up. There is a dull smell that has not seen the sun all year round. After waiting for a while, Oston walked in first, groped on the wall for a while, turned on the wall lamp, and the inside lit up. He was about to call Ryan to come in, but found that Ryan was standing beside him at some point. Looking down the aisle thoughtfully.
Da da da-
Two footsteps of different severity came from behind, Yuanyuan and Code Zero, and they also came in to join in the fun, and Auston didn't stop them.
"There are two doors in the basement." Alston walked straight to a landscape painting.
After entering through the small door, there is a small space with a height of 2.5 meters, a length of 5 meters and a width of 3 meters. There are many oil paintings on the wall, all of which are landscape paintings. Doran River in season. At first glance, there is little difference.
Auston pressed the frame on a painting, and after a buzzing sound, the painting opened, revealing the iris lock behind it. Alston blinked at the camera. After the machine scanned and confirmed, there were a few clicks, and the ground under their feet began to move and sink as a whole.
After sinking for a while, Ryan raised his head and looked up. There was already a distance of four and thirty meters from the small glowing space full of oil paintings. He was able to report the numbers so accurately.
clatter!
Boom!
There were two dull sounds, the steel plate under his feet hit the ground, followed by the hum of current flowing, the lights were bright, and a basement of more than 100 square meters appeared in front of Ryan. The walls of the basement are all silver and black metal, and there are many metal shelves, on which various items are neatly placed, just like the feeling of the Dalton family-rigorous, rigid, restrained and orderly.
"After my father passed away, the ownership here belongs to me. I have been here many times and looked through the family history, but I found nothing useful."
As for what he and his father guessed, there is something special under the house, but they have never been found. No results were found in the basement, and no results were found after detection in other places. It seems that the great-great-grandfather's order to protect the old house was just a disguised request for the Dalton family's inheritance.
"Great-great-grandfather left many notes. Maybe I didn't read them too carefully. Basically, they didn't involve the content of what happened seven hundred years ago." After listening to the content in the diode recording and broadcasting equipment, Auston had two bold guesses. One is that the great-great-grandfather didn’t know the truth, and the other is that he knew it, but put it in a place where future generations can’t easily find it.
When he came back this time, Auston wanted to search the house carefully, maybe there was a small corner that he had never discovered before.
"Original," Ryan yelled, "You check the basement."
Originally, "Yes, sir."
Auston frowned slightly, "Are you suspicious of hiding behind the wall?"
"Well, there is a guess." His laboratory was four or five meters underground.
Alston frowned and nodded, "But I have scanned it with a device, but there is no response."
"Then let Yuan Chu try, maybe you can find something."
"Well, I can only live like this. I really want to know what secrets my great-great-grandfather has hidden, why he bought the Qin family's house, and why the Bromfield family cares so much about my house." Too many doubts There was a tangle in Auston's mind, and he felt that all the questions would point to an answer, right in his own house. As long as you find the secret room, all problems will be solved.
and…
Auston looked at Ryan, feeling a little dazed, and opened his mouth to ask something, when the originally calm and unwavering voice came: "There is something abnormal here."
The small mecha designed by Ryan is quite comprehensive and has professional exploration functions. Seeing that Yuan Chu raised his arm, a round hole appeared in his palm, and a probe emerged from the round hole, emitting a beam of light to scan the entire basement. Ten minutes later, Yuan Chu found it on the wall ten o'clock away from where they fell. exception.
"The sheet metal is not as malleable as it is elsewhere."
Alston raised his eyebrows in surprise. Originally, he was able to do this. The equipment he used before was not comprehensive enough. "Originally, let's see if the metal plate can be disassembled."
"Good general."
When Alston and Ryan reached Yuanyuan, he had already started cutting the metal plate with a laser. The dazzling color made the two of them squint their eyes. When they opened their eyes, they saw a palm-sized metal plate about 1.5 meters away from the ground. It had been cut open and fell to the ground.
Behind the metal plate is a gene lock, and after it is activated, there is a text prompt - descendants of the Qin family.
Alston looked at Ryan, who was slightly surprised, but after thinking about it, it made sense, maybe everything had already been arranged somewhere.
"Auston, stand by my side, I don't know how the door will appear later."
Auston nodded, walked to Ryan, and watched Ryan press his finger on the keyhole of the gene lock. This gene lock installed hundreds of years ago seems to be not advanced enough now. The way of pricking fingers is used It is a blade, the wound caused is a bit large, and the liquid bandage is not sprayed on the wound. As far as Ryan felt, it still hurt a little, but it was completely within the range of tolerance.
The blood entered the keyhole, and the old instrument started up for the first time after it was installed, making a buzzing vibration. The analysis took a long time, and it was only after ten minutes that the blood sample met the requirements, and the door was about to open.
There was nothing unusual about the way the door appeared, except that there was a gap in the door frame on the tightly fitting metal wall, as long as it was strong enough, miracles could happen.
With the original existence, there was no need for Auston and Ryan to do anything. The door was pushed open, and the basement that had been dusty for more than seven hundred years was rediscovered.
Sure enough, as Ryan expected, whether it was experimental equipment, scraps that appeared when the mecha failed to be manufactured, or various notes and handwritten notes that recorded his experience, all of them disappeared, and all the useful ones disappeared. There are some instruments he doesn't recognize on the four sides, and in the middle is a long metal table with boxes stacked on it. Ryan was a little discouraged, and he took out the key from his grandma's drawer from his pocket. This old guy, grandma, didn't need to keep it carefully, because it was unnecessary, and it would be completely different after seven hundred years.
In the past, there were no high-tech devices at the entrance of the laboratory. In order to facilitate entry, an ordinary lock was installed, and a metal key could be inserted and turned to open it. At that time, Qin Feng Anderson was so confident that he was arrogant, so calm that he was fearless. He never thought that betrayal would be so easy, and the methods were so clumsy, but he was completely defeated by the clumsy methods.
Ryan sighed in disappointment, "Oh."
Alston felt that after knowing that the old house of the Dalton family was built on the basis of the Qin residence, Ryan's mood fluctuated strangely, but Ryan never said anything. He suppressed his doubts and did not comment on it. Ask.
Open the secret room, the exhaust system inside starts to work, the air that has been dull for more than seven hundred years flows again, the lights are bright, some old instruments start to operate, a figure appears in the open space, wearing a black suit, the appearance is similar to Austrian Ston bears a resemblance to James Dalton, Auston's great-great-grandfather, as Lane remembers him.
"Hello, descendants of the Qin family." The figure began to speak. This is the projection left by the great-great-grandfather here. It can't communicate, it just narrates what happened seven hundred years ago. "If you were able to find this place, you must have started to trace the truth back then, and you have become friends with my children. If this house is still the Dalton family. I installed a self-destruct device here. If the descendants of the Qin family did not open it The secret room, this video and some equipment inside will be destroyed, then... "
The man who looked more ruthless than Ouston sighed with regret. His gray temples were not much different from what Ryan remembered, but his gray hair, wrinkled eyes and forehead, and a slightly haggard expression showed At this time, the man has reached his twilight years.
"During the War of Dawn, I drove the starship to fight side by side with the emperor. The new worm emperor urgently needs to establish his prestige among the ethnic group. Acting impulsively and aggressively gave us an opportunity to lure him to appear. As long as he kills the worm emperor, this battle will be over. Hundreds of years of fighting will subside, and mankind will be able to achieve real peace."
As the projection narrates, the surrounding space disappears, and the video of the Battle of Dawn is presented in the form of holographic projection. It is the picture taken by the starship driven by James Dalton. In the field of vision, the first real machine A is not far away. Surrounded by a large number of Zerg, these bugs are the elite of the Zerg - shaped like aliens, standing upright, with wings on their backs, thick helmet-like insect shells on their heads, and sharp teeth protruding from their mouths. They are very large in size, each of which is the size of a blue whale on the mother planet of the earth. They are all males and are the "husbands" of the Zerg Emperor. They can breed the elite Zerg and the Zerg Grand Duke (the Zerg Reserve) ).
The Zonghuang is huge, and the mecha is not as big as its eyes compared to it.
This is the core area of the Dawn War.
Oston's eyes widened slightly. Compared with the Zerg King, he was driving the Zerg Grand Duke code-named Zero Fighter, but a young child.
"James, I'm vomiting blood."
"president!"
"Don't worry about me. Everyone will have this day. Fighting the worm emperor, I have long put life and death aside, but I didn't expect to die at the hands of my own people."
"President, when you come back, don't Chinese people often say, 'If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about no firewood'. When you come back, we will have a long-term plan."
"You and I both know, cough cough, there is only one chance to lure it out, it can only succeed, no failure is allowed, cough cough, damn, that's how he vomits blood, what kind of poison is it here, it actually hurts in the chest."
"I beg you."
"James, you lead people to retreat and exit the Wilden Starfield!"
"Do not."
"This is an order. You have to get out of the way and investigate clearly. Who did it, who poisoned me, find him, and send him down to see me. Gustav? Bloomfield? Or Who else, kill them, ahem, it hurts so much! My brother, I won’t be able to fight side by side with you in the future. Go!!!”
James Dalton endured the pain and gave the order that all the starships retreat. Only the conversation between him and Qin Feng was sealed. In the field of vision, the mechs are gradually shrinking... The worm king is also shrinking rapidly... The army of worms chased the fleet, and the fast worms jumped onto the starships and kept biting the shells of some starships. Some starships were unfortunate in the process of retreating In distress, the soldiers in the starship activated the self-destruct device at the last moment of their lives, and the crackling sound accompanied by fire.
Suddenly, the sound of the projection was muted. I don't know where there is a problem with the equipment.
The war is going on silently, and the heroism is not diminished by the lack of sound. A besieged starship opens its cabin, and melee soldiers wearing mechanical exoskeletons, spacesuits and weapons appear, fighting bugs of different sizes. A young life disappeared, and more fighters stood up.
Tragic and tragic, it cannot be described in a few words in all history textbooks.
Ryan and Auston's chest was filled with unspeakable shock. They both dared not blink their eyes to look at the holographic projection, as if they were on the stand, holding their breath and holding their hands tightly together.
In the end, the army broke free from the main battlefield, and there was no joy and joy of surviving. The pain of losing his comrades and the president still being in the core theater filled everyone's heart.
Suddenly, a huge flame appeared from the core area of Weldon. It was Qin Feng Anderson who blew himself up on his mecha. A huge shock wave came from a distance. The starships that had left the main battlefield were affected, and some small starships disintegrated on the spot. .
There was a loud crack and the sound came back.
James Dalton ordered loudly, "All starships back, back!" There was a tremor in the voice, obviously shocked by the scene in front of him.
There was a deep voice, full of excitement, which was the last message sent by Qin Feng Anderson before the explosion, but it was only received now because of the delay due to the long distance, "Haha, James, you are about to see the original It’s amazing. Tell the world that the first mech is called Yuan Chu, and his AI is growth-oriented, with strong learning ability and perfect, his name should be passed down through the ages! James, my good brother, I have derived the original The AI, maybe it can rush out from the core with the shock wave of the explosion, and when the war subsides, you come and look for it, haha, let it live well instead of me, and look at this world... "
"Original!" Hearing this name, Oston's heart was as shocked as seeing the emperor blew himself up. He turned his head to look at the little mech standing beside him, and then at Ryan. Something exploded in his mind, and his thoughts were chaotic. , he wanted to catch it, but found that all his thoughts were like bleating beasts being chased by Dafu, unable to piece together.
James Dalton's projection took back the video from the War of Dawn, and he said in a deep voice: "In the War of Dawn, we lost too many brothers, and we lost President Qin Feng Anderson, who led us forward. , but when we returned to the rear full of exhaustion, what awaited me was not grief and sorrow, but a reshuffle of power, and those companions who had advanced and retreated together began to share the fruits of victory. Rescuing the president and other decisions, I was sent to a military court, temporarily dismissed from my position, lost control of the Golden Cross, and could not enter the core of power. The following things happened too fast, Tyrell became a traitor, Li Minghao Pointing out that Tyrell had poisoned the emperor with poison/drugs in private, without further investigation, the court sentenced Tyrell to death and hanged in public. Stark and Qin Hao strongly requested to give Tyrell a chance to defend himself, and determined that the emperor There was something inside the poisoning incident, but it was ignored."
The projection was silent for a while, and continued: "Everything is developing in the worst direction, who gets the most benefit from it, hehe, it turns out that the person who keeps saying justice, equality, and the rule of law is the biggest villain. I..."
The sound of the video has been muted again, and this time it has not improved for a long time, and the projection has been distorted and deformed. After all, the hundreds of years old equipment cannot withstand the erosion of the years and is about to fail.
Ryan strode to the projection equipment, stepped on a screaming chicken, probably fell out of the glove box, and James Dalton, who left, didn't see it. This thing is of good quality, and after being stepped on and screaming, it is not broken, and it screams for the last breath.
Ryan turned off the projection equipment and watched carefully, "It should be repairable, give me some time."
Auston bent down to pick up the bright yellow screaming chicken with some hesitation. It is said that there has been no change in the shape of the popular toy from the ancient earth period to the present. Even the screaming sound is the kind that the ancestors have heard. .
"Lane."
Ryan buried his head in checking the projection equipment, "Huh?"
Alston opened his mouth, his thoughts were in a mess, and he didn't know how to ask for the time being.
Ryan found that he did not have any tools at hand, and the projection equipment could not be repaired for the time being. It is unknown what message James Dalton left behind. Moreover, he has never touched the model of this mech. It would be great if he could find the manual. He rummaged through the table in the room, and there were many boxes piled up on it. After opening it, Ryan found that it was all Qin Feng's things stored in Qin's house. , Qin Hao and his family's things.
He picked up a harmonica with some nostalgia. When he was in the army, he learned the harmonica from an old soldier. He would hold the harmonica and play a song to the sunset. Sometimes Dalton stood beside him, and sometimes Tyrell. He is his good brother, a good partner who can trust his back to them.
"These things used to be mine." Suddenly, Ryan decided not to keep any secrets anymore. He wanted to tell Alston about his glorious past. Although he had done many stupid things, he still had something to say of. "I can play the harmonica and the piano, and I have taught several children in Qin Hao's family. Those little guys are as hyperactive as their father, have no artistic talent, and have not learned any of them. The grand piano in their house has become a For display, only I play it once in a while."
Ryan looked at Auston, looking at him with some trepidation and expectation, "Do you mind if your lover has memories of previous lives?"
Auston's voice was a little dry, and he asked, "What was your previous name?"
"Qin Feng Anderson."
"Ah!" A sharp, non-human cry.
Auston, whose face was as heavy as water, unconsciously exerted force on his hands, screaming that the chicken was pinched in the belly of fate, and let out a tragic cry, just like Auston's mood.