Hao Ren finally found Willie and Bachelor Oro in an inn in the royal city: they were illegitimate sons and down-and-out bachelors from a remote city-state, so they were naturally not eligible to live in the king's castle. Willie was taken aback when he saw Hao Ren and his party again, especially when he saw Vivienne, this startled young man jumped up from his chair: "The Ice Witch!"
"That's what you call it," Vivienne smiled, "Everyone in the city is frightened by me."
"You're an ice witch." Willie shrank his neck subconsciously, and looked around cautiously: this is a cheap room in a hotel, and there is only a simple, thin shed plank separating the room from the corridor outside. Separated, he always feels that there are countless people outside listening to the movement here, because he knows that he is talking to the ice witch, maybe the king's knights are already guarding the door, "I said it when we first met, but you You didn't admit it at the time... and you didn't say that there is a fire witch in the world."
Lily scratched her hair, her face covered in circles: "Actually, I just wanted to pretend..."
"Then are you still afraid of the Ice Witch?" Hao Ren asked Willy with a smile, "You see, we do have the ability to plunge the world into a cold winter—we have completely repaired the Ancestral Forge this time, and of course we can also completely destroy it in reverse. it."
"Scared," Willy admitted honestly, and perhaps his greatest courage was admitting that he didn't have the courage, "but I don't think the ice witch is a bad person. To be honest, I always thought that the ice witch was going to bring the world into winter." The devil, my grandmother said, on the first night of winter, the ice witch will appear from the end of the world in a frozen iron chariot, and blow the cold wind into the ancestral furnace, completely freezing the heart of the world—but you and the ice The witches fixed it together. It seems that the legends are not all true."
"That's right, not all legends are true. Humans don't grasp the truth, but human beings only grasp the motivation to pursue the truth," Hao Ren patted Willy on the shoulder. Then he reached out and took out a few photo papers from his pocket and handed them to the young man, "We are leaving here soon. These things are gifts for you."
"This is..." Willie took the pieces of paper puzzled. He had never seen such a beautiful piece of cardboard: crisp, smooth, without musty smell, and brightly colored, with unbelievably beautiful pictures on it, just like magic Just as lifelike. "what are these?"
"Is it pretty?"
"Pretty...?" Willie's tone ended with uncertain doubts, "It's really beautiful, but I don't understand what it is."
"The forest, the ocean, the open sky, and the stars," Hao Ren pointed to the picture on the photo paper. "This is what your ancestors left... I found it in the library, and I printed it out. This is what you once said. The appearance of the world I lived in. I met many people in this ark. It’s a pity that you are the only one who is still interested in these things, so these things are given to you.”
Willie quickly pushed back the jammed paper: "I can't accept such a precious thing..."
"It's enough to know that these things are precious," Hao Ren smiled and waved his hands. "I came here to say goodbye to you, and to send you something. Now the business here is over. We should go back. Nolan, prepare to send."
Willie took a step forward subconsciously, but a white light appeared out of nowhere to block him. Hao Ren stood behind the white light and looked at the stunned old man Auror beside him: "Bachelor, go back and tell the child's father that it is Willie." Bringing the witch of frost and flame to the ancestral furnace, the name Willy has been engraved in the depths of the ancestral furnace, and he has been the governor of the castle for a lifetime. His achievements are not comparable to the toe of his illegitimate son."
Bachelor Oro smiled and bent slightly: "I will ask the king to personally write a letter to inform the governor of this matter. This letter will be stamped with the royal seal and placed in the treasure vault of Hearth City forever."
This old man is also rotten!
The teleportation beam flickered away, and the next moment, Hao Ren and the others had returned to the bridge of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace.
Elizabeth jumped down from her chair and welcomed Hao Ren happily. While talking about the boredom of waiting on the spaceship, Nolan's holographic image floated over from not far away: "The situation of the Ark has been figured out."
Hao Ren pressed the little devil's head to calm the little girl, and turned to look at the image above the console.
In the vast space, the Ark Fleet has been completely eroded and transformed by the drone swarm. He saw that the huge ellipsoidal colonial ships were covered with dots of silver light, and the heavy black armor on the front of the spaceship had been stripped off, revealing The complex and old circuit system and mechanical structure inside, and a series of control devices newly installed by the engineering drone gleamed in those ancient systems, like mercury in the dark slit. Until now, there are still hordes of aircraft wandering among the arks, and those drones are checking the control sensitivity of each ark and the fusion status of the "infiltration core" to the latter.
Although the drone group is Hao Ren's own troops, this scene still makes his scalp tingle:
It was as if a swarm of termites were gnawing at and encroaching on a group of sluggish giants.
"I have cracked the navigation system of these arks, but found that they have no clear destination at all, so I simply turned off the original navigation of the arks, and let the drone swarm completely replace the 'nerve lines' of these spaceships with infiltration cores ,” Nolan said next to him, “I also made emergency repairs to the superlight engines of several of these ships, and now they are ready to accelerate at any time. You can go anywhere you want them to—but it’s best not to It’s too much trouble, these old machines can’t bear several times of acceleration and deceleration.”
"These ships need to dock quickly and make a thorough repair," the data terminal added. "At present, we have discovered several habitable planets in the Dream Plane. Partner, where do you think it is appropriate to send them?"
While talking, the terminal listed all the dream plane ecological planets registered so far, and Hao Ren began to choose carefully. He first shook his head and ruled out Tanagus: "The atmosphere of Tanagus is poisonous to the residents of the ark, and the planet is currently inhabited by Drom, and Tana people will move back in the future... That's messy enough, no."
Elizabeth bluffed and yelled: "The ecological environment of Holletta is good..."
"Don't make trouble, that place is owned," Hao Ren waved his hand, "it's not our territory. And to be honest, these residents in the ark have degenerated for too long, and now they are barbaric. Suitable for contact with any foreign civilization."
As he said that, he smacked his lips with regret: "To be honest, if it weren't for the war, there would have been many ecological planets in Suluen's Gate, and that place was the chief experimental field of the Goddess of Creation. It was such a lively place back then. "
"But now there are only a lot of ruined planets that have been burned into charcoal, and the atmosphere is highly toxic." Nolan also felt a little emotional, and then his expression became serious, "If you just want to find a docking place, in fact, Io Can."
"Ai Ou?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "There is no land there."
"These arks don't need land," Nolan said while switching the holographic projection above the console, "I found some interesting structures when dismantling these spaceships... They seem to have been considered at the beginning of the design. When landing on the ocean, the ecosystem of the spacecraft also has a special water filtration function, and when landing on a planet with abundant water resources, the life support system will also recover faster."
Hao Ren immediately began to study with great interest, but now his knowledge in this area is not as good as Nolan's. After looking dizzy, he can only roughly see that the shells of these arks seem to have the ability to deform.
The designers of these ships thought from the very beginning that their descendants would try to take root on various planets, and they did their best to create a series of engineering miracles with relatively primitive technology, and now 10,000 years have passed , these most basic settings are still intact!
"But Io is the star of the siren," Hao Ren frowned after the initial excitement had passed, "and even if the ark can land on the ocean, it can't float on the sea forever—without land resources, the ark Humans are no different than being trapped in space."
"We'll think about it later," Lily waved her hands carelessly after hearing this, "The most important thing for these arks now is to quickly find a place to catch their breath. They can be temporarily parked in Io for a while, waiting for the odds and ends. After everything is repaired, you should find a new planet, and then move them there. If you can’t, go to the Siren Queen and ask the people in Ark to sign an 800-year lease agreement with the Krakens. Anyway, you are old Just pimping…”
Hao Ren immediately glared at this blatant husky, and Lily quickly shrank her neck: "Um, I mean the real estate agent..." (To be continued~^~)