What the three goblins said was so straightforward that Hao Ren didn't realize it all at once...
"We don't know the way back! Because we were sucked into the turbulence of space, and then drifted all the way here!" "The navigation computer of the starship has been broken for a long time-and we wouldn't use it when it wasn't broken. Acridine." "You're talking nonsense, we all know how to use it, but you don't know how to use it!" "Anyway, I don't know where the battlefield is."
The three goblins were yelling at one another, and now Hao Ren was able to adapt to the speaking rhythm of these bean creatures, so he was able to collect and sort out the really useful parts from a lot of irrelevant information. very simple—
The planetary fortress where the goblins lived had a big explosion on the battlefield. The space turbulence generated by the explosion threw the huge celestial body debris into the distant space. In the process, the navigation computer of the starship was also destroyed. damaged severely. Now this wreck has no power, no navigation, and is completely relying on drifting to wander in the universe, so the fairies don't know how to return to their hometown.
Although they were born from resonance crystals, they themselves do not seem to have the ability to find their parent star by chasing resonance signals.
But Hao Ren quickly thought of another thing: "Then how did those guys who besieged you find you?"
"The bad guys can track the resonance signal!" The smallest of the three goblins jumped up and down in front of Hao Ren, her hair was filled with electric arcs from excitement, and her speech was crackling like a discharge, "They are To destroy the crystal, to destroy the hub created by the goddess!"
Hao Ren heard a brand new vocabulary: "hub?"
"The final hub!" said the boy fairy with short hair, "it is the place where we were first born."
"There are all the 'resonance crystals' you call." "The lightning left by the goddess is always there." "Many companions are born from the crystal every day!" "Most of the fairies live in the hub." !"
"That's the Crystal Star we're looking for!" Hao Ren immediately became excited, but then he looked frustrated, "Forget it, you can't find it anyway... Actually, I'm surprised that those corrupted monsters can pass through." Follow the signal to find you, how come you goblins born from crystals don't have this ability?"
The long-haired goblin showed a distressed look: "We should have some... But we don't have a queen, and a goblin without a queen can't do anything."
"That's right, there must be a queen sitting on the throne for the goblins to function!" "And only the queen can let the goblins know what they should do!" "Ah, I found my psionic regulator! It's this time Hang it on my waist."
Hao Ren was a little confused: "But you said before that you don't have a queen."
"Yes yes, we don't have a queen." "But the goblins must have a queen! She just hasn't appeared yet!" "The goddess said we have a queen!"
"I suspect it's a problem left over from history when the Goddess of Creation split her mind," Vivian murmured to Hao Ren in a low voice, "I'm afraid these goblins are not 'finished products'. one step..."
"I think so too." Hao Ren frowned and nodded slightly.
At this time, the data terminal suddenly spoke, and it floated in front of the three goblins: "Listen to what you said just now, the navigation computer is broken rather than lost—that is, the navigation computer of the Nakdar starship is located on this piece of planetary debris." superior?"
"Yes, yes! This fragment has the control center of the star warship!" "The doomsday weapon is also installed on this continent." "However, when the planet exploded, more than half of the doomsday weapon was torn off, and now only Next pedestal..." "But the navigation computer is still intact!" "Although it is broken..."
Hao Ren understood the meaning of the data terminal: "You don't know how to fix it, but maybe we have a solution—can you show us the navigation computer?"
Three goblins with one head: "Okay, okay!"
The control center of the planetary fortress is not far from here. You can see it from a distance after coming out of the great temple where the goblins live. It stands quietly at the end of the great plain, straight like a black sharp sword. Refers to the sky.
However, the towering temple is only part of the structure of the control center exposed on the surface. Of course, a planetary fortress cannot place its vital center in such a vulnerable place on the surface—under the temple, there are shafts hundreds of kilometers deep and a layer of There are layers of armored walls, and only after passing through these insanely thick protective layers can they reach the real location of the navigation computer.
The ancient transmission system has long been unusable due to stratigraphic dislocation and energy offline, but because there are multiple sets of backup systems that complement each other in this critical area, there are still a few lights leading to the control center—looking down from the shaft, The intermittent dim light stretches like a meandering firefly into the deepest darkness, which is daunting.
Vivienne spread her bat wings and flew towards the depths of the shaft with Hao Ren, while the three goblins flew in front of them to lead the way. The dim light on the goblin's body effectively supplemented the lighting of those road sections that lacked light, allowing Hao Ren and Vivienne, two people with night vision, to clearly see the surrounding details.
Most of the shaft remains intact, but there are still many signs of fracture and skew in the middle. In some sections of the most dislocated road, the entire shaft even broke apart and moved sideways for hundreds of meters. The squeezed rocks almost The passage was cut off in the middle, leaving only some narrow cracks and holes for the goblins to pass through. Usually goblins can go to the depths of the control center through these cracks, but Hao Ren obviously can't, so in many cases he has to use the cutting beam to open a way out.
After passing through the deep vertical passage, they successfully entered the control center of the planetary battleship Nakdar: a hall in the shape of a hexagonal prism.
"This is the control center!" The long-haired goblin flew back and forth in front of Hao Ren and introduced it, her tone seemed quite proud, "This used to be a super lively place, where the guardian giants controlled the entire fortress Fighting the enemy, and there are many goblins here to help adjust the status of the equipment."
"But it's useless now." "Even if it's repaired here, Nakdal can't continue to fly, after all, the engine is gone." "The main power furnace is gone..." "The weapon system is gone!" "But we still come here once in a while, for parties or something."
There was a dead silence in the control center, the buzzing sound of equipment running and the excitement of people coming and going were gone, but judging from the size of this hall and the huge equipment specially prepared for Guardian Giants, Hao Ren You can still vaguely imagine what a grand and busy place it used to be. There are several platforms of different heights in the hexagonal hall, and each platform is large enough to build a house on it, and on these platforms, you can also see the control device with a height of six or seven meters and the same huge scale. Seats: The whole hall is like the kingdom of giants in fairy tales, but in fact... it is indeed prepared for giants.
The average height of guardian giants is more than ten meters, and the scale of the facilities they use can be imagined.
In the great destruction that Nakdar encountered, all the guardian giants who fought here were killed, but the goblins escaped the most terrifying moment by merging with the crystal in the fortress because of their unique life form. In the following thousands of years, goblins collected giant remains from all over the continent and buried them on the grasslands, and the giant remains in this control center are of course no exception.
After burying the giants, the goblins rarely returned to the control center, because there was nothing there, and it was far less attractive to them than the world on the surface, which at least still had green mountains and green waters. But at some special times, such as when the goblins suddenly remembered the past, they would come back here to commemorate their former comrades-in-arms through gatherings.
The control center was not completely dark. Hao Ren looked around and found that in some corners there were still rare and weak lights that were slowly flickering. If you listened carefully, you could even hear some subtle buzzing sounds coming from under the floor. Or from behind the wall.
Apparently, some remaining backup power lines are still in operation.
This is the real centipede that is dead but not stiff. As a super battleship built on the basis of planets, Nakdar has countless subsystems and backup modules. The ship is torn apart, and its wreckage fragments can still "survive" alone, and even maintain a certain degree of combat capability alone.
"Where is the navigation computer? Or where is its interface?" Hao Ren looked around the hall, but couldn't find anything obvious that could be the central host, so he simply asked.
"There!" The smallest goblin flew into the air, raised his finger and pointed at the top of the hall, "That's it!"
Hao Ren looked up, and saw a huge, almost dizzying dome structure that made his breathing slow for half a beat. Only then did he realize that the real focus of this hall is on the top of the head.
I saw countless huge alloy skeletons criss-crossing on the top of the hexagonal prism-shaped hall, forming a structure like a nest. Pipes and lines meandered and criss-crossed among these skeletons, forming veins, and all these things finally converged in one place , It was a heart-like... huge crystal.
The huge crystal was fixed on the dome by a solid metal structure. Hao Ren felt that its texture was similar to that of a resonating crystal. However, unlike normal resonating crystals, this "heart" looked dull at the moment.
This is the first time he has seen a "resonance crystal" that does not emit light or resonate with other crystals, and an idea popped up irresistibly:
Every resonating crystal is alive, and this one above the hall... it's dead.