Apocalypse number.
Hao Ren merged with the probe's field of vision. Under his control, this small device, only a few centimeters long, dexterously adjusted its angle in the air, scanning the scene of the entire starship wreckage into the visual sensor.
It is difficult for human eyes to accurately measure the size of the object at a glance, but the various sensors and calculation modules of the probe quickly transmitted the basic situation of the wreck to Hao Ren's mind, and some basic data emerged on the wreck in front of him. : The long axis is 12.15 kilometers, and the widest point is 4.55 kilometers. The main armor material is molecular layered polymer. Judging from the coil structure exposed at the breakage of the armor, its armor has the ability to further increase its strength after charging.
A real behemoth with a decent level of technology.
This ancient starship named Apocalypse was desolate gray-white, and the thick and complex hull structure showed obvious signs of twisting and bending, which showed that it was most likely captured and forced to death by a sudden and terrifying external force. Born to bend like this, Hao Ren preliminarily guessed that it was some kind of gravitational weapon, such as an instant black hole. But it should be another reason that caused the ship to completely lose its vitality: a huge penetrating wound can be seen at the midship of the Apocalypse. Cooled metal floated around the wreckage like frozen blood, stretching for kilometers.
"It looks like the damage caused by a concentrated energy weapon, and the primitive mad minions rarely use this kind of attack..." Hao Ren controlled the probe to move around the Apocalypse while talking to himself, "So there is It may be that the original friendly forces of these warships were eroded and transformed by the madness and turned into enemies... "
The Apocalypse floats near a faint gas cloud similar to that seen throughout the Gorgon Deep. This is a distorted space filled with a depressing fiery red background, as if wrapped in layers of dirty fog, except for the Gorgon demons (and their wreckage) that can be seen everywhere, there are only large and small broken stones Blocks and weird clouds float here, monotonous and crazy.
The probe deftly avoided the mass of solidified metal around the Apocalypse, and an opening on the side of the giant starship wreckage appeared in front of the camera. Hao Ren zoomed in on the image and couldn't help but gasp.
In the crack that looked like a carrier-based aircraft ejection port, silver-white alloy "monsters" that looked like manta rays were neatly parked.
It was the so-called "Lord Gorgon" who wreaked havoc in the black pine forest not long ago.
The Lord Gorgon, who is considered to be the top demon in the outside world, can be seen everywhere in this lair like cannon fodder at the bottom. They are arranged in a square formation in hundreds and thousands, lying neatly in the belly of the giant starship , it seems that they are ready to go out at any time-they are not aircraft carriers at all, but just fighter jets!
There are these things hidden in the Gorgon Abyss... How did the indigenous civilization on the surface of Laherien survive to this day? !
Huge doubts welled up in his heart, but soon, Hao Ren's doubts were answered.
The probe sent the scan data, and all the "Gorgon Lords" docked inside the Apocalypse are in a state of silence, and their energy response is as low as zero-this means that they are not only sleeping, but also because they are completely exhausted, it is impossible to run anymore stand up.
With a hint of chill, Hao Ren controlled the probe to change direction, and his field of vision shifted away from the port of the Apocalypse's carrier-based aircraft, and turned to another direction.
In the vast and chaotic space, you can see some tiny black dots flying around in those cloudy clouds, those are Gorgon demons in active state—most of them are between a few meters and tens of meters in size There are many unmanned weapons, and the largest one is just a "single-piloted aircraft" like the "giant manta ray" that Hao Ren once mistook for an aircraft carrier. After accepting the library, Hao Ren realized that those Gorgon "demons" with the ability to move were actually just a small part of these ancient weapons.
In the more distant clouds, several other huge shadows can be seen, floating in the depths of the clouds like fragmented mountains. They are interstellar giant ships of the same scale as the Apocalypse, but they are all silent state.
"Terminal, have you seen it?" Hao Ren called the data terminal on standby in his mind.
"Ah, I'm synchronizing the field of view with you, this machine has seen it all," the voice of the data terminal rang out immediately, "I'm so scared... This machine feels like the chip is shaking! The scene inside is a bit too unexpected ?”
Hao Ren didn't reply, but prepared to continue watching: "I'm going to switch to the field of view of the other two probes, and you record all the images."
After the words fell, his eyes flickered slightly, and the vision of No. 2 probe entered his mind.
He saw a huge piece of floating rubble floating in front of his eyes, and some interconnected pipes and support beams could be seen on the boulder, and on the surface of some floating rubble, there were buildings like towers or factories facility.
"It seems to be a typical asteroid belt building complex," the voice of the data terminal sounded in his head, "they should have some supporting defense facilities and energy arrays, but they seem to have been scattered and disappeared—look at that Side, those support beams show obvious signs of fracture."
Out of the corner of his eye, Hao Ren noticed something strange on one of the floating gravels, and he immediately ordered the probe to move closer.
His field of vision was quickly narrowed, and he could not help but be dumbfounded when he saw clearly what was on the floating gravel.
It turned out to be a corpse, a human corpse!
Probably because there are no oxidation, corruption and other problems in the Gorgon Abyss, the mummy is still in a fairly good state. He is an old man with white hair, wearing a gorgeous purple dress with gold rims. The purple robe is also decorated with tarnished crystals and precious metals, but those things don't seem to be all decorations, because they are arranged in complicated ways, and there are symbols and patterns around them, which seem to have special functions.
The old man in Chinese clothes was leaning on a pipeline of the asteroid factory, his face was distorted and his facial features were hideous. He seemed to have suffered a lot before his death, while a long staff inlaid with a large number of crystals, mithril, and pure gold It fell near his corpse, but just like the crystals on the old man's clothes, the crystals and precious metals inlaid on the long staff also lost their luster, as if they were made of plastic.
"This style of painting... looks like a mage... Could it be that he was a super powerful Laherien scholar? He died here to study the Gorgon Abyss?" Hao Ren couldn't help but muttered to himself. However, after getting closer, he realized that he was only borrowing the perspective of the probe and could not do it himself, so he controlled the probe to circle around the corpse and searched carefully.
As a result, the probe actually found something after going around in a circle: it was on the delivery pipeline that the old man was leaning on behind, and there were some words ablated by high temperature, even though they had gone through unimaginable years, But in this place where time has almost stopped, all the words are still clearly visible.
The probe hovered in front of the text, and Hao Ren read the translated words:
"My name is Malkiri, the chief magician of the Holy Tumen Empire, and I stepped into this place where life is cut off by the order of His Majesty Tumen. I went too deep into this place, and was discovered by the ancient guards entrenched here, and the space transmission was disturbed. There is no possibility of survival.
"Before the space transmission is completely cut off, I have sent all the information back to the first orbital station in Tumen. Next, I will use my own magic power to build a barrier to prolong my survival time in this space as much as possible, waiting for rescue.
"But if I can't be saved in the end, and someone sees this useless body of the old man, please convey my last words to His Majesty Tumen, which is what I saw with my own eyes after the communication and space transmission were completely interrupted.
"All the collapsed history is leaning towards the 'origin point', where the final doomsday awaits our fragile world, but in that collapse point, I saw a crack that does not belong to our world, I can't To confirm who and when the rift was caused, but it did appear there-please allow me to boldly assume that in the distant future, the doomsday that should have been doomed will eventually be postponed indefinitely, our world, There is help.
"Glory to Emperor Tumen, and the nameless king."
The probe flew around the old man's body and the modified asteroid several times, but found no more clues.
"Terminal, what do you think?" Hao Ren asked his partner in his mind.
"First of all, according to the information collected and counted by this machine, Laherien does not have a country called 'Tumen Empire' now, and there is no relevant record in history, and Leah has never mentioned this country," The voice of the data terminal sounded in his mind, "Secondly, this old magician who called himself Malkiri did not call the ancient weapons in the Gorgon Abyss 'demons', but called them ancient guards, which proves that he is right The understanding of these out-of-control weapons is more accurate than that of the current Laherian people, or closer to the truth; again, and most importantly, he mentioned a term that sounds like a space facility."
"Tumen First Orbital Station..." Hao Ren nodded slightly, "This can't be the product of Laherien—whether it's the current one, or the one before Liya fell asleep."
"So... this magician named Malkiri should be another cosmic fragment that collapsed in?" The data terminal said hesitantly, "But this 'fragment' is different from the Black Pine Forest and the Gorgon Abyss. His time The line...seems to lie after the formation of the Gorgon Abyss?"
A sentence that he had read in Leah's textbook suddenly flashed through Hao Ren's mind: the end of the world will lead to the collapse of time and space.
The collapse of time and space will lead to stacking, distortion, and even nesting of the "history" that originally developed linearly.
A prehistoric human may see the flash of the end of the universe, and a human facing the end may suddenly return to prehistoric times, and if it is a sufficiently advanced civilization that can partially control the laws of the universe, they may even be able to systematically , Observing the entire process of the destruction of one's own universe purposefully.
So... Could this old magician from the "Tumen Empire" who called himself Malkiri be such an "observer"
Or something even more bizarre...