The patriarch has a lot to tell us, but the premise is to confirm the identity of Sandora. The green star originally had the function of identifying the apostle of Xiling. Unfortunately, the long years and several accidents on the way to exile destroyed these ancient equipment. The only facilities that can be used on the green star are its own structural support devices, energy furnaces, and some defense and alarm devices, and the control of these devices is not in the hands of the chief patriarch. In the era of the old empire, the tree elves race was the last The family members who came into contact with the old empire received too little technical support from the empire, and they had no time to digest it. Eighty percent of the things handed over to them in a hurry were automatic equipment.
Fortunately, even if we can't get confirmation from the star system, we still have a way to convince the chief patriarch of his identity: the Legion of Shadow City is patrolling over the green star, even if the old tree elf elder hasn't learned how to sense psionic energy, She also had vivid memories of those giant ships.
After confirming our identities, the tree elf patriarch told the history she knew.
The tree elves used to be a high-tech civilization that had nothing to contend with but advanced technology.
This is a bit unbelievable, because in many cases, elves should be creatures associated with magic and the Middle Ages. It is hard for you to imagine how unreasonable it is for an elf with a laser gun and infrared night vision goggles to stand in front of you. And (let's forget for a moment the blood elves on anti-gravity motorcycles in Shadow City, drag racing and heavy metal rock music are not original elf culture) but in the void where everything is possible. Let us let go of the common sense fixed by books: Although the tree elves have civilization elements similar to magic. But what really supports their continuous development is actually the power of science and technology. For the tree elves, magic is more like an individual talent handed down from their ancestors, which can accompany them for a lifetime and can be researched and developed. Like the top of the pyramids on Earth, the tree elves did not rely on their limited life talents to get out of their home planet in the end. According to the judgment standard of the empire, they were a technological civilization, before the old empire discovered these peaceful creatures. They have developed mature space technology and a life support system beyond their civilization level (the latter benefited from the tree elves' talent in understanding the essence of life). These fantasy world protagonists with pointy ears drive their own space The ship roamed easily around their star system and managed to create a space teleportation device to carry out various explorations on a galactic scale. They are full of curiosity and love to travel. A tree elf family will never stay in a fixed place for more than three years. places, and see sights that have never been seen before, even if it takes years of travelling. In the past, they explored their entire planet, and in the space age, they began to step into the dangerous vacuum and radiation environment. With the seeds from the mother planet, I hope that more suitable planets will grow lush and large forests. However, as fate would have it, the disaster that nearly wiped out the tree elves came after one of the largest excursions.
That was their first attempt to send an exploration team to the center of the galaxy, and it was the most daring voyage since the tree elves mastered space technology. That voyage impressed the chief patriarch deeply. The stargazers among them used hyperspace equipment to observe a series of incredible space strange happenings in the center of the Milky Way, a large number of celestial bodies inexplicably disappeared from the observer's field of vision, and some old stars suddenly burst into young stars. Vitality, crazily releasing an astonishing torrent of energy and matter, the speed of star formation in the stellar nest has increased to an unprecedented level. Mystified tree elf scientists have sent the most advanced deep space spacecraft and the bravest astronauts to the center of the galaxy to find out - they expect these brave adventurers to bring back new knowledge, or an unheard of universe. energy model.
Until then, the Tree Elves had never touched the Abyss, let alone imagined that the frenzy at the center of the galaxy was not a cosmic spectacle at all. It is a harbinger of the galaxy's imminent collapse under the pollution of the abyss.
The first expedition quickly lost contact, sending back only jumbled and frantic phrases. They seem to be having a carnival in the center of the galaxy. Those crazy recordings show a hysterical mood. If the tree elves choose to flee their homes immediately when they receive this information, they may be able to avoid the next disaster: the power of the abyss appears in the center of the galaxy, And there is only a little bit of leakage, and it will take a long time for them to break through the extreme environment there because they are weak. Their spreading speed is less than the speed of light at the beginning, and then they will continue to accelerate to super-light speed as the infection expands. The tree elves instantly If they set sail and flee, the disaster could be delayed for at least hundreds of years.
But they made a wrong decision: send a second expedition to see what happened to the previous team.
After experiencing the same loss of communication as the first exploration team, a spacecraft of the second exploration team miraculously returned home, which was the beginning of disaster. The scientists and medical experts who went to respond found that there was no one in the dilapidated spaceship that seemed to have escaped from death, and all the crew members were missing. The spaceship flew back by itself under the action of the automatic navigation system. In the following inspections, the abnormalities of the returning spacecraft were exposed to people: inexplicable damage to the shell, traces of fierce fighting and blood in the personnel area, instruments smashed by the crew, and crazy graffiti in the captain's cabin Pushing further and further in the direction of horror and weirdness, the last anomaly they found was a few minutes of video clips.
"I still remember that scene vividly. At that time, I was a scientist on Tendani, and I personally experienced that scene." The patriarch clasped her hands tightly, and when she mentioned the history of that year, she was still a little trembling , "The monitor recorded the scene at the gate. The captain and commander of the deep-space spaceship pushed the corpses into the airlock compartment, and then planted bombs in the spaceship. The message that was sent, ended up being pumped out of the airlock with all the bodies. They killed themselves."
"Individuals with a strong will will occasionally regain their sanity in the initial stage after being infected." Sandora said quietly. "It seems that the captain and the commander have already guessed that there is something in the ship that mortals can't deal with, so they want to destroy the spacecraft. They are worried that they will lose their minds again before the bomb explodes, so as to prevent the spacecraft from self-destructing and destroying this last chance, so He chose suicide first."
My sister sighed: "It's a pity that they didn't expect that invisible force to destroy even the detonation device of the bomb: the abyss is destroyed indiscriminately, and the bomb was destroyed before it exploded, along with the sending device of the spaceship." Together."
"Yes, later we found the message that could not be sent. There was only one sentence: Don't come, run away!"
Abyssal infestation is hard to detect at first. Especially when they are still very faint. Those dim two-dimensional planes are hidden in the darkness. Before they start destroying everything, no one would have thought that a piece of coquettish patterns can cause any harm. At the beginning, people only discovered that there were many strange things in some places in the expedition ship that returned by luck. "Graffiti". Later, the lighting system and the power furnace of the star port frequently failed. Within a few days, the tree elves in the base began to be infected by an inexplicable depression. The violence increased day by day, and the army gradually lost control... When the capital finally found out When the situation is not right, their orders can no longer be delivered to the border, and then, like many worlds infected by the abyss, first the first batch of infected people suddenly start attacking others, and then spread outward from the infected area, and various creatures emerge in endlessly mutate. Giant beasts began to slaughter civilians. The space city built by the tree elves for thousands of years began to fall apart without being attacked. On the colonial star, the ground cracked and magma sprayed.
The tree elves have resisted this unexplainable "plague" for fifteen years. For a civilization that knows nothing about the abyss (and they don't have a god-given treasure like Austrian iron, nor a lost goddess of life ability to turn the tide), this is quite a good record, but in the end they are still on the verge of extinction, and there is only the last bastion left on the colonial planet. The Space Force was basically wiped out—the Xiling army appeared at this time.
Which emperor's army is now unknown. They found the tree elf kingdom that had been severely infected at the last moment. Fortunately, the imperial general who performed the purification task at that time was a careful soldier. He did not directly attack the entire The galaxy drops weapons of extinction. Instead, he slowly advanced the front line, and discovered the tree elf civilization that was still stubbornly resisting.
Inferred from timetable. At that time, it should have been less than two years since the disaster of the empire's demise (this is the result of comprehensive historical calculations mentioned by the great patriarch), and the tree elf civilization is very likely to be the last vassal race of the old empire.
"After getting acquainted with the empire, we were first allowed to rebuild our society, and at the same time the empire transformed our planet into a mobile fortress." The chief patriarch took a sip of water and continued. I thought this was directly expropriated!
The style of the old empire is really... Well, what they did was a good thing, but after they were done, they requisitioned their home planet as a space fortress (should only be regarded as a space fortress, in the era of the old empire, this kind of use The starships created by hollowing out the planets are not qualified to be called star warships), this behavior is really domineering, and fortunately the tree elves have just escaped from the genocide disaster, it is too late to care about these, it may be that they I don't care too much, anyway, the matter developed like this in the end.
"With the help of the empire, we spent two years covering the surface of our planet with powered armor. When the planetary transformation was about to be completed, the general of the empire suddenly visited. He was very urgent at the time. I think something might have happened A big event, he brought a batch of equipment, which is a huge machine that drives the planet to sail across the world. These things were strictly forbidden for races like us to contact. He ordered the engineers to bury the new equipment in the mantle, and he personally implemented it later. Several renovation projects, and gave us some things. Finally, he asked all the tree elves to hide underground, and started the engine of the starship."
"Then you just carry out the mission so honestly?" Lin Xue felt a little unbelievable, "Aren't you wondering why the other party did this? It's not strange to leave your own universe suddenly?"
"It's nothing to leave your own universe. The tree elves don't care about this," the chief patriarch shook his head. "The general told us that the end of the world is coming, and all universes are no longer safe. Some other vassal races are already on their way. And The tree elves have already died, and the tree elves have no ability to stay and fight, so they have to perform other tasks, that is, to escape with those crucial materials, the farther the escape, the better, until the emperor chases us back, the journey will be short It's over. But the general also reminded us to hunt carefully, there will be corrupted imperial warships chasing and killing the starship, tearing up the mantle and destroying the information inside."
I thought of the legends of the tree elves, then shook my head, feeling that there are still many secrets that have not been solved: "The oasis is the small planet we live in now. What's going on? This is the important thing that the old empire asked you to transport away." material?"
"No, the information is in the system. The small planet in the center of the earth is only a part of the system. It was originally our moon."
Everyone: "... huh?"
"The oasis was originally our moon. The home star of the tree elves has two huge satellites. The larger one was destroyed in the war. We used mass weapons to blow it into a star ring to slow down the bombs dropped by the polluters. The smaller one was named Oasis, and it survived the war. Before the starship was decided to set sail, the elders of the tree elves felt that they should at least bring something from their hometown. So the general agreed, and he transformed the core of the mother planet , put our moon in."
What a messy transformation method!
After an introduction by the patriarch, we finally understood the ins and outs of Green Star’s history, and how the oasis appeared. I didn’t expect it to be such a long and tortuous story. At this time, I thought of another thing, this thing It seems more confusing than anything else: "So are the tree elves sleeping in those dormant cabins in the mantle now, or are they living on the oasis? What's going on with those mass projections outside? And last night the villagers The exchange of…”
"This is a solution when the journey is too long," the patriarch said helplessly. "After the mother star set sail, we lost contact with the empire soon (it is estimated that the situation in the old empire has been out of control at this time), We have not fully learned how to use the complex operating system of the planetary fortress, so we have no chance to learn, so we can only follow the automatic navigation system and sail. At the beginning, we will stay on the mother star for a few short years We came to live on the surface, but soon we found that the world has indeed suffered a catastrophe as the general warned. The external environment has become extremely dangerous, with war and abyss everywhere. After several consecutive universes have encountered danger , the tree elves finally gave up the surface completely and moved to live underground. Later, as time passed, the elders realized a problem: if the end of the journey is far away, it would be a disastrous event to stay awake all the time, which would make When people go crazy, the consequences are no less than the pollution of the abyss. The tree elves have a long lifespan. If they have been trapped in the dark underground for such a long time, they will have a collective mental breakdown sooner or later, so we have entered dormancy in batches—the first It was time to enter dormancy batch by batch. Later, the situation became more and more serious. They could stay awake, and there were fewer and fewer tree elves maintaining the system. In the end, almost everything was handed over to automatic facilities, and only one percent of the tree elves were still awake. But the sober tree elf scientists discovered a bad phenomenon: due to the long-term continuous dormancy, the spiritual power of the clansmen is dissipating: even if the body can be preserved in the dormant cabin, the soul cannot live forever. The mission seems to be about to fail A: This is something more terrible than death for the tree elves. Our racial imprint does not allow us to give up our promises, so the last scientists, including me, proposed a plan to delay the situation.
Activate the oasis in the center of the earth, let it form a world composed of mass projections, simulate the most primitive environment of the mother star, and let the people of the tribe enter this projection world in batches to dream... "
"Dream?" My sister interrupted the other party suddenly.
"Yes, dreaming," the patriarch nodded, "use the soul extraction device to transfer all the spirit of a tree elf, input it into the mass projection, and then selectively seal most of the memories, and finally put them on the oasis. In dreams, the soul wounds caused by the long journey and continuous dormancy will slowly heal. Most of the memory is sealed to make the dreamer forget about the journey, so that when they leave the dream, they can take a A perfect sweet dream that is enough to heal trauma. Soon we found that this method was very effective, and the phenomenon of soul dissipation permeating the clansman completely stopped, so we simply extracted all the souls and stored them in the mantle of the mother planet. In the huge database, it is easier and safer to transfer the soul from the database to enter the dream than to temporarily withdraw from the body, and it saves energy. Those bodies in the dormant cabin in the upper mantle can also be transferred to low-power storage. After all, no one knows that the journey will continue How long, when the first energy furnace failed, we had such a sense of crisis."
I silently sighed: Fortunately, **10% of Green Star's energy furnace is still intact, but they are really right to plan for a rainy day.
"Things are basically on the right track," the elder sister folded her hands on her chin, looking at the patriarch, "then you..."
"I am one of the navigators," the old tree elf laughed. "When the crew of the starship is sleeping, someone must watch the navigator. The navigator is the pilot of the starship in name, but our authority is limited to Only to observe the operation of the system, and this work was forced to stop after a malfunction thousands of years ago, and we have not been able to fix those things until now. We are some trainers who were accidentally thrown on the spaceship. The primitive people who left suddenly, everything was too hasty, and there was no time for us to learn how to brake the parent planet... "
The navigator needs to maintain a complete memory and a waking state of mind when other tree elves enter long sleep and dreams. They are not many in number, and they have to divide into many shifts. In order to observe whether the aging system of the starship is still intact for a long time, they Under great pressure, only one navigator appeared in the dream of the oasis at a time: in the name of the ancestors and the great patriarch, this is their only rest time, and even during such a rest time they have to stay awake, after all , Someone needs to be responsible for maintaining the integrity of this dream.
So I was in awe of the big patriarch in front of me.