"I've said all I know."
The patriarch leaned back on the chair, his mouth seemed a little dry after talking so much, so he drank. Then the sap looked at us quietly, "This is the history of the tree elves, and the secret of this planet."
Sandora got straight to the point: "What exactly was the thing that the imperial general handed over to you back then? A piece of information? How to extract it?"
"It is recorded in the planet's navigation system. The navigator has the authority to open the system, but we don't know how to read it. Maybe you have a way. But before that, you must first wake up all the tree elves, because the general told us at that time that the core The database is read once, and after the data is extracted, all systems on the planet will be restarted to delete everything, and the life support system will be shut down during this process."
I'm reminded of those billions of hibernation pods in the upper mantle, and it's a big project.
"Then let's do it now," Sandora said, and then looked out of the window. The window of the cabin is very narrow. From this position, you can only see a small part of the village, two mushroom tree houses, and a few A tree elf walking across a clearing "These dreaming tree elves wake up with memories of the dream time, right?"
"Yes, these new memories that are constantly replenished are the key technology for us to delay the dissipation of the soul. The tree elves must constantly receive new information stimulation in order to survive. Such a lock is written into our genes." The patriarch nodded." Scholars in the family have studied these and believe that this is caused by the special learning mode of the tree elves."
Sandora nodded. No more words.
I don't know how the Grand Patriarch is connected to the planet's operating system. She suddenly disappeared from our eyes, and a few minutes later, the work of waking up all the dormant crew members began. The scientific research team staying in the mantle sent a message that the energy flow in all the hives had increased, and some dormant cabins For the first time, there was a mental reaction: the tree elves who had been extracted from the database were gradually returning to their own bodies. According to the current project speed, I'm afraid it will take a few days to complete, but we don't want to wait any longer. I think this project may be limited by the bandwidth of Green Star's internal network and its information processing capabilities. The former has no way Change. But the latter should help the Xiling host: after all, they are all equipment made by the Empire, and the mass-produced bubbles should be able to connect with the Green Star system, right
After hearing my suggestion, Sandora also agreed. After the big patriarch appeared, we asked her to open all the systems of Green Star: the interference inside Green Star is still in effect. We haven't found out where the operational core of this last bastion of the old empire is.
The old lady agreed very readily: "Of course, this is your thing. The control room is in the middle of the mantle, and there are some aircraft tens of thousands of years old on the oasis, which are prepared for special circumstances, but I'm afraid I can't follow them: I am a limited quality projection, there is no way to leave the oasis, and you will meet my body at the end."
Everyone got up and set off, but before saying goodbye to the old lady, Lilina suddenly looked outside curiously. In the distance, the huge green mountain range is slowly undulating at a speed that can hardly be observed by the naked eye. The huge vines that are entrenched in the entire oasis are also the only [real] creatures on this planet.
"What is that? I observed that it occupies the entire planet, and all the vines are from the same plant." Liliana asked. "The life response is very strong, but it seems to be very old."
"That's not a vine, that's a tree. It just changed its form in order to survive in the center of the earth. It's our mother tree." A dim light flashed across the face of the great patriarch, "There are many mother trees in the hometown of the tree elves. It is said that they It is the beginning of Genesis. Plants planted by God, all tree spirits are born from the pods of the mother tree. When we leave our hometown...well, when we leave with our hometown, we can only take one mother tree, which It has grown for tens of thousands of years, it is too old... and we have not been able to collect its seeds until now, it seems that after leaving the home world, the mother tree has lost the ability to reproduce."
I was stunned. I thought it was not credible that Lue said that she picked it from the tree, but the "plot" set in this dream never expected that it was true. The tree elf actually picked it up from the tree. grow out
This is unreasonable! They are just mortal wombs, not energy life forms, let alone divine creatures. How can a plant grow such a high-level animal as a tree elf? Darwin should be able to dig a hole and bury himself alive here!
But Lilina showed a thoughtful look, and after a while, she tugged at the corner of my clothes: "Boss, it's true, this thing has a bit of divine aura, but it's too weak, and I can't really feel it if I don't pay attention." , The birth of this race is really interesting, their mother tree actually came from the God Realm."
"Is there any problem?" Seeing us muttering, the patriarch couldn't help asking, which shows that the last group of family members left by the old empire really didn't get in touch with the empire for too long. The iron-blooded horror style of the empire, the old family members left behind (especially those who survived from the old empire era) dare not interrupt the emperor's speech, although the imperial code does not care about this, but the deterrent thing is right there Do you dare to make a loud noise with two Cybertronians standing in front of you
"No, nothing, take us to see those aircraft."
I originally thought of driving 700 billion to operate the core, but I heard that Green Star’s security system has long since malfunctioned, and the control area can only identify registered vehicles. 700 billion may be shot down in the past: The security sentinel can't recognize the new face, even if it has the recognition algorithm common to the old empire.
What remained on the oasis were a few transport planes that were no longer glamorous. Although the creations of the empire can often be used normally or even look new after tens of thousands of years, they are in the fully enclosed ruins. If they couldn't meet the preservation conditions, they were directly parked in a large forest isolated from human habitation. All the tree elves could do was build a few hangars for them that were seriously substandard. Because no one will take care of it. These aircraft appeared to be in a state of distress, but fortunately the system was still normal. Sandora fiddled with the power core for a while, and the transport plane started normally—a set of redundant power modules failed, but she ate them.
The Green Star is not a real Star Wars ship, but it is not a Battlestar—less weapons than the former, less defensive than the latter, the Green Star is more like an improvised four-piece, the last creation of the end of the old empire Everywhere seems rough and lacks planning. The patriarch said that the last part of its transformation was carried out by the imperial engineer himself (in addition, such a thing has been transformed for two full years!), which makes people feel even more incredible. It can only be said that when disaster strikes I'm afraid it's too late for anything, the old empire general who ordered the green star to set sail that day could only rush what he could use into this planet that he didn't know how to classify. Urging it to retreat immediately. So when we found a command center in the mantle that was extremely irrational and relied on a set of temporarily added energy furnaces to provide energy, it didn't seem inconceivable.
The control center of the green star is located in the northern hemisphere, in the middle of the mantle layer, and a thousands of kilometers long tunnel extending from the center of the earth is the only way to the control center.
The design and current state of the control center is a sigh. It is located in a hexagonal columnar cavity wrapped with an interstellar alloy armor plate. It is a gray-black obelisk independent building. This building uses anti-gravity equipment to suspend in the cavity. 〖Central〗The center is only about one kilometer long, and there are several half-kilometer-long light beams around the building base that are connected to the data terminals on the cavity. This is a very common generic interface. Sandora could tell at a glance that this thing was directly rebuilt from a planetary ground command center. The last batch of engineers back then probably had no time to manufacture a brand new starship core, so they could only use the command center on an unknown colony planet. The whole is plugged in, and the general interface bandwidth of the ground command center is limited, so most of the operation modules of Green Star rely on the automatic operation of local equipment. This control center obviously also lacks the necessary maintenance. After tens of thousands of years of continuous work, some of its interface beams have been intermittent, and the tree elves have not learned how to overhaul their bridge. The gate of the control center has been opened, and we found a small mooring port next to its base, and the automatic response facility of the mooring port has failed. Sandora had to use a more aggressive landing method-I mean, she insisted that it would be a safe landing before hitting it.
"I bet those tree elves have never used these transport planes, and they don't know that the transport plane should land on the third apron." Sandora scratched open the hatch of the transport plane that could not be opened due to a malfunction, and muttered Said grumblingly.
I helped my sister and Lin Xue down. Qianqian jumped to the ground by herself before this, and the gravity of the protagonist here is still normal. It feels really good to be down-to-earth, I couldn't help but jump on the spot: "No way, they started to transform the planet after the war, and when the transformation project was halfway through, they were blasted out of the original world by the imperial army. Time to study—and there was no military command department in the old empire at that time, and 80% of the emperors were too lazy to teach their vassal races how to master psionic energy."
Sandora quickly found the entrance to the control center, which was located at a corner of the obelisk. Not far from the entrance was a teleportation device that was still working. All the teleportation devices in the entire center had been locked to the only route, and there was no choice. , and through here, we arrive at the Green Star's Manipulation Hall—or rather, the Navigators' Observation Hall.
The spacious rotunda was brightly lit, and finally saw the familiar imperial equipment again. The equipment here seemed to be in good condition. Although the tree elves didn't know how to maintain them, they at least knew how to clean the consoles. A dozen navigators in light green uniforms were already lined up in front of the transmitter: a bunch of old men and women.
Even though the tree elves have a long lifespan, most of these navigators are not young when they set off, and they can't stay in the dormant cabin all the time during the journey, working in the normal time flow for a long time, let these navigators one by one I am getting old.
I recognized one of them at a glance, an old lady with a kind face. We met on Oasis just now: the big patriarch. She is not wearing the old-fashioned coarse cloth robes, but a neat space uniform, with a badge of green leaves and vines on her chest, and she bows to us, but does not give the imperial military salute: they have not yet The days when he had time to get used to being a family member of the empire were sent on a journey. Tens of thousands of years have passed. I'm afraid I have long forgotten what the emperor's ceremony is like.
"There are more than 100 navigators, and most of them are in a dormant state. There are only 15 navigators who are awake every shift." The chief patriarch briefly introduced the current situation of the navigator team. Suddenly, an old man with white hair came over tremblingly. He looked at us with a curious expression on his face, and then said loudly: "Oh, I finally saw you again. We have been waiting for a long time... I can't see the situation outside, so I'm waiting in this room... Ahem... Is the mission over? When will the spaceship stop? I haven't seen the sun for a long time... "
A voice suddenly interrupted his rambling words, it was another navigator: "Elder, you need to rest, leave it to us here."
The old man nodded and turned back to his seat. The chief patriarch explained to us: "This is the oldest elder of the tree elves. He used to be our leader. When he set sail on the planet, he was the first generation ship Captain, but now the captain and leader have been replaced by younger navigators, and the elders still remain in the navigator team, but they are no longer in charge of specific affairs.”
The old man who had just sat down suddenly remembered something. He shouted to this side from a distance: "Remember, open the database after everyone wakes up! The general told me, don't make a mistake! The general is coming back to get his things! Who are these strangers?!"
The old man seemed a little confused, and soon he forgot our identities, and even asked the people around him why he was here. The other navigators had no choice but to take the first-generation captain away first, and the patriarch whispered: "Mr. Occasionally, he is not sober. Three thousand years ago, he personally took people to observe the working and control principles of No. The control room, he will come here as soon as the time comes, and no one can stop him. But he can still be taken out when he is unconscious, after all, it is not in compliance with the norms to let him stay here."
Lìlìna touched my arm: "Boss, I will study a treatment plan, but the effect may not be great. He is too old, and it is too late to grant immortality."
From the terminal in the hall, you can check the current operation of the green star, as well as the activation progress of the life support systems on the mantle. The operation of the planet is not optimistic, and many equipments are damaged. Ten thousand years is already a miracle, if it is not discovered in time, I am afraid that in a few hundred years at most, its energy channeling will be disordered, and then the life support system will be endangered. We also found the database used to record key information. It is embedded in the operating system of Green Star, and it lives and dies with this planet. has been scrapped), the life support system is shut down, and all weapons and defense systems are offline. Fortunately, the "oasis" system in the center of the earth is independently powered, otherwise the latter will be burned to ashes by the mantle.
The three mass-produced mainframes that came to support from Shadow City arrived at their jobs in a few minutes. They found the mainframe room of Green Star. Most of the computing cores made by the old empire have interfaces that work in parallel with other similar devices. It saved us a lot of trouble. After the three mainframes were mounted in the Green Star computer room, the activation speed of the dormant cabin was significantly increased by countless times—yes, the astonishing speed. Originally, it might take two or three days to fully activate. After that, a third was activated in just half an hour!
It appears that bandwidth is not as restrictive to this work as previously thought.
Of course, what is mentioned here is only activation, that is, refilling the souls of the tree elves from the database into the dormant cabin, and at the same time separating the dormant cabin from the green star's overall life support system, allowing them to rely on their own stored energy for follow-up Operation (awaken the body, restart the soul), this follow-up operation may take a few days, after all, the population here is in the hundreds of millions.
And after the souls of those elves have entered the dormant cabin, the green star core database can be opened. This will be very fast, and it is expected to take another hour.
The virtual world formed by mass projection on Oasis automatically entered the shutdown procedure when the number of dormant cabins activated reached 50%. We watched all this from the monitoring. The forests and grasslands gradually lost their color, large and small The village trembled and turned into a two-dimensional background picture. The "villagers" had disappeared before this (maybe they should be called "offline" for this virtual world?), they were first sent back to the database, and then reinfused into the **.
In the end, the forest vegetation that had been seriously derealized began to disappear completely, and soon, the lush oasis lost its camouflage.
It became a lonely planet with a radius of 1,500 kilometers, covered with brown rocks and soil. The only thing left on the planet is the "mother tree" of the tree elves, which covers 70% of the planet. On the surface, there are gray-green vines as a whole.
It no longer looks like a "tree" at all.
"I didn't expect it to be so old..."
The chief patriarch was with us, and he didn't say a word during the whole process. Only then did he break the silence, "Without the mother tree, the tree elves cannot reproduce. During the voyage, we can still rely on the dormant cabin to preserve the race, but..."
"It's okay, I have a way."
I smiled gently, showing a reassuring look, and then took out Ding Dong, who was sleeping with a button, from the pocket of my jacket, "She will let you have a new mother tree."
There was a look of surprise in the eyes of the great patriarch: "Did you plant her?"
I:"… "
It’s not impossible if you have to understand it this way!
The dormant capsule that has just been activated cannot be opened immediately, the living body inside has been asleep for too long, and the dormant cabin needs time for the sleepers inside to reconnect with their souls, but now the dormant cabin is using its own backup energy to work, they It has been separated from the overall system of Green Star and no longer affects our operation database, so these dormant cabins were handed over to the engineering team for processing. At this time, Sandora couldn't wait to order to open the database. As the main systems of Green Star were closed one by one, this one-time database also revealed to us the secrets it had kept for tens of thousands of years.
It turned out to be a letter—from a sender we never expected.
Emperor of the Empire, Harlan.