In fact, the busy daily life is also very interesting. This is an idea I came up with after a few days with Lilina and I personally guided... well, mixed with the work of the tree elves to build their homes.
The tree elves need a new home. After we solved the problem of all the sleepers, this issue is in front of everyone. They have a population of 2.6 billion and have their own unique cultural system. Weakly divine creatures created by the known goddess of life. The combination of these characteristics means that we must at least give these elves a free planet as their new home.
Now they are temporarily living on the home planet, but the home planet lacks the facilities and resources needed for the carbon-based colonists to survive. Gaia activated three super huge ecological domes, but they can only meet the short-term needs of the tree elves. Moreover, the active psionic environment of the home planet is also a fatal threat to ordinary races at any time, so they need to move as soon as possible.
The tree elves are the last family members of the old empire. They completed the last mission entrusted to their people by the old empire, and also brought vital information to the new empire. The elves have special affection—or, to put it bluntly, favorability, so we arranged an extra favor for this race: prepare a planet for them in the shadow space.
Now the shadow space has expanded to an unbelievable size. According to what Bubble said, it is about equal to the size of a Milky Way—this refers to the size of its full border. In fact, the edge of the shadow space is gradually transitioning to the lawless zone. The last is connected to the void, so it has about a quarter of the space unusable, but even if it is equivalent to three quarters of the Milky Way, this is an exaggerated size. It's hard to imagine that its initial prototype was just to project K City into a different space. Now the expansion of the shadow space has temporarily stopped, and it is estimated that it will not start to expand again for a long time. At present, its size is the optimal size that Bubble thinks. If it is too small, it will waste the bandwidth of the shadow space control network, and if it is too large, it will lead to a decrease in stability.
Such a vast space. The places we can use are still limited. Many military facilities, even giant facilities like the planetary fortress manufacturing site, occupy an area only the size of a star system. Ninety-nine percent of the area in the shadow space is more than ninety-nine percent. In the standby area, Sandora has planned to gradually fill these gaps with colonial stars and military fortresses in the next few thousand years, and now the tree elves have become the first batch of permanent residents of the shadow space who are not from Helling. Star Gaia makes a small star system about a hundred AU away. The sun in this star system was picked up when Little Bubbles went out to play last time...
Uh, I'm not mistaken, that girl picked it up. You know, Little Bubble likes shiny things. Last time she led Ji Shanxi and a group of royal guards out for a walk, and it turned out to be seen from a very appropriate angle. Seeing a very shining star, Her Royal Highness ordered the thing to be picked up on the spot. At that time, there was Qianqian who accompanied her for a stroll—I don’t need to explain later, it’s not unusual for an ignorant little girl and a big ignorant girl to get together. After confirming that there is no life around the star Well, the royal guard actually dragged this thing into the shadow space. But after dragging it back, Little Bubble lost interest in it: what Her Royal Highness wants is a bright ball the size of an egg, not this nuclear reactor with a radius of 780,000 kilometers. She didn't expect that the toy she was looking for would be so big when it was close.
This somewhat oolong star has been idling in the shadow space for several months, and has been used as a probe testing ground for the Misakas. With the elemental core, the reaction waste was removed, enough hydrogen and helium were added to the health of the stars, and a little fat was lost, and then dressed up to serve as the tree elf's sun.
There are currently only three planets in the new star system, and the innermost layer is a resource-rich mineral planet. We found it in a desolate sky area, and then dragged it back to the tree elves as a source of industrial materials for future development. The second planet is located in the habitable zone of the new star system. The new home of the tree elves is here. This planet is slightly larger than the earth—it has a surface environment that is almost the same as that of the green star. Its predecessor was a decommissioned star warship. Originally named "Dawn of War", this planetary warship was destroyed by Shepherd's suicide spacecraft during the Battle of the Great Nebula. The shield generator and armor layer have not been fully repaired until today. The original technology is inefficient, and at the same time, Tavel has obtained many crucial new technologies from the Warsong. This type of decommissioned star warship is basically eliminated. Sandora has been working on how to make these war relics come in handy again. Feeling like a headache, now we've finally solved one of the uses: making a home for tree elves. This starship, which has experienced many battles, has been covered with a thick crust again, and the rivers, lakes, seas and atmospheric system have been reset. As long as the basic atmospheric balance is stable, the immigration can begin. Now it has a new name: Oasis (yes, it is the name of the small world in the heart of the original Green Star). The name was agreed upon by the pilots of the Tree Elves, who wished to commemorate their homeland in this way.
Located at the outermost edge of the new star system is the ancient starship that has completed its historical mission: Green Star.
The green star is no longer suitable for life. Its core is highly cooled, its mantle structure is completely destroyed, and it lacks sufficient power for geological changes. More importantly, the layer of green gel crystals covering its surface has deteriorated. Exposure to the harsh environment, and may even have resisted the void, causing the gel shell to become a restricted area for life. The cost of clearing the shell and transforming the green star is enough to manufacture three colonial stars of the same specification. After discussing with the authors, Sandora and I decided to abandon the reconstruction of the green star, but put it on the outermost edge of the new star system and keep it as a monument that witnessed history.
As for the original oasis star located in the center of the earth, it has been transferred outside by space technology. It looks ugly now, and it can no longer see the lush and fantastic beauty of the past. After the mother tree was stripped from it, what was left was countless huge ravines and deep holes that penetrated the entire planet. In the cave, only the carbides of plants accumulated for thousands of years and some rather ancient monitoring equipment can be found: these equipments have even been forgotten, and after one after another esoteric and complicated ancient devices broke down, the tree elf navigators completely gave up on maintenance These things are gone. Now this planet, which is smaller than the moon, is still the moon of the tree elves. It was placed in the orbit of the new "oasis" and revolved around its parent star in 22 days.
On the Oasis—this term will henceforth refer exclusively to the new home of the Tree Elves. It was the ecological planet transformed from a star warship — Lilina, I, and several tree elf navigators personally participated in the launching ceremony of the transformation project, including the chief patriarch who was the representative of the tree elves and the captain of the former Green Star, The oldest of the tree elves. When the first atmospheric control tower was lowered from the low-level orbit to the surface by the carrier aircraft carrier and began to rumble, the patriarch sighed softly.
"At last. Thank you for your generosity."
I smiled: "Your contributions to the empire will be remembered forever, and you deserve it."
In fact, I almost said this just now: what are you being polite to, I'm your own person—I didn't say that because Lilina pinched my little finger just in time. This girl has been with me for a long time, and now she knows who is around her.
"Actually, the tree elves didn't have a deep friendship with the empire when they set sail." Lilina looked up at the patriarch, "I remember that not long after you were rescued by the emperor, something happened to the empire. I didn't expect Your loyalty is so high."
"The tree elves are a race that values commitment," the chief patriarch thought for a while before adding. "Of course, the more important thing is that we can't find where the brakes are..." It means that their mission journey of tens of thousands of years is completely because they can't stop.
I suddenly felt that this old lady was too real—is it appropriate for you to say this in front of me
Such a strange master like Lilina couldn't help being a little dazed. Just at this opportunity, the patriarch began to pull the elders around him to look at the towering atmospheric control tower on the great plain in the distance. It was one of the most important buildings in their new home. . The elder of the tree elves was really too old when I saw him in the Greenstar control room. The old man is already a little unclear, and today he seems to be even more stooped. The former starship captain is still wearing his fleet uniform, which he will never change, and looks at him in a daze under the guidance of the chief patriarch. looked at the tower, and then suddenly shouted: "You said, we have arrived?"
His voice was so loud, but the Great Patriarch was used to it, and replied with the same loud voice: "Yes, the task is accomplished, this is the new home of the tree elves..."
"We're going to live on the surface?" the old man yelled even louder. "Oh, well, go find my journal and tell the boys to prepare some air chambers. Maybe when the atmosphere will leak again..."
The patriarch stretched out his hands helplessly: "He was confused again, thinking that the green star was on a journey."
I looked around and saw that all the green star navigators were old people. The old lady like the patriarch was actually the youngest in the navigator team. Most of the navigators were in their prime when Green Star set sail, and now their captain is too old to remember his own name—but he remembers his own log. I think, before the tree elves live in their new home, maybe the problems of these old people should be solved first. They should be compensated for their brutal ten thousand years of hard work, and I should be able to compensate them for everything they want: youth, life, health Physique, even reliving with the newborn body, it doesn't seem to be a difficult thing, at most let Ding Dong exploit his own loopholes again...
However, when I mentioned this, the chief patriarch and several navigators shook their heads at the same time.
"That's enough, this life," a gray-haired old man smiled openly, "Tree elves can live for more than 100,000 years—this is calculated according to the New Empire's year calculation method. The mother tree bestowed by God gave us A very long lifespan, compared to other short-lived races, most tree elves spend these years extravagantly. But I think at least we old guys have a meaningful life than other tree elves. It seems amazing that we have accomplished something There is nothing to miss in this life. The ancestors of the tree elves left a saying: the soul of a traveler will eventually be exhausted. Now we just want to rest our feet and have no other requirements."
I think their choice should be respected, so I no longer insist, but I also promise. As long as the navigators have any requirements, the empire will try their best to meet them.
When she and Lilina left the new oasis, she mentioned some of her plans.
"The new oasis star will still be under construction for some time. Tree elves will not all immigrate to their new homes in a short time, and now they are temporarily diverted to other worlds. Our macro world is developing very fast. In many worlds, the 'Time and Space Administration' even It is an open-faced organization that can actually affect the world structure—although it has not been made public. Many tree elves who have been diverted out now live in the macro world, arranged by local inspectors or special commissioners, and some tree elves live under the name of the local administration Among the various bases, some were taken in by nearby families, so I discovered some very interesting characteristics of this race.”
Lilina smiled smugly when she saw my cooperative and curious expression.
"They are really born travelers—or, say, diplomats. The tree elves are very adaptable to this kind of transfer across the world. Even some younger tree elves, who have been dormant for a long time in the past tens of thousands of years, are still very familiar with this kind of movement." I am very interested in living in a different world. They can adapt to the customs and culture of the new world in a very short time, and master the local etiquette without a teacher. The tree elves who are arranged to live with the local residents are even more surprising At first, I was worried that they would affect the daily life of the families responsible for hosting them, but the feedback came back saying that they have reached an agreement with everyone: these gentle elves are born to be goodwill ambassadors!"
To be honest, I didn't know much about these details before. I knew that Gaia was responsible for temporarily housing these elves at the beginning, but then they were handed over to the immigration management department. The Immigration Management Department is linked to the Space-Time Administration. Now it seems that the military capital of Shadow City is really not suitable for arranging a population of 2.6 billion, so these tree elves were sent to various parts of the macro world to temporarily settle down. This was originally an emergency move. But it seems... the elves are very adaptable
"Of course there are exceptions," Lilina added, "those navigators, as well as the staff who stayed awake for a long time during the voyage, as well as the last batch of tree elf civilians who entered the dormant cabin, they have already responded to any form of Tired of traveling, these tree elves account for about 10% of their entire clan, that is, 200 to 300 million people, these people want to have a stable home, so we will arrange these two to 300 million people first The population is good, and the ecological dome group in the early stage of the new oasis star can accommodate so many people, and our workload has dropped virtually."
"And then?" I instinctively felt that Lilina had other plans. She was used to finishing the small things first, and then the big things.
"Then? Then we still have 2.4 billion salesmen left," Lilina shrugged, "Boss, haven't you noticed that your empire has a colonial bureau, a local colonial governor, and a fleet, but it lacks the Liaison officers running between the colonies, and special envoys in contact with the lower world, this is not normal! The inspectors of each world are equivalent to the role of the colonial governor, what they should do is a fixed day every quarter Come to Shadow City to report on your duties, instead of coming here to report in person every now and then for a trivial matter. The Imperial Army of the Space-Time Administration should not run around all day long. Many members of the macro world are in remote and desolate places But when you contact them, you need to send someone from the headquarters—if you compare your empire to a country on the earth, then the current situation is that any pig in a small village in the valley will not give birth, and the capital will send an official Senior cadres go down to condolences, don't you think something is wrong?"
I thought about it and shook my head: "I really didn't find out before..."
"Of course, the most important reason is that imperial soldiers are really not suitable to serve as envoys anymore," Lilina said with a look of defeat on her face, "Now when the capital world and the border world are in contact, the ones sent are basically Imperial soldiers, I'm not saying that those big-headed soldiers are not smart, it's just... Only your big-headed soldiers can do it while loading the gun while waiting for the president to sign the contract..."
Me: "..." Damn it seems to be true!
"Close to the people, friendly to the people," Lilina said with a heartbroken look on her face, "When the macro world was established, it was an organization oriented towards low-level civilizations. In the end, you hired a group of imperial soldiers as couriers. Which community do you see charging water and electricity bills? The People's Liberation Army uncle?"
I was finally defeated by Lilina's endlessly brilliant metaphors, and I raised my hands in surrender: "That is to say, you plan to let the tree elves join the Space-Time Administration to act as... what's that called?"
Lilina straightened her eyes: "Liaison officer, look, those tree elves are steady and kind, patient, responsible, and friendly, which is suitable for the job of liaising with those ordinary civilizations, and they themselves are vassal races of the empire. The Xerath Salvation Army or the Eden Federal Government Army can be regarded as your confidantes, and then they can be absorbed by the whole family as goddess believers. Now the Goddess of Life is the state religion that you and Sister Sandora jointly promoted in the macro world ', you know the situation, basically believing in the one in your pocket is equivalent to believing in you... I mean, research has found that believers in the goddess are more likely to attract the residents of the macro world. To sum up, the tree elves may be In the future, the most common liaison officers in the macro world, they can replace your imperial soldiers to go to various worlds to run errands, you can save a large number of troops, and by the way, the Space-Time Administration does not have to answer calls for complaints every day... "
Is it necessary for this girl to give me a weak blow in the last sentence! The imperial soldiers are confused about who to provoke whom. This is—well, the "who" they usually provoke seems to be quite a lot...