There are countless fragmented space fragments in this world. In each space fragment, you can find large and small land, rivers, rivers and even oceans. In these space fragments, you can often find civilization relics left by the ancient times. This The indigenous inhabitants of the world vividly call these space fragments "lost worlds". With the development of civilization, these lost worlds have become part of the lives of local indigenous residents, and even the homes of some rare races in this world...
This is all the information we have about the "lost world" of this world until today.
However, today, a completely unexpected ancient mystery suddenly emerged from these seemingly innocent lost worlds. All kinds of facts have already made everyone's spirits highly tense: Intuition tells everyone that we are touching an unprecedented secret.
And this secret directly points to the biggest cornerstone of the new empire: the home planet Gaia of the fifteenth sky zone of the old empire.
The surface of the megalithic square where the Sky Tower is located is engraved with lines that have been handed down from ancient times. At first, no one noticed these curved stone grooves until Lin Xue inadvertently placed her "sight" on the entire sky. On the tower, I saw the whole picture of these lines. In the monitoring room of the Sky Tower, the ancient marks on the square matched the space silhouette of the parent planet Gaia in the western hemisphere exactly: in fact, this broken world and The nearest frontiers of the old empire's ruled area are separated by a void "distance" that can no longer be described.
If this is just a confusing "information record problem". Then we found something even more unbelievable. The Hanging River that everyone just visited by boat an hour ago is exactly the same in shape and size as a river on the parent planet Gaia. The ancient garden we visited before corresponds exactly to a large river in the northern hemisphere of Gaia. grassland. This kind of "no difference" is not only as simple as the outline can be matched, but also includes every surface undulation and detail in the whole area. Therefore, only two places are compared, and we are 100% sure that they are exactly the same .
Since the empire fell asleep, the home planet Gaia has stopped geological evolution-artificial planets made by the empire have this function. When the system is in standby, everything on the entire planet will be frozen, in order to prevent accidents when the system restarts next time, so until today, the mother planet Gaia still maintains the landform of the last day before the fall of the old empire. And the "lost worlds of..." in this far-flung universe
"The same has not evolved," Sandora released a batch of probes ten minutes ago to collect information flow data in this small piece of lost world where the Sky Tower is located, and now she has come to a conclusion. However, this conclusion did not make her a little happier, "Actually, it can be imagined without detection. The lost world is built in space debris. It is less dynamic than a rocky planet with a cooled core, and it can be maintained for tens of millions of years." A look—unless the entire floating land is weathered away."
"It hasn't changed here, and it's the same in Gaia," the angel sister still had a natural look, muttering, "that is to say, these lost worlds are like snapshots, preserving their original appearance. They When it was born, it was the age when the mother star Gaia was sleeping. Basically, it was like this."
There is only one problem that Sandora and Alaya are arguing, and that is regardless of Gaia. Or the Lost World here, there has been no geological change over a long period of time. Their coincidence in character is absolutely unquestionable, and points to the only possibility:
"A lost world is a broken home planet." Sandora concluded.
"It's becoming more and more unbelievable," Bingtis frowned, "absurd, very absurd. Sandora, I know this is your internal affairs, but I really can't help but want to intervene: You have no impression of anything here?"
Sandora glanced at Bingtis. This question has been asked several times in the past ten minutes, and she is too lazy to answer him now. Sister Bing didn't care, she was thinking about other things: "Okay, just one thing for sure: the mother planet Gaia is now staying in your shadow space intact, without any scratches, and it is the same as the one just dismantled. The packaging is the same. And here it appears... There are already two places that are 100% consistent with certain landforms on the parent planet Gaia, the hanging river and the ancient garden. Could they come from a replica? Maybe the old empire In the era, someone copied the parent star in the 15-day area, and then threw it into this place where no shit, and then I don’t know what happened, the replica planet was blown up, and the debris was floating everywhere... "
"What's more ridiculous," I gave Bingtis a sideways glance, "That was the capital star of the 15th Heavenly District back then, so if you say copy it, you can copy it? And Gaia himself knows nothing about it? Do you think some people can't know it? Unknowingly copy a Father Temple, and then throw it into the depths of the void and blow it up?"
Bingtis thought for a while, and probably felt that what he said was unreliable, so he shut up decisively and went to draw a circle next to him.
"Hey, Ah Jun, I have an idea, can I say it?" Qianqian suddenly tugged on my sleeve and said in a low voice. Me: "... you say."
Although Qianqian is good at making amazing words most of the time, she has to admit that her detached thinking often hits the point with weird accuracy. Thoughts that are not bound by common sense have infinite potential, and I am also very curious about Qianqian. Shallow thought of something.
"Let's go to other lost worlds to see?" Qianqian thought for a while, then said with fingers, "I remember the lost worlds here were counted back then, and it is conservatively estimated that they are as big as several parent planets. Yes, and there is only one parent star, so there must be some fragments that cannot be matched with Gaia. In addition, even the land fragments that can be matched with the parent star, there are actually many differences? For example, the ancient garden We have never seen the plants on our home planet. We are all too delusional in those same places. It seems that we have neglected to find the differences—maybe we can find the answer from them?"
I looked at Qianqian in surprise, surprised by the rapid progress of my lovely girlfriend's intelligence, and happily pinched her nose: "Girl, I almost forgot about it! You How did you remember it?"
Embarrassed, Qian Qian puffed out her chest proudly: "I played for half the night yesterday and everyone came to find fault..."
In an instant, the surrounding air froze, and Bingtis laughed dryly, and continued to draw circles on the ground: she was almost drawing groundwater.
It is unrealistic to detect all the space debris in this messy world at the same time, but the number of lost worlds connected to the mother continent at the same time is not a small number. There are at least dozens of them, and larger-scale exploration can start with these bases. Now no one has the mentality of traveling in mountains and rivers... Well, well, except for some really heartless guys, such as the Protoss five-member group and a bunch of baby heads, the others are no longer Holding the mentality of traveling in mountains and rivers. So we acted quickly, first of all by putting in a sufficient number of probes. Let these nimble little ones travel to other lost worlds in our place. It doesn't take long, but it's more troublesome to transfer: from the Sky Tower to the Hanging River. Then return to the mother continent from the Hanging River. Then go to the various space fragments from the projection points of the mother continent. However, the probes all have the ability to jump, and the problem we least care about is the problem of distance. Moreover, we obtained the universal cycle calendar of this world from Sagina. This calendar summed up by countless senior explorers allows us to directly grasp the time and place when most of the lost worlds are connected to the mother continent, and it saves a lot of effort in action. up.
"The probe has already started, but some worlds will not open until a while later," Sandora flipped through the calendar in her hand, "I will probably get all the information at night or early tomorrow. We still have a while. Do you want to continue searching for this tower?"
I looked at the sky tower projected by Alaya, which is an unusually large building. And even for Alaya, only half of the bottom of the Sky Tower can be ascertained. What we have found so far is certainly only a small part, and in any case continued exploration seems warranted.
"Continue," I exhaled, "such a big tower, it can't be a place to put monitors, it collects so much energy, it must be useful—my goal is the upper floor of the Sky Tower, there's no way Scanned shadow area."
The upper level of the Sky Tower is a place that Alaya's current visitor authority cannot access. There may be a higher alert level there, and there may even be defense facilities that cannot be closed. If it is a defense facility made by ordinary civilization, we can naturally ignore it, but they A creation of the Old Empire—then even we have to pay attention. But everyone will naturally not give up because of this little danger. Just out of caution, I still looked at Sagina and Sona: "The next step is to go to an unknown area, which even we can't figure out. Are you still going to follow?"
"Is it dangerous?" Sona glanced at me, then nodded firmly, "It's okay, half-dragons are not afraid of danger!"
"Don't worry," Sagina said more bluntly, "Anyway, you are all very powerful, and Sona and I will hide as soon as possible."
I put my eyes on Saeko again. My cheap little sister is the one with the lowest combat effectiveness in our big family. Although she is also studying at the Military Academy, she is still very weak after all, and her major is still a cheating maid...
"Don't worry about me, my lord." Saeko smiled confidently and said heroically, "The maid's arcane charging fighting technique and the maid's heavy fire bombing technique are prepared for this kind of scene!"
But none of them sound like they're meant for maids! What did An Weena write in the textbook!
Alaya used the crystal cluster to activate the final teleportation, and sent everyone to the highest level of the Sky Tower that she could visit. This teleportation took obviously longer, usually it was just a flash of white light, but this time I felt The teleportation beam lasted for several seconds. Obviously, a residual scanning system was still at the level of identifying visitors. When the white light dissipated, we found ourselves in... a large forest.
There are lush shrubs and vines growing all around, and there are towering giant trees everywhere. This place looks like a virgin forest! It's just that all the plants are things we haven't seen before. Not only is the shape different from common plants, but even the leaves are not the green of ordinary plants, but a kind of cold steel blue mixed with dark green. A gust of wind blew from nowhere, and the rustling of the branches in the forest was mixed with a crisp sound like the clanging of metal and iron.
Such a strange place, such a strange plant.
"Forest?!" Sagina exclaimed in amazement, looking at the surrounding towering ancient trees and various luxuriant shrubs and vines, "How could it be a forest? It's not in the tower... Could it be that we were teleported outside?"
"No. It's still inside the tower, look at the top." Sandora retorted loudly, pointing to the top.
Through the luxuriant branches and leaves above the head, you can vaguely see the "sky", with blue sky, white clouds, and a warm sun. There is also a display that shows "the current ecological index is good, and there are seventy-two days before winter".
"The sky is made with holographic projections. In fact, it is a dome." Alaya flapped her wings and flew high into the sky. After crashing through a lot of branches and dropping a lot of feathers, she touched the "sky". Her voice It came from a high altitude, and with the help of magical power, it was amplified so that it could be heard clearly here, and then we saw a huge square gap suddenly appeared in the sky, revealing a large complex of metal lines from behind the gap. "I interfered with a part of the projection, which is the roof of the tower."
Then Alaya resumed the sky projection - the sudden absence of a piece of sky that exposed the ceiling looked weird.
"Clatter-crack-plop!" After a mess of loud noises. The angel sister fell in front of me with scattered feathers and rotten leaves, with weeds on her head: "Brother Monarch. I'm back." The tone was very indifferent, which is a typical phenomenon of habit.
She's used to being fooled by her own clumsiness in everything she does...
I stepped forward to help this stupid guy pick off the head and the straw sticks on the wings, while Sandora finished searching the surrounding environment, frowned and said: "As expected, the space here has been expanded, The entire floor is a huge ecological area, with complete lighting, air, water circulation, and fine-tuning of the magnetic field... Wait, the life forms here are wrong, not just the shape... They are different from the plants on the mother continent!"
As Sandora said, a holographic projection was created in the air, showing a small piece of bark sample she collected.
"Look at these fibers, there are many crystal structures in the middle, replacing cell tissue. The indigenous plants in this world don't have this phenomenon." Sandora pointed to the magnified area on the holographic projection, and I saw creatures that looked like crystal grids organize.
This is just a matter of details, but now, no details can be ignored, Sandora's discovery made me a little concerned. According to the information we have so far, the animals and plants that grow in the "Lost World" of this world have a patriarchal relationship with the mother continent, which means that even if they are completely different species, they still have the same form of life. For example, only It is a multicellular organism, no matter what animal or plant it is, it is composed of cells, and it is the same in this world. Even if the species that grow in the lost world are strange, they are also composed of cells on the basis of life. But the plants growing in the space of this tower are different from everything on the mother continent. Their structural basis is actually a kind of crystal—obviously, they come from another life system that is different from any existing plants on the mother continent. .
"It's something on the mother planet." Alaya studied it and concluded, "This crystal structure is unique to the plants on the mother planet."
"In other words, this layer preserves ecological samples from the parent planet Gaia?" My sister thought of a possibility.
"Not necessarily," Alaya threw away the grass stick in his hand, "I can only confirm that these plants are of the same origin as the plants on the parent planet on the basis of life, but their specific species... This is the first time I have seen them. These trees , and these flowers and vines, all of which are not found on the mother planet."
The question that has been raised countless times today came to everyone's mind again: why
Why is there a species that can be judged at a glance to be homologous to the plants on the parent planet, but has never been seen before
"Alaya, your name has appeared again."
Monina's voice came from a distance. She ran out to investigate the situation just now, and now she has made a new discovery.
In a small open space 100 meters away, Monina found a metal round platform, which may be one of the monitoring points of the ecological zone. On the holographic projection next to the round platform, we saw Alaya’s name again : She is the chief designer of this floor called "the first ecological dome". I have seen a similar situation before, but this time I was much less surprised. Looking at Sister Angel, the confusion on the other side's face is no less than that of others, so naturally there is no need to ask her answer.
"I don't remember, I haven't seen anything here." Sister Angel said very simply.
"Okay, let's continue to go to other places." I know that I may only get one question after another today, but I still decide to move on, "Alaya, you can still find a way to teleport to the upper floors Is it?"
After reaching this level, Alaya's visitor authority cannot be used, and the part above the Sky Tower is completely out of control for us. On the lower floors, you can teleport through the crystal clusters at will, but if you go up, it may not be so simple.
"It can be teleported, but I can't be sure what's there," Alaya summoned her holy light model again, and the red plaque representing everyone's position has already stopped at the edge of the shadow area marked with... "The coding method of the crystal cluster It is universal, you can go anywhere on the input floor, but we may have to face the guards in the core area."
There is no need to consider the security issue, as long as I can teleport, I am relieved.
No matter what lies ahead, there is only one thing to do now...
"If you are a man, you can get up to a hundred floors!!" (To be continued) RQ