"If you are a man, you can go up to a hundred floors!!"
Facing this Sky Tower, which has been tossed by all kinds of mysteries and anomalous phenomena, our group has made such an ambitious oath. After all, Alaya is relatively honest, and he immediately corrected it by the side. : "Brother, most of the girls here are girls, and we are already on the five hundred and seventy-sixth floor..."
Me: "..." Tell me, this thing is really strange. Naturally, sometimes the fighting power is quite strong. Sister Angel really hits the nail on the head...
"Ahem, I don't consider the details," I quickly coughed twice before Bingtis' damaged goods made a sound, and then turned to Alaya, "Start teleporting, you can find a suitable floor. Let's talk about this How many floors does the tower have in total? Now it has reached five hundred floors?"
"The number of floors is not fixed," Alaya said while carefully setting the crystal cluster transmission target, "This tower is more than 30 kilometers high in total, but the height of each floor is different, and the height of the Sky Tower The internal space is constantly changing, and even some floors with unknown functions will suddenly disappear randomly—I didn’t risk teleporting there because I don’t know what’s going on with these floors. So I don’t know how many floors there are. I can only go to those A place where the space is stable. Next, let’s go to the 735th floor. This is the last focus of the entire magic energy array. According to the mystical theory I have mastered, this focus should be a very critical place, compared to all previous focuses. It's all important."
Alaya's voice fell, and the crystal cluster had already started the teleportation. Once again, everyone came to another strange area.
Since entering this sky tower, everyone seems to have been passing it around. There are strange things everywhere, and the clues we keep discovering make us unable to stop exploring. Everyone is almost not in a fixed place. When I stay on the floor for more than 30 minutes, I don’t know when it’s time to jump back and forth like this. The moment the teleportation started, the above-mentioned random thoughts popped up in my mind.
Then the turbulent light and shadow in front of him stabilized. I recovered from my wild thoughts and found that there was a starry sky in front of me.
Under the feet is the crystalline ground of the Sky Tower, which extends to an extremely wide distance. Behind it is the cluster of crystals for teleportation, still emitting a faint gleam, while the dome above is covered with twinkling stars and Spectacular nebula.
Huge planetary images slowly rotate around us. Make a low hum.
Thankfully, what greeted us was not the elite soldiers of the old empire lined up neatly. It's a bunch of holograms.
"It was the virgin forest in the room just now. Now it has been replaced with a diagram of outer space and galaxies." Sandora glanced around and said in a nonchalant tone. She had already had enough of the "surprises" frequently thrown by the Sky Tower. Immunity, but there is a bit of displeasure in her tone. She is the proud Queen of Xiling, but she is confused today, and she must not be happy.
"This... what is this!!" A girl's exclamation suddenly sounded beside her. It was Sagina who couldn't help crying, and she pulled Sona. Looking around in amazement, they couldn't see the magnificent galaxy in the sky that they had never seen on the ground. I don't know if the space environment simulated on the floor of the Sky Tower is also the cosmic area where the parent star Gaia was located, but one thing is certain, no matter what kind of space scenery, it is enough for two people to never know the earth. The half-dragon girl who was a ball screamed out.
This kind of magnificence and shock can inspire the instinctive admiration of any intelligent creature born under this starry sky. The universe itself is the ultimate magnificent picture scroll in this world—ahem, it suddenly became literary and uncontrollable up.
"This is the universe you live in," my sister took a deep breath, as if to confirm that she was still in the tower and not in the vacuum of the universe, "every one of those shining stars is brighter than you The growing earth is millions of times bigger. There are countless such stars in the real universe. These huge spheres around you are planets, and the mother continent you live in is one of them. I can’t explain to you what a star is and planets, in short, it’s good to know that this is the world you live in.”
"Is it a planet?" I thought that Sagina might not have the concept of "the earth is a ball", but I didn't expect her to understand after a while, "Oh, I know, those scholars mentioned that the mother continent where all things live In fact, it is spherical, and it revolves around the sun over and over again. I have been to the capital before, and I have seen an alchemy equipment called 'Astronomical Observatory', which is how it is described."
"But compared with this thing..." Sona looked around with a look of disbelief as she spoke, "There is no comparison at all. This is...the world? Are we living in such a magnificent... place?"
"I can't imagine." After finally realizing a little bit of the scale of "universe" and "planet", Sagina decisively showed a look of giving up, "Forget it, this is not something that two mortals should think about. Will care about the scale."
In fact, if I have time, I really want to teach two half-dragon girls. After all, I have not experienced the sense of superiority in knowledge for a long time in the environment I live in (except when teaching mercury lamps to write. ), unfortunately now is clearly not the time.
This floor of the Sky Tower is the most special floor we have explored so far, even more special than the previous indoor virgin forest. This is the only floor that is completely dominated by projections. There is nothing stored here, and there is no Function, it is a complete projection hall, the only purpose of existence is to show us a starry sky, but this projection hall is built on the last focus of the entire magic energy matrix: According to Alaya's explanation, the focus of magic energy is The place with the highest energy index in the entire matrix is also the most convenient place to control the entire matrix. If you set up a projection hall in such a key place, the images here will be very intriguing. The dull cat angel has flown to the edge of the projection. Read the arcane flow here, hoping to find the secrets behind these images, while Sandora and I study the projections of these planets beside us. They look interesting, and... have some nice details.
Extremely high-precision illusions constitute everything in all directions, making this floor feel like standing on a giant stone platform floating in the universe, with a twinkling starry sky above your head, and huge slowly moving giants around you. Planetary images, all of which make this megalithic platform full of mysterious atmosphere. Each of those giant star images is about the same size. The radius is about two or three meters, and the distance between each other is no more than twenty meters, which shows that the planetary images here are not based on the scale. They may be schematic diagrams, or each one is an independent model. Showing the past scenery of the fifteenth sky zone of the old empire - I saw the figure of the home planet Gaia from these planetary models at first glance, so I had such a guess.
until now. I am no longer surprised to see the holographic projection of the parent star Gaia appearing in the Sky Tower.
A model of parent star Gaia Another planet that has been floating around recently looks a little strange. But after carefully identifying its details. After comparing the several maps at hand, we finally confirmed that this planet is the planet where the mother continent of this world is located.
And there are several lifelike planet models floating in the distance, one is an ecological planet, and the rest are barren, with only mottled cracks or hot magma on the surface. There are satellites or gravel rings around some planets.
All these star models are slowly revolving in concentric orbits, and they present a schematic diagram of a star system.
"If you follow the straightforward way of understanding, this model system shows that in a certain period of time, the mother star Gaia and the mother continent planet of this world were in the same star system." Sandora said, "The rest of the surrounding planets should be that other planets in the same star system at the same age. One of them is also inhabited by life."
"But in fact, I have released a probe to confirm that there are no other planets in the star system where the mother continental planet is located."
The mother continent planet, of course, refers to the planet where Sagina and Sona were born and raised. After we came to this world, we really didn't care about the cosmic environment of this planet: after all, there is no threat in this world. Sandora will not waste energy scanning the empty space. Now, however, it is necessary to understand the state of space around here. The mother continent planet is located in a lonely star system environment. In this star system with an orange-yellow sun, there is only one planet and an asteroid belt on the outer edge. It is considered a "shabby" family in the celestial system with life and reproduction. . However, the large celestial model in front of us shows that the parent continent planet is next to the parent star Gaia, and there are many other planets around - where have these planets gone
Is the parent star Gaia on this model the one in the shadow space, or the one in the space fragments that have been fragmented
The answer seems to be the latter, but now I am not sure about my guess.
"Observatory, the name of this floor is the Observatory." There was the sound of wings flapping in my ear, and Alaya landed lightly beside me. "The system indicates that the space scene shown here is the end of the old empire era."
"That is to say, in the era of the old empire, was the mother planet Gaia in such a planetary system?" Sandora connected the spiritual connection and contacted the shadow space, "Gaia, I want to ask you something. Do you remember?" Remember what kind of environment the parent star was in? I mean, how many planets were there in the star system you were in? How about the identification characteristics of the sun there?"
Gaia replied immediately: "There is no adjacent planet, and my memory bank is blank in terms of relevant information."
"Gaia doesn't remember being close to any planet," Sandora glanced at us, "that is to say, the celestial model in front of us may show a replica of the mother star in the fifteenth sky zone. In the era of the old empire, This replica is located near the mother continent planet, and then there must have been an accident, and the entire star system had a space distortion. Except for the mother continent planet, which survived, all planets including the mother star replica became It became 'The Lost World.' That's all I can deduce based on current intelligence."
"But there are still a lot of gaps, isn't it?" My sister spread her hands, "what's the matter with this sky tower, and it can be seen everywhere here. Alaya's name. If there is only one Alaya, then it must be here." It was built by the old empire, and there is something wrong with your memory bank."
"Until today, I still have full confidence in the core of my memory." Sanduo pulled the corner of her mouth and laughed at herself helplessly. Alaya blinked and said in a low voice: "I've never been confident in this aspect, so it's not a big blow..."
This natural stupefaction is quite self-aware... But is it really possible that there is a problem with the memory core of the Apostle Xiling? ! Instead of doubting this, I would rather believe that people on earth can solve the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law all over the world within 20 years!
At this time, Qianqian had finished her "expedition", studied the models of several planets around her, ran over and grabbed my sleeve: "Hey, Ah Jun, in fact, the parent star and shadow space on this model That home planet is also different."
Seeing that she had successfully attracted everyone's attention, Qianqian became happy and announced her discovery: "Look, the parent star on this model does not have the buildings we are familiar with, the parent star Gaia in the shadow space There are storage arrays, there are heavy factories. There are big things like weather controllers, but all the corresponding places on this model are blank wasteland. Isn't that a big difference?"
"Hey. We discovered this a long time ago," Sandora waved her hand, "What does this difference mean?"
"There are other things." Qianqian pointed to the holographic projection next to him, "Look, although the place corresponding to those facilities on the parent star of the shadow space is a wasteland, there are other man-made objects near the wasteland. These The area is enlarged with a single touch, and there is a particularly huge square here. There are crystal towers, and things like magic circles. They all look mysterious, right?"
Sandora's eyes lit up, she didn't pay attention to this detail at first: we just paid attention to the fact that the planetary model in front of us was perfectly in line with the parent planet Gaia in terms of landforms, but we didn't notice any problems with the buildings on its surface, nor It's only when I'm shallow and bored that I mess around to notice these trivial things.
"It's true... There are a lot of seemingly mysterious buildings distributed on this planet model," Sandora zoomed in on the buildings that Qianqian found, looked at the man-made objects there and said to herself, "Although it still doesn't work. , but it may indeed be made by the mysterious side of the old empire. Wait, what is the corresponding place on the surface of our parent star in the shadow space?"
"Wasteland, forest, all kinds of undeveloped areas." I checked the pictures sent by Gaia just now, and replied immediately.
Yes, wastelands and wild forests, there is a large area of undeveloped areas on the home planet Gaia, and there is a grassy plain that grows wildly next to Gaia's storage array-we never know why that plain is not being used. superior. But now, on the planet model in front of me, the coordinates of the storage array are barren grasslands, and there is a crystal tower where it should be barren grasslands!
No one has ever paid attention to the undeveloped area on the mother planet before. I only think that it is the era of the old empire. The ecological environment of the mother planet in the fifteenth sky zone is good. But after comparing it with the planet model in front of me, I feel that it is inconsistent The child came out.
"I seem to have thought of something," Lin Xue showed a thoughtful look, "On the parent star model in front of me, there are only buildings on the mysterious side, and the corresponding area on the technology side is all wasteland. On the parent star in the shadow space, the two overlapping The place is just the opposite... If you merge the two together..." Lin Xue said, merging the holographic projection of the parent star sent by Gaia and the projection in front of us, replacing the abnormal blank areas on the surface of the two respectively .
A brand new parent star is presented before our eyes.
The area that accounts for 70% of the planet's surface is still unchanged, and is stitched together seamlessly, while the other areas that are distributed with artificial facilities form a large area of neatly planned buildings.
There is almost no conflict between the mysterious-style crystal buildings and the high-tech steel city. They are interspersed with each other in an astonishingly accurate way. Where they overlap each other, those buildings also subtly avoid their respective edges.
It's almost like...
"It's printed in advance, and then it's like a jigsaw puzzle." Sandora said, turning her head to look at Alaya.
"Some... familiar." Sister Angel finally stopped saying that she had no impression. Although she still couldn't remember anything specific, she already had a sense of familiarity. She involuntarily reached out and touched an area on the new holographic projection. After the image is enlarged, what we see in front of our eyes is a magnificent fortress built alternately with silver-white metal and crystal.
On the square in front of the fortress, there are two rows of angel sculptures neatly arranged.
"This is the place where angels are made." Alaya said vaguely, "Yes, I was born, I should have a place where I was born... I was born on the parent star, there must be angels there Factories. Gaia doesn't have one on the surface."
"Mother planet, split into two?" Lin Xue finally frowned and said the most bizarre yet most heart-wrenching guess so far, "One half is the technology side, and the other half is the mysterious side?"
"A probe sent information from another lost world." At this moment, Sandora finally got the first batch of news from the probe, and everyone shouted almost in unison: "Let's see! "
Not all of the probes have arrived at their destinations, but many of them are already in place. They are now distributed in more than twenty lost worlds, sending us back the pictures they took.
Continents floating in the universe, fragmented island chains in the sky, lakes in the clouds, towers undulating in magma lakes, ancient cities shrouded in mist... These lost worlds are really colorful enough.
Then, about one-third of the lost worlds found their corresponding positions on the parent star.
As Qian Qian guessed, there are also many lost worlds that cannot correspond to the parent star. However, soon, we found suspected corresponding locations on the projections of the surrounding planets.
The previous conjectures have been confirmed one by one. The only question left now is how to connect the parent star in the shadow space and the broken parent star in this marginal world.
"Hey, Brother Monarch," Alaya suddenly said while I was watching the real-time video from the probe, "I have made a big discovery."
"Um?"
Sister Angel organized her language, and said after a few seconds: "There may be two towers in the sky..." (to be continued) RQ