When Sandora opened her mouth, people were startled. She mentioned the fallen apostle at this time, but I soon found out that what Sandora said really made sense: First of all, this route is brand new. In this area, we have never sent a ship, and the debris cannot come from an Imperial starship. Secondly, the piece of metal found by the little crow from the void was obviously not long ago: maybe it was a part of a complete spaceship not long ago, after the spaceship collapsed, the order field disintegrated, and this piece of debris drifted to In the void, otherwise it is impossible to explain why such a piece of matter can persist in the void environment for such a long time. In addition to the imperial spaceship, now only the fallen apostles are possible.
"Fleet alert," Sandora immediately issued an order to increase vigilance, "the order field has turned into a hidden state, and the jump speed has dropped to the silent threshold. The early warning formation puts out spy probes and keeps the probes farther away from the formation."
The fleet commander immediately responded to the order to take countermeasures, while I stared at the metal fragment, as if I wanted to see which "old friend" was behind it from above, and at the same time felt bursts of surprise: "It is reasonable to say that it is not— Lin Xue's prediction should not be wrong."
"Lin Xue just said that we will not encounter enemies on this trip," Sandora had her own opinion, "but she never said that there are no traces of fallen apostles in this generation. Maybe they really have been active in this place, but I just don't know It is still there. According to the prophecy, perhaps the most dangerous situation is that the imperial army and the fallen apostles pass by."
Saying that, Shan Duo stretched his hands and wiped the corroded metal plate, his brows did not relax: "I can't feel the breath of the abyss on it, it must have been purified by the void first. But Within the known range of the void, only the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles use the Xiling starship, and since this is not our spaceship, it must belong to the enemy."
"Anyway, put this thing in the warehouse first," I glanced at the metal plate, "there will be an engineering laboratory at the destination, and Tavel's avatar is also there, let her analyze and analyze this thing. origin."
In fact, I think this piece of metal still reveals a piece of good news, that is, the spaceship it originally belonged to must be finished: once the field of order is damaged, there is no room for salvation. A spaceship sailing in the void, even if its There was only a needle-sized hole in the barrier. Unless an orderly universe could be found to dock within a short period of time, it would soon be destroyed by the impact of the void. And what we are in now is the "desolate zone" in the void, there is no order universe in this frequency band, so this piece of debris means an irreparable void disaster. You see, no matter what the reason is, at least one wave of fallen apostles died...
The confrontation between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles has reached the point where, as long as there is nothing good about the other side, it will be a festival for themselves.
"The chance of an accident on an imperial starship sailing normally in the void is almost zero, even as rare as a fish choking on water," Sandora exhaled after the piece of metal was sent to the warehouse, "That spaceship must be It was attacked nearby, or it was seriously damaged when it came here. We have never been to this place, and the engineering team may have missed the detection of the new route... Be more careful, and pay attention to avoiding the information collapse point and the world Fragments, I don't want the same fate for Imperial ships."
I thought about it, and began to teach the group of eager children behind me: "No one is allowed to run outside anymore. Fortunately, you didn't hit anything just now, little bird..."
It took nearly twice as long for the fleet to reach its destination after heightening its vigilance and slowing down its speed. It had been a full day since we set off. However, as Lin Xue predicted before, the fleet did not encounter any danger along the way, whether it was the fallen apostles, or the world fragments or information collapse points that may have destroyed the fallen apostles' spaceships. The spy probes sent by Sandora cruised until they were overloaded and self-destructed. The only result was to draw a rather detailed map of the void navigation chart and come back-it will save a lot of trouble when they take this route next time.
On the second day after departure, capital standard time was in the evening—of course, this time is meaningless to us, so let’s convert it to Sandora’s timetable. One and a half hours before the meal, the fleet arrived safely in the target universe.
Because of the unexpected situation discovered by the little bird before, Sandora decided to continue to maintain a high level of vigilance. She ordered some frigates to park at the order critical point of the world barrier, and deployed a large number of early warning radars and warning drones on the spot: these things are not It can certainly pose a threat of firepower to the enemy, but it can effectively prevent us from being caught off guard. Although there is Lin Xue's prophecy to escort him, but in this far-flung border where the situation is unknown, it is always a good idea to be extra careful.
The Royal Cruiser and the remaining frigate formation sank safely into the universe of order. After two space transitions, we arrived at the so-called "excavation site", a desolate asteroid belt.
It is located on the edge of a middle-aged star system, and the entire star system orbits a low-mass orange sun. There are only two massive solid planets made of barren ice-rock mixtures in the galaxy. Both planets orbit away from their sun, cold and dead, and the asteroid belt where the home material was found is located in a more remote In the orbit of , its scale is quite large, and its distribution is roughly ellipsoidal. According to calculations, this asteroid belt takes 197 years to orbit the local star once.
Beyond that is the cold deep space, and the nearest celestial body is six light-years away.
As I said at the beginning, this place is extremely desolate, and the peculiar meteorites found in the asteroid belt are the only reason to attract us here. This is really not a good place for vacation.
But those little girls still had no hesitation and rushed out happily, ran to the edge of the excavation site, pushed those fragments of meteorites and started to bump them back and forth, just like playing giant billiard balls...
Forget it, high-energy brats naturally have high-energy ways to play, and they usually throw grenades around at home all day long.
The first batch of engineering teams who arrived here have established outpost laboratories and engineering bases. This base is located in the center of the asteroid belt. Like all temporary space bases, it uses the most time-saving, labor-saving and efficient construction method, relying on Several large asteroids are the apexes, built with high-strength interstellar alloys as the skeleton, which looks like an irregular scaffolding in space, and various important facilities are fixed on the nodes of these high-strength skeletons, while the laboratory It is the only large-scale facility that looks quite impressive in the entire base. It is a hemispherical building with a polygonal dome, fixed on the central platform, surrounded by eight support beams to connect it with other facilities in the base, and marked with blue lights Out of the several take-off and landing platforms around the laboratory, while the lights are flashing, engineering drones are constantly coming and going on the take-off and landing platforms: the entire base is in a busy working state.
At the end of a main support beam in the base, there is a port for small and medium-sized spaceships to dock. After those little girls ran to play, we landed near the port. It is said to be a supporting beam, but we all know the idea of "big is beautiful" in the building of Xiling Apostle. This supporting beam is actually a giant alloy structure with a width and height of 100 meters, which has long surpassed the concept of "big beam". , its interior is a closed passage directly to the laboratory, and it has its own comfortable artificial gravity. Tavel's mass projection is waiting for us at the entrance of the passage, behind her are several senior assistants, and Phyllis with an inexplicably excited face.
"Your Majesties, did you encounter any problems on the road?" Tavel wondered why we were a few hours later than expected.
"A small situation, this route may not be as 'clean' as expected at the beginning, but you don't have to worry about it," Sandora said indifferently, Tavel is a scientist, and there are activities of fallen apostles near the route The traces are a matter of the military department, and it is useless to tell Tavel, "You move quickly, this base is good."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Tavel accepted the compliment calmly, and she looked at the transparent window next to her: There are many observation windows on both sides of this closed corridor located inside the main support beam. After all, this is not a military fortress, no It is necessary to consider the overall protection and lighting control issues. These observation windows help you peek at the expansion of the base from anywhere. "We brought a mass-produced host with us when we set off, which greatly accelerated the construction progress of the base. The No. 4 extension platform will be completed in about two hours, and then we can set up large-scale subspace analysis equipment."
Following Tavel's line of sight, I found the "Extended Platform No. 4" she was referring to.
It is an unfinished building on the back side of the base. It is directly connected to the central laboratory by two parallel brackets. It is about one or two kilometers away from our side. The extended platform of the No. 1 is quite dim, only the light effect of the builder's operation is walking on the huge metal platform, and the half-finished buildings on the platform can be seen indistinctly by the glimmer of light. The builders working on it are undoubtedly the mass-produced mainframe brought by Tavel, which has just been manufactured in the past two days. Under their busyness, a large-scale facility is rapidly forming in the ever-changing optical network, just like a crazily growing Like a giant plant: No matter how many times you look at it, the builders’ magical field filling and information materialization technology is amazing. Tavel was able to build such a large and well-equipped asteroid base in 48 hours, all thanks to These magical "construction workers" are gone.
Phyllis, who has been watching the mass-produced mainframe building a house for two days, is of course even more amazed. Seeing that the conversation between us and Tavel has finally come to an end, she immediately jumped over to express her opinion: " I looked at it for two days and didn’t understand—what kind of technology do you have?! So all your buildings come from this way? Your building materials...do you have building materials?”
I quite understand her excitement now: not long ago, she hadn't given up on selling ore to the empire, but now, this dream is obviously beaten by the engineering technology of the empire, and there is no scum left.
"How should I put it, it's too early for you to get into this kind of technology," I glanced at Phyllis, whose eyes are so bright that she can basically stand up to two LCD light sources. If you don't pour some cold water on her in time, this guy She will definitely sneak into the base to pry parts: this is not the first time she has done this, "You are not short-sighted, just think about it and you should know that this technology of creating matter out of thin air can grind your existing social order into nothing Sample."
Phyllis immediately wanted to understand this, and nodded approvingly, but her face was still full of surprise: "You really are creating matter out of thin air? But this... Doesn't this violate the laws of science? Where does matter come from? Where does energy come from?" Where did it come from? Has your technology advanced to the point where you don’t need to follow objective laws?”
"Of course there are still scientific laws," Sandora replied lightly, "it's just that we usually write those laws ourselves, because the natural cosmological constants are often not very easy to use. You Fiali people are actually about to get in touch with this now." Knowledge in various aspects, jumping out of the universe, is the first step to mastering the truth. Outside the universe, you can easily gain insight into many mysteries that you could not even conjecture. In about thirty years, your entire knowledge system and worldview will be replaced Refresh, you have to re-understand the world and yourself, and rewrite more than half of the technical classics. In the future, all your scientific laws related to the basic world view will be subject to the restriction of "within this universe". This will be a new era worth looking forward to .”
Phyllis listened to this high-energy declaration in a daze, and finally convinced that such a profound thing was nothing to her for the time being, so she ran to chat with Qianqian.
"By the way, Tavel, there is something I want to analyze for you." After Phyllis walked away, I suddenly remembered that there was a metal bump picked up by a little crow in the cargo hold of the spaceship, so I hurriedly asked someone to remove it. The armor fragments were brought over.
As soon as he saw the strange thing, Tavel showed a surprised expression: "I found this from the void environment? It has a serious tendency to become chaotic, and the physical parameters of the matter itself are already between measurable and unmeasurable." time."
Professionals are professionals. I think Tavel's whole person is probably composed of scanning equipment and processors. She can see the origin of this thing at a glance.
"Let's just say it's because of this stuff that we've been delayed for hours..."
At the moment, I told Tavel about the near-miss accident that I encountered on the way, including Sandora's guess about the source of the metal fragment. Of course, we don't expect Tavel, who is a scientist, to help formulate an early warning plan or the like, and hand over the fragments to her. We mainly hope that she can use her own technical analysis to analyze whether this thing came from the spaceship of the fallen apostle. What fell off, and the possible cause of the destruction of that spaceship.
The Fallen Apostles have been active in this area, and they also lost a spaceship, which should not be taken lightly. Sandora has already connected to Shadow City just now, and asked Sivis to prepare the scout fleet to thoroughly investigate this far-off area, and I want Tavel to help: anyway, she has enough threads.
"Yes, Your Majesty, your majesty will send the samples to the newly built analysis room." Tavel heard what I said, and immediately realized that the situation was unusual, so she immediately gave us a military salute, Then a mass projection split from its body, and it teleported away with that armor fragment.
I stared dumbfounded at a brand new Tavel disappearing in front of my eyes, deeply aware that this crazy female scientist in front of me has finally cultivated schizophrenia into an active skill...
"Now let's talk about your discoveries." Sandora watched Tavel's split indifferently, and walked forward first, "We will talk as we walk."
Tavel followed Sandora and reported in detail what the engineering team had discovered in the past two days, some of which we already knew, and more details were heard for the first time.
"First of all, it can be determined that the formation process of this asteroid belt is related to the material leakage from the home world to this world. After calculation, we found that there should have been a large-mass planet in this orbit, right where the meteorite group is now On the surface, it is very likely that this planet hit the fault zone where the space flash occurred, and was instantly crushed into the scattered fragments by space phenomena, which formed the asteroid belt. The overall distribution and material composition of the asteroid cluster It can also support this conjecture: they came from a large planet. Now the torn pieces of the planetary remains are being reassembled into celestial bodies at an extremely slow speed, so it looks denser than the usual asteroid belt, most of which have become There are dense clusters of meteorites, and near the central region, small stars with relatively large masses have already formed—you can see those big ones gathered together at this position, as huge as the continental shelf.”
"According to the remaining traces of warping in space, this large area has been disturbed by periodic space flashes for a long time in the past. Generally speaking, space flashes are a rare space spectacle that lasts for a long time. The time is short, and it is impossible to appear repeatedly in one area. The subordinates estimate that the instability of the home world or some kind of mutation caused the continuous flash during this period. The calculated flash zone is ellipsoidal, covering exactly This asteroid belt—or the orbit of the planets that year, not only tore up the planet, but also ejected a large amount of material from the home world.These material fragments were suspended in the asteroid belt's only way, when the latter passed At that time, it collided head-on with an asteroid like a cannonball, and after multiple collisions and fusions, the first sample we got was formed, the kind of 'core specimen' wrapped in a meteorite, but there are more here Even more amazing things. Some home matter was captured by gravity and did not encounter collisions, so it became one of the asteroids here. Being extremely active and subjected to high temperatures, they fuse with local materials here and react to form brand new products."
Tavel paused, and raised his finger forward: "Please follow your subordinates to the laboratory. There are a large number of samples there, and many samples reveal a lot... wonderful information." RS