After some questioning, I knew where Lilina and the little puppet had gone—they had chased and fought quite a distance, in fact, the two girls even ran all the way to the ice-rock planet that is closer to here... OK Well, let's not discuss the movement of the children of the fairy family fighting. The crux of the problem is that they saw the relics made of the materials of their hometown on the ice rock planet, and there were even corpses in the relics!
The little puppet has no ability to distinguish what is the substance of the hometown. She didn't install those weird radars in her body, but Lilina is more or less an "adult who needs to do business" (we don't know how much water is in this sentence. Discussion), she received a detector from Tavel to test the matter in her hometown, so she is 100% sure that there is a suspected emergency landing point on the planet twelve astronomical units away from here—there used to be A group of Xiling ancestors made an emergency landing there, and their remains have been preserved to this day.
I know this is unbelievable. It has been a long time since the creators of the Xiling Apostles went extinct to the present. There is no secular substance that has been preserved for such a long time, let alone a mortal body. Something that only takes a few years to blow up. In the end, the creators are just a group of mortal races, no matter how great their achievements are, they are a group of mortals who are no stronger than any vassal race of the New Empire—however, we need to face the fact that the home world has continued to this day and has exceeded its theoretical lifespan , there must be some unknown factors that caused this situation during this period, and perhaps this factor also acts on the creator.
I clamped the little puppet and Lilina under the armpit on the spot, teleported directly to the engineering base, and then ran all the way to find Sandora. By the time we got to the station, Lilina had already started to roll her eyes, and the little doll was biting my wrist, looking like it had decided to hang on it for a day... Maybe I should use a more secure way to bring these two over.
Sandora was discussing issues with Bingtis in the lounge, and when they saw me rushing in, the two of them were immediately surprised. Bingtis looked at me with two irascible little girls in my hands, and was particularly concerned: " You and Qianqian were out together and were seen by the two brats?"
Me: "..." This female hooligan is definitely a diamond. Is the only value of her existence is to be cruel
"The two little guys have made a major discovery." I put Lilina on the ground, and by the way, I raised my hand to show the little puppet that was biting my wrist and dangling in mid-air. "I found it on the nearest planet. The mausoleum of the creators. There may have been a group of creators who escaped and wandered into this world, and their bodies are even still there."
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a blue light and shadow flash past in front of my eyes, and then a strong wind hit my face. When I reacted, Sandora and Bingtis in front of me were gone, only the automatic gate behind me was blown by the wind. Not eliminated. But a few seconds later, Sandora rushed back at the same speed of sound, grabbing my arm—in fact, grabbing the head of the little puppet on my arm: "Where is it?"
Sandora's other hand is dragging Bingtis, who has not yet reacted. This female hooligan was dragged out at supersonic speed just now. I clearly heard a loud noise at that time. It must be her Hit something, and now she's sprawled on the ground in half-dead mode, held by one arm by Sandra. The female hooligan looked up at Lilina and Mercury Lamp who were also in a blinded state, and she was filled with grief and indignation: "Your uncle... you two really deserve to be a couple! Don't drag my old lady!?"
Sandora picked up Bingtis, who was pretending to be seriously injured and was about to die, and agreed casually: "Oh, I forgot to drag someone." Two words: "Lead the way!"
The reason why she didn't look for a doll was because the latter was still hanging on my wrist, occupying her mouth and unable to communicate. We called Qianqian who was leading the children back, and went to the experimental area to pick up a Tavel and a group of assistant technicians and engineers to accompany them. Everyone set off from the base on an engineering ship, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived at a place ten miles away from here. Two astronomical units above the planet.
This is a desolate, cold, lifeless and solid planet that has ceased geological activity. The biggest feature of this star system is that all its celestial bodies are far away from the sun, even if we advance twelve astronomical distances from the asteroid belt to the sun. Unit, the star is still a cold orange bean in view. The distance is so great that the average temperature on the surface of the planet below us is close to -200°C. The surface of the planet is mainly yellow-brown, which is the color of the ancient rocky crust of the planet. From space, it can be seen that the terrain of this planet is flat. It seems that even in the young period of history, its geological activities have never been Not violently. Among the gentle valleys and geological fissures, white crystals can be seen, rivers that have frozen in the freezing cold—perhaps they have never flowed—and some solid methane hydrates.
A planet as cold as hell, the Witch King could freeze and cry in this place, but compared to the asteroid belt, this place is actually quite warm...
This planet has a thin atmosphere, the main component of which is helium (other gas components have basically been frozen into a solid block or become liquid on the surface of the planet), and several trace elements unique to this universe, these elements It caused the atmosphere on the side of the planet facing the star to appear slightly iron-red—and it was on this side that Lilina and the puppet found those things.
The heavy engineering ship hovers in low-Earth orbit like a huge meteorite. The UAV ejection track and the airport components under the engineering ship begin to deform and stretch, ready to start the orbit-planet joint acquisition operation. We came to the bottom of the engineering ship On the extended platform at the end, through the transparent energy barrier, he looked at the yellow-brown earth under his feet.
I rubbed Lilina's hair: "Where is it exactly? If you want to leave a mark, we can save some time."
"Of course, you can rest assured that I will do things." Lilina patted her chest triumphantly. Although she accidentally discovered the place when she was fighting with the doll, she seemed to regard it as a huge achievement of her own hard work. " I planted a small sapling below, let me look for... oh, I found it, that little green dot over there."
Lilina pointed to a green spot on the surface of the planet and said happily, I was speechless:
A plant that can be seen from space, Lilina calls it a sapling...
The engineering ship locked the coordinates, and found an open space next to the coordinates that was suitable for building a ground station, and then dropped a huge cube device with a side length of about 200 meters from the low-earth orbit. The cube plunged rapidly into the thin atmosphere, stopped suddenly hundreds of meters above the ground, then slowly unfolded and landed smoothly: inside it was a set of fully functional ground station infrastructure, including a small multi-function command center (which allows it to operate in both manned and unmanned modes), two multipurpose laboratories with space-expanding devices, an autonomous mechanical hangar, and three short-term resupply Of course, it is also equipped with an important device that every Imperial workstation has: the teleporter. The teleporter can ensure the rapid transfer of materials between the ground station and the mothership on orbit. Therefore, the ground station itself does not carry facilities such as warehouses that take up too much space.
The on-orbit engineering mother ship, together with several ground stations put on the ground, can start scientific research and sampling work within ten minutes at the fastest. This is the most commonly used planetary working mode of the general-purpose engineering ship we take. Since the Xiling Apostles do not need to collect resources on the planet: they abandoned the planetary mining industry many billions of years ago, so these engineering ships are basically all used for scientific research.
After the readiness signal from the ground station, we went directly to the planet's surface via the teleporter.
The first thing that catches your eyes is of course the "little sapling" planted by Lilina a few kilometers away. It is difficult for me to explain to you scientifically that a tree is breathing helium in the cold wind of minus 200 degrees Celsius. What's up with the giant green plants thriving in the sky - so this one makes us try to ignore the overwhelming big thing and continue to pay attention to the relics of the ancestors. The short-range radar on the ground station has already found the response of the home material. When we came to this site that looks like an oil drilling platform, its hangar is dispatching groups of autonomous machines. The assistant technicians and engineers who were sent to the ground with everyone followed behind us, followed the direction pointed by these self-discipline machines, and soon found the shocking ruins.
It was in a valley five kilometers from here, and it looked like it had been there for many years.
This is a valley with an unusually open bottom. The bottom of the valley is covered with gravel, and there are ravines on the permafrost that will never melt. And at the end of the valley, a huge metal structure was inserted into the ground obliquely. It looks like it's part of a spaceship, and it's also a bit like a crashed orbital station that fell from space to the earth - I personally lean towards the first guess. The shape of this behemoth is a bit like a number of irregular cylinders bundled together, the surface is gray and black, and no painting or markings can be seen. It should have fallen directly from a high altitude to the surface, because the ground around it It is densely packed with radial tortoise cracks, and on its surface, there are gaps torn by huge impacts everywhere: these iconic things record a shocking space fall accident. This metal giant is no longer complete, its end pointing to the sky is a jagged gap, sharp metal structures and broken pipelines protrude from the gap, trembling slightly in the cold and thin atmosphere, as if protruding from a tomb The skinny bone claws are trying to catch the distant sun in the sky. This obvious fracture mark shows that what landed on the ground is just a part of the spaceship (let's assume it is the spaceship first), and the other half of it has disappeared.
"All the home material reactions on the entire planet come from this valley," Tavel looked at the data terminal in his hand, the engineering ship in orbit had released the satellite, and conducted a rough scan of the entire planet to confirm whether there were more Ancestral relic, but it seems the result is very dismal, there is no way to piece together the incomplete wreckage before us.
To be honest, at the beginning, I really didn't expect that what Lilina and the little puppet discovered would be such a huge monster! I thought the two of them just found a few escape pods, or a slightly larger lifeboat or something, but this one in front of me... Its scale is too much beyond my expectations, no wonder the little lamp uses the "grave" two There are no words to describe this thing, this metal wreck standing in the cold wind really looks like a huge and cold tomb.
"It looks like a spaceship," Bingtis looked up for a long time, "is it different from your spaceship?"
"Don't you look at what age this is," I said to her casually, and followed Lilina to the huge spaceship wreckage, "God knows how many civilizations have changed between the Xiling people and the Xiling apostles?" years."
"It's unbelievable... This important heritage has been placed under our noses for two days," Tavel looked up at the huge black wreck like a mountain, and those broken and sharp metal branches were clearly reflected in her pupils, Her tone was rather apologetic, "This subordinate was dazzled by the abundant home material in the asteroid belt at the time, and should have scanned the entire star system earlier."
"No...it's okay," Sandora said absent-mindedly, "It's just a little bit late, but we still found it. The spaceship seems to have experienced an explosion from the inside to the outside, and the fracture that caused it to split in two basically They are all spreading outward, but there is no abyssal breath on the spaceship, what destroyed it?"
Sandora just said this to herself, she didn't expect any answer, and no one could give her an answer: What is in front of us is an ancient secret from a long-lost age, it is so long ago, So much so that the immortal Xiling apostle couldn't detect that period of time. The wreckage of the spaceship is as mysterious as the ancestor of Xiling, and I can't help but have some kind of illusion: I seem to have passed through the barrier of time, staring at the ancient history that has been static, and things that should have disappeared with the passage of time just like this The psychological shock brought by the posture of breaking into your line of sight is indescribable.
Imagine seeing a flash of light at the beginning of the universe at the end of the world, and even that time span is no match for this icy wreck before our eyes.
I have all sighed this way, and Sandora, who is the authentic Apostle of Xiling, is of course even more so. She gently stroked the cold and broken hull, and her voice seemed to come from the end of the world: "Will the first Primarch know?" Will it be born on such a spaceship?"
"At least it was born on the spaceship of the same period," Bingtis patted Sandora's shoulder vigorously, "Damn, I'm all excited: Protoss rarely have the opportunity to see this kind of historical moment... from Where to go in?"
I turned my head to look at Lilina (the doll was still biting my wrist so I didn’t consider it), she found the body at that time, it must have got into this spaceship, and she knew how to get inside.
"Let me lead the way!" Lilina patted her chest triumphantly, and then led us to find the "entrance" of the spaceship, which is actually a large crack in the shell of the spaceship. This crack just traverses a corridor inside the spaceship, so we can Lead to the central area of the spaceship.
Watching Lilina disappear into the gap in the black hole, I can basically imagine that she and the little doll chased to this planet, saw the huge wreckage, and then drilled into it like a child looking for treasure. Going into the adventure scene...
A large group of people followed Lilina into the wreckage of the spaceship. The first part of the road was very difficult, but after clearing the obstacles and bypassing a severely twisted alloy gate, we found the formal corridor, and the road suddenly became spacious. Bingtis snapped his fingers: "Let there be light." So the lighting problem in the dark wreck was solved, and the entire spaceship was shrouded in light, and the way forward was as bright as day.
"Special alloys still maintain a certain strength under such extreme circumstances," Tavel's eyes flashed with azure light, she detected and analyzed the material of the wreck, "There are traces of smelting and a large number of impurities, this ship The ship's building materials must have come from minerals from the home world, though it was not quite the same as what we found on the Primarch."
"The Primarch was created on the Ark in Exile. At that time, the creator should have been able to mine resources from other worlds," Sandora responded casually. "The materials of the Ark come from the home world, and the materials of the Primarch may come from other universes."
"Sampling carefully, the structure of the spaceship is fragile, and it is easy to collapse-don't let the self-discipline machine, you do it yourself." Tavier turned to his assistant technicians and engineers.
The entourage began to carefully collect alloy samples on the spacecraft and released a large number of probes. Those small detectors made brisk chirps and flew into every fork in order to detect the areas we did not set foot in. The feedback information was quickly sent to Tavel, and the structure and functional layout of the entire spaceship were quickly formed in her mind. .
The principle of this primitive aircraft is quite easy to understand in Tavel's view.
"We should be in the spaceship's emergency escape route or backup passageway now," Tavel said, "In addition, the control host of the ecological maintenance system was found in the spaceship, and we may be able to fully understand the home world for the first time in history. What happened to the environment of the original parent star. The propulsion module and the power cabin should be missing from the spacecraft. The subordinates estimate that it was the explosion of the power cabin that caused the entire propulsion and power sections of the spacecraft to be separated. Theoretically, this is the case .”
The footsteps of a group of people echoed in the empty corridor, and the soles of the shoes made a crisp "click" sound when they stepped on the alloy floor. In Tavel's explanation, we learned about this ancient ancestor's creation bit by bit, and approached it. Behemoth's Heart Location: Core Control Section.
There lies the corpse of the Creator. RS