"This one looks familiar." The little puppet lay on my lap, looking at the screen projected on the data terminal. The probe in deep space has approached the target according to the order, and now it is following the bright cloud in front of it. After the flame, it moved forward at a constant speed, and the violent energy interference caused the incoming picture to shake occasionally: the probe AI was approaching the core of the flame as far as possible at a safe distance, so as to send back the clearest picture.
Now the picture has reached the clearest level in theory. I saw the radiant fireball showing a dazzling blue-white color, and its core gathered a group of crystalline substances that were like crystal dust and were spinning rapidly. The crystalline substances They are connected by a translucent void structure: this is a core of half matter and half energy. This familiar structure, and strong energy disturbances...
This is an EOP-03 that has been activated and is orbiting the planet. It is not an artificial sun of the local indigenous people!
"Go, go find Sandora!" I picked up the little doll and put it on my shoulder, striding towards the door, and when I passed the door, I heard a loud "bang" from above my shoulder, followed by The little puppet fell backwards on its back.
I turned my head and noticed one thing: the gate of the battleship lounge is two meters high, and I am 1.85 meters. The total height of the doll must be more than two meters after sitting on my shoulders. Now the doll girl seems a little Angry, her little canine teeth flickered coldly on one side.
It seems that this is not the first time I have made this mistake. Almost all the door frames at home have been damaged by it... But it seems that the gate on the battleship is much stronger than the door frame at home: Correspondingly, the small lamp is now more angry.
After a while, I came to the bridge of the Admiral Empire, where Sandora and several senior generals were analyzing the space readings, looking for the specific location of the space folds where Harlan was hiding, and the protoss five-member group looked at those Equipment, Ilsen is discussing with his sister whether the tactical radar can receive the movie channel. Bingtis was the first to find me, and she was very surprised: "Why is this child hanging up again?"
I smiled awkwardly, and raised my right hand: Xiaodeng was biting my wrist like a hooked fish, I shook it twice, and the little girl fluttered in the air: But even if she died, she would not let go.
"A small problem, it will probably hang around for a long time, she will always open her mouth when she is eating - well, let's not talk about this, Sandora, I found something," I ignored the small light hanging on my wrist body, and transferred the data terminal in his hand to the projector on the officer's platform, "The deep space probe found an incredible thing in the sky above the local indigenous planet, could it be Harlan's handiwork—he used this threat to Locals?"
Now I am eager to find evidence that the fallen apostles threatened the local aborigines or destroyed world peace—because Harlan led his destructive army in this universe. Even after the traces of his destruction, I feel sorry for my worldview. This mentality is probably the same as squatting in the clover bushes and insisting on finding a four-leaf clover. Both belong to the middle and late stage diffuse obsessive-compulsive disorder, an incurable disease...
The picture from the deep space probe immediately attracted the attention of everyone on the officer's platform: including the Protoss five-person group. Of course, their motivation is that although they don't understand what it means, they look quite bright.
Sandora adjusted the angle of the probe: "eop-03, but the model looks so weird... It is much larger than the conventional model, and the core structure is also different," she said, controlling the probe to retreat, with Observing the deadly astral incendiary bomb from a longer distance, "It is cruising along the low-Earth orbit... It seems that it has not received the landing order yet, and there is still a success rate for intercepting it now."
"Of course we have to stop it," my sister said without hesitation. "This must have been left by Harlan. He finally took action against the local natives. I will go there in person. The probability ability should be able to prevent the bomb from starting..."
"Wait!" Just as her elder sister was about to intercept the astral incendiary bomb, Sandora suddenly saw something appearing on the screen, and immediately waved her hand to stop it, "That's... the spaceship of the locals? Probe, rely on past."
Something we didn't expect appeared on the screen: several spaceships with strange shapes were suddenly launched from the black-gray planet below EOP-03. Those spaceships looked like elongated ellipsoids with complex floating shapes Power Patterns: This makes it completely impossible for me to see if they are battleships or something else. These plump spacecraft are about several kilometers long. They must have anti-gravity technology to take off from the atmosphere. These spacecraft flew straight to the incendiary bomb in low-Earth orbit as we watched in confusion, like a small group of moths. Like a blazing sun—of course, this one is a little too small. We assumed that these ships were launched by the locals in an attempt to intercept the deadly weapon, and if so, EOP-03 would undoubtedly have been detonated before we could do anything here in time. My sister let out a soft exclamation, and Sandora let out a sigh—but just when we could already imagine the tragedy of the planet being melted in an instant, an incredible scene appeared:
The several fat ellipsoid spaceships parked safely near EOP-03. The bomb did not respond to these large space entities at all, as if its detonator and AI had been turned off. Those spaceships followed the bomb and ran for a while. Yes, the outer casing slowly opened, turning into several cross-shaped structures. The inner wall of the elliptical spaceship shone with a faint blue light, looking like a prism after being charged, and then...then they moved together with that terrifying bomb stand up!
"This is... Could this be collecting energy from EOP-03?" Sandora was dumbfounded, and even Her Majesty the Queen couldn't help being distracted this time, "Probe, read the energy reading of that bomb. "
Soon we collected the changes in the energy readings of the outer layer of the EOP-03. Just like Sandora’s guess, when the prism spaceships opened their “sails”, the energy readings in the outer layer of the bomb dropped steadily, and then In a short time, the core of EOP-03 began to continuously recharge the outer zone, believe it or not: this reached a dynamic balance, and the weird bomb was supposed to explode under these conditions, but it It even started to release energy smoothly!
"These spacecraft are irradiating the ground and projecting the energy they collect to the receiving station on the surface of the planet." Sivis looked at the other information from the probe and said in surprise, "This is a collection system. , which is powering human settlements on the surface of the planet, though... despite its somewhat lurid source of power."
"Is Harlan still not moving?" Sandora suddenly looked up at Sivis and asked a very abrupt question.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Fleet of the Fallen Apostles is completely unresponsive. I don't know what they are doing."
"Prepare a spaceship for me. I want to go to that planet myself and get in touch with the local natives," Sandora stood up with a curious expression on her face, "I originally planned to contact them again in a few days, but now It seems that there is something interesting in this world."
"I'll go too," I stood up, "I have a caretaker."
In fact, I didn't say the whole thing, and the more important reason is that I'm also quite curious about how those crazy natives did such a sensational thing! Gather resources from EOP-03? ! Tavel didn't even dare to think about it!
"Your Majesty, will this be dangerous?" Sivis was worried, "Harlan's army may..."
"Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion, that guy shouldn't show up in a short time, Xiaoxue, is it okay?"
Sandora looked at Xiaoxue, who closed her eyes and shook her head: "The future of this trip is worry-free—Dad, you really don't want to take me?"
"Stop talking nonsense, stay behind to watch the house," I said decisively, this trip will not bring more people, it is enough for myself and Sandora to check the situation, after all, we are not here for fun, and we have no family with us The reason to go to investigate, and the rear really needs someone to sit in charge. I saw a few little guys looking eager to try, and decisively stuffed them all around my elder sister: It's not that I can't understand the feelings of these little girls, but this universe is not safe after all, and it can even be said to be very dangerous. Harlan is lurking in the Somewhere in the space, the two sides are now in a weird state of balance. Sandora and I can guarantee to go back and forth safely in the army, this is because I have confidence in my void power, but if I bring a If you help the little oil bottle, the situation may not be certain.
It's one thing to practice, it's another to lead a child through landmines—I can't do it.
A small shuttle quickly set off from the Admiral Empire, and Sandora and I set off to the sturdy indigenous planet to check the situation. Only three people passed with us: Vega, and the sisters Arcida-Asidora.
Scorpion Soldier Vega is considered a bodyguard, although I don’t think it is necessary to bring a bodyguard at all—because I don’t know whether it will be me and Sandora who will protect the bodyguard or the bodyguard will protect the two of us—but it hurts to say this reason, and With Wei Jia's death-defying character, she must not accept it. She has shown her determination with her military vocation and her iron-blooded loyalty, so Sandora and I can only take her. As for sisters Asida and Asidora, it is in the true sense to prevent unexpected situations:
A pair of space twins are like panacea in this kind of mission. They can advance, attack, retreat, and defend. If the situation requires them, they can pull the entire fleet over to help out in an instant. If they need to evacuate, they can lead everyone back safely, and nothing can hinder their teleportation ability. I think they are almost instantaneous. Group hearthstone, and there is no cooldown time, I really can't think of a more suitable map occupation than them.
On the way, Sandora also shared some of her opinions, which made me understand more clearly the weirdness of that EOP-03.
"First of all, as a bomb, EOP-03 cannot operate stably as an energy source," Sandora explained, "The bomb in orbit has released the surrounding radiation cloud, so it is active, which This bomb explodes at any time when it is activated, and it cannot continue to operate for a long time: within a certain period of time, it must detonate, which is like a grenade that has been fired. So I don't think anyone can put EOP-03 Use it as energy."
"Secondly, the possibility that the bomb came from Harlan can now be ruled out—let's not discuss why it can release energy stably like an artificial star. In short, the local aborigines are absorbing psionic energy from EOP-03, and they have special corresponding Collecting spaceships, and the collection process seems to be easy to do, it is not something that can be mastered in a day or two. This bomb has existed in this universe for an unknown number of years. It existed before Harlan arrived here, and it was well known by the local indigenous people. Stuff: It's even become part of the lives of the locals."
"Finally, the model of that bomb is very strange," Sandora exhaled softly, "EOP-03 does have many variants to meet different power requirements, but I have never seen this kind: such a volume Big, but the energy intensity doesn't seem to be very high... Forget it, I won't be able to figure out these things for a while, but I hope I can find the answer after arriving at the destination."
The shuttle arrived at its destination in just a moment: we came to the sky above the gray-black planet.
The space is dark, and there are not many stars in this dying universe. The only brighter celestial body is a red dwarf star two astronomical units away from us. It was a warm and bright sun a long time ago, but now it only It can emit a dark red light that is countless times dimmer than before, and the surface shows some obvious dark areas due to uneven temperature. The accumulation of heavy elements and the continuous weakening of the core reaction have caused the volume of this gaseous planet to drop sharply to what it is today. Appearance: From our side, it is not much bigger than a peanut.
The only remaining stars in the universe basically look like this.
After a star becomes a red dwarf, the celestial system around it will undergo catastrophic changes. The exponential decline in the star's energy radiation will destroy all life in the original habitable zone around it. If you want to survive around a red dwarf, you must rely on the latter Very, very close: The habitable zone of a red dwarf star is ridiculously close, and the rocky planet below us is clearly too far away from its dim sun. So it has its own special energy - an EOP-03 bomb that fell into this world at an unknown time.
The brilliant psionic fireball is orbiting the planet less than ten kilometers in front of the shuttle, and the egg-shaped energy harvesting ships around it are keeping pace with it. Our shuttle is invisible, so the locals will not notice it . I turned on the projection device of the shuttle and looked at the surface of the planet below. What I saw was a deeply modified colonial planet.
A large stretch of endless tall buildings covers almost every corner of the planet. These buildings have the same style, with round domes like eggshells, and prismatic, angular main bodies. This kind of arc and straight line directly The stitching style is something I haven't seen before. Since it is no longer able to receive sufficient light from the sun, the planet is illuminated by artificial lights. Fusion devices used for lighting (and possibly heating the planet's atmosphere) are suspended above the atmospheric dome, arranged in a matrix with the planet. Synchronous operation: These things remind me of the artificial sun arrays in the ruined world back then, but the fusion furnaces in front of me are obviously more advanced, and they are well maintained. She wore a gauze inlaid with gemstones. The surface of the planet looks very prosperous, and the means of transportation are constantly flowing. Below the stratosphere of the atmosphere is a busy three-dimensional transportation network.
All I see on this planet are the words "peace and stability" and "business as usual". The natives here seem to be completely unaware that a group of uninvited guests broke into their universe, and Harlan did not interfere with their imperial army's massive move Entering did not attract the attention of these natives. Of course, it is also possible that this planet is a pure colony, and the civilians and guards here are completely unaware of the above things.
Speaking of which, we have not yet formally contacted the aboriginals of this universe: they have spread throughout the universe, and of course they have the ability to see the imperial army suddenly appearing on the edge of the universe, but they seem to have no reaction to this. How strange.
"Indigenous life forms are highly humanoid. They can land in a high-profile way, or they can mix with the locals first." Sandora looked at the collection report from the probe and waved to me. Their database is fine, there is no need to contact the government on the planet now."
Everyone agreed, and we remained invisible and landed in what appeared to be the busiest part of a gigantic city on the surface of the planet. Sandora put away the shuttle, and activated her own mind interference force field: this force field ensures that the locals will not be surprised by our sudden appearance, and allows them to ignore the "extraordinary costumes" of our group.
In this way, the locals around did not feel that there was anything to be fussed about when a few strangers appeared out of nowhere in the square, and I took advantage of this time to look at the surrounding situation: I am now at the gathering point of citizens in the city —It may be other facilities, but it looks like a square. There is a lot of people around the square, and the clothes of the locals are of course weird to me: it looks like long and short robes or hooded capes, and the colors are mostly black, and the texture gives a fabric and plastic texture. Mixed feel: soft, but with a plastic sheen. This kind of custom dress looks a little lifeless, and it feels like the FFF group is out parading the streets...
Of course, this city is not dead, there are many residents here, and pedestrians can be said to be bustling - and no one expressed any surprise at the EOP-03 that was slowly gliding past in the sky.
This scene was really too weird.
"What is that?" Sandora looked around, and then directly grabbed a woman who happened to be walking by us. There was a golden halo in her eyes, and she controlled the woman in front of her with mental disturbance, then raised her finger and pointed asked the orbital bomb in the sky.
The woman caught by Sandora froze for a moment, then ignored the sense of disobedience of this question for a moment, and replied naturally as if answering today's weather:
"Energy furnace, the energy furnace left to us by the general." RS