The locals on this planet regard the astonishing EOP-03 in their orbit as an energy furnace, and they even think it is a matter of course: no one seems to know that once that thing falls, the entire planet will be destroyed in an instant. Burnt to glass.
Sandora let go of the local man, whose eyes became clear after a trance, as if she was wondering why she suddenly stood in front of a group of strangers and became dazed, then the woman nodded silently to us, hurry up step away.
"They should have been collecting energy from that thing for a long time."
Sandora looked up at the big blue and white fireball slowly moving in the sky, and then looked around.
The main colors of the city are gray and black, and all the buildings are built with darker alloys. Although there are many people on the streets and the city is very prosperous, I always feel that there is a deep and depressing atmosphere in this color tone-well, We don't discuss the colors of these buildings. After all, the customs and habits of each species are different, and even the world in their eyes does not necessarily have the same shape. In Sandora's eyes, everything in the world has small arrows and information sheets.
What I want to say is that all the buildings here have a weak psionic reaction, which should be the main energy source of this planet.
These psychic energies are not pure. In my perception, they show various clear properties: they have conduction speed, heat when flowing through certain conductors, and have electromagnetic radiation... Pure psychic energy does not have these clear properties , because it is located at the high position of the void ladder, it should be an ambiguous and vague energy. When it becomes so clear, it means that this psionic energy is about to decay into ordinary energy that is common in the universe.
So the energy of this city is the end product of psionic energy. Undoubtedly, this extremely decayed psionic energy was transmitted from the spaceships in space.
"The energy harvesting ship uses something like a prism to collect the weak phantom energy radiated by the bomb, and then irradiates them to the ground.
There is a huge storage device under the city, this storage device is not very efficient, but it can store psionic energy with a lower intensity, and this energy system relies on this energy system to maintain its operation without the sun," Shando Ra narrowed her eyes slightly, and her perception spread to the depths of the ground, "...there is a material factory below, and when the psionic energy is completely exhausted, it can be guided by the material guidance equipment.
Decaying to the entity into energy residue, which still has a high energy value and is very unstable, and they are sent up into the sky to fill those fusion furnaces.
Become a source of light and heat for the planet.
This is the entire life support system of this planet.
It was not built overnight. "
"Dig a hole here, and you should be able to find the energy center of the city at once, and then follow the network to find the center of other cities or the energy dispatching system of the entire planet. From this system, you should be able to figure out how they got from EOP-03 Harvesting energy."
Wei Jia said seriously, while walking beside us, she measured it on the ground with her long legs, which can be infuriating to death, as if she wanted to calculate how big a hole her scorpion body needs to get through. like going down.
I immediately felt that it was a mistake to bring this one-headed Sister Scorpion.
I might as well take Raven 001 or Orla.
"I have left more probes in space orbit, and the structure map of this planet will come out soon, there is no need to use such a troublesome method," Sandora glanced at Vega.
Then he led the crowd to the outside of the square, "Now I want to know about the situation of the indigenous people in this world.
This kind of civilization is rare to thrive in a universe that is about to go extinct. "
"They don't seem to be in any hope of despair."
I looked at the pedestrians passing by, although the city was dark in tone.
The dress of pedestrians is also a bit inconsistent with the aesthetics of earthlings, but the passers-by around me can't see the sense of despair living in the dying universe.
They were on their way normally, chatting and laughing, the voices of people were noisy, the floating car in mid-air brought gusts of wind, and when I closed my eyes, I felt that I was not far from Nanfu Street: it didn’t look like the end of the world. .
Except that the sun in their sky has almost gone out, and now a set of fusion furnaces is providing light.
"Why despair? It will take hundreds of millions of years for the universe to be completely extinguished. A red dwarf star can continue to burn slowly for tens of billions of years after it is formed. Even if they are now at the end, the remaining lifespan is a miracle for mortals. Numbers," Sandora shook her head, "too many races have a short lifespan, and even if their world is about to collapse, it is difficult for them to feel it.
The process of the universe dimming down is extremely slow. They have too much time to slowly change their lives from generation to generation. The new generation will not think that there is anything wrong with the fusion furnace in the sky and the dark night sky after the fusion furnace shuts down. , and they don’t feel that the cosmic winter that will come in hundreds of millions of years or more has any connection with them. Have you regretted the beginning of the star-making movement? Obviously not. "
I am speechless, this is something that can only be felt after billions of years of time, Sandora has witnessed the rise and fall of the world, the decline of races is too much, the dark and dark space in front of her is nothing more than that, Ming, who thrived in this world, was just "rare" to her.
"So, boil the jingle in warm water..." I sighed leisurely.
Sandora: "...?" We followed Sandora around this somewhat weird city, she didn't seem to think about anything, but I had to look up at the terrible fireball in the sky from time to time , I'm afraid it will fall when it falls.
Half an hour later, Sandora finally tasted all the edible things nearby, and wiped her mouth with satisfaction: "Okay, I almost understand."
I looked at Sandora silently, and said to myself that it was exactly what I thought. Sandora said that to understand the customs and customs of the local aborigines, basically it starts with understanding what is delicious in this place. Her Majesty’s understanding of the world The main sensory organ is indeed the tongue.
"Ajun, don't you want some?" Sandora held a bunch of green and oily things in her hand, and she couldn't tell whether it was vegetables or meat or some other strange food, and pestered it in front of me, "It tastes good. The mixed taste after the ice rock asteroid is smashed."
When I heard this, I was even more afraid to agree, so I quickly took two steps back: "Should we get down to business?" Sandora stuffed the bunch of things that were said to taste like a mixture of ice and stone into her mouth , Wipe the corners of your mouth.
Then I grabbed a passerby from the street just like before: "Excuse me, ask something..." I slapped my head: Sandora's method of catching a passerby and asking a bunch of weird questions is getting more and more proficient up.
The passer-by who was stopped by Sandora was a young man who looked like a half-grown child. Under Sandora's mental disturbance, the passerby did not show any surprise at all because of being suddenly stopped, but nodded obediently , as if Sandora should do everything for granted—I have to say more, this kind of mental disturbance is actually a rather terrifying ability, if Sandora uses this ability on a group of people, and then points at a magma Chizi said "jump".
The pool can be filled up within a minute. This is not mind control, but pure cognitive disturbance, which makes any thinking individual have a false perception that everything Sandora ordered is the unconditional truth — but in the last half hour.
The only function of Sandora's ability is to let her eat the overlord's meal for half a street. In the end, the twin sisters and I had to leave some useful things on the stalls as compensation: No way, take Sandora With such a large appetite, it is possible for her to pull the GDP of a small Eastern European country with just one mouth... Sandora gestured to ask someone about one thing: the local database, or the library, or the data center, or a convenient network for citizen inquiries.
Anyway, whatever it is is something like this.
As an enlightened civilization that has spread throughout the universe, it is inevitable that a complete and convenient information sharing system should be established. This system will permeate every individual in the entire ethnic group and can cover all the information wealth created by this civilization.
Just like the Internet on Earth.
Of course, the Internet of people on earth still cannot be said to have reached the level of covering all the information of the entire civilization, but through it you can almost already understand the history of the Ming Dynasty of all mankind, at least what is going on on the earth.
The higher the civilization level, the more developed this network will be.
Understanding a world through it is undoubtedly the ultimate way to save worry and effort.
So I always feel that the gang of aliens killed in American blockbusters are really hard-working. If they can send two people to the Internet cafe on the earth for a night in advance, the invasion will be successful. At least if they are prepared, they will not be hard enough Killed by the heroic American people with disinfectant and cold virus... You see, as aliens, we are quite skilled in this regard.
Sandora asked people for a long time, and finally figured out where to look for this kind of information: In the north of the city center, there is a facility called "Advanced Information Support Center". The National Museum is open to experts, scholars and internal members. Only there can you find the real core things.
The EOP-03 that is the lifeblood of the planet in space, its source and energy collection method must be stored there.
We are very glad that we chose the largest city on the planet to log in. There is only one such query facility on the entire planet, and it is exclusively open to scholars on the planet. Intelligence is the same, and it is physically isolated from the civilian network. That is to say, if we use data terminals to brute force the various signals received in the city, we will not be able to see the information at all: Sandora has already thought of this, so she A local person was specially found to inquire about the situation.
Although civilians do not have the opportunity to access large databases, they at least know that there is such a national library on their planet.
"Here it is—wow, it's quite big."
After a while, we came to the "National Library" of the locals, a triangular prism building larger than the Empire State Building, covered with solemn black crystals, like a black monument-well, almost all the buildings in this place are is black.
Standing in front of the entrance of this building, I looked up and sighed slightly at its size: As a "library" (that's how I understand it), does it really need to be so big? The empire's main database is scattered throughout the entire data network, without even a single physical building—the difference between the Xiling Apostle who advocates efficiency and pragmatism and the ordinary race who cares about appearance and fascination is not small.
Sandora once again used mental interference to confuse the attention of the building guards, and Vega was responsible for interfering with the access control system. We walked into this building for recording sensitive information on the planet (not top secret yet) Building, when I walked into the gate, I looked down and found a huge bright red triangular emblem on the ground in front of the main gate.
Almost covering the entire ground in front of the door, this is a rare bright color in this city lacking in color.
I think this emblem is a bit familiar, but after thinking about it, a red triangle is really common, probably the emblem of the natives of this planet.
With the help of Sandora's ability, we are a group of aboveboard visitors, and all checkpoints are open to visitors.
This magnificent triangular prism building is divided into many floors, and the layout of each floor is somewhat similar to the museum hall on the earth: blocks separated by light beams are neatly arranged, and each block has a group of floating Twilight cylinder device.
These devices should be general-purpose data interaction devices. Of course, there are other things in the hall that look more brilliant, but Sandora is not interested in that. She just needs an access point and a ready-made index directory.
The performance and advancedness of these devices is of little importance to her.
An administrator wearing a black short robe approached, as if wanting to offer some help. Sandora glanced slightly in his direction, and the administrator returned to his original position with blank eyes.
"Astronomical phenomenon, history, natural science, journal entry energy technology...these entries are meaningless."
Sandora put her hand on the top of the cylindrical device closest to her. She didn't know how to operate this, but she cracked the reading method of this thing in a short time. Now she directly scans the device's information from the microscopic level. core to read data.
At the same time, she converted the information she saw into a holographic image and released it for us to watch, "It seems that the information on this planet is not very comprehensive. About the bomb, this is all the information—" We appeared on the holographic projection. The gray-black planet we are in now.
As well as EOP-03 above the planet, there is a connection between the bomb and the planet that represents the energy broadcast.
Bright grids are scattered across the surface of the planet: this should be a schematic diagram of the planet's energy supply network.
The words on the screen are distorted and difficult to distinguish, but after searching the entire database, Sandora translated them according to the laws of language distribution and ideographic symbol distribution. This translation is roughly accurate: EOP-03 in the sky is directly called As an energy furnace, it has been operating in this world for hundreds of thousands of years.
Yes, hundreds of thousands of years—it really wasn’t something left by Harlan, and judging by the time, millions of years ago... that was the heyday of the old empire! The one who left behind the energy furnace was a legendary figure called the Great General. In the word introduction about the energy furnace, the general was mentioned respectfully. A general brought an endangered civilization out of a collapsing world, and then placed it in this universe. The general left behind knowledge and equipment, and the wealth was kept by the people. According to the information, when the general left He promised himself that he would return one day in the future. At that time, the general would get back the wealth he left behind and lead Ming to another world. During this period, everything the general left behind: technical materials, energy furnaces, ghost Functional equipment, special resources, material converters, etc., are all freely used and cracked by the locals.
Regarding how to collect the energy in the energy furnace, it is also the method left by the general, because the local Ming has never been in contact with such things as psionic energy, and they could not make any equipment that can withstand psionic energy at the beginning, so the general left behind a "prototype" "And the energy furnace, today's energy harvesting ship is copied from the prototype of that year, but the new energy harvesting ship is obviously not as sophisticated as the prototype of that year, they are very large, and because the energy storage device underground in the city is also relatively backward As a replica, the collection ship needs to be launched once every three days to meet the energy demand of a medium-sized colony.
In the inconspicuous place of the data, we found the title of this Ming. They called themselves "Hessian Tribe", Ming's exiles and watchmen.
"They are waiting for the return of an imperial commander named General. This is an alien civilization, and their origin is not in this universe." Sandora looked at the information thoughtfully, "This is much more interesting, They were brought out from a collapsing world. The environment in that world is obviously much worse than this place. No wonder they can live so comfortably in this kind of universe. According to the slowest development speed of a civilization, they may be born At the end of the universe - I have never seen what the pastoral universe looked like.
It is mentioned here that the return date agreed by the general is unknown... This is a bit strange, the Apostle of Xiling will not make such an ambiguous promise. "
"We basically never make promises about the future to ordinary races, because it may affect future actions and hinder efficiency," Vega said, "but when we make such promises, they are precise and do not hesitate to Get it done at all costs.
This general should be an apostle of Xiling, but her habits are really bad. "
I didn't respond, because there is only one picture left in my mind: when I walked in just now, there was a bloody triangle emblem on the ground at the door... I looked at Sandora: "Take the general as the key word, find Find something."
"oh."
After a while, the information terminal began to play a large section of files—it seems that the natives of this world attach great importance to the matter of the general. The information is extremely detailed, but I didn’t pay attention to what was written on it, and everyone’s eyes were focused on it. on those screens.
The general is wearing a black hooded cloak—just the same style as the local clothing we saw, including the texture—standing among a group of black armored guards. The background is a huge metal structure suspected of being a spaceship. The portrait should be taken at the space star port Coming down, the general was very short and couldn't see his face clearly, but two scarlet flashes could be seen in the shadow of the hood of the hooded cloak, and the most striking was on the soldiers around her and the metal barrier behind her. It is the kind of blood red triangular emblem.
(Ahaha, can I let you guess right!!) RT