A flash of light suddenly flashed in the dark and vast space, and then the space was filled with ripples like water ripples. A cross starship hundreds of kilometers long protruded from the ripples, hovering imposingly on a green starship. Above the planet—Of course, no matter how powerful it is, no one can actually see it. The Admiral Empire is in an invisible state. Before the local situation is clear, I don’t intend to alarm the natives here.
This time the planet is no longer Sandora's dream, but the original celestial body of the universe after the dream fades.
Sandora's mental induction is really accurate enough, I found that I have accurately arrived at the gravitational balance point between this planet and its second satellite, this navigation ability is no less than that of the shipboard radar.
"The speed of the jump engine seems to be faster than before, and the jump process is more stable," I sat behind the temporary console on the officer's platform, chatting with Sandora while checking the working status of the reborn spaceship. Now the spaceship crew The personnel are not there, and Sandora is just a ball, so I can only temporarily act as a guest operator. Fortunately, I have worked hard to learn a lot of spaceship control knowledge in the past few years, and with the assistance of the shipboard main engine, some basic The mission can still be done, "It seems that when the spaceship is reborn, it seems that the onboard items that are not part of the ship's registration equipment are not regenerated, but some personal items that we put on the officer's platform are regenerated... This is really strange."
"Anyway, this is a good thing." A football-sized golden ball of light floated by my hand, and Sandora's voice came from it, "This shows that its resurrection is controllable, and there must be some kind of law that can be studied. In this way, the spacecraft can still be upgraded and modified, and even if it is sunk in the future, it can be resurrected with the modified parts when it is reborn, so that it will not return to the current initial state every time it is reborn."
I hugged the Sandora ball in my arms, walked towards the transmitter, and while beckoning Alaya to follow, I muttered: "It seems like you plan to let the Admiral of the Empire explode a few more times, just in case What should I do if this resurrection is a one-off."
"Just imagine it carefully." Sandora Ball struggled a few times, "I can move by myself now, instead of walking around with my arms."
I laughed aloud: "Don't make trouble, it feels good."
Sandora: "... Well, forget it, we're already married anyway. But can you stop pinching it? Isn't this a toy..."
We did not teleport directly to the vibrant green planet below, but turned on the stealth state, and first came to the outer space. Sandora said that this is a higher civilization, and the reason is that she found around this planet. A large number of high-tech facilities: space station.
The green planet below is slightly larger than Earth in diameter. It has three natural satellites of different sizes. The smallest satellite is just a large ball of ice rock. If it falls on the surface, it may be a giant meteorite. On tracks that are at acute angles but do not intersect. In the vast space between the three satellites and the green parent star, thousands of complete space facilities can be found. We have one in front of us.
These space facilities have streamlined round shells, ranging in size from tens of meters to nearly one kilometer, and their shapes are basically similar, like giant seeds or some kind of enlarged plant pods. Green is the main color on the smooth alloy shell to depict the decorative patterns of vines and leaves. Although it is reminiscent of cold and rigid aerospace equipment, these space stations still have elegant and complicated patterns and finely crafted patterns. Decoration - This style can't help but remind you of elves. It seems that there are a group of art-loving locals living on the green planet below? And their aesthetics seem to be quite in line with the mainstream standards of the empire. At least I think the appearance of these space stations is very pleasing to the eye.
However, Sandora has no feeling for this style. She rolled around on a space station in a spherical shape, and after inspecting a main armor plate, she concluded: "These patterns are completely useless, and they are neither external energy harvesting." Net. It’s not a magic rune, it’s just a waste of the manufacturing cycle. The patterns on the empire’s equipment are all useful, and purely decorative things need special applications and have special meanings. You look at a space station … The surface is almost being painted into a gallery, why make it so beautiful, who will see it in space.”
"Aren't we just watching," I said in the spiritual connection while catching the Sandora ball floating towards me, "Besides, don't be too strict with other races, there are elves in the imperial family, they can't wait to Draw your own family portrait on the bullets, you will be even more awkward if you see it. You have never seen a space shuttle made by tree elves, it is more fancy than the one in front of you. In other words, this thing in front of you looks a bit tree elf style. , but obviously the technology is a little bit worse."
While chatting, we studied the space station in front of us, which is more than 400 meters long and looks like a slender olive seed. Through its technical level, we can roughly judge how advanced the civilization of the indigenous people on the planet below is, which can be used for the next step. Contact lays the groundwork. This space station is of course inconspicuous compared to the behemoths made by the empire, but it is not small for most civilizations that are about the size of people on Earth, and this thing has a rigid shield generator and a relatively primitive gravitational wave antenna. On the surface, it can be judged that its maker has the ability to navigate within the Milky Way, and perhaps some probes will be released later to search for distant places and find the colonization points of this civilization in other star systems. The shell in the space is covered with beautiful patterns, just as Sandora said, "delicate and beautiful but useless", but I still found that these patterns actually divide the shell of the space station into some areas, such as inspection ports and reserved slots for external equipment , the cover plate of the deformable device and other positions are surrounded by special patterns, Sandora's opinion is even greater: "It is obviously only used to mark the position, is it necessary to draw such complicated things!"
I know that this is the inexplicable discomfort caused by Sandora's inability to eat, so I don't take her seriously at all. I just smiled and shook my head and put my hands on the shell of the space station, preparing for the premise of not alarming the possible guards in the space station. Let's get down to its innards, and... is this thing dormant? !
I was a little surprised, subconsciously knocked on the alloy shell of the space station, and then deepened my mental power, and finally confirmed that 80% of the internal sections of this thing are closed, and there is only a weak energy response in the core.
The only things that remain functioning are two of the station's external devices: the shield generator and the thrusters used for orbital calibration. These two devices are necessary conditions to ensure that the space station can operate in space for a long time.
Sandora didn't expect this thing to look so brand new, but the inside was in a dormant state. She split a small cluster of golden flashes from the mind spark and penetrated into the interior of the space station. It quickly came to a conclusion: "There is no thought response, and there is no sign of life. It seems to be an unmanned station, and even the AI has been shut down...if it has AI."
"Look elsewhere." I turned my head to look in another direction, and at the end of my sight was a small silvery-white light spot mixed with green, which was another space station closest to here.
Moments later we finished checking the second site, and it turned out as expected: it was also dormant.
Alaya released his avatar of the holy spirit, Sandora split more mini-spiritual sparks, and I expanded my telepathic range, and soon dozens of man-made facilities in the surrounding space were scanned by us. However, they are all in a dormant state without exception, and the dormancy method is exactly the same: the main internal equipment is completely shut down, indicating that the entire site is no longer performing tasks, the core has a weak energy response, indicating that the site core is idling in standby, and the shield generator The normal operation of the thrusters and attitude adjustment allows them to survive in this dormant state for an extremely long time—and they may have indeed been dormant for an extremely long time.
"A station may be dormant due to maintenance or other reasons, but these space stations are all dormant... The situation is rather strange," said the spherical Sandora floating two meters ahead. Streaks of golden lines extended from the spark of the mind, and gradually faded away into the depths of space. Just like her fighting posture when she was in person, these golden lines were checking the space station in a farther range. "All are dormant... and the shields and attitude engines are running, which shows that they are deliberately set to this state: although they are not working, they must be on standby in space for a long time. But why do they do this? Their makers gave up Have you got these things?"
"It seems that we can only go to the surface of the planet to find the answer," I looked at the green planet under my feet. "Tsk, there are really weird worlds everywhere, why do I always encounter this kind of civilization that does not develop according to common sense..."
After a while. We have come to the surface of the planet and approached the colony near the landing site invisibly.
This place is located at the end of a triangular plain, which is the junction of the plain and a large forest. There is a straight and wide river at the junction of the forest, which just divides the two landforms into two. The west side of the river is a dense jungle, and the east side of the river It is a plain area with towns, open terrain and sparse vegetation.
In front of us is a local town. It doesn’t look like a big town. It’s more like a huge village than a town. However, there is a circle of earth and stone structures around the village that can be called a wall, so I classify it as a “town” "In the category. Standing at a high altitude, you can see the whole picture of the town. It is built along the river, with a winding shape and a long and thin "body". Gradually rare, but gradually increasing in scale, it is clear that rich households, shops, government facilities and other facilities are located in the inner side of the town farther from the river bank. Most of the houses are a mixed structure of civil engineering + masonry. Most of them are bungalows and two-story houses, and the styles are relatively simple, and there are not many traces of decoration. Even those large-scale houses that look like noble houses are not too much. Much decorated look.
But simple and simple, all the houses are quite neat and bright. Most of these local houses are composed of a square main house and two or three cylindrical auxiliary houses. The outer walls of the houses seem to be white cement or other artificial materials, it looks clean and tidy, while the sloping roof of the main house and the dome of the auxiliary house are laid with blue wooden tiles or fired brick and stone tiles, blue and white, which is basically the only one in the whole riverside town. Two shades.
There is a spiers building with a special style in the deepest part of the town. This kind of spiers makes it stand out from other houses. I don’t know what it is for, but its special position, the stained glass with intricate patterns and the stream of The constant flow of people in front of the door... maybe some kind of religious facility? Of course, this is only a first impression, and the specific situation is still unclear.
As a town, the scale of this settlement is small, but the population is quite prosperous. There are large tracts of farmland outside the town, and the flow of people inside the town is like weaving. From the means of transportation on the street, we can see the level of technology in this world: rich people Riding horses, farmers ox carts. Most of the pedestrians are hurrying along the rough stone avenue. The most high-tech in the whole town may be the three windmills built against the wall on the east side and the large water wheel on the upper reaches of the river. Apart from that, I didn't even see a single electrified street lamp...
"It seems... It's different from what we expected." I landed from a high altitude to the height of the town wall, holding a warm Sandora ball in my arms, and stretched my neck to observe the local people's clothes. Talk to yourself.
The locals are also in the shape of humans, so you don't have to think about transforming into some weird appearance for infiltration, just prepare the clothes of the locals. Alaya has been out for a record-breaking period of time today, and now he has lazily returned to my spiritual world to sleep with my daughter, Sandora... Let her lower the brightness and I will pretend to be holding a football , or she can be invisible directly.
Sandora's observations are much more detailed than mine, and she has spread her power to farther and deeper places. From the light ball in my arms came her indifferent voice: "Visual inspection, their technical level is still in the farming era of artificial + animal husbandry power, there is no sign of electrification, no self-derived mechanical power, and most of the residents are humans In the middle, alien races similar to elves and dwarves were found. The number is small, and they get along well with humans. Expand the search area and confirm that other settlements within a million square kilometers are similar. The overall assessment of this planet is that it is a low-level uncivilized Civilization... I actually made a mistake in my judgment."
It's not just her misjudgment. Even I didn't expect that there would be such a scene on the surface: a farming civilization that didn't develop modern technology at all! It even looks like late medieval Europe!
However, this planet has hundreds of space stations and artificial satellites in its orbit, and those space facilities are even as clean as new, and can be re-operated with just one command!
Obviously this planet also contains secrets. But I never imagined that I was just blown up once in a while, and I fell into a remote world where nothing shit happens by chance. If I find a living planet with a very low probability, I will encounter such an interesting and confusing situation. thing. This ability to hit the jackpot is a natural talent - why didn't I try to buy a lottery ticket before I was eighteen? That way, when the three hundred commanders come, I don't have to ask them to find a job by themselves, and I don't have to cultivate that wonderful hobby of Sikaro...
I quickly prepared a set of clothes for myself that conformed to the local civilian style. In fact, there is nothing awkward about wearing local clothes. Short robes and narrow trousers, gray and gray tones, look a bit like residents of desert areas, much better than some worlds with strange clothing habits. Sandora didn't bother to cover her body with camouflage, and simply became invisible and floated behind me. The two of us just walked into this local town without attracting any extra attention.
"Those space stations and artificial satellites in space should have been sealed up in a planned manner, and there is no sign of being abandoned in a hurry, and their standby state is obviously to wait for a certain moment of recovery in the future," Sandora remained invisible, While observing the surrounding situation, he continued to chat with me in the spiritual connection, "And those on the ground... probably experienced some kind of technological decline, which is not uncommon. In short, it doesn't look like a special civilization worthy of attention, but anyway The two of us are also trapped here now, so let’s explore it for a few days as an outing, sometimes a higher civilization whose development has been interrupted and seriously fallen has a high observation value, and it can give us some enlightenment.”
During the conversation, Sandora has already characterized this as a "leisure outing with teaching significance". Although it seems that something is wrong, it is always idle, and it seems good to relax on this planet.
In this way, we wandered aimlessly in this riverside town while guessing the connection between those sealed space facilities in space and these backward civilizations on the surface.
Although I haven't been to other places, this small town seems to be a very peaceful place. I also saw the elves and dwarves mentioned by Sandora before. They should belong to a minority of residents in the town, but they seem to be In the local area, the three races live together without any signs of conflict, which is not very common in other worlds.
This town is a typical agricultural and sideline settlement. The farmland outside the town and the adjacent river are probably the source of livelihood for the local residents. There is a small market in the town, where you can see hunters selling game and herbs. Presumably, the nearby forest is also a living pillar for the local people.
I feel that it is rare to find a new world, and I should buy some local specialties as gifts for the gang at home, so I wandered around in this small market, although I don’t know the local society, nor do I know the currency, customs, and daily etiquette Wait for the details, but I am also an experienced time traveler. Quickly collecting information through observation in an unfamiliar environment is my strength. After wandering around for a while, I roughly figured out the currency and transaction methods here, and then I was surprised Discover…
Not only currency is used here, but barter transactions are also allowed
It is often seen that some people dressed as travellers, exchange a lot of food or other daily necessities with the local residents with some strange things. "Adventurers" who trade treasures from adventures for money. I have seen many such scenes in other worlds.
Just when I was getting more and more interested in this planet, my clothes were suddenly pulled by someone. (To be continued..) RT