A slender woman wearing a black hooded robe fell under a bush not far away, seemingly seriously injured, and intermittent cries for help came from that direction.
I didn't expect that there were still people who didn't come back in the forest. Looking at the other party's situation... Could it be that they were there when the accident happened in the ruins
Celine immediately led the crowd to rush over, and then heard her exclaim: "Apprentice priest? What happened to you?"
I hurriedly hugged the Sandora ball and squeezed into the crowd, only to find that the one who fell on the ground turned out to be someone I had met once before: Aoba! It was the elf I met in the tavern on the first day I came to the town. I still remember her and a muscular monster named Leon... well, strong adventurers are teammates. I didn't expect to see each other again in this situation.
The elf priest named Qingye is curling up in Celine's arms at the moment. Although there are no visible injuries on her body, her pale face and constantly weeping lips show that the other party is suffering great pain. Her elf's ears were abnormally bluish-white, and this strange color spread from her ears to her neck and the lower half of her face, as if she had been poisoned. Celine shook Aoba's shoulder vigorously. She didn't seem to recognize this foreign priestess, but she recognized her attire at a glance: "Wake up! Wake up! What happened?"
During Celine's continuous calls, Aoba finally regained her senses. She squinted her eyes to see the surrounding scene, and suddenly grabbed Celine's arm: "Leon... Leon is trapped in the ancient tower! Hurry up and save him , he was trapped underground in the ancient tower!"
"We are going, but first we must ensure your safety," Celine said quickly, tearing off Aoba's sleeve, and we saw what happened to the elf's injury: Her arms were red and swollen as if they had been scalded by boiling water, and part of the skin had even festered and pus. "Oops... it's a third type of curse... There is no way to treat it, your body has already begun to collapse."
"Don't worry about me!" Aoba didn't know where the strength came from, and almost pushed Celine away, "Go and save Leon, he is still alive! I know my situation... I was irradiated by the forbidden crystal, and I Stay here, here is the forest... the mother tree will take me."
Aoba's voice became louder, but her breathing became more and more rapid. An abnormal flush began to flood her cheeks. I was stunned for a moment by a word, and then I couldn't help shouting out: "What did you just say? Mother tree!?"
Despite the urgency of the situation, Celine still had time to look at me curiously: "Mr. Scholar, don't you know the tree spirit of the elf belief?"
"Oh, it's nothing, I didn't hear clearly just now." I quickly waved my hand, thinking that it might just be a duplicate name. After all, not only tree elves have a mother tree, almost every elf in the world will establish a similar symbiosis with a huge plant. Even worship relationship, there are many other world elves who call their elf tree the mother tree, then I glanced at Aoba whose breathing was gradually weakening, "Give her to me."
"You?" Celine was a little puzzled, "She is... hopeless, and may be contaminated with curse dust, which cannot be cured."
"I'm just staying with her for the last journey," I signaled Sandora to release some mental interference, and at the same time said in a deep voice, "You can't stay and take care of one... Well, hurry up and take someone to the ruins, I'll Then follow."
Under Sandora's mental intervention, Celine did not have too much suspicion of my vague statement, but nodded readily, and then waved to all adventurers: "Everyone keep up! Don't fall behind!"
The large group of people quickly disappeared into the depths of the jungle. I bent down and patted Aoba's face. The latter had almost lost consciousness, and when he felt someone touching him, he said nonsense: "We stay in the ruins according to the regulations." ... Guards, to prevent anyone from entering by mistake after the gate of the ruins is opened... A voice came from the ground, Leon went in to check the situation, and then the two buildings next to the tower exploded... "
Maybe she mistook me for Celine, and it seemed that she was only thinking about her lover and reporting the ruins.
"It's malignant radiation. She came into direct contact with strong radioactive substances. Fortunately, she didn't get any radioactive dust on her body, otherwise Celine would probably have an attack by now," Sandora said while floating to Aoba's chest, releasing a faint golden glow. Guanghui, first of all protect the opponent's soul, so that even if the body dies immediately, we can easily revive this elf, "Send her to treatment first, and then quickly follow Celine... I hope those stupid guys know the danger of radioactive sources .”
A distorted light curtain enveloped us, and in the next moment we came from the luxuriant forest to a silver-white alloy cabin. In the cabin, we could see a large number of neatly arranged coffin-like equipment: this is a certain ship from the Imperial Admiral. a comprehensive medical cabin.
"Shipboard main engine, are the medical facilities ready?" I put Aoba flat in mid-air, and kept her in the air with the anti-gravity field to prevent her body from being injured again, and at the same time asked loudly into the air.
The voice of the shipboard host came from all directions: "The medical warehouse is ready, and the auxiliary treatment equipment has arrived."
A small door in the corner of the cabin slid open silently, and an octopus-like autonomous machine floated in. This little robot that had just come off the production line and belonged to the comprehensive medical system circled around Aoba's "body" ( The latter has already entered a state of suspended animation) turned twice, and then first pierced a needle into the target's body according to the protocol, and a dull and monotonous voice came from the autonomous machine: "Check the target's life form, reset the medical system parameters... priority Check the shipboard matching library... found the matching list, the patient's race: tree elf, symptoms: severe radiation lesions, organ necrosis, and the body is on the verge of death. The medical cabin is adjusted to G-R35 mode... urgent patient! Send it for treatment immediately!"
The self-discipline machine suddenly let out a sharp roar, and then rushed to the nearest medical warehouse with Aoba, while Sandora and I were both stunned on the spot: What did the "octopus" say just now
The medical warehouse has started to operate normally, and I reached out and greeted the self-discipline machine that was about to return to the Ganaku: "You just said that the patient is a tree elf?"
"Repeated report: Patient's race: tree elf, with slight genetic variation, suspected mixed blood result or natural variation caused by geographical isolation. This machine is equipped with a logic library and identification module designed by Mr. Bubble himself, which can ensure the correctness of the above conclusions."
Even an autonomous machine has the ability to perceive words and expressions. This little octopus-like robot noticed my strange expression and announced its own system—but of course I don’t doubt that there is a problem with its judgment.
I waved my hand to let the self-discipline machine go back to standby, and I turned my head to look at the golden ball of light beside me: "The situation is starting to be interesting... tree elves."
The tree elves, the last family of the old empire, the race that Harlan saved in the past, are also the foreign ambassador of the new empire. They have a gentle personality, are good at communicating, and like to travel far. They have a tough character and outstanding technological talent. Those tree elves are all the survivors of this race after the "Day of Calamity", but it seems that our intelligence needs to be updated again.
"It seems that the tree elves who survived back then were not the only ones who escaped with the green star." Sandora is expressionless as a ball now, but I can still imagine that she must be showing her usual signature at this moment Looking interested, "According to me, the tree elves were a single-race civilization in the old empire era, but the tree elves on this planet live with other races... Maybe they are outsiders."
"Did you wander into this world after escaping from the Empire District?" I was thinking about other things, "In this case... the universe we live in should not be too far from the territory of the Old Empire, as far as we have discovered' Among the refugees, the Fifth Fleet of the Exile Fleet has run the farthest, almost reaching the communication limit of the Garden of the Dead. The tree elves should not run farther than the Fifth Fleet. Then this world... "
Sandora gave the order immediately before I finished speaking: "Shipboard host, try to call the Garden of the Dead, and then report the communication result."
A moment later, the shipboard main engine sent a report, and the result was the same as two days ago: "Communication failed, the signal is seriously distorted, and the strength is insufficient, so it cannot be parsed."
"Communication failed - but it doesn't seem to be because of the distance, at least not only because of the distance." Sandora glanced at me solemnly - I guess her current brightness means dignified.
Aoba's condition is worse... Well, she is actually dead. She officially died a second before being sent to the medical warehouse, so we need some time to wait for her to revive. Naturally, we can't just wait around and take some action. : Play time has ended.
The word "tree elf" made me and Sandora suddenly turn around from the initial mentality of traveling in mountains and rivers. We realized that this world may not be as remote as we imagined at the beginning. The desolate universe that has nothing to do with the empire, oh, maybe it’s really nothing to do with shit, but it can’t be said to have nothing to do with the empire from now on. At least we can be sure that a group of old empire family members have fled here. According to experience, those who are related to the old empire All is well.
Back then when the tree elves reached their peak, they had already explored almost the entire universe of their own. Although they hadn't touched the void technology yet, they had made great technological leaps in the past few years under the support of the empire. Even if they fled to other universes, they still had It is the capital to open up a new world, but in this world... at least the tree elves on this planet obviously don't remember that they have such advanced technology, or even though they remember that they have these technologies, they voluntarily gave up. They lived with a group of ancients, and lived a purely natural life where they basically relied on walking and communication and roaring when they went out—where did their technology go
The tree elves have a long lifespan. As long as they can keep up with nutrition and don’t commit suicide halfway, they can basically live for tens of thousands of years. Natural aging and replacement will not exceed two generations in 80,000 years. What does this mean? This means that the tree elves on the planet in front of us have experienced the old empire at most two generations down the line! It means that Aoba's grandfather probably knew Harlan! It means that if Aoba's grandfather was a little more unrestrained, her father might also have experienced the era of great interstellar voyages in his childhood! I have experienced the glorious era of science and technology in the suburbs of the solar system with spaceships in every household!
The older tree elves on this planet must know the reason for the decline of technology. They should have witnessed how the Lost God Sect rose... Wait, it is very likely that they founded the Lost God Sect!
"In a multi-racial mixed civilization system where generations are broken, the longer the lifespan, the more likely it is to occupy the intellectual heritage, and they can easily establish a 'technical control organization' like the Lost God Religion, and reach a goal of controlling the entire world. Spiritual dominance," looking at the softly beeping medical cabin, Sandora thought of going with me, "They have inherent advantages: to establish a religion, it doesn't matter no matter how many people don't listen to them, as long as they wait It is enough for the opponents to die of old age from generation to generation. They have thousands of years to slowly transform the minds of other races. If there are no races on this planet that live longer than the tree elves, then it is almost certain that the Lost God Cult is these gentle elders. The ears are built. But... this is not the same as the tree elves in our impression? They don't seem to be a race that would do such selfish things."
Of course I think so too, those tree elves of the empire... don't talk about setting up such an inexplicable technology blockade organization to rule the world, the free factor in their bones is doomed that they will not use the strength of the whole family to do such a thankless task They like change, they like to travel far, and they like everything that can make their lives change with each passing day without being boring. Establish a global organization like this to block technology, so that the entire planet can't move forward in the middle of the farming society, even yourself Also firmly trapped on a stone planet with a diameter of only six or seven thousand kilometers? They haven't suffocated themselves to death yet!
At the beginning, the group of tree elves on the green star had no way to travel and no way to develop, life was too boring and almost the whole family went crazy, and finally they had to sleep together and dream to pass the time.
"Assuming that the Lost God Religion was established by the tree elves, then they certainly didn't want to satisfy their own desires and become emperors among a group of primitive people," I said with certainty, "At the same time, they will not be like we guess Because a high-tech war almost destroyed the world, they were scared out of their wits and sealed up the technology like a snake. The tree elves who experienced the glory days are likely to be alive today. They have seen a higher level The world in this world has a high awareness of 'technology' and will not take the conservative route of sealing up all technology to prevent a world war."
"So they sealed the technology to prevent something more serious..." The Sandora ball landed gently on a data terminal in the corner, and a large number of golden rays extended from her body to connect with the data terminal, "I am in Release more probes and engineering ships, and build research stations in the depths of the universe. It can make a race like the tree elves with a "family background" decline like this. It seems that the "threat" is extremely large-scale, and it is very likely to come from this planet. In addition, we'd better be able to find something in the deep space...or find something outside the universe. But in the end, the success rate of this is not high, the whole world is shrouded in strange disturbances, ordinary void probes leave the world barrier After that, it almost disappeared in the blink of an eye. Ah Jun, do you think this interference has something to do with the tree elves' storage technology?"
I raised my eyebrows: "Are you saying that this interference is not a natural phenomenon, but left by a hostile race? They killed the tree elves' exiled fleet back then, and made the latter dare not develop technology until today, for fear of being killed by their enemies." Find out that you are not dead yet?"
"It's very possible, but I can't explain the significance of this interference. If it is caused by war... a race that has the ability to isolate the entire universe, it is easy to completely wipe out the tree elves," Sandora set the probe, and flew lightly Come over, "But in any case, our eyes should be placed in a wider area. The tree elves also came from the void, and they should leave traces in more places."
Thirty minutes ago, we didn't raise the crap that happened on this planet to the height of the entire universe, but now that the "Tree Elf" appears, even Her Majesty the Queen, who is as thoughtful as Sandora, has to do it. It is a bold guess, and the reason is nothing more than one point: the tree elves, the last family of the old empire, were almost on the verge of independently developing a high-tech species of the void engine, and they have already reached the upper level of the pyramid of mortal civilization. The group of people who have eaten and seen it!
Such a group of "experienced" highly intelligent races chose to seal up all technologies, and even themselves were willing to live a medieval life with a group of primitive people (this group of primitive people should be the real local aborigines on this planet). The nature is completely different from the storage technology of a group of guys who have experienced a mere global nuclear war and are frightened (look at us). For example, you also meet a poor family at a street beer stand to drink away their worries If this fat man was the richest man in the city back then, it would be fine. No matter how twists and turns his story is, it can only be the idle talk of ordinary citizens. The Saudi visa came... Would you believe it if there were no two million words of grievances and hatred behind it
For us, the tree elf is such a fat man who used to swear at Fang Qiu in the Saudi region, but now lives on the streets of Tong County to drink away his sorrows. Sandora and I are eager to know what this group of ups and downs with long ears have experienced—— It turned out to be like this.
"Before the deep space probe has more information, we'd better have a good talk with the survivors of the tree elves," Sandora seemed to be looking at the medical cabin where Aoba was lying, "This little girl is too young, but The elders in her family or the elders of the clan may still be there. With the lifespan of the tree elves, even if they do not accept the transformation of the empire, they can live from the end of the old empire to today with hard work. Well, if there is no major problem with the timeline of this world. "
So Aoba, who was slowly resurrecting in the medical cabin, was left behind, and Sandora and I teleported back to the surface again. RS