The scale of this weird space complex is about the size of the solar system. Although it is equivalent to a drop in the ocean compared to the surrounding peculiar space areas, its absolute scale is still quite impressive. Sandora controlled the spacecraft and dropped A large number of detection equipment, and then slowly moved to the interior of the building complex, and as they continued to advance, all strange phenomena began to appear.
"The space readings are not normal. There seems to be something hidden here, but it seems impossible to decipher it for a while," Sandora looked strangely at the equipment in front of her and the panoramic view of the entire space complex. There is a large blank area near the core area, there should be something here, look at these, it is obviously the outer buildings—but the inner buildings they guard are gone.”
"Have you discovered the function of this complex yet?" I asked curiously.
"No, all the facilities found so far are weapon platforms, warehouse ports and other facilities. These facilities can be seen in any space base. If this is an ordinary space colony point, it would be too disappointing. "Sandora slowly floated in front of the large data terminal, while ordering the shipboard host, "Start to analyze the spatial structure here, there may be things like spatial cracks hidden here."
I looked at the holographic projection next to me, and from here I could clearly see the structure of the entire space complex. It is a classic multi-layer spherical space complex. Like a spherical shell-like structure, the outermost building layers are relatively sparse, and the more buildings go in, the larger the scale, but this rule is broken when the third-to-last building group in the inner layer: the last The core three-story building complex is extremely sparse, there is a large area of meaningless open space, only alloy frames with unknown meanings and high towers and fortresses as auxiliary buildings can be seen in the space, as if all the buildings in the city center It was erased out of thin air, but all the roads around the building and the newsstand at the gate were left behind. I could tell at a glance that something was wrong without Sandora reminding me.
But those abnormally empty areas were not covered by simple optical camouflage or the like. The detector shuttled and cruised there several times, and finally determined that there was really "nothing", at least it was empty in the normal sense of space and time.
Of course, Sandora has discovered that the space readings here are abnormal, so nine out of ten the buildings here are hidden by some space crack: once again proving that the former owners of these buildings have technology far superior to the tree elves.
The engineering ship slowly lingered in this unusually open area, waiting for more useful information from the scattered probes, and Sandora took this opportunity to slowly study the various energy readings permeating the space: "There are hidden Energy fluctuations come from the 'vacuum'. They are energy of the same level as psionic energy, so they probably directly infiltrated the space blockade here. Hmm... there is still psionic energy? Could there be imperial equipment in the hidden things? Let me see See what else... An energy form that has never been seen, the old empire has not recorded, the race that fled into this universe back then seems to have a very complicated composition, maybe it has something to do with the fourth and fifth fleets in exile?"
It is not surprising to find psionic energy. The tree elves are also the last family members of the empire, and there may be other servants of the old empire who fled into this universe. More than half of the equipment they brought is equipped with psionic energy. This space The ruins may be the facilities jointly built by those exile races. What I'm curious about is... Could it be that the God's Forge refers to such an unknown building complex? So far, I haven't found any tallness in it that matches the words "Tianjin Forge". The only special point is that some buildings are hidden. Perhaps the key to the problem lies in those hidden buildings
While thinking about it, I studied the picture from the probe, and then a silver-white metallic brilliance suddenly came into view.
"Sandora, do you think this is an imperial facility?" I immediately patted the Sandora ball in mid-air, and brought the latter over to look at the holographic projection in front of me: the image has been zoomed in and enlarged, and the ball in the center of the screen It is a long strip of alloy building. This building has the typical silver-white + silver-gray shell and blue painting style of imperial facilities, but the imperial military emblem is not seen. Perhaps the part where the military emblem is located has been cut off—this long strip The shaped facility looks incomplete, and one end of it disappears neatly into space, as if cut by a sharp knife.
"It's probably...go over and have a look," Sandora took a look and made a decision, "Let the spaceship work by itself, let's go over."
The shipboard AI of this engineering ship can complete most of the tasks independently. Sandora left it with orders to continue to crack the space anomalies here and scan every facility in the entire building complex, and then pulled (although she has no hands now) ) I teleported to the vicinity of the long silver-white facility. By the way, we also brought a few self-discipline machines in case of emergency.
This seemingly empire-style alloy building is three kilometers long, seven hundred meters wide, and three hundred meters high. Although there are some structural protrusions on the surface, it is still an unconventional cuboid as a whole. It is regarded as the end) is slightly closed, and on the end armor plate, something similar to a loading and unloading gate can be seen, and an armor plate is cracked due to unknown reasons, and a large number of connecting bolts and crystallization pipes are exposed from under the armor plate: This structure is used for physical connection with external energy and data systems.
At the other end of the facility, there is a clear sign of severed, where there is a neat and sharp oblique cut. The scale of the entire facility may be larger than it looks now, and the other end of it may be a large building with a complex structure, and even the long metal structure in front of us is just a bit of the fur of the entire facility, but this is meaningless: this thing It seems that only such a short section is left floating here for people to admire.
That's right, this is an imperial facility. Although I still haven't seen the military emblem or any other conspicuous marks, the shell is made of extraordinary alloy dedicated to Xiling, and the crystallized pipe network exposed under the metal shell is also a feature of imperial technology. . It's just that the building's energy seems to have been completely exhausted, and even the aftermath of the energy veins has dissipated, so the familiar blue glowing grid can't be seen on the armor plate, nor can it feel the faint glow it emits. can fluctuate.
"At first glance, I thought it was a spaceship," I slowly landed on the surface of this alloy facility with the Sandora ball in my arms, and the several autonomous machines behind me quickly scanned the entire building in the air , "Speaking of which, I have never seen this kind of building. The spaceship is not like a spaceship, the turret is not like a turret, it is not like a living quarter or an energy group, and it is not a factory."
"There is no mark that can identify the identity. It can only be confirmed that it was made by the Empire, and the specific function will not be confirmed until the scan is completed," Sandora's voice sounded in my mind, and then she jumped in my arms, " By the way, why do you always hug me these days? Although it’s not that you’re unhappy...but why do you hug me so often after I’ve turned into a ball?”
Me: "...you are chubby, always worrying that if you don't pay attention, you will be gone."
Sandoraball: "..."
This alloy facility has been completely shut down, and naturally there is no gravity environment, which makes people very uncomfortable: I still like the feeling of being down-to-earth. No matter how I get used to it in the past two years, I find the zero-gravity environment an annoying thing, but Sandora Ball It seems that I prefer this kind of place where I can float freely. After struggling to get out of my arms, she has been floating in front as a "guide"-although neither of us know what this thing is for, but Sandora It seems to know where its entrance is.
"Ah Jun! Here!" Sandora swayed happily up and down a hundred meters away, "This is the entrance! If the shallow scan is correct, you should be able to directly enter the personnel passage here!"
I quickly floated over, and sure enough, I saw a gate structure more than ten meters wide in the middle of the connecting section of the armor belt. Of course, due to the exhaustion of energy here, the gate cannot be opened through normal methods, but this is not a problem. Floating to the groove at the top of the gate in a flat shape... I quickly pulled her back, commanded the self-discipline machinery that followed behind me to cut the gate, and educated my Queen by the way: "Queen, just pay attention Your own image! Isn’t your form specially used for picking locks?”
Speaking of the word lockpicking, I couldn't help but start thinking wildly: It would be great if Little Crow and Little Bubble were by my side at this time, they are a duo of bear and kid picking locks, and they are guessing this place All the space blockades are free... I haven't been tossed by the gangsters at home for several days, and I still feel lonely. Is there any help for me
The charged armor that has lost its charging effect is nothing more than a super alloy with high resistance. After the engineering cutting arm of the self-discipline machine was tossed with sparks and drilled for a while, an extraordinary line appeared on the gate soon. The passageway, the metal on the passageway wall was still glowing with hot red light, so I flew directly in with the Sandora ball in my arms: below is a very spacious white corridor, but unfortunately it was completely dark.
I was also planning to ask Sandora to provide lighting, but Her Majesty hit my head with contempt: "Damn brain, it's not that there is no lighting equipment here, I asked the engineering ship to send a support sub-machine, the energy network here seems to be No problem, the energy supply will probably be restored."
A 100-meter-long, stout working ship separated from the distant engineering ship, and quickly connected itself to this strange rectangular facility. The workboat carries a portable high-efficiency power furnace that comes in handy in this situation, and since we've already confirmed that there are physical connection pins for the crystallization pipe network at the end of the facility, it's not a big deal to restore the facility's lighting, and of course we only Restoring the lighting system and part of the environment maintenance system of this facility - firstly, the output of the external power furnace is limited, and it is impossible to support such a large building to resume operation; The power is really not guaranteed to blow up directly.
As the external energy comes online, the lighting system in the corridor resumes working, and artificial gravity reappears. Although the atmospheric problem has not been solved for the time being, at least it is much more comfortable than before. Sandora and I began to explore here curiously, and very I soon discovered a familiar phenomenon... All the equipment here has no nameplate!
There is no sign on the data terminal embedded on the wall, and there is no nameplate on the compartments on both sides of the corridor. There is nothing that can explain the "lineage" of this facility along the way. All signs indicate that...
"Abyss Xiling is everywhere," I looked at a fixed data terminal embedded on the wall without a nameplate, and I couldn't help complaining about the cluster consciousness that lingers no matter where I go, "I'm afraid this place It was made by Abyss Xiling again. It seems that the tree elves ran away in two groups at the beginning, one of them followed Harlan's guidance, and the other group might have had an accident and was later rescued by Abyss Xiling—that should be It was when she was not crazy. So this place is actually part of the Ark of Exile?"
There is no nameplate or any logo. This is the biggest feature of the equipment secretly manufactured by Abyss Xiling at the end of the old empire. So far, we have not found this feature in other empire creations. Abyss Xiling made these things before they were completely polluted, and they were basically used to rescue refugees (the Abyss Xiling was not black at all, what a conscientious Virgin girl), so It is not too surprising to find the creation of Abyss Xiling in a universe that may be a place of exile. I just didn't expect that guy to help the tree elves in person: Harlan has no record of this at all. It seems that he and Shan Dora accidentally broke through an unsolved case in ancient times.
The world seems more and more interesting.
"It's hard to say if it's the Ark of Exile, but it's definitely related to the Abyss Spirit," Sandora was trying to restart the data terminal in front of her. She extended many golden lines from her body to connect to the data terminal, as if trying to read directly. This thing, but she was disappointed after a few minutes of tossing, "Tch, there is no meaningful information at all."
"This place seems to be just a...peripheral device. The equipment log shows that it is called 'No. 3 Energy Conductor Long Bridge'. Do you know what it means? That is, this place is at best a device for conducting energy," Sandora Ball Put away the golden lines on his body, and slowly floated forward, "Long Bridge No. 3, which means that there are No. 1 and No. 2, and the possible existence of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... But why do we only see this No. 3 long bridge? And it’s only a small section left.”
I followed Sandora's "footsteps" and looked curiously at the unusually wide corridors on both sides: "The channeling bridge? Why don't I remember that the imperial facility has such parts. By the way, where are you going to float?" ?”
Sandora didn't even look back: "Go to the fracture, doesn't it seem like one end of this 'long bridge' has been cut off? I feel like it's not as simple as a simple fracture."
The shape of this rectangular alloy facility is simple, and its internal structure is also simple and clear: we are in the central corridor of the "No. 3 energy-guiding long bridge". This corridor directly runs through the entire facility, and you can go straight to the end along it. Presumably everyone still remembers that one end of this ruin was cut off? Now Sandora and I are standing in this stubble position, watching the corridor in front of us and the entire alloy frame outside the corridor break out of thin air, and the dark space is in front of us.
"What cut this off?" I was amazed, observing the smooth and neat section of the alloy wall beside me, and finally ran out and flew around with great interest, um, I really can't see anything else outside , There should have been a rather magnificent Xiling building here. The several kilometers long silver facility in front of us is just a part of the building, and there are more than one such parts, but what we can see now... only this one is called It is called the "No. 3 energy-guiding long bridge", and it is even just a small fragment of the long bridge.
I suspect that the building didn't really "disappear", but was also hidden by things like space gaps, just like the large and unusual open area here, which is right under the eyes of myself and Sandora, It is possible for me to stand on the surface of this building or merge into its walls (this is really a creepy sense of sight), but due to the space anomaly, it is like a parallel universe that cannot be perceived—what the hell is an engineering ship When can the space code here be deciphered
"God knows what's going on, the space encryption method here is very clever, even to the point... on par with the old empire," Sandoraball also curiously studied the stubble at the end of the corridor, and then I was in space with me Swirling, like a naughty satellite revolving around me, "The detectors have found a large number of abnormal signals in the open area here, but each signal is encrypted, and these signals hide a folded space, We have to decipher the correspondence between the coordinates of the folding space and the coordinates of the real world in order to understand what is hidden in this place... Well, you seem to understand this principle, right?"
I thought about it, and decided to express that I understood it well, otherwise I would definitely be popularized by Sandora on the spot for two to three hours. In fact, it probably means that I can really understand it, and it’s not like I haven’t learned anything in the past two years.
"The scale of the building complex we saw is already huge, but its real secret is only the small piece in the middle. This piece of space, which is roughly the size of the sun, is hidden by a space sealing device that is still in operation. Those outside There are a lot of things, but they are actually worthless—they’re just sacrificial objects,” Sandora finally stopped going around in circles after being caught by me, but lay comfortably on my shoulder and muttered, “I don’t think even here It’s definitely significant if it’s not the Forge of the Gods—there is an imperial facility here. Ah Jun, you know, the imperial facility is produced by Abyss Xiling, the coffin-level treasure that the tree elves brought over when they fled here, and it is covered by such a strict set hide the space blocking device... What a secret this must be!"
I patted the Sandora ball that was once again limp into the shape of mochi, and then suddenly found that the surface of the "No. 3 Energy Director Bridge" was rapidly spreading beautiful blue patterns, and then...
The workboat connected to the complete end of the energy-guiding long bridge disintegrated silently. RS