The sudden exclamation from the command area made everyone on the officer's platform stunned, including Sandora, who fell into a state of trance, but our stupor didn't last long, the female hooligan Bingtis used her powerful Nervously resisting this shocking news and being the first to react, she threw herself on the guard wall on the edge of the officer's platform: "What!? Who's kidding!?"
"It's not a joke!" Tavel said suddenly, her tone was agitated, and she was also filled with uncontrollable surprise, "It's really the mother star! Or... nine out of ten are the mother star, and the celestial bodies that appear here are different from each other. Could be something else."
Sandora finally came to her senses at this moment, and she ordered hurriedly: "Turn the screen around, and I'll see what's going on."
The images from the external monitor were quickly transferred to the officer’s platform, and we finally saw the unbelievable scene: a lifeless, dark brown star was suspended alone in the empty and dark space. It is full of potholes, and there is no sign of life at all, but the straight gullies all over the stars and the huge and terrifying crustal cracks seem to contain amazing secrets. The size of this planet is twice the size of Earth, or maybe more, we cannot be sure - for the planet has suffered a terrible and obvious astral catastrophe: it is almost shattered, and the huge chasm seems to have reached In the core of the earth, some holes that run through the planet are terrifying. These scars have completely changed the shape of the entire planet, so that we are not sure whether it has "loosened" or collapsed because of this. Regardless, the planet remains intact, and has been for countless years.
Above this dark brown and nearly disintegrated planet, you can see a large number of floating black fragments. Some of these things should be the lithosphere that the planet broke out, but some of them are too regular in shape. I suspect that they are some kind of Man-made products, but probably because of the disaster that year, they can no longer see their original appearance at all.
Time cannot change the shape of this universe, so what makes those artificial objects difficult to describe can only be the impact of the doomsday moment.
I consulted the data sent back by the probe, and determined that this planet is located at the end of one of the "sharp corners" of the Great Crack of the Abyss Gate. Do you still remember the shape of that weird Abyss Gate? The shape of an elongated eye, so it has two "pointed corners" at both ends, and the star is about half a light-year away from the gate of the abyss. Compared with the big crack with a total length of five light-years, this is really close up.
Of course, the probe also scanned the surroundings of this dark brown planet. It tried to find the former sun or other planets in the parent star system. Ancient historical records record that the parent star system also has a huge gaseous planet. It was an important source of energy when people first stepped into the universe, but these significant things seem to have disappeared. The detector only found a pile of completely cooled heavy element embers less than thirty astronomical units away from the dark brown planet. It may have been the sun of the Xiling people, but now it is just a pile of slag that has been extinguished for many years. With the strange "stagnation" of this world, this pile of slag will suddenly burn again soon, and then continue to flicker like reincarnation. However, we really don't know much about the "stagnation" of this world, so we can only guess like this.
At least in the most recent period that can be predicted, we will not see the sun of the Xiling people burning again.
"This is the parent star? Are you sure?" Bingtis looked at the nearly shattered but barely condensed planet in disbelief, "You haven't seen it—and the positions of the stars are not fixed, maybe it It came from somewhere else."
"This universe is in a stagnant state, and the position of the celestial body will not change much," Sandora grabbed my hand subconsciously, her tone was calm, but based on the strength of her hand, I can tell that Her Majesty the Queen is definitely not at peace now, "There are no other celestial bodies in the surrounding light-years, and the ancient records left by the ancestors mentioned that the mother star is adjacent to the gate of the abyss, so it must be the mother star. By the way, the ancestors gave us some information about I still remember the record of the last moment of the parent planet... Tavel, scan the internal structure of this planet, hurry up!"
Tavel went to work without saying a word, and soon the scan results of the dark brown star appeared in front of everyone. I was not surprised to find something sufficient to prove its identity: large-scale traces of artificial transformation.
The entire planet has been cracked everywhere as can be seen on the surface. The huge rifts and cavities really reach the core of the earth. The power of the abyss makes the planet almost tear itself apart, but in the end it remains intact: because there are everywhere in the star. It is a huge alloy beam that is astonishing!
Huge support beams, superalloy cables, crusts of unknown composition, giant rock pillars, and fillers that are obviously different from the surrounding geological composition forcibly bind the planet together. They are like the pillars of the earth that support everything after the collapse of the land. Like the chains of gods trying to turn the tide after the world is cracked, it is "stitching" the planet in a crude but atmospheric way. Nearly one-third of the entire planet's structure has actually been completely separated from the surroundings, but those incredible man-made repairs have forcibly bound them.
Moreover, we have also discovered huge cavities inside the planet. These cavities may be naturally formed, but they have also been artificially modified. All cavities are built with solid shells on the inner layer, turning them into huge alloy cabins. There are hollow beams connecting the cavities. Those alloy structures and the dense network of pipes in the shell can tell what they mean at a glance: a fortress, a post-apocalyptic fortress!
"Historical records show that after the disaster broke out, the ancestors resisted tenaciously for a long time, and some of them were unwilling to give up their home planet—even if the gate of the abyss was right next to the home star, they would not give up this place. The power of the abyss shines on the home star Let the earth crack, the rift deepens hundreds of meters every day, the planet is about to fall apart, so the ancestors repaired their own planet with huge alloy beams and other things, the abyss can even destroy these repairs themselves, so the ancestors Rebuilt everything over and over again. Finally, the entire parent planet was almost transformed into a planetary fortress: the broken planetary fragments were connected together by alloy cables, the hollows under the lithosphere were filled with death-defying warriors, and the earth was covered with cracks over and over again. The alloy armor was replenished again and again. The garrison on the parent star did not retreat until the death, and when the ark set sail, it desperately intercepted the jet stream flowing from the gate of the abyss to all parts of the universe, buying precious time for the ark fleet, until here All the troops were sacrificed. Ansers once described it this way: the home planet is beyond recognition, but until the last moment, it is our home planet."
Sandora silently repeated the records of the mother planet left by her ancestors, and then gently let go of my hand: "Sorry, I'm a little excited."
I didn't care about it, I just stared at the planet in space. The alloy armor on its surface has been completely stripped off, perhaps the black fragments floating above the planet are the remains of these armors, and the giant beams and cables inside the planet are also full of signs of damage. The entire planet is really beyond recognition, even so beyond recognition that it can no longer be called a natural celestial body, but it still stands in the vast space, guarding the pass closest to the gate of the abyss, and still seems to be facing the crack. glare.
Just like the words left by our ancestors: the mother planet is beyond recognition, but until the last moment, it is our mother planet.
The ancestors eventually evacuated this world, including this fragmented parent star, but I think... they still kept it, because until today, until the fleet of the New Empire docked in this universe, the planet’s The position is still there, and it is still the home planet of Xiling civilization!
"No one can take away his position from a living Xiling apostle," Bingtis said to himself suddenly, and then lowered his eyes slightly, "You have been such a muscle since the mortal age, really... let People have nothing to say."
"So it can be confirmed that this is the mother planet." Abyss Xiling looked at the devastated planet with some vicissitudes, "How did it survive? It was obviously destroyed all the time, but in the end... it seemed to survive until the entire planet was covered by the inert abyss Time for a total makeover?"
"It can only be said to be a miracle, everything is possible," Bingtis smacked his lips, "and the resistance of the Xiling ancestors also made this planet last for a long time. After all, the inertial abyss is not a pure abyss, and it can be eased. On the one hand, since the entire universe can persist until the transformation is completed, why can't a single planet? Although it seems that this transformation is indeed painful... "
"The other celestial bodies here seem to have not persisted," Lin Xue looked at the report sent back by the probe, "There is only the embers of a star nearby, and some thin matter that can no longer be distinguished from star remnants or space air masses. There's only one planet left here."
I thought about it, and I had a suggestion: "Maybe a memorial hall should be built here, or some other commemorative sign. This is the origin of Xiling civilization, and there is no more special place than it."
"It does require a special commemoration, but there is no need to build anything else," Sandora shook her head, "The mother star itself is a monument, we only need to re-strengthen its structure, and then let it last forever, which is enough. Of course, if the ancestors have other arrangements after they come back, I will listen to them, no one has more authority over this planet than them.”
Everyone at the scene had no objection, so the matter was settled for the time being.
The engineering team is still collecting the data of the Abyss Gate to verify whether it can be used as a "bridge pier" to carry the bridge immediately, and the start-up end in a sleeping state will take a little time to activate and detect (after all, it has been dragged so far road, and it’s the only start-up terminal, it’s not okay to treat it carelessly), so we decided to go to the mother star to have a look.
A shuttle was launched from the Admiral of the Empire, and all the commanders of the Royal Fleet, including Harlan, who was commanding the engineering force, and Bella Villa, who was sleeping and recuperating, followed and prepared to land on the home planet together. Before landing, the silver aircraft circled this ancient planet twice the size of the earth, hoping to find some traces of civilization on the surface. After all, this place is in a stagnant state, and many things will not perish. The last impact should not be able to completely peel off the surface of the entire planet. Facts have proved that our guess is correct: there are indeed suspected man-made traces on the surface of the parent star, although there seems to be only such a surface relic on the entire planet, and it has collapsed and dilapidated to the point where it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the scorched earth around us. Still found it.
This place is located on the edge of a higher alluvial belt on the surface of the planet. According to the surrounding terrain, it should have been part of a certain coastline. It is impossible to verify who was stationed here. We can only confirm that there was a base here. .
The high ground is a relatively flat area, and around the roughly trapezoidal open ground, you can see artificial objects that are almost no different from the surrounding rocks. They seem to have been melted, and under the last impact and the long-term irradiation of the power of the abyss, they are completely destroyed. It lost its original nature. If it weren't for its neat distribution, no one would have thought that this place would be related to the relics of civilization. And on some surfaces of the open land, molten metal that is almost fused with soil and rocks can be found. The above is what the entire ruins have, and it is also all the ancestral relics exposed on the surface of this planet.
Sandora was the first to get off the shuttle, and she stood in amazement on the land where the ancestors once thrived and fought for.
"From the day when the core of my thinking started to function, I never thought that one day I would stand on the land of this original mother planet," Sandora looked around at the desolate and dilapidated scene, squatting down and pinching A handful of rough sand, gravel and soil, watching them slowly slip between the fingers, "This is where we originated... I... Xiling Apostle is not good at emotional thinking, but I feel that the mood now is very strange, obviously just It's just a planet, a primitive battle fortress, why does it feel so wonderful?"
"It's not the planet itself that touches people's hearts, but you think of what was born from the planet at this moment," Bingtis analyzed professionally, and then looked up at the space: it was gloomy and dark, and the parent star galaxy The sun and the gaseous giant planets on which the Xiling people depended have long been extinguished, and the only thing that can illuminate the sky is the distant starlight that is not very bright, and the brilliance emitted by the imperial fleet in orbit, and those distant starlight looks like None of them are normal, they are skewed and twisted, forming strange curves in space: because we are observing the stars through the distortion field at the edge of the gate of the abyss. From here, you can just see the corner of the huge crack. Even a small sharp corner occupies one-third of the sky. The starlight is twisted into a lace-like thing to outline the edge of the sharp corner. People are afraid.
Sandora once again recalled those ancient materials: "Historical records, when the gate of the abyss was opened, the first vision was the distortion of the starry sky. The ancestors found that the stars in the sky were all misplaced, and then detected a star next to their star system. The huge distorted space is opening, and then the gate of the abyss appears in front of the world, which permanently changes the view of the stars that the mother star can see when looking up—what we see now is what our ancestors saw back then."
"It's unbelievable that the same scene still looks like this in the eyes of future generations after so many years," Bingtis blinked and muttered in his spiritual connection, "Look, the gate of the abyss that destroyed the world back then …Actually, I can close it by myself.”
Sandora immediately glared at her: "Don't make such a joke, the fate of the entire void rests on this gate."
Just when we were lamenting that we were actually standing on the ancestor star, Qianqian suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed in the spiritual connection: "Hey, what do you think is that!?"
I looked in the direction of Qianqian's finger in astonishment, and found that there was a light blue light cluster in the depths of space that was approaching the earth. It was a strange thing like air gel, and it emitted a light far stronger than starlight. The shape of the light is approximately elliptical, but the surface is undulating and seems to be deformed at any time. There should be no entity in this light, but you can still see some bright light spots and lines walking inside it, indicating that it has a complex structure inside. . I don't know how far this strange thing is from the ground, but I instinctively think that it is not small, and it seems that this thing "swimmed" from space
"Mothership, what is that light?" I immediately asked the Imperial Admiral who was parked in space.
"Your Majesty, we are checking. This seems to be a spirit creature... but it is not like a normal life form. It should have the ability to jump in space. It suddenly appeared above the parent star just now, and now it is passing in your direction. Intercept it Is it?"
"No, wait!" Sandora stopped quickly, and then she looked shocked, "Creature? Are you sure it's a creature?"
"Not very sure," said Tavel's voice this time, "it's hard to define what it is, it's different from any life form we know, even different from spirit creatures, this universe It has stagnated, and it stands to reason that it will not produce new life... But it does have a partial evolution phenomenon, so it may produce some strange things. This ray seems to be conscious, it adjusts its flight direction by itself, and just bypassed us to launch The outgoing orbital station... Maybe it uses the parent star as a foothold? Theoretically... Ah, there are more space signals!"
"Don't block here, let them come over," Sandora's tone was inexplicably urgent, "I want to see what this is. By the way, the fleet is invisible to evade, don't scare these...creatures."
The glow of the fleet in the sky dimmed immediately, and all the spaceships quickly disappeared into space, and then we saw an amazing scene:
Numerous light blue light clusters jumped out from the depths of space, and floated lightly and swiftly to the mother star like swimming fish. When these light clusters become clusters, we can easily see their biome characteristics: they It is obviously a conscious move to form a formation, chase each other, and continuously draw a series of complicated trajectories in the process of falling from space to the earth.
These cloud-like strange things did not directly touch the ground, and finally they hovered in the air hundreds of meters above the ground. At first, they were scattered in small pieces, but soon they gathered more and more, and finally the whole The sky is covered by them! RS