Sword of Daybreaker

Ashalena was deeply shocked by the endless stars in the vast space. In the entire "viewing module" that followed, her eyes almost never left the vast starry sky outside the high-strength transparent polymer pipe. This kind of sight made her feel almost trembling oppression when she faced the stars for the first time, even if she felt like she was about to "fall out" out of this small orbital module and "fall into" the boundless darkness. In the middle, she couldn't bring her eyes back.

The stars seem to have a kind of magic, attracting every intelligent creature who sees it to cast their sights into it.

And after a while, something else suddenly came into Ashalena's sight. It was a metal object floating in the distant space, like a shining gem, shining under the stars.

She saw a Voyager satellite that happened to be in orbit nearby. It was floating in the dark cosmic background. The metal shell was still shining brightly, but the mottle left after being hit by tiny meteorites could be seen in some marginal areas. Scar, the Dragon Seal Witch, who entered space for the first time and had never experienced the era of the Sailor, didn't recognize what it was, but she still thought of "The Sailor" for the first time, so her eyes suddenly widened.

"Ms. Kassandra!" She immediately turned to look at her temporary "travel companion", "Look at the one outside, that thing looks like...Ms. Kassandra? What's wrong with you?"

Ashalena looked at the siren next to her in astonishment. For the first time she saw such a complicated expression on the face of such a heartless optimistic race. Cassandra grabbed the nearby handrail and stubbornly. Staring at the shining satellite in space and some more majestic space facility in the distance, but the focus of her eyes seems to have fallen farther away, in a place that Ashalena cannot In the depths of the comprehensible stars, the sea monster's tail slowly twisted tightly, and then relaxed little by little. She finally spoke, making a low muttering voice: "Ah...they are still in the sky. …"

"Are you okay?" Ashalena was a little frightened, "You look a bit... Have you seen these things?"

Cassandra seemed to finally remembered that there was a "travel companion" beside him, and then turned around: "Sorry, I remembered some things from the past... I was a little gaffe."

"Thing of the past?"

Cassandra twitched her mouth and revealed a somewhat complicated smile: "You know, our Kraken is not actually a race born on this planet. Many, many years ago, we had to land here because of an accident. of."

"I've heard of this..." Athalena thought for a while and nodded slightly. "It was introduced in the "Encyclopedia of World Races" published by Cecil, and I also listened to the local dragons in Tarrond. Mentioned this matter."

"When I fell from space, I saw these things," Cassandra said softly, and looked up at the starry sky outside the polymer pipe. "That was the last time I looked at the stars outside the atmosphere... I thought that the second time I saw this kind of scenery would be in this situation."

Ashalena opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say for a while, and then she realized a surprising fact with hindsight, and looked down at her feet: "Wait... we It came from that tower... so that tall tower standing on the sea... actually stretches out into space?! The sailor can even make this kind of thing!?"

"If I'm right, this should be an orbital elevator," Cassandra laughed and explained to the Dragon Seal Witch in front of her. Although the siren is now trapped on the surface of the planet, they are after all the stars that have traveled in the sea. It’s not difficult for them to imagine the many things left by the sailors. “There should be two orbital elevators like this, and the other one is also on the equator, the one where Gawain Cecil climbed up.” tower'."

"Track... Elevator?" Ashalena repeated this phrase that was unfamiliar and awkward to her. "I have heard the word'elevator' and Byron said that Emperor Gawain likes to use this word to refer to large buildings. Magic lift, where will we be taken by this'lift'?"

"If my memory is not biased and my guess is not wrong... it should be something that shocks you more than a rail elevator," Cassandra said thoughtfully, and then her eyes suddenly turned to the polymer. Outside the pipe, a slightly excited expression appeared on her face, "Ah, sure enough, Ashalena can be seen from this angle, look over there!"

Ashalena looked in the direction pointed by the tip of Kassandra's tail in surprise. The next second, a huge consternation and a sense of oppression filled her body and mind. She saw a piece of covering over it. The arc-shaped "earth" surrounds the planet with an astonishing majestic aura, and the endless steel ring is covered with complex structures and huge cabins that she can't even name and can't guess. In the partially transparent structure of the ring, there are buildings shrouded in darkness and quiet, and there are faint lights flickering and flowing between those buildings. She looked like a mythical giant snake crawling around the planet. The giant snake was sleeping for a long time, and she herself was rushing towards the snake's belly at an astonishing speed.

Only then did she realize that some of the dimly large spatial structures she had seen in the distance were only part of this ring, and this ring... is the "top end" of the tall tower standing on the sea. .

"How is this possible..." Amid the huge impact, Asha Lena still maintained normal thinking ability, "Such a huge thing surrounds our planet, even if it is far away, it is impossible to see it... But for thousands of years we have looked up to the sky..."

"The optical mask, everything is invisible, maybe to prevent it from affecting the normal development process of the intelligent race on the surface of the planet," Cassandra shook his head, "just like what we experienced when we entered the'tower'. Certification', everything left by the sailors has very strict'safety measures'... They seem to be quite concerned about the'normal development of civilization'. I think this may be almost a law engraved in their bones. ."

Ashalena blinked. She was about to say something again, but the synthesized voice came into her mind again: "The cabin is slowing down, it is approaching the terminal, the guiding process is activated...the core process group is missing, Transfer to the default docking process..."

Accompanied by a series of unclear announcements, the two "visitors" felt their feet vibrate again, and the "elevator car" running fast in the transparent polymer pipe quickly reduced its speed. The next moment, a metal structure was sinking rapidly. Appearing outside the pipe, blocking their gaze towards the starry sky, they entered the inside of the sky station, and they were in the process of "docking".

Ashalena grabbed the handrail nervously, for fear that this too old alien equipment would malfunction, but in the end, everything ended smoothly. The elevator car stopped, and the transparent protective wall around the car returned to the silver. White metal texture, after a few more seconds, a slight humming sound came from not far away, and an open "doorway" appeared on the silver-white metal wall as before.

Outside is an unfamiliar and open space, and the dim lights and dusty corridors of the space station invite two explorers to step into it.

"...Okay, fortunately I let the two sisters wait here," Cassandra exhaled, muttering as she walked out, "No matter how powerful the Mowang terminal is, it is impossible to contact this side... "

"Can you still get in touch with the two siren remaining below?" Ashalena glanced at each other in amazement, "Can you still make a spiritual connection with the siren so far away?"

"It's not spiritual connection, it's psychic reverberation, a kind of racial talent," Cassandra seriously corrected. "The spirit of our Kraken is'unified' on a higher level, just like in the elemental plane. In a sense, the lower elements are the “extended structure” of the elemental plane itself. On the same planet, all sea monsters can sense each other...Of course, the distance will still affect our perception effect, just like Here, I can’t communicate directly with the sisters who stay on the surface, but at least we can sense each other’s existence and confirm that each other is safe.”

"...This is really an enviable talent," Ashalena couldn't help but said, "We Dragon Seal Witch also have similar'resonance' skills, but we can't sense each other at such a distance. "

While muttering, she stepped to keep up with Kassandra's "foot", and while maintaining a high degree of vigilance, she truly stepped into this ancient alien facility that has been closed to the outside world for 1.8 million years. .

The first thing that caught her eye was an extremely wide hall, which was even so wide that it reminded her of the amazing scale of Beigang's wharf. An extremely dim light shrouded everything in her sight, allowing her to barely see those. The large equipment in a silent state and the passageway of the black hole on the edge of the hall seem to have many corridors connecting the hall, but they are all shrouded in darkness.

Considering that this is the "terminal" of the rail elevator, this "hall" was originally supposed to be a busy transportation hub, but now that millions of years have passed, there is nothing but emptiness and silence.

"...It's completely different from the part on the surface," Ashalena couldn't help but said, "It's still brightly lit below..."

"Perhaps the facilities located in space are more prone to damage and aging in harsh environments. The condition here is obviously not very good," Cassandra analyzed. "Theoretically, there should be an automatic operation in such a place. The welcome mechanism, especially its design, has a process open to the'indigenous races', but we have all come up, and we haven't seen anything start... then it's probably broken."

"The orbital elevator is not broken," Ashalena couldn't help but glanced back at the direction when she came, and saw the silver-white metal pillar standing in the center of the hall, and the cabin door for the passengers was still open. As if waiting for the visitor to return at any time, "We really can't go back if this thing is broken..."

"I'm okay, I can die and go back. At this distance I can rebirth in the sea on the surface of the planet, and you will have difficulty. Jump from this height to the atmosphere, not to mention that there is so much vacuum and radiation in the middle, which enter the atmosphere The high temperature is terrible, and the dragon is afraid that it will die halfway," Kassandra heard the words of her companion, and seriously analyzed the things that others sounded quite neurotic. "But if I get to that point, I can try to treat myself Become a giant pufferfish, you drill in my stomach, we two jump to the surface together, I fight for the magical turbulence layer and then die, you wait for me to die and then find a way to slow down. Of course, this has a major premise, that is, we must first Find the airlock to the outside, and that thing can be opened..."

The more Ashalena listened, the more horrified she heard, and finally stared at this serious-faced Kraken: "Your Kraken's usual way of thinking is like this?"

"What's wrong?" Cassandra looked inexplicable. "Do you sound unreasonable?"

"Reasonable and reasonable," Ashalena looked convincing, "...Sure enough, you should be more hard-cored when it comes to death..."

Suddenly, she felt that, compared with the sea monsters who were dying since they couldn’t die, even the dragonborn bear children who jumped under Longyue Cliff every day are gentle and harmless like they were before the age of three. kid…

"Most things here seem to have been shut down," Cassandra didn't care what Ashalena was thinking. She had already started exploring this big, unspeakable place, and came to a place. Before the station is like a device that controls the terminal, "our arrival did not cause any reaction..."

"Which direction to explore next?" Ashalena followed and asked this Sea-Monster partner, who seems to be unreliable, but who is considered a "member of advanced civilization", "Would you like to find a corridor to get in? "

"...It's best not to run that far directly," Cassandra said seriously, "The scale of a ring orbit space station is unimaginable. With the efficiency of the two of us, no matter how large the scope of exploration is, the entire space station It doesn’t make much sense. On the contrary, it’s possible to get lost in those intricate corridors that have stopped functioning. I suggest that we first explore this hall. The gravity here is normal and the air is still circulating. This shows that at least the life-saving system in this area is still In operation, it is safer."

It’s somewhat weird to hear the word "safety" from a Kraken who was still carefully analyzing the method of death, but Cassandra had to admit that the other party’s words made sense, although she herself did not understand space facilities and space flight. Some things, but for a moment, she also knows how dangerous it would be if some of the cabins in this huge "space station" were completely out of control. The energy pipeline leaked, the toxic gas overflowed, the air circulation failed, or it simply broke. Hole, in this place far away from the shelter of the planet, the powerful dragon is not much different from the weak rabbit.

At the same time, Kassandra had circled the device that looked like a control terminal twice. After some thoughts, she stepped back a distance, and then leaned her tail over. An extreme position poked carefully what looked like an operation panel with the tip of his tail.

When Ashalena saw this scene, she didn't have time to come up with any thoughts in her mind.

In the next second, she saw a sudden light on the surface of the terminal that seemed to have been down for many years.

Ms. Cassandra’s penetrating voice came into her ears:

"Deep ocean, this thing is glowing!!!"