Xiling Empire

Chapter 117: The Coffin of the Mystery

As soon as the parliament said half of it, it disappeared in front of me and Sandora again. This time it took a few seconds to reappear, and my body flickered all over. I could n’t help but worry about seeing this situation: "So what? ... are you okay? "

"It doesn't matter," the council still looked indifferent, "My data subject is placed on the planet, and the interference of the extension on the network will not affect the subject. 89 reading network. The data volume of Yu Nader's aggregate is too large , And we do n’t have the advanced quality projection technology like yours. If I want to appear at the far nodes of the network and be able to contact the physical world, I can only use this kind of extremely high bandwidth and environmental requirements ... ”Blink, disappear , Reappeared, the council continued: "... extended technology."

Coco Kina looked at his long-awaited and recently reunited old partner: "In fact, you don't have to use an extended body. If you use conventional projection, you can still see the scene."

"But I want to 'touch' that thing for myself, and I want to know what kind of disaster has caused you so much," the council smiled slightly, looking at Cocokina's erratic face, "contacting the physical world, It's my only pleasure ... "

Three seconds later, the council appeared in front of us again, and she looked at Lin Xue sincerely: "That ... can you turn off the small device in your hand? Although you think it's nothing, it's still vulnerable to us The network has a big impact. "

I glanced at Miss Lin and found that she was using the data terminal to connect to Starcraft, and was connecting with Bubbles: I knew immediately how frequent and abnormal interference was going on from the beginning, and I felt about the council. deeply apologise.

At this time, the railcar that transported people between the space station and the large spacecraft by the traction beam also reached the end smoothly. We felt a slight vibration under the body, and then the portholes beside it opened. The outside was already a scene inside the spacecraft. .

A group of people came outside, and there were already many staff members here to answer, most of them stayed more or less for a while with Sandora and me, how to say, although now between the empire and the exiles The exchanges are normalizing, but this will not change the status quo of the imperial people as rare creatures in the eyes of the exiles. It is indeed very curious that we appear before them.

"Oh, it looks like ... an old spaceship." Lin Xue looked up and couldn't help grunting. According to what we know about the history of the exile, this colonial giant ship should have been completed when the exile fleet set sail. It is an old antique of tens of thousands of years. We ca n’t help but admit that this is a very magnificent giant spaceship. When people see it, they may be shocked to be a god, but it is undeniable that it has grown old and ruined. Very serious signs of wear can be seen on the alloy ground in the mooring port of the ship. Although this special metal never rusts, it has been scoured by years of scouring. The light in the wide port is very uneven, and many places are even dim. The local artificial gravity has a deflection of at least five degrees, which makes people feel very uncomfortable, and the atmospheric circulation here seems to have completely stopped, and the low pressure is not like an environment prepared for living things. Most of the staff on site Wear special closed work clothes: the other part is probably ethnically special and can survive in low pressure and oxygen-free environments.

"The Anchor series is the oldest colonial giant ship model. It has no experience at the beginning of construction. It has many design shortcomings. No one would think that its ecosystem needs to be maintained for so many years," said Coco Keina, floating on us. Leading the way, although this spirit creature also has human-like limbs, he doesn't seem to be used to walking, more like a ghost floating around, "plus our unskilled skills on psionic energy, Ankach No. 5 has had several accidents, and its ecosystem is the worst of all giant ships. When it escaped, the ship could only survive in one-sixth of the shelters, but compared to hundreds. It was actually fortunate that Ankach 6 disappeared deep in the void in the Pyro Furnace's runaway years ago. "

How to say, my biggest problem when communicating with these exiles is that I always get into an awkward situation from time to time. Although the other party has no intention, I do n’t have to take over all the responsibilities, but when it is embarrassing, It will be embarrassing. This can only be said to be due to personality-it is like the real literary youth, even cursing the street can't help but use parables ...

The long axis of Anchor 5 is more than one hundred kilometers. Of course, the passage inside the ship is seven to eight, and the transfer head is large. The target warehouse is in the middle of the giant ship. It is definitely impossible to walk past, but due to the failure of the transport device in the spaceship We can only go by small shuttle. Passing through the gate in the surface area, you need to cross a large plain attached to the isolation bulkhead (this plain should have been a residential and ecological area, but now it has become dead due to poisonous gas and pollution. It can only be seen through the porthole To the abandoned urban building complex and the scorched earth, and some twisted plant remains), and then from the second blockade wall, a large crack that looks nothing like normal design and flew directly into the intricate pipe network cabin of the giant ship In the paragraph, we finally arrived at the warehouse where "the thing" was after crossing a small town built near the cooling core and still with faint lights.

Along the way, I saw a starship that was not so much a colonial ship, but still a wreck of a hot airship. The level of degradation of the stacked ecological zones, transport networks, and concentrated residential areas was astonishing. I dare to imagine how they survived in such an ecological environment in the last few hundred years of exile. The most sighing sigh is the large hole located in the middle of the secondary blockade wall. It is said that there was a phantom leak incident. It was torn. At that time, two material synthesis factories and a small residential area near the breach were instantly radiated into powdery crystalline material. The remaining pollution has not been cleaned up until now, and the residents near the contaminated area at that time had nowhere to go. Going, you can only risk your life and live in a sanctuary that is only one wall away from deadly dust. These are all described by Coco Keena on the road, and he knows the accidents of every colonial ship of the Fifth Fleet.

I do n’t know if the broken scene seen on the way touched Sandora. Her face was not so good. When the shuttle arrived at her destination, she whispered: "Ajun, I am a little bit Feeling restless. "

"Indeed, the Fifth Fleet is really ..."

"No, I didn't mean that," Sandora's voice rang out in a spiritual connection. "It's something else that makes me feel ... uncomfortable, maybe intuition, something to happen."

I took a strange look at Sandora, and then suddenly thought: As an empire queen who has witnessed tens of millions of years of history, has touched more touching events than the exile, there is almost no upper limit for calmness, Sandora Is it possible to be so disoriented by seeing a deserted ecological boat? Obviously impossible.

Just as I was going to ask further what was going on, Coco Kina suddenly said, "That's the one in front."

Sandora waved her hand slightly, motioned not to worry about her, and then pulled me off the shuttle.

In front of everyone, there was a large group of metal structures that had been severely deformed and damaged, with no material or function at all. It is roughly square with a side length of about ten meters. It stands as if it is a small building in front of us. Its surface is covered with twisted metal plates. Uneven part fragments are found under the broken metal plates. All parts are completely black, but I do n’t know if it was originally this color or it turned into this later. I do n’t feel there is a noteworthy energy response inside it. Although there is a small amount of radiation and secondary energy, it does not reach “alive To the extent that it appears to be a group of discarded metal blocks salvaged from the battlefield, if there is anything to be noticed, it is that this alloy is ugly enough.

"Um, you said ... because you accidentally discovered the thing, and then the Merawas called?"

I looked at Cocokina suspiciously, and suddenly it felt a little funny: I thought I would see what kind of baby, such as the humming empire hi-tech non-combustible garbage, but I did not expect that only a ten meters appeared in front of myself. The square iron block even lacks high-energy response inside. Moreover, I observed the mechanical structure exposed under the broken alloy shell, and found that their design was abnormally crude, let alone compared with Imperial Technology, and even compared to the Fleet of the Fifth Fleet. Although my own professional knowledge is not very good ... well, I admit that my professional knowledge is just a tadpole, but because there are so many high-tech unidentified gadgets in common, I still have a bit in related fields. Resolving power, the square wreckage in front of you is a rather ancient and backward product no matter how you look at it-more than half of its internal circuits are still connected by mechanical locks!

"History ... wipe, so far as to be impossible to distinguish," the young lady reached out and touched the shell of the thing, and immediately stunned, "God knows when this was made, I am afraid it should have been long in the normal historical process. Vanished stuff. "

"It's just a guess now," Cocokina seemed to shrug, or maybe just waved his hand. "A statistician stumbled upon this incident. This unknown object was originally found outside the world barrier, When we repaired a faulty node, we found it stuck in the base of the guard station. Later, the maintenance team sent it to the research department and tried to analyze its source. As a result, a few days later ... the Merovas Appeared. This unknown object was packed into a spaceship along with scientific research data. "

"It's also hard to prove that the Mellowans were attracted to this thing." I frowned.

"But they chased the Anchach 5 ship hard and tried to stop the ship with almost half of their strength, but at the crucial moment they seemed to shrink back, as if they were afraid of damage," Coco Keina's three His eyes lit up at the same time, showing his emotional excitement, "So we have been suspecting that something on Anchor 5 caught their attention, so we started to organize a manual inspection of all the goods registered on Anchor 5, Not even a single nail was missed, and in the end we found the only one ...

Cocokina's description finally made me and Sandora pay attention to it. In this way, the intentions of the Merovans were too obvious. They were undoubtedly directed at the cargo of Anchor 5, but just For such a block?

"Don't you find anything suspicious?" I looked at Cocokina's vague figure uneasily.

Cocoa Kina spread his hand: "All the goods transported by Anchor 5 have a list. Except for the unknown origin of this box, the rest are the resources we have produced from our home planet in the past two hundred years. It can't be the culprit that brought the Mellows. And even though this cube looks plain, it has a secret we can't explain: it appears outside the barriers of the world, that is, in the Before we found it, it had crossed the void. "

"But it doesn't have a structure capable of navigating in the void." Sandora frowned, her eyes falling on the twisted and broken shell of the cube and the complex mechanical structure exposed from the shell. "No engine, no order The field shield generator is not enough energy level ... So to speak, either, it is thrown into your world by a larger carrier, and then attracts the Merovas, or it is a ship in the void The parts of the crashed spaceship came to you just by coincidence ... "

Then it also attracted the Merawas. No matter how you look at it, the Fifth Fleet is lying serious this time. So now there is one last question: what on earth do these Merovas look at?

I reached out and knocked on the metal shell of the cube, but it was too hard, and a small piece of severely eroded metal fell off. Picking up the piece and pinching it, I found that their strength may be the interstellar alloy I have seen. The weakest in this field—I mean, if you compare it with other high-strength alloys made by other civilizations across the world, if you compare it with ordinary civilizations still trapped in your own universe, the technological content of this block may also be called superb . After a simple judgment, I came to the conclusion that the material of the target is just ordinary materials, and the level of technology is hard to say, but it is absolutely incomparable with the empire, and it will not exceed those of the Merawa who have almost learned a skill from the empire. There is no special energy response inside, which preliminarily ruled out the possibility of hiding a baby in the iron shell. I turned around and looked at Sandora: "Would you like someone to take it apart at the scene? It's broken like this, and I don't need to think about protection methods, it's probably a mess inside."

"I ..." Sandora responded strangely. From the beginning she just stared at the cube with a thoughtful look, and always seemed to think of something else when she said, "I don't know ... ... but looking at it, I have an inexplicable familiarity ... "

"Be careful when dismantling," Lin Xue said suddenly as I wanted to ask Sandora further. "There seems to be something in it ... let me see."

The young lady said, leaned forward and pressed her hands on the surface of the cube, and the eyes radiated a little white light, and entered the prophet mode, and I squeezed Sandorla's hand with a little worry, but suddenly found Aurelie on the other side Aya's reaction was also a bit wrong: like Sandora, she was staring at the square in a daze, and the wings behind her were unconsciously slightly swaying, and she was completely amazed.

"Kite? Kite?" I greeted Aurelia, "What happened to you?"

"Your Majesty ..." The other party turned back, his wings twitched softly, "Ah, sorry, I was out of my mind."

"You and Sandora reacted strangely," I frowned. "Are you all right?"

"I don't know," Aurelia exhaled to restore her calmness. "I may have the same feeling as Her Majesty Sandora. Looking at this cube, I suddenly felt an inexplicable intimacy ... ... Your Majesty, please don't be blinded by the appearance of this cube. Maybe we need to take care of this thing. It seems that it can attract the Merovas for no reason. "

At this time, the young lady had finished her scanning work, leaned over with a strange expression: "Wood, this is a coffin."

Sandora and I both said "ah" at the same time, and Lin Xue said again, "The coffin is either a grave. I can't see more. You know, I am a prophet, not an x-ray machine. Let the research center Come, bring the finest dismantling equipment they can find, don't break the 'things' inside, there is a broken energy knot in the core of this cube, and you need to pay special attention to it. In this historical line, the dismantling failure caused by this energy knot alone has reached a dozen times. "

I immediately contacted the Shadow City and asked the research center to organize a group of the most brilliant technical staff to come over immediately ~ www.readwn.com ~ and according to Lin Xue's suggestion, we decided to disassemble this mysterious cube on the spot to improve success rate.

The council and Cocokina knew that things had progressed and that we needed a quiet environment, so they ordered unrelated personnel to evacuate the scene, and only they remained here with the consent of Sandora. Soon, the team of experts from Shadow City came to Ankach 5 with a full set of equipment, and the team was still an acquaintance: Victor or Tokvi or Ketowei or Keto.

By the way, he is leading the dismantling of Heisuo, and the current demolition experts in Shadow City are in his hands.

"Two Her Majesty, Mistress, Tokwey came to report!" The dark-skinned senior technician saluted to Sandora and me and Lin Xue, and then his eyes fell on the unknown cube. Sure enough, his response was just like Sando La and Aurelia reacted exactly the same way: dreamy, thoughtful.

"Your Majesty, is this?" The senior technician was puzzled. "There is a strange sense of familiarity, as if I have seen it somewhere."

"This is a coffin," I exhaled, and quickly pointed at Lin Xue, "Yes, she said."

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