Xiling Empire

The road to the core area of ​​the wreck was unimpeded, and Tavel was right, we walked on an emergency escape route. Due to the special design and high-strength structure, this passage miraculously maintained after the spacecraft crashed. Got complete. The only obstacle to walking is the angle of this corridor: because the spacecraft crashed obliquely on the ground, the entire space inside the spacecraft appeared at a forty-five degree angle, walking in such an inclined place ... in fact, in the end we There is a long way to fly over, and I have a dizzy effect on a straight road ...

"Here is the gate of the core area." Eventually, a hexagonal alloy gate appeared at the end of the corridor. The gate could not be completely closed. The slightly twisted gate caused a crack in the center of the armor plate of the gate to open more than twenty centimeters. Tavel stepped forward and pushed the gate and found it motionless. "It seems necessary to destroy this."

Bingtis stepped forward and touched the door that had been standing for years, the latter turned into dust immediately and silently. Sandora's eyes changed slightly. She wasn't touched by the destruction of her ancestor's relics, but seemed to think of something suspicious, but she said nothing, but walked in first.

"Say how did you get in at that time ..." As soon as I pulled my head, I asked Lilina a very idiot question, but the next second I saw the grinning little girl who was like a washboard and a positive girl. A doll girl hanging on her wrist, not much bigger than an SD doll, instantly, "Oh, I see."

Lilina looked discouragedly at Tavel, who was very good, Sandora who was very good, and Icetis, who was very good. In addition, although it was not super good, she also developed normally, and she was angry. Yes, I patted my chest and walked inside: "Cut, what do you know. Poor milk is a scarce resource. Sooner or later you will realize that the candy bar is the mainstream. The flip-slip is a past tense ..."

I was speechless for a while and followed the team into the spacecraft's control center.

The control center is large and has a style that matches the shape of the spacecraft. However, I could hardly see the shadow of "Spirit" from the strange devices around me. The spacecraft built by the creator is almost completely another style. If not all the materials around it have the information characteristics of the home world, I am afraid that Tavel and Sandora cannot connect this strange and strange spaceship to the origin of the Spirit. stand up. As a layman, I ca n’t see too many technical details, and I do n’t know how much the ship is behind the new empire ’s warships, but it ’s clear that this control center is completely “mortal” "Prepared: It's a huge circular hall. The neatly arranged seats and operation terminals occupy half of the space in the lobby, and the terminal positions of the thinking interactive operation console and the shipboard mainframe cannot be seen. This is the biggest difference from the Empire's active spacecraft: this ship requires full manual control, and it has a large number of operators. The ship's main engine cannot take on independent tasks, and can not even appear in the lobby as one of the spaceship commanders— In the Empire spacecraft, the carrier-based host almost assumes the role of deputy captain. And the direct control personnel required for the Empire battleship will be an incredible amount.

The assistant technicians immediately went to work with caution, they began to inspect these ancient equipment and tried to figure out how they started and the type of energy. Although no one can explain how this "artificial artifact" has survived this long period of horror and has been preserved to this day, the intact appearance of those consoles is still obvious. Do n’t explain things that are unclear for the time being, and finish the work that you can handle: this is the consistent idea of ​​the Tavel team.

Sandora came to the seat closest to her, where one of the creators once sat, but the ancestor who created the Void Third Protoss is no longer there. All that was left was the dusty and broken seats and a weird control terminal. Sandor stretched his hands to wipe the dust off the console, exposing the light blue panel below. The material of that panel reminds me of the touch screen, and its shape is like an elongated hexagon.

"This shape is the only thing that has survived to this day." Sandora sighed softly, and I remembered the equipment on the Empire Starship: Most terminals have a hexagonal control crystal plate, and their material is the Schilling Apostle. One of the immortal materials created out of thin air and not eroded by time, has amazing solid texture and physical and chemical characteristics, which is many times more advanced than the glass plate fixed on the steel platform in front of it, but the accuracy of the hexagon Proportion transcends time and space, connecting the two generations, as evidence of the immortal connection between this wreckage and the Spirit apostle: destiny. It's a wonderful thing.

"Where's the remains of the two Nizis?" Bingtis saw that a group of people seemed to have been completely attracted by these ancient equipment on the scene, and could not help reminding them. Sandora certainly didn't forget this, but I don't know why she didn't take the initiative to mention it, but instead she was paying attention to the ancient equipment of the control center and other messy things as if she was intentionally diverting her attention.

"Did you feel timid near hometown?" Bentice glanced at Sandor with an interest, and said with amusement. "Oh, the word homesickness doesn't seem to be used that way ... but don't care about the details."

"Here it is!" Li Lina ran aside and beckoned to us, what Sandora would have liked to say, and she couldn't care less at this time. In order to show that she did not have "near hometown timidity", she ran ahead, and I followed her closely, and then saw where the "remains" in Li Lina's mouth was.

What is unexpected is that in a place like the control center, there will even be a "dormant cabin"!

Well, it might be something like a medical cabin, an ambulance cabin, an escape cabin, etc. In short, on the edge of the control hall, next to the ring wall, there are countless containers arranged neatly. I saw them when I first came in, but at the time I thought it was some kind of control terminal or decoration. If it wasn't for Lina, she had a strong sense of anything related to life (including the remains). For the first time The secrets of these containers have been discovered here. Maybe we can only find the remains of the creator in these containers after scanning the whole ship.

These containers are elongated hexagons, roughly similar to the coffins used by the ancient Egyptians (perhaps the coffin style is also part of the Greek civilization), and their size seems to be for one person only. They are dark in appearance. It is a fully enclosed alloy box, placed vertically, and half-buried inlaid on the circular wall of the control hall. Like all the equipment in the lobby, these "dormant cabins" have no light on the surface, and the interior is silent: their energy supply has long been terminated. Although, for unknown reasons, they exist far beyond the physical limits, no one would expect the people in these containers to be alive.

"No life response," Sandor stretched her hand and stroked it gently on the surface of the container closest to her, saying the long-avoidable conclusion, and then she looked around the hall. Instantly calculate the number of all dormant cabins. "If I am not mistaken, the numbers of these dormant cabins and the control center are corresponding. These small cabins seem to have independent energy and navigation mechanisms. I also scanned the structure similar to the thruster. This makes them more like escape pods. The creators placed these devices in the control center, perhaps saying ... "

"They live in an age where they need to abandon the ship to escape at any time. Even the control center is not safe." Tavel's mass projection did not know when he came over, and she looked at the small cabin in front of her. "Your Majesty, open one and take a look What? "

Sandora frowned, and it took a long time to make up her mind: "Be careful not to damage the ancestor's body."

A "dormant cabin" was dismantled smoothly, with only a tenon and an energy line connected to the wall behind it. As Sandora said, these cabins are designed to escape independently from the mothership. The senior assistant technicians carefully laid the container flat on the ground, which caused a burst of dust. The opening and closing mechanism of the container has been completely damaged, so it can only be dismantled violently. When the flash of the cutting beam moved around the container, I noticed that Sandora clenched her fist nervously.

The lid of the container was then carefully opened.

A tall man with a slight gray hair was lying inside quietly, wearing an ancient military uniform we didn't know, and looked safe. As before.

It wasn't a dried-up corpse, it wasn't a bone, it wasn't a weathered and broken outfit, but it was a middle-aged military officer who seemed to have just fallen asleep. I can't believe that this is the ancestor of the Spirit who has died for countless years. History is approaching the eyes with such a "young" appearance, which makes me feel a strong sense of disobedience. He didn't look like he had died a long time ago, and I even thought ... he seemed to have just lay in this dormant escape cabin just a few minutes ago, and then was about to be suddenly awakened by us.

"This is the creator ..." Sandora said in an astonishing tone. Maybe she didn't expect the person in the container to be like this, and then a slight light appeared in her eyes and she turned to the data analysis mode. "Sure enough ... It's difficult to explain here. "

"what happened?"

I looked at Sandora and Tavel with strange expressions and couldn't help asking.

"Secular matter cannot be immortal," Tavel replied in a deep voice. "Therefore, we must use information materialization technology to make empire equipment, so that those extraordinary matter can withstand the shock of time. Secular matter ... Use your most For easy-to-understand examples, you should also know the effects of molecular penetration, and many other factors that can cause material decay, weathering and degeneration. As long as you are in a normal environment, everything in the world will slowly change, even if there is only one in a universe Atom, it always has a moment of decay. However, this spaceship, the body of the creator in front of us, and the hometown material we found in the asteroid belt are all beyond the time. Theoretically it is. "

"They are in an unexplainable state of immortality," Sandora took the conversation. "It's not that time is still, but time can't change their" state. "They are like snapshots, fixed in some way. Under the "normal order", they repeat the basic evolution over and over, and at a small interval, they self-refresh at the micro level. This has led to all of us presenting an unbelievably intact state, as if it had just started from It's the same as the home world escapes ... "

"What's even more incredible is that in this micro-immortal state, they still evolve according to normal laws at the macro level," Tavel easily crushed a metal protrusion on the corner of the dormant cabin with his fingers, "as you can see It can be destroyed at the macro level, and it will not be restored by 'refreshing'. But at the micro level, its atoms no longer decay and no longer turn around. Even if millions of years have passed, it still ... It ’s what it looks like when you leave your hometown world. That ’s why we measure homeland materials far more 'younger' than their theoretical life span. This is the theory. "

I quickly figured out what these words meant. Looking at Tavel and Sandora in amazement: What they are talking about is exactly why the hometown world has survived unconventionally to this day, and it is also the reason why this ancient wreck in our eyes is still immortal after experiencing countless years. This problem was very disturbing a few hours ago. I didn't expect Tavel and Sandora to understand it now.

"The speculation about micro-immortality has long been produced," Tavel explained why she suddenly opened up. "It's just that there are only primitive materials on the asteroid belt. Those materials come from the same region. They can be preserved to this day, probably because of a small range of world distortions, so they have no corroborative value. But this spaceship here, and the creator's The remains all showed the same 'immortal' state, and the speculations of their subordinates were confirmed. The subordinates had a brief discussion with Her Majesty Sandora just now. It is believed that even the creator's remains are in this strange 'immortal'. State ', then the hometown world is likely to be all in the same state. Theoretically this is the case. "

It turned out that Tavel had long had vague speculations, but because of unverifiability, she did not speak out due to the cautious attitude of scientists-indeed she is indeed the best researcher in the new empire, and she has a strong reasoning ability.

"Next we need to verify these speculations through experiments," Tavel said gravely. "Let these materials go through time. Let's see if they will last forever. The subordinates have ordered the laboratory to speed up the time, very Come on ... "

"What is that?" I was squatting on the ground not far from the finger and playing shallow chess with Visca. "The time accelerating position is much lower than the shallow accuracy-and that girl is not going to do anything serious. Then something went wrong. "

Tavel was foolish.

Of course, the ancestor's remains cannot be used as experimental objects, so Tavel asked her assistant to take out material samples collected from the spacecraft wreckage and material samples extracted from the asteroid belt, and gave it to Qian Qian for accelerated experiments, and Shan Dora ordered the engineers to carefully dismantle all dormant cabins in the hall and prepare to return to the base. Each of these dorms has people inside. Based on the state of the spacecraft and the fact that the dormant capsule was closed but failed to eject, Sandora tried to trace back what happened to the ship that year:

The ship suffered severe damage (maybe an abyss, but there is no abyss residual reaction on the ship. So it may also be a secondary space disaster caused by the abyss, let ’s ignore this first), but the creators still have enough reaction time, so They were all transferred to the dormant cabin for escape. However, destiny made a joke to the people on this ship, perhaps just as the escape capsule was about to eject from the ship. The spacecraft's power segment finally couldn't support it: a violent explosion tore it in half.

The control signal of the spacecraft was suddenly interrupted, causing all escape capsules to fail to start normally. Although good protection measures protected the body of the creator in the capsule, they were never able to wake up.

The wreckage of the ship should have been wandering in the hometown world for a long time-it could not have crashed in the void, otherwise it would have been assimilated and cleaned up-and then flashed with the space 20,000 years ago Come to this universe.

After a while, looking at the busy scenes of the people in front of me, I suddenly remembered one thing, and the matter was very important, so I jumped to Sandora who was supervising the soldiers to move the sleeping cabin in two steps: "By the girl, do you say there will be coordinates of the hometown world on the navigation host of this ship?"

I think it's pretty good: there must be a navigation host on any normal spaceship that can fly out of the world, right? Although the creators are not very advanced in technology, they are also in contrast to today ’s Apostles of the Spirit. On the absolute level of science and technology, they are already capable of jumping out of the void of advanced civilization. They must know how to accurately calibrate their homeland world—we At present, this spaceship is huge and has ample living space. It looks more like an exiled ark than a battleship, and its middle section has equipment that is suspected of an order field generator. Therefore, the original design of this ship was to use it for nautical navigation. Yes, I have countless reasons to convince myself: this ship carries the coordinates of the hometown world.

Even if the hometown world is going to be wiped out ~ www.readwn.com ~ The creators will also enter this space, which will theoretically become blank, into the navigation host of the spacecraft, I think so.

Sandora's eyes seemed to light up, but soon she sighed, saying that the facts would never be so optimistic:

"The 'position' of the world in the void is not constant, and each world changes its coordinates at a very slow rate. At conventional scales, this change can be ignored, and the void navigation database will only be changed every million years. Update it all once, but the hometown world has no idea how many millions of years have passed ... you understand. "

I blinked, and tried to throw away the messy associations in my mind about the continental drift plate doctrine, and then I sighed in disappointment.

"What are you thinking?" I saw Sandora's eyes fall back on the ancestral dormant cabins, and with a thoughtful look, she couldn't help asking curiously.

"If they are materially immortal," Sandora said, word by word, "does that mean ... we can resurrect these ancestors ..." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome Come to the starting point (m) to vote for referrals and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.)