The patriarch has a lot to tell us, but the premise is to confirm Sandora's identity. The Green Star originally had the function of identifying Xiling apostles. Unfortunately, these ancient equipment were destroyed by several accidents during the long years of exile.
The only facilities that are still available on the Green Star are its own structural support device, energy furnace, and some defense and alarm devices, and the control of these devices is not in the hands of the patriarch. In the old empire, the tree elf race was the last one.
The Familia who came into contact with the old empire received too little technical support from the empire, and they had no time to digest it. Eighty percent of the things handed over to them in a hurry were automatic equipment.ishu.
Fortunately, even if we cannot get confirmation from the planet system, we can still make the patriarch believe in his identity: the Legion of Shadow City is patrolling over the Green Star. Even if the old tree elf elder has not learned how to sense psionic energy,
She also still has vivid memories of those giant ships.
After confirming our identities, the tree elf leader recounted the history she knew.
The tree elves were once an advanced civilization that was isolated from the world but had advanced technology.
This is a bit incredible, because in many cases, elves should be creatures associated with magic and the Middle Ages. It is hard for you to imagine how illegal it is for an elf with a laser gun and an infrared night vision device to stand in front of you.
And (let us temporarily forget those blood elves riding anti-gravity motorcycles in Shadow City, racing and heavy metal rock music are not the original elf culture) But in the void where everything is possible, let us let go of these things that are fixed by books.
Common sense: Although the tree elves have a civilization similar to magic, what really supports their continuous development is the power of science and technology. For the tree elves, magic is more like an individual talent passed down from the ancestors, which can last a lifetime.
It can be researched and developed, but just like human beings did not finally reach the top of the pyramid of the earth by relying on the power of force, the tree elves finally did not rely on their limited life talents to get out of their home planet. In the empire's judgment standards, they are a technological civilization.
, before the old empire discovered these peaceful creatures. They had developed mature space technology and a life support system that exceeded their civilization level (the latter benefited from the tree elves' talents in understanding the essence of life). These have sharp
The protagonists of Ear's fantasy world drive their self-made spaceships around easily in their star system, and successfully build space teleportation devices to carry out various explorations within the galaxy. They are full of curiosity and keen on traveling far, and a
A tree elf family will never stay in a fixed place for more than three years. It will make them feel uncomfortable. For a tree elf, the most interesting thing in the world is to go to places they have never been to and see things they have never seen before.
The scene, even if they have to spend several years on the journey. In the past, they explored their entire planet. In the space age, they began to take steps towards the dangerous vacuum and radiation environment. With the seeds from their home planet,
It was hoped that lush forests would grow on more suitable planets. However, fate was a twist, and the disaster that almost caused the genocide of the tree elves also came after the largest excursion.
It was their first attempt to send an exploration team to the center of the galaxy. It was the most daring voyage the tree elves had made since they mastered space technology. That voyage impressed the patriarch deeply. The stargazers among them used hyperspace equipment to observe
A series of incredible space strangeness occurred in the center of the Milky Way. A large number of celestial bodies inexplicably disappeared from the observer's field of vision, and some already old stars suddenly burst out with youthful vitality, wildly releasing a torrent of energy and matter of astonishing intensity.
, the speed of star creation in the star nest has increased to an unprecedented level. The puzzled tree elf scientists sent the most advanced deep space spacecraft and the bravest astronauts to the center of the galaxy to find out what happened - they expected these brave
Adventurers can bring back brand new knowledge, or an unheard of model of cosmic energy.
Until that time, the tree elves had never come into contact with the abyss, and they never imagined that the frenzied phenomenon occurring in the center of the galaxy was not a cosmic wonder at all. It was a sign that the galaxy was about to collapse under the pollution of the abyss.
The first exploration team quickly lost contact and only sent back some messy and crazy phrases. They seemed to be partying in the center of the galaxy. Those crazy recordings showed a hysterical mood. If the tree elves received these messages,
If you choose to flee your home immediately, you may be able to avoid the next disaster: The power of the abyss appears in the center of the galaxy, and there is only a little leak. It will take a long time for them to break through the extreme environment there. Their spread speed is at the beginning.
Those that are slower than the speed of light will continue to accelerate to super-light speeds as the infection expands. The tree elves can immediately-if they escape, they can delay the disaster for at least hundreds of years.
But they made a wrong decision: they sent out a second exploration team to see what happened to the previous team.
After experiencing the same communication interruption as the first exploration team, a spacecraft of the second exploration team miraculously returned successfully. This was the beginning of the disaster. The scientists and medical experts who went to respond found that the ship seemed to be dead.
There was no one in the dilapidated spaceship as it was during the escape, and all the crew members were missing. The spacecraft flew back on its own under the influence of the automatic navigation system. During the subsequent inspection, one anomaly of the returning spacecraft was exposed to people: inexplicable
Damage to the shell, traces of fierce fighting and bloodstains in the personnel area, instruments smashed by the crew, and crazy graffiti in the captain's cabin pushed the matter further and further into the terrifying and weird direction, and finally they discovered the last anomaly.
It is a video clip of several minutes.
"I still remember that scene vividly. I was a scientist on Tandani at that time, and I personally experienced that scene." The patriarch folded her hands tightly and mentioned the history of that year. She was still trembling a little.
, "The surveillance recorded the scene at the gate. The captain and commander of the deep space spacecraft pushed the corpses into the airlock compartment one after another, and then placed bombs in the spacecraft. They set up a path to Tandani.
The message sent was eventually pulled out of the airlock along with all the bodies. They committed suicide."
"Individuals with strong wills will occasionally regain their consciousness in the early stages after being infected." Sandora said quietly. "It seems that the captain and commander have guessed that there is something in the ship that mortals cannot deal with, so they thought
Destroying the spacecraft, they were worried that they would lose their minds again before the bomb exploded and prevent the spacecraft from self-destruction as the last chance, so they chose to commit suicide first."
The sister sighed: "It's a pity that they didn't expect that invisible force to destroy the detonating device of the bomb as well: the abyss was destroyed indiscriminately, and the bomb was destroyed before it exploded, along with the transmitting device of the spacecraft.
Together.."
"Yes, later we found the message that could not be sent. There was only one sentence: Don't come, run away!"
The infestations of the Abyss are difficult to detect at first. Especially when they are still very weak. Those dim two-dimensional planes are hidden in the darkness. Before they start destroying everything, no one would have thought that a voluptuous pattern can cause
What kind of harm? At first, people only discovered that there were a lot of weird "graffiti" in some places on the expedition ship that returned home by chance. Later, the lighting system and power furnace of the star port frequently failed. Within a few days, the tree elves in the base
Beginning to be infected by an inexplicable depression, violence increased day by day, and the army gradually lost control... When the capital finally discovered that something was wrong, their orders could no longer be delivered to the border, and then like many people infected by the abyss
The world is the same. First, the first batch of infected people suddenly began to attack others, and then spread outward from the infected area. Various creatures mutated one after another. Behemoths began to slaughter civilians, and the space cities built by the tree elves for thousands of years were no longer there.
After being attacked, it began to fall apart. On the colonial star, the ground cracked and magma spewed.
The tree elves have resisted this unexplainable "plague" for fifteen years. For a civilization that knows nothing about the abyss (and they don't have a god-given treasure like Otie, nor a lost goddess of life)
ability to turn the tide), this was a pretty good record, but in the end they were still on the verge of extinction, with only the last fortress left on the colonial star. The space force was basically wiped out - it was at this time that the Xiling Army appeared.
It is now impossible to find out which emperor's army it was. At the last moment, they discovered the severely infected tree elf kingdom. Fortunately, the imperial general who performed the purification mission at that time was a careful soldier. He did not directly attack the entire kingdom.
Galaxy released weapons of extermination. Instead, it slowly advanced the front line, and discovered the tree elf civilization that was still resisting tenaciously.
According to the timetable, it should have been less than two years since the disaster that destroyed the empire (this is the result of historical calculations based on the history mentioned by the patriarch). It is very likely that the tree elf civilization was the last vassal race of the old empire.
"After getting acquainted with the empire, we were first allowed to rebuild society, and at the same time the empire transformed our planet into a mobile fortress." The patriarch took a sip of water and continued, I thought to myself, isn't this just a direct requisition!
The way the old empire acted was really...well, what they did was a good thing, but after they finished it, they commandeered their home planet as a space fortress without saying a word (it should only be regarded as a space fortress, in the old empire era, this kind of
A starship made by hollowing out a planet is not qualified to be called a star battleship). This behavior is really overbearing. Fortunately, the tree elves have just escaped from the genocide and have no time to care about it. It may be that they are against
I didn't really care about it, as this was how it ended.
"With the help of the empire, we spent two years covering the surface of our planet with rechargeable armor. When the transformation of the planet was about to be completed, the empire general suddenly came to visit. He was very urgent at the time. I thought something might have happened.
For a big event, he brought a batch of equipment, which are huge machines that drive the planet to travel across the world. These things were strictly prohibited for races like ours before. He ordered the engineers to bury the new equipment in the mantle, and later executed it himself.
He carried out several renovation projects and gave us some things. Finally, he asked all the tree elves to hide underground and started the starship's engine."
"Then you just carry out the mission so honestly?" Lin Xue felt a little incredible, "Aren't you curious about why the other party did this? Don't you feel weird about leaving your own universe suddenly?"
"It's okay to leave your own universe. The tree elves don't care about this." The patriarch shook his head. "The general told us that the end of the world is coming and all universes are no longer safe. Some other vassal races are already on the way. There are also
has died, and the tree elves have no ability to stay and fight, so they have to perform other tasks, which is to escape with those vital information. The farther away the better, until the emperor chases us back, the journey will be
It’s over. But the general also reminds us, be careful when chasing, there will be corrupted imperial warships chasing the starships, tearing apart the mantle and destroying the data inside."
I thought of the legends of the tree elves, and then shook my head, feeling that there were still many secrets that had not been solved: "The oasis is the small planet we are staying on now. What is going on? This is the important thing that the old empire asked you to transport away.
material?"
"No, the data is in the system. This small planet in the center of the earth is just a part of the system. It was originally our moon."
Everyone: "...ah?"
"The oasis was originally our moon. The tree elves' home planet had two huge satellites. The larger one was destroyed in the war. We used mass weapons to blow it into a star ring to slow down the bombs dropped by the polluters.
The smaller one was named Oasis and survived the war. When deciding on the starship-before, the elders of the tree elves felt that at least something from their hometown should be brought with them. So the general agreed, and he transformed the ground of his home star.
Heart, put our moon in it."
What a haphazard way of transformation!
After some introduction by the patriarch, we finally understood the ins and outs of the history of Green Star and how the oasis appeared. We didn’t expect it to be such a long and tortuous story. At this time, I thought of another thing.
It seems to be more confusing than anything else: "So are the tree elves sleeping in the dormant cabins of the mantle now or living on the oasis? What are the mass projections outside? And the villagers last night
exchange..."
"This is a solution taken when the journey is too long," the patriarch said helplessly, "After the mother planet, we soon lost contact with the empire (it is estimated that the situation in the old empire was out of control at this time)
, we haven’t fully learned how to use the complex operating systems of the planet fortress, and we have no chance to learn, so we can only continue sailing with the automatic navigation system. In the beginning, we will stay on the home planet for a few short years.
We came to live on the surface in time, but soon we discovered that the world had indeed suffered a catastrophe just as the general warned. The external environment became extremely dangerous, with wars and the abyss everywhere, and several universes encountered dangers in succession.
After that, the tree elves finally gave up the surface completely and moved to live underground. Later, as time passed, the elders realized a problem: if the end of the journey is far away, staying awake would be a catastrophic event.
It makes people go crazy, and the consequences are no less than the pollution of the abyss. The tree elves have a long lifespan. If they have been trapped in the dark underground for such a long time, then sooner or later they will have a collective mental breakdown, so we entered hibernation in batches - and finally
At first, they went into hibernation one by one. Later, the situation became more and more serious. There were fewer and fewer tree elves who could stay awake and maintain the system. In the end, almost everything was handed over to automatic facilities, and only one percent of the tree elves were still awake.
While sleeping, the awake tree elf scientists discovered a terrible phenomenon: due to the extremely long period of continuous dormancy, the spiritual power of the people is dissipating: even if the body can be preserved in the dormant cabin, the soul cannot live forever. The mission seems to be
About to fail: This is something more terrifying than death for the tree elves. Our racial brand does not allow us to give up our commitment, so the last scientists, including me, came up with a plan to delay the situation.
Activate the oasis in the center of the earth to form a world composed of mass projections, simulating the most primitive environment of the home planet, and allowing the tribesmen to enter this projection world in batches to dream..."
"Dream?" My sister suddenly interrupted the other party.
"Yes, dreaming," the patriarch nodded, "Use the soul extraction device to transfer all the spirit of a tree elf, input it into the mass projection, then selectively seal most of the memory, and finally put it on the oasis. In this way
In the dream, the soul trauma caused by the long journey and continuous dormancy will slowly heal. The purpose of sealing most of the memories is to let the dreamer forget about the journey, so that when they leave the dream, they can take something with them.
A perfect sweet dream that is enough to heal wounds. Soon we found that this method was effective, and the soul dissipation phenomenon that permeated the tribe completely stopped, so we simply extracted everyone’s souls and stored them in the mantle of the home planet.
In a giant database, it is easier and safer to transfer souls from the database to dreams than to temporarily extract them from the body, and it also saves energy. The bodies in the dormant cabins in the upper mantle can therefore be transferred to low-power storage. After all, no one knows that the journey will continue.
How long ago, when the first energy furnace failed, we had such a sense of crisis."
I sighed silently: Fortunately, Green Star's energy furnace is still **10% intact, but they were right to prepare for a rainy day.
"Things are basically on the right track," my sister crossed her hands on her chin and looked at the patriarch, "then you are like this..."
"I am one of the navigators," the old tree elf laughed. "When the crew of the starship is sleeping, there is always someone watching the navigator. The navigator is the nominal starship pilot, but our authority is limited to
We can only observe the operation of the system, and this work was forced to be suspended after a malfunction thousands of years ago. Until now, we have not been able to repair those things. We are just some trainers who were accidentally thrown into the spacecraft.
The primitive people left suddenly, everything was too fast, and there was no time for us to even learn how to brake the mother planet..."
Navigators need to maintain intact memories and a clear mental state when other tree elves enter sleep and dreams. There are not many of them, and they have to be divided into many shifts. In order to observe whether the aging system of the starship is still intact for a long time, they
Under tremendous pressure, only one navigator appears in the dream of the oasis at a time: in the name of the ancestors and the patriarch, this is their only rest time, and even during such rest time, they must stay awake, after all
, someone must be responsible for maintaining the integrity of this dream.
So I was in awe of the patriarch in front of me.
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