In front of me, it took several seconds to reappear this time, and my whole body was flashing non-stop. Seeing this situation, I couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Then what...are you okay?"
"It doesn't matter," the council still looked indifferent, "my data subject is placed on the planet, and the interference encountered by the extended body on the network will not affect the subject. The amount of data in the Yunad Aggregate is too huge, and we don't have
With your advanced mass projection technology, if I want to appear at the far node of the network and be able to contact the physical world, I can only use this kind of extremely demanding bandwidth and environment..." Flash, disappear, reappear, Parliament
Then he said: "...extended body technology."
Coco Keener looked at his old partner who had recently reunited after a long absence: "Actually, you don't have to use an extension body to come here. If you use a regular projection, you can still see the scene."
"But I want to 'touch' that thing myself, and I want to know what kind of thing brought you such a disaster." The council smiled slightly and looked at Cocokina's uncertain face, "In contact with the material world,
It’s the only happiness I have…”
Three seconds later, the parliament appeared in front of us again. She looked at Lin Xue sincerely: "Um...can you turn off the small device in your hand? Although you think it's okay, it is still very fragile to us.
The Internet has a huge impact.”
I glanced at Miss Lin and found that she was using a data terminal to play StarCraft online, and she was playing online with Bubbles: I immediately knew what was going on with the abnormally frequent interference from just now, and at the same time I felt sorry for the parliament.
Deeply sorry.
At this moment, the rail car that relies on tractor beams to transport personnel between the space station and the large spacecraft also arrived at the end smoothly. We felt a slight vibration underneath our bodies, and then the porthole next to us opened, and the scene inside the spacecraft was already visible outside.
.
A group of people came outside. There were already many staff here to respond. Most of their eyes were more or less on me and Shandora. How should I put it? Although the relationship between the empire and the exiles is now
The exchanges are becoming normalized, but this cannot change the current situation that the Imperials are rare creatures in the eyes of the exiles. Our appearance in front of them is indeed quite curious.
"Uh-huh, it looks like... such an ancient spaceship." Lin Xue looked up and looked around, unable to help mumbling. According to what we know about the history of the exiles, this colonial giant ship should have been part of the exile fleet.
The construction is completed. It is an antique that is tens of thousands of years old. We have to admit that this is a very majestic giant spaceship. If people on earth saw it, they would probably be shocked. But it is undeniable that it is old and dilapidated. It is parked inside the ship.
Severe traces of wear and tear can be seen on the alloy floor of the port. Although this special metal will never rust, years of erosion have also left them devastated. The lighting in the wide berthing port is very uneven, and many places are even dim. Partially.
The artificial gravity has a deflection of at least five degrees. It makes people feel very uncomfortable, and the atmospheric circulation here seems to have completely stopped. The air pressure is so low that it is not like an environment prepared for living creatures. Most of the staff on site are wearing
Wear special fully enclosed work clothes: Another small number probably have special races and can survive in low pressure and oxygen-free environments.
"The Ankach series is the oldest colonial giant ship model. There was no experience when it was built. It had many design shortcomings. No one would have thought that its ecosystem would need to be maintained for so many years," Cocokina said. Floating in our
Leading the way, although this spirit creature also has humanoid limbs, he seems not used to walking, and is more like a ghost floating around. "In addition, we are not yet proficient in the technology of psionic energy, Ankah
There have been several accidents on the 5th, and its ecosystem is the worst among all giant ships. When they escaped, only one-sixth of the refuge cabins on the ship could survive. But compared to hundreds of
Ankah 6, which disappeared deep in the void during the Nether Energy Furnace rampage years ago, is actually quite lucky."
How should I put it? My biggest problem when communicating with these exiles is that I always get into embarrassing situations from time to time. Even though the other party has no intentional intentions at all, and I don’t have to take all the responsibility. But when it’s time to be embarrassed, I still
It's embarrassing. This can only be said to be due to personality - just like a real artistic young man, he can't help but use parallelism even when he's scolding...
The long axis of Ankakh 5 is more than 100 kilometers long, and the passage inside the ship is of course very complicated. The target warehouse is in the middle of the giant ship. It is definitely not possible to walk there. However, due to the failure of the transmission device in the spacecraft
, we can only go there by small shuttle. To pass through the gate in the surface area, we need to cross a large plain attached to the isolation bulkhead (this plain was originally supposed to be a residential and ecological area, but now it has been transformed by poisonous gas and pollution.
It was so dead that through the portholes one could only see the abandoned city buildings, the scorched earth, and some twisted plant remains), and then a large crack in the secondary blockade wall that didn't look like a normal design was directly
We flew into the intricate pipe network section of the giant ship, and finally after passing through a small town built near the cooling core that still had faint lights, we arrived at the warehouse where "that thing" was stored.
Along the way, I saw a starship that was more like a steaming wreckage of a spaceship than a colonial ship. The level of dilapidation of those stacked ecological zones, transportation networks, and concentrated residential areas was shocking, and I couldn't help but feel sad.
I dare to imagine how they survived in such an ecological environment during the last few hundred years of their exile. The most depressing thing is the big hole in the center of the secondary blockade wall. It is said that there was a leak of psionic energy there.
Two material synthesis factories and a small residential area near the rift were instantly radiated into powdery crystalline matter. 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 there, you can only risk your life and live in a shelter that is only separated by a wall from the deadly dust - these are all told by Cocokina on the way. He is very familiar with the accidents that have happened to every colonial ship in the Fifth Fleet.
Palm.
I don’t know if the dilapidated scene she saw along the way touched Shandora. Her face was not very good-looking. When the shuttle arrived at its destination, she whispered: "Arjun, I'm a little
An uneasy feeling."
"Indeed, the situation of the Fifth Fleet is really..."
"No, I didn't mean that," Sandora's voice sounded in the spiritual connection. "It's some other reason that makes me feel...uncomfortable. Maybe it's my intuition, something is going to happen."
I gave Sandora a strange look, and then suddenly thought: As a person who has witnessed tens of millions of years of history (perhaps longer?) and has been exposed to events that are more touching than the exiles, there is almost no upper limit to the level of calmness.
Queen of the Empire, could Sandora be so rude because she saw an abandoned eco-ship? Obviously impossible.
Just when I was about to ask further what was going on, Cocokina suddenly spoke: "That's the one in front."
Sandora waved her hand gently, indicating that there was no need to worry about her, and then she pulled me out of the shuttle.
What is in front of everyone is a large group of metal structures that have been severely deformed and damaged, and the material and function cannot be seen at all. It is roughly square in shape, with a side length of about ten meters. It stands in front of us like a small building.
Its surface is covered with twisted metal plates, and jagged parts are found from under the broken metal plates. All parts of it are completely black, but I don’t know if it was originally this color or it became like this later. I feel
There is no noteworthy energy reaction inside it. Although there is a trace amount of radiation and secondary energy, it is not "alive". It looks like a group of discarded metal blocks salvaged from the battlefield. If not
If there is anything that attracts attention, it is that this alloy lump is quite ugly.
"Um, you said... it's because you guys accidentally discovered this thing, and then the Merovans came over?"
I looked at Cocokina suspiciously, and suddenly I felt that things were a bit funny: I originally thought I would see some treasure, such as the buzzing high-tech non-burnable garbage of the Empire, but I didn’t expect that what appeared in front of me was just a ten-meter
The square iron block does not even have high-energy reactions inside it. Moreover, I observed the mechanical structures exposed under the damaged alloy shell and found that their design was extremely crude. Not to mention compared with Imperial Technology. Even with the third
The spaceships of the Fifth Fleet are not from the same era. Although my own professional knowledge is not very exquisite... Okay, I admit it. My professional knowledge is just a bunch of stuff, but because I usually see a lot of high-tech
It's an unknown thing. I still have some discernment in related fields. No matter how you look at the square wreckage in front of you, it is a very ancient and backward product - most of its internal circuits are still connected by mechanical locks.
Connected!
"History... it's so long that it's impossible to tell." The eldest lady reached out and touched the shell of the thing, and immediately started to gasp, "God knows when this was made. According to the normal course of history, it should have been long ago.
It’s a disappearing thing.”
"It's just a guess now," Cocokina seemed to be shrugging, or maybe just waving his hands. "A statistician discovered this by accident. This unidentified object was first discovered outside the world barrier,
When we were inspecting a faulty node, we found that it was stuck in the base of the guard station. Later, the maintenance team sent it to the research department to try to analyze its origin. As a result, a few days later... those Melova people
Appeared. This unknown object was packed and sent to the spacecraft along with the scientific research data."
"It's hard to prove that the Merova people are attracted by this thing." I frowned.
"But they pursued the giant ship Ankakh 5 fiercely and used almost half of their troops to try to stop the ship. However, at the critical moment they seemed to be timid, as if they were afraid of damaging something," said Cocokina's three
Both eyes lit up at the same time, showing his excitement, "So we have always suspected that something on Ankakh 5 caught their attention, so we started to organize manpower to check all the registered goods on Ankakh 5.
Not even a nail was missed, and finally we found this only thing whose origin we couldn't explain...the square."
Cocokina's description finally made Sandora and I pay attention. In this way, the intention of the Merova people's actions is too obvious. There is no doubt that they are here for the cargo of Ankah No. 5, but just
For such a block?
"Didn't you find any other suspicious items?" I looked at Cocokina's blurry figure with worry.
Cocokina spread his hands: "There is a list of all the goods transported by Ankah 5. Except for the unknown origin of this cube, the others are the resources we have produced from our home planet in the past two hundred years. Those things are more
It can't be the culprit that lured the Merova people here. And although this cube looks ordinary, it has a secret that we can't explain at all: it appears outside the world barrier, that is, in
Before we discovered it, it had already crossed the void."
"But it does not have a structure that can conduct void navigation." Sandora frowned and said. Her eyes fell on the twisted and broken shell of the cube and the complex mechanical structure exposed from under the shell. "There is no engine and no order.
The energy level of the field shield generator is not enough... In this way, either it was thrown into your world by a larger carrier ship and then attracted the Merova people. Or, it was a ship in the void
The parts of the big spaceship that crashed came to you just by coincidence..."
Then the Merovans were also attracted. No matter how you look at it, the Fifth Fleet was seriously misled this time. So now there is one last question: What do those Merovans see in this square?
I reached out and knocked on the metal shell of the cube, but I used too much force. A small piece of severely corroded metal fragments fell directly. I picked up the fragments and squeezed them, and I found that their strength may be that of the interstellar alloy I have seen.
The weakest among them - I mean comparing it with the high-strength alloys made by other cross-world civilizations. If compared with ordinary civilizations who are still trapped in their own universe, the technological content of this cube may also be called superb.
After a simple judgment, I came to the conclusion: the material of the target object is just ordinary materials, and the technological level is hard to say, but it is definitely not comparable to the Empire, and it will not surpass those Merova people who have almost learned all their skills from the Empire.
There is no special energy reaction inside it. The possibility that there is a treasure hidden in the iron shell has been preliminarily ruled out. I turned my head and glanced at Shandora: "Do you want someone to take it apart on site and take a look? It's all broken like this, I guess.
No need to think much about protection methods, the inside is probably a mess."
"I..." Sandora's reaction was strange. She had been staring at the cube with a thoughtful look on her face since just now. She seemed to be thinking about other things when she spoke, "I don't know very well...
…But looking at it, I feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity…”
"Be careful when tearing it apart." Just when I was about to ask Shandora further, Lin Xue suddenly spoke. "There seems to be something in here...let me take a look."
The eldest lady said. She stepped forward and pressed her hand on the surface of the block. A slight white light emitted from her eyes. She entered the prophet mode. I squeezed Sandora's hand a little worriedly, but suddenly found Aurelie on the other side.
Ya's reaction was also a bit wrong: like Sandora, she was staring at the square in a daze, the wings behind her were swaying slightly unconsciously, and she was completely lost in thought.
"Kite? Kite?" I called to Alleria, "What's wrong with you?"
"Your Majesty..." The other party came back to his senses and his wings trembled slightly, "Ah, I'm sorry, I was lost in thought."
"Both you and Sandora reacted strangely," I frowned, "Is everything okay?"
"I don't know," Alleria let out a long breath to regain her usual calm demeanor, "I may have the same feeling as Her Majesty Sandora. Looking at this cube, I suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy...
…Your Majesty, please don’t be deceived by the appearance of this cube. Maybe we need to treat this thing with caution. It seems that it attracts the Merova people here for a reason.”
At this time, the eldest lady had completed her scanning work and leaned over with a strange expression: "Wood, this is a coffin."
Shandora and I said "Ah" at the same time, and Lin Xue said again: "The coffin is either a tomb, I can't see more clearly. You know, I am a prophet, not an X-ray machine. Let the research center
Come on, people, bring the most sophisticated dismantling equipment they can find, and be sure not to break the 'things' inside. There is a broken energy node at the core of this cube that needs special attention. In other parts of the cube,
In this historical line, there have been more than a dozen dismantling failures caused by this energy knot alone."
I immediately contacted Shadow City and asked the research center to organize a group of the most skilled technicians to rush over immediately. Based on Lin Xue's suggestion, we decided to dismantle the mysterious cube right here to increase the success rate.
The Council and Cocokina knew that things were progressing and that we needed a quiet environment, so they ordered irrelevant personnel to evacuate the scene. Only the two of them stayed here with Sandora's consent. Soon, experts came from the Shadow City
The team came to Ankach No. 5 with a full set of equipment, and the leader was actually an acquaintance: Victor or Tokkowi or Ktowe or Kvitto.
By the way, he is leading the dismantling work of the black shuttle, and currently all the dismantling experts in Shadow City are in his hands.
"Your Majesty, Mistress, Tocqueville is here to report!" The dark-skinned senior technician saluted me, Sandora, and Lin Xue, and then his eyes fell on the unknown cube. Sure enough, his reaction was the same as Sandora's just now.
The reactions of La and Alleria were exactly the same: lost in thought and thoughtful.
"Your Majesty, what is this?" The senior technician was confused, "I feel a strange sense of familiarity, as if I have seen it somewhere."
"This is a coffin," I breathed out, then quickly pointed at Lin Xue, "By the way, that's what she said."