People were startled as soon as Sandora opened her mouth. She mentioned the fallen apostles at this time, but I soon found out that what Sandora said made sense: first of all, this route is brand new.
We have never sent a spaceship to this area, and the fragments cannot come from an Imperial starship. (Download the e-book for free and download it all!) Secondly, the metal fragment that Little Crow found from the void was obviously not long after it was created.
:Perhaps it was a component of a complete spaceship not long ago. After the spacecraft collapsed, the order field disintegrated, and this fragment floated into the void. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why such a piece of matter can persist in the void environment for so long.
Time. In addition to the imperial spaceship, now only the fallen apostles are possible.
"Fleet alert," Sandora immediately issued an order to increase vigilance. "The order field will enter a hidden state, and the jump speed will drop to the silent threshold. The early warning formation will release espionage probes and keep the probes farther away from the formation."
The fleet commander immediately responded to the order and took countermeasures, while I stared at the piece of metal, as if I wanted to see from it which "old friend" was behind it, and at the same time I felt a burst of surprise: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be the case -
—Lin Xue’s prediction should not be wrong.”
"Lin Xue just said that we won't encounter enemies on this trip," Sandora had her own opinion, "but she didn't say that there are no traces of fallen apostles in this generation. Maybe they have really been active in this place, but they just don't know.
Is it still there now? According to the prophecy, perhaps the most dangerous situation is when the imperial army and the fallen apostle pass by each other."
As she said that, Sandora stretched out her hand and wiped the corroded metal plate, her brows not relaxing at all: "I can't feel the breath of the abyss on it. It has probably been purified by the void. But.
Within the known void range, the only two forces using the Xiling starship are the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles. Since this is not our spaceship, it must be the enemy's."
"Anyway, put this thing in the warehouse first," I glanced at the metal plate. "There will be an engineering laboratory at the destination, and Tavel's clone is also there. Let her analyze this thing carefully.
origin."
In fact, I think this metal plate still reveals a good news, that is, the spacecraft to which it originally belonged must have been destroyed: once the order field is damaged, there is no way to save it. A spaceship sailing in the void, even if its
There is just a needle-sized hole in the barrier. Unless a universe of order can be found to dock within a short period of time, it will soon suffer the impact of the void and be destroyed. And what we are now in is a "desolate zone" in the void. This
There is no orderly universe in the first frequency band, so this fragment means an irreversible void disaster. You see, no matter what the reason is, at least one wave of fallen apostles died...
The conflict between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles has reached a point where no matter what, as long as the other side does bad things, it will be a festival for itself.
"The chance of an imperial starship having an accident while sailing normally in the void is almost zero, and is even as rare as a fish choking on water." After the metal fragment was delivered to the warehouse, Sandora breathed out, "That spaceship must be
It has been attacked nearby, or it has been severely damaged when it came here. We have never been to this place, and the engineering team may have omitted to detect the new route... Be more careful and pay attention to avoid information collapse points and
World Fragments, I don’t want the Imperial ships to suffer the same fate.”
I thought about it and began to educate the group of eager children behind me: "No one is allowed to run out anymore. Fortunately, little bird, you didn't hit anything just now..."
After strengthening vigilance and slowing down the speed, the fleet took nearly twice as long to arrive at the destination. A full day had passed since we set off. But just as Lin Xue predicted before, the fleet did not encounter any enemies along the way.
No danger appeared, whether it was the fallen apostles, or the world fragments or information collapse points that might have destroyed the fallen apostles' spaceship. The journey was quite peaceful. The spy probes sent by Sandora continued to cruise until they were overloaded and self-destructed.
The only result was to draw a rather detailed map of the void beacon and come back - it would be much easier the next time I take this route.
The day after departure, it was evening in the capital standard time - of course, this time is meaningless to us. Just convert it to Shandora's timetable. One and a half hours before dinner, the fleet arrived safely in the target universe
.
Because of the unexpected situation that the little bird discovered before, Sandora decided to continue to maintain a high degree of vigilance. She ordered some frigates to anchor at the critical point of order in the world barrier. A large number of early warning radars and warning drones were deployed on the spot: these things cannot
It will definitely pose a firepower threat to the enemy, but it can effectively prevent us from being caught off guard. Although Lin Xue's prophecy is escorting us, in this remote frontier where the situation is unknown, it is always not wrong to be more careful.
The Royal Cruiser and the remaining frigate formation safely sank to the Order Universe. After two space jumps, we arrived at the so-called "excavation site", a desolate asteroid belt.
This place is located on the edge of a middle-aged star system. The entire star system orbits a small-mass orange sun. There are only two massive solid planets made of a barren ice-stone mixture in the galaxy. Both planets are
It is running in an orbit far away from its sun, cold and dead, and the asteroid belt where the hometown material was discovered is located in a more remote orbit. It is quite large and roughly ellipsoidally distributed. According to calculations, this asteroid belt needs
It takes one hundred and ninety-seven years to orbit the local star.
Further out, there is the cold deep space, and the nearest celestial body is six light-years away.
As I said at the beginning, this place is extremely desolate, and the unique meteorites found in the asteroid belt are the only reason to attract us. This is really not a good place for a vacation.
But the little girls still rushed out without hesitation and happily, ran to the edge of the excavation site, pushed the fragmented meteorites and started bumping them around, just like playing giant billiards...
Forget it, high-energy naughty children naturally have high-energy play methods. They usually spend all day at home throwing grenades around.
The first batch of engineering teams to arrive here have established outpost laboratories and engineering bases. This base is located in the center of the asteroid belt. Like all temporary space bases, it uses the most time-saving, labor-saving and efficient construction method. Relying on
It is built with several large asteroids as the vertices and high-strength interstellar alloy as the skeleton. From space, it looks like an irregular scaffolding. Various important facilities are fixed on the nodes of these high-strength skeletons, and the laboratory
It is the only large-scale facility in the entire base that looks quite impressive. It is a hemispheric building with a polygonal dome, which is fixed on the central platform. It is surrounded by eight support beams connecting it to other facilities in the base. It is marked with blue logo lights.
After exiting several take-off and landing platforms around the laboratory, as the lights flashed, engineering drones were constantly coming and going on the take-off and landing platforms: the entire base was in a busy working state.
At the end of a main support beam in the base, there is a connection port for small and medium-sized spacecrafts to dock. After those little girls ran to play, we landed near the connection port. It was said to be a support beam, but we all know Xi Ling
In line with the idea of "bigness is beauty" in building buildings, this support beam is actually a giant alloy structure with a width and height of 100 meters. It has long surpassed the concept of a "beam", and its interior is a closed passage directly leading to the laboratory.
And it has its own comfortable artificial gravity. Tavel's mass projection is waiting for us at the entrance of the passage. Behind her are several senior assistants, and Phyllis, who looks inexplicably excited.
"Your Majesty, did you encounter any problems on the way?" Tavel was wondering why we were a few hours later than expected.
"There is a small situation. This route may not be as 'clean' as originally expected, but you don't have to worry about it," Sandora said nonchalantly. Tavel is a scientist, and there are activities of fallen apostles near the route.
The traces are a matter for the military department, so it is useless to tell Tavel, "You guys acted quickly, this base is good."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Tavel accepted the compliment calmly. She looked at the transparent window next to her: There are many observation windows on both sides of this closed corridor located inside the main support beam. After all, this is not a military fortress.
Issues of overall protection and light control need to be considered. These observation windows help you peek at the expansion of the base from anywhere. "We brought a mass-produced host with us when we set off, which greatly accelerated the construction progress of the base.
The No. 4 extension platform will be completed in about two hours, and then we can set up large-scale subspace analysis equipment."
Following Tavel's line of sight, I found the "Extended Platform No. 4" she was referring to.
It is an unfinished building located on the back side of the base. It is directly connected to the central laboratory by two parallel brackets. It is about one or two kilometers away from us. Compared with the rest of the brightly lit base, the four buildings under construction are
The extension platform looks quite dim, with only the light effect of the builder running on the huge metal platform. Through that little light, you can see the shadowy semi-finished building on the platform. The people working on it are
The builder is undoubtedly the mass-produced host brought by Tavel. They have just been built in the past two days. Under their busy work, a large-scale facility is rapidly taking shape in the unpredictable light network, just like a giant plant growing crazily: no matter what
No matter how many times I see it, the builders’ miraculous field filling and information materialization technologies are amazing. Tavel was able to build such a large and well-equipped asteroid base in 48 hours, all because of these magical "buildings"
workers”.
Phyllis, who had been watching the mass-produced host building a house here for two days, was of course even more amazed. When she saw that the conversation between us and Tavel finally came to an end, she immediately jumped over to express her opinion: "
I watched it for two days and still didn’t understand it - what kind of technology is this?! Is this how all your buildings come about? Do your building materials... do you have any building materials?"
I quite understand her current excitement: not long ago, she had not given up selling ore to the empire, but now, this dream has obviously been beaten to the ground by the empire's engineering technology.
"How should I put it? It's too early for you to be exposed to this technology." I glanced at Phyllis, whose eyes were so bright that she could almost stand up to two LCD light sources. If she didn't pour some cold water on her in time, this guy would
She will definitely sneak into the base to pry parts: This is not the first time she has done this. "You are not short-sighted. If you think about it, you should know what this technology of creating matter out of thin air can crush your existing social order into."
Sample."
Phyllis immediately figured it out and nodded in agreement, but she still had a look of surprise on her face: "You are really creating matter out of thin air? But this... doesn't this violate the laws of science? Where does matter come from? Energy comes from?
Where does it come from? Has your technology advanced to the point where it doesn’t need to follow objective laws?"
"Of course there are scientific laws," Sandora replied calmly, "It's just that we usually write those laws ourselves. Because the natural cosmological constants are often not easy to use. You Fialili people are actually about to come into contact with this now.
Outside the universe, you can easily understand many mysteries that were originally impossible to guess. In about thirty years, your entire knowledge system and worldview will be covered.
Refresh, you have to re-understand the world and yourself, and rewrite more than half of the technical classics. From now on, all your scientific laws involving the basic world view will be subject to the restriction of 'within this universe'. This will be a new era worth looking forward to.
."
After listening to this high-energy declaration, Felice was finally convinced that such a profound thing was of no concern to her for the time being. So she ran away to chat with Qianqian.
"By the way, Tavel, I have something I want to analyze for you." After Phyllis walked away, I suddenly remembered that there was a metal lump picked up by a little crow in the cargo hold of the spaceship, so I quickly asked someone to take that piece away.
The armor fragments were brought over.
As soon as he saw the strange thing, Tavel showed a surprised expression: "Is this found in the void environment? It has a serious tendency to become chaotic. The physical parameters of the matter itself are already between measurable and unmeasurable.
It’s time.”
Professionals are professionals. I think Tavel's whole person is probably composed of scanning equipment and processors. She can see the origin of this thing at a glance.
"Let's put it this way, it was because of this thing that we were delayed for several hours..."
At that moment, I told Tavel about the near misses I encountered along the way, including Sandora’s guess about the origin of the metal fragment. Of course, we didn’t expect Tavel, as a scientist, to help.
In order to formulate an early warning plan, I handed the fragment to her, mainly hoping that she could use her own technical analysis to analyze whether this thing fell off the fallen apostle's spaceship, and the possible reasons for the destruction of the spacecraft.
The fallen apostles have been active in this area, and they also lost a spaceship. This matter cannot be taken lightly in any case. Just now Sandora had connected to the Shadow City and asked Sivis to prepare a scout fleet to thoroughly investigate this remote area.
Zone, and I want Tavel to help out: she has enough threads anyway.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will send the samples to the newly built analysis room now." When Tavel heard what I said, she immediately realized that this situation was unusual, so she immediately gave us a military salute.
Then a mass projection split from his body and teleported away with the armor fragment.
I watched dumbfounded as a brand new Tavel disappeared in front of my eyes. I deeply realized that the mad female scientist in front of me had finally cultivated schizophrenia into an active skill...
"Now let's talk about your findings," Sandora watched Tavel finish splitting with an indifferent expression and took the lead to move forward, "We'll talk as we walk."
Tavel followed Sandora and reported in detail what the engineering team had discovered in the past two days. Some of them were already known to us, while more details were heard for the first time.
"First of all, it can be determined that the formation process of this asteroid belt is related to the leakage of material from the home world to this world. After calculation, we found that there should have been a massive planet in this orbit, right where the meteorite group is now.
On the planet, it is very likely that this planet hit a fault zone where a sudden space flash occurred, and was instantly crushed into the scattered fragments by space phenomena, thus forming this asteroid belt. The overall distribution shape and material composition of the asteroid cluster
It also supports this conjecture: they come from a large planet. Now the torn-to-piece planetary debris is reuniting into celestial bodies at an extremely slow speed, so it looks denser than the usual asteroid belt, and most of it has become
There is a dense group of meteorites, and near the center, small stars with greater mass have already formed - you can see the big ones gathered together at this location, which are as huge as the continental shelf."
"According to the remaining warping traces in space, this large area has been under the influence of periodic space flashes for a long time in the past. Generally speaking, space flashes are a rare space wonder that lasts
The time is short, and it is impossible to reappear in one area. I estimate that the instability or some kind of mutation in the home world caused the continuous flashes during this period. The calculated flash zone is ellipsoidal, covering exactly
This asteroid belt - or the planetary orbit back then, not only tore up the planet, but also ejected a large amount of material from the home world. These material fragments were suspended on the path that the asteroid belt must pass through. When the latter
As it passed by, it collided head-on with the asteroid like a cannonball. After many collisions and fusions, the sample we got for the first time was formed, the 'core specimen' wrapped in the meteorite, but there is more here.
There are many more wonderful things. Some of the hometown matter was captured by gravity and did not encounter collision, so it became one of the asteroids here. Some of the hometown matter was huge and in turn enveloped the small rocks here, and some of the hometown matter
The substances are extremely reactive and have experienced high temperatures. They fuse with the local substances here and react to form brand new products."
Tavel paused, raised his hand and pointed forward: "Please follow your subordinates to the laboratory. There are a large number of samples there. Many samples reveal a lot of... wonderful information." (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome
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