After some questioning, I found out where Lilina and the little doll had run off to - they had indeed chased each other quite a distance, in fact, the two girls even ran all the way to the ice-rock planet that was closer to here...
...Okay, let’s not discuss the fight between the children of the Immortal family. The crux of the matter is that they saw the ruins made of the material of their hometown on the ice rock planet, and there were even corpses in the ruins!
The little doll is not capable of distinguishing what is the substance of her hometown. She does not have any weird radar installed in her body, but Lilina is more or less an "adult who needs to do business" (we don't know how important this sentence is)
Discussion), she received a detector from Tavel for testing the matter in her hometown, so she was 100% sure that there was a suspected emergency landing site on the planet twelve astronomical units away from here - once
A group of Xiling ancestors made an emergency landing there, and their corpses are preserved to this day.**
I know this is unbelievable. It has been a long time since the creator of Xiling Apostle became extinct, which even the gods feel is a long time. No secular material can survive such a long time to this day, let alone a mortal body.
This thing will be wiped out in just a few years. In the final analysis, the creators are just a group of mortal races. No matter how great their achievements are, they are a group of mortals who will not be more powerful than any of the vassal races of the New Empire - but we need to face the facts.
, the hometown world continues to this day, and has exceeded its theoretical lifespan. There must be some unknown factors during this period that led to this situation. Perhaps this factor also acted on the creator.
I pinched the little doll and Lilina under my armpits on the spot, teleported directly to the engineering base, and then ran all the way to find Sandora. By the time I got to the station, Lilina had already started to roll her eyes, and the little doll was biting my lips.
My wrist looks like I have decided to hang it there for a day... Maybe I should find a safer way to transport these two.
Shandora was discussing issues with Bingtis in the lounge. When they saw me rushing in in a hurry, the two of them were immediately surprised. Bingtis looked at the two irritable little girls in my hands and was particularly concerned: "
Did you and Qian Qian have sex outside and were seen by two naughty kids?"
Me: "..." This female gangster is definitely a diamond. Is the only value of her existence is to hurt people?
"The two little guys have made an important discovery." I put Lilina on the ground and raised my hand to show the little doll that was biting my wrist and hanging in the air. "They discovered something on the nearest planet.
The tomb of the creator. There may be a group of creators who escaped and wandered into this world. Their corpses are even still there."
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a blue light flash in front of me, and then a strong wind hit my face. When I reacted, Sandora and Bingtis in front of me were gone, and there was only the lingering wind from the automatic gate behind me.
Not gone. But a few seconds later Sandora rushed back at the same speed of sound, grabbing my arm—in fact, she grabbed the head of the little puppet on my arm: "Where is it?"
Sandora's other hand dragged Bingtis, who had not yet reacted. This female gangster was dragged out at supersonic speeds just now. I clearly heard a loud noise at that time. It must have been her.
She bumped into something, and now she was lying on the ground in a half-dead state, with one arm being pulled by Sandora. The female gangster looked up at Lilina and Mercury Lamp, who were also in a trapped state, and was extremely sad and angry: "Your uncle's
...You two are truly a couple! Don’t drag me along, okay!?”
Sandora conveniently whipped up Bingtis, who was pretending to be seriously injured and about to die, and casually agreed: "Oh. I forgot to drag someone along." Then she threw her good friend aside and said to Lilina briefly and concisely.
Two words: "Lead the way!"
The reason why she didn't look for the little doll was because the latter was still hanging on my wrist, occupying my mouth. I couldn't communicate. We called Qianqian who was leading the children back, and went to the experimental area to pick another one.
Tavel and a bunch of experts such as assistant technicians and engineers accompanied him. Everyone set off from the base on an engineering ship and reached the planet twelve astronomical units away from here in the blink of an eye.
This is a desolate, cold, lifeless, solid planet that has stopped geological activity. The biggest feature of this star system is that all its celestial bodies are far away from the sun, even though we have traveled twelve astronomical days in the direction of the asteroid belt.
Unit, the star is still a cold orange bean in the field of view. The excessive distance causes the average temperature of the surface of the planet below us to be close to -200c. The surface of the planet is mainly yellow-brown, which is the appearance of the planet's ancient rocky crust.
The planet has an outstanding color. When viewed from space, you can see that the planet has a gentle terrain. It seems that even in the young period of history, its geological activities have never been violent. Among the gentle valleys and geological cracks, you can see
To white crystals, rivers frozen in the freezing cold—perhaps they never flowed—and some solid methane hydrates.
A planet as cold as hell, where the Witch King would freeze alive and cry, but compared to the asteroid belt, this place is actually quite warm...
This planet has a thin atmosphere, the main component of which is helium (other gas components have basically frozen into a solid block of iron or turned into a liquid state on the surface of the planet), and there are several trace elements unique to this universe. These elements
This caused the atmosphere on the side of the planet facing the star to appear slightly iron-red - and it was on this side that Lilina and the little doll discovered those things.
The heavy-shaped engineering ship hovers in low-Earth orbit like a huge meteorite. The drone ejection track and airport components below the engineering ship begin to deform and stretch, preparing to launch joint orbit-planet collection operations. We come to the bottom of the engineering ship
On the extended platform at the end, I looked at the yellow-brown earth under my feet through the transparent energy barrier.
I rubbed Lilina's hair: "Where exactly is it? If you leave a mark, we can save some time."
"Of course, you can rest assured that I will do the work," Lilina patted her chest proudly. Although she accidentally discovered the place while fighting with the little doll, she seemed to regard it as a huge result of her hard work. "
I planted a small sapling below and asked me to look for it...oh, I found it, that little green dot over there is."
Lilina pointed at a green spot on the surface of the planet and said happily. I was speechless:
A plant that can be seen in space, Lilina calls it a sapling...
The engineering ship locked the coordinates and found an open space suitable for setting up a ground station next to the coordinates. Then it dropped a huge cubic device with a side length of about two hundred meters from low-Earth orbit. The cubic device quickly fell into the thin atmosphere.
, suddenly stopped hundreds of meters above the ground, then slowly unfolded and landed smoothly: inside it is a set of fully functional ground station infrastructure, including a small multi-functional command center (which allows it to operate under manned conditions
It operates normally in both unattended and unattended modes), two multi-functional laboratories with space expansion devices, an autonomous mechanical hangar, and three docking stations for short-term supply of small aircraft. Of course, it also
It is equipped with an important device that every imperial workstation has: a transmitter. The transmitter can ensure the rapid transfer of materials between the ground station and the mothership in orbit. Therefore, the ground station itself does not carry facilities that take up too much space such as warehouses.
.
The engineering mother ship in orbit, combined with several ground stations dropped to the ground, can start scientific research and sampling work in as soon as ten minutes. This is the most commonly used planetary working mode of the general-purpose engineering ship we are on. Because of the hope
Spirit Apostles do not need to collect resources on the planet: they abandoned planetary mining many billions of years ago, so these engineering ships are basically used for scientific research.
After the ground station sent the readiness signal, we directly arrived at the surface of the planet through the transmitter.
The first thing that catches your eye is of course the "little sapling" planted by Lilina a few kilometers away. It is difficult for me to explain to you scientifically that a sapling breathes helium in the cold wind of minus 200 degrees Celsius.
What is the giant green plant that thrives in the air - so let us try to ignore the overwhelming big stuff and continue to pay attention to the relics of our ancestors. The short-range radar mounted on the ground station has found the reaction of the material in our hometown. When we
When we arrived at this site, which looked like an oil drilling platform, its hangar was sending out hordes of autonomous machines. The assistant technicians and engineers who were teleported to the ground with everyone followed behind us, following these autonomous machines.
Following the direction pointed out, I quickly found the shocking ruins.
It is located in a valley five kilometers away from here, and it appears to have been there for many years.
This is a valley with an unusually open bottom. The bottom of the valley is covered with gravel, and the frozen soil that never melts is crisscrossed with ravines. And at the end of the valley, a huge metal structure is inserted into the ground at an angle. It looks like it is part of a spaceship.
It also looks a bit like a crashed orbital station that fell to the earth from space - I personally prefer the first guess. The shape of this huge object is a bit like multiple irregular cylinders bundled together. The surface is gray and black, and no trace can be seen.
Painted or marked, it should have fallen directly to the surface from a high altitude, because the ground around it is densely covered with radial cracks, and on its surface, cracks torn by huge impacts can be seen everywhere: these marks
Sexy things record an earth-shattering space crash. This metal giant is no longer complete. One end of it pointing to the sky is a jagged crack, with sharp metal structures and broken pipelines protruding from the crack. In the cold and thin
The atmosphere trembled slightly, as if the skinny claws were protruding from the grave, trying to catch the distant sun in the sky. These obvious fracture marks indicate that this is just a spaceship that fell to the ground (let's assume it is a spaceship for now)
part of it, the other half has disappeared.
"All the hometown material reactions on the entire planet come from this valley," Tavel looked at the data terminal in his hand. The engineering ship in orbit had released the satellite and conducted a rough scan of the entire planet to confirm whether there were more.
A relic of our ancestors, but it seems that the result is very frustrating. The incomplete wreckage before us cannot be put back together.
To be honest, at first, I really didn’t expect that what Lilina and the little doll found would be such a huge thing! I thought they just found a few escape cabins, or a lifeboat that was slightly larger than that.
thing, but this thing in front of me... its scale is much beyond my expectation. No wonder Xiaodeng would use the word "grave" to describe this thing. This metal remains standing in the cold wind really looks like a huge and cold tomb.
"This looks like a spaceship," Bingtis raised his head and looked at it for a long time, "Isn't it different from your spaceship?"
"You don't even know what era this thing is from," I said to her casually, and then followed Lilina towards the huge wreckage of the spaceship. "God knows how many generations of civilization have changed between the Xiling people and the Xiling apostles.
years."
"It's unbelievable... This important heritage was left under our noses for two days," Tavel looked up at the huge black wreckage like a mountain, and the broken and sharp metal branches were clearly reflected in her pupils.
, her tone was a little apologetic, "My subordinates were overwhelmed by the abundant material from their hometown in the asteroid belt. They should have scanned the entire star system earlier."
"No...it doesn't matter," Sandora said absently, "It was just a little late, but we still found it. The spacecraft seemed to have experienced an explosion from the inside out. The fracture that caused it to split into two was basically
Everything is spreading outward, but there is no abyssal breath on the spacecraft. What destroyed it?"
Shandora just said this to herself. She didn't expect to get any answers, and no one could give her an answer: What we have in front of us is an ancient secret from a long-lost era. It is so long ago.
So much so that even the immortal Xiling apostles were unable to explore those years. The wreckage of this spaceship is as mysterious as the ancestors of Xiling. I can't help but have some illusion: I seem to have passed through the barrier of time, staring at the ancient history that has stopped.
Things that should have been wiped out with the passage of time just burst into your sight in such a majestic manner, and the psychological shock it brings is indescribable.
Imagine seeing the flash of light from the beginning of the universe at the end of the world, and even that span of time cannot compare with the icy wreckage before us.
I have all sighed like this. Sandora, who is a genuine Xiling apostle, is of course even more so. She gently stroked the cold and broken hull, and her voice was distant as if coming from the end of the world: "Will the first original body
Could he be born on a spaceship like this?"
"At least they were born on the same spaceship," Bingtis patted Sandora's shoulder hard. "Damn, I got excited: Gods rarely have the opportunity to see this kind of historical moment...
Where to get in?"
I turned to look at Lilina (the little doll was still biting my wrist, so I ignored it). She had found the body at that time, so she must have got into the spacecraft and knew how to get around inside.
"I'll lead the way!" Lilina patted her chest proudly, and then led us to find the "entrance" of the spacecraft, which was actually a large crack on the outer shell of the spacecraft. This crack happened to traverse a corridor in the spacecraft, so we could
Leading to the central area of the spacecraft.
Watching Lilina disappear into the black hole, I can basically imagine her and the little doll chasing each other to the planet, seeing this huge wreckage, and then digging into it like a child looking for treasure.
Entering the adventure scene...
A large group of people followed Lilina and filed into the wreckage of the spacecraft. The first section of the road was very difficult to walk, but after clearing the obstacles and bypassing a severely twisted alloy gate, we found the official corridor, and the road suddenly became spacious. Ice
Thies snapped his fingers: "There needs to be light." Thus the lighting problem in the dark wreckage was solved. The entire spacecraft was shrouded in light, and the road ahead was as bright as day.
"Special alloys still maintain a certain strength under such extreme conditions," Tavel's eyes flashed with blue light as she tested and analyzed the material of the wreckage. "There are traces of smelting and a large number of impurities. This ship
The ship's construction material must have come from minerals from the home world, but it is still not the same as the material we found in the Primarch."
"The original body was created on the Ark of Exile. At that time, the creator should have been able to exploit resources from other worlds," Sandora responded casually. "The materials of the Ark came from the home world, and the materials of the original body may come from other universes."
"Be careful when taking samples. The structure of the spacecraft is fragile and can easily collapse - don't let the autonomous machinery get on board. Do it yourself." Tavel turned to his assistant technicians and engineers and said.
The entourage began to carefully collect alloy samples on the spacecraft and released a large number of detectors. Those small detectors made a brisk chirp and flew into every fork in the road to detect areas we did not set foot in. Feedback information was quickly sent
With Tavel in her hands, the structure and functional layout of the entire spacecraft quickly took shape in her mind.
The principles of this primitive aircraft were fairly easy to understand for Tavel.
"We should be in a place like the emergency escape passage or backup passage of the spacecraft now," Tavel said. "In addition, the control host of the ecological maintenance system was found in the spacecraft. We may be able to fully understand our home world for the first time in history.
What is the environment of the original home star? What is missing from the spacecraft should be the propulsion module and power module. My subordinates estimate that it was the explosion of the power module that caused the entire propulsion section and power section of the spacecraft to be separated. Theoretically, this is the case
."
The footsteps of a group of people echoed in the empty corridor, and the soles of their shoes made a crisp "tap-tap" sound on the alloy floor. During Tavel's explanation, we learned about this ancient ancestral creation bit by bit, and got close to it.