The road leading to the core area of the wreckage was clear. Tavel was right. We were walking on an emergency escape passage. Due to the special design and high-strength structure, this passage miraculously remained intact after the spacecraft crashed.
Complete. ※※The only thing that hinders walking is the angle of this corridor: because the spacecraft crashed on the ground at an angle, the entire space inside the spacecraft presents a forty-five-degree angle. Walking in such an inclined place...
In fact, in the end we had to fly over a long distance, and I felt dizzy after walking on a straight road...
"This is the gate to the core area." Finally, a hexagonal alloy gate appeared at the end of the corridor. The gate could no longer be completely closed. The slightly twisted gate caused a crack of more than 20 centimeters in the center of the armor plate of the gate.
Tavel stepped forward and pushed the gate and found that it was motionless. "It seems that this must be destroyed."
Bingtis stepped forward and touched the door that had stood for who knows how many years, and the latter turned into dust silently in an instant. Sandora's eyes changed slightly. She was not touched because of the destruction of her ancestors' relics, but
She seemed to have thought of something suspicious, but she didn't say anything and just walked in immediately.
"By the way, how did you get in..." My head twitched and I asked Lilina a very idiotic question, but the next second I saw this resentful little girl's body like a washboard, and her normal appearance.
Hanging on her wrist, the doll girl, not much bigger than an SD doll, instantly said, "Oh, I understand."
Lilina angrily looked at Tavel, who had a very good figure, Shandora who had a good figure, Bingtis, who had a super good figure, and Qian Qian, who was not super good but had normal development, and her anger burned.
Yes, he patted his chest and walked inside: "Tch, what do you know? Small breasts are a rare resource. Sooner or later, you will realize that straight is the mainstream, and clamshells and sliders are a thing of the past..."
I was speechless for a while, then followed the last of the team into the control center of the spacecraft.
The control center is large and has a grandeur that matches the appearance of the spacecraft. However, I can hardly see any shadow of "Xiling" from the strange equipment around it. The spacecraft built by the creator is almost completely different style, if not
All the surrounding materials have the information characteristics of their home world. I am afraid that neither Tavel nor Sandora can connect this strange and weird spaceship with the origin of Xiling. As a layman, I can’t see much technical significance in it.
In terms of details, I don’t know how much this ship lags behind compared with the battleships of the New Empire, but it can be clearly seen. This control center is completely prepared for “mortals”: it is a giant circular hall, neatly
The rows of seats and operation terminals occupy half of the space in the hall, and the thinking interactive console and the terminal position of the shipboard host cannot be seen. This is the biggest difference from the empire's current spaceship: this ship requires manual control, and its other
There are many operators, and the ship-based host computer of the spacecraft itself cannot undertake the mission. It cannot even appear in the lobby as one of the spacecraft commanders-but on the imperial spaceship, the ship-based host computer almost assumes the role of deputy captain, and the imperial battleship
The number of direct control personnel required will also be incredibly small.
The assistant technicians immediately went to work with a cautious attitude. They began to examine these ancient devices and tried to figure out their startup methods and energy types. Although no one could explain how this "mortal artifact" experienced this
It can be said that it has been preserved for a long time, but the intact appearance of those consoles is still obvious. Don't explain things that are unclear for the time being, and finish the work at hand: this is the consistent stance of Tavel's team.
Sandora came to the seat closest to her. One of the creators once sat here, but the ancestor who created the third clan of gods in the void was no longer there, leaving only the broken seats covered with dust and a computer in my
It looked like a strange control terminal. Sandora reached out and brushed away the dust on the console, revealing the light blue panel underneath. The material of the panel reminded me of a touch screen. Its shape was like an elongated six
polygon.
"This shape is the only thing that has been preserved to this day." Sandora sighed softly. I thought of the equipment on the imperial starship: most terminals have a hexagonal control crystal board, and their material is Xiling Apostle.
One of the immortal substances created out of thin air that will not be eroded by time. It has amazing solid texture and physical and chemical properties. It is countless times more advanced than the glass plate fixed on the steel platform in front of you, but the precision of the hexagon
The proportion spans time and space. It connects two generations and becomes a piece of evidence proving the immortal connection between this wreckage and the Xiling Apostle: Destiny is such a wonderful thing.
"Where are the remains that the two little girls mentioned?" Bingtis saw that a group of people seemed to have been completely attracted by the ancient equipment on site, and couldn't help but remind him. Sandora certainly didn't forget this.
But I don't know why she hasn't taken the initiative to mention it until now. Instead, she seems to be deliberately diverting her attention to the ancient equipment and other messy things in the control center.
"Are you scared of being close to home?" Bingtis glanced at Shandora with interest, and suddenly said playfully, "Oh, the word "shy of being close to home" doesn't seem to be used in this way... But don't worry about the details."
"It's over here!" Lilina ran to the side and waved to us. Sandora originally wanted to say something, but she didn't care about it at this time. In order to show that she was not "timid in the countryside", she ran over immediately.
, I followed her closely, and then saw where the "remains" in Lilina's mouth were.
What is unexpected is that there is a "sleep cabin" in a place like the control center!
Okay, maybe it's the medical cabin, rescue cabin, escape cabin or something like that. In short, at the edge of the control hall, against the circular wall, there are countless containers neatly arranged. I saw them when I first came in.
, but at that time I thought it was some kind of control terminal or decoration. If Lilina hadn't had a strong sense of anything related to life (including remains) and discovered the secret of these containers the first time she came, maybe we
It took a scan of the entire ship to discover that these containers contained the remains of the creator.
These containers are elongated hexagons, roughly similar to the coffins used by the ancient Egyptians (perhaps the coffin style is also part of the Xiling civilization?), and their size seems to be used by only one person. They are dark in appearance and are fully enclosed.
The alloy box is placed vertically and half-buried in the ring wall of the control hall. Like all the equipment in the hall, these "sleep cabins" have no light on the surface and are silent inside: their energy supply has long been destroyed.
Termination, although for unknown reasons, they have existed for a time far beyond the limits of matter, no one would expect that the people in these containers are still alive.
"There is no life response," Sandora reached out and gently stroked the surface of the container closest to her, saying the self-evident conclusion. Then she looked around the entire hall and instantly counted the number of all dormant cabins, "
If I guessed correctly, the number of people in these sleeping cabins corresponds to the number of people in the control center. These small cabins seem to be equipped with independent energy and navigation mechanisms, and I also scanned structures similar to thrusters. This makes them more like escape cabins.
.The creators arranged these devices in the control center, perhaps indicating..."
"They live in an era where they need to abandon the ship and escape at any time, and even the control center is not safe." Tavel's mass projection came over at some point, and she looked at the small cabin in front of her, "Your Majesty, I want to open one and take a look.
What?"
Sandora frowned and took a long time to make up her mind: "Be careful. Don't destroy the ancestor's remains."
A "sleeping cabin" was dismantled smoothly. There were only latches and an energy line connecting it to the wall behind it. Just as Sandora said, these cabins are designed to escape from the mothership*
* Escaped. The senior assistant technicians carefully laid the container flat on the ground. This raised a burst of dust. The opening and closing mechanism of the container was completely damaged, so it could only be dismantled violently. When the flash of the cutting beam wandered around the container
At that time, I noticed that Sandora clenched her fists nervously.
Then the lid of the container was carefully opened.
A tall man with a slightly gray beard and hair was lying quietly inside. He was wearing some kind of ancient military uniform that we didn't recognize, and his expression was as peaceful as before.
It was not a shriveled corpse, not bones, not weathered and tattered clothing, but a middle-aged officer who looked as if he had just fallen asleep. I was a little stunned for a moment, unable to believe that this was the hope that had been dead for countless years.
Ancestor Ling, history is approaching in front of me in such a "young" appearance, which makes me feel a strong sense of disobedience. He doesn't look like he has been dead for a long time at all. I even feel... as if he just lay down a few minutes ago.
This dormant escape cabin is about to be suddenly awakened by us.
"This is the creator..." Sandora said with a surprised tone. Maybe she didn't expect that the person in the container was like this. Then her eyes glowed slightly and she switched to data analysis mode, "Sure enough,
…Unexplainable situations also exist here.”
"what happened?"
I saw Sandora and Tavel's expressions were very strange, so I couldn't help but ask aloud.
"It is impossible for secular materials to be immortal," Tavel replied solemnly, "That's why we use information materialization technology to create imperial equipment, in order to make those extraordinary materials able to withstand the impact of time. Earthly materials... use your best
For easy-to-understand examples, you should also know effects such as molecular osmosis and many other factors that can cause the decay, weathering, and degeneration of matter. As long as you are in a normal environment, everything in the world will slowly change, even if there is only one planet in the universe
Atoms always have a moment of decay. However, this spacecraft, the remains of the creator in front of us, and the home material we found in the asteroid belt, all transcend 'time'. This is the theory."
"They are in an inexplicable 'immortal state'," Sandora took over. "It's not that time has stopped, but that time cannot change their 'state'. They are like snapshots, fixed in a certain state."
Under 'normal order', they repeat their basic evolution over and over again, and every short period of time, they 'refresh' themselves at the microscopic level. This results in all of these in front of us appearing in an incredibly intact state, as if they had just emerged from
It’s like escaping from my hometown world..."
"What's even more incredible is that in this microscopic immortal state, they still evolve according to normal rules at the macroscopic 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 on a macroscopic level and will not be restored through 'refreshing'. But on a microscopic level, its atoms no longer decay. They no longer change nature. Even if countless billions of years pass, it... still remains
It looks like what it looked like when it left its home world. It is precisely because of this that the materials in our home world that we have measured are much 'younger' than their theoretical lifespan. This is theoretically true."
I quickly understood the meaning of these words and looked at Tavel and Shandora in surprise: What they were talking about was exactly the reason why the home world has violated the rules and survived to this day, and it is also the reason why the ancient ruins in front of us are still alive after countless years.
The reason for immortality. This problem was extremely troubling a few hours ago. Unexpectedly, Tavel and Sandora figured it out now.
"I have already had speculation about microscopic immortality." Tavel explained why she suddenly became enlightened. "It's just that there are only primitive materials in the asteroid belt. Those materials come from the same area. They can be preserved to this day only because
The world is distorted on a small scale, so it has no corroborative value. However, the spaceship here and the remains of the creator all show the same 'immortal' state, and the subordinate's guess has been confirmed. Just now, the subordinate and Sando
His Majesty La held a brief discussion and believed that since even the remains of the creator are in this strange 'immortal state', it is very likely that the entire home world is in the same state. This is theoretically true."
It turned out that Tavel had already made a vague guess, but because it could not be confirmed, she did not say it out of the caution of a scientist. She was indeed the best researcher in the New Empire, and her reasoning ability was very strong.
"Next, we have to verify these speculations through experiments." Tavel said seriously, "Let these substances go through time to see if they are eternal. My subordinates have ordered the laboratory to prepare a time acceleration chamber, and soon
Soon..."
"Why are you wasting so much time?" I casually pointed to Qianqian, who was squatting on the ground and playing backgammon with Hueska not far away. "The time acceleration chamber is much less accurate than Qianqian - and that girl doesn't do anything serious.
Something went wrong."
Tavel was stunned.
Of course, the remains of ancestors cannot be used as experimental subjects, so Tavel asked her assistant to take out the material samples collected from the wreckage of the spacecraft and the material samples extracted from the asteroid belt, and gave them to Qianqian for accelerated experiments. And Shan
Dora ordered the engineers to carefully dismantle all the sleeping cabins in the hall and prepare to transport them back to the base. There were people in each of these sleeping cabins. According to the state of the spacecraft and the fact that the sleeping cabins were closed but failed to eject, Sandora
Trying to trace back what happened to the ship:
The spacecraft suffered serious damage (possibly the abyss, but since there is no residual reaction from the abyss on the spacecraft, it may also be a secondary space disaster caused by the abyss, let's ignore this for now), but the creators still have enough time to react, so
They all moved into the sleep capsule for escape. However, fate played a joke on the people on this ship. Perhaps just when the escape capsule was about to eject from the ship, the power section of the spacecraft finally failed to support: a violent explosion tore it apart.
into two halves.
The control signal of the spacecraft was suddenly interrupted, causing all escape cabins to fail to start normally. Although good protective measures protected the bodies of the creators in the cabin, they never woke up again.
The wreckage of this ship should have been floating in the home world for a long time at first - it could not have crashed in the void, otherwise it would have been assimilated long ago - and then it suddenly flashed in space 20,000 years ago
Come to this universe.
After a while, looking at the busy scene of everyone in front of me, I suddenly remembered something, and it was of great importance, so I jumped in two steps next to Shandora who was supervising the soldiers moving the dormant cabin:
"By the way, girl, do you think the navigation host of this ship will have the coordinates of the home world?!"
What I thought was pretty good: Any normal spaceship that can fly out of the world must have a navigation host, right? Although the creator's technology is not very high, but it is also compared with today's Xiling Apostles, in single terms it is absolutely
With their technological level, they are already an advanced civilization that can jump out of the void. They must know how to accurately calibrate their home world - the spaceship we have now is huge and has ample living space. It looks more like an ark of exile than an ark.
It is a battleship, and there is a device in its middle that looks like an order field generator, so this ship was originally designed to sail in the void. I have countless reasons to believe that this ship carries the coordinates of my home world.
Even if the home world is about to be wiped out, the creator will input the coordinates that will theoretically become blank soon into the navigation host of the spacecraft, or so I think.
Sandora's eyes seemed to light up, but she soon sighed, saying that the truth would never be so optimistic:
"The 'position' of the world in the void is not eternal. Each world changes its coordinates at a very slow speed. Under normal scales, this change can be ignored. The void navigation database only changes every million years.
All updated once, but countless millions of years have passed since my hometown world...you understand."
I blinked, trying to put aside the messy associations in my mind about the theory of continental drift, and then sighed in disappointment.
"What are you thinking about?" I saw Sandora's eyes fall on the ancestral dormant cabins again, with a thoughtful look on her face, and I couldn't help but ask curiously.
"If they are materially immortal," Sandora said word by word, "does that mean... we can resurrect these ancestors..."