A bright light suddenly flashed in the dark and vast space, and then the space was filled with ripples like water ripples. The hundreds of kilometers long Cross starship poked out from the ripples, hovering imposingly on a green star.
Over the planet sè - of course, no one can see it no matter how powerful it is. The Imperial Admiral is in a state of invisibility. Before the local situation is clear, I do not intend to alarm the natives here.
This time the planet is no longer Sandora's dream, but the original celestial body of the universe after the dream faded.
Shandora's mental induction is really accurate. I found that I accurately arrived at the gravitational balance point between the planet and its second satellite. This navigation ability is no less than that of shipborne radar.
"The jump engine seems to start faster than before, and the jump process is more stable," I sat behind the temporary console on the officer's platform, chatting with Sandora while checking the working status of the rebirth spacecraft. Now the spacecraft crew
The staff are all gone, Sandora is just a ball, and he can only temporarily play a guest role as the operator. Fortunately, he has worked hard to learn a lot about spacecraft control in the past few years, and with the support of the shipboard host,
Some basic tasks can still be completed. "It seems that when the spacecraft was reborn, the items on board that were not part of the ship's registration equipment were not reborn, but some of the personal belongings we put on the officer's platform were reborn... This is really strange."
"Anyway, this is a good thing," a football-sized golden ball of light floated in my hand, and Sandora's voice came from it, "This shows that its resurrection is controllable, and there must be some kind of pattern that can be studied.
.In this way, the spacecraft can still be upgraded and modified, and even if it is sunk in the future, it can be resurrected with the modified parts when reborn, so that it will not return to its current initial state every time it is reborn."
I conveniently held the Sandora ball in my arms and stepped towards the teleporter. I motioned for Alaya to follow me and muttered: "It sounds like you are planning to let the Imperial Admiral destroy itself a few more times, just in case.
What if this resurrection is a one-time thing?"
"Just think about it carefully." Sandra Ball struggled slightly for a few times, "I can move by myself now, and I don't need to be carried around."
I laughed and said: "Don't make trouble, it feels good."
Sandora: "...Well, forget it, we are already an old married couple anyway. But can you please stop pinching me? This is not a toy, okay..."
We did not teleport directly to the vibrant green planet below, but turned on the invisibility state. First we came to the outer space. Sandora said that this place is an advanced civilization. The reason is that she is around this planet.
A large number of high-tech facilities were discovered: space stations.
The green planet below is slightly larger than the diameter of the earth. It has three natural satellites of different sizes. The smallest satellite is just a larger ice rock ball. If it falls on the surface, it will probably be a giant meteorite. The other two satellites are
The satellites are similar in size to the moon and are located in two orbits that are at an acute angle but do not intersect. In the vast space between the three satellites and the green parent star, thousands of complete space facilities can be found. We
There is one in front of you.
These space facilities have streamlined and rounded shells, ranging in size from tens of meters to nearly one kilometer. Their shapes are basically similar, like giant seeds or some kind of enlarged plant pods. On the smooth alloy shell
The main color is green with decorative patterns of vines and leaves. Although they are reminiscent of cold and stiff space equipment, these space stations still have elegant and complex patterns and carefully crafted decorations everywhere——
This style makes people think of elves. It seems that there is a group of art-loving locals living on the green planet below? And their aesthetics seem to be in line with the mainstream standards of the empire. At least I can see these space stations
The appearance is very pleasing to the eye.
However, Sandora had no feeling for this style. She rolled around on a space station in a spherical shape. After inspecting a main armor plate, she concluded: "These patterns have no effect at all, and they are neither external energy collection."
Net. It's not a magic rune, it's just a waste of manufacturing time. The patterns on the empire's equipment are all useful, and purely decorative things need special applications and have special meanings. Look at a space station.
...The surface is almost painted like a gallery. Why make it so beautiful? Who will see it in space?"
"Aren't we just watching," I said in the spiritual connection while catching the Sandora ball floating towards me, "Besides, don't be too strict with other races. There are elves in the Empire Familia.
They wish they had their family portraits painted on the bullets. It would be even more awkward if you saw it. You have never seen a space shuttle made by tree elves. It is more fancy than the one in front of you - by the way, this thing in front of you looks really real.
It's a bit tree elf style, but obviously the technique is a bit inferior."
As we chatted, we studied the space station in front of us, which is more than 400 meters long and looks like an elongated olive seed. Through its technological level, we can roughly judge how advanced the civilization of the indigenous people on the planet below is. This can provide information for the next step.
Contact lays the foundation. This space station is certainly inconspicuous compared to the behemoths made by the empire, but it is already quite large for most civilizations that are about the same size as the people on earth, and this thing has a rigid shield generating device and a relatively primitive
The gravitational wave antenna can basically determine that its manufacturer has the ability to navigate within the Milky Way. Perhaps some detectors will be released later to search for distant places, and we can also find the colonies and shells of this civilization in other star systems.
It is covered with beautiful patterns, just like Sandora said, "delicate and beautiful but useless", but I still found that these patterns actually divided the outer shell of the space station into some areas, such as access openings, reserved slots for external equipment, and deformable
There are special patterns surrounding the covering panels of the device, and Sandora's opinion was even greater: "It's obviously just something to mark the location, is it necessary to draw it in such a complicated way!"
I knew that this was the inexplicable discomfort caused by Sandora being unable to eat, so I didn’t take it seriously with her at all. I just smiled and shook my head and put my hand on the outer shell of the space station, preparing to avoid alerting the possible personnel on duty in the space station.
Let’s learn about its internal structure, and then...this thing is sleeping?!
I was a little surprised, so I knocked on the alloy shell of the space station subconsciously, and then used my mental power to go deeper, and finally determined that 80% of the internal sections of this thing were closed, and there was only a weak energy response in the core.
The only things that remain in normal operation are two external devices of the space station: the shield generator and the thruster for orbit calibration. These two devices are necessary to ensure that the space station can operate for ultra-long periods of time in space.
Sandora also didn't expect that this thing looked so brand new, but was in a dormant state inside. She split a small cluster of golden flash from the spiritual spark and penetrated into the interior of the space station. She quickly came to the conclusion: "There is no thought reaction, and there is no life."
It looks like it is an unmanned station, and even the AI has been shut down...if it has an AI."
"Go and look somewhere else." I turned my head and looked in another direction. At the end of my sight, there was a small silvery-white light spot mixed with green. It was the other space station closest to here.
A few moments later we finished checking the second site, and the results were as expected: it was also sleeping.
Alaya released his Holy Spirit clone, Sandora split more mini-spiritual sparks, and I expanded the range of my spiritual induction. Soon, dozens of man-made facilities in the surrounding space were scanned by us.
.However, they are all in a dormant state without exception, and the dormancy method is exactly the same: the main internal equipment is completely shut down, indicating that the entire site is no longer performing tasks, the core has a weak energy response, indicating that the site core is idling on standby, and the shield is damaged.
The normal operation of the thrusters and thrusters used for attitude adjustment ensures that they can survive in this dormant state for a very long time - and they may have been dormant for a very long time.
"One station may be dormant due to maintenance or other reasons, but these space stations have all entered dormancy... the situation is quite strange," the spherical Sandora floated two meters in front. A trace of golden lines sparkled from the soul.
Extending out from the middle, gradually fading into the depths of space, just like her fighting posture in person, these golden lines are checking the space station in a farther range. "They are all sleeping... and the shields and attitude engines are in
Operation, this shows that they were deliberately set to this state: although they are not working, they have to be on standby in space for a long time. But why do they do this? Have their manufacturers given up on these things? "
"It seems that we can only go to the surface of the planet to find the answer." I looked at the green planet at my feet. "Tsk, weird worlds are really everywhere, how come I only encountered this kind of development that doesn't follow common sense?
civilization……"
A moment later, we arrived at the surface of the planet and approached the settlement near the landing site while invisible.
This place is located at the end of a triangular plain, which is the junction area between the plain and a large forest. There is a straight and wide river at the junction of the forest area, which just divides the two landforms into two. The west side of the river is dense jungle, and the east side of the river is
It is a plain area with towns and open terrain and sparse vegetation.
In front of us is a local town. It does not look large in size. It is more like a huge village than a town. However, there is a circle of earth and stone structures called walls around the village, so it is classified as a "town" by me.
"In the category of ". Standing at a high altitude, you can see the whole town. It is built along the river, winding and slender. There are hundreds of houses built along the bank of the river towards the plain, and further towards the plain.
As you go deeper, the number of houses gradually becomes rarer, but the scale gradually increases. It is obvious that wealthy households, shops, government facilities and other facilities are located on the inside of the town far away from the river bank. Most of the houses are a mixed structure of earth and wood + masonry, bungalows and
There are mostly two-story houses, and the style is relatively simple, without much decoration traces. Even the larger houses that look like noble residences do not have much decoration.
However, simplicity is simplicity, and all the houses are quite neat and bright. Most of these local houses consist of a square main house and two or three cylindrical auxiliary houses. The exterior walls of the houses seem to be made of white cement or something else.
It is built with artificial materials and looks clean and tidy, while the sloping roof of the main house and the dome of the auxiliary house are paved with blue shingles or fired masonry tiles. Blue and white, the entire riverside town basically has only
These two colors.
There is a spire building with a rather special style in the deepest part of the town. This spire makes it particularly conspicuous among other buildings. I don’t know what it is for, but looking at its special location, the colored glass depicting complex patterns and
The endless flow of people in front of the door...maybe it is some kind of religious facility? Of course, this is just the first impression, and the specific situation is still unclear.
As a town, this settlement is not large, but the population is quite prosperous. Outside the town are large tracts of farmland, and the flow of people inside the town is constant. The level of technology in this world can be seen from the transportation on the streets: the rich
Horseback riding, farmers' ox carts. Most pedestrians hurriedly walked on the rough stone avenue. The most high-tech in the entire town may be the three windmills built against the wall on the east side and the large water wheel in the upper reaches of the river.
Besides, I didn’t even see an electrified streetlight…
"It seems... it's different from what we expected." I landed from a high altitude to a height that was almost as high as the town wall. I held a warm sandora ball in my arms and stretched my neck to observe the clothes of the locals.
Talking to oneself.
The locals are also in human form, so there is no need to think about transforming into some weird shape for infiltration. All you need to do is prepare local clothes. Alaya has been active outside for a record-breaking period today, and now he is lazily
Go back to my spiritual world to sleep with my daughter, Sandora... I ask her to lower the brightness a bit and I treat it like I'm holding a football, or she can just become invisible.
Sandora's observations are much more detailed than mine, and she has spread her power further and deeper. Her calm voice came from the light ball in my arms: "Visually check their technical level.
In the agricultural era of artificial + animal husbandry power, there was no sign of electrification or any self-sourced mechanical power. Most of the residents were humans. Different races like elves and dwarves were found among them. They were small in number and got along well with humans.
Expanding the search scope, confirming that other settlements within a million square kilometers of the surrounding area are in a similar situation, and comprehensively assessing that this planet is in a low-level uncivilized civilization... I actually made a mistake in my judgment."
It wasn't just her misjudgment. Even I didn't expect to see such a scene on the surface of the earth: a farming civilization that had not developed modern technology at all! It even looked like Europe in the late Middle Ages!
However, this planet has hundreds of space stations and artificial satellites running in its orbit. Those space facilities are even as clean as new and can be operational again with just one command!
Obviously this planet also contains secrets. But I never imagined that I would just be blown up once in a while and fall into a remote world where no birds shit. It was extremely low probability to find a planet with life, and I would encounter such a situation.
It’s an interesting and confusing thing. This ability to get lucky is simply a talent - why didn’t I try to buy lottery tickets before I was eighteen? Then when Commander Three Hundred comes, I
There is no need for them to find jobs by themselves, and there is no need to cultivate Cicaro’s weird hobbies...
I quickly prepared myself a set of clothes that fit the local civilian style. In fact, the local clothes are not awkward to wear. Short robes and narrow trousers, in gray-white and gray-blue colors, look a bit like the residents of the desert area, better than a certain person.
It’s much better to live in a world where these people are used to weird clothes. Sandora didn’t bother to cover herself with camouflage, so she simply turned invisible and floated behind me. The two of us just walked into this local town without causing any unnecessary trouble.
sight.
"Those space stations and artificial satellites in space should have been mothballed in a planned manner. There is no sign of being hastily abandoned, and judging from their standby status, it is obvious that they are waiting for a certain moment of recovery in the future," Shandora remained invisible,
While observing the surrounding situation, he continued chatting with me in the spiritual connection, "And these on the ground... have probably experienced some kind of technological decline, which is not uncommon. In short, it doesn't look like a special civilization worthy of attention.
But since we are trapped here now, let’s just explore for a few days as an outing. Sometimes a high-level civilization whose development has been interrupted and seriously declined has high observation value and can give us some enlightenment."
During the conversation, Shandora had already defined this as a "leisure outing with teaching significance". Although it felt like there was something wrong, it was still idle after all, and it seemed good to relax on this planet.
In this way, we wandered aimlessly in this riverside town while speculating on the connection between the sealed space facilities in space and these backward civilizations on the surface.
Although I haven't been to other places, it seems that this town is quite peaceful. I also saw the elves and dwarves that Sandora mentioned before. They should be a minority of residents in the town, but it seems
They also live there permanently, and the three races live together without any sign of conflict. This is not very common in other worlds.
This town is a typical agricultural and sideline industry settlement. The farmland outside the town and the adjacent rivers are probably the source of livelihood for the local residents. There is a small market in the town, where you can see hunters selling game and herbs.
species, presumably the nearby forest is also a pillar of survival for the local people.
I felt that it was rare to find a new world, so I should buy some local specialties as gifts for my family, so I wandered around this small market. Although I didn’t understand the local society, I didn’t know the currency, customs, and daily routines.
Etiquette and other details, but after all, I am also an experienced time traveler. Quickly collecting information through observation in a strange environment is my strength. After wandering around for a while, I roughly understood the currency and transaction methods here, and then I was surprised.
discovered...
Not only currency is used here, but barter transactions are also allowed?
You can often see some people dressed as travelers using some strange things to exchange large amounts of food or other necessities with local residents. This makes people can't help but think that they have just come out of some ruins and haven't had time to exchange them.
"Adventurers" exchange treasures gained from adventures for money. I have seen many such scenes in other worlds.
Just when I became more and more interested in this planet, someone suddenly grabbed me by the corner of my clothes.)