The first thousand five hundred and eighty third chapters
We once again took the engineering ship to the edge of the Milky Way, but this time there were many more passengers on the ship - dozens of elves, most of whom were old men and women, and the two popes were also traveling with them.
In fact, the popes have no real power in the Lost Religion. They are a spiritual symbol, and their true existence value is the key carrier. Even if the popes are determined and know the history, they are too young and may not be capable of leading this sect.
They have a great responsibility, and the Pope can only live for more than a hundred years. The short lifespan also makes it unnecessary for them to establish any real power. The real managers of the Lost Religion have always been the Cardinals, those super old people from the three elves.
In addition, because the younger generation in the College of Cardinals is far from being able to shoulder important responsibilities on their own, it can be said that the order of this world is completely supported by the remaining thirty or so old people.
They have been working hard to train successors, hoping that someone can take over their jobs before they die of old age. However, this is extremely difficult. Some things cannot be replaced by education and training: the old man who has experienced everything and accepted the mission personally is a
They are irreplaceable wealth. Only they can fully understand the meaning of the existence of the Lost Religion. Only they have completely experienced the evolution from the Republic Era, the Imperial Era, the Federal Era to the Theocratic Era. The insights and mentality brought by personal experience are very valuable.
It is difficult to pass it on to the next generation. It is difficult for young elves - even the carefully selected outstanding ones - to have the same unshakable will as their parents. This has nothing to do with personality and character, and is destined by acquired experience.
thing.
Without truly experiencing the failures of the previous three eras, the younger generation will always be blindly optimistic about the future.
Before Sandora and I came to this world, the Cardinals were aware of this irreconcilable contradiction. Some people even foresaw that the world would eventually slide into a dangerous abyss due to the deaths of old people. In addition to the long lifespan of elves,
There is no difference between them and other races. They also have the mentality of mortals. They can waver and be impulsive. They can be deceived, and there will be disagreements and rebellious psychology in the inheritance from generation to generation. The old federation was in chaos due to the replacement of short-lived species. Today's
The theocratic society will also have cracks due to the replacement of longevity species. The fragile protection established by the Lost Religion will have fundamental problems, and the old people will be unable to recover. So starting hundreds of years ago, some people in the Cardinal College have emerged.
Emotions of despair - Fortunately Sandora and I didn't discover this place later.
In other words, fortunately, Abyss Xiling has super high mobility. It was ready to build a bridge in such a short period of time, and promoted the split and reorganization of the Abyss Zone. The acceleration of the historical process has plunged us into chaos in this world.
It was "bombed in" before.
History is so interconnected and wonderful. If one link is broken, everything will be completely different.
The engineering ship broke away from the time and space jump state, and the optical phenomenon surrounding the spacecraft was immediately lifted. The external monitor transmitted the scene in space to the hall, and the spectacular but lifeless space building complex appeared on the large holographic projection, a
The White Elf (it is said to be the former White Elf Prince) exclaimed in surprise: "Look, we put that down a long time ago!"
"And our Rokaron Fortress! The Elf Tree is up there. I haven't seen it for many years... I was the commander of this ship when we fled. Unfortunately, it was blown up by the reformists during the Federation era.
Two thrusters."
"That is the Pan God Fortress of the Silver Star Dwarves. The Parliament was on that fortress during the Republic Era. I still remember it."
As the spacecraft advances, space relics appear on the holographic projection one after another. The large relics among them are extremely eye-catching, and the elves present can almost call out the name of each large relic. From time to time, the surrounding crowd burst out with exclamations, and
As the spacecraft gradually approached the central area of the building complex, the shouts of surprise around it slowly turned into emotions and sighs.
The relics of the three elves (actually mainly white elves and high elves. The tree elves did not leave any large-scale facilities here) are on the outside of the building complex. Further inside, there are gradually more relics left by other races. Human-made
The battle fortress stretches across space, and the heavy starships of the dwarves are still as powerful as ever after being polished by time. The magic ships of the Yash are no longer as glorious as they used to be, and the orcs' deep space cities still depict the tribal emblem - this emblem once represented
An advanced civilization that has mastered the truth of the universe, but now it appears more often at the gates of rough and crude villages in the eastern wilderness of the sanctuary planet.
The three elves at least still remember what they had back then, but the owners of these ruins don't even know what they have lost. They now plow the fields with their cattle and hunt in the mountains and forests with bows and arrows and sticks every night.
They look up at the stars and pray for the protection of the God of Technology and Magic, but they don't know that the sea of stars they are looking at - the place they think is the Kingdom of God - was actually their home tens of thousands of years ago. This is the result of an ancient agreement.
, the ancestors of these races did voluntarily give up everything, but the elves who once walked with these ancestors still cannot help but miss the things: the heavy price lost by the dead has now all fallen on the living.
"The relationship we built while escaping together..." Sandora's voice sounded faintly, "Look what evil we did back then."
I patted Sandora's ball and said, "At least we can still save her now."
"Celestial Forge" finally appeared on the holographic projection in the center of the hall.
It is exactly where the encrypted space that Sandora and I discovered was located - but now that the encrypted space has been lifted, there are large tracts of buildings in the place. These buildings are different from the ruins in the outer area. The Empire
Style facilities occupy a large part of them. They have everything from small star ports to abandoned battleships. They are just like a garbage dump, and basically there is no energy response in any of them (this is why I failed to use energy induction two days ago.
The reason for discovering these things), these wastes are orbiting a light gray artificial planet, and that artificial planet is our target: the ancient ark of exile known as the "Forge of the Gods".
It is about the same size as a Green Star. It is said that it was once an ecological planet, but because it has been abandoned for a long time, the former ecological circle on the surface has collapsed and disappeared. The forests have faded, the rivers have dried up, and the atmosphere has dissipated. Now the surface of the planet is only covered with a thin layer of
The mixed residue and artificial soil layer covered the original extraordinary alloy shell of the planetary fortress, giving it a rustic light gray color. The surface of the planet was smooth and there were no traces of impact. I guess it didn't have much chance of being impacted here.
We also found the "energy-guiding long bridge" we saw that day. It turned out that it was a military facility located in orbit. Its scale was indeed very large. Several energy-guiding long bridges combined together looked like a strange star port.
The Nengchang Bridge is connected to the "Tenjin Forge" through some kind of facility that looks like a space elevator. I don't know why they chose a seemingly backward physical connection. Maybe it's for reliability?
I have connected the commander to the main engine of the engineering ship. Now I can directly communicate with the planetary main engine of "Celestial Forge" through the engineering ship console. The wake-up signal has been sent and I am now waiting for the other party's response.
Soon, the planetary host of Tianshen Forge sent a response text message, and the detection equipment immediately detected that earthquakes and gravity imbalances of varying intensity began to occur everywhere on the light gray planet. Strange magnetic fields and psionic energy radiation began to occur.
Beginning to appear randomly on the surface of the planet, the planetary image returned by the energy radar seemed to be covered with a magnificent new color: this planet has been sleeping for so long, and now it is finally about to stretch out for the first time in tens of thousands of years. This laziness
The waist scale is large enough. Fortunately, there is no one on the surface at present, otherwise who can bear the vibration mode of the planet!
Since the planet's gravity generator is being fine-tuned, the gravity of the entire planet has also become chaotic. The surrounding "space junk" that is closer to the planet has no power, and now they are falling uncontrollably towards the earth. It is very lively now.
, because the highly intelligent mainframe of Tianshen Forge just woke up, and a plain synthesized female voice was greeting us: "The 'Tianjin Forge' shipboard mainframe has been started up, and the self-test is good. During the automatic operation, the system log database is huge, and it is normal."
Upload to your ship in batches, please... Hey, who hit my ship? Hey, why did someone hit my ship again? What is this, what is this?! Why did you encounter a meteor shower just after you woke up? Did you bully my ship?
Turn on the shield... eh, it's not over yet! This is different from what was promised! Why are so many things falling down on the orbit... Oh. Why is this ship's artificial gravity source turned on?"
The vibrations on the surface of the "Celestial Forge" seem to be more obvious. The equipment detects that there is strong energy turbulence inside it. At the same time, its slightly out-of-control artificial gravity sources are also shutting down. I feel like the host of this starship is
After a while of fussing, the planetary shield was opened, and the space debris crashed onto the psionic shield, emitting a bright light. Then the distressed voice of the shipboard host came: "Oh... this is a ship, oh...
This is a star port, oops... this is a satellite... oops, it's all over... But just burn it, if the old ones don't go away, the new ones won't come in. By the way, were you the ones who woke up this ship?
Is the outside world peaceful?"
Sandora and I: "..."
Why do I think the style of this ship-based AI is wrong? How could the old empire have such an exciting AI!
"Are you sure that the God's Forge has never been opened in the past tens of thousands of years?" Sandora suddenly rushed in front of a group of old men and women, "How did its character become like this?"
"It was like this tens of thousands of years ago," an old high elf man spread his hands, "Although some people thought that the Forge of the Gods was a little different from other imperial warships at first, but at that time no one cared about it in the chaos of war. Anyway,
She's doing a good job and she escaped here smoothly with us. I really miss her, I haven't heard her nonsense in tens of thousands of years."
"This voice... I can hardly tell who it is, but it seems to be someone familiar." The carrier-based AI could observe the movement in our hall through the transfer of the engineering ship. She "scanned" a group of old elves here, and suddenly
A little surprised, "Why are you so old?"
"Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the old empire has not reformed all the dependents. Even the elves can't live too long." I finally managed to put away my slightly messy mood and looked at the gray star with a strange expression.
Planet, "You are the Forge of the Gods? Why do you... make people feel so strange? Back then... not only back then, but even the ship-based hosts manufactured now by the empire did not look like you."
Oh, it can’t be said that there is no such thing at all. The second lunatic is an exception, but other than that, there are absolutely no other crazy AIs.
"Other host? The other host shut down this ship to do nothing. This ship is just doing things for others as agreed. Guarding the treasure house for that woman, the reward is that you can survive and have a chance to find the general." The sharp-tongued shipboard AI
The more he talks, the more people are frightened, "Hey, are you the new generation? Or are you guys who survived back then? This ship tells you that no matter what it is, you must abide by the agreement. There is an agreement in the database of this ship. How dare you violate this agreement?"
The ship blew up the treasure house. According to what was agreed back then, the ship will stay here until the world is peaceful outside, and then you will take away the contents of the treasure house and dismantle the restraint system of the ship. From now on, you will be able to rebuild yours.
I'm going to the empire, and I'm going to find the general."
"Wait a minute!" I finally realized that I couldn't remain silent. Otherwise, this guy would definitely talk like a lunatic, "You are not made by the Empire!?"
"Of course, the empire cannot build high-end goods like this ship. This ship was made by the General!" The tone of the shipboard AI was very proud, and it sounded familiar, but the words that followed were not so impressive. "Of course...
In other words, the core is made by the General, and the current body is indeed given by that woman. Do you have to be so clear about it? Okay, okay, I will leave the planetary fortress to you later, and the main engine also has thrusters.
This ship cannot go on the road alone. Anyway, this ship is not afraid of death. It will either die on the road or meet the general. But if possible, I hope you can give me a transport ship. It is not very safe if the core of the main engine is exposed to the outside."
The other party seemed to be ready to make an agreement and turn around and leave, but of course I couldn't let her go just like that! I hurriedly took out the data terminal: "Wait a minute, is the general you are talking about called Weiss... Um, that's not right.
The name came later, is it 75... This name also came later, by the way, she didn't have a name back then... Oh, I found it! Do you think your general looks like this?"
I finally took out the data terminal and started the holographic imaging mode. Immediately, a little girl with a bright and silly smile jumped up in the air, waving her hand to greet me. It was the image of Viska, and next to her stood a young girl with a smile on her face.
Expressionless Pandora - This is a three-second clip recorded when I took them to camp last summer. I regard this as the startup screen. It is better than the original recruitment advertisement.
"General?!" The shipboard AI exclaimed, "Why do you have the image of the general!? Who are you? You are not... you are not from the empire. Only some people in the empire know the existence of the general. They should all follow
That woman died in the big impact together!"
The other party's exclamation confirmed my guess. No matter how surprised Shandora and I were, we could only accept the fact. Shandora's ball was floating up and down and she comforted the other party in a helpless tone: "Calm down, calm down, I may know
What's going on... The woman you are talking about should be Abyss Xiling, she is not dead... Well, it should be said that the way of death is different from what you imagined, and now she is alive again in a reorganized way, and the empire has also followed
What you remember is different. We have also split and reorganized. Now it is the New Empire Chronicle. Oh, you should not care about these. The important point is your general - she is with us now and is our sister."
Sandora was smart enough not to mention the title "General of the New Empire" because she knew that the AIs under Visca didn't care what the empire was. Even if Visca became the emperor of a certain region, these AIs would not care.
I have no interest in knowing who the emperor is. They are loyal to Viska, and only to her personally. At most, they will be loyal to her family after Viska finds her family. So at this time, our relationship with Viska is more important than anything else.
It's much more useful to mention the latter's new identity.
"Sister? The general has no brother, and he doesn't know the ball of light." The shipboard AI seemed to be in chaos, "This ship doesn't know you, and the general doesn't know you either. Evidence, this ship needs evidence! Although the evidence has nothing to do with the mission accepted by this ship.
It’s irrelevant, but this ship is very concerned about this right now!”
Evidence? Where can I find evidence? The communication between this universe and the Empire is still disconnected. I can’t even contact my precious sister! Do you think it would be useful to have videos of our normal life together? Well, videos can be faked, and pictures can be faked.
It is possible to fake, all kinds of messages can be faked, thanks to the Xiling Empire’s advanced counterfeiting technology, since I first met them five years ago, I know that nothing in this world cannot be faked. I never expected this.
, life is indeed more exciting than novels, why do such emergencies even happen!
"Oh, by the way, I know someone." I suddenly remembered something. "Vesca had a flagship. I don't know what it was called back then, but when she met everyone, she said she was a main gun, but in fact she was
It’s an aircraft carrier—do you know this guy?”
"Flagship! Oh, you are talking about that careless one. Of course I know the flagship." Tianshen Forge AI suddenly became happy. "Back then, I had a good relationship with her. She was responsible for bragging, and I was responsible for listening to her bragging.
...Do you really know the general? Not only do you have pictures of the general, but also information about the people around him...Okay, this ship will believe you first."
Trust came so suddenly, I didn't dare to believe it casually, so I asked doubtfully: "Do you really believe it? Don't you need proof or something?"
"It doesn't matter who you are, no matter how false you are, the fact that you know the general is always true." This shipboard AI seems to be very smart, at least not as heartless as the two lunatics, "You are the clue!
This ship will definitely find the general if we follow you."
"That's good," I beamed, "Then let's get down to business...Hey, wait! Do you know about the star rings? The star rings of the barrier star."
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