Elizabeth and the demons with the strongest physical fitness and strongest combat effectiveness formed a ground exploration team. This group selected members with relatively stronger combat effectiveness. Even the members who were not demons were all experts from various races. The environment on the ground
There are traces of civilization in it, and there may even be living things alive. There may be more unknown dangers, and the group that explores the artificial sun is more technical personnel.
This group of people does not need a high force value, because once something goes wrong with the artificial sun, it cannot be solved by force. If a nuclear bomb explodes in the face, even if Iraks himself comes here in person, it will be nothing.
After Elizabeth landed on the ground through the rope, she immediately felt refreshed. The slowly rotating roller created an effect of simulated gravity. Although this level of gravity was much lower than what she was used to, it was still better than no gravity.
The environment is much more comfortable.
After arriving on the ground, they saw the details of this world. The area they landed in was actually a special terrain. The walls on both sides of the ecological roller were not straight up and down, but a strange concave
The shape is somewhat similar to the curved base of a can, with a concave bottom. Without a rope, it would be almost impossible to climb up a steep cliff with an angle of more than 90 degrees, not to mention that the cliff is made of alloy.
It is extremely difficult to carve out a grippable area on a smooth surface.
After they landed, they discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, there was an abyss behind their landing point. When they took pictures just now, these areas were not within the shooting range of the camera, so they did not see it and could only see it.
Look at the area symmetrical to the opposite side, and there is a clear shadow on the edge of the roller.
When I got closer, I realized that the shadow here was actually a steep abyss. The demon next to Elizabeth took out a searchlight and shined it at the bottom of the steep abyss. Elizabeth and several others took out telescopes and observed the abyss as deep as a kilometer.
Then I was shocked to see that at the bottom of the abyss, there were crisscrossed spikes. These spikes were like sharp blades, with some bones pierced on them. They looked like the corpses of humanoid creatures.
"Why is there such a design?" Elizabeth was puzzled. There were sharp spikes like blades all over the abyss, and the walls were at an angle of more than 90 degrees. The designer's idea was easy to understand, which was to make life better.
The life inside this drum cannot leave the drum.
Judging from some mechanical remains in the abyss below, it seems that there are not only spikes here to prevent people from exploring and leaving, but also machinery to maintain these traps to ensure that no one can escape from the rollers here.
"Could this be a prison? It's used to hold prisoners. Otherwise, there's no way to explain why someone who can build such an advanced spaceship can only build such a backward civilization in this roller."
A succubus put forward his own guess.
Among demons, succubi are one of the few who use their brains to make ends meet. If placed in the Demon King's City, they would become high-level technicians. When Yzaks was conquering the world, the most powerful strategist under his command was a succubus.
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"Well, it's possible, but let's continue to take a look at the city built by the people here. By the way, we should also take the time to take a look at the big hole over there. Didn't we capture a deep hole in the previous photo?
The bottomed hole. The entire circle around the hole has traces of the existence of intelligent creatures. Maybe that hole can answer our questions."
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At the same time, Lan Nuo and the people here finally landed on the artificial sun after a long drift. They relied on suction cups and electromagnets to lie on the artificial sun and surround the huge artificial structure.
Looking for its entrance.
Fortunately, although the size of this thing is not small, it is still much smaller than the entire ecological roller. After walking around this artificial sun for a long time, they finally successfully found the entrance. What they saw when entering was still the same as the outside.
There are also a large number of incomprehensible advanced mechanical equipment. The space here is much narrower than the space below, but if you explore inside, you can still find a living area.
However, there is no life here. The only thing found was a mummy lying on the bed. The spirit wizard examined the mummy: "This corpse has been dead for many years. The specific year cannot be estimated. It can be determined.
This corpse must have been very old when she died. It’s unclear how long this species lives, but judging from her condition when she died, her physiological state should have been close to exhaustion, and she should have died of old age.”
Lan Nuo nodded, observed the surroundings, and soon discovered the anomaly. In fact, not just him, everyone could easily see it. What are the things in this room that are incompatible with the style of painting?
In this room full of science fiction equipment, the most eye-catching desk in the center of the room is filled with thick, dictionary-like books.
According to their level of technological development, knowledge no longer needs to be recorded in inefficient carriers such as paper and books. These books are the weirdest things here.
Lan Nuo gently picked up the book suspended in mid-air. Fortunately, there was no oxygen here, and the paper did not become fragile due to oxidation. This made the text on it still readable, but the content on it was unknown to everyone.
He couldn't understand the ghostly drawings. Hammer looked through the books. He felt dizzy. Even if there were some illustrations in the books, he couldn't understand what they meant.
"What's the use of leaving so many books when this guy dies? No one can understand their words, so who should he leave them for?"
Lan Nuo took these books and looked at them carefully, then shook his head and said: "These books were originally left by him for us to read. The one you are holding in your hand should be the second volume of the self-translation system.
Many civilizations have developed similar systems. The purpose is to allow civilizations with foreign names or who have no understanding of their languages to understand their languages and characters as quickly as possible through the comparison of these pictures and texts."
Lan Nuo was quite familiar with this kind of thing, so he quickly found some rules. After all, it only took him a short time to learn the existence of demon language. With the help of these books, it was really difficult to decipher the words of this civilization.
It's not difficult.
"You mean you can understand their writing?" Tie Zhui looked at Lan Nuo in disbelief. He thought it was a ghost drawing, but this guy could understand it so quickly?
"I can't fully understand it yet. In this volume, I only introduced some simple words and the grammar they use. For some more complex words, I have to consult the second volume in your hand and their dictionaries.
What she really wanted to leave to us should be this thinnest booklet, which should contain his message to future generations."
Lan Nuo picked up the booklet, which seemed much thinner than other books, and started reading.
at the same time……
Elizabeth and the members of the exploration team rode flying skateboards one by one, quickly traveling on the roads established by ancient civilizations in this world, heading towards the city they had observed before.
Because there is no air obstruction here, their speed can reach an extremely exaggerated level, hundreds of kilometers per hour without any problem.
It didn't take long to fly to the nearest city ruins. The tall city walls have now become ruins. But under the city walls, you can still feel the former grandeur of the city. From the mottled marks on the city walls, it can be judged that
This place must have experienced a pretty brutal war, but the two sides of the war look a little confusing.
One of them is undoubtedly an intelligent creature in this world. This can be judged from the white bones that have not yet had time to converge, but the other party is a bit hard to understand. It looks like some autonomous machinery and some biochemically modified life forms.
structured into.
"Strange, these autonomous machines don't look very advanced, and those biochemically modified creatures also don't look very strong. If these things are put in by people from outside and want to kill the residents inside, there is no need to use them.
Such a backward thing? If nothing else, as long as the artificial sun in the sky is extinguished, everyone here will die soon."
Elizabeth was puzzled by her discovery. She could only cross the city wall and the people into the city, and found that the city was more developed than she had imagined.
Although most of the buildings are made of wood, you can see telegraph poles that have almost turned into fossils, as well as a few metal wires remaining on the poles. The presence of electric lights on the streets proves that they have developed to
The age of electricity.
"Let's go and see their power plant!" The little devil girl was a little excited. Finally she saw some technology that she could understand here. This was exactly what she needed. If she could find some electricity
Black technology is the best.
Following the spread of wires, everyone quickly found the power plant, but they were disappointed that there was no black technology here, just a huge socket. The power plant was not built by the race in this roller world.
It seems to be directly borrowing power from the outside.
But from this perspective, as long as you can find this huge socket on the ground in this world, there will basically be no shortage of electricity. Elizabeth has never seen such a weird world view before.
Among the artificial sun in the sky, Lan Nuo has already begun to read the ancient book: "My life is coming to an end. The gentle super life form can no longer help us maintain the high-consumption operation of the spacecraft, but civilization
This will not end here. As the last watchman, I will record the history of civilization in the hope that those who come after us will understand our struggle against fate."
Everyone immediately became interested when they heard this. It seems that the mummy on the bed next to him recorded the development of the civilization below before he died. This may be able to unlock many secrets and reveal many unknown truths.
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Lan Nuo continued to read the books written in unfamiliar words with difficulty: "Five thousand years ago, before the first watcher was born, our spaceship had reached its limit. The super life form who called himself the eldest son told us that he
It is no longer possible to maintain our own life, nor can we continue to maintain the operation of the spacecraft. Next, we can only rely on the existing supplies in the spacecraft to persist.
But each of us knows that the remaining supplies will not allow us to develop the technology to break through the space bubble zone. If it were possible, we would have already escaped from this isolated island in space with our predecessors who left in the escape spacecraft.
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So after a discussion at the National People's Congress, we decided to implement the Nirvana Plan and extend the existence of civilization as long as possible at the cost of civilization's regression. As an individual with a higher civilization, I hope to die proudly, but
As a civilization as a whole, I think our biggest goal is undoubtedly to survive, at least that's what I thought at the beginning.
Five thousand years ago, we chose to divide civilization into two parts. One part was composed of a few dozen people. These were the smartest people in the entire civilization and their descendants. These people were responsible for passing on the knowledge of the civilization and maintaining the spacecraft.
I am the descendant of those lucky people.
The other part of the civilization gradually began to give up the education of future generations. After their death, generation after generation allowed civilization to regress, back to the primitive era, forgetting their culture, forgetting their history, forgetting their past knowledge, and only
In order to allow civilization to continue.
Because we have discovered that those of us who have received higher education and live in the information age and the interstellar age simply cannot accept a life of low resource consumption. Even if the rationing system is implemented, our brains cannot accept a boring life at the information level. All kinds of
Mental illness has become a crisis that has nearly driven us to genocide.
The resources required to maintain our physical and mental health are too huge. The energy of the entire spacecraft may only be able to sustain it for a few years. Only by returning to the life of the primitive era can we maintain the survival of civilization and us for a long time.
as the natural reproduction of biological populations.”
Hammer and the others were confused when they heard this. They couldn't understand how someone could lead to the genocide because they couldn't accept the simple living conditions. Lan Nuo could understand this situation. It would be difficult for a modern person to accept ancient or even primitive people.
Compared with the productivity of the times, the material and energy consumption brought about by a modern person's life is at least three orders of magnitude worse than that of primitive people.
If it were simply about maintaining the survival of the species, the consumption of materials would naturally be the lowest in the primitive era.
"After discussion, our ancestors believed that the pinnacle technology of farming civilization is the balance point between maintaining the survival of civilization and the consumption of resources. A higher level of civilization will increase the consumption of resources exponentially, so for a long time, the task of the watchman is
To maintain the civilization in the roller world, we are always in the era of agricultural civilization.
Our ancestors designed two sets of insurance to prevent the advancement of their civilization..."
At the same time, after leaving the so-called power plant with regret, Elizabeth led the exploration team to the most eye-catching cathedral in the city, hoping to get some useful clues here.
