Hao Ren merged with the probe's field of vision. Under his control, this small device, which was only a few centimeters long, deftly adjusted its angle in the air and scanned the entire starship wreckage into the visual sensor.
It is difficult for humans to accurately measure the volume of an object at a glance, but the probe's various sensors and calculation modules quickly transmitted the basic information of the wreckage to Hao Ren's mind, and some basic data emerged on the wreckage in front of him.
: The long axis is 12.15 kilometers, and the widest point is 4.55 kilometers. The main armor material is molecular laminated polymer. Judging from the coil structure exposed at the break of the armor, the armor has the ability to further increase its strength after charging.
A truly behemoth ship with a very good level of technology.
This ancient starship named the Apocalypse is a desolate gray-white color, and its thick and complex hull structure has obvious signs of twisting and bending, which shows that it was most likely captured and forcibly captured by a sudden and terrifying external force.
It was bent like this. Hao Ren initially guessed that it was some kind of gravitational weapon, such as an instantaneous black hole. But there should be another reason that caused the ship to completely lose its life: at the belly of the Apocalypse, a beam of light could be seen.
There was a huge penetrating wound, and all the hull structures near the wound had been melted and stacked together. The metal that had melted and cooled again floated around the wreckage like frozen blood, extending for several kilometers.
"It looks very much like the damage caused by concentrated energy weapons. The original crazy minions rarely use this kind of attack..." Hao Ren said to himself while controlling the probe to move around the Apocalypse, "So
It is possible that the original friendly forces of these battleships were eroded and transformed by the power of Madness and became enemies..."
The Apocalypse is floating near a dim gas cloud, and similar gas clouds can be seen everywhere in the Gorgon Abyss. This is a depressing fiery red background, as if wrapped in layers of filthy thick fog.
In the space, except for the Gorgon Demons (and their wreckage) that can be seen everywhere, there are only large and small broken stones and strange clouds floating here, which is monotonous and crazy.
The probe deftly bypassed the mass of solidified metal surrounding the Apocalypse, and an opening on the side of the giant starship wreckage appeared in front of the camera. Hao Ren zoomed in on the image and couldn't help but take a breath.
In the crack that looked like the ejection port of a carrier-based aircraft, there were neatly filled with silver-white alloy "monsters" that looked like manta rays.
It was the so-called "Gorgon Lord" who wreaked havoc in the black pine forest not long ago.
The Gorgon Lords, who are considered to be the top demons in the outside world, can be seen everywhere in this lair like the lowest level of cannon fodder. They are arranged in hundreds and thousands of square formations, lying neatly in the belly of the giant starship.
, seem to be ready to attack at any time. They are not aircraft carriers at all, but just fighter jets!
There are actually these things hidden in the Gorgon Abyss... How did the indigenous civilization on the surface of Lahirion survive to this day?!
Huge doubts came to mind, but soon, Hao Ren's doubts were answered.
The probe sent scanning data. All the "Gorgon Lords" docked inside the Apocalypse were in a silent state, and their energy response was as low as zero. This means that they are not only sleeping, but also completely depleted, making it impossible to operate again.
.
Hao Ren controlled the probe to change direction with a hint of chill, and his field of vision shifted away from the Apocalypse's aircraft launch port and turned to another direction.
In the vast and chaotic alien space, you can see some tiny black spots flying around in the turbid clouds. Most of the active Gorgon demons are between a few meters to tens of meters in size.
Unmanned weapons, and the largest ones are just "single-pilot aircraft" like the "giant manta ray" that Hao Ren mistakenly thought was an aircraft carrier. There are actually many of them, but after seeing the Apocalypse, Genna
After entering the library, Hao Ren realized that those Gorgon "demons" with mobility were actually just a rare part of these ancient weapons.
In the more distant clouds, you can also see several other huge shadows, floating in the depths of the clouds like fragmented mountains. They are giant interstellar ships of the same size as the Apocalypse, but they are all silent.
state.
"Terminal, did you see it?" Hao Ren called the data terminal in standby mode in his mind.
"Ah, I'm synchronizing my field of view with you. This machine has seen it all," the voice of the data terminal immediately sounded, "It's really killing me... This machine feels like the chip is shaking! The scene here is a bit too unexpected.
Alright?"
Hao Ren did not continue, but prepared to continue reading: "I want to switch to the field of view of the other two probes, and you record all the images."
As he finished speaking, his eyes flickered slightly, and the vision of Probe No. 2 came into his mind.
He saw a huge piece of floating rubble floating in front of him. Some interconnected pipes and support beams could also be seen on the boulder, and on the surface of some floating rubble, there were buildings like towers or factories.
facility.
"It seems to be a typical asteroid belt building complex," the voice of the data terminal sounded in my mind. "They should have some supporting defense facilities and energy arrays, but they seem to have been scattered and disappeared. Look over there.
, those support beams showed obvious signs of fracture."
Hao Ren noticed something strange on one of the floating rubbles out of the corner of his eye, and he immediately ordered the probe to move closer.
His field of vision was quickly zoomed in, and he could see clearly what was on the floating rubble, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
It turned out to be a corpse, a human corpse!
Probably because there are no oxidation, corruption and other problems in the Gorgon Abyss, the mummy is still in quite good condition. He is an old man with an old appearance and white hair, wearing a gorgeous purple shirt with gold rims.
The purple robe is also decorated with tarnished crystals and precious metals, but those things don't seem to be all decorations, because they are arranged in a complex way, surrounded by symbols and patterns, and they all seem to have special functions.
This old man in gorgeous clothes was leaning on a pipeline in the asteroid factory. His face was twisted and his features were ferocious. He seemed to have suffered a lot before his death. A long staff inlaid with a large number of crystals, mithril, and fine gold was
It fell near his body, but just like the crystals on the old man's clothes, the crystals and precious metals inlaid on the long staff had also lost their luster, as if they were made of plastic.
"This style of painting... looks like a mage... could he be a super powerful Lahirian scholar? He died in it to study the Gorgon Abyss?" Hao Ren couldn't help but mutter to himself, he wanted to step forward and turn the page.
He looked at the corpse, but after getting closer, he realized that he had just borrowed the perspective of the probe and could not do it himself, so he controlled the probe to circle around the body and began to search carefully.
As a result, after the probe went around in a circle, it really found something: it was on the transmission pipe that the old man was leaning on. There were some words ablated by high temperature, even though they had gone through unimaginable years.
But in this place where time almost stands still, all the words are still clearly visible.
The probe hovered in front of the text, and Hao Ren read the translated words:
"My name is Malkiri, the chief magician of the Holy Tumen Empire. I was ordered by His Majesty Tumen to step into this place where life is cut off. I went too deep into this place and was discovered by the ancient guards entrenched here. The space transmission was interfered with.
There is no chance of survival.
"Before the space transmission is completely cut off, I have transmitted all the data back to the Tumen First Orbital Station. Next, I will use my own magic power to build a barrier to extend my survival time in this space as much as possible, waiting for rescue.
"But if I cannot be saved in the end and someone sees this useless old body, please convey my last words to Your Majesty Tumen. They are what I saw with my own eyes after the communication and space transmission were completely interrupted.
"All the history of collapse is tilting towards the 'source point'. The final doom is waiting for our fragile world at the source point. But at that collapse point, I saw a crack that does not belong to our world. I can't
Confirm who caused the rift and when, but it did appear there. Please allow me to boldly assume that in the distant future, the doomsday that should have been destined will eventually be postponed indefinitely. Our world is
There is help.
"Glory to Emperor Tumen and the unknown king."
The probe flew several times around the old man's body and the modified asteroid, but no more clues were found.
"Terminal, what do you think?" Hao Ren asked his partner in his mind.
"First of all, according to the intelligence currently collected and compiled by this machine, there is no country called the 'Tumen Empire' in Lahirien. There is no relevant record in history, and Leah has never mentioned this country,"
The voice of the data terminal rang in his mind, "Secondly, the old magician who called himself Malkyri did not call the ancient weapons in the Gorgon Abyss 'demons', but called them ancient guards. This proves that he has
The understanding of these out-of-control weapons is more accurate, or closer to the truth, than the current Lakhrien; thirdly, and most importantly, he mentioned a term that sounds very much like a space facility."
"Tumen First Orbital Station..." Hao Ren nodded slightly, "This cannot be the product of Lahirien, whether it is the current one or the one before Leah fell asleep."
"So... this magician named Malkyri should be another cosmic fragment that collapsed in?" The data terminal said hesitantly, "But this 'fragment' is different from the Black Pine Forest and the Gorgon Abyss. His
The timeline... seems to be after the formation of the Gorgon Abyss?"
A sentence he had seen in Leah's textbook suddenly flashed through Hao Ren's mind: the end of the world will lead to the collapse of time and space.
The collapse of time and space will cause the original linear development of "history" to appear stacked, distorted, and even nested.
A prehistoric human being may see flashes of the end of the universe, and a human being facing the end of the world may suddenly return to the prehistoric era. And if it is a civilization that is advanced enough and can partially control the rules of the universe, they may even be able to systematically
, purposefully observed the entire process of the destruction of his own universe.
So... is this old magician from the "Tumen Empire" who calls himself Malkyri such an "observer"?