Although he has been involved in search and rescue work for another month, Liu Yibi is still very afraid of discovering corpses during the search and rescue process.
Most of the corpses of these soldiers who died in the interstellar war a few months ago died tragically, and due to the climate of Mars, these corpses usually do not move so fast, so...
a "Come and see..."
b "There is a corpse here..."
c "It's a woman!"
Liu Yibi heard this, but he had no intention of looking at the female corpse. He continued to walk forward, and then came to a twisted and deformed passage to block the door.
After trying to open the twisted titanium steel door to no avail, Liu Yibi turned back and said, "Hey, come and help me."
The three abc brothers rushed over immediately.
With the help of these three people, the door was finally opened.
However, what came into view was a hellish scene...
I saw nearly a hundred corpses with miserable deaths piled up in the dark corridor with flashing lights. Judging from their clothes, they should all be ordinary soldiers on the "Sun Chaser", but they didn't even have time to change into spacesuits before they died.
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Liu Yibi suppressed his nausea. He called up the structural lines of this layer and tried to find other ways to go deeper. But after searching for a long time, there was only this way to go. In desperation, Liu Yibi had to follow the three abc brothers.
Step on those corpses.
At first, Liu Yibing had always been opposed to trampling on corpses, because he personally felt that doing so was very disrespectful to the deceased, and it was inevitable that he would be upset if he was trampled on like this after death.
Sad resonance of consciousness.
But now, after seeing so many corpses, Liu Yibi is used to walking on corpses.
It's not that he doesn't care about some ridiculous respect or blasphemy, but most of the time at the search and rescue scene, there is no time to move the body away bit by bit, let alone now.
The four of them walked all the way and used the search and rescue equipment they carried to confirm whether there were still biological signals around them.
The result shows zero.
Liu Yibi has already looked away from this. In fact, not only on the "Zhuri", from the beginning of the rescue work to now, the camp has rescued less than a hundred survivors. They are scattered in the restricted area of the battlefield with a radius of nearly a thousand kilometers.
There, finding one was like winning the lottery, so Liu Yibing had given up hope for a long time.
After passing through the corridor, what should be the end of their trip for the four of them is in front of them - the cooling module area of the No. 7 warp engine unit of the "Sun Chaser".
This place is located under the bow of the "Sun Chaser", almost at the position of the fins on the lower abdomen of the fish's head, and is an area quite close to the lower level.
In addition, the "Sun Chaser" was grabbing the ground with its head when it crashed, so the four of them are now at the deepest part of the entire battlefield restricted area. But compared to directly checking the stable state of the curvature engine on the "Sun Chaser", it is super dangerous.
Liu Yibi is relatively lucky in terms of his job.
After verifying the voucher code, the door to the cooling area remains locked.
After several attempts, the verification program ran correctly, but the door would not open.
a said, "It seems to be a problem."
b "Should not be a voucher code."
c "But there is something inside that jammed the door."
its stuck?
Liu Yibi took out a metal lens and put it against the door of the cooling area and scanned it. After a period of careful and patient data collection, the analysis results showed that the door behind the door was indeed artificially blocked as analyzed by the three abc brothers.
"Then what should we do now?" Liu Yibi was not curious about who would do this. Now he just wanted to finish the work as soon as possible and go back... After all, he came to find his younger brother. There are no clues left by his younger brother Liu Hanfeng here.
Staying for a second longer increases your risk.
a "I analyze."
b "There must be another door here!"
c "A hidden door!"
Liu Yibi frowned and said, "How do you know?"
a "Bodies in the corridor."
b "The clothes that some of the guys who died tragically were wearing."
c "It belongs to the staff in the cooling area, so..."
Liu Yibi: "So you suspect that they blocked the door to the cooling area before escaping, and then escaped through a small door?"
The three brothers nodded in unison.
Liu Yibi understood. He put his hands on his hips and looked around, but he didn't find anything suspicious.
The space ratio of the cooling area in a super-sized starship is really average. Especially for special engines like the curvature engine, the cooling area is dispensable most of the time. It is a typical Qingshui Yamen mess.
Waiting to die.
So this place is so big? Where did the small door come from?
Just when Liu Yibing's face was full of confusion, he heard a loud noise suddenly coming from inside the door. The sound was astonishingly loud, as if something exploded.
Liu Yibi shrank subconsciously. The three brothers ABC were still calm, but they also looked confused.
"What's wrong? Could it be that the warp engine exploded?"
When the three abc brothers heard this, they all looked at Liu Yibi as if they were fools. Liu Yibi's old face turned red, and then he realized that he had made a common sense mistake... There was no sound when the curvature engine exploded...
a "It should be something inside the door."
b "Awakened!"
c "Let's go in and have a look."
After saying that, the three of them started looking for the so-called small door regardless of Liu Yibi's obstruction.
Liu Yibi asked with lingering fear, "Hello? Aren't you worried about the monsters in this door? Aren't you worried about your own life safety?"
abc The three of them answered in unison, "Don't worry."
Liu Yibi rolled his eyes and wanted to ignore them.
But he couldn't complete the task if he went back alone, so Liu Yibi simply stood in front of the door and stood there in a daze.
He basically didn't sleep much in the past month. Usually when he couldn't hold on any longer, he would use his own savings to buy some refreshing things from people around him. This lasted for a month.
Now that he was in a daze, Liu Yibi felt like he was in a trance, and he couldn't tell whether it was day or night.
But in this process of waking up but not waking up, Liu Yibi saw the door in front of him open.
The surrounding flickering lights became brighter, and a man and a woman walked out of the cooling room talking and laughing.
Liu Yibi watched them leave blankly, and then walked into the cooling room alone.
Due to its special working principle, the curvature engine generates very little heat, but this does not mean that the space movement efficiency that the curvature engine can produce is small. On the contrary, it is the only mature and reliable star field jump currently mastered by mankind.
The basis of technology.
Liu Yibi knew very little about the curvature engine, so he knew even less about the cooling chamber.
When he approached the cooling room, he felt that the air was filled with a strange floral fragrance, and at the same time, he could see some flickering light spots everywhere, with different colors, some deep and some light, some big and some small.
Liu Yibi didn't know what these light spots meant and thought he was dazzled, but no matter how much he rubbed his eyes, those light spots still existed. Only then did Liu Yibi realize that these might be the components of the curvature engine cooling unit.
Special features.
Walking further inside, Liu Yibi discovered a device that looked like a fish tank.
It is sandwiched between two black columns, and those light spots and the refreshing and strange floral fragrance are emitted from here.
When he came closer, Liu Yibi frowned. He didn't raise his hand rashly to touch it, but first looked around to see if there was any controllable equipment or the like.
However, what surprised him was that there was no equipment at all. It was just an ordinary-looking room with a small area. The only thing that people cared about was the fish tank and these two pillars.
Returning to the fish tank, Liu Yibi got closer to see what was in the fish tank-like glass vessel.
As a result, the moment he lowered his head, he suddenly discovered that there was a person on the other side of the fish tank trying to check the contents of the fish tank.
And that person is himself!
Panic struck in an instant. Liu Yibi hurriedly stood up straight and pulled out the weapon from his waist. But when he looked again, the other person was gone.
At that moment, Liu Yibi felt that he might have seen it wrong.
He lowered his head again with uneasiness, and then... another person appeared again... But this time Liu Yibi was not so panicked. He subconsciously thought that it was the mirror image in the fish tank.
But when he noticed that the other person looked at him with an indifferent and even bitter expression, Liu Yibi really panicked.
He hurriedly recovered his mind and walked out, but at the door he bumped into many men and women wearing the same color clothes, and their appearance and expression were exactly the same, just like a complete set of toys produced from the same mold.
Soon after these people entered the cooling room, the whole room began to tremble violently.
Then, as the alarm sounded, the Chase... fell to the ground...
…
"Hello!"
Liu Yibi came to his senses and found that it was Big Brother A from ABC calling him.
"Don't be in a daze." a.
b; "The road is this way."
c "Come here quickly."
Liu Yibing, who still didn't know what happened to him just now, hurriedly ran towards A. When he got close, as expected, there was a small door in the dark corner...or rather...a place that was originally
There should be a gap for some kind of formation.
Passing through the gap, the four finally entered the cooling room.
When the four people turned on the lighting tools, they were all dumbfounded.
The dark cooling room was empty, and there was a bottomless hole in the room.
Liu Yipiao's eyelids twitched, and he immediately suggested, "I...I...let's go back the way we came?"
But the three abc brothers ignored him. They approached him curiously, just like their usual weird looks. They didn't seem to know what fear was.
Liu Yibing no longer dared to step forward. All the scenes he had seen in a daze seemed to be blending with everything at this moment. He didn't want to think about what was in the bottomless pit. He
I only know that if I pass by, I'm afraid I will fall into a situation that is beyond redemption.
a "Hey! It's so magical!"
b "There seems to be a ruins down here."
c "Shall we go down and take a look together?"
The three of them looked back at Liu Yibi.
Liu Yibi was stunned for a moment and then shook his head violently and said, "No, no, no! I won't go down! I'm going back. If you want to go down, you can go down by yourselves."
Liu Yibing, who still looked so cowardly, turned around and was about to crawl back along the narrow passage just now, but when he turned around, he couldn't find the passage.
Just listen to what the three people from ABC said right now.
"Oh, that's the case."
"Then you go back first."
"Remember to tell them that we are not running away, we are warriors."
After saying that, the three of them jumped into the pit together.
It was too late for Liu Yibi to stop him.
In the blink of an eye, he was the only one left in the dark room. Only then did Liu Yibi really feel scared about something. He didn't want to stay here for one more second. It seemed that some unknown threat would kill him anytime and anywhere.
It was like dying. But where was the way to survive? Liu Yibi clearly remembered that the four people had not taken any detours after they came in. Logically speaking, they could see it if they turned around, but now he was completely lost in this narrow space.
After being trapped for a few minutes, Liu Yibi remembered that he could ask for help from others, but he didn't know if God was deliberately teasing him. Liu Yibi found that his space suit was out of power, and those high-frequency devices that needed energy support
The rescue transmitter simply couldn't work properly.
Liu Yibing, who was in a desperate situation, had to carefully approach the pit.
The pothole is not big, about the size of a well.
Standing on the edge and looking down, Liu Yibi discovered that there was indeed a faint rock tunnel underneath the pothole. There was a light at the end of the tunnel. Although it was not clear, it seemed that there was some kind of ancient ruins.
Liu Yibi was hesitant, but in the end he felt that perhaps following down to find the three ABC brothers would have a better chance of survival, so he plucked up the courage and finally jumped into the abyss of eternal destruction.
…
More than four months ago.
Su Yao and Jiu'er followed the traces left by the Red Dwarf Legion deep into the depths of Mars.
They were very careful along the way, but as they walked, they discovered that the destination of this group of people was far beyond their expectations. If they were not adequately prepared, it would be difficult to follow them to the end.
Fortunately, both of them have extraordinary physiques, so even if they don't have enough supplies, as long as everything in their space suits is normal, there won't be much of a problem.
After stalking deep underground for more than a week, the two finally saw an ancient and mysterious ruins buried deep under Mars.
It looks a bit like Borobudur in Indonesia on Earth, similar to an altar dedicated to gods and Buddhas.
However, from a distance, it can be seen that those statues are not the Buddha statues in human belief, but rather ferocious-looking ghosts from hell.
Su Yao studied "Ancient Theology" with her grandfather since she was a child, and he did not stop even when he was serving in the First Fleet of the Asia Star Republic.
When Su Yao sees these statues now, the first impression that comes to Su Yao's mind is the Court of the Gods of the Lord of the Past. It was the place of judgment for all the pure wisdom and pure stupidity in the civilization era of the Shangyuan Dynasty. All things will be subject to the judgment of the past.
under the leadership of the Lord and subject to the judgment of the Court of Final Appeal.
To understand this concept in popular terms, it is the highest power structure composed of a group of aloof guys who claim to be gods.
It's just that Su Yao never expected that there was such a huge god ruin hidden 130,000 meters away from the surface, and it was also an existence related to the Lord of the Past.
Jiu'er didn't understand these things, and her attention wasn't entirely on these things.
"There seems to be some particularly powerful power condensed there..." Jiu'er came to the conclusion after the blue mark between his eyebrows flashed several times.
Su Yao knew what the person next to her was good at. He nodded and said, "No matter what it is, just follow it and take a look."
"Um."
The two got up and moved forward again, this time they were getting closer and closer to the team in front.
It looked very close from a distance, but in fact, Su Yao and Jiu'er, who had spent a whole day, were completely shocked by the scene in front of them after arriving at the periphery of the ruins.
Those ferocious-looking servants of the Past Lord are truly terrifying. Each one of them is at least ten meters high, and they are not very far apart from each other. They are so densely packed that they are just like the solemn stands on either side of the senators in the court.
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In Su Yao's impression, except for the descendants of sub-gods who worshiped the old gods and the lords of the past, there are almost no giant intelligent beings in the universe. It seems that the more ordinary and intelligent a certain kind of power is, the more physical it becomes.
Humble and insignificant.
However, at this moment, the descendants of the sub-gods in the court of the gods who should still feel inferior to the real ones are all tall and scary, which makes Su Yao a little confused.
While Jiuer sighed, he still focused his main attention on the unknown energy condensation in the center of the ruins.
And the closer she gets, the greater her sensitivity and fear become.
Su Yao could clearly see her uneasiness, so she held her hand and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Jiu'er forced out a smile. She was naturally relieved about Su Yao, but... her keen perception made her more alert to dangers and insurmountable taboos than ordinary people. At this moment, the condensed power had not yet been revealed.
Just being aware of the awakened existence is enough to frighten Jiu'er beyond measure, which shows how powerful this thing is.
Su Yao saw Jiu'er's fear. He frowned slightly, then turned to look at the end of the long trail.
In the center of the ruins is a temple-like building. It doesn't look big, with four doors facing four directions, but it gives people an unfathomable feeling.
Su Yao knew that the thing that scared Jiu'er so much that her breathing became disordered was there, so he whispered, "Wait for me here. I'll come back as soon as I go."
Jiu'er grabbed Su Yao and shook her head: "No, don't leave me, I'll go with you."
Su Yao glanced at Jiu'er and then smiled and said, "Then turn off your perception. Let's just treat it as a newborn calf and not afraid of tigers, and go and break through this hell."
The white-faced Jiu'er nodded, and then forcibly turned off his sensing components.
The advantage of doing this is that it can completely cut off the connection between himself and the mysterious power, but at the same time, Jiu'er also lost his sense of everything around him and became dull.
But finally able to walk normally, Jiu'er happily took Su Yao's arm and walked slowly towards the palace.