Chapter 1078: If You Are a Man, You Have to Reach the XX Level
There are countless fragmented space fragments in this world. In each space fragment, you can find large and small land, rivers and even oceans. In these space fragments, you can often find the remains of civilizations left by unknown ancient times. This The indigenous inhabitants of the world vividly call these space fragments "lost worlds". With the development of civilization over time, these lost worlds have become part of the lives of local indigenous inhabitants, and are even the homes of some rare races in this world...
This is all the information we have about the "Lost World" of this world until today.
However, today, a completely unexpected ancient mystery suddenly emerged from these lost worlds that originally seemed nothing strange. Everything is confusing and clueless, and people cannot grasp any key points, but it has only been exposed. The various facts have already made everyone highly nervous: intuition tells everyone that we are coming into contact with an unprecedented secret.
And this secret points directly to the biggest cornerstone of the new empire: Gaia, the mother star of the fifteenth district of the old empire.
The surface of the huge stone square where the Sky Tower is located is engraved with lines handed down from ancient times. At first, no one noticed these curved stone grooves, until Lin Xue inadvertently put his "sight" on the entire sky. Only on the tower did I see the full picture of these lines. In the control room of the Sky Tower, the ancient carvings on the square matched exactly with the western hemisphere space silhouette of the mother star Gaia: in fact, this broken world and The nearest frontiers of the old empire's ruling areas are separated by an indescribable "distance" of void.
If this is just a confusing "information recording problem". Then we discovered something even more incredible. The Hanging River, which everyone had just taken a boat tour an hour ago, is exactly the same as a river on the home planet Gaia from shape to size. The ancient garden we visited before exactly corresponds to a large place in the northern hemisphere of Gaia. grassland. This kind of "no difference at all" is not just as simple as matching the outline, but also includes every surface undulation and detail in the entire area. Therefore, after just comparing two places, we are 100% sure that they are exactly the same. .
Since the Empire fell into slumber, the home planet Gaia has stopped geological evolution - the artificial planets created by the Empire have this function. When the system is in standby, everything on the entire planet will be frozen to prevent accidents from happening the next time the system is restarted. Therefore, to this day, the home planet Gaia still maintains the landscape of the last day before the collapse of the old empire. And the "lost world" in this remote universe...
"The same has not evolved," Sandora came to the conclusion after releasing a batch of probes ten minutes ago to collect information flow data in this small piece of lost world where the Sky Tower is located. However, this conclusion did not make her any happier, "In fact, you can think of it without detection. The lost world is built in space debris. It lacks the power of change than a rocky planet with a cooled core. It can be maintained here for tens of millions of years. The same thing—unless the entire floating land is weathered away.”
"There has been no change here, and it's the same in Gaia," the angel sister muttered, still with her natural look, "that is to say, these lost worlds are like snapshots, preserving the original appearance of their birth. They When it was born, it was the time when the mother planet Gaia was sleeping. That’s basically it.”
There is only one issue that Sandora and Alaya are arguing about, and that is regardless of Gaia. Neither the lost world nor the one here has undergone geological changes over a long period of time. Their agreement in characteristics is completely unquestionable and points to the only possibility:
"The lost world is the broken mother planet." Sandora concluded.
"It's getting more and more unbelievable," Bingtis frowned, "Absurd, very absurd. Sandora, I know this is your internal affairs, but I really can't help but interject: You have no impression of anything here?"
Sandora glanced at Bingtis. This question had been asked several times in the past ten minutes, and she was too lazy to answer it now. Sister Bing didn't take it seriously either. She was thinking about other things: "Okay, let me be sure of one thing: the mother planet Gaia is now intact in your shadow space, with no scratches at all. It is the same as when it was just dismantled. The packaging is the same. And here it appears... There are two places that are 100% consistent with certain landforms on the home planet Gaia, the Hanging River and the Ancient Garden. Could they come from a replica? Maybe the old In the Empire era, someone copied the mother planet of the Fifteenth Sky Zone and threw it into this inhospitable place. Later, for some reason, the replica planet was blown to pieces, and the fragments were scattered everywhere..."
"What's more nonsense," I glanced at Bingtis, "That was the capital star of the Fifteenth Sky District back then. Just copy it? And Gaia itself doesn't know anything about it? Do you think someone can know this? Unknowingly make a copy of the Father's Temple, then throw it into the depths of the void and blow it up?"
Bingtis thought for a while, and probably felt that what he said was quite unreliable, so he decisively shut up and went to draw a circle next to him.
"Hey, Ajun, I have an idea, can you tell me?" Qianqian suddenly tugged on my sleeve and whispered. Me: "...you say."
Although Qian Qian is good at making surprising statements most of the time, I have to admit that her out-of-the-box thinking often hits the key points with eerie accuracy. Thoughts that are not bound by common sense have unlimited potential. I am also very curious about Qian Qian. Qian thought of something.
"Let's go check out other lost worlds?" Qianqian thought for a while, clapped her fingers and said, "I remember that I counted the lost worlds here. I conservatively estimate that if you pinch them together, they would be as big as several home planets. , and there is only one home star, so there must be some fragments that cannot be consistent with Gaia. In addition, even the land fragments that can be consistent with the home star, there are actually many differences, right? For example, the ancient garden We have never seen such plants on our home planet. We all focus too much on the same places. It seems that we have neglected to look for different places - maybe we can find the answer from them? "
I looked at Qianqian in surprise, and was greatly surprised by the rapid progress of my lovely girlfriend's intelligence. I pinched her nose happily: "Girl, I almost forgot about this! You How did you remember it?"
Qian Qian was embarrassed and puffed up her chest with a bit of pride: "I played for half the night yesterday and everyone came to find fault..."
For a moment, the surrounding air solidified. Bingtis laughed twice and continued to draw circles on the ground: she almost drew out the underground water.
It is unrealistic to detect all the space debris in this messy world at the same time, but the number of lost worlds connected to the mother continent at the same time is also not a small number. There are at least dozens of them, and with these bases, you can start exploring on a larger scale. Nowadays, no one has the mentality of traveling around the mountains and rivers anymore... Well, okay, except for some really heartless guys, such as the five-person group of protoss cops and a bunch of doll heads, no one else has Then hold the mentality of traveling around the mountains and rivers. Therefore, we acted quickly, and the first step was to release a sufficient number of probes. Let these nimble little guys travel to other lost worlds in our place. This doesn't take long, but the transfer is more troublesome: you have to teleport from the Sky Tower to the Hanging River. Then return to the mother continent from Xuankong River. Then go to various space fragments from projection points all over the mother continent. However, the probes all have the ability to jump, and the least problem we care about is distance. Moreover, we got this world-wide periodic calendar from Sakina. This calendar summarized by countless explorers can allow us to directly grasp the time and place where most of the lost worlds are connected to the mother continent, and it will save a lot of effort when taking action. .
"The probe has been set off, but some worlds will not be opened until a while later," Sandora flipped over the periodic calendar in her hand. "We will probably get all the data in the evening or early tomorrow. We still have a while now. Do you want to continue searching this tower?"
I looked at the Sky Tower projected by Alaya. It was an unusually large building. And even Alaya can only detect half of the bottom of the Sky Tower. What we have found so far is certainly only a small part, and in any case, continued exploration seems necessary.
"Continue," I breathed, "such a big tower cannot be just a place to put monitors. It has collected so much energy, it must be of some use - my target is the upper floors of the Sky Tower. How to scan the shadow area."
The upper level of the Sky Tower is a place that cannot be accessed by Alaya's current visitor permissions. There may be a higher alert level there, and there may even be defense facilities that cannot be closed. If they are defense facilities created by ordinary civilizations, we can naturally ignore them, but they It's a creation of the old empire - then even we need to pay attention. But naturally no one would give up moving forward just because of this small danger. Just out of caution, I still looked at Sakina and Sona: "We are going to an unknown area next, which even we can't figure out. Do you still want to follow me?"
"Are you in danger?" Sona glanced at me, then nodded firmly, "It doesn't matter, half-dragons are not afraid of danger!"
"Don't worry," Sakina said more bluntly, "Anyway, you are all very powerful. Sona and I will hide as soon as the time comes."
I set my sights on Saeko again. My cheap sister is the one with the lowest combat effectiveness in our family. Although she is also studying at the military academy, she is still very weak after all, and her major is still the cheating maid... …
"There is no need to worry about me, brother-sama," Saeko said with a confident smile, "The maid-style arcane charging fighting technique and the maid-style heavy fire bombing technique are prepared for this kind of scene!"
But none of them sounded like they were meant for a maid! What did Anweina write in the textbook!
Alaya used the crystal cluster to activate the final teleportation, sending everyone to the highest level of the Sky Tower that she could access. This teleportation obviously took longer. Usually it was just a flash of white light, but this time I felt it. The transmission beam lasted for several seconds. Apparently, some remaining scanning system was still identifying the visitor. When the white light dissipated, we found ourselves in... a large forest.
There are lush shrubs and vines growing all around, and there are towering giant trees everywhere you look. It looks like a primeval forest! It’s just that all the plants are new to us. Not only is the shape different from common plants, even the leaves are not the green color of ordinary plants, but are dark green mixed with a cold steel blue color. A breeze blew from nowhere, and the rustling of the branches in the forest was mixed with a crisp sound like the sound of gold and iron.
What a strange place, what strange plants.
"Forest?!" Sakina exclaimed in surprise, looking at the towering ancient trees and lush shrubs and vines around her, "How could it be a forest? It's not in the tower... Could it be that we were teleported outside?"
"No. It's still inside the tower. Look at the top." Sandora retorted and pointed directly above.
Through the lush branches and leaves above the head, you can vaguely see the "sky", with blue sky, white clouds, and a warm sun. There is also a display that shows "The current ecological index is good, and there are still seventy-two days until winter."
"The sky is made using holographic projection. In fact, it is a dome." Alaya flapped her wings and flew high into the sky. After crashing through a lot of branches and falling a lot of feathers, she came into contact with the "sky". Her voice It came from high in the sky and was amplified with the help of magical power so that it could be heard clearly here. Then we saw a huge square gap suddenly appear in the sky, and a large complex metal pattern was exposed from behind the gap. "I interfered with one part of the projection, which is the roof of the tower."
Alaya then restored the sky projection - it looked strange to have a piece of sky suddenly missing from the ceiling.
"Crash - click - plop!" After a loud and messy sound. The angel sister fell in front of me with scattered feathers and rotten leaves, with weeds on her head: "Brother Monarch. I'm back." Her tone was particularly indifferent, which was a typical common phenomenon.
She was used to being overwhelmed by her clumsiness in whatever she did...
I stepped forward to help this stupid guy pick off the straw sticks on his head and wings, while Sandora completed the search of the surrounding environment, frowned and said: "It's almost as expected, the space here has been expanded. The entire floor is a huge ecological area, complete with light, air, water circulation, and fine-tuning of the magnetic field... Wait, the life forms here are wrong, not just in appearance... they are not from the same source as the plants on the mother continent!"
Sandora said, creating a holographic projection in the air, showing a small bark sample she collected.
"Look at these fibers. There are many crystal structures in the middle, replacing cell tissues. The indigenous plants in this world do not have this phenomenon." Sandora pointed to the magnification area on the holographic projection, and I saw a creature that looked like a crystal grid. organize.
This is just a detail issue, but now, no detail issue can be ignored. Shandora's discovery made me a little concerned. As far as the information we currently have, the animals and plants growing in the "Lost World" of this world all have a ancestral relationship with the mother continent. In other words, even if they are completely different species, they still have the same form of life expression. For example, only They are multicellular organisms. No matter what kind of animals or plants they are, they are all made up of cells. It is the same in this world. No matter how strange the species growing in the Lost World are, they are also made up of cells on the basis of life. But the plants growing in the space inside this tower are different from everything on the mother continent. Their structural basis is actually a kind of crystal. Obviously, they come from another life that is different from any existing plants on the mother continent. system.
"It's something from the home planet," Alaya studied it and concluded, "This crystal structure is unique to the plants on the home star."
"In other words, this layer preserves ecological samples from the home planet Gaia?" My sister thought of a possibility.
"Not necessarily," Alaya threw away the grass stick in his hand, "I can only confirm that these plants are homologous to the plants of the home planet in terms of life, but their specific species... this is the first time I have seen them. The trees, as well as these flowers, plants and vines, are all not found on the home planet.”
The question that has been raised countless times today is once again on everyone's mind: Why?
Why is there a species here that can be judged to be homologous to the plants of its home planet at a glance, but has never been seen before?
"Alaya, your name appears again."
Monina's voice came from the distance. She just ran out to investigate the situation, and now she has made new discoveries.
In a small open space a hundred meters away, Monina discovered a metal circular platform. This metal circular platform may be one of the monitoring points in the ecological zone. On the holographic projection next to the circular platform, we saw Alaya's name again. : She is the chief designer of this floor, known as the "First Eco-Dome." I have seen a similar situation before, but this time I was much less surprised. Looking at Angel Sister, the confusion on her face was no less than that of others, so there was no need to ask her answer.
"I don't remember, I haven't seen anything here." Angel sister said simply.
"Okay, let's continue to other places." I knew that all I could get today was one question after another, but I decided to move on. "Alaya, you can also find a way to teleport to the upper floors. What?"
After reaching this level, Alaya's visitor permissions cannot be used, and the upper part of the Sky Tower is completely out of our control. On the floors below, you can teleport at will through the crystal clusters, but it may not be that simple if you go up.
"It can be teleported, but I can't be sure what's there," Alaya summoned her Holy Light model again. The red patches representing everyone's positions had stayed on the edge of the shadow area marked with "no data", "Crystal Cluster The coding method is universal, and you can enter the floor anywhere, but we may have to face the guards in the core area."
There is no need to consider the security issue. As long as I can teleport, I will be relieved.
No matter what lies ahead, there is only one thing to do now...
"If you are a man, you can go to the 100th level!!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)