Chapter 1,323 A Very Familiar Figure

The locals on this planet regard the terrifying eop-03 in their orbit as an energy furnace. They even think it is a natural thing: no one seems to know that once that thing falls, the entire planet will be destroyed in an instant. Fired into glass.

Shandora let go of the local, and the latter's eyes returned to clarity after a trance. It seemed that she was wondering why she suddenly stood in front of a group of strangers and became stunned. Then the woman nodded silently to us, and quickly Walked away.

"They must have been collecting energy from that thing for a long time." Sandora looked up at the blue-white fireball slowly moving in the sky, and then looked around. The main colors of this city are gray and black, and all buildings are built with darker alloys. Although there are many people on the streets and the city is very prosperous, I always feel that this color tone is filled with a deep and depressive atmosphere - okay , we will not discuss the colors of these buildings. After all, the customs and habits of each species are different, and even the world in their eyes is not necessarily the same shape. In the world in Sandora's eyes, everything has small arrows and information tables. . What I want to say is that all the buildings here have a weak psionic energy reaction, which should be the main energy source of this planet. These psionic energies are not pure. In my perception, they show various clear properties: they have conduction speed, generate heat when flowing through certain conductors, and have electromagnetic radiation... Pure psionic energy does not have these clear properties. Yes, because it is located at a high position on the void ladder, it should be an ambiguous and fuzzy energy. When it becomes so clear, it means that this nether energy has quickly decayed into ordinary energy common in the universe. Therefore, the energy of this city is the end product of psionic energy. Undoubtedly, this extremely decaying psionic energy is transmitted from those spaceships in space.

"The energy collection ship uses something like a prism to collect the weak ghost energy radiated by the bomb, and then irradiates it to the ground. There is a huge storage device under the city. This storage device is not very efficient, but it can store relatively strong Low psionic energy. And this planet relies on this energy system to maintain operation without the sun." Sandora narrowed her eyes slightly, and her perception spread deep underground, "...there is still matter down here. In factories, when the psionic energy is completely exhausted, it can be guided by material guidance equipment and decay into physical residues into energy residues. These residues still have a high energy value and are very unstable. They are then sent up to the sky to fill those fusion furnaces. Inside, it becomes the source of light and heat for the planet. This is the entire life-support system of this planet. It was definitely not built overnight.”

"By digging a hole here, you should be able to find the energy center of the city in no time. Then follow the network to find the center of other cities or the energy dispatching system of the entire planet. From this system, you should be able to figure out how they got from eop-03 It's for collecting energy." Weijia said seriously, while pacing next to us, she measured it on the ground with her long legs that could make leg models mad, as if she was trying to calculate the size of her scorpion body. It seems like a big hole is needed to drill it down. I immediately felt that it was a mistake to bring this stubborn Scorpion sister. I might as well bring Raven 001 or Aura.

"I have left more probes in space orbit, and the structural map of this planet will be available soon. There is no need to use such a troublesome method," Sandora glanced at Vega, and then led everyone out of the square. Go, "Now I want to know about the situation of the indigenous people in this world. There are not many such civilizations that thrive in the universe that is about to be extinguished."

"They don't seem to be in a desperate mood." I looked at the pedestrians passing by. Although the city was dark in color and the pedestrians' clothes were not in line with the aesthetics of earthlings, the passers-by around me didn't see anything similar at all. to the despair of inhabiting a universe on the verge of extinction. They were walking on their way normally, chatting, laughing, and noisy. The floating car in mid-air brought gusts of wind. When I closed my eyes, I felt that I was not that far away from Nanfu Street: it didn’t look like the end of the world was about to happen. .

Except that the sun in their sky has almost extinguished, and now a set of fusion furnaces are providing light.

"Why despair? It will take hundreds of millions of years before the universe is completely extinguished. A red dwarf star can continue to burn slowly for tens of billions of years after it is formed. Even if they come to an end now, their remaining lifespan is astronomical to mortals. Numbers," Sandora shook her head. "Too many races have short lifespans, and even if their world is about to collapse, it is difficult for them to feel it. The process of the universe gradually dimming is extremely slow. They have too much time to slowly transform their lives from generation to generation. The new generation They simply don’t think there is anything wrong with the fusion furnace in the sky and the pitch-black night sky after the fusion furnace is shut down, nor do they think there is any connection between the cosmic winter that will come in hundreds of millions of years or more and them. They have long been aware of this. We are accustomed to it, and have no nostalgia for the pastoral era when the stars twinkled - Is there anyone on earth who regrets that he was not born at the beginning of the star-making movement? Obviously not."

I was speechless. This is something that can only be felt after hundreds of millions of years. Shandora has witnessed the rise and fall of the world and the degradation of races. There are too many, and the dark and dim space in front of her is nothing more than that to her. The civilizations that thrive in this world are just "rare" to her.

"So, boil Ding Dong in warm water..." I sighed leisurely.

Sandora: "...?"

We followed Sandora around this somewhat weird city. She didn't seem to be thinking about anything, but I would look up from time to time to look at the deadly big fireball in the sky, for fear that it would fall down. Half an hour later, Sandora finally tasted everything nearby that looked edible, and wiped her mouth with satisfaction: "Okay, I almost understand."

I looked at Sandora silently and said to myself that it was exactly what I thought. Sandora said that to understand the local customs and customs of the local indigenous people, she basically started by understanding the delicious food in this place. Her Majesty the Queen’s view of this world The main sensory organ is indeed the tongue.

"Ajun, don't you want some?" Sandora held up a bunch of green stuff in her hand and couldn't tell whether it was vegetables, meat, or some other strange food. The mixed taste of crushed ice-rock asteroids.”

When I heard this, I was even more afraid to agree, and quickly took two steps back: "Should we get down to business?"

Shandora stuffed all the string of things that were said to taste similar to a mixture of ice and stone into her mouth, wiped the corners of her mouth, and then grabbed a passerby from the street as before: "Excuse me, I want to ask something... …”

I slapped my forehead: Shandora's technique of grabbing passers-by and asking a bunch of weird questions is getting better and better.

The passerby stopped by Sandora was a young man who looked almost like a half-grown child. He was disturbed by Sandora's spirit. The other party didn't show any surprise at being suddenly stopped. Instead, he nodded honestly, as if Shandora did everything as a matter of course - I have to say more, this kind of mental disturbance is actually quite serious. A terrifying ability. If Sandora used this ability on a group of people, then pointed at a magma pool and said "jump", the pool would be filled up within a minute. This is not mental control, but simple cognitive disruption, causing any thinking individual to have a wrong perception and feel that anything ordered by Sandora is the unconditional truth - but in the past half hour, Sandora The only effect of this ability was to let her eat half a street of King's food. In the end, the twin sisters and I had to leave some useful things at other people's stalls as compensation: there was no way. With Sandora's appetite, she could possibly increase the GDP of a small Eastern European country with just one mouthful...

Sandorabi gestured with people to ask for the same thing: a local database, or a library, or a information center, or a convenient citizen inquiry website, in short, anything like this would be fine. As an enlightened civilization that has spread throughout the universe, it is inevitable that a complete and convenient information sharing system should be established. This system will spread to every individual of the entire ethnic group and cover all the information wealth created by this civilization, just like the Internet on Earth. Of course, the Internet for people on earth still cannot be said to have reached the level of covering all the information of the entire civilization, but through it you can almost understand the history of all human civilizations, at least you know what is going on on the earth. The higher the level of civilization, the more this network It will also become more developed. It is undoubtedly the ultimate worry-free way to understand a world through it.

Therefore, I always feel that the aliens who were killed in American blockbusters were really hard-working. If they could have sent two people to an Internet cafe on Earth to spend the night in advance, the invasion would have been successful. At least they had been prepared and would not have been so hard-working. The heroic and fighting American people used disinfectant and cold viruses to kill them... You see, as aliens, we are quite skilled at this.

Shandora inquired for a long time, and finally figured out where to find this kind of information: in the north of the city center, there is a facility called the "Advanced Information Support Center". This facility is just like that. A national museum open to experts, scholars and internal members. Only there can you find the real core stuff.

The source and energy collection method of eop-03 in space, which is the lifeblood of the planet, must be stored there.

We are very lucky that we chose the largest city on the planet to land in. There is only one such query facility on the entire planet. It is exclusively open to scholar groups on the planet. The information stored inside is like the military intelligence of various countries on the planet, physically isolated from civilian networks. In other words, if we use data terminals to violently crack all the data received in the city, This signal, in fact, could not see the information at all: Sandora had already thought of this, so she specially found a local to ask about the situation. Although civilians do not have access to large databases, they at least know that there is such a national library on their planet.

"This is it - wow, it's quite big."

After a while, we came to the "National Library" of the locals. This is a triangular prism building larger than the Empire State Building. The exterior is covered with solemn black crystals, like a black monument - well, almost every building in this place All are black. Standing in front of the entrance of this building, I looked up and sighed slightly at its size: As a "library" (that's how I understood it), does it really need to be so big?

The empire's main database is scattered throughout the entire data network, without even a physical building - the difference between the Xiling apostles who advocate efficiency and pragmatism and the ordinary races who care about appearance and style is really big.

Sandora once again used mental interference to confuse the attention of the building guards, while Vega was responsible for interfering with the access control system. We walked into this building used to record sensitive information on the planet (not top secret). Building, when I walked into the gate, I looked down and found a huge bright red triangle emblem on the ground in front of the main entrance, almost covering the entire ground in front of the door. This can be regarded as a sign of the lack of color in this city. Rarely bright colors.

I thought the emblem looked familiar, but then I thought about it. A red triangle is also quite common, probably the emblem of the natives of this planet.

With the help of Sandora's ability, we are a group of upright visitors, and all checkpoints are open to visitors. This magnificent triangular prism building is divided into many floors. The layout of each floor is somewhat similar to a museum hall on Earth: blocks separated by beams are arranged neatly, and in each block there is a group of floating Glimmer cylindrical devices, these devices should be universal data interaction devices. Of course, there are things that look more advanced in other places in the hall, but Sandora is not interested in that. She just needs an access point and a ready-made index directory. The performance and advancedness of these devices are not important to her. Words mean nothing.

A manager in a short black robe approached, seemingly wanting to provide some help. Sandora glanced slightly in his direction, and the administrator returned to his original position with blank eyes.

"Celestial phenomena, history, natural science, entries, energy technology...these entries are meaningless," Sandora put her hand on the top of the cylindrical device closest to her. She didn't know how to operate this. But she cracked the reading method of this thing in a short time. Now she directly scans the core of this device at a microscopic level to read the data. At the same time, she converts the data she sees into a holographic image and releases it for us. Watch, "It seems that the information on this planet is not comprehensive. Regarding the bomb, this is all the information-"

The gray-black planet we are on now appears on the holographic projection, as well as eop-03 above the planet. There is a connection between the bomb and the planet that represents the energy broadcast. The planet's surface is dotted with bright grids: this should be a schematic diagram of the planet's energy supply network. The text on the screen was distorted and difficult to read, but after searching the entire database, Shandora translated them according to the rules of language distribution and ideographic symbol distribution. This translation is generally accurate: Sky's EOP-03 is directly called As an energy furnace, it has been operating in this world for hundreds of thousands of years.

Yes, hundreds of thousands of years - it is indeed not something left by Harlan, and judging from the time. Millions of years ago...that was the heyday of the old empire!

The person who left behind the energy furnace was a legendary figure called the General. In the text introduction about the energy furnace, the General was mentioned respectfully. The information explained that the General was the leader and savior of civilization. This general brought an endangered civilization out of a collapsing world, and then placed it in this universe. The general left behind knowledge and equipment, and these wealth were handed over to the people for safekeeping. According to the information, the general left At that time, he promised that he would return one day in the future. At that time, the general would retrieve the wealth he left behind and lead civilization to another world. During this period, everything the general left behind: technical information, energy furnaces, Nether energy equipment, special resources, material converters, etc. are all left to the locals to use and crack freely.

How to collect the energy in the energy furnace is also a method left by the general. Because the local civilization has not been exposed to such things as psionic energy, they were unable to create any equipment that could withstand psionic energy at first, so the general left behind a "prototype" "And energy furnaces. Today's energy harvesting ships are copied from the prototypes of that year. However, the new energy harvesting ships are obviously not as smart as the prototypes of that year. They are large in size, and the energy storage devices underground in cities are also relatively backward. A replica, the collection ship needs to be launched once every three days to meet the energy needs of a medium-sized colony star.

We found the name of this civilization in an inconspicuous place in the data. They called themselves the "Hessian Tribe", the exiles and guardians of civilization.

"They are waiting for the return of an imperial commander named the Great General. This is an alien civilization. Their origin is not in this universe." Sandora looked at the information thoughtfully, "This is much more interesting. They were brought out from a world that was collapsing. The environment in that world was obviously much worse than this place. No wonder they could live so comfortably in this kind of universe. According to the slowest development rate of a civilization, they were probably born. At the end of the universe - I have never seen what the universe looked like in the pastoral era. It is mentioned here that the return date agreed by the general is unknown... This is a bit strange, Xiling Apostle will not make such an unclear promise. "

"We basically never make promises about the future to ordinary races, because this may affect future actions and hinder efficiency," Vega said, "But once we make such a promise, it will be very precise and at no cost. Complete it at all costs. This general should be a Xiling apostle, but her habits are really bad."

I didn't reply, because there was only one picture left in my mind: when I walked in just now, there was a bloody triangle emblem on the ground at the door...

I looked at Sandora: "Use the general as the key word and look for something."

"oh."

After a while, the information terminal began to play a large section of the file - it seems that the natives of this world attach great importance to matters about the general. The information is extremely detailed, but I didn't pay attention to what was written on it. Everyone's eyes were focused on it. Focus on those images.

The general is wearing a black hooded cloak - the same style as the local clothing we saw, including the texture - standing among a group of black-armored guards. The background is a huge metal structure that looks like a spaceship. The portrait should be on a space planet. Photographed by Hong Kong, this general is very short and cannot see her face clearly, but two scarlet flashes can be seen in the shadow of the hood of her hooded cloak, and on the soldiers around her and the metal barrier behind her, The most eye-catching thing is the blood-red triangular emblem.

(Ahaha, can I let you guess it right!!) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to read.)