Chapter 1,315 The Crashed Spaceship

After some questioning, I found out where Lilina and the little doll had run away - they chased them quite far indeed. In fact, the two girls even ran all the way to the ice-rock planet that was closer to here... ...Okay, let’s not discuss the fight between the children of the fairy family. The key to the problem is that they saw ruins made of the material of their hometown on the ice rock planet, and there were even corpses in the ruins!

The little doll is not capable of distinguishing what is the substance of her hometown. She does not have any weird radar installed in her body, but Lilina is more or less an "adult who needs to do business" (we don't know how important this sentence is) Discussion), she received a detector from Tavel for testing the matter in her hometown, so she was 100% sure that there was a suspected emergency landing site on the planet twelve astronomical units away from here - once A group of Xiling ancestors made an emergency landing there, and their corpses are preserved to this day.

I know this is unbelievable. It has been a long time since the creator of Xiling Apostle became extinct, which even the gods feel is a long time. No secular material can survive such a long time to this day, let alone a mortal body. Plant something that will disappear in just a few years. In the final analysis, the creators are just a group of mortal races. No matter how great their achievements are, they are a group of mortals who will not be more powerful than any of the vassal races of the New Empire. However, we need to face the facts. The home world continues to this day and has exceeded its theory. Lifespan, there must be some unknown factor that caused this situation during this period. Perhaps this factor also affects the creator.

I clamped the little doll and Lilina under my armpits on the spot, teleported directly to the engineering base, and then ran all the way to find Sandora. By the time we stood, Lilina had already begun to roll her eyes, and the little doll was biting my wrist. It looks like he has decided to hang it there for a day... Maybe I should find a safer way to transport these two.

Shandora was discussing issues with Bingtis in the lounge. When they saw me rushing in in a hurry, they were both surprised. Bingtis looked at the two irritable little girls in my hands and was particularly concerned: " Did you and Qian Qian have sex outside and were seen by two naughty kids?"

Me: "..." This female gangster is definitely a diamond. Is the only value of her existence to make people happy?

"The two little guys have made an important discovery." I put Lilina on the ground and raised my hand to show the little doll that was biting my wrist and hanging in the air. "They discovered something on the nearest planet. The tomb of the creator. There may be a group of creators who escaped separately and wandered into this world, and their corpses are even still there.”

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a blue light flash in front of my eyes. Next, the strong wind hit my face. When I reacted, Sandora and Bingtis in front of me were gone. Only the automatic gate behind me was left with lingering wind. But a few seconds later Sandora rushed back at the same speed of sound, grabbing my arm—in fact, she grabbed the head of the little puppet on my arm: "Where is it?"

Shandora's other hand was dragging Bingtis, who had not yet reacted. This female gangster had just been dragged out at supersonic speeds tragically. I clearly heard a loud noise at that time. She must have hit something, and now she was lying on the ground in a half-dead state, with one arm being pulled by Sandora. The female gangster raised her head and looked at Lilina and Mercury Lamp, who were also trapped in a trap. She was extremely sad and angry: "Your uncle... you two are really a couple! Don't drag me with you, okay!?"

Sandora conveniently whipped up Bingtis, who was pretending to be seriously injured and about to die, and casually agreed: "Oh, I forgot to drag someone along." Then she threw her good friend aside and said to Lilina briefly and concisely. Two words: "Lead the way!"

The reason why she wasn't looking for a doll. It's because the latter is still hanging on my wrist, occupying my mouth and making it impossible to communicate. We called Qian Qian, who was leading the children back, and went to the experimental area to pick a Tavel and a bunch of experts such as assistant technicians and engineers to accompany us. Everyone set off from the base on the engineering ship, and in the blink of an eye they arrived at a distance of ten meters from here. Two astronomical units above the planet.

This is a desolate, cold, lifeless solid planet that has stopped geological activity. The biggest feature of this star system is that all its celestial bodies are far away from the sun, even though we have traveled twelve astronomical days in the direction of the asteroid belt. unit. The star was still a cold orange bean in the field of view. The vast distance means that the average surface temperature of the planet below us is close to -200c. The surface of the planet is mainly yellow-brown, which is the color of the planet's ancient rocky crust. Looking from space, you can see that the planet has a gentle terrain, even in its young history. Its geological activity has never been more intense. In the gentle valleys and geological fissures, white crystals can be seen, which are rivers frozen in the freezing cold - maybe they never flowed - and some solid methane hydrates.

A planet as cold as hell, where the Witch King would freeze alive and cry, but compared to the asteroid belt, this place is actually quite warm...

This planet has a thin atmosphere, the main component of which is helium (other gas components have basically frozen into a solid block of iron or turned into a liquid state on the surface of the planet), and there are several trace elements unique to this universe. These elements This caused the atmosphere on the side of the planet facing the star to appear slightly iron-red - and it was on this side that Lilina and the puppet discovered those things.

The heavy-shaped engineering ship hovers in low-Earth orbit like a huge meteorite. The drone ejection track and airport components below the engineering ship begin to deform and stretch, preparing to launch joint orbit-planetary collection operations. We come to the bottom of the engineering ship On the extended platform at the end, I looked at the yellow-brown earth under my feet through the transparent energy barrier.

I rubbed Lilina's hair: "Where exactly is it? If you leave a mark, we can save some time."

"Of course, you can rest assured that I will do the work," Lilina patted her chest proudly. Although she accidentally discovered the place while fighting with the little doll, she seemed to regard it as a huge result of her hard work, " I planted a small sapling below and asked me to look for it...oh, I found it. That's the little green dot over there."

Lilina pointed at a green spot on the surface of the planet and said happily. I was speechless:

A plant that can be seen in space. Lilina calls it a sapling...

The engineering ship locked the coordinates and found an open space suitable for setting up a ground station next to the coordinates. Then it launched a huge cubic device with a side length of about two hundred meters from low-Earth orbit. The cubic device hurtles into the thin atmosphere. It suddenly came to rest hundreds of meters above the ground, then slowly unfolded and landed smoothly: inside it is a set of fully functional ground station infrastructure, including a small multi-functional command center (which allows it to operate under manned and It operates normally in both unattended modes), two multi-functional laboratories with space expansion devices, and an autonomous mechanical hangar. As well as three docking stations for short-term resupply of small aircraft, of course, it is also equipped with an important device that every Imperial workstation has: the teleporter. The transmitter can ensure rapid material transfer between the ground station and the mothership in orbit. Therefore, the ground station itself does not carry facilities that take up too much space such as warehouses.

The engineering mother ship in orbit cooperates with several ground stations placed on the ground. Scientific research sampling work can be started within ten minutes at the fastest. This is the most commonly used planetary working mode for the general-purpose engineering ship we are aboard. Since Xiling Apostles do not need to collect resources from the planet: they abandoned planetary mining many billions of years ago, these engineering ships are basically all used for scientific research.

After the ground station sent a readiness signal, we directly arrived at the surface of the planet through the transmitter.

The first thing that catches your eye is of course the "little sapling" planted by Lilina a few kilometers away. It is difficult for me to explain to you scientifically that a sapling breathes helium in the cold wind of minus 200 degrees Celsius. What's going on with the giant green plants that thrive in the air - so let's try to ignore the overwhelming thing. Continue to pay attention to the relics of the ancestors. The short-range radar mounted on the ground station has already found the reaction of the hometown material. When we came to this site that looked like an oil drilling platform, its hangar was dispatching hordes of autonomous machines. The assistant technicians and engineers who were teleported to the ground together with everyone followed us. Following the direction pointed by these autonomous machines, we quickly found the shocking ruins.

It is located in a valley five kilometers away and appears to have been there for many years.

This is a valley with an unusually open bottom. The valley bottom is covered with gravel, and the frozen soil that never melts is crisscrossed with ravines. At the end of the valley, a huge metal structure was inserted into the ground at an angle. It looks like it is part of a spaceship, or a bit like a crashed orbital station that fell to the earth from space - I personally prefer the first guess. The shape of this behemoth looks a bit like multiple irregular cylinders bundled together. The surface is gray and black, and no paint or markings can be seen. It should have fallen directly to the ground from a high altitude, because the ground around it is densely covered with radial cracks, and on its surface. Gaps ripped apart by huge impacts are everywhere: these iconic objects record a shocking space crash. This metal giant is no longer complete. One end of it pointing to the sky is a jagged crack. Sharp metal structures and broken pipes protrude from the crack. They tremble slightly in the cold and thin atmosphere, as if protruding from a tomb. The skinny skeletal claws were trying to grasp the distant sun in the sky. These obvious fracture marks indicate that what fell on the ground is just part of the spacecraft (let's assume it is a spaceship for now), and the other half of it has disappeared.

"All the hometown material reactions on the entire planet come from this valley," Tavel looked at the data terminal in his hand. The engineering ship in orbit had released the satellite and conducted a rough scan of the entire planet to confirm whether there were more. An ancestral relic, but the result seems to be very frustrating. The incomplete wreckage before us cannot be put back together.

To be honest, at first I really didn’t expect that what Lilina and the little doll found would be such a huge thing! I originally thought they had just found a few escape hatches, or something a little bigger than that, but this one... its scale was much beyond my expectation. No wonder Little Lantern used "grave" There are only two words to describe this thing. This metal wreckage standing in the cold wind is indeed like a huge and cold tomb.

"This looks like a spaceship," Bingtis looked up for a long time, "Isn't it different from your spaceship?"

"You don't even know what era this is from," I said to her casually. Then he followed Lilina and walked towards the huge wreckage of the spaceship, "God knows how many years have passed since the civilization changed between the Xiling people and the Xiling apostles."

"It's unbelievable...this important heritage was left under our noses for two days," Tavel looked up at the huge black wreckage like a mountain, and the broken and sharp metal branches were clearly reflected in her pupils. , her tone was quite apologetic. "My subordinate was carried away by the abundant material from his hometown in the asteroid belt. He should have scanned the entire star system earlier."

"No...it doesn't matter," Sandora said absently, "It was just a little late, but we still found it. The spacecraft seemed to have experienced an explosion from the inside out, causing the fracture that split it in two to be basically Everything is spreading outward. But there is no abyssal breath on the spacecraft. What destroyed it?"

Shandora just said this to herself. She didn't expect to get any answers, and no one could give her an answer: What we have in front of us is an ancient secret from a long-lost era, it is so long ago. So much so that the immortal Xi Ling apostles were unable to explore those years. The wreckage of this spaceship is as mysterious as the Xiling ancestors. I can't help but have some kind of illusion: I seem to have passed through the barrier of time, staring at the ancient history that has stopped. Things that should have been wiped out with the passage of time are just like this. The psychological shock caused by the gesture that bursts into your sight is indescribable.

Imagine seeing the flash of light from the beginning of the universe at the end of the world. And even that span of time cannot compare to the icy wreckage before us.

I have all sighed like this, and Sandora, who is a genuine Xiling apostle, is of course even more so. She gently stroked the cold and broken hull, and her voice sounded distant as if coming from the end of the world: "Will the first original body... Could he be born on a spaceship like this?"

"At least they were born on the same spaceship," Bingtis patted Sandora's shoulder hard, "Damn, I got excited: Gods rarely have the opportunity to see this kind of historical moment... Where to enter?"

I turned to look at Lilina (the little doll was still biting my wrist, so I ignored it). She had found the body at that time, and it must have gotten into the spacecraft. And know how to get around inside.

"I'll lead the way!" Lilina patted her chest proudly, and then led us to find the "entrance" of the spacecraft, which was actually a large crack on the outer shell of the spacecraft. This crack happened to traverse a corridor in the spacecraft, so we could Leading to the central area of ​​the spacecraft.

Watching Lilina disappear into the black hole. I can basically imagine her and the little doll chasing each other to this planet, seeing this huge wreckage, and then diving in to explore like a child hunting for treasure...

A large group of people followed Lilina and filed into the wreckage of the spacecraft. The first section was very difficult to walk, but after clearing the obstacles and bypassing a severely twisted alloy gate, we found the official corridor, and the road suddenly became spacious. Bingtis snapped his fingers: "There needs to be light." Thus the lighting problem in the dark wreckage was solved. The entire spacecraft was shrouded in light, and the road ahead was as bright as day.

"Special alloys still maintain a certain strength under such extreme conditions." Tavel's eyes flashed with azure light. She detected and analyzed the material of the wreckage. "There are traces of smelting and a large number of impurities. This ship The ship's construction material must have come from minerals from the home world, but it's still not the same material we found in the Primarch."

"The original body was created on the Ark of Exile. At that time, the creator should have been able to exploit resources from other worlds," Sandora responded casually. "The materials of the Ark came from the home world, and the materials of the original body may come from other universes."

"Be careful when taking samples. The structure of the spacecraft is fragile and can easily collapse - don't let the autonomous machinery get on board. Do it yourself." Tavel turned to his assistant technicians and engineers and said.

The entourage began to carefully collect alloy samples on the spacecraft and released a large number of detectors. Those small detectors made a brisk chirp and flew into every fork in the road to detect areas we did not set foot in. The feedback information was quickly sent to Tavel, and the structure and functional layout of the entire spacecraft quickly took shape in her mind. .

The principles of this primitive craft were fairly easy to understand for Tavel.

"We should be in a place like the emergency escape passage or backup passage of the spacecraft now," Tavel said. "In addition, the control host of the ecological maintenance system was found in the spacecraft. We may be able to fully understand our home world for the first time in history. What is the environment of the original home star? What is missing from the spacecraft should be the propulsion module and power module. My subordinates estimate that it was the explosion of the power module that caused the entire propulsion section and power section of the spacecraft to be separated. Theoretically, this is the case ."

The footsteps of a group of people echoed in the empty corridor, and the soles of their shoes made a crisp "tap-tap" sound on the alloy floor. During Tavel's explanation, we learned about this ancient ancestral creation bit by bit, and got close to it. The heart of the beast: the core control section.

There are the remains of the Creator. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read it.)