Chapter 1558 Weird Civilization

A bright light suddenly flashed in the dark and vast space, and then the space was filled with ripples like water ripples. The hundreds of kilometers long Cross starship poked out from the ripples, hovering imposingly on a green star. Above the planet - of course, no matter how powerful it is, no one can actually see it. The Imperial Admiral is in an invisible state. Before the local situation is clear, I do not intend to alarm the natives here.

This time the planet is no longer Shandora's dream, but the original celestial body of the universe after the dream faded.

Shandora's mental induction is really accurate. I found that I accurately arrived at the gravitational balance point between the planet and its second satellite. This navigation ability is no less than that of shipborne radar.

"The jump engine seems to start faster than before, and the jump process is more stable." I sat behind the temporary console on the officer's platform, chatting with Sandora while checking the working status of the rebirth spacecraft. Now the spacecraft crew The staff are all gone, Sandora is just a ball, and he can only temporarily play a guest role as the operator. Fortunately, he has worked hard in the past few years to learn a lot of knowledge about spacecraft control. Coupled with the support of the shipboard host, some basic The mission can still be completed, "It seems that when the spacecraft was reborn, the items on board that were not part of the ship's registration equipment were not reborn, but some of the personal belongings we put on the officer's platform were reborn... This is really strange."

"Anyway, this is a good thing," a football-sized golden light ball floated in my hand, and Sandora's voice came from it, "This shows that its resurrection is controllable, and there must be some kind of pattern that can be studied. In this way, the spacecraft can still be upgraded and modified, and even if it is sunk in the future, it can be resurrected with the modified parts when reborn, so that it will not return to its current initial state every time it is reborn."

I conveniently held the Sandora ball in my arms and stepped towards the teleporter. I motioned for Alaya to follow me and muttered: "It sounds like you are planning to let the Imperial Admiral destroy itself a few more times, just in case. What if this resurrection is a one-time thing?”

"Just think about it in advance." Sandora struggled slightly for a few times, "I can move by myself now, and I don't need to be carried around."

I laughed and said, "Don't make trouble, it feels good."

Shandora: "...Well, forget it, we are an old married couple anyway. But can you please stop pinching it? This is not a toy, okay..."

We did not teleport directly to the vibrant green planet below, but turned on the invisibility state. First we came to the outer space. Sandora said that this place is an advanced civilization. The reason is that she discovered around this planet A large number of high-tech facilities: space station.

The green planet below is slightly larger than the diameter of Earth. It has three natural satellites of different sizes. The smallest satellite is just a larger ice rock ball. If it fell on the surface, it would be a giant meteorite. The other two satellites are similar in size to the moon and are located on the two sides. On tracks that are at an acute angle but do not intersect. In the vast space between the three satellites and the green mother star, thousands of complete space facilities can be found. There's one right in front of us.

These space facilities have streamlined and rounded shells, ranging in size from tens of meters to nearly one kilometer. Their shapes are basically similar, like giant seeds or some kind of enlarged plant pods. The smooth alloy shell is dominated by green tones with decorative patterns of vines and leaves. Although they are reminiscent of cold and rigid aerospace equipment, these space stations still have elegant and complex patterns and carefully crafted features everywhere. Decoration - This style reminds people of elves. It seems that there is a group of art-loving locals living on the green planet below? And their aesthetics seem to be quite in line with the mainstream standards of the empire. At least I think the appearance of these space stations is very pleasing to the eye.

However, Shandora was relatively indifferent to this style. The spherical she rolled around on a space station, and after inspecting a main armor plate, she concluded: "These patterns have no effect at all, and they are neither external energy collection." Net. It's not a magic rune, it's just a waste of manufacturing time. The patterns on the empire's equipment are all useful, and purely decorative things need special application and have special meaning. You look at a space station ...The surface is almost painted like a gallery. Why is it so beautiful? Who will see it in space?"

"Aren't we just watching," I said in my mental connection while catching the Sandora ball floating toward me. "Besides, don't be too strict with other races. There are elves in the Empire's Familia, and they are eager to Draw your own family portrait on the bullet head, which will make you even more awkward if you see it. You have never seen a space shuttle made by tree elves. It is more fancy than the one in front of you - by the way, this thing in front of you really looks a bit tree elf. The style is good, but the technique is obviously a bit lacking.”

As we chatted, we studied the space station in front of us, which is more than 400 meters long and looks like an elongated olive seed. Through its technological level, we can roughly judge how advanced the civilization of the indigenous people on the planet below is. This can provide information for the next step. Contact lays the foundation. This space station is certainly inconspicuous compared to the behemoths made by the Empire, but it is already quite large for most civilizations that are about the same size as people on Earth. Moreover, this thing has a rigid shield generating device and a relatively primitive gravitational wave antenna, which is basically It can be judged that its manufacturer has the ability to navigate within the Milky Way. Perhaps some detectors will be released later to search for distant places and we can also find the colonies of this civilization in other star systems. The shell in the space is covered with beautiful patterns, as Sandora said, "delicate and beautiful but useless." However, I still found that these patterns actually divided the space station shell into some areas, such as access ports and reserved slots for external equipment. , the cover plate of the deformable device and other places are surrounded by special patterns, Sandra's opinion is even greater: "It's obviously just something to mark the position, is it necessary to draw it so complicated!"

I knew that this was the inexplicable discomfort caused by Sandora being unable to eat, so I didn’t take it seriously with her at all. I just smiled and shook my head and put my hand on the outer shell of the space station, preparing to avoid alerting the possible personnel on duty in the space station. Let’s take a look at its internal structure, and then…this thing is sleeping? !

I was a little surprised, and subconsciously knocked on the alloy shell of the space station. Then I used my mental power deeper and finally determined that 80% of the internal sections of this thing were closed, and there was only a weak energy response in the core.

The only things that remained functioning were the space station's two external pieces of equipment: the shield generator and the thrusters used for orbit alignment. These two pieces of equipment are necessary to ensure that the space station can operate in space for very long periods of time.

Sandora also didn't expect that this thing looked so brand new, but was in a dormant state inside. She split a small cluster of golden flash from the spiritual spark and seeped into the interior of the space station. He quickly came to the conclusion: "There is no thought response, and there are no signs of life. It looks like an unmanned station, and even the AI ​​has been shut down...if it has an AI."

"Go look somewhere else." I turned my head and looked in another direction. At the end of my sight was a small silvery-white light spot mixed with green. It was the other space station closest to here.

Moments later we finished checking the second site, and the results were as expected: it was also dormant.

Alaya released his Holy Spirit clone, Sandora split more mini-type spiritual sparks, and I expanded the scope of my mental induction. Soon, dozens of man-made facilities in the surrounding space were scanned by us. However, they are all in a dormant state without exception, and the dormant method is exactly the same: the main internal equipment is completely shut down, indicating that the entire site is no longer performing tasks, the core has a weak energy response, indicating that the site core is idling on standby, and the shield generator The normal operation of the thrusters used for attitude adjustment ensures that they can survive in this dormant state for a very long time - and they may have been dormant for a very long time.

"One station may be dormant due to maintenance or other reasons, but all of these space stations have entered dormancy... the situation is quite strange," the spherical Sandora floated two meters in front. A trace of golden lines extended from the spiritual spark and gradually disappeared into the depths of space. Just like her fighting posture when she was human, these golden lines were checking the space station in a farther range. "They are all sleeping... and the shields and attitude engines are running, which shows that they are deliberately set to this state: although they are not working, they have to be on standby in space for a long time. But why do this? Their manufacturer Have you given up these things?"

"It seems that we can only find the answer on the surface of the planet," I looked at the green planet at my feet. "Tsk, there are really weird worlds everywhere, why do I just encounter this kind of civilization that doesn't develop according to common sense..."

After a while. We have reached the surface of the planet and are approaching the settlement near the landing site while cloaked.

This place is located at the end of a triangular plain, which is the junction area between the plain and a large forest. There is a straight and wide river at the junction of the forest area, which just divides the two landforms into two. The west side of the river is dense jungle, and the east side of the river is It is a plain area with towns and open terrain and sparse vegetation.

In front of us is a local town. It does not look large in size. It is more like a huge village than a town. However, there is a circle of earth and stone structures called walls around the village, so it is classified as a "town" by me. "in the category. Standing at a high altitude, you can see the whole town. It is built along the river, winding and slender. There are hundreds of houses built along the bank of the river towards the plain, and the number of houses increases as you go deeper into the plain. It gradually becomes rarer, but gradually increases in scale. It is obvious that facilities such as wealthy households, shops, and government offices are located on the inside of the town far away from the river bank. Most of the houses are a mixed structure of earthen wood + masonry, mostly bungalows and two-story houses, and the style is relatively simple, without much trace of decoration. Even the larger houses that look like noble residences are not too decorative. Much decorative look.

However, simplicity is simplicity, and all the houses are quite neat and bright in color. Most of these local houses are composed of a square main house and two or three cylindrical auxiliary houses. The exterior walls of the houses seem to be made of white cement or other artificial materials. It is built with natural materials and looks clean and tidy, while the sloping roof of the main house and the dome of the auxiliary house are paved with blue tiles or fired masonry tiles. Blue and white are basically the only ones in the entire riverside town. Two shades.

There is a spire building with a special style in the deepest part of the town. This spire makes it particularly conspicuous among other buildings. I don’t know what it is for, but look at its special location, the stained glass depicting complex patterns, and the flowing traffic. The constant flow of people in front of the door...maybe it is some kind of religious facility? Of course, this is just a first impression, and the specifics are not yet clear.

As a town, this settlement is not large, but the population is quite prosperous. Outside the town are large tracts of farmland, and the flow of people inside the town is constant. The level of technology in this world can be seen from the transportation on the street: the rich Horse riding, farmers’ ox carts. Most pedestrians walked in a hurry on the rough stone avenue. The most high-tech things in the whole town are probably the three windmills built against the wall on the east side and the large waterwheel upstream of the river. Other than that, I didn't even see a single electrified street light...

"It seems... it's different from what we expected." I landed from a high altitude to a height that was almost as high as the town wall. I held a warm sandora ball in my arms and stretched my neck to observe the clothes of the locals. Talking to himself.

The locals are also in human form, so there is no need to think about transforming into some weird shape for infiltration. All you need to do is prepare the clothes of the locals. Alaya has been active outside for a record-breaking amount of time today, and now he has lazily returned to my spiritual world to sleep with my daughter. Sandora... I asked her to lower the brightness and I treated it as if I was holding a football. Or she could simply become invisible.

Sandora's observations are much more detailed than mine, and she has spread her power further and deeper. Her calm voice came from the light ball in my arms: "Visually, their technical level is still in the farming era of artificial + animal husbandry power. There is no sign of electrification, no self-sourced mechanical power, and most of the residents are humans. , alien races similar to elves and dwarves were found in the middle. They were small in number and got along well with humans. Expanding the search range, it was determined that other settlements within millions of square kilometers were similar. It was comprehensively assessed that the planet was at a low level of uncivilization. Civilization... I actually made a mistake in judgment."

It wasn't just her fault of judgment. Even I never expected that there would be such a scene on the surface of the earth: a farming civilization that had not developed modern technology at all! It even looks like Europe in the late Middle Ages!

However, this planet is running hundreds of space stations and artificial satellites in its orbit. Those space facilities are even as clean as new and can be operational again with just one command!

Obviously this planet also contains secrets. But I never imagined that I would just be blown up once in a while, accidentally fall into a remote world with no shit, and have a very low probability of finding a planet with life, and that I would encounter such interesting and confusing things. thing. This ability to hit the jackpot is a natural talent - why didn't I try to buy a lottery ticket before I was eighteen? That way, when the three hundred commanders come, I won’t have to let them find jobs on their own, and I won’t have to develop Cicaro’s weird hobbies...

I quickly prepared myself a set of clothes that fit the local civilian style. In fact, there is nothing awkward about wearing local clothes. Short robes and narrow trousers, in gray-white and gray-blue tones, look a bit like residents of desert areas, much better than some worlds with weird clothing habits. Shandora didn't bother to cover herself with camouflage, and simply turned invisible and floated behind me. The two of us walked into this local town without attracting any unnecessary attention.

"Those space stations and artificial satellites in space should have been mothballed in a planned manner. There is no sign of being hastily abandoned, and judging from their standby status, they are obviously waiting for a moment of recovery in the future." Sandora remained invisible, While observing the surrounding situation, he continued to chat with me in the spiritual connection, "And these on the ground... have probably experienced some kind of technological decline, which is not uncommon. In short, it does not look like a special civilization worthy of attention, but Anyway, we are trapped here now, so let’s explore it for a few days as an outing. Sometimes a high-level civilization whose development has been interrupted and seriously declined has high observation value and can give us some enlightenment.”

During the conversation, Shandora had already characterized this as a "leisure outing with educational significance". Although it felt like there was something wrong, it was still idle, and it seemed good to relax on this planet.

In this way, we wandered aimlessly in this riverside town while speculating on the connection between the sealed space facilities in space and these backward civilizations on the surface.

Although I haven't been to other places, it seems that this town is quite peaceful. I also saw the elves and dwarves that Sandora mentioned before. They should be a small number of residents in the town, but they seem to be too. Among those who live locally, the three races mix together without any sign of conflict. This is not very common in other worlds.

This town is a typical agricultural and sideline industry settlement. The farmland outside the town and the adjacent rivers are probably the source of livelihood for the local residents. There is a small market in the town, where you can see hunters selling game and herbs. species, presumably the nearby forest is also a pillar of survival for the local people.

I thought it was rare to find a new world, so I should buy some local specialties as gifts for my family, so I wandered around this small market. Although I didn’t understand the local society, I didn’t know the currency, customs, or daily etiquette. Wait for the details, but after all, I am also an experienced time traveler. Quickly collecting intelligence through observation in a strange environment is my strength. After wandering around for a while, I roughly understood the currency and transaction methods here, and then I was surprised. Discover……

Not only currency is used here, but barter transactions are also allowed?

You can often see some people dressed as travelers using some strange things to exchange large amounts of food or other daily necessities with local residents. This makes people can't help but think of just coming out of some ruins and not having time to exchange them. I have seen many "adventurers" who exchange treasures gained from adventures for money in other worlds.

Just when I was becoming more and more interested in this planet, someone suddenly grabbed me by the corner of my clothes. (To be continued, please search, the novel will be better and updated faster!