Chapter 1583 Hey, Another One

We once again took the engineering ship to the edge of the Milky Way, but this time there were many more passengers on the ship - dozens of elves, most of whom were old men and women, and the two popes were also traveling with them.

In fact, the popes have no real power in the Lost Religion. They are a spiritual symbol, and their true existence value is the key carrier. Even if the popes are determined and know the history, they are too young and may not be capable of leading this sect. The Pope can only live for more than a hundred years, and his short lifespan also makes it unnecessary for them to establish any real power. The real managers of the Lost Religion have always been the Cardinals, those super old people from the three elves. In addition, because the younger generation in the College of Cardinals is far from reaching the point where they can shoulder important responsibilities on their own, it can be said that the order of this world is completely supported by the remaining thirty or so old people.

They have been working hard to train successors, hoping that someone can take over their jobs before they die of old age. However, this is extremely difficult. Some things cannot be replaced by education and training: the old man who has experienced everything and accepted the mission personally is a They are irreplaceable wealth. Only they can fully understand the meaning of the existence of the Lost Religion. Only they have completely experienced the evolution from the Republic Era, the Imperial Era, the Federal Era to the Theocratic Era. The insights and mentality brought by personal experience are very valuable. It is difficult to pass it on to the next generation. It is difficult for young elves - even the carefully selected outstanding ones - to have the same unshakable will as their parents. This has nothing to do with personality and character, and is destined by acquired experience. thing.

Without truly experiencing the failures of the previous three eras, the younger generation will always be blindly optimistic about the future.

Before Sandora and I came to this world, the Cardinals were aware of this irreconcilable contradiction. Some people have even foreseen that the world will eventually slide into a dangerous abyss due to the death of old people. Apart from their long lifespan, elves are no different from other races. They also have the mentality of mortals, and they can be shaken and impulsive. They will be deceived, and disagreements and rebellious psychology will appear in the inheritance from generation to generation. The old federation will be in chaos due to the replacement of short-lived species. Today's theocratic society will also have cracks due to the replacement of long-lived species. The establishment of the Lost God's Religion will be fragile. Protection causes problems at the root, and the elderly are powerless to do anything about it. So it starts hundreds of years ago. Some people in the Cardinals felt desperate—fortunately, Shandora and I didn't discover this place later.

In other words, fortunately, the Abyss Xiling has super high mobility. It was ready to build the bridge in such a short period of time, and promoted the split and reorganization of the Abyss Zone. The acceleration of the historical process has plunged us into chaos in this world. Was "bombed in" before.

History is so interconnected and wonderful. Break one link and everything will be completely different.

The engineering ship broke away from the time and space jump state, and the optical phenomena surrounding the spacecraft were immediately lifted. The external monitor transmitted the scene in space to the hall, and the spectacular but lifeless space building complex appeared on the large holographic projection, a The White Elf (supposedly the former White Elf Prince) exclaimed in surprise: "Look, we put that down a long time ago!"

"And our Rokaron Fortress! The Elf Tree is up there. I haven't seen it for many years... I was the commander on this ship when we fled. Unfortunately, it was blown up by the reformists during the Federation era. Two thrusters.”

"That was the Pan God Fortress of the Silver Star Dwarves. The Parliament was on that fortress during the Republic Era. I still remember it."

As the spacecraft advances, space relics appear on the holographic projection one after another. The large relics among them are extremely eye-catching, and the elves present can almost call out the name of each large relic. From time to time, the surrounding crowd bursts out with exclamations, and As the spacecraft gradually approached the central area of ​​the building complex, the shouts of surprise around it slowly turned into emotions and sighs.

The relics of the three elves (actually mainly white elves and high elves. The tree elves did not leave any large facilities here) are on the outside of the building complex. Further inside, there are gradually more relics left by other races. Human-made The battle fortress stretches across space, and the dwarves' heavy starships are still as powerful as ever after being polished by time. The Yash people's magic spaceships no longer shine as before, but the orcs' deep space cities still depict the tribe's emblem - this emblem once represented an advanced civilization that has mastered the truth of the universe, but now it appears more often in shelters The entrance to the rough and crude villages in the eastern wilderness of the planet.

The three elves at least still remember what they had back then, but the owners of these ruins don't even know what they have lost. They now plow the fields with their cattle and hunt in the mountains and forests with bows and arrows and sticks every night. They look up at the stars and pray for the protection of the God of Technology and Magic, but they don't know that the sea of ​​stars they are looking at - the place they think is the Kingdom of God - was actually their home tens of thousands of years ago. This is the result of an ancient agreement. The ancestors of these races did voluntarily give up everything, but the elves who once walked with these ancestors still cannot help but miss the things they see: the heavy price lost by the dead has now all been weighed on the living. On the person.

"The relationship we built while escaping together..." Shandora's voice sounded faintly, "Look what evil we did back then."

I patted Sandora's ball and said, "At least we can still save her now."

"The Forge of the Gods" finally appeared on the holographic projection in the center of the hall.

It is exactly where the encrypted space that Sandora and I discovered was located - but now that the encrypted space has been lifted, there are large areas of buildings in the place. These buildings are different from the ruins in the outer area. The Empire Style facilities occupy a large part of them. They have everything from small star ports to abandoned battleships. They are just like a garbage dump, and basically there is no energy response in any of them (this is why I failed to use energy induction two days ago. The reason for discovering these things), these wastes are orbiting a light gray artificial planet, and that artificial planet is our target: the ancient ark of exile known as the "Forge of the Gods".

It is about the same size as a Green Star. It is said that it was once an ecological planet, but because it has been abandoned for a long time, the former ecological circle on the surface has collapsed and disappeared. The forests have faded, the rivers have dried up, and the atmosphere has dissipated. Now the surface of the planet is only covered with a thin layer of mixed residue. The artificial soil layer covers the original extraordinary alloy shell of the planetary fortress, giving it a rustic light gray color. The surface of the planet is smooth and there are no traces of impact. I guess it doesn't have much chance of being hit here.

We also found the "energy-guiding long bridge" we saw that day. It turned out that it was an independent facility located in orbit. Its scale was indeed very large. The combination of several energy-guiding long bridges looked like a strange star port, and the energy-guiding long bridge was The Long Bridge is connected to the "Celestial Forge" through some kind of facility that looks like a space elevator, and I don't know why they chose a seemingly backward physical connection. Maybe for reliability?

I have connected the commander to the main engine of the engineering ship. Now I can directly communicate with the planetary main engine of "Celestial Forge" through the engineering ship console. The wake-up signal has been sent and I am now waiting for the other party's response.

Soon, the planetary host of Tianshen Forge sent a response text message, and the detection equipment immediately detected that earthquakes and gravity imbalances of varying intensity began to occur everywhere on the light gray planet. Strange magnetic fields and ghostly energy radiation began to appear randomly on the surface of the planet, and the planetary image returned by the energy radar seemed to be covered with a magnificent new color: this planet has been sleeping for so long, and now it is finally about to stretch out for the first time in tens of thousands of years. I'm so lazy. This lazy man is big enough. Fortunately, there is no one on the surface. Otherwise, who can bear the vibration mode of the planet!

As the planet's gravity generator is being fine-tuned, the gravity of the entire planet has become chaotic. The surrounding "space junk" that is closer to the planet has no power, and now they are falling to the earth uncontrollably. It is very lively now, because the highly intelligent host of the God Forge just woke up, and a plain synthesized female voice is speaking. He opened his mouth to greet us: "The 'Tian Shen Forge' shipboard host has been started up. The self-test is good. The system log database during automatic operation is huge. It is being uploaded to your ship in batches. Please... Hey, who hit this ship? Hey, what? Someone smashed my ship again? What is this, what is this?! Why did I encounter a meteor shower just after waking up? I bullied my ship and didn’t open the shield... Hey, it’s not over yet! This is different from what was promised! Why are so many things falling down in orbit... Oh. Why is the artificial gravity source of this ship turned on?"

The vibrations on the surface of the "Celestial Forge" seem to be more obvious. The equipment detects that there is strong energy turbulence inside it. At the same time, its slightly out-of-control artificial gravity sources are also shutting down. I feel like the host of this starship is After a while of fussing, the planetary shield was opened, and the space junk crashed onto the psionic shield, emitting a bright light. The distressed voice of the ship-based host then came: "Oh... this is a ship, oh... this is a star port, oh... this is a satellite... oh, it's all over... but it burns Just burn it if you throw it away. If the old one doesn't go, the new one won't come. By the way, it was you who woke up this ship? Is the world outside peaceful?"

Sandora and I: "..."

Why do I think the style of this ship-based AI is wrong! How could the old empire have such amazing AI!

"Are you sure that the God's Forge has never been opened in the past tens of thousands of years?" Sandora suddenly rushed in front of a group of old men and women, "How did its character become like this?"

"It was like this tens of thousands of years ago," an old high elf man spread his hands, "Although some people felt that the Forge of the Gods was a little different from other imperial warships at first, but at that time no one cared about it. She's doing a good job and she escaped here smoothly with us. I really miss her, I haven't heard her nonsense in tens of thousands of years."

"It's almost impossible to tell who this voice is, but it seems to be someone familiar." The carrier-based AI could observe the movement in our hall through the transfer of the engineering ship. She "scanned" a group of old elves here, and suddenly A little surprised, "Why are you so old?"

"Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the old empire has not reformed all the dependents. Even the elves can't live too long." I finally managed to put away my slightly messy mood and looked at the dusty star with a strange expression. planet, "Are you the Forge of the Gods? Why do you... make people feel so strange? Back then... not only back then, even the ship-based hosts manufactured by the empire today were not like you."

Oh, it can't be said that there is no such thing at all. The second lunatic is an exception, but other than that, there are absolutely no other psychopaths.

"Other host? The other host shut down this ship and did nothing. This ship is just doing things for others as agreed. Guarding the treasure house for that woman. The reward is that you can survive and have a chance to find the general." The sharp-tongued shipboard AI The more he spoke, the more people were frightened. "Hey, are you the new generation? Or are you guys who survived back then? This ship tells you that you must abide by the agreement no matter what it is. There is an agreement in the database of this ship. How dare you violate this agreement?" The ship blew up the treasure house. According to what was agreed back then, the ship will stay here until the world is peaceful outside, and then you will take away the contents of the treasure house and dismantle the restraint system of the ship. From now on, you will be able to rebuild yours. I'm going to the empire, and I'm going to find the general."

"Wait a minute!" I finally realized that I couldn't remain silent. Otherwise, this guy will definitely talk like a lunatic, "You are not made by the Empire!?"

"Of course, the empire cannot build high-end goods like this ship. This ship was made by the General!" The tone of the shipboard AI was very proud, and it sounded familiar, but the words that followed were not so impressive. "Of course... the core is made by the General, and the current body is indeed given by that woman. Do you have to care so clearly? Okay, okay, I will leave the planetary fortress to you later, host There are also propellers. This ship is not big enough for one person to go on the road. Anyway, this ship is not afraid of death. Either die on the road or meet the general. But if possible, I hope you can give me a transport ship. It is not good if the core of the main engine is exposed to the outside. Safety."

The other party seemed to be ready to make an agreement and turn around and leave, but of course he couldn't just let her go! I hurriedly took out the data terminal: "Wait a minute, is the general you are talking about called Weiss... Um, no, this name came later, is it 75... This name also came later, by the way, she didn't have it back then. The name...oh oh, I found it! Do you think your general looks like this?"

I finally took out the data terminal and started the holographic imaging mode. Immediately, a little girl with a bright and silly smile jumped up in the air, waving her hand to greet me. It was the image of Visca, and next to her stood the expressionless Pandora - the one who led them last summer. I recorded a three-second clip when I went camping. I used this as the startup screen. It's better than the original recruitment ad.

"General?!" The shipboard AI exclaimed, "Why do you have the image of the general!? Who are you? You are not... you are not from the empire. Only some people in the empire know the existence of the general. They should all follow That woman died in the big impact together!"

The other party's exclamation confirmed my guess. No matter how surprised Shandora and I were, we could only accept the fact. Sandora's ball floated up and down and she comforted the other party with a helpless tone: "Calm down, calm down, I may know what's going on... The woman you are talking about should be Abyss Xiling, she is not dead... Well, I should say dead. The law is different from what you imagined, and it is now alive again in a reorganized way. The empire is also different from what you remember. We have also been divided and reorganized again. Now is the new empire year. Oh, you should not care about these, The point is your general - she is with us now and is our sister."

Sandora was smart enough not to mention the title "General of the New Empire" because she knew that the AIs under Visca didn't care what the empire was. Even if Visca became the emperor of a certain region, these AIs would not care. I have no interest in knowing who the emperor is. They are loyal to Viska, and only to her personally. At most, they will be loyal to her family after Viska finds her family. So at this time, our relationship with Viska is more important than anything else. Bringing up the latter's new identity is much more useful.

"Sister? The general has no brother, and he doesn't know the light ball." The shipboard AI seemed to be in chaos. "This ship doesn't know you, and the general doesn't know you either. Evidence, this ship needs evidence! Although the evidence has nothing to do with the mission accepted by this ship. It’s irrelevant, but this ship is very concerned about this right now!”

evidence? Where can I find evidence? The communication between this universe and the Empire is still cut off. I can't even contact my precious sister! Do you think it would be useful to have videos of our normal life together? Well, videos can be faked, pictures can be faked, and all kinds of messages can be faked. Thanks to the Xiling Empire’s advanced counterfeiting technology, I have known since I first met them five years ago that nothing in this world cannot be faked. I never expected that, life is indeed more exciting than novels, why do such emergencies even happen!

"Oh, by the way, I know someone," I suddenly remembered something, "Vesca had a flagship. I don't know what it was called back then, but when she met everyone she said she was a main gun, but in fact she was It’s an aircraft carrier—do you know this guy?”

"Flagship! Oh, you are talking about that careless one. Of course I know the flagship." Tianshen Forge AI suddenly became happy. "Back then, I had a good relationship with her. She was responsible for bragging, and I was responsible for listening to her bragging. ...Do you really know the general? Not only do you have pictures of the general, but also information about the people around the general...Okay, this ship will believe you first."

Trust came so suddenly, I didn't dare to believe it casually, and asked doubtfully: "Do you really believe it? Don't you want to prove it or something?"

"It doesn't matter who you are, no matter how false you are, the fact that you know the general is always true." This shipboard AI seems to be very smart, at least not as heartless as the two lunatics, "You are the clue! This ship will definitely find the general if we follow you."

"That's good," I beamed, "Then let's get down to business...Hey, wait! Do you know about the star rings? The star rings of the barrier star."

(Finally, ask for a monthly pass. If it's too late, just ask for a monthly pass in advance next month - I may have to forget...)