Chapter 1611 Never Die
The sudden exclamation from the command area stunned everyone on the officer's platform, including Sandora, who fell into a state of confusion. However, our daze did not last long. Bingtis, the female gangster, used her powerful Her nerves resisted the shocking news and she was the first to react. She threw herself on the guard wall at the edge of the officer's platform: "What!? Who is kidding!?"
"It's not a joke!" Tavel suddenly said, her tone excited, and also filled with irrepressible surprise, "It's really the mother star! Or... nine times out of ten, it is the mother star, and the celestial bodies that appear here are It couldn’t be anything else.”
Shandora finally reacted at this moment, and she ordered in a hurried tone: "Turn the screen over, let me see what's going on."
The picture from the external monitor was quickly transferred to the officer's platform, and we finally saw that incredible scene: a lifeless-looking dark brown star floating alone in the empty, dead dark space, with its surface It is full of craters, and there is no sign of life at all, but the straight ravines and huge terrifying cracks in the earth's crust that cover the stars seem to contain amazing secrets. The size of this planet is twice that of the Earth, or perhaps more. We cannot be sure - because this planet has suffered a terrible and obvious astral disaster: it is almost shattered, and the huge rift seems to have gone deep. Reaching the core of the Earth, there are some horrifying holes that penetrate the planet. These scars completely change the shape of the entire planet, so much so that we are not sure whether it has become "loose" or collapsed due to this. Regardless, the planet remains intact and has remained so to the naked eye for countless years.
In the sky above this dark brown and nearly disintegrated planet, you can see a large number of floating black fragments. Some of these things should be the lithosphere that the planet has broken off. But some of them are too regular in shape. I suspect that they are some kind of man-made products, but it is probably due to the disaster that year. Their original appearance is no longer visible at all.
Time cannot change the shape of this universe, so what makes those man-made objects difficult to describe can only be the impact of the doomsday moment.
I reviewed the data sent back by the detector and determined that this planet is located at the end of one of the "points" of the great crack in the Gate of the Abyss. Do you still remember the shape of the weird Gate of the Abyss? Narrow eye shape. So there are two "points" at both ends, and the planet is about half a light-year away from the closest point to the Gate of the Abyss. Compared with the Great Crack with a total length of five light-years, this is really close.
Of course, the detector also scanned the surroundings of this dark brown planet, trying to find the old sun or other planets in the parent star system. Ancient historical data records that the parent star system also has a huge gaseous planet, which was the Xiling planet back then. It was an important source of energy when humans first entered the universe, but these important things seem to be gone. The detector only found a pile of completely cooled heavy element embers less than thirty astronomical units away from the dark brown planet. It might have been the sun of the Xiling people. But now it is just a pile of slag that has been extinguished for many years. Perhaps with the weird "stagnant state" of this world, this pile of slag will suddenly rekindle soon, and then reincarnation will continue to light up and die out, but we do understand the "stagnant state" of this world. Not much, I can only make a guess.
At least in the foreseeable future. We can't see the Xiling people's sun burning again.
"This is the mother planet? Are you sure?" Bingtis looked at the planet that was almost broken but barely condensed into a ball in disbelief. "You haven't seen it before - and the positions of the stars are not fixed, so maybe It drifted in from somewhere else.”
"This universe is in a stagnant state. The position of the celestial bodies will not change much," Sandora subconsciously grabbed my hand with a calm tone, but based on the strength of her hand, I judged that Her Majesty the Queen is definitely not at peace now. "There are no other celestial bodies for several light years around here, and the ancient records left by our ancestors mentioned that the mother star and the Gate of the Abyss are adjacent, so it must be the mother star. By the way, the ancestors gave us some information about it. I still remember the record of the last moments of the home planet...Tavel, scan the internal structure of this planet. Quick!"
Tavel went to work without saying a word, and soon the scan results of the dark brown star were presented to everyone. Not surprisingly, I found something that was enough to prove its identity: large-scale traces of artificial modification.
The entire planet is cracked everywhere as can be seen on the surface. Huge rifts and cavities really go straight to the core of the earth. The power of the abyss caused the planet to almost tear itself apart, but in the end it remained intact: because the star is filled with amazingly huge alloy beams!
Huge support beams, superalloy cables, crustaceans of unknown composition, giant rock pillars, and fillers with obviously different geological compositions from the surroundings forcibly bind the planet together. They are like the pillars of the earth that support everything after the land collapses. Just like the chain of God that turned the tide after the world cracked, it "sewed" the planet in a primitive and rough but atmospheric way. Nearly one-third of the entire planet's structure has actually been completely separated from its surroundings, but those incredible man-made repairs have forcibly tied them together.
Moreover, we also found huge cavities inside the planet. These cavities may be naturally formed, but they have obviously been artificially modified. All cavities have solid shells built on the inner layer, turning them into huge alloy cabins. There are huge hollow beams connecting the cavities. Those alloy structures and the dense network of pipes in the shell can tell what they mean at a glance: a fortress, a fortress after the end of the world!
"Historical data records that after the disaster broke out, the ancestors resisted tenaciously for a long time, and some people were unwilling to give up their mother star. Even if the gate of the abyss was right next to the mother star, they were unwilling to give up this place. The power of the abyss shone on the mother star. On the star, let the earth crack, and the rifts deepen hundreds of meters every day. The planet is about to fall apart, so the ancestors used huge alloy beams and other things to repair their planet. The abyss can even destroy these repair measures themselves, so the ancestors Just rebuild everything over and over again. In the end, the entire mother planet was almost transformed into a planet fortress: the broken planet fragments were connected together by alloy cables, and the hollows under the lithosphere were filled with warriors who regarded death as home, and the earth was covered over and over again. The alloy armor was cracked and repaired over and over again. The garrison on the home planet did not retreat until death, and when the Ark set sail, they desperately intercepted the jets flowing from the gate of the abyss to all parts of the universe, buying precious time for the Ark fleet. Until here All the troops were sacrificed. Ansers once described it this way: The mother planet has changed beyond recognition, but until the last moment, it was our mother star."
Sandora silently recited the records of the mother planet left by her ancestors, and then gently let go of my hand: "Sorry, I'm a little excited."
I didn't care about it, I just stared at the planet in space. The alloy armor on its surface has been completely stripped off. Perhaps the black fragments floating above the planet are the remains of these armors. Traces of damage can also be seen everywhere on the giant beam cables inside the planet. The entire planet is truly unrecognizable, even so unrecognizable that it can no longer be called a natural celestial body. However, it still stands in the vast space, guarding the nearest pass to the gate of the abyss, and it still seems to be facing the crack. glare.
Just like the words left by our ancestors: The mother planet has changed beyond recognition, but until the last moment, it is our mother star.
The ancestors finally evacuated this world, including this fragmented mother star, but they couldn't hold on to it, but I think... they still held on. Because until today, until the fleet of the New Empire docks in this universe, the position of this planet is still there, and it is still the mother planet of Xiling Civilization!
"No one can take away his position from a living Xiling apostle," Bingtis suddenly muttered to himself, then lowered his eyes slightly. "You have been like this since you were mortals. It's really... it makes me speechless."
"So we can be sure that this is the mother planet," Abyss Xiling looked at the devastated planet in a daze. "How did it survive? It was obviously destroyed all the time, but in the end... it seemed that it survived until the moment when the entire planet was completely transformed by the Inert Abyss?"
"It can only be said to be a miracle, everything is possible," Bingtis smacked his lips, "And the resistance of Xiling ancestors also allowed this planet to persist for a long time. After all, the Inert Abyss is not a pure abyss. It can be alleviated. On the other hand, since the entire universe can persist until the transformation is completed, why can't one planet? Although it seems that this transformation is indeed very painful..."
"It seems that the other celestial bodies here have not persisted," Lin Xue looked at the report sent back by the detector. "There are only the remnants of a star nearby, and some thin matter that can no longer be distinguished from stellar remnants or space air masses. There is only this solitary planet here."
I thought about it. There is a suggestion: "Perhaps a memorial hall or other commemorative mark should be built here. This is the origin of Xiling Civilization. There is no more special place than it."
"It does require a special commemoration, but there is no need to build anything extra," Sandora shook her head. "The mother planet itself is a monument. We only need to strengthen its structure and let it survive forever. That is enough. Of course, if the ancestors have other arrangements after they come back, just listen to them, no one has the right to dispose of this planet better than them."
Everyone at the scene had no objections, so the matter was settled for the time being.
The engineering team is still collecting data on the Gate of the Abyss to verify whether it can immediately be used as a "pier" to carry the bridge, and the sleeping start-up end will also take some time to activate and detect (after all, it has been dragged so far) road, and it is also the only starting end, so it’s not okay to treat it carelessly), so we decided to go to the home planet to have a look first.
A shuttle was launched from the Imperial Admiral, and all the commanders of the Royal Fleet, including Harlan, who was commanding the engineering force, and Bellavilla, who was sleeping and recuperating, followed to prepare to land on the home planet together. Before landing, the silver aircraft circled this ancient planet twice the size of the Earth, hoping to find some traces of civilization on the surface. After all, this place is in a stagnant state, and many things will not die, and the original The last impact should not completely peel off the entire planet's surface. Facts have proved that our guess was correct: there are indeed suspected man-made traces on the surface of the home planet. Although there seems to be only such a surface ruin on the entire planet, and it has collapsed and dilapidated to the point where it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the surrounding scorched earth, but we Found it anyway.
This place is located on the edge of a higher alluvial belt on the surface of the planet. Judging from the surrounding terrain, it should have been part of a certain coastline. It is impossible to verify who was stationed here. We can only confirm that there was a base here. .
The high ground is a relatively flat area. Around the roughly trapezoidal open area, you can see man-made objects that are almost indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks. They seem to have been melted, and have completely lost their original properties under the last impact and the long-term exposure to the power of the abyss. If it weren't for other The distribution is so neat that no one would have thought that this place could be related to the remains of civilization. Molten metal that is almost fused with soil and rocks can also be found on some surfaces in open areas. This is what the entire ruins has, and it is also all the ancestral relics of this planet exposed on the surface.
Sandora was the first to step off the shuttle, and she stood on the land where her ancestors once thrived and fought for. Full of surprise.
"From the day the core of my mind began to operate, I never thought that one day I would stand on the land of this original mother planet." Shandora looked around at the desolate and dilapidated scene, and then squatted down and pinched some unrealistically. A handful of rough sand, gravel and soil, watching them slowly slip between the fingers, "This is where we originated... I... Xiling Apostle is not good at perceptual thinking, but I feel that my current mood is very strange, It's obviously just a planet, a primitive battle fortress. Why does it feel so strange to people?"
"What touches people's hearts is not the planet itself, but what you think of what was born from the planet at this moment." Bingtis analyzed it professionally, and then looked up at the space: it was gloomy and dark there, and the mother star system The sun and the gas giant planet that the Xiling people relied on for survival have long been extinguished, and the only thing that can illuminate the sky is the light of distant stars that are not very bright. And the radiance of the Imperial fleet in orbit, and the distant starlight looked abnormal, they were skewed and distorted. Weird curves form in space: because we are observing the stars through the distortion field at the edge of the abyss gate. From here, you can just see the corner of the huge crack. Even a small sharp corner occupies one-third of the sky. The starlight is twisted into a lace-like thing to outline the edge of the sharp corner. The order of hope People are intimidating.
Shandora recalled the ancient information again: "Historical data records that the first phenomenon when the abyss gate was opened was that the starry sky was distorted. The ancestors found that all the starlight in the sky was out of place, and then detected a star next to their own star system. The huge twisted space is opening, and then the Gate of the Abyss appears in front of the world, which permanently changes the starry scene that the people of the home planet can see when they look up - what we see now is what our ancestors saw back then."
"The same scene. After so many years, it still looks like this in the eyes of future generations. It's incredible," Bingtis blinked. He muttered in the spiritual connection, "Look, the door of the abyss that destroyed the world back then... I can actually close it alone."
Sandora immediately glared at her: "Don't make such a joke, the fate of the entire void rests on this gate."
Just when we were sighing that we were really standing on the Grandmother's Planet, Qianqian suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed in the spiritual connection: "Hey, what do you think that is!?"
I looked in the direction of my fingers in amazement, and found that there was a light blue group of light in the depths of space approaching the earth. It was a weird thing that looked like air gel, and it emitted a light far stronger than the starlight. The shape of the light is similar to an ellipse, but the surface is undulating and seems to be deformed at any time. There should be no entity in this ball of light, but some bright light spots and lines can still be seen wandering inside it, indicating that it has a complex structure inside. . I don’t know how far away this strange thing is from the ground, but I instinctively think that it is not small in size, and it seems that this thing "swims" from space?
"Mothership, what is that ball of light?" I immediately asked the Imperial Admiral, which was parked in space.
"Your Majesty, we are checking. This seems to be a spiritual creature... but it is not like a normal life form. It should have the ability to jump in space. It suddenly appeared above the home planet just now, and now it is passing in your direction. Want to Intercept it?"
"No, wait!" Sandora quickly stopped, then looked shocked, "Creature? Are you sure this is a creature?"
"Not very sure," came Tavel's voice this time. "It's hard to define what it is. It's different from any life form we know, and it's even different from spiritual creatures. This universe It has stagnated, and it stands to reason that it will not produce new life...but it does have local evolution phenomena, so it may produce some strange things. This ball of light seems to be conscious, it adjusts its flight direction by itself, and just bypassed us The orbital station that was launched...maybe it uses the parent star as a foothold? Theoretically...ah, there are more space signals!"
"Don't block this place, let them come over," Sandora's tone was inexplicably urgent, "I want to see what this is. By the way, the fleet is invisible and evasive, don't scare these... creatures."
The glow of the fleet in the sky immediately dimmed, and all the spacecraft quickly disappeared completely into space. Then we saw a stunning scene:
Countless light blue light clusters jump out from the depths of space, floating as light and agile as swimming fish to the mother star. When these light clusters become clusters, we can easily see their biological community characteristics: they Forming into formations, chasing each other, and constantly drawing a series of complex trajectories as they fall from space to the earth, this is obviously some kind of conscious move.
These strange cloud-like things did not directly touch the ground. In the end, they hovered hundreds of meters above the ground. At first, they were only scattered in small pieces, but soon they gathered more and more, and finally they were all scattered. The sky is covered with them!