It came from the stars.
Gwen stared at the Shield of the Guardian of the Kingdom in front of him. His eyes skipped over the weathered and rusted metal accessories covering the shield and fell on the silver-white metal plate that was the main body of the shield.
The dim silver light spots on the metal plate were still pulsating slowly as if they were breathing. There was no sign of life, but it seemed to have been "alive" for millions of years.
After learning more about the secrets of the "Deicide Fleet", after confirming that this metal plate came from the stars, and after speculating that this thing might be related to his "satellite body", Gwen could not help but feel more emotional and thoughtful when he looked at it.
He shook his head and chased away the unimportant thoughts in his mind. Then, he glanced at Hu Po, who was on standby, and retracted his gaze. He placed his hand on the main body of the alloy and allowed his mental power to spread into the interior of the metal. It was just like what he did when he first communicated with the Eternal Slate.
In the first few seconds, nothing happened. Gwen felt that there was only a huge emptiness at the end of his spiritual power. The ancient space heritage was empty. There was no new fleet battle report, and there was no message left by the ancient predecessors. But in the next second, Gwen's mind suddenly exploded with a loud bang!
He instantly lost the perception of his body, and all his senses seemed to be misplaced at this moment. As a human's sensory ability was replaced by a more superior and more complex "sense", his body at this moment could not process such heterogeneous information at all. He felt that his consciousness was being stripped and linked to a new "container". His senses began to be "overwritten", refreshed, and calibrated again and again. Finally, a more massive data stream that was completely different from his original satellite body successfully established a connection with him.
He heard a "voice" directly in his mind. "Visitor has entered the Firmament System … Confirmed as the only connection. Temporary authority is in progress. Temporary authority has been granted. "
Gwen stabilized his mind. The intense turbulent sensory dislocation inevitably brought a certain amount of panic and nervousness, but as a satellite spirit who had long been used to being hung in the sky and having an "inhuman perspective", he was experienced in this aspect. After confirming that his mind was still his, and there was no sign of tampering or being controlled, he began to look for clues in the darkness that could help the current situation.
There was only darkness here, or rather, a hazy curtain of chaos. He could not see or hear anything, but he could feel that there were many entities around him that were establishing a connection with the "vessel" he was currently residing in. This "vessel" seemed to have opened up some kind of access authority to him, but due to the limitations of human logic, he could not use this authority for the time being.
But this was not a problem. He had the experience of establishing connections with satellite systems. If these things were left behind by the Deicide Fleet, then there must be similarities between their systems.
After several attempts, Gwen finally slowly. He felt that his senses began to loosen up, and with this sense of loosening, something other than darkness instantly appeared in front of him..................... and......
It was a perspective overlooking the earth.
Gwen was shocked at first and almost thought that he had returned to the state of a satellite spirit. But soon he confirmed that his consciousness was still free and should be able to "return" to his body at any time. Then he found that the perspective overlooking the earth in front of him was very different from the one he saw through the surveillance satellite.
The midpoint of the perspective had changed! The continent that was originally in the center of his vision was now above his entire vision, and below his vision was a large expanse of ocean!
Soon he realized the reason.
He had entered another space facility, and the orbit or main surveillance perspective of this space facility was different from his previous "satellite perspective."
There were other space stations or satellites still operating outside the atmosphere of this planet!
Gawain controlled his slightly excited emotions and began to control his new perspective in a very unfamiliar manner. His gaze swept past the Southern Continent of Loronan and the huge forest islands of the elves. He looked towards the endless sea, and within the swirling atmosphere, he first looked towards the sea southwest of the continent.
A faintly discernible man-made building appeared at the edge of his vision.
It was a man-made facility that could be seen from space!
In an instant, a series of information surfaced in Gawain's memory: In the ancient times of the elves' heritage, the primitive elves had crossed the sea from the western part of the continent. They had found a tower on the Endless Ocean and had recklessly entered it …
The tower was located in the southwest of the Lorennan Continent, on the endless ocean!
Could it be that what he saw was the tower that the original elves had discovered on the sea?
However, Gwen soon found that he could only see a small part of the facility. He could only see a small part of its base and its huge shadow on the sea. The scale of that part of the base was equivalent to a huge island in the ocean, and there were a large number of neat, metallic extension brackets extending from the main body into the sea. That was all he could see.
When he tried to extend his vision to the southwest, a cold synthetic voice entered his mind. "Error, Area C-16 cannot be activated. The subsystem is offline."
Gwen was stunned for a moment. He tried to move his vision in the direction of the base again, but the prompt in his mind immediately came again. "Error, Area C-16 cannot be activated. The subsystem is offline."
The system prompt from an unknown place made Gwen ponder. After a moment of thought, he began to move his vision in another direction.
…
In the vast space, a planet full of vitality was orbiting a gas giant that exuded endless energy.
The steel sentinels left by the ancient ancestors were still guarding this world loyally, although they were scarred and old.
Above the planet, outside the atmosphere, space facilities of all sizes were operating silently. The space stations and orbiting satellites, which had been operating for thousands of years, were floating in the vast darkness. In this cold and dead place, these ancient devices, which had been operating for thousands of years, were maintaining minimal communication and data collection. Among them, the largest one was still sleeping.
It circled the entire planet. Its steel body, which was tens of thousands of miles long, was covered with scars and dim lights that were almost extinguished. On the surface of this giant ring that circled the planet's synchronous orbit, some places were covered with heavy armor, and some places were transparent polymer domes. Inside the domes were long-abandoned living or research facilities, and all of these maintained a near-eternal silence in the dead silence.
The starlight from the distant space crossed the endless darkness and shone on the ancient space ring, slightly illuminating its armor and the cabins that were sunk in the darkness.
But suddenly, a small part of the giant ring "woke up". On the side facing the planet's surface, several lights suddenly lit up, and the corresponding cabins in the ring also flickered. The maintenance robots, which had hibernated for millions of years, crawled out of the hibernation chambers. The sophisticated and advanced drone moved quickly along the inner track of the ring. The behemoth seemed to be stretching, as if it was going to break free from its long slumber in the next second.
However, the awakening process soon came to an abrupt end. The area that lit up eventually only maintained a small area inside the ring. The rest of the structure of the giant ring remained dead silent, and there was no response in the darkness.
On the side of the giant ring facing the earth, outside a cabin structure shrouded in darkness, there was a huge gap. The radial tear extended from the armor plate to the polymer dome, and some fragments were still floating around the gap. The internal airtight door had been automatically blocked. The energy system had been offline for many years, and the sparks and smoke had dissipated into the depths of space. Only the hideous scar and a few drops of pale golden blood were left behind.
…
"Error, unable to activate area C-18. Subsystem offline."
"Failed to take over. Error, unable to activate area C-18. Subsystem offline. Backup system unresponsive."
Continuous prompts sounded in his mind. Gwen finally gave up his futile efforts.
His eyes fell on the end of the ocean in the southeast of the Lolun Continent. In that place, far away from human civilization, opposite the endless ocean, he could already see the outline of a winding coastline.
He recalled the information he had received from the sirens and Selena Geer.
Seven hundred years ago, Gwen Cecil and the last storm priests went on a mysterious voyage. They first advanced to the east of the Lolun Continent, and then with the help of the sirens, they went to the safe route in the south.
In the southeast of the Lolun Continent, Gwen Cecil's exploration team discovered a new continent. In the depths of that continent, there was a giant tower that reached the sky.
That tower seemed to have some sort of connection with the giant tower that the elven ancestors had seen in the southwest sea. Back then, when Gawain Cecil entered the depths of the continent alone, it was very likely that he had climbed the giant tower and received some sort of "revelation" from it …
Now, Gwen was almost 100% sure that he had seen the new continent.
The information that originally only existed in the intelligence had been confirmed, and the evidence that had been lost in history was now before his eyes.
The new continent in the southeast of the Lolun Continent existed! The continent that Gwen Cecil had visited was on the eastern side of the Silver Empire.
But he could only confirm the existence of that continent, but he could not see the situation in the depths of the continent. Although he now had a wider view, he still could not break through the limit of the observation range.
He could at least see the base and part of the tower on the ocean, but in the direction of the continent … he could only see the coastline.
Gwen's eyes moved from east to west, and then from west to east again. Every time he reached the end of his field of vision, there would be a notification in his mind that the subsystem was offline.
This was different from when he used satellites to observe the earth. When using satellites, there would not be such a notification. The edge of his field of vision was the edge, and there would not be any false alarms.
The subsystem was offline, so he could not activate other areas, and could not activate other areas, so he could not observe things outside his field of vision. This meant that the space facility he was now connected to was far larger than he imagined. This space facility should have been able to observe the two giant towers and even further targets.
But for some reason, most of its structure was currently offline, so Gwen could only activate some of its "lenses."
Gawain slowly pondered under the strange inhuman state of his senses. He couldn't "see" his own state, nor could he determine his surroundings. With only a perspective facing the ground, he could only deduce what he was connected to.
This might be a larger on-orbit facility than a satellite, with a more complex structure and functions. It might be divided into several modules, and each module could operate independently. This could explain the damaged areas and the problems with the subsystem.
Then … did he have a way to figure out where the fault was, or try to fix it? For example, he could activate an automatic repair function or something.
Gwen knew that his idea was a little whimsical, but he still subconsciously issued an order in his "mind." He did not know how to ask or give an order, so he could only try slowly.
"How is the subsystem now?"
"Error, unable to query the subsystem."
"Is there any repair plan?"
The system prompt was silent.
"That subsystem, is there any redundant system that can replace it?"
The prompt was still silent.
Gwen then tried several different questions, but he still did not get the answer he wanted.
The so-called subsystem seemed to be thoroughly damaged, and the voice that responded in his head did not have any available repair plan. It might even be broken, so much so that it did not even respond when faced with certain problems.
Finally, Gwen asked the last question helplessly. "How did the damage happen?"
This time, there was an unexpected response from the system prompt that had been silent for several rounds. Gawain immediately heard a voice in his mind. "Keywords captured … Query complete. Starting to play the system log."
Before Gawain could think of anything, he felt his vision blur. The next second, he saw a new scene appear in his field of vision.
It still looked like a picture overlooking the land, but there were some symbols and text with parameters around the picture, showing the planet's data and energy readings of the giant planet at that time. He realized that this was an observation record from a long time ago, and he inferred that this thing had been operating automatically without the intervention of a "satellite spirit" like him and continued to collect information about the planet!
With these thoughts emerging in his mind, he began to carefully watch this video recording from a long time ago.
At first, there was only a near-static land and atmosphere in the image, and this lasted for nearly half a minute.
Then, a flash of light suddenly appeared in Gwen's vision.
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