The three sprites said it so confidently that Hao Ren did not know what to say for a moment.
"We don't know the way back! Because we were sucked into the dimensional turbulence and drifted all the way here! " "The navigation computer of the starship has been broken for a long time — and we don't know how to use it before it broke." "Nonsense, we all know how to use it, but you don't!" "Anyway, we don't know where the battlefield is."
The three sprites were talking at the same time. Hao Ren was now a little used to the rhythm of these little creatures, so he could collect the useful information from a lot of irrelevant information. The clue this time was very simple.
The planetary fortress where the sprites lived had a big explosion on the battlefield. The dimensional turbulence caused by the explosion threw the huge celestial debris into the distant space, and in the process, the navigation computer of the starship was also seriously damaged. Now this debris had no power, no navigation, and completely relied on the way to drift in the universe, so the sprites did not know how to return to their home.
Although they were born from the resonance crystal, they did not seem to have the ability to trace the resonance signal to find their home planet.
But Hao Ren soon thought of something else. "How did those guys who besieged you find you?"
"Those bad guys can trace the resonance signal!" The smallest sprite jumped around in front of Hao Ren. Her hair was full of electric arcs because of excitement, and her voice was crackling like electricity. "They want to destroy the crystal, to destroy the heart created by the goddess!"
Hao Ren heard a new word. "Heart?"
"The Heart of Destiny!" The boy sprite with short hair said. "It is the place where we were first born."
"The place is full of the resonance crystal that you mentioned." "The lightning left by the goddess never stops." "Many companions are born from the crystal every day!" "More than half of the sprites live in the heart!"
"That is the crystal star that we are looking for!" Hao Ren suddenly got excited, but then his face turned gloomy. "Forget it. You guys can't find it anyway. I'm curious. If the festered monsters can track you guys, why don't you sprites born from the crystal have this ability?"
The long-haired fairy revealed a distressed expression. "We should have one … but we don't have a queen. Without a queen, fairies can't do anything."
"That's right, that's right. The Queen must sit on the throne for the fairies to function!" "And only the Queen can let the fairies know what to do!" "Ah, I found my Psionic Regulator! It's hanging on my waist this time. "
Hao Ren was confused. "But you said before that you don't have a queen."
"Yes, yes, we don't have a queen." "But the fairies must have a queen! She just hasn't appeared yet! "" The goddess said we have a queen! "
"I suspect it's a historical problem when the goddess of creation had a split mind," Vivian whispered to Hao Ren. "I'm afraid these sprites are not the 'finished product'. The goddess of creation may not have completed the last step when she created them."
"I think so too." Hao Ren frowned and nodded gently.
At this time, the MDT suddenly spoke. It floated in front of the three sprites. "From what you said, the navigation computer is broken, not lost. That is to say, the navigation computer of the Naqdal Starship is located on this planetary fragment?"
"Yes, yes! This fragment has the control center of the starship! "" The doomsday weapon is also installed on this continent. " "But when the planet exploded, most of the doomsday weapon was torn apart, and now only the base is left …" "The navigation computer is still intact!" "Although it's broken …"
Hao Ren understood what the MDT meant. "You can't fix it, but maybe we can. Can you take us to see the navigation computer?"
The three sprites nodded in unison. "Yes, yes!"
The control center of the planetary fortress was not far from where they were. They could see it from afar after coming out of the great temple where the sprites lived. It stood quietly at the end of the great plain, like a black sword pointing straight at the sky.
But the towering temple was only part of the control center's structure exposed on the surface. A planetary fortress certainly could not place its vital center on the surface, which was vulnerable to attack. Below the temple was a shaft hundreds of kilometers deep and layers of armored walls. Only after passing through these insanely thick layers of defense could they reach the real location of the navigation computer.
The ancient transmission system had long been unusable due to the dislocation of the stratum and the off-line power source. But since there were multiple sets of complementary backup systems in such a critical location, there were still a few remaining lights leading to the control center. Looking down from the shaft, the intermittent, weak lights were like wriggling fireflies that extended into the deepest darkness. It was a daunting sight.
Vivian spread her bat wings and flew into the depths of the shaft with Hao Ren, while the three sprites flew in front of them to lead the way. The shimmer of the sprites effectively supplemented the illumination of the unlit sections, allowing Hao Ren and Vivian, who had night vision, to see the surroundings clearly.
Most of the shaft was still intact, but there were still many signs of cracks and tilting in the middle. In some of the most seriously dislocated sections, the entire shaft had even broken and shifted hundreds of meters to the side. The rocks that had squeezed in had almost cut off the middle of the tunnel, leaving only a few narrow cracks and holes for the sprites to pass through. Usually, the sprites could go to the depths of the control center through these cracks, but Hao Ren could not. So, he had to use the Cutting Beam to open a path.
After passing through the deep vertical passage, they successfully entered the control center of the planetary battleship Naqdal: a hexagonal hall.
"This is the control center!" The long-haired sprite flew back and forth in front of Hao Ren, introducing the place proudly. "It used to be a super lively place. The guardian giants controlled the entire fortress and fought the enemy here. Many sprites also helped to adjust the state of the equipment here."
"But it's useless now." "Even if we fix it, the Naqdal can't continue to fly. After all, the engine is gone." "The main power reactor is gone." "The weapon system is gone too." "But we still come here occasionally for a party."
The control center was dead silent. The buzzing sound of equipment and people were gone. But judging from the size of the hall and the huge equipment specially prepared for the guardian giants, Hao Ren could still vaguely imagine what a magnificent and busy place it used to be. There were several platforms of different heights in the hexagonal hall, each of which was large enough to build a house on. On these platforms, there were control devices that were six to seven meters high and huge seats of the same scale. The hall looked like the kingdom of the giants in a fairy tale. In fact, it was indeed prepared for the giants.
The guardian giants were more than ten meters tall on average. One could imagine the scale of the facilities they used.
During the great destruction of Naqdal, all the guardian giants who fought here were killed. But the sprites, with their unique life form, relied on the fusion of the crystal in the fortress to escape the most terrible moment. In the following thousands of years, the sprites collected the remains of the giants from all over the continent and buried them on the grassland. The remains of the giants in the control center were no exception.
After burying the giants, the sprites rarely returned to the control center because it was empty and far less attractive than the world on the surface where there were green mountains and clear waters. But on some special occasions, such as when the sprites suddenly remembered the past, they would return here to commemorate their former comrades through a gathering.
The control center was not completely dark. Hao Ren looked around and found that there were still some faint lights slowly flickering in some corners. If he listened carefully, he could even hear some subtle humming coming from under the floor or behind the wall.
Obviously, some of the remaining backup power lines were still working.
As a super battleship built on a planet, Naqdal had countless subsystems and backup modules. These countless subsystems could ensure that even if the starship was torn apart, its wreckage could still 'survive' and even maintain a certain degree of combat capability.
"Where is the navigation computer? Or where is its interface? " Hao Ren looked around the hall and did not find anything that could be used as the central computer. So he simply asked.
"Over there!" The smallest sprite flew into the air and pointed to the top of the hall. "That's it!"
Hao Ren looked up and saw a huge, almost dizzying dome structure. His breathing slowed down. Only then did he realize that the real focus of the hall was on the top of his head.
Countless huge alloy skeletons intertwined on the top of the hexagonal columnar hall, forming a structure like a nest. Pipes and lines intertwined between these skeletons, forming veins. All of these things finally converged in one place, which was a huge crystal that looked like a heart.
The huge crystal was fixed on the dome by a solid metal structure. Hao Ren felt that its texture was very similar to that of a resonant crystal. But unlike a normal resonant crystal, this' heart 'looked dim at the moment.
This was the first time he saw a resonant crystal that did not glow or resonate with other crystals. A thought came to his mind.
Every Resonance Crystal had a life of its own. As for the crystal above the hall … it was already dead.
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