The Apocalypse.
Hao Ren's vision was integrated with the probe's. Under his control, the small device, which was only a few centimeters long, deftly adjusted its angle in the air and scanned the entire wreckage into the visual sensor.
It was difficult for a human to accurately measure the volume of an object at a glance, but the probe's multiple sensors and calculation modules quickly transmitted the basic information of the wreckage to Hao Ren's mind. Some basic data appeared on the wreckage: 12.15 kilometers long axis, 4.55 kilometers wide at its widest point, and the main armor material was molecular layer polymer. Judging from the coil structure exposed at the broken part of the armor, the armor had the ability to further increase its strength after charging.
It was a real behemoth with good technology.
The ancient starship named The Apocalypse was a bleak gray, and its thick and complex hull structure showed obvious signs of distortion and bending, indicating that it was most likely captured and bent by a sudden and terrifying external force. Hao Ren's initial guess was that it was some kind of gravitational weapon, such as an instant black hole. But there was another reason that caused the ship to completely lose its vitality: there was a huge penetrating wound on the belly of The Apocalypse, and all the hull structure near the wound had melted and stacked together. The melted and cooled metal floated around the wreckage like frozen blood, extending several kilometers away.
"It looks like the damage caused by an energy-gathering weapon. The minions of the original Mad Lord rarely use this method of attack …" Hao Ren said to himself as he controlled the probe to move around The Apocalypse. "So it's possible that the original allies of these warships were eroded and transformed by the power of the Mad Lord and became enemies …"
The Apocalypse floated near a dim gas cloud, and similar gas clouds could be seen everywhere in Gorgon's Abyss. It was a distorted space full of oppressive fiery red background that seemed to be wrapped in layers of dirty fog. Apart from the Gorgonian demons (and their wreckage) everywhere, there were only large and small broken stones and strange clouds floating there. It was monotonous and maddening.
The probe deftly bypassed a mass of solidified metal around The Revelation. An opening on the side of the wreckage of the giant starship appeared in front of the camera. Hao Ren zoomed in and could not help but take a deep breath.
In the opening that looked like the launch port of a carrier-based aircraft, there were neatly parked silver alloy 'monsters' that looked like manta rays.
They were the so-called 'Gorgon Lords' that had wreaked havoc in the Black Forest not long ago.
The Gorgon Lords, considered to be the top demons in the outside world, were everywhere in this lair like cannon fodder. Hundreds and thousands of them were arranged in a square formation, neatly lying in the belly of the giant starship as if ready to attack at any time. They were not aircraft carriers at all, but just fighter jets!
There were these things hidden in Gorgon's Abyss … How did the indigenous civilization of L 'Haronne survive to this day?!
Huge doubts surged in his mind, but very quickly, Hao Ren's doubts were answered.
The probe sent the scan data, and all the 'Gorgon Lords' docked inside The Apocalypse were in a silent state, and their energy response was as low as zero. This meant that they were not only asleep, but they were completely exhausted and could no longer operate.
Hao Ren turned the probe's direction with a chill in his heart, and turned his vision away from The Apocalypse's cockpit and towards another direction.
In the chaotic alternate dimension, a few tiny black dots could be seen flying around in the murky clouds, and those were the active Gorgon demons. Most of them were unmanned weapons of a few to tens of meters in size, and the largest was just like the 'Giant Manta Ray' that Hao Ren had mistaken for an aircraft carrier. There were actually quite a few of them, but after seeing The Apocalypse's hangar, Hao Ren realized that the mobile Gorgon demons were actually just a small portion of these ancient weapons.
Even further in the clouds, there were a few other massive shadows, like broken mountains floating in the depths of the clouds. It was a giant starship of the same size as The Apocalypse, but they were all in a silent state.
"MDT, can you see it?" Hao Ren called the MDT in his mind, which was on standby.
"Ahh, I'm in sync with you, I can see it all." The MDT's voice immediately rang out. "Holy sh * t … I can feel the chip shaking! Isn't the scene in here a little too unexpected? "
Hao Ren did not answer, but prepared to continue watching. "I'm going to switch to the other two probes' vision, record all the images."
As his voice trailed off, his vision flickered slightly, and the vision of probe number two entered his mind.
He saw a huge piece of floating debris floating in front of him, and on the boulders were some interconnected pipes and support beams, and on the surface of some of the floating debris, there were buildings that looked like towers or factories.
"It seems to be a typical building complex in the asteroid belt," the MDT's voice rang in his mind. "They should have some supporting defense facilities and energy arrays, but they seem to have been scattered. Look over there, the support beams have obvious signs of breaking."
Hao Ren noticed something strange on one of the floating debris out of the corner of his eye, and immediately ordered the probe to move closer.
As his vision zoomed in, he could clearly see what was on the floating debris, and his jaw dropped.
It was a corpse, a human corpse!
Probably because there were no oxidation or decay problems in Gorgon's Abyss, the corpse was still in a fairly good state. He was an old man with a head full of white hair, wearing a gorgeous purple robe with gold trim, decorated with tarnished crystals and precious metals. But those things did not seem to be all ornaments, because they were arranged in a complicated way, surrounded by symbols and patterns, and seemed to have special functions.
The well-dressed old man leaned against a pipeline in the asteroid factory. His face was twisted and hideous, as if he had suffered a lot before his death. A long staff inlaid with a large number of crystals, mithril, and adamantine fell near his body. But like the crystals on the old man's clothes, the crystals and precious metals inlaid on the staff had lost their luster as if they were made of plastic.
"This style … looks like a mage … Could it be a super powerful L 'Haronne scholar? Did he die here to study Gorgon's Abyss? " Hao Ren could not help but mutter to himself. He wanted to go forward and turn over the body, but when he got closer, he realized that he was only borrowing the probe's view and could not do it himself. So he controlled the probe to circle around the body and search carefully.
After the probe circled around, it found something: on the pipeline behind the old man, there were some words that had been ablated by high temperature. Although they had been there for an unimaginable amount of time, in this place where time was almost still, all the words were still clearly visible.
The probe hovered in front of the words, and Hao Ren read the translated words.
"My name is Marchieri, the chief mage of the Holy Tumen Empire. I stepped into this place on the orders of His Majesty Tumen. I went too deep into this place and was discovered by the ancient guards entrenched here. The teleportation was disrupted, and there was no chance of survival.
"Before the teleportation was completely cut off, I have sent all the information back to Tumen First Orbital Station. Next, I will use my own magic to build a barrier to prolong my survival time in this space and wait for rescue.
"But if I can't be saved in the end, and someone sees my useless body, please relay my last words to His Majesty Tumen. It's what I saw with my own eyes after communication and teleportation were completely cut off.
"All the collapsing history is tilting towards the 'source point', and the final doomsday is waiting for our fragile world at the source point. But in that point of collapse, I saw a rift that does not belong to our world. I can't confirm who caused the rift and when, but it did appear there. Please allow me to boldly assume that in the distant future, the doomsday that should have been doomed will be postponed indefinitely, and our world will be saved.
"Glory to Emperor Tumen and the nameless king."
The probe flew around the old man's body and the modified asteroid a few more times, but did not find any more clues.
"MDT, what do you think?" Hao Ren asked his partner in his mind.
"First of all, according to the information I have collected so far, there is no country called the 'Tumen Empire' in L 'Haronne today, and there are no relevant records in history, and Rheia has never mentioned this country," the MDT's voice sounded in his mind. "Second, this old magician who calls himself Marchieri did not call the ancient weapons in Gorgon's Abyss' demons', but called them ancient guards, which proves that his understanding of these out-of-control weapons is more accurate than that of the people of L 'Haronne today, or closer to the truth. Third, and most importantly, he mentioned a term that sounds like a space facility."
"Tumen First Orbital Station …" Hao Ren nodded slightly. "This can't be a product of L 'Haronne — whether it's the one now or the one before Rheia fell asleep."
"So … this magician named Marchieri should be another cosmic fragment that collapsed in?" The MDT said hesitantly. "But this' fragment 'is not the same as the Black Pine Forest and Gorgon's Abyss. His timeline … seems to be after the formation of Gorgon's Abyss?"
A sentence he had seen in Rheia's textbook suddenly flashed through Hao Ren's mind: the end of the world will lead to the collapse of time and space.
The collapse of time and space will lead to the stacking, distortion, and even nesting of the original linear 'history'.
A prehistoric human might see the flash of the end of the universe, and a human facing the end of the world might suddenly return to the prehistoric era. If it was a civilization that was advanced enough to partially control the laws of the universe, they might even be able to systematically and purposefully observe the whole process of the destruction of their own universe.
So … could this old magician from the Tumen Empire, who called himself Marchieri, be such an observer?
Or perhaps it was something even more unimaginable …
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