It was the same huge and magnificent World Gate that stood silently in the dark and deep space, but the surroundings of this World Gate were much more deserted.
The Petrachelys appeared on a light screen, and there were no other spaceships around it. The busy passengers on the other side of the World Gate seemed to have been teleported to other worlds. The MDT steered the spacecraft forward for some distance, and then used the external monitor to send back the view behind the spacecraft. Hao Ren saw a space facility that was slightly smaller than the previous one, but just as incredible. Not far from the World Gate, there was also a planetary fortress called the Sovereign Hub, but there was only one Sovereign Hub here. Obviously, compared to his hometown, this universe was kind of... a backwater.
The spacecraft's public channel was still open, used to receive broadcasts from other spaceships within a light-year radius, but there were only a few signals on the channel. Some came from the landmark facilities near the World Gate, and some came from passing starships. No one knew which civilization they were from, but it certainly had nothing to do with what they were here for.
"This place looks a little deserted." Hao Ren said as he looked at the starry sky. There were unfamiliar stars here, and the universe shone with a dim brown glow. There was a relatively bright nebula in the upper left corner of the bow, but when he focused on the nebula, the system automatically reported that it was hundreds of millions of light-years away. The scale of space was really a surprising thing.
The MDT was confirming the next course, and explained, "There are many ungoverned areas like this in the Macroworld. They originated from an emergency expansion ten thousand years ago. At that time, there was a great catastrophe in the Void. Many worlds disappeared in an instant, and only the universes under the protection of the Xi Ling, Galacticus, and Huron pantheons survived. We knew about this beforehand, and did everything possible to send countless probes throughout the Void to search for new worlds, and hastily integrated them into the network of the macro world. These new universes were only registered, and the follow-up construction of them has not caught up to date. Of course, some of the universes have no construction value at all. The void is so vast, no one has the time to govern it all. "
Hilda looked at the starry sky outside the spacecraft, but she could not recognize the familiar star map. "How far is it from here to my home?"
"... Very far, I'm still comparing the route," the MDT sounded confused. "Say, what kind of place do you guys live in? The route forecast sent by the Space Administration is very clear, but I just scanned it, and this route leads to a completely empty galaxy. "
Hilda sighed. "That's right. It's an empty space. That's my hometown."
The MDT did not say a word. It activated the spacecraft's hyperdrive, and the stars on the external view distorted again. The red and blue 'channel' appeared again, and it quickly sank into darkness. Hao Ren knew that they could only wait quietly. When the space outside the spacecraft opened again, Hilda's home would appear in front of them. Vivian noticed that Hilda's expression had been changing. It was a mixture of excitement, anxiety, anticipation, and a trace of timidity. To divert the attention of the timid Elven Queen, Vivian took the initiative to break the silence. "Hilda, now tell us about your home. You've never told us about it."
Hilda was a little dazed, but she still nodded. "My story may be a little long. I'll start from the origin of the Aerymian elves. I hope this journey will be enough for me to finish the story..."
From the Elven Queen's quiet narration, Hao Ren learned about the story of survival and fate that happened in the depths of the distant starry sky.
Aerymian meant "rich soil and plants" in the Elven Queen's mother tongue. In short, it was similar to a nursery or garden.
Their ancestors named their home planet Aerymian to praise the richness and generosity of the planet.
The origin of the story was a beautiful time in the countryside. It was about sunshine, rich soil, forests, flowing water, and an intelligent race.
A long, long time ago, when the Aerymian elves still lived in the forest, around a few lakes, their lives were rich and happy. They were an elegant race that was peaceful, united, intelligent, and full of enterprising spirit. They were the first on the planet to develop intelligence. They made tools, developed languages, and lived in harmony with nature. In the process, they found a way to develop civilization.
The forests of Aerymian were rich in food, the atmosphere was full of active energy, and the laws of the entire universe also supported simple and easy to learn primitive magic. Under the guidance of a primitive religion called "Astral Spirit", the elves built cities in the forest driven by magic and magical technology. They quickly built their civilization. What was amazing was that this group of rapidly developing intelligent creatures, even in the case of rapid development of civilization, still maintained a reverence for nature. This was something that many other mortal races could not do. From the beginning of walking upright, they realized that all resources came from the generous gifts of nature. Therefore, they strived to ensure frugality and recycling of resources. This good quality was maintained from the beginning of civilization until today.
This group of amazing, innately beautiful creatures loved peace, but at the same time, they also knew how to compete with other creatures. They used various means (including war) to protect their home and civilization. There were other powerful races in Aerymian, but in the end, it was this group of powerful and intelligent long-eared creatures that became the hegemon of the planet.
Those powerful races were not destroyed by the elves. They chose to surrender after the war and were eventually highly assimilated by the elves. After generations of genetic modification, they became members of the Aerymian elves.
In this way, during the development of the home planet, the elves walked out of the forest into the plains, crossed the mountains and rivers, and spread the fire of civilization all over the world. They assimilated and integrated all intelligent creatures they met, so that the primitive planet of Aerymian quickly became full of vitality. The flowers of civilization built by the highly intelligent creatures bloomed all over the planet.
The Aerymian elves took thousands of years to complete full control of their own planet. From a group of primitive creatures living in the forest, who only knew primitive magic and simple tools, they developed into a fully intelligent, high-tech race. They used unique magitek technology to build their home planet, so that it maintained the balance of nature and at the same time, laid a coat of civilization interwoven with air routes in the atmosphere, surface high-speed train network, global data link, and free energy broadcasting system.
After completing the accumulation of technology in the home planet, like all intelligent races that realized the resources in the cradle were limited, the Aerymian elves began to explore residential areas outside their home planet. As long as they found the right foothold outside their home planet, they would find a suitable source of resources in space, and then everything would develop naturally.
At that moment, they were proud, proud, and full of confidence.
They thought that they had a smart enough brain, an unusually generous home planet, and an abundant inventory of technology and resources, all of which were enough to support them to complete the journey of exploration.
Yes, they thought that they were rich. In fact, their home planet did indeed have an unprecedented abundance of all types of resources, which any race should be envious of.
Even from the perspective of a bystander, this group of elves themselves had the qualities to step into the stars: diligent, diligent, enterprising, united. There was no race like them who were born perfect and suitable for development.
Except for one thing:
Aerymian was the only planet in their galaxy.
And their galaxy was 60 million light years away from the nearest physical celestial body.
In this journey of 60 million light years, there was only desolation and a few piles of useless burning embers left behind after the collapse of stars.
If their world was created by a god, then this god really played a cruel joke on the elves. He gave the elves all the beautiful talents that a mortal race could have, made them impeccable from the heart to the body, made them diligent, brave, kind, intelligent, tenacious, and united, and gave them such a beautiful and fertile home planet as a cradle.
And finally, all of this was left in a desert.
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