Hilda stared blankly at the place where Darklight Isle used to be. Now, there was only a faint glow left after the force field barge warped away. The hoarse declaration of the leader of the holdouts on the island was still echoing in the communicator. It was righteous and soul-stirring, but no matter how determined the spirit of the holdouts was, it could not stop the professional movers who could pack up the whole house and take it away.
Hao Ren sighed silently. "No matter how far-sighted I am, how come I didn't think of this?"
"Didn't I tell you before? I've found a lot of force field barges." 883 shrugged. "The hiring fee for these barges is not cheap. Now, I've packed up a floating island. There are still ten groups of force field barges waiting in the fleet. See if there are any floating islands that you want to keep and mark them. I'll let them drag these islands to the World Gate for you. Once we're done, the rest will belong to our fleet. "
Hilda snapped out of her daze and quickly took out a small device from her pocket. "Wait a minute, I'll let Vimm send the identification code over. I want to keep a few ecological domes. "
"Ecological domes?" Hao Ren looked at Hilda in surprise. "You don't want to keep the Dawnbreak Isle? Your palace is on it. "
"The palace can be rebuilt, but the ecological domes are the foundation of our ancestors. There are not many things left on Aerym, and we can't throw away what's left." Hilda smiled. "Since we dismantled the planet, we have been keeping the ecological samples intact, hoping that one day we can find a new home and let the forests and grasslands of our hometown reappear. So, the ecological domes must be taken away."
"I still don't quite understand your thinking," the MDT chimed in. "You have to think about it. There is an existing ecosystem on the new planet. Even if you move the ecological domes there, they can only be temporarily kept in a closed environment. You have to spend decades to slowly modify the inside and outside of the dome so that the things in the dome can seamlessly connect with the ecosystem of the new home. It's not going to be easy."
Hilda nodded firmly. "I know, but the ecological domes must be taken away. Maybe it's a burden for us now, but I don't want our descendants to blame their ancestors for not knowing their home one day."
This was a family affair of the Aerymian elves. Since Hilda was so insistent, Hao Ren and the group of captains certainly did not say much. As the temporary commander of the fleet, 883 passed down the order to start moving the floating islands. Soon, many strange and special spaceships were separated from the migration fleet. They were force field barges from various private shipowners. These spaceships came in a variety of styles, but without exception, they all had long narrow hulls and petite sizes that did not fit the definition of a cargo ship. These advanced and expensive space cargo ships surrounded the ecological domes of the Aerymian island chain. After a few consecutive flashes of light, these spaceships, along with a few floating islands, disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Let's go." Hao Ren glanced at Hilda. "The sooner we have enough people, the sooner we have to come back for the next trip."
Hilda silently looked at the holographic projection on the bridge, deeply imprinting the last image of the floating islands in her mind. Then, she nodded firmly without hesitation.
The image from the external monitor was distorted. The light of the Aerymian stars was pulled into strange strips and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight. The Petrachelys left the desolate and remote place and rushed at superluminal speed to the World Gate in the depths of the universe.
After entering hyperspace, there was only darkness outside the spacecraft. The holographic projection on the bridge began to show boring charts and data. Hilda sighed softly and whispered to Hao Ren, "I want to go to the cargo bay."
"Oh, let Lily take you there. She knows the way."
Lily had nothing to do. When she heard this, she immediately jumped up happily and dragged Hilda out of the bridge.
The Petrachelys was not a specialized passenger spacecraft. It had a huge space-expansion cargo bay, but it was only a cargo bay. Under normal circumstances, it was used to carry cargo. But now, the cargo bay was full of anxious elves. Such conditions were, of course, not good. There were no seats in the warehouse. Although it was spacious, it was still too small for the large number of elves inside. The elves had to squeeze together, leaning against their luggage and family members. They whispered to each other in anticipation and anxiety about the destination of the journey, trying to kill time in front of them.
Fortunately, the journey would not take too long, and the Aerymian elves did not have high requirements for the environment. They were not dissatisfied with the crowded situation in the cargo bay.
When Hilda and Lily arrived at the cargo bay, they saw such a scene.
"Her Majesty the Queen!" "Her Majesty is here!" "It's Her Majesty the Queen!"
As soon as Hilda appeared, there was a commotion in the lifeless warehouse. The elves closest to her stood up and saluted respectfully. Hilda did not put on airs. She walked into the crowd with a warm smile on her face, found an empty space and sat down. Being with her people again had helped to lighten the mood when she said goodbye to her hometown. "Don't stand on ceremony. At least I'm just a passenger like all of you on this journey. What are you talking about? "
"I don't know what the new home looks like." A middle-aged elf cautiously moved aside to keep a safe distance from Hilda. "Your Majesty, are we really moving to a place rich in resources?"
Hilda smiled and nodded. "Yes."
A little girl poked her head out of the crowd and asked, "I heard that the new home has a very, very big dome. You can't see the end of it. Is it true? What is a very, very big dome? Who built it? "
"That's the sky, not a man-made dome." Hilda looked at the little girl with a smile and began to patiently explain to her what the sky was, as well as the natural breeze and the vast land. She felt a little like crying, but she had to try hard to hold it back. How many generations had it been since they saw the real sky? Not to mention children, even the old people of Aerym could only see what the sky looked like in the past. She could still vividly remember the day when she was sent into the Plane of Dreams by the big bang and looked up at the sky for the first time. She knew that soon, the elves around her would experience the same fear and shock — the hard days were finally over. Thinking of this, she was filled with emotion.
Outside the enclosed cargo bay, the Petrachelys had left hyperspace and was now motionless in front of the majestic light curtain of the World Gate.
Along with the Petrachelys, the other colony ships that arrived one after another were also motionless in front of the light curtain. The entire fleet was basically stuck at the door.
Hao Ren looked at the onboard mainframe that displayed something that looked like a progress bar. "What the hell is this? Do we have to queue to pass through the World Gate? Such a big door doesn't look crowded to me at all. "
"This is a big conversion," the MDT explained lazily as it was stuck in the console slot. "These elves and their supplies are all traveling to another world for the first time. They need to convert before they can pass through."
Hao Ren was a little confused. "Conversion? What conversion? "
"Law adaptability," the MDT seemed to be bored of waiting. "Think about it, the basic laws of many universes are different. Some places have different definitions of basic forces, some places have different speeds of light, and some worlds don't even have molecular structure. These differences are fatal to the transmigrators. Soul transmigration is fine, but the transmigrator's physical body will will be remolded into elementary particles on the spot by the Will of the Universe. So mature cross-universe navigation technology has a conversion process, either when the spacecraft starts the void engine or when passing through the World Gate. Only after the conversion can safety be guaranteed. Wait, from this universe to our home is still across the void quadrant, it will take a while. "
Hao Ren was stunned. "I understand what conversion means. But the last time we brought Hilda here, we were not stuck like this?"
"There are a lot of people," the MDT explained. "Last time there were only a few people, this time there are hundreds of millions of people, and this time we are dragging millions of square kilometers of land and countless supplies. The World Gate here is still a simplified version. Even the Sovereign Hub in this remote and desolate place is version 1.0 … "
Hao Ren nodded in confusion and looked at the progress bar on the holographic projection with a strange expression. The more he waited, the more he felt that the thing was almost not moving. Finally, he sighed. "Damn it, it's not easy to do something big... and now there are hundreds of millions of people stuck..."
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