Hao Ren led Lily and Vivian back to the Petrachelys. As the spacecraft gradually descended towards Io's equator, Y'zaks curiously asked about their harvest from the space wreckage.
The siren queen immediately came up to them.
"That was the Zalazarn. It didn't manage to escape and was destroyed in high orbit." Hao Ren shook his head. "There were a lot of puncture wounds at the intersection of the flank and the lower part of the spaceship, spreading over several kilometers. They were all caused by the cannons. We found a warhead that didn't explode in the spaceship. That unlucky thing almost ruined my hairstyle. "
"Cannons?!" Y'zaks did not expect this. "It wasn't the First Born or the brain monsters that destroyed the siren civilization, but a... mortal race that can use cannons?"
"The First Born and the brain monsters are also mortal races. Although they are powerful, they are still 'mortal' in nature." Hao Ren first corrected Y'zaks' statement with his identity as the 'True God-certified Chief Pope, Traffic Police and Patrol Police'. "Of course, I understand what you mean. Being able to use cannons means that this race is definitely not the First Born, and it doesn't look like the brain monsters either. Those big brains don't even wear clothes. They really don't look like a species that can use tools. "
"Whether or not it was the cannons that destroyed Io, at least the Zalazarn was shot down by cannons." Vivian pouted. "Hah... this is really not good news. The situation is getting more and more complicated. The First Born and the brain monsters are already entangled, and now there's a high-tech race of unknown origin. I don't know if they are in cahoots with the First Born."
Hao Ren shrugged. "At least there's more and more information. Let's look at it from another perspective. The more confused we are, the closer we are to the truth. The Plane of Dreams is so big. If all the clues are clear, I will suspect that I have made a mistake."
Lily turned her head to look at Hao Ren and then at Vivian. She grabbed her tail and rubbed it against Hao Ren. "I don't care about anything else, but Mr. Landlord, you really stepped on my tail..."
Hao Ren was speechless.
The Petrachelys plunged into the atmosphere, dragging a long bright cloud of fire towards the vast sea. It did not stay in the clear upper atmosphere for a few seconds before it broke into a rainstorm cloud. The images from the external monitor showed a breathtaking scene of thunderstorms and heavy rain. The heavy rain poured down as if the sea and sky were upside down. Everything in sight was a vast gray curtain of rain. Thick lightning twisted and exploded in the curtain of rain and clouds. Every time it struck, a crack would appear in the thick clouds, giving the impression that the sky was connected to another water world. Now, it had countless cracks, and the entire ocean was about to fall into Io.
"Oh … the weather in your hometown isn't as mild as your character," Nangong Sanba exclaimed as he looked at the heavy rain outside the spaceship. He couldn't help but mutter to Sorma beside him, "This rain seems like it won't stop."
"It really can't stop." Hao Ren looked back at Nangong Sanba. "Io is shrouded in an almost eternal rain. Sometimes it's a storm, sometimes it's a blizzard, depending on the angle of the sun. Near the equator, there is no winter here, so it's always raining heavily. This rain has been going on for hundreds of millions of years since the planet cooled down, and it will continue to fall. The entire planet has only been clear less than ten times in recorded history, and only some areas are clear. "
Nangong Sanba opened his mouth and gestured in the air. "Err … how does the water circulate?"
"Storms," Hao Ren raised his finger to another set of holographic projections. "Large-scale tornadoes, thousand-meter-high waves, these things, like rain, have not stopped for many years."
On the holographic projection, a huge water column reached the clouds. This was the seawater that was swept into the sky by the tornado. It was a hundred times more spectacular than the largest "waterspout" phenomenon on Earth. As if being sucked into the clouds by an invisible pipe, tens of thousands of tons of seawater were continuously sent into the clouds, maintaining the eternal downpour of Io.
Such a soul-stirring storm star, even if it had a little land, it would be impossible to evolve any life. Only the deep sea could play the role of the cradle of life: it was the only calm place on the entire planet.
"Did you find any enemies when you scanned the planet?" Hao Ren looked at the console.
"I assure you with my six corners, no," the MDT said as it popped out of the slot. "Switching to autopilot … Of course, the scanning accuracy is limited, so if there are a few brain monsters hiding here, you probably won't find them. But the brain monster army that you were worried about before should not exist. There are no enemies, and no First Borns, so we don't need to use the main cannon to plough the entire planet — although it does sound pretty cool. "
The spacecraft slowly approached the surface of the sea. The turbulent water planet fully presented its violent side to the visitors. Monstrous waves and torrential rain almost turned the entire world gray. In this rainstorm, Hao Ren suddenly saw something strange not far ahead. "Go over there, there seems to be something over there."
The MDT zoomed in on the monitor and said, "It's a platform, metal."
A silver-gray metal platform stood in the middle of the sea. Several thick alloy skeletons held it steadily at a height of more than a hundred meters above sea level. Such small waves could hardly affect the upper part of the platform (in Io, waves below a hundred meters were really small). The scale of this facility was so large that it could accommodate ten Petrachelys to take off and land on it. There were many enclosed buildings from top to bottom on the platform, and the buildings were connected by pipes. It seemed to be quite old — Nasaton had been lying on Earth for more than 10,000 years and was still as clean as new, but the platform in front of them looked mottled as if it had been abandoned for a long time.
"This is a..." Hao Ren quickly looked up the information he copied from Nasaton, but unfortunately, he did not copy the civilization seed bank. There was no mention of this platform in the database. "I can't find it. I think it's an aircraft landing platform or something like that."
"No, it's a marine observatory, used to observe the 'air world'," Vivian pointed to the big words on one of the pillars of the platform. "Don't just look down at the database, it's written here."
Hao Ren was speechless.
"It's not easy for the sirens to build a platform that can observe the atmosphere. This thing has to pass through ten kilometers of seawater to reach the surface of the planet. It's rooted on the seabed," the MDT said in awe. "And this is where the seabed is relatively shallow. The sea in Io is much deeper than on Earth."
The spaceship circled around the large platform. On one side of the platform, everyone saw a huge metal plate that looked like a monument. The words on it were still clear, and it recorded things related to the platform.
"Iweena Observatory, rebuilt in 13086, commemorating the starstarter Iweena, the place where the sirens saw the stars for the first time. Thank the pioneers on the observatory for 700 years, ushering in the first clear sky in our history. "
"This is the place where the sirens saw the stars for the first time," Hao Ren suddenly realized. He looked at the thick clouds above Io. "They had to wait on the observation platform for hundreds or even thousands of years before they could see the stars."
Lily crossed her arms. "I think it must have been an accident when they saw the stars for the first time, and I'm afraid it was accompanied by fear. Iweena should have been depicting the clouds, but the dark clouds suddenly dispersed and the stars appeared. The sirens were surprised to realize that there was something else behind the endless clouds. Before that, I'm afraid they had never thought about what was outside their 'world'. "
The Queen of the Sirens looked at the platform standing in the storm and suddenly sighed softly. "This is supposed to be an important part of our history... but I can't even understand the words on it."
Hao Ren smiled. "It's okay. We'll help you learn the words later."
Nangong Wuyue looked at the scaffolding under the platform that had stood for god knows how many years. "So the high-energy area we're looking for is below here?"
"Right below," the MDT replied, and then the Petrachelys began to sink into the water. "I'm going to bring the weapon system online. Although there's no army here, it's hard to say if the sirens left any defensive firepower behind."
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