"What is this? An elf? "
The elder sister couldn't help but mutter when she saw the mysterious girl in the hibernation pod reveal her inhuman pointy long ears.
Then, there was a crashing sound not far away. Liliana dug herself out from the pile of garbage that buried her alive and squeezed between us. "What? An elf? Where is the elf? "
I plucked the crystal shards from her hair as I pointed at the person in the hibernation pod. "Look at her ears. Isn't that an elf?"
Liliana observed for a while. Then, she suddenly transformed from her human form to her demigod form. She turned into the green-haired, pointy-eared elf. She grabbed my arm and swung it back and forth. "Boss, Boss, I am also an elf. Does this count as me meeting someone from the same hometown?"
I was almost driven crazy by this weird loli. I threw her out of the circle. "If you can't help, then dig a hole and bury yourself. You are a human, an elf, a loli, and an adult. Do you think the words on your ID card are too few?"
We continued working after Liliana quietened down. I sighed. Elves, such a magical race, appearing on this artificially modified exile planet and lying in a high-tech hibernation pod. What a messy combination. Shouldn't the elves be the kind of race that controls magic, where the entire race is filled with handsome men and beautiful women? Most of the handsome men are used as the background setting, and most of the beautiful women are dressed in Hawaiian style clothes and jumping around in the forest. They only do two things every day: One is to be captured by evil humans as slaves, and the other is to be picked up by a passing traveler as a girl.
Why is there an elf race that has mastered the technology to create life support pods and planet fortresses, and can even create a super world engine?
Alright, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. After all, in this day and age, even the nagas have learned to apply gloss on their tails. Even the taurens have learned to use mobile armor …
"The individual has no signs of life. Zero mental activity, zero soul activity, zero memory, and all physical signs are completely still." Tawil quickly scanned the mysterious woman in the hibernation pod and reported a series of bad news. Even though she was a Schilling scientist who was more inclined towards the military field and wasn't specialized in the research of carbon-based lifeforms, she could still perform these basic checks. "This body has no signs of life. It looks like all the body's tissues have been solidified and preserved perfectly."
"Could it be that this happened when Liliana fell?" I glanced at Lord Pope who was digging a hole for himself. I thought to myself. This girl is really a scourge. If it weren't for her ability to resurrect the victim, this would at least be considered manslaughter.
"No," Tawil thought for a while and shook his head. "The hibernation pod wasn't destroyed, so this person didn't die on the spot when the impact occurred. Moreover, a normally hibernating individual wouldn't die so thoroughly after such a short period of gas leakage. All the body's tissues have completely stopped moving. The dissipation of memory is a slow process. It is based on non-living physical structures. After the physical body dies, the memory can usually be preserved for a period of time. For carbon-based lifeforms, the complete loss of memory to an unreadable state requires the chemical balance of their memory organs to completely collapse and the complete change of their nervous structure. This process would take at least a few hours. And this individual's memory response is zero. She has been dead for a long time. "
Her explanation was very detailed. It seemed that she had taken into consideration that some of the people present had limited comprehension ability. I wouldn't comment on that.
Tawil slowly moved an extremely thin probe towards the forehead of the elf-like girl. The moment the probe came into contact with the latter's skin, it turned into floating light spots and disappeared into her body. At the same time, a full system projection appeared beside Tawil. The projection displayed the scan results of the probe that had already split into shimmering light.
"It has been wiped clean. Nothing is left. Her thinking and memory system are intact, but there is no information feedback. The reading results are blank. This is most likely a cleaning operation that was completed before she went into hibernation."
"An empty body that has been wiped clean, yet it's stored so carefully in a hibernation cabin." Shadora looked around and her gaze landed on the crystal walls. "And it's collected and managed by such a huge system. If it's only used as a graveyard, it's a waste of these honeycombs."
"If it's the same in other places, then I'm afraid there are hundreds of millions of bodies here." Tarver stood up, and a group of helper robots hovering next to her let out a grunt and spread out, projecting a beam of light at the nearest wall and ground. The crystal wall that was illuminated by the beam suddenly became more transparent, and we could vaguely see a row of neatly arranged rectangular objects inside. Those were all hibernation pods. "A massive graveyard, at least in theory."
I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine, especially when I was up there with my sister. I felt something floating around us … Damn, isn't that too creepy?
To be fair, I wasn't afraid of ghosts. My whole family wasn't afraid of ghosts. After all, with Anveena around, our definition of ghosts had become 'cute, obedient, efficient, and delicious'. However, the situation here wasn't just limited to ghosts. Sometimes, the atmosphere was the scariest.
Sandora decided to expand the exploration. More technicians and assistant technicians flew down from above and began to carefully cut the crystal layers on the walls and ground. We didn't discover any structures on the surface of the crystal layers that could be opened, which meant that they were cast in one go. There was no better way than to remove them with brute force. However, Tawil also confirmed that the crystals had nothing to do with the hibernation pods. They looked more like a neat layer of wrapping paper. Even if they were removed, it wouldn't affect the hibernation pods' normal operations. That was why the demolition work could proceed without any worries.
Shallow Shallow nudged my arm. "Hey, Ah Jun, I think of my dad."
"Huh?" I was stunned. I didn't know which part of this super girl's mind had been triggered.
"He is always digging up other people's graves." Shallow Shallow's eyes were twinkling. "We are much better than him. How much did we dig up this time? Isn't that a bad idea? "
I was speechless. Lin Xue patted my shoulder and said, "You should get used to it. Also, I think Uncle Xu is your natural enemy. He excavates the ancestral graves of the emperors and generals every day. You are also one of them …"
I shuddered. Damn, this topic is too heavy.
"Shallow Shallow, do you think your dad will dig up my ancestors' graves when he finds out about us?"
"Of course not," Shallow Shallow waved her hand. "Do you have ancestors' graves?"
… I don't think that's the main point!
However, I didn't struggle for too long. Very soon, the researchers found more hibernation pods. I had no choice but to focus on the exploration at hand.
The experts had confirmed the life support system of the hibernation pods. According to them, it was a rather simple theory. In any case, if an ordinary civilization were to hear this, they would definitely cry. Tawil's assistant team easily deciphered the 'simple' activation process of the hibernation pods. Without destroying the life support system, they took out twenty pods and lined them up side by side. Every hibernation pod had a Hibernator in it. I got the City of Shadows to send a team of Life Priests to the scene. They were prepared to rescue the Hibernators who might be in danger due to an accident during the activation process. Liliana was personally taking care of the girl in the first hibernation pod who had no signs of life. However, it seemed that all the preparations were in vain. After activating the hibernation pods according to the correct method, the people in them didn't wake up at all.
"No signs of life!"
"Zero signs of memory!"
"Zero signs of soul!"
"Attempting to activate the physical body … Activation failed!"
Very soon, a series of regrettable reports came in. There were twenty hibernation pods, but not a single living Hibernator could walk out from them to tell us what was going on with this planet.
"These facilities are in good condition." Although Tawil was disappointed, he continued to analyze. "Although the structure isn't brilliant, it meets the technical requirements to preserve living bodies for a long time. I have checked their systems. These things aren't kept at ultra-low temperatures. Instead, they use microscopic stagnation technology to preserve the things inside. Under normal circumstances, a body can be preserved in such an environment almost forever. As long as the pod still has energy, and obviously, there is sufficient energy here."
As she spoke, she extended her hand and knocked on the crystal wall next to her. There was a beautiful ripple on the surface. "At least in the situation where these decorations still have energy, the more important hibernation pods wouldn't run out of energy in advance. Unless the designer here had his head blown off by the warship's cannon."
"The hibernation pods are in good condition. Technically, they are also sufficient to preserve the Hibernators for a long time." Sandora shook her head. "But in the end, what appeared before us were billions of 'corpses'. Mm, let's call them corpses for now. What went wrong in the middle? Where did the souls of the passengers on this wandering planet go? "
The elder sister frowned and said a conjecture that made everyone's heart sink. "Could it be that the Fallen Apostle had already completed his mission? They used some unknown method to kill all the passengers on the Green Star without destroying it. They even erased the memories and souls of these passengers, leaving us with a graveyard. "
If this was true, it would be terrible. Everyone instinctively refused to believe the elder sister's conjecture. I subconsciously looked at Lin Xue. When I encountered a puzzle that I really couldn't figure out, I would always ask for help from a half-immortal. This had almost become a conditioned reflex.
Behind every successful man, there would always be an evil woman …
"I can only confirm that the Fallen Apostle's conspiracy didn't succeed, and there were no accidents on the Green Star." The eldest miss shook her head. "As for where their souls went, I really don't know. After all, this thing has been floating for tens of thousands of years and has crossed countless worlds. The span of history that needs to be traced back is too long. Many of the images are in a mess."
"Boss, I give up. There's no way to save her." Liliana also came over dejectedly. "She's not even dead. Almost all the cells in her body are intact, but there are no signs of life. At most, she's a vegetable version 2.0. How can a person who's not dead be resurrected?"
Even Liliana said so. It seemed that there was really no way. Jingle could go and try, but even if the Goddess of Life could use her divine power to forcibly move a body, what was the point? It was just an empty shell. It probably didn't even have the ability to breathe. The most important question now was where the souls of these bodies had gone.
The elder sister looked at the lifeless "coffins" and frowned slightly. "Let's take these hibernation pods back first. We still don't know why they're here. Maybe they're of great significance to the owners of these bodies. Be careful not to mess things up."
The assistant technicians and orderlies got busy again, installing the hibernation pods that had just been dismantled back into their original frames one by one. Meanwhile, the priestesses who rushed over excitedly put on an awkward pantomime — they were not needed at all.
In the end, only one hibernation pod could not be restored, and it was the one that Liliana smashed through. The hibernation pod itself wasn't very technical, but there was a set of irreparable safety latches in its cover. Even after the miniature repair system commonly used by Schilling technicians, the hibernation pod could not reach its original performance parameters. And for a fragile body that was in a state of "death preservation", the slightest difference in environment was enough to be fatal.
Tawil had no choice but to bring over a general life-support system made by the Empire, including an advanced and sliding coffin … ahem, a multi-functional hibernation pod, a complete life-support system that could provide more than ten thousand types of ecological support, and an agile scanning device. Then, she carefully placed the seemingly unharmed elf girl inside. This complex and extremely advanced system took up an empty space the size of three hibernation pods, and since we didn't know what to do with her, the general life-support system could only be placed in the open for now.
"This set of equipment can automatically detect the living organisms inside, and then create a 100% usable atmospheric environment, gravity simulation, micro-energy field, and a small amount of magnetic field effects," Tawil proudly introduced one of her research results to us. "Because it is an experimental model, the size still needs to be reduced, but its performance is unprecedented. Basically, it can solve the life-support needs of any living organism that exists in theory, from carbon-based to silicon-based, to sulfur-based, and even energy-based organisms. It can obtain the micro-environment necessary to survive in here. Now that it has started working normally, it means that this girl is at least a life form that the machine can understand."
"Continue to expand the search area, see if there are any data recording facilities or the like," Sandora ordered. "I don't believe that such a large underground cavern is only used to store bodies. There should be other equipment areas outside of this life-support system. Previously, the radar showed that the energy reaction in the Green Star's mantle was very active, but now it seems that its activity has decreased a little. Maybe a system is hiding itself. Go and find it — but don't cause any damage. "
"As you wish, Your Majesty." Tawil bowed solemnly before disappearing with a group of assistants.
After the search area was expanded, some new discoveries were made. The scientific researchers found something else in the crystal walls that could be seen everywhere.
The fossilized remains of plants, animals, and even some lifelike insects were wrapped in crystals.
The most spectacular was a giant cliff that stood alone in an extra-large honeycomb lattice. It was two kilometers wide, crystal clear, and extremely transparent. On this cliff, a snapshot of the forest was completely preserved: towering ancient trees, lush flowers, and chasing animals and insects had all been transformed into amber fossils by the crystal.
"Looks like this planet was once full of life."
The elder sister sighed with emotion.
"There's something else I'm more concerned about," Lina said after digging forty to fifty holes in the ground. "Boss, do you still remember this planet's core? There's a big guy in there!" "That's right?" Zhang Heng nodded. "Boss, there's a big guy in there!
"Yeah, I would have forgotten if you hadn't reminded me. There's a creature the size of a planet's core down there!" I slapped my head and came to a sudden realization. "Let's see if there's a tunnel that continues downwards. Let's go to the core to take a look!"
The mantle (to the current Green Star, it is the mantle. But if the man-made protective shell is removed, this layer should be the original surface of the Green Star. Out of habit, we still stratified the planet according to the Green Star's current appearance), exploring the hibernation pods and other possible areas would take more than an hour or two to complete. Instead of wasting time here, we might as well go to the core to take a look at another discovery we'd made earlier: the huge life reaction that was the size of a planet's core.
Perhaps it was because Shadora had used the key to remove all the security devices on Green Star, but the various tunnels here were no longer hidden. With the help of a highly effective scout like Shadow of the Lost, we soon discovered a series of transportation networks that extended in all directions. Most of them were roads that connected to the beehive network, but there was also an eye-catching main road that led directly to the depths of the earth.
The straight-line distance from here was less than twenty kilometers.
We didn't bring too many scientists with us this time. Their attention was completely attracted by the Tomb World in the mantle layer. Also, to conduct research on a super life form that was the size of a planet's core, those scientists who had spent their entire lives in the military might not be as professional as the priests of the Goddess of Life. So, other than my family, I only brought a projection of Tawil and a few priests of the Goddess of Life, as well as a few of Tawil's assistants.
Seven hundred billion entered a deeper and more monotonous tunnel. This tunnel was wider than the tunnel in the crust, but the walls were no longer made of crystal but of alloy. It looked rough and crude, and even the lights were dimmed. The deep space of the Green Star didn't contain much technology. The original inhabitants here didn't seem to have further modified their home planet. After giving it a certain level of defense and the ability to travel across worlds, they chose to collectively abandon their bodies and enter hibernation.
Ten minutes later, we arrived at the core of the Green Star.
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