I thought that Ding Ling had already forgotten about this matter …
The continuous discovery of items from the Xiling Empire in this world had already attracted Sandora and my attention. At first, we thought that the Schilling items that appeared by chance were left behind by the Avenger who accidentally came to Earth. If we didn't find any more Schilling items, then it would make sense. But now, there was a huge loophole in our theory.
If it was just the remains of a single Schilling warrior, then the number was simply too much.
According to what Lin Xue told us, the underground pyramid that had already turned into steam contained more than a hundred Psionic Crystals!
To the Xi Ling Apostles, the psionic crystal core was just an emergency energy source. Their real source of energy was the energy reactor located in their own private dimensional space. Only when the energy reactor was insufficient in an intense battle or when the reactor malfunctioned would they use the energy that was abundant but non-recyclable as an emergency energy source. Therefore, a Xi Ling Apostle would usually not bring too many psionic crystals with him. One or two would be enough just in case.
Even a large energy consumer like Pandora couldn't use so many Psionic Crystals. (As for Sandora, she was the ultimate Schilling unit that had grasped a certain amount of Law power. She could directly absorb energy from the void, so she didn't need a normal energy source like the Psionic Crystal. Alaya was a bit more special. She was a special Shiring Apostles that used mysterious and unknown arcane energy. Her energy system was completely different from Pandora's, so she didn't need such a crystal.) Therefore, these hundreds of Psionic Crystals that had run out of energy were definitely not the remains of the Avenger who had lost contact with them.
In other words, a long time ago, a large number of Shiring Apostles must have come to this planet, and they must have engaged in high-intensity battles here. If it was just ordinary activities, it was impossible for them to use the Psionic Crystal as an emergency backup energy source.
If it was before the collapse of the Empire, when the Schilling Information Network was still in operation, we could easily find out which part of the Schilling Expeditionary Force had come to this planet in the past few thousand years. Unfortunately, 90% of the Xiling Empire was still in hibernation. Even the mother planets and colonies were still in existence. Naturally, the huge and complicated Information Network of the Empire had stopped operating long ago. Pandora had once tried to connect to the Empire's database nodes across the universe. In the end, the little loli decisively chose to give up after listening to an entire day of noise and all kinds of advertisements …
Shadora's situation was even worse. At the very least, I still had a mother planet that was far away but was already in operation. Apart from her own troops, she had nothing else. In terms of data that could be directly investigated, she didn't even have as much as I did.
Therefore, although we tried our best, Sandora and I couldn't find the source of these Schilling items on Earth.
So, we could only put our hopes on the Ability Group where Lin Xue was in.
The Ability Group had been researching those strange things, which naturally included all kinds of Schilling items that were inconceivable to humans. Perhaps they really had some key information. So, Sandora and I reached a consensus: cooperate with the Ability Group!
Originally, I was still having a headache over how to contact the Ability Group, but Ding Ling's rich imagination helped me find a good method, which was to contact the Ability Group through the identity of a small, neutral organization. It was too suitable.
After all, although Lin Xue was the senior leader of the Ability Group, if we wanted to obtain more information, we still needed some official contact.
Hearing Ding Ling's question, Pandora immediately took out a psionic core that we had prepared from her pocket and handed it to Ding Ling.
"Didn't you say that … you can't see?" Ding Ling took the crystal and was surprised that the blind loli in front of her could hand it to her so accurately.
… Pandora actually made such a low-level mistake?
Fortunately, Ding Ling didn't wait for us to answer. She explained for us, "Oh, I understand. It should be related to your superpower, right? Then, I won't ask. "
Once again, I thanked God for giving Ding Ling a brain that was rich in imagination and good at automatically filling in the gaps!
Ding Ling took the crystal and carefully observed it for a long time. Then, she said, "That's right, this is the strange crystal that recently caught our attention. According to our guess, the explosion of the ruins was also related to this crystal. Where did you get this thing?"
"It's an abandoned mine," I lied without batting an eyelid. At the same time, I was wondering if I should send the officers who had nothing better to do to deal with the Town Security to some desolate place to build a similar mine to deal with Ding Ling's questions. "At that time, we found a man-made cave that was buried. There were a lot of these crystals, but we couldn't figure out the use of these crystals."
This was the truth. Even the most brilliant Schilling Master couldn't figure out the use of an exhausted psionic core. Once this thing was used up, it was an extremely hard but useless stone. Other than using it as a stick to cut glass, it was useless.
"We are the same," Ding Ling nodded. She finally calmed down when it came to business, "Lin Xue should have already told you that our research on this crystal has only just begun. We also don't know anything about its use. However, we have some clues about the origin of this crystal."
"You know the origin of this thing?" Sandora and I were surprised. Even Lin Xue showed a puzzled expression. It seemed that even she didn't know about this.
"Yes," Ding Ling nodded towards Lin Xue, "This was just a progress made two days ago. It's normal that Lin Xue doesn't know about it."
"These crystals might be related to a certain human legend."
"Then it's very mysterious …" I said with a bit of disappointment. Legends were originally very mysterious things. Using a legend to explain something that was already shrouded in mystery, then it was really mysterious.
"You can't say that," Lin Xue interrupted. "Some legends are actually true records from ancient times. Due to the limited knowledge of humans at that time and the passage of time, they became myths. If there is enough information, some legends can actually be used as precious historical evidence."
"Just like what Xiao Xue said," Ding Ling agreed. "Our organization has been dealing with those mysterious things for a long time. Many things that seem like legends to outsiders are actually facts to us. Regarding this crystal — — Do you know the legend of Atlantis?"
"Of course we do!" Shallow Shallow, Sis and I replied in unison.
The story of Atlantis was too famous. There were many different versions of its legend. This legendary civilization that existed in ancient times and possessed advanced technology that modern humans couldn't even imagine had always been a popular topic in various literary works and movies. People had all sorts of guesses about this civilization. Most of the guesses came to the same conclusion: Regardless of whether Atlantis existed or not, a super civilization that far surpassed the current human society existed in ancient times on Earth. This mysterious civilization might have even developed to the extent of exploring the mysteries of the universe. However, although it flourished for a while, it suddenly disappeared, as though it had turned into ashes overnight.
It was just like the incomparably powerful Xiling Empire that crumbled overnight.
Could it be that this Atlantis civilization was actually the Xiling Empire? Or perhaps, Earth was once a colony of the Xiling Empire. When the entire Empire fell into a deep slumber, the Atlantis civilization suddenly fell, which led to the various legends about the ancient super civilization?
This conjecture popped up in my mind, but I quickly dismissed it.
Putting aside the question of why the Xiling Empire would establish a colony in such a remote star system that was so far away from the borders of the Empire, just the fact that humans didn't have any information about Atlantis was enough to reject this guess.
The technological prowess of the Xiling Empire was astonishing. Such advanced technology was enough to change the shape of an entire star system in a short period of time. Such a fundamental change wouldn't be easily erased by time like the ruins left behind by humans. Just like the Schilling's home planet that I had only visited in my dreams. Although it had been in hibernation for tens of thousands of years, the gigantic celestial fortress that hung in the sky and the half-alloy ground hadn't changed in the slightest.
Pandora had also mentioned to me that every time the Xiling Empire added a colony, they would first modify the local environment and even the structure of the planet. This was a race that was born for war, and they didn't have the concept of not harming others.
If Earth really was once a colony of the Xiling Empire, then there would definitely be obvious traces of modification everywhere on this planet. Even the entire solar system would have obvious signs of modification. It was even possible that there was a celestial fortress above our heads.
However, the reality was that despite all kinds of guesses, humans hadn't been able to find any traces left behind by a super civilization on Earth. Even Pandora's sensors weren't able to find anything similar in the solar system.
In other words, although the Shiring Apostles might have come to this planet a long time ago, the possibility that Earth was once a colony of the Schilling Empire was very small. Then what about the legends about Atlantis?
If it wasn't the Xiling Empire, then who could have left traces of the glorious Atlantis civilization?
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