Sandora's words startled me. Of all the things she could have mentioned, she had to mention the Fallen Apostles. However, I quickly realized that what Sandora said made sense. First of all, this route was brand new. We had never sent any spaceships to this area before, so the fragment could not have come from the Empire's spaceship. Secondly, the metal fragment that the little crow found in the void was obviously formed not too long ago. Perhaps it was part of a complete spaceship not too long ago. After the spaceship collapsed, the Order Field disintegrated, and this fragment drifted into the void. Otherwise, there was no way to explain how such a material could persist in the void for so long. Other than the Empire's spaceship, it could only be the Fallen Apostles.
"Fleet alert." Sandora decisively issued an order to be on high alert. "Turn the Order Field into stealth mode. Reduce the warp speed to the silent threshold. Early warning team, release the spy probes. Keep the probes away from the formation. "
The fleet commander immediately responded to the order and took countermeasures. I stared at the metal fragment, as if trying to figure out which 'old friend' was behind it. At the same time, I felt surprised. "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Lin Xue's prophecy shouldn't be wrong."
"Lin Xue only said that we wouldn't encounter any enemies on this trip." Sandora had her own opinion. "But she didn't say that there were no traces of the Fallen Apostles in this generation. Maybe they really were active in this place, but we don't know if they are still here. According to the prophecy, the most dangerous situation would be when the Imperial Army and the Fallen Apostles brush past each other. "
As she said that, Sandora reached out and wiped the metal plate that had been corroded beyond recognition. Her brows did not relax. "I can't feel the aura of the abyss on it. It has probably been purified by the void first. But in the known void, only the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles use the Schilling Starship. Since this isn't our spaceship, it must be the enemy's. "
"Anyway, let's put this in the warehouse first." I glanced at the metal plate. "There will be an engineering lab when we reach our destination. Tawil's clone is there too. Let her analyze the origin of this thing."
In fact, I felt that this metal plate revealed a piece of good news. The spaceship that it belonged to was definitely destroyed. Once the Order Field was damaged, there was no way to repair it. For a spaceship traveling in the void, even if it only had a small hole in its barrier, unless it could find an Order Universe to dock in a short period of time, it would be destroyed by the impact of the void. Right now, we are in the "desolate zone" of the Void. There are no universes of Order in this frequency band. Therefore, this fragment represents an irreversible Void disaster. Look, no matter what the reason was, at least a wave of Fallen Apostles died …
The opposition between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles had reached the point that as long as the other side did not have anything good, they would treat it as a conflict.
"The probability of an Empire's spaceship having an accident while traveling in the void is almost zero. It is as rare as a fish choking on water." After the metal fragment was sent to the warehouse, Sandora let out a sigh. "That spaceship must have been attacked nearby, or it was already severely damaged when it arrived here. We have never been to this place before. The engineering team's exploration of the new route might have been overlooked … Be more careful. Pay attention to avoid information collapse points and world fragments. I don't want the Empire spaceship to suffer the same fate. "
I thought for a moment and began to educate the group of naughty children behind me. "No one is allowed to run out again. Luckily, little bird, you didn't hit anything just now …"
After the fleet increased their vigilance and slowed down, it took almost twice the time to reach the destination. It had already been a full day since we set off. However, just as Lin Xue had predicted, the fleet did not encounter any danger along the way. Be it the Fallen Apostles, the world fragments that could have destroyed the Fallen Apostles' spaceship, or information collapse points, none of them appeared. The journey was relatively peaceful. The spy probes that Sandora had sent out had been cruising until they overloaded and self-destructed. The only result was that they had drawn a rather detailed map of the Void navigation. The next time they took this route, it would be much easier.
On the second day after we set off, it was evening time in the capital. Of course, this time did not mean much to us. Let's just convert it to Sandora's timetable. An hour and a half before dinner, the fleet safely arrived at the target universe.
Because of the unexpected situation that Little Bird had discovered, Sandora decided to maintain a high level of vigilance. She ordered a portion of the frigates to stop at the Order critical point of the world barrier and set up a large number of warning radars and surveillance drones. These things might not pose much of a threat to the enemy, but they could effectively prevent us from being caught off guard. Although we had Lin Xue's prophecy to protect us, it was never wrong to be a little more careful in this unknown situation.
The royal cruisers and the remaining frigates safely descended to the Order universe. After two warps, we arrived at the so-called 'excavation site', a desolate asteroid belt.
It was located at the edge of a solar system that was still in its middle years. The entire solar system orbited a relatively small orange sun. There were only two massive solid planets in the solar system made of a barren mixture of ice and stone. The two planets orbited far away from their sun, cold and lifeless. The asteroid belt where we discovered the material from our homeland was located in an even more remote orbit. The asteroid belt was rather large and had a general ellipsoidal distribution. According to calculations, this asteroid belt needed 197 years to orbit the local star once.
Further out, it was the cold deep space. The nearest celestial body was six light years away from here.
Just as I said at the beginning, this place was extremely desolate. The special meteorites found in the asteroid belt were the only reason that attracted us here. This was really not a suitable place for a vacation.
However, the group of little girls still did not look back and happily rushed out to the edge of the excavation site. They began to push the scattered meteorites around as if they were playing giant billiards …
Forget it, the high-energy naughty kids naturally had their own high-energy ways to play. They usually threw grenades around at home all day long.
The first batch of engineering teams that arrived here had already set up the outpost laboratory and engineering base. This base was located in the middle of the asteroid belt. Just like any other temporary space base, it was built using the most efficient and time-saving construction method. It relied on a few large asteroids as the apex and used high-strength interstellar alloy as the skeleton. From space, it looked like an irregular scaffold. All kinds of important facilities were fixed on the joints of the high-strength skeleton. The laboratory was the only large-scale facility that looked rather impressive. It was a hemispherical building with a polygonal dome. It was fixed on the central platform and there were eight supporting beams around it to connect it to the other facilities in the base. Blue lights marked the landing platforms around the laboratory. As the lights flickered, engineering drones constantly came and went on the landing platforms. The entire base was in a busy state.
At the end of one of the main supporting beams of the base, there was a dock for small and medium-sized spaceships to dock. After the little girls ran off to play, we landed near the dock. Although it was called a supporting beam, we all knew that the Shiring Apostles' concept of 'big is beautiful'. This supporting beam was actually a giant alloy structure that was a hundred meters wide and tall. It had long surpassed the concept of a 'beam'. Inside it was a sealed passage that led directly to the laboratory. It also came with its own comfortable artificial gravity. Tawil's projection was waiting for us at the entrance of the passage. Behind her were a few senior assistants and an excited Phyllis.
"Your Majesties, did you encounter any problems along the way?" Tawil was puzzled as to why we were a few hours later than we had expected.
"There was a small problem. This route might not be as' clean 'as we had initially anticipated. But you don't have to worry about it," Sandora said nonchalantly. Tawil was a scientist, and the traces of the fallen apostles' activities near the route were the military's business. It was useless to tell Tawil. "You moved fast. This base is not bad."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tawil accepted the compliment calmly. She looked at the transparent window on the side. There were many observation windows on both sides of the sealed corridor inside the main supporting beam. After all, this was not a military fortress, so there was no need to worry about the overall protection and lighting control. These observation windows could help you peep at the expansion of the base from any place. "When we set off, we brought a mass-produced mainframe with us. This greatly sped up the construction of the base. The fourth extension platform will be completed in about two hours. After that, we can set up the large-scale subspace analysis equipment."
Following Tawil's line of sight, I found the 'fourth extension platform' that she was referring to.
It was an unfinished building on the dark side of the base. It was directly connected to the central laboratory by two parallel brackets. It was about one or two kilometers away from us. Compared to the other parts of the base that were brightly lit, the fourth extension platform, which was under construction, looked rather dim. Only the light effects of the builders were moving along the huge metal platform. With the help of the faint light, we could vaguely see the semi-finished building on the platform. The builders were undoubtedly the mass-produced mainframes that Tawil had brought with her. They had just been built two days ago. As they busied themselves, a large facility was quickly taking shape in the unpredictable light network, like a giant plant growing wildly. No matter how many times I watched it, the amazing field filling and information materialization technology of the builders was amazing. It was all thanks to these amazing 'builders' that Tawil could build such a large and well-equipped asteroid base in forty-eight hours.
Phyllis, who had been watching the mass-produced mainframes building for two days, was of course even more amazed. When she saw that the conversation between us and Tawil had finally come to an end, she immediately jumped over to express her opinion. "I've been watching it for two days, but I still don't understand. What kind of technology is this?! So this is how all your buildings come about? Your building materials … Do you even have building materials? "
I could understand her excitement now. Not long ago, she had not given up on selling ores to the Empire. But now, this dream had obviously been smashed into pieces by the engineering technology of the Empire.
"How should I put it? It's still too early for you to come into contact with this technology." I glanced at Phyllis. The latter's eyes were so bright that they could basically be compared to two LCD light sources. If I did not pour some cold water on her in time, she would definitely sneak into the base to steal the parts. It was not the first time she had done this. "You have a good eye. Just think about it, you should know what this technology of creating matter out of thin air can do to your existing social order."
Phyllis immediately understood and nodded in agreement. But her face was still full of surprise. "You really are creating matter out of thin air? But … Isn't this against the laws of science? Where does matter come from? Where does energy come from? Has your technology advanced to the point where you don't need to follow objective laws? "
"Of course, there are still scientific laws," Sandora replied lightly. "But we usually write those laws ourselves because the natural cosmological constants are often not easy to use. You Fairy people are now in contact with this knowledge. Jumping out of the universe is the first step to mastering the truth. Outside the universe, you can easily understand a lot of mysteries that you originally could not even talk about. In about 30 years, your entire set of knowledge system and worldview will be refreshed. You will have to re-understand the world and yourself, and rewrite more than half of the technical classics. In the future, all the scientific laws that involve the basic worldview will be subject to the restriction of 'within the universe'. This will be a new era worth looking forward to. "
Phyllis listened to this high-energy declaration in a daze. Finally convinced that such a profound thing had nothing to do with her for the time being, she ran to the side to chat with Shallow Shallow.
"By the way, Tawil, I have something to analyze for you." After Phyllis left, I suddenly remembered that there was a piece of metal in the spacecraft's cargo compartment that Little Crow had picked up. So, I quickly asked someone to bring the armor fragment over.
As soon as she saw the strange thing, Tawil showed a surprised expression. "Did you find this in the Void? It has a serious tendency to become chaotic, and the physical parameters of the matter itself are between the measurable and the unmeasurable. "
She was indeed a professional. I felt that Tawil's whole body was composed of scanning equipment and processors. She could tell the origin of this thing at a glance.
"Let's put it this way. It's because of this thing that we were delayed for several hours …"
I told Tawil about the accident we encountered on the way, including Sandora's speculation about the origin of the metal fragment. Of course, as a scientist, we didn't expect Tawil to be able to help us come up with an early warning plan. We mainly hoped that she could use her own technology to analyze whether this thing had fallen off from the Fallen Apostle's spaceship, as well as the possible cause of the spaceship's destruction.
The Fallen Apostle had been active in this area, and they had even lost a spaceship. This matter couldn't be taken lightly. Just now, Shadora had already contacted the City of Shadows and asked Sives to prepare a scouting fleet to thoroughly investigate this area. I also wanted to ask Tarver to help out a little. After all, she had plenty of threads to work with.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I will send the sample to the newly built analysis room." After hearing what I had to say, Tawil immediately realized that the situation wasn't normal. So, she immediately gave us a military salute. Then, a mass projection split from her body and teleported away with the armor fragment.
Dumbfounded, I watched as a brand-new Tawil disappeared before my eyes. I realized that the mad scientist before me had finally turned schizophrenia into an active skill …
"Now, let's talk about your findings." Sandora watched calmly as Tawil finished splitting and took the lead to walk forward. "Let's talk as we walk."
Tawil followed behind Sandora and reported in detail what the engineering team had discovered over the past two days. We already knew some of the details, but most of them were new to us.
"First of all, we can confirm that the formation process of this asteroid belt is related to the material leakage from our homeworld to this world. After some calculations, we found that there should have been a massive planet in this orbit, right where the meteorite cluster is now. This planet most likely collided with the rupture zone where the spatial flash occurred, and was instantly crushed into scattered fragments by the spatial phenomenon, thus forming this asteroid belt. The overall distribution and material composition of the asteroid cluster can also support this conjecture: they came from a large planet. Now, the shredded planetary debris is reassembling at an extremely slow speed into a celestial body, so it looks more densely packed than the usual asteroid belt. Most of it has become a dense cluster of meteorites, and near the center, there are already small stars of higher mass forming. You can see the big lumps gathered together from here. They are as large as the continental shelf. "
"According to the traces of warping left in the space, this large area has been periodically invaded by spatial flashes for a long time in the past. Generally speaking, spatial flashes are a rare space phenomenon. They only last for a short period of time, and it is impossible for them to appear repeatedly in one area. I reckon that the instability of our homeworld or some kind of mutation caused the continuous flashes during this period of time. The calculated spatial flash belt is ellipsoidal and just covers the asteroid belt — or rather, the orbit of the planet. It not only shredded the planet but also ejected a large amount of material from our homeworld. These material fragments are suspended in the path of the asteroid belt. When the latter passes by, it collides with the asteroid like a cannonball. After many collisions and fusion, it forms the first sample we got, the kind of 'fruit core specimen' wrapped in meteorites. But there are more wonderful things here. Some of the homeworld material was captured by gravity and did not collide, so it became one of the asteroids here. Some of the homeworld material was large in size and wrapped the small stones here. Some of the homeworld material was extremely active and had experienced high temperature. They fused with the local material here and produced a reaction to form a new product. "
Tawil paused and pointed forward. "Please follow me to the laboratory. There are a lot of samples there, and many samples have revealed a lot of … wonderful information."
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