After asking around, I found out where Liliana and Marionette had run off to. The two of them had indeed chased each other for quite a distance. In fact, the two girls had even run all the way to the nearby ice planet … Alright, let's not talk about the commotion caused by the children of the gods fighting. The crux of the problem was that they had seen the ruins of their homeworld on the ice planet, and there were even corpses in the ruins!
Marionette had no ability to distinguish what was homeworld material. She did not install those strange radars in her body, but Liliana was more or less an "adult who needed to do business" (let's not discuss how exaggerated this sentence was). She had received a detector from Tawil that was used to identify homeworld material. Therefore, she was a hundred percent certain that there was a suspected emergency landing site on a planet twelve astronomical units away from here. A group of Schilling's ancestors had forced an emergency landing there, and their corpses had been preserved to this day.
I knew it was hard to believe. The creators of the Shiring Apostles had been extinct for a period of time that even the Protoss felt was a long time. No secular material could survive such a long period of time until now, not to mention the bodies of mortals, which would vanish in just a few years. At the end of the day, the creators were just a group of mortals. No matter how great their achievements were, they were a group of mortals who were not as powerful as any of the vassal races of the New Empire. However, the truth was that the homeworld had lasted for so long, and it had already exceeded its theoretical lifespan. There must have been some unknown factor that caused this situation, and perhaps this factor was also affecting the creators.
I immediately clamped Marionette and Liliana under my armpit and teleported to the construction base. Then, I ran all the way to find Sandora. When I stood up, Liliana had already started to roll her eyes, and Marionette was biting my wrist. From her expression, it seemed that she had decided to hang on there for the whole day … Maybe I should find a safer way to transport the two of them over.
Sandora was discussing a problem with Icetis in the lounge. When they saw me rush in, they were shocked. Icetis looked at the two hot-tempered girls in my hands and asked in concern, "Did these two brats see you and Shallow Shallow having fun outside?"
"…" This female pervert is definitely a diamond. Is the only value of her existence just to hurt people?
"The two of them made a major discovery." I put Liliana on the ground and raised my hand to show the doll hanging in midair, biting my wrist. "They found the creator's mausoleum on the nearest planet. Perhaps a group of creators split up and escaped to this world. Their corpses might still be here. "
Just as I finished my sentence, I saw a flash of blue light, followed by a strong gust of wind. When I came back to my senses, Sandora and Icetis were gone. Only the wind from the automatic gate behind me remained. However, a few seconds later, Sandora rushed back at the same speed of sound. She grabbed my arm — — In fact, she grabbed the head of Marionette on my arm. "Where is it?"
Sandora's other hand was dragging Icetis, who hadn't reacted yet. This female pervert had been dragged out at supersonic speed. I clearly heard a loud noise. She must have hit something. Now, she was sprawled on the ground in a half-dead state with one of Sandora's arms. The female pervert lifted her head to look at Liliana and Mercury Lamp, who were also in a daze. She was furious, "Damn it … You two are really a pair! Don't drag me along, okay!? "
Sandora pulled Icetis, who was pretending to be seriously injured and on the verge of death. She replied casually, "Oh, I forgot to drag someone along." Then, she threw her good friend to the side and said to Liliana, "Lead the way!"
The reason why she didn't look for Marionette was because Marionette was still hanging on my wrist. Her mouth was occupied, so we couldn't communicate. We called Shallow Shallow, who was bringing the children back. Then, we went to the experimental area to pick Tawil and a bunch of assistant technicians and engineers to accompany us. Everyone boarded the engineering ship and departed from the base. In the blink of an eye, we arrived above the planet that was twelve astronomical units away from here.
This was a desolate, cold, lifeless, and solid planet that had already stopped geological activity. The biggest characteristic of this solar system was that all of its celestial bodies were far away from the sun. Even though we had traveled twelve astronomical units from the asteroid belt to the sun, the star was still a cold orange bean in our field of vision. The extreme distance caused the average surface temperature of the planet below us to be close to -200 ° C. The surface of the planet was mainly yellowish-brown. That was the color of the planet's ancient rocky crust. Looking from space, we could see that the terrain of the planet was flat. It seemed that even in its young history, the geological activity of the planet had never been intense. Between the flat valleys and the cracks in the ground, we could see white crystals. Those were rivers that had frozen in the extreme cold. Perhaps they had never flowed before. There were also some solid methane hydrates.
This was a hellish planet. Even the Witch King would be frozen to tears in this place. However, compared to the asteroid belt, this place was actually quite warm …
The planet had a thin atmosphere, mainly composed of helium (the other gaseous components were basically frozen solid or liquid on the surface of the planet). There were also a few trace elements that were unique to this universe. These elements caused the side of the planet that was facing the star to have a faint iron red tint. It was on this side that Liliana and the puppet found those things.
The heavy engineering ship hovered in the low-Earth orbit like a huge meteorite. The launch rails for the drones and the spaceport components under the engineering ship began to stretch out in preparation for the orbital and planetary joint acquisition operation. We came to the extended platform at the bottom of the engineering ship and looked at the yellowish-brown land under our feet through the transparent energy barrier.
I ruffled Liliana's hair and asked, "Where exactly is it? If you leave a mark, we can save some time. "
"Of course, you don't have to worry about me." Liliana patted her chest proudly. Although she had accidentally found this place while fighting with the puppet, she had already regarded it as the result of her hard work. "I planted a small sapling down there. Let me look for it … Oh, I found it. It's that little green dot over there."
Liliana pointed at a green spot on the surface of the planet and said happily. I was speechless.
A plant that could be seen from space. Liliana called that thing a small sapling …
The engineering ship locked onto the coordinates and found an empty space next to the coordinates that was suitable for building a ground station. Then, it released a huge, two-hundred-meter-long cube device from the low-Earth orbit. The cube device quickly fell into the thin atmosphere and suddenly stopped a few hundred meters above the ground. Then, it slowly unfolded and landed smoothly. Inside it was a complete set of ground station infrastructure, including a small multi-purpose command center (which allowed it to operate normally in both manned and unmanned modes), two multi-purpose laboratories with space expansion devices, an autonomous robot hangar, and three temporary docks for small aircraft. Of course, it was also equipped with an important device that every Empire workstation had: the teleporter. The teleporter could ensure the rapid material transfer between the ground station and the mothership in orbit. Because of this, the ground station itself did not carry facilities that took up too much space, such as a warehouse.
The engineering mothership in orbit, together with a number of ground stations on the ground, could start scientific research and sampling work in as little as ten minutes. This was the most common planetary working mode of the general-purpose engineering ship we boarded. Since the Shiring Apostles did not need to collect resources on the planet, they abandoned the planetary mining industry many hundreds of millions of years ago. So, these engineering ships were basically used for scientific research.
After the ground station sent the ready signal, we directly arrived on the surface of the planet through the teleporter.
The first thing that came into view was, of course, the 'small sapling' that Liliana had planted a few kilometers away. It was difficult for me to use a scientific method to explain to you how a giant green plant that thrived in the cold wind of minus two hundred degrees Celsius breathed helium and thrived. So, we tried our best to ignore the big thing that covered the sky and continue to pay attention to the ancestral relic. The short-range radar on the ground station had found the reaction of the homeworld material. When we came to the station that looked like an oil rig, its hangar was sending out groups of autonomous robots. The assistant technician and the engineer who had been teleported to the ground followed behind us. Following the direction of the autonomous robots, we soon found the shocking relic.
It was located in a valley five kilometers from here, and it looked like it had been there for many years.
It was an unusually open valley with gravel at the bottom, and the never-thawing frozen soil was crisscrossed with ravines. At the end of the valley, a huge metal structure was inserted into the ground at a slanted angle. It looked like a part of a spaceship, or a bit like a wrecked orbital station that fell from space. Personally, I was more inclined to the first guess. The shape of this behemoth was a bit like a number of irregular cylinders tied together. Its surface was grayish-black, and no paint or markings could be seen. It should have fallen directly from a high altitude, because the ground around it was densely packed with radial cracks, and on its surface, there were holes torn by a huge impact. These landmarks recorded an earth-shattering space crash. The metal behemoth was no longer complete. Its end pointing to the sky was a jagged crack. Sharp metal structures and broken pipes protruded out of the crack, trembling slightly in the cold and thin atmosphere, like a bony claw reaching out from the grave, trying to grab the distant sun in the sky. This obvious fracture indicated that it was only a part of the spaceship (let's assume it was a spaceship) that had fallen to the ground, and the other half had disappeared.
"All the homeworld material reaction on the entire planet came from this valley." Tawil looked at the MDT in his hand. The engineering ship in orbit had released a satellite and performed a rough scan of the entire planet to confirm if there were more ancestral relics. But it seemed that the result was very frustrating. The incomplete wreckage in front of us could not be pieced together.
To be honest, at first, I really did not expect that Liliana and the puppet would find such a huge thing! I had originally thought that the two of them had only found a few escape pods or something like a slightly larger lifeboat, but the one in front of me … its scale far exceeded my expectations. It was no wonder that Little Lamp used the word 'tomb' to describe this thing. This metal wreckage that stood in the cold wind was indeed like a huge and cold tomb.
"This looks like a spaceship," Icetis looked up for a long time. "It's different from your spaceship."
"You don't know what era this thing is from," I said casually, and followed behind Liliana to the huge spaceship wreckage. "God knows how many years it has been since the Schilling people and the Shiring Apostles changed civilizations."
"Unbelievable … this important heritage was right under our noses for two days." Tawil looked up at the mountain-like black wreckage. The broken and sharp metal branches were clearly reflected in her pupils. Her tone was a little apologetic. "I was blinded by the rich homeworld material in the asteroid belt. I should have scanned the entire galaxy earlier."
"No … it's okay," Sandora said absentmindedly. "It's just a little late, but we still found it. This spaceship seems to have experienced an explosion from the inside out, causing it to split into two, and the fracture is basically spreading outwards, but the spaceship does not have the aura of the abyss. What destroyed it? "
Sandora was just talking to herself. She did not expect any answer, and no one could give her an answer. In front of us was an ancient secret from a long lost era. It was so long ago that even the immortal Shiring Apostles could not explore that period of time. This spaceship wreckage was as mysterious as the Schilling people. I could not help but have some kind of illusion: it was as if I was gazing through the barrier of time and staring at the ancient history that had stopped. Something that should have been annihilated with the passage of time had just barged into my sight in such a huge manner. The psychological shock it brought was indescribable.
Imagine seeing the flash of the beginning of the universe at the moment of the end of the world. Even that time span could not be compared to the cold wreckage in front of us.
Of course, Sandora, as the true Shiring Apostles, felt even more so. She gently stroked the cold and broken shell of the spaceship, and her voice seemed to come from the end of the world. "Could the first original body be born in this spaceship?"
"At least it was born in the same spaceship," Icetis patted Sandora's shoulder. "Damn, I'm excited too. Even the Protoss rarely have the opportunity to see such a historical moment … where do we go in?"
I turned to look at Liliana (the little doll was still biting on my wrist, so I didn't think about it). She had found the corpse back then, so she must have entered this spaceship and knew how to get in.
"I'll lead the way!" Liliana patted her chest proudly. Then, she led us to the "entrance" of the spaceship, which was actually a large crack on the outer shell of the spaceship. The crack happened to connect to a corridor in the spaceship, so it could lead to the center of the spaceship.
Watching Liliana disappear into the dark crack, I could basically imagine her and the little doll chasing each other to this planet, seeing this huge spaceship wreckage, and then diving into it like a child searching for treasure …
A large group of people followed Liliana into the spaceship wreckage. The first part of the journey was very difficult, but after clearing the obstacles and bypassing a severely distorted alloy gate, we found the official corridor, and the road suddenly became wider. Icetis snapped her fingers and said, "Let there be light." Thus, we solved the lighting problem in the dark wreckage. The entire spaceship was enveloped in light, and the road ahead was as bright as day.
"Special alloy, still able to maintain a certain degree of strength under such extreme conditions." Tawil's eyes were twinkling in a blue light as she examined and analyzed the material of the wreckage. "There are traces of smelting, and there are a lot of impurities. The material used to build this spaceship must have come from our homeworld, but it is different from the material we found in the original body."
"The original body was created on the Ark of Exile. At that time, the creator should have been able to mine resources from other worlds," Sandora replied casually. "The materials on the Ark came from our homeworld, while the original body's materials might have come from another universe."
"Be careful when you take samples. The spaceship's structure is fragile, and it can easily collapse. Don't let the autonomous robots do it, you guys do it yourself," Tawil turned to her assistant technician and engineers and said.
The people in the entourage began to carefully collect alloy samples on the spaceship, and released a large number of probes. The small probes let out a light chirp as they flew into every fork to detect areas that we did not step foot in. The feedback information was quickly sent to Tawil, and the entire structure and functional layout of the spaceship quickly formed in her head.
The principle of this primitive spaceship was quite easy to understand for Tawil.
"We should be in the spaceship's emergency escape route or a backup route," Tawil said. "Also, we found the control host of the ecological maintenance system in the spaceship. For the first time in history, we will be able to fully understand the environment of our homeworld's original home planet. The spaceship should be missing the propulsion module and the power cabin. I reckon that it was the explosion of the power cabin that caused the entire propulsion module and power cabin of the spaceship to be separated. In theory, yes. "
Our footsteps echoed in the empty corridor, and the soles of our shoes made a crisp 'ta ta' sound as they stepped on the alloy floor. With Tawil's explanation, we slowly understood the ancient ancestor's creation and approached the heart of the giant beast: the core control module.
The creator's corpse was there.
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