This strange space building complex was about the size of the solar system. Although it was like a drop in the ocean compared to the surrounding special space areas, its absolute size was still quite considerable. Sandora controlled the spacecraft to drop a large number of detection equipment in the outer area, and then slowly moved towards the inner area of the building complex. As they moved forward, all sorts of strange phenomena began to appear.
"The spatial readings are not normal. There seems to be something hidden here, but it seems that we can't decipher it at the moment." Sandora looked at the equipment in front of her and the panoramic view of the entire space building complex. "Ah Jun, look, there is a large blank area near the core area. There should be something here. Look at these, they are obviously the outer buildings. However, the inner buildings that they surrounded are missing."
"You still haven't discovered the purpose of this building complex?" I asked curiously.
"No, what we have discovered so far are facilities such as weapon platforms, warehouses, and ports. These facilities can be seen in any space base. If this is just an ordinary space colony, then it is simply too disappointing." Sandora slowly floated in front of the large MDT and ordered the ship's mainframe, "Start analyzing the spatial structure here. There may be something like a spatial crack hidden here."
I looked at the holographic projection next to me. From here, I could clearly see the structure of the entire space building complex. It was a very classic multi-layer spherical space complex. From the inside to the outside, there were more buildings, and they formed a structure like a spherical shell. The outermost building was relatively sparse, and the further in we went, the more buildings there were, and the larger the scale. However, this pattern was broken when we reached the third to last layer of the inner building complex. The most central three-story building complex was abnormally sparse, and there was a large empty area there. In space, there were only unknown alloy frames, towers, and fortresses that served as ancillary buildings. It was as if all the buildings in the city center had been wiped out, leaving behind all the roads around the buildings, as well as the sentry posts. Even without Sandora's reminder, I could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
However, those abnormal empty areas were not simply covered by optical camouflage. The detector shuttled back and forth a few times, and finally confirmed that there was really 'nothing' there. At least, it was empty in the normal sense of space and time.
Of course, Sandora had already discovered that there was something wrong with the spatial readings, so there was a high chance that the buildings here were hidden by some sort of spatial rift. This once again proved that the previous owners of these buildings had technology that far surpassed the tree elves.
The engineering ship slowly patrolled the unusually empty area, waiting for the scattered probes to send back more useful information. Sandora took the opportunity to slowly study the various energy readings in the space. "There are subtle energy fluctuations, from the 'vacuum'. They are energy of the same level as psionic energy, so they probably directly penetrated the space blockade here. Hmm … there's even psionic energy? Could it be that there were other Empire equipment hidden in the hidden items? Let me see … what other forms of energy I haven't seen before? The Old Empire didn't record them. The races that escaped into this universe back then seemed to have a complicated composition. Perhaps they are related to the Fourth and Fifth Fleets in exile? "
It was not strange to find psionic energy. No matter what, the tree elves were the last generation of the Empire. Moreover, there were probably other servants of the Old Empire that escaped into this universe. Most of the equipment they brought with them contained psionic energy. This space ruin was probably a facility built by the exiled races. What I was curious about was … could the Deity forge be referring to these buildings of unknown significance? Up until now, I hadn't found anything that was worthy of the name "Heavenly God Forging Furnace". The only special thing was that some of the buildings were hidden. Perhaps the key to the problem lies in those hidden buildings?
I pondered as I studied the images sent by the probe. Suddenly, a silver-white metallic luster came into view.
"Sandora, do you think this is a facility of the Empire?" I immediately patted Sandora who was in midair and pulled her over to look at the holographic projection in front of us. The image had been zoomed in. In the center of the image was a long alloy building. This building had the typical silver-white and silver-gray outer shell of an Empire facility with blue paint. However, I did not see the emblem of the Imperial Army. Perhaps the part where the emblem should have been was cut off. This long structure did not look complete. One end of it had disappeared neatly into space, as though it had been sliced by a sharp blade.
"Most likely … we should go over and take a look." Sandora took a glance and made a decision. "Let the spaceship work on its own. We will go over together."
This engineering spaceship's AI could complete most of the tasks independently. Sandora left an order for it to continue deciphering the spatial anomaly and scan every facility in the entire building complex. Then, she pulled me (although she did not have hands) and teleported us to the vicinity of the silver-white long structure. We also brought a few autonomous robots along for emergencies.
This Empire style alloy building was three kilometers long, seven hundred meters wide, and three hundred meters tall. Although there were some structural protrusions on the surface, it was still a very regular rectangular shape. One end of it (which I temporarily saw as the end) was slightly narrowed. At the end of the armor plate, there was something similar to a loading gate. One of the armor plates had split open for unknown reasons. Underneath the armor plate were a large number of connecting bolts and crystallized pipes. This structure was used to physically connect with external energy and data systems.
At the other end of the structure, there were obvious signs of a cut. There was a neat and sharp oblique cut. The entire structure might have been larger than it looked. The other end of it might have been a large complex structure. Even the long metal structure in front of us was just a small part of the entire structure. But it did not matter. It seemed that this thing was only left floating here for people to admire.
That's right, this was an Empire facility. Although there was no military emblem or other conspicuous markings, the shell was made of Schilling's extraordinary alloy. The crystallized pipe network exposed under the metal shell was also a characteristic of Empire technology. However, the building's energy seemed to have been completely exhausted. Even the aftershocks of the energy network had dissipated. So there was no familiar blue glowing grid on the armor plate, and no psionic fluctuations could be felt.
"At first glance, I thought it was a spaceship." I slowly landed on the surface of the alloy structure with Sandora in my arms. A few autonomous robots followed behind me and quickly scanned the entire structure in the air. "I have never seen such a structure before. A spaceship doesn't look like a spaceship, and the turret doesn't look like a turret. It doesn't look like a residential cabin or an energy unit. It's definitely not a factory."
"There are no signs that can identify it. I can only confirm that it was made by the Empire. Also, I can only be sure of its specific functions after the scan is done." Shadora's voice rang in my head. Then, she jumped in my arms. "Why do you keep hugging me these days? Although it's not that you're unhappy … but why do you hug me so often after I turned into a ball? "
I said, "… You're round. I'm always worried that you'll roll away if I don't pay attention."
Sandora's Ball: "…"
This alloy facility had been completely shut down. Naturally, it didn't have any gravitational environment. This was quite annoying. I still preferred the feeling of having my feet on the ground. No matter how much I got used to the zero-gravity environment in the past two years, I still found it annoying. However, Sandora's Ball seemed to prefer this kind of place where she could freely float around. After struggling to get out of my arms, she kept floating in front of me as a 'guide'. Although neither of us knew what this thing was for, Sandora seemed to know where the entrance was.
"Ah Jun! Here! "Sandora's Ball happily swayed up and down a hundred meters away." This is the entrance! If the shallow scan is correct, we should be able to enter the personnel passageway here! "
I quickly floated over. As expected, there was a ten-meter-wide gate structure in the middle of the armored belt. Of course, due to the lack of energy in this place, the gate couldn't be opened by normal means. But that wasn't a problem. Sandora's Ball turned flat again and floated towards the notch at the top of the gate … I quickly pulled her back and instructed the autonomous robots behind me to cut the gate. At the same time, I lectured my Queen, "My Queen, you should pay attention to your image! This form of yours isn't used to pick locks, okay? "
Speaking of 'pick locks', I couldn't help but let my thoughts run wild. It would be great if Little Crow and Little Bubble were here. They were a pair of naughty kids who could pick locks. With the two of them here, any spatial lockdown would be useless … It had been a few days since I was tormented by those naughty kids at home, and I actually felt lonely. Could I still be saved?
The rechargeable armor that had lost its rechargeable effect was just a super alloy with high resistance. After a few moments of digging and drilling by the autonomous robots, a passageway large enough for a person to pass through appeared on the gate. The metal walls of the passageway were still glowing red. I hugged Sandora's Ball and flew into the passageway. It was a very spacious white passageway, but it was pitch-black.
I had intended to ask Sandora to provide illumination, but Her Majesty the Queen knocked my head in disdain. "Idiot! It's not like there isn't any lighting here. I'll ask the engineering ship to send a support submachine over. The energy network here seems to be fine. We should be able to use it once the power supply is restored."
A hundred-meter-long, stout work ship separated from the engineering ship in the distance and quickly connected itself to this strange rectangular facility. The workship carried a portable high-efficiency power furnace that was specially used in this situation. Since we had confirmed that the facility had a physical connection bolt to the crystallized network, restoring the facility's illumination did not take much effort. Of course, we only restored the facility's illumination system and part of the environmental maintenance system. Firstly, the external power furnace's output was limited, and it could not support the operation of such a large building. Secondly, it was to prevent accidents. This place had been abandoned for tens of thousands of years, and restoring power hastily might just blow it up.
With the external power supply online, the corridor's illumination system was restored, and artificial gravity reappeared. Although the air problem was not solved, at least it was more comfortable than before. Sandora and I began to explore the place curiously. Soon, we found a familiar phenomenon … All the equipment here had no nameplate!
The MDT embedded in the wall had no logo, and the compartments on both sides of the corridor had no nameplate. Along the way, we did not see anything that could explain the 'lineage' of this facility. All the signs pointed to …
"The Abyss Schilling is everywhere," I looked at a fixed MDT embedded in the wall without a nameplate. I could not help but complain about the collective consciousness that haunted us no matter where we went. "I'm afraid this place was created by the Abyss Schilling. It seems that the Tree Elves split into two groups when they escaped. One group followed Halland's guidance, and the other group got into an accident and was later rescued by the Abyss Schilling. That should be the era when the Abyss Schilling had not gone mad yet. So, this place is actually part of the Ark of Exile? "
There was no nameplate or logo. This was the biggest characteristic of the equipment that the Abyss Schilling secretly created at the end of the Old Empire. So far, we have not found any other creation of the Empire that had this characteristic. The Abyss Schilling created these things before she was completely corrupted. They were basically used to rescue refugees (the Abyss Schilling was not evil at all back then, she was such a compassionate Virgin Mary). So, it was not too surprising to find the Abyss Schilling's creations in a universe that might be the Ark of Exile. I just did not expect that the Abyss Schilling had personally helped the Tree Elves. Halland did not have any records of this. It seemed that I and Sandora had accidentally uncovered another unsolved case from the ancient times.
This world was getting more and more interesting.
"It's hard to say if it's the Ark of Exile, but it definitely has something to do with the Abyss Schilling." Sandora was trying hard to restart the MDT in front of her. She extended many golden lines from her body and connected them to the MDT as if she was trying to read the gadget directly. But after a few minutes, she was disappointed. "Pfft, there's no meaningful information at all."
"This place seems to be just a … peripheral device. The device log shows that this place is called 'Energy Conduction Bridge No. 3'. Do you know what that means? It means that this place is at most an energy conduction device. "Sandora retracted the golden lines on her body and slowly floated forward." Bridge No. 3. This means that there are still Bridge No. 1, Bridge No. 2, and possibly Bridge No. 4, Bridge No. 6, Bridge No. 7, Bridge No. 8, Bridge No. 9 … But why can we only see Bridge No. 3? And it's only a small part of it. "
I followed Sandora's' footsteps' and looked curiously at the unusually wide corridor on both sides. "Energy Conduction Bridge? I don't remember the Empire having such a component. Speaking of which, where are you planning to float to? "
Sandora did not even turn her head. "To the rupture. Isn't one end of this' long bridge 'cut off? I feel that it's not as simple as a rupture. "
This rectangular alloy facility was simple in shape, and its internal structure was simple to understand. We were standing in the middle of the 'Energy Conduction Bridge No. 3'. This long corridor ran through the entire facility, and one could follow it to the end. I believe everyone remembers that one end of this ruin was cut off, right? Now, Sandora and I stood at this rupture, looking at the corridor before us and the entire alloy frame outside the corridor that had been cut off. In front of us was the darkness of space.
"What was it cut off by?" I clicked my tongue in wonder as I observed the smooth and neat cross-section of the alloy wall beside me. In the end, I even flew out with great interest. Hmm, indeed, I couldn't see anything else from the outside. There should have been a rather grand Xi Ling building here, and the several kilometers long silver facility in front of us was nothing more than a component of the building, and there was more than one such component. But now, all I could see … was this' Energy Conducting Bridge No. 3 ', and it was just a small fragment of the bridge.
I suspected that the building did not really 'disappear', but was also hidden by something like a spatial rift. Just like the vast and unusual open space here, it was right under Sandora's and my eyes. Right now, I could be standing on the surface of the building or fusing into its walls (it was a creepy deja vu), but due to the spatial anomaly, it was as if it was a parallel universe that could not be sensed. Speaking of which, when would the engineering ship be able to decipher the spatial password here?
Shadora curiously studied the stubble at the end of the corridor. Then, it spun in space with me like a mischievous satellite orbiting me. "God knows what's going on. The spatial encryption method here is very advanced, so advanced that it's comparable to the Old Empire's." Shadora's sphere curiously studied the stubble at the end of the corridor. Then, it spun in space with me like a mischievous satellite orbiting me. "The detectors have discovered a large number of abnormal signals in the empty area here, but every signal is encrypted. These signals hide a folded space. We have to decipher the coordinates of the folded space and the coordinates of the real world to figure out what's hidden in this place … Err, you seem to understand this principle, right?"
I thought about it and decided to show that I understood it very well. Otherwise, I would definitely be lectured by Sandora for two to three hours on the spot. Actually, I could understand the gist of it. It was not like I did not learn anything in the past two years.
"The scale of the building that we saw is already very large, but the real secret is only this small space in the middle. This space, which is about the size of the sun, is hidden by a spatial seal that is still in operation. There are many things outside, but they are actually worthless — they are all just funerary objects." After I grabbed hold of Sandora, she finally stopped going around in circles. Instead, she laid comfortably on my shoulder and muttered, "I feel that even if this place is not the Deity Forge, it must be of great significance — there is a facility of the Empire here. Ah Jun, you understand, a facility of the Empire, a product of the Abyss Schilling, a coffin-level treasure that the tree elves brought with them when they fled here, and it is hidden by such a tight spatial seal … How big of a secret is this! "
I lightly patted Sandora, who was once again lying down like a sweet potato. Then, I suddenly noticed that beautiful blue patterns were rapidly spreading on the surface of the "No. 3 Energy Conduction Bridge."
Then, the work ship that was connected to the complete end of the Energy Conduction Bridge silently disintegrated.
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