The sudden exclamation from the command area stunned everyone on the platform, including Sandora. However, we didn't stay stunned for long. Icetis, the female rogue, used her strong nerves to withstand the shocking news and was the first to react. She pounced on the protective wall at the edge of the platform. "What?! Who is joking?! "
"It's not a joke!" Tawil suddenly spoke. Her tone was agitated and she couldn't suppress her surprise. "It's really Mother Planet! Or rather … It's most likely Mother Planet. The celestial bodies that appear here can't be anything else. "
Sandora finally reacted. She quickly ordered, "Turn the image around. Let me see what's going on."
The image from the external monitor was quickly transferred to the platform. We finally saw the unbelievable scene: a lifeless, dark brown planet was floating alone in the empty, dark space. Its surface was full of craters and there were no signs of life. However, the straight ravines and huge cracks on the planet's crust seemed to contain an amazing secret. The planet was twice the size of Earth, or maybe more. We couldn't be sure because the planet had suffered a terrible and obvious celestial disaster. It was on the verge of breaking apart. The huge ravines seemed to have reached deep into the planet's core. There were some terrifying holes that ran through the planet. These scars had completely changed the planet's shape. We couldn't be sure if it had "loosened" or collapsed because of this. But no matter what, the planet was still intact. It seemed to have been so for countless years.
In the sky above the dark brown and almost disintegrated planet, there was a large number of floating black debris. Some of these things should be the lithosphere that had broken off from the planet, but some of them were too orderly. I suspected that they were man-made products. However, it was probably because of the disaster back then that I couldn't see their original appearance.
Time couldn't change the shape of the universe. So, it could only be the impact of the end of the world that caused the man-made products to be indistinguishable.
I checked the data from the probe and confirmed that the planet was at the end of one of the "sharp corners" of the Gate of the Abyss. Do you still remember the strange shape of the Gate of the Abyss? Due to the shape of a long and narrow eye, it had two 'sharp horns' on both ends. The closest point of the planet to the Gate of the Abyss was about half a light-year away. Compared to the big fissure that had a total length of five light-years, it was really close.
Of course, the probe also scanned the surroundings of the dark brown planet. It was trying to find the former sun or other planets in the Mother Planet's solar system. Ancient historical records recorded that there was a huge gaseous planet in the Mother Planet's solar system. It was an important energy source when the Schilling people first stepped into the universe. However, these important things seemed to be gone. The probe only found a pile of completely cooled heavy element embers less than 30 astronomical units away from the dark brown planet. It might have been the Schilling people's sun, but now it was just a pile of slag that had been extinguished for many years. Perhaps with the strange "stagnation state" of this world, this pile of slag would suddenly ignite and then continue to shine and extinguish like reincarnation. However, we really didn't know much about the "stagnation state" of this world, so we could only guess.
At least in the foreseeable future, we wouldn't see the Schilling people's sun burning again.
"This is the Mother Planet? Are you sure? " "You have never seen it before, and the position of the stars is not fixed. Maybe it floated from somewhere else." Brendel said. "You have never seen it before, and the position of the stars is not fixed. Maybe it came from somewhere else."
"This universe is in a stagnation state, the positions of the celestial bodies won't change too much," Sandora subconsciously grabbed my hand and said calmly. However, based on the strength of her hand, I could tell that Her Majesty the Queen was definitely not calm. "There are no other celestial bodies around here for several light-years, and the ancient records left by our ancestors mentioned that the Mother Planet and the Gate of the Abyss are adjacent, so it must be the Mother Planet. Oh yeah, the ancestors gave us some records about the last moments of the Mother Planet. I still remember … Tawil, scan the internal structure of this planet, quick! "
Without another word, Tawil got to work. Soon, the scan results of the dark brown planet appeared in front of everyone, and I was not surprised to find something that could prove its identity: large-scale artificial modification.
The entire planet, as seen on the surface, had cracked in many places, with huge rifts and holes reaching all the way to the planet's core. The power of the Abyss had almost torn the planet apart, but in the end, it remained intact: because the planet's body was filled with amazingly huge alloy beams!
Huge support beams, super-alloy cables, shells of unknown composition, rock pillars, and fillings that were obviously different from the surrounding geological composition forcibly bound the planet together. They were like the pillars of the earth that supported everything after the land collapsed, like the chains of God that turned the tide after the world split, using a primitive but magnificent way to "stitch" the planet together. Nearly one-third of the entire planet's structure had actually been completely separated from the surrounding, but the incredible artificial repair measures had forcibly bound it together.
And we also found huge holes inside the planet. These holes may have been formed naturally, but they were obviously artificially modified. All the holes had a solid shell built in the inner layer, turning them into large-scale alloy cabins, and the holes were connected by hollow giant beams. The alloy structure and the dense network of networks in the shell could be seen at a glance what it meant: a fortress, a fortress after the end of the world!
"According to historical records, after the outbreak of the disaster, the ancestors stubbornly resisted for a long time, and some of them swore that they were not willing to give up the Mother Planet. Even though the Gate of the Abyss was right next to the Mother Planet, they were not willing to give up this place. The power of the Abyss shone on the Mother Planet, causing the earth to crack, and the rifts deepened by hundreds of meters every day. The planet was about to fall apart, so the ancestors used huge alloy beams and other things to repair their own planet. The Abyss could even destroy these repair measures, so the ancestors rebuilt everything over and over again. In the end, the entire Mother Planet was almost transformed into a planetary fortress: the broken pieces of the planet were connected by alloy cables, the holes under the lithosphere were filled with warriors who were not afraid of death, and the ground was covered with alloy armor that was cracked and repaired over and over again. The garrison on the Mother Planet did not retreat, and when the ark set sail, they desperately intercepted the jet stream that flowed from the Gate of the Abyss to other parts of the universe, buying precious time for the ark fleet, until all the troops here were sacrificed. Anthus once described the Mother Planet as: 'The Mother Planet is beyond recognition, but until the very last moment, it is our Mother Planet.'
Sandora silently repeated the records left by the ancestors on the Mother Planet, and then gently let go of my hand. "I'm sorry, I was a little emotional."
I didn't mind, and just stared at the Mother Planet in a daze. The alloy armor on the surface of the Mother Planet had been completely stripped off. Perhaps the black pieces floating in the sky above the Mother Planet were the remains of the armor, and the giant cables inside the Mother Planet had traces of damage everywhere. The entire Mother Planet was beyond recognition, so much so that it could no longer be called a natural celestial body, but it still stood in the vast space, guarding the pass closest to the Gate of the Abyss, and seemed to still be glaring at the crack.
Just like the words left by the ancestors: 'The Mother Planet is beyond recognition, but until the very last moment, it is our Mother Planet.'
In the end, the ancestors still left this world, and even this broken Mother Planet could not be defended, but I think … they still defended it, because until today, even when the New Empire's fleet docked in this part of the universe, the Mother Planet was still there, it was still the Mother Planet of the Schilling Civilization!
"No one can take away the Mother Planet from the hands of a living Shiring Apostles," Icetis suddenly said to herself, and then lowered her eyes slightly. "You people have been so stubborn since the age of mortals. It really … makes me speechless."
"So, we can be sure that this is the Mother Planet." Abyssal Schilling looked at the devastated Mother Planet in a daze. "How did it survive? It was obviously destroyed, but in the end … it seems to have survived until the moment when the entire Mother Planet is completely transformed by the Lazy Abyss? "
"I can only say that it is a miracle. Anything is possible," Icetis said, smacking her lips. "And the resistance of the Schilling Ancestor allowed the Mother Planet to survive for a long time. After all, the Lazy Abyss is not a pure Abyss. It has a side that can be eased. Since the entire universe can persist until the transformation is complete, why can't a planet? Although the transformation does seem to be very painful … "
"It seems that the other celestial bodies here did not survive." Lin Xue looked at the report sent back by the detector. "There is only the embers of a star nearby, and some thin matter that can't be distinguished from the star's wreckage or aether mass. This is the only lonely planet here."
I thought about it and had a suggestion. "Maybe we should build a memorial here, or some other commemorative sign. This is the birthplace of the Schilling Civilization. There is no place more special than it."
"It does need a special commemorative sign, but there is no need to build anything extra." Sandora shook her head. "The Mother Planet itself is a monument. We just need to re-strengthen its structure and then let it exist forever. That is enough. Of course, if the ancestors have other arrangements after they return, we will listen to them. No one has more power to dispose of this planet than they do. "
No one at the scene had any objections, so the matter was settled for the time being.
The engineering team was still collecting data from the Gate of the Abyss to verify if it could immediately be used as a "pier" to carry the bridge. The startup terminal that was in a dormant state also needed some time to be activated and tested. After all, it was the only startup terminal that we had to be careful with. So, we decided to go to the Mother Planet to take a look.
A shuttle was launched from the Admiral of the Empire. All the commanders of the Royal Navy, including Halland who was originally commanding the engineering team and Belavilla who was in a dormant state, followed to get ready to land on the Mother Planet. Before the silver shuttle landed, it circled around the ancient planet that was twice the size of Earth, hoping to find some traces of civilization on the surface. After all, the planet was in a stagnant state, and many things did not die. The last impact should not have completely stripped the surface of the entire planet. It turned out that our guess was correct: there were indeed traces of man-made things on the surface of the Mother Planet. Although there seemed to be only one surface ruin on the entire planet, and it had collapsed to the point where it was almost indistinguishable from the surrounding charred land, we still found it.
This place was located on the edge of a higher alluvial zone on the surface of the planet. Based on the surrounding terrain, it should have been part of a coastline. It was impossible to verify who was stationed here, but we could only confirm that there was a base here.
The highland was a relatively flat area, roughly trapezoidal, and around the edge were man-made objects that were almost indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks. They seemed to have been melted, and after the last impact and the prolonged exposure of the power of the Abyss, they had completely lost their original nature. If it was not for the fact that they were so neatly distributed, perhaps no one would have thought that this place was related to the ruins of civilization. And on some of the surface of the open land, there were melted metals that had almost fused with the soil and rocks. These were all the things in the ruins, and also all the ancestral relics of this planet that were exposed on the surface.
Sandora was the first to step down from the shuttle. She stood on the land where the ancestors had once lived and fought for, her face full of amazement.
"From the day the core of thinking began to operate, I never thought that I would one day stand on the land of this original Mother Planet." Sandora looked around at the desolate and dilapidated scene around her. She squatted down and pinched a handful of coarse sand and soil, watching it slowly slide between her fingers. "This is the place where we originated … I … The Shiring Apostles are not good at emotional thinking, but I feel very strange now. It's just a planet, a primitive battle fortress, but why does it give people such a wonderful feeling?"
"It's not the planet itself that touches people's hearts, but you remember what was born from this planet." Icetis analyzed professionally and then looked up into the sky. It was gloomy and dark. The sun of the Mother Planet and the gas giant planet that the Schilling people lived on had long been extinguished. The only thing that could light up the sky was the distant starlight and the radiance of the Empire fleet in orbit. The distant starlight looked abnormal, they were skewed and distorted, forming strange curves in space. Because we were observing the stars through the distorted field at the edge of the Abyss Gate. From here, we could see a corner of the huge fissure. Even a small sharp corner occupied one-third of the sky. The starlight was twisted into something like a lace, outlining the edge of the sharp corner. It was daunting to look at it.
Sandora recalled the ancient information again. "According to historical records, the first anomaly when the Abyss Gate opened was the distortion of the starry sky. The ancestors found that all the starlight in the sky was misaligned, and then they detected that a huge distorted space was opening next to their own star system. Then, the Abyss Gate appeared in front of the world. It permanently changed the view of the stars that the Mother Planet could see when they looked up. What we see now is what the ancestors saw."
"The same scene, after so many years, is still the same in the eyes of the later generations. It's incredible." Brendis blinked and muttered in the spiritual connection, "Look, the Gate of the Abyss that destroyed the world back then … In fact, I can close it by myself."
Sandora immediately glared at her. "Don't joke like that. The fate of the entire Void rests on this gate."
Just as we were exclaiming that we were actually standing on the Mother Planet, Shallow Shallow suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed in the spiritual link, "Hey, hey, look! What's that!?"
I looked in the direction that Shallow Shallow was pointing and saw a light blue ball of light in the depths of space approaching the ground. It was a strange object that looked like aerogel, and it was emitting light that was much more intense than starlight. It was elliptical in shape, but its surface was undulating, as though it could change shape at any moment. This ball of light did not seem to have a physical body, but I could still see some bright light spots and lines moving within it, indicating that it had a complex internal structure. I had no idea how far this strange object was from the ground, but my instincts told me that it was not small, and it looked like it had "swum" over from space?
"Mothership, what is that ball of light?" I immediately asked the Empire Admiral that was docked in space.
"Your Majesty, we are examining it. It seems to be a spiritual being … but it doesn't look like a normal life form. It should have the ability to warp through space. It suddenly appeared in the sky above the Mother Planet, and is now heading in your direction. Should we intercept it? "
"No, wait!" Sandora quickly stopped us, then she looked shocked. "A living being? Are you sure it's a living being? "
"Not very sure." This time, it was Tawil's voice. "It's hard to determine what it is. It is different from any life form that we know of, and it is even different from spiritual beings. This universe has already stagnated, so theoretically, it shouldn't be able to give birth to new life … but it does show signs of partial evolution, so it might have given birth to some strange things. This ball of light seems to have a mind of its own, and it adjusted its flight direction on its own. It even went around the orbital station that we had sent out … Perhaps it is using the Mother Planet as a foothold? Theoretically … Ah, there are more spatial signals! "
"Don't seal off this place, let them come over," Sandora's tone was strangely anxious. "I want to see what this thing is. Oh yeah, the fleet evades in stealth mode. Don't scare these … living beings. "
The fleet's glow in the sky immediately dimmed, and all the spaceships quickly disappeared into space. Then, we saw a shocking scene:
Countless light blue balls of light jumped out from deep space, and floated towards the Mother Planet nimbly like swimming fish. When these balls of light formed a cluster, we could easily see the characteristics of their biological community: they formed a formation, chased each other, and continuously drew a series of complicated trajectories as they fell from space to the ground. It was obviously some kind of conscious action.
These strange cloud-like things didn't directly touch the ground, and finally, they hovered hundreds of meters above the ground. At first, they were only scattered in small patches, but soon, they gathered more and more, and finally, the entire sky was shrouded by them!
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