The moon is hollow.
Is there anything more ridiculous than this?
I looked at Pandora in disbelief and asked for an answer. She nodded at me and said, "Brother, the moon is hollow."
"That's ridiculous." I shrugged and turned to look at Sandora. "Did you guys have the habit of emptying other people's satellites to build a base?"
However, Sandora's reaction was a little strange. She didn't respond to my question. Instead, she frowned and looked like she was in deep thought.
"What's wrong, Sandora?"
"Nothing …" Sandora shook her head, but her eyebrows didn't relax. "Maybe I'm overthinking it … If a giant base was built on the moon, then what happened in this galaxy 700,000 years ago might be a little more complicated. Pandora, did you find the section of the interference layer? "
"We found a total of four sections that are suspected to be entrances. The closest section is about one kilometer away from our current position."
We followed Pandora's directions and successfully found the so-called "fault". On the surface of this planet with weak gravity and loose geology, one kilometer was definitely a challenging distance for human astronauts to walk. However, for us, it was a matter of seconds. Because … we had a car …
You don't know how difficult it is to walk on the moon. The floating motion is completely different from what I expected. The real situation here is that you can jump, but when you fall, you basically experience a vertical displacement. At the beginning, I tried to use the surrounding free energy to propel myself. I also wanted to experience the thrill of high-speed flight in the vast space. However, the result was that Visca had to pull me back from the moon's synchronous orbit …
I really wasn't used to an environment with weak gravity.
The "fault" that Pandora mentioned was located under a crater. The craters on the moon had a very interesting characteristic. No matter how big they were, and no matter how violent the impact of the meteorite that created the crater was, the depth of the crater was very shallow. It was many times shallower than the average depth of any crater on the surface of any planet that humans had observed. Looking down from the sky, the craters looked like densely packed shallow plates attached to the moon's surface. The cause of this phenomenon could now be explained. The thickness of the moon's crust was only a mere 30 kilometers, and underneath it was a layer of superalloy that was strong enough to withstand a star explosion.
We carefully came to the bottom of the crater. This place didn't look any different from the surrounding environment. The sun's rays passed through the unobstructed space and shone directly on the moon's surface. The areas facing the sun were completely dazzling white, while the shady areas behind the rocks were completely pitch-black. Without the diffraction effect of the atmosphere, the surface of the moon, which was covered in rubble, was clearly intersecting with light and shadow. Since there was no atmosphere as a buffer, the temperature difference between these two areas was even more shocking: as high as a hundred degrees!
"There is a gap in the interference layer that is about half a kilometer in diameter," Pandora's eyes flashed with an icy blue light. Similarly, her icy blue hair fluttered along with the flow of energy. "Based on the scale, it might be the supply channel for the base within the moon."
I looked at the dirty "ground" under my feet and began to imagine what an alien base built on the moon would look like. However, after thinking for a long time, it seemed that there were only a few types of Schilling buildings that I could recognize …
"Is there a way to open it?"
Pandora nodded. Then, she took out her signature psionic cannon and unlocked the safety mechanism.
This time, without waiting for me to take action, Sandora had already hammered the head of a certain loli who didn't think before doing things. "You crazy girl! If the base still has a functional defense system, you can handle it alone! "
At this moment, Visca suddenly broke the silence along the way. She tugged on the corner of my shirt lightly and gestured for us to retreat.
"What's wrong, Visca?"
I asked curiously after we retreated to the edge of the crater.
"Brother …" Visca revealed an expression that she wanted to say something but stopped herself. "Brother, you don't hate me, right?"
"What are you talking about!" I said out of nowhere as I rubbed her head. "Do you know how to open this door?"
Shallow Shallow seemed to want to say something but I stopped her with my gaze. Then, we looked at Visca calmly.
“Dusda-EcosFeisa。”
Visca muttered that sentence silently before hiding behind me.
As I expected, a slight tremor came from the depths of the ground. The layer of soil in front of us was rapidly filled with cracks. Then, the bottom of the crater collapsed into a huge hole in front of us.
I patted Visca's head comfortingly before jumping forward — — I used too much force and missed …
The two probes that were sent out as scouts safely reached the bottom of the hole and sent back a signal that everything was normal. Then, the few of us entered in a single file. Pandora, who had the strongest reaction speed and quick coverage, naturally led the way. Sandora followed closely behind. Shallow Shallow and her sister entered their supernatural states and followed behind Sandora. Meanwhile, I and the obviously uneasy Visca brought up the rear.
According to Pandora's scan, the interference layer below the moon's crust was formed by a high-strength Nockstone alloy. Nockstone was extremely hard and had a certain energy shielding effect. However, to shield the energy detection system of a Commander-class Apostle, the thickness of a normal fortress's armor was simply not enough. Hence, the thickness of this solid metal inner shell was at least five kilometers. In addition to the 30 kilometers thickness of the moon's crust under our feet and the magnification of the 45 ° angle, we had to walk through under this damned low gravity … Yup … In any case, it was a long way …
Fortunately, we have a car ….
When I realized that I had no choice but to walk through the moon's crust for such a long distance, I decisively summoned 700 billion from the sky. The hole that was revealed after the crater had collapsed was rather wide. It wasn't a problem for our mini private car to fly back and forth horizontally. At the beginning of the journey, other than being a little dark, it was relaxing and enjoyable. However, as we continued to go deeper, the walls around us gradually became narrower. After passing through the moon's crust, we were faced with a narrow door that could only fit two people at a time.
The silver-white door was the dividing line between the outer surface of the moon and the inner base. For some unknown reason, it wasn't completely closed. This gave us the opportunity to enter this ultimate fortress.
It seemed that we could only walk for the next part of the journey. Fortunately, even though the 45 ° slope was very steep, it wasn't too difficult for us to walk in the low gravity environment.
As we advanced, a faint light appeared in front of us. It proved that we were about to reach the end of the tunnel. It also proved that the ancient Schilling Base in the inner part of the moon had a powerful energy endurance system …
"Come to think of it, I seem to have forgotten something …"
As we walked, Sandora suddenly broke the silence and muttered to herself through the mental link.
I didn't stop walking. I turned around and asked, "What is it?"
"It feels like something that isn't that important," Sandora tapped her lower lip with her index finger, her ocean-blue eyes blinking. "But it seems to be very important now …"
"Oh … Ah!"
Just as I agreed, I felt my feet suddenly sink. Then, an extremely familiar feeling once again acted on my limbs and bones. I only had time to let out a short cry of surprise before I fell forward. Then, in a sorry state … I rolled down the cliff.
Right after that, Qian Qian and her big sister's screams sounded from afar. Then, the two girls smashed into me one after the other.
Broken … I feel that at least half of the bones in my body are broken.
"Ah! I remember now! " Sandora landed lightly beside me. Compared to the trio of me, Shallow Shallow and Big Sister on the ground, she looked much more elegant. "It seems that the interior of this kind of Sky Base Fortress will automatically generate artificial gravity!"
"You better remember it earlier!!!" I jumped up, and then hit a certain queen's head with my knuckles.
After reprimanding Sandora, who almost caused me to be crushed to death by Shallow Shallow and Big Sister, I raised my head to look at my surroundings. You should know that it was hard to see anything clearly when I was spinning at such a high speed and dizziness …
"This is too … too much like The Storm Fortress …"
That was the only thing I could say after looking at my surroundings.
The place we were standing at was a flat bridge. From the looks of it, it was at least 20 lanes wide. The entire bridge was made up of a kind of silver-white metal that emitted a faint glow. That was a unique halo phenomenon that could only be produced by the extremely strong Nock Stone alloy. On top of the bridge, there was a tube shaped shell made up of light blue crystals. In other words, we were standing inside this tube. I had seen this kind of crystal a few times. It was said that it was a perverted thing that only grows near the core of a giant planet. Its hardness and energy resistance were all outrageous. If it was used to build a transmission tube, it could even withstand the energy transmission of a star. Due to the extremely harsh conditions for its formation, this thing could only be described as extremely expensive even in the entire universe. Only the Shiring Apostles would be extravagant enough to use this kind of incomparably precious crystal as a supply tube for their fortress — — because they had already mastered the technology to synthesize this kind of crystal from stones …
Another thing to mention, this kind of crystal known as Alpha Ore, due to its sparkling characteristic, had already become Little Bubble's new collection target. Incidents of Alpha Ore being stolen from the Shadow City's warehouse …
Through this transparent outer wall, we could clearly see the scene outside the tube.
If you were to ask me how to describe the scene that I saw — grand, magnificent, mysterious, strange, any of these words wouldn't be enough to describe even a tenth of what I saw. It was an enormous space, one could even say that just its size alone was enough to strike fear into one's heart. Behind us, the alloy armor that covered the entire Moon Base extended in all directions like a vertical horizon, supporting a bizarre world within the planet. Countless gigantic alloy skeletons, towers, and crisscrossing crystal clusters grew wantonly in the vast space. The distance between each of them was at least a kilometer. The straight tube that we were in was nothing more than an inconspicuous branch in the forest. An extremely thin white fog permeated the space outside the tube, causing the distant 'forest' to be nothing more than a blurry phantom. From time to time, gigantic lightning streaked across the space soundlessly, connecting two alloy skeletons that were several kilometers apart. Then, the skeletons and the towers around them would move accordingly, forming a new formation according to a certain pattern. Although I didn't understand the meaning of this change, I knew that it proved that this Moon Base was still operating normally.
"Spectacular …"
Qian Qian and her sister looked at the magnificent scenery in front of them and muttered in unison.
Sandora seemed to have expected such a reaction from us. She smiled and said, "This is the Sky Base's buffer zone. Strictly speaking, we haven't entered the Sky Base yet because the buffer zone is still a layer of armor. When attacked, it will be the last line of defense of the Sky Base itself. But under normal circumstances, there are very few external attacks that can destroy the buffer zone of the ultimate Sky Base."
I thought so too. In any case, I couldn't think of any firepower that could penetrate a thirty-kilometer thick lunar crust and a kilometer thick alloy armor, and then destroy a buffer zone supported by a ten-kilometer long super-strong skeleton. After all, the Moon had been bombarded by meteorites in space for so many years without exploding, right?
Pandora took out a small transport ship from her Dimensional Pocket. It would be stupid to search for someone in a Sky Base the size of a planet on foot. Everything else aside, just the transport pipe under our feet was almost thirty-five kilometers long. If we didn't have a means of transportation, we would probably die of exhaustion before we could find Artemis …
Along the way, Qian Qian and her older sister would constantly exclaim in surprise at the majestic and mysterious scenery around them. This so-called buffer zone wasn't static at all. Instead, it was constantly undergoing violent changes. The crisscrossing alloy skeletons and crystal clusters were constantly moving. Sometimes, they would form a rather neat matrix, and sometimes, they would completely scatter and scatter in all directions. Every violent change would cause Qian Qian and her older sister to exclaim in excitement. As for me, of course … I exclaimed along with them. After all, I had never seen such a scene before, had I?
But even though we deliberately slowed down, we still passed through the buffer zone after half an hour and entered the main part of the Sky Base. We landed on a huge floating platform.
"This should be a place for mid-sized warships to park and repair." Sandora quietly hovered about a few dozen centimeters above the platform and said with a nostalgic tone, "I haven't seen such a scene in a long time."
I was the last to get out of the transport ship. Then, I pulled the sliding door of the transport ship worriedly. "Do we need to lock it? No one's going to steal it, right?"
Everyone looked at me with disdain.
What was the Sky Base like? It was a little difficult to describe. In simpler terms, this was a 'three-dimensional' city.
As far as my eyes could see, there were all sorts of huge war factories and functional buildings floating in the endless space. I could distinguish that there were war tank assembly workshops, warship docks, tactical calculation centers, psionic recharge towers, and other large-scale facilities that could only be built on land. There were even more strange buildings that I couldn't see through. But based on my guess, they should be related to the research and development of war vehicles. After all … there was an electronic road sign in Schilling text that said 'Vehicle Production Area' …
But now, those buildings were obviously in a dormant state. There was not a single light, and every one of them was like a silent steel monster peering at the ground. In between these buildings, there were all sorts of large and small warships hovering silently in the air. It seemed that the entire Sky Base, other than the overall lighting and maintenance system, was paralyzed.
"Alright, Visca, where should we go now?" Sandora looked around and suddenly turned her head. She lightly knocked on Visca's head. "Don't get distracted, little girl."
Visca revealed a panicked expression. Then, she looked at me hesitantly.
At this moment, we had more or less guessed some things. But how should I put it? I personally didn't think that it was important. So, facing my sister's weak and helpless gaze, I decisively chose to surrender. "Be good. Just tell us where to go. The sooner we settle this mess, I'll bring you and Pandora out to play for a few days."
My answer seemed to finally put Visca at ease. The little girl's face revealed a rare blush. Then, she began to explain the structure of this huge base to us.
"First, this fortress is called Stronghold 7535. Yep, 7535 was my previous name. But now, Big Brother has given me a new name. So, the current name of this place is — — Visca's Stronghold Star!"
"Using a name to name it!?" Before I could say anything, Sandora cried out in surprise. "Glory?"
Visca nodded proudly. "Yep! This is Glory! This is Visca's own Glory ship, Visca's Stronghold Star Mothership! "
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