More and more ruins of the Empire were discovered in the Mobrado system. At the same time, more and more evidence pointed out that not long after the collapse of the Old Empire, the Imperial Army that was originally stationed here launched a frenzied attack on the ordinary civilizations of this world. This attack came without warning, and the ancient civilizations were destroyed without any chance to resist. The only ancient civilization that we found to retaliate was the base located in the God of Fog. It basically did not play any role when the massacre came.
Sandora was not in a good mood for the past two days. Although her face still carried that eternal calmness, I could feel the sorrow in the Queen's heart through our spiritual connection. There was nothing more painful than seeing one's most loyal soldiers suddenly become the enemy. She was originally a guide and protector, but now, she destroyed the vassal civilization that followed her. This stance made her very depressed.
It was not just moral condemnation and humanitarian guilt. For Sandora, although such feelings existed, it was not enough to make her depressed. It was not good to say this, but the number of lives that she had personally destroyed had reached a level that could not be described with numbers. Her tolerance for slaughter was astonishing. Now, her depression was more of a blow to her dignity. The Shiring Apostles had always stood at the pinnacle of civilization with their powerful strength. Many weak civilizations had relied on this strength to gather under the iron fist of the Old Empire. But now, not only had the backing that should have been foolproof collapsed, it had also crushed the followers of this backing. This was a great irony. For the proud Queen Schilling, this was almost a humiliation.
Back then, when Sandora first learned that there were a large number of Fallen Apostles, she had already been depressed because of similar reasons. It was bad enough that the warriors who were originally the defenders of the Abyss had been controlled by the enemy that they were determined to destroy. Now, when Sandora discovered that her own troops had also become similar accomplices, I could understand Sandora's feelings even without saying it.
However, I wisely didn't stay by Sandora's side all day to comfort her. I knew that as the Queen of the Empire, she had her own pride. Even though she liked to act spoiled by my side, she wasn't willing to appear too weak at this moment. It could be said that this was Sandora's personal willfulness, or that she was dying to save face. In any case, I couldn't coax her like an ordinary girl. Silently supporting her by her side was the best consolation for her. I believed that the Queen, who had weathered countless storms, wouldn't be affected by such a small depression. In fact, I couldn't think of anything in this world that could truly affect the actions of a powerful Queen like Sandora. Well, apart from hunger.
It was like the calm before the storm. Everything had been calm for the past few days. Our special agents had collected a large amount of information on the world of Mobrador, and they were gathering more detailed information with astonishing efficiency and smoothness. I firmly believed that we could now directly check the number of hairs on the Archbishop of the Pale Blue Church from the information link. That's right, this number was updated in real time. The other special agents were conducting an in-depth scan of all the celestial bodies in the Mobrador system. We marked all the ruins of the Empire and ancient civilizations, and visited most of the more representative ones. Due to the long passage of time, there was basically no trace of remains other than dust in the ruins. The marine base on the Divine Fog Planet became the only burial ground for Sandora's former followers. Liliana personally prayed for the ancient dead, and it was rare that she didn't use any strange prayers.
Of course, the special agents also paid special attention to the so-called "Holy Ruins" and found many relics of the old Empire. Those ancient devices, without exception, had their identification codes erased and became offline products that could be easily used by ordinary people. But other than that, everything was normal, and there were no signs of being infected by the Abyss.
Regarding those relics, there was a situation that had caught Sandora's and my attention. All the relics of the old Empire, as long as they were intelligent weapons with a certain degree of mobility (such as intelligent turrets and ordinary Schilling soldiers), would attack the agents of the Empire who went to explore the ruins. But if it was the spies of the civilized community who went to investigate the situation, they would not respond as if they were in a deep sleep.
In other words, all the Empire weapons judged the normal Shiring Apostles as enemies.
It was an unimaginably absurd situation. Even if there was no reaction from the Abyss, the behavior of the Schilling weapons was even more outrageous. Nobody could explain what was wrong with their judgment module, and why they would come up with a completely different result from the normal situation. The Schilling agents who were attacked successfully captured some battle machines, but when they were sent for inspection, they received a report that everything was normal. They did not have automatic modules like the Holy Church's guards in the Nebula, nor were they controlled by the Abyss. Their mistake could only be at the level of their "thinking". But what was troublesome was that the thinking of intelligent weapons was the most difficult to analyze in real time. You had to capture them alive. And in fact, nobody could stop a Schilling unit from self-destructing when the situation was unfavorable. They would always format their own memory core at the first instance, and then self-destruct when there was enough time. This was so troublesome.
Right now, I could only agree with Liliana's guess, which was that Sandora's Avengers had all become crazy …
Speaking of which, it was ironic that the Shiring Apostles, who were supposed to be the destroyers of civilization, were worshiped by the modern Mobradorians as "Sages." They even worshiped the pots, pans, and ear-picking spoons that the Shiring Apostles used. Those who knew the truth didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Logically speaking, with so many ruins, even if most of the evidence was indiscernible to the modern Mobradorians, someone should be able to discover the truth that the ancient "Sages" single-handedly destroyed the ancient civilization from other clues. However, the natives of this world still worshiped the "Sages" without any hesitation, and at the same time, expressed their respect to the ancient civilization. This made me feel very ridiculous, but after a conversation with Liliana, this question was easily solved.
"God almost drowned the entire human race with his saliva, but there is still Christianity on earth," a black Loli bishop summed it up incisively. "Faith is a very strange thing. Mortals are always shamelessly giving the green light to the gods they believe in. Even if God closes all the doors for them, they will always imagine that the former will leave a window for them. But in fact, after God closes the door, he will forget that there is anyone in the room. "
I must point out that when Liliana said this, Jingle was sitting on the coffee table one meter in front of her. The little one listened and nodded. She even announced that this must be written in the Goddess' Bible: When God closes a door for you, find a way to break through the wall yourself, because God might forget to open the window if he has something to do!
I had to admit that although Liliana's summary sounded unsightly, it was indeed reasonable. When the indigenous people of Mobrador worshipped the Shiring Apostles as gods, it was destined that this would not be a normal feeling. They would not judge the Shiring Apostles by the standard of judging ordinary intelligent creatures. When they interpreted some of the shocking information revealed in the ancient ruins, they would add a lot of deceptive explanations. It was the same for God's flood that destroyed the world, and it was the same for the sages that cleansed the world.
In the past few days in Mobrador, we had a deep understanding of this. Their speculations about the Shiring Apostles and their interpretation of the holy ruins were often ridiculous. It was even stranger than the way the Atlanteans treated the Xiling Empire. At least the Atlanteans had some understanding of the real Schilling civilization. They were just used to using religious rhetoric to describe the people of the Empire. Here, Mobrador was directly beaten from an advanced ancient civilization to a primitive society, and then slowly evolved to the present day. The mythical image of the Schilling civilization had long been engraved in their genes. Even if they developed advanced technology, it was just a transformation of the traditional religion into the religion of science and technology.
In the past few days, Miriya's uncle and Biluna had gradually gotten used to the addition of a group of powerful people in the house. The three of them were probably the most objective people in the entire Mobrador world about the "Sage" because the so-called Sage had been freeloading in their house every day. Uncle Zaku was surprised to find that the so-called "Sage" did not breathe. His breathing was accompanied by lightning and thunder. Every blink of an eye represented the change of day and night. At most, they had a big appetite, a strange way of thinking, and a dark personality. Occasionally, they would be hot-blooded in the workshop to make plans to conquer the world, but they would immediately be pulled by the ear and dragged away. The "Sage" was approachable, which was a little unbelievable to him and Biluna. At first, they had the same way of thinking as the ordinary Mobradorians. They thought that the return of the Sage to this world was of great significance, such as pointing out the path of the entire civilization's evolution. But in fact, the main reason for the return of the "Sage" was that he had lost something.
What was satisfying was that Zaku and Biluna had fulfilled their promise well. They did not disclose our identities, which prevented major turmoil in the entire Mobrador civilization.
Tawil was using this civilization as a long-term experimental target. She wanted to know how a civilization with such a special starting point would develop. But for now, the future of the Mobrador civilization was not optimistic.
Although they had a much higher starting point than ordinary civilizations, and because of the ruins of the Empire, they had an unimaginable technological advantage that other civilizations could not imagine, and many genetic advantages that originated from ancient inheritance, a fatal shackle had gradually revealed its power. There was a situation that concerned people was that the Mobradorians had not yet developed deep-space aerospace technology. This was very unusual compared to other technologies that they already had. The Mobradorians had the phase shield technology based on Schilling technology (not psionic energy), simple space construction technology, and even imitations of the ancient weapons used by the Empire soldiers (although not very practical). This was something that many universal civilizations could not achieve. It was reasonable to say that the natives of this world were already considered advanced civilizations, but they still could not develop deep-space aerospace technology.
The Mobradorians had carried out planetary migration in their galaxy, but they did not even have a spaceship that could fly out of the galaxy.
This was because they could not leave the Holy Ruins and the Sky Corridor.
At present, 90% of Mobrador's cutting-edge technology was developed based on the knowledge recorded in the Holy Ruins, especially their spaceship technology. The "long-distance" spaceships they used to travel between planets used inert psionic energy as an energy source. That was the "energy" released from the forty-six energy discharge pipes in the Sky Corridor. In fact, it was a secondary product of psionic energy. It was more efficient than ordinary energy sources, but many times weaker than psionic energy. This energy allowed the Mobradorians to develop a spaceship in a galaxy from scratch in just ten years, but it also completely killed the possibility of them exploring deeper into the universe. The inert psionic energy discharged from the star ring was operating waste, and it could not be stored safely in large quantities. Otherwise, it would not have been discharged. The fact that the Mobradorians used it as an energy source meant that their spaceship technology could not go far. Obviously, it was impossible for the Mobradorians to develop spaceships that used real psionic energy in the foreseeable future. Even if they did, they would not be able to produce psionic energy by themselves without the necessary basic technology. The top energy source of this civilization was completely dependent on the few functioning Holy Ruins in the galaxy. More than 80% of their spaceships relied on the Sky Corridor to replenish their energy!
This was very dangerous for a normal civilization. The Schilling Ruins could only provide limited energy, not to mention that most of them were fatally damaged. The scholars of Mobrador tried day and night to repair them, but they could not change the dangerous situation of the world's energy supply collapsing at any time. They could not find a way to produce psionic energy by themselves, but they had to rely on this energy source to maintain the development of their civilization. This was as unreliable as water without a source.
If the problem of energy source was considered obvious, another crisis that threatened the development of the Mobrador civilization was invisible to ordinary people, and that was their technological system.
Modern technology was developed completely based on the Holy Ruins and Ancient Ruins. Many of their super technologies were discovered by chance, and they used them without understanding them. They copied ancient objects, and even used the production lines that were repaired from the Ancient Ruins to produce basic tools. The technology tree of the Mobrador civilization had no support at all, and the abnormal situation had reached the point of absolute alert. They once "mastered" the technology of gravitational traps fifty years ago, and they used gravitational traps to intercept asteroids from space. However, they lost this technology thirty years ago because the only gravitational trap generator they removed from the Holy Ruins in space was broken, and no one knew how to repair it!
Some Mobrador scholars with long-term vision had already realized the horror of this problem and tried to make up for the lack of basic technology. These scholars formed a knowledge exploration team called the "Blue Crusade", wanting to fill in the gaps between basic technology and practical technology. This team still existed, mainly responsible for running charities and promoting the theory of the end of the civilization. The former was very popular, and the latter was sneered at. Many people thought that the leaders of the Blue Crusade were crazy, but in my opinion, they just knew too much. They faced the desperate situation of their civilization and clearly understood that the Mobradorians would never be able to solve this desperate situation by themselves.
If you were given a first-grade math book and asked to use the knowledge in it to solve a second-grade problem, smart people could still do it, but what if you were asked to use the addition and subtraction in the book to calculate the current expansion coefficient of the universe?
This was not scientific!
We were now in a delicate situation when it came to our attitude towards the Mobrador civilization. Pandora and Visca believed that no matter what the reason was, these "inferior civilizations" occupied the property of the Imperial Army without permission, and this was definitely a crime. Even if they were not punished, we had to recover the relics of the old Empire, especially Visca. For the past two nights, she had been in the courtyard staring at her Star Ring in a daze. I guessed that she would not be satisfied until she dragged it back, although I also thought that recovering the Star Ring was a very important matter.
My sister was more concerned about what would happen to this special civilization after they lost the relics of the Empire. They just happened to develop in the relics of the Empire, so the so-called crime of occupying public property was pardonable. If we cleaned up the "Holy Relics" in this world, the Mobrador civilization would definitely collapse completely. They might not return to a primitive society, but they would probably return to the early stage of industrial civilization. Moreover, their entire race might not be able to recover from this setback. This race was too reliant on the "Holy Relics," especially the "Sky Corridor."
Sandora was also a little concerned about the Mobrador civilization. Perhaps it was because they were the descendants of the survivors of the ancient civilization. This made her feel a little apologetic towards them. I still didn't know why the Imperial Army did not completely exterminate the entire race in this galaxy, but it was an indisputable fact that the survivors had survived. Sandora felt that as the queen of their ancestors, she had to do something for the survivors. At first, I was a little surprised by her thoughts because I remembered that when Sandora was a queen, she wasn't the kind and tolerant type. However, now I seemed to understand that it wasn't because she was a benevolent queen, but because she had a sense of responsibility.
"Their ancestors used to fight for me," Sandora said. "Even if they were weak, as long as they dared to wave their weapons at the enemy, they were my soldiers. A long time ago, I was their queen, and now, I am still their queen. "
I didn't know if this should be counted as Sandora's way of being a queen. If her people gave her their loyalty and lives, she would have to bear the responsibility of leading them to glory and victory.
However, dealing with the Mobrador civilization wasn't the top priority now. They hadn't reached the limit of their race's power yet. The bottleneck of development had just appeared, and it hadn't reached the point where their scientific development was completely blocked. We also wanted to see how far the indigenous people here could break through. Tawil suggested that we continue to observe this civilization. When they really couldn't move forward anymore, perhaps we could follow Sandora's idea and give them some help. Ugh, to be honest, it reminded me of a lab rat in a cage …
Now we were thinking about and most concerned about when the enemy would appear.
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