I did not know what Zaku was thinking, whether he felt lucky or unlucky. Anyway, his house had been in a state of semi-expropriation by the Empire for the past few days. After his identity was revealed, the Empire's Chancellor and his family basically had no qualms about freeloading at someone else's house for a few days. Sandora played a pivotal role in this process.
It was worth mentioning that she had also helped the family solve the clutter in the warehouse. The underground warehouse and the hall on the first floor, which used to be covered in mountains of antiques, were now much cleaner than before. In fact, it was a little too tidy. Although Shadora insisted that she didn't eat anything she didn't eat, I always felt that the bite marks on the staircase's railing were rather suspicious … Fine then, just like any other girl, Shadora would also binge eat when she was in a bad mood to relieve her stress. I could only blame myself. By the time I realized this, there wasn't much left in Milia's house.
The location was still Miriya's house, which was forcibly expropriated by Pandora and turned into the living room of the so-called tactical center.
"The Deep Space Probe has reached this location, which is hundreds of millions of light-years away from the star system. There is no point in moving forward." On the holographic star map, Sandora pointed at a small dot on the edge of the image. "We have scanned a large enough area to cover the twelve standard military lines of the old Empire, but there is still no sign of the old Imperial Army in this area."
Sandora called the Shiring Apostles that might be hiding in the dark the old Imperial Army. Although she knew that they were most likely the enemies that Lin Xue mentioned in the prophecy, she still tried not to use the word "enemy" and used a neutral term to refer to them.
"We have found many ruins of the old Empire in other star systems," Bubble said, opening a holographic projection in front of her. "There are traces of the old Empire in almost every star system. Look at this, from a star system thirty-five light-years away. There is even an Empire's spaceport here. Of course, all that's left is a wreckage."
"All the Empire ruins have been severely damaged. According to the traces left behind, it is the work of the Shiring Apostles," Sandora added.
The Big Sister pondered for a moment. "In other words, before 'they' left this universe, they destroyed all their bases?"
"I'm not sure, but it is a fact that ninety percent of the Empire ruins have been destroyed by Schilling weapons," Sandora said. "Now we can confirm that those ruins belong to the Avengers. The reconnaissance team found a lot of Avengers emblems, and … I vaguely remember some of them. Although the distribution of the star systems in this world has been distorted beyond recognition, I can still vaguely remember some of the things that are deeply in my memory. "
Sandora's voice was very calm. It sounded as if she was talking about something that belonged to someone else, but I knew that she was probably feeling very uncomfortable. After all, it was her own Empire. Now, it was in such a broken state in front of her. Even the Queen of Schilling found it difficult to get rid of this sadness.
"We found some usable Imperial Army equipment in the ruins. Similar to the things found in Mobrador, their identification codes were erased and they appeared to be offline. We still don't know why the Shiring Apostles did this, and we don't have a suitable guess. " Bubble leaned on the table and said solemnly, "In addition, our reconnaissance team in the ruins was also attacked. After many tests, we found that the attack was only aimed at the Shiring Apostles. When there were only servant soldiers in the reconnaissance team, the ancient weapons would go silent. When there were Xi Ling soldiers in the reconnaissance team, the antiques would activate as if they were on steroids. When the Xi Ling soldiers in the reconnaissance team left the scene and the reaction disappeared, the antiques would go silent again, ignoring the other servant soldiers and agents as if they were nothing. The only progress we have made is to confirm the reason for the ancient weapons' actions. A very hidden footnote was inserted into their thinking circuit. This footnote caused them to treat all Schilling units in the information link as enemies. This must have been done by the Avengers before they left, but why did they do it? "
"What a pain in the ass," I sighed and placed my hand on my forehead.
The deck of cards that Lin Xue had given me was placed on the table. Now, every time I randomly drew a card from it, a picture of a sharp blade and a gear would appear in front of me, which meant that the enemy's appearance was approaching. But in reality, we still couldn't find any sizable enemy troops. The attack that the reconnaissance team had suffered in the Empire ruins was just a small problem of the weapons going out of control. It couldn't be considered a prelude to war.
We were already guessing if the Avengers had already left this universe, leaving behind a pile of mysteries and dilapidated ruins of the Empire. But it was impossible because Lin Xue's prophecy wouldn't deviate from such a significant historical event.
"They could be hiding in a place similar to a dimensional fold, with layers of dimensional encryption," Sandora said. "In any case, I don't believe that the Avengers would disappear just like that. If we still can't find them, we can activate the Garden of the Departed to scan the world. It can decipher any kind of dimensional encryption, and it's more useful than the most powerful probe. "
I agreed with Sandora's suggestion, but it was only a last resort. No one knew how many of Sandora's Avengers were left after the Empire collapsed, nor did they know how many troops they had stationed in this world. When the Garden of the Departed's super powerful targeting system aimed at this universe, the physical parameters of the universe would definitely fluctuate greatly, which would alarm all the enemies. That's right, the enemies. Even if Sandora was unwilling to admit it, I had no choice but to use the word "enemies" to refer to the Avengers who had gone out of control. The highest order that they had left in the ruins, "The Shiring Apostles are enemies," was enough to explain everything. They had gone mad.
"Brother, should we go?"
Suddenly, someone beside me tugged at the corner of my shirt, and I snapped out of my dazed … I mean, thinking. I looked in the direction of the voice, and saw Visca's demonic blood-red cat eyes staring straight at me. "Starlink is ready, and the replica is ready."
I nodded and stood up. I called out to Shallow Shallow, "Girl, let's go. Let's take care of Starlink's problem first."
Shallow Shallow hurriedly tossed the Rubik's Cube that she had been working on for half the morning onto the coffee table. The Rubik's Cube finally turned into a pile of plastic. Miriya happened to walk in, and she must have heard the last part of our conversation. She asked curiously, "Starlink? What Starlink? "
"It's the Sky Corridor. Let's go retrieve it."
Miriya fell to the ground with a loud thud.
"Re … re … re … re … re?!" Milia scrambled to her feet, her face full of shock. "Hey! Are you kidding me?! That's not what you said before! "
"Don't worry, don't worry." I knew that my words weren't very clear, so I waved my hand in front of her face. "I know it's very important to your civilization. I've thought about it, but Starlink is an important military asset of the Empire. I can't let it fall into the hands of a normal civilization. It's too dangerous, and you might accidentally use it to destroy an entire star system. I've already asked the Empire's technicians to prepare a replica that looks exactly like Starlink. It has the same energy output, but all weapon systems have been removed. This is for your own good. "
Miriya's expression finally relaxed. She blinked at me and said, "That's great, but won't we be discovered? A replica is a replica, after all … "
I patted him on the shoulder confidently, "Don't worry, you can rest assured! I can't guarantee anything else, but in certain areas, the Empire … "
I was already crying halfway through my sentence, so I decided not to dwell on this "replica" topic.
"With the Empire's technology, even if it's a replica, no one will be able to tell. Don't say that I'm trying to discourage you, but how many years have you been researching the Sky Corridor? You haven't even managed to knock off a piece of its armor, right? Do any of you know what's inside? "
Miriya instantly became listless. She glared at me angrily. "Fine, fine, fine. We're just Slimes in your eyes, right?!"
She was just throwing a tantrum, and didn't mean any harm. Bubble replied seriously, "Don't spout nonsense! Killing a Slime gives you 5 experience points! "
This girl was the type of person who would run her mouth if she wasn't in a fight. I hadn't let her play the game for two days, and she was about to suffer from internal injuries.
Miriya was relieved, so I led Visca and Shallow Shallow to the Empire Admiral, and prepared to retrieve Starlink.
The Empire Admiral had been hovering in the sky above Planet Mobrador, and we had been spying on the planet while maintaining absolute secrecy. So far, we had learned the daily habits of all the races on the planet, as well as the number of leg hairs on the planet's commanding officer. Visca's Starlink was less than a hundred kilometers away from the Empire Admiral. Compared to the latter's gigantic size, this distance was equivalent to being right next to each other. But even though we were so close, we still hadn't released any probes or landed personnel into Starlink. At first, we didn't want to act rashly because we didn't know the situation. But now, we were afraid that Starlink's defense system had gone out of control, just like the Avengers' ruins. Compared to those dilapidated ruins, Starlink's counterattack would definitely cause even the most elite troops to suffer.
However, yesterday afternoon, Weska finally completed a roll call on the entire Starlink system (the reason why he only did this now was because that girl forgot …). He confirmed that all of Starlink's equipment was under his control and that they had shut down their defense modules. This made me decide to retrieve this big thing first.
Again, such a dangerous ancient weapon couldn't be left in the hands of a lower civilization that knew nothing about it.
But everyone also considered that after losing the "Sky Corridor" that supported the modern civilization, the Mobrador civilization might immediately collapse. So, Big Sis had planned ahead and made preparations a few days ago. We created a replacement for Starlink. Visca provided us with a detailed blueprint of the inner ring. Tawil's two assistants personally supervised the work and made sure that the replacement looked exactly the same as the original. As long as the armor plate wasn't removed, no one would be able to tell that it was fake. This very cheap replacement also simulated all the functions that the current "Sky Corridor" provided to the Mobrador civilization. For example, there were more than 40 energy vents that continuously emitted exhaust (the Church of Grayblue called it the Universal Holy Spring. The Mobrador people had installed a large number of collection devices at these energy vents), many powerful psionic reactors, gravity adjustment devices, deflection shields that blocked solar winds, 36,000 km/h movement speed, and a beautiful silver halo generator. To ensure that the fake star ring was real, we even made its mass accurate to the milligram, and its radius accurate to the micrometer. We also accurately replicated every pattern on its outer shell. At one point, I even wanted to tie Sicara to the star ring and use him as a sacrifice. But in the end, my conscience stopped me. But if that old bastard dared to sell his goods in the Empire Admiral, then Pandora would definitely do it.
It was unimaginable for the Xi Ling Apostles to be so meticulous and patient in considering and caring for a "lower civilization". If it was the Galactic Protoss who were overflowing with motherly love, it would be easier to understand. There were two main reasons why we did this. One was that my sister was meticulous, and the other was to make Sandora feel better. Although the ancestors of Mobrador were only servants of the old Empire, they were loyal and brave. Now that they were dead, Sandora felt that we should leave something good for their descendants.
Looking at the huge star ring floating in space, Visca was very excited. If her language grades were better, she would have composed a poem at this time. The core reactor of the Empire Admiral began to rumble and operate. It was ready to place a mass collapse point in orbit to accurately transport the fake star ring that had just been assembled at the outpost base. Now there was one last little problem that needed to be solved, and that was the little things floating near the star ring.
There were hundreds of space stations of different sizes, all launched by the Mobradorians. Some of them were energy collection devices used to collect inert psionic energy released from the star ring as energy for spaceships. Some were space offices set up by research institutions. The highest-ranking scholars of Mobrador were proud of having such a research base near the Sky Corridor. Even though these research bases had been used for hundreds of years, they had not been able to achieve anything. There were also things that belonged to the Church, such as space churches. The headquarters of the Church of Pale Blue was set up there. It was a streamlined building that was almost attached to the star ring and looked like an egg. This large space station was called the Cathedral of Blue Light by the Mobradorians.
From the external observation platform of the Empire Admiral, the crude space entities could be distinguished with the naked eye. In the silver halo of the star ring, the large and small space buildings were like small stones slowly floating in the glow. Compared to the magnificence and magnificence of the star ring, their crudeness was like the difference between heaven and earth.
But Icetis did not think so. Although she did not understand the pros and cons of spaceships, she said something very philosophical. "Perhaps according to your standards, those little things are as crude as stone tools compared to the big ring, but in my eyes, when they use those simple tools to study the star ring, they have already become amazing children."
Was this the difference between the minds of gods and humans?
"Star Ring status confirmed. Transferring target mainframe."
The voice of the mainframe sounded on the bridge, followed by another synthesized voice. It was the voice of Celestial Link's mainframe. "First Celestial Link has confirmed the highest command set. Command source identity confirmed. Celestial Link has successfully responded. Welcome back to the system, General."
Visca stood on the platform and grabbed the railing in front of him. He looked very excited. "After so many years of hard work … I can finally go home today."
Star Ring's mainframe responded to Visca's voice. It seemed to be a little confused. "This is my responsibility. Level 3 AI will not feel hard work. But, Your Excellency, your mental state does not match the system registration. Do you need to adjust it? "
"No, you don't have to think about things outside of your work." Weska quickly adjusted his mood and let go of the railing in front of him that had been twisted into twisted vines. "What you need to do has been uploaded. You'll start executing the command set in 30 seconds."
Star Ring confirmed Visca's order. Then, I turned to look at Shallow Shallow.
The girl who always appeared in front of me was now standing on the platform with a straight face. She only glanced at me and said coldly, "Don't waste time."
Err, personality …
Qian Qian and Star Ring were ready. The Imperial Admiral released the mass collapse point that it had been accumulating for a long time. If the people of Mobrador could see the sky hidden behind the spatial barrier, they might discover that a spherical object had suddenly appeared above their planet. It was the mass collapse point that was distorting the starlight coming from afar. At the same time, another inexplicable force instantly spread out, sweeping across the region of space where Star Ring was.
Time had stopped.
The operating energy collection device, the flashing lights of the space station, and the small space shuttle that was leaving the space platform were all like photos. The moment the shutter was pressed, they all became static pictures, except for the star rings that were emitting a faint glow.
Shallow Shallow's power had grown a lot stronger. In the past, she would have never been able to freeze time in such a huge space. But now, although it was a little tiring, she could do it.
"The coronal mass has arrived on time. Please check the delivery!" Raven 001's mischievous voice came from the communication link. They had started another mission a few minutes ago, which was to go to the sun and create a coronal mass ejection. The high-energy matter had arrived and started to envelop the entire planet Mobrador.
In the eyes of the scholars of Mobrador, this was an event of increased solar activity for unknown reasons. The entire planet was shrouded in high-energy rays. Although it would not cause a disaster, it would cause the interruption of communication in space and the collective interference of ground radars.
This was an insurance to prevent them from noticing. Then, it would be time for a cover-up.
The teleportation device was activated at the same time the coronal mass ejection arrived. Before our eyes, the giant structure that was glowing faintly in space gradually became blurry, like a swaying reflection in the water. Although it only lasted for less than a second, something unimaginable had happened.
Star Ring had been replaced.
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