nyslfriends Chapter 281 The Vision of the Forerunners
Chapter 281 The Vision of the Forerunners
Although the recent situation in the Star Dragon Empire seems to be slowly stabilizing, Amber knows that this is just a temporary suppression due to Agnes' iron-blooded suppression of the separatists.
And if Regent Norton II really decides to push back the 'final moment', the situation in the Star Dragon Empire will even develop from bad to good.
But Amber knows this situation is only temporary.
Because the regent is temporarily dormant, it does not mean that he will reach a reconciliation with Agnes, but that he is accumulating strength for subsequent attacks.
Because of the irreconcilable contradictions between different ideologies, these two spokespersons of 'capitalist revolution' and 'feudal autocratic rule' will eventually have a decisive battle to determine the future direction of the empire.
After talking about the recent changes in the situation in the empire, Lilith also informed Amber of a new piece of news.
That is the clone of Xinglong that was lost in the empire before - LLS943823. After the information collection network was established, its location has been gradually locked recently.
"This guy is having a good time recently. Although we can't directly interact with each other, I still feel the status of this 'clone'."
Speaking of her lost clone, Lilith was also a little helpless.
Although she has now mastered quantum communication technology, if she wants her clone to also learn this 'skill', she still needs to conduct an information exchange for a 'version upgrade'.
But it happened to be this LLS943823, as if it had been locked up and there was no news at all.
The delay in information exchange also caused this clone to become the only 'alien' that had not completed the upgrade and could not communicate with the main body in real time.
Although Lilith was very busy following Amber around during this period, she still did not give up looking for her lost clone.
Now, based on the last message sent back by LLS943823, Lilith deduced her current location and obtained the hull number of the spacecraft she was on.
Coupled with some information that was gradually unlocked later, the location of LLS943823 finally became clear.
"So what you're saying is that your 'clone', who has lost contact with his real body, is now in a secret experimental galaxy in the Star Dragon Empire?"
"That's right, Master!" Lilith nodded like she was pounding garlic.
"It's even possible that this 'clone' has infiltrated into the 'experiment' in this test galaxy, and there is a 90% probability that this 'experiment' is the sixth man-made celestial fortress?"
"As expected of a Master, he easily deduced everything based on other people's information."
Amber suddenly didn't know what to say. He looked at Lilith who was looking at him with a playful smile and asked:
"Then what do you think your clone will be busy with inside?"
"Well, although we have always called them 'doppelgangers', they are actually Lilith, there is no difference.
If I were in it, I would not hesitate to try to gain control of the man-made celestial fortress. "
"emmm, it's really your style"
How did Amber feel after hearing the news?
First of all, he must be very happy. After all, this artificial celestial fortress can be regarded as a "legendary equipment" with the ability to completely wipe out a fleet.
But due to Lilith's outrageous personality that is prone to convulsions sometimes, Amber is very worried that the clone LLS943823 will cause a big mess inside.
But now that this has happened, Amber must accept it first and then find a way to solve it when there is a real problem.
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A few days later, in the UD74290 asteroid belt, several battleships escaped from the jump in a burst of white flash.
In the end, Amber did not go back directly to the Tower of Babel, but chose to arrive at the mining area as soon as possible to see the Forerunner creation buried in the asteroid belt.
Randall, who hadn't seen Amber for a long time, first complained about his long-term desire to work in the asteroid belt.
But he was just complaining, and when it was time to get down to business, the former federal naval officer was also unequivocal.
Soon, he, together with 'Miner Leader' George, took Amber and others to the 'A. Bawa Ku' asteroid base which was under construction.
After sitting on centipede-like manned work robots and crawling inside the asteroid along the tunnels dug by these robots for a long time, the group finally arrived at their destination.
Just like the photo sent by Randall and the others before, this regular hexadecahedron was quietly 'embedded' in the rock wall.
After the surrounding rock walls and metal deposits were hollowed out, many spotlights were set up here, and Amber and others were able to see the entire hexadecahedron.
However, its size is much larger than Amber imagined, and only half of it has been excavated so far, and the remaining part is still wrapped by the rock wall.
"Boss, we have conducted preliminary detection on this thing, but it has not responded to the detection of various conventional instruments. At present, we only know that the long axis of this big thing should be about 800 meters."
George, who is responsible for coordinating the mining of the asteroid belt, stood next to Amber and said while wearing heavy asteroid overalls with armor plates.
For him, digging this thing out of an asteroid was still a big shock.
"When we started working on this asteroid, we did a comprehensive inspection and did find this thing, but we thought it was a relatively concentrated metal vein inside the asteroid.
It was not until we dug deeper and deeper that we found that this thing did not seem to be a metal vein, so we sent the 'Rock Snake' excavation robot and the mining mule to dig deeper, and finally found this thing."
"You are so lucky."
Amber patted George on the shoulder and sighed in her heart.
"Ah? Why do you say that?"
"Because this thing is a mining artifact left by a super ancient advanced civilization called 'Forerunner'."
Amber's answer directly confused George. As a miner who has been planned for his 'life path' since birth, he really doesn't know the 'Forerunner civilization'.
Not only him, but also Randall and others on the other side showed puzzled expressions.
Amber was not surprised by their reaction.
Whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the training of the lower-level residents has always focused on the work they are 'assigned' to.
Less popular knowledge like "Forerunner Civilization" will never appear in their textbooks.
"It's okay. It doesn't matter if you don't know about this thing. You just need to know that it can increase the mining efficiency and ore refining efficiency of Atlas Mining by at least ten times."
"Ten times?!"
George opened his mouth in surprise after hearing this.
He is the most clear about the current mining efficiency and refining efficiency of Atlas Mining in the whole company.
After annexing Timler Mining Company and continuously replenishing mining engineering ships, the scale of Atlas Mining's mining fleet has long been incomparable.
And this high-quality mining area that no one comes to disturb has made Atlas Mining's mining team full of efficiency.
In this case, increasing the mining and refining efficiency tenfold again?
George suddenly found that he could no longer imagine what kind of scene this would be, let alone how much impact it would have on the surrounding ore trading market.
While he was surprised and confused, Amber had already supported himself on the rock wall for a while, and then floated towards the regular hexadecahedron.
"Boss (Amber)! Be careful. Let the robot go first!" Seeing Amber walk over, everyone tried to dissuade him. However, Amber did not stop. He waved his hand without looking back to signal everyone to stay calm, and then slowly floated over. After getting closer, Amber found that the surface of this huge regular hexadecahedron was extremely smooth. Even though it was buried deep in the rock wall and had recently been affected by mining machinery, it still showed a "mirror" texture. The transition treatment at its corners was very natural, without any flaws or any splicing marks, as if it was made of some unknown ultra-high-strength material in one piece. Under the tense gaze of everyone, Amber carefully placed his palm on the surface of the regular hexadecahedron, and then released a psychic wave. Soon, the internal structure of the regular hexadecahedron appeared in front of his "eyes". Completely different from the feeling of integration on the surface, the interior of the regular hexadecahedron has an extremely complex pipeline network and a node structure that can be expanded, running through the entire space like blood vessels and skeletons. This ultra-precision processing capability that completely surpasses the current level of human technology is, to some extent, one of the hallmarks of the "Forerunner Civilization".
Just as Amber was about to conduct another "psychic wave scan" to find the core of this device.
The regular hexadecahedron, which was originally like an unchanging rock, suddenly seemed to come alive, and a series of structural changes were heard from its interior, causing the surrounding rock walls to vibrate.
Amber, who was closest, felt his consciousness being suddenly taken away before he could even ask the people behind him to retreat urgently.
When he came to his senses again, he found that he was no longer in the asteroid cave.
Instead, he was in the ruins of a city.
He looked down at himself, and it was no longer the exoskeleton he had worn before, but an ordinary piece of clothing.
Amber's first reaction was to wonder if he had traveled through time again.
But a subconscious deep in his brain told him that this was not a travel through time, but an "entry" into an illusion.
Before he could think about what was happening, the ruins of the city in front of him "moved" as if the play button had been pressed.
A raging fire rose from the wreckage of the building, and there were panicked screams around, mixed with a lot of explosions and weapons firing.
At the same time, a large number of panicked civilians fled from the buildings or the surrounding streets, as if they were supposed to be here.
These civilians ignored Amber's existence, passed by him one by one, and then disappeared at the other end of the street.
"Buzz buzz buzz."
A low roar came from the air.
Amber looked up and saw several huge warships appearing above the burning city.
Energy rays shone from the warships into the city, setting off a larger explosion again.
Amber looked at these huge warships sweeping in the air. They were completely different from the warships of humans and elves.
It is not a human steel giant ship with sharp edges and cold posture, nor is it a ship with biological characteristics like the elves of the Thousand Star Empire.
Instead, it is filled with a style that combines classicism and technology, but is not contradictory at all.
Judging from the appearance of these battleships, they are more similar to the regular hexadecahedron buried in the asteroid.
"Good guy, this isn't a Forerunner battleship, is it?"