Chapter 1,313 Various New Discoveries
The temporary base that Tavel built in two days was designed according to the classic structure of a pioneer research station: this kind of station uses a relatively dense asteroid as the vertex, uses super alloy to build a skeleton, and sets a large number of take-off and landing platforms on the edge of the skeleton. A small port is used for engineering drones and various types of ships to dock, while the inner ring of the skeleton is distributed with first-level engineering nodes and second-level engineering nodes. These facilities are responsible for preliminary cutting and scanning of collected samples, and eliminating worthless items. ore and debris, and send valuable, roughly processed mineral samples to the material transfer station. The material transfer station sends the mineral samples directly to the large laboratory in the center of the base through hyperspace equipment. This simple and efficient system can ensure that the entire site is always operating at the highest efficiency, and as the scale of its supporting drone fleet and engineering ships expands, it will continue to extend to the surrounding space. When developed to a certain level, the pioneer research station can be upgraded into a space bunker or a military node. The modular imperial equipment only needs to be slightly modified to build a space city on those crisscrossed super alloy frames. In fact, this is how the Kuiper Belt Base in the current Capital World originally came from: its predecessor was nothing more than a pioneering research station.
Taking a basic pioneer site as the foundation, continuously upgrading the structure, and eventually evolving into high-end facilities such as military depots/space fortresses/colonial cities/military nodes, etc. This is one of the common upgrade processes for imperial space facilities.
Of course, our current pioneering research station has no plans to upgrade in this way. Although Sandora has considered bringing this remote world into the empire's territory and building it into a military-industrial core universe, the asteroid belt itself as a mining ground is nothing. Worthy of building a base, the only things it has any use for us are those stones from the home world.
The interior of the large laboratory at the center of the workstation is a honeycomb structure. It houses a large number of modular sample analysis rooms. Meteorites collected by engineering drones are sorted and sent here for various tests to determine the time they passed through the world barrier, and to try to judge the current situation of the home world from the clues on these stones. situation - of course it would be better if the coordinates of the home world can be found, but this seems to be a slim hope. The space flash here has ended for tens of thousands of years. Even if this universe once passed by the home world, they have been far away from each other for a long time now.
Tavel took us to her current studio - strictly speaking, it is the current quality projection studio, because we know that the quantity unit of Tavel's person is now calculated using the basketball court...
This is a vast, hexagonal hall, possibly using space-expanding equipment. This makes it very wide. Dozens of gravity-free platforms are neatly arranged in the hall, half of which have unattractive meteorite fragments suspended on them. The distance between each gravity-free platform is about ten meters. The scientific research autonomous machinery responsible for handling laboratory chores flies nimbly between these gaps to check the working condition of each gravity-free platform or assist the people on the platform. A cutting beam dissects a meteorite sample. Assistant technicians in white uniforms gather in small groups around certain platforms to analyze data. Have a heated discussion, or act as an emoticon: They must have made some important discovery. In the past two days, every scientist at this site has experienced countless major discoveries: discovering a new hometown substance, verifying a footnote in the memory of their ancestors, learning a little new information about the hometown world, etc. It's enough to get them excited.
Imperial scientists have never been a reserved and steady group, each of them has a fiery heart...
"This is the largest sample analysis room. One copy of each type of meteorite must be kept here," Tavel led us to the nearest gravity-free platform. "We have discovered thirty-seven kinds of materials from our home world. , both metallic and non-metallic. They are completely consistent with the hometown information recorded in the memory core. Look at these things——"
Tavel said, looking around the entire hall: "These ancient things come from our hometown... Our creator used these things to build the Ark, and even used these things to create the first original body in the fifth generation. Really I can't imagine it. We will have the opportunity to see these primitive minerals with our own eyes, and the entire research team is in a state of excitement now. This is the second time since the discovery of the Primarch that we have been so excited about the ancestors."
Tavel mentioned the fifth generation - I know this. Sandora also introduced the history of the Xiling Apostles to herself. They divided the entire Xiling civilization into "generations". From the first Xiling people to walk upright until the founding of the new empire, they are all counted in "generations". The most respectable thing about this chronology is that it records history not from the perspective of a certain race, but from the perspective of the entire civilization. The first to fourth generations are the history of the Xiling people and the childhood years of the Xiling civilization. They record the years from the formation of the tribe to the exploration of the entire universe and the realization of the edge of the world - the history of this period today. It has long been incomplete, and only a few fragments in the core memory of Xiling Apostle can describe it.
The fifth generation is the turning point of this civilization: in this generation, the Xiling civilization encountered the abyss and jumped out of the world. The old Xiling people became extinct, new Xiling apostles were born, and a new race replaced the creator, "human" Replaced by "Apostle", the hometown world became a historical term, and "Xiling Civilization" was taken over by a young ethnic group, who stepped into the endless void without hesitation - this is also the meaning of the number "five" in Xiling Civilization Big reasons.
In the back pages of the fifth generation, it is the beginning of the history of the Xiling Empire.
The history of a civilization is rarely like this: it is a general history of civilization, but the "protagonist" was changed in the middle of the history. The races in the first half of the history were completely replaced, but the history of this civilization did not change its name and still continued. Handed down. The Xiling people handed over their civilization to the race they created, and disappeared into the depths of the void with a breeze. The Xiling apostles took over the civilization from their ancestors, and vowed to pass it on to the death, and even used almost any means to turn it into an unprecedented of powerful empire. Absolute dedication, absolute loyalty, moving towards the goal, regardless of the consequences - this is the factor engraved deep in the soul of every individual named "Xiling", paranoid and terrifying.
It is precisely because of this chronology. The Xiling apostles also directly referred to the Xiling people's home star era as "our home star era". Although the apostles had not been born at that time, and there was not even a drawing, they still believed that it was their own history. beginning.
It was only when I heard Tavel suddenly mention the fifth generation that I suddenly thought of these things. Sandora's thoughts were obviously more and more specific. She frowned and looked at the meteorite samples suspended on the gravity-free platform, then turned to Tavel: "Are all the materials found natural minerals?"
"Yes, natural minerals," Tavel's expression seemed regretful. "These materials should come from a broken rocky planet in the home universe. The composition analysis shows that they were formed at a similar age, so the probability of coming from the same celestial body is very high. In No man-made objects have been found in the material samples that have been discovered. Perhaps the place where the leak occurred in the home world is far away from where the ancestors were active. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that we have not discovered those man-made objects. After all, the engineering team has not yet classified this area. All searches have been completed, and some of the home matter may have been pulled into an orbit close to the sun by the gravitational perturbation in the galaxy. This is the theory."
"Try your best." Sandora nodded, "But don't hold too much hope. The universe is vast, and the creators are unable to leave their traces on all celestial bodies. It is normal that their relics cannot be found."
We have seen various forms of mineral samples under Tavel's guidance. During this period, two newly discovered valuable samples were sent in. After cutting, Tavel obtained two compounds with complex compositions. Unfortunately, this compound is still not a man-made product. I know that both she and Sandora hope to find the "relics" left by the creator in these hometown materials, but the possibility of this situation is too low. From a probability perspective, it is estimated that it is no more than buying a double color ball for twenty consecutive hits. Cai and was not killed in the end...
But the information he has in front of him is satisfactory enough: Tavel is now basically certain that his home world is still alive, and that it was still very active at least 20,000 years ago. According to the data she collected from the samples, various parameters of the substance in her hometown can be accurately measured, which is of great significance: if a substance can be accurately measured, that is, it has the only measurable physical properties on a macro scale, then It must come from a stable universe. Because the universe is on the verge of a "mathematical doomsday." That is, when the chaos of laws leads to the collapse of the universe, everything in the world will fall into a state of "uncertainty." This uncertainty is different from the uncertainty in quantum science. It refers to the loss of "nature" of everything in the universe on a macroscopic level. , an object would have no mass or be infinitely heavy. It may be solid but may also flow suddenly. It may turn into anything in your sight or may suddenly disappear. This is the state of the internal matter of the universe that was seriously infected by the abyss before it was destroyed - and we are in None of the meteorite samples collected from the asteroid belt are like this, they look normal.
"Even in the worst case scenario, 20,000 years is not enough time to destroy a universe with such a high degree of stability."
Tavel finally concluded by pointing to a light gray ore sample.
"Wait, I thought of a question," Sandora thought for a moment, then suddenly raised her eyes, "How old are these ores? I'm not talking about the age at which they came to this universe, but the age at which they came to this universe. History after the formation of the world.”
"Your Majesty, this is the most confusing part," Tavel immediately understood Sandora's thoughts. "We have conducted a chronological analysis on all the samples we found and determined that the oldest element among them was also in the 120th century. It took shape a billion years ago.”
I thought about it and found that I still didn't understand, so I tugged on Shandora's sleeve: "What do you mean?"
"The home world has been destroyed by the abyss to this day... I don't know how long it is exactly, but it is definitely more than hundreds of millions of years," Sandora breathed out, "and these material samples we found are too young. . If according to the data analyzed by Tavel, these material fragments evolved normally after the home world was eroded by the abyss - the survival of the home world to this day is already a miracle. It still maintained a normal universe after being eroded by the abyss. Evolution, this is simply impossible!”
"Not only that," Tavel also added, "There are no traces of the abyss on any of the samples we found, as if they came from a normal universe."
"Are you sure?!" Sandora suddenly raised her head and looked at Tavel in disbelief.
"It's absolutely true. My Majesty," Tavel nodded vigorously, and then pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "After confirming that these substances came from the home universe, we began to discover various phenomena that were hugely inconsistent with the 'ancestral memories'. This This is what my subordinate mentioned before, the "wonderful" thing about these hometown materials. First of all, they are very young, showing that the hometown world is still evolving normally to this day; secondly, there is no abyss reaction on all material samples, and the hometown world should theoretically have already It must be completely infiltrated by the abyss; secondly, it has nothing to do with the sample, but the anomaly of the home world itself: the lifespan of a universe should not be so long, even if it is not contaminated by the abyss. The lifespan of a healthy normal universe should not be So long!”
I remembered what Father God said: Every natural world has a beginning and an end, and the universe born in the void will eventually end in the void. "Return to zero" is the eternal truth of void. At present, except for the worlds created artificially by the two major gods and the Xiling Empire, the lifespan of all universes is limited. There may be some unusually robust worlds with exceptionally long lifespans, but that's clear. The home universe of Apostle Xiling has far exceeded the time it can theoretically survive.
Even without the erosion of the abyss, that universe should have come to an end on a certain day in history - this is the biggest doubt faced by Sandora and Tavel.
"The home world must be a natural universe. It was not created by gods, and the creators back then did not have the technology to control the lifespan of the universe." Sandora said decisively. Before that, she, like other Xiling apostles, was immersed in the joy of discovering the news about her hometown, and unconsciously ignored the details in this regard. But now that she has calmed down again, the various anomalies in her hometown world are starting to make people suspicious.
It took me a few minutes to sort out the high-end conjectures of Sandora and Tavel, figure out what the focus of the matter was, and then use my limited brain cells to study how to explain this phenomenon, but I soon gave up: myself Obviously I don’t have a brain as magical as Qian Qian’s, and my level of brain power is not at the same level as Qian Qian’s…
"There are only two possibilities at the moment," Tavel suddenly said slowly. "First, something earth-shattering happened in the home universe after the ancestors left. The abyss that infected the entire world may have been purified. Then the entire universe was also purified by someone. Transformed by an external force, this external force has caused the hometown universe to survive to this day, and all this happened after the ancestors left, and no one knows it yet. Second, there may be something wrong with the ancestral memory of the Xiling Apostle. The theory is this "
"I don't think there is anything wrong with the memory of our ancestors." Sandora immediately shook her head, "And the second conjecture cannot explain the lifespan of the home universe. I personally prefer your first hypothesis. No matter what, we all have to Try to find a way to find your hometown, and only going there to see the situation in person can explain everything."
This goal proposed by Shandora is definitely not easy to achieve. Without knowing the coordinates of the world, accurately finding a specific universe in the vast void would give the gods a headache. It is true that the empire has super void radars like the Garden of Death, but the search range of that thing is still a drop in the ocean compared to the entire void. In the past, we at least had a rough range for searching new worlds: either we knew which quadrant the target world was in, or we could It is determined that the target world is not too far from the capital universe, but the "home world" of the Xiling Apostle does not fall into any of the above situations. Although we have material samples from our hometown in our hands, these samples have been away from their world of origin for more than 20,000 years, and the information they carry that can be used to locate our hometown is no longer accurate and readable.
This feels to me like asking an eighty-year-old blind man to search among 1.4 billion people for his biological father who was separated when he was two years old, and he is not allowed to inquire...
"Arjun, what are you thinking about again?"
Shandora's voice suddenly sounded in my ears, pulling my thoughts back to the horizon. I scratched my head in embarrassment, not embarrassed to communicate with her about my long-lost biological father. I know it’s not appropriate to wander around in such a serious situation, but the topic of Sandora and Tavel is really a bit too high-end. When encountering such high-end topics, my ability to wander is almost exponentially strengthened as time goes by— —You see, within two sentences I was distracted again.
"What do you think we can do now?" I thought for a while and asked a very practical question, "The coordinates of my home world will not be found for a while, and the analysis of the armor fragment will also take time. How about we send How many times should people check the world barrier? Since there has been a sudden space flash, it means that the two worlds have been quite close in history, and perhaps there have been collision traces on the world barrier."
This is the only plan I can come up with based on my little knowledge. I know this is still equivalent to asking the old blind man to find his father. The only difference is to help him eliminate women...
"That's all we can do," Sandora nodded helplessly, "but after 20,000 years, with the self-recovery ability of the world barrier, even if there are traces of collision, there may not be much left."
No matter how effective this plan was, a team of engineers set off to the world barrier and scanned it like a needle in a haystack. The next things we can do seem to be over - at least the things I can help with are over - well, there is nothing I can do to help you from the beginning. You are satisfied!
In short, the professionals have begun to work on their professional fields. Just like most other situations in the past, I have nothing to do at this time. After wandering around the base for a long time, I suddenly remembered that Qianqian seemed to be accompanying the little guy outside. They were wandering around, so I decided to go over and see what they were busy with. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read it.)