Chapter 1316 Corpse

The road leading to the core area of ​​​​the wreckage is clear. Tavel is right. We are walking on an emergency escape channel. Due to the special design and high-strength structure, this channel miraculously remained intact after the spacecraft crashed. complete. The only thing that hinders walking is the angle of this corridor: because the spacecraft crashed on the ground at an angle, the entire space inside the spacecraft presents a forty-five-degree angle. Walking in such an inclined place... In fact, in the end we There was a long way to fly, and I just walked on a straight road and felt dizzy...

"This is the core area gate." Finally, a hexagonal alloy gate appeared at the end of the corridor. The gate could no longer be completely closed. The slightly twisted gate caused a crack of more than 20 centimeters in the center of the armor plate of the gate. Tavel stepped forward and pushed the gate and found that it was motionless. "It seems that this must be destroyed."

Bingtis stepped forward and touched the door that had stood for who knows how many years. The door instantly turned into dust silently. Shandora's eyes changed slightly. She was not touched because of the destruction of her ancestor's relics, but she seemed to have thought of some doubts, but she said nothing and just walked in first.

"By the way, how did you get in at that time..." My head twitched and I asked Lilina an idiotic question, but the next second I saw this resentful little girl's washboard-like body shape, and her normal appearance. Hanging on her wrist, the doll girl, not much bigger than an SD doll, instantly said, "Oh, I understand."

Lilina angrily looked at Tavel, who had a very good figure, Shandora who had a good figure, Bingtis, who had a super good figure, and Qian Qian, who was not super good but had normal development, and her anger burned. Yes, he patted his chest and walked inside: "Tch, what do you know? Small breasts are a rare resource. Sooner or later, you will realize that straight breasts are the mainstream, and clamshells and sliders are a thing of the past..."

I was speechless for a while, then followed the team into the control center of the spacecraft.

The control center is large and has a grandeur that matches the appearance of the spacecraft. However, I can hardly see any trace of "Xiling" in the unfamiliar equipment around me. The spaceship built by the creator is almost completely different style. If all the surrounding materials did not have the information characteristics of their home world, I am afraid that Tavel and Sandora would not be able to connect this strange and weird spaceship with the origin of Xiling. stand up. As an outsider, I can't see many technical details from it, and I don't know how much this ship lags behind compared with the battleships of the New Empire, but it can be clearly seen that this control center is completely for "mortals" "Prepared: It is a giant circular hall. The neatly arranged seats and operation terminals occupy half of the hall, and the terminal position of the thinking interactive console and the ship-based host cannot be seen. This is the biggest difference from the Empire’s current spaceship: this ship requires manual control entirely, and there are many operators. The shipboard host of the spacecraft itself cannot undertake independent tasks, and cannot even appear in the lobby as one of the spaceship commanders—— On the imperial spaceship, the shipboard host almost assumes the role of deputy captain. Moreover, the number of direct control personnel required for imperial warships will be incredibly small.

The assistant technicians immediately went to work with a cautious attitude. They began to examine these ancient devices and try to figure out how they started and what type of energy they had. Although no one can explain how this "mortal artifact" survived this horrifically long period of time, the intact appearance of those consoles is still obvious. If you can't explain something clearly, don't explain it for now, and finish the work you can handle: This is the consistent stance of Tavel's team.

Sandora came to the seat closest to her, where one of the creators once sat, but the ancestor who created the third clan of gods in the void was no longer there. All that was left was a broken seat covered in dust and a control terminal that seemed strange to me. Sandora reached out and brushed away the dust on the console, revealing the light blue panel underneath. The panel's material reminds me of a touchscreen, and its shape is like an elongated hexagon.

"This shape is the only thing that still exists today." Sandora sighed softly. I thought of the equipment on the imperial starship: most terminals have a hexagonal control crystal board, and their material is Xiling Apostle. One of the immortal substances created out of thin air that will not be eroded by time. It has amazing solid texture and physical and chemical properties. It is countless times more advanced than the glass plate fixed on the steel platform in front of you, but the precision of the hexagon The proportions transcend time and space, connecting two generations and becoming a piece of evidence proving the immortal connection between this wreckage and the Xiling Apostle: destiny. What a wonderful thing.

"Where are the remains that the two little girls mentioned?" Bingtis saw that a group of people seemed to have been completely attracted by the ancient equipment at the scene, and couldn't help but remind them. Sandora certainly hasn't forgotten this, but I don't know why she hasn't taken the initiative to mention it until now. Instead, she seems to be deliberately diverting her attention to the ancient equipment and other messy things in the control center.

"Are you scared of being close to home?" Bingtis glanced at Sandora with interest and suddenly said playfully. "Oh, that's not how the word "hometown shyness" is used...but don't worry about the details."

"It's over here!" Lilina ran to the side and waved to us. Sandora originally wanted to say something, but she didn't care at this time. In order to show that she was not "timid", she ran over immediately, and I followed closely behind her, and then I saw where the "remains" Lilina mentioned were.

What is unexpected is that there is a "sleep cabin" in a place like the control center!

Okay, maybe it's a medical cabin, an rescue cabin, an escape cabin or something like that. In short, at the edge of the control hall, against the circular wall, there are countless containers neatly arranged. I saw them when I first came in, but at that time I thought they were some kind of control terminal or decoration. If it weren't for Lilina's strong sense of anything related to life (including remains), it would be the first time The secret of these containers has been discovered since then. Perhaps we will have to scan the entire ship before we can discover that these containers contain the remains of the creator.

These containers are elongated hexagons, roughly similar to the coffins used by the ancient Egyptians (perhaps the coffin style is also part of the Xiling civilization?), and their size seems to be suitable for only one person. They are dark in appearance. It is a fully enclosed alloy box, placed vertically and half-buried inlaid on the circular wall of the control hall. Like all the equipment in the hall, these "sleep chambers" have no light on the surface and silence inside: their energy supply has long been terminated. Although for unknown reasons they have existed for far longer than the limits of matter, no one would expect the people inside these vessels to still be alive.

"There is no life response," Sandora reached out and gently stroked the surface of the container closest to her, saying the self-evident conclusion, and then she looked around the entire hall. Instantly calculating the number of all sleeping cabins, "If I guessed correctly, the number of people in these sleeping cabins corresponds to the number of people in the control center. These small cabins seem to be equipped with independent energy and navigation mechanisms, and I also scanned structures similar to thrusters. This makes them more like escape pods. The creators placed these devices in the control center, perhaps indicating..."

"They live in an era where they need to abandon the ship and escape at any time. Even the control center is not safe." Tavel's mass projection came over at some point. She looked at the small cabin in front of her, "Your Majesty, I want to open one and take a look. What?"

Sandora frowned and took a long time to make up her mind: "Be careful and don't destroy the ancestor's remains."

A "sleep cabin" was dismantled smoothly, with only tenons and an energy line connecting it to the wall behind it. Just like Sandora said, these cabins are designed for independent escape from the mothership. The senior assistant technicians carefully laid the container flat on the ground, causing a puff of dust to rise. The opening and closing mechanism of the container has been completely damaged, so it can only be dismantled violently. When the flash of the cutting beam traveled around the container, I noticed that Sandora clenched her fists nervously.

Then, the lid of the container was carefully opened.

A tall man with a slightly gray beard and hair was lying quietly inside, wearing some kind of ancient military uniform that we didn't recognize, with a peaceful expression. Just like before.

It was not a shriveled corpse, not a skeleton, not a weathered and tattered rag, but a middle-aged officer who looked as if he had just fallen asleep. I was a little stunned for a moment. I can't believe that this is the ancestor of Xiling who has been dead for countless years. History is approaching in front of me in such a "young" appearance, which makes me feel a strong sense of violation. He didn't look like he had been dead for a long time at all. I even felt... as if he had just laid down in this dormant escape cabin a few minutes ago and was about to be suddenly awakened by us.

"This is the creator..." Sandora said with a surprised tone. Maybe she didn't expect the person in the container to be like this. Then her eyes glowed slightly and she switched to data analysis mode, "Sure enough, … Unexplainable circumstances also exist here.”

"what happened?"

I saw Sandora and Tavel's expressions were very strange, so I couldn't help but ask aloud.

"It is impossible for secular materials to be immortal," Tavel replied solemnly, "That's why we use information materialization technology to create imperial equipment in order to make those extraordinary materials withstand the impact of time. Earthly materials... use your best For easy-to-understand examples, you should also know effects such as molecular osmosis and many other factors that cause matter to decay, weather and degenerate. As long as you are in a normal environment, everything in the world will slowly change, even if there is only one planet in the universe Atoms always have a moment of decay. However, this spacecraft, the remains of the creator in front of us, and the home matter we found in the asteroid belt, all transcend 'time'. This is the theory."

"They are in an inexplicable 'immortal state'," Sandora took over. "It's not that time has stopped, but that time cannot change their 'state'. They are like snapshots, fixed in a certain state." Under 'normal order', they repeat their basic evolution over and over again, and every short period of time, they 'refresh' themselves at the micro level. This results in all of these in front of us appearing in an incredibly intact state, as if they had just emerged from It’s like escaping from my hometown world…”

"What's even more incredible is that in this microscopic immortal state, they still evolve according to normal rules at the macroscopic level," Tavel easily crushed a metal protrusion on the corner of the dormant cabin with his fingers, "As you can see , it can be destroyed on a macroscopic level and will not be restored through 'refreshing'. But on a microscopic level, its atoms no longer decay or transform. Even if countless billions of years pass by, it... still remains It looks like what it looked like when it left its home world. It is precisely because of this that the materials in our home world that we have measured are much 'younger' than their theoretical lifespan. This is theoretically true."

I quickly understood what these words meant. They looked at Tavel and Sandora in surprise: What they were talking about was the reason why their home world had defied convention and survived to this day, and it was also the reason why the ancient ruins in front of us remained immortal after countless years. This problem was extremely troubling a few hours ago. Unexpectedly, Tavel and Sandora figured it out now.

"I have already made speculations about microscopic immortality," Tavel explained why she suddenly became enlightened. "It's just that there are only original materials over there in the asteroid belt. Those materials come from the same area. Their preservation to this day may only be due to small-scale world distortion, so they have no corroborative value. But this spacecraft here, and the creator's The remains are all in the same 'immortal' state, and my subordinate's guess has been confirmed. I just had a brief discussion with Her Majesty Sandora. I think that since even the creator's remains are in this strange 'immortal' state, State', then the entire home world is very likely to be in the same state. This is theoretically the case."

It turned out that Tavel had already made a vague guess, but because it could not be confirmed, she did not say it out of the cautious attitude of a scientist. She was indeed the best researcher in the New Empire, and her reasoning ability was very strong.

"Next, we have to verify these speculations through experiments," Tavel said seriously, "let these substances go through time. Let's see if they are eternal. My subordinates have ordered the laboratory to prepare a time acceleration chamber, and soon Soon..."

"Why are you wasting so much time?" I casually pointed to Qianqian, who was squatting on the ground and playing backgammon with Huesca not far away. "The accuracy of the time acceleration chamber is much lower than Qianqian's - and that girl doesn't do anything serious. Something went wrong."

Tavel was stunned.

Of course, the remains of ancestors cannot be used as experimental subjects, so Tavel asked her assistant to take out the material samples collected from the wreckage of the spacecraft and the material samples extracted from the asteroid belt, and gave them to Qianqian for accelerated experiments, and Shan Dora ordered the engineers to carefully disassemble all the sleeping cabins in the hall and prepare to transport them back to the base. There are people in each of these sleeping pods. Based on the status of the spacecraft and the fact that the sleeping cabin was closed but failed to eject, Sandora tried to trace back what happened to the ship that year:

The spacecraft suffered serious damage (possibly the abyss, but since there is no residual reaction from the abyss on the spacecraft. So it may also be a secondary space disaster caused by the abyss, let's ignore this for now), but the creators still have enough time to react, so They all moved into the escape cabin. However, fate played a trick on the people on this ship, maybe just when the escape capsule was about to eject from the ship. The power section of the spacecraft finally failed: a violent explosion tore it in half.

The control signal of the spacecraft was suddenly interrupted, causing all escape cabins to fail to start normally. Although good protective measures protected the bodies of the creators in the cabin, they never woke up again.

The wreckage of this ship should have been floating in the home world for a long time at first - it could not have crashed in the void, otherwise it would have been assimilated long ago - and then followed the sudden flash of space 20,000 years ago Come to this universe.

After a while, looking at the busy scene of everyone in front of me, I suddenly remembered something, and it was of great importance, so I jumped in two steps next to Shandora who was supervising the soldiers transporting the dormant cabin: "By the way, girl, do you think the navigation host of this ship will have the coordinates of the home world?!"

What I thought was pretty good: Any normal spaceship that can fly out of the world must have a navigation host, right? Although the creators' technology is not very high, it is compared with today's Xiling Apostles. In terms of absolute technological level, they are already an advanced civilization that can jump out of the void. They must know how to accurately calibrate their home world - us The spaceship is now huge in size and has ample living space. It looks more like an ark of exile than a battleship, and there is a device suspected to be an order field generator in its middle section, so the original intention of this ship is to sail in the void. Yes, I have countless reasons to convince myself that this ship carries the coordinates of my home world.

Even if the home world is about to be wiped out, the creator will enter the coordinates that will theoretically become blank soon into the navigation host of the spacecraft. This is what I think.

Sandora's eyes seemed to light up, but she soon sighed and said that the truth would never be so optimistic:

"The 'position' of the world in the void is not eternal. Each world changes its coordinates at a very slow speed. Under normal scales, this change can be ignored. The void navigation database only changes every million years. All updated once, but countless millions of years have passed since my hometown world...you understand."

I blinked, trying to put aside the messy associations in my mind about the theory of continental drift, and then sighed in disappointment.

"What are you thinking about?" I saw Sandora's eyes falling on the ancestral dormant cabins again, with a thoughtful look on her face, and I couldn't help but ask curiously.

"If they are materially immortal," Sandora said word for word, "does that mean... we can resurrect these ancestors..." (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 phone users please go and read.)