Chapter 281 The Vision of the Forerunner
Although the recent situation in the Star Dragon Empire seems to be slowly stabilizing, Amber knows that this is just a temporary decline due to Agnes' iron-blooded suppression of the separatists. Just suppress it.
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 knew that this situation was 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 empire After the recent changes in the situation in the country, 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 roughly feel the state of this 'clone'."
Speaking of myself A 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 has also resulted in this clone becoming the only 'alien' that has not completed the upgrade and cannot 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.
And now based on the last message sent back by LLS943823, Lilith deduced her position at that time 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 are saying is that your ‘clone’, which has lost contact with its 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 is 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?"< br>
“As expected of the Master, he easily deduced everything based on other people’s intelligence.”
Amber suddenly didn't know what to say. He looked at Lilith, who was looking at him with a playful smile, and asked:
"Then do you think your clone will be busier inside?" What?"
"Well, although we have always called them 'clones', they are actually Lilith, there is no difference
If it were me in it, it would be Don’t hesitate to try to gain control of the artificial celestial fortress.”
“Emmm, that’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 can only accept it first, and then think of ways 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 had not seen Amber for a long time, first complained about his long-term desire to work in the asteroid belt.
But he was just complaining. When it was time to get down to business, the former federal naval officer was also unambiguous.
Soon, he and '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.
It’s just that its volume 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 first started working on this asteroid, we did a comprehensive inspection. We did find this thing at that time, but we regarded it as a relatively concentrated vein of metal ore inside the asteroid.
It wasn't until we dug deeper and deeper that we discovered that this thing didn't seem to be a metal vein, so we sent out the 'Rock Snake' digging robot and mining mules to dig deeper inside, and finally discovered this thing. .”
“You are so lucky.”
Amber patted George on the shoulder, sighing inwardly.
"Ah? Why do you say that?"
"Because this thing is a mining artifact left behind by a super-ancient advanced civilization called the 'Forerunner'."
< br>Amber's answer directly confused George. As a miner whose 'life path' has been planned since birth, he really didn't know about the 'Forerunner Civilization'.
Not only him, but Randall and others on the other side also showed doubtful expressions.
Amber was not surprised by their reaction. Regardless of whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the training of lower-level residents has always been focused on the jobs they are 'assigned' to.
Unpopular knowledge like 'Forerunner Civilization' will not appear in their textbooks at all.
“It’s okay, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know about this thing, as long as you know that it can increase the mining efficiency and ore refining efficiency of Atlas Mining by at least ten times.”
“ Ten times?”
When George heard this, he opened his mouth in surprise.
He knows the current mining efficiency and refining efficiency of Atlas Mining best throughout the company.
After annexing Timler Mining Company and continuously replenishing mining engineering ships, the size of Atlas Mining's mining fleet is no longer the same.
And this high-quality mining area with no one to disturb it has made Atlas Mining's mining team more efficient.
In this case, increase the mining and refining efficiency ten times more?
George suddenly found that he could no longer imagine what this would be like, let alone the impact it would have on the surrounding ore trading market.
Just when he was surprised and confused At the same time, Amber had already supported the rock wall for a while, and then floated towards the regular hexadecahedron.
"Boss (Amber)! Be careful. Let the robot pass first!"
Seeing Amber walking over like this, everyone started to dissuade her.
But Amber did not stop. He waved his hand without looking back to signal everyone to calm down, and then slowly floated over.
After getting closer, Amber discovered 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 had a 'mirror' texture.
The transition processing at the corners is very natural, without any flaws or any traces of splicing, as if it is made of some unknown ultra-high-strength material.
Under the nervous gaze of everyone, Amber carefully placed her palm on the surface of the hexadecahedron, and then released a psychic wave.
Soon, the internal structure of the hexadecahedron appeared in front of his 'eyes'.
Completely different from the seamless feeling on the surface, the interior of the hexadecahedron has an extremely complex network of pipes and expandable node structures, running through the entire space like blood vessels and skeletons.
This ultra-precision processing capability, which is completely beyond the current level of human science and technology, is also one of the hallmarks of the 'Forerunner Civilization' to a certain extent.
Just when Amber was about to conduct another 'psionic wave scan' to find the core of this device.
The hexadecahedron, which originally looked like an eternal rock, suddenly seemed to come alive. A series of structural changes were heard inside it, and the surrounding rock walls also vibrated.
Amber, who was the closest, didn't even have time to tell the people behind her to retreat urgently, when she felt her consciousness suddenly being pulled away.
When he came to his senses again, he found that he was no longer in the asteroid cave.
But in the ruins of a city.
He lowered his head and looked at himself. It was no longer the exoskeleton he wore before, but an ordinary piece of clothing.
Amber's first reaction was to wonder if she had traveled through time again.
But a subconscious thread deep in his brain told him that this was not a time travel, but 'entering' an illusion.
Before he could think about what happened, the ruins of the city in front of him began to 'move' as if the play button had been pressed.
Raging fires rose on the remains of the building, and there were bursts of panic screams all around, along with a large number of explosions and weapons fire.
Meanwhile, large numbers of panicked civilians fled from the buildings or surrounding streets as if they were meant to be there.
These civilians ignored Amber's existence, passed 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 over the burning city.
A series of energy rays radiated from the battleship into the city, setting off another larger-scale explosion.
Amber looked at these huge battleships strafing in the air. They were completely different from the styles of human and elven battleships.
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.
But it is full of 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?”
(End of this chapter)