Chapter 388 Mysterious Ruins
This is the starry sky of Aquila, and the brightest star nearby is Ark of the stars.
Navigating in the void is the 33rd Fleet of the Fifth Legion of the Wind God Empire. In the flagship command hall, commander Dai Zhen and chief of staff Lin Xiaoxu were discussing.
"Xiaoxu, the neighborhood of this galaxy should be what Xiantang people said. Is there a place where the Star Gate ruins are?" Dai Zhen looked at the star map with some uncertainty and asked.
Xiantang people said that there is a satellite near the outermost planet here, and there is a star gate device on it. After energy is input, a star gate can be opened.
The Xiantang people's escape fleet came from here. After starting the Star Gate, they directly crossed the stagnant void area and entered the solar system. They also picked up the Voyager aircraft on the edge of the stagnant void.
At this moment, the 33rd largest fleet of the Wind God Empire is sailing outside the Kuiper belt of the galaxy, 2 astronomical units.
However, images sent back by the reconnaissance ship just sent out showed that there were seven planets in this galaxy, and there was not even a single satellite in the outermost planet.
So Dai Zhen hesitated a little, but after checking the star map, he was sure it was this galaxy, but there was no satellite. Where did the satellite with a star gate device come from?
"Dai Zhen, do you think the pursuit fleet of the Divine Eye Empire destroyed the satellites with star gate devices? Or were they transported away?" Lin Xiaoxu was also a little confused.
Dai Zhen shook his head and said, "The pursuit fleet of the Divine Eye Empire should not know that the Xiantang people ran away from here through the star gate. The reason why they were able to chase the Xiantang people later was that those cloned shadows informed me.
If the Divine Eye Empire knew the location of this star gate, it would definitely directly activate the star gate to pursue it. I think they should not know that the star gate would appear in different places when it opened."
Lin Xiaoxu said: "Not necessarily. Maybe they sent some fleets to chase them, but they didn't know where they appeared, so they destroyed the satellite where the star gate was in anger."
Dai Zhen looked at the picture sent back and said, "No matter it, let's search in the galaxy to see if there are any new discoveries."
The fleet quickly sailed into the galaxy in superluminal navigation mode, which was derived from the gold-swalking beast.
As Li Chunfeng analyzed some memories of the Gold-Swallowing Beast's consciousness, some special technologies of the Gold-Swallowing Beast were found.
For example, ultra-short-range super-light speed navigation technology inside galaxies, such as antimatter shell fuze technology of the Gold-Swallowing Beast, such as special metal crystallization technology, etc.
Therefore, even after so many years, the Gold-Swallowing Beast is still the mascot of the Wind God Empire. Good things will come to your door every time, so Li Chunfeng must find a way to find the gold-Swallowing Beast's nest this time.
Although the ultra-short-range super-light speed does not reach 300 times the speed of light, there are still dozens of times the speed of light, and this technology can enter and exit the curvature space very quickly.
When all the 33rd largest fleet entered the galaxy, Dai Zhen had sent battleships to search one by one planet, and each planet sent a large number of "Storm 4" flying saucers to search for close range to confirm whether there were stargate equipment.
Because the Wind God Empire has stargate technology, it is still very clear to detect these energy devices buried on the surface of planets or satellites.
However, as time passed, all the search ships sent out reported that when no discovery was found, Dai Zhen already felt that he had found the wrong place.
When searching all the planets and there were no star gate equipment, Dai Zhen couldn't help but say, "Xiaoxu, did you think it was really destroyed by the fleet of the Divine Eye Empire?"
Lin Xiaoxu was also speechless because he just checked the star map given by the Xiantang people and confirmed that it was this galaxy.
"Strange, the location given by the Xiantang people is this galaxy. The diameter of that satellite is 1,200 kilometers, which is a little larger than Ceres. How could it be gone?" Lin Xiaoxu said.
Dai Zhen thought for a while and asked, "Xiaoxu, did the Xiantang people say that the device they found from the ruins here is certain that it can reach the opposite side of the stagnant void?"
"What? What did you think of?" Lin Xiaoxu heard Dai Zhen's question and thought that he might have thought of something, so he asked immediately.
Dai Zhen nodded and said, "Look, our empire has always had better space transition technology, so we did not further research on this star gate technology later.
The problem of Star Gate that cannot be guaranteed to appear in the same position after every time it travels through time has never been solved.
But the star gate here seems to be able to ensure that it can travel to the opposite side of the stagnant void, which means that it can be positioned. How did this be done?"
"The warship that explored the fourth planet just now has feedback. There are indeed some ruins of civilization on that planet. Could it be that you want to search for that ruin?" Lin Xiaoxu asked.
Dai Zhen shook his head and said, "No, I want to explore the entire galaxy more comprehensively, and don't let the Kuiper belt go this time.
As for that ruin, send some robots to see if there are any more complete facilities. If there are no more complete facilities, it would be fine. After all, after so long, if there are no more complete facilities, there will be no valuable things at all."
"What do you mean by exploring the entire galaxy?" Lin Xiaoxu was a little puzzled.
Dai Zhen said: "I was thinking that if the satellite was not destroyed, there was another possibility that it left the orbit position for some unknown reason and appeared elsewhere. So, I would like to search for a comprehensive asteroid with a diameter of about 1,200 kilometers in the galaxy."
Lin Xiaoxu's eyes lit up and he said, "Well, your idea is possible. Isn't Ceres in the solar system the small galaxy that was thrown from the Kuiper belt into the galaxy?"
After the two discussed, more warships soon scattered, and some returned to the Kuiper belt at the edge of the galaxy and began to detect asteroids with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers.
At this time, the robot had landed on the planet with civilization ruins. The atmosphere of this planet was very thin. The temperature on the side facing the star was 25c, while the temperature on the side facing the star was minus 70c, and the entire planet was no longer moisture.
Overall, this planet looks very similar to Mars in the solar system, except that the temperature difference is a little smaller than that of Mars, and the planet is a little larger than that of Mars.
Whether it was during the day or at night, all the robots of the warships landed. Due to the rapid scanning and detection of the "Storm 4" UFO, the landing ship accurately sent these robots to places with relatively obvious relics everywhere.
These images were transmitted back to the flagship in real time, and Dai Zhen and Lin Xiaoxu watched quietly.
"Dai Zhen, what do you think of this ruins? This shape seems to be a large energy facility." Lin Xiaoxu said, pointing to one of the projected images.
This is a place that is in the daytime, about the equator of the planet, the entire device runs for several kilometers, with countless thick tubes crisscrossing and a huge spherical tank in the center.
However, these facilities are now in a damaged state, and both tanks and pipes are seriously damaged.
"I think this is not an energy facility, but it looks like a chemical factory. However, why is this factory alone? There is no other artificial facilities around 50 kilometers?" Dai Zhen said in confusion.
Lin Xiaoxu pointed to a picture and said, "This road should be a man-made facility, although it seems that it is only a small part of it intermittently. You can let the robot detect it and see what material this road is made of."
Dai Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, let the smart brain notify the robot there, collect some samples, and test them."
Lin Xiaoxu mobilized the "Storm 4" flying saucer in the air and scanned the surrounding area again. He found that not only did there be no other man-made objects within 50 kilometers of the surrounding area, but also the only few facilities have been damaged, leaving only a few traces of ruins.
It is 100 kilometers away, and there are some ruins. Looking down from the air, this facility looks a bit abrupt.
"Dai Zhen, what level of civilization do you think this ruins should be? If it is a high-level civilization, judging from the distribution of ruins on this planet, this place is obviously not the central area of civilization.
I think it is somewhat similar to some of our remote resource collection planets. Do you think this is also a remote area of a certain civilization?
The star gate should have returned to their civilized transportation facilities from here. After being discovered and used by the Xiantang civilization for the first time, for some reason, the destination became the starry sky opposite the void.
Then until the Xiantang civilization is facing a catastrophe, according to historical records, he chose to escape from here and could appear again on the opposite side of the stagnant void." Lin Xiaoxu said while thinking.
Dai Zhen frowned and went to see several other projected images. The ruins of the different facilities were no longer visible. Obviously, the history of the ruins was too long, and the atmosphere here was thin and the environment was harsh, which had a devastating blow to these facilities.
At this moment, I saw a facility in the northern hemisphere facing a storm like a sandstorm. After this storm, there were fewer traces of this facility.
This scene is all "Storm 4" flying directly to the thin atmosphere and shot through a super magnetic scanner. Otherwise, "Storm 4" would not be able to withstand this level of storm.
Seeing this, Dai Zhen understood that if the atmosphere of this planet is further reduced and time has passed for thousands of years, perhaps this place will really become the second Mars, and no remains on the surface will exist.
At this time, some pictures showed that strange special giant pits appeared in many places. After preliminary detection of the "Storm 4" UFO, it was found that there were some elements enrichment here.
Obviously, this should be a pit of some kind of element, which was purified and mined by the previous civilization in some way.
Perhaps it is really like what Lin Xiaoxu said, this is the resource collection planet. The star gate was originally used to return to the main star domain of their civilization, but I don’t know when the target of this star gate became the starry sky leading to the opposite side of the stagnant void.
"Dai Zhen, look, is this a pattern? Why do I look at it so familiar?" Lin Xiaoxu suddenly pointed to another projection screen and shouted.
Dai Zhen looked at it intently and saw that the picture was taken from the air by "Storm Wind 4". It was on a high ground in the southern hemisphere, which was relatively flat, but there were large stone pillars.
It looks very similar to the stone forests in Huaxia Caiyun Province on Earth, but it is even taller and thicker, with a height of about 100 meters and a diameter of more than ten meters, making it an irregular cylinder.
From the air, this stone pillar forest seemed to have formed a certain pattern, which looked like a phoenix spreading its wings.
That's right, the whole figure is the Chinese mascot Phoenix, a legendary ancient beast!
Chapter completed!