Chapter 1592 5:00

Since the super-light speed communication between the two planets was interrupted, the Loren Alliance once again seemed to have returned to the time when they were alone. The vast sea of ​​​​stars was quiet and cold. In the dark night, there were no more distant greetings. All living beings in the world were crawling under the gravity. Next, facing this vast and boundless universe on a lonely planet, and quietly counting the time before the coming of the demonic tide.

Antavien's super-light communication array no longer transmits signals, and the antenna array of Thorin's giant tree no longer receives sound. The Star Solvers temporarily returned to their original research fields, which were used to assist The servo brain array that translates alien languages ​​also temporarily allocates computing power to other parts of the neural network. Everything seems to be returning to the original point, but everything has quietly changed.

Although the Lorens are still crawling under gravity, their heads have been raised, ready to face the stars, because there is another group of intelligent creatures in the stars waiting to hear their voices again. sound.

As the summer heat turns to winter, a grand project is finally coming to an end.

Far away from the surface, deep in space, in the "Celestial Station", an ancient giant structure built around the planet, Nicholas is leading an engineering inspection team through a grand and heavy gate. The light shines on his smooth and bright shell, giving off a metallic luster, and low and soft buzzing sounds come from the nearby compartments or under the floor from time to time. In a sense, these low and soft sounds are It is one of the biggest achievements he led the engineering team here. This ancient space station has gradually come to life in the hands of mortals. Although it may not be as good as it was in its heyday, at least, there is now a global orbit in the Sky Station. "Safe route".

In front of an open viewing window, Nicholas stopped. He carefully felt the energy flow and metal vibration deep in the nearby bulkhead. In this way, he judged what had happened not long ago. Is the activated module operating stably? As the commander-in-chief of the engineering force, he knows better than anyone the current state of this ancient space station. Although it looks good in terms of hardware status, the long dormancy time has caused deep damage to it. Due to a certain amount of damage, coupled with the failure of its self-healing function, even areas that have been successfully repaired and restarted will have the hidden danger of sudden failure or even secondary offline. This is for the engineering team that has been living and working in the space station for a long time. Extremely dangerous.

This kind of dangerous situation is fatal to ordinary creatures, but fortunately, this huge engineering team led by Nicholas has the ability to withstand risks to a certain extent. The powerful vitality of dragons allows them to be thrown away even if they are thrown away. It can survive for a long time in the space environment and can survive until rescued by teammates. Iron Man was designed as a working machine in extreme environments from the beginning. It is not a problem to swim butterfly in vacuum once the shield is propped up outside, while Kraken This is a wonderful race that may go to all kinds of weird places to die in sacrifice at any time even if there is no danger. After working together for such a long time, Nicholas has long been obsessed with those deep-sea salted fish. Isn’t it surprising that deathWeird.

His Majesty Gawain once said that life is the currency of the alliance, but some deep-sea salted fish have been disrupting the market by over-issuing unlimited quantities.

However, even if the engineering team itself has extremely high risk resistance, the sudden failure and secondary offline of the repaired cabin are still situations that Nicholas must try to avoid because the "closing" project of the parent star barrier has arrived. It was coming to an end, and the demonic tide was gradually approaching the planet. At this critical node of fate, he didn't want anything to cause any further delay in the construction period.

Next to Nicholas, Ironman Commander Alice rs6, who shared the patrol mission, turned her head and looked outside the bulkhead. Through the transparent high-strength polymer porthole, she could see the inner ring of the Sky Station. Through the scene, she saw the distant land of Loren floating quietly in the dark and deep space like a gem. The ring structure of the Sky Station stretched and warped infinitely into the distance like a dome over the planet. And there Inside the ring, there are several areas that are constantly flashing bright lights. Some small engineering machinery or orbiting vehicles are walking lightly in the dark space and between the space station bulkheads, carrying engineering components or performing welding tasks.

"The last three sets of forwarding and broadcasting devices will be installed in the next few days," Alice suddenly said in a deep voice after staring out the porthole for a long time, "In the Talash Plain, the final debugging of the data bus has begun. , the space-to-ground communication link connecting the surface and the space broadcast array has also been tested, and the three sets of lines are in line with the expected parameters."

The Dragon Seal Witch Asarena, standing on the other side, raised her head and stared. Looking at the small planet in space, it took a long time to sigh softly, "We can't see the Loren continent."

"Because we are behind it," Alice rs6 explained in a serious manner, "We set off from the orbital elevator in the southwest sea area of ​​​​Loren, and the subsequent engineering teams began to carry out the transformation project of the Cangqiong Station from two directions, and finally completed the rendezvous in the orbital module on the back of the planet. We are now standing in the rendezvous point module, You can't see the mainland of Loren from here."

Asalena glanced at Miss Iron Man next to her, with a helpless expression on her face: "Of course I know, I just feel emotional."

"Sorry, I still don't quite understand the difference between jokes, emotions and discussions," Alice rs6 was stunned for a moment, with a somewhat apologetic tone, "I hope this didn't cause you any trouble."

Alice rs6 was stunned for a moment again, and then hesitantly said Raise your hand to point in another direction"Although, the Frost Sky Seat is actually in this direction, Miss Asarena."

After saying that, she quickly took her hand back and asked cautiously, "Was that emotion again?"

Asalena "Yes, I'm just feeling emotional."

Then Alice rs6 laughed. She is now able to use her expression module very skillfully. "So that's it. I believe it." The witch lady must still be watching us at this time, and she and her people must be safe, Miss Asarena, we will hear their voices again after this storm is over.”

Even with the light-blocking filter, the endless light emitted by the arc still gave her the illusion that her eyes were being burned. She saw clouds and mist rising above the huge arc. Heat waves containing high-energy reactions form a crown shining in space, and under the heat wave, you can see a gaseous star with a faint wood grain slowly rising and falling. The scene is spectacular, but it is worse than this heat wave. , The crown of light is more eye-catching, but it is the blood-red luminous strips that slowly rise and fall between the light and the clouds, like some kind of aurora curtain.

"The storm is coming soon." Asarena whispered to herself.

On the surface, 90% of the Loren continent is being shrouded in deep night. This boundless night is like a gentle curtain, so that the world does not have to witness the sun being gradually covered with bloody patterns at this moment. scene, but Gawain was still awakened by the news of the approaching storm. In the early hours of the morning, he put on his coat and left the room and went to the terrace.

The news of the impending storm did not come from the Cangqiong Station engineering team, but from the ancient satellite in his mind broadcasting "Alert, the activity of giant planets has increased sharply."

Just such a sentence shook him out of his rare sleep in recent days.

There were some dark clouds in the sky, covering most of the starlight. The sparse stars were only vaguely visible through the gaps in the dark clouds. Gawain looked at the stars for half an hour with his coat on, but he only let his eyes His sleepiness was completely blown away by the cold night wind. He took a deep breath and felt his chest gradually being filled with cold air. As he exhaled the air bit by bit, he began to tentatively call out a distant voice in his mind. "Omega, are you there?"

"I'm listening," Omega's response came almost immediately. As a "free machine soul" that does not need to rest, the other party can obviously respond to data anytime and anywhere. The call being connected, "According to your time, it should be about an hour before dawn. Are you insomniac, my friend?"

"I was woken up by the alarm sound coming from the satellite. ," Gawain said with some helplessness, "The satellite reported that the sun's activity is rising sharply.I think it is the edge of the demonic tide that is gradually approaching Loren. "

"Yes, it is approaching rapidly," Omega's voice was very calm. He directly transmitted a picture to Gawain's mind, so Gawain directly "saw" a strange planet. In the scene above, he saw a barren plain covered with boulders ushering in the sunrise. Several small walking machines were busy running among the boulders. On the horizon, a blazing star was gradually rising into the sky. It was Omi. The most eye-catching thing about the "sun" where Jia temporarily lives is the red lines spreading from its edge, "I think you should be able to see such a sunrise over there soon. "

"As the influence of the magic tide continues to approach, the natural magic focus in space will react first. The magic focus represented by the virtual celestial body will produce optical phenomena visible to the naked eye due to remote disturbance. The initial disturbance will occur several years before the official arrival of the demonic tide, and will continue to intensify as the front of the demonic tide approaches, until the bloody sun rises in the sky and the stars twinkle." Gawain whispered to himself, "This time it is about the time since the last time. Only two months seems to be very close indeed. "

Omega was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said, "Based on Loren time, I will shut down my main thinking array next month and start a one-year hibernation. "

Gawain was startled for a moment, but he was not surprised. He had already known about Omega's hibernation plan, but when the other party solemnly informed him, he was still a little stunned. "I didn't expect it to happen so soon." Also, the time is almost up. You don’t have any protective equipment there, so it would be safer to enter the dormant state as early as possible. "

"Yes, I learned the trait of moving forward cautiously from you," Omega said quietly, and then suddenly changed the subject, "But before officially going into hibernation, I have something I want to Take a look. ”

Gawain was a little curious about “what”

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that Omega began to transmit a new image data to him. In a moment of trance, Gao Wen Images translated through the satellite system appeared in Wen's mind. He "saw" that his perspective seemed to be a surveillance drone, flying low through a brightly lit corridor. Then, in front of him, A huge dome structure and an open, testing ground-like facility appeared again. Countless cubic containers made of transparent polymer were neatly arranged in the facility, and when you saw clearly which ones, When he saw the contents of the cube container, he was surprised.

It was full of living things, including strange-shaped flowers and plants, algae undulating in the culture solution, and things growing along the bulkhead. There are moss, some small animals, and even unformed embryonic flesh. They are surrounded by electrodes, cables and pipes, and monitoring robots as small as mosquitoes take care of these strange animals in containers. plants, while bright sunlight shines down from the dome, ensuring their natural growth

"This is"

"I made them," Omega seemed to be looking for the right words to introduce his work. "This is only the first generation. It was created after simple adjustments using biological samples brought out from Loren. Sampling specimens, they are still a long way from fully adapting to the environment of this planet. I am trying to think of ways to enable them to produce their own nutrients or absorb external nutrients under the lighting conditions of this planet. When I perform hibernation , the automatic device here will continue to cultivate them and be ready to cultivate the second generation before I wake up."

Gawain was speechless for a moment, and then suddenly thought of Omi before. During the conversation between Ga and Enya, he fell into thinking, and after careful consideration, he finally said, "So this is the meaningful thing you have found for yourself. Does it make you feel happy?"

"Yes," Omega replied immediately, "Although I was not sure about this at the beginning, I am now certain that the birth and flourishing of life are indeed things worth rejoicing and looking forward to, and looking forward to their changes and future. , is something as meaningful as exploring the stars. It seems that sharing one's journey of exploration with all kinds of life is far more interesting than going alone, and"

Gao Wen" and "

"And I am finally sure of one thing," Omega said with a smile, a very obvious smile. This was the first time Gawain felt it from his calm tone. He had an obvious emotional reaction, "My creators, although they regarded me as a weapon from the beginning, they must have been full of expectations and good intentions when they created me. I responded to this expectation and lived up to it." I am very, very lucky for this kindness."

Listening to the voice in his mind, Gawain took a gentle breath in the last scene of night before dawn.

On the distant horizon, a faint line of red light gradually lit up, and a rising cloud-like crown came into his sight.

"Yes, respond to expectations and don't let down good intentions. This is the luckiest thing in the world."

Theoretically it will be completed in these two days