Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

In the holographic projection, the perspective of the scientific research robot followed the ripples floating up and down around it and continued to move forward.

Silence.

A long silence.

[Ten] did not respond to the inquiry information sent by human civilization.

Until the ripples floating up and down around it completely disappeared.

Until a huge "light wall" suddenly appeared in front of the scientific research robot.

The "light wall" was very high, a thousand meters high. From its imaging method, it can be judged that this is also a kind of road sign.

The meaning is also very simple and easy to understand - stop moving forward, or in other words, no passage.

Zero's reaction speed is needless to say.

Almost at the same time as the "light wall" appeared, the scientific research robot was controlled to stop its forward steps.

In front of him, there was still an extremely thick fog.

But the detector had sounded the alarm.

The vast "land" came to an abrupt end a few thousand meters away from here - there was no road ahead.

The information from [Ten] finally appeared again.

[This is the home planet of the Tenth Empire, an ice giant with a diameter of 73,000 kilometers. ]

[Enroget Civilization, you are in the upper atmosphere of this ice giant. ]

Lv Yongchang's eyes moved slightly, and a look of understanding appeared on his face.

Sure enough, it was exactly the same as the information he deduced.

Then, he calmly asked [Ten] about this piece of land.

This time, [Ten] "frankly" responded to the question of human civilization.

[These are the corpses of countless silicon-based plankton. ]

[Their bodies are very light and have a large number of pore structures, so they can easily float in the upper atmosphere. ]

[When they are about to die, these plankton will gather together tightly. ]

[As time goes by, their corpses form pieces of floating land floating in the upper atmosphere. ]

Lv Yongchang stared at the information in the holographic projection, his eyes full of surprise.

Biological floating land.

He thought of many possibilities for the formation of land, but he never thought that such a large land was "made" by tiny silicon-based plankton!

At Lv Yongchang's signal, Ling controlled a scientific research robot and walked cautiously to the edge of the floating land.

Seeing that the scientific research robot was about to cross the "light wall", [Ten] did not send a message to stop it.

Obviously, this light wall only served as a reminder.

Lv Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief and asked Ling to speed up the pace of the scientific research robot.

...

For the scientific research robot, the distance of thousands of meters passed in a flash.

It successfully reached the edge of this floating land.

The thick fog rolled and undulated.

Compared with the inside of the floating land, the thick fog outside the floating land was obviously more active.

It lowered its head and pointed the camera forward.

In the thick fog, there was no solid "land".

The next moment, several micro drones rose from behind it, circled in the air, and dived straight to the world outside the floating land.

Because it was not clear how much the so-called visitor permission was, and in order not to anger the artificial idiot, the micro drone did not explore deeply, but only flew around the entire floating land.

As time slowly passed, the most basic mapping model appeared on the holographic projection.

This floating land is very large.

Its surface area even far exceeds the land area of ​​the earth.

The average thickness is also an astonishing 20 kilometers, and the thickest part is even more than 50 kilometers.

The entire floating land is like an irregular floating island, following the turbulent atmospheric airflow around it, floating fast or slow in the vast sky.

Under Zero's control, the robot raised its head and aimed the camera and sensor at the sky above.

After combining various detection data and comprehensive analysis, Zero came to a simple conclusion-the orange-yellow light came from the "sky" above.

The huge shell outside the ice giant has completely replaced the role of the main star at this time, providing tremendous energy to this huge planet.

This technology is not difficult, and even human civilization can do this.

But Lu Yongchang was still shocked by the scene in front of him.

The reason is very simple.

According to [Ten], this planetary fortress has existed for more than 200,000 years.

During these 200,000 years, the fortress needs to constantly provide light and heat to the ice giant inside, while maintaining its own normal operation, and even resisting the damage caused by the supernova explosion...

There is no doubt that the energy consumed during this period is an extremely terrifying astronomical figure.

Lv Yongchang suddenly experienced the strength of the seventh-level peak civilization.

...

After a moment of silence, Lv Yongchang tried to ask [Ten] a deeper question.

"Can I know the information about the individual civilization of the Tenth Empire?"

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

[Ten] did not respond to Lv Yongchang's request immediately, as if judging something.

Suddenly, a projection appeared in front of the scientific research robot.

Those were dark gray barrel-shaped objects with a height of more than 30 meters.

Lv Yongchang, who was in [Earth], looked at the dark gray image with a confused look on his face, and a bit of confusion appeared in his eyes.

No, that's not a barrel-shaped object!

That's a creature!

When he saw dozens of long tentacles appearing at the bottom of those barrel-shaped objects, Lv Yongchang suddenly widened his eyes.

The length of the tentacles reached more than 20 meters. Under the support of the tentacles, the barrel-shaped trunks of more than 30 meters stood up straight.

At this point, the overall height of these creatures reached more than 50 meters!

Dozens of tentacles swayed gently, driving the barrel-shaped trunks above to move slowly forward.

Although it was only video data, Lv Yongchang could still feel the "floating feeling" of these creatures when they walked.

They... didn't seem to be walking, but "floating"!

Sure enough!

The next moment, these tentacles bent slightly, and then pushed hard on the solid floating land.

The barrel-shaped trunks of more than 50 meters broke away from the solid floating land and flew straight into the sky.

They rode the turbulent air flow and quickly floated outside the floating land!

That's it!

Lv Yongchang suddenly realized!

How could creatures living in the upper atmosphere not be able to fly? !

The projection slowly dissipated, and [Ten] also sent a message again.

[This is the video data of the Empire individual. ]

[They feed on free electrons in the atmosphere, and thunderstorms are the best time to hunt. ]

[The video footage in front of me shows the Empire individuals heading to the nearest thunderstorm site to feed. ]

Lv Yongchang swallowed hard: "Then how do they communicate with each other?"

[Electromagnetic waves. ]

[When the Empire individuals were born, they mastered electromagnetic wave technology. ]

[Aren't you both silicon-based life forms? ]