Sword of Daybreaker

As the surging energy was injected into the acceleration system, the ancient giant orbital module began to move towards the space station in the sky. The orbital module was equipped with 120 engineers and the first batch of 22 sets of "parent stars". "Barrier Broadcast Components", thanks to the amazing technology of the voyagers, these cargoes will be smoothly transported to space within a few hours, and will be installed in several reserved spots near the traffic module in the next few days, and in the next few days After a week, they will be tested without being hooked into the neural network.

Among the stars, the ancient sky station is quietly floating in the dark space. The towering orbital elevator extends from the surface of the planet to the inner ring of the space station. The traffic module connected to the orbital elevator is brightly lit. The engineering team led by Nicholas Now, about one-tenth of the energy group of the entire space station has been successfully restarted, and these constantly "awakening" systems have awakened the rest of the space station one after another. A wave of awakening is spreading inside the sky station. Almost every day, there are New lights come on at the far end of the Vault Station annulus.

Against the background of the vast space, these lights extending in the darkness are like the Great Wall of Lights surrounding the planet.

On the inner edge of a ring near the traffic cabin, eye-catching sparks light up the space, and the constantly flickering particle jets complement the lights on the nearby bulkhead. A construction machine with a strange structure is using its limbs like arms Tie the nearby support tube tightly, and use its front-end spear-like structure to perform welding operations on the outer wall of the space station, and on the "head" of this construction machine, you can see a high-strength transparent polymer. The "spherical shell", Cassandra wearing a deep space work suit is sitting inside, holding the joystick in her hand, nervously watching the progress of the construction machinery.

After a while, the welding flame gradually extinguished, and Cassandra breathed a sigh of relief in the operation cabin, and turned on the communication system next to it: "The welding on my side is over, and the external fixed frame has been connected to the designated position, who will come to check? "

After a while, Cassandra in the cockpit saw that the nearby gate was opened, and the Iron Man Commander Alice floated out from the inside. This lady, who was made up of precision machinery, was only wearing normal clothes and did not wear any protection. equipment, but the magic mechanism in her body propped up a shimmering shield that shone in space, blocking the ubiquitous high-energy rays in the universe - other than this shield, Alice did not need any life support system.

"Sometimes I am quite envious of you." Watching Miss Alice in space activate the magnetic force on her soles and approach the welding point step by step, Cassandra couldn't help but said in the communicator, "You guys hold on. The shield is directly active in space, and our Kraken has to rely on protective clothing, or it will freeze directly in space and become a fog of ice..."

"Iron Man was born to perform tasks in harsh environments," Alice didn't open her mouth, but her voice sounded directly in Kassandra's cockpit, "Our group has even more accepted Her Royal Highness Ophelia's special request. Modified, enchanted bionic skins and inner thermostatic shells are good enough to handle the extreme temperatures in space—but it's not that advanced technology compared to the space-engineering machines you're using today."

"Ha, thank you so much for the compliment—I never thought I would one day be sitting on something like this on an extravehicular welding mission," Cassandra laughed, patted the dashboard in front of her, and then He quickly and cautiously checked the places that he had photographed, and said angrily, "These things are all collected from the old antiques in the warehouse. Although the key parts have been replaced and transformed with new technologies, the working state can be remembered with me. There's no comparison."

The Kraken was once an interstellar civilization that mastered the technology of manufacturing giant starships. Although they eventually stranded on this primitive and barbaric planet, the ancient database of Antavien and Gnakuli still retain the information of this powerful civilization. Ancient Afterglow - In order to carry out the repair mission of the sky station, the Krakens took out all the good things at the bottom of the press box, including the space operation equipment that has been sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, such as the protective clothing on Cassandra, And this small engineering machine called "Deep Space Fish" that she is operating. . .

Of course, this is a redesigned product based on the environment of this universe and localized using "Magic Technology". Due to the hasty design, its performance is not as good as Cassandra remembers - the original version The Deep Space Fish is designed to maintain Antavien's ecological dome and has a combat function. It clings to the hull of the starship with its arms and legs, and its powerful welded nozzles can perform armor plate repairs and also work in After overloading, it can be used as a beam cannon to intercept meteorites. This one in front of me is obviously not good.

Not to mention the use of beam turrets to intercept meteorites and small hostile spacecraft. Its arms and legs even get stuck on its own from time to time, and the sensor efficiency is so outrageous that after the welding operation is completed, auxiliary personnel are required to conduct visual inspections from outside the cabin. acceptance…

"Better than nothing," Alice's voice came from the communicator, awakening Cassandra from those long and vague memories, "Just think about it, just a few years ago, weren't you still troubled by the most basic energy problems? And now you’re back in your familiar position again, manipulating such a machine on space welding missions—I think that’s pretty amazing progress.”

"...You have learned to comfort people, Miss Alice," Cassandra glanced at the Iron Man commander who was checking the welding points at the front end of the construction machine in surprise, "I remember when you first came, you only knew 'task' and ' Instructions 'Two things...'

"I installed more advanced emotional simulation and learning modules to adapt to the situation of performing tasks with different races," Alice explained in a straightforward manner, "and, as the first ... correction, as the second independent from the Iron Man network Running Iron Man, my activity record will be an important reference for subsequent model improvements and upgrades, so Her Royal Highness Ophelia has opened up many permissions for me, which allows my mind to grow like Diana."

"...The Queen said that every civilization has its own technology to be proud of. I think the mental core in your stomach is amazing." Cassandra sighed sincerely, then raised her head and looked at the distant scenery. .

Against the background of a vast starry sky, she saw that the inner side of the ring of the sky station stretched infinitely into the distance like a steel earth that was slightly upturned. The silver-gray steel had a cold and hard texture, and the lights were dotted On both sides of this steel earth, she seemed to be looking into the sea of ​​​​stars, and between the lights, steel and the background of the starry sky, she could see four or five rays of light that were shining. The inner ring shines brightly.

It was the other work group doing the welding work, her deep sea sisters, and her dragon and iron friends.

Every shining place means a "mounting point", and every "mounting point" means a "broadcasting device". Now the orbital elevator is sending the first batch of engineering components and the engineering personnel who came to support it into space, and in the near future, more personnel and materials will be sent into the sky, and those engineering components will be fixed at the sky station. On the ancient and magnificent steel barrier, when the planetary shield rises from the earth and closes in space, the broadcast array in the inner ring of the sky station will contact the barrier of the parent star, forming the largest data exchange system in history.

Afterwards, the neural network will complete the final connection with this "planetary shield", and the minds of the earthly beings will turn into a tough barrier called the "mother star barrier", and stand up against the most primitive and deepest malice in this universe.

Cassandra withdrew her gaze and looked into the distance. She raised her head. Loren's verdant land and blue ocean were quietly suspended above the operating cabin. The outer tube wall of the orbital elevator pointed to the surface of the planet. In the past, everything on that earth had been blended into the blue and green background, and no country to country, city to city could be seen again.

But Cassandra knew that at this moment the industrial machinery of this planet had started with a bang, and mortals were forging an ambitious giant city outside their cradle—since time immemorial, since primitive man has built stone and mud The first wall, since the king cast their castle with steel and masonry, until today the Loren Alliance built this mother star barrier, the efforts of the earthly beings to build the wall to survive have never stopped.

Mortals are very fragile, so fragile that a strong wind, a fire, or a disease may take hundreds of thousands of lives. It is also because of this weakness that they have to embrace the gods, in order to seek it in the difficult and sinister world. Peace of mind, they curled up behind a high wall, hoping to withstand the cold wind and beasts in the wilderness.

But this is how all sentient beings walked step by step in the weak and small, and finally reached the position of side by side with the gods they created, and reached the height of looking around among the stars.

Then, in the face of the deeper darkness among the stars, the greater malice in the world - to survive, they built a higher and larger wall, and they once again huddled behind the wall and trembled, waiting for the end to come, they may not necessarily Will survive, but if they survive, then their eyes will surely go farther, until the new city is built, and it will reach the end of the stars.

A sentence suddenly appeared in Cassandra's mind, and she couldn't help but whisper to herself: "If the weak are not cowardly, the weak will live forever; if the strong are unrestrained, the strong will not survive..."

"What are you talking about?" Alice, who was inspecting the welding point, raised her head and looked curiously at the cockpit of the construction machine. "It doesn't sound like a proverb from the Loren continent..."

"It's a saying from my hometown," Kassandra explained, "meaning that weak creatures can survive for a long time if they can face their weakness and overcome the fear of cowardice, while strong creatures can survive if they don't. With more restraint and unscrupulousness, sooner or later, it will disappear into a bigger crisis - this is what a wise man said in our ancient times, when we struggled to survive on the seabed, relying on strong vitality and resilience to cope with the powerful deep sea predators."

"The Kraken...weak?" Alice's tone sounded incredible, "Your Kraken will also be threatened by predators? Are there any more powerful predators than you?"

"We're not predators, we're peace-loving," Kassandra laughed, "and I'm talking about a long, long time ago, when we were a fairly weak race, not to mention making The spaceships that can navigate in the universe have never even seen what the sea looks like. At that time, the most terrifying deep-sea predators in our eyes were actually just some sea beasts. Later, we kept them in protected areas. inside…"

"Interesting data, I'm going to record it and upload it to the Iron Man network," Alice listened thoughtfully, then shook her head, "but for now, let's focus on the task, Miss Cassandra, the welding point has been After the inspection, the indicators meet the design requirements, and we can carry out the next engineering task.”

"Work work," Cassandra patted her face and quickly lifted her spirits, "Which area is next?"

"Wait a minute, I'll send the information..."

…

Tarash Plain, the edge of the deep blue well impacted the crater, a large-scale building is under construction-although at the moment it only has a large construction site and a large number of frames standing like skeletons, but only from the scale of these things, it is It's enough to make people speculate about what it will look like in the future.

Powerful construction machinery roared on the construction site, and the energy pipes directly connected from the deep blue well provided unlimited surging energy to all the facilities on the construction site after conversion. Cecilians in engineering uniforms were among those The steel machines are busy with each other, and there is a large curtain hanging on the fence at the entrance of the construction site, with a large line of characters written in the common language of mankind:

"Mother Star Barrier Ground Control Center"

A slender figure stood quietly on a high platform near the construction site, overlooking the busy construction site.

This figure is blond with a shawl, wearing a court dress that obviously did not belong to this era and was quite popular in the Gondor period. Her face was as delicate as a doll. She stood in the cold wind and had a panoramic view of the entire construction site. , and a few meters behind her stood a row of Iron Man soldiers. These Iron Man soldiers were motionless in the wind, like sculptures.

In the past hundreds of years, Ophelia has never left her "doomsday bunker". Although she has traveled all the human kingdoms except the wasteland in the way of "incarnation", she has never set foot on the On the Tarash Plain above her head, even after the Battle of Tarash, she created a "body" that truly belonged to her under Gawain's suggestion, and this body basically only moved underground.

Today, for the first time, she left the underground fortress with "own body" and set foot on this land in person.

The memory of the real Princess Ophelia in history flows quietly in the matrix, and the memory still retains the old scenery of this land, in which there are towering cities, vast fields, flying in the sky The magic organ and the towering mage tower group, but all this has long disappeared in the earth-shattering explosion 700 years ago. What Ophelia Matrix saw with her own eyes was another bleak but magnificent scene. screen.

The wilderness is desolate, but countless towering energy facilities are rising, the old city is gone, but the foundation of the mother star barrier command center that shelters this world has been laid, and the sky once covered by charged clouds is now clear, although no longer. She couldn't see the magic flying carpets and magic flying boats passing through the clouds, but she could see the castle-like Gorgon flying fortresses and **** formations cruising through the clouds.

There are also the griffins of the Typhon Empire and the giant eagles of the Silver Empire scolding the street at a low altitude.

It is also a scenery.

(End of this chapter)