The Record of Unusual Creatures

A glorious star appears in the corner of the view, and the sun is weakened and filtered to prevent stabbing the eyes of everyone on the bridge. Hao Ren asked the data terminal to adjust the lens of the external monitor and saw the situation around the star.

The so-called "Arim Planet" has long since disappeared. The planet was gradually dismantled into pieces thousands of years ago. Now it is a continuous space floating island that orbits the original planet orbit. It seems like a series of fragmented and similarly sized taper stones lined up in space. In order to extract the last resources from the underground of the planet, and to make the energy cycle on the planet exhausted as much as possible, the elves have decisively broken down their entire planet and turned it into a solar energy source. Can accommodate more people's fragmentation status. After the rock formations deep in the mantle were dismantled and reshaped into such floating islands, they gained valuable living space and a more valuable test site.

Those space floating islands have obvious artificial modeling traces. Their main body is the rock of the planet itself, but there are huge artificial “ring hoops” around the floating island. Those that are already faint, between the rock and the metal. The man-made structure not only maintains the stability of the floating island, but also creates an energy cover to protect the underlying land, and the energy cover itself can be used to filter sunlight. One side of the floating island is flat, and the other side is a huge ugly rocky foundation. The ancient and huge mechanical structure can be seen between the rugged inverted mountains. They are the power plant of the floating island, gravity generator, energy station, And material recycling plants. I am afraid that those mechanical structures have been around for thousands of years, and I don’t know how many damages there are, but obviously their manufacturers have no energy and resources to repair.

"Those are our homes." Hill calmed down at this moment, and she stood up and pointed at the picture on the holographic projection. "Some floating islands away from the main residential area are test sites. We used to test the space-time core and The super-powered magic guide accelerator, if we don't disassemble the planet into this way, we can't even find such a test field. The magic guide accelerator needs to be built on a solid and huge foundation, and the conventional space station can't carry it, and it Once an explosion has occurred, it may even tear half a planet, so it cannot be placed on the parent star. In history, a generation of scholars built a huge space platform as much as possible to reluctantly carry out this dangerous experiment, but a fusion furnace explosion The platform crashed and almost destroyed the ecology of the entire northern hemisphere. These experimental projects were suspended until the completion of the planet remodeling - but that was also the past tense. Now the test of the space-time core and the magic guide accelerator has stopped, we are actually No resources."

“Those floating islands with bright energy shields are ecological islands with ecological domes under the shields. We have preserved the ecosystem of the planet era as much as possible and transplanted them into a huge artificial circulation system. These ecological domes provide us with Valuable complex organic matter, and at the same time... is the only extravagant enjoyment of my people. Every Erem elf can rest in the dome for fifteen days a year, but no more, the dome’s carrying capacity is limited, and As some key systems age, they are actually shutting down. If they stop, I am afraid we will have to rely entirely on factory synthetics to survive, and this will kill a lot of people: Erem is a slow-moving race. Healthy individuals have a life span of millennium, and the rate of environmental degradation far exceeds the speed at which we adapt. Whenever an ancient facility is shut down, there will be a large number of old elves... even the old elves will die."

“The floating islands with bright beams connected to each other are residential areas, and most of the elves live on those islands. They are specially designed, with the lowest energy consumption, the most stable circulation system, and more reasonable building planning, in other words ... can drag longer. Most of the synthetic factories are on those floating islands, even if other floating islands, such as the test site, are accidentally destroyed. These residential areas can survive as much as possible."

The spacecraft gradually approached those space islands with a low-speed cruise mode. Hao Ren found a special group of individuals in the floating island: they lingered on the edge of the island chain. The whole area is dull, and some of the “hoops” on the island’s borders have even been damaged or even disappeared. The floating islands can still see the remnants of man-made buildings, but the energy shields over the land are clearly extinguished. The earth of the light seems to be dead, like the depleted space rock.

"what is that?"

"Death," Hill sighed. "We have shaped these seemingly magnificent space entities, but that doesn't mean we have superb technology. These floating islands are almost desperate in desperate circumstances." The way the technology was built, the technology was not mature enough, and even the theory was not perfect. Many islands have different structures because the original designers themselves did not know which islands could last longer. And many floating islands were built at the beginning. There are defects, and failures can not be repaired in the later stages, so there will always be floating islands destroyed, extinguished, and then become like that."

Even Lily was quiet now. She even feared the strange scene in front of her. She held her tail and her ears stood up straight: "What about the people above?"

“Most of the time can be rescued and transferred to other islands,” Hill nodded. “This will increase the ecological pressure on other islands, so every time this kind of rescue transfer is carried out, there will be a period of resource constraints. The bill mainly restricts the newborn and reduces the per capita supply. Some old people will take the initiative to enter the 'pray world' and let the body accept euthanasia to make room for other young adults. No way, we always want the whole race to be as stay alive."

"This place..." Hao Ren opened his mouth and only knew what to say for a long time. "It is more serious than I thought."

As a human being, a rookie censor who has not had enough time to experience too many events, Hao Ren can't imagine how many incredible things are happening in the vast void. He sees disasters and doomsdays in various stories. Can not compare with this string of space islands. Before he came here, he had imagined how to help Hill and her people—such as borrowing the empire’s world door system and his connections at the Keibo station, watching if he could deliver some supplies to it, or The merchants of the Fiatiya Nether Financial Group bought some of the technology that the Civilization Non-Interference Act stipulated or the spacecraft gave them to the Erim Elves. As a censor, he had a certain amount of "Imperial Distribution Points" every month. But he hasn't used these things yet, only to hear that these ratios can be exchanged for unusually abundant materials in the major civilizations of the world, so he came up with the above ideas.

It seems that now all his plans have to be revised.

These Erem spirits are far from being supported by a little bit of material or a little late technology.

“Your creativity and resilience are really worthy of praise,” the data terminal couldn’t help but say. “It’s just that you didn’t find the mystery of the super-light engine. Sometimes a road in the tech tree would destroy a civilization, especially For a race where your innate conditions are not enough, as long as a technology fails to develop in time, there is often no chance to turn around. It can be seen that you have worked very hard, only... and ultimately did not succeed."

Hill sighed: "Yes, the final space transfer test failed."

When the giant turtles were close to those island chains, they obviously caught the attention of the Erim elves. Hao Ren noticed that the communicator suddenly reported a large number of unknown contact signals, and some bright spots quickly floated from several living types. The back of the island circumvented and quickly approached the spacecraft. After the lens was pulled over, Hao Ren saw that there were some triangular-shaped aircraft with blunt edges and shimmering gray-gray metallic luster. Each of the aircraft's outer shells was bright with runes. Obviously not the same as the spaceship in the general impression. Those who should be the spacecraft made by the Erim Elf, but they can't cross the tens of millions of light years.

These gray-white triangles quickly came to the vicinity of the giant turtle rock platform. Hao Ren let the spacecraft slow down to near-stationary, so the tens of meters long "small spacecraft" stopped, and did not make a sudden move like a blunder. . The drivers inside them must be in great shock and tension, and everyone in the bridge can even feel the emotion through the cold space and the layers of starship armor. (To be continued)