Chapter 1576 Distant

When midnight approached, the FTL communication signal echoing among the stars calmed down again, and the huge antenna array on the top of the Thorin giant tree gradually returned to standby mode, leaving only the towering steel skeleton and crystal matrix whimpering softly in the night wind.

The cooling fluid was rushing through the fiber pipes, and the servo brain array that had been running at high speed for a long time entered a light sleep in one ecological cabin after another. Bertila felt the nerve surge in his body that gradually subsided, and it took a long time before he turned his gaze to The magic network terminal not far away: "Brother Gao Wen, the signal from Nuoyi has stopped transmitting."

"You guys have worked hard." Gawain on the communication screen nodded slightly. "Let's end the communication first, and check Sorin's antenna system by the way. This is the first time it has been running continuously for such a long time."

Bertila nodded, and then cut off the remote connection with the imperial capital. On the other end, Gawain was still sitting at the desk for a long time after the communication ended. His eyes fell on the printing device next to him. The paper tapes spit out from the printout port have been stacked into a thick stack in the drop box, and the snow-white paper is printed on the conversation records between the two planets in the past few hours-the first half is civilization and civilization, The second half is people versus people.

He exhaled softly, stood up and came to the large French window. It was already midnight, and the night outside the window was as deep as thick ink, and there were cold starlight sprinkled from space, and the magnificent galaxy straddled the darkness. Between the mountains and the northwest forest area, the starlight and the man-made lights of the cities complement each other, and every bit of brilliance is sharply caught in Gawain's eyes.

The sound of light footsteps came from the side, and Amber's breath came to Gao Wen's side. After a moment of silence, her voice suddenly sounded: "You said... is that 'witch' also looking at the stars at this time?"

"She will see more and brighter stars than we can see, and she can overlook the earth and see the lights of thousands of houses." Gao Wen said slowly. For some reason, he suddenly recalled his past few decades. The years of being trapped in a satellite overlooking the earth for thousands of years, in a sense, the self at that time was actually very similar to the "witch" Nova in the satellite, but the difference is that when he hung high in the sky, he had never The difference between having truly visited the land under her feet and saying goodbye to the homeland where she was born and raised when the "witch" walks towards her own destiny is difficult for outsiders to truly understand even if they can imagine it. .

Hearing Gao Wen's words, Amber just curled her lips and muttered casually: "You sound like you have some life experience..."

Gao Wen just smiled and didn't respond, but Amber was a person who couldn't calm down. Seeing that Gao Wen didn't say a word, she couldn't help but muttered to herself: "...they want to directly link a person's brain to The super-light communication with Loren can only be maintained on the Voyager satellite... I really didn’t expect them to use this method to bypass the authority of the Voyager’s legacy.”

"I didn't expect that either." Gawain was silent for a moment, and let out a soft sigh, "but now we can finally explain why the content of the communication sent by the Noi people always looks so 'human' and 'slightly rash'— —Because the 'spokesperson' among the Noi people really 'installed' her thinking into the FTL antenna, all the time,

We are all talking directly to an open heart. "

Amber thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a question: "The 'witch' mentioned at the end that she 'felt' kindness and warmth in the communication sent from Loren to Nuoyi, and for this reason, she chose to trust strangers like us. Alien group, what do you think is going on here? Is it the neurological illusion produced by the witch after establishing a connection with the voyager device? Or... there really is a 'thing' that cannot be explained by this theory, and she really Can Voyager devices scan our emotions when sending messages?"

"I don't have any idea," Gao Wen confessed that he knew nothing about this matter, "this is not in any discipline we know so far, and there is no theory to support that something like faster-than-light communication can transmit 'emotions', but since That witch believes that she felt Loren's kindness in the star space...then we should not disappoint her expectations, after all..."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, and a smile slowly appeared on his face: "This cold starry sky needs a little romance."

...

The primordial energy gushing out from the depths of the star scours the cracks and holes inside and outside the Ancestor Peak. Under the conscious control of the "Master of All Laws", these surges flow in their respective trajectories strictly according to the blueprint , and has achieved connection and resonance with the large-scale facilities built throughout the mountain, and under the support of this continuous energy, the sacred mountain of the people of Ogulei has gradually turned into a "machine" of unprecedented scale, And gradually wake up on this land.

The first ray of sunlight in the early morning penetrated the clouds and shone obliquely on the hillside on the side of the Ancestor Peak. The continuous alloy guards were like the armor that mortals put on for the holy mountain, shining brightly in the sun, with huge Pipeline facilities criss-cross between energy stations, analysis stations, and sensor amplification arrays. Rough and powerful giant valves and relay pump stations present a solemn silhouette in the sun, occasionally leaking from a pressure relief valve or sublimator somewhere. The sprayed mist slowly drifted among these silhouettes, forming a continuous mist over the holy mountain.

What surges in those large pipes is the alchemical solution used as a coolant—it is not easy to absorb the energy from the depths of the planet to drive a giant machine that covers half a plain. Maintaining stability during operation is even more of a huge challenge. The heat dissipation system inside the "Observation Focus" is huge and complex. Its deepest pipeline is built around the "Observer Chamber", and the shallow pipeline spreads from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. In that mile-by-mile piping system, tons of cooling fluid flowed every minute and every second. These liquids pumped the huge heat away from the core of the observation device, and transferred it safely. It is transmitted to the heat exchange station at the foot of the mountain, making it a part of the city's heating—this can be regarded as the insignificant "compensation" brought by the magic tide observation device to the people of Ogulei.

In addition to this huge heat dissipation system, there are also small cobweb-like pipe groups buried inside the mountain that has been covered by alloy carapace. The small pipes flow in a biomass solution, and the solution is soaked in continuous growth. Nerve fibers - This huge nervous system is modeled after the giant tree of Thorin, directly designed by the Supreme Druid Institute of the Empire, and its nerve endings can extend all the way to the giant ring on the plain. This system will ensure that The operation of the observation device is stable, reliable and synchronized as a whole. Compared with the communication method based on the magic field, this kind of direct connection line of the nervous system obviously has irreplaceable advantages in anti-interference and fault location.

Early spring arrived, and the morning wind was still a bit chilly, but when the cold wind blew over the hills, several figures had already arrived at the top of the holy mountain—Great Chief Camilla stood near the magic net hub tower. On a platform, she raised her eyes and looked at the distant scenery. She saw steel, crystal and pipes spreading under her feet. The pilgrim trails, forests and springs she used to be familiar with had been covered by heavy industrial armor, while the plain at the foot of the mountain On the ground, the astonishingly large-scale sensor array ring has begun to take shape, and the towers stand in the hazy morning light, and the construction site can be vaguely seen near the ring frame connecting the towers.

After staring at it for a long time, Camilla looked back and shook her head with a sigh: "...It's not what I remembered at all."

"I told you earlier that the scenery on the mountain has changed, but you procrastinated to see it, and you said that you are busy with business—do you seem to be such a diligent person?" Wenna Baizhi's voice came from beside Camilla. Come on, the tone of the gray elf patriarch sounded a bit complaining, "The mountaintop area was 'capped' last month, and all energy sources have been covered by restraint wells and control bolts, and we have gone up several times."

"I'm not... always a little nervous," Camilla looked down at her childhood playmate at her feet, "You know, orcs are a little sensitive in this regard, and I don't dare to see the current appearance of the Holy Mountain ..."

"Then what do you think when you see it now?" A small voice suddenly came from the side, accompanied by the buzzing sound of wings flapping rapidly, the Fairy Queen Stella flapped her wings and hovered over the card Next to Mira's head, "Do you regret the decision we made together?"

Camilla turned her head and glanced at this little girl. This queen once led her group to live in the holy mountain, and before that, the kingdom of goblins had ruled on this mountain for hundreds of thousands of years—but now they have held The clan moved to the foot of the mountain and settled a new home in a river valley near the Holy Helm City. Reasonably, the goblins should be the group that has the most say on the holy mountain, but these optimistic little ones seem to agree with this. I don't care at all.

"Of course I don't regret it. The concept of 'regret' has never existed in the orc culture. The road is always moving forward." Camilla shook her head. "I don't regret it either. In fact, watching this film can be used The scene described as a miracle, I am even a little...proud, we weak mortals have built something on this land that even the gods would marvel at. But what about you? Stella, you and your Aren’t the clansmen regretful? After all, this is your homeland…”

"I'm not sorry," Stella laughed, flying up and down, "The holy mountain hasn't disappeared, it's right under our feet—it's just a change of clothes. We've already discussed it, wait After the demonic tide passes, the goblins will move back again, anyway, goblins don’t need much living space, we can build a vibrant artificial garden among the steel..."

Stella blinked, and couldn't help but imagine what a group of goblins who live among huge mechanical facilities, build gardens in the gaps between factories and pipelines, and are obsessed with studying machinery and magic technology—— The orc's limited imagination made her unable to make up that scene in the end, but one thing is certain, that is not the familiar "little partner" in her memory...

"You really always bring 'surprises' to people, as if you can live well no matter what the world becomes." Wycliffe, who was standing on a big rock next to him, shook his head with a smile. A human king took out a pipe from his arms, stuffed it carefully with shredded tobacco, and then lit a fire with his steel prosthetic limb. He brought the pipe to his mouth, but looked at a piece of land far away from the top of the mountain. platform.

It was an elevator platform, but the shaft leading to the depths of the mountain was blocked at the moment, the solid steel gates were tightly locked with secrets, and the howling mountain wind passed through the steel frame of the elevator.

Wycliffe bit his pipe, the shreds of tobacco shone brightly in the cold early spring wind, and with the curl of smoke, he let out a sigh: "It's hard to imagine that a once-god is beside us at this moment, only separated from us." A shaft, some earth, rocks and steel plates."

His soliloquy also made several friends around him sigh, and only two or three seconds after the human king's words fell, the few people on the top of the mountain saw a bright flash of light suddenly flashing in the air in front of them. Arcane sparks, pure magic jumping in the air outlined a line of text:

"Yes, I'm right under your feet—so can you stop sprinkling the soot later?"

Wycliffe: "..."

"I'll pinch it for you," Stoor, the king of spirit witches who remained silent next to him, raised his hand and directly extinguished Wycliffe's pipe. "Don't think that you can smoke in the factory area just because you are a king."

...

"Looking" at the movement above her head, Mirmina in the observer's secret room couldn't help but smile.

She has been working in this cave for half a year, and now, as the magic tide is gradually approaching the home planet of the Noi people, the day when the observation device is officially launched is gradually approaching.

In the past six months, she has witnessed a series of changes in this land with her ubiquitous magic vision. Under her gaze, the ancient holy mountain was gradually transformed into a giant steel beast, and the vast ancestral plain was transformed into continuous stretches of construction sites. , workshops, and pipelines are being filled little by little, and the people gathered in this area have reached a certain balance point. Almost every day, new engineering teams or expert teams are sent to the assembly point of Helm City by flying machines or magic trains, and at the same time Every day, people who complete tasks or rotate positions are evacuated from here. The Loren people are racing against time. All the powers of mortals on this planet have now been focused on one thing, causing earth-shaking changes to take place here .

While the entire ancestral plain is turned upside down, only the starry sky covering this land remains the same as before.

Mirmina switched her perception, and she contacted a sensor node located in the northern part of the holy mountain that had been debugged and put into trial operation. Through the "eyes" of this sensor node, she quietly looked up at the sky.

Even though it is daytime, she can clearly perceive the existence of those distant stars.

The sensor array has not yet been completed, and she still cannot accurately distinguish the subtle disturbances among the stars, but she can already vaguely "hear", hearing the soft singing of the thousands of stars in the universe, she can Hearing the voice of "Ao", the voice was far away but deep, and she could also hear the voice of "Sun". "Ao" complement each other.

For some reason, Mirmina suddenly thought of the civilization that was four light years away.

It is said that the home planet of the Nuoyi people is different from Loren. There is no gentle gas giant planet like the "sun" around them. The planet under their feet revolves directly around a star, and the powerful energy released by the star shapes The magnificent mountains and rivers and lush ecology on the land of Noi, and the "sunrise" on Noi's mother star is also completely different from that of Loren. They cannot see the magnificent and huge solar disk, and their sun cannot cover a quarter of it. sky - when the sun rises, it's just a bright spot about the size of a dime...

Mirmina imagined the scenery of distant alien stars, and couldn't help but have new expectations for the "travel" she planned.