Chapter 360 Watchtower
"Sit still." Tang Fang greeted her, and sent an ignition command to the psionic flame.
Accompanied by a flash of light, the Yinyue shuttle slowly rose into the sky. After a while, after leaving the planet's gravitational range, it shot straight at "Solna" like an arrow leaving the string.
About 6 hours later, Tang Fang was woken up by the notification sound of the navigation system from a light sleep state. When he looked up, he found that the Yinyue shuttle had flown over the rubble belt around "Solna" and was slowly entering the high-altitude orbit of the planet.
"Snoring...snoring..." There was a slight snoring sound from the side.
Tang Fang turned his head to look, only to find that Freya fell asleep at some point, holding the three-quarters eaten can of beef in her arms, and there was still some minced beef on the corner of her begonia-colored mouth, she was alive and well. A gluttonous little lolita.
"This girl..." He shook his head helplessly. No matter how you look at it, she is an 18-year-old girl, but her thoughts are still at the level of 13 or 4. It is true that she will improve a little bit and mature a little bit, but she will be unlucky for eight lifetimes. She is a girl with a loli heart, but she is still very attached to him, and she likes to hang around her neck like a koala. Go, push it, it's a beast, don't push it, you can only endure it, is there anyone more miserable than yourself?
"Alas!" Tang Fang sighed, "Freya, Freya... Wake up, wake up, we're here."
"Hey, hey." The girl squirmed her lips, let out a breath often, stretched her hands and feet, stretched her waist, glanced sleepily at the front window, and said, "It's here..." She casually took the bag in her arms. Put the large canned box into the storage box on the right side of the seat, rubbed his eyes and looked at Tang Fang: "How long has it been?"
"About 6 hours." Tang Fang replied casually, taking advantage of the situation to control the shuttle to change its orbit and conduct a low-orbit cruise around "Solna".
"Solna" is not on the verge of collapse like Chaos Star, nor is it like "Tikal", being pulled into an ellipse by the tidal force of "Eye of the Storm". Its situation remains the same, what it was before is what it is now.
The reason for this situation has a lot to do with its composition. "Solna" is a planet composed of graphite and diamonds, which is what people call a diamond planet. Small size and high density. The mass is heavy, and it is the hardest planet in Omega-2 except for the dead central star.
Seen from low-altitude orbit, "Solna" is light blue in color, with very weak reflected light emitting from its surface. Similar to "Tikal", there are large and small craters all over the ground. Because of the relatively high gravity, the debris of other planets that have been broken by "Omega-2" has accumulated in large quantities on "Solna", forming Pieces of gravel.
There are also some warship wrecks mixed in. all kinds,
The size varies. Tang Fang once noticed through the sensor system of the shuttle machine that there is a wreck of a warship lying in a shadow area in the gravel area in the southern hemisphere. The bow alone is almost 500 meters away. , How huge will its size be.
Up to now, no matter how brilliant and dazzling they used to be. All have become withered giant trees and withered yellow flowers. The originally starry hull was like rusty iron. Inserted crookedly in the pile of rubble, half-hidden, living in desolation.
"It's too miserable..." Freya muttered softly.
Going around "Solna", she has never seen even a complete battleship, most of them have been fragmented and disintegrated into large and small wreckage. It's like an ancient battlefield covered in dust on a sandbar.
Unlike the girl, Tang Fang focused more on the ruins of the building, hoping to find something of value. However, to his disappointment, he went around for a long time. Not even a whole ruin was found.
It's no wonder that, on a planet like "Tikal", there is only one hall left by chance. "Solna" is smaller in size, and, as a diamond planet, it is not suitable for habitation, and there are few buildings and facilities. After encountering a meteorite storm far exceeding the intensity of the former, it is strange that there are ruins preserved.
During the flight, Tang Fang tried to launch probes to several areas of "Solna". According to the information fed back by the system, except for a small amount of cosmic radiation, the energy response of the planet itself is very low.
Well, there are no relics, no battleships, no zero resources left. Anyway, "Tikal" still has dozens of tons of zero element resources in the dimensional roaming terminal, but "Solna" is lucky, there is no fart, only a pile of junk left. Oh, no, there are tons of diamonds, but this stuff has its uses. If you put it before crossing, you can get it back and have no worries about food and clothing. Put it now, it is a pile of waste.
"Commander, the Star Trail Command Center has detected a trace of abnormality in the magnetic field response of 'Solna'." Just when Tang Fang was full of annoyance, Emma suddenly sent a news that surprised him.
"Magnetic response? Abnormal? Where is the target?"
"'Solna' North Pole, I have uploaded the coordinates to the shuttle navigation system."
"Okay, I got it." I agreed, sinking my consciousness into the core of the shuttle machine's psionic energy, and found the abnormal point Emma said. Then, after setting the route, the shuttle speeds up, turns into a silver light, and shoots towards the North Pole of "Solna".
Although the gravity of "Solna" is much higher than that of "Tikal", it is nothing to Tang Fang who is wearing a bad combat uniform. As for Freya, the girl's body has been genetically modified by Ypsilon, and with this gravity, she can walk like flying even if she is naked.
Well, she is indeed flying now, and she hasn't had enough of Hot Wheels yet. Like a wild monkey, she puts Tang Fang behind her buttocks and jumps up and down, fluctuating high and low, sometimes swooping and hugging Tang Fang's back for fun, and sometimes stretching The limbs swim back and forth like fish in water.
Seeing her like this, Tang Fang could only shake his head and smile wryly, walking forward while paying attention to Emma's reminder.
"Commander, the target location is not far away, about 500 meters away."
When Emma said this, Tang Fangzheng walked up a small hill. It is said that the hillside is actually very short, but it is the crater ring formed by the meteorite hitting the ground.
It has to be said that the ground of "Solna" is very hard. Most of the meteorites that fell after the "Lost War" were torn apart by the impact, turning into countless rubble and spreading a thick layer on the hillside outside the crater.
Using both hands and feet, Tang Fang finally managed to climb up the ridge, with the help of the lighting of the harsh environment protective clothing. Look up and look forward. In the crater with a diameter of several kilometers lies a space facility similar to a ring-shaped flying saucer. From the appearance point of view, the facility is not big, only a few hundred meters long, and it is definitely a small one among the many ypsilon creations.
"Emma, is it it?"
"Yes, Commander. The facility emits weak radio waves of a fixed frequency at certain intervals. Because the Epsilon technology tree in the star track command center database is not yet complete. It is impossible to decipher the information contained in the radio waves of this frequency."
"Well, I got it. If it's still 'alive', you'll know what it does after you try it." Tang Fang muttered in a low voice, waved to Freya behind him, and said, "Follow me", and walked out, along the way. Slope all the way down.
Until the bottom of the crater, with the light on, the structure of the facility was finally seen clearly. The upper part of the space facility is flat like an upside-down disc, and the lower part is a circle of cabins arranged in a ring at the bottom of the disc cover. There is a circle of petal-shaped thruster arrays in the center, which are supposed to be used for orbit change and space flight.
Speaking of which, this product is also really solid, and it fell from the top and bottom of the sky, and it didn't fall apart. Only the thruster array was damaged, and the overall structure of the top disk and the cabin was still intact.
Maybe it's because of its smaller size. Or the time of the fall was relatively late, or it was wearing a shield. Anyway, it didn't fall to death at such a high height, and at most it was half disabled.
"Freya, go back to the shuttle. Bring 'Cupid'." Looking at the slippery and steep slope, Tang Fang frowned. A guy like him who doesn't even bother to fold the quilt when he wakes up in the morning, if he is instructed, he will naturally not be so stupid as to do it himself. Anyway, Freya is very talented and can fly. It was only when I was brain teasing that I told her about gentlemanly demeanor.
"I'll go alone..." Freya looked at the dark and dead void behind her, with a troubled expression on her face.
Tang Fang didn't care if she was afraid or not, he casually threw her a PDA with lighting function, and lowered his head into a damaged cabin.
Freya pouted and pressed the PDA's lighting function, the LCD screen shot out a fan-shaped light, and then said: "You...you wait for me...don't go too far." Fly to the shuttle at the fastest speed.
On the other side, after entering the cabin, I took a look at the environment of the room and found that there was no danger, so I sat down at a nearby place and quietly waited for Freya to return.
The space facility is relatively small among many Ypsilon creations, but it still has a diameter of several hundred meters. One can imagine how big the cabin under the cover is. Don't look at Freya's extremely strong fighting power, but her mental age is only in her teens. Tang Fang doesn't want to take risks. It's not fun to make her cry.
About 5 minutes later, as a ray of light approached, Freya and a "Cupid" flew down from the top of the crater. Speaking of which, thanks to Emma's presence, "Cupid", as the maintenance drone of the "Ashtolando" system, is actually very single in terms of functions, it is a special model, and the command cluster in the center is relatively simplified.
Considering that he will not stay on the Morning Star forever, in case of any accident, there will be a situation where "Cupid" is available, but Grant and others cannot control it, Tang Fang specially asked Emma to compile an expansion system for Recognize human language.
Indeed, the level of science and technology of Ipsilon is not only much higher than that of existing human civilization, but also the human race in StarCraft is hard to come by. However, with Tang Fang around and Emma as a staff member, it is still possible to expand some application software under the original kernel .
"Here." Before Freya could call him, Tang Fang poked his head out of the dilapidated cabin to greet him. The girl is like a little daughter-in-law who has returned home in three days and sees her parents. She swoops into his arms and hangs around her neck like a koala. She is dressed roughly while patting her heart: " Scared me to death, scared me to death..."
Tang Fang couldn't help but smile, this girl is also good at making strange things.
At his age, it is natural that a girl in her teens would not be able to imagine the fear of the night.
"Cupid" followed into the cabin, and the crystal screen on his face shot out a blue light, illuminating the road ahead. Tang Fang hugged Freya and followed, looking around while walking.
About a few minutes later, under the guidance of "Cupid", the two came to the central control room of the facility.
Similar to the situation in the "Tikal" hall, all the equipment has fallen into a dormant state, and the psychic flame has also been extinguished, only the crystal ring used to power the psychic flame is still shining dimly.
Tang Fang frowned, and was about to step forward to charge the crystal. At this time, "Cupid" suddenly flashed out from behind, and slowly flew to the side of the crystal ring hanging from the top of the room. The ε rune on the chest lit up, and then slowly turned, like a screw turning, a cylindrical crystal popped out.
I saw "Cupid" squeeze out a small dark blue energy ball from the cylindrical crystal, and send it to the ring-shaped crystal ε rune, and the crystal shrank by itself to form a channel. Let "Cupid" push the energy ball into the core.
"Highly concentrated zero isotope." Tang Fang narrowed his eyes, showing surprise. Having acquired the full set of technology trees of the Nami Star Zero Isotope Refining Factory, he can naturally distinguish the subtle differences between normal zero elements and their isotopes.
"Om." When he was frowning and thinking, he only heard a "hum", and the ring-shaped crystal radiated a circle of silver light, and the silver light surged in the central ring area, and slowly turned into strands of flames, densely forming clusters.
Other electronic equipment in the cabin also woke up from hibernation, and the console flickered with colorful lights.
After finishing the restoration work. "Cupid" stepped aside. Tang Fang stepped forward, took a deep breath, and connected to the new spiritual flame.
"Psionic energy fluctuations detected, diagnostic program started..."
"The diagnosis is complete, confirm the suitability of the protoss."
"Frequency Analysis..."
"Variation level c, unlocking the jump tree, technology level 2, unlocking the building 'Observation Tower'."
"Huh?" Tang Fang raised his eyebrows: "Observation tower? It's an observation tower. An exclusive technology building for detectors."
In StarCraft 1, only after the watchtower is built. In order to produce detectors in the machine table. But in StarCraft 2, as long as there is a mechanical platform, detectors can be produced directly. He never expected to unlock the watchtower at this time. "Is this a supplement to the 'mechanical table'? But why not the Mechanical Research Institute."
But then I thought about it again, this facility is only a few hundred meters in diameter, how much technological content can it have? Unlocking the watchtower would also make sense.
"The observation deck is the observation deck." With a sigh. Sink the consciousness into the system space, and command the probe to put down the “observation tower” in the irradiation area of the crystal tower.
As an exclusive technology building for upgrading detectors, "Observation Tower" provides two upgrade items "Array Sensor" and "Traction Booster".
The "Sensor Array" expands the detector's field of view. The "traction enhancer" can greatly improve the operating efficiency of the anti-gravity engine, making the detector move faster.
Both upgrades cost 1500 crystals and 1500 gas. For Tang Fang, who is now rich and powerful, it is just a drop in the bucket. So, without any hesitation, he clicked on "Array Sensor" and "Traction Enhancer."
"Commander, the function of this facility has been determined." The upgrade process had just ended, and before Tang Fang could respond, Emma's prompt sounded in his mind.
Considering that there is no rush to test the performance of the detector, Tang Fang turned his attention to the psychic flame. According to the information sent back by Emma, the space facility should be an observation post set up in the border area of the star system.
Different from the border checkpoints in today's human countries, in addition to the ultra-long warning distance and warp speed detection functions, this observation station can also synchronize in real time the sensitive image data captured by large and small observation equipment scattered throughout the "Lost Land", forming a Global monitoring network.
To put it bluntly, the "Lost Land" was within a radius of nearly a hundred light-years before the "Lost Land", and any disturbance could not be concealed from the global monitoring network.
These outpost observation stations are equipped with miniaturized quantum analysis, graviton detection sensors, and space equipment groups such as warp velocity and wormhole probes, which can scan for a variety of potential threats, and the radius of enemy detection can reach light years. It can deal with invisible targets such as curved light invisibility and semi-virtual space stealth. As for functions such as infrared remote sensing, laser, and radio wave scanning, it is a piece of cake.
Of course, in its current state, the propulsion system and fusion reactor were completely damaged in the impact, and the small sensor arrays it belonged to were also completely lost in the "Lost Battle". A tiger with teeth, anyone can touch his ass.
"Commander, the detection system of this observation station is paralyzed, but the global data synchronization module is still operational. This may help you understand the 'Lost Land'."
"Oh? The global data synchronization module can still work?" Upon hearing this, Tang Fang was overjoyed, and then sank his mind into the psychic flame, commanding the core to start the global data synchronization program.
As the ring-shaped crystals radiated streamer textures like tree branches, the inverted disc structure on the top of the observation station collapsed from the center to the sides, and a circular black body with a diameter of 10 meters was slowly pushed out. Immediately afterwards, With the energy flow from the root into the core, the night-like skin of the black body shines with bits and pieces of light.
At the same time, the holographic imaging system of the spiritual flame projected a three-dimensional star map outward. Tang Fang was stunned for a moment, and after careful identification, he realized that the star map in front of him was not the current "Lost Land" but the star map of the "Lost Land" before it was "lost".
He waited quietly, waiting for the data synchronization system to go online. However, after a few breaths, the star map hanging in the air suddenly collapsed, scattered into countless tiny lattices, falling like pieces of broken glass and turning into nothingness.
Immediately afterwards, a brand new three-dimensional star map shot out from the psychic flame again, which is now the "Lost Land". (To be continued...) R12 )