Chapter 1602 Stepping Onto the Hub
Under the guidance of the Guardian flagship "El", the Giant Turtle Platform slowly approached the planet shrouded by an energy barrier, filled with thick clouds and endless thunder and lightning: the Final Nexus.
The spacecraft hovered near the top of the atmosphere, and the external monitor transmitted a clear image of the planet at close range. The eye-catching planetary shield appeared more solid at this distance, and showed obvious textures and "blocks" ": It is made up of extremely huge hexagons. The borders of the hexagons are shining with bright light, and the inside is surging with light. This makes the entire shield look like crystal armor that is several kilometers thick. . This protective shield has no obvious energy dispersion structure and cannot sense energy projection sources from the surface. This is very different from any kind of shield Hao Ren knows - including planetary shields.
Inside the shield were billowing clouds and lightning. Due to the obstruction of the thick atmosphere, it is almost difficult to see the surface of the planet directly from space. Only when the clouds occasionally reveal gaps can we get a glimpse of the true appearance of the planet. Hao Ren said in this glance What you see is the earth covered with crystal clusters.
"Finally here..." Hao Ren stood on the bridge of the Giant Turtle Platform and murmured to himself as he looked at the scene displayed on the holographic projection.
From first seeing this planet in the illusion of the red moon, to following the guidance of the star map engraved in Vivian's soul to this galaxy, encountering a divine storm in this mysterious and dangerous galaxy, and discovering traces of the star citizens, Contact the ancient legions of guardians and the powerful minions of the Mad Lord...
In the end, he finally stood in this place, standing next to one of the miracles once created by the Goddess of Creation, and this miracle was inextricably linked to Vivian...
He could feel that he was only one step away from some ultimate truth.
Salaman's figure appeared on the holographic projection in front of the captain's seat - in the communication screen, the giant more than ten meters tall became the height of a normal person, which also made communication much easier: "Mother is in extreme She built this place in secret. All the celestial bodies in the entire Holy Land were shaped out of thin air by her powerful divine power. Even the space here was transformed by her to ensure that the evolution of the material universe would not have too much impact on this place. Interference, the eternity of the Holy Land is thus ensured. In this universe, the only ones who know about this are us, the guardians of the Hidden Holy Land...
"Unlike other brothers and sisters, we were not born in the ocean of origin blood of the founding star, but were created in a more secret place. Mother adjusted the spiritual network of our group of guardians so that we can be independent exists for other guardians.
"Since the day we were born, we have been trained and sharpened. Guarding this place is our greatest mission. We guard here for thousands of years, just to wait for the arrival of the guide. Today, you are here, and you have passed passed the test of the Nakdal Crystal - but the woman must undergo a more formal 'verification' before we can confirm the identity of her guide. Please don't think this is unkind: for an eternal mission In other words, no matter how strict a spirit of caution is, it is necessary.”
Hao Ren nodded slightly: "After that, you will tell us the secrets of this place and the final plan of the Goddess of Creation?"
"Actually, this is something that the guide has known about from the beginning, but..." Salaman glanced at Vivian with a slight embarrassment, "I'm afraid even Mother didn't expect that her creations would suffer from amnesia. The situation...yes, I will tell you all the secrets, if you really pass the verification."
"I still have a question," Hao Ren said, "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to talk about this planet - it's about the people of the starry sky. We found a large number of dormant people in the X star cluster... that is, in the local galaxy group. The Star Citizen battleships are in a state where their energy and consciousness have been transmitted here. If I guess correctly, this planetary shield above the 'hub'..."
"The situation was urgent at the time," Salaman nodded lightly. "The defense line was breached from the inside, and the star citizens responsible for guarding the periphery of the star cluster had no time to return to defense, so they used the racial talents of the star people to transmit energy to the hub. Over the years In the past, the Corruptors have approached the final defense circle many times. If it weren't for this additional planetary shield, our defense line might not be able to hold on now."
Hao Ren sighed casually: "In the outer universe... the people of the starry sky have disappeared for many years. I didn't expect there to be so many here."
"The people of the starry sky... they have been Mother's allies since the age of darkness and chaos, but few people - including the Guardians - know of their existence. It was not until this era that they reappeared by Mother's side," Sara Man shook his head, "In fact, even we can't fully understand the history of those ancient creatures. They are ghosts that have survived in the dark and chaotic era. They have always been wandering on the edge of the world of order. Only mother knows everything about them. Okay. Yes, I have said enough, if you want to know more, you should wait until the identity of the guide is verified."
Hao Ren did not object. Although he wanted to ask about the divine blockade and the Crystal Throne now, the legion commander was obviously a more stubborn and cautious person than Mulu, Remendusa and Sif. Even if Weiwei No matter how impeccable An's identity is in theory, he will still identify the "authentication" system left by the Creation Goddess - not to mention that there is not yet enough evidence to prove Vivian's identity.
Let’s take a look at what the so-called “verification” is all about.
On the thick planetary crystallized shield, a hexagonal area suddenly became clear and thin. The Aiur and the Giant Turtle Platform passed through this opening and flew smoothly towards the surface of the planet.
"I will keep an eye on the entire 'verification' process." After temporarily suspending communication, Hao Ren turned to Vivian and said, "We still don't know how the identity recognition process left by the Creation Goddess works. We must maintain Just be vigilant.”
Vivian frowned: "Do you suspect that there is something wrong with what the Goddess of Creation left for me? Or do you suspect that there is something wrong with these guardian giants?"
"Being cautious is the long-term solution. There may be no problem with the things left by the Goddess of Creation, but it's hard to say about the 'Goddess of Destruction'. And even if these guardian giants seem to be uncorrupted, no one can say It’s not allowed whether the order they received was distorted,” Hao Ren shook his head, “Even if these are all correct, you yourself are actually an uncertain factor - don’t forget, you are only half of the divine clone, the goddess. The complete 'Guide' created had already been split into two on the planet Purgatory."
Vivian sighed softly: "As an incomplete 'guide', I may not be able to pass the 'verification', is that what you mean?"
Hao Ren looked at Vivian and grabbed her hand: "Don't worry, even if this road doesn't work, we must have other ways to unlock the secrets of this planet. After all, the goddess of creation is just a girl who has never gone to school. Ye Luzi, and I have technical support from the genuine divine system."
After a while, he added: "Of course I don't mean to blow up this planet..."
Vivian: "...I didn't say you were going to explode!"
Hao Ren scratched his hair: "I don't know what's going on, but I suddenly felt that someone would definitely say that I want to blow up this planet... Forget it, it's probably Galadra and Anthony's gang who are the moldy ones. Guys from Tianshui Forum.”
While talking, two spaceships have landed on the surface of the hub.
As a holy place, the planet has been almost undeveloped, with only extremely limited infrastructure built by the Guardian Titans on the planet's surface.
The two spaceships landed on a platform made of crystal and metal. In three directions around the platform were endless plains covered with crystal clusters, and behind the platform was a long crystal ramp.
At the end of the slope is a mountain peak made entirely of blue-white crystals.
Hao Ren left Dou Dou in the spaceship to look after his family, and also asked several autonomous machines to accompany the little guy to relieve his boredom, while he and Vivian came to the crystal ramp together.
The crystal peaks in the distance tower into the clouds, and the cliffs around the peaks are steep and straight. The entire mountain stands on the ground like a sharp sword or a giant tower. Continuous thunderstorms are generated around this mountain without interruption. It hit the crystallized cliffs of the mountain.
"I have seen this place in a vision..." Hao Ren murmured to himself, "The Crystal Throne is inside this mountain..."
The space behind him was distorted, and Salaman's huge figure also appeared in front of the ramp. The old giant's voice was like rolling thunder: "In front of you is the core of the Holy Land. I will take you there personally."
"Is it just you?" Hao Ren looked back and saw that many guardian giants had also left the spacecraft, but they all just stood quietly in the distance and seemed to have no intention of following them.
“My brothers and sisters are with me,” Salaman said. “What I see, they can see, and if anything goes wrong with the verification process, they can always come to me. But until then , the Holy Land does not need any more disturbance."
"I understand - you guardians just can't speak properly if you have something to say," Hao Ren tugged at the corners of his lips, "Isn't it just that no noise is allowed in a confidential place..."
Salaman did not answer, but took the lead and walked in the direction of the "Holy Mountain".
Hao Ren, Vivian and the data terminal quickly followed behind.
After walking for a while, the data terminal couldn't help it anymore and started to get up:
"I said, do we have to walk there? How fast can we just fly there or teleport there..."
"..."
"Okay, okay, I know this is a holy place."
"By the way, can you tell me first what this verification process is? So we can make preparations first."
"..."
"Okay, okay, I know this is a holy place."
"The great plains outside are very desolate. I thought you would have a base camp here or something."
"..."
"Okay, okay, I know this is a holy place."
Salaman suddenly stopped, lowered his head and looked at the data terminal floating next to Hao Ren's head seriously, and then looked at Hao Ren: "You... won't put a goblin in here, right?"
Hao Ren: "This thing has been so broken since the day I got it! It has nothing to do with fairies!"
"Oh, it turns out there are such talkative creatures in this world besides fairies."
The data terminal "Teng" became very angry all of a sudden: "This machine is dueling with you! Do you understand dueling? Partner, don't stop this machine, don't stop me... Damn it, you really won't stop me?"
"Just be quiet for a while," Hao Ren grabbed the data terminal and stuffed it into his pocket, "It's not embarrassing."
And just for a while, Salaman stopped again: "We are here."
"We're here now?" Hao Ren was stunned and quickly looked back in the direction he came from: he saw an extremely long ramp that could accommodate almost a thousand Nangong Wuyue in the form of sea snakes lining up. He was having fun up there, but he felt that he had only been walking up there for ten minutes at most.
Salaman then explained: "Being able to walk on this slope means that you have passed the first test: anyone who is contaminated by the power of the Crazy Lord or has malicious intentions towards the Holy Land will not be able to walk at all. Here. As for distance... it's an irrelevant issue in the Holy Land, where space is never continuous and uniform."
The corner of Hao Ren's mouth trembled: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple..."