Chapter 239 Irem’s Story
The same huge and magnificent World Gate stood silently in the dark and deep space, but the surroundings of this World Gate were obviously much deserted.
The Giant Turtle Yantai appeared from a burst of light, and no other spacecraft could be seen around it. The busy passenger flow encountered at the other end of the gate seemed to have been transported to other worlds. The data terminal controlled the spacecraft to sprint forward for a certain distance, and then used the external monitor to transmit back the scene behind the spacecraft. Hao Ren saw a space facility that seemed slightly smaller than the previous one, but equally incredible. Not far from the gate of this world, you can also see the planetary fortress known as the "Sovereign Hub", but there is only one sovereign hub here. Obviously, this universe is some kind of... compared to his hometown... Backcountry.
The public channel of the spacecraft is still open, used to receive broadcasts from other spacecraft within a radius of one light year, but there are only a few sporadic signals in the channel, some coming from beacon facilities near the World Gate, and some It was a passing starship in a hurry. I don’t know what civilization it came from, but it definitely had nothing to do with everyone’s purpose.
"This place looks a little deserted." Hao Ren said as he looked at the starry sky. There were strange stars here. There was a dim brown glow shining in the universe. There was a relatively bright nebula in the upper left corner of the front of the ship. , but when focusing on that nebula, the system automatically reported that its distance was hundreds of millions of light years away - the scale of space is really something that can easily surprise people.
The data terminal was confirming the next course. Hearing this, he explained: "There are many no-no zones like this in the macro world. They originated from an emergency expansion ten thousand years ago. At that time, a catastrophe occurred in the void, and many The world disappeared in an instant, and only the universe under the protection of the three major gods of Xiling, Star Territory, and Huron could survive. We knew this situation in advance, and we did everything we could to launch countless detectors into the entire void to search for new ones. world, hastily incorporating them into the network of the macroworld. These new universes have only been registered, and their follow-up construction has not caught up with the progress until today. Of course, some universes have no construction value at all, void It’s so vast that no one has time to bring it all under control.”
Hilda stared at the starry sky outside the spaceship in ecstasy, but she could not recognize the familiar star map from here at all: "How far is it from here to my home?"
"...It's very far away. This aircraft is still comparing routes." The voice of the data terminal was a little confused. "By the way, where do you live? The route prediction sent by the Space and Time Administration is indeed very clear, but this aircraft just scanned Soon, this route leads to a completely empty star area."
Hilda sighed: "Yes, it's just empty. That's my hometown."
The data terminal remained silent. It started the super-light engine of the spacecraft. The stars on the exterior view became distorted again. The red and blue "channel" phenomenon appeared again, and soon fell into darkness. Hao Ren knew that he could only wait quietly. When the space outside the spaceship opened again, Hilda's hometown should appear in front of everyone. Vivian noticed that Hilda's expression kept changing, mixed with excitement, uneasiness, expectation and a hint of timidity. In order to divert the attention of this timid elf queen who was close to home, she took the initiative to break the silence: "Hilda Da, now tell me about your hometown, you have never introduced it to us properly."
Hilda's eyes were a little dazed, but she still nodded: "My story may be a bit long. I will start from the origin of the Erim Elves. I hope this journey will be enough for me to finish the story..."
From the elf queen's quiet statement, Hao Ren learned about a story about survival and destiny that took place deep in the distant starry sky.
Aerem means "rich soil and plants" in the native language of the Elf Queen. In short, it is similar to a nursery or a garden.
Their ancestors gave their home planet this name to celebrate its fertility and generosity.
The origin of the story is a beautiful pastoral time, telling about sunshine, fertile soil, forests, flowing water and an intelligent race.
A long time ago, when the Erim elves still lived in the forest and thrived around several lakes, their lives were full of prosperity and happiness. This is an elegant race that is peaceful, united, intelligent and full of enterprising spirit. They were the first people on the planet to open up their intelligence, make tools, develop writing, and live in harmony with nature. In the process, they found the The road to developing civilization.
There is abundant food in the forest of Irem, the atmosphere is full of active energy, and the rules of the entire universe also support simple and easy-to-learn primitive magic. Under the guidance of the primitive religion called "Star Spirit", this group of elves built cities in the forest powered by magic and magical technology, and quickly built their own civilization. What is very amazing is that this group of rapidly developing Intelligent creatures still maintain awe of nature even as civilization advances rapidly, which is something that many other mortal races cannot do. From the beginning of walking upright, they realized that all resources came from the generous gifts of nature, so they worked hard to ensure frugality and recycling of resources. This good quality has been maintained from the beginning of civilization to this day.
This group of amazing, incredibly beautiful creatures with perfect talents love peace, but at the same time they also know how to compete with other creatures and use various means (including war) to protect their homes and civilization. There have been other short-lived powerful races in Reem, but it was this group of powerful and intelligent long-eared creatures that finally gained dominance on the planet.
Those powerful races were not wiped out by the elves, but chose to surrender after the war, and were eventually highly assimilated by the elves, and after several generations of genetic modification, they became members of the Irem elves.
In this way, during the development process of the mother star stage, the elves walked out of the forest, stepped into the plains, crossed mountains and rivers, spread the fire of civilization to the world, assimilated and integrated all the intelligent creatures they encountered, and allowed the original Ari to The planet Mu quickly became full of vitality, and the flowers of civilization built by advanced intelligent creatures bloomed all over the planet.
It took the Erim elves thousands of years to complete full control of their planet. They developed from a group of primitive creatures living in the forest and only knowing primitive magic and simple tool technology into a high-tech group with fully civilized intelligence. They use unique The magic technology is building its own home planet, allowing it to maintain the natural balance while paving it with a civilized coat composed of air routes in the atmosphere, surface high-speed train network, global data links, and free energy broadcasting systems.
After completing the accumulation of technology in the home star stage, like all intelligent races that realize that the resources of the cradle are ultimately limited, the Erim elves began to explore settlements outside their home planet - they only need to find them outside their home star. A just right foothold, find the right source of resources in space, and then everything will develop naturally.
At that moment, they were proud, proud, and confident.
They believe that they have smart enough brains, a generous home planet, and abundant technology and resource stocks, all of which are enough to support them in completing this journey of exploration.
Yes, they think they are rich. In fact, their home planet does have an unprecedented abundance of all types of resources, which every race should be envious of.
Even judging from the perspective of a bystander, this group of elves themselves have the qualities to step into the starry sky: thrift, hard work, enterprising, and unity. There is no other race that is as naturally perfect and suitable for development as them.
Except one thing:
Irem is the only planet in their star system.
Their star system is 60 million light-years away from the nearest physical object.
In this vast journey of 60 million light-years away, there is only a desolation and a few piles of useless scorching embers left after the collapse of stars.
If their world was created by a certain god, then this god really played a cruel joke on these elves: He gave these elves all the beautiful talents that mortal races can have, making them powerless from mind to body. Being picky, made them hardworking, brave, kind, intelligent, tenacious and united, and gave them such a beautiful and fertile home planet as their cradle——
Finally threw it all in a desert.