Chapter 281: The Vision of the Forerunner

Although the recent situation of the Star Dragon Empire seems to have gradually stabilized, Amber knows that this is only temporarily suppressed under Agnes's iron-blooded suppression of the separatists.

If the Regent Norton II really decides to postpone the "final moment", the situation in the Star Dragon Empire will even develop in the direction of "from bad to good".

But Amber knows that this situation is only temporary.

Because the temporary dormancy of the Regent does not mean that he will reach a reconciliation with Agnes, but is accumulating strength for the subsequent attack.

Because of the irreconcilable contradictions between different ideologies, these two spokespersons of "capitalist revolution" and "feudal autocracy" will eventually have a decisive battle to determine the future direction of the empire.

After talking about the recent changes in the situation in the empire, Lilith also informed Amber of a new news.

That is, the clone that Star Dragon lost in the empire before, LLS943823, has been gradually locked in its location recently after the information collection network was established.

"This guy has been doing well recently. Although we can't exchange data directly, I can still roughly feel the state of this 'clone'."

Speaking of her lost clone, Lilith was a little helpless.

Although she has mastered quantum communication technology now, if she wants the clone to learn this 'skill', she still needs to exchange information to perform a 'version upgrade'.

But it is this LLS943823, as if it has been locked up and there is no news.

The delay in information exchange has also caused this clone to become the only 'alien' that has not completed the upgrade and cannot communicate with the main body in real time.

Although Lilith has been busy following Amber around during this period, she still has not given up looking for her lost clone.

And now, based on the last information sent back by LLS943823, Lilith has deduced her location at the time and obtained the hull number of the spacecraft she was on.

In addition to some intelligence that has been unlocked one after another, the location of LLS943823 has finally become clear.

"So what you mean is that the 'clone' that has lost contact with your original body is now in a secret test galaxy in the Star Dragon Empire?"

"That's right, Master!" Lilith nodded her head like pounding garlic.

"It is even possible that this 'clone' has infiltrated the 'test subject' in this test galaxy, and there is a 90% probability that this 'test subject' is the sixth artificial celestial fortress?"

"As expected of a Master, you easily deduced everything based on other people's intelligence."

Amber suddenly didn't know what to say for a moment. He looked at Lilith, who was looking at him with a smirk, and asked:

"Then what do you think your clone is busy with in there?"

"Well, although we have always called them 'clones', they are actually Lilith, there is no difference.

If it were me in there, I would try to gain control of the artificial celestial fortress without hesitation."

"Emmmm, it's really your style"

What did Amber feel after hearing this news?

First of all, he must be very happy. After all, the artificial celestial fortress is a "legendary equipment" that can destroy the entire fleet.

But because Lilith is sometimes prone to outrageous personality, Amber is very worried that LLS943823's clone will make a big mess inside.

But since this has happened, Amber can only accept it first and find a way to solve it when there is a real problem.

——

A few days later, in the UD74290 asteroid belt, several warships broke away from the jump in a burst of white flashes.

In the end, Amber did not go back to the Tower of Babel directly, but chose to arrive at the mining area as soon as possible to see the Forerunner creation buried in the asteroid belt.

Randall, who hadn't seen Amber for a long time, came up and complained about his long-term work in the asteroid belt.

But he was just complaining, and when it came to doing business, this former federal naval officer was not vague.

Soon, he and George, the ‘head of the miners’, brought Amber and others to the ‘A·Bava·Ku’ asteroid base which was under construction.

After sitting on the centipede-like manned operation robot and crawling in the asteroid along the tunnels dug by these robots for a long time, the group finally arrived at the destination of this trip.

Just like the photos sent by Randall and others before, this regular hexadecahedron was quietly ‘embedded’ in the rock wall.

After the surrounding rock walls and metal deposits were hollowed out, many spotlights were set up here, and Amber and others were able to see the full picture of this regular hexadecahedron.

However, its size is much larger than Amber imagined, and only half of it has been excavated so far, and the rest is still wrapped by the rock wall.

“Boss, we have conducted a preliminary detection of this thing, but it has no response to the detection of various conventional instruments. We only know that the long axis of this big guy should be about 800 meters.”

George, who is responsible for coordinating the mining work in the asteroid belt, said while standing next to Amber in a heavy asteroid work suit with armor plates.

For him, digging this thing out of an asteroid was still a big shock.

"When we first started working on this asteroid, we did a comprehensive inspection. We did find this thing at that time, but we regarded it as a relatively concentrated vein of metal ore inside the asteroid.

It wasn't until we dug deeper and deeper that we discovered that this thing didn't seem to be a metal vein, so we sent out the "Rock Snake" digging robot and mining mules to dig deeper inside, and finally discovered this thing. "

"You guys are so lucky."

Amber patted George on the shoulder, sighing inwardly.

"Ah? Why do you say that?"

"Because this thing is a mining artifact left behind by a super-ancient advanced civilization called the Forerunners."

Amber's answer directly confused George. As a miner who has been planning a 'life path' since birth, he really didn't know about the 'Forerunner Civilization'.

Not only him, but Randall and others on the other side also showed puzzled expressions.

Amber was not surprised by their reaction.

Whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the training of lower-level residents has always been focused on the jobs they are 'assigned' to.

Less popular knowledge like 'Forerunner Civilization' will not appear in their textbooks at all.

"It's okay. It doesn't matter if you don't know about this thing. You just need to know that it can increase the mining efficiency and ore refining efficiency of Atlas Mining by at least ten times."

"Ten times?!"

When George heard this, he opened his mouth in surprise.

He knows the current mining efficiency and refining efficiency of Atlas Mining best throughout the company.

After annexing Timler Mining Company and continuously replenishing mining engineering ships, the size of Atlas Mining's mining fleet is no longer the same.

And this high-quality mining area with no one to disturb it makes Atlas Mining's mining team more efficient.

In this case, increase mining and refining efficiency tenfold?

George suddenly found that he could no longer imagine what this would be like, let alone the impact it would have on the surrounding ore trading market.

Just as he was surprised and confused, Amber had already supported the rock wall for a while, and then floated towards the hexadecahedron.

"Boss (Amber)! Be careful. Let the robot pass first!"

Seeing Amber just walking over, everyone started to dissuade her.

However, Amber did not stop. He waved his hand without looking back to signal everyone to calm down, and then slowly floated over.

After getting closer, Amber discovered that the surface of this huge hexadecahedron was extremely smooth. Even though it was buried deep in the rock wall and had recently been affected by mining machinery, it still had a 'mirror' texture.

The transition processing at the corners is very natural, without any flaws or any traces of splicing, as if it is made of some unknown ultra-high-strength material in one piece.

Under everyone's nervous gaze, Amber carefully placed her palm on the surface of the hexadecahedron, and then released a psychic wave.

Soon, the internal structure of the hexadecahedron appeared in front of his 'eyes'.

Completely different from the seamless feeling on the surface, the interior of the hexadecahedron has an extremely complex network of pipes and expandable node structures, running through the entire space like blood vessels and skeletons.

This ultra-precision processing capability, which is completely beyond the current level of human science and technology, is also one of the hallmarks of the "Forerunner Civilization" to a certain extent.

Just when Amber was about to conduct another 'psionic wave scan' to find the core of this device.

The hexadecahedron, which originally looked like an eternal rock, suddenly seemed to come to life. A series of structural changes were heard inside it, and the surrounding rock walls also vibrated.

Amber, who was the closest, didn't even have time to tell the people behind her to retreat urgently before she felt her consciousness being suddenly pulled away.

When he came to his senses again, he found that he was no longer in the asteroid cave.

But in the ruins of a city.

He lowered his head and looked at himself. It was no longer the exoskeleton he was wearing before, but an ordinary piece of clothing.

Amber's first reaction was to wonder if she had traveled through time again.

But a subconscious thread deep in his brain told him that this was not time travel, but 'entering' an illusion.

Before he could think about what happened, the ruins of the city in front of him began to 'move' as if the play button had been pressed.

Raging fires rose on the remains of the building, and there were bursts of panic screams all around, along with a large number of explosions and weapons fire.

Meanwhile, large numbers of panicked civilians fled from the buildings or surrounding streets as if they were meant to be there.

The civilians ignored Amber's presence, passed him one by one, and then disappeared at the other end of the street.

"Buzz buzz buzz."

A low roar came from the air.

Amber looked up and saw several huge warships appearing over the burning city.

Energy rays radiated from the battleship into the city, setting off a larger explosion again.

Amber looked at these huge warships strafing in the air. They were completely different in style from human and elven warships.

It is not the sharp-edged, cold-looking human steel warship, nor is it the biological ship of the elves of the Thousand Star Empire.

Instead, it is filled with a style that combines classicism and technology, but is not contradictory at all.

Judging from the appearance of these warships alone, they are more similar to the regular hexadecahedron buried in the asteroid.

"My goodness, this can't be a Forerunner's warship?"