Eleven days later, the mysteriously missing planet finally reappeared as scheduled.
The difference from the last time is that this time robot engineer Isaac actually scanned the total number of human life detections on the surface of the planet, the size and density of buildings and even cities, etc., which were huge compared to the last time. additions and changes?
At the same time, some results from tests and scans seem completely different from what they were last seen?
Therefore, in order to find out the truth, although the female commander of the Planetary Alliance Command has made it clear that they will not allow the Orville to land on the planet and contact those alien "primitives" in any way, Captain Ed After much thought, he followed Isaac's suggestion and modified an unmanned stealth near-Earth exploration vehicle and used a shuttle boat to launch it into the planet.
In his opinion, using optically invisible detectors for close observation and scanning cannot be regarded as "contact." Although it also means exploiting legal loopholes, as long as they are not discovered, they will definitely not be attracted. Covenant Command's harsh reprimands or punishments.
that's all!
Half an hour later, the miniature flying probe that turned on the stealth mode arrived directly above the predetermined target coordinate point.
"No way?"
"Gordon!"
"Are you sure that this place is the village you entered with Annie before?"
As the robot Isaac remotely controlled the invisible aircraft and slowly approached, after seeing clearly the size of the city, its approximate population, and the approximate chronological background represented by the building style, Captain Ed looked at it with a look as if he had seen a ghost. Helmsman Gordon, who was also as if he had seen a ghost, asked:
"This is clearly a medieval city!"
"Where does it look like the Bronze Age?"
"Did you remember the place correctly?"
Ed said that no matter how poorly he studied history in school, he still knew that those "primitive people" could build such large stone buildings. The soldiers also wore steel armor and sharp weapons, plus there were Based on the analysis of many four-wheeled vehicles and the "advanced" farmland irrigation facilities outside the city, it can be basically determined that the other party is in the medieval feudal period, which is at least hundreds or thousands of years away from the Bronze Age.
"I-I don't know..."
"Judging from the coordinates and some reference objects, there is nothing wrong with it. It is indeed the village that Anne and I visited."
"but!"
"I remember, it was just a small village with more than a hundred people..."
To be honest, Gordon himself was a little dumbfounded when he looked at the overlooking scenes and pictures sent back by the detection aircraft.
Because judging from the high mountain where they crashed, the surrounding rivers, and the coordinates, there are no problems with all the data. But what is outrageous is that in just eleven days, the landscape and vegetation have changed to a certain extent?
Then, a small village with more than a hundred people and thirty or forty buildings at most turned into a medieval city in an instant. With that level of change, even if it were handed over to the Planetary Alliance's engineering team, it would be exactly the same. I'm afraid the construction period is also a bit tight, let alone a backward and wild planet in this era.
"captain!".
"I'm also pretty sure that that place is the village where Annie and Lieutenant Gordon stayed for a few hours. There's nothing wrong with that."
At this time, the second officer at his post on the bridge spoke firmly after reviewing and checking various data.
"But this is impossible!"
"How did they build a city in just eleven days?"
"Even if we in the Star Alliance mobilize supplies and spaceships, and then transport the engineering team and supplies here, it will probably take more than eleven days, right?"
"Why do I always feel a little weird?"
"That looks like..."
"It's like the "magic" that Anne often talks about, which is a bit unbelievable! "
At this time, Alora also echoed, expressing that she agreed with Captain Ed's point of view.
on that day,
Security Officer Arora was also paying attention to the development of the situation on the bridge at the time, so she was also very sure that the position locked by the stealth aircraft was definitely correct, but why a village turned into a city was really a bit strange. It was beyond the scope of her imagination.
"wrong!"
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"It's not magic!"
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At this time, Annie suddenly appeared and corrected her before trotting directly to the bridge, and lay down on the back of the robot Isaac's chair, and began to stare at the robot Isaac operated with great interest. Stealth detection aircraft.
After watching for a while, she continued to add:
"Actually, it's because..."
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"This planet, its time has passed for hundreds of years!"
(??????????)hey-hey!
Anne didn't hold anything in mind, she just told what she knew so openly.
And that was the real reason why she came to the bridge on this morning eleven days later to join in the fun. Otherwise, in the past, she would have been sleeping in and wouldn't go out before midnight.
"??"
"How many hundreds of years have passed?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Speak clearly now!"
Ed was stunned at first, and then he seemed to have grasped a certain key point and hurriedly asked without thinking.
"captain!"
"I think I understand."
Fortunately, before Annie could answer, the robot Isaac got a big inspiration first. After quickly operating on its operating table, it reported in a slightly excited tone:
"After comparing the photos of the terrain and rivers, especially the perennial plants, I made a major discovery!"
"The situation is basically consistent with what Anne just said."
"I discovered that when this planet moved out of our universe and entered another universe, its time showed signs of being accelerated."
"In other words, although it has only been eleven days on our side, at least seven hundred years have passed on that planet."
"Of course, in a specific year, plant and rock specimens need to be collected to get an accurate value."
Ignoring Captain Ed and the dumbfounded and disbelieving faces looking over at him from the bridge, the robot Isaac directly revealed the incredible result obtained after scanning and comparing it.
"Time speeds up?"
"How is that possible?"
"Who has the ability to accelerate the time of an entire planet?"
"Even our Star Alliance can't do it, right?!"
"Definitely not!"
"But the facts are right in front of us. Look, let alone the terrain, the similarity is as high as 99%, and the trees in the picture should be the same kind, right?"
"At that time, they were only over two meters high, but now, look, they are at least fifteen or six meters tall. It would be better if we could cut open its trunk to see the growth rings."
"But!"
"Last time, Dr. Arnoff's time device consumed a huge amount of energy just to accelerate the time of a banana. Now to accelerate a planet, at least the energy of an entire star must be used. ?」
"Who can do that?"
"That makes sense."
"It's really unlikely..."
"But this is the truth, we have all seen it!"
"What I don't understand is that our Covenant has just begun to study the time device. It is said that the effort and reward are not proportional at all. Who is crazy enough to use it on an entire planet?"
"have no idea……"
"Anyway, it's definitely not our Star Alliance or anyone else. Maybe,
Someone from another universe? "
"ah!"
"That's right!"
"It only existed on our side for more than a day, but it existed on the other side for a full eleven days. There is indeed a problem on the other side!"
"But!"
"Why do people over there want to speed up its time?"
"What's in it for them?"
"this……"
"I don't know, I'm not an engineer!"
As soon as Isaac finished speaking, many officers on the bridge, including Gordon, Alora, Petrus, and Kelly, who had been shocked by the scene that had just been detected, began to discuss and argue with each other. stand up.
It's not that they can't understand the acceleration of time, but for an entire planet to be accelerated, it's really shocking. Anyway, they only know that it is absolutely impossible to do it with the current technological level of the Planetary Alliance. .
"It's very simple!"
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"If the time flow rate between the two universes is different, for example, the time flow rate on the opposite side is more than 20,000 times that here, wouldn't that explain it?"
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Seeing these stupid guys in front of her quarreling non-stop over trivial matters, Anne had no choice but to reluctantly remind them aloud.
"!!"
"Time flows at different speeds?"
"Is there such a thing?"
"Well……"
"That sounds reasonable."
"correct!"
"I remembered that when I was in college, I heard a professor say that there seems to be a view that time is like two rivers, and the flow speed of the rivers in different universes will vary according to Are the differences caused by terrain, water volume, etc.?”
"That makes sense..."
"It is indeed possible, but there is no way to prove it, unless who is willing to stay on the planet and wait until the next time it appears again?"
"!!"
"I'm not going!"
"What if it's really seven hundred years? You won't even be able to find my grave by then!"
"Well……"
"How about placing that stealth probe in the synchronous orbit of the planet?"
"ah!"
"This is indeed a good idea. We only need to wait another eleven days to find out whether it is yes or no by then, and can we also get all the complete information about the planet for seven hundred years?"
"But, can the polymer battery and technology used to make it survive in space for seven hundred years?"
"Well..."
"How about we ask the engineering team to make another one?"
As they talked, everyone quickly expressed their opinions and discussed a reliable and seemingly effective method on the verification issue, and then wanted to implement it.
"Everyone stop it first!"
"Shut up!"
At this time, before many officers in the bridge could continue chatting on an uncertain topic, Captain Ed suddenly stopped them with a loud voice, then stood up with a serious face and ordered to Isaac road:
"Isaac!"
"Aim the camera at the middle of that city..."
"right!"
"That square, let the aircraft land slowly!"
Ed seemed to see something familiar, but he wasn't too sure, so he walked quickly behind Isaac and ignored the protests of a troubled little girl, directly signaling Isaac to end his stay in the city. Instead of flying and scanning from above, he controlled the invisible detection aircraft to fly down towards the square in the center of the city.
"Eh?"
Σ(°△°|||)︴
"that is……"
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Immediately afterwards, as Isaac skillfully locked the aircraft's lens on a statue in the central square of the city and accelerated its approach, Anne couldn't help but feel dumbfounded as the screen zoomed in.
"strangeness!"
(°ー°〃)
"Why does she look familiar?"
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Because, Anne has already discovered...
In the center of the square is a huge granite statue, and the task of the statue does look familiar, whether it's the clothes, hairstyle or a mascot hanging around its waist?
However, since it was carved from granite and not colored, and the outline of the face was somewhat abstract and blurry, Anne was not able to recognize it immediately.
(…)
(￢??￢.)
(Tibbers said that it did look familiar. Anyway, it recognized it at a glance and just didn’t want to remind it. And, if it remembers correctly, it was in a certain timeline in the world of Azeroth. , outside the gate of the original Stratholme City, there should also be a towering tower with a similar style, but even bigger?)
"Doesn't it look familiar?"
"Annie..."
"Annie, take a closer look. Have you noticed that she does look like someone?"
With just one glance, Ed recognized it and sighed inwardly.
Then, he opened his mouth, and after thinking for a long time, he looked down in frustration at the troubled little girl who was standing behind Isaac just like him, even lying on the back of the chair and looking at her, but she didn't react at all. He asked teasingly.
"??"
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"Who does it look like?"
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Annie blinked and asked cutely. She didn't know if she really didn't understand or if she was deliberately pretending to be stupid.
"..."
Ed suddenly stopped talking and just stared at her motionless, not knowing what his mood was.
"..."
Then, the robot Isaac also turned his head and looked towards Annie, his blue electronic eyes flashing.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
And the same goes for everyone else on the bridge.
After clearly seeing the 3D rock statue that was enlarged by Isaac and put on the big screen in the bridge window of the Orville, they all invariably looked at a certain person for the first time with some weird expressions and eyes. The two troubled little girls looked at each other.
"!!"
!? (?? ????)??
"You mean, that thing is my own statue?!"
!(;??o??)o
"No way?"
Σ(??д??;)
Anne was a little surprised when she came back to her senses, and then she didn't believe it. She hurriedly came to Isaac's console again and stared at the small screen. She didn't even bother to pay attention to what was being projected on the porthole in front of her. The extremely clear huge pattern.
"Um……"
(ー「??ー)
"Although the face looks a little different, and the clothes and hair are colorless, it does look similar, right?"
(lll￢￢)
Although, it is basically certain now, but Anne still doesn't want to admit it.
After all, she just went to have a meal, then said some words, and seemed to have given those poor guys some food and things to use, and then nothing more, it was just a small thing. , how could it be wrong to erect a statue for her?
(…)
(●￣??￣●)
"It's useless for you to quibble!"
"Look who is that behind?"
Ed, who was lamenting in his heart, didn't know what to say at this moment, but he still cheered up and stretched out his hand to signal Annie to look behind her statue and towards the smaller statue.
"ah!"
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"It's Uncle Gordon, and there's a statue of you too!"
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Annie really didn't recognize her statue at the first time. After all, she didn't like looking in the mirror, and she couldn't see her face at any time.
However, she recognized the appearance of other people, such as Uncle Gordon, at a glance. Even though the outline of the statue was also very abstract, the clothes and the stern hair were unmistakable to her.
"I……"
However, unlike Annie's heartless and still laughing situation, Gordon saw his statue also appeared in the alien's city square, although it was much smaller than Annie's, but Gordon couldn't help but laugh. He was so frightened that his entire face turned pale.
"captain!"
"You know, I really didn't mean it!"
"This is none of my business!"
Not only was his face turned pale with fright, Gordon also immediately began to plead and ask for help from his captain and friend Ed.
"Stop it!"
"Now is not the time to hold people accountable, and I have no right to punish you!"
"Isaac!"
"Zooming the camera closer, I saw that there seems to be writing on the base of the stone statue. Please translate it quickly!"
After shaking his head and looking at Gordon's fearful look with an unknown emotion, Ed sighed and signaled the robot Isaac to do another thing.
"OK."
"The translated text is..."
"Anne Hastur, the goddess in charge of light and fertility, and her servants came to the Holy Principality of Hastur on the Harvest Festival of the Holy Year. The goddess, her servants and the one hundred and thirty-six sons of the principality celebrated the harvest and shared the harvest from The supreme delicacies, fairy wine, and fairy dew of the divine world were given to the Sons of God, as well as many agricultural tools that represented harvest and abundance, as well as divine objects with divine power."
"The goddess's outstanding virtues and great power will last forever!"
"He is the spiritual symbol of the Principality of Hastur and the source of the roots of human civilization. He is as majestic as a towering mountain and as distant as a rushing river; he also has the warmth of the sun and the light of the moon; he has the earth As generous as heaven, as bountiful as the sky.”
"The people of the Holy Principality of Hastur will remember this forever."
"above……"
"It is the complete translation of the text on the base of the statue."
After finishing speaking and placing both the original text and the translated text on the big screen in the porthole of the Orville, the robot Isaac turned its head again and looked at Annie, who was looking embarrassed, and the very ugly Captain Ed behind him.
"Gordon!"
"Why didn't you tell me that besides food, she also gave those primitive people things?!"
Ed did not immediately blame Annie, because he knew that blaming would be useless. A certain bad little girl would definitely not listen to it, let alone make changes, so he directly pointed the finger at her. Gordon, who was still frightened by the statue, asked him.
"I……"
"I have no idea!"
"Did she give you something? But I didn't even notice!"
"I really do not know!"
At first, Gordon was startled, and then he started to scream loudly, and said that when he was pulled over by a bad little girl, he was only afraid and worried about whether he would go to jail. How could he have time to pay attention to anything else?
In fact!
Now he has forgotten how he survived those three or four hours. As for what that guy Annie gave those primitive people, he really didn't pay attention.
.
Anyway, the matter had nothing to do with him, but he didn't dare to say a word during the whole process, and he didn't even dare to tell the primitive people who asked many times his name.
Also, he is not Anne’s servant!
But that kind of question is no longer important now, and he doesn't want to refute it here on the bridge, or go to the planet to argue with those "primitive people" who have entered the medieval feudal era.
"Annie?"
"stop!"
"explain!"
"What exactly did you give them?"
As a last resort, Ed, who noticed a certain sign, had to quickly turn his head to look at Annie, who was waiting around. He didn't know whether he wanted to escape or was thinking of some evil idea, and stopped in front of her.
"!!"
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"I didn't give you anything randomly..."
(￢д￢.)
As a last resort, when she saw another annoying Aunt Kelly blocking her way, Annie had to stop and protested a little aggrievedly:
"Just some steel farm tools, really!"
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"For example, those shovels, hoes, plowshares, etc., they are all not very important anyway!"
(O~O)
Anne also forgot the specific details. She gave it to her as soon as she was happy. How could she remember so much?
Anyway, what she gave the most at that time were all kinds of delicacies from the food world. Although eating those things was good for ordinary people's bodies and would make them very strong and strong, those things would definitely not last long. Yes, and people who eat those things will burp to death sooner or later, so she doesn't think it's a big deal.
(…)
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"ha?"
"Giving a group of primitive people steel shovels, hoes, and plowshares, is that not important?!!"
Hearing this, Ed was so frightened that his hands and feet began to tremble a little, so that his tone became sharp.
"you……"
Anyway, he really didn't know how to explain it to the female commander of their Star Alliance.
It is no longer as simple as a simple contact and a meal, it is a deep contact and a huge change, and it is of a very serious nature!
"etc!"
"I almost forgot, the inscription on that statue also said..."
"A divine object with divine power..."
"What's that?"
"What else did you give them?!"
Then, Captain Ed, who was about to discuss what to do with Kelly and the officers present, suddenly turned his head and looked at those lines of text, and pointed at an important paragraph in the text. asked Anne, who was about to sneak away.
"!!"
!(;??o??)o
"Well..."
(lll￢▽￢)
"I don't remember it, it's not something important anyway!"
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"Uncle Ed, don't worry!"
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"I won't tell you anymore, I have to go play first!"
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Having said this, I always felt that the atmosphere on the bridge had become a little weird and depressing. Then, those guys looked at her in a slightly wrong way. Anne thought about it for a moment, then made a quick decision and ran out of the bridge. He didn't give that annoying idiot Uncle Ed the slightest chance to continue questioning.
"Hello!"
"Stop!"
Ed was about to chase after him, but was held back by Kelly on the side.
"forget it!"
"If she doesn't tell you, there's nothing you can do. You might as well wait.
. "
"Let's finish today's work first, then wait eleven days, and wait a few hundred years to see what happens?"
First Officer Kelly, who knew very well what kind of character Anne was, had no choice but to suggest this, and signaled Ed to continue presiding over the affairs of the bridge, and to complete the investigation of the magical planet first.
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Monthly ticket~????(????????).
