Although the People's Federation's fleet has not set off yet, considering that there are several star gates on their journey to Fenhabenis that can greatly shorten the voyage, there is actually not much time left for Yang Tianyi to deal with personal matters.
Therefore, in order not to miss this smooth sailing ship that might arrive at any time, he had to put some time-consuming work on hold until he returned as a psyker.
For example, after he was promoted to level four, Yang Tianyi gave Edward this important task to adjust the business strategy of Qunxing Group in the Ten Thousand Realms Market and communicate with other intermediate time travellers. After all, the emperor now spends more time in the market than in the palace. It would be a pity not to make good use of this enthusiasm.
As for him, he had more important things to accomplish.
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"Hey, it's finally the exciting time to draw the prize!"
Thinking of the mysterious prize that he was about to win, Yang Tianyi quickly washed the foam on his hands. After making sure that his hands were as clean as possible, he knelt on the ground with his hands clasped together and ordered the system to use one thousand five hundred dollars. Point origin points to carry out cross-border lottery drawing commands.
Not long ago, after the group won the ninth district world, in order to commend him for his outstanding performance in the promotion battle, the system issued him a full 2,500 origin points as encouragement.
Although he didn't know why Edward didn't get any special rewards other than promotion, Yang Tianyi didn't think much about it. He only thought that he had made such a special exception because of his great contributions.
In the last lottery draw, the 1,500 origin points given by Fusion World allowed him to obtain an edible asteroid, with trillions of tons of moon crystal sugar on it still providing a source of resources to the group. Continuous huge income.
Among the Star Flavor Group’s increasingly long list of customers, the Yongdalim Destiny Empire alone can consume millions of tons of processed moon crystal sugar products with a total value of more than 2 billion World Credit points every month, and The combined purchasing volume of the other customers is not as large as that of the Korek family of the Destiny Empire.
Perhaps this number will drop slightly in the near future as the consumption boom caused by the novelty of customers subsides, but even so, Garneau still rubbed his beard and assured that the trading income from the moon crystal sugar field alone is enough to meet the group's needs in all world industries. The capital requirements for expansion show how terrifying the profits are.
Precisely because of the Moon Crystal Sugar as a precedent, Yang Tianyi realized that Origin Points were a good thing that could greatly enhance the group's strength in a short period of time.
No matter how many factories and production lines there are, they can't compare to the treasures the system mines from the parallel world. The former can be constructed at will, while the latter is likely to be an extremely scarce and non-renewable resource.
So under Yang Tianyi's expectant urging, the system slowly gave out the treasure it had dug up this time.
a coordinate.
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In confusion, he pulled open the ancient scroll with a miniature of an extremely cold planet printed in his hand. The slightly yellowed paper seemed to depict a touching mythical story.
In the center of the picture, amidst the white snow and under the pitch-black spire, a white-robed priest carefully held up a crystal ball emitting blue light with both hands. Around her, countless soft-bodied creatures also wearing white robes held hands and danced happily, as if all the suffering had been absorbed by the sphere in the hands of the sacrifice.
On the edge of the scroll is a long string of coordinates written in alien script.
Although it is impossible to view the contents of the scroll from an alien's perspective, Yang Tianyi believes that the person who made this scroll and wrote the coordinates of the extremely cold planet should be a woman.
This can be easily seen from the tear stains on the edges of the paper and the beautiful handwriting used in the coordinates. The maker of the scroll may have encountered an accident, and the snow-covered planet on the screen is the relic of her civilization.
As the saying goes, practice makes true knowledge, and simply analyzing fairy tales in the laboratory cannot bring any benefits to the group. After Yang Tianyi used the power of the system to translate the mysterious coordinates into human language, the star hub with unprecedentedly powerful computing power quickly discovered the polar planet on the star map of the Elysian Space World, with all the data matching it perfectly.
After calculations, the Javelin-class frigate equipped with advanced hyperspace engines and ion thrusters can reach the target galaxy from the edge of the solar system in just a few days.
Since the three-stage engine can use the subspace slipstream in hyperspace to accelerate the spacecraft during the jump, the journey to excavate civilization ruins was much shorter than he imagined. Evaluated on a cosmic scale, the distance between the two can even be called a step away.
After assessing the dangers that the expedition fleet might encounter together with Xingshu, Yang Tianyi finally decided not to mobilize the most elite forces of the group, but instead handed over the task of excavating civilization ruins to the second group navy stationed in the Elysian Space World. fleet.
Unlike their friendly forces who perform escort missions everywhere in the star world, for the Second Fleet, which has always been at the peaceful rear, this kind of cross-system expedition is the first time, and it is worthy of every naval officer's 120,000-point spirit. treat.
After a full day and night of preparation, a small fleet consisting of five Javelin-class frigates and a dozen Sparrow-class transport ships slowly left the Psyche spaceport and embarked on a journey to the hyperspace jump point near the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system. path of.
Staring at the ion thruster at the rear of the ship that was increasing its output, Yang Tianyi came to the space port and planned to personally direct the excavation operation. His eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't know whether he was dazzled by the more than ten dazzling ion lights in the distance, or whether he was worried about the expedition. The uncertain future of the fleet.
After all, in the cabins of those bird-class transport ships, in addition to the Marine Corps consisting of tens of thousands of Z-1 robots and thousands of human exoskeleton warriors, there are also many scientific research teams temporarily transferred from the Scientific Research Department to accompany them. All kinds of expensive equipment to carry.
These valuable talents who are indispensable to the group will be responsible for dealing with problems that cannot be solved by the Marine Corps through force. If anything happens to them during the excavation of the ruins, it will be a huge loss to the entire group. Not to mention the scientific research projects that have stalled due to the absence of scientists.
But this is the fact. Although Yang Tianyi is very reluctant to send the group's best scientists to the depths of the stars, he can't expect the expedition fleet to use naval guns to unearth the remains of civilization, right?
There are specialties in the industry, and some things must be done by people with professional knowledge and abilities. Only in this way can the group's losses be minimized.
"The signal from the Second Fleet has disappeared. They have entered the hyperspace channel. The combat computer is expected to resume communication in six hours."
After hearing the report from the spaceport correspondent, Yang Tianyi nodded slightly, then turned and left the command room, preparing to continue studying the ancient scroll that he had locked in the deepest part of the safe - excavated before the expedition fleet arrived at the target planet. Every clue may save countless lives.
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Three days later, at the edge of the star system named "Corbin" by the group's star mapper, a small fleet of seventeen ships instantly appeared near the jump point of the star system, surrounding the spacecraft and still not dispersing. The hyperspace slipstream made the entire fleet look hazy, as if it would disappear without a trace again in the next second.
However, this strange state between real space and hyperspace did not last long. It soon returned to normal due to the anchoring of the shipboard hyperspace engine, allowing the group's second fleet to regain contact with the Spirit Star Spaceport. Stable inter-galactic communication was established.
As the order to continue was passed by Yang Tianyi to the fleet commander through the command staff, and after several hours of sublight speed navigation, the second fleet finally ended the long journey and arrived outside the atmosphere of the target planet to wait for further orders.
According to observations from the Ministry of Science and Technology, this polar planet named "Corbin 4" is located in the fourth orbit of the star system and orbits the M-type star in the center of the galaxy all year round.
Due to the generally low brightness of M-type stars, the Corbin Galaxy was not initially on the astronomical team's observation list. Without accurate coordinates for reference, astronomers responsible for observing extrasolar stars once doubted whether the Corbin Galaxy actually existed in the real universe.
Although M-type stars have a long lifespan, they rarely emit ultraviolet light that is enough to sustain the existence of most life forms. This is most likely due to the fact that although Corbin 4 is not far from the star to which it belongs, its surface is still covered in ice and snow. reason.
Without the need for Yang Tianyi to issue more detailed instructions, the command level of the Second Fleet launched dozens of high and low orbit satellites with propulsion systems, and immediately pulled up a not dense, but A monitoring network that is sufficient for the time being.
What follows is that the drone goes deep into the atmosphere, detects the environment of the entire planet, and at the same time looks for the mysterious black spire towering into the clouds on the scroll.
In the high-definition images captured by drones and satellites, at first glance, there is only pure ice and snow on the surface of Corbin 4, and nothing else.
The vast expanse of snow-white earth, glass-clear lakes and jagged pine-green glaciers is set off by the fiery red sky. The orange clouds in the sky complement the giant cracked glaciers on the ground, like wounds on the planet that will never heal.
At the same time, the red light of the setting sun pours onto the sea that is also frozen by the polar cold, as if it is the gurgling blood flowing in a wound, and it is breathtakingly beautiful.
Calm seas and spotless snow. The only things you can hear on this planet are the crackling sounds of ice breaking and the biting wind howling across the plains.
Looking at the indescribable dead atmosphere in the projection, every naval officer and soldier in the Second Fleet who was lucky enough to be the first to watch the real-time image all sighed in their hearts.
"If the world ever ends, it will be here."
Based on the urban ruins captured by drones, the fleet's professional analysis team immediately started work.
Obviously, Corbin IV was once the home planet or colony of a certain civilization. Although it is unclear what the current status of this civilization is, there is indeed no sign of life on the planet below them.
Six hours after the fleet arrived at Corbin IV, the drone force's carpet search finally made its first major discovery.
In a vast and barren wilderness, a black metal spire rises abruptly from the pale earth. Even excluding the parts that may exist below the ground, in the eyes of scientists, this thousand-meter-high spire is still a man-made product that captures the sky.
Not only is the difficulty of construction comparable to those of the world-famous giant towers on Earth, it even far exceeds them in terms of artistry.
I just don’t know what kind of forgotten secrets are hidden under the thick snow...
