At this time, Elliot and others, who did not know that the rescue force was on the way, were still moving forward along the cracked streets, but unlike the blind scurrying before, this time they had a clearer direction.
Half an hour ago, when Elliot saw the strange-looking metal recliner in the room and the complex wiring connected to it, he and his team members thought that this room might have special purposes such as an operating room. But when they found the same deck chair in every house, everyone's expressions became serious.
In their opinion, there must be some unknown secret behind this kind of lounge chair that can be seen in every household.
Considering that some of the operating screens of the recliners were still flashing when they were discovered, Elliott believed that there must be a control center connected to all the recliners in the space city, and that this control center is most likely still working. A steady stream of energy is delivered to those lounge chairs that are not completely damaged.
So the group quickly embarked on a journey along the road planned by the scanner based on the underground cables. After a long walk that seemed to have no end in sight, the eight exploration team members finally arrived at the entrance of a black tower in the center of the space city. , looking at the bottomless empty door, they looked at each other.
"The scanner shows that this tower is the core part of the main structure of the space city. If it collapses, the entire remaining section of the space city may collapse instantly!" "Yes, and if there is a defense mechanism inside the tower, With our current equipment, we will definitely die!"
Facing the concerns of his companions, Elliot smiled slightly and reminded them that even if they did not enter the tower, they would die sooner or later if they stayed outside and ran around. It was better to try their luck in the tower where a safe house was most likely to exist. After saying that, he led Juarez and Hailey into the door, no longer caring about the timid team members behind him.
Bringing them here alive from the collapsed mooring platform was the ultimate benevolence. No matter what choices the other five made, it had nothing to do with him, Nicholas Elliott.
As the three of them went deeper and deeper into the tower, the surrounding temperature and oxygen content also increased to the point where they could take off their helmets and breathe freely. Just when Elliot wanted to take off his orange-red helmet that represented his ace status and take a breath of fresh air, a young but majestic voice suddenly appeared in the communication channel that had been interrupted.
"Nicholas Elliott, right? I am Yang Tianyi, chairman of the Stars Group. First of all, congratulations on your arrival in a rare safe place in the space city. Secondly, before the fleet to rescue survivors arrives, I have a task to give you .”
Elliot, who thought he was hallucinating due to high mental stress, shook his head and confirmed that the voice in the helmet was real.
After learning from Yang Tianyi that the rescue fleet would arrive at their side in a few hours, he breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the two team members beside him who were breathing in warm air, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for bringing us I hope, but the survivor team I am in only has three members left including me, so I am afraid we don’t have enough strength to complete the mission.”
Yang Tianyi, who was in the branch command center, glanced at the projection of the overall structure of the space city in front of him and found that Elliot had indeed not lied to him.
Through the vital sign detection and positioning devices in the spacesuits, more than fifty survivors of the exploration team who escaped from the docking port are scattered in small teams throughout the space station. And Elliot has the least number of people around him, only two pitiful green dots.
"Your two teammates are Marseille Juarez and Meyer Hailey. The former is a shy French guy who can fly a helicopter, and the latter is a German female doctor who is proficient in internal medicine and has a meticulous style. I said right?"
After realizing that the Star Group was well aware of their current situation, Elliot smiled bitterly, understanding that the three of them would probably not be able to shirk the tasks imposed by each other.
But of course Yang Tianyi did not ask these three people to die. In fact, on the contrary, he was fully confident that he would unlock the secret of "Aix-Beleng" before Baron Howard led the archaeological team to the space city.
Through volunteers taking turns to interpret the memory sphere of the divine messenger Sa'aria, the group has mastered a large amount of information about the Uranus space city, and even much of it is top-secret information that only Sa'aria himself is qualified to know.
In the memory sphere that Baron Howard personally interpreted, Saaria once mentioned a mysterious place called "Aix-Beleng". The people living there possessed a technology that was coveted by the Church of the Enlightenment, and until the civilization on Corbin IV was destroyed, Saaria was unable to decipher the secrets of this technology.
Combining the information obtained later, Yang Tianyi was 100% sure that the Uranus space city was "Aix-Beleng", and the builder of the space city was none other than the Qiming Church.
Although it is unknown why the relationship between the two finally broke down, so much so that Saaria personally issued an order to shut down the life support system of the space city, but it was probably related to the lost mysterious technology.
As the most important facility in the space city and the unique symbol of the Qiming Church, the three Elliots are the ones closest to the central spire, and Yang Tianyi has been paying attention to their whereabouts for a long time. In order to ensure that they accepted the task voluntarily rather than being forced, he deliberately waited until the three of them were standing inside the spire before initiating contact.
Using the scanner on his helmet to project the overall structure of the central spire, Elliot observed it carefully for a while and then replied: "I understand what you mean. Since the Star Group is providing remote help, we will set off now."
When the three people took the backup elevator highlighted for them on the projection and arrived at the top space of the tower that had been abandoned for thousands of years, a huge blue sphere with a diameter of more than twenty meters came into view.
Judging from its appearance alone, this huge ball of light that occupies a large area on the screen is simply an enlarged version of the memory sphere. Through the countless cables connected to the outside of the sphere, Elliot boldly speculated that this ball of light was the end of the complex circuits on the weird recliner they had discovered before.
As expected by Yang Tianyi, a holographic priest who was exactly the same as the slug servant on Corbin 4 slowly appeared in front of the three of them, and asked in a strange rhythm unique to the church people about the archeology of their first meeting with the servant. Basically the same problem during the tour.
"Travelers from afar, are you here to receive the gift of the God of Enlightenment? If so, please lie down on the dream machine and wait for a while, and I will perform the ceremony for you."
Since the Star Hub has given the three people the program to translate alien languages, Elliot and others easily understood the problem of holographic sacrifice. Different from the surprise and joy caused by their contact with alien civilization, Yang Tianyi had more questions in his mind than before.
"The god believed in by the Qiming Church is called the 'God of Qiming' by the believers, and the device used to extract memories is called the 'Confession Chair.' The residents of Aix-Beleng seem to have made innovations in this regard, and Qiming became enlightenment, and the confessional chair becomes a somnolence machine..."
Thinking of this, Yang Tianyi nodded, feeling that he had grasped the truth behind the destruction of Aix-Boleng.
History has proved that disputes arising from disagreements in religious ideas often end in bloody and cruel wars. The Enlightenment Church, which adheres to tradition, is obviously unable to accept the new ideas of the Aix-Beleng people. Even if the technology developed by the latter is really more advanced, the first thing that God Envoy Zaaria thinks of is not fusion but possession.
Fortunately, the intelligence level of the holographic priests around Elliot is not much higher than that of the servants of God. Therefore, Yang Tianyi just used a little trick to tell the story of the long-dusted past of Aix-Boleng Space City.
As early as more than 1,200 years ago, the Enlightenment Church at that time had complete control of Corbin 4 and possessed the hyperspace engine, the passport of interstellar civilization. In order to enhance the strength of the church, the divine envoy Saaria ordered the construction of a number of scientific research spacecraft, starting from various hyperspace jump points in the Corbin galaxy to conduct all-round exploration of the surrounding star fields.
After a boring voyage that lasted for several months, the church research ship that was responsible for investigating the Asr galaxy, the solar system, was surprised to discover human civilization on Earth that was still in the early ninth century.
It’s a pity that humans at that time were so ignorant that when the Qiming Church’s research ship flew over their heads, neither the European knights who fought each other for honor nor the displaced East Asian people who had experienced long-term wars failed to realize that this was A more advanced civilization is conducting research on humans.
There are records in the history books of various ancient countries that year. In Europe, the fleeting propeller tail flame of the spacecraft was called "The sun god rode his radiant chariot across the sky to provide for his people who longed for light." Light up the sun." In Asia, the huge figures of scientific research ships looming in the clouds are often nicknamed "Kunpeng" by rural people.
After learning that there was a primitive civilization waiting to be civilized in the Asr galaxy, the divine envoy Saaria thought for a long time and finally decided to build a large-scale facility in the orbit of Uranus to store supplies, mine gas fuel, and provide a transit place for passing fleets. Space City and named it "Aix-Beleng", which means "Dawn Outpost".
Perhaps in the eyes of Saaria at that time, the glorious path of the Enlightenment Church had just begun, and human civilization would become the first alien race to bathe in the light of God after passing the missionary inspection, and it would be the same as her native people. Race Corbin join hands to move towards a broader starry sky.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. On a very ordinary day, the residents of Corbin living in Dawn's Outpost tampered with the program of the church's confession chair and added an enhanced learning program to it for practicality.
After that, when they sleep in the improved confession chair every night, the enhancement program running can not only remove the unpleasant memories of the residents' work and life, but also help them learn and train new skills.
For example, after a Corbyn man has just forgotten the embarrassment of being let out on a date, the electronic emotional encyclopedia he inserted into the confession chair will be injected into his brain, and the learning program will help him understand these. Integrate new knowledge.
When he woke up leisurely from the mechanical chair, he seemed to have truly become an emotional master, and he would be able to handle similar situations more easily.
However, this fantastic technology obviously cannot be used only in emotions - almost everyone in Aix-Berlin is a master in some field. Engineers only need one night to learn complex knowledge that was difficult to understand in the past months or even a year, and language enthusiasts can experience the ultimate pleasure of waking up and learning another language.
Although this cramming method of acquiring knowledge has been proven to weaken a person's willpower and imagination, when this extremely hassle-free learning method is presented to them, almost no one can say no to it.
After this craze for learning new knowledge gradually spread to the entire Dawn Outpost, the management of Space City inevitably fell into an extremely fanatical state.
When Yang Tianyi heard this, he nodded in agreement. Because he knows that when some beings think they know everything and are omnipotent, someone will always have to pay the price.
Sure enough, the top leaders of Aix-Beleng proclaimed themselves gods in their fanaticism. Not only did they distort the teachings of the Church of Enlightenment and turn them into their own tools of rule, they also forced the residents of the entire space city to use dream machines to systematically "Mind enhancement".
The methods include using the vast knowledge in the central database to conduct high-intensity training on the residents, randomly deleting memories in their minds that are unfavorable to the management to stabilize their rule, and so on.
When managers who claimed to be gods abused the dream device, an accident happened.
Excessive memory modification has caused more and more residents to be on the verge of mental collapse, because they don't know where their knowledge comes from, what they were like yesterday, and who they will be tomorrow.
After a chaos that spreads throughout the space station, tens of thousands of residents wake up without vital skills necessary for their survival. Countless healthy Corbyn people collapsed at home unable to move because they had forgotten how to stand and walk.
The managers of Aix-Beleng also suffered the consequences and became poor people who had lost all their survival instincts.
All the things obtained from the dream finally shattered instantly like a dream and disappeared without a trace.
After learning of the tragedy that occurred on Aix-Beleng, the divine envoy Saaria ordered the entire space city to be sealed off, and soon after shut down the life-support system in the central spire, killing all those still in the space city. A survivor who clings on to his instincts.
And decades later, when the Church of the Enlightenment on Corbin IV was destroyed by unknown forces, Aix-Beleng, which was supposed to be permanently blocked, was reloaded into the security system, and the life support system was also activated many times. suspicious.
However, for these doubts, Yang Tianyi also had his own answers after knowing the whole incident.
The sudden reloading of the space city's security and life-support systems was definitely the work of the divine envoy Sa'aria, who escaped from Corbin IV. Through the memory sphere left behind by this person, he knew that this cruel and ruthless divine envoy had publicly declared that E The Kesi-Boleng people are heretics with unforgivable sins, and the dream instrument is an evil artifact that harbors filth and evil.
But Saaria never gave up on the technology of analyzing the dream analyzer, for no other reason. The learning enhancement program written by the Aix-Beleng people was too unnatural. As long as it was not abused, it was a national treasure-level technology that could benefit the entire civilization.
If she had to say she was wrong, it was that this guy had too strong a desire for power and was too cautious. He refused to share this secret with others until his death. He would rather take him to the grave than crack the dream device alone. .
As the figure of the holographic priest escaped into the darkness again, Elliot looked at the huge blue sphere with complex eyes.
He heard the words of the holographic priest clearly. Maybe he only knew a certain part of the whole incident, but even just one part was enough to make the most unrestrained thinking person fall into thinking and make him feel as complicated as he did.
Under the guidance of Yang Tianyi, he bent down and picked up a pocket dream instrument that was about the same size as a memory sphere on the ground not far away, as well as a data tablet held firmly in the hands of a skeleton.
Together with Elliot and the other three, they looked at the exquisitely crafted divine uniforms on the bones. Yang Tianyi was filled with emotions and finally composed a few simple words of condolences.
"Saaria, I don't know whether I should call you Doctor or Divine Messenger. Did you cause the destruction of Corbin civilization, or were there other reasons?"
"Perhaps your motives were not pure at the beginning, but now that this person has passed away, so is the living. May you rest in peace in the world after death."
