The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 239: Aerym
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A moment of brilliant stars appeared in the corner of the view, and the sunlight was weakened and filtered to prevent stab eyes on the bridge. Hao Ren lets ASanbaA adjust the lens of the external monitor and see the situation around the star.
The so-called "Aerym planet" has long since disappeared. The planet was gradually dismantled into debris thousands of years ago. Now it is a continuous floating island that orbits the original planet. It was as if a series of fragmented and similarly-sized cone stones flew in line in space. In order to extract the last resource from the bottom of the planet and to supplement the depleted energy cycle on the planet as much as possible, the elves resolutely decomposed their entire planet and turned it into a solar energy that can receive the maximum amount of energy. Can accommodate more people in a fragmented state. After the rock layers deep in the mantle have been dismantled and reshaped into such floating islands, they have gained precious living space and a more precious one-the proving ground.
The floating islands have obvious traces of artificial shape. Their main body is the rock of the planet itself, but huge artificial "hoops" can be seen around the floating island. Those are already dim, and the materials are between rocks and metals. The artificial structure between them not only maintains the stability of the floating island, but also produces an energy cover to protect the land below, and the energy cover itself can be used to filter sunlight. One side of the floating island is flat, and the other side is a huge and ugly rock foundation. Between the uneven and overhanging mountains, you can see the ancient and huge mechanical structures. They are the floating island ’s power plant, gravity generator, and energy station. And material recycling plant. Those mechanical structures may have a history of thousands of years, and there is no way to know how much damage they have, but obviously their manufacturers have no energy and resources to repair them.
"Those are our homes," Hilda calmed down at the moment. She stood up and pointed at the picture on the holographic projection. "Some floating islands away from the main residential area are the testing ground. We had tested the Space - Time core there. And super-powered magic guide accelerator. If we do n’t disassemble the planet like this, we ca n’t even find this kind of proving ground. The magic guide accelerator needs to be built on a solid and huge foundation, which cannot be carried by a conventional space station, and It may even tear half a planet once it explodes. Therefore, it cannot be placed on the parent star. In history, a generation of scholars once built a huge space platform as far as possible to barely carry out this dangerous experiment, but a fusion furnace The explosion caused the platform to crash and almost destroyed the entire northern hemisphere ecology. These experimental projects were suspended until the planet remodeling was completed-but that is also in the past. Now that the Space - Time core and the magic accelerator test have stopped, we There are really no resources. "
"Those floating islands with bright energy shields are ecological islands, and there are ecological domes under the shields. We have preserved the planetary ecosystem as much as possible and transplanted them to a huge artificial circulation system. These ecological domes Provide us with precious and complicated organic matter, and at the same time ... it is also the only luxury that my people can enjoy. Each Aerym Elves can rest in the dome for 15 days a year, but no more. The carrying capacity of those domes has limits, and As some key systems age, they are almost shutting down. If they shut down, I am afraid that we will have to rely entirely on factory synthetic substances to survive, and this will kill many people: Aerym Elves is a slow-evolving race, healthy individuals have With a thousand years of life, the rate of environmental degradation far exceeds the speed at which we adapt. Whenever an ancient facility shuts down, there will be a large number of old elves ... even the elder elves die. "
"The floating islands with bright beams connected to each other are residential areas. Most elves live on those islands. They are specially designed with the lowest energy consumption and the most stable circulation system. The building planning is more reasonable. In other words ... it can last longer, most of the synthetic factories are on those floating islands, even if other floating islands-such as the proving ground-are accidentally damaged. These residential areas can survive as much as possible. "
The spacecraft gradually approached those space islands in low-speed cruising mode. Hao Ren found that there are a special group of individuals in the floating islands: they hovered at the edge of the island chain, the whole was dim, and some of the "hoops" on the border of the island were even damaged. Shedding and even disappearing, the remnants of man-made structures can still be seen faintly on the floating island, but the energy shield above the land is obviously extinguished. The earth without a trace of light looked dead, like the depleted space rocks.
"What is that?"
"Death," Hilda sighed, "We have shaped these seemingly magnificent spatial entities, but it does not mean that we have superb technology-these floating islands are almost desperate under desperate circumstances. It was built in a way that the technology is not mature enough, even the theory is not perfect, and the architecture of many islands is different, because the original designer did not know which island can last longer. And many floating islands are being built. There is a defect at the beginning, and it cannot be repaired after a failure, so the floating island will continue to be damaged and extinguished, and then it will become like that. "
Even Lily is quiet now. She even fears the strange scene in front of her. She holds her tail and her ears stand straight: "What about the people above?"
"Most of the time it can be rescued and transferred to other islands," Hilda nodded, "This will increase the ecological pressure of other islands, so every time this rescue transfer will be implemented for a period of resources Restriction bills are mainly to restrict newborns and reduce per capita supply, and some old people will actively enter the 'pray world', let the body accept euthanasia to make room for other young and middle-aged people. No way, we always have to let the entire race try May survive. "
"This place ..." Hao Ren opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say for a long time. "It's more serious than I thought."
As a human being, a rookie censor who has n’t had time to experience too many events, Hao Ren ca n’t imagine how many incredible things are happening in the vast void, the disasters and disasters he sees from various stories Doomsday can't be compared with this chain of space islands. Before coming here, he had imagined how to help Hilda and her clan-such as borrowing the World Gate system of the empire and his connections in Kuiper Station, to see if he could deliver some supplies here, or from the merchants of the Fiyali Void Consortium Purchase some technology or spaceships that do not exceed the "Civilization Non-Interference Act" and give them to these Aerym Elvess. As a reviewer, he has a certain amount of "empire ration points" every month, but he has not used these things yet. It was just that these ration points could be exchanged for exceptionally abundant supplies in the Macro World civilizations, so he came up with the above idea.
It just seems that all his plans have to be revised.
These Aerym Elvess are far from being aided by a little material or a little late technology.
"Your creativity and resilience are indeed commendable," ASanbaA couldn't help but want to say something, "It's just that you can't discover the mystery of the super-light speed engine-sometimes a fork in the technology tree will destroy a civilization. Especially for a race like yours, where the congenital conditions are not sufficient, as long as there is a technology that fails to develop in time, there is often no chance of turning over. It can be seen that you have worked hard, but ... in the end, it was still unsuccessful. "
Hilda sighed: "Yes, the final space teleportation test also failed."
When the giant turtle rock platform was close to those island chains, it clearly attracted the attention of Aerym Elvess. Hao Ren noticed that the communicator suddenly reported a large number of unknown contact signals, and some bright light spots quickly moved from several residential floating islands. The back side came out and quickly approached the spaceship. After the lens was pulled through, Hao Ren could only see that they were some blunt-edged triangle-shaped aircraft with gray-white metallic luster, and the bright runes flashed on the outer shell of each aircraft. Obviously not the same as the spaceship in general impression. Those spaceships should be Aerym Elves, but unfortunately they can't cross the tens of millions of light years of long distance.
The gray-white delta aircraft quickly came to the vicinity of Juguiyantai. Hao Ren slowed down the spacecraft to near stillness, so the tens of meters-long "small spaceships" then stopped and did not make a rapid detour Classy rash actions. The driver inside them must be in a state of great shock and tension. The crowd on the bridge can even feel this emotion through the cold space and the layers of starship armor. (To be continued.)