MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 1576 distant

As midnight approached, the superluminal communication signals echoing among the stars calmed down again, and the huge antenna array at the top of the Thorin Giant Tree gradually returned to the standby state, leaving only the towering steel skeleton and crystal matrix whimpering softly in the night wind.

The coolant was rushing through the fiber pipes, and the servo-brain arrays that had been running at high speed for a long time entered a shallow sleep in one ecological chamber after another. Bertila felt the nerve surge gradually subsided in her body, and it took a long time before she turned her attention. The magic net terminal not far away: "Brother Gao Wen, the signal from Noi's side has stopped transmitting."

"You guys have worked hard," Gawain nodded lightly in the communication screen. "Let's end the communication first, and check Sorin's antenna system by the way. This is the first time it has been running continuously for such a long time."

Bertiera nodded, then cut off the remote connection with the imperial capital, while at the other end, Gawain sat at the desk for a long time after the communication ended, his eyes fell on the printing device next to him. The paper tape spit out from the printout has been stacked into a thick stack in the drop box. The white paper is printed with the records of the conversation between the two planets in the past few hours. The first half is civilization and civilization, and the second half is civilization. Segments are people-to-people.

He let out a light breath, got up and walked to the large French window. It was already midnight. The night outside the window was as dark as a thick black ink, and the cold starlight was sprinkled from the space. Between the mountains and the forest area in the northwest, the starlight and the artificial lights of the city complemented each other, and every bit of brilliance caught Gawain's eyes sharply.

Light footsteps came from the side, and Amber's breath came to Gawain's side. After a moment of silence, her voice suddenly sounded: "You said... Is that 'witch' looking at the stars at this time?"

"She will see more and more dazzling stars than we can see, and she can also overlook the earth and see the lights of thousands of homes." Gawain said slowly, for some reason, he suddenly recalled his past dozens of The years of being trapped in a satellite overlooking the earth for thousands of years, in a sense, the self at that time was actually very similar to the "witch" Nova in the satellite, but the difference was that when he was hanging high in the sky, he was not yet. Having truly visited the earth beneath her feet, the "witch" has to say goodbye to the homeland where she was born and raised when she walks towards her own destiny. The difference between them is difficult for outsiders to truly understand even if they can imagine.

Hearing Gawain's words, Amber just curled his lips and said something casually: "You sound quite experienced in life..."

Gao Wen just smiled and didn't respond, but Amber was someone who couldn't calm down. Seeing that Gao Wen didn't say a word, she couldn't help but mutter: "...they want to link a person's brain directly to the Only on the Voyager satellite can super-light communication with Loren be maintained... I never thought that they would use this method to bypass the authority of Voyager's legacy."

"I didn't expect that either," Gawain was silent for a moment, then let out a sigh, "but now we can finally explain why the content of the communications from the Noi people always seems so 'human' and 'slightly rash' because The 'spokesperson' of the Noi really 'packed' her mind into the FTL antenna, and all this time we've been talking directly to an open heart."

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Amber thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a question: "The 'witch' mentioned at the end that she 'felt' kindness and warmth in the communication she sent from Loren to Noi, and for this reason chose to trust us strangers. The alien race, what do you think is going on? Is it a neural illusion produced by the witch after establishing a connection with the Navigator device? Or... There really is a 'thing' that this theory can't explain, and she can really Scanning our emotions when sending messages through the Voyager device?"

"I don't have any clue," Gawain admitted that he knew nothing about the matter. "It's not in any discipline we know at the moment, and there's no theory that something like FTL can convey 'emotions', but since The witch believes that she felt Loren's kindness in the star space... Then we should not live up to her expectations, after all..."

Having said this, he paused for a while, and a smile slowly appeared on his face: "This icy starry sky needs a little romance with warmth..."

…

The primordial energy gushing out from the depths of the star scoured the cracks and holes inside and outside the Ancestral Peak. Under the conscious control of the "Master of All Laws", these surging surges flowed in their respective trajectories strictly according to the blueprint. , and has achieved connection and resonance with the large-scale facilities built around the mountain. With the support of this steady stream of energy, the holy mountain that used to be the people of Ogure has gradually turned into a "machine" of unprecedented scale. And gradually wake up on this earth.

The first ray of sunlight in the early morning penetrated the clouds and slanted on the slopes on the side of the Ancestral Peak. The pipeline facilities criss-cross among the energy stations, analysis stations and sensor amplification arrays, and the rough and powerful giant valves and relay pumps stand in majestic silhouettes in the sunlight, occasionally from a pressure relief valve or sublimator somewhere. The gushing aerosol slowly drifted between these silhouettes, and formed a continuous mist over the holy mountain.

What is surging in those large pipes is the alchemical solution as a coolant. It is not easy to draw energy from the depths of the planet to drive a giant machine that covers half of the plain. It is not easy to make this amazingly energy-consuming machine run. It is a huge challenge to maintain stability in the center. The heat dissipation system inside the "vibration focus" is huge and complex. The deepest pipes are built around the "observer's secret room", and the shallow pipes spread from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, where Thousands of tons of cooling liquid are surging every minute and every second through the mile-by-kilometer piping system, which draws enormous amounts of heat away from the core of the observatory and transfers it safely to the The heat exchange station at the foot of the mountain makes it a part of urban heating. This can be regarded as a trivial "reward" brought by the magic tide observation device to the people of Ogure.

In addition to this huge heat dissipation system, there are also small cobweb-like pipeline groups buried in the mountain that has been covered with alloy carapace. The nerve fibers of this huge nervous system are modeled after the giant tree of Thorin and are directly designed by the Supreme Druid Institute of the Empire. Its nerve endings can extend all the way to the giant ring on the plain. This system will ensure the observation device. Compared with the communication method based on the magic field, this direct connection line of the nervous system obviously has irreplaceable advantages in anti-interference and fault location.

The early spring arrived, and the early morning wind was still a bit chilly, but when the cold wind blew through the hills, several figures came to the top of the holy mountain, the Great Chief Camilla, standing in a place near the magic web hub tower. On the platform, she looked up at the distant scenery. She saw steel, crystals and pipes spread under her feet. The once-familiar pilgrims' trails, forests and springs were all covered with heavy industrial armor. On the plain at the foot of the mountain, The amazing-scale sensor array ring has begun to take shape. The towers are standing in the hazy morning light, and the construction site can be vaguely seen near the ring frame connecting the towers.

After looking at it for a long time, Camilla retracted her gaze and shook her head slightly with a sigh: "...It's not what she remembered at all."

"I told you earlier that the scenery on the mountain has changed, but you can't wait to see it. Why do you think you are such a diligent person when you are busy with official business?" Wenna Baizhi's voice came from next to Camilla, The tone of the gray elf patriarch sounded a little complaining, "The top of the mountain area was 'capped' last month, and all the energy sources have been covered by the restraint wells and control plugs. We have come up several times."

"I'm not... always a little nervous," Camilla looked down at her childhood playmate at her feet, "You know, orcs are a bit sensitive in this regard, I don't dare to see what the Holy Mountain looks like now... "

"Then you have seen it now, what do you think?" A small voice suddenly came from the side, along with the buzzing sound of flying wings, the fairy queen Stella flapped her wings and hovered over the card. Next to Mira's head, "Do you regret the decision we made together?"

Camilla turned her head and glanced at the little one. The queen once led her clan to live in the holy mountain. Before that, the kingdom of goblins had ruled on this mountain for hundreds of thousands of years, but now they have relocated their clans. To the foot of the mountain, and settled in a new home in a river valley near Helm City, it is reasonable to say that the goblins should be the group that has the most say in the Holy Mountain, but these optimistic little ones seem to have nothing to do with it. I don't care.

"Of course I don't regret it. The concept of 'regret' has never existed in orc culture. The road is always moving forward," Camilla shook her head, "I don't regret it either. The sight described as a miracle, I am even a little... proud that we weak mortals have built something in this land that even the gods would marvel at. But what about you? Stella, you and your clan Don't people regret it? This is your home after all..."

"It's not a pity," Stella laughed, flying up and down, "the holy mountain hasn't disappeared, it's just under our feet, it's just a new dress. We've discussed it, wait for the magic tide. After the past, the goblins will have to move back, anyway, the goblins don’t need much living space, we can build a vibrant artificial garden among the steel…”

Stella blinked, involuntarily imagining a group of fairies living among huge mechanical facilities, building gardens between factories and pipelines, and obsessed with researching machinery and magic technology. Her imaginative ability made her unable to make up the picture in the end, but one thing was certain, it was not the "little friend" she was familiar with in her memory...

"You really always bring people 'surprise', as if you can live well no matter what the world turns into." Wycliffe, who was standing on a large rock next to him, smiled and shook his head. A human king took out a pipe from his bosom, carefully stuffed it with shredded tobacco, and then made a fire with his steel prosthetic limb. platform.

It was an elevator platform, but the shaft leading to the depths of the mountain was now blocked, the sturdy steel gates locked the secret, and the howling mountain wind passed between the steel frames of the elevator.

Wycliffe bit his pipe, the tobacco shone in the cold early spring wind, and accompanied by the curling smoke, he sighed: "It is hard to imagine that a former **** is now beside us, only separated by A shaft, some dirt, rocks and steel."

His self-talk also made several friends around him sigh, and only two or three seconds after the human king's voice fell, several people on the top of the mountain saw a sudden flash of bright light in the air in front of him. Arcane sparks, pure magic jumped in the air and outlined a line of text:

"Yes, I'm right at your feet, so can you stop spilling soot later?"

Wycliffe: "…"

"I'll pinch you," Stuer, the king of spirit witches who was always silent next to him, raised his hand and directly extinguished Wycliffe's pipe, "Don't think that you can smoke in the factory if you are a king."

…

"Looking" at the movement above her head, Miermina in the observer's secret room couldn't help but smile.

She has been working in this cave for half a year, and now, as the magic tide is getting closer to the home planet of the Noi people, the day when the observation device is officially launched is gradually approaching.

In the past six months, she has witnessed a series of changes in this land with her ubiquitous magical vision. Under her gaze, the ancient holy mountain has gradually been transformed into a giant steel beast, and the vast ancestral plain has been stretched into continuous construction sites. , factories and pipelines are filled little by little, and the people gathered in this area have reached a certain balance point. Almost every day, new engineering teams or expert groups are sent to the assembly point of Helm City by flying machines or magic trains. At the same time Every day, people who complete tasks or rotate positions are evacuated from here. The Loren people are racing against time. All the mortal powers on this planet have now been focused on one thing, which has made earth-shaking changes here. .

While the entire ancestral plain was turned upside down, only the starry sky that enveloped this land remained the same as before.

Miermina switched her perception. She contacted a sensor node located in the northern part of the holy mountain that had been debugged and put into trial operation. Through the "eyes" of this sensor node, she quietly looked up at the sky.

Even in the daytime, she could clearly perceive the presence of those distant stars.

The sensor array has not yet been completed, and she has not been able to accurately distinguish the subtle disturbances between the stars, but she has been able to vaguely "hear", hearing the shallow voices of the thousands of stars in the universe, she can Hearing the voice of "Ao", the voice was far and deep, and she could also hear the voice of "The Sun", the waves released by the gas giant planet regarded as the source of light and heat by the Loren people were calm and powerful, "O" complements each other.

For some reason, Miermina suddenly thought of the civilization that was four light-years away.

It is said that the home planet of the Noi people is different from Loren. They do not have a mild gas giant planet like the "sun" around them. The planet under their feet revolves directly around a star, and the powerful energy released by the star shapes the The magnificent mountains and luxuriant ecology on the land of Noi, and the "sunrise" on Noi's home planet is also completely different from Loren, they can't see the magnificent huge sun wheel, and their sun can't cover a quarter. The sky was just a bright spot about the size of a coin when the sun came up...

Miermina imagined the scenery of distant alien stars, and couldn't help but have new expectations for the "travel" she planned.