From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 348 The End of the Voyage

Author: Dong Ali

Chapter 348 The End of the Voyage

Several beams of light connected to the sky and the earth, enveloping the 20-meter-high and 50-meter-diameter disk-shaped objects inside each one, were slowly descending. This was a convenient mode of transportation from orbit to the surface. Shadi sat down at this time.

Among them, head towards the direction of the base;

Here, while browsing through the many information that flashed through her mind, she looked at the scenery outside the porthole, and matched the two one by one.

The first thing that caught her eye during the process was the surface environment composed of large white areas far below, mixed with a small amount of brown, and from time to time, white pillars reaching into the sky were vaguely visible from the distance;

The main body of these white pillars is naturally liquid water. Although the extremely low temperature environment of the fourth moon has caused this water of unknown origin to turn into an ice shell that is 50 kilometers thick, completely covering most of the areas on the surface, with only a small amount.

Rock structures like mountains and floating islands can be exposed from it, forming a criss-cross stripe structure on the surface.

But the gravitational pull from different directions, which resonates with the orbit, is converted into heat and energy inside the star. Under the thick and almost permanently frozen ice shell, a saltwater ocean with a depth of more than 100 kilometers is formed, which makes the four

Wei San has a metallic core that cannot be completely cooled;

And in this structure, a layered rotation pattern of fast up and slow down is produced between the ice shell, ocean and mantle. The upper ice shell will be torn apart under the action of tidal gravity, thus forming deep channels.

crack, the ocean inside it erupts from it, and will not fall back to the surface again until it reaches an airspace of about 200 kilometers.

The sprayed water can create more than just spectacular scenery.

Under the impact of charged particles and the irradiation of ultraviolet light, they will be decomposed into parts of elements 1 and 8;

And among them, most of the No. 1 elements will escape into the universe, but the No. 8 elements are deposited on the surface of the stars due to their higher atomic weight, thus giving Siwei San an extremely thin atmosphere mainly composed of life gases.

atmosphere.

And this kind of environment with ice shell, liquid water, and atmosphere not only provides some conveniences for the elves at this moment, but also provides this extremely cold planet with the ability to survive during the hundreds of millions of years of evolution it has experienced before.

a possibility on a certain path.

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At this moment, the disk-shaped object slowly came to the top of the ice surface, and the ice layer full of inscriptions at its landing point continued to separate at its lower end, and then closed at its upper end after it passed;

The cabin where Shadi was located also continued its downward trend without stopping during this process.

One kilometer, three kilometers, seven kilometers.

It wasn't until about ten kilometers deep that Shadi finally saw the area where the base was located, and the disk-shaped cabin was landing at peripheral transportation hubs in different directions together with several other beams of light.

So, Shadi, who had just finished mentally browsing the general situation of the Four Guardians and Three, and looked at the scenery all the way here, slowly stood up and followed the elves of the same size, and slowly moved forward in the direction of the opened hatch.

After that, there was light that was completely different from the home planet and had not been adjusted by the portholes. After being condensed and refracted by the layers of ice shell inscriptions, it finally shone into the eyes of the elves along the opened hatch.

And this semi-natural light with a slightly faint blue color also gave Shadi the illusion of being in a fish tank.

‘Perhaps I’m not wrong? Isn’t this just a fish tank with no fish and no water?’

When leaving the commuter cabin and actually stepping into the base, this is the most intuitive feeling that comes to mind.

This area is generally hemispherical and presents an icy blue area, which is undoubtedly the Siwei San Base;

Its surface diameter is about 7 kilometers, and its height is about 3.5 kilometers. The inside is paved with a layer of blue-gold flesh metal composite material, and above it are blocks of similarly blue-gold color, surrounding the ones in the center.

A sparse group of buildings standing at the core of energy.

At this time, thoughts from all the spirits of the mother star appeared out of thin air in the super-time and space belief channel, and then were born from the purple-gold 'flesh and blood metal terminals' in the center and the four directions, and were entangled in the outermost layer of the base to form

A faint blue shadow-like protective diaphragm appeared;

This diaphragm not only provides a wide-area stable gravity and gas environment here, but also, together with the surrounding ice shell, generates various functions such as internal constant temperature and external heat insulation. It is one of the main reasons why the current status of the base is maintained.

one.

At the same time, deep ice-blue tunnels can still be seen between the outer ice shells that are almost close to the shield, and even if they seem to have left the protective range, aircraft can still be seen.

, constantly moving in and out of it.

Among them, most of the aircraft have to leave the base and go to the real surface area, because there are many production bases built on ice-shell floating islands, and various supply and transportation tasks will occur from time to time;

The rest flew to several surrounding sub-bases on the ice, and even to the salty ocean beneath the ice.

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After double inspections by herself and the base intelligence brain, it was confirmed that the pre-activation measures for body inscription protection were intact, and Shadi was finally released, and actually walked in the base, starting her journey that lasted about two home planet days.

Visiting trip.

In this process, almost all areas range from production centers on the surface, to bases of various sizes in the ice, to production sites suspended or sunken in the deep sea, and scientific research observation stations located everywhere in between.

They were all stepped upon by her;

But most of them were just passing by in passing. Only the most important research base of the Republic here - the Institute of Extremely Cold Biology - was given by Shadi alone for nearly half of the home planet's day to do serious research.

And about a complete visit and in-depth understanding;

The research object of this institute is naturally the biological groups unique to the four-dimensional moon, and Shadi has indeed seen many special creatures, including those originating from the four-dimensional moon and some from the mother planet.

When talking about the ‘characteristic creatures of the Four Guardians and Three’, we have to mention that they have the same life base as their parent star, as well as their somewhat different macroscopic shaping principles;

The former showed a basic structure that was almost the same as that of the parent star, which caused the elves to suspect that "the two sides are actually from the same origin", and put forward two conjectures that they could not choose between for the time being;

First, it is believed that the source of life only lies in the Elf Mother Planet, and that it descended here in some unknown form by extremely rare chance, and gradually evolved into its current appearance;

Secondly, the life of Siwei San is indeed the same as that of the mother star, but both parties come from the outside world and are deep space visitors who unexpectedly arrived with the same batch of meteorites.

Although we don't know what the truth is, the two flowers that have the same origin have embarked on very different evolutionary paths due to their completely different environments, thus generating the "different macro-forming principles" mentioned before and

Today, it has become an important research object for elves.

Among them, there are various groups of microorganisms with extremely simple life forms, some of which live in hot spring areas on the seabed, and some of which live in cold and salty water at various depths;

Streamlined 'soft-bodied multipods' that are as small as millimeters and as large as decimeters have also been discovered in the sea. Although most of them feed on microorganisms, they have also been observed to eat large ones and even smaller snacks.

The phenomenon of being decomposed by microorganisms after death has led to the inference of a very simple food chain.

It would actually be okay if that was all. Cold but not extremely cold saltwater oceans, underground hot springs, and their respective needs for oxygen-rich or oxygen-poor environments, after all, make these life forms lack something compared to their parent star.

'Specificity';

In other words, apart from making the Republic feel that life is not alone, their existence seems to be unable to play any significant role.

However, researchers at the base subsequently discovered more complex biological groups inside the permanently frozen ice, among the rock foundation floating islands on the ice shell, and in partially exposed ice mountains, but they were all caused by the temporary extinction and

Somewhat disappointing biological research offers a unique picture of evolution

Perhaps countless years ago, due to the intermittent eruption properties of underground hot springs, some microorganisms gradually developed some adaptability;

They have either evolved the ability to hibernate in extreme cold and wait for the next cycle, or they have survived at the genetic level by breeding cold-resistant eggs;

And in the course of life iterations that followed for hundreds or tens of millions of years, some even gained the ability to adapt to cold water, and left the original place where they were raised, truly embarking on a new journey of evolution.

After that, they survived in the cold salt water, and perhaps came to the cracks in the ice shell by some accident, and were then sent high into the sky by the fountain that shot up into the sky;

But when it fell, it accidentally reached the upper part of the ice shell and the floating islands on the rock base. Then in the continuous cycle of death and survival, after experiencing countless deaths, it was a miracle of life.

Finally reappeared, allowing some creatures to successfully survive on the harsher surface.

Today, these lucky and tenacious people live in the exposed areas of ice shells and rock bases, and have evolved a very rich variety of organisms.

They are tenacious extreme cold moss plants, parasitic pseudo-plants, ice worms as small as millimeters and as large as decimeters, and also more complex predatory ice-like life forms that can be up to a meter long.

body;

Their appearance seems to be a cluster of ice crystals, or a piece of indistinguishable ice, and it is difficult for even the elves to identify them immediately with the naked eye.

And the vast majority of them are types of creatures that are completely blended with ice. They may use ice as their skeleton, carapace, or even complex functional structures such as organs, muscles, and blood, supplemented by a large number of naturally formed totem structures.

, complete the maintenance and operation of one's own life;

What's more, these structures may not even be formed, and the entire body is composed of ice, natural inscriptions, and extremely fine cell segments.

But no matter whether the degree of this inscription culture is deep or shallow, it can be said that they are real. Most of the demonized creature types with ice bodies rely on the function of natural totems to maintain their existence in such extreme cold.

Survive.

The elves also successfully learned a lot of knowledge different from the inherent knowledge of their home planet from these 'demonized plants', 'demonized insects', and 'demonized animals', and used ice and cold-resistant spells.

and totem technology, so it can be continuously updated.

However, these animals and plants that rely on natural totem arrays to survive are by no means the focus of the Republic at the moment, because what they bring to the elven people is still a quantitative change at the level of knowledge and application, rather than a

Some kind of puzzle that can drive the evolution of the entire race.

However, two of them, which can be said to be very weak biological populations in this world, have unexpectedly allowed elf researchers to see elements that can be called 'key puzzle pieces'.

The first is the previously mentioned ‘extreme cold moss’, which has almost no trace of natural inscriptions anywhere inside and outside it, yet it can maintain its own life characteristics in the extreme cold;

Second, it is a worm-like life form that also has the ability to survive without relying on the natural inscription array.

Whether they are worms or moss, they are rare living organisms here that maintain a high level of pure biology;

The former has a translucent body, and the internal bones and internal organs structure, as well as the ice-blue blood, are clearly visible, and it is only slightly demonized, and it is not a common 'naturally inscribed body' here.

Somewhat abnormally, these worms have evolved into flesh-and-blood bodies and have a very rudimentary brain-like center. Researchers have found the 'inscription core body' in it and discovered that it is a very primitive magic crystal-like structure.

, and also has the ability to release spell-like spells.

Although its spell-like effect is not worth mentioning, the key point is that it only intervenes in attack and defense behaviors, but it does not increase the worm's ability to survive in extreme cold.

Coincidentally, ice moss also has almost the same attributes, and it is this seemingly inconspicuous point on both sides that the elves really focus on.

You must know that even powerful warriors and spellcasters such as high-level warriors and spellcasters cannot survive the extreme low temperature of 55 absolute degrees and 110 absolute degrees on the surface of Siwei San without relying on equipment and body inscription protection.

They can survive in the environment, but these two types of weak and primitive life have achieved such an almost impossible feat.

This is an undoubted miracle of life, and it is also an important puzzle piece that can expand the survival suitability of elves. Therefore, exploring and analyzing their specific causes is an important mission of this base, and it has already achieved short and medium-term results.

effectiveness

Researchers extracted a cell secretion from moss and worms respectively, and observed considerable extreme cold resistance in related animal and plant experiments. They also analyzed their respective chemical components and completed the analysis of the secretions.

Synthesis in a laboratory setting;

The most critical thing is to screen and locate the genetic fragments that can produce this secretion, and insert it into the genetic factors of the experimental organisms to find a way for the organisms to produce it themselves. Therefore, they are kept in captivity in the base.

Many experimental creatures from their home planet.

The ultimate purpose of this research is actually twofold

First, manifest it in the body of the elves in the form of new organs, just like the current 'nerve plexus braid' and 'second heart core', and in this way allow the tribe to gain extreme low temperature resistance, thereby broadening the range of

Overall endogenous survival fitness;

Second, insert the cold resistance ability derived from moss into existing magical plants, or simply use moss as a base to cultivate new plant sequences.

With the two combined, the Republic can save a lot of troubles in the development and colonization of those frozen and dark areas on the periphery of the mother system.

Moreover, these demonic plants, ice moss, or 'pseudo plants' controlled by parasites found on the moon have also successfully broadened the horizons of researchers in many aspects such as plant nutrient needs and light needs.

their thoughts;

It is not necessary for the elves to realize that the environment on their home planet is barren rock foundations and extremely low-temperature environments such as Tetra, as well as more complex 'gas giant planet' environments, as well as the extreme extremes of Purgatory.

In a hot and waterless environment, you can try to modify the plants to achieve specialization or even comprehensive survival adaptability;

Even more, perhaps they can be given directional environmental modification capabilities, so that by planting them on target stars, they can cultivate the type of environment needed by the Republic.

At the same time, the existence of living phenomena on the Four Guardians and the considerable help they provided to the elves gave rise to an idea in the Glory Council (the reorganization of the Rune Council after the end of two hundred years of tutelage), which in turn promoted the

a piece of legislation;

That is, we make prudent judgments based on 'non-threatening', 'non-hostile' and 'unique', and use the principles of 'no contact', 'non-interference', 'non-intervention' and 'blocking signals' as behavioral standards.

, designed to protect the environmental conditions of the 'original planet with life', the independent evolution of life, and the independent development of civilization, a series of regulations that restrict the conduct of the elves themselves.

Its purpose is to protect the diversity of life forms, civilization models, and technological paths in the universe, so that the Republic itself can have the opportunity to obtain new and unexpected "puzzle pieces" in its observations.

Of course, for the elves who have not yet been able to leave their home star system, this seems to be too far-sighted and overly self-respecting. However, after continuous consultations and deductions, the Glory Council finally passed

This series of relevant guiding regulations has been formulated.

The first step is to evacuate the main base of Siwei-3 immediately after completing the extreme cold resistance project, and move to Siwei-1 next door, or Siwei-3 and other inanimate natural satellites;

At the same time, it is necessary to completely eliminate the direct or indirect traces and influence of the Republic on Siwei San, and there will be no further contact except for necessary scientific research.

The reason is that Tetris is a star with the potential to continue to evolve, although it may have to go through a very long and reciprocating time span, and it is even very likely to die in the middle;

But even so, it is far better than unnatural death under the intervention of elves.

The extreme adaptability evolved for special environments, although its expressive power appears to be quite powerful, it also has shortcomings such as narrow adaptability. Therefore, even if the elves make mistakes and inadvertently promote some environmental changes,

It is also very likely to lead to a mass extinction of life;

However, in such an ending, it seems that it is a pity that the various life forms, unique civilization and technological evolution paths that are expected to exist will disappear as a result.

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During her visits up and down the ice and into the deep sea, Shadi continued to absorb all kinds of related or further extended knowledge, and felt that this trip was full of rewards;

After the scheduled two home planets, the leader of the transport team finally issued the latest notice, saying that all the requirements for the trip have been met, and the fleet will set off to return in three hours, thus leaving the orbit up and down to the ship.

The team members returned immediately.

Although there was still a little regret in her heart that she had not done her full work, Shadi still stepped onto the transportation module as quickly as possible, and after transiting at the space station, returned to the spacecraft she came on.

When she returned to the ship, the huge and sturdy old master had just finished counting the goods and was doing the final off-duty inspection against the light curtain in front of him.

Shadi also saw a black hickey on the old master's face that had not yet been removed, and further judged from its size, depth, and color that it should come from a man who was more than six meters tall, far stronger than himself, and liked

A physical elf lady dressed in a mysterious style.

‘Who could it be, the elder sister from ship No. 12, or the sister from ship No. 21? Their relationship with the uncle seems to be quite ambiguous.’

Just as she was thinking about this, her own fleet and most of the spaceships docked on the space station were currently loaded with elemental cargo. The waste fuel rods from the base were updating the channel data and replacing the ship's fuel.

After replenishing the rods and the corresponding propulsion medium, they also set sail one after another.

In an instant, the four-way and three-way track that originally looked very lively actually felt a little desolate.

The subsequent return journey always faced the sun. While the light in the center was getting bigger and bigger, the spacecraft passed through the asteroid belt, crossed the third orbit without the dead star, and headed straight towards the mother star.

Go to the location.

And along the way this time, although Shady missed the Death Star base due to orbital speed issues, she was lucky enough to see the mining spacecraft in the asteroid belt.

It was a mining ship attached to the surface of the broken star, with countless 'alchemy tentacles' extending from its belly into the ground below, dividing and refining the corresponding target rich ore;

Later, when the Death Star with a faster revolution speed approaches again, other transport spacecraft will follow the signal and fly here, and bring all the rough-processed rare minerals back to the Death Star for smelting

The base completes refining processing.

And just when Shadi was looking at the rough spacecraft from the perspective of the spacecraft, the old master suddenly said.

"You kid is a bit unlucky. You actually missed another very important beginning."

"Ah, what's wrong with me?"

"The construction of the Outer Solar System Exploration Base, that is, the Second Moon, has been approved. Almost a few days after we leave, the Pioneer, the Grand Archon, and the senior members of the Glory Council will be projected into the Four Guards Three Base to start

Site selection.”

"It's a pity that we can't stay a few more days, otherwise you would have a chance to see the Pioneers up close~"

"Ah? Uncle, why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"Hey, what's the use of saying it earlier? This spaceship can't project you there, so you won't run away before leaving, right?"

"That's right, alas."

With such slight regret, the spacecraft completed the entire journey from the four-orbit star to the home star in about 45 home star days, and finally parked at the purple moon base and unloaded the ship's

Many goods.

For example, fusion fuel, and discarded fission fuel rods

There is no need to mention the use of the former, but for the time being they will only be sent to the orbital storage module to complete high-voltage storage under the power of solar power;

Among the latter, except for a very small part that is consumed by the spacecraft itself, the vast majority is the accumulated consumption of the Siwei San base and the many spacecraft there. The reason why these pollution sources have to be transported all the way back to the destination.

The mother planet is because they have become a very useful training material for today's Republic and the elves.

The continuous decay radiation is a very efficient assimilation source for the life force field, and therefore there is an increasing need for the construction of ‘space radiation training grounds’;

At the same time, the elf cultivation center also needs these discarded fuel rods to act as radiation sources, and its purpose is naturally similar to that of the 'training ground'.

The loading and unloading of these goods is basically completed automatically, but this time Shadi did not leave all the inspection work to the master himself, but stayed and chose to help and familiarize himself with the process.

After the busy work was completed, and after a period of rest and waiting, the channel window period of Purgatory Planet finally arrived, and the fleet set sail again, carrying a full supply, and flew to the first orbit.

In this process, the Republic ushered in the birth of a new batch of elves, including Alena and Lena. Among them, the former’s domain projection will meet Shadi in Purgatory soon.

It takes place and ends in the star base, and each of them embarks on its own growth path.

(End of chapter)