High Above

"……really."

Ian opened his eyes and stared quietly at the celestial sphere screen that was half dim in front of him: "The silver chip... is not the only three holders of me, the teacher and Inaiga II."

"The starfall calendar, I don't know the holders before the teacher and Inaiga II. And in the pre-epoch civilization, there were also people who held this chip?"

At the beginning, Ian just planned to connect to the Sequoia base intranet to see what information he could inquire about. Based on his understanding of this kind of research base, although the tourist authority can't do much, but to learn about the Sequoia base itself The presentation should be fine.

But unexpectedly, after many years of automatic operation, the Sequoia base has no crisis situation of maintenance personnel, and it is so hungry that it will directly send maintenance personnel permission when it sees a person... Is this arresting people for maintenance? I still miss it.

On the contrary, in the back, the change of the silver chip was within Ian's expectation.

Although until now, Ian has not figured out whether the silver chip is a creation of the civilization of the previous era, or a possible "alien thing"... But according to the last words left by Mr. Hilliard back then, its true function , is actually the key to the 'Eternal Labyrinth'.

What exactly is the Eternal Labyrinth, Ian does not know yet, but according to the fact that Sequoia Base will become a labyrinth, and the Alien Alien Ecological Park is inextricably linked with the Labyrinth, he can fully imagine and guess that the so-called Eternal Labyrinth should also be A research laboratory similar to Sequoia Base, but larger and more important than Sequoia Base.

Even, an alien spacecraft that fell on Terra.

If not, it shouldn't be too far off.

That being the case, will the silver chip also have the authority of other relics?

Ian had this kind of speculation and expectation, and the silver chip gave him an unexpected but reasonable result.

"The director of the Federal Alien Research Institute, code-named 'Forerunner'..."

Ian fell into deep thought: "If this person is the holder of the silver chip in the pre-epoch era... then maybe, the 'growth' of the silver chip should be completely reset by changing the host."

If the silver chip is only held by Inaiga II, Hilliard and Ian for three generations, then it is reasonable that the silver chip does not have much growth that can be inherited.

But if it is actually a key that is discovered and held by people from time to time in the historical cycle, then no matter how slow it is over thousands of years, the chip itself will definitely accumulate a lot of growth progress.

Just like Ian has held it for six years, the chip has spread to the whole body, which can carry the source structure of the second or even the third energy level, and its functions are becoming more and more diverse.

In addition, the identity of the person holding the silver chip in the pre-epoch era is also very intriguing.

"It seems that the silver chip may really be an alien creation—at least it is also made by alien technology. Otherwise, the director of the Institute of Alien Species, that is, the Institute of Alien Biology, has nothing to do with the technology and function of the chip. Too big sides."

With this in mind, Ian settled down and began to browse the information in the database of Sequoia Base in the highest authority.

as expected.

Sequoia Base is indeed an ecological park for studying alien ecosystems—so in addition to energy furnaces supporting orbital space elevators and orbital accelerators, it is also equipped with many additional energy furnaces for maintaining underground ecosystems.

Of course, it could be the other way around. At the beginning, it was an ordinary orbit control center, but because of its superior geographical location, it gradually became an alien ecology research center.

It is precisely because the pre-epoch civilization discovered the alien "Tinder" spacecraft on the moon, and after learning about the Obra civilization ecosystem in the Tinder, the Terra civilization, which was originally just doing space research, made up its mind , increase investment in interstellar engineering and voyage research.

The heterogeneous ecosystem inside the base has now been completely destroyed, and most of the other research equipment has also been damaged.

The tinder that Ian is most concerned about...

Its prototype is actually a spaceship.

[In 3432, fifteen members of the goblin team of the Alliance Lunar Surface Exploration Team found an alien spaceship that should have crashed here in the last hundred years in the Erebonal Crater of the Moon of Observation... According to follow-up testing, it was found The spaceship named 'Obra Tinder' crashed in the middle of the Third All-Faction War (Unification War) in 3319. At that time, some astrologers did suggest that there were abnormalities on the moon, but most of them were briefly attributed to meteorites hit]

[The general structure of the "Tinder" spacecraft is complete, and the outer shell of the spacecraft is relatively "clean". There are no impact marks and interstellar matter precipitation caused by long-term interstellar travel. Advancing Design]

[The researches of various parties have proved that the propulsion engine used by the 'Obera Fire' is only a theoretical 'warp speed engine', and its energy furnace 'core fire' uses an unknown unknown that is difficult to reproduce with Terra Federation technology Technology and Unknown Substances]

[Federal Central Research Institute named the unknown substance 'Ether', and named the energy furnace 'Ether Furnace']

[However, to everyone's surprise, through the research on 'Obera Fire' and 'Obera Ecosphere', the Union's gradually improved biotechnology shows that 'Ether' is not a special substance that exists exclusively in extraterrestrials— — There is a considerable amount of ether in Terra, and the 'sublimation technique' in Terra culture is just a primitive method of using ether for self-improvement]

[In sublimation techniques, ether is called source quality, which is the abbreviation of 'source of life' and 'original substance'. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or there is a connection, but the researchers discovered that the existence of ether, or ‘source quality’, comes from light]

[To be precise, it comes from the sun]

[Ether is a natural product emitted by the sun and finally gathered in the ecological circle]

"ah?"

When I saw this, Ian looked blank: "The sun?"

Source quality and ether are the same thing, he actually knew it long ago.

From the fact that the core of the ether needs to use elemental crystals, that is, high-concentration source material crystals as fuel to operate, the relationship between the two can be clearly understood.

It's normal for a thing to have several different names, the problem is...

Source quality comes from the sun?

"No, it's not surprising, it's normal."

Although it was a bit unexpected at the beginning, when you think about it carefully, the source plasm, which exists among all things, but can only be gathered by species with high ecological niches, is essentially no different from the use and collection of solar energy by living things.

The only thing Ian was surprised about was that the obvious mesoscopic energy structure of source matter...is actually naturally produced?

He thought it was some kind of pre-epoch civilization, or an energy shimmer robot made by an alien civilization! The results came naturally...

It's almost like a quantum supercomputing core with a canopy growing on the apple tree in my hometown.

"No wonder, there is such a thing as the whole universe like source matter, no wonder the alien ecology and Terra ecology can be merged together so easily... Maybe the ancient Terra myth that the teacher told me back then is really true. reason."

"All living beings are the descendants of the sun... are they all brothers and sisters?"

Now that I think about it, there are indeed native psionic creatures, goblins, and native monsters in Terra... It's just that the people of Terra are not too sensitive to this aspect. Before the development of sublimation techniques using source matter, the technology was already quite developed.

"Tinder has lost contact... Well, it's not surprising."

Ian looked at the information in Sequoia Base, nodded slightly, and didn't feel much regret—it's really strange that things are still in place after more than a thousand years.

What he is more concerned about is actually the 'warp drive' and 'fire design drawings' mentioned in the database.

Fortunately, the database does contain the highest level of technological crystallization obtained by the Terra civilization of the two pre-epochs through the deconstruction of alien spaceships.

But it's a pity that Ian can't understand it.

In the final analysis, Ian is not an all-knowing and all-powerful evildoer. Although he has sufficient professional knowledge, he would not blink if he was asked to repair the fusion team, but this kind of alien technology from another world, even if it is put on the original earth, it is estimated that the whole All the researchers of civilization work overtime and jointly study the time calculated in years in order to understand some of the principles.

Even if most of the research process and data are recorded in the Sequoia Base, if you want to understand it, even with Ian's wisdom, you can only rely on time to learn by yourself.

"Silver chip, record."

Having said that, even if he couldn't understand, Ian didn't stop.

——What does it matter if you don’t understand! Anyway, I can copy it!