Honkai Impact 3: Saving the former civilization by rubbing the black technology

Obviously, she was a little worried that her willfulness would wear out Ai Yue's patience with her.

"Of course, we're here to have fun, so we can do whatever makes us happy."

Ai Yue nodded without showing any impatience. "There's no one else here anyway, so you can be more unrestrained."

At this moment, there were only Padfilis and Ai Yue in this wilderness, as well as several drones responsible for exploration and navigation. Aponia and Mebius did not follow.

Aponia was obviously more interested in the relics of previous civilizations than gems, so she went back to reunite with Eden. After seeing so many research projects, Mebius could no longer control his soul that wanted to explore evolution, so he stayed in the research base to deal with those projects related to genetics.

In contrast, Ai Yue did not have much obsession with the moon. Among the tasks he had entrusted to Su before, the most important one was to use a space exploration device that simulated the power of the "Herrser of the Sky" to observe the data of the moon in order to find some traces that the Cocoon of the End might have left when it was active.

However, according to Su, he has not found any valuable information since he came to the moon. This means that either the accuracy of the equipment is not high enough and it is necessary to rely on the power of the Herrscher of the Sky core to capture any traces, or there is something wrong with this research direction itself.

Of course, even putting these things aside, he couldn't let Padufils act alone on the moon.

So in the end, the only ones who came out to dig for gems were Ai Yue and Padolfelice.

After receiving Ai Yue's assurance, Padufilis felt relieved and ran forward excitedly again: "Then let's go to the crater ahead and take a look. I have a feeling there must be something good in there!"

Ai Yue left a drone to continue to detect the situation in the mining area and was responsible for communicating with the main force before he followed slowly.

Now they are quite far away from the Fifth Institute, and as they explore, the surrounding environment becomes more and more "messy".

Compared with the relatively flat area chosen by the Fifth Institute, the place where Ai Yue and his team are now is almost covered by various craters, some of which are connected in a chain, and others are stacked like Russian dolls. It is obviously a severely affected area by meteorites.

In such a place, the chance of good things appearing is indeed much higher.

What Padofelice had her eyes on this time was a small crater with a diameter of about three kilometers. The shape of this crater was not very standard and looked a bit strange, but Ai Yue couldn't tell what was strange about it for a while.

By the time he had just climbed to the edge of the crater, Padufilis was almost at the center of the crater.

"Brother Yue, come quickly!"

As Padofelice stopped at the center of the crater, her excited voice could be heard over the communication system, "I have a feeling... there must be something... in here!"

What's going on? Is there a communication problem?

The two people were so close to each other, but the sound coming from the communication system was intermittent, which made Ai Yue stunned for a moment.

Then he realized something and rushed towards Padova: "Padova, get out of there!"

If the communication system is not faulty, then something is interfering with its transmission!

"Eh?"

Padofelice subconsciously stood up and looked towards Ai Yue. The next second, she was grabbed by him and jumped up. In a few steps, she returned to the edge of the crater. "What's wrong, Brother Yue?"

She rarely saw Ai Yue show such a serious attitude. Although his words were intermittent just now, the emotions revealed in his tone made her hair stand on end.

Ai Yue didn't say anything. He just grabbed Padufilis's hands and looked at them repeatedly. At the same time, he remotely activated the self-check system of Padufilis's armor: "What did you do just now?"

"Uh, just digging some dirt?"

Padovice was a little confused, but she still said honestly, "I didn't dig a few times before you caught me."

Soon, the armor's self-inspection system also gave feedback and did not detect any abnormalities, including the communication system was also normal.

But the interrupted communication just now was not Ai Yue's hallucination, because Padfilis also heard it.

As he breathed a sigh of relief, Ai Yue shifted his gaze to the center of the crater: "Let the drone handle the digging. You just stay here quietly for now."

Padovich nodded obediently.

At this time, she would definitely not cause trouble for Ai Yue.

Soon, a tracked ground drone arrived at the location selected by Padofilis. It waved its two pairs of robotic arms and began to dig downwards.

Everything seemed normal until fifteen seconds later, when the drone suddenly stopped moving - it turned off.

"Eh?"

Padofelice was still watching the drone's every move. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "What happened? Is it out of battery?"

Of course, this couldn't be a power outage, but rather something was interfering with it—just like the communication system just now.

Ai Yue did not speak, but flew silently into the air. He looked down at the crater and the surrounding terrain from high above.

"Number One, scan the terrain map nearby."

Ai Yue said slowly, "Analyze the cause of these craters - I want to know where the objects that created these craters came from."

After saying this, he raised his head and looked at the starry sky.

From this angle, you cannot see the earth, but you can see another orange-red sphere that is "close at hand".

Mars.

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Chapter 29: The cat performs a great service.

After Ai Yue fell back to the ground from the air, Padufilis approached him cautiously and asked, "Brother Yue, have I gotten into trouble again?"

Judging from Ai Yue's attitude just now and the series of subsequent situations, no matter how stupid Padofelice is, she should have realized something.

Besides, she is not stupid.

"Don't be nervous, it's not a big deal."

Although Ai Yue was a little unsure of the situation at the moment, he immediately calmed Padufils down and said, "It might even be a good thing."

"Eh?"

Padufilis was stunned for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief, "Really?"

Padufilis is indeed not stupid, but compared to her own judgment, she is more willing to believe Ai Yue's words. Therefore, if Ai Yue's words conflict with her own judgment, she will be more inclined to the former.

Since Brother Yue said that nothing is wrong, there is no need to worry, right?

"real,"

Ai Yue dispelled the last bit of doubt in Padovice's heart with a firm tone, and then touched her head. "So don't worry, go play somewhere else - but don't run too far, understand?"

Padofelice nodded, then ran in the direction they came from - compared to the unknown area on the other side, the explored area was obviously safer.

Ai Yue looked at Padufils's figure and then breathed a sigh of relief.

He had a reason for saying this, though it was a bit far-fetched - that was Padofelice's luck.

If Padofelice's "good luck" is considered an inevitable characteristic, then the events caused by her will not be malicious.

In other words, although this discovery may be dangerous, it may also provide them with unexpected help.

Although Ai Yue usually rules out this possibility from a rational perspective, it is still difficult to ignore this possibility based on his personal experience.

After all, Padovice's good luck had helped him a lot.

But no matter what, it is impossible to come to a conclusion just by standing here and thinking, so Ai Yue called over a few more drones, dragged the downed drones away from the center of the crater, and tried to find some clues from them.

As for continuing the exploration, we have to find out the reason for the drone crash first.

"Dr. Ai Yue, your instructions have been detected and it is speculated that a special situation may have occurred."

At the same time, Quinn's voice came from the communication system, "Do we need to notify Dr. Mebius and others?"

"Not for now,"

Ai Yue thought for a moment and finally shook his head, "They can't do anything about this matter. It's better not to tell them so that they don't worry."

"understood."

Ai Yue then refocused his attention on the drone in front of him: "Number One, what's the result?"

"The core components are damaged, presumably due to interference from strong radiation."

Prometheus 1 responded, "Also, no information matching the residual radiation has been detected in the existing database."

There is no known data to match, in other words, could it be a completely new radioactive substance?

Hearing this, Ai Yue couldn't help but frown - Prometheus's database is very large, and it can be said that it covers all the information of human civilization. In this case, it cannot find an object that can match this radiation residue. It can only be some new substance that humans have not yet discovered, and may not even exist on Earth.

There are indeed things on the moon that do not exist on Earth, but judging from the location of these things, they are probably not something that the moon itself possesses.

Ai Yue couldn't help but look up again: "Have the analysis results of the crater come out?"

"Out."

Prometheus I projected a modeling set before Ai Yue's eyes. "By simultaneously scanning and simulating the height, depth, and angle of the crater, as well as the relevant data of multiple surrounding craters, we have determined the formation process of this crater."

As she finished speaking, the model in front of Ai Yue began to move.

A meteoroid landed on the moon at a very subtle angle and blasted out a crater, but the result it created was quite different from the crater that Ai Yue saw before his eyes.

This means that this kind of impact cannot create the crater we see today.

The next second, the changes in the model answered Ai Yue's doubts - after a brief period of calm, the pit exploded.

The impact caused by the explosion is the real reason for the creation of this crater.

"I see."

Ai Yue nodded and said, "No wonder I thought this crater was very strange at first."

Although the impact of an explosion and the impact of a collision sound similar, there is obviously a certain difference in the impact they cause on the geographical environment. However, Ai Yue always feels that he has overlooked something.

He thought for a moment, then said, "Rewind and play it again."

Then the picture began to retreat, and the meteoroid rose from the ground and flew in the direction it came from.

"Pause."

Ai Yue paused the video. "The trajectory of this meteoroid is quite subtle... From this angle, it doesn't seem to be coming from outside the moon."

Ai Yue knew very well that the Cocoon of the End flew to the Earth along its trajectory after destroying the civilization of Mars, but for some reason it landed on the moon halfway, which led to the current situation.

Therefore, when he realized that the meteoroid that caused this crater might contain a huge secret, his first reaction was that this thing might come from Mars.

If it is a creation of Martian civilization, then it is indeed possible that there are things that Ai Yue has never seen from his perspective. After all, until now, Ai Yue has not been able to confirm what the state of Martian civilization is.

However, judging from the trajectory of motion inferred from the model in front of us, this trajectory and impact force obviously could not have come directly from Mars. Instead, it was more like something falling from a low-Earth orbit.

But how could something fall from low Earth orbit to the Moon? There are no satellites or anything like that around the Moon. Even if there were such a thing, it couldn't have happened without external intervention... Wait?

Ai Yue raised his head and suddenly thought of a possibility.

There is indeed something that may land on the moon at a relatively close distance.

Those were the fragments that separated from the Cocoon of End for some reason during the incident that caused it to fall to the moon.

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Chapter 30: The moon is indeed full of treasures.

The Cocoon of the End is not actually hidden on the moon, or rather, it does not exist in any corner of the real dimension.

Of course, this concept is more complicated to explain, so it can be understood that the Cocoon of the End is actually hidden in the gap between imaginary space and real space, and its position in the gap is mapped in the real dimension. The place closest to the earth is somewhere on the moon.

Although there are not many detailed descriptions of the setting of the Cocoon of the End in the original plot, it is certain that the civilization influenced by the other party is not limited to the planet Earth. There are traces of the other party's tentacles spreading to Mars, Venus and even the distant edge of the solar system.

Considering the Cocoon of the End's persistence in civilization, its footprints obviously should not stop at the moon. Instead, some existence must have stopped the other party through some unknown means before the other party tried to spread its tentacles to the earth, leading to this situation.

Another way to understand it is that the Cocoon of the End was "shot down" on the moon, and since it was "shot down", it must have left traces, or even some fragments.

What is in front of Ai Yue is most likely such a thing.

However, until we see its true appearance and make a specific analysis, everything is still unknown.

Perhaps what is buried here is just some unknown element brought by a meteoroid from a distant galaxy, or it may be the debris left by some alien civilization, or even simply a misunderstanding caused by some unknown reason... Before the dust and soil that buried everything were dug out, it would be difficult for Ai Yue to guess the truth.

Based on the residual radiation data on the drone, Ai Yue temporarily made certain modifications to several other drones, adding special protection to the core components to prevent them from being damaged by this radiation again.

At the same time, Ai Yue also sent out more drones to conduct reverse exploration along the trajectory of the meteoroid falling when the crater was formed, trying to find more valuable clues.

With the protection in place, the second excavation work was obviously much smoother. The three drones worked alternately, and after about half an hour, the results were finally obtained.

After making sure that Padofelice had not noticed the situation here, Ai Yue quickly walked down the crater and came to the excavation site of the drones.

At this moment, a pit about ten meters deep and five meters wide has been dug at the bottom of the crater. At the bottom of this pit, the drones dug up some glassy irregular substances. They were a strange light pink color all over, and looked like some natural gems of extremely pure nature. However, before Ai Yue got close, the armored system issued a rapid strong radiation alarm.

Obviously, this is what he is looking for - but it seems a little different from what Ai Yue expected.

What Ai Yue wanted was naturally a strongly related item that could directly point to the Cocoon of the End, but these irregular crystals in front of him looked like substances that were melted by high temperature during the energy explosion and condensed.

There might still be some clues left in this crystal from the original energy explosion, but it was obviously not enough to satisfy Ai Yue. The difference between them was as huge as the difference between evidence with the murderer's fingerprints at the murder scene, a photo of the murder scene, and a report written after interviewing witnesses.