Sword of Dawn

Chapter 1586 Dragons in Foreign Lands

When the night fell on the earth again, the starlight enveloped the four fields, and as the artificial lights on the surface were lit up one after another, the bright stars also ran through the entire night like a long river-this was an exceptionally clear summer night, every star in the sky The stars seem to be much clearer than before, and the refreshing night wind blows from the direction of the plain and wilderness, gently stirring this quiet world.

Gawain left the room, and he came to a terrace near the study alone, enjoying the moment of leisure, looking up at the stars and rivers in the high sky.

He can't remember how many days he has never been so relaxed. He is always tense, entangled in a whirlpool of various things, like a compressed spring, accumulating strength for future moments, and In this perpetually tense state, he felt as if he had forgotten what it was like to "relax"—but at this moment, when he looked up at the sky on a quiet summer night, he finally felt the long-lost relaxation.

A familiar aura quietly appeared in his perception at this time, and Gao Wen didn't need to turn his head to know that it was Amber who came to find him again. He didn't look back, but just saw a petite figure coming from the shadow rift out of the corner of his eye. He jumped out, and jumped onto the balcony railing next to him two or three times, and sat on it in a posture that seemed quite dangerous to others, with one leg dangling slightly outside.

"Looking at the stars again?" Amber turned her head to look at Gao Wen, her amber eyes sparkled in the night, and there seemed to be a slight smile on her lips, "That's great, I haven't seen him for a long time But you ran out to look at the stars like this."

Gao Wen didn't speak for a while, but looked up at a special direction in the night sky - there was a special star, it was so bright that all the stars around it seemed to be eclipsed, and the The light yellow light of the light diffused slightly outward in the night sky, looking like a cluster of distant candles. Gao Wen watched it quietly, and after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly broke the silence: "What can you see?"

Amber also raised her head and looked towards the direction that Gao Wen was looking at. At some point, a thin shadow had shrouded her like a cloak, and a head of dark long hair like night was floating slightly behind her. She looked at the In the night sky, the shadow of "Ao" is reflected in the amber eyes: "A distant star disturbs the world under our feet with its ubiquitous influence... To be honest, I didn't really realize it until not long ago. Realize how special that star is called 'Au' by the mages."

While speaking, she narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she wanted to distinguish an extremely subtle shadow from the darkness around "Ao", but after a while, she still shook her head and sighed slightly: "Unfortunately, we Can't see the 'flowing fire' that's flying towards Ao."

"Compared to a star, that piece of debris is too small, and the most advanced observation equipment on the planet Loren can't find it at the optical level," Gao Wen said slowly, "not to mention it will Affected by the brilliance of 'O'."

Amber didn't say a word for a while, and didn't know what she was thinking, until it was a long time before she suddenly said: "You said...is it really a coincidence that the fragment flew to 'O'?"

Gao Wen tilted his head slightly, and asked her back, "What do you think?"

Amber shook her head: "I don't know... Hetty thinks it's a coincidence, because there is not enough evidence to support the sign of 'navigation' on that piece of debris, and theoretically the 'god' on the spaceship of the Noi people should not be there at all." Knowing the predicament we encountered, the disintegration of his spaceship happened a year ago, and the magic tide observation device was still a blueprint at that time, how could the "God of Noi" make the decision to hit "O" in advance?

"But Rebecca felt that the debris flew towards 'O' consciously. On the one hand, it was because its impact time was too coincidental and its flight trajectory was too special. God' has come near Loren, and it is possible for him to observe the problem of the planet Loren at the last moment, but at that time, he has no time and no way to warn anyone, and at that time we have already begun to communicate with Nuo He built an observation device according to human consultation, so he chose to let his wreckage rush towards the sun... perhaps, just to gamble on a one-in-[-] possibility."

"In fact, it's not even one ten-thousandth," Gao Wen said slowly. "Without the timely information provided by Omega, we would never have known about this impact, and we would not have prepared in advance. If the magic tide observation device did not respond within a few seconds of the occurrence, then we and the Noi people would miss this signal forever—this is a warning that is almost impossible to succeed, and from a rational analysis, it is more like a coincidence."

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, and then shook his head slightly: "But this time, I don't intend to think about this issue with rigorous rationality...I prefer to believe in Rebecca's conjecture."

"It's really rare to hear such words from your mouth—others think you are an 'Iron King' who will always operate with precision like a machine." It was even more obvious just now, "But then again, the spaceship launched by the Noi people a century ago finally turned into a light that illuminates the two civilizations at the end of the voyage... Although it sounds very touching, but behind it is The fact that if you make a wrong step, you will never be able to recover, you say... Is it hard work or the so-called luck that ultimately determines the fate of all of us?"

"Luck itself is an important part of the reason why civilization has been able to develop to this day. I never deny that a considerable part of what we have come to today is due to luck." Gao Wen shook his head. "As an objective factor, something like 'luck' is It cannot be denied, but 'luck' is also not an excuse to deny efforts - if we don't have the ability to build magic tide observation devices or parent star barriers, then what's the point of 'Au' flashing in the night sky?"

"...That's true," Amber rubbed her chin and nodded in agreement, "This reminds me of a proverb in the northern peoples, 'The loser clings to his efforts, and the winner shows his strength openly. Luck', that makes sense now."

Gao Wen smiled, and at this moment, another aura suddenly appeared in his perception. He followed the perception somewhat unexpectedly, but saw that the balcony door was being pushed open little by little. A faint golden light came into his eyes through the crack of the door, and immediately after, a giant golden egg with beautiful and complicated patterns on its surface squeezed in from the doorway, fluttering and appearing in Gao Wen's eyes.

Gao Wen & Amber: "..."

"Good evening," after a moment of awkward silence, a very calm greeting came from the golden dome, "The stars are fine today."

Amber stared dumbfounded at the golden giant egg floating in mid-air, and finally couldn't help exclaiming after a long while: "...so you can run by yourself?!"

"That's right," Enya shook the eggshell very calmly, "I'm usually just too lazy to act on my own."

The corner of Gao Wen's eyes twitched, and he vaguely guessed something: "Is there anything I can help you with?"

Enya didn't answer right away, she just floated slowly to the edge of the terrace, as if she was watching the stars in the distance - when Amber saw this scene, she hurriedly reminded: "Hey, be careful! Don't fall and break Already!"

"Is he in that direction now?" Enya completely ignored Amber's yelling nearby, she just turned around and said to Gao Wen after quietly looking at the starry sky for a long time, "I mean... ...Omega."

Gawain looked at the golden giant egg in front of him with a slightly strange expression: "Actually, I can't see what direction you are pointing at, but I guess you should be pointing at 'O' - that's right, Omega is right there. direction, on a rocky planet rich in minerals."

"...It seems so far away," Enya sighed in his voice, "Even if I was in my heyday, even if I was not bound by the trend of thought, it would not be easy to fly to such a far place... But compared to us and Nuo According to the distance between people, this is only a short distance away."

"For those who understand the universe for the first time, many things at the astronomical scale are incredible and challenge common sense. Our understanding of time, space and even everything needs to be reshaped in the starry sky, and this is exactly what' One of the reasons for the rite of passage. But now that you are free from the shackles, you can learn as much as you want about the stars if you want."

"It sounds really worth looking forward to..." Enya said slowly, and then she paused for a few seconds before suddenly speaking as if she had made up her mind, "I want to ask you to do me a favor..."

……

The hot day is over, and under the thin radioactive atmosphere, a large plain covered with dark brown rocks is gradually being shrouded in night. The temperature on the plain will continue to drop in the next few hours until it crosses the freezing point, until The clusters of strange obsidian-like minerals on the plain have purple light streaks at low temperature, and with the interaction between the planet's magnetic field and the high-energy particle wind near the star, the magnificent scene begins to spread from the sky at the end of the plain come over--

It was an aurora with an astonishing scale. The brilliance like an endless curtain covered most of the sky, and in the process of slowly drifting, it continuously outlined various magnificent shapes. Under the illumination of this extremely magnificent aurora, there are Some unremarkable "little things" are moving fast.

A "Dragon Explorer" walking machine swings its mechanical legs quickly. The insect version of the jointed limb structure allows it to cross the bumpy obstacles on the plain as if walking on the ground. It runs fast under the aurora, and then Suddenly, it stopped in front of a stone with a strange color. This little guy with a pitch-black shell circled the stone for half a circle, and then a high-speed vibrating alloy cutting claw popped out from his body. He "picked" a sample off the rock, stuffed it into the sample storage compartment in his stomach, and then quickly ran to the next patrol coordinate.

At the same time as the young dragon explorer was running to the distance, there was another slight buzzing sound from the night sky, and a triangular pitch-black aircraft swiftly swept across the sky. The background formed by the curtain flickered quickly, and multiple sensors quickly scanned the terrain on the plain.

Below the triangular aircraft, at the southeast end of the plain, an open-pit mine is in operation. Several mining machines are constantly digging and crushing the minerals stripped from the nearby mountains under the control of a high-performance self-discipline mechanism. Speeding on the track, transporting the ore after preliminary treatment to the smelting furnace not far away, and a road that is stronger and straighter than the temporary track extends from the mine to the foot of the mountain several kilometers away——

A solid cliff stands at the end of the road. Below the cliff are steel barriers and towers standing tall. The giant lighting devices on the top of the towers are slowly turning in the night. When the staggered lights sweep across the surface of the barrier, the steel wall The huge text on it is particularly eye-catching in the night. It is an ancient dragon text, shining brightly in the fortress on the surface of this alien planet:

"Dragon Lair of Omega"

At this moment, deep in the steel fortress, Omega's huge consciousness is running quietly in the newly adjusted server array.

On a platform near the central area, a body of an astonishingly mechanical giant dragon was sleeping quietly. It was the huge body that Omega had made for himself—in order to save energy, this body was now dormant State, and the buildings nearby are Omega's current "thinking center".

The thick walls and bright lights blocked the desolate and dark scene on the alien land outside the fortress at this moment, and the server arrays neatly arranged in the hall were humming and processing the data from countless terminal nodes. With the massive parameters sent back, Omega perceives the detection nodes released by itself are busy all over the planet, perceives them to map the terrain, collect specimens, explore minerals, perceive the heat of the daytime area, and the night Under the cold, and all of these are scenery that he has never seen when he was in his "hometown".

Every day, he can come into contact with new knowledge and see incredible scenery. His thinking thread no longer needs to deal with the useless tasks that day after day, but he can use his computing power in "learning" and "learning" In terms of "thinking" and "creation", although he is not very adapted to his current thinking mode, he feels... he should be happy now.

Of course, in addition to the incredible scenery, there are also incredible dangers on this desolate alien planet: special geological activities, atmospheric phenomena that need to be adapted, and magical disturbances from "Ao", these things have caused him to suffer more or less In order to adapt to the environment here, the accompanying unit brought over from his hometown has undergone a transformation beyond recognition. Some of them have even been dismantled and rebuilt into the infrastructure in this lair, and even his own The powerful body that was carefully crafted at the beginning has now proved to be not suitable for the environment of this planet-but compared with the journey itself, these challenges are really insignificant.

The server array was buzzing in the hall of mind, and Omega separated a thread, thinking about what he had seen and heard during this trip.

He does this once a day, because creators have a saying: looking back is a key step in avoiding mistakes.

Omega thinks this sentence is very wise.

But this time, a signal call that suddenly came into the main thread interrupted Omega's routine thinking today-this call signal came from "hometown", so he quickly turned his attention: "I'm listening , Gawain, friend."

"It's not me looking for you, it's another 'acquaintance'." Gawain's voice came from the communication signal, and immediately after, Omega felt a subtle "shift" in the communication signal, as if there was a new His consciousness directly intervened in the communication, and the next second, he heard a somewhat familiar voice:

"Hello, Omega, long time no see."

Chapter 1587 The Leaving Dragon

At this moment, the ancient mechanical mind experienced a momentary data ups and downs. The familiar voice seemed to awaken some fragmented memories in the deepest part of the Omega database. Then he returned to normal, and he greeted that voice: "I didn't expect to hear your voice again, Enya... Ma'am."

"I didn't even think that when you left, my consciousness hadn't even recovered," Enya said with a smile in the communication, "and when you returned to your hometown, I was no longer active in the eyes of the world."

Omega was silent for a few seconds and asked, "So, are you free now?"

"Yes, I'm fine now, thanks to you," Enya said slowly, "What about you? How are you doing over there?"

Omega searched his execution endpoints. He saw a young dragon explorer running quickly across the plains and hills. Magnificent and strange crystal-like minerals protruded from the surface, pointing to the stars in the distance. He saw an empty space shuttle The plane is returning to the atmosphere, it has crossed the dividing line between day and night, and it is about to pounce on the forward base on the other side of the planet. The orange sun is rising on the horizon, and the sunlight casts a layer of shadow on the outer shell of the shuttle. One thousand and two hundred kilometers away, a drilling mine truck is driving a huge drill into the ground, searching for a wonderful heat source reaction, and next to the drilling mine truck, the beacon generator installed last year is slowly moving under the starlight. Turning, sending him the response of "everything is fine here".

"I'm fine here," Omega said happily - he likes this "happy" mood, "This is a planet completely different from my hometown. During the day, 'O' occupies only a small part of the sky. However, its brilliance is extremely bright, and at night, nearly one-third of the planet's atmosphere will release glow due to active energy reactions. Most of the regions here have a large temperature difference between day and night, and huge Dragons probably barely survived, but near the poles I found narrow temperate zones—although there was no life there either.

"I originally landed near the equator, but now I moved to the north and built a nest here. There are rich mineral resources nearby, and the magic power in the atmosphere is roughly the same as that of my hometown. It is a comfortable place to live, although my hometown Most of the creatures over there would have trouble surviving here, but that's no problem for me and my mechanical creations."

"...It sounds like an incredible adventure. Surviving on another planet, even I want to try it a little bit," Enya's voice seemed to have a hint of a smile, and then she paused, and then Said, "I have nothing to do, just want to ask about your recent situation, Heragor and the others should also find a chance to contact you - you left suddenly, many people are guessing where you went."

"On an astronomical scale, I'm just a young dragon that just flew to the door of my house, and I'm lying on the stone pile in front of the nest and looking out," Omega said seriously, "and those who stay in their hometown will soon leave This step, and realize the real "scale" of this world - in this small celestial system ruled by "Ao", we are not very far away, and the truly vast and deep is outside the gravitational circle of stars starry sky."

"Will you explore beyond the gravitational circle of stars in the future?"

"Yes, but this is a long-term goal," Omega said enthusiastically about his long-term plan, "I still don't have the ability to manufacture an engine that can complete the mission of crossing the galaxy, nor can the technology recovered from the legacy of the Voyager It can be applied directly, and if you want to step out of the gravitational circle of the star, you must make a lot of preparations—I want to gain a firm foothold on this planet first, collect more resources, build larger factories, and develop more High technology, accumulate more experience in space flight, and when the time is right, I will launch a batch of probes first, and then proceed to the next step after finding a suitable springboard..."

"Great travel plan," Enya admired softly, "So, what then?"

"Afterwards, explore more distant planets and look for even more incredible astronomical phenomena," Omega said, with a slightly hesitant tone, "I think... such a vast universe should be enough for me to explore for a long, long time."

"Sounds great," Enya said with a smile, "I wish I could witness this part of your discovery, it should be very interesting."

Hearing Enya's words, Omega immediately said: "If you really wish, I can arrange for you after the magic tide..."

"No, Omega, don't pay too much attention to my words. This is just a whim, and you have already chosen a path that suits you. You have a life form and development direction that are completely different from carbon-based creatures. Naturally, you don't have to worry about it. Provide 'service' to anyone," Enya's voice is soft, just like Omega's memory, "Of course, if you want to find a travel companion because of loneliness, there should still be many people in your hometown who are willing to be with you Traveling together—or maybe you could find something else to do? After all, pure exploration can be a bit monotonous."

Omega's server array was buzzing, and there seemed to be some small ups and downs in his thinking thread: "I...don't really understand what you said, at this stage, the only goal I can think of is to prepare To visit the stars, but I'll try, what you call 'something else'."

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped again, and added after a short thought: "Of course, during this process, I also need to perform a dormancy that lasts for about a year, so as to avoid the influence of the magic tide—although I'm not sure what it will do to me. How much influence I have, but like a saying that humans like to say: it doesn't hurt to be cautious."

"Are you ready to resist the tide of magic?"

"Yes, I have already set up the sleep and wake-up procedures, and arranged a group of drones with basic logic intelligence to serve as guards during the sleep period. I also reinforced my lair to prevent the server array from Destroyed by geological disasters - at this point, I feel that I am much luckier than the people in my hometown. I can stop thinking like a machine, and I can safely pass through the magic tide only by ensuring the safety of the hardware. It is difficult for carbon-based organisms to survive. Awakened again after undergoing dormancy at the level of soul death..."

Listening to Omega's words, Enya laughed: "This is indeed an enviable 'talent'."

After that, Omega talked with Enya about many things - about life in his hometown, about the exploration of the starry sky, and a lot of plans for the future, until the night became darker and midnight approached, this time The special "interstellar communication" is finally over.

The surrounding golden radiance gradually receded from Gao Wen's side, and the golden giant egg floating in the air took half a step back. Enya withdrew her will and shook her body slightly to Gao Wen: "I'm sorry it took so long ——If you are not careful, you will talk too much."

"Don't worry about it," Gawain waved his hand nonchalantly, "Knowing about Omega's wonderful exploration experience on alien planets is quite meaningful to me, and many of the things he mentioned are important to us. Both words are an important reference for the future development of the aerospace industry."

"That's good," a gentle laugh came from inside the Golden Dome, "You now have the energy and confidence to plan these future things, which is what you are good at."

"But it seems that you are better at planning the long-term future than me," Gawain shook his head, and then showed a thoughtful expression, "Are you... deliberately guiding Omega in the end? What are you worried about?" ?”

"Maybe it's just worrying too much, but if a free intelligence like Omega 'transformed' from a basic service-type intelligence is not guided, no one knows what it will look like-after all, there is no such thing in his original design. There is no element of 'heart', and when he left this planet, the only free part of his mind is 'curiosity', and pure curiosity is far from enough for him to understand what is 'human nature' '."

Enya said slowly, the golden glow on the surface of the eggshell undulating softly.

"He is now a very powerful existence, a 'super life form' made up of engines, weapons and giant steel structures. This super life form can even be regarded as a mechanical empire operating at extremely high efficiency, but at the same time However, the mind of this mechanical empire is far from mature, and his basic goal at this stage is only one: devour resources, strengthen himself, and find the next planet. Although he thinks this is 'exploration', in essence... ...I'm more of the feeling that it's going to be an endless sprawl.

"If this pervasive tendency is not channeled from the source, I fear that he will eventually miss the opportunity to 'mature' and become forever unable to understand the complex emotions his creators had, which is not good."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Then do you think your guidance will have an impact on him?"

"Who knows? As I said just now, this may just be an excessive worry. In essence, Omega is just a child who is trying to understand the world, and he is obviously interested in his hometown and the planet under our feet. He has a deep relationship with the race living on this planet, he may not need my guidance at all and he will gradually mature on his own," Enya said unhurriedly, "but I think... with a person who is away from home It's not a bad thing for children to talk more about their hearts."

Gawain laughed, but just as he was about to say something, a sound of footsteps suddenly appeared at the balcony door, and then Betty pushed the door open and appeared in front of him. The maid rubbed her eyes while scanning the balcony, watching After arriving at Enya, she immediately cheered up: "Ah! Ms. Enya! You are indeed here-I said why I can't find you anywhere, and the guard said that you floated away to the terrace."

Enya was taken aback, and then there was a bit of embarrassment in her tone: "I just came out to blow some air..."

But Betty interrupted her resolutely without waiting for the other party to finish speaking: "That can't be done, it's too late—you haven't hatched yet, and going to bed too late is bad for the egg shell, and if you don't get a good rest, you I can't even hatch..."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and bowed vigorously to Gao Wen: "Your Majesty, I'm taking Ms. Enya back to her room to sleep! You should go to bed early too!"

Then the royal chief maid ignored the protests from the golden dome, pushed Enya directly and rolled back to the corridor. Gao Wen didn't realize it until this time, and turned his head to look at it with a strange expression. She glanced at Amber: "...Where did Betty learn all this weird knowledge? When did she know how dragon eggs hatch?"

"Ask me, I'll ask who to ask—maybe Pittman taught it?" Amber spread her hands and said nonchalantly, while Gao Wen seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurried to the door leading to the corridor again, facing the front door. Betty, who rolled Enya into the room, shouted from a distance: "Betty! Slow down! Don't roll too fast!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Enya's angry voice coming from afar: "You guys never finish! You can't pass this point, right?"

Gawain immediately felt in a good mood.

At the same time, on the rocky planet far away from Loren and illuminated by the brilliance of "O", Omega, who had ended the communication, was quietly thinking about something.

The server array emits a pleasant low hum in the hall, and countless remote execution nodes are faithfully executing various commands issued by the Omega program, exploring, mining, smelting, research and development, production, and testing, all in one seat In the factories, fortresses, and laboratories that were in full swing, his long-term and meaningful plans were being carried out in an orderly manner, like precisely meshing gears, jointly pushing a huge machine to the next planned node.

This is what it has been doing since it landed on this planet a few years ago, and it is the only thing it is doing-to develop itself and go further. From the day he left his hometown, his goal was Very clear.

But suddenly, he had some doubts about such a simple exploration from one place to another.

After contemplating for a long time, he discovered the source of these "abnormal data": the communication with his hometown, the memories about his hometown, the involuntary nostalgia and warmth in his mind after hearing the familiar voice again.

"...loneliness, another quality related to 'heart' after 'curiosity'," Omega's thought thread suddenly emerged. He didn't close this suddenly extra thread, but let it Running quietly in the server array, and deducing downwards, "pure and repetitive exploration activities are of low significance, pure expansion is still mechanical labor in essence, the meaning of travel lies in the process of travel, and the travel plan formulated at this stage... There isn't enough meaning beyond the stated goal of 'exploring'.

"Perhaps...some more meaningful things should be considered as an embellishment during the travel process to offset the impact of 'loneliness'. This may also help maintain the most basic connection with the hometown and avoid being too alien because of oneself. qualitative and can no longer communicate with them..."

Data flows briskly among the server arrays, and hundreds of millions of mimic neurons process all the sudden ideas and plans with extremely high efficiency. There were sudden bursts of low vibrations in some areas, some spare components were taken out from the warehouse, the huge assembly array began to start a new operation process, and the biomass storage tanks that were originally sealed were also removed from the depths of the base. It was shipped out—the biological samples that Omega took away from his hometown were stored there. After arriving on this planet, these biological samples could only be frozen in storage tanks because they could not adapt to the environment, but now, Omega suddenly wants to use them for some... interesting things.

At the same time that the underground production facilities and experimental facilities were in operation, a passage was opened in the shuttle hangar on the upper floor of Omega’s lair, and a new high-speed exploration aircraft was ejected from the passage, disappearing in the blink of an eye under the aurora curtain under the night Middle—the aircraft flew straight to the north, towards the region with a milder climate. Next, the data it collected from there may be useful.

This planet is not suitable for life, at least for species from the homeland, most of which will die quickly in the planet's deadly radioactive atmosphere, diurnal temperature difference, and toxic environment.

But Omega has realized that occupying a desolate stone planet by himself doesn't seem so interesting, at least... He suddenly hopes to see something here other than stones and his own fleet.

Chapter 1588 Running to Destiny

In the vast space, an orange-yellow star is burning fiercely like an eternal flame furnace. The boundless sea of ​​fire undulates on the surface of the scorching sun, and an astonishing stream of flames gushes out from the sea of ​​fire, forming a spectacular pillar of fire in the vast space. , and fell back to the star body under the huge gravitational force of the star, a powerful jet of high-energy particles and boundless magic power continued to breed from this flame, and spewed wantonly into the endless deep space in all directions.

And at the edge of the heat wave of this blazing star, several dust-like aircraft are struggling to maintain their own flight paths.

These spacecraft have a triangular body, and a huge heat shield is additionally installed on the shell facing the stars. This golden heat shield withstands the scorching of the stars at close range. Although it has been specially designed, the edges of the Some connecting structures still faintly show traces of distortion and gasification, and under the protection of the thermal energy shield, these triangular aircraft are making the boosters work at full capacity to maintain their posture, while using multiple sensors to watch the tens of kilometers away. space.

Tens of kilometers away from the flying formation, there is a dazzling golden stream of flames rushing towards the sea of ​​flames on the surface of the stars.

If the golden flame was placed on the surface of the earth, its volume would probably be comparable to that of a castle, but compared to the huge size of the star, it was as small as a speck of dust. The shape of the flame flow has begun to gradually distort and tear, and debris and ring-shaped halos are constantly shooting out around it, as if it will disintegrate in the next second, but even so, it is still flying with an indomitable momentum, Pounce on the burning celestial body with terrifying power.

The flight formation monitoring the golden flame flow tens of kilometers away flashed light signals. Suddenly, all the lights on the surface of one of the aircraft were extinguished, and a large hole was torn open in the heat shield in front of it. The terrifying heat instantly It penetrated the body of the aircraft, and instantly evaporated its fragile internal structure. Its engine nozzles flickered a few times, and finally lost all power, and was accelerated and fell into the sea of ​​flames under the gravitational capture of the stars—— Before the flame stream really got close to the edge of the sea of ​​flames, it had already turned into ashes spreading in space.

"The No. [-] tracking unit is damaged, and it has been confirmed that it has fallen into a star. The remaining tracking units have taken over the mission... Currently, the remaining tracking units: five... Corrected, the No. [-] tracking unit is damaged, and the current remaining tracking units: four."

As another aircraft was destroyed by the blazing power of the star, the remaining four aircraft simply adjusted their formation and continued to rely on the crumbling thermal shield to resist the heat wave. They sent a relay communication satellite in the distant space A simple mission report, and then continued to carry out the mission of tracking the golden flame.

In the command hall of the giant tree of Sorin, one of Bertila's avatars was standing quietly on the command seat, watching the holographic projection projected from the terminal of the magic net - what was shown on the screen was something that the world had never seen before. The magnificent and terrifying spectacle is the burning stars in space, the remains of alien gods flying towards the stars, and the unmanned probes struggling to maintain the queue in the heat wave and gravitational trap.

The atmosphere in the entire hall seemed a bit tense and depressing. Even though the world's most wise scholars and cutting-edge experts gathered here, they were all deeply shocked by the pictures that came from far away.

These pictures were collected by the Omega detector in the distance, and then sent to the Voyager satellite by the superluminal signal projection system. After obtaining the authorization of His Majesty Gawain Cecil, the satellite signal was forwarded to the sky station, and finally passed through the front The sky-surface communication link that was built not long ago was transmitted to Sorin's command center. After such complicated layers of forwarding and compatibility, it finally came to Beltira.

The entire command center seemed extremely quiet, only the low-pitched sounds of various equipment running and the occasional cough from someone. The images from the distant space were silent, which further highlighted the silence in the hall, until one of the command seats The silence was broken when the operator's report suddenly came from above: "Omega is on time, and there are 45 minutes before the impact."

Bertila stared at the picture on the holographic projection, and she saw that the golden flame was gradually moving away from the picture transmitted by the unmanned detector in the distance. It is difficult to distinguish, even after Omega's picture processing and filter enhancement, the people in the hall can only see a vague pale golden silhouette.

"Omega has sent a message that the tracking unit he sent out has reached the limit position," Gawain's voice suddenly came from a nearby communicator, "then we can only 'watch' that piece of debris fall into the flames. "