Interstellar leader

After the trimming was completed, a group of people walked to the depths of the dark corridor.

Li Qing walked in the front, and the injured Second Young Master was dragged into the middle by Adelaide, while she herself pressed down.The beam of light from the searchlight in Li Qing's hand stretched far away, and still disappeared into the further darkness, as if the corridor had no end.

It is very peaceful here, and the thin dust covering the floor is as untraceable as fresh snow, leaving their messy footprints along the way.There is no sound around, everything is like a secret that has been sealed for thousands of years.

I don't know how long they walked, and silence spread among them.Ilois, who was originally excited, was also a little anxious. She asked, "Where does this corridor lead? It's strange, we've been walking for at least 10 minutes..."

"23 minutes and 50 seconds." Li Qing checked the time. "At our pace, about 500 meters... oh, wait." He stopped suddenly.

"It's over."

In front of them was a black door, and Adelaide recognized the pure black paint—pure black in the optical sense.She exclaimed: "There was such a thing thousands of years ago?"

Li Qing pouted slightly.Not to mention the early days of the interstellar era, the true "black" technology of pure black paint existed in his era, and the potential for human technology to explode is infinite.

Jörg glanced at his sister, pulled her back from testing what percentage of light the paint would absorb, and pushed open the door.

Li Qing still held the gun in his hand, the moment the door opened, he pulled Jorge behind him like a conditioned reflex, and scanned the place vigilantly.

In front of everyone, there is a huge cylindrical space, which extends from the bottom to the high ceiling. When you look up, you can see that the floors are close, large and far small, forming dense concentric circles, nested with each other, and it is impossible to count how many there are.Each floor is made of glass-like transparent organic material, cut into compartments, and those compartments are filled with various unheard and never-before-seen biological specimens. At a glance, there are tens of thousands of them.

Several people stood there, stunned for a while, deeply shocked by this spectacle.

Adelaide was so surprised that she couldn't speak, she almost wanted to rush up and take a closer look at everything.At this time, Er Shao and Ilois finally stood on the same point of view at this time - there is no other reason, but most of some specimens are just like the alien monsters they met before, which is really ugly.

"Safe." Li Qing retracted the gun.Not to mention the monsters that could pose a threat, apart from the five of them, there is no biological heat source that emits infrared rays.

Adelaide immediately rushed towards those specimens cheerfully, and the second young master followed behind her inseparably, for fear of any trouble.

Ilois also followed, but she walked to the text introduction next to the specimen, and was looking at the two different texts on it curiously. The upper part is easy to guess, and this type of character must be ancient Chinese; the lower part Half of it should be Old English?

No, her slender fingers stroked the letters.Why is it so like... Interstellar Common Language?She can even guess the complete meaning of some sentences.So, the early interstellar common language and ancient Chinese existed together? !

Eloise was terrified.In her mind, the age of ancient Chinese is as far away as human history, while Interstellar Common Language is something that cannot be more modern. When these two languages ​​are displayed together in front of her, they still have a complete system , all her previous ancient language theories were overturned.

Li Qing watched them shuttle between those transparent specimen tubes, and kept thinking about where the energy here comes from, and why the environmental conditions should be maintained within the range suitable for the human body—if people on Earth build buildings on Mars, It would be too absurd to wait for people to discover it thousands of years later.

Most importantly, why did the earth disappear?In the Pan-Galactic Empire, why did the Basdar family try to hide its location while protecting the earth's information?

"The Basdar family must have done something shady in the early days of Interstellar." Joerg seemed to know what he was thinking, and explained: "This kind of thing is too unacceptable for future generations, and it may affect their rule. As a result, all historical materials were destroyed, and the language was lost naturally.”

He smiled, and his dark blue eyes shone sharply. "This is power. Some people will do anything for it, and what's even more terrifying is—" He paused. "They also have enough power to do that."

Li Qing looked over Jorge's shoulders, his eyes widened suddenly, and he put his fingers on the gun at his waist.Joerg looked back and followed his line of sight. A figure came out from behind a huge opaque specimen tube 50 meters away, looking at them with a half-smile.

It was a slender woman with delicate and beautiful features, her long black hair was a little messy, and there was only a black one-piece bodysuit all over her body, and her slender and white feet were exposed.She slowly raised her hand and shook her head mechanically.

"I have no malice, descendants of Basdar." She should speak the interstellar lingua franca, but the way of speaking is very strange-standard mezzo-soprano, without the slightest accent, but there are many grammatical errors, sometimes mixed with A few words that Li Qing and the others didn't understand.But even guessing, you can probably know the complete sentence.

Li Qing's body was still tense, his lips were tightly pressed into a line, and he looked at him vigilantly.Not far from them, the three of Adelaide quietly raised their guns.There are only a few beams left in there, but it is enough to deal with this woman.

The woman walked towards Li Qing expressionlessly, her bare feet stepping across the cold floor without making a sound.

Adelaide shot.A beam of laser light easily passed through her right eye, and a burning smell spread out and reached Adelaide's nose. She immediately recognized that this was definitely not the smell that human tissue should emit.

The woman raised her hand and touched her empty right eye, which should have been the color of amber.Slowly, the corners of her lips curved into a stiff arc.

"I said I didn't mean anything malicious." She stretched her arm forward, and the part below her forearm suddenly began to change, and the mechanical conversion made a slight click.In the terrified eyes of everyone, her arms turned into several black muzzles, aimed at Adelaide and the others, and the faint blue electric light could already be seen during the energy storage process.

"Descendants of Basdar, you'd better ask your companions to stop attacking. In my program, the highest order is to ensure your safety, the second is to ensure your own safety, and the third is to obey your orders."

She paused, as if she was waiting for Li Qing and the others to digest the information in her words. "If they keep attacking me, logically, I'm going to kill them and leave you alone."

"Then what if I attack you?" Li Qing narrowed his eyes.

"Of course I can't resist. But you have to think about your companions." The woman nodded. "Also, you can't kill me—my center is not in my body."

"Put away your weapons." Li Qing said to his teammates.

"Very good, my master." The woman smiled stiffly again, which made Li Qing feel that it would be better for her to remain expressionless. "Let me introduce myself. I am Gaia, the 'guardian' here. After the second emperor created me and sent me to the solar system, I have been guarding here, waiting for your arrival."

"What are you guarding?" Eloise asked, her eyes sparkling with excitement.

"The gene box, the language and history of the earth, and the secrets of the Basdar family." Gaia answered succinctly.While speaking, she walked quickly to Li Qing. "Descendants of Basdar, I need to test your genes to see if they are suitable for opening the gene box."

Before Li Qing could refuse, Gaia quickly grabbed his hand, and at the same time, a small probe in her hand pierced Li Qing's skin, causing a slight tingling sensation.

"According to 99.9%? What is the 0.1% uncertainty value?" The voice of Gaia Tablet seems to be a little surprised, and Li Qing wants to go inside.

"Wait, Gaia." Li Qing stopped her. "You have to explain to us, what are you doing?"

"As a direct royal family, you don't know anything?" Gaia stared at Li Qing.

"It's like this." Ilois saw that the robot seemed to have stayed here for too long, and didn't know what happened outside, so he explained to her:

"The Basdar Empire has been destroyed 500 years ago. It was usurped by the Windsor family and collapsed. About 400 years ago, it split into a federation on the spiral arm of Orion and a republic on the spiral arm of the Southern Cross. We are all Citizens of the Republic."

Gaia digests information so quickly that she does not need emotional reaction time. "Oh, judging from my system time, I have been sleeping here for nearly 2000 years, until this building was awakened by you."

"2000?" Ilois couldn't control the smile on his face. "Then you must have complete early historical materials here?"

"Of course." Gaia replied, as if she didn't want to say another word.

"What's the matter with the gene box?" Joerg interjected, looking a little nervous.

"It is a gene transition reagent made by the first generation of emperors. Currently, only the Basdar family can use it. It requires a special string of base pairs to work, and the first generation of emperors themselves do not have that string of bases."

When she said this, she kept staring at Li Qing, as if she saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"This gentleman—"

"My name is Isaac." Li Qing reminded.

"In Isaac's gene, there is the best sequence of reagents that only exists in theory, and the fit is close to [-]%." ​​Gaia pointed to the exit on the other side of the cylindrical hall. "I'm going to take him to inject the reagents, you stay here."

"Will it be dangerous?" Joerg asked worriedly.

Gaia had already dragged Li Qing into the room, and when she heard this question, she glanced back at Jorge. "Sir, have you forgotten what my highest order is?"

Their figures disappeared at the end of the hall, and after a while, Er Shao was freed from the stunned state.He sat down against a glass cylinder where specimens were kept, and ran his fingers into his long hair irritably.

"I always feel like something's wrong," he murmured.Adelaide next to him nodded in agreement.

Joerg felt a void in his heart.He felt that there was something separating him from that mysterious black-haired young man. It was a secret, very close to Li Qing, but far away from him.

Or, Li Qing itself is a mystery that he can't see through.

The author has something to say: Happy Children's Day!

Despite this, I still feel like a baby. 233333

By the way the next chapter will be very exciting.