Above The Sky

"……really."

Ian opened his eyes and stared silently at the celestial sphere screen that had dimmed in front of him: "The silver chip... It's not just me, the teacher, and the three holders of Inaga II."

"The star pendant calendar, I don't know the holder before the teacher and Inaga II. And in the previous era of civilization, there were people who held this chip?"

At the beginning, Ian just planned to connect to the Sequoia Base Intranet to see what information could be inquired. Based on his understanding of this research base, although the tourist authority can’t do much, he should know about the Sequoia Base itself. Introductions should be fine.

But I didn't expect that after years of automatic operation without maintenance personnel, the Sequoia Base was so hungry that it would send the maintenance personnel directly to the point of view of a person... Is this arresting people to repair the blame? I still miss it.

On the contrary, the change in the silver chip was within Ian's expectations.

Although until now, Ian has not figured out whether the silver chip is the creation of the pre-epoch civilization, or a possible 'alien object'... But according to the last words left by Mr. Hilliard, its real function, In fact, it is the key to the 'Eternal Labyrinth'.

Ian doesn't know what the Eternal Labyrinth is for the time being, but according to the fact that the Sequoia Base will be labyrinthed, and the alien ecological park and the labyrinth are inextricably linked, he can fully imagine and guess that the so-called Eternal Labyrinth should also be a Similar to Sequoia Base, but a larger and more important research laboratory than Sequoia Base.

Even, an alien spaceship that fell on Terra.

If not, it should be not 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 and reasonable result.

"Director of the Federal Institute of Alien Species, codenamed 'Forerunner'..."

Ian pondered: "If this person is the holder of the silver chip in the pre-epoch era... Then perhaps, the 'growth' of the silver chip should be completely reset by changing the host."

If the silver chip only has three generations of holders of Inaga II, Hilliard and Ian, 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 from time to time in the historical cycle, no matter how slow it is for 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, and it can carry the second or even third energy level source material structure, and the functions are more and more numerous.

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

"It seems that the silver chip may really be an alien creation - at least it is made by alien technology. Otherwise, the director of the Institute of Alien Species, that is, the Institute of Alien Biology, cannot match the technology of making chips and its functions. too big a side."

With this thought in mind, Ian lowered his heart and began to browse the information in the Sequoia Base database in the highest authority.

as predicted.

Sequoia Base is indeed an ecological park for studying alien ecosystems - so in addition to supporting the energy furnaces for orbital space elevators and orbital accelerators, it also contains many additional energy furnaces for the maintenance of underground ecosystems.

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

And it is precisely because the pre-epoch civilization discovered the alien 'Tinder' spacecraft on the moon and learned about the Obera civilization ecosystem in the Tinder, the Terra civilization, which was only ordinary space research, made up its mind. , increase research investment in interstellar engineering and voyages.

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

Ian's most concerned fire...

Its prototype is actually a spaceship.

[In 3432, fifteen members of the Alliance Moon Expedition Team found an alien spaceship that should have fallen here in the last hundred years in the Erebonal Crater, the Moon of Overlook... According to follow-up tests, it was found to be The spaceship named 'Obera Tinder' fell in the middle of the third all-faction war (unification war) in 3319. At that time, a stargazer did propose that there were abnormalities on the moon, but most of them were simply attributed to meteorites. impact]

[The structure of the 'Tinder' spacecraft is generally complete, and the outer shell of the spacecraft is relatively 'clean'. There are no impact marks and interstellar material precipitation caused by long-term interstellar travel. Instead, there is a large amount of lunar surface material attached. Preliminary speculation, it should not use sub-light speed. Advance Design]

[It has been proved by various researches that the propulsion engine used in 'Oberra' is a theoretical 'warp engine', and its energy furnace 'core fire' uses the unknown unknown technology that is difficult to reproduce with Terra Federation technology. Technology and Unknown Substances]

[The Federal Central Research Institute named the unknown substance as 'Ether' and the energy furnace as 'Ether furnace']

[But beyond everyone's expectations, through the research on 'Obera Tinder' and 'Obera Ecosystem', the alliance's progressively improved biotechnology shows that 'Ether' is not a special substance that exists alone in aliens— —There is a considerable amount of ether in Terra, and the 'sublimation technique' in Terra culture is a primitive method of using ether for self-promotion]

[In the sublimation technique, ether is called the source material, which is the abbreviation of 'source of life' and 'original material'. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if there is a connection, the researchers found that the existence of ether, or 'source quality', originates from light]

[Accurately speaking, from the sun]

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

"what?"

Seeing this, Ian looked blank: "The sun?"

Origin quality and ether are the same thing, he actually knew it for a long time.

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

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

The source material comes from the sun?

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

Although it was a little unexpected at the beginning, but thinking about it carefully, the source substance, which exists among all things, but can only be gathered by species with a high ecological niche, is essentially no different from the utilization and aggregation of solar energy by living things.

Ian's only surprise is that the apparent mesoscopic stand-state energy structure of Originium...is naturally occurring?

He thought it was a pre-epoch civilization, or an energy low-light robot created by an alien civilization or something! The result is a natural...

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

"It's no wonder that there is something that is the same in the whole universe as the source material, no wonder the alien ecology and the Terra ecology can be so easily integrated... The ancient Terra myth that the teacher told me back then may really be true. reason."

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

Now that I think about it, Terra also does have native psychic creatures, fairies, and native beasts... It's just that Terran people are not very sensitive to this aspect. Before the development of the sublimation technique using the source material, the technology was already quite developed.

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

Ian looked at the information in the Sequoia Base, nodded slightly, and didn't feel much pity - for more than a thousand years, it is really strange that things are still in place.

What he is more concerned about is actually the 'warp engine' and 'tinder design' mentioned in the database.

Fortunately, in the database, there are indeed the highest-level technological crystallizations obtained by these two pre-era Terra civilizations by deconstructing alien spaceships.

But unfortunately, Ian couldn't understand it.

In the final analysis, Ian is not an all-knowing and all-powerful evildoer. Although he has sufficient professional knowledge, he will not blink when he is asked to repair the fusion group, but this kind of alien technology from another world, even if it is placed on the original earth, it is estimated that the entire civilization will be required. All researchers work overtime and work overtime to work together in years to understand some of the principles.

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

"Silver chip, record."

Saying so, even if he didn't understand, Ian didn't stop.

- I don't understand what's the matter! Anyway, I can copy it!