Sword of Dawn

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The information that existed only in intelligence before has been confirmed, and the evidence that has been annihilated in history is now witnessed by him.

There is a new continent to the southeast of Loren Continent!The continent that Gawain Cecil visited back then is just across the eastern far sea of ​​the Silver Empire!

But he can only confirm the existence of that continent, but cannot see the situation in the depths of the continent—even though he now has a wider perspective, he still cannot break through the limitation of the observation range.

As for the tower on the ocean, he could at least see the base and a part of the tower body. From the direction of the mainland... he could only see the coastline.

Gao Wen's eyes moved from east to west, and then from west to east again. Every time his vision reached the end, a reminder that the subsystem was offline would be heard in his mind.

This is different from the situation when using satellites to observe the land - there will be no such prompts when using satellite observations, the edge of the field of view is the edge, and there will be no false alarms.

The subsystem is offline, so other areas cannot be activated, and other areas cannot be activated, so things outside the field of view cannot be observed. This shows that the space facility he is connected to now has a scale far beyond imagination-this space facility should have been able to observe The two giant towers even observed targets farther away.

It's just that for some reason, most of its structure is currently offline, so that Gao Wen can only activate a part of its "lens".

In the strange inhuman sensory state, Gawain slowly pondered. He couldn't "see" his own state, nor could he determine the environment around him. With only one perspective facing the earth, he could only speculate. To judge what you are connecting with now.

This may be a larger in-orbit facility than a satellite, with a more complex structure and functions. It may be divided into several modules, and each module can operate independently-this can explain the problems of those damaged areas and subsystems.

So... is there a way for him to figure out what's wrong, or try to fix the thing?For example, activate an automatic maintenance function or something...

Gao Wen knew that his idea was a bit whimsical, but he still subconsciously issued an order in his "mind" - he didn't know how to ask or order, so he could only try slowly:

"What's the status of the subsystem now?"

"Error, unable to query subsystem."

"Is there any repair plan?"

The system beep echoed in silence.

"That subsystem, is there any alternative redundant system?"

The beep remains silent.

Then Gao Wen tried several different questions, but he still didn't get the answer he wanted.

The so-called subsystem seems to be completely damaged, and the voice that responds in his own head has no usable repair solution-it may even be broken, so that when faced with certain problems Not even a response at all.

Finally, Gao Wen reluctantly asked the last question: "How did the damage happen?"

This time, the prompt tone that had been silent for several rounds of questions and answers unexpectedly responded, and Gao Wen immediately heard a voice in his mind: "Keywords captured...After the query, the system log will start to play."

Before Gao Wen had time to come up with any thoughts, he felt his eyes blur, and the next second, he saw a new scene in his vision:

It still looked like a picture overlooking the earth, but there were more symbols and text with parameters around the picture, showing the planetary data and giant planet energy readings at that time respectively. He realized that this was a document from a long time ago. Observation records, and deduced from this - this thing has been running automatically without the intervention of his "satellite spirit", and continues to collect data on this planet!

Accompanied by these thoughts that emerged, he began to carefully watch this long-ago video record.

At first, there were only nearly stationary land and atmosphere in the image, and this scene lasted for nearly half a minute.

Then, a ray of light suddenly appeared in Gao Wen's vision!

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The radiance that suddenly appeared in the corner of his field of vision made Gao Wen refreshed instantly.

He immediately got 12 energized and stared at the sudden light. The playback speed of the video was slowed down several times under his concentration, and all the details on the screen were presented clearly.His first reaction was to confirm the source of the light, and then found that it did not come from the surface, but from somewhere near the top of the planet's atmosphere—it seemed to appear there suddenly, without any warning, without any trajectory, like an invisible The door opened at the top of the atmosphere, and then an entity with an astonishing speed rushed towards the orbiting facility!

Afterwards, the flying object became bigger and bigger in Gawain's field of vision, and a clear shadow gradually emerged from the hazy light.

If his body was here at this moment, Gao Wen felt that he must have widened his eyes to the maximum——

A holy giant deer shrouded in pale white radiance emerged in the light and shadow, engulfed in the thin air mass brought up from the top of the atmosphere, dragged behind him a ray-like trajectory containing a high-energy reaction, passing through the cold and dead darkness Space, rushing straight to the direction where the surveillance camera is located—with an indomitable momentum and a kind of frightening determination.

At a certain moment, when the giant deer was close enough, Gawain even saw his eyes clearly through the video screen. Those eyes did not belong to mortals, but they seemed to contain human emotions. Gawain felt that From it, I saw the complex emotions of seeing death as home and risking my life.

But the look was only fleeting.

In the next moment, the giant deer and the brilliance it engulfed have exploded into a large piece of gorgeous "flame" in the picture. A powerful explosion impact burst out from the corner of the image, and countless fragments, sparks, and flames spewed out from the cabin of the space station. The gas filled the entire monitoring screen.

The picture began to vibrate violently, various alarm sounds entered his mind, and the cabin structure of the space station (if it was a space station) echoed with continuous and terrifying loud noises. In the rapidly distorted and dim picture, Gawain saw that The giant deer fell from the synchronous orbit with many scars, and some kind of flying device emitting golden light rushed from outside the screen-this may be the guard of the space station, which woke up and began to perform the task of eliminating the intruders.

In the ensuing flashes and explosions, the footage ends.

In the darkness, a system prompt sounded from the depths of Gao Wen's "mind": "The history log has been played - the above is from the last monitoring record of the C-16 area."

After a short period of silence and thought, Gawain calmed down his violently turbulent mood, and asked in his mind: "So... the God of Nature hit this facility, causing all subsystems to go offline?"

The system prompt tone did not give any reply, and silence was the answer.

But Gawain didn't need an answer, because the facts were already quite obvious—the figure of the giant deer was so distinctive that you couldn't mistake it just by looking at it. It was still lying quietly in the deepest part of the Fortress of Rebellion, Imprisoned in the Shadow Realm by a pile of wreckage fragments from ancient times, and the god of nature created by the believers of the Doom Society using the factor of evil...Compared with the real holy figure, it is a poor imitation .

"It really takes a big heart to deal with these things left by the God Slaughter Fleet..." Gawain smiled wryly and muttered to himself, "What the hell did I watch just now... the iron-headed god rushed Hit the space station in synchronous orbit and commit suicide?"

This sentence is full of flaws, but the biggest flaw is: this sentence is actually true from beginning to end!

Afterwards, Gao Wen tried to search for more records using that impact as a key point, but apart from the short surveillance video he had seen, he never found any valuable information from the facility's database. thing.

After a while, Gawain gave up on this attempt, and began to use this connection opportunity to dig out more secrets of this facility—considering that he established contact with this facility with the help of a piece of starry sky heritage, He wasn't sure if this connection would be stable, and if the connection was only for one time, then he couldn't easily disconnect it this time.

After numerous failed or unresponsive attempts, he finally got a worthy name from intermittent feedback from the facility's master control system:

Cangqiong Station—this is the name of the on-orbit facility that I am currently connected to.

At this moment, he can finally be sure that what he is currently connected to is a huge space station, not a small surveillance satellite.

"Station Sky..." Gao Wen repeated the name in his mind, and asked without hope, "What is the function of Station Sky? What mission does it have in orbit?"

"Error, you do not have the query authority or the upper database is not open, please check the data link, if you still have doubts, report this fault to the Supreme Technical Committee."

It was the expected answer... The main system of the Sky Station was obviously out of order, and it either didn't respond to most of the questions, or it responded similarly.

Gao Wen was very curious about what the so-called "Supreme Technical Committee" was, but he didn't get any response to the question in this regard—but it didn't matter, the "Supreme Technical Committee" might have disappeared into the long river of history now.

"How many other facilities in orbit are still operational? How are they doing?" he asked again.

This time, the main control system finally gave a useful reply: "Checking the connected units... The list of on-orbit facilities has been given."

In the next second, a set of three-dimensional panoramas of space facilities appeared "in front of Gawain's eyes"—he instantly recalled that he had seen similar panoramas before, the last time he used the fragments of the "Eternal Slate" The overview of the on-orbit facilities he saw, but soon, he realized that the image he saw this time was different from the last time——

What he saw last time was a simpler schematic diagram with seriously incomplete information. The image represented space facilities were just dots of light, and no details could be seen in the light dots. But this time, perhaps because of the higher Perhaps due to the special nature of the sky station itself, what he saw was a miniature model, and the space facilities around the planet were all light blue translucent holographic images-this display method brought amazing amount of information.

The most astonishing thing among them is a ring-shaped facility of incomparably astonishing scale.

The facility is located above the planet's equator, and it circles the planet a full circle!

Just looking at the comparison between it and the planet, Gawain could deduce the scale of the ring facility. He looked at the holographic image "in front of him" in astonishment, and looked at the position of the ring facility in space. Finally realized that this thing is the facility he is currently connecting to - a space station named "Sky"!

He had imagined this thing to be large, but he had never imagined it could be this large!In the schematic diagram he saw through the Eternal Slate last time, this "sky" was obviously just a point of light orbiting the equator!

The difference between schematics and miniatures is stark!

After more than ten seconds of astonishment, Gao Wen's mood slowly calmed down, and then a sentence echoed in his mind: For millions of years...the sky above Loren Continent...has been floating like this Son? !

"...the sky... is this orbital ring?"

Gao Wen seemed to be talking to himself in his mind, but there was no response to the cold mechanical prompt.

Gawain was not surprised by this at all.

He regained his composure and concentration, and his eyes moved on the miniature projections. He tried to find his own "satellite", and he felt that he had found it... over Loren Continent, near Sky Station, There are several flashing "small devices", which seem to be synchronized with the huge main body of the sky through some kind of space anchoring technology, and monitor the direction of the Loren Continent. One of them may be tens or even millions of people in the past. A "container" for living in during the years.

While stabilizing his connection with Sky Station, Gawain tried to see more things from this holographic projection. He focused his attention on some of the on-orbit facilities. After several attempts, he finally got Additional information emerges from those holograms—

"Glow No. [-] station. Status: Sleeping, database offline, main system offline, energy failure, backup energy: extremely low. Unable to wake up, operation item: ignore/discard."

"Zenith-7 satellite. Status: critically damaged, all systems offline, orbit deviated, backup energy: extremely low. Unable to wake up, action item: ignore/abandoned."

"The first star bridge. Status: unknown, all systems are offline, the space anchor has failed, the orbit has shifted, backup energy: none..."

Gawain scanned everything along the way, except for a few on-orbit facilities that indicated "low power operation", all that was left was a large damage report and a dazzling red alert.

Sure enough... the result of the panorama is similar to the last time I saw it, but the information is more complete, making people more aware of how bad the situation is.

The shocking feeling from seeing the holographic projections of the "Sky Station" finally faded away. Gawain sobered up and cooled down from the emotional agitation. He looked at the holographic images orbiting the planets again, and suddenly felt that he was not Instead of looking at a glorious high-tech creation, you are looking at a huge tomb.

This is a cemetery, and the tombstones have stood there for millions of years.

And the home of countless living beings on the Loren Continent...is the largest tomb in this astonishingly large cemetery.

This association somewhat made him feel a little sad.

However, soon, the sense of desolation in his heart was shattered by a sudden dizziness.

Unbearable exhaustion and dizziness struck from the depths of his consciousness. Gawain felt that all his senses were fading and dislocating at a more terrifying speed than when the connection was established before. He found that he was losing the connection with the Sky Station—— An unprecedented sense of "soul separation" is rapidly depriving him of his ability to think normally!

However, just when he felt that he was about to fall into a deep sleep, a noisy, penetrating voice that seemed to make the dead make noise came from the boundless darkness, pulling him back to the real world in an instant— —

"Hey, old Zongzi, wake up! Something is wrong with you! Oh, mom, your shield is smoking! I greeted someone! Mom, you are also smoking... Oh, mom, I'm burnt to death!"

Gao Wen suddenly opened his eyes. In his severely blurred and distorted vision, in a state of dizziness, he saw a petite figure shaking in front of him, and felt that someone was shaking his shoulder vigorously.

Finally, the sight was focused, and the blurry petite figure condensed into the appearance of Hu Po.

Gawain tried his best to concentrate, and then felt dizzy for a while, but he didn't really faint—then he found that there was an astonishing heat around him, and the surface of the guardian shield on the table even There was already a red light, the place where the desk was in contact with the shield had been scorched, and the edges of several stacks of papers placed not far away had even curled up.

As Gao Wen opened his eyes, Amber immediately jumped back half a step. She shook her hands vigorously while shouting: "Oh my god...you finally woke up! You were smoking just now, do you know that? I suspect that your clothes It's about to burn!"

It was only at this time that Gao Wen regained his full thinking ability. He realized that he might have experienced a very dangerous situation just now—the process of establishing a connection with the sky station was completely different from the satellite connection. Killed him.

It was Amber who "pulled" him back at the critical moment.

"I was in danger just now." Gawain looked at Amber who was hopping and shaking his hands, "Thanks to you."

"Ah? It's dangerous... Let me just say it! There must be something wrong with you smoking!" Amber was stunned for a moment, and then she became elated, "Then I have done a good job as a guard! Hey, I have been your guard for several years Finally succeeded once..."

Gao Wen: "..."

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Looking at the suddenly excited Amber, Gao Wen was a little silent for a while.

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It made him emotionally incoherent now.

"You... calm down first," Gawain looked helplessly at the shame of the empire, "I finally wanted to praise you a few words..."

"Oh, then you are boasting." Amber immediately put her hands on her hips, but her attention was shifted to other places in the next second, "What's the situation with this shield? Didn't you just 'communicate'? How to communicate? Did it start smoking all of a sudden?"

Gawain looked down at the Guardian's Shield which was gradually cooling down on the table, and said casually, "...Maybe it's under pressure it shouldn't have to bear."

As he spoke, he thought silently in his heart.

In the process of establishing a connection with the sky station, a situation that was completely different from the previous connection with the satellite appeared, which aroused his vigilance.

It seems that even if I become a "satellite spirit" for no reason... When connecting with those ancient facilities in space, it is not necessarily safe, and danger will strike from unexpected directions.

According to the various situations that occurred when the connection was interrupted before, Gao Wen guessed that this may be due to two aspects-on the one hand, it may be that the Guardian Shield, the "star relic", has a certain "upper limit", and it cannot carry humans for a long time The data connection between the mind and the sky station can be confirmed from its current high fever state, and on the other hand...it may be that my own spirit itself cannot bear this kind of "communication" that exceeds the limit of human beings. The experience before disconnection can be judged.

But as for whether this second limitation is caused by his own mental strength or the limit of his human body, it is not yet easy to judge.

At this moment, Amber's voice came from the side, interrupting Gao Wen's thinking: "Hey, hey, what are you thinking? Do you need to ask someone to come and see? Such a big thing..."

Gawain raised his head: "Call Hetty—and Kamel and Veronica."

Amber was stunned for a moment, then quickly guessed something from the name Gao Wen called, she nodded, and disappeared into the study in the next second as a shadow.

Gawain returned to the desk, and looked down at the Guardian's Shield, which had completely faded from its hot red light, for a moment.

The silver-white "starry sky alloy" of unknown material cools down beyond imagination. Now that I put my hand on it, there is only warmth left. Only the traces left on the desk and those scorched and curled papers prove what happened just now .

"I can't take this table anymore..." Gawain muttered to himself, and slowly took his hands away from the surface of the shield. He couldn't help recalling the things he saw in the connected state before, and his thoughts inevitably resurfaced. turmoil.

Despite the risks, it was all worth it from the perspective of the rewards.

"Sky Station..." he whispered, "From the scale, it really lives up to its name..."

The next moment, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind: "Received, the connection is being relocated—connected to Sky Station."

A sense of dizziness suddenly struck without warning, and Gao Wen's eyes once again appeared in front of the monitoring angle of the sky station. The chaotic images were also superimposed with miniature projections representing planetary orbiting facilities and randomly refreshed data and tables. In the depths, he could even see his most primitive satellite surveillance perspective—all this happened in an instant, but disappeared in the next second.

Gao Wen forcibly cut off the connection that suddenly entered his mind, and was frightened into a cold sweat.

He stared wide-eyed at the guardian shield on the table, the shield was still lying quietly in place, and he... had no contact with the shield at all.

After the discomfort caused by mental exhaustion subsided a little, Gawain was able to guess what happened just now. The only explanation he could think of was that his reckless contact with this "starry heritage" led to a similar situation to Gawain Cecil back then. As a result, in the past few ten minutes, this thing has established a permanent connection between him and the sky station-now he is not only connected to a surveillance satellite, but also connected to the huge orbiting space station !

And his spirit, which is nearly exhausted now, is obviously unable to support such a huge data exchange, so at the moment of connection just now, he almost lost consciousness before he had time to see a few pictures clearly.

Gao Wen frowned tightly. He supported the table and slowly stood up straight. While calming down his chaotic spirit and breath, he stared at the "Shield of the Guardian of the Kingdom" closely. It took shape quickly, and various guesses and decisions emerged one after another...

But he didn't immerse himself in thinking for too long - Amber's footsteps were fast, and Hetty and the others came to the study in a short while.