I have a shelter in the last days

Chapter 255 The Nosts
"Alan, the engine is charged and ready to evacuate at any time. Ding Hao, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation, or I will stuff you into the barrel and fire it like the shell just now!" Zhuo Fan pushed hard and threw Ding Hao away The collar of his collar stared fiercely into his eyes.

After receiving Zhuo Fan's instruction, the engine at the tail of the Mace suddenly lit up. This is the charging phenomenon after the engine power is fully turned on, which means that it can reach the maximum speed and leave the current position within 30 seconds at any time.But Zhuo Fan did not order to leave. Although he was shocked and incredible by Ding Hao's behavior, he decided to listen to the explanation of his team member and chief scientific officer out of a sense of responsibility as the captain of the exploration team.

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It only took about an hour for the electromagnetic gun fired by the Mace to reach the stellar engine.As Ding Hao predicted, it didn't cause any huge explosion as everyone thought, it just punched a hole in the film like a nail piercing through the paper at high speed and passed through.Then a series of chain reactions made the hole on the film begin to expand, and the edge of the hole gradually cracked and tore apart like a broken eggshell, and the light, heat and high-energy particles emitted by the stars were ejected from the broken shell and impacted the broken shell. mouth and let it gradually expand.

From a distance, a small dot suddenly lit up on the back of the pitch-black stellar engine, and a beam of light burst out from this small dot.As the entrance of the cave continued to expand, the beam of light gradually became larger. Slowly, when the size of the entrance of the cave stabilized, the surrounding area that had been dark for hundreds of millions of years was illuminated by this beam of light.

When the hole no longer expanded, the area illuminated by the beam of light suddenly changed.Countless mechanical devices of the same appearance were released from the protrusions on the support structure of the star engine, the number was too large to count, and they desperately collected the broken film fragments around them.Seen from the position of the Mace, it looked like flowing mist. This "fog" rolled up the scattered debris around it, and then poured into the light-transmitting hole. As time passed, the broken The hole went from shrinking to completely disappearing in just a few hours.

The mace's scanning system sent the real-time results back to the holographic projection. Now, it looked as if nothing had happened to the stellar engine, and it had returned to the way it was when they first came to this space.

The stunned Zhuo Fan stared at the scene on the holographic projection for a long time and couldn't say a word.

It took a long time for Evans to come back to his senses, and he stammered and asked, "Just now, were those restoration-type self-discipline robots?"

Guan Xiaoyue covered her mouth and looked at Ding Hao with her wide eyes.

"It seems that my guess is not wrong. After hundreds of millions of years of preservation, the stellar engine is still in such good condition, and the stellar engine that is still working really has a set of automatic repair mechanisms that are still running." Ding Hao analyzed the data while controlling the detection equipment. Said.

"Captain, according to the previous investigation and analysis, the civilization of this star system has disappeared for hundreds of millions of years due to unknown reasons, but the engine is still working, which makes me doubt. Hundreds of millions of years are enough for any Materials and mechanical structures are aging and failing, not to mention this huge stellar engine exposed to space? So I have a bold guess that this stellar engine must have some mechanism to protect it, so that it can survive for a long time. It has been repairing itself continuously for hundreds of millions of years to maintain its function.

"You...how are you sure it doesn't have a weapon system to protect itself from damage?" It took Zhuo Fan a long time to recover from the shocking scene in front of him.

"It's very simple. The weapon system needs consumables. Even a high-energy particle beam weapon with very little consumables will require a large amount of consumables for hundreds of millions of years. And there will always be some small stars in the star system, such as meteorites, comets, etc. It will be attracted by stars for various reasons. And these small stars will not be a minority in hundreds of millions of years, so it must need an automatic engineering collection mechanism to supply its weapon system consumption. However, we have not It is found that there is an engineering acquisition mechanism of a corresponding scale operating in this star system. It must be known that to maintain a continuous working state for hundreds of millions of years, all the materials of the star engine itself must be completely updated and replaced, so I guess this civilization There must be a mechanism designed to repair and update this stellar engine." Ding Hao continued to explain.

"Captain, the Kunlun Fleet has arrived at the outskirts of the star, and we have already contacted them." Su Xiaoxiao's voice suddenly came.

Zhuo Fan stared at Ding Hao for a long time, then turned his head, and finally said with a sigh of relief: "It seems that our mission is basically completed, go back and report our findings."

The mission of the Mace is to give early warning of possible dangers and explore frontier resources before the arrival of the human army. There is not much time left for them, because the human army is following them due to the shortage of supplies. Yes, it is impossible to wait for them to explore a galaxy before setting off.Zhuo Fan and others can only conduct further exploration after basically confirming that the galaxy does not endanger the entire human fleet.

The word "Nost" in the Nost civilization roughly means the central place, or it can also be translated as the center of the universe.The ancestors of the Nost civilization thought through observation that the entire universe revolved around this rich planet.

The intelligent race of Nost, let's call them Nost for the time being.This is a carbon-based life form with a height of about 2.5 meters. Their appearance is also similar to that of humans, with limbs, torso and head. To some extent, their shapes basically conform to human aesthetic standards. Of course, this It is compared to other grotesque aliens imagined by human beings—at least they also have four limbs and a torso plus a head.

Similarly, the home planet of the Nosts has a similar historical experience with the earth in terms of ecology.The ancestors of the Nost people stood out in more than one billion years of natural competition. After the first fire was fully utilized by the original Nost people, the light of civilization also burst out with the flames.Relying on unity and wisdom, the Nost people gradually entered the era of countryside, villages, and towns. As a peaceful, intelligent and elegant race with no natural enemies, they multiplied and developed nearly 2 people in the city-state era. years of history.

After that, some enterprising Nost people grasped the key to enter modern civilization through the analysis and summary of everything - science.In the language of the Norsts, the word science is defined as a method and knowledge system for exploring and understanding the universe.Through science, the traditional technologies such as agriculture and handicrafts that the Nost people used to rely on experience to teach were replaced by more advanced and efficient science and technology. The population of the Slots also began to grow explosively, and the size and number of cities also increased.Soon, a civilization grew up all over the planet.

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