The room is not large, it is the smallest one in the storeroom. Of course, this is relative to the entire basilica. After entering the room, I looked up and saw dozens of aircraft moored in the hangar distributed in blocks.

Tang Fang felt that it was not quite appropriate to use the word "machine qì person" to describe it, but "crystal person" was more appropriate. These unmanned devices made by the Ipsilons are about 2.5 meters high, similar to Eve in "The Mobilization of the Machine", but the body surface part is completely composed of delicate and transparent light blue "crystals", and when viewed from the outside to the inside, you can vaguely see some silver-gray solids, which should be the internal skeleton.

Just as he had repaired the psionic flame before, Tang Fang stepped forward, raised his hand on his heels, and pressed the ε rune on the enlarged version of Eve's chest. As a golden light lit up, the surface of the "Crystal Man" flowed through several blue lines like waves. Then, a row of orange-yellow characters appeared on the screen of the "Crystal Man" face, which was the Epsilon script that only Tang Fang could understand.

At this time, Tang Fang nodded, let go of his hand, and 5 light filaments stretched out from the thin hole under the "crystal man's" cheek, gently attached to the back of his hand.

After about a few breaths, the "Crystal Man" who received the command to "repair the dimensional roaming terminal" slowly rose, and the ring of light on its tail flashed with a silver light like flowing water, which passed over Tang Fang's head and quickly flew out of the hangar.

Seeing the back of the "Crystal Man" disappear outside the door, Tang Fang walked to Freya, who had already recovered her ability to move and was looking at the back of the "Crystal Man" with a blank expression, and did not allow her to say anything, took her hand and walked out of the warehouse quickly.

Just came into contact with the core computer of the "Crystal Man", Tang Fang only then figured it out. The crystalline substance on the surface of the "crystal man" is composed of inert zero-element crystals.

Just like the "Ulikmi Shield", humans have also made great strides in the utilization of zero-element, but. Due to the low refining technology, the inertized low-purity zero-element crystals are far inferior to the epsilon creations in terms of hardness and toughness.

As an engineering drone, the reason why "crystal people" are "crystal people" instead of "machine qì people" is because of the relationship between the working environment. The dimensional roaming terminal is just one of its working objects, in addition to the external facilities of the "Ashtolando" system, the "crystal man" is also responsible for the maintenance and overhaul of the dimensional lock.

The cosmic environment is very complex. There is no doubt about this, whether it is supernova explosions, star creation, or the activity of celestial bodies such as neutron stars and black holes. It is possible to form a strong gravitational field, which can distort space-time, spread to dimensional tunnels, and damage the dimensional locks used to hold the wormhole structure in place. Creates a cross-dimensional storm of space.

Within this unstable dìng channel. After the flesh and blood and ordinary people enter, they will inevitably be torn to pieces by the shock of time and space, how can they be maintained? What about maintenance? In order to gain a foothold in this environment, except for some aircraft with graviton shields, only extremely high-purity inert zero-element crystals can do the job.

Considering factors such as cost, volume, service life, etc., in the end, the Ipsi Dragon people selected the inert zero element crystals as the shell of the maintenance drone, so that they had the "crystal man" in front of them.

This crystal-shaped engineering drone not only has strong defense. There are also small fusion reactors that are powered by ultra-high specific impulse plasma engines. Retractable ion shield, angstrom-level heat dissipation network, central AI processing system, and integrated maintenance module combination.

Compare SCV, and then look at the fully automated "crystal man", Tang Fang smiled. It's a copy of Vali and Eve.

Next to her, Freya looked at the hair all over her body, couldn't help but hide away, and asked tentatively, "Tang Fang, what do you want?" ”

"Hey...... I'm going to get them back. Tang Fang said with a smug face.

"They?" Freya followed his gaze, and not far away, the "Crystal Man" slowly flew in with a hovering car, and a black cube was piled up in the carriage.

In the StarCraft series of games, the Zerg unit has the ability to regenerate, even if it is not on the fungus blanket, it will slowly recover from its own injuries, the Terran has SCV, which can treat damaged mechanical units, and biological units can also be treated through guò nurse MM and medical transport planes, but the Protoss, whether it is a mechanical unit or a biological unit, after the shield is removed, the main body is damaged, and it can no longer recover.

With the technological level of the Protoss, will there be no repair machinery? Who believes that, it's just that Blizzard castrated it out of gameplay needs. There is a maintenance squad on the Morningstar, there is also an SCV in the system space, and no matter how you look at it, the ability in logistics and maintenance is already excellent. But who is Tang Fang? has been a thief for so long along the way, and his ability to take sheep by the hand has long been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and there is such a good thing on "Tikal", will he be indifferent? Anyway, it's a waste to be a mummy here, so it's better to get it on the Morningstar.

The AI system of the "Crystal Man" is very powerful, as long as Emma is ordered to translate the existing Terran technology data into the Ipsi Dragon language, and then enter the AI core by herself, it will upgrade the number jù library by itself, integrate the Terran technology tree, and gain the ability to repair man-made machinery. The full name of SCV is the space construction engineering vehicle, which belongs to the light armor unit, and it is difficult to undertake the rapid maintenance work of the front-line battlefield, while the "crystal man" is different, this thing can be made of inert zero element crystals, as well as an ultra-high specific impulse engine, and an ion shield, which can be repaired by standing on the stake in the inland battlefield, even in the space battlefield, with its size, it can also be repaired while fighting, completely ignoring the enemy's artillery fire.

Looking at the "crystal man" who came from the opposite side, the more Tang Fang looked at it, the more he liked it, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, he was a human being, he liked beautiful things, he was naturally not exempt from vulgarity, this thing in front of him was much cooler than SCV.

"Crystal Man" is too ugly to hear, it is better to ...... Tang Fang turned his head to look at Freya, and smiled, it was better to call it "Cupid".

Distracted, "Cupid" has flown to the vicinity of the damaged part of the "door" facility, the eye part shoots out a fan-shaped light, sweeping over the damaged part, and then stretches out the arm, the ring crystal in the front section blooms like petals, a silver-gray metal arm pops out, the needle-shaped structure in front of the door post is a little damaged, and the faint blue light roams around, and finally converges to the crystal of the node of the "door" facility, and instantly blooms a dazzling silver light.

Then. The damaged module detached from the main body of the "door" facility and, under the traction of "Cupid", landed in the open space next to it. Finish doing these. It stretched out its arm again, and the needle-shaped structure at the front end changed for a while, expanding into a rectangular interface, and inserting it into the square body control plate on the maglev car behind it. The cube, which was originally pitch black and resembled a boulder, came to life in an instant, scattering into countless tiny particles like a collapsed model of sand.

"Broken...... "Freya was about to ask. The particles scattered on the ground were like ants, gathering into a black stream, all the way up the doorpost. Condensation in damaged areas into completely new system components.

"Micro Material Machine qì people?" Tang Fang's eyes narrowed, nano machine technology is nothing, but such a fully automated building materials machine is really amazing.

"Cupid" after repairing the dimensional roaming terminal. The most striking ε runes in the "door" facility are a little. Suddenly hearing the sound of "bang", a layer of blue climbed up the arch, and a ball of electric light jumped up at the center point of the round arch structure, and then slowly expanded, forming a light blue light curtain with ripples on the water surface from time to time.

"It's finished." Tang Fang sincerely admired and was about to operate the psionic flame. At this moment, "Cupid" suddenly flew in front of him, and a screen of light was projected in mid-air from his eyes. A series of golden Ipsion words flashed.

"I see...... the more he looked back, the more ugly Tang Fang's face became.

He finally figured out why the Lost Lands couldn't sail at warp speed. In the course of the "Lost War". The "Ashtolando" system of the Ipsilons was devastated, not only was most of the external equipment damaged in the white-knuckle battle, but even the dimensional tunnel was severely damaged, and the dimensional lock system was paralyzed.

Part of the dimensional lock was destroyed, and some of the dimensional locks were damaged, causing the spatial continuum to partially collapse, and forming a subdimensional storm that swept through the entire "Ashtolando" system.

Before the start of the "Lost War", the entire "Lost Lands" was not as independent of the Celestial Nest as it is now, and there was no buffer zone between the star systems on the outer part of the Epsilon Territory and the other star systems in the sector, which was only a few light-years away.

After the end of the "Lost War", the dimensional storm not only swept through the entire tunnel, but also had a tug of war with the dimensional lock system, and then twisted the entire wormhole network, causing a chain reaction that affected the diameter range of nearly 100 light-years.

As we all know, the universe is not flat, just like mountain roads, there are flat and rugged. The unstable wormhole network of the "Ashtolando" system will be distorted at the multi-dimensional level, just like a storm at sea, from the original parallel state to the jitter state, thus intersecting with normal space-time, and even having a unidirectional huge gravitational effect, forming dimensional cracks.

In such an environment, want to figure out the guò warp engine for interstellar travel? That's pure death. As a result, the "Lost Land" evolved into the current "lost" state.

"Tang Fang, what's wrong with you?" Seeing him turn from joy to sorrow, Freya asked with a worried expression.

Tang Fang sighed and described the embarrassing state of the "Ashtolando" system at this time.

"Now that the equipment is broken, let's go back, Freya is hungry." The "Ashtolando" system or something, in the eyes of the girl, is not as important as the Five Organs Temple.

Tang Fang scratched her little nose angrily: "There is food and drinking water I prepared in the shuttle, if you are hungry, you can go and eat it yourself, I still have information to check." ”

"Hmm......" Looking at the empty hall with no end in sight, looking at Tang Fang, Freya bit her lip and muttered for a moment: "I'll wait for you here." ”

Tang Fang shrugged, turned around and walked to "Cupid", and connected to the central AI again, he didn't believe that the Ipsi Dragons had no countermeasures, the reason why the "Cupid" was designed in this form was to deal with the possible space-time storm in the dimensional tunnel, which showed that the Ipsilonians had already prepared.

Sure enough, after transmitting the corresponding command, "Cupid" gave him an affirmative reply. The library not only stores the maintenance plan of the dimensional lock, but also the design drawings. In other words, it can not only repair the damage of dimensional locks, but also create new dimensional locks.

It's just that in the current environment, the damaged dimensional locks are not one, two, but throughout the entire "Ashtolando" system, and there are only two finished dimensional locks in the warehouse.

This couldn't help but give Tang Fang a big headache, if he couldn't repair the "Ashtolando" system, he wouldn't be able to set foot in the other star systems of the "Lost Land". And then lose the opportunity to unlock other Protoss technologies.

"What to do? What to do? Frowning back and forth for a moment, he turned to the psionic flame of the dimensional roaming terminal and connected with it. A diagram of the structure of the entire "Ashtolando" system is evoked.

As blue light shot out from the center of the psionic flame, the dimensional lock distribution map of the "Lost Land" and the buffer zone slowly appeared in front of Tang Fang's eyes.

Under normal conditions, these cobweb-distributed dimensional tunnels will be marked with green light spots, but at this moment, 98% of the system network is in a red alert posture.

After staring at the network topography for a while, Tang Fang suddenly said, "Huh? With a sound, a command was sent to the psionic flames.

Followed by. Blue light reappears, and a star map of the "Lost Lands" is superimposed on top of the network topography.

Due to the impact of the previous "Lost War", some working and semi-working dimensional locks were affected by the storm. Being thrown into the "Lost Lands" and the area around the buffer zone not only shattered the dimensional tunnel network, but also affected real time and space, interfering with normal warp speed navigation.

Follow the reply given by the Psionic Flame Central AI. After the Ipsi Dragons jurisdiction was broken up and reorganized into the "Lost Lands". In order for the dimensional roaming terminal of the "Tikal" satellite to get in touch with other operational terminals and resume use, it is necessary to reopen the dimensional tunnel and configure the dimensional lock system.

This is an impossible task for him now. The number of dimensional locks in the warehouse is insufficient, and even if "Cupid" is ordered to start making new dimensional locks, even if the inventory resources of the relay station are added, it will not be able to make up the required number of dimensional tunnels.

Creating dimensional locks requires not only a large amount of zeros. There must also be palladium, platinum, iridium, titanium and other metals, some silicides. Metametals, isotope polymers, and other materials. Of course, these resources can be converted from zero elements, but it is a pity that Tang Fang has no conversion factories and no sufficient amount of zero elements.

However, if it can't be completed now, it doesn't mean that it can't be completed in the future, except for the scarcity of zero-element trading in the free market in the Tianchao Star Region, minerals such as palladium and iridium, what is nothing?

By superimposing the dimensional lock distribution map and the "Lost Lands" star map, Tang Fang found that the area affected by the erythema was not all over the entire "Lost Lands" and the buffer zone of 30 light-years in the periphery, and there were gaps between the erythema and the erythema. In such a gap area, there is no warp speed interference, and warp speed navigation is applicable.

Of course, these crevices are very haphazardly distributed, separated by red spots of different sizes and shapes, and many of them are dead ends, and it is impossible to walk through them like a major road. Therefore, for more than 200 years, those explorers who tried to get their hands on the "Lost Land" have ended up with no bones left.

But Tang Fang is different, if he didn't repair the dimensional roaming terminal and get the dimensional lock distribution map, if he wanted to go to the Tianchao Star Region on the other side, he could only obediently return to Meijiaer and find another way out. Now it's different, although the gap area is uneven, but he still found a small road connecting the outside world, as long as you are careful, you can pass through it safely.

There are also 3 space shuttles on the "Morningstar", and if they are piloted by machine gunners and open the way in front of their heads, then the safety factor will be greatly improved.

If you choose to return to Megal and find another way, it will be a hassle to break through the blockade of the Empire's borders. Second, half a year is too long. However, if you pass through the gap area, it will take no more than 2 months at most, and the travel time will be reduced by 3 times. Moreover, this is tantamount to opening up a new channel, a new channel that belongs only to him, and from then on, the "Lost Lands" will truly become his technological backyard. In the future, when he collects all the materials to make the dimensional lock and successfully repairs the "Ashtolando" system, the "Lost Lands" will be completely revived and become the cornerstone of his strong rise.

"Emma, how's it going?"

"Commander, the star map and the dimensional lock distribution map have been integrated, and the useful information has been collected."

"Okay." Tang Fang nodded, retreated Emma, and turned his head to look at Freya: "It's here, let's go, go to 'Solna' again, and go home when you're done." ”

"That'...... This...... The dimensional roaming terminal is not repaired? ”

Tang Fang glanced back at the flickering interstellar gate and smiled slightly: "The coming day is long." Then, he sent a dormancy command to the psionic flame, woke up one of the "Cupids" in the storeroom, and walked out of the main hall with Freya.

At this moment, Freya was already familiar with the role of the ankle ring, so she simply tore off her combat boots and held them in her arms, like a cheerful jungle elf, babbling, dangling around Tang Fang, swinging over, and from time to time let out a few chuckles like silver bells.

Considering that her body is very abnormal and it is okay to be exposed to a vacuum, Tang Fang didn't care about her, settled the 2 "Cupids", and dodged into the cockpit to sit down.

After a while, the girl was tired of playing, with a pair of snow-white little feet, holding the large canned beef brought by Tang Fang from the Morning Star in her arms before leaving, and sat in the co-pilot, regardless of the greasy, she stuffed it into her mouth hard, and shouted with a hum: "Go, go, go early and return early." ”

Tang Fang turned his head to look at her, and his heart was like a mirror for the girl's little abacus, this girl designated that she wanted to show off the pair of "Hot Wheels" on her feet in front of Tang Yun, Linglong and others. (To be continued......)