As the light that formed a regular triangle and three circles became brighter and brighter, a ball of pale light began to appear in the center of the entire circle, and when this ball gradually brightened, everyone found that there were many small black dots around it that were spinning rapidly, and at first glance, it even looked a bit like the lightning ball that Barbara summoned before each battle.

The pale orb continued to roll, and the small black dots around it began to enlarge and turn grayish-black, and in a few moments, the apertures that had been enlarged to pale gray began to distort.

After scanning all the rooms in the shelter, the information bridge returned to Cheng Shi's side. After the model car confirmed that the energy changes around the activated circle were normal, everyone stared at the changes in the middle ball with curiosity and caution.

Those slowly twisting pale gray circles of light finally converged into the face of an old man, he blinked, and then looked around, obviously able to see everything around him clearly, and finally his gaze fell on Cheng Shi.

"Are you strangers from another world?" The old man looked at Cheng Shi with kind eyes and asked softly.

Cheng Shi nodded calmly: "We are indeed from outside your planet, passing by here, we have no malicious intentions, can you tell us what happened in your world?" ”

The old man looked a little surprised: "I really can't imagine that you can come here, and I can't imagine that you actually activated the magic circle I set up, I never thought that one day someone would actually activate it." The old man smiled with satisfaction, "You can come here, you must have extraordinary technology, it seems that our race has hope, are you here to help us?" ”

The expression on Cheng Shi's face suddenly froze: "We really want to help you, but do you know how much time has passed now?" ”

The old man frowned: "I have bound my soul to this magic circle, and I have been staying in a dark realm, and before the magic circle is activated, I have been in a state of chaos, so I have no concept of time for a long time, has it been a long time?" ”

Cheng Shi sighed lightly and said frankly: "Now that more than five thousand years have passed since you are here, and now the temperature around here is very low, there is a very unfortunate news, we have searched here for two days, and we have not found anyone still alive. ”

The corners of the old man's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't make a sound, he looked sad with a trace of sadness, pondered for a moment, and then said: "I didn't expect that so much time has passed, we have done everything we have, even at the expense of transforming our bodies, but in the end we still haven't been able to change the ending, can you tell me what you all see?" ”

Cheng Shi quickly recalled the experience of the past two days in his mind, thinking about it, he felt that the scenes they saw, no matter how they expressed it in words, could not be said very clearly, and language expression was not his strong point, so he asked the information bridge to show the old man the video data on the planet collected in the past two days, if the old man had any doubts when looking at those materials, he would explain, so that it might be easier to explain the problem clearly.

The information bridge hovered in front of Cheng Shi and began to play the holographic images collected on the planet to the old man. The old man looked very seriously, staring at the image in front of him almost intently, and the expression on his face changed slightly at first, probably after seeing those large areas of ancient facilities, he gradually realized that it was indeed a long time later, and he gradually

Accept it all. But at the end of the video, when he saw the bones of many children, a feeling of sadness suddenly appeared on his face.

"Thank you, stranger, for seeing that you have protected the relics of civilization we have left behind to the greatest extent." The old man said after silently watching the rest of the image for a long time.

Cheng Shi originally wanted to say that an important duty of his job was to help Wenming collect the corpse, but he felt that it might not be appropriate to say so, so he said frankly: "You're welcome, we are just passing by here, and we didn't help anything, and we are not space pirates, or even businessmen, so naturally we have no intention of destroying anything." My name is Cheng Shi, there is a powerful organization behind us, they are specifically responsible for managing this universe, I can't tell you the specifics, anyway, you just need to know that we are not bad people, if you need help, we will try to help you, and we don't ask for anything in return, but unfortunately we are still too late, can you tell us what happened here? ”

The old man looked at Cheng Shi and smiled slightly, it was obvious that he was willing to believe Cheng Shi's words, after all, they didn't have much valuable things left here, and looking at Cheng Shi and his party, they really didn't look like bad people.

"Our name here is Tiknia, and you should be able to tell that this is not our home planet, which has a terrible ecological catastrophe, where black mud gushes out of thin air on the ground, and they not only wreak havoc on our towns, but also cause terrible diseases to the animals there. At first, we were able to heal some sick animals through magic, and then even we ourselves contracted similar diseases, so we began to suspect that something was wrong with the land where our ancestors had lived for generations, and we began to move en masse, but soon we found that wherever we moved, those things followed, and they were like demonic hands, always catching us. Later, we tried all kinds of things, but in the end we couldn't do anything. The old man reminisced and narrated.

When Cheng Shi heard this, he thought that this was almost the same as the situation on the side of the Shuren civilization, and wanted to interject, but he wanted to stop talking.

The old man saw that Cheng Shi wanted to speak, so he paused, and then saw Cheng Shi wave his hand at him, and he continued: "So we began to try to leave the earth, we used magic to build a suspended city, although we got more than a hundred years of respite, but we found that the situation on the ground has not improved, the claws of those things have been constantly invading our floating city, so that later we have to try to gradually increase the height of those floating cities, until we reach the limit of the height that the floating city can rise, We found that the situation on the ground had not only not improved in the slightest, but had become a complete hell. If we had realized earlier that the situation on the ground was not going to get better, and maybe there was hope, but then it was too late, and our floating cities first began to lack oxygen, and then the ecology deteriorated dramatically, and many floating cities fell to the earth because it was difficult to maintain long-term mana consumption, and then we realized that the end was coming. Later, after losing more than half of our population, we did our best to build a magical spaceship to try to leave our home planet for good, and finally ended up on this planet. ”

"Haven't you been quite successful in transforming this planet? And what about later? What happened next? Yang Yang couldn't help but ask.

The old man turned his head to look at Yang Yang, and then said, "Actually, it's not that I don't want to tell you my name

Words, but I can't remember what my name is, but I remember what I did. ”

Cheng Shichong waved his hand indifferently at the old man: "It's okay, you can continue." ”

"For a race of aquatic elves, it is extremely lucky to find a planet rich in water, so when we first discovered and came to this planet, it was like discovering a new home, and everyone quickly devoted themselves to the work of transforming this planet with passion, although we are aquatic elves, we can't live in the water for a long time, so in order to better cast spells in the water, we even modified our own body structure. As we wished, we succeeded in building this sanctuary in the interior of the planet and perpetuating our civilization. The old man said this, his frown slowly relaxed, and his face was a little happy, obviously this memory made him very happy.

"Isn't that good, why are you building those thrusters out there?" Barbara asked, following the story.

The old man sighed: "After the shelter was built, we have lived here in peace for more than two hundred years, with the careful maintenance of all of us. But we know that this planet is too far away from the sun and lacks external energy supply, which is the biggest difference from our home planet, and we even control the population growth rate in order to prevent water consumption too quickly. Later, after many years of discussion, we finally decided to install a giant magic propulsion device on the surface of the planet, and in doing so, to propel the entire planet closer to the sun. ”

"Huh? Are you trying to bring the planet closer to the sun? Yang Yang pointed to the floor with a look of surprise.

"Yes, at first it was." The old man replied unhurriedly.

"Then why are all the thrusters we see facing the sun?" Oldman interjected.

The old man was taken aback: "What did you say?" Is our sun still there? ”

Cheng Shi shook his head: "Your sun has been extinguished, but you can still see some wreckage." ”

The old man's surprised expression instantly calmed down: "We built those thrusters, and successfully pushed the planet out of its original orbit and closer to the sun at the lowest cost, and after reaching the predetermined position, we re-stabilized the planet's orbit." It's easy for me to say that now, but at the time, it was a huge undertaking. After receiving the energy supply of the sun, we thought that we could finally live a truly stable life, so we quickly lifted the limit on the growth rate of the population, and in just fifty years, the size of our shelter tripled, the population also tripled, the living conditions of the people were greatly improved, and the development of our civilization reached a heyday after fifty years, and we built a spherical hall in the middle of the water, where all the living facilities were made of ice, What a wonderful time......"

The old man suddenly lost his voice as he spoke, and Cheng Shi saw that his somewhat dull eyes were full of memories of that beautiful life.

Everyone was silent for a while following the old man's thoughts, and everyone made up for the wonderful world in the spherical hall on their own.

"Then you found out that something was wrong with the sun, didn't you?" Cheng Shi opened his mouth to break the silence.

The old man still looked at Cheng Shi blankly, did not speak, and seemed unwilling to leave his thoughts just now.