Chapter 16: The Past Encountered

"You're collecting those crystals right now, the fragments of the two mysterious meteorites that fell to Earth 60 years ago, right?"

As he spoke, Joe also reflected two crystal-like fragments in his hand, which he would have recognized if Riden was here, which were the two shards that Riden had seen at the entrance to Yumien's studio when he first met him.

Seeing these two fragments, Xin Hongyu's heart couldn't help but tremble, and she asked Joe excitedly:

"Where did you see these two fragments?"

"Source machine."

Joe replied quietly.

"Source machine...... Is it Eurian? ”

After hearing Joe say the source machine, Joe vaguely saw that a trace of loss flashed from Xin Hongyu's eyes, although he didn't know what kind of past there was between Xin Hongyu and the source machine, or with Eurian, but Joe seemed to be aware that around these fragments that fell from the sky sixty years ago, there seemed to be a net among everyone, which was slowly spreading, trapping the fate of no communication in a cage that made him feel depressed.

After saying goodbye to Xin Hongyu, Joe got up and went to the window, looking in the direction of Jupiter in the starry sky, and couldn't help but groan in his heart.

"Lidian, where are you sacred!"

【Europa Minami Research Base】

After several days of sailing, Mu Han and the others finally arrived at the agreed place with Lob - Europa, the fourth moon of Jupiter, and in 1610, when Europa was discovered by Galileo and Marius, I am afraid that it would not have occurred to the Earth that the Creator had visited in the solar system.

Europa (Eu

OPA), this frozen moon named after the princess of Phoenicia in Greek mythology, just like the fate of its name himself, although its fate has been ill-fated and has given birth to countless lives, its vast ice ocean covering the entire planet is tantamount to a Garden of Eden no less than Earth, and when humans first landed on this frozen planet in 2371, they paid a lot of price for disturbing the natives here.

However, human beings are human beings after all, and just like the fate of the earth, the value of marine life on Europa today is as simple as lying in a specimen bottle in a laboratory or being pulled to a production center to make cheap biofuel......

If you want to blame, you can only blame them for not having the words to explain their sad fate.

Since human beings stepped out of the earth and colonized Mars, the research and development of Jupiter and other gas planets in the solar system in the following hundreds of years have gradually followed, but although as early as 2371 human beings achieved the goal of landing on Europa, but due to Jupiter's great gravitational pull, human beings did not successfully realize the inner and outer round trip of Jupiter's atmosphere for the first time until a hundred years later, and after that, the development of Jupiter's resources greatly promoted the process of human exploration of the universe and the development of the solar system, Jupiter, the star of Tai Sui, It can be said to be the biggest stepping stone to send humanity out of the solar system.

However, with the increase in the use of solar resources and the protection of Jupiter's body, it has long been no longer prosperous, and only a few of the more than 60 mining centers in high orbit are still telling the glory of the past, and the others have been attracted by Jupiter's gravity and fallen into the arms of Jupiter.

Standing in Europa's laboratory looking up at Jupiter in the sky, as Xing Jiangnan, who witnessed the rise and fall of Jupiter, didn't know what he was thinking, but behind him stood a group of Yuanji, Mu Han and others were brought here by Lu Bo after seeing Lu Bo, waiting for the decision of this century old man.

"I won't go back on what I promised."

After imprinting everything here into his eyes, Xingjiang Nan said to Lu Bo:

"Don't touch anything here, I'll be back when it's over.

The time of retreating from the ninth bureau for five years, perhaps in order to calm the pain of the past, for this planet that is not much bigger than the moon, Xingjiangnan can be said to have poured all his feelings into these five years, in five years, Xingjiangnan has stepped on every inch of the planet, at this moment, Xingjiangnan's heart is indescribably desolate, even if he was betrayed by the world, but at this time, even Xingjiangnan, who has experienced a century of turmoil, still can't go against his heart after all......

Looking at the old man, standing in front of the window with a slightly stumbling back, Lu Bo seemed to be able to understand the old man's state of mind at this moment, Lu Bo couldn't help but ask himself, if he had experienced those, would he still burn out the last comfortable time in his life for the world that had betrayed him.

Now Lubo can't seem to find the answer......

Even if it has the auxiliary ability of a chip......

He still can't sweep away the confusion in his heart......

【Milky Way, Sagittarius, Tory Flange Line Internal Rotation Center】

Nibelheim (Nibelheim) is a wandering planet covered in blue ice and snow, where it is not water that freezes, but oxygen that swallows the entire planet, this planet that is not favored by any stars, as his name describes, the light blue ice fog is wantonly looting on the surface of the planet under the dark night sky, there is no water, there is no light, this is a blue planet flooded by ozone and oxygen, low temperature, strong oxidation, no living thing can survive in such a harsh environment.

Niflheim does not rotate, which allows people to look up at the stars no matter where or when they look up on the planet, the position of the stars does not change, although it is a wandering planet, but this cold planet with a mass of nearly 2.3 times the mass of the Earth is flying towards the core of the Milky Way at a speed of 13 astronomical units per solar year.

Even so, when Xingjiang South found this planet, it was like a treasure, because Niflheim, who was gradually approaching the core, would always be affected by the gravity of nearby stars, and would deflect the course slightly every once in a while, and now no one can accurately locate the location of this planet, which also greatly ensures the safety of the command center of the Tory Flange Line.

In Niflheim facing the core of the Milky Way, there is a mountain, called the capital of the dead, the mountain itself is not high, the altitude of more than 2,000 meters above sea level is not rare on Mars, and from the top of the mountain to the core of the earth extends 8 kilometers, is the command center of the Tolly Flange Line, here is a fully enclosed facility, the only way to interact with the outside world is the seventeen quantum teleportation devices placed in the center of the facility, but limited to the size of the teleportation device, large machinery cannot be transmitted into this facility, Therefore, the main task of the command center is to heal and pivot, and its own defensive performance is not outstanding among all the defense facilities.

To be honest, if it weren't for the good stability of the quantum transmission device, the supply of this base would have become a big problem.

"Sir, one of the scouts at the front has returned..."

"Huh? Only one came back? ”

Nearly a month has passed since the supernova explosion, and while the entire [Tolfarand] defense line is retreating backwards, the monitoring of the whole defense line in that area has never stopped, and the various official troops originally stationed here, the mercenary corps and those pioneers who have just entered the galaxy are pouring into this area in large numbers, although confidentiality measures have been taken within the scope of the Oort Cloud, but all the organizations and groups that were outside the range of the Oort Cloud that day, including those who walked out of the Oort Cloud to carry out the navigation mission, received the relevant information at the first time, So much so that the radiation caused by the explosion has not yet reached a safe level, and many scout groups have already wandered around that area, among which the Tolfaran command center, which is the closest to the center of the incident, has undoubtedly become the largest distribution center for scout troops.

The original intention of setting up the defense line is not mainly to defend against foreign enemies, but more of a division similar to the boundary, which is divided according to the degree of communication with extraterrestrial civilizations, the intensity of human activities and the density of the AITN network. Of course, this is just a barrier set up by human beings, in fact, there are also a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations active inside and outside the borders, in addition to us

The belonging of the defense line is the fourth theater closest to the core, the entire territory of the defense line is nearly 4,236 light years long, almost including the entire shield spiral arm, if it is not based on quantum transmission technology and jump engine technology, it is not easy to shuttle in such a huge jurisdiction, before in the AS-357 area of the shield constellation, the explosion of the supernova we named ST7533 has turned the surrounding area into an information vacuum in a short period of time, not only us humans, Nearly a quarter of the nearby high-level civilizations in the galaxy are sending their scouts into the area, and all the "people" are waiting to see what the purpose of that huge fleet is.

However, today's scout exploration does not seem to be going very well, at this time it is no one else who is sitting in the center of the defense line, it is Liv, the head of the five commanders of the [Tolifaran] defense line, after hearing that only one person from the scout team has returned, Liv's heart can't help but tremble, and she gets up and runs to the teleportation room.