Chapter 12: Because of the Discovery (3)
Looking at the empty research institute and messy ground, the scientists ignored the small amount of snow inside. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info immediately began investigating the research materials in the facility, preparing to see what information could be used inside.
"It is estimated that the people here have been dragged away and eaten by those local wild beasts." Xia Houlin looked at the blood that had coagulated on the ground due to the low temperature, and there were scratches on the walls with sharp claws.
In this era of cosmic colonization, every brand new planet has unpredictable dangers. Some worlds are inhabited by ferocious native creatures. They often treat outsiders who come to colonize as delicious rations.
In the history of human expansion for hundreds of years, many things have been encountered. As a result, the Marines immediately set up a defensive line and sent reconnaissance planes to search the surrounding snow-covered woods in all directions. Unfortunately, due to the snow, the traces of beast attacks on the ground have been completely eliminated.
"Judging from the scratches on the metal gate outside the research station, the creatures that attacked here have very terrifying combat power. Without the help of modern weapons, the human army is no adversary. Qiu Yue looked at the deep scratches on the wall, and the metal plates made of these alloys were torn apart by the tremendous force.
If such power is used on human beings, it can be imagined what kind of terrible end it will be. I'm afraid that the armor of the Hell paratroopers will not be able to withstand such an attack.
"It shouldn't be a flood demon, that thing is good at parasitism. The environment here may have evolved some kind of creature with sharp claws and infinite strength. Xiahou Lin walked up to Qiu Yue and said his judgment. Nature is magical, and it is not impossible for a creature capable of tearing metal to emerge in the natural process of biological evolution.
In this plane, the words of living beings are spoken. The strongest combat power is undoubtedly the flood demon that began to develop by parasitic other creatures.
The culprit that forced the Precursor civilization and finally disappeared into the galaxy was a veritable terrifying creature weapon.
"If we found this creature, we would have to collect it. This unknown creature is a good sample for making biological weapons. Qiu Yue quickly judged the military value of the creatures that attacked here.
Although in this cosmic age, biological weapons can no longer come in handy on the frontal battlefield. However, in other mission worlds, it may be able to play an unexpected role.
Just after Xia Houlin was about to speak again, in the computer inside the research institute, those scientists really found some valuable information.
"There are really a few ruins on this planet. The people at the research station found those ruins, including the wreckage of the Forerunner's warship, and one was actually an ancient earth civilization, and the prehistoric civilization is probably real. The doctor who had heard the news was in a state of extreme excitement.
The scientists around them were also happy, and at this moment they all temporarily forgot about the murder of the personnel of the scientific research station.
The prehistoric civilization of the earth, this is a hypothesis that has appeared among scientists. In the twentieth century, some people on the earth once proposed that hundreds of thousands of years before human civilization existed, there was a highly developed civilization on the earth.
However, because there is no conclusive evidence, it has been regarded as a hypothesis by scientists. Now the records here show that there are records of ancient Earth civilizations on this planet, so it is true that there were once prehistoric civilizations on Earth.
Compared to those excited scientists, Xia Houlin and Qiu Yue were still as calm as ever. Because they have long known through the information that in the halo world, there is indeed an ancient human civilization.
In the history of this plane, around 150,000 BC, ancient humans had reached a very high level of technology. And built a fairly large interstellar empire to colonize along the galaxy Orion.
Of course, the Empire of Ancient Humans is the only power in the galaxy that can compete with the Forerunner civilizations. However, they were then defeated in a war between the ancients and the Precursors, and the survivors were forcibly degraded into hominids. The path to re-establishment of civilization began on Earth.
The humans in the current Halo World are actually the descendants of ancient humans after they were forcibly degraded. Their empire was destroyed, but some of the former colonies may still have some relics waiting to be discovered.
I didn't expect that this newly discovered planet really has ancient human remains. This has to make one sigh the luck of these scientists.
"It seems that our luck is good, we didn't expect there to be ancient human relics here." Xiahou Lin whispered to Qiu Yue and said, The technology in the ruins of ancient humans is a good thing, and it is a new technology worth absorbing.
"I'm afraid it's not that easy to get the technology here without knowing it." Qiu Yue pointed to the human scientists, these guys are now in contact with the research ship, and I am afraid that the next step is to go to the ruins.
"In the original history, it seems that there is no record of what happened here. I'm afraid this planet is not as simple as we see. After Xia Houlin said this, he walked towards those scientists with Qiu Yue.
As for the technology to obtain the ancient human relics in this way, Xiahou Lin has not yet thought about it. After all, with so many people looking at it now, it is unrealistic to monopolize these technologies.
Moreover, the acquisition of these technologies by the human side will also be beneficial for defending against the attack of the Star Covenant on Zhiyuan Star in the future.
Soon everyone returned to the research ship, and then took off and rushed to the location recorded in the research station. The ruins were about 400 kilometers away, and they were already in the frozen snowy region of the planet.
The distance of 400 kilometers is only seven or eight minutes for a colonial spaceship. When the ship reached its destination, the people on board found the ruins from above.
These ruins are actually in a huge lake frozen in ice, and although the surrounding water surface has frozen, such ice cannot withstand the huge weight of the research ship.
So the research ship had to land on the edge of the lake, and then a large number of people boarded the transport plane and rushed to the center of the frozen lake.
After landing in the center of the lake, the scientists couldn't wait to make their way to the study. The Marines stopped them from taking the risk, as it had not been investigated. In the event of danger, these unarmed non-combatants will suffer casualties very quickly.
Xiahoulin didn't have any opinion on this, after all, in every ancient ruin, there might be this uncertain danger.
However, as a Marine approached the ruins, a scanning beam suddenly swept his body, and the door opened automatically, revealing the long-sealed ruins of ancient humans.
Everyone who saw this scene involuntarily walked towards the location of the ruin gate. The captain of the Marine Corps, in consideration of installation, sent a small group of soldiers to defend outside the gate.
"Is this the civilization of ancient humans, compared to the current civilization of the human world. Human technology was so powerful back then. Xiahoulin looked at the interior of the ruins, which were full of classical-style facilities. It was an ancient civilization that was not inferior to the forerunners, but unfortunately it was destroyed in the end due to defeat.
"The technology here may be more suitable for us than the Forerunner civilization." Akizuki also noticed the characteristics of these civilizations, and compared to the technology of the forerunners, they were completely comparable here.
Soon when the group entered the ruins, they saw a spherical object with many unknown hieroglyphs on it.
Just when everyone was looking at these unknown prehistoric characters in a daze, suddenly a tall hologram appeared, and then everyone felt that a voice sounded in their heads, and a large number of pictures began to appear from everyone's minds.
"At this time..."The images that Xiahou Lin saw in his mind were all scenes of battles between ancient humans and flood demons, as well as the precursors, and then there was an introduction to this ruin.
It turned out to be a late colony of ancient humans, but with the attack of the flood demons. It was gradually abandoned, but there were still a small number of troops stationed here.
However, with the defeat of the war between ancient humans and the Precursors, the last warriors stationed on this remote planet fled to the unknown region of the galaxy with a capital warship before the Precursors found here.
"What's wrong?" Qiu Yue saw that all the humans around her were in a state of sluggishness, so she immediately walked to Xiahou Lin's side and asked. She is a robot, so she can't see the memories that appear in her mind through mental links.
"It's a picture of the memories left by ancient humans in this base. This planet was abandoned by ancient humans, and it was a former colony, but it was attacked by the Flood. After Xia Houlin said this, he looked at the round ball in front of him. It was supposed to be a supercomputer built by ancient humans, and it could scan the DNA of a living creature to determine the identity of the comer, and if it was a human, it would see the memory images it kept.
"Is there any valuable technology here?" Qiu Yue asked Xiahou Lin while observing the surroundings. She found that the soldiers and scientists had also come to their senses at this moment.
These scientists are already excited, and they are all a little eager to study the ancient human remains in front of them and see if they can get advanced technology that can help humanity.
At this moment, the Marine Corps soldiers who were in charge of defense outside came to communicate. It is said that on the edge of the ruins, a Precursor warship was found.
Everyone who heard the news was immediately stunned, and then rushed to the outside of the ruins. Perhaps there may be technology in the remains of ancient humans that are needed by humans today. However, a forerunner warship is the most important for the UNSC, which is in dire need of advanced weapons technology.
Soon, the crowd braved the wind and snow to come to the lake about three kilometers away from the ancient human remains. At this moment, a metal object covered in snow was half exposed to the ice and half sunk in the lake.
Looking at the ice-covered alien spaceship in front of him, several reconnaissance planes were scanning it in all directions. Soon the data on the ship's appearance was transmitted to the computers carried by several scientists.
Looking at the shape of the spaceship that appeared on the computer screen in the hands of a scientist, Xia Houlin and Qiu Yue were immediately stunned. The oval shape is completely different from the Forerunner warships in this world.
"This thing isn't a Precursor thing, it's the wreckage of StarCraft's Protoss." Xia Houlin silently looked at the spaceships that were being carefully inspected by human scientists, and made eye contact with Qiu Yue on the side.
It seems that this is the data fragment that the system is talking about, a Protoss warship from the StarCraft world. This thing is a product of another alien civilization entirely, and its value is indeed no less than that of the Precursor ruins.
However, no human in this world has ever seen such an oval-shaped Protoss warship. Therefore, it is understandable to regard it as a forerunner warship.
I didn't expect the data fragments that appeared this time to be such a thing, although from the outside, the wreckage in front of me was a badly damaged aircraft carrier.
"Protoss aircraft carrier, this is a good thing." Qiu Yue looked at the tattered Protoss aircraft carrier in front of her, and her eyes showed an interested gaze.
In the StarCraft world, the race with the strongest scientific and technological power is undoubtedly the Protoss. Their technology far surpasses that of humans, and they are even very adept at using the special power of spectral energy.
I didn't expect that in the halo world, there would be such a data fragment. If humanity had access to these technologies, it would have become much easier to fight the Covenant.
"Oops, there are enemies, it's the Zerg." As soon as Xia Houlin's words were finished, a large number of spikes suddenly appeared on the ice covered by heavy snow, and many human soldiers and technicians who had no time to react in the future were all stabbed to the heart.
Then there was a continuous shaking in the snow all around. Immediately after that, a large number of dense spikes shot out overwhelmingly. Knocked many soldiers to the ground, their armor providing no protection.
"It's the Stinging Snake and the Lurker, Akizuki ready to fight." After Xia Houlin finished speaking, he instantly took out his weapon from the storage ring and threw it to Qiu Yue.
After quickly judging what the enemy was, Xia Houlin knew that a fierce battle would follow. The Zerg in StarCraft is a very dangerous creature, with a destructive power comparable to that of the Flood Demons in this world. And their spores are also infectious.
Soon, a group of stinging snakes with teeth and claws had emerged from the heavy snow and pounced fiercely towards the surrounding humans, and then the sound of gunfire broke the silence of this frozen world.
At the same time, the scientific research ship docked outside the big lake was also facing Zerg attacks from all directions at the moment. Some self-detonating bugs are crashing into the non-combat spacecraft.