Chapter 178: Stone Statue Square
Gore Star.
This is once the birthplace of the interstellar federal government of mankind, a rich planet.
More than 700 years have passed, and now, Gore has fallen, the once busy interstellar port has become depressed, and the huge and ancient circular bridge is moored with spaceships in twos and threes.
The starport happens to be blocked by Gore's brilliance, giving the huge steel port a postmodern decadent beauty.
The Bat was anchored in the interstellar port, and the two subordinates of the underground warden remained on the ship, and the underground warden and Zhou Sen and his party took a shuttle boat to Gore Star alone.
When everyone boarded the interstellar port, people found that it was more depressed than they had imagined, and there were no people in sight in the huge interior of the port, and the occasional group of tourists chattering by added some life to this ancient space building.
After landing in the starport, the underground warden became reticent, and even when he spoke to him, he only shook his head and nodded.
After a few simple formalities, the group boarded a converted shuttle boat.
Why is it a converted tender ship?
Because, in itself, this is an old spaceship, because it is too dilapidated to be suitable for long-distance travel in the stars, so it is used as a shuttle ship for short-distance transfer.
When everyone got on the ship, the ship set sail with a cacophony of metal scraping, and everyone feared that the ship would suddenly disintegrate in the air.
The spaceship staff is very enthusiastic, she seems to know that everyone is worried about the disintegration of the spaceship, and humorously tells everyone to rest assured, she has been riding this spaceship in and out of this planet since she was born, and when she grows up, she has worked on this spaceship for more than ten years, and the spacecraft is normal except for the occasional strange sound, and there is no problem in flying for hundreds of years......
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Because the spacecraft is so old, it usually takes more than an hour to travel for more than 20 minutes, so a documentary about Gore was shown on the spacecraft.
According to the documentary, more than 700 years ago, Gore was the political and cultural center of mankind in the interstellar civilization.
More than 700 years ago, a war broke out between humans who entered the interstellar civilization, which caused hundreds of countries separated from the ancient earth to disappear, only retaining the five empires, and establishing a human interstellar federal government on Gore......
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The documentary does not explain much about the war, it is basically a brushstroke, focusing on the original glory and prosperity of Gorexing.
Why did Gore fall?
According to the documentary, after the establishment of the human interstellar federal government, mankind began to enter a period of vigorous development of interstellar civilization, discovering thousands of planets that can inhabit humans in just one hundred years, and opening up countless shipping routes.
As humans explored the depths of the universe, the location of Gore gradually changed, and in order to make it easier to manage, the human interstellar federal government moved out of the planet, and then the planet gradually declined.
If it weren't for the interstellar history of human textbooks that would mention Gore, many people would not know that there was such a planet.
For a long time, Gore was a must-visit tourist attraction, but over time, the planet, which had little tourism resources, became depressed and deserted......
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The spacecraft landed in the daytime, and through the portholes, you can see that the surface of the planet retains a very strong old industrial system, and there are even many old chimneys.
As you get closer to the ground, you can see large areas of abandoned steel factories, and the rusty steel exudes an atmosphere of vicissitudes, as if telling them about the prosperity of the past to them on the spaceship.
Zhou Sen noticed that the underground prison warden was becoming nervous, and he was clinging to the porthole like a child, staring at the ground with a pair of eyes......
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Ground ports.
Like the interstellar port, the land port is as depressed and deserted, and even the lazy staff are not very interested in their identification, they just use the instrument to identify it and pass it, without looking at it from beginning to end.
The underground warden didn't seem to have made the same arrangements for the reception as he did in the capital of the Sark Empire, and after leaving the land port, everyone rented an old hovercar from the rental company.
In order to avoid affecting the conversation, Zhou Sen asked the old villain and Shi Hu to rent a hovercar to follow behind.
Originally, Zhousen Prison invited a tour guide or driver or something, but was vetoed by the underground prison director.
The underground prison warden drove himself.
The old hovercars weave through the streets of the city of Goresinggor, giving it a sense of aimlessness.
The city of Gore is not as depressed and deserted as everyone thinks, and there are many vehicles and pedestrians on the streets, especially tourists.
"Old man, you seem to be very emotional!" Zhou Sen finally couldn't help but ask.
"Do you understand the cowardice of homesickness?"
"I ...... I don't understand, I don't have a hometown......" When Zhou Sen said this, a vague scene of the orphanage suddenly appeared in his mind. Zhou Sen has little impression of the orphanage, because he was adopted by his adoptive parents at a very young age.
Where is your hometown?
Orphanages?
"You'll understand when you're older."
The underground warden seemed to not want to speak and began to accelerate.
Left the city.
Away from the bustling streets.
The hovercar, which had been flying close to the ground, began to take off.
Field.
The farther and farther away from the city, the more and more desolate outside the window, there is no human population in sight.
A mountain.
This mountain is very special, surrounded by low hills and plains, but there is a large mountain lying in it, like a giant dragon lying in the middle of the wasteland, which is extremely visually stunning.
The Underground Warden drove the hovercar to the top of the mountain, where the dragon's head was.
What made Zhou Sen feel strange was that although the mountain was desolate, the place where they landed was very flat, and if you looked closely, it was a square made of boulders, probably because no one had taken care of it for a long time, shrubs grew between the gaps between the boulders and the boulders, and the surface of the boulders was covered with mosses.
Perhaps because the crevices of the boulders are too thin to provide enough nutrients for the trees, the shrubs are not large, and the roots of the trees have been covered with the stones in order to absorb nutrients, and the roots are intertwined, like crisscrossing spider webs.
After getting out of the car, the underground warden walked through the bushes in the square, towards the towering hill, and within two hundred meters he was blocked by a dilapidated building.
It was an old building, in ruins and crumbling everywhere, but it was as spectacular as the mountain was still standing from the part where it still stands.
"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the eternal romantic characters. To the west of the base, humanity is: Zhou Lang Chibi of the Three Kingdoms. The rocks pierced the air, the waves crashed on the shore, and thousands of piles of snow were rolled up. The country is picturesque, how many heroes ...... at one time"
Suddenly, the underground prison warden began to sing, and his voice was thick and sad.
Orin stepped back and recorded the scene faithfully.
Since joining this prison break team, Orin has always adhered to his duties as a journalist and recorded in obscurity.
Zhou Sen's mind was racing, and he searched for clues to this square in his brain.
Just now, Zhou Sen visually inspected through the growth of shrubs, this "dragon head" was all leveled and paved with boulders before, with an area of millions of square meters, such a super square, which is rare in the five star fields, will definitely leave traces in history.
To Zhou Sen's disappointment, in his knowledge reserve, there was no historical information related to this square.
Zhou Sen's eyes fell on the Orin reporter.
If you want to be well-informed, as a journalist, Orin must far surpass Zhou Sen, a scientist who stays at home.
"What kind of place is this?" Zhou Sen walked up to Orin and asked in a low voice.
"Stone Square." Orin didn't disappoint Zhou Sen, she answered him immediately.
"Stone Statue Square...... What about the stone statues? Zhou Sen looked around, but he didn't see any stone statue ruins.
"There." Orin pouted forward.
"Where?" Zhou Sen looked dazed.
"Mountain!"
"Mountain?" Zhou Sen looked at the towering mountain.
"Yes, there is a huge stone statue at the top of the mountain, but because it is so old, there is dust in the cracks of the stone, and then birds drop seeds, and a lot of weeds and trees grow, so it is difficult to see the outline of the stone statue now if you don't look closely." Orin looked at the underground warden and said softly.
Zhou Sen stopped and watched, and sure enough, traces of a half-length figure could be faintly seen on the majestic mountain, but if it wasn't prompted, it would be difficult to see.
Just as Zhou Sen was watching, suddenly, the warm current of the dantian stirred, and the gods in his chest were also trembling......
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