“…… Really. ”

Ian opened his eyes and quietly stared at the half-dimmed celestial ball screen in front of him: "Silver chip...... It's not just me, my teacher, and Inaga II. ”

"I don't know about the Starfall Calendar, the holder of the Teacher and Inaga II before. And in the previous era civilization, there were also people who held this chip? ”

At first, Ian just planned to connect to the Sequoia Base intranet to see what information could be queried - with his knowledge of this kind of research base, although the tourist permission could not do much, it should be no problem to learn about the introduction of Sequoia Base itself.

But I didn't expect that after many years of automatic operation and no maintenance personnel, the Sequoia base was so hungry that it would directly send the maintenance personnel to the point where they saw a person...... Is this a person to repair the back pot? I miss it.

On the contrary, in the back, the abnormal movement of the silver chip was expected by Ian.

Although until now, Ian has not figured out whether the silver chip is a creation of a pre-era civilization or a possible 'alien thing'...... But according to the last words left by Teacher Hilliard, its real function is actually the key to the 'Eternal Labyrinth'.

What exactly the Eternal Labyrinth is, Ian doesn't know yet, but according to the fact that the Sequoia base will be labyrinthized, and the alien xenomorph ecological park and the maze are inextricably linked, he can completely imagine and guess that the so-called Eternal Labyrinth should also be a research laboratory similar to the Sequoia base, but larger and more important than the Sequoia base.

Even, an alien ship that fell on Terra.

Even if it's not, it shouldn't be that far off.

In that case, will there be other relics in the silver chip?

Ian had this speculation and expectation, and the silver chip gave him an unexpected and reasonable result.

"President of the Federal Xenomorph Research Institute, codenamed 'Forerunner'......"

Ian pondered: "If this person is the holder of the silver chip in the pre-era era...... Then perhaps, the 'growth' of the silver chip should be completely reset if it is replaced by a different host. ”

If the silver chip is only held by Inaga II, Hilliard and Ian, then it is reasonable that the silver chip does not have much growth that can be inherited.

But if it is actually a key that is discovered and held from time to time in the historical cycle, no matter how slow it is for thousands of years, the chip itself will definitely accumulate a lot of growth progress.

Just like the six years that Ian has held, the chip has spread throughout the body, and it can carry the essa structure of the second or even third energy level, and the functions are becoming more and more diverse.

In addition, the identity of the person who held the silver chip in the pre-era era was also very intriguing.

"It seems that the silver chip may really be an alien creation – at least it is also made by alien technology. Otherwise, the director of the Xenomorph Research Institute, that is, the Institute of Extraterrestrial Biology, has nothing to do with the technology of manufacturing chips and its functions. ”

With this in mind, Ian calmed down and began to browse the information in the Sequoia Base database in the highest authority.

Sure enough.

The Sequoia Base is indeed an ecological park for studying the alien biosphere - so in addition to the energy furnaces that support the orbital space elevator and orbital accelerator, it is also equipped with many additional energy furnaces for the maintenance of the underground biosphere.

Of course, it may also be the other way around, at first he was an ordinary orbit control center, but because of its superior geographical location, it gradually became an extraterrestrial ecological research center.

And it is precisely because of the discovery of the alien 'Tinder' spacecraft on the moon by the pre-era civilization and the learning of the Obera civilization ecosystem in the Tinder that the Terra civilization, which was originally just an ordinary space research, made up its mind to increase its investment in interstellar engineering and voyage research.

The xenobiome inside the base has now been completely destroyed, and most of the other research equipment has also been damaged.

Ian's Tinder ......

Its prototype is actually a spaceship.

[In 3432, fifteen members of the Alliance's Lunar Exploration Team found an alien spaceship that should have fallen in the last hundred years in the Gaze Moon Erebonar Crater...... According to subsequent testing, the spacecraft named 'Obera Tinder' fell in the middle of the Third All-Faction War (Unification War) in 3319, when some astrogazers did suggest that there were anomalies on the lunar surface, but most of them were simply attributed to meteorite impacts.

[The general structure of the 'Tinder' spacecraft is complete, the outer shell of the spacecraft is relatively 'clean', and there are no various impact marks and interstellar material precipitation caused by long-term interstellar travel, but a large amount of lunar material is attached, and it is preliminarily speculated that it should not be designed with sub-light propulsion]

[It has been proved by various studies that the propulsion engine used in the 'Obera Tinder' is only a theoretical 'warp engine', and the 'core flame' of its energy furnace uses unknown technology and unknown substances that are difficult to reproduce with Terra Federal technology.]

[The Federal Central Research Institute named the unknown substance 'Aether' and the energy furnace 'Aether Furnace']

[But to everyone's surprise, through the study of the 'Obera Tinder' and the 'Obera Ecosystem', the Alliance's gradually improved biotechnology has shown that the 'Aether' is not a special substance that exists exclusively in Terra - there is a considerable amount of Aether in Terra, and the 'Sublimation Technique' in the Terra culture is a primitive method of using Aether for self-promotion]

[In the sublimation technique, ether is called essentia, which is the abbreviation of 'source of life' and 'origin matter'. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if it's actually related, but researchers have discovered that the existence of ether, or 'essentia', comes from light.

[To be precise, from the sun]

[Aether is a natural product emitted by the sun and eventually converges in the ecosystem]

"Huh?"

When he saw this, Ian looked dazed: "The sun? ”

Essentia and aether were the same thing, and he had known it for a long time.

The relationship between the two can be understood from the fact that the core of the ether furnace needs to be fueled by elemental crystallization, that is, high-concentration essentia crystallization.

It's normal for something to have several different names, the problem is......

Essentia from the sun?

"No, it's not strange, it's normal."

Although it was a bit unexpected at first, if you think about it, essentia, which exists between all things but can only be brought together by species with high ecological niches, is essentially no different from the use and aggregation of solar energy by living organisms.

Ian's only surprise was the obvious meso-state energy structure of essentia...... Actually naturally generated?

He thought it was some kind of pre-era civilization, or an extraterrestrial civilization that made up an energy shimmer robot or something! The result is naturally occurring......

It's like a canopy of quantum supercomputing cores growing out of an apple tree in my hometown.

"No wonder, there is an abundance of Essore, no wonder the alien ecology and the Terra ecology can be fused together so easily...... The myth of Guterra that the teacher told me back then may really be true. ”

"All living beings are children of the sun...... Are they all brothers and sisters? ”

Now that I think about it, Terra is also the one where there are protopsy creatures and goblins, as well as primordial monsters...... It's just that it is estimated that the Terra people are not very sensitive to this aspect, and before the development of the sublimation technique using essentia, technology was already quite developed.

"Tinder has lost contact...... Well, that's not surprising. ”

Ian looked at the information in the Sequoia base and nodded slightly, not feeling much regret - it was really strange that things were still in place for more than a thousand years.

What he is more concerned about is actually the 'warp engine' and 'tinder design drawings' mentioned in the database.

Thankfully, the database does contain the highest-level technological crystallization obtained by the two pre-era Terra civilizations by deconstructing alien spaceships.

But it's a pity that Ian can't read it.

In the final analysis, Ian is not an all-knowing and all-powerful demon, although he has very sufficient professional knowledge, and he will not blink an eye when he is asked to repair the fusion group, but this kind of alien technology from another world, even if it is placed on the original earth, it is estimated that all researchers in the entire civilization will work overtime to jointly study the time calculated in years to understand some of the principles.

Even if the Sequoia base originally recorded most of the research process and data, if you want to understand it, even with Ian's wisdom, you can only rely on time to learn by yourself.

"Silver chip, record."

Saying this, even if he couldn't understand it, Ian didn't pause.

- What does it matter if you don't understand! I can copy it anyway!