Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Immortal Lighthouse
Although the galactic situation has generally fallen into calm again, all civilizations know that the storm is coming, and in addition to signing various diplomatic agreements, they are also frantically improving themselves.
The improvement of armament and technological prowess is one thing, and the search for the history of the lost empire is also another.
They want to know what happened. Is it possible for these civilizations to gain something?
The archaeological civilization that was preparing to migrate was also noticed by the civilization with which they often interacted, and finally had to share their discoveries under increasing diplomatic pressure.
“…… Ring World? When this information was circulating rapidly in the galaxy, Li Wenyuan also noticed the content and gradually showed a thinking expression.
According to the archaeological civilization, they once discovered a ruined Ring World in a galaxy that buried history related to the Lost Empire.
Now the galactic civilizations are starting to frantically send people into that galaxy to find out.
“…… This time it's not a world made by humans......"
That archaeological civilization gave a completely new coordinate, a place that even Li Wenyuan had not explored.
He didn't think that every new discovery was related to human beings, and with such a long history of the galaxy, it was not impossible that a civilization had ever created such a "face project".
"But I still need to take a look, how can this kind of major event related to lost history not involve me?"
So a scientific spaceship near the coordinates of the galaxy turned around and rushed somewhere, and soon entered the target galaxy along with a number of civilizations.
As Li Wenyuan expected, the moment he entered, he was sure that the destroyed circular world had nothing to do with human beings.
Although it has been blown into several sections, it can still be vaguely recognized in the style it is adopted, and it is really ugly.
Li Wenyuan believes that normal human aesthetics will not like this style, only aliens will like it.
Explorers of other interstellar civilizations didn't pay much attention to this style issue, but they began to continuously transmit data from the moment they entered here, after all, the circular world is still quite a strange building for most civilizations.
Although they also noticed that there was a scientific research ship that exuded the "atmosphere of a lost empire" here, everyone was here to investigate, and no one cared about it.
And Li Wenyuan didn't have any idea about the ruined world itself, as the archaeological civilization said, because it had suffered too much damage, it had no repair value at all.
Even though he thought he could fix it, it would take enough resources, time, and energy for him to rebuild a world ring.
He was now only interested in its origin and the secrets hidden above.
While the other civilizations were still watching, he had already taken the lead in letting the scientific research ship come closer.
This Ring World was more completely destroyed than his "Epsilon Shelter", and even the Ring World that was blown up by the "End of Samsara" was far from comparable.
It can almost be said that the "fragments" of the world revolve around the stars, and it is hard to imagine what has happened here.
As the research ship approached, the scenery on the fragments of the Ring of the World of various sizes was uploaded to the database.
There must have been an extremely developed civilization here, with dense ruins of buildings scattered across almost every fragment of the Ringworld, and with the occasional collision with each other, more tiny pieces were thrown into the stars.
Even the "Epsilon Shelter" that Li Wenyuan now controls does not have so many buildings, and it is clear that the former owner of this ring world has made good use of every piece of land on it.
But in addition to the almost completely destroyed buildings, he also discovered the presence of a large number of robots.
Most of them have vanished with the destruction of the Rim, and the broken mechanical bodies have wandered through space or become part of the divided earth.
There was a place that he thought was a piece of the world at first glance, but when he got closer, he realized that it was a large group of entangled robots, and if these robots were considered life, the scene could be described as terrifying.
“…… Could this be about the Lost Empire? Is it a 'Far Traveler'? Li Wenyuan's first thought was so.
He knew that as the Lost Empire of the extreme materialistic "Far Travelers", they were still making great use of robots, and even though their main species was prosthetics, they had a group of robot attendants who were comparable in number to them.
These robot attendants, who are similar to but different from the servants, use "service agreements" to provide services to their masters, the "Far Travelers", but they are not too intelligent to even be called "intelligent machines", they are just a kind of mechanical body.
If this shattered world has anything to do with the Far Traveler, then the sheer number of robot corpses and ruins of buildings makes sense.
“…… If that's the case, then this ring of the world was blown up by the 'Watchmen'? ”
Li Wenyuan remembered the ancient battlefield he had seen with Gray Wind before, and the remains of the fleet at that level were almost the same as those of the immortal, but it was obvious that this "immortal" war did not continue, because the two lost empires as the protagonists are still alive now.
He felt that if his world was bombed like this, it would definitely be endless, and it was still a mystery as to why the two lost empires ended the war again.
The ship continued to scan, and the explorers of other civilizations approached the world after uploading their first data and began their own explorations.
Soon, through the scanning of the spaceship, Li Wenyuan found the ruins of a building that could be the "Ring World Control Center".
Due to the great difference between the architectural style and the human being, he could only judge the role of the ruins of the building by its size and the area in which it was located.
However, this giant building is indeed easy to attract attention, and even if it is not a control center, Li Wenyuan is ready to explore it carefully.
As the scanning progressed, he found new traces of excavations here, which may have been done by the archaeological civilization that provided the coordinates here.
Following this fresh clue, he found a port in a part of the megastructure that could be accessed, and there were traces of use.
Even though there is no accessor in the galaxy today, civilizations that want to archaeology naturally have their own ways to solve this problem.
A handful of nanobots on board the drone began to adapt to the access port, and then connected the drone to the ruins of the building.
The buildings that seem to have lost their vitality in the long history have finally left some records, and let Li Wenyuan see a dilapidated story.
【Immortal Lighthouse {DATA CORRUPTED} Archive】
[{DATA CORRUPT} periodic record: ...... The rest of us didn't choose the same path as us, I used to think that we were all inseparable, but I didn't expect that there would still be people who would choose to escape at the last moment.
[Now there are not only external enemies, but also internal divisions within ourselves]
Why? Isn't that the best way to pursue the Apocalypse? They are afraid, and our philosophy is not convincing to everyone.]
["Evolution" failed, and now we are no longer considered to be of the same race, this "Immortal Lighthouse" will be our final destination]
(End of chapter)