Today, 60 years later, the Republic has built a semi-open-pit base along the 30-kilometer-diameter crater that extends about 5 kilometers outward, and has built exploration and prospecting sub-bases and large and small sites throughout the planet's surface.

At this time, Shaty was leading Alena, who had come from her distant home planet, to visit the 'main base'......

Among them, since Shadi herself is a real entity here, according to the 'Purgatory Star Activity Rules', in terms of breathing methods, skin water retention, etc., it has been protected by many more body inscriptions than elves in strict accordance with the standards of elves;

Alena, on the other hand, is a little different, as she exists here based on an ultra-long-range projection of the Shroud Network, so she only needs to abide by the restriction of 'not exceeding the range of the Shroud', and the rest of her forms are the same as when she was in her home planet......

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Their first stop is the outermost 4.5 to 5 kilometers of the main base area, where there is a circle of thunderstorm power stations about 2 kilometers apart from each other, which is also the most suitable energy source for the special natural environment of Purgatory.

For example, the inscription fusion reactor is not suitable due to the lack of success in miniaturization, the inscription fission reactor has the problem of excessive energy consumption when operating in extreme environments, and other power generation technologies such as fire, wind and solar are also out of date.

"Therefore, this thunderstorm power station has replaced the Beastmaster's cage that has been sent back to the home planet and placed on the moon, and has become the main source of energy in the base."

Just as Shaty was patiently introducing and Alena was nodding her head and listening carefully, a thunderbolt carrying majestic energy continued to bombard down in the sky above, and was restrained by the translucent sphere in the center of the power station, turning into a dense purple light inside.

These violet lights are energy bodies that are somewhere between the virtual and the real, and only 13% of them will be used to drive the power station's own maintenance inscriptions, so that they can always be in a state of working and self-healing;

The remaining 87% of the energy will be sent to many receiving points in the inner perimeter of the base through unintermediated remote delivery, and become the driving source of the functional modules within it.

After a general tour of one of the power stations, they began to walk back, and when they reached the 4-kilometer line of the base's perimeter, they saw the real distinction between the 'inner perimeter', a transparent wall that seemed to be illusory.

Shadi said that this is a multi-layered hemispherical structure based on the Illusion Infiltration and Energy Shield technology, which completely covers the entire crater area above the surface and arcs down to a depth of 500 meters, directly bordering the core area of the base.

As a result, the sky above the entire inner area of the base seems to be covered by several layers of transparent film, maintaining a visual hazy state.

And they breathe in the gases from the outside world and in the lower volcano, and under the chemical and physical action that occurs between the layers, based on the influence of magic, they produce different fogs in the film intervals.

Later, the mist will be absorbed by the equipment at the bottom of the surrounding area, and will circulate to the special chamber in the base for compression and cooling, and then be sent to the adjusted environment to complete the storage;

And among these reserves, there is an extremely important resource - water;

Naturally, it is also the lifeline of the surface residents, and if the daily production capacity of the base is based on the premise of 'saving', it can supply the drinking needs of about 300 or so elves, and with the collection from the space station and several other supplements, this number can be multiplied by a few more ......

After that, they traveled about 200 meters through the underground passageway, and finally left the 'wall' of the multi-layered membranous structure and reached the actual inner area of the base.

Obviously, the elves didn't put much effort into the 'environmental transformation', because both the periphery before and the inner perimeter at the moment were the same.

In addition, except for the 'corrosive components' in the air, which are specially filtered for other purposes, the rest of the components and the overall air pressure remain at the same level as in the past.

Therefore, when considering the temperature, gas composition, and air pressure together, it can be concluded that this is still a forbidden place for most life.

However, what you see doesn't seem to be the case?

"But aren't there trees here, and there are so many?"

The large forest field of tall purple 'trees' in front of her came into Alena's sight at this moment, which made her wonder accordingly, so she asked Shatie.

"They just look like trees......"

According to Shadi's introduction, these 'trees' are not plants in the usual sense, but a kind of imitation structure composed of 'a small amount of flesh + a large amount of metal + inscriptions', and they are by no means independent monomers, their essence is the surface extension of the overall structure of the base, sharing the root system that penetrates deep into the magma layer.

The tree-shaped appearance they exhibit on the surface of the earth actually corresponds to the refining terminals of a class of elementals, and the inscription 'fruit' with or without metallic luster on them is the most important output of the Republic's plan on Infernal Star.

From time to time, Alena could see some ripe 'fruits' that seemed to fall downwards and be swallowed up by some open tunnels......

"The pipelines will send them to the corresponding transit compartments, where they will be delivered by electromagnetic cannons or transported by relay spacecraft, and sent to the orbiting space station in batches;"

"And then?"

"The space station is not actually the end, and those independent storage silos that also orbit Purgatory are their temporary destination, until the window between the home planet and Purgatory is approached again."

"After that, it's time for the 'truck drivers' to play, right?" Alena confirmed curiously.

"Yes, the transport team I'm interning with right now is waiting for the window to come, truck..... Okay, or to be more precise, they're all connected to the orbital base right now, and we'll leave with the supplies when the window comes. ”

"Sister Shaty, is your fleet only going back and forth between the moon and the stars of Purgatory?"

"It's not ....."

"Tell me about it~ Where have you all been? What kind of places are they? ”

"Ah, don't you want to keep watching, how can you visit this place and talk about other things at the same time?"

Hearing this, Alena felt a little entangled, because she wanted to read the Purgatory Star Base and listen to the story of the 'Star Voyage' told by Shatie.....

"What a greedy cutie...."

Scratching Alena's nose, Shaty said with some amusement,

"If you still have time, let's take you to read it roughly, and then let's go back to the dormitory to tell other stories?"

"Hmm..... Let me see how much I have left in my balance...."

As she spoke, Alena, who was not very familiar with the 'double-line operation', closed her eyes slightly, and looked at her wealth in her mind;

After only half a breath, she opened her eyes, made a gesture of 'wood has a problem', and said happily,

"Haha, I'm really rich! Let's keep visiting! ”

"Don't be too careless, this is an ultra-long-distance Karakush call across planets."

Although she said this, it was clear from her expression that Shaty was not too worried about this matter;

After all, as long as it is a normal graduate elf, there will be no problem of 'poverty', let alone Alena, who is also an honor student?

As a result, the tour continued......

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After that, they continued their way through the large forest of semblances, and finally reached the core of the base......

With a 30-kilometer crater as the hollow inner diameter, the outer part is a circular building that spans a one-kilometer area, and its purple-gold shell presents a texture that looks very similar to the skin of an elf, and it is also shining with dense inscriptions.

In the inner perimeter of the building, they saw hundreds of arc-shaped ascending orbits with peculiar curves, which stretched nearly ten kilometers towards the center of the crater, and occasionally threw what seemed to be a spaceship or a barrel warehouse into the sky at a considerable speed between the flashes of lightning;

The two of them tilted their heads and watched as the objects projected by the orbit gradually and rapidly disappeared from sight as they broke through the thick clouds.

In fact, when they came here, there were a lot of real and imaginary elves in the surrounding area......

Among them, the virtual body seems to be to save some kind of resource, or maybe for the convenience of movement, so it deliberately maintains a normal body shape;

Although their 3.5 meters or so 'normal' is still very tall for the two little ones at the moment, it is only when they occasionally meet those who are resident that they really feel what the height difference is and what the size difference is.

"Young ~ little Shadi, is this a visit with friends?"

The nearly 8-meter-tall guy passed by with a smile and a greeting greeting......

"Why hasn't little Shaty grown taller yet?"

After more than ten lights passed, another behemoth with a height of about 7.5 meters also greeted him with a smile.....

"Let's go the other way....."

In Alena's confusion and confusion, Shaty said with a slightly reluctant and slightly stiff smile.

"What's wrong with you?"

Alena asked in surprise at first, and then quickly asked with some anger,

"Are the big guys bullying you behind your back?"

"No, no~"

Shadi waved her hand in denial, and immediately gave a corresponding explanation,

"You've only been to your home planet for a long time, so you're inexperienced, and some elves will have a sense of oppression that they unconsciously exude, and when they meet us without psychological preparation, they will feel 'a little uncomfortable' for us."

In just two sentences, Shaty had actually overcome the impact of the previous chance encounter, and continued to add,

"The elves who can apply for resident aliens are generally quite old, and some of them are the first batch of trolls......"

"Oh oh I see, but unfortunately I can't feel this state..... I'll look for it when I get back. ”

As they spoke, they continued to move forward, stepping into the layers of overlapping building shells, and saw the electric drive chambers in charge of various full-time tasks......

In terms of environmental transformation, there are regional gravity and air pressure adjustment rooms and special storage environment maintenance rooms;

In terms of energy, the control and maintenance of thunderstorm farms and transmission grids also seem to be carried out in separate terminal assembly rooms;

The production of materials for local needs is also responsible for the manufacturing and inscription etching terminals of various engineering vehicles, aircraft, and even buildings.

In addition, there are tasks such as the maintenance of water-making barriers and the synthesis of organic matter to maintain the lifeline, the 'super-temporal intervention' in the field of virtual realm and communication, the control project of the 'forest' to which the elemental separation and elemental state maintenance belong, and the maintenance of the internal commuter track layer.

It is also under the joint action of this series of facilities that the main base of the Purgatory Star, including the periphery, inner periphery, and core three areas, as well as those exploration and prospecting sub-bases scattered across the planet, can be maintained;

The existence of these general bases and sub-bases enables the more than 400 entity elves and tens of thousands of virtual realm consciousness projections resident on the surface of the earth to carry out various research, maintenance, or exploration work in various aspects here, thus providing the Republic and the elven race with abundant exogenous resources, as well as experimental bases outside the home planet.

At this point, the two and a half elves finally took a brief tour of the entire main base and returned to Shaty's temporary residence, ready to tell the story of 'interstellar transportation'.....

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Nearly two years ago, an elf named Shaty was born on the moon and arrived on the home planet in a relay spacecraft....

Shadi quickly adapted to the differences between the real and the imaginary, and without much hesitation, settled in a large city in the Black Forest, where the climate was relatively comfortable.

After that, she began to consider her options for the 'future' and made the initial decision to walk around and see more......

So, after a lot of consultation and careful thinking on his own, Shadi fell in love with a profession that could see more scenery - 'interstellar transport', and after going through the process of application and limbo training, he entered the '23rd interstellar transport fleet', and finally became a glorious trainee driver.

The fleet consists of 43 super-tonnage inscription fission reactor carriers, mainly engaged in interstellar transportation between the fourth orbit - the home planet moon - purgatory......

By the time of her first voyage, Shaty had already had more than 5 voyages in the acceleration of the Shimmer, but the fleet still arranged for her to follow a master to learn and control first.

Of course, in fact, there are only two elves in this boat, one big and one small.....

Subsequently, the fleet set off from the moon with a large number of daily necessities, and its first stop was accidentally set at the Death Star base because the window was just right, and arrived successfully after a voyage of more than 20 days.

Here, she not only saw the orbital space station base with more than 20 elves stationed, but also briefly traveled to the surface in perfect low-temperature protection measures, and truly saw the 'death star' with characteristics such as nearly zero magnetic field, cooling core, extremely thin atmosphere, and extreme temperature difference between day and night;

In addition, she was also very impressed by the base on the surface.....

According to the master, in the early days, the space station had launched a surface spaceship with layers of protection, and there were five physical elves sleeping in the 'thermostatic sleeping module';

Based on the 'barrier-free instantaneous communication ability between the body and the clone of the high-level spellcaster', the Limble Realm, which has been transformed and enlarged, uses the thoughts of these five elves in their sleep as a guide and springboard, and truly intervenes on the surface of this place through the long distance between the mother star and the death star.

After that, a high-level caster's consciousness projection appeared in the spaceship, and using the remaining casting resources in the thoughts of the five elves in the dream, in addition to maintaining the projection, it took a long time to slowly complete the initial stage of construction on the surface of the Death Star, so that this place has a forward base with energy and low temperature resistance as the first goal.

As a result, ten, dozens, and hundreds of entity elves have successfully settled in since then, and together they have supported a larger 'Void Realm Chrono Channel', allowing the mind resources of the home planet to be more involved, so that hundreds of consciousness projections can exist at the same time, and there is still the power to influence reality.

After that, the 'Void Realm Chrono Channel' technology has been upgraded several times in continuous research, gradually reducing the total amount of requirements for the intermediary of the mind of the entity elves, and finally reaching the point where the existence of the channel can be constant with a certain scale of 'flesh + metal + inscription'.

Therefore, even if there is not even a single physical elf in the Death Star base, it has been able to maintain the existence of thousands of consciousness projections, and these projections, which do not need to eat or drink, and do not need to consider extreme cold conditions, have become the most cost-effective operators here.

As a result, the Death Star has become a smelting center dedicated to the 'contract processing' of minerals from the asteroid belt, and is capable of delivering large quantities of rare resources, including fission reactor heavy elements, to the parent planet every year.

There are two other reasons why there are more than twenty entity elves stationed in the orbital space station.....

First, since the projection body does not have an 'inner perspective', high-level casters who want to study the disturbance of the Death Star must come and merge in person;

Second, the 'Shroud Chrono Channel' is an extremely complex and sophisticated technology, which is not as reliable as the 'Silly Big Thick' structure in terms of stability, so it is not common for the link to be abruptly interrupted due to accidents.

As a result, all projections are disconnected and the Death Star base falls into 'dead silence', so the spellcasters in the space station will go to the surface base to make emergency repairs to the 'Chrono Passage' when the same accident happens again.

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All in all, due to the particularity of the Death Star base and the 'retrograde' nature of their fleet at this time, they finally only put a small amount of supplies here to replenish it, and then rushed to the next stop, which is the journey across the asteroid belt......

"If you're lucky, you'll have a chance to see the mining spacecraft, there are specialized prospectors, and there are those responsible for using gravitational fields to bind them to the Death Star~"

As he was leaving, the master said to Shatie;

Although this made her have some expectations, but in the subsequent crossing of the asteroid belt, she unfortunately failed to do so.

And the asteroid belt itself is also different from what she had imagined before, under the extremely sparse density of matter, fantasy such as 'shuttling between small stars with superb technology', there is no room for development at all, and the spacecraft is just flying in the backlight very ordinary.....

So, in a slightly disappointed mood, Shaty spent the rest of the next period of time, and it was not until more than 20 days later that the master informed him that the fleet had left the asteroid belt and was now flying towards the position where the fourth orbital giant planet was about to appear.

At this time, the sun behind him was already small, and the space in all directions had become darker, but the lights that had taken an unknown number of years and the journey they had traveled to arrive were carrying messages from distant stars and were becoming brighter in Shaty's eyes.

After that, more than ten days passed, and the extremely huge and extremely fluffy supergiant planet finally appeared on the fixed course in front of the fleet, pulling the faint star ring and affecting more than ten natural satellites.......

"This is the last leg of the road, Shaty, you come and sit next to you, and watch carefully as I operate."

The gravity in the main control cabin is set according to the standard of the home planet, so Shaty easily came to him at the beckoning of the master, and sat in the co-pilot's position, connecting the nerve plexus at the back of his head into the control terminal.

Then, her mind was somehow integrated with the ship, and the various programs and inscriptions within it seemed as if they had become her own hands and feet..... But because the control of the spaceship is always on the master, she can't really experience the smoothness of her arms and fingers, but will have the illusion of being half-paralyzed.

But overall, it's a very fascinating experience......

After all, she was able to 'see' the fission reactor in action, the gravitational field in action, and many, many different structures in action, as if she were 'looking inside' her own body.

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"Don't be in a daze, focus your mind on the process of entering orbit, pay attention to the timing of my operation, and the cooperation with the fleet;"

It seems that he sensed that Shatie was flying around, so the old master took part of his energy to remind her,

"The coupling with the traction force at the finish line is also important, don't be distracted!"

The height of the master has reached about 6 meters, and he is full of muscles and muscles, and he exudes a majesty like a mountain at all times, and under the double background of this physical substance and illusory momentum, Shadi, who is only 1.6 meters tall, is as small as a poor chicken......

At that moment, the little chick nodded weakly and said yes, indicating that he would definitely concentrate on observing.

At the same time, after a seemingly useless but tightly preserved friend or foe identification process was completed, a communication that appeared to be from the 'destination' was connected to the entire fleet, and the ship where Shatie was was naturally able to hear clearly.....

'Attention Fleet, gravitational traction procedures are about to be initiated at the base, please maintain control of your own gravitational field terminals. ’

Then, when all the ships in the team responded one after another, the advice from the captain was also connected and sounded directly in the minds of each crew.

'The last part of the road, everyone be careful not to make low-level mistakes, the end of falling into the fourth orbital star will not be much better than falling into the star! ’

'Understood! ’

'Understood! ’

The master's reply flowed into the stream, and Shaty also responded in a low voice, and watched the process of entering the orbit with some nervousness.....

It is important to note that there is no surface ...... at this base. Of course, the Republic doesn't have the ability to place its base on the surface of the gas giant for the time being;

But instead of settling for the more usual approach, such as setting up a large space station as an orbital base, they chose a very special individual as a base among the dozens of natural satellites orbiting the main planet.

As for what is so special about it, it is nothing more than the environment, and ....... Life!