Chapter 1358 Best Exploration Combination
Asarena was deeply shocked by the endless stars in the vast space. In the following "viewing cabin section", her eyes almost never left the vast starry sky outside the high-intensity transparent polymer pipeline, even if this scene that came towards her made her feel a nearly trembling oppression when she faced the stars for the first time. Even if she felt that she was almost "falling" out of this small orbital cabin and "falling into" the boundless darkness, she could not pull her sight back.
The stars seemed to have a magical power, attracting every intelligent creature who witnessed it to put their eyes on it.
After a while, something else suddenly entered Asharena's sight. It was a metal object floating in the distance, like a shiny gem, shining under the starlight.
She saw a Decelerator satellite that happened to be in orbit nearby. It floated in the dark cosmic background, and its metal shell was still shining with brilliance, but some edge areas could see the mottled scars left after being attacked by tiny meteorites. The Dragon Seal Witch, who entered space for the first time and had never experienced the Decelerator era, did not recognize what it was, but she still thought of the "Decelerator" at the first time, so her eyes suddenly opened wide.
"Ms. Kassandra!" She immediately turned her head and looked at her temporary "travel companion". "Look at the one outside, that thing looks like... Ms. Kassandra? What's wrong with you?"
Asarena looked at the Siren beside her in shock. For the first time, she saw such a complex expression on the face of this heartless Lotte race. Kassandra grabbed the nearby handrail and stared at the shining satellite in space and a more majestic space facility in the distance. However, the focus of her eyes seemed to have fallen farther, and fell into the depths of a star that Asarena could not understand. The Siren's tail slowly swayed and then relaxed little by little. She finally spoke and made a low whispering voice: "Ah... they were still in the sky..."
"Are you okay?" Asarena was a little scared, "You look a little...have you seen these things?"
Kassandra seemed to finally remember that she had a "travel companion" around her, and then she turned around: "Sorry, I remembered some things from the past... I was a little out of control."
"Things from the past?"
Kassandra pulled the corner of her mouth and showed a complicated smile: "You know, we Siren are not actually a race born on this planet. Many, many years ago, we forced a landing here due to an accident."
"I've heard of this..." Ashalina thought for a while and nodded slightly, "The "Encyclopedia of World Race" officially released by Cecil, and in Tarlond, I have also heard local dragon tribes mention this matter."
"I saw these things when I fell from space," Kassandra said softly, looking up at the starry sky outside the polymer pipeline. "That was the last time I looked out at the sea of stars outside the atmosphere... I didn't expect that the second time I saw such a view would be in this situation."
Asarena opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say for a moment. Then, she realized a surprising fact and looked down at her feet: "Wait... we came from that tower... So, the tower standing on the sea actually... actually extends into space?! The setter can even make such things!?"
"If I judged correctly, this should be an orbital elevator," Kassandra laughed and explained to the Dragon Seal Witch in front of her. Although the Siren is now trapped on the surface of the planet, they are a race that once traveled to the sea of stars. It is not difficult for them to imagine many of the things left by the setter. "There should be two such orbital elevators, and the other is also on the equator, which is the 'tower' that Gowan Cecil climbed up to."
"Road... Elevator?" Ashalina repeated the phrase that was strange and awkward to her. "I have heard the word 'elevator'. Byron said that Emperor Gaowen likes to use this word to call magic elevators in large buildings. Where will we be taken by this 'elevator'?"
"If my memory is not biased, and there is no error in guessing... it should be something that shocks you more than a track elevator," Cassandra said thoughtfully, and then her eyes suddenly turned to the outside of the polymer pipe, and a slightly excited expression appeared on her face, "Ah, sure enough, you can see Asharena at this angle, look over there!"
Ashalina looked in surprise in the direction pointed by the tip of Cassandra's tail. The next second, a huge shock and a sense of oppression filled her body and mind. She saw an arc-shaped "earth" covering the above, surrounding the planet with amazing majestic momentum. The steel ring belt that could not be seen at all was filled with complex structures and huge cabins that she could not call her name or guess at. In part of the transparent structure of the belt, there were buildings shrouded in darkness and tranquility, and faint lights flashed and flowing between the buildings. She was looking at a mythical giant snake crawling around the sky above the planet. The giant snake was sleeping for a long time, while she herself was rushing towards the snake's belly at an astonishing speed.
Only then did she realize that some hazy and huge spatial structures she had seen in the distance before were just part of this ring belt, and this ring belt... was the "top end" of the tower standing on the sea.
"How is this possible..." In the huge impact, Asarena still maintained her normal thinking ability. "Such a huge thing surrounds our planet, no matter how far it is, it is impossible to see it... But for thousands of years we have looked up at the sky..."
"The optical mask, everything is invisible, perhaps to prevent the normal development of the intelligent race on the surface of the planet," Kassandra shook her head, "just like the 'certification' we experienced when we entered that 'tower', everything left by the 'starter has very strict 'safety measures'... They seem to care quite about the 'normal development of civilization', and I think this may be almost a law engraved in their bones for them."
Asarena blinked, she was about to say something again, but the synthetic voice came into her mind again: "The cabin slows down, is approaching the terminal, guide the process to activate... The core process group is missing, and it is transferred to the default docking process..."
Accompanied by a series of unknown broadcasts, the two "visitors" felt their feet vibrate again. The "elevator car" running rapidly in the transparent polymer pipeline quickly slowed down. The next moment, a rapidly sinking metal structure appeared outside the pipeline, blocking their view towards the stars. They entered the inside of the Sky Station and were undergoing the "docking" process.
Asarena tightly grabbed the handrail, fearing that the old alien equipment would fail, but in the end, everything ended smoothly, the elevator car stopped, and the transparent guard wall around the car also restored the silver-white metal texture. After a few seconds, a slight buzzing sound came from a distance, and an open "door" appeared on the silver-white metal wall as before.
Outside is a strange and open space, with dim lights and dusty space station corridors inviting two explorers to step into it.
"...Okay, fortunately I let the two sisters wait below," Kassandra exhaled, and muttered as she walked out, "No matter how powerful the Magic Network terminal is, it is impossible to contact this place..."
"Can you still contact the two siren who stayed below?" Asarena looked at each other in shock, "You siren are still able to connect mentally from such a distance?"
"It's not a spiritual connection, it's a psychic reverberation, a racial talent," Kassandra corrected seriously. "Our Siren's spirit is 'unified' on a higher level, just like the lower elements in the element plane are all considered to be the 'extended structure' of the element plane itself in a sense. On the same planet, all Siren can sense each other... Of course, distance will still affect our perception effect. Just like here, I can't communicate directly with the sisters who stay on the surface, but at least we can sense each other's existence and confirm their own safety."
"...This is really an enviable talent," Asharena couldn't help but say, "We Dragon Seal Witches also have similar 'resonance' skills, but we can't sense each other from such a distance."
While muttering, she took steps to follow Cassandra's "foot" steps, and while maintaining high vigilance, she truly stepped into this ancient alien facility that had been closed to the outside world for 1.8 million years.
The first thing that caught her eye was an extremely wide hall, which was even so wide that it reminded her of the amazingly large dock of Beigang. An extremely dim light shrouded everything in her sight, allowing her to barely see the large equipment in silence and the access to the black holes at the edge of the hall. There seemed to be many corridors connecting the hall, but they were all shrouded in darkness.
Considering that this is the "terminal station" of rail elevators, this "hall" should have been a busy transportation hub, but now millions of years have passed, and there is only empty and deadness left here.
"...It's completely different from the surface," Asharena couldn't help but say, "It's still brightly lit below..."
"Maybe the facilities located in space are more likely to be damaged and aging in harsh environments. The situation here is obviously not very good," Kassandra analyzed. "Theoretically, places like this should have an automatic welcome mechanism, especially the design has an open process for 'indigenous races', but we all came up and didn't see anything starting...it would be mostly broken."
"Just as long as the track elevator is not broken," Asarena couldn't help looking back at the direction she came. She saw the silver-white metal pillar standing in the center of the hall, and the cabin doors for the crew to enter and exit remained open, as if waiting for visitors to return at any time. "If this thing is broken, we can't really go back..."
"I'm fine, I can die back. At this distance, I can be reborn in the sea on the surface of the planet. It's hard for you to jump from this height to the atmosphere. Not to mention that there is so far vacuum and radiation area in the middle, the high temperature entering the atmosphere is very deadly. The dragon is afraid that it will die halfway," Cassandra heard the words of his companion and analyzed the things that others seemed quite crazy. "But if it really reaches that step, I can try to turn myself into a giant pufferfish. You get into my stomach, let's jump to the surface together. I'll try to die in the magic turbulence layer. You'll die before you can slow down. Of course, there's a big premise, that is, we have to find the airlock leading to the outside first, and that thing can be opened..."
Asa Lena became more and more terrifying as she heard it. Finally, she stared at the serious siren with her eyes: "What do you siren think in this way?"
"Is there anything wrong?" Kassandra looked puzzled, "Does it sound unreasonable?"
"Reasonable," Ashalena looked convinced, "...It turns out that you are more hardcore in terms of death..."
She suddenly felt that compared to these sirens who were unable to die, even the dragon-born naughty children who jumped under Longyue Cliff every day back then were gentle and harmless like children before three years old...
"Most of the things here seem to be out of service," Cassandra didn't care what Asharena was thinking. She had already begun to explore this big and disgusting place on her own and came to a device that seemed to be a terminal. "Our arrival did not cause any reaction..."
"Which direction will you explore next?" Asarena followed and asked this Siren partner who seemed unreliable, but was considered a member of the "advanced civilization". "Do you want to find a corridor to get in?"
"...It's better not to run so far," Cassandra said seriously. "The scale of a circular space station is unimaginable. With the efficiency of the two of us, no matter how large the exploration range is, it is meaningless to the entire space station. Instead, it may be lost in those complicated and functional corridors. I suggest that we first explore the hall. The gravity here is normal and the air is still circulating, which means at least the survival system in this area is still running and safer."
It was a bit weird to hear the word "safety" from a siren who was just seriously analyzing the way to die, but Cassandra had to admit that the other party's words made sense. Although she herself did not know about space facilities and space flight, she also thought about it for a moment and knew how dangerous it would be if some cabins in this huge "space station" were completely out of control. The energy pipeline would leak, toxic gases overflow, air circulation failed, or simply broke a hole. In this place far from the protection of the planet, the powerful dragon was not much different from the weak rabbit.
At the same time, Cassandra had circled twice around the device that looked like a control terminal. After some thought, she retreated a distance away, then poked her tail over, and carefully poked the place that looked like an operation panel with the tip of her tail at an extreme position.
When Asharena saw this scene, she didn't have time to think anything in her mind.
The next second, she saw the lights suddenly on the surface of the terminal that looked like it had been down for many years.
Ms. Kassandra's extremely penetrating voice came into her ears:
Chapter completed!