"I've finished everything I know."

The patriarch leaned back in his chair and seemed to have a dry mouth after talking so many things, and drank it. The sap then looked at us silently, "This is the history of the Dryads, and the secrets of this planet." ”

Sandora gets straight to the point: "What exactly was the thing that the Imperial General handed you back then?" A piece of information? How do you extract it? ”

"It's recorded in the planet's navigation system, and the navigator has the right to turn on the system, but we don't know how to read it, maybe you have a way. But before that, we had to wake up all the Dryads, because the General told us at the time that the core database was a one-time read, and that after the data was extracted, all the systems on the planet would be restarted, everything would be deleted, and the life support system would shut down in the process. ”

I think of the hundreds of millions of hibernation pods in the upper mantle, which is a big project.

"Then let's do it now," Sandora said, and looked out the window, the cabin window was narrow, and from this position you could only see a small part of the village, two mushroom tree houses, and a few Dryads walking past the clearing, "These dreaming Dryads wake up with memories of dreaming time, right?" ”

"Yes, these new memories that are constantly replenished are the key techniques for us to delay the dissipation of the soul, the tree elves must constantly receive new information stimuli to survive, and we have such locks written into our genes" The Great Patriarch nodded, "The scholars of the clan have studied these, and believe that this is caused by the special learning mode of the tree elves. ”

Sandora nodded. No more speech.

I don't know how the Great Patriarch of the Dao connected with the planet's operating system. She suddenly disappeared from our eyes, and a few minutes later, the work of awakening all the dormant crew began, and the research team that remained in the mantle sent a message that the energy flow in all the hives had increased, and that for the first time there was a mental reaction in some of the hibernation pods: it was the dryads that had been withdrawn from the database and were gradually returning to their own bodies. Based on the current pace of the project, I'm afraid it will take a few days to complete, but we don't want to wait any longer, I think this project may be limited by the bandwidth of Greenstar's internal network and its information processing capacity, and the former cannot be changed. But the latter should be able to help the Xiling console: after all, they are all equipment made by the Empire, and the mass production bubbles should be able to connect with the Green Star system, right?

Hearing my suggestion, Sandora agreed, and when the patriarch appeared, we asked her to open up all of Green Star's systems: interference within Green Star was still in effect. We still haven't been able to find out where the core of the operation of the old empire's most reluctant fortress is.

The old lady agreed very happily: "Of course you can, this is originally your thing, the control room is in the middle of the mantle, and there are some flying machines tens of thousands of years ago left on the oasis, which are prepared for special situations, but I'm afraid I can't follow along: I am a limited mass projection, there is no way to leave the oasis, you will meet my body at the end." ”

Everyone got up and set off, but before saying goodbye to the old lady, Lilina suddenly looked outside curiously. In the distance, huge green mountains were slowly undulating at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and the huge vines that were entrenched throughout the oasis were the only real creatures within the star.

"What the hell is that, I observed that it is entrenched in the whole planet, and all the vines are on the same plant" Lilina asked "The life response is strong, but it seems to be very old. ”

"That's not a vine, it's a tree. It's just that we had to change form in order to survive in the center of the earth, and it was our mother tree" The Great Patriarch's face flashed a hint of gloom "There are many mother trees in the homeland of the tree elves, and they are said to be the beginning of the Book of Creation. The plants planted by the gods, all tree spirits are born from the pods of the mother tree. Before leaving his hometown...... Well, when we leave with our hometown, we can only take with us a mother tree, which has grown for tens of thousands of years, which is too old...... We have not been able to collect its seeds until now, and it seems that after leaving the homeland realm, the mother tree has lost its ability to reproduce. ”

I was stunned, I thought that the green calyx said that he was not credible when he plucked it from the tree, but this dream set up the "plot" of the tree, but I didn't expect this to be true, and the tree elf really grew from the tree?

This doesn't make sense! They are just **mortal fetus, not energy life, let alone divine creatures, how can a plant grow a higher animal like a tree elf? Darwin should be able to dig a pit here and bury himself alive!

But Lilina showed a thoughtful look, and after a while, she tugged at the corner of my clothes: "Boss, it's true, this thing has a bit of a divine breath, but it's too weak, I can't really feel it if I don't feel it carefully, the birth of this race is really interesting, their mother tree is actually from the divine realm." ”

"What's the problem?" Seeing us muttering, the great patriarch couldn't help but ask out loud, this can show that these last group of dependents left over from the old empire really failed to contact the empire for too long, according to the iron-blooded horror style of the old empire, the old dependents left behind back then (especially those who have survived from the old empire era to the present) dare not interrupt the emperor's speech, although the imperial code doesn't care about this, but this thing can be deterred, even if you stand there, you can shine brightly, and there are two Cybertrons standing in front of you, do you dare to make a loud noise?

"No, it's nothing, take us to see the flying machines."

I originally wanted to drive 700 billion to operate the core, but I heard that Green Star's security system has long been out of order, and the control area can only recognize the vehicles that have been registered, and the 700 billion will probably be knocked down in the past: the security guard cannon can't recognize new faces, even if it has the recognition algorithm common to the old empire.

What was left on the oasis were a few transport planes that were no longer shiny, although the imperial creations were often still in normal use after tens of thousands of years or even as bright as new, but they were in the fully enclosed ruins, and these on the oasis obviously did not meet the preservation conditions, they were parked directly in a large forest isolated from people, and all the dryads could do was build them a few hangars that were seriously substandard. Because no one will take care of it. The aircraft looked awkward, but thankfully the system was still in order, and after a few moments of tinkering with the power core, the transporter started normally - a set of power redundancy modules failed, but she ate it.

The Green Star isn't really a Star Battleship, but it's not a Battlestar - it's less weaponized than the former, less defended than the latter, and Green Star is more of a makeshift patchwork of the Four, the last creature of the Old Empire looks rough and unplanned, and the Grand Patriarch says that some of its last transformations were carried out by Imperial engineers (in addition. It's been two years since this thing was remodeled! This is even more incredible, it can only be said that when the disaster comes, I am afraid that it will be too late, and the old imperial general who ordered the Green Star that day can only hurriedly stuff what he has at hand into this planet that does not know how to classify it. Urging it to retreat immediately. So it doesn't seem strange to find a command center in the mantle that is extremely irrational and relies on a set of improvised energy furnaces to provide energy.

The Green Star's control center is located in the Northern Hemisphere, at the middle of the mantle layer, and a tunnel thousands of kilometers long extending from the center of the earth is the only way to the control center.

The design and current state of the Control Hub is a lamentable one, located in a hexagonal cylindrical cavity wrapped in interstellar alloy armor plates, a gray-black obelisk free-standing building, suspended in the center of the cavity using anti-gravity equipment, about a kilometer long, and surrounded by several half-kilometer-long beams connected to the data terminals on the cavity. This is a very common type of common interface. Sandora could see at a glance that this thing was directly rebuilt from a planetary ground command center, and the last batch of engineers at that time probably didn't have time to build a new starship core, so they could only stuff the command center on the colony star that I don't know which one of them, and the general interface bandwidth of the ground command center was limited, so most of the operation modules of the green star relied on the automatic operation of local equipment. The control center was also apparently lacking the necessary maintenance, and after tens of thousands of years of continuous operation, some of its interface beams had been intermittent, and the Dryants had not learned how to overhaul their bridge. The door to the control hub has been opened, and we have found a small berth next to its base, and the automatic response facility of the mooring port has failed. Sandora had to go for a more aggressive landing – I mean, she insisted it was a safe landing before she crashed into it.

"I'm willing to bet the Dryads never used these transports, and they didn't know that the Tunnel Transporters were supposed to land on the third tarmac." Sandora muttered as she clawed open the hatch of the transport plane, which was unable to be opened due to a malfunction.

I helped my sister and Lin Xue down. Qianqian jumped to the ground by himself before this, and the gravity of the people here is still normal. It feels really good to be down-to-earth, and I couldn't help but jump on the spot: "No way, they began to follow the transformation of the planet after the war, and when the transformation project was halfway through, they were blasted out of the original world by the emperor, how much time can I learn in the middle - and the old empire did not have a military command department at that time, and eighty percent of the emperors were too lazy to teach their vassal races how to master the ghost energy." ”

Sandora quickly found the entrance to the control center, located in a corner of the obelisk, not far from the entrance was a working teleporter, all the teleporters in the entire center had been locked to the only route, and there was no choice, through here, we reached the control hall of the Green Star, or the observation hall of the navigators.

The spacious rotunda was brightly lit, and at last I saw the familiar Imperial equipment, which seemed to be in good condition, and although the Dryads didn't know how to repair them, they at least knew how to clean the consoles. A dozen navigators in light green uniforms were already lined up in front of the teleporter: a bunch of old men and old women.

Even with the longevity of the dryads, most of these navigators were not young at the time of departure, and they could not stay in the hibernation pod all the time during the journey, working in the normal flow of time for long periods of time, leaving these navigators dying of old age.

I recognized one of them at a glance, a kind-faced old lady who had just met on the Oasis: the Great Patriarch. Instead of the coarse cloth robes of the old fashion, she was now dressed in a sleek aerospace uniform, with a badge of green leaves and vines crossed on her chest, and she bowed to us, but did not salute the Empire: they had not had time to get used to the days of being Imperial dependents. Tens of thousands of years have passed. I'm afraid I've long forgotten what the emperor's ** ceremony is like.

"There are more than 100 navigators in total, and most of them are dormant, and there are only fifteen navigators who stay awake in each shift." The Great Patriarch gave a brief account of the current state of the Navigator team, and as she spoke, an old man with white hair suddenly came up trembling, looked at us with a curious expression on his face, and then said in a loud voice, "Oh, I finally see you again." We've been waiting for a long time...... I couldn't see the outside, so I waited in this room...... Ahem...... Is the mission over? When will the ship stop, I haven't seen the sun in a long time......"

A voice suddenly interrupted his somewhat rambling words by another navigator: "Elder." If you need a break, we'll leave it to you. ”

The old man nodded, turned back to his place, and the Grand Patriarch explained to us, "This is the oldest elder of the Dryads, he was our leader, he was the first captain of the planet, but now the captain and leader have been replaced by younger navigators, and the elder is still in the team of navigators, but he is no longer in charge of specific affairs. ”

The old man who had just sat down suddenly remembered something. He shouted from afar, "Remember, wait until everyone wakes up before opening the database!" What the general told me, make no mistake! The general is coming back to get his stuff! Who are these strangers?! ”

The old man seemed to be a little confused, and soon he forgot our identity, and even asked the people around him why he was here, and the other navigators had no choice but to take the first captain away from here first, and the patriarch said in a low voice: "The elder is occasionally not very conscious, three thousand years ago, he personally took people to observe the working and control principle of the No. 4 furnace, and after coming back, he got a very serious radiation sickness. After that, he was relieved of all his positions, but we had to let him come to the control room, and he would be here as soon as the time came, and no one could stop him. However, when he is not sober, he can still take it out, after all, it is not in line with the norm to let him stay here. ”

Lilina touched my arm: "Boss." I'll look into a treatment plan, but it may not be very effective. He was too old, and it was a little too late to grant eternal life. ”

From the terminal in the hall, you can inquire about the current operation of Green Star, as well as the activation progress of those life support systems in the mantle, the operation of the planet is not optimistic, many equipment are damaged, it is already a miracle that these urgently cobbled together things have been operating normally for tens of thousands of years, if it is not discovered in time, I am afraid that in a few hundred years at most, its energy channeling will be disordered, and then it will endanger the life support system. We also found the database used to record key information, it is embedded in the entire operating system of the Green Star, and the planet lives and dies, and when this database is turned on, the Green Star will go into standby, the engine will be stopped (of course, the engine has long been scrapped), the life support system will be shut down, and all weapons and defense systems will be offline, fortunately the "Oasis" system in the center of the earth is powered independently, otherwise the latter will be burned to ashes by the mantle.

The three mass-produced mainframes that came to support from Shadow City arrived at work in a few minutes, and they found the host room of Green Star, most of the computing cores made by the old empire had interfaces to work in parallel with other similar equipment, which saved us a lot of trouble, after the three hosts were mounted in the Green Star computer room, the activation speed of the hibernation pod was significantly increased countless times - yes, the amazing speed, it might have taken two or three days to activate all of them, and after the hosts came on the field, a third of them were activated in just half an hour!

It seems that the bandwidth is not as limited to this work as previously thought.

Of course, this is only talking about activation, that is, re-infusing the soul of the tree elf from the database into the hibernation pod, and at the same time detaching the dormant pod from the overall life support system of the green star, so that they can rely on their own energy reserves for follow-up operations (awakening**, restarting the soul), this follow-up operation may take a few days, after all, the population here is in the hundreds of millions.

And after the souls of those elves have entered the hibernation pod, the Green Star core database can be opened, which is very fast, and it is expected to take another hour.

The virtual world formed by the mass projection on the Oasis Star automatically entered the shutdown program when the number of dormant pods activated reached 50%, and we watched all this from the surveillance, the forests and grasslands gradually lost their color, and the large and small villages shook and turned into a two-dimensional background picture. The "villagers" had disappeared before this (perhaps for this virtual world, it should be called "offline"?). They are sent back to the database and then re-injected into **.

At its worst, the already grossly unrealistic forest vegetation began to disappear completely, and soon the lush oasis shed its camouflage.

It has become a lonely planet with a radius of 1,500 kilometers and a surface covered with brown rocks and soil, and the only thing left on the planet is the "mother tree" of the tree elves, which covers 70% of the planet's surface, and the whole is gray-green vines.

I can't see what it looks like as a "tree" at all.

"I didn't expect it to be so old......"

The Great Patriarch stayed by our side, not saying a word throughout the process, and only then did the silence be broken, "Without the Mother Tree, the Dryad cannot reproduce, and during the voyage, we can still rely on the hibernation pod to preserve the race, but ......"

"It's okay, I have a way."

I smiled gently, giving him a reassuring look, and then pulled out of the pocket of my jacket the jingle bell that was sleeping with a button, "She'll give you a new mother tree." ”

The Great Patriarch's eyes showed a look of surprise: "Is it to plant her?" ”

Me: "......"

You don't have to understand it that way!

The hibernation pods that have just been activated cannot be opened immediately, the creatures inside have been sleeping for too long, and the dormant pods need time for the sleepers inside to reconnect with the souls, but now the hibernation pods are working with their own backup energy, and they have been separated from the overall system of the Green Star, and no longer affect our operation of the database, so these dormant pods have been transferred to the engineering team for processing. By this time, Sandora had already ordered the database to be opened, and as the main systems of the Green Star were shut down one by one, this one-time database also confided in us the secrets it had kept for tens of thousands of years.

It turned out to be a letter - from a sender we never thought possible.

Emperor of the Empire, Haran.