Chapter 360： Lookout

"Sit down." Tang Fang greeted her, sending an ignition command to the psychic flame.

Accompanied by a burst of light and fire, the Silver Moon shuttle slowly ascended to the sky. After a short while, after driving out of the gravitational range of the planet, it shot straight at Solna like an arrow from the string.

About 6 hours later, Tang Fang was awakened by the sound of the navigation system from a light sleep state. He looked up and found that the Silver Moon shuttle had flown over the gravel belt outside "Solna" and was slowly entering the planet's high-altitude orbit.

"Snoring...snoring..." There was a slight snoring sound nearby.

Tang Fang turned his head to look, but found that Freya did not know when she fell asleep, holding the can in her arms and eating three-quarters of the canned beef, and the corners of the begonia-colored mouth still had some minced beef on it. A greedy little loli.

"This girl..." He shook his head helplessly. No matter how she looked at it, she was an 18-year-old girl, but her mind remained at the level of 13 or 4. It is true that she will make a little progress and mature a little bit, but she has fallen for eight lifetimes and has been moldy. Loli is a young girl, but she is still attached to him, and she loves to hang her neck like a koala. Go, you say pushing, it's a beast, if you don't push, you can only endure it. Is there anyone who is more sad than yourself?

"Oh!" Tang Fang sighed, "Freya, Freya...wake up, wake up, it's here."

"Hey, hey." The girl squirmed her lips, often exhaling,? 　 Straighten her hands and feet and stretch a lazy waist, glanced at the front window with sleepy eyes, and said: "Here..." Put the large canned food into the storage box on the right side of the seat, rubbed his eyes and looked at Tang Fang: "How long has it been?"

"It's almost 6 hours." Tang Fang replied casually, manipulating the shuttle to change orbit and circling "Solna" for low-orbit cruise.

"Solna" is not already on the verge of collapse like Chaos Star, nor is it like "Tikal", being pulled into an ellipse by the tidal force of "Eye of the Storm". Its condition remains the same, what it used to be, what it is now.

The reason for this situation has a lot to do with its composition. "Solna" is a planet composed of graphite and diamonds, which is what people call the diamond planet. Small size and high density. It is heavy and is the hardest planet in Omega-2 except for the dead central star.

Viewed from low altitude orbit, "Solna" is light blue in color, and the surface emits very faint reflected light. Similar to "Tikal", there are large and small craters on the ground. Because of the relatively high gravity of the earth, the debris of other planets that have been broken by "Omega-2" piled up on the "Solna" to form Pieces of rubble area.

There are also some warship wreckage. All kinds and sizes, Tang Fang once noticed a warship wreck lying in a shadow area in the gravel area of ​​the southern hemisphere through the sensor system of the shuttle, and the bow of a single ship is almost 500 meters away. It is conceivable that if it is a whole What a huge size a battleship would be.

Until now, no matter how brilliant and dazzling they were. All have become withered giant trees, withered yellow flowers. The original star-shining hull was like rusty iron. Inserted crookedly in the pile of gravel, half-covered, living in a desolate way.

"It's too miserable..." Freya murmured.

After making a round of "Solna", she had never seen even a complete battleship, most of which had been fragmented and disintegrated into large and small wrecks. It's like an ancient battlefield enclosed in a sandbank.

Unlike the girl, Tang Fang focused more on the ruins of the building, hoping to discover something valuable. However, to his disappointment, he went around for a long time. Not even a single trace of fullness has been found.

It's no wonder that a planet like "Tikal" has only one hall left. "Solna" is smaller in size, and, as a diamond planet, it is not suitable for living. There are originally few buildings and facilities. It is strange that there are ruins that can be preserved after encountering a meteorite storm far exceeding the intensity of the former.

During the flight, Tang Fang tried to launch probes to several areas of "Solna". According to the information fed back by the system, except for the small amplitude of cosmic radiation, the energy response of the planet itself was very low.

Yes, there are no ruins, no warships, no warships, and even zero resources. At any rate, "Tikal"'s dimensional roaming terminal still has dozens of tons of elementary resources. "Solna" is good, there is no fart, only a pile of tatters. Oh, no, there are tons of diamonds, but this thing is not useful. Put it before crossing, get back home and worry-free, leave it now, it is a pile of waste.

"Commander, the Star Orbit Command Center caught a trace of anomaly in the magnetic field response of'Solna'." Just as Tang Fang was full of frustration, Emma suddenly heard news that surprised him.

"Magnetic field response? Abnormal? Where is the target?"

"'Solna' North Pole, I have uploaded the coordinates to the shuttle navigation system."

"Okay, I see." He agreed, sinking his consciousness into the psychic core of the shuttle, and he found the abnormal point Emma said. Then, set the course, the shuttle speeded up, turned into a silver light, and shot towards the north pole of "Solna".

Although the gravity of "Solna" was much higher than that of "Tikal", it was nothing to Tang Fang who was wearing a bad combat uniform. As for Freya, the girl's body has been genetically modified by Epsilon, and this gravity can walk as fast as she can even if she is naked.

Well, she is indeed flying right now. The Hot Wheels addiction hasn't been enough. Like a wild monkey, she jumped up and down behind Tang Fang's buttocks, up and down, sometimes swooping to hug Tang Fang's back, and sometimes stretch The limbs, swimming like fish in the water.

Seeing her like this, Tang Fang could only shake his head and smile bitterly, as he walked forward, he paid attention to Emma's reminder.

"Commander, the target location is not far away, about 500 meters away."

When Emma said this, Tang Fang was stepping up a small hill. It is said that the hillside is actually very short, but a ring of craters formed by the impact of a meteorite on the ground.

I have to say that the land of "Solna" is very hard. Most of the meteorites that fell after the "Lost Battle" were torn apart by the impact, turning into countless rubble and spreading a thick layer on the hillside outside the crater.

Using both hands and feet, Tang Fang managed to climb the ridge easily, using the lighting of the protective clothing in the harsh environment. Look up and look forward. A space facility resembling a ring-shaped flying saucer lies in the crater with a diameter of several kilometers. From the appearance point of view, the facility is small, with a body length of only a few hundred meters from the left to the right. It is definitely a small thing among the many Yipsyron creations.

"Emma, ​​is that it?"

"Yes, commander. The facility emits weak radio waves of a fixed frequency at certain intervals. Because the Epsilon Technology Tree in the Star Orbit Command Center database is not complete. It is impossible to decrypt the information contained in the radio waves of this frequency."

"Well, I see. If it's still'alive', what's the effect will be known in the past." Tang Fang murmured, rushing behind Freya and beckoning, saying: "Catch up", step out, smoothly The **** slides all the way down.

As far as the bottom of the crater, the lights were on, and the structure of the facility was finally clear. The space facility above is flat and shaped like an inverted disk, and below is a circle of cabins arranged in a ring at the bottom of the disk cover, with a petal-shaped array of thrusters in the center, which is supposed to be used for orbit change and space flight.

Said this product is really porcelain, falling from the top and feet of Tianwai, not falling apart. Only the thruster array was damaged, and the overall structure of the top disk and the cabin was still intact.

Perhaps because of the smaller size. Or it may fall late, or it may be equipped with a shield. Anyway, when it is so high, it just didn't fall to death, at most it was half disabled.

"Freya, take a trip back to the shuttle. Bring'Cupid'." Tang Fang frowned when he glanced at the slippery and steep slope. A guy like him who doesn't even bother to fold the quilt when he gets up in the morning, if someone instructs him, he won't be so stupid to do it himself. Anyway, Freya is talented and can fly. I told her about the gentlemanly demeanor only after I was so funny.

"I'm going alone..." Freya looked at the dark and silent void behind her, embarrassed.

Regardless of whether she was afraid or not, Tang Fang threw her a pda with lighting function, and lowered his head into a damaged cabin.

Freya pouted and pressed the pda's lighting function, the LCD screen shot out a fan-shaped light, and then dropped a sentence: "You...you wait for me... don't go too far." Fly to the shuttle at the fastest speed.

On the other side, after entering the cabin, I took a look at the room environment and found that there was no danger, then I found a place to sit down and quietly waited for Freya to return.

This space facility is considered small in many Epsilon creations, but it is still several hundred meters in diameter. It is conceivable how big the cabin under the cover is. Don't look at Freya's extremely powerful combat effectiveness, but her mental age is only a teenager. Tang Fang doesn't want to take risks. It's not fun to make her cry.

About 5 minutes later, as a brilliance approached, Freya and a "Cupid" flew down from the top of the crater. Speaking of it, thanks to the presence of Emma, ​​the "Cupid" as the maintenance UAV of the "Ashtolando" system is actually very single in terms of function. It is a special model, and the central command cluster is relatively simplified.

Considering that he would not stay on the Morningstar all the time, in case of any accident, there was a situation where there was no "Cupid" but Grant and others could not control it, Tang Fang specially asked Emma to compile an extended system to Recognize human language.

Indeed, Epsilon’s technological level is not only high and there are many human civilizations, but also the human race in StarCraft. However, with Tang Fang and Emma as the staff, it is still possible to expand some application software under the original kernel. .

"Here." Before Freya called him, Tang Fang poked his head out of the dilapidated cabin to greet him. The girl is like a little daughter-in-law who has returned home for three days. When she sees her father and mother, she swoops into his arms and hangs her neck like a koala. She is dressed roughly and pats her heart: " It scared me to death, scared me to death..."

Tang Fang smiled unconsciously, this girl is also a good at making strange things.

At his age, it is natural that he can't imagine the fear of the night in a teenage girl.

"Cupid" followed into the cabin, and the crystal screen on his face shot out a blue light, illuminating the road ahead. Tang Fang hugged Freya and followed, walking and looking around.

About a few minutes later, under the guidance of "Cupid", the two came to the central control room of the facility.

Similar to the situation in the "Tikal" hall, all the equipment fell into a dormant state, and the psychic flame was extinguished, but the crystal ring that was used to power the psychic flame was still shining dimly.

Tang Fang frowned, just about to step forward to charge the crystal. At this moment, "Cupid" suddenly flashed out from behind and slowly flew to the side of the crystal ring hanging from the top of the room. The epsilon rune on the chest lit up, and then slowly turned, like a screw that turned, and a cylindrical crystal popped out.

I saw "Cupid" pinched out a small dark blue energy ball from the cylindrical crystal and sent it to the ring crystal ε rune, and the crystal contracted a channel by itself. Let "Cupid" push the energy ball into the core.

"Highly concentrated zero element isotopes." Tang Fang narrowed his eyes, his face was surprised. Having obtained the full set of technology trees of the Nami Star Isotope Refining Factory, he was naturally able to distinguish the subtle differences between normal zeros and their isotopes.

"Om." As he frowned and thought, he heard only a "hum" sound, the ring-shaped crystal radiated a circle of silver light, and the silver light in the central ring area surged, slowly turning into wisps of flames, mingled into clusters.

Other electronic devices in the cabin were also awakened from sleep, and the console flashed colorful light.

After completing the repair work. "Cupid" stepped aside. Tang Fang stepped forward and took a deep breath to connect with the newly born psychic flame.

"Psionic fluctuations are detected, the diagnostic program is started..."

"The diagnosis is complete, confirm the suitability of Protoss."

"Perform frequency analysis..."

"Fluctuating level c, unlocking the crossing tree, technology level 2, unlocking the building'Watchtower'."

"Huh?" Tang Fang raised his eyebrows: "Observatory? It's an observatory. It is a technology building exclusively for the detector."

In StarCraft 1, only after the observation deck was built. In order to produce the detector in the mechanical table. But in StarCraft 2, as long as there is a mechanical station, he can directly produce detectors. He didn't expect to unlock the observation deck at this time. "Is this a supplement to the'mechanical table'? But why not the Institute of Mechanical Engineering."

But after another thought, this facility is only a few hundred meters in diameter. How much technology can it have? It makes sense to unlock the observation deck.

"Let's look at the observation deck." He sighed. Sinking consciousness into the system space, command the probe to put down the "lookout" in the irradiated area of ​​the crystal tower.

As an exclusive technology building for upgrading detectors, the "observation deck" provides two upgrades: "array sensor" and "traction enhancement machine".

"Array sensor" can expand the field of view of the detector. The "traction booster" can greatly improve the operating efficiency of the anti-gravity engine, making the detector move faster.

Both upgrade items cost 1500 crystals and 1500 gas. For Tang Fang, who is now rich and powerful, it is just a drop in the bucket. So, without any hesitation, he clicked on "Array Sensor" and "Traction Enhancer."

"Commander, the function of this facility has been determined." The upgrade process had just ended. Before Tang Fang could respond, Emma's reminder sounded in his mind.

Considering that there is no rush to check the performance of the detector, Tang Fang turned his attention to the psychic flame. According to the information sent by Emma, ​​the space facility should be an observation station set up in the border zone of the star system.

Different from the border checkpoints of today's human countries, the observation station can not only detect the ultra-long warning distance and warp speed transition, but also synchronize the sensitive image data captured by large and small observation equipment all over the "Lost Land" in real time. Monitor the network globally.

To put it bluntly, the "Lost Land" before the "Lost", within a radius of nearly a hundred light-years away, any disturbances could not be hidden from the global surveillance network.

These outpost observatories cooperate with miniaturized quantum analysis, graviton detection sensors, and space equipment groups such as warp speed and wormhole probes, and can scan a variety of potential threats with a radius of light level. It can deal with hidden targets such as invisible curved light and stealth in semi-virtual space. As for infrared remote sensing, laser, radio wave scanning and other functions, it is a piece of cake.

Of course, in its current state, the propulsion system and the fusion reactor were completely damaged in the impact, and the small sensor array that belonged to it was also lost in the "Battle of Lost". Only the polished rod commander of the observation station was left. A toothy tiger, anyone can touch his ass.

"Commander The detection system of the observatory is down. However, the global data synchronization module is still working. This may help you understand the "Lost Land"."

"Oh? The global data synchronization module can still work?" Upon hearing this, Tang Fang was overjoyed, and immediately sank into the psychic flames, commanding the core to start the global data synchronization program.

As the ring-shaped crystals radiate outwards with streamer textures like tree branches, the inverted disc structure on the top of the observation station collapses from the center to the sides. A circular black body with a diameter of 10 meters is slowly pushed out, and then, As the energy flow from the roots merges into the core, the black body night-like skin shines with dots of light.

At the same time, the holographic imaging system of Psionic Flame projected a three-dimensional star map outward. Tang Fang was stunned for a moment, and after careful identification, he discovered that the star map in front of him was not the "Lost Land" today but the regional star map of the "Lost Land" before it was "lost".

He waited quietly, waiting for the data synchronization system to go online. However, after a few breaths, the star chart hanging in the air suddenly collapsed, scattered into countless tiny lattices, falling pieces like broken glass, turning into nothingness.

Immediately afterwards, a brand new three-dimensional star map was shot out again in the psychic flame, which is now the "Lost Land". (To be continued...) R12)