Alien Relic Hunter.

"The new ark, in fact, the Alpha civilization has already been prepared." The hive master said, "It's just that they have lost the opportunity to set sail."

"You mean...Yaguna Ketor?!" Ke Lan blurted out subconsciously, startled.

"Yes, Yagunaktor." The hive master continued, "It was originally the No. 0906 long-distance engineering operation ship used to search for resources during the wandering earth period. A long-distance engineering operation ship like this, in the In the long era of drifting, we have dispatched a total of more than [-] ships..."

"There are also such engineering ships on the Ark. After all, the mass of the Ark itself is too large. If you approach those resource celestial bodies rashly, there is a risk of being affected by gravity and crashing. Therefore, the resources are basically collected on the surface of the celestial bodies, and then transported back by this type of engineering ship. Yes." Ke Lan said.

"No, 0906 is different from the engineering ships of the Ark." The hive master said in a calm but powerful tone, "The people who operate these engineering ships are all great warriors who are willing to dedicate their lives to the earth and human civilization... Out of [-] engineering operations ships, no more than one-tenth of them can return to Earth."

"Why is the loss rate so high?" Ke Lan was slightly surprised.

"The mission of these engineering ships is not simply to mine resources on nearby celestial bodies, but to set off to the distant universe to find available resources or habitable galaxies that can be used by the earth to 'park' in a larger area...every The mission cycle of a long-distance engineering operation ship is 400 years, but after 400 years, there are very few engineering ships that can return smoothly."

"400 years? How to solve the problem of the crew's life span?"

"There are several plans: the hibernation cabin is on duty in rotation, AI replaces the operation, and using frozen embryos or equipment for cultivating human clones to 'create' new crew members on board, etc...In different eras, these engineering ships will adopt different methods. The way to 'extend' one's own working life...Of course, the 400-year mission period is only a preset value. Many engineering ships have not even lasted for 100 years and have become space garbage. After exceeding the mission period, it miraculously returned to Earth."

"Yaguna Ketor...the engineering ship 0906 should be one of those miracles, right?" Although he already knew the answer in his heart, Ke Lan still asked this question out of his mouth.

"He was one of the eight people whose brains were transplanted. Dr. Nino was once one of the best materials experts on the planet, and after bringing the Nino alloy back to Earth, his title of 'one' was erased Lost." The hive master said with emotion, "I don't know if it's really luck, or there is another human civilization in time and space that is secretly helping them. The engineering ship 0906 was rescued with the help of a gas giant named 'S43-K26'. The planet's gravitational acceleration was unfortunately captured by the planet's gravity, but they also found a brand new element on this gas giant planet, and developed the 'Nino Alloy' in that desperate situation."

Except for the engineering equipment that comes with the ship, there is basically no self-production capacity... Even if the technology of the Hive Civilization is stronger than that of the Ark Civilization, Ke Lan does not think that a group of people can drive a 1000-meter-class airship and be able to fly in the sea. Traveling in space for more than [-] years.

"I do know this, it was mentioned in those memory fragments." Ke Lan nodded.

"But it's a pity that Nino alloy not only needs that special element to be synthesized, but also must be in the special environment inside the 'S43-K26' planet... We later sent a team to the 'S43-K26' planet Dozens of fleets, but no news at all."

"No wonder, the Alpha Civilization has never been able to successfully synthesize Nino Alloy, and can only use the ready-made Nino Alloy from Yagunaktor... Fortunately, this ship is big enough and has enough Nino Alloy... Otherwise, this super super The giant ship has already disappeared."

"One more thing, when I absorbed the memories of those 'corpse' on the second floor of the Tongtian Tower, I always cared about one thing: in those memory fragments related to the Tongtian Tower, there was no crew member. Why? "

"The 'Dr. Nino'..."

"One thousand and four hundred years... I have a question, what do the people on the No. 400 engineering ship live on?" Ke Lan couldn't help asking.

"The era when the 0906 engineering ship set sail was the most popular and prosperous era of cyborg technology on the earth. The crew of that engineering ship was actually only eight people. In order to survive long enough, all eight of them gave up. The body only transfers the specially processed brain into the "equipment" on the ship. From your point of view, engineering ship No. 0906 is actually an unmanned ship, but there are eight self-conscious machines on board. It's just a biological computer."

The No. 0906 engineering ship was just a small engineering ship of more than 100 meters long at the beginning. There are many engineering ships of this magnitude on the Ark. Even Ke Lan’s Hunting God Hunting Group has two 30-meter-class engineering ships. (Although it was half sold and half given to them by the Soma Consortium).The crew of this kind of engineering ship is only about [-] people. If a lot of automation equipment is used, in fact, only about [-] people are needed to make the ship sail normally and fully function.The ecological cycle facilities on this type of engineering ship are also very simple, and basically all rely on external supplies. When the warehouse is full, a long voyage can only last about one to two months of consumption at most.

"To be precise, it is the most critical miracle." The hive master said, "Thanks to the refusion technology taught to us by human civilization in another time and space, the engineering ship 0906 sailed in the universe for a thousand and four hundred years, even 400 years more than your Noah's Ark."

"The Nino alloy used by the Alpha civilization is only a small part, and most of it was dug up in the era of the hive civilization. After the Alpha civilization period, a lot of the Nino alloy used was filled back. And the Alpha Civilization has also carried out large-scale modifications to the interior of the hull, including adding folding spaces and setting up the 'God's Coffin'."

"Is Alpha Civilization planning to use Yagunaktor as a way out?"

"No, the Alpha civilization never intended to use Yagunaktor to escape... At that time, all Alpha people had already been branded by him, even if they ran to the ends of the earth, they would eventually become his nourishment. This ship is For what you have prepared, otherwise, why do you think there are so many 'ecological zones' connected by space passages inside Yagunaktor?"

"..." Ke Lan was stunned, and a strange idea suddenly popped up in his head: Maybe, he should say "thank you" to Alpha Civilization?
But the word "thank you" seems a little light in front of this giant ship.

"The most urgent task is to transfer the ownerless 'origin energy' sealed on the top of the Tongtian Tower to Yagunaktor, and then leave this planet with all human beings." The hive master said, "You still have time , you still have a chance... while fleeing, slowly digest the legacy left to you by these Alpha civilizations."