Grey Wind explored carefully, and the nanoworms crawled millimeter by millimeter over every inch of the black stone structure of the Pharos Lighthouse. As the exploration progressed, the three-dimensional structure of this ancient creation was gradually drawn in Grey Wind's consciousness.

The heavy black stone creation is buried deep under Sosa, like a huge spider web, extending in the deep strata that no one knows.

The Lighthouse's Blackstone Network has multiple nodes, which are secret rooms hidden deep in the earth. They integrate a large number of energy supply networks and quantum interference matrices. Each node has the ability to independently build and connect quantum tunnels.

The one that was overloaded and blown up by the war blacksmith Dantioch was one of the many internal nodes of the Pharos Lighthouse, numbered 'Alpha Base Station'.

It was the overload of the Alpha base station that attracted the attention of the 'Great Devourer' wandering in the distant sky to the Milky Way.

In addition, there are 'Beta Base Station', 'Delta Base Station'... More than a dozen secondary nodes are distributed throughout the Blackstone network, guarding a large node with the largest volume and the most complete functions like stars holding the moon. In the center of the spider web.

'Central Host', this is the name of the core node of Pharos Lighthouse.

Since the automatic security and firewall of the Pharos Lighthouse had been unlocked by Orikan, who had ascended to godhood, the nano-insect swarm easily crawled into the core node along the Blackstone network and arrived above the central host.

This is a circular hall that is wider than the Alpha Base Station and the Beta Base Station. It is the core of the Pharos Lighthouse. The lifeless black stone is covered with glowing necromancy runes, as densely packed as a huge tomb. In front of the tomb stands a towering black tombstone.

Below the tombstone, dense data wires and psychic chains were stacked in layers, tightly binding a huge black stone coffin.

This is not a human coffin, and the ones buried inside are not Necron.

The Pharos Lighthouse is a huge tomb whose owner is named:

【The Ruler·Zahulash】

"Huh? Bai picked up a Star God fragment." Gray Feng was extremely happy, his eyes narrowed into crescent moons.

In the official novel Belisarius Coul: The Great Cause

Cawl discovered eight black stone coffins in the Pharos Lighthouse, one of which contained a fragment of Zakhurash, the C'tan Ruler.

The other seven sarcophagi were not opened until the lighthouse was destroyed.

gw didn’t write what’s inside, and I don’t want to introduce an innovative Star God in a place like this.

Therefore, Xiao Hui only picked up a fragment

Chapter 346 The Second Battlefield

"Give the four Star God fragments to the Marshal together. He will be very happy, right?"

Grey Wind was happily thinking about how Russell would reward him. Following her notice, the high-ranking monks of the Order of Truth entered the lighthouse with a device that generated the extra-dimensional time cage. The CD of the Wataum Reality Periscope had also been reset by the Theory of Rings.

They are fully prepared to imprison the C'tan shard.

As the runes on the black stone tombstone turned from green to white, the data cables and psychic chains wrapped around the black stone coffin broke off one after another.

In an instant, everything was silent.

Everyone present heard a distant sigh at the same time, carrying with it the vicissitudes and relief of countless years, as if an old man had traveled through endless time to come before them, lamenting the ruthless changes of the universe.

The black stone coffin shook violently, and from the gap that opened, an illusory hand between the visible and invisible stretched out. It was the Star God who controlled the authority of time...

We are now in year 40 of the 38th millennium.

[The Ruler Zahulash] lifted up the coffin and stood up.

Gray Wind's soft palms have been placed on the Wataum Reality Perforator. The psykers and Eldar banshees in the archaeological team are also ready to launch psychic spells to fight against this material god. A battle between mortals The conflict between technique and divine power is about to break out.

Then God disappeared.

At the moment when the black stone coffin just broke and the ruler's arm stretched out of the coffin, behind Grey Wind, the time weapon "Principle of Rings" that was wrapped around her tail suddenly started to operate on its own without any interference from anyone.

After that distant and vicissitudes of ancient sigh, everyone present heard an extremely sharp and miserable howl. The extreme pain contained in this howl was directly imprinted on the soul of the creature and lingered for a long time.

Gray Feng blinked, and there was only an empty coffin in front of him. The fragments of the Star God in the sarcophagus were missing.

"Did Zahulash escape?" Gray Wind was a little confused.

She looked back and saw that the Circle of Principle was slowly turning, and the poems and prayers in praise of the Time Worm engraved on it were flickering slightly.

"No, I didn't run away."

Gray Feng finally understood: "Yes, was eaten?"

The high-ranking monks who were about to activate the extra-dimensional time cage were stunned where they were. They were still confused about what had just happened. At this time, Huifeng put his hands on his waist, raised his eyebrows, and said to the Circle Principle behind him: "That was a gift I wanted to give to the Marshal. How could you eat it directly? It's so rude..."

Before everyone could realize who Gray Feng was talking to, suddenly, an ethereal, gentle, transparent voice that sounded like it came from the end of the abyss sounded directly in everyone's brain:

"After you give him the fragment of Zahulash, he will give this gift to me... The process is not always that important, and sometimes it can be skipped appropriately."

Gray Wind frowned: "How do you know he will give you the fragments of Zahurash?"

"Because I saw it." The Worm of Time said softly in his voice as gentle as a veil: "I saw it when Trazin stole the transcription device."

Gray Feng sighed helplessly, "There's really nothing I can do about you."

Having devoured the fragment of the C'tan that represented the laws of time in this universe, the Worm can now communicate directly with the children he loves.

"Xiao Hui, can I ask you to find more fragments of Zahulash for me?" The gentle voice of the Time Worm was like a piece of weightless silk, gently brushing against the heart: "I will give you a gift. .”

"I, I have to ask the marshal..." Gray Feng was a little confused.

"He has agreed."

"What was promised in the future does not count now!" Gray Wind was furious. "Don't always use the sword of the future to kill the officials of today!"

"Okay..." Time Zhichong felt aggrieved.

The scholars on the archaeological team looked at each other in confusion.

After much tossing and getting nothing in the end, Gray Wind left the Order's archaeological team and convoy fleet in Sousa, continuing to excavate and study the remains of the Pharos Lighthouse.

Her own Grey Goo mothership, carrying the extra-dimensional time cage that imprisoned the three Star God fragments, directly jumped to the Konor system in the Greater Ultramar star field, and returned to Faya through the star gate there.

Falla is now very different from when Gray Wind first came to this universe. In all aspects, whether it is economy, transportation, humanities, or other aspects, it is completely different from the original remote and desolate frontier galaxy.

But the biggest and most obvious difference between Falla today and its past is the starry sky above.

Standing on the Faya field and looking up at the sky, the starlight in the night sky is much sparser than before. Large areas of black are solidified in the night sky, and occasionally there are a few bright stars emitting starlight that cannot dispel the surrounding empty darkness.

With the assistance of time technology, the Order of Truth's violent production capacity has completely drained and extinguished almost all the stars in the northern star belt of the Far Eastern Starfield in decades. The stars that still hang in the night sky of Falla are some that are at least located in Distant stars hundreds of light years away.

These stars have long been extinguished. When we stand on the ground and look up at the starry sky, we see what they looked like when they were still alive hundreds of years ago.

Many people in the Human Empire do not understand the behavior of the Star Destroyer, and do not understand why the Order of Truth uses such brutal methods to drain their own resources, just to build enough fleets to launch a sweep against the aliens across the galaxy. ?

Their doubts are destined to remain unanswered.

The Star-Slinger never reveals his heart to anyone, no one knows what he is thinking, no one understands his true purpose.

Except Gray Wind.

The Gray Goo mothership first came to Falla through the Connaught Star Gate, and then turned around at the Emperor's Icon in Falla and came to the black hole horizon where the Serenity Black Domain Shipyard is located.

At the edge of the vast black hole horizon, in a gravitational equilibrium point that cannot be detected by any instrument, is the location of another star gate.

The Gray Goo mothership passed through this star gate and directly entered the body of the King's Landing Taixu, which was parked deep in the webway and above the original site of the Dark City of Commorragh.

And there is another independent star gate hidden in the belly of the Overlord, which leads to a miniature galaxy.

In the 40th year of the 38th millennium, the human federation's army is still searching for traces of the Eldar and the Necrons throughout the galaxy. The hive planets and industrial hubs in the Far East star field continue to operate, providing strong logistical support for this galactic-scale security war.

However, neither the Eldar nor the Necron knew that the real center of this huge war sweeping the galaxy was not actually in the galaxy, but in a second battlefield called the 'Miniature Galaxy'.

"Destroy the 'warring party C', conquer the miniature galaxy, and seize complete control of the miniature universe. This is the true purpose of the marshal."

The gray goo mothership passed through the star gate in the master's body, and Russell's words echoed in the center of consciousness:

“Logistics is the foundation of war. No matter how much information is blocked, the mobilization of war and the operation of industrial machinery required to launch a large-scale war cannot be completely concealed.

Once the war machine of the Human Federation begins to operate, other forces will inevitably get the news, especially the Eldar who once obtained the miniature galaxy. Now they have been protected by the End of Reincarnation. The prophets of the Eldar are likely to learn from the clues. Calculate and predict our true actions. "

So how to perfectly hide a large-scale war on the scale of a star field?

The answer is to wage a larger war.

So big that it sets the entire galaxy on fire.

Chapter 347 Success doesn’t have to be mine

Far Eastern star field, southern star belt.

In the dark galaxy, groups of Zerg bio-ships covered in chitinous shells roamed, with pink tentacles extending from their mouthparts, sniffing out the psychic fluctuations and bioelectric signals in the surrounding space. The Zerg of Coronie was on routine patrol.

This galaxy located in the southern part of the Far East star field is called "Elkanas". There was originally a bright mature star burning in the center of it. However, as an old scientist named "Gustav" applied for the right to use the curved time accelerator, he moved his laboratory here.

A large number of internal energy mining facilities were built, and a huge radiation barrier completely enveloped the entire star. As the last solar cell was installed in place, a giant structure called the "Dyson Sphere" greedily swallowed up all the light and heat of the star, turning the originally bright Elkanas galaxy into darkness - the energy extracted from the star was used to drive the vacuum zero-point energy extractor.

The vacuum zero-point energy extracted from the quantum ocean will be used to drive the 'surface time accelerometer' to accelerate the flow of time in Gustav's laboratory to the highest limit that current theory can support.

This is a last resort,

Gustav did not dare to unlock the truly superior strong artificial intelligence. He piled up computing power in the stupidest way, trying to use ordinary computers and conventional cogitator arrays to hard-decode the Necron's logic code and instruction set, and crack the Black Stone. the mystery.

This clumsy process takes a hopelessly long time.

A time machine can speed up this process, but if you want to shorten such a long calculation process to be completed before Gustav dies of old age, the energy required is terrifyingly huge.

How huge is the energy consumption of this computing project? ——So big that even the Dyson sphere, which is almost equated with endless energy in science fiction works, here can only serve as an accelerant for ignition.

Compared with the ambitions of anthropologists, stars are too weak.

Only the endless vacuum zero-point energy in the quantum sea can satisfy the greedy appetite of the cogitator's array calculations for hundreds of thousands of years.

Year 40 of the 39th Millennium. Gustav walked out of his laboratory as usual and compiled and uploaded the research reports from the past period. Ever since his health began to decline, Gustav had made a habit of backing up his research data every once in a while.

Just in case he died suddenly that day and a lot of results were lost.

This kind of thing has happened before. Some lazy researchers will store all the information in their own minds. As a result, they suddenly died from a short circuit one night during a liver project. In this case, even if the data is restored afterwards, there will inevitably be omissions, resulting in some important problems. The field research went back to before liberation overnight.

Blackstone's research was too important, and Gustav would never allow this to happen to him.

After backing up the computing data during this period, Gustav connected to the human federation's super-light communication network and prepared to learn about what happened recently that deserved attention.

"Ok?"

Just after calibrating the clock, an email from one of his students attracted Gustav's attention.

[Teacher, go and browse the 038th edition of the announcement released by the sect at the end of 10! 】

"Has this child always been so frightened?" Gustav visited the online portal of the Order of Truth with doubt.

The official announcement of the Order of Truth is updated every year, mainly publishing some transparent financial expenditures, honors given to people who have made significant contributions, copyright disputes over conflicting topics, and other trivial matters, big or small.

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