Chapter 845 The New Town of Drom

Muru's report made Hao Ren realize that this incident was unusual. It seemed that a corner of the "dark realm" he had been looking for for a long time had finally surfaced.

Mulu received a distress signal from other guardians during meditation. However, this signal came from a place that had theoretically fallen into the dark realm with the Founding Star. If this signal was not forged, then there is only one answer: the dark realm and The main universe is connected again.

"I can confirm that the signal is authentic," Mulu said, dispelling Hao Ren's last doubt about the news. "We guardians have special psychic abilities. This was specially designed by our mother. Unless there is another god who is forging it. , otherwise I’m unlikely to receive a false signal.”

Hao Ren looked serious: "Can you determine the coordinates of the source of the signal? The Gate of Suluen is still where it was back then?"

"The location has changed. It's in a place I don't recognize," Mulu said as he took out a black metal device from his arms. "It may be that the big explosion moved the Suluen Gate to other locations in the universe. , or it may be that the galaxy is moving on its own in a mysterious trajectory, and the source of the signal is very unusual. I analyzed the keyword 'Suluen' from a cipher text that only the guardians can read. Yes. This is the information I recorded, but I don’t know if your equipment can convert it into a navigation signal.”

"My equipment can convert anything. It will take some time at most." Hao Ren nodded and motioned for Lily to take the recording device handed over by Mulu.

The recording device was used by the giants. To Mulu, it was about the size of a palm, but if thrown to an Earthling, it would be the size of a whole person. Lily obediently took the recorder and held it above her head. From a distance, it looked like the coffin had legs...

This husky is really obedient.

Hao Ren and Lily sent the recorder to the Crystal Core Research Station, connected it to the space station's mainframe, and began analyzing the data inside. He found that the coordinates recorded by Mulu were very vague and had a peculiar mathematical structure. On the one hand, there must be errors in converting mental signals into machine-readable mathematical coordinates. On the other hand, these giants used very unique Encoding. The space station mainframe can process this data, it just takes a little time.

When the equipment began to process the data, Hao Ren returned to Mulu. The group of people stood on a hill on the west side of Alamanda and looked at the stretching land. Lily, like a nimble little monkey, quickly rushed to the top of Mulu's long staff and set up a pergola to look into the distance: "Wow - completely It’s grown up. I remember the last time I came here, this side of the mountain was still a wasteland.”

Hao Ren couldn't hear clearly what Lily was yelling from below, and one question lingered in his mind: If the dog climbed up the tree and escaped like this, would the cat still have a way to survive?

After blowing on the long stick for a while, Lily finally couldn't bear the height anymore. She turned over and slid down again. She pulled Hao Ren's sleeve and jumped: "Landlord, landlord! I saw a city on the other side of the lake! The architectural style doesn't look like this. Tanagus’s!”

"That is a settlement built by the Zhumu people. It can't be called a city now, but it is developing very fast," Mulu's booming voice came from above, "There are many new towns like this around Alamanda, and there are people there every day. Resurrected from the blood pool in the town. Do you want to see it?"

Before Hao Ren said anything, Elizabeth jumped up and said, "Go and have a look - right, Uncle Ren?"

"You might as well go take a look," Hao Ren smiled and nodded, "I wonder if I can meet anyone I know."

Under the leadership of Mulu, the group came to the emerging town near the "Fountain of Origin". Muru chose to stay outside the town because of his huge size, while Hao Ren and the others walked towards the town on their own. They saw a patchwork of simple houses arranged in a large open space. Some of these houses were taken from the surrounding natural environment, and some looked like simple houses produced in an industrialized manner. Because the entire settlement is still expanding rapidly, there are no walls or obvious boundaries around any town. There are only watchtower-like platforms at regular intervals with people on duty.

All roads and ground in the city are just flat dirt. Only in a few places can you see synthetic materials that look like plastic sheets. There are basically no more advanced urban facilities everywhere. Road signs are hand-painted. The wooden boards and street lamps are made of wooden stakes with oil cans hanging on them, and the water supply facilities are artificially dug wells and open ditches. Everything seems primitive and simple, but it is systematically designed with modern planning methods. Everywhere in this settlement, people can experience the strange sense of contradiction between civilization and primitiveness, and the mixed industrial simple houses and stone and wood huts make this sense of contradiction even more magnified. Hao Ren felt like he was walking into a stage play where time and space were messed up, but he thought that this might be the case for the recovery of civilization under certain circumstances.

A highly civilized ethnic group with advanced technology returns to primitive society to rebuild everything.

However, the Droma people are still somewhat lucky. At least they can get initial supplies of materials: those simple industrial products in the towns. Hao Ren could recognize that some of the items were produced in the factories he left on the planet, while many others might have come from the nearby ruins of Tanagus. He saw a pale golden synthetic cladding on the exterior wall of a house, a material unique to the ruins of Tanagus.

Residents in the town soon discovered that guests were visiting, and Hao Ren saw several men in coarse work clothes approaching him. When they were still far away, Hao Ren suddenly sighed: "To be honest, this is really the first time I have seen the Drom people - in reality."

Then he took out the data terminal from his pocket, switched it twice and transferred Nolan's holographic projection from the spacecraft to this side. Nolan's figure floated over the data terminal, only one point and a half tall. She didn't know why Hao Ren suddenly called her here: "Hao Ren? What's the matter? I'm doing maintenance on my engine group. "

"Nolan, come and see your compatriots. This is the new town of Drom. They have entered the real world in large numbers."

Nolan looked around the town through the eyes of the data terminal. After a long time, she replied seemingly irrelevantly: "I don't feel anything. I am just an AI and have never lived in the real world from the beginning. , can we count them as compatriots?"

The data terminal hummed twice: "I'm still struggling with this."

At this time, several men in work clothes had arrived in front of Hao Ren. They first looked at Yzaks' height and the projection device next to Hao Ren with some surprise, and then tentatively speculated on the identities of these visitors: "Could it be that Is it... lord?"

The planet Tanagus-Drom has become Hao Ren's stronghold, and the Drom people who have rebuilt their homeland on this planet are of course considered the residents here. Now that the old social order has completely collapsed and all human beings have been disbanded and reorganized, the earliest awakened people among these survivors have considered that they should accept the authority of the master of this planet, and this is not just their own decision. , it is also the wish of the eldest son Zhuomu to convey to everyone through spiritual broadcasting.

Due to the great influence of the eldest son Dromu on this civilization, its wishes are certainly very weighty.

The Drom people, who have just woken up from their dream in the virtual world, already know what happened to their home planet. They still find it difficult to understand and accept the disaster, but the reality is finally before their eyes. As a race that is pragmatic and proactive in solving problems, they are not Instead of complaining under such circumstances, we chose the safest and most stable way to actively rebuild society. Hao Ren's authority on this planet has been recognized by most people - although he himself doesn't seem to pay much attention to the progress in this area, because everything is controlled by the AI ​​and data terminal of the Crystal Core Research Station and the two people here. The guardians are left to their own devices.

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment before he remembered what to say. He nodded quickly and tried to sound more reliable: "Oh, it's me. I'm here to check on the situation."

As he spoke, he was thinking about what he should explain to these Drom people, because apart from giving a few remote instructions to the AIs here at the beginning, he did not pay much attention to the reconstruction of the planet Tanagus. , his level of intervention here is not even comparable to that on Planet Irem.

He is probably the planet lord with the lowest sense of presence in the world - if he were a company boss, he would be the kind of person who no one would recognize wherever he went. He would go to the company for a meeting and be kicked out by security because he forgot to bring his name badge...

However, Hao Ren's embarrassment did not last long. An unexpected voice suddenly came from the side: "Hao Ren?"

Then the voice called again: "...Nolan?"