The Apostle of the

in #sci-fi2 months ago

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“What are you all?” the young Mari asked, glancing at Reynard and the other two. Although six people were acting together, Reynard's group seemed like a separate entity, hardly communicating with Mari, Lante, and Simon.
Mari hadn't cared before, but now it seemed that the three led by Reynard were not ordinary people.
Reynard exchanged glances with the others, and it was he who spoke first,
“Have you heard of the Resistance?”
“The Resistance? The one from the lower district?” Mari’s eyes widened with suspicion.
“Not just the lower district; we’re in the middle district now, and we have established a base here,” said Duan, one of the trio, pride evident in his voice.
“Duan, don’t reveal everything,” warned the third member, Uer.
“It’s fine. Normally, we would need to keep it hidden, but there’s no need now,” Reynard replied, his eyes growing fervent. “The Old Rulers have returned. Everything the nobles have done must be repaid; it’s time for reckoning. This is the final judgment.”
“Indeed, the Old Ones have returned. This is the final judgment,” Duan and Uer echoed, trembling with excitement.
Lante, savoring the delicious meal, seemed to be infected by the fervor of Reynard’s group, showing a similar excitement on his face.
Even Uncle Simon couldn't help but clench his fists.
Yet young Mari, for some reason, suddenly felt a twinge of fear.
The six of them, each with different thoughts, finished this most lavish meal of their lives.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed in the corridor outside the confinement room.

Unlike the heavy footsteps of the mechanical demons, this sound was crisp, clearly someone wearing shoes. The six immediately looked outside to see a beautiful woman in a white unknown outfit slowly approaching.
It was Nan Yi.
The appearance of the Rhine people differed slightly from humans, but not significantly; their aesthetics were naturally similar.
As Nan Yi approached, the six were momentarily stunned.
It was Reynard who first reacted, kneeling on the ground.
“Great Old Ruler, humble Rhine man Reynard pays you the highest respect.”
The others quickly followed suit, kneeling on the ground as well.
Even the proud young Mari, who considered himself noble, acted like a humble schoolboy, burying his head deeply into the ground, not daring to steal a glance.
Resource Collection Star SH100079 had once been a colony of Earth, so the Rhine people spoke Chinese, albeit with a heavy accent, but Nan Yi understood easily.
“Old Ruler? I think you’re mistaken; I’m just a servant,” Nan Yi’s voice was as pleasant as ever, yet devoid of inflection, making it hard for the anxious six to read her emotions.
“Are you an apostle from the Old Ones?” Reynard racked his brain to come up with a title; after all, it wouldn’t do to just call her a servant.
“I have some questions I want to ask you,” Nan Yi disregarded their cautious thoughts.
Fang Xu’s attention was now fully on the space fighter jets, likely having forgotten about the captured Rhine people.

Unlike the heavy footsteps of the mechanical demons, this sound was crisp, clearly someone wearing shoes. The six immediately looked outside to see a beautiful woman in a white unknown outfit slowly approaching.
It was Nan Yi.
The appearance of the Rhine people differed slightly from humans, but not significantly; their aesthetics were naturally similar.
At this moment, they needed Nan Yi to help them fill in the gaps.
After a while, Nan Yi left,
Reynard and the others remained prostrate on the ground until the sound of her footsteps faded for a long time, cautiously lifting their heads to confirm that the Old Apostle had truly left before finally relaxing.
“That was nerve-wracking! I thought I was going to die from anxiety,” Lante plopped down on the ground, panting heavily. “No, we won’t die. The nobles will die because the day of judgment is coming.” Reynard’s eyes sparkled with excitement.
Duan and Uer shared the same sentiment.

In the base hangar, various flying vehicles were neatly arranged.
Most were atmospheric flight devices like airplanes, maglev flyers, drones, etc.
There were also many spacecraft capable of leaving the atmosphere directly.
From the simplest space fighters to rocket launchers, even cargo spaceships and small space battleships.
However, the changes over a thousand years were immense, with many flying devices having damaged parts due to the passage of time.
Even if they were operable, they couldn’t guarantee safety.
Not just over a thousand years; these devices were basically old equipment from fifteen thousand years ago. When humanity first discovered this planet fifteen thousand years ago, they brought over a batch of gear.
But later, as the importance of this resource collection star plummeted, humanity found better energy sources than Dyson spheres, and they largely stopped maintaining it.

Thus, there was no renewal of the aerospace equipment in this stationed base.
After five thousand years of patching up the fifteen-thousand-year-old equipment, by ten thousand years ago, there were no replacement parts left.
If anything still worked now, it would be a miracle.
In fact, the situation on Earth was similar; as an ancient cultural preservation zone, the aerospace equipment docked there was also mostly fifteen thousand years old antiques.
The advanced ones were parked on the Star Ring, ready to descend at any time when needed.
Who would have thought that a situation like Fang Xu’s would occur a thousand years later?
Not a single usable spacecraft could be found on Earth, and the Star Ring was closed, preventing any calls to the ships above.
What a stroke of bad luck!
In summary, the aerospace equipment in the stationed base hangar was no longer usable.
However, according to the main control program’s calculations, if several space fighters were completely dismantled, the remaining parts could be combined to repair one of them.
And that space fighter was what the main control program referred to as a usable space fighter.
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