The formations of machines that had initially taken up defensive stances began to shift. Moments later, a massive elevator slowly rose.
At that moment,
Su Wen slowly unfolded his deep-blue Appraisal Vision.
Appraisal: Fourth Era Old Days Ark—Shattered Falan Enst—Seventeenth Mechanical Apostle's Final Resting Place
As the words surfaced within his Appraisal Perspective, his breath gradually condensed into white mist inside his mask.
"Old Days Ark."
Su Wen recalled the time when the coastal district had been about to face the Carrington Solar Storm.
Although he had found a way to deal with it, Yu Kaiji, the curator, had ultimately controlled the Old Days Ark to complete the final cleanup.
In an exceptionally calm voice, he spoke to the robot standing at the forefront.
"If my guess is correct,
the area we are about to enter should also be an escape vessel, shouldn't it?"
From a certain analytical standpoint,
your assessment is correct.
The robot spoke slowly in a rigid voice, then respectfully bowed to the three of them.
However, according to system calculations,
the most regrettable point
is that there are no surviving humans left here.
In an instant,
it activated the massive elevator.
Thus, the moment the enormous pale-silver platform carried the three of them through the thick ice layer amid a thunderous roar,
the scene before them unfolded across their retinas like a painting. What appeared to be an underground space was, in fact, the interior compartment of an unimaginably vast interstellar vessel.
At the zenith of this Old Days Ark,
countless glowing quantum vines floated beneath a hemispherical dome more than three kilometers in diameter.
These energy-formed plants wove a flowing web of light beneath the dome, breaking the outlines of countless gigantic genetic cultivation chambers into mottled patches of light and shadow.
Yet the cultivation