The research ship is anchored in the boundary area of the air mass, about thousands of kilometers away from the obvious material enrichment zone, and when you look at it here, the air mass is like a still cloud and mist mountain range, quietly spanning the entire field of vision in front of you, and inside the air mass, in the deepest and darkest depths, you can see continuous flashes, reflecting the uneven wide valleys and cracks inside the air mass like veins. I stared in one direction for several minutes, and although it was impossible to determine with the naked eye where the center of the air mass was at this distance due to its sheer size, my intuition focused my gaze in one direction.

"It should be there, it'...... Maybe it's coming to me. ”

Sandora looked at me suspiciously, and when she spoke, her voice was a little worried: "Ah Jun, you are fine, are you?" ”

"I'm fine," I immediately laughed, patting Sandora on the arm to reassure her, "I'm sure I'm not affected, but as you know, I sometimes have special instincts. There's something out there that keeps signaling, apparently hoping to communicate with us, but ...... Did the radar react? ”

I said this last sentence to the busy information console below, a senior assistant technician was monitoring the information fed back by the general-purpose radar, and immediately reported loudly when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, the radar has not found anything!" We didn't find anything other than a normal air cloud inside the air mass, and we didn't have an energy reaction beyond the air cloud itself! ”

"In other words, the messages it sends out are only available to me, and they are received through a vague form of intuition" I shrugged at Sandora, and Tavel was right, perhaps it was a super-common sense substance, completely outside of the material and information lineage that the Empire already possessed. ”

"What did you find inside?" Ilson looked at his servant, a burly male god in red armor and hair as red as fire—judging by this characteristic, he should have been a soldier from the god line outside the four god lines, perhaps the god of fire. The burly red-haired man immediately straightened up when he heard Ilson's question, and replied loudly, "Yes, master!" We've probed the core of the gas cloud and discovered anomalous spatial phenomena and a suspected mass of matter one kilometer in diameter, but the target is highly active and may be in a critical state, and we are not acting rashly for fear of destabilizing it. It is now possible to determine that the target is moving randomly within a radius of two hundred kilometers from the center of the air mass, but it is uncertain whether it is controlled from the outside or has the ability to control itself. ”

"A thing that is completely mysterious, and God can't even see through it......" my sister muttered, and at this moment, a report from the front staff came from the communicator: "Your Majesty! Working Group 1 has converged with the Protoss Working Group! We see that thing! ”

After the research ship docked, Tavel sent an experienced working team to set off to connect with the Protoss staff inside the air cloud, because it was not sure what the environment inside was, and whether the spacecraft's hyperspace jump operation would affect the "foreign body", so the team took the working boat with a conventional drive, and only now arrived at the destination.

"Take the picture." Sandora said immediately.

The control hall of the research ship is the same as that of most of the empire's spaceships, with a set of oversized holographic equipment in the center, and soon the assistant technician transmitted the picture of the on-site work team, and the situation inside the gas cloud can appear in front of our eyes. In the picture, dozens of autonomic machines and several assistant technicians wearing special protective light armor are carefully advancing in the murky clouds, leading the way in front of a group of divine servants, and their target is a huge ...... in the distance Ball.

Yes, a round ball, which we had been looking for for a long time, and which we found today, many days later, was actually a huge ball, and according to the report of the servant just now, it was about a thousand meters in diameter: it was already huge compared to the working group that was cautiously approaching it. Judging from the picture, the ball is not as manic as everyone thinks, rushing around, on the contrary, it is quiet and ...... Beautiful? Magnificent? Gorgeous? I can't say, the shell of this ball seems to be alive, and the large clumps of colorful colors float on the sphere unhappily and slowly, merging, grading, separating, and then entering the next cycle, such a bright and constantly changing color is really different from the cosmic dark spores I imagined at the beginning - by the way, I don't know what the cosmic dark spores are, but the word suddenly popped up, and it felt very emotional, so I used it like this.

"We're very close, the shell of this thing is highly active, but the non-contact scanning device can't read any useful data, and all other non-contact devices can't affect the target, it's like a shadow, it can only be seen, but it doesn't return any information other than the spectrum, and now I don't know if it's physical or not" The assistant technician who led the team reported, while a staff member wearing protective armor in the middle of the picture waved his hand, it seemed that he was speaking, "Your Majesty, The pattern of color change above is regular, suggesting that it is a logical man-made product, and empirically judged that this highly reactive and artificial shell is likely to react to substantial 'contact'. Moreover, the staff of the Protoss used other means to judge that this shell was in a certain critical state, and rash contact could have unknowable consequences. ”

"On what basis do you judge that this thing is in a critical state?"

I glanced at the 123 Divine Servant curiously, although the Zhilu Dao Protoss is stronger than the Xiling Empire in terms of overall strength, it stands to reason that the Empire should not be weaker than the other party in terms of scanning techniques, or even slightly stronger than the other party - after all, the respective technology trees of both sides also have their own specialties, and the Xiling Apostle is better at scanning techniques. But this time, on what basis did the Protoss judge that something that even the Empire's highest-level radar could hide was in a critical state?

The red-haired divine servant thought for a moment and replied loudly, "The vice-captain's intuition! ”

Me: "......"

Everyone: "......"

Ilson: "Ahem, the vice-captain of this squadron does have amazing intuition, I know her, that guy has always relied on intuition, and the accuracy rate is 10 percent...... When the radar doesn't work, a woman's sixth sense can still be used, right? ”

I couldn't help but put my eyes on Miss Lin, who was napping on the table: "Sixth sense, it's time for you to speak." ”

"Poke it with your hand, that thing ignores any non-contact effects, does it?" The eldest lady rolled her eyes and looked over, "The traction field can't be dragged away, the space warehouse can't be loaded, sooner or later you have to poke it with your hands?" ”

Me: "......" Although she said it was very reasonable, I always felt that this statement was more or less worth complaining about.

In the end, we decided to come into direct contact with the orb with all sorts of strange properties that even the Imperial's scanning devices and Protoss senses could not penetrate, but considering the possible danger, the work was entrusted to the autonomic machines that operated with the task force, and the team evacuated to kilometers away to spread the ship's shields, and were ready to jump into the folds of space to avoid possible explosions and the like. It's not that you're overly careful or unfounded, it's mainly that the ball is so unsettling - do you just pick up something on the side of the road and eat it?

Well, Sandora dare......

The autonomic machine cautiously approached the huge ball and touched the ball under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes, and at this moment, many people's hearts followed suit, and the next second, the huge ball also lived up to everyone's expectations, and the magnificent color on its surface suddenly stopped. But just when many people thought that the big explosion was coming, or the space collapsed, or the sphere cracked, or a bunch of little monsters and tentacles popped out of the sphere—

The thing didn't even fart in the end, and continued to pretend to be a chameleon.

The team reported what they had detected at the scene: "Confirmed that the target reacted to direct contact, but no further changes, no properties of the sphere were detected in any of its properties such as energy, gravity, heat, and magnetism, and we found no properties of the target other than visuals." Oh, and one of the properties is that the probe has sent a hardness report that it senses, confirming that the outer shell of the sphere is solid, and the surface material is roughly equivalent to some kind of crystal. ”

Sandora looked at me, "Jun, can you feel anything?" ”

I was the only one on the scene who might have some connection to the big ball, so Sandora would ask, but I didn't feel anything when the color of the surface of the ball stopped and shook my head.

"Keep testing, and if necessary, sacrifice a few self-discipline machines to try." Sandora gave the order succinctly, and the team ahead began a series of tests.

They began to let the autonomous machine make a direct physical impact on the ball, release electromagnetic pulses at close range to the ball, try to use gravitational traction to affect the target, irradiate various energy beams, and even use ghost energy and holy light - it can't be said that it has no effect at all, after being irradiated by the high energy that is close to the origin of the ghost energy and holy light, the shell of the sphere shows a tendency to collapse, which shows that the target can be destroyed, and its strength is not as strong as we think, but in addition to knowing that the target can be destroyed, None of the other tests we conducted yielded any valuable intelligence.

The orb is a stubborn mute that would rather die than tell us the secrets inside it.

"According to the data collected now, the shell of the target is an entity, with hardness and structural strength, which can be seen with the naked eye and can reflect normally, but other than that, it has no mass, no radiation, no internal structure can be scanned, and the composition of matter cannot be identified, because the mass itself is zero, it is not even affected by gravitational traction, it is a product that challenges common sense and violates the rules of the world" Sandora looked at the report sent back by the working group "It actually exists, but it lacks too many key attributes, as if it is ......"

"It's like a corrupted data packet, which occupies a lot of space on the hard drive, but it can't be deleted or moved, and there is an empty icon but the content can't be read." I casually continued.

Sandora nodded: "Either it was 'born' to be designed to be like this, or it was damaged for some reason - I don't mean physical damage, but information level origin damage, and then after the damage it didn't disintegrate, but survived in the real world." ”

"It's all possible." My sister nodded.

I thought about it, and suddenly connected with a certain knowledge point that I had been exposed to before: "Why did I think of the black sun?" ”

"You mean the Black Celestial Bodies created by the absence of key laws?" Sandora nodded slightly, "It can only be said that the surface properties are slightly similar, but the black object cannot be observed by conventional methods, and it will not exchange information with anything in the current world, but the thing in front of us ...... It can be seen with the naked eye, and the hardness of the other party can be felt by physical contact, so it is not a black celestial body. ”

While we and Tavel's group of experts were puzzled, the team at the forefront had completed all the tests they could think of, even including crashing an autonomous machine into the outer shell of the sphere at hundreds of times the speed of sound: the impact caused a huge wound in the outer shell of the sphere, which fully demonstrated that the subject's "material" skills were not very high, but it was strange that such a completely massless entity did not produce the slightest displacement after such an impact. Well, after some testing, we learned more mysteries: the target could selectively ignore certain physical phenomena within the current world view, such as the law of kinetic energy...... In fact, there is nothing strange about this, the very existence of the target is already challenging the view of the world.

"What the hell is this TM?" Looking at the messy data from the engineering team, Sandora and I fell into deep thought, and after pondering for a long time, I looked up to the sky again and sighed, "TM, what the hell is this?" ”

"You've said it again." Lin Xue rolled her eyes and looked over.

"I'm going to go over and see for myself," and seeing that the team over there couldn't think of a better test than to blow the target to pieces with a single shot, I finally couldn't sit still and stood up and said, "You guys wait here - I'll go over in the Void Form." ”

Sandora didn't say anything more this time, she knew that I couldn't persuade me to make a decision under what circumstances, and of course, she also knew that if I drove over in the Void Form, it would probably not be in any danger. It's just that before leaving, Bing Teis suddenly stood up: "Wait a minute, the concubine will also follow." ”

"You? What are you doing with it? Sandora looked at her friend, and then she didn't know where she thought of it, and nervously tugged at my cuff, "You can't touch the Lord's dry food." ”

“…… You are really completely degraded...... "The rogue goddess looked at Sandora with a smile and a smile, "The old lady is the god clan with the highest title here, this realm is still the territory of the god realm, and now that the head of your country wants to explore in person, can the old lady not follow the whole process?" ”

Sandora was speechless, and shrugged her shoulders at the end: "No way, I suddenly feel that you are becoming more and more threatening recently." ”

Bing Tis originally planned to pull me off, but Sandora stopped her movements without saying a word, blinked as if she had discovered an interesting new world, and nodded his head in a matter-of-fact manner: "You suddenly reminded me - the old lady's mate selection criterion is to be able to fight and support the family, according to the current situation, there are really few people who can beat the old lady head-on, and in the middle, you have to pick a person who can support the family and resist things, and more importantly, it has to be a public, and ......" said, Bing Teis began to look me up and down, That look revealed an unscrupulous aura that only Sister Bing could carry, as if picking something in the market: "And in the long run, in the future, except for Father God and King Huron, I am afraid that you will be the best able to fight the whole void...... Congratulations, you've been shortlisted! ”

Me: "......"

Everyone: "......"

Anyway, the scene was quiet for a while, Sister Bing's amazing ability to speak is no less than shallow at a certain level, the difference is that the reason why the shallow voice is amazing is that the girl's mind is often unreliable, and the reason why Sister Bing's amazing speech is that although she has no problem with her brain, there is a problem with the world's view of the world: she dares to say anything she catches, and treats normal morality as nothing. She casually talked about this in front of Shandora and them, but she still had an attitude that the world had nothing to do with me, but it made the people around her blush and couldn't react.

I stayed there, and I smoothed out Sister Bing's words in my heart for a long time, and found that from a sociological point of view, this should be considered half a confession, but I observed the other party's face - it was still the usual indifferent appearance of no heart and lungs. I'm a little confused, I don't know if this guy is joking or casually, or I don't know what Lu Dao is talking about: it doesn't seem to be serious anyway.

"Wow, the concubine is so charming?" Bing Tis waved his hand in front of my eyes, "Directly scared stupid? Okay, okay, I'm just going to say it casually. Besides, even if the concubine is serious, you are just a shortlisted contestant, so you don't have to be in such a hurry, right...... Now, Sandora, I'll take your food with me first? ”

After saying that, before we could react, Sister Bing had already grabbed my arm and appeared 108,000 miles away (this is an adjective) - we were facing the huge ball that was huge and untouchable.

"You're going to kill me" I looked at Bing Teis with a bitter face, and complained through the spiritual connection, the other party just said: She just said it casually, but I have good reason to believe that many people don't listen to it casually, "Optimistic that Sandora will kill me, not optimistic that she will team up with Shallow Lin Xue and them to kill me......"

Bing Tis also whistled in the spiritual connection: "Hawkers, life needs some passion, the concubine body hasn't been with a partner for tens of millions of years, isn't it okay to have a mouth in front of that Nizi?" ”

Me: "......"

I find myself speechless a lot today.

In order to quickly free myself from this speechless embarrassment, I focused my attention on the stubborn and silent giant sphere, which was as colorful as a chameleon.

In the end, the biggest question in front of me is: what is this TM! t

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