(Asking for a monthly pass at this time when I am not in the middle of the process, mainly because I suddenly remembered this stubble.) ）

Over the next few days, everyone was looking at this question:

What happened at the limit of the abyss?

This proposition is probably one of the final questions since the creation of conscious beings in the Void, and I think the "mad girl" on the Father and Huron's side should have thought about this question countless times before, but it is clear that this question is not so easy to answer.

You have to jump into the gate of the abyss, there are crazy devourers and corruptors on all sides, you have to fight against the ubiquitous attacks, and you have to deal with the destruction from the depths of your own heart**, in this environment, you can't encounter the slightest bump that exceeds the threshold, what protects you is several layers of shields and armor that are weakening every second, the moment they are penetrated is the death of the whole ship, in the territory of the abyss, even the imperial warship or star field god with the ability to travel through the world cannot find a way to escape, If you want to see what the abyss is looking at at at the limit, the only option is to close your eyes and sink all the way down, hoping that luck will be with you and make you alive to that calm zone that may exist. As for the return - there is little hope.

This is a journey that only needs to be imagined to make people daunting, and the feeling of being immersed in the pressure of death at any time will accompany you all the way, the fearless Emperor ** team and the powerful Protoss Expeditionary Force have not succeeded in making it this far, and the only one ever that can make it all is the remnant of a beacon: it has the most powerful shield and a shell made of star stones. But when it was salvaged tens of thousands of years later, it was already like a mass of molten slag. And the beacon doesn't necessarily reach the end of the line yet, it may just be close there.

"But it's worth trying." Sandora said.

We finally decided to rebuild the Abyssal Diving Boat, which has only two words in its name, "Deep Diving". In the plan, the first batch will be to make three replicas of deep-diving ships with basic functions in the near future, these imitations use conventional databases and unattended AI, and now that the Red Moon Cube has not been completely cracked and the blueprint of the deep-diving ship has not been analyzed, this imitation is already the limit of what can be done. If they're lucky, they might be able to reach the same depths as the dive boats of the past. Then try to respond to the broadcast reflected from the bottom of the abyss, but there is little hope of these unmanned research ships returning home, because their protection skills are insufficient. The key techniques to ensure the survival of the deep-diving ship in the Abyssal Realm for a long time are the Trinity Shield of the Barrier of the Imitation Realm, and an object named the "Abyss Simulator", for which samples have been created. But the latter requires the black technology inside the Red Moon Cube. Such a device can produce an information representation that closely approximates the abyss, greatly reducing the chance of being attacked by a targeted attack. Although the abyss is a simple phenomenon without intelligence, there are still such things as "abyssal creatures" in the abyss, most of them are formed by the creatures of various worlds after being deeply assimilated, and some of them are formed after the abyssal force is condensed to produce a rudimentary consciousness, this kind of thing will actively look for enemies, and the function of the "abyss simulation device" is to reduce the possibility of the deep-diving ship being discovered by these minions.

It would take at least a few months for Tavel to build such a thing, and it would take at least a year for a fully functional dive vessel to become available, so until then, we would have to work on imitations that could never be returned.

There is a high probability that the unmanned submersible ship will not be able to return to the sea. The only thing they can send back is data, these data are the most precious things, but it is not easy to receive them back completely, after entering the abyssal gate, all information exchange will be disturbed, and the interference is so strong that even the spiritual connection of the Apostle of Xiling will be intermittent, so it is quite difficult to maintain instant communication with the deep-diving ship, Tavel and other scientists try one method after another to transmit information back, However, the advanced technique also seems to have encountered a barrier: no band can escape the disturbance of the abyssal force. In the end, scientists had to reluctantly accept the fact that it would be unrealistic to maintain instant communication after the deep-diving ship had entered the abyss' gate.

And the ultimate solution was finally proposed by the shallow (okay. I'll admit that the only one who can figure out a way at this time is this strange girl whose mind is never limited by anything): use a drifting bottle. **——*

In fact, it is a black box, since the deep-diving ship will inevitably be destroyed, and we can't exchange data with it in real time before this, the only way to extract the results of scientific research is to recover the debris of these ships after they are destroyed. The shallow suggestion is for each ship to carry thousands of "drifting bottles". There is always someone who can get out of the abyss safely.

The most primitive and stupid method is used to solve the most cutting-edge and difficult problems. This reminds us of the ultimate solution that humans took to solve the problem of not being able to write with a pen in space: using a pencil.

When the words "drifting bottle" were brought up by Qianqian, Sandora couldn't help but smile with emotion: "It seems that sometimes I really have to use this stupid method, and the solution to the ultimate problem is often the ultimate simple." Let the dive ship carry a myriad of the most protective black boxes, each of which is used to record key data, and after the dive ship is destroyed, these black boxes will go as far as possible to the exit, and when the target becomes smaller, it will be much easier to get them back safely. However, there is another problem: without strong enough power, the black box cannot leave the abyssal gate on its own, just like the method of removing the remains of the beacon from the abyss gate in the divine realm, we need to salvage the black box. ”

The living room has been made to be the same as the command center, full of holographic projections of flickering shimmering light, my sister is a little bored to fiddle with the picture in front of her, reminded: "But it's much more difficult than that, the abyss gate of the god realm is benign, and there was no harm a long time ago, but the deep diving ship has to pass through the abyss gate in an active state, and when the time comes, a large part of the 'drifting bottle' will also come up from these places, who dares to go to that kind of place to salvage?" ”

It's a huge problem, even if we build a bunch of dive ships right now and throw them inside the Abyssal Gate. And he also successfully returned a large group of black boxes carrying materials. It was extremely difficult to salvage the latter from the Abyssal Gate, and the black box without sufficient power could not break through the chaotic layer of the Abyssal Gate, so we had to jump in and retrieve it ourselves......

This is much more challenging than fishing your phone out of the toilet.

Father God and the five members of the Protoss, Sandora and I and the pit daddy at home didn't sneak n people, you look at each other, I look at you, and then Bing Teis suddenly shrunk his neck: "Don't mind, I have a psychological shadow about that, I have been tied up with that kind of thing for so many years, if you jump in again...... The concubine would rather die. ”

"The risk factor is very high, and if the average person goes in. Even if the force is strong and returns safely, there is a great possibility that the abyss will be released, and the abyssal gate will be regarded as a film covered with highly toxic substances, so the frequent entry and exit of things from the main material plane into and out of the abyssal gate is equivalent to constantly making holes in this film. The slightest mistake can lead to a big explosion," Sandora said, "and it's not much to have a dive ship in and out once, but if you salvage those black boxes, it's a massive and frequent operation." ”

The Father nodded, "We need to find a way to safely recover the Black Box and not let the Abyss Gate burst out." Now the Abyss Gate under the control of the Protoss and your empire is used as a research sample, and there are a large number of elite troops nearby, once the Abyss Gate they are guarding is free from suppression, it will be a disaster within a disaster. The Protoss can't afford it. ”

Xiaoxue looked at our serious expressions, thought for a while, and cautiously raised her hand: "Dad, Mom, Second Uncle, Auntie, Second Aunt, Second Aunt, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, Fourth Uncle......"

I pressed the girl's mouth with a broken face: "What the hell are you trying to say?" ”

Xiaoxue snapped my fingers: "Don't we have a group of people who are most suitable for this job?" ”

Everyone was shocked, and almost twelve mouths said in unison: "Who?" ”

Xiaoxue stretched out her hands: "You forgot?" I pried away an army group when I ran out of the Fallen Apostles, and they're still on standby at the borders of Shadow City, albeit a bit politically tainted. But after all, people have abandoned the dark and turned to the light, parents can't discriminate against them, right? ”

As soon as Xiaoxue said this, I suddenly realized: I really forgot about them!

Xiao Xue rebelled against an entire army group from Harlan - of course, now their formation is no longer up to the standard of a full fleet, they suffered a lot of battle losses when they raided from the Fallen Apostles realm, and the Abyss Ship cannot be formed to replenish troops on the side of the New Empire. That fleet now has thousands of starships, including small ships. Sandora and I hadn't thought about what mission to give them yet, so we'd leave it there for now. Xiaoxue said that these former degenerate apostles were discriminated against - in fact, this is her nonsense. Although the number is a little larger and the identity is a little more sensitive, the fallen apostles who have been purified by the void creatures are actually no different from the normal apostles, and those soldiers who surrendered to the city have also been certified by the new empire's permission system and regained the imperial soldier code, but now they have not re-entered the establishment.

It would be fitting if they were to assist in the "deep diving" plan, their spacecraft was simply an abyssal aggregate, and it would be a piece of cake to engage in such a dangerous salvage work!

"Who controls those Abyss fleets now?"

My sister asked casually, and I gestured to Visk, who was trying to stack twelve sugar cubes together, "She." ”

Viska looked up in confusion: "Huh? Then the twelve sugar cubes collapsed. This is the provisional commander of the new empire's most special fleet, the Abyss Fleet. Outside of the battlefield, this little girl is not reliable at all.

Of course, since she has a nitroglycerin head like her sister, I don't think she's very reliable when she's on the battlefield.

The abyss is the abyss, and the only one we have here who is qualified to lead an abyss fleet is Visk, although Sandora is half an abyssal creature, she only uses that strength to enhance her combat power, and she doesn't know how to fight after the fleet is abyssal. Bella Vera was a former Fallen Apostle, but now hibernates six out of seven days a week on average. Carter? Carlo, but a degenerate apostle of standard birth, but unfortunately he led a group of death squads when he was at the highest rank, and he is now a senior adviser to the third intelligence core, and he can't take care of commanding the army, and in the end, this force became Viska's general fleet, but it just fills a gap: Pandora has its own general fleet, but Viska can't form a descendant army because of his special fighting methods. Now is the right time for these Abyss Fleets.

The only thing that is not very reassuring is that Viska doesn't seem to be good at commanding troops. Like Pandora, she is a combat-type apostle, and unlike Pandora, she lacks an external thinking circuit like Sivis, so it is quite unsafe to let the abyssal fleet that can barely replenish the army rush to the front line, people can be resurrected from the dead, but where do I create another group after their abyssal ship is defeated! Of course, Viska also has his own adjutant, the madman AI surnamed Chen, but says it from the bottom of his heart. With such a pit daddy adjutant, Viska might as well raise a parrot......

"Visk, let your Abyss Fleet participate in the 'Deep Dive' plan, we need them to go inside the Abyss Gate to retrieve the debris of the 'floating' deep diving ship." Sandora said after glancing at Viska. The little girl nodded, and continued to play with candy cubes with great interest.

"It's a feeling I haven't felt in a long time," Sandora exhaled and sighed after assigning all the preparations that could be done in advance, "I remembered every adventure in the evolution of those civilizations—the first electromagnetic heat, the first fire (it seems that in the history of civilization of the Apostle of Hilling, electromagnetic phenomena were something that was mastered before fire), the first time to leave land and go to the ocean, the first time to explore space. Away from the home planet for the first time...... There are always similarities in ignorant first adventures, the pioneers used those rudimentary and even ridiculous primitive tools to explore the unknown world, and when they entered a higher civilization, they looked back, and perhaps the things used in these explorations would be as simple as making stone tools, like standing in an Imperial starship and watching a human Martian rover land. Who would have thought that these two things would be used to explore the abyss: a drifting bottle and a salvage diver ......"

I wondered how Shandora had suddenly become literary, even though she seemed to have a point—though she didn't understand it very well.

The "deep dive" program has officially begun, and Tavel has begun to build replicas of the first dive boats, which may take several months.

Although we had envisioned rebuilding the dive vessel, we didn't expect it to turn out to be such a big operation. To create a large group of dive ships—unmanned, manned, and perhaps even up to the bottom of the abyss ourselves—to explore the depths of the abyss—is almost the opposite of the caution we decided to take in the first place, and the temptation to change is irresistible to the calm at the bottom of the abyss. Second, it was the father who cheered him up: in his opinion, the black technology in the Red Moon Cube was both good and bad. If it is something that the entire race is obsessed with and even believes in, it is undoubtedly an artifact of national destruction, but if it is only used as cutting-edge scientific research within a limited range, it is still very useful, and it is necessary to pay attention to the problem of scale, the old empire just failed to resist the temptation of these "technological miracles", and rashly expanded the field of void research to cause destruction, and now with a lesson from the past, presumably Tavel will not make the same mistake.

What's more, according to the Father, as long as the new empire has a void creature in charge, there will be no big mess: the void creatures are almost immune to the pollution of the abyss, and can even purify them in turn. As long as my spiritual power is still reverberating in the spiritual network of the new empire, it is impossible for the abyss to spread catastrophically, and the super explosion that led to the collapse of the old empire has caused many Xiling technicians to have psychological shadows, and now they can put down their minds a little.

Tavel mentioned that the number of staff in the research center is still enough, but there is a lack of powerful super hosts to assist in processing data, and now this problem has been solved: the six super-evolved mass production hosts have entered new jobs, which is to help Tavel reverse engineer the blueprint of the still incomplete deep diving ship, and the feedback shows that the six little sisters are doing very well at work, as if they have taken another step on the road of evolution after being guests at home. Shandora guessed that this was because the previous super-evolved hosts were not sure whether the changes they produced were a trouble or a fortune for the empire, and they were very uneasy for fear of being sent to dismantle and study, so they could not exert their full strength, and after obtaining the direct affirmation and intimate contact between the leader of the empire and their mother, these mass production machines that already had "hearts" were no longer burdened, so they gave full play to their performance 100%. It's an interesting explanation, but it's hard to verify, because it's supposed that there are a hundred or so hosts that also have evolutionary tendencies, and I can't stand a hundred bear kids making a fuss at home anyway - when the day comes, I'll apply for political asylum in Zimbabwe!

Autumn is coming to an end again, the weather is getting cooler day by day, I got up early and went out in a cool dress, and when I came back I told me with a puzzled look on her face that she had gained 200 percent on the way, while I continued to move a horse to sit in the yard as always, sipping hot tea, watching the sun that was not very mighty, and paying tribute to another year that was about to go away.

Then, a beautiful petite girl with a ponytail suddenly appeared in my sight—she flashed past the gap on the far right of the courtyard wall, and then her figure jumped along the gap in the row: she was approaching the gate of the courtyard wall.

When he was still wondering whose girl this was, she could ignore Sandora's mental interference, there was a knock on the door.

As with the rehearsal in advance, Yakumo Lan quickly gathered his tail and rushed back to the house with his fried tofu and dog food biscuits, and Avena, who was learning to lay eggs with the crow couple, flew to the roof, I stuffed the jingle bell into my pocket and told her not to come out casually, and then made sure that the mercury lamp was not dangling outside, and only then did I go to open the door with a smile on my face.

Outside the door, a petite girl with a long ponytail and dark purple hair is smiling like a flower.

I quickly glanced at the girl in the handsome black trench coat: "We have no water meter, no electricity meter, the Internet fee has been covered for three years, there is no need to send water, no insurance, the child's kindergarten problem has been solved, please find Uncle Wang across the street for directions......"

The purple-haired girl suddenly patted me the shoulder and shouted, "Ha Luha, you are so interesting-Xingchen is not!" Xingchen! Xingchen!! Xingchen, you come out!! ”

(Na, the renovation bankruptcy is now waiting to be repaid...... So the subscription can be powerful, no, at least make up the toilet money...... To be continued