Shadow Space is a very large place, and although it doesn't reach the exaggerated scale of the Vengeful Lair that dominates the entire universe, after a long period of construction and expansion, it now has the size of a small galaxy, so we can now put a lot of things in this place that need to be properly protected, such as having a special base far away from Shadow City.

It's a base, but sometimes I jokingly call it a morgue.

It is a very large space, large enough to accommodate several Earth-Moon systems, and its range is marked by a series of limited buoys located on the edge, these buoys hundreds of kilometers away from each other are only the size of a sī car, but they are extremely powerful super gravitational traps, this defense net, which is not very common in regular imperial bases, usually has two functions, the first is to prevent external forces from jumping into the base in extreme cases, and the second is to prevent the contents of the base from rushing out without permission. The shimmering buoys form a closed spherical grid with massive starships parked inside.

The surface of those mighty war machines glowed with a cold metallic sheen of silver gray, and the silent and majestic bodies were arranged in space into a three-dimensional phalanx that made people feel very oppressive, and there was no other light on the surface except for the limited basic lights, and even the never-extinguishing spectral grids on normal imperial warships were dim, giving people the feeling that this fleet had not yet been brought to life. These starships come in all sizes and models, from the smallest assault ships to the largest Eternal-class motherships, and can almost be called an exhibition hall for an Imperial fleet. And in the open space between these warships, there are many flickering space factories and integrated fortresses, whose mission is to produce logistics accessories for the surrounding starships and for the base's maintenance personnel to live, other than that, there is nothing else in this base surrounded by a spherical grid, there is no starport for the production of new ships, there is no starship command center for the large rear, and there is no high-speed barracks to quickly replenish the members of the fallen starship, These things are the essential infrastructure of a normal Imperial space base, but none of them are visible here - because they are not needed at all, and these ships are almost impossible to go on expeditions.

In fact, not long ago, Sandora and I even began to wonder if this base was still necessary, it took up too many Imperial resources, such as more than eighty logistics factories and a large number of skilled workers polishing, waxing and changing the three filters of the spaceship, and at the same time, we had to use a dozen mass production mainframes, more than one hundred and twenty Imperial technicians, and countless soldiers to guard these silent ships, but the result of such a huge investment is that no one can find a way to start those ships until now.

Because they are no longer technically a product of the Empire's technology system, they are something that is on the same level as the old Empire's technology, but in a completely different way of maneuvering - although the iron bumps of these pit dads look exactly like the ships we use now in terms of appearance and main structure.

"When I dragged these things out of the Great Nebula, I thought they were all completely scrapped, but Tavel said that the ships were not structurally damaged."

Sandora and I led a group of curious girls in the family to walk on the bridge passage of the eternal starship sky, the bridge was brightly lit, but there were no soldiers standing guard, and there was no low hum in the passage of normal starship operation, and only the footsteps of a few people accompanied my voice, which made the passage seem particularly deserted.

"None of the ships were able to move at all, even though there was no structural damage," Sandora whispered, "their control systems resemble autonomic machines, and they fell into 'death' after the collapse of the Archive, and to restart them is to either resurrect those autonomic control systems, or simply replace all ships with new ones, which are no less expensive and time-consuming than rebuilding a new one." ”

"Needless to say, I haven't forgotten about it."

I rubbed my forehead helplessly, thinking that Shandora might have some kind of very bad impression of my usual unreliability.

Sandora shook her head: "I'm mainly afraid that readers will forget ......"

We: "......"

Yes, as I said earlier, these ships, which are stored separately and look different from the usual fleets at a glance, are actually the "trophies" that we dragged back from the Great Nebula.

After the end of the Great Nebula Campaign, with the collapse of the Templar and the Archive, most of the Templar Guards were wiped out by the combined forces of the Emperor and the World Realm in the last battle, and many enemy ships chose to blow themselves up with the Archive, but despite this, under the huge base, we still found a lot of Templar Guard ships that were not destroyed, most of them were newly built warships that were still moored in the starport and could not be sent to the battlefield, and some of them had just completed repairs and were also not alive. The ships were towed back by us as trophies, and at the time I thought it was a huge bonus. http://

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Later it turned out that fate had added to me.

These shiny looking ships could not be activated at all, their control systems were self-regulatory organizations developed by the Templar Guardians themselves in the process of self-evolution, and the code executed by such things had been deleted with the collapse of the Archive, and Tavel had tried to make these auto-autonomous ships as easy to control as normal Imperial starships, and her greatest success was to get the thrusters of two starships to activate successfully, but she failed to find where the brakes were—and so far.

Bubbles tried to connect her data excuses to these self-disciplined ships to understand how they "think", and this attempt ended in failure, the child's mother crunched and crashed for a full ten seconds, almost scared me to death, and the first thing she did after recovering was to offer to go shopping outside, which almost scared me to death, but fortunately, the girl recovered after the most - thanks to the glass slag for releasing Diablo 3 in time.

Therefore, after several attempts failed, and Sandora and I couldn't see what to gain from continuing to study these autonomous ships, we suspended the reboot of these iron bumps and put them here waiting to grow mushrooms, not that the scientific research power of the entire empire could not activate these things, mainly because they could not be drawn: although there were a lot of these guard ships, they were still disproportionate compared to the scientific research capital we had to invest, after all, they were all things that could be mass-produced. It's a big deal, I heard that I turned all these things into steel plates......

Anyway, they're all going to be thrown here anyway.

But today, these ships are about to be reborn and given a new lease of life—Tavel's exact words, and the second half of her sentence is: In theory.

"It's been seven days since the renovation, if all goes well......"

Sandora whispered, and then opened the last floodgate in front of her.

The grand command hall of the Eternal class appeared in front of us.

"Today is the day these ships are launched."

We stood on the edge of the officer's platform and looked at the rotunda below.

The Eternal Command Hall that we usually see is always brightly lit, just like the stock trading hall, with flashes and chirps of various control terminals one after another, and busy and orderly battleship commanders passing through endlessly, but the command hall in front of us is still shrouded in darkness, only a limited basic halo emanates from the crystal clusters high above, making the entire hall look like Anvina's hut, and what is more concerning is its main control area, the area where there should be a large number of control terminals is bare, Only a few oddly shaped projection units are displaying warning boxes with no signal inputs, and there are no seats reserved for the operator at all.

This is an unmanned autonomous warship, and no one has been able to activate it so far, so it is certainly not surprising that there is such a command hall.

But we stood on the officer's platform seriously and even a little nervously, looking at the dim and empty battleship control center in front of us, the expressions on each of our faces were more serious and serious, even the shallow ones were nervously grabbing my arm, and they didn't dare to breathe - of course, she might just watch the people around her suddenly quiet down and follow along, this girl never had a serious concept.

Everyone is waiting for a miracle to happen.

"The external link has been completed, and it is expected to be alive in fifteen seconds - in theory."

Tavel's mass projection appeared out of thin air on the officer's platform, her image trembled slightly, and then looked at the environment around us, "I beg your pardon for saying too much, this test is not necessarily safe, and several Your Majesty and the commander rashly entered the interior of the spaceship......

"Just do your own thing, you've reminded us many times that you've done your duty," Sandora interrupted Tavel's last exhortation with a slight smile, "I want to see this scene with my own eyes, get ready to work." ”

"Your will."

Tavel nodded, and the mass projection disappeared into thin air.

A slight flow of energy appeared in the air almost as she vanished, and I heard a low roar coming from the depths of the ship, and the energy readings around me were slowly rising, very slowly, but getting faster as time went on.

Everyone realized that the work on this ancient ship had begun, so they couldn't help but hold their breath at the same time, looking at the still dim and silent command hall.

Time passed minute by minute, and there was still darkness and silence in response, and the various sounds coming from the depths of the spaceship had reached the critical value of normal drive, which indicated that the ship's energy modules and main engines had been warmed up, but the giant holographic projection that should have lit up in the command hall was still dark, which made Sandora's eyebrows furrow slightly.

I looked at the time, and nearly thirty seconds had passed since Jī lived.

But just when everyone thought that the test had failed, a ray of light suddenly appeared in the command hall.

It was the holographic projection device in the center of the hall, it suddenly flashed when we were all about to give up, ready to announce the failure of the test, although no meaningful image popped up, its activation seemed to become a signal, and quickly, the equipment in the hall also brightened one after another, as if there was a dispatch system to power them one by one, the huge command hall was quickly activated in sequence according to the functional area, and the key energy hub was emitted by the rapid charging of the "beep" The sound resounded densely in the hall, and the disappointed expressions on everyone's faces that had not had time to change were trying to adjust to a state of ecstasy.

"Cheng ...... It worked! Even my sister, who has always been steady, couldn't help but move, with an undisguised happy smile on her face, as if she was in a good mood when she was a child, she hugged me and rubbed my cheek hard, and I clenched my fist hard because of jī movement, Ding Dong began to roll my eyes in the palm of my hand, and then rushed out with a tear, Bing Tis whistled loudly, and Lilina obediently took out two hundred yuan and stuffed it into Lin Xue's hand: "You won, you really shouldn't make a bet like you." ”

Only Sandora maintained a rare composure at this time, she coughed vigorously to calm us down, and then said in a deep voice: "It can only mean that the ship's self-discipline module is already controllable, but ...... It's not sure if it's ...... controlled."

"Just ask." I smiled and pressed Sandora's shoulder, knowing that in fact, she was holding great hopes but suffering from gains and losses at this time, and I didn't dare to confirm it myself, so I stepped forward and shouted, "L-15, squeak when you wake up!" ”

As soon as my words fell, the entire command hall began to reply with a 100-decibel circular three-dimensional provincial broadcast: "Squeak-Your Majesty Chen Jun, may I ask if this is the idiom of the Heavenly Region you rule?" ”

Me: "......"

Everyone else was stunned for a few seconds at first, and then they reacted one by one, and began to roll on the ground, grinding their claws, holding their stomachs, and taking out a small book to record the black history of a certain emperor, and I looked at Sandora with a black line: "I didn't know that it was so real - now congratulations, this time it was really successful." ”

Yes, it worked!

A crazy idea, seven days and nights of research and demonstration, and today's thrilling "jī life", in the end, finally ushered in success: the revenge army will be reborn in a huge fleet.

This is the L-15's plan, which has been combined with the will of countless excellent imperial officials to formulate this genius adventure plan, which is to imitate Gaia's way, and pin the spirit of the vengeful officers and soldiers on the imperial weapon.

The success rate of this plan was the highest we could think of so far, and Tavir immediately researched it almost desperately (in fact, I think she was playing with her every time she started a research project), and eventually, she discovered that we really had a group of ships that could take on this kind of responsibility, and that was the Templar Guardian ship with extremely complex and bionic structures - they carried a mutant automatics system capable of carrying the Avengers' mutant spirits, hún. And the latter is also the one who is most likely to control these ships that can't be driven at all through symbiosis.

And so this near-miraculous fleet began to be formed today: a new fleet of revenge.

With a bright red light on her face, she didn't know if she was moving because of the success of the test or if she was simply smiling like this, she took a deep breath to calm down, and with a bright smile turned to the command hall that was operating in an orderly manner without one of them, and now those control terminals and information ports have entered the working state, and each projection screen is quickly refreshing the data of the battleship or the current battleship adjustment conclusion, The giant holographic projection in the center of the hall was still a white grid, and Sandora looked at the grid and said in a deep voice: "L-15, you can use the holographic projection of the battleship to show your own image, although it is not a body, but it is better than a grid." ”

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty," replied in a deep voice, "I can't complete your orders, my subordinates are not yet fully familiar with this set of self-discipline codes, and it will probably take some time to fully control all the equipment here." ”

"Don't care." Sandora replied, her gaze slowly scanning curiously over the pile of automated machines in the hall below, "How are you feeling right now?" What is being done? ”

"My subordinates are trying to update the logical structure of this ship, it has applied an inefficient logical method, obviously the excess accumulated in the process of self-evolution has not been cleared in time, after completing the data update of these logical structures, the synchronization rate between me and this ship may be increased to more than 90%. As for the feeling...... I'm sorry, Your Majesty the Queen, my subordinates may not be able to describe this for the time being, it feels strange to be one with a spaceship, it is not a body, but I can feel that my spirit has extended to every inch of it, every engine of it, every pipe, every sealed gate, is a part of my body, it is not easy to control such a complex body, especially since it does not have conventional perception ability. I now have to rely on a set of information disturbance devices to determine my position in space, and when I move forward, I need to live twenty-six sets of thrusters in order, and the main gun of the spaceship is on a line that is difficult to control directly with my consciousness, which is also a problem, I need some Imperial technicians to help, or other assistants who can help transform the ship, I need to make it more in line with the operating habits of a spirit hún, I'm afraid this is the case with other ships, of course, the situation of small ships may be better. ”

Sandora listened carefully to the report, recording them one by one and forwarding them to the researchers waiting for orders outside, while I opened up my pocket and pulled out a multifunctional mechanical creature the size of a vacuum cleaner floating in the air.

"This is what Gaia asked me to give to you, and there are many more, she said you should be able to use them."

"What is this?" L-15 asked in surprise, "Looks like a mechanical caretaker used to maintain the pipes, but it's been remodeled?" ”

"It's a modified thing," I wiped my nose, and the not-so-quiet automaton seemed to have a basic sanity, and without an order, it had begun to crawl around the officer's platform, looking for mechanical devices that were somewhat alien to it, and whenever it found one, it would scan it, and then grunt and analyze it, as if it were comparing it to something similar in a public database. But I'm afraid it can only get nothing, this is the autonomic spaceship left behind by the Templar Guard, its entire set of control-related equipment is mutated, and there is no record in the public database, "This kind of automatic machine is something designed by Gaia herself, Gaia, the technique you used to transform your spirit hún is what she has experienced, and now she is in a similar situation to yours, except that her spirit hún lives on a planet, and you have become the spirit hún of the battleship." Gaia has built countless of these automata, which accompany her to work and maintain the city, and now with a slight change of programming, they can help you maintain the ship. After all, although the future revenge warship does not need a controller, it still needs a logistics team, and these small machines can be registered as part of the hull parts in the shipbuilding registry, and can be directly controlled by your will at that time, which is definitely more flexible than any kind of logistics personnel. ”

The L-15 immediately expressed great interest in this new automatic machine, and it seems that these gadgets, which Gaia usually makes half-helpful and half-boring, are really necessary for mass production from today.

We didn't stay on the nascent revenge ship for long, the L-15 needed time to get used to its new 'body', and there weren't any rooms for the passengers in the all-unmanned ship, so after making sure everything was in order, and the other ships were starting to "jī live" as planned, we left the ship that already had a spirit hún. RO！。