Chapter 986: The Bottom of the Abyss

The bears and kids who were playing Battlefield 1943 at home were all bombarded upstairs by their older sisters for a nap, including the unfinished XL34 and the XL28 who was used to singing silently, as well as a bunch of other weird super-evolved production consoles, and I was glad that there were enough rooms in the house - I mean I was glad that Pandora had prepared enough space expansion devices for the house, even though she was supposed to use them as Genaku to invade Earth.

Bing Teis was lying on the table writing the inspection, the core idea of the inspection is to deeply realize how serious a mistake it is to encourage underage girls to use dangerous toys including anti-tank guns in other people's homes, it is hard to imagine that such a royal sister with a temperament of Ling Ran has such an honest time to write inspections, but thinking that it is the father who is sitting in front of the supervisor, in fact, this can be imagined. Due to the encouragement of this female hooligan and the "blessing of the goddess" as the backing, the Rose Maiden group and the mass production host group and the calamity group including Asa and Lilina fought in a three-way melee, and nearly half a ton of ammunition was fired in twenty-five minutes, not only was there a layer of bullet casings on the floor of the house, but even Lin Xue poured out a large handful of steel balls when she was wearing shoes, Anvina was sitting on the top of the cabinet, cleaning up the flattened dum bombs from her crow's nest one by one, and the scene in the living room was spectacular. It is estimated that no remnants of ammunition of this density can be found in Leningrad after the war. Bing Tis just used the blessing of the goddess to solve the damage of the ammunition, but she didn't think about cleaning up the house, and what was even more infuriating was that in order to "mark the little players who were eliminated", she removed the cleaning technique on the heads of the dolls, causing my sister and I to have to spend fifteen minutes washing and washing hands and changing clothes for the little guys who made trouble when they saw the water! God testifies, you don't know how difficult it is when you wash your face with Cuixingshi. She was so much more troublesome than a mercury lamp that pinning her under the faucet was as bad as killing her. Of course, the little bubble also gave my sister a lot of trouble: she ate half of the soap without paying attention to the girl.

What's even more infuriating is that there are obviously rules for elimination after being shot, and none of these little girls have evacuated the battle according to the regulations, and the whole person of the mercury lamp has been turned into black briquettes by RPGs and is still fighting bravely, she has to say that it is the original color of the clothes on her body...... Uh, by the way, did I get infected by Bingtis? I care about this!

Asa is also a direct participant in this bear child upheaval, and even the leader of one side - Lilina and her form the third team of the three-way melee. Codenamed Disaster to the Country and the People, Shallow served as the captain and political commissar, Lilina served as the vice captain and everything else, but Shallow didn't have to write the inspection, not to favor his wife, the main thing was that no one dared to read it if she wrote the inspection: for fear of affecting intelligence.

After the living room was almost cleaned up thanks to the joint efforts of Super Maid Anvina and Super Maid Apprentice Poison Island Tsuneko. I sat down with Sandora and the few people left in the house who could get down to business. Study Tavel's research report.

The research report was about a piece of wreckage, the last time she fished out the basement of the Father's house, and she found a black box-like data logging device in the wreckage, and there was something very interesting in it.

"At first, no one noticed that this thing still had data, until we found some annotations in the core database of the abyss dive shipβ€”the one Jun spit out last timeβ€”and these annotations showed that any kind of ** equipment dropped from the abyss dive ship had an emergency recording device. The purpose of these recording devices is to preserve the most reliable research data in the event that the deep-diving ship is unfortunately shipwrecked and cannot return to the sea, in order to return to the main material plane, the Empire's front-line scientists will indeed make such preparations, more than half of their projects are hidden in danger of not returning, so they are used to backing up all research data everywhere as if writing a will," Sandora explained to me the reason why the black box was discovered, "but I didn't expect them to do this before, There was a recorder on the coordinate indicator that was thrown out. ”

"According to the intelligence left by the recorder. After the dive ship left, it chose to continue to the depths of the abyss according to the last remote control command. The beacon is extremely powerful, and it once had a shell made entirely of astral stone. And there are three layers of shields, this is because once the deep diving ship is wrecked, these beacons that eject out of the sea will have to bear the heavy responsibility of sending back the most powerful information, so in fact, their protection is stronger than the mother ship as a whole, which is not surprising, the 'black box' made by the earthlings should generally be the strongest part of the vehicle. Amazingly, the coordinate marker was so lucky that it didn't encounter an abyssal attack beyond the design threshold, and its camouflage system operated for tens of thousands of years before shutting down due to energy depletion, and this camouflage system provided an information marker similar to the Abyssal Response, allowing camouflaged units to be less vulnerable to Abyssal attacks, one of the deformed techniques created by the X-Meter at the end of the Empire, which was applied to some components of the dive ship. If you look at its log, the empire had been asleep for tens of thousands of years when this camouflage system was shut down. ”

I was amazed: "This means that it is still functioning normally after the Empire sleeps, because the Abyss has blocked external communications, it has not collapsed from the inside due to network pollution, and the Abyss Environment has protected the only surviving Imperial creation?!" ”

"Black humor." God used a very earthly word to describe it.

Shandora continued to point out the key parts of the log to us: "According to the records here, until all the equipment in the wreckage was forced to shut down, the beacon had penetrated into an incredible place, according to the calculations of the small host, it was far away from any of the abyssal gates, and the radar of all frequency bands only fed back the abyssal breath, and the traces of the main material universe were gone. It was the core hinterland, and this small lighthouse had been floating to the very core of the Abyss Realm without danger, and Tavel calculated that the chance of this happening was less than 1 in 100,000, and it did just that. After the camouflage system was shut down, the beacon began to suffer severe erosion, the three layers of shields were extinguished one by one, and then the Astral Stone shell was corroded, and the remaining structure became what we saw, and then- yes, Jun. That's what the most critical part of the index you just saw tells us: the moment this wreck is supposed to die after all the protective systems have been eroded. But the exact opposite happened! ”

When Sandora said this, she took a deep breath: "The abyss has calmed down!" ”

"But the peace is not gone," the Father could roughly read the report, and he nodded to a string of data on the holographic projection, "Your text indicates that the abyss concentration at the current time/space point is positively infinite. ”

"Incredible." Sandora nodded, "The Abyssal Hinterland has an infinite concentration of pollution as we imagined, but unlike what we imagined, all the abysses here are dormant, and there are no chaotic storms of destruction. There is no hostility. There is no erosion, the abyss flows calmly, and it does not attack any targets, including beacons that trespass into their homes. ”

"It's a distance that even the gods have not been able to reach," the Father lamented, "and we haven't been there on one of our deepest expeditions." It's incredible that there is no hostility in the hinterland of the abyss. ”

"It's even more incredible here." Sandora looked at me, seemed to prepare me, and then opened another report, "Here's a transcript of its communications. Jun: You should remember that the deep-diving ship sent a wide-area message before leaving the abyss, and this message sounded like a request for contact, and your guess at the time was that this message might have been sent by the deep-diving ship to test the theory that all the abyssal gates were connected to each other behind the scenes. It sends this within the Abyss in the hope that listening stations located at the exits of other Abyssal Gates will pick up the message. However, the log of the dive ship mentions that the diving distance is not enough. This message is supposed to be lost in the abyssal environment.

"In fact, this is not the case, their message has survived, albeit very weakly, but should have gone further than this floating lighthouse, whose black box recorded a communication that lasted for several seconds, showing that it tracked the call that was still echoing and replaying......"

My sister said in surprise: "Tracked? It's been tens of thousands of years since that message was sent, and at that distance, it should have decayed to the point where it was completely unrecognizable. ”

"The problem is, this message is no longer the original," Sandora exhaled, "this is Tavel's conjecture, this message is not the original version that was sent out back then, it was picked up by something, amplified by something, and then broadcast in the abyss for tens of thousands of years. ”

In an instant, there was silence in the living room, and everyone was digesting and processing this informative piece of information, including the Father.

As if sensing that our surprise wasn't complete enough, Sandora paused for only a few seconds before continuing: "The beacon was badly damaged by this time, but it was still functioning, and it did the last thing before the radar system stopped: it randomly selected the 'direction' of the main material plane and relayed this message with maximum intensity.

"According to the abyssal layer count on the journal and the beacon, this relay took place between fifteen and seventeen years ago, and its chosen main material plane vaguely points to the current territory of the new empire. And then everyone knows about it, it came out of the Father's house for some inexplicable reason. ”

"To sum up, Ah Jun, what do you remember?" Sandora said the last thing and looked this way.

I slowly put my hand on my forehead, as if to suppress the turbulent thoughts: "In the 'Brigade Wall' of the Temple of the Supreme Goddess of Life, I went back to the past, fifteen or sixteen years ago, I and my sister had a dark sky that was misrepresented as a solar eclipse, and I heard a voice...... me, some things are really undisciplined once they start to dramatize. ”

"What Jun heard at that time was not a message from the deep diving ship, but something that was amplified and translated back after being received by something at the bottom of the abyss," Sandora turned off the holographic projection, "Father, you have been in contact with the abyss for the longest time, what do you think about its structure?" ”

"The abyss cannot be regarded as energy, nor can it be regarded as matter," the Father said slowly, "I have always thought that it should be regarded as a phenomenon and a concept, but at the same time, the abyss can be measured, according to the process of the abyss, when an abyss is born, there will be an abyssal generation, and the two correspond to each other, but perhaps in this process I only pay attention to its 'phenomenon' level, and behind it there is a mysterious world that we have never explored...... It's not clear whether the feedback is a conscious thing, or just a natural phenomenon created by some structure at the 'bottom' of the abyssβ€”I mean the echo wall. ”

"First of all, we affirm a new fact: the abyss has a bottom, or that the abyss has an end. On the opposite side of this end, there may be one or more conscious individuals. There may also be a 'structure' that can be described as ordered information, because without such a structure, it would not be possible to process a piece of information in such a complex way and broadcast it for tens of thousands of years. ”

I looked at Sandora and the Father, who had serious expressions, and suddenly made a decision:

"Tavel, how much has the dive ship's database been repaired?"

"Read eighty percent, Your Majesty." At any given time, Tavel had at least one mass projection in working condition, so she immediately responded, "The logs have all been cracked, the technical parameters of the deep-diving ship itself have been cracked by ninety percent, and the progress of cracking technical literature such as research results is slow." The number is too large. ”

"That can be put aside for a while - do you have a way to restore the dive ship now?"

There was a moment of silence on Tavel's side. The strong and confident royal sister used a hesitant tone this time: "Your Majesty, it is theoretically feasible, but there are some sensitive and dangerous projects......"

I didn't rush and waited for Tavel to explain.

"If your request is to replicate a dive ship exactly, then I'm afraid you'll need to use the black technology in the Red Moon Cube," Tavel said in one breath, "Abyss Camouflage Technique. The void stacks shields, self-consistent mathematical law protection nets, and we also have to create a dimensionally different database - the existing dimensional difference database kernel is bound by a frequency, and no new data can be written, and the apostle who can unlock this frequency lock has been dead in battle for tens of thousands of years, and we can only make a new one. Due to the paradoxical nature of dimension-difference databases in the mathematical system, this means that we have to destroy the one at hand in order to make room for a new database to form. This is also the black technology inside the Red Moon Cube. In addition, there are still 10% blanks in the blueprint of the deep-diving ship in our hands after filling in. This part of the gap needs to be reverse-engineered to fill it, and it will take time. We have plenty of people, but we don't have enough hosts to handle such a large amount of data to assist with the work. ”

I glanced at Sandora, who had been listening to my and Tavel's channel, and after the comm was temporarily suspended, she rubbed her brow and whispered, "Sure enough, the Red Moon Cube, I really don't want to touch that kind of thing...... Ah Jun, do you really want to follow the old path they walked back then? ”

"They may be on the right path, but they are in too haste," the Father interjected suddenly, "you are a creative race, and you are always more astute in spotting clues than we are, but you are too easy to rush forward, and every plan will be accomplished by any means, I have warned...... Well, there's no point in saying this now, I just think that maybe your compatriots really discovered the secret of the depths of the Void back then, maybe it was ...... Wait, maybe it's the Void Cataclysm, that's why they started those plans to study the Void rashly, and that deep-diving ship may not just be used to study the Abyss, but it's a pity that they are in too much of a hurry, and they are stubbornly unwilling to listen to our advice. Now we might as well try again what they did, and I'm sure you won't make the same mistake this time. After all, now that you have a Void creature as the leader, Chen's inertia will reconcile the aggressiveness of your entire race. ”

Me: "...... Just say I'm an abs. ”

Father nodded slightly: "What is ABS?" ”

Sandora's eyes suddenly brightened after her father's voice fell, and she thought of something else: "You mean, someone at the end of the Old Empire may have sensed the Void Cataclysm?" ”

"It's just a guess, after gradually connecting a lot of things, maybe this is the only reason that can explain why you suddenly launched so many dangerous plans, and these plans are used to study and create the void, this warship you call the deep diving ship is the same, although it is used to explore the abyss, but the abyss is also the most important phenomenon in the void, it can almost be said that the essence of the abyss goes straight to the truth of the void, if there is a secret hidden at the bottom of the abyssal world, Then this secret is mostly hidden by the void. ”

"It's a pity I don't know anything," Sandora shrugged self-deprecatingly, "I was the only one out on an expedition at the end of the Old Empire, and that time I ran so far that I even reached the edge of the information network. Three thousand years of expeditions, everything turned upside down. ”

I put my hand on Sandora's shoulder and pressed it slightly, though I wanted to say that it was a blessing, at least she had escaped the catastrophic storm of the abyss and had only fallen into a state of weakness, but I couldn't say it as much as I wanted, really, if I had said it without the heart, she would have eaten me raw with chili sauce......

"You said that if it was such a major discovery, why didn't they tell the Protoss, good friends for life...... Ahem, huh? Bing Tisi didn't know when Lu Dao was already full of blood, and stuffed the three thousand words of the spilled test into my hand and sat on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, "Chen, you check it and give it a good review." ”

"A sense of honor? Racial self-esteem? Or is it simply too much self-confidence," Sandora shook her head with a wry smile, "At the end of the old empire, these things were inflated everywhere, and too many unnecessary negative tendencies spread among all the leaders, although there is limited knowledge of the X plan, I can also be sure of what is going on, we are confident that we can solve all problems, at least we don't see the coffin and don't shed tears, and for a standard Hiling apostle, protecting your own race is your own business, you think about it, just because you are afraid of death, you ask for help from your allies pitifully, Even to avoid the Void Cataclysm, we had the Father (the only void creature that the Old Empire had access to) to 'authorize' all of our own territory? No matter how good the relationship with the Protoss is, I can't accept this emotionally. ”

Bingtis pouted: "To die is to save face and suffer sin." ”

"Racial glory is more than just face," the Father smiled gently, "the true Hiling Apostle and the true Protoss will do the same thing. Okay, let's not talk about that, those are still our speculations, who knows what happened to the old empire, why they discovered the Void Cataclysm but didn't tell anyone, and even whether they really discovered the Void Cataclysm, these are still uncertain. Now the first question is not to speculate about history, but to think about what is inside the abyss. "To be continued...... rq