468. Race against time
"How? Was the ceremony a success? ”
In the spacious and bright secret room, the assassination angel stood on the periphery of the three-dimensional magic circle and asked Li Nuo, who had opened his eyes in the magic circle.
Li Nuo shook his head slightly, dissipating the slight dizziness in his mind caused by presiding over the ceremony.
After two seconds, he turned into a transparent and invisible breeze and flew out of the circle, and said to the three figures guarding outside the circle:
"With Madam Senati helping to reduce the delay in communication between the inner and outer stars, the ceremony was a success. With zero delay, I only tried once to contact the cucumber slice located 30 kilometers underground on Dianjin Island. That's what he told me about what he saw in the illusion space..."
Li Nuo began to paraphrase the words of the cucumber slice.
The three figures in front of him listened quietly.
The figure on the left is a clone of the assassination angels, and the purple mist is steaming, and the true face cannot be seen clearly.
The milky figure in the middle is a spiritual structure made out of the "Order", which carries the will of the "Order".
The figure on the right is orange, and it looks a bit like a jelly man with orange glitter in its body, smooth on the outside and bright on the inside. Similarly, the figure could not see its true face, even though it did not cover its body with purple mist as he did in the assassination of the angel.
This is a doppelganger of Senati.
If it weren't for Cenati's help in reducing the communication delay between the inner and outer starry sky, Li Nuo would not have been able to withstand a delay of up to 5 minutes, stuck in the 1 minute after the death of the cucumber slice and waiting for rebirth, and contact this inverted frieze egg that was called by the metal progenitor dragon as a coolie.
"That's the way it is. The illusion that appeared in that illusion space was similar to the illusion cast by the brain stem in the angel voice space, and it also told the process of 'Dilan Paradise' hiding in the holy fire to fight the collapse of the universe. ”
李诺 says:
"I explained to Cucumber Slices that this is an abnormal brain brainwashing human beings with its own worldview setting. This statement may be a bit flawed, but it should be able to stabilize the cucumber slices in a short period of time. ”
Li Nuo estimated the time in his heart:
"Referring to the death experience of cucumber slice this time, his next death should be within 3 minutes."
The ritual that was performed just now was mediated by the body of the cucumber slice left on the "real" planet, and the target of the ritual was the soul of the cucumber slice.
If you really want to do something, you can only do it at the soul level of cucumber slices.
The doppelganger of the assassination angel is silent, as if communicating with the ontology.
After a few seconds, He said:
"In half an hour at most, I'll be ready there, ready to do anything about the server group at the Metal Creation Group headquarters."
"Half an hour...", Li Nuo thought for a moment and said:
"Half an hour is enough for cucumber slices, winter melons, and kelp to die ten times. Their souls will be weakened as a result, and the success rate of rituals to communicate with souls will inevitably become lower and lower. ”
"Command" said through the milky white spiritual structure:
"We can use rituals to replenish their soul energy, but doing so may attract the attention of the metal progenitor dragons who are watching the scene closely. Even if the Metal Ancestral Dragon didn't care much about the growth of the soul, it was unlikely that the soul strength of the three cucumber slices would escape the eyes of the Death Steel Army. Those metal skeletons have a very deep study of the soul, and they are definitely experts in this area. ”
"In this way, it is quite risky to use the ritual to replenish the soul energy of the cucumber slices..."Li Nuo fell into thought.
Senati's doppelganger was not involved in the discussion.
In fact, after the great reduction in strength, this angel who can predict the time and evolution of the short-term future has to concentrate what little power he has left on the barrier that controls the inner starry sky, and it is difficult to squeeze out the extra power to help.
In the words of the Assassination Angel, Senati is like an anesthesiologist, and it's best not to speak.
When He spoke, it was bound to be bad news.
Either the barrier of the inner starry sky has been destroyed by someone again, or he is speeding up the loss of control of the inner starry sky barrier.
In short, a quiet Senati is a soothing angel of time and evolution.
It is worth mentioning that Senati personally experienced the earth-shattering battle between the star gods and the gods.
He sealed this history in the "Echo Chip".
This "Echo Chip" is one of the rewards that Leno and the Assassin Angel received after helping the "Order" eliminate the spies of the Dark God Cult.
Before starting the ceremony, Li Nuo had just finished reading the contents of the "Echo Chip", which gave him a new understanding of the battle between gods and gods.
To sum it up:
I can't read it, I really can't read it.
After Li Nuo's consciousness sank into the "reverberation chip", he only saw the changing lines and the constantly flickering light, and his ears were full of buzzing noise.
What kind of star god, what kind of eternal heaven outside the universe, Li Nuo didn't even see a shadow, and he was completely confused.
The assassination angel watched it with relish, and exchanged moments with Senati and the "Order".
The three extraordinary beings were not surprised that Li Nuo failed to "echo the specific scene in the Echo Chip", and when his future life level was high enough, he would naturally be able to get a glimpse of the true face of that great war.
Time passes in the discussion.
Li Nuo pinched the right time, returned to the ritual circle, and contacted the cucumber slices in the starry sky again.
On the other side, in the space station of the Space Navy of the Unification Bureau, numbered B-76, the assassination angel itself went out in person.
The B-76 space station is not a separate entity, it is part of the Integrated Bureau Space Naval Star Base, codenamed B.
The structure of Base B resembles the rumored "Dyson sphere" that wraps around the entire star.
It uses dense metal corridors, platforms, and suspended thrusters to build a hollowed-out sphere that intercepts 60% of the star's light around a star in its young adulthood.
The sunlight intercepted by this spherical base will be converted into the energy required by the computing equipment with a conversion rate of more than 90%, and then converted into general computing power by the computing equipment with a conversion rate of 99%, which will be used to drive all the facilities of the B base.
From artificial intelligence engineers performing maintenance tasks outside metal tunnels, to various deep-space probes that calculate the gravitational pull of celestial bodies, monitor gate flows, and search for abnormal space signals, to remotely command unmanned fleets to carry out missions.
Everything that belongs to Base B consumes the computing power produced by Base B.
Interestingly, the server cluster of the local area network where the headquarters of the metal creation group is located is located in the core area of Base B, that is, the space station codenamed B-76.
To be precise, the main body of the B-76 space station is the server group of this local area network.
Anyone who comes here for the first time will be shocked by the mountains of tall servers, the diameter of the liquid cooling pipes of these servers alone is more than 30 meters, and it is hard to imagine how much computing power will be consumed by such a large server group every minute.
Blowing up a server group of this size is difficult, but it's also very simple.
Through preliminary investigation, Li Nuo found that the most vulnerable point in the B-76 space station is the connection between the space station and the nearby space station.
Space B-76 is connected to a nearby space station via a semi-stationary space corridor, which itself does not generate the thrust of the space station floating above the star.
So, if these junctions are blown away, the B-76 space station will fall gravitationally at a very high marginal growth rate towards the star, and be burned up by the star within two minutes of the explosion.
The Assassination Angel accepted Lenovo's offer.
He commanded the invisible psychic construct to deploy its own special extraordinary bomb at the junction of the space station.
At the same time, he himself entered the server group and carefully searched for the will of the metal progenitor dragon that might exist.
After Leno made contact with Cucumber Slices for the sixth time through a ritual, the Assassination Angel unsurprisingly discovered the cats hidden within the server group.
Known as the "hysterical brain", Uwai Ei has placed an extraordinary aura in the corner of the server group that will make people fall into illusions.
According to the assassination angel speculation, this "hysterical brain" should be the one who hides behind the scenes of the angel enterprise consortium and secretly manipulates the consortium to create artificial angels.
According to the historical information presented in the "Echo Chip", the predecessor of "Hysterical Brain" was Fan Yana, the Angel of the Heart.
In addition, the Assassination Angel also discovered a metal Ancestral Dragon clone hiding in an inconspicuous pipeline in the server group.
The doppelganger is dormant, lying silently in a pipe more than two meters in diameter. Taking advantage of its inherent metal affinity, it blends itself with its environment in such a way that it is almost impossible to distinguish.
Thanks to the Assassination Angel's absolute expert in the field of assassination and reconnaissance, otherwise someone else would have come - such as Li Nuo, who really wouldn't have been able to discover the existence of this metal progenitor dragon clone.
The Assassin Angel used the Veil of Separation to place an enchantment near this clone to isolate itself from the outside world.
As long as the barrier is not broken, it is impossible for the clone to detect the explosion that occurs outside the barrier.
"I'm ready here." The doppelganger of the assassination angel who remained at the scene of the ceremony asked Li Nuo:
"How's your situation there?"
"The three cucumber slices have been killed 15 times in the past half an hour, and their soul strength has significantly decreased a lot."
Li Nuo said in a deep voice:
"I estimate that from the 19th resurrection of the cucumber slice, the ritual will not be able to sense his soul. Due to the limited time available for each contact, I was not able to observe the condition of the souls of the winter melon and kelp. However, judging from the situation of cucumber slices, the situation of winter melon and kelp should be just as bad. ”
"So, let's get started now." The doppelganger of the Assassination Angel fell silent after speaking.
Li Nuo turned around and returned to the ritual circle.
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The inner barrier of the inner starry sky, near the entrance to the phantom space.
The three of them were tired and collapsed like dogs that had been slipped by their owners for dozens of kilometers, lying on the crystal ground on all fours.
The Dead Steel soldier next to him stepped forward, lifted them off the ground with a rough movement, and walked towards the entrance of the Colorful Cave.
"Here we go again."
"Don't let people live"
"Other tasks cost money, but your mission is fatal..."
The two of them complained weakly.
The cucumber slice felt light and fluttering, and he couldn't muster his strength, so he could only let the dead steel soldiers carry him around.
His head rattled like an electric drill, and dizziness hit him like a tidal wave.
It's not like death and resurrection have happened one after the other in the past, but the cucumber slice has never been weaker than it is now.
It is estimated that after the abnormal brain forcibly controlled itself, it also adjusted some parameters involving perceptual feedback, which caused him to appear weak after many resurrections.
Taking a deep breath, the cucumber slice cheered up, clicked on the chat group, and posted a text in the group:
"Listen to me, someone will come and get us out in a moment. You two must do what I say. ”
"Who will come to our rescue?"
"How can he save it? Do you want to unplug the network cable directly? ”
"If pulling out the wire could have saved us from this bird place, then Strawberry they'd already done that..."
Ignoring the winter melon and kelp who were complaining in the group, the cucumber slice continued to type and said:
"After entering the dungeon, the three of us will meet as soon as possible, and we must not act alone. Do you understand? I was born at 3 o'clock on the Unreal screen when I entered the dungeon, and you all rushed to me, don't go to the Unreal screen for that weird meeting. ”
Winter melon and kelp barely cleaned up their depressed mood, and replied in the group:
"Roger."
"I know."
After the previous 15 explorations, the three of them summed up several rules.
First, after entering the dungeon, as long as you get close to the silver-white silk thread in front of you, you will be teleported to the meeting site by this thing that connects all the planets.
Second, instead of approaching the silvery-white thread in front of you, you can travel between different planets by approaching other threads. If you don't arrive at the meeting, you won't die because you receive too much information.
Third, there is a time limit for the dungeon to be invisible. Regardless of the method used to prolong the time spent in the dungeon, they will face death after about 6 minutes.
These three laws are summed up with the lessons of blood.
In other words, the three of them must assemble within 6 minutes, otherwise it will be very difficult for the GM to rescue them together.
Whoever falls behind will be constantly in the cycle of death.
Cucumber slices accentuated the tone, and made a voice message, emphasizing it again:
"Be sure to meet me in 6 minutes! Did you hear me clearly? If anyone doesn't come, don't blame me for not taking him with me when I left this place! ”
Winter melon and kelp solemnly replied in the group:
"Got it, Boss!"
"As long as I can go out, let alone meet you within 6 minutes, even if I wash it up in 6 minutes, it's no problem!"
"By the way, Boss, do you know something?" Winter melon asked suddenly.
In the past, winter melon has asked the same thing.
Since it has not yet received a clear instruction from the GM, the cucumber slice has not answered the question of winter melon positively.
Now that GM has decided to get the three of them out, there's no need to continue to hide anything.
Cucumber Slices prepared a corresponding statement after confirming that the GM had greatly agreed to reveal some information on his own.
But before he could say anything, the Dead Steel soldier threw it hard, and the whole person of the cucumber slice flew into the colorful hole along the parabolic trajectory.
A new round of quest has begun.
When the words came to his lips, the cucumber slice turned to say:
"Don't ask, just do what I say. Remember! Within 6 minutes, be sure to come over! When I'm out of here, I'll find another chance to tell you what's going on! (End of chapter)