No one thought that "mutation", or in the words of Bingtis: "promotion", would have spread to this extent without our knowledge. I thought it would only affect the people and animals around us. , but I didn't expect that the most influential area would be an asteroid belt in Shadow City-this is really puzzling, because according to my thinking, the "priority" of mutations there should be lower. Since the mutation is caused by the information disturbance of the void creature, it is natural that things that are closer to me will mutate earlier and stronger. Qianqian and her sister's power should be considered the same (although I don't know what the divinity needs. It can only be produced, but their current power really stunned many star field gods, especially the sister's curse, which is also effective for Bingtis: although it has to be discounted, they are still getting stronger), And An Weena is her personal maid, so it's the same. Although the crow in the yard has little to do with him, but no matter what, he lives with him, and it's An Weina's pet. These connections are considered close. But what about an asteroid belt in shadow space
Could it be that I am still related to a pile of rocks...
After some thinking, the conjecture of Bingtis, an expert in the god world, is as follows: the information disturbance of void creatures is a probabilistic event. The probability of mutating is a little higher, but the things that are farthest together may mutate earlier, but the probability is very low. But it is not impossible), and the degree of mutation has nothing to do with distance: the power of the void has never cared about the distance , this explanation makes sense. She guessed that maybe my information disturbance power has spread to the entire empire through the spiritual network of the apostles, so it is within the vast sphere of influence of the empire. Anything that is loyal to the emperor has a probability of mutating, whether it is a crow in the yard or a stone in a place where birds don't shit. It is possible to "enjoy the grace of the Lord" at any time.
Such a conjecture is interesting, which shows that we can't judge when the Apostle Xiling will be able to complete the promotion... Dare I belong to the east hammer and the west stick
I don't know what Father God did when he was promoted to the gods... um. I remembered that when God the Father was promoted to the gods, he even created the God Realm. He simply accepted an apprentice-level task as a journeyman, and I was kicked out of preschool before graduating from preschool. Researching how to create gods... Damn, I haven't even finished creating humans yet!
Cough cough, it may be that Qianqian has been pulling me to try to create Chen Xiaoqian in advance these two days, so that my thinking is a bit biased.
Those strange ores have been tested by Tavel several times, and it can be determined that they are things that have been mutated rather than intermediate products: their various properties are very stable. Moreover, the difficulty of processing is moderate, and its strong affinity for psionic energy (in fact, all types of energy, but for Xiling apostles, only minerals with high affinity with psionic energy are valuable) may be due to my usual contact with There are more psionic energy in them, and they also have the same tendency to mutate. This is a very good property, which makes them have the same mineral value as the star gold stones in the gods: the former has an affinity for various energies such as psionic energy. Ninety percent, the latter is as high as ninety percent resistant to various energy attacks. Although the attribute gap is quite large, as long as it is used well, it is an important strategic resource. For the time being, these ores are named "Original Energy Mine". The name was given by Sandora, and I am quite satisfied.
Everyone must have guessed it. In fact, Qianqian also got involved when choosing the name—she strongly suggested that these minerals between metals and crystals should be named "Huangxue Mine", which means "the ore formed by the emperor's blood". It's rare that this girl can come up with such a meaningful name. I was almost moved by this name, but Lin Xue's leisurely reminder woke me up: This name means that your dead body is everywhere.
You see, Lin Xue's black-bellied and poisonous tongue has not declined at all, but now she is better at attacking weak points...
"Origin Energy Mine" is the first local mineral produced in the shadow space in history. Of course, the most concerned thing is its continuous production. If there is only one asteroid belt that can produce Origin Energy Mine, then this kind of The core of future equipment has little use value. Fortunately, after investigation, we found that the source energy mines are not a one-time product: they are still growing slowly in the depths of the shadow space, and the mutation will continue before I take the initiative to ban it, and now the source energy mines in the shadow space The reserve seems to be quite a lot—if all of it is mined, it will be enough to replace all the spaceships of the First Legion with a set of energy plugs that improve performance by 50%.
... Well, it doesn't seem like much, we have at least six main legions that need to be refitted, and the entire reserve of the source energy mine is only enough to replace one part of each spaceship of one of the legions. It seems that enough time is needed for the mineral to continue to grow.
Tavel is already looking for the law of ore mutation. She hopes to find the original form of the source energy mine before it mutates, and then "seed" a large amount of shadow space. This kind of mineral deposit is simply too important for us who lack sufficient technology. Maybe it It is the only means to reverse the equipment gap between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles.
On the day Sandora learned of the source energy mine incident, she issued an order to all sites in the macro world and the vassal world, asking the local personnel to start checking the things that are mounted on the Xiling civil communication network in this world. Nothing can fall. Including the staff of the various offices of the Space-Time Administration, daily utensils, and even the flowers and plants in their yards, in short, as long as the Xiling network arrives, it will be checked as a sampling observation point. If Bingtis' conjecture is correct, then Even the world farthest from me may be affected by the Internet—why do I feel like an Internet virus
This is a long-term work. According to my current ability to influence, the probability of things in remote areas being affected may have a string of zeros after the decimal point. And the work won't stop until I'm fully "grown up". How old is this? Bingtis' experience didn't work this time. She could only say that she would go back to the Father God in two days and ask how long it took for his first creations to be completed. Now I desperately hope that this is not a half-billion-year plan—the Father's half-billion-year plan. Putting it on me is estimated to be life-threatening!
Speaking of which, I don't know how the Starfield God Realm's power system was established at the beginning, but it seems that Xilingside's preparations before the promotion of the whole family are quite full of their characteristics: swiftness. The scale is huge, and the whole people are involved in battle at every turn. Those Protoss back then who were slow and had no concept of time must not be as active as us... Maybe I have to go to the God Realm in the future to ask the Father God for advice on the life experience of building a house and having children... The creation of God Realm is not like that in essence What's the matter
And at the same time that this project, which may take many, many years to complete, was started, another imminent work was being prepared, and the imperial leadership—the First Family, and more than half of the senior officers of the command—were Gathered in a desolate fringe universe, prepare for the New Empire's first deep dive experiment.
The deep-diving ship prototype "Far Traveler" has completed its long 24-hour recharging, and is now quietly standing in front of our eyes. The nearest large celestial body is an aging red giant star. On the surface of this star, there is a pitch-black hole imprisoned by a force field. That is the entrance selected for the first deep dive, the most stable abyss gate controlled and used for observation and research within the empire.
Compared with other mature starships in the empire, the appearance of the deep submersible ship is really ugly. It is a silver-gray, bare cuboid-like shape, with a quarter of the bow and stern contracted obviously, which makes it far away from the ship. Looking like a stunted mango, the size of the deep diving vessel is only a few hundred meters long. Counting the external antenna that will be discarded soon after setting sail, it will not be able to reach the kilometer-level gate. For a spacecraft that needs to perform space missions, the size of a few hundred meters is quite inconspicuous, but the smaller the size of the deep submersible, the fewer technical problems it has to deal with (the most critical is the shield system, the huge The surface area of the shield means that it will be exposed to more pollution. The lifespan will be shorter), Tavier must choose the most practical solution. This prototype ship does not need a manned function, which saves a lot of space, allowing Tavel to install as many spare information storage devices as possible while keeping the spaceship small enough. The main part of the deep submersible ship does not see much auxiliary equipment, it does not have a large communication array for the fleet (only a set of communication devices for temporary communication inside), no weapon system at all, and even the jump drive is not visible. Parabolic protrusions. These are not needed or cannot be produced.
In the abyss, the deep submersible ship has no way to communicate with the "friendly ship", and does not need to fight - it is certain that with this fragile prototype ship, no matter what it encounters in the abyss, it will be the same end, so it has become a new empire The only unarmed ship ever built. In addition, we did not install a jump drive to it, but this is due to some technical problems: we know very little about the spatial structure inside the Abyss Gate, only that it does not follow the known spatial laws at all, and the mathematical system is also bizarre. In that environment, the spaceship couldn't jump through time and space, so Tavel simply canceled the jump drive function of the deep diving ship.
One of the important tasks of this operation of the deep diving ship is to collect more data about the spatial laws in the abyss, so as to prepare for our next experimental ship, such as studying how to drive the deep diving ship in the abyss.
To put it bluntly, it is a pathfinder.
This universe is the most suitable testing ground after careful selection. It is located on the border of the empire, in a buffer layer that can be discarded at any time, and several worlds adjacent to it are non-colonial areas. This universe may have once bred simple civilizations. At that time, the pioneering forces who discovered this world once found things that were suspected to be leftovers of intelligent races on some broken planetary fragments, but they had already perished. When the pioneers discovered here, the entire space It is full of wreckage of stars, and the few remaining crumbling red giant stars or other twilight celestial bodies are seriously infected. One of the red giant stars quietly clings to an abyss gate. Although this gate has not erupted yet, the abyssal atmosphere pervading everywhere has destroyed everything in this world. This is the second type of pollution typical of the abyss gate: there is no super large abyss gate. However, a low-intensity abyss "mist" filled the entire space at the same time. This kind of pollution may not be a big deal to advanced civilizations, but it can easily lead to catastrophe in an instant for low-level civilizations that have no resistance. Later, the emperor used the death garden to cut off most of this universe and throw it into the endless void. The remaining part of the space containing the gate of the abyss was reserved as a testing ground for samples urgently needed by imperial scientists. A raven squad and several elite combat squadrons are stationed here, and the ravens use their own power to maintain the stability of the last red giant star in the universe—the abyss gate has completely parasitized on this planet. We can only choose to "hitch" this planet to the gate of the abyss.
The engine of the deep diving ship has not been started yet, and it was pulled by a medium-sized barge to tens of kilometers above the gate of the abyss. The barge is equipped with the last batch of support equipment needed before the deep submersible ship can be launched. Many people present can see that this thing uses a lot of old-fashioned technologies, such as data exchange systems that require physical connections, charging pipes, and that stupid barge: In order to improve the success rate of the first test , Tavel has rejected more than 80% of new technologies that are ingenious but lack practical data.
We are located quite close to the test site: only ten kilometers away. In this position, the deep diving ship and the gate of the abyss are clearly visible, and the hazy and huge body of the red giant star is like an endless plain of fire—the observatory automatically adjusts the light coming in from outside. Otherwise, how many dog eyes would be blinded at this time.
At 2:20 p.m., a report from the control team of the deep-diving ship sounded on the observation platform: "The energy furnace is operating normally, ready to release the external energy gate, ten, nine, eight... three, two, one. Offline. Everything Normal, the deep-diving ship is maintaining its own energy, and the equipment restarts. Transfer to the next working group."
"The terminal data verification is completed, the deep dive ship database is normal, and the redundant storage units from 1 to 175 are online. The data synchronization is good. The core database is locked, and external changes are now prohibited. The data connection with the target is about to be disconnected , Ten, nine, eight... Three, two, one, offline. Everything is normal, the deep submersible ship has started to operate autonomously, and the equipment should have restarted. The engineer team, after confirming that the deep submersible ship equipment is working normally, will withdraw and will start the disengagement procedure.”
"Here is the engineering team, all the equipment is in normal operation, we are closing the gate. The engineering team has activated the transfer device, we are about to disengage from the deep dive ship, now release the barge lock... The release is successful, we are back."
There are many large-scale holographic projection devices on the observation platform, showing the current status of the deep diving ship-barge combination from various angles and distances. The traction field between the two suddenly flickered, and then the barge slowly rose, and the deep dive The submarine began to fall towards the gate of the abyss under the gravitational force of the red giant star, and at the same time, the surface of this unremarkable cuboid starship suddenly began to float with mixed blue and green light, which was the unique shield system of the deep dive ship. It imitates the basic structure of the world barrier, so it is extremely resistant to the abyss environment, coupled with its own special ability to refresh every fifteen minutes, it can ensure that the spacecraft spends the initial period of time in the abyss safe and sound. When the deep-diving ship descended halfway, a halo like a halo floated on the flat "mango" cross-section, which quickly stopped the starship's rapid descent, and began to let the spaceship slowly approach the abyss. The door, that's when its engine started—it's a strange model, but almost all the equipment of this spaceship are tailor-made orphans, so there seems to be nothing too unusual.
"This scene reminds me of the time... it was terrible."
Sandora said softly, and I followed her eyes, and it turned out that she was looking at the picture from the perspective of the deep diving ship: the gate of the abyss occupies 90% of the picture, and the dark hole looks like Like a huge mouth that devours everything, there is a circle of blue obelisks emitting strong light around the gate of the abyss, which is what is necessary to maintain the stability of the gate and suppress its activity: the matrix psionic method Obelisk. This scene really makes people feel a little hairy, especially after you understand what the gate of the abyss that has almost spread into a black land means, you will be even more frightened.
And Sandora's feeling will be even worse: she once jumped into it by herself, and that is definitely not a good memory.
I gently stroked Sandora's hair, feeling that she was also trying to regain her calm: "Anxin, it's all over."
At this time, Qianqian suddenly said from the side: "We're getting in touch!"
Everyone's attention is drawn to another picture, which is a picture sent back from a probe that is close to the operation of the deep-diving ship. On the picture, the silver-gray hull of the deep-diving ship has touched the gate of the abyss In fact, the contact started one step earlier than this: the shield of the deep diving ship collided with the abyss first, and then the hull. On the screen, the place where the two meet is no longer calm, and the bow of the deep-diving ship is floating with layers of colorful colors, which is a manifestation of the rapid strengthening of the shield in a small area. On the door of the abyss that is in contact with the deep diving ship, there are jet-black ripples, which are very inconspicuous. We can only see these ripples after the observation equipment automatically adds some auxiliary lines. It is like a peaceful beach. Thick black ink, when something slowly pokes in, the surface finally loses its calm camouflage.
The contact surface is like a dividing line, with sharp contrasts on both sides of the dividing line: the colorfulness from the physical world, and the black monotony of the other world. However, everything is according to plan, and so far, various sensors indicate that the nearby information fluctuations are within a safe range.
The report from the staff came from the console: "The stability of the gate of the abyss has declined, and it has shifted 20% to the fourth vertical line. It is currently in a temporary balance at the new position. The output of the psionic obelisk is normal. We may More spare obelisks need to be activated to strengthen the defenses."
"Then execute it." Sandora took a deep breath and calmed down completely. "All the resources you need are allowed to be invested. I don't want any mistakes in this experiment. Tavel, you can still contact the deep diving ship now." ?"
Tavel's main body is on standby next to us, but several of her mass projections are personally participating in the tracking of the end of the deep-submersible ship, so she reported to herself and then reported to us: "Communications have been severely disrupted , the data packet cannot be transmitted, but the blurring situation is still maintained. We use the equipment to simulate some pictures, maybe you are interested."
With that said, Tavel switched off the holographic projections on the observation platform that had mostly turned into clutter, and the picture shifted from the material world to the perspective of the deep-diving ship.
"As you can see, this is the abyss."