The deep dive ship had passed through the Abyss Gate, and now the Material Plane was lost—and, as planned, lost forever. The surface of the gate of the abyss returned to "calm" again, and the dark as ink and flat as a mirror could not see the slightest ripple just now. It switched to a calm state in an instant. Obviously, this door does not conform to various physical common sense in the real world.
Only the information sent back from the detector shows that the gate of the abyss is still releasing the aftermath of the "invasion" just now. The activity of this gate has increased by about 20% in the past few minutes. Obelisk is overloaded and temporarily stopped working. But now that this activation has been suppressed again, and everything is on schedule, the expert team can breathe a little easier.
The information uploaded from the deep diving ship has been intermittent, but because it is not far away from the gate, it still maintains a vague connection with the main material world, and the high-power built-in antenna is working tenaciously, although this communication method is destined to persist It's not the moment when it will return effective information, but at least for now, it can satisfy our curiosity about the situation inside the abyss.
On the holographic projection screen, no matter from which angle, there are only clusters of continuously surging black mist, like a storm vortex. The ancient small boat, fighting the wind and waves in the dark storm, is in danger of capsizing at any time. "Why is the screen shaking all the time?" Qianqian felt a little dizzy. "Is the boat shaking?"
"No... The posture of the deep-diving ship is stable, it is very stable, and the most sensitive sensor has not sensed the signal that the ship's hull is impacted by external forces." Tavel frowned. In the core of her thinking, she is rapidly processing the first-hand information sent from the deep diving ship, and then handing these information to two servo hosts for post-processing, facing the weird vibration on the holographic screen. She was also very confused, "Could it be interference?"
"Interference will not cause such a phenomenon. There will be clutter in the picture under the interference, instead of the whole picture dangling." Sandora looked quite dignified, "No...the deep diving ship did not shake, and there was no interference...the abyss Is it oscillating? Is the whole space in there oscillating?" As soon as Sandora finished speaking, her sister caught a small detail, and she looked at Sandora: "You have been there, you should know that the gate of the abyss is What does it look like? This scene is different from what you have seen before?"
Sandora shook her head: "It's not the same... I'm not sure if I didn't remember clearly because I was unconscious at the time. But I remember that there is absolutely no such shock phenomenon inside the abyss. In fact, in the abyss, you can't feel it. The actual physical impact, all the damage is based on a certain 'conceptual' level, so this kind of screen vibration... If it is not equipment failure, I really don't know what is going on. But I can be sure that the deep diving ship has successfully entered the abyss, Those swirling fogs are the evidence. I have dealt with them before. These fogs are between the entity and the phantom. They are the most common body of the abyss. When they enter the real world, they will become that kind of two-dimensional plane huā lines, but in the gate of the abyss, they look like three-dimensional structures... These things are the same as I remember. It means that the deep dive ship is located in the environment I was in at that time. But what is the shaking around ?”
"The abyss seems to be a big cave, and there is a big earthquake right now..." Qianqian bit her lower lip, trying to explain the current situation with her rich associative ability. The angle hits the nail on the head. I think this may be the reason why the problems we have to face are not so marginal. But this time, before she could come up with an explanation, the picture suddenly began to calm down, "Ah, the vibration stopped."
The picture from the deep dive ship quickly stabilized and became clear again, and we all looked at each other in blank dismay.
"What was that just now? Could it be that the abyss space itself is turbulent? It oscillates as a whole... This doesn't conform to common sense... Well, nothing seems to conform to common sense there," Sandora muttered, "It seems that we The deep-diving ship was so lucky that it encountered a kind of abyss' wonder that no one had ever observed before entering." The whole world vibrated like sand grains on a drum. "
"We are observing a new world, and it is best not to draw any established conclusions," Tavel suggested from a scientist's point of view, "It is the most sensible to simply record pictures and data from a completely neutral perspective when facing a new field." Approach."
"I know, I know, you are a scientist, you are responsible for this." I quickly interrupted this very knowledgeable sister with glasses, okay, what I was most afraid of when I was a child was taking theoretical classes. Tavel really wants the soul of a scientist It's burning, she doesn't care if it's the emperor who is listening to the class in front of her, "Now tell me, how is the condition of the deep diving ship?"
"It can only be said that the operation is normal." Tavel's report is very simple. "All equipment monitoring on the deep dive ship is judged by itself. The information fed back to the console is only normal and abnormal equipment reports, as well as simple shield reports. , This is to save bandwidth.” It may be unsafe for people on Earth to hand over the routine inspection of equipment to the shipboard AI, but the Apostles of Xiling will take it for granted. Those shipboard AIs are far smarter than humans. Moreover, in the environment of the abyss, even if the equipment has problems, it is impossible to send people to repair it, so it is better to completely hand over the maintenance work to the main engine and self-discipline machines in the ship, which can save precious bandwidth and transmit the following scenarios return.
We were relieved, and continued to move forward with the perspective of the deep-diving ship, watching it approach the fog, and move on. The graphics are not sharp and stuttering: this is the first time I've ever seen this on an Empire device.
The space in the abyss is distorted, weird, and the coordinates are chaotic. It is quite difficult for the deep diving ship to advance in such an environment. It needs to recalculate the current mathematical laws around it every step forward. Then adjust your position, as these positions get shuffled and reset every few seconds. If there are no coordinates in the void, so navigation must be based on special engines, then there are coordinates in the abyss. But every coordinate is randomly distributed and changed every few seconds, which seems to be a little less difficult than void navigation technology, but it gives people a lot of troubles that cannot be solved. In such an environment, the deep diving ship needs to "jump" forward like a flea. Move forward a little every few seconds, then stop when the coordinate confusion starts. Rely on mathematical corrections to stabilize your position, and wait for the space to stabilize a little before jumping forward. The crazy spatial structure there makes me feel scratchy, but it makes the scientists look happy. Tavel keeps recording the brand new data. When I look down at the lower platform, I can see several mass projections of her. He was having a heated discussion with a group of assistants or senior scientists around him, and occasionally they discussed with each other, and then the two mass projections would look at each other in shock. Turn your head and continue discussing issues with others...
"Tavier, aren't you afraid that you'll have a schizophrenia one day?" The corners of my mouth twitched as I looked at the maverick way of working of this lady with glasses, especially when I saw her two quality projections and almost had a discussion with myself At that time, I was more shocked than those two projections.
Tavel thought for a while, and suddenly showed joy: "This subordinate is looking forward to that day. At that time, this subordinate will separate himself and redo a container, and then His Majesty will be able to obtain two chief technicians."
I go! The brains of scientists are indeed different from those of normal people. I think Tavel must have got the concept of schizophrenia wrong.
"It seems that the shield of the deep diving ship is working well. It just threw away two layers of shields, and the internally regenerated shield went up smoothly. The load rate of the equipment only increased by less than 10% during this process, and then almost It fell back instantly." Tavel received the shield report from the deep submersible ship, and smiled, "The energy plug made from the purification of the source energy mine is working extremely well, and it can withstand almost any instantaneous energy flow of any intensity. Your Majesty, this It's your power." My heart says my power is currently mainly in catalyzing stones and birds - so don't mention it until the next promotion phenomenon occurs.
The images sent back from the deep diving ship are not direct views, just like in the void, there is no visible light in the abyss, and there are no other waves or field effects that can be received in an orderly manner. All orderly physical effects—such as electromagnetic waves, Gravity, radiation, and energy conservation were all shattered in the abyss domain. Therefore, when the deep diving ship "shoots" the picture, it actually uses its own equipment to process it. It uses a set of void disruptors at the bow to release full-band broadcasts in all directions, and then observes this set of full-band information after an extreme moment. Compare the snapshot with the original file released before, and reduce the damage by half, thus delineating the area where the surrounding "environmental" information is completely destroyed as a high-risk area, which can be regarded as a reef that can sink a ship , where the information is more complete or still identifiable is identified as a relatively safe zone—there are still storms, but the ship can still withstand it. At the same time, the deep-diving ship processed the pictures put together by the blind men into a scene that we can understand, that is, the big or small, real or virtual fog on the holographic projection. This method of observation was provided by Sandora. When she entered the gate of the abyss, she could not distinguish everything in front of her. There was only endless darkness and ubiquitous destructive power in all directions, until she successfully controlled the abyss power that polluted herself. Only then did he realize how to open his eyes in this crazy world, and it was precisely because of Sandora's suggestions that Tavel figured out the role of the void disruptors on the prototype of the deep diving ship and restored it to a set. come out.
According to what I see now, the inside of the abyss is a rather monotonous and desolate world—maybe there is space there, but nothing can exist in that space environment for a long time, right
"It's such a meaningless place..." Qianqian muttered dissatisfiedly, "If I stay there, I'll be bored and crazy after a while. Is there no end to these fogs?"
"The deep-diving ship has just entered, and it's actually still hovering near the gate." Tavel replied while checking the returned signals. She seemed a little worried: those signals are now getting weaker and weaker, and there is a phenomenon of packet loss. That's not a good sign—maybe it won't take a few minutes. The deep submersible is about to completely lose contact with the real world. "Perhaps you want to hear this? The 'sound' of the abyss. This thing is starting to confuse the expert team. Something very, very wrong."
Tavel switched to another channel, and the observation platform was enveloped by a very strange low-pitched echo: it sounded like a huge animal was moving its feet, first followed by a series of low-pitched heavy rubbing sounds. Then came a heavy blow, and the cycle repeated. "This is the sound signal simulated by the equipment. If there is background sound in the abyss, it should be like this. But in fact, these sounds do not exist. They are clutter formed by combining many chaotic information fragments. We use all known The way to filter these clutter, in the end, the only thing that can be expressed through the terminal is the sound. The theory is so."
I was surprised: "It sounds very regular?" Whenever there is something that can be related to the word "regular" in the abyss, it is surprising. I noticed that several senior assistant technicians nearby were nervous Discussing intensely, perhaps they are also arguing based on these "voices".
"It's illogical!" Tavel said decisively, "My assistants are checking if there is something wrong with the equipment. This is the second puzzling signal since the deep dive started. The first time was the shock. The second time is these hidden regular clutter, there is no such record in any existing database!"
Tavel seemed to be very concerned about these signals, but I didn't take it seriously: "This is the first time we have sent a deep-diving ship. It should be possible to find anything unexpected, right?"
"No, that's not the case." Tavel shook his head, "Now the information we have collected can actually find samples in the existing database, even if we don't launch a deep dive ship to the gate of the abyss. We have also used other means to detect that Inside, but the situation detected at the beginning is completely different from what is fed back now... "
My sister suddenly asked: "At that time? When was it?"
Tavel thought for a while: "The era of the old empire... The subordinates refer to the fragments of the database left over from the old empire. There are also some detection reports about the abyss environment. Although the reference value is not great, it is definitely the same as what you see now. Something is different."
It seems that Tavel encountered a technical problem that bothered her very much. However, I may not be able to help, only Qianqian seems to have an association, and her eyes are wandering. This is the harbinger of the start of Qianqian V2.0 thinking program: "Will the abyss mutate over time?" Is it? What the old empire observed may be gone now.”
Sandora shrugged: "Mutation? It hasn't changed for hundreds of billions of years. What can make such a thing mutate recently?"
Qianqian suddenly shouted: "For example, the cataclysm of the void!"
In an instant, everyone was quiet, and on the empty observation platform, only the low, regular rumbling sound was constantly echoing—this was something that no one had ever heard in the history of the empire. The sound of the abyss, the chaotic abyss for hundreds of billions of years is breathing regularly.
Everyone cast all their eyes on Qianqian, who shrank her neck involuntarily, and subconsciously repeated: "For example, the cataclysm of the void..."
"Tavier, are you sure that there is no record of what happened to the deep dive ship in the database left by the old empire?" Sandora looked at our chief scientist with a solemn expression, "I want you to search all the fragments of the old empire that you can find, and confirm this No one has ever observed this sound, as well as the shock just now."
"Yes, your will." Tavier gave a standard military salute, and then one of her mass projections hurried from the work area to the teleporter—a really convenient ability.
"Also, let's take a look at the blueprint of the deep diving ship." My sister thought for a while, and added softly, "What if the equipment design is flawed? Maybe we didn't consider the environment in the abyss, and something malfunctioned."
Tavel also gave a military salute without hesitation: "Yes, your will." Then another mass projection hurriedly ran from the work area to the teleporter.
Qianqian bit her lip and thought for a long time, then raised her hand: "Also, didn't Father God bring so many observation records from the God Realm? There must be something related to the abyss environment in it, and see if it is related to the current situation. They have continued to observe for so many years, and we have stopped for tens of thousands of years."
Tavel continued to obey orders, and another mass projection ran out.
I thought about it and thought I should add: "I said..."
Before Tavel could speak, Lin Xue kicked over first: "You guys are so troublesome! Can't you finish it together?"
I grabbed the girl's ankles: "I just want to know how long this experiment is estimated to last!"
Lin Xue was bouncing there with one foot, and with the other hand, she took out a frying pan and pointed it at my head: "I'm counting to three! Three!"
"boom!"
Didn't you say count to three...
The connection with the deep diving ship is getting weaker and weaker, and soon it will be intermittent. The working groups at all levels have done a good job of saving and backing up all the data before that, in case the deep diving ship is lost. None of the databases were salvaged, and we still have the last feedback available. In the end, the connection between the deep diving ship and the real world was finally completely severed. The last image it sent us was a grotesque cloud, like the fog of a mountain peak on the sea. What happens to it after the fog.
After the signal is completely interrupted, all we can do is wait. And, let's see what Tavel can discover from the ancient information fragments.