(I always feel that this month’s monthly pass is not very powerful...so please ask for another monthly pass. Comrades, if you still have useless votes, please vote here. If you keep those things, you can’t invest in real estate anyway...)
The City of Angels is still very empty. Walking on those magnificent long bridges and open-air squares feels like visiting the ruins. Alleria walked side by side with me and Sandora, and also mentioned the challenges she faced. Manpower dilemma.
"Standard apostles are the only ones who can undertake complicated and delicate tasks, but they have too few manpower, and the progress of the project has been greatly affected. We have produced a large number of elemental craftsmen to assist in the construction, but the mass-produced elemental creatures cannot handle fine-scale mana. Nodes are so delicate and require flexible work. Now all the commanders who are good at making magical creatures are extracting their souls to create smarter and more useful splitting bodies... There are already 16 of them who have been born too much because of the splitting of souls. Frequent and schizophrenic commanders were sent for maintenance."
Alleria spoke in a very calm tone about the various problems she is currently facing. The more I listened, the more I felt cold sweat on my forehead. One aspect is that the situation in the Celestial City is not optimistic, and the more important thing is that these powerful people are mysteriously behind. Working method—As Bella Villa said, the apostles on the mysterious side are extremely good at controlling their own inner beings. It is as common for them to control their souls as eating and drinking. Before this, I have never heard of anyone who can One's own soul was cut into seventeen or eighteen segments and cultivated in sections—are they earthworms
Cough cough, this idea is too rude, stop it.
About splitting the soul. Now that I have come to this point, I may need to explain a little bit, the so-called dividing one's soul into pieces is not really cutting the invisible and intangible things like dough, but a process of virtual copying. The soul is invisible and qualityless, neither matter nor energy, it is a collection of information. A creature with a soul, after removing the body, the spiritual level includes two components: memory. And the "algorithms" that work on those memories, and the soul is actually the latter. If you compare a human being to a computer, the soul is the operating system. It is a "formula" for dealing with all the things you "know". For example, facing the word "after drinking", some thinking processes will immediately come to the conclusion of "telling the truth". Some thought processes immediately think of "promiscuous sex", then the latter has a YD soul... ok, this is a poor metaphor, and it doesn't quite meet the requirements, but basically it is like this, the soul determines the same What kind of conclusions will the information of different individuals produce in the spiritual world. Therefore, it is the soul that ultimately determines the "truth" of an individual. As long as the formula is fixed, no matter what value is filled in it (memory or life experience, etc.), the same result will be obtained in the end (person's external behavior, world view, character, and all character that can be expressed). And extracting the soul is to copy a part of this huge formula group—this small piece of copy is enough to make a dead thing get its own "world view", and then it can slow down on the basis of this world view. Slowly build up a complete soul that truly belongs to you. But for the matrix from which the soul was extracted, it would be absolutely harmful to repeat such an operation many times.
why? Anyone who has used a computer knows it. The things in the C drive cannot be tampered with...
The apostles on the mysterious side are very good at controlling their souls. They know how to copy things from their system disks without causing various failures such as blue screens of death, but this does not mean that they have a stronger system disk. , Every extraction of the soul will leave a huge operation log in the "system disk". If the extraction is too frequent, these logs will not be deleted in time, and it will take a long time. People should be tied up and sent to the veteran cadre activity center...
"Let those commanders who are too desperate pay attention to their bodies, at least reserve their energy to face other emergencies. In addition, Bella Villa has already organized a group of ravens to support you. I bet she should Gather all the ravens who have no mission for the time being, the pressure here should be much less," I told Alleria about the situation at Bella Villa, "the ravens seem to be very good at fine work, they If you have nothing to do, you can use arcane techniques to micro-carve the imperial code of law on your fingernails, and you must be familiar with things like repairing the magic net."
Alleria stopped in mid-air, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "This is indeed a lot easier. But using arcane techniques to micro-carve the Imperial Code on the nails... is not the same as checking the mana node. Forget it, this unimportant."
Under the leadership of Aurelia, we came to a very lively place, which is located at the back of the Forgotten Garden.
We all know that the Forgotten Garden is a complex of buildings built on a floating land. I have always thought that the Forgotten Garden is the buildings I saw, but I never thought that it actually consists of two parts, one part is the upper city, Part of it is the mountain below—the floating land is in an inverted cone shape. If it is reversed, the lower half of the inverted cone-shaped land is of course a mountain. Before the Forgotten Garden was torn from the parent star, there was an inverted cone-shaped independent structure under it. Originally, this part was located in a large underground cavity. Now it has seen the light of day and turned into "Reflection Mountain". This strange mountain at the head and feet was originally a spare factory, but now it has been renovated and is producing the Gunda Colossus day and night. The standard apostle base of the mystical department is insufficient, and now that the population cannot be supplemented by summoning a large number of puppet creatures, the mass-produced Gundar Colossus and other magic soldiers are the most stable sources of soldiers that Alleria can find.
This inverted mountain has independent gravity, so standing on the mountainside of the mountain and looking at the Celestial City gives people a strange sense of disobedience: it seems that the whole world is upside down, and it does not feel that it is actually true. The one above the head and the other is himself.
The production process of the Gundar Colossus is very novel to me. In those huge "factories" that hollow out the mountains and are buried deep in the mountains, there are large-scale empty spaces, and rows of neatly arranged azure light spheres are suspended in the mountains. In mid-air, each light sphere is "submerged" with a short metal limb of the Gundar Colossus. A large number of dots of light shuttled through the sphere of light, imprinting complex runes on those metal rings. Whenever a piece of metal limb was processed in this way, it would fly out of the sphere of light and float to the end of a row of spheres of light. The rune platform is automatically assembled with other matching metal segments, and at the same time, new raw materials are also sent directly into the light sphere that has just been emptied through space transmission, and the cycle repeats like this. Each Gunda colossus can walk off the rune platform and go to the next link to receive the infusion of artificial souls and initial mission settings. The production speed of the Gundar Colossus is not fast, at least during the inspection period of Shandora and me. Not a single Gondar Colossus walked off the rune platform, which shows that this kind of magic giant whose combat power is several times that of ordinary imperial soldiers can be regarded as an elite unit—no matter how many Gondar Colossi Aurelia makes, it cannot fill the ranks of soldiers at the grassroots level. scarcity problem. In the final analysis, the scarcity of standard apostles in the mystery department is still serious.
This "factory" of the mystery department is very different from the technology-side factories I have seen. Those wonderful floating light spheres make it difficult to connect with the production line, but despite the dazzling working methods, everything here still adheres to the high-efficiency principle that all the Xiling Empire collectively pursues. The appearance of orderly production makes people believe that in Not a second of time is wasted here.
In the production "workshop" of the Gunda Colossus, we also saw the element craftsman mentioned by Aurelia, which is the most basic worker unit on the mysterious side. Out of human body, the lower body is a cloud of light blue elemental creatures. It looks like the group of self-discipline machines around Gaia. Combat power... Probably none. These element craftsmen, under the command of several Gudel icebreakers, are responsible for checking the operation status of each light sphere that is carving runes on the limb parts of the Colossus, and constantly repairing those that have stopped operating due to various accidents. The light ball that burned the raw materials - this alone can be seen, in fact, the situation of the factory that has already started is not very good.
"Fortunately, there are the Goodell elemental people created by Odysseus, and they can still undertake some jobs that require flexibility. Although they are still not as good as higher-level puppet creatures, they are at least much smarter than elemental craftsmen," said Alleria Pointing to a Gudel icebreaker who was walking and dropping slag, "The only problem is that after so many years of degradation, these elemental creatures have been unable to maintain their own entities, except for their minds. Their own working ability is almost zero And they dare not let them go to the workshop where the environmental requirements are higher than level 3 to command, because... "
"Because they drop slag." I held my forehead helplessly, watching the ice-crusher not far away rubbed my crotch again - I don't know if this is the ice-crusher who took us to see Odysseus , they look as if they all look alike.
"Hey, I don't know if it's a hallucination." I suddenly noticed something and pointed to Aurelia's face and said, "Your resolution seems to be higher than before."
Everyone knows the shape of Aurelia, it's just an unclear light and shadow, the whole body is shrouded in a layer of light like a thick fog, and I can only vaguely see the shape of a woman, but now I suddenly realize that I seem to be able to distinguish Outside of the opponent's facial features, that layer of brilliance became thinner at some point, so I asked this question. Alleria froze for a moment, at first she didn't understand what "higher resolution" meant, and then Sandora next to her explained a few words to her, and the latter nodded suddenly: "Oh, it's just gradually It's just recovery. You don't think that the original form of your subordinates is so foggy, do you?"
My answer was honest: "... I really thought so."
Alleria was always choked to death by my words, and this time was no exception. She was speechless for a few seconds before explaining: "Angel Xiling is in the form of Lord Alaya, that is the normal state , The current appearance of this subordinate is not intentional, but something went wrong during the awakening process in the assembly hall... When I was unconscious, I mistakenly took the form of the thought body as my original appearance, and forgot What we originally looked like. For energy creatures, the soul determines the appearance, and our appearance depends on what we think we should look like. The newborn Xiling Archangels are all the same, and it often takes a few months to appear. I have a unique face, so I can occasionally use appearance to distinguish whether an energy body creature is a newborn. At that time, my subordinates made a mistake in their memory and became like this. Now they have regained their memory. But it will take time to slowly eliminate that mistake. The influence, um, has worked—can you see my features?"
As Alleria spoke, she couldn't help but be a little happy in her usual calm and flat tone, but I suddenly thought of something that made me very sad, so I nodded with a mournful face: "Ah, congratulations... "
"... Your Majesty? Are you?"
Sandora pressed my shoulder and waved her hand to Aurelia: "Don't ask me any more. Shameless and shameless is black history for Ah Jun..."
I thought sadly that my void form is still in a faceless state, and I have worked so hard for so many years. The only progress is to get a nose on the top of the head, and the second shape change is quite big, it becomes like an awl. He was dubbed Aladdin's lamp god by so-and-so... Well, yes, he looks like a silly elemental craftsman over there. After getting to know Aurelia, I still thought that I finally found a friend in distress who could make me psychologically balanced. I never expected that she would improve the resolution so quickly...
The kite angel Alleria gave an incomprehensible oh, and led us to continue to visit the rest of the arsenal, but there was nothing to see in other places, or in other words, it was completely beyond my comprehension, so I mentioned another thing that I was very concerned about: "I heard from Bella Villa, you found the information about the glow ring?"
Alleria nodded: "Yes. It's just that I haven't had time to report to you. The ring of the heart of the world you retrieved from the northern ice sheet, after our inspection, we found that it is not only the host of the heart of the world, but also A storage device that integrates a large amount of technical information about high-level armed forces. It should be that Reki-sama had foreseen that the capital universe would still be torn apart by shock waves. Therefore, the most important technical information is backed up in the heart of the world. We We are stepping up to sort out those materials, and have already started to build the star pool and the mana tower. But to create a high-level space battleship of the level of the glow circle, even with the highest efficiency of the empire, I am afraid... "
"I know, Bella Villa has already complained about this to me once, so don't be impatient."
"But we still have some finished products that you can take a look at in advance—something on a small scale." Alleria seemed to smile—I interpreted her momentary pause as a smile. Then she took us to the second half of the magic puppet production factory, where there is another set of completely different production facilities.
A large array of runes suspended in the air, and crystal plates arranged in a symmetrical octagon were placed in a hall with a radius of about 50 meters. In the center of this group of mysterious facilities, a three-meter-high, shaped Something strange like a drop of water.
"This is the experimental area. We are here to try to restore various industrial infrastructures that are not currently available in the Celestial City, but were widely used in the old empire. What you see now is the individual combat compartment. This set of things outside is a Assembling the unit, the rest of the production facility is being tested in a different room. This teardrop is what we've been working on for a few days."
Alleria pointed out to us the drop-shaped object called the individual combat compartment, and then clicked a few times on the crystal plate closest to her, and the eight crystal plates quickly sank to the ground, "water drop" It floated in front of us.
I reached out and touched it curiously, and found that it had a hard, cold, and smooth surface, but strangely, although it had a silvery white, smooth, reflective shell, it did not reflect my shadow at all. , not even a little bit of blurry image reflected, its surface is a layer of absolutely uniform luster. That's clearly not what normal materials should have—it's not even very optical. Up to now, these things on the mysterious side have given me an impression: everything in them is a bit out of line with common sense, and you can always find some violations in them that are not compatible with the current worldview. wonderful.
"It looks much smaller than a single-soldier fighter, and the longest axis is only three meters." I knocked on the shell of the water droplet, and the latter made a crisp sound, "Soldiers participate in space battles here?"
"No, maybe it's not the same as you imagined..." Alleria reached out and touched the surface of the water drop, and then a wonderful scene appeared: the latter began to soften, twist, and fall to the ground like melted butter, and then its volume It began to shrink abnormally, and slowly re-solidified and bulged from a large puddle. This process made people think of those slimes who often appeared in the game and were responsible for pointing out the path of life for the warriors—then this guy Really turned into a slime.
The three-meter-high hard water drop changed in just a few seconds into a "slime" creature that was only half a person tall and dangled like a jelly, and the latter kept making noises. It seemed to pay homage to me and Sandora, and then the shape continued to change, first it became Odysseus, then it became me, and then it became a girl we had never seen before. , but in the end, this "slime" turned into a puddle of jelly, swaying up and down there as if exhausted, as if panting heavily.
I was dumbfounded by the scene full of complaints in front of me.
"The individual combat compartment is a transformation process, and its essence is a set of rune devices that can change the material form. Soldiers do not 'drive' in it, but directly integrate with the rune set in the combat compartment. Single The soldier battle compartment can only be used by this kind of elemental creatures nicknamed Arcane Bean Ding, because their bodies can be decomposed and can be fused with all things that react with magic without hindrance. You can use this The little 'driver' is imagined as a liquid, so it can flow in the blood vessels full of arcane energy in the individual combat compartment. When the combat state is lifted, the combat compartment will be absorbed into the body by its symbiotic soldiers, and the rune array will way to save it, like this." Alleria said, bending down to pick up the crawling "Arcane Bean" (actually, I really want to call it a slime, although this thing is definitely more Slime has strong fighting power) turned over, revealing a large area of shiny and beautiful runes under the latter's "belly". The stomach of "Arcane Bean Ding" is completely transparent, so it can be seen so clearly.
"One of the important reasons for the small size of the individual combat compartment is that it does not carry any conventional weapons—the individual combat aircraft has artillery, missile launchers, and space mine deployment devices, but the individual combat compartment does not have any. It is a fact The upper is a magnifying device that can be used to amplify the power of its symbiote, so it's actually a... ”
Aurelia paused, feeling quite indescribable, and finally choked out a few words: "It's a battle suit..."
I looked at "Arcane Douding", who had begun to simulate himself as a crystal clear Chinese pastoral dog, and felt...
The stuff on the mystery side is so fucking amazing... RQ