The ultra-intensive broadcasting and listening to the void has been going on for a day, and we have not received any reply from the Fifth Fleet yet. However, due to the power of the Death Garden system being adjusted to an unprecedented level, we accidentally found the fallen apostle in the border area of the empire A small wave of spy troops, Pandora and Viska rushed over to satisfy the desire to fight that they had accumulated for more than two months. According to the bits and pieces of information that Yimierer sisters found from the wreckage of those enemy ships, and the report of the spy troops deployed on the border of the Fallen Apostle, the enemy is indeed a bit suspicious recently: according to my previous plan, we have already organized the Sixth Fleet Zero, frequently appearing in the border area of the Fallen Apostles, although there is no substantial attack on the enemy, but it seems to have done enough to set up an outpost for the large troops to enter. The Fallen Apostles have therefore greatly strengthened their border security level, and several worlds have entered a state of complete blockade—it is estimated that the enemy is researching their mysterious technology in those worlds. At the same time, they have also increased the frequency of espionage activities on the border of the empire. It seems that they want to know what is going on on our side, and whether the knowledge of the mysterious department has also appeared in the territory of the new empire. However, due to early preparations, the enemy's spy troops were basically unable to scan the situation in the empire, and even if they got a little bit of information, it was false information that we deliberately released. On this front of the battlefield, everything is going according to plan—at least so far.
It's just that they don't know when the Fallen Apostles will realize that they have been fooled. At that time, they will probably launch a large-scale attack regardless of everything. I hope Bella Villa's spellcaster army can come in handy before then.
Put aside the matter of the fallen apostles. What we are most concerned about now is the situation of the Fifth Fleet. Since there is no new information, we can only analyze the only information at hand, which is the "clearest" video of tens of seconds received by the Fourth Fleet.
After the restoration by Xiling scientists with special means and the maximum fuzzy deduction by the Xiling host, we finally saw something extra from the tens of seconds of video. It is now believed that the specific person who sent the distress signal did not appear in the video footage - in this video, the voice of the distress call is just a voice-over. The video footage looks like a chaotic battlefield, and it doesn't quite look like a space battle. Sandora felt that what was hidden in those fuzzy shadows was the scene of the bombing on the surface of the planet. The video is of course from the perspective of the Fifth Fleet. That is to say, it is the Fifth Fleet that is being bombed. The surface of the planet appears in the picture, indicating that the Fifth Fleet may have indeed found a universe where it can temporarily settle down a few years ago-or it may be that the fleet is unable to continue in the void. Forced to fall into a certain universe, and its crew moved from the ecologically failed spaceship to the surface of the planet. Either way, they're in a terrible situation. When planets are bombarded by space fleets. Basically, the death of this planet has been pronounced. Ground-based anti-aircraft artillery will never turn the tide of battle. They can only delay for a limited time, or temporarily deter the enemy, especially when the defenders are at a disadvantage. Bombing often means that the battle has come to an end. Therefore, Sandora judged that when this distress signal was sent to the Fourth Fleet, the planet in the video must have fallen.
According to the content of the distress message, the Fifth Fleet had already started a collective evacuation when its home planet was bombed, and it is very likely that it can be delayed for a while. That's good news.
Sandora will play the tens of seconds of video that has been processed many times and can no longer improve the clarity many times. Said his conjecture about the attacker:
"I think the Fifth Fleet may encounter a servant army left over from the old empire."
"What's the reason?" I vaguely have some guesses in this regard, but I'm not as sure as Sandora. And I didn't know what clues made me feel this way, so I asked casually.
"First of all, they mentioned the imperial logo, which means that they saw something with the imperial logo on the battlefield, which must be referring to the enemy," Sandora spread her hands. Explained one by one, "But they also mentioned that the identity of the enemy is unknown-the exile fleet has been hunted down by the fallen apostles for many years, and they are very familiar with imperial warships, so if they are facing real imperial warships, they will never say their identities Unknown, so the attacker should be a third-party force with the symbol of the empire. I can only think of the servant army. According to the information we have now, the fallen apostles did not cultivate their own vassal races at all—in fact, because they are now the abyss camp , and it is impossible to find servants from ordinary races, so there is no servant army on the side of the Fallen Apostles. To sum up, the ones who launched the attack on the Fifth Fleet should be the legacy of the old empire... Families."
"What's the reason for the attack?" My elder sister tapped her forehead, confused, "There's no reason. The fallen apostles chased and killed the exiles because they were polluted by the abyss and cut them off when they saw them, but the servants of the old empire should not have turned into The possibility of the fallen legion, ordinary races simply cannot bear the damage caused by the transformation of the abyss. Therefore, the servants of the old empire should not attack the Fifth Legion because of the pollution of the abyss. In addition, there is no way to explain why the two Will encounter, the void is so big, the Fifth Legion has fled so far, the two still met, it is too far-fetched to explain this by coincidence."
My sister's confusion is very reasonable. We have discussed before that after the fall of the old empire, is it possible for those servants to transform into the abyss camp like the fallen apostles? Later, we came to the conclusion that it is absolutely impossible. The Xiling apostles will be transformed because they have strong enough individuals and special racial talents. The primordial energy that spreads to individual soldiers gives the fallen apostles the opportunity to survive the destruction stage of abyss pollution. The energy reactor built in a different space can Let them have enough energy to live and turn the abyss in their bodies into their own use, and ordinary races obviously don't have this kind of power. Of course, very few superpowers among them may be transformed. But the number must be extremely small, unable to form the size of a legion like the fallen apostles. Therefore, the Fallen Servant Army cannot exist.
Therefore, no one knows why a group of servants who survived the old empire would attack the Fifth Legion—of course, the most incredible thing about the whole incident is that the Fifth Legion has gone to such a remote place, and they still encounter on this kind of thing...
"Compared with why the two groups of people fought, I am now a little more surprised how the distress signal was sent." Sandora sat on the high-back chair by the window, enjoying her tea time, while facing Shen Rushui said. "The current position of the Fifth Fleet is in the depths of the void that even the Empire has not been able to detect. Even if it is the Death Garden system, it is still unclear whether the information can be broadcast to that position. However, the Fifth Fleet sent a distress signal—— How did they do it? Conducting ultra-long-distance cross-world communication in the void, and ensuring instant delivery of information without relay stations, this is an absolutely cutting-edge technology. It took the empire thousands of years to use this technology Perfect and popular, and the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet did not have the ability to do this when they lost contact hundreds of years ago. The Fourth Fleet is not good, and they don't seem to have the conditions to develop this new technology with peace of mind."
"Huh, I just came back from the God Realm, and I asked for you," Bingtis' voice sounded immediately, and she was sitting opposite Sandora. Unlike the latter's queen-style elegant afternoon tea, this female hooligan was Hold the teapot and pour it into your mouth. And black tea is eaten like sesame seed cakes with shredded pickles-the goddess temperament on her body is gone, "The void node closest to the Fourth Fleet has also detected vague information fluctuations. It should be the distress signal you have, but there is a piece of information. Something's not normal - the garrison officer of the void node said that by the time they detected those fluctuations, the thing had decayed to the point where there was no way to see the pattern at all. And it was almost as chaotic as the clutter formed after the destruction of the world. This kind of It is impossible to reconstruct the signal into something meaningful, let alone turn it into a small movie of tens of seconds... "
"Hey... Can you at least pay attention to your appearance when drinking tea? You are an insult to black tea..." Sandora watched Bingtis break up the biscuits and soak them into the big tea bowl, and the veins on her forehead suddenly popped Suddenly, for the elegant Queen, a bad friend like Bingtis is simply the dark side of her life.
Sister Bing pointed behind Sandora: "Okay, look at the samovar behind you that is as tall as a person. Where are you so elegant... I just ran from the God Realm, okay, I haven't had lunch yet. "
Sandora rolled her eyes, looking at the sky speechlessly, completely powerless to this female hooligan's behavior style.
Elder sister thought for a while, and expressed her own opinion: "In short, this distress signal itself is very problematic, isn't it? It has obviously attenuated to the point where it is completely impossible to distinguish, but suddenly the universe where the Fourth Fleet is located has changed again. Strong, will it... be a trap?"
As soon as my sister finished speaking, the living room suddenly became quiet, only the sound of Bingtis eating biscuits creaked, and then almost everyone turned their heads to look in the direction of Xiaoxue (her mother was not there): "Look quickly!"
"No need, the distress signal is fine," Xiaoxue was studying the elementary school textbook that Little Bubble brought from school, without raising her head at the moment, "I saw that something happened to the Fifth Fleet, the distress signal must be real. Hey, Dad, you said that the college has put the pictures of EOP-03 in the picture literacy since the first grade of primary school, isn’t it a little cruel? I remember when I was a child in the primary school of Imperial College, the pictures of picture literacy were used It's two half-naked men..."
"Pfft—" My attention was cut in half by Xiaoxue's words in an instant, "First grade in primary school? Two half-naked men appeared on the picture literacy?! Who compiled this textbook for NM, why did such a thing appear?! "
"Brother Haier, Dad, why are your thoughts so impure..."
I thought about it, and decided to continue to study the Fifth Fleet. The child Xiaoxue speaks too clumsily, and every sentence is enough to make me suffer from asthma for half a year.
"Intuition tells me that this matter needs attention," Sandora finally couldn't stand Bingtis' violent behavior, and pushed her giant teapot to my side, "I'm talking about the process of the distress signal propagating in the void. Possibly a problem with discontinuities. It has had unexplained fluctuations in its strength, and the teleportation 'distance' exceeds theoretical values. These anomalies should be investigated by a team of experts. The Void is the root of everything. It fluctuates in the slightest , we must always pay attention.”
After finishing speaking, Sandora suddenly showed a thoughtful smile: "Perhaps we will discover another void 'phenomenon' that has never been noticed before, the abnormality caused by communication between two quadrants with a huge gap. Amplification phenomenon. If this phenomenon is real and controllable, maybe we can suddenly expand the vision of the empire to a place that even the star field gods have never observed. I really hope there will be something there... "
Sandora fell into her delusional state as she spoke... Well, well, it shouldn't be said to be delusional. It should be Her Lady Queen's vision of the future from the height of the leader. But in my opinion, this is indeed almost delusional - how far away is that, let's not talk about fallen apostles now. Even the Fifth Fleet isn't done yet...
"The child's father! Come here quickly, I have an echo!"
Whatever you say, it's at this moment. Bubble's emergency call suddenly came from the mental connection. After a day and a night of listening, the newly built set of super-amplified antennas finally received the signal from the Fifth Fleet!
The portal to the world of exiles has been open for a long time since yesterday, so we came to the planet Kerudak again in a short while. This time, apart from Sandora and sister, even Qianqian and the protoss The group of five came along, claiming to be helping—although I really don't know what else they could do besides being good eaters and rowdies.
The hall on the first floor of the parliament building is quite different from the last time we came here. It is now crowded with senior officials of the Fourth Fleet. The strange-looking creatures of various races seem to be holding an exposition. In the center of the hall, some invisible function of the Toberou device. It may be a terminal of a communication device or the like. Two Tobelu scientists are nervously adjusting the control panels that emit green light. Around the equipment, there are several holographic projections floating in mid-air. The images on the projections are still messy, but according to expert analysis. These messy images are indeed from the Fifth Fleet.
A loli with an awl on her head is jumping around and gesticulating around those Toberu experts, she looks more expert than the experts: "Hey! Didn't you see the clutter in the six-way frequency band? That's an extra frequency band, just filter it out That's enough... Why is the screen of the third unit black? No way, it crashed again! How many years has your communication array not been maintained... Ask the people in the computer room upstairs to check the adapter. Why do I feel noise in my head... Ah, it's okay It's all right, it's not a problem with the computer room (puchi-puzi). It's because I have a little bad connection here. Well, the signal of the main road has stabilized, and the Death Garden is synchronizing this channel. Keep the current rhythm. I'm optimistic about you—ah ! The child's father, you can count it!"
"What's the matter with the awl on her head?" Bingtis said with a stiff face, pointing to the strange decoration on Bubble's head.
"Antenna." I explained succinctly, and saw that the "Parliament" was not far away, leading a group of people who looked like senior officials walking quickly, so I went up to say hello, "Have you eaten... No, I said now How is it going?"
The "Parliament" didn't understand what I said in the first half of the sentence, but heard the second half, nodded and said: "Thirty minutes ago, the equipment suddenly responded, and it detected the data header suspected to be the encrypted ciphertext of the United Fleet back then. This... hope The soul host, right? She said that she and her... daughter captured a signal source, and we are still tracking this signal source. If we can track it stably, we will probably be able to establish a connection."
"Does that mean we can't talk for now?" I nodded and beckoned Bubbles to come over. "How is your progress?"
"Still tracking, the signal source has shifted seriously. The Garden of the Dead can only increase the listening range to ensure that the target is not lost, but the accuracy is very problematic," Bubble said, turning his head slightly. The awl, "boss, you also know that everything in the void relies on information representation to maintain its order, and the Fifth Fleet is currently fleeing, they are running from one quadrant to another, the information representation possessed by the fleet is of course It keeps changing, every time the death garden sends a feedback signal, it will be mixed with an encrypted 'shell'. I have to crack this 'shell' to send a call to the other party. At that time, the target is transferred to another party. The information representation outside their fleet has been refreshed, so the calls from here will be blocked... "
"... Say something I can understand."
"The Fifth Fleet can be heard here, but they can't hear us—hey, the bandwidth is not enough at this critical moment," Bubble said, stomping his feet suddenly, and then took out another The awl came, and it was inserted into the head with a "puzi", "Huh... Fortunately, I have prepared it, so it will be much better."
Everyone: "..."
I finally figured out the situation of the Fifth Fleet, that is, they don't know that someone is trying to talk to them, and it is naturally impossible for the signal they send out to be actively paired with the receiving antenna of the Death Garden, so for the entire system, they It's just sending in one direction. Due to the extremely long distance, even the Death Garden system can only send a call to the signal source of the Fifth Fleet once a time, but the latter changes its information representation all the time, aiming at the penetrating report written in the previous second. The text will be blocked by the newly formed information representation in the next second. This kind of communication dilemma will not appear in the world, and there is no need to worry within the coverage of the imperial network. If the two parties have a unified message conversion rule agreed in advance, it can also be avoided, but now, due to Problems such as too many quadrants, the power limitation of the death garden, the lack of a unified and coordinated message format between the two parties, and system delays were mixed together and completely exposed. RQ