The on-site technicians tried their best to repair these consoles and information terminals that had been abandoned for tens of thousands of years and may have suffered serious damage. The impact of energy exceeding the design value has been damaged, perhaps when the workstation was separated from its main body, the surge generated in the main pipeline damaged the sensitive equipment here, or it may be an accident inside the sample analysis room that caused this The place was abandoned. In short, what happened in this workstation and even in this universe is now unrecognizable. We can only hope to get some answers from the other few devices that have barely started up and have not yet burned down.
"They have been running for about 30 minutes at most. The core has been partially damaged, and the data transfer has failed. Now, according to the priority of the records in these devices, the subordinates try to extract potentially important information." The senior technician is working in a buzzing He was operating quickly in front of the loud data terminal. The side shield of this old antique has been removed, and the crystallization grid inside is constantly bursting out with abnormal psionic sparks. This is a symptom of the failure of the system security lock, but it is It was still running barely, and the irreparable processing core could still provide users with basic query services before it burned down. Soon, a shaking word appeared in the center of the holographic screen above the data terminal: Operator identity verification passed, extracting Recent system logs... The time clock verification failed, unable to connect to the data network, running in offline mode, and the system time was reset to the initial date. This machine can provide limited inquiry service.
"Search what was the last research project conducted locally," I said immediately.
"Keywords: search, local intelligence, and finally research," the system started working after a delay of one or two seconds, and then a series of pictures appeared on the holographic projection—including dynamic pictures, these should be when the workstation has not been abandoned, research Indoor scenes, and some exterior footage. Some of the pictures are pitch black, with the words “Data Destruction” displayed in the center, but the other images are fairly clear. You can see the busy work in the sample analysis room and the research samples hovering on the weightless platform in the center of the room. Lushan's true face: some twisted ore-like things that look like stones dragged directly from an asteroid belt.
We zoomed in on the picture and fixed it on those rocks. They are gray-black in color, and part of the surface is covered with traces of melting and some loose holes. They are not much different from ordinary asteroid ore, but obviously, they are this workstation. Last research sample before being discarded—research stone
Those imperial scientists who dared to rewrite the laws of the universe after abandoning the lower limit built such a huge storm system and high-tech workstations for the purpose of studying stones in it? Is this stone the kind that monkeys jumped out of it back then
Just as I was about to complain, I suddenly saw another picture out of the corner of my eye. That picture was taken from a slightly further angle. A group of imperial scientists in white uniforms appeared on the picture. Imperial scientists have nothing to care about , but one of the faces stunned me: if I remember correctly, it seems to be Occam!
Switching pictures and zooming in continuously, the face finally became clear, and I was finally sure that the face was very familiar to me. Chief Scientist of the Empire: Occam, the guy nicknamed Candide. Of course, I considered the similarity in appearance, but the senior technician in the picture is obviously the leader of the entire team, his clothes and the position he is standing are enough to show this, so his identity is probably unmistakable. It never occurred to me that this lingering guy, after being dead for so long, would still seize the time to jump out and startle people: he actually appeared in such a place!
Occam is the core figure of the deep-diving plan of the old empire, and most of the related projects are led by him, even including the design of the prototype of the deep-diving ship, and he appears in the recorded pictures here. In addition to the direct relationship between this universe and the deep dive program, it also shows that the research projects carried out here may be more important than we initially expected.
At this time, the dying data terminal in front of me finally displayed the remaining files: file header: number EN-166 sample analysis item.
File generation time: ignore; file generation location: ignore; file reviewer: Chief Technician, Occam Sample nature: mild abyssal reaction-substance, threat level D, potential threat level is expected to rise to B, conclusion of previous review It is recommended to increase the threat level of this sample in the near future and transfer it to a higher-level analysis room for research.
Source of the sample: Inside the Gate of the Abyss, the collection location is near the critical point. According to the conclusion of the previous analysis, it is speculated that the sample has a very high possibility to come from the other side of the critical point, and the high probability is sent consciously by the civilization on the other side. However, since no signs of activities or wreckage of facilities and equipment were found at the collection point on the other side, this conclusion does not serve as any substantive premise.
Detailed information: One of the results of the 16th substantive deep dive of the deep diving ship. In this exploration, the deep diving ship has reached the limit depth of previous deep dives, but has not yet crossed the critical point. At the end of the second message sent by the deep diving working group, EN-166 samples were found during routine scanning and judged to be physical substances (this judgment has been confirmed). The EN-166 sample is the first case of solid matter discovered below the deep layer of the abyss so far. After preliminary analysis, the sample has some detectable physical properties, including hardness and optical characteristics, but the sample cannot show mass and any energy The nature of affinity, the reason is unknown, and it is currently speculated that there is some kind of "incompatibility" phenomenon that is difficult to reconcile between the products at the bottom of the abyss and the world of order. Statistics on the properties of EN-166 are still in progress. After testing a small sample, it is concluded that the power of the abyss has a fatal destructive effect on EN-166. The destruction process and result are exactly the same as the reaction of the order world after being polluted by the abyss. It is preliminarily judged that EN-166 is not its discovery. A natural product of the site, it is possible that it was sent near the critical point for unknown reasons and discovered by the deep diving ship. It is speculated that this was done intentionally by the "civilization on the other side". Since it has not been able to establish a stable dialogue with the civilization on the other side, its motives cannot be determined.
Supplementary editor: The nature of EN-166 has confirmed a situation that has always been guessed before: the products at the bottom of the abyss are the same as the world of order, and it is difficult to cross that gap. They—including the civilization on the other side—will also be damaged by the abyss. It is likely that it was sent to the vicinity of the critical point under strict protection. Because the abyss environment near the critical point is relatively calm, the samples were able to maintain for a certain period of time and were discovered by the deep diving team. "Civilization on the other side" may want to use this to convey some kind of message or reminder to the empire. Further analysis is currently being performed to verify whether EN-166 can be replicated and whether it can be used to enhance the protection performance of deep diving vessels.
Supplementary editing: The stability of the local Abyss Gate has fluctuated, and multiple deep dives may have destroyed the underlying balance of the suppression system. The local project is ready to be transferred, and EN-166 is included in the third transfer list.
Review: Chief Technician, Occam. Audit memo: As a scientist, don't use too many vague words in conclusive dossiers. In addition, the project transfer plan does not belong to the research conclusion and should not be written in the text.
Additional edit: Yes, subordinates understand.
Review memo: This sentence does not need to be written in the text!
Additional edit: Yes, subordinates understand.
Audit Memo: [Data is missing, please check backup storage]
The above is all the information displayed by the data terminal. The amount of information is huge. I focused on the middle section as much as possible, and came to several important conclusions: The old empire did clearly know that there was a civilization at the bottom of the abyss. It is not known how the first contact between them was established, but at least there was a certain degree of information exchange between them before the deep dive ship was killed by Viska. The old empire called the civilization at the bottom of the abyss "the civilization on the other side", which coincides with the other party's calling the world of order "the other side"; The thing sent over, the first thing sent over, turned out to be a stone! Of course, that stone did not cross the abyss as successfully as Hei Shuo, it was only sent to the so-called "critical point", which is guessed, near the dividing line between civilization and the world of order on the other side, and then the deep diving ship took it Salvaged back.
And this workstation, before it was abandoned, studied the stone from the opposite bank: this is much more powerful than the one from which the monkey jumped out.
But it is very regrettable that I am afraid that the stone will not be found... Wait, I seem to have thought of something.
The weathered dust of unknown origin can be seen everywhere here.
"Should... no," Qianqian heard me say this, even with her lack of foresight, she felt that this guess was unreliable, "Such important things should of course be taken away with the workstation when it is abandoned. Yes, why did it stay here and weather for tens of thousands of years?"
"Actually, it's very possible," Xiaoxue said suddenly at this time, "Dad, Qianqian Mom, look at these records. The last record is up to the evacuation of the first batch of supplies, and there will be no content after that. It may be due to data corruption. , or it may be that the second and third batches of supplies never had time to be transported away, and this sample marked EN-166 is expected to be the third batch of evacuation. According to the system log, the reason for the abandonment of the workstation is that this The stability of the abyss gate of the universe has fallen below the critical value, and there is no way to continue to support deep diving activities, maybe... In the end, an accident such as an abyss leak occurred, and the sample was contaminated, so we simply gave up."
I couldn't help reaching out and knocking on the information terminal next to me: "The sample is contaminated, so I gave up. This is possible, but... the workstation itself is not contaminated. According to the contagiousness of the abyss, it doesn't make sense. After the leak of the abyss, this A building can survive.”
Father God thought for a moment and made his own guess: "Perhaps we can find the answer at the bottom of the storm: there is a gate to the abyss. The universe was obviously destroyed because of it, but the storm left here is still suppressing that The gate of the abyss indicates that the outbreak was either not that serious, or it was suppressed after the outbreak, and I think it may be the latter."
I looked at the terminal that was constantly popping up the "data corruption" warning window. This ancient device has reached its working limit, and the last document before it was scrapped has also been extracted. We have not got more What a useful information. The last record in the terminal is only the evacuation and cancellation of various research facilities and some samples in the workstation, and does not include the whereabouts of the EN-166 sample. For now we can only tentatively assume that the pervasive dust at the workstation contained remnants of weathered EN-166, but even so, those remnants are presumably mixed with other samples that were not removed in time.
The only thing that makes people feel a little hopeful is that the substances from the "opposite bank" seem to have one characteristic: they lack physical and chemical properties, and they are not very compatible with the rules of the orderly world, so they will show lack of mass, energy inertia, immeasurable, etc. Odd traits, if EN-166 still retains these properties after being destroyed by the abyss, we should be able to separate it from the regolith here.
After confirming that there was nothing worthy of my continued attention in the workstation, I connected the fleet that was on standby in the eye of the storm: "Notify the No. 2 scientific research ship, recharge the shield, and prepare to enter the bottom area of the storm."
"Oh, Dad, are we finally going to explore?!" Xiaoxue immediately rubbed up with a flushed face, jumping up and down.
I looked at this high-efficiency gold-packed N-in-one limited-edition brat who possessed both Lin Xue's trouble-making skills and superficial join in the fun skills. I slapped her on the back of the head, and then stretched out my fingers and said, "You stay and dig the sand."
"What?" Xiaoxue showed a silly expression of being unable to respond.
"Lead someone to clean up all the weathered dust here and collect it," I pinched Xiaoxue's nose and stifled her protest in her bronchus, "We will organize people to separate the wreckage of EN-166 from it: if If there is."
Xiaoxue looked like she was going crazy: "Dad! You can't do this! I don't want to dig sand! I won't play with dirt after I was six years old, okay... Hey, Dad, don't go! Hey! I haven't finished talking yet! Why? Want me to watch people dig the sand..."
"Then what, did we really just leave that child behind?"
When boarding the engineering ship to join the scientific research ship, Father God couldn't help coming over and asking, I turned my head and glanced at him, and said from the bottom of my heart, "Do you know the four ways of bears?"
Father God: "?"
"Join all the fun they want, move everything they are interested in, do welding detonators, saw light bulbs, light firecrackers with gas tanks all the time, and finally let you deal with the aftermath."
Father God nodded suddenly: "Oh, you are talking about Cyndia, right?"
Me: "?! You also have one like this?"
"Don't mention it, Cyndia is a worrying child," the father said with a worried face, "She comes from a special background, and she is more powerful than adults. I don't know how many things have been troubled by her. In your words, you dare to do things like mixing lime into flour, and it was the wind and fire duo that formed a group with Bingtis back then: Bingtis fanned the wind, she lit the fire, and the two of them acted together, and the brilliant gods were restless .”
I silently turned my head and glanced at Bingtis. She is the only one of the protoss five-member group who is with us now, and the others are helping out at the workstation—Ilson opened the shield wall for the workstation, and the other three were in charge of refueling. Looking at her, the female hooligan suddenly smirked: "Oh hehe, I was chosen as the number one student in the God Realm to accompany the princess, and I hit it off with Cyndia..."
Father God spread his hands: "After two hundred years of study, Cyndia has learned everything except magic arts. Fortunately, Jiadi didn't mix with them, otherwise there would be no way to live in the family."
I think this is conceivable, but I suddenly became curious about another thing: "I suddenly don't understand, how is the growth and development of your protoss calculated, Bingtis looks like an adult, Cyndia is now It looks like she's a circle younger than Pandora..." As soon as I finished speaking, Pandora shook her head happily: It seems that I just successfully encountered the keyword of this little girl, no matter what the situation is, as long as there is a word younger than myself The creatures in the circle seem to be something to be happy about for Pandora, she has now degenerated to the point of being compared with the mercury lamp and is tireless.
"Jati and Cyndia? They can become adults," Father God shrugged, "It's just a change of shape. God has no shape. For us, the appearance can be modified at any time, but the hearts of the two children They haven't grown up much, probably because they don't want to grow up, so that's it. You know the time concept of our protoss. For us, age is a meaningless topic, and we don't have a clear distinction between adults and children. Boundary, the goddess of life can have several coming-of-age ceremonies. Our preschool education accepts students from 200 to 2 million years old. In addition to the basic age and experience standards, the standard of adulthood depends on whether a protoss is willing or not. Adulthood. If you don’t have a job and your temperament is biased towards children, you can still be a child if you are tens of millions of years old.”
"Just like this." A little girl's voice suddenly came from beside me. At the same time, I felt someone tugging on my sleeve, and looked around curiously. I found a strange big loli sitting behind me, with a pale complexion. , the pupil color is like blood, and the face is petite and cute. At first glance, it is the blood of the dark gods. The most conspicuous thing is that this big loli has long silver hair like a monster, which falls all the way under the seat. Si wrapped up her lower half of her body, and looked at her with a kind of strangeness. The other party was wearing a long black dress, no matter how familiar the style looked, I was stunned for a few seconds, and I couldn't help but say: "This Miss, who are you?"
"I can't even recognize my body?" The wild big loli with long hair on the floor hugged my arm and climbed onto the front seat, "Hey, it's interesting to change the perspective occasionally. It opened up a lot, and I could finally see my feet when I lowered my head—wow, you look quite tall from this angle... Oh, what kind of eyes do you have?"
Me: "Bingtis?!"
"What do you think?" The wild big loli twisted her body and made the kind of arrogant posture that Bingtis usually showed with her hands folded, "Damn, I'm really not used to it, where is it empty..."
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