The scientific research ship has reached the bottom of the eye of the storm, where there is a rather powerful and chaotic energy field, and it is no surprise that there is a rather strong abyssal reaction here.
Abyssal power and psionic energy are mixed together, maintaining a fragile dynamic balance that seems to never end as long as it is not broken. The result of the conflict between the two extremes of order and non-order is like a tenacious anti-virus software colliding with each other. A downloader virus hiding in the background, both of them forced each other into an endless loop, and the scene in front of them was this completely uncontrollable energy storm. The self-purification ability of psionic energy makes it repel the abyss, and the abyss continues to make psionic energy show the same chaotic tendency as itself. The end of the world destroys all orderly things in this universe, but these two things that have gone beyond the scope of the worldview, in the end of the world There was still an endless struggle afterwards. The shield of the scientific research ship has reached its peak, and it is now struggling to move forward in this storm. Due to the serious space distortion, the path of the spaceship is no longer a "flat state" that can be explained by mathematical laws, so our forward speed is very fast. Slow, and all space jumping devices cannot be activated. But overall it went smoothly, the damage to the spaceship from the energy field at the bottom of the storm was controlled within the ideal value. This kind of scientific research ship specially designed to work in a dangerous environment is also called the front-line fortress laboratory. After sacrificing weapons and tactical systems, it is exchanged for extremely reliable protection, and the mad scientist Tavel With a frenzied attitude, he installed the special shield for the deep submersible ship that had just completed the mass production test on this No. 2 scientific research ship, which helped a lot: the greatest threat to us at the bottom of the storm is not the frenzied psionic energy, but It is an active abyss. If there is no targeted shield, conventional spaceships will not last long here. This is why I chose to let the second ship down: it is the only specially modified scientific research ship, and it was well planned when it came. it works.
"There seems to be a small problem with the No. 4 shield generator, and the intensity fluctuates by more than 3%. Put the redundant unit on top, and the self-repair system of the spacecraft has started... The situation is improving. The main engine strengthens the monitoring of all shields to prevent penetration."
"This is the lower reactor. We have switched the output mode, and the energy grid has started to improve. It is expected to last for 30 minutes."
"Here is the third propulsion group. The alarm has been lifted and it can be accelerated again."
"This is the research and development engineering section. We have successfully recovered the sampling probe and are analyzing the energy field structure in the bottom layer of the storm."
The command hall of the scientific research ship is busy, and the information in the channels at all levels is refreshed and circulated at a dizzying speed. On the various holographic images around the hall, the most displayed is the scene outside the spacecraft, the black and red storm Now it is almost in a state of chaos, dark and disgusting clouds began to appear occasionally, and in some flashing pictures, there even appeared that weird pure black two-dimensional pattern, all signs show that we It is approaching the gate of the abyss—to be precise, it is the "final restraint zone" between the gate of the abyss and the storm. Passing through this restraint zone, the scientific research ship will escape from the storm, but it will enter a more dangerous place: The "port" of the old empire's deep dives, that might have become some kind of abyss gate.
But the people present are basically relaxed and not under much pressure. After all, we have two void creatures sitting in the town, and one of them is still an unknown level? ? level elite. as a? ? The super elite, Father God even studied the work scene in the command hall with great interest, and then sighed to me: "It looks very powerful, you actually created a resistance shield specifically for the abyss so early, back then we But it took... Anyway, it should have taken a long time before a magical technique with similar functions appeared."
"Father, don't underestimate those guys called scientists in their research institute," a pretty big loli with silver hair mopping the floor and blood-colored eyes walked around, looking around, and said I still don't forget to say, "Those guys are basically lunatics. They don't play cards according to common sense. As long as it's something you can think of, they almost dare to study it seriously. I don't know what else they dare not experiment with." —I remember seeing that Tavel’s report on Chen’s desk once. In order to study the dynamic balance extreme value of the gate of the abyss, they threw dozens of planets near the thing, and waited for the gate of the abyss to explode. When cleaning up, they cut off a piece of the polluted area of the universe and threw it into the void. That's how they accumulate data... "
Father God was stunned: "... Then what if there is a big outbreak?"
"Destroy the entire universe. Anyway, the test area is unoccupied. Those scientists who are not afraid of death basically don't count themselves in the list of potential casualties. If they withdraw, they will write research reports. If they die inside , just wait for others to write a research report, and by the way, they can make a research report themselves, they think this is a good deal... "
I finally couldn't bear it anymore, and pressed the head of this big "loli" hard: "It's not that exaggerated, okay?"
The other party slapped my hand away, and stared at me with big blood-red eyes: "It's almost the same anyway, I admire them very much, and their desperate spirit is as awesome as my own. Besides, don't touch my own. Head, do you see that women who are under 1.34 meters tall can be regarded as their own loli? The ones standing in front of you are 100% women, do you know that?"
Me: "..." I almost forgot, the guy in front of me, who looks half a jingle taller than Pandora, is actually the thick front armor that almost defies logic. The female hooligan at the gate of the temple: I still can't accept this setting!
"I said, how long are you going to play?" I squinted to the side, and Bingtis, who had shrunk himself down, climbed onto the seat on both hands and feet, "Besides, why don't you know how to keep the length of your hair along with it?" How about a smaller scale?"
Bingtis's ankle-length hair is simply a signature. Apart from being very cool, it is also one of the few femininity of this female rascal besides the front armor. In my impression, only Ola has the same long hair , um, there is also a natural dumb bishop named Laura. It usually looks a bit pleasing to the eye, but now that Bingtis has been scaled down to this size, and her hair has not shrunk at all, things are more joyful. The floor is wiped extraordinarily clean by her, and her hair Also because it was dragged on the ground and kept getting entangled with various things...
"You know a basket, don't you think this hair is very coquettish?" Bingtis wrapped herself into a rice dumpling with her hair, leaving only her head outside, "The speed of the concubine is 7200r/s Do you believe that rotation can fan you to the point where you can’t take care of yourself?”
Me: "..." In the mind of this female hooligan, dare to be affectionate, is this how to explain it
According to my estimation, Bingtis should have fallen into a new state of insanity now: she has countless modes of insanity, and perhaps this is one of them. Under normal circumstances, no one can stop her at this time, even the Father God is just on the sidelines, so it's better not to argue with her. And how should I put it, even though her temper is a bit violent, Sister Bing in the big lolita state is also quite interesting, and there is a sense of unexpected joy, especially when Qianqian walked around behind the chair and took advantage of her not paying attention. After the female gangster's hair was tied to the chair...
In the end, Sister Bing is only a little bit two hundred and five, and she is not on the same route as a strange girl like Qianqian who can kill half of the sky with a flash of inspiration...
At this moment, the synthesized voice announcement of the shipboard main unit sounded in the command hall, diverting my attention from the raging female hooligan and the heartless laughing girl next to her (by the way, I also called her The attention of both of them has been attracted): "Attention, this ship has reached the critical point, there is a high degree of abyss pollution ahead, and the efficiency of the ship's stabilization system has declined. , one, cross the line!"
At the same time as the sound of the broadcast fell, violent vibrations swept through the entire hall.
This is the impact caused by the strong abyss pollution that suddenly affects the stability equipment of the battleship, leading to system disorder. Technically, it is an unsolvable and preventable phenomenon, but the spaceship itself is equipped with enough devices to resist this impact, so the impact It only lasts a few seconds, and then the spacecraft can adapt to the environment and activate and reset various protective equipment for contamination conditions. Soon, the violent vibration gradually subsided, and the alarm sound in the ear gradually weakened. The various devices flashing red light returned to normal after a few self-test sounds, and the staff in the ship seemed to have nothing happened. Started to work as usual, and the shipboard main engine began to report the damage caused by directly crossing the contaminated area: mild damage, a set of redundant shield generators was overloaded and burned, and the No. 4 propulsion unit shut down, but restarted soon. A senior technician reported to us: "The critical point has been safely crossed. The ship is now in the absolute pollution zone. The power of the protection system is fully activated, and the whole ship has entered the highest security control mode."
"Getting here is like half a foot into the abyss," I sat up from the chair, and the shrunken version of Bingtis next to me simply smashed the seat to pieces, and the soft silver hair was already tossed The ones are the same as water plants, "Look, it really is the gate of the abyss!"
On the holographic screen showing the real scene outside the ship, a group of black and ink-like perfect circular shadows occupied nearly three-fifths of the area. It was so dark that it seemed that even the darkness itself was swallowed up by this shadow. It was an active ship. The state of the gate of the abyss, on the periphery of this "gate", we saw ancient psionic energy suppression equipment, arrays of psionic towers suspended around the gate of the abyss, firmly imprisoning the pollution of the latter... Well, mostly imprisoned in the shadows. This is a scene less than a few hundred meters below the scientific research ship, and above the scientific research ship, a huge dark red vortex is almost spinning crazily against our shield, and the frenzied energy diffused from it is in the scientific research ship. Layers of unpredictable light curtains like aurora are aroused on the shield. Just watching that scene for less than a few seconds can make people feel an unprecedented sense of oppression and fear of being swallowed: now The location of the scientific research ship is an extremely narrow conflict zone between the energy storm and the gate of the abyss. This zone is even less than a kilometer thick, and all dynamic balances focus on this place. After the end of the world that year, this universe only The remaining fragments are also maintained by this mere one-thousand-meter-thick balance.
"Oh, it seems that the stability is not optimistic." An upward, and arrogant voice of Yujie rang in my ears. I turned my head and looked, and the first thing that caught my eye was a pair of seven-foot... yes A female hooligan, well, it's not because she's not mentally strong, but mainly because she's too eye-catching. The big loli who was wiping her hair on the floor and jumping up and down was gone, and was replaced by this slut Yujie who could go out in the street and fight with people in an evening dress, which made people stunned: "Ha, you transformed again? "
"Your girlfriend is definitely out of her mind," Sister Bing said about him, then pointed to the gate of the abyss displayed in the holographic projection, "Look, the equipment installed in your empire is still turned on."
Around the gate of the abyss, in the chaotic space, the most obvious thing is a large number of tall towers arranged neatly, which are the suppression towers set up by the imperial scientists who were stationed in this universe for the deep diving experiment, and half of them have been destroyed. Extinguished, damaged, collapsed, and only a single pedestal remained, but the remaining suppression towers were miraculously working. No one could explain how these ancient devices became more important after tens of thousands of years. It is still operating as usual after tens of thousands of years of the empire's destruction: perhaps their special security level allowed them to escape the disaster that swept the empire's spiritual network back then.
"Oh—" Qianqian elongated her voice, "It looks like the tower that Tavel arranged next to the deep diving port. It should be a genuine product? Shall we dismantle one and take it back? Tavel will probably like it very much."
I nodded: "Demolish!"
This was originally one of the purposes of our coming here. Among the most important scientific research projects of the empire, the deep dive project is undoubtedly the most important one. Our original purpose of coming here is to find out some details of the deep dive operations of the old empire. In addition, another main goal is to see if there is any old empire equipment that can be disassembled for research. Now the new empire's deep-diving equipment is all emergency goods imitated by Tavel based on the blueprint of the deep-diving ship prototype. The main technology tree has not been repaired yet, not to mention the deep dive technology, which was not thoroughly researched in the old empire era. Therefore, when I heard that the protoss might have discovered a test site for the old empire's deep-diving plan, apart from Sandora and me, Tavel was the most excited. She submitted a research report of more than 30,000 words to me. And the project follow-up application, summed up in one sentence: take back everything that can be taken apart.
It's a pity that there are really not many valuable things left in this world. That workstation is basically an empty shell. At most we can collect half a ton of sand and go back—and then let Tavel try to get EN-166 out of it. The samples were screened out, and what was left, probably had to be removed from the two suppression towers next to the gate of the abyss.
A group of specially installed engineering probes rushed out from the ejection port of the scientific research ship, and rushed towards the defunct psionic suppression tower closest to them. These engineering probes are the upgraded variants of ordinary self-discipline machines. Submarine ships are similar to the "three-skin face shield" against the abyss, but due to extreme miniaturization and power limitations, the effect is definitely not as good as that of the mother ship. As soon as they leave the shelter of the scientific research ship, crackling and crackling burst out from the probes. The crackling sparks entered a state of continuous damage. On the one hand, the sparks were due to the overload of the probe shield, and on the other hand, due to the influence of the abyss, their parts were gradually self-destructing—but this is a normal situation. Only the core of the robot is reusable, and all the peripherals mounted on them are disposable equipment. After all, those things are in direct contact with the abyss.
"From the scene, the gate of the abyss must have erupted once," I pointed to the psionic suppression towers on the screen that were obviously destroyed by the internal explosion, "these towers are self-destructed, but the suppression towers did not self-destruct Function. But the gate of the abyss should be re-suppressed before it fully erupted, and the remaining suppression towers were successfully restarted. It’s just a pity that the starport during the deep dive has been destroyed, otherwise maybe you can find something more useful technical data."
"Okay, today's harvest is big enough," Bingtis sat on the console with his legs crossed, "That EN-166 is not enough for you to toss? I just want to go back quickly, take a shower and sleep..."
At this moment, the voice of the shipboard host suddenly interrupted the female hooligan: "Warning, the engineering probe is under attack, repeat, the engineering probe is under attack."
"What's going on?" I immediately leaned out of the officer's platform and asked loudly, the team in charge of monitoring the engineering probe immediately transmitted their surveillance footage to the officer's platform, and the person in charge sounded confused: "Your Majesty, this... self-discipline The machine was attacked by this thing, should we prepare to fight back?"
The picture of those engineering probes being attacked appeared, and a group of us immediately rushed up nervously, and then were dumbfounded at the same time. There was no expected rampage in the abyss, no out-of-control sentry guns and self-destructing probes, only a twisted-looking It's crooked and tattered... The autonomous machine, or something that seems to be an autonomous machine, looks three times larger than the probes it is attacking, and there are traces of repairs and transformations everywhere on its body. A normal autonomous machine has The round body and various working arms are symmetrically distributed, but it looks like three or four pieces of autonomous machinery put together. This strange thing has signs of damage all over its body, and the two working arms are still broken. Yes, the painting is completely invisible, and even the core components in the body are looming, and now this thing is "attacking" our probe, with beams for low-energy cutting protruding from its two working arms The knife patiently slashed back and forth on the probe shield next to it. This energy-level cutting knife has no effect on the reinforced shield at all, but it is unmoved at all, just "fighting" so slowly ", and the remaining working arms are not idle, they are rhythmically beating the other autonomous machines that are constantly trying to get closer to the base of the suppression tower due to mission objectives, it looks like... using flies Shoot against armored vehicles.
Everyone: "..."