From the information in the archives, we finally know that the residents of this universe are not native civilizations: they were rescued from another world that was on the verge of collapse hundreds of thousands of years ago by a Xiling apostle called "The General". The strange star burning bomb we saw above the planet and the energy harvesting technology mastered by the locals are all left by the general. After searching with the general as the keyword, Sandora found He saw the Xiling apostle who was highly respected by the locals and was like a legendary leader—a quite familiar figure.
"I think... this figure looks familiar." I said tactfully. The general on the screen is wearing a black hooded cloak, and he looks very short surrounded by a group of imperial soldiers in black heavy armor—to be clear, the height of this general is basically parallel to the big crotch of the soldiers around him Yes, this picture seems to have been taken in a hurry. It seems that the general did not stop leisurely to pose for his followers to admire. Although her face hidden under the shadow of the hood cannot be seen clearly, her pair The blood red and shimmering eyes are still very eye-catching.
"Isn't this the Viska?" Sandora smacked her lips, and she just recovered from the surprise. "Look at those logos: the logo of the Huska Destroyer Legion is this bloody triangle. By the way, the one who came in just now There is also one at the door."
At that time, I thought the bloody triangle at the door was purely a coincidence: after all, this shape is very common. When Viska designed his logo back then, he must have drawn a sharp and angular pattern and used it. A little modification and anti-counterfeiting huā No tattoos. But now it was confirmed: the triangle mark belonged to the Legion of Doom.
This world was visited by Viska back then, and even the residents here were brought over by Viska... But that girl has completely forgotten that there is such a thing, and now she is staying on the Admiral of the Empire, following the Everyone was full of curiosity to study when the universe would be completely extinguished. At that time, I saw a group of local aboriginals collecting energy from EOP-03 and followed everyone in amazement—the first half of this baby girl’s muddled life.
"It's really a big discovery this time." Sandora was stunned for a while, and began to quickly search for more information in the database. The screen projected on the terminal changed as quickly as the scenery outside the car window. She was searching for a complete set of historical records about the local civilization. , and the records of Viska's activities in this world that year. Weijia shook her body slightly restlessly, and she was also expressing her surprise in her own way: Hueska's messy and confused old life was quite famous among the high-ranking Xiling apostles, and no one would have thought of that. The girl actually has such a history. The Asida twins didn't show any surprise, they were disturbing Ji-oh, they were staring at each other silently, I would like to believe that these two sisters were expressing surprise in their private channels, because if they were not surprised, they would basically There is no sense of existence at all, I dare to take these two sisters out just to see the scenery.
However, it may be too old, or it may be that these materials are stored in other places and are not connected to the network here (I have every reason to believe that the indigenous people of this world know how to classify their own network information), Shando La found very limited information. We can only be sure that this "Hessian tribe" has a history of millions of years since it was recorded in historical materials. , anything can happen. The timing of the birth of this race is not very good, it can be said that they are a very tragic civilization: when the first pioneer of the Hessian tribe tried to wear animal fur on their body, their universe was collapsing inward from the edge: You can understand it as a child born on the Titanic.
"The collapse of the universe is also a kind of end of the world, and it is a chronic type." Sandora looked at the data set and couldn't help sighing, "When the life of the universe is approaching the end, the strength of the world barrier will also decrease, because as the world evolves, each The birth, annihilation, and transformation process of all kinds of information will accumulate "junk information". These junk information are usually paradoxes or "singular products" beyond the current world view, unless there is a regular monitoring by the world management system of the star domain gods or the mathematical rate device of the empire. Clean up, these garbage information will not be eliminated, they are like useless strings that are constantly piled up in the memory and cannot be deleted. When the memory overflows, the world barrier will begin to collapse inward under the pressure of the void. The collapse process It will last for millions of years to tens of millions of years, this 'Hessian tribe' is really a troubled species, they were born in the last period before the end of the universe."
"Actually, there are quite a lot of such unlucky species." Sandora said after a while, "The universe is usually very large, and it takes a long time to collapse naturally. Civilization of sailing technology. Well, the Hessian tribe is lucky in this way, at least they escaped and were sent to another world that is almost doomed, only slightly better than the original…”
I think Sandora should stop explaining, the more you listen, the more bitter you become...
Regarding the matter of "the overload of the world barrier caused by the accumulation of wrong information and the final collapse", I understand it this way: Suppose a civilization has mastered the time travel technology, but they have not mastered the empire's world management technology, and cannot clear the cache for their own universe. Then when countless bear children in this civilization travel back to kill their grandma one after another, the universe will soon collapse—Sandora is very satisfied with this metaphor, and she thinks it is very characteristic of me.
"The Hessian tribe finally developed in their home world to the point where they could make superluminal leaps and go to the edge of the universe." Sandora found a turning point in the historical records. "Look, the events here began to become clear, and the records became more detailed. The pioneers began to go to deep space to find other intelligent creatures in the universe. They failed to find neighbors in their own galaxies, but they still firmly believed that there must be civilized civilizations similar to themselves in the depths of the universe.”
"But soon, they discovered that the world was desolate, and the pioneer team disappeared to the edge of the universe soon after."
"The era of pioneering only lasted less than ten years, and the deep space probe sent back a terrifying fact: the universe is rapidly collapsing, and the edge of the universe that the probe can see is space debris like the Broken Islands. Among these debris The dark tide is raging, full of strange natural phenomena that scientists cannot understand and destructive storms that cannot be measured, calculated, and resisted. Beyond that, there are indescribable things that cannot be recognized by technology and logic. The Hessian tribe Scientists realized that their world was collapsing, and that it was collapsing slightly slower than the speed of light—a horrifying fact that no one had discovered in an age when observational technology hadn't broken the barrier of light."
"When the universe began to collapse, the Hessian tribe was born, and when this civilization was about to leave their homes, the storm was already approaching their courtyard walls." Sandora shook her head lightly, "I thought the indigenous civilizations in this world were nothing. But I care about it, but I didn’t expect them to have such a strange and rare history. The general mentioned here appeared in the ‘age of breaking’.”
A large number of pictures began to appear in the text materials on the projection. The spaceship and emblem I was familiar with, as well as the small figure finally took up most of the data.
"When the Hessian tribe found that they could not resist the storm, the entire universe was collapsing from all directions, and it was impossible for any of their aircraft to cross the broken frontier, they fell into a century-long chaos. But this chaos is very Interesting—" Sandora's "reading speed" is super fast, while I was still busy looking for Viska's 1.2 meter figure from the pile of soldiers, Sandora had already read everything directly. After processing it with her own core of thinking, she simply took on the task of explaining concisely, "If a normal mortal race encounters such a hopeless and incomprehensible disaster, it will soon fall into chaos and carry out a series of blind and crazy things. Self-mutilation or useless 'self-preservation', I've seen a lot of civilizations like this. But this Hessian tribe—they began to study those broken margins crazily, and all affairs of the entire race were shut down, even the supplies for each citizen's life. Supplies are directly compressed to the stage where people are barely dead. They have concentrated more resources than in theory, and in just a hundred years, they have manufactured hundreds of millions of detectors and pioneer ships. .”
"... Crazy..." Vega couldn't help muttering, "The direction is not clear, it is meaningless to do so."
"But for a mortal race, this is the limit of what they can do." Sandora smiled, "The mortal race directly faces the void at the low stage of civilization, and it is completely impossible to see the direction, so no matter what efforts they make They are all worthy of praise, at least they didn’t wait to die. As for the Hessian tribe, although they are a little crazy... Well, according to records, their suicide attack on the frontier caused a sharp drop of 30% in the population of the whole tribe in a hundred years, and besides the spaceship manufacturing technology, They basically abandoned all their cultural achievements, which is still a catastrophic civilization break...well, their spirit is still commendable."
So in the final analysis, there is only spirit left to be praised.
"The Great General appeared at the end of the 'Apocalyptic Era'" Sandora continued to read the information, "She and her powerful army came from the other side of the unspeakable sea. At first, the Hessian tribe took it for granted that this fleet was He is the mastermind behind the devouring of his own world, which is normal: Who let the Legion of Destruction just jump in from the void, and the world of the Hessian tribe has been swallowed up by the void, so Viska was initially regarded by the Hessians as a world-destroyer of the Great Demon King."
Me: "..." Actually, I think the identity of "World Destroyer" really fits with Viska's style before, and I still think it's incredible that she can save people. She actually saved the Hessian tribe in the end? Has he been worshiped by the latter as a god for hundreds of thousands of years? ! Are you kidding me!
"The Hessian tribe launched a fearless charge against the black legion," Sandora said with a strange face, "there is only one sentence in the data about this charge: All spaceships were hung on her flagship by the general. "
Me: "... hang up?"
Why is this such a weird word
"Um, that's the original text." Sandora waved her hand, "It's not like you don't know that Viska was out of order back then, and her flagship's nerves were even more out of order. Maybe she really tied other people's spaceships to the deck with ropes. Anyway, keep reading."
"After the battle that couldn't be counted as a battle, the general completely relieved the fighting power of the Hessian tribe, and then she stayed in the home world of the Hessian tribe for a month: during this period, the collapse of the universe stopped miraculously, the general Not communicating with any leaders of the Hessians, she seems completely uninterested in what the locals think, but she is busy every day sending her fleet around the entire universe, and the Hessians are fast It turns out that the Grand General isn't here to destroy this shattered island world: she's trying to fix the broken frontiers of space and, for a time, re-expand the universe."
"But the General's attempt failed, and the universe would still be destroyed, so she decided to leave, and took everyone from the Hessian tribe - no one knew what this powerful creature from a faraway land thought, but she seemed determined to save the world The last intelligent creature, the ancestor sheltered Hesse, and the tribe followed the general's fleet in the indescribable ocean, and finally arrived at a peaceful and peaceful new world. The general handed over this unprecedentedly vast universe to the Hesse tribe under his protection , this astonishing generosity made the tribal leaders unimaginable. After a brief stay, the general embarked on her glorious expedition again. She left a huge material wealth of the entire universe for the Hesse tribe, and promised I will come back one day and bring the Hessian tribe that has re-developed and thrived... The ancient history ends here, and the modern history follows, I guess you are not interested."
Sandora turned off her data terminal and looked at me: "What are we going to do now?"
I intend to contact the leader or government representative of this Hessian tribe. Since they have intersected with Viska a long time ago, it is a good time for the empire to meet with each other openly: not to mention that we are a sudden intrusion. People's universe, now that the bases and positions have been expanded, it is necessary to give people an explanation. However, the ruling center of this Hessian tribe does not seem to be on this planet. This place only attracted us because there happened to be EOP-03, and it seems to be just a very ordinary colony planet: dense population is the only feature. From this point of view, to find the leader of the other party, I am afraid that we have to investigate.
I think it’s better to go back and talk to Viska first: first ask what happened to that confused little winter melon back then. To be honest, Viska even had a glorious deed of being a savior to save an entire civilization. This really blew me away: Did you see one good thing she did between the time she was born and the time she met me
And first confirm this matter with Viska, and it can also prevent the huge embarrassment after the Hessian leader appears: people approached enthusiastically to accept their heads and bowed, and Viska bit a candy stick for a game: Where are you? Only? That would be impolite...
"I think let's go back to the flagship first." As I said, I looked at the Asida sisters and asked them to prepare for the return trip. This time, instead of taking the shuttle, it seems more convenient to teleport back directly. "Sandora, what other plans do you have?" ?”
"Oh" Sandora nodded, "I'm going to have another meal..."
Everyone: "..."
Because of Sandora's "plan", we were delayed on this planet for half an hour before going back. Although our trip hardly encountered any twists and turns, it was a "outing operation" that was completely calm and did not even say a few words to the locals, but I am quite satisfied with the results of the operation. We accidentally learned that Weiss A piece of Ka’s history back then, I accidentally discovered an ancient race that was inextricably linked with the Apostles of Xiling. I have every reason to believe that there are more things left by Viska in this world: equipment or technical materials, she was You may have forgotten something in a daze, but inadvertently preserved a valuable property after hundreds of thousands of years of wind and rain.
In addition, I think this also fully proves one thing: Although his background is not considered to be a young man, Viska is still an apostle of Xiling in his bones. Look at this ability to throw non-burnable garbage everywhere...
Vega was very disappointed that she didn't score anything along the way, I guess she was expecting a heroic and epic battle before she set off. Like every belligerent armored scorpion, she expects from each of her missions to return with the shattered skulls of her enemies and the scars on her armor—I almost stopped halfway to find an asteroid field and let her Sharpening the knife to alleviate Sister Scorpion's hacking syndrome. To be honest, I really appreciate Vega’s warrior style, and I can’t say anything about the charm of Wild Yujie. It would be even better if her dream is not based on the premise that I need to be assassinated: the simple-minded Sister Scorpion I never thought that as a bodyguard, the only prerequisite for me to make a move is that an assassin popped out in front of me and pointed at my head and said, "Emperor Wu Nagou sees that the Sa family will take your head..."
Forget it, don’t think about Weijia’s dead-brained problems, anyway, it’s not a day or two, anyway, after the Admiral of the Empire, the first thing I do is to invite everyone to the meeting room, in a shallow [excitement] Jumping up and down curiously, Sandora connected the materials she copied to the projection equipment in the conference room.
Viska stared blankly at his own figure appearing on the projection, looked at the record of his deeds below, and saw his soldiers from back then occupying half of the screen, then scratched his hair: "Brother, brother, that cloak It looks familiar."
I:"… "
Sandora and I suddenly realized one thing: Viska's confusion back then and her current memory errors are beyond cure, and it is a waste of time to ask her for verification.
But I can still find someone else. I immediately connected to the communication with the capital world, and named and summoned the chief flagship of the Vengeance Fleet—the lunatic AI. Because the repair of the Vengeance Fleet has not been completed, she did not go out with us this time.
"Hello, my ship's surname is Chen, which one is on the opposite side?" A lazy voice came from the communicator. It seemed that in the days when there was no battle to fight, the lunatic AI had a very boring life.
I didn't talk nonsense with her, and directly passed the data picture: "You are an AI, and your memory should be fine. Do you have any impression of this picture?"
The second lunatic was silent for a while, and then let out a sharp and strange scream: "Hey, isn't this Your Excellency the General! Let the ship review the screen, the memory bank of the ship is a good product... Oh, remember, it's a long time ago Yes, this ship is still on stage in this picture."
The second lunatic refers to the most classic one in the data picture: Viska leads a group of soldiers standing in the center of the screen, with a large alloy barrier behind him.
"See that pile of armor plates at the back? That's the navel of the ship!"
The second lunatic said solemnly. (To be continued.