Dealing with the Apostles of Xiling is a very worry-free thing most of the time: they have no desire for power, do not like to beat around the bush, are absolutely loyal and absolutely united; they start with racial interests, and on this basis they will always make the most correct Choose, and put personal appeals in the second place in eternity; they are willing to accept "executable value" arrangements and will not be affected by any personal feelings. If something is beneficial to the group and has enough execution value, then a Xiling emperor would even willingly go to the enemy-occupied area alone to perform the task of narrowly dying like a super soldier—I have done it with Sandora This kind of thing, but the latter is because of the nature of the apostle Xiling, and I am because... because there is nothing else to do anyway...
In short, as long as there is no force majeure—such as being infected by the abyss—the reliability of a Xiling apostle is 100%. They make judgments like machines, and they are as accurate and reliable as machines.
Harlan accepted my arrangement happily. From this point of view, he is much better than Bella Villa.
"Are you finished talking?" A slow voice sounded from the side, Harlan and I raised our heads and saw Sylvia standing in front of the table with Xi Ling with a warm smile, "Do you want more juice?" ?”
"Okay, some more." Harlan still looked awkwardly at the silver mole with Bella Villa's face, but looked like a silly girl, "Give me another two pieces of this one, it tastes good. "
I looked at Harlan's hand, he was holding a small half piece of golden cake, which was Sylvia's favorite dessert: waterless round cake. What Xiaoxue said was confirmed, and Harlan met the piece of cake that could not be avoided in his fate...
Sylvia stood there and reacted for a while before turning around to prepare juice and snacks. Xi Ling sat down next to me with a smile and began to concentrate on dealing with the pastry in her hand: In theory, this special life does not need to eat at all, but she I have added "eating" to my program. For Xi Ling, this is probably equivalent to an entertainment activity.
Harlan was silent for a while, and then expressed his feelings: "The life here is completely different from what I imagined, and the atmosphere of the city is also too. It is far different from the empire I imagined."
An apostle who just woke up from the nightmare of the fallen, his memory is still stuck in the glory days of the empire, most likely he is not used to the relaxed and comfortable atmosphere of Shadow City, let alone a large group of "low-level civilizations" and the imperial army mixed in state of a piece. Harlan's exclamation is also that of the Carlo brothers, but they will soon like this place: I am very confident of this.
But some people are not so easy to put this exclamation aside. As soon as Harlan finished speaking, I heard a gust of fragrant wind blowing beside me, and a voice like popping beans shouted obliquely above me : "Don't eat if you have the ability! Eat and drink well and rest here, and finally say 'this is not the life I want'—hypocritical."
When I looked up, I saw a silver-haired creature with Sylvia's face looking at Harlan with a narrow smile: this is Bella Villa coming on shift. I was just saying why she hasn't shown up yet: this raven king with a bit of a bad personality, every time a new fallen apostle is caught in the Shadow City, she has to take a few words of insults from the one she knows, for unknown reasons.
Harlan was taken aback by this series of bean-popping disruptions, and looked at Sylvia like a monster: "Everyone who comes into contact with the latter for the first time is like this, you just got used to the beat-per-second rhythm of speaking." , the other party suddenly started chattering like Guo Degang, and anyone with a weak nerve would be easily suffocated to end necrosis - Bella Villa also took pleasure in this, her bad personality was so good that she took pleasure in any pranks.
I poked Harlan's elbow and reminded me in a low voice, "This is Bella Villa waking up. She wakes up from time to time and it's scary."
"Don't take what I said as a corpse," Bella Vila put the snacks on the table, and taught Xiling how to use a straw instead of a tongue to lick the drink in the cup like a child (the latter lacks common sense It has reached this level), and finally turned to Harlan, "It's been a long time, old man, last time I was pushed into the void storm by Occam, I thought I was going to die before you, I heard that you led the whole family to invade , I thought you were going to kill me again, but I didn't expect that both of us were lucky, and neither of us died..."
Harlan and I were in a cold sweat: Bella Villa really can't say anything good with her mouth, how much I miss Sylvia's tone of every word at this moment...
A few seconds later, Harlan smiled as if he was relieved: "Well, now I feel a little more familiar, the way you just did almost made me think I was beaten stupid..."
"You will know in a few days. In fact, apart from speaking normally, there is no difference between me and Sylvia. She is the protective personality I created to pursue the life I yearn for. You can see it as a Xiling The truest side of the apostle after she gave up all rational restraints," Bella Villa said as she unceremoniously pulled the thing in front of me and stuffed it into her mouth: When the store manager is on her side, it is also a wonderful thing from ancient to modern times, " Well, Sylvia is good at craftsmanship... How about it, Harlan, are you disappointed?"
Harlan was speechless, and could only shake his head with a wry smile: "You have changed a lot, but you seem to be doing well."
"Well, this guy has a lot of shortcomings, but it's very interesting that this empire has been tossed by him." Bella Villa squeezed my arm as if picking something in the market, "I didn't know when I first woke up. I'm used to it, but now I like this kind of ordinary life. I just shared something from Sylvia, you want to continue to do what you do? Why don't you learn from me? Semi-retired life is so easy ah… "
I glared at Bella Villa. If she dares to trick Harlan into retiring like her, I will tie her to the Imperial Army even if she is tied!
Fortunately, Harlan was very determined. He didn't like Bella Villa's "decadent" life. Instead, he began to persuade the latter to regain his fighting spirit and return to the battlefield. He is willing to bake cakes for others, and the only apostolic duty he usually fulfills is to train a few soldiers by fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, or to advise the urban construction department. Harlan is very regretful, even though he just returned to Greece The ranks of the spirit apostles are now starting to do ideological work for Bella Villa, but the latter dismissed everything with one sentence: "I am like this now, and if I am more active, I will fall asleep anytime and anywhere, and then I will be killed by the tortoise head-on. When you bump into a silly girl who has to think about whether to hide or not for three minutes, you let me go to the battlefield? You really think it's a pity that I didn't die in front of you?"
Then Harlan stopped talking nonsense.
"Hey, hey..." Xi Ling suddenly poked my arm, I saw cream on her face, and helped to wipe it off: "What's the matter?"
"His Majesty Sandora and Tavel are calling you," Xi Ling said, ripples of light appeared on his body like water ripples, and then turned into the image of Sandora in the blink of an eye, using exactly the same as Sandora The voice said, "Ah Jun, come to the research center, it's important."
I was taken aback by Xi Ling's sudden move: Although I knew she could transform into anyone, I never expected that she would do this by sending messages to people. What a high-end video message function this must be! —Full 3D high-fidelity surround sound and video message with physical perception system, Xiling, do you dare to have more functions
"That's it," Xi Ling, who had turned into Sandora, scratched her hair with a dumbfounded expression. She clearly looked like an arrogant and noble Queen, but she made movements that were completely inconsistent with this image. I was really surprised Seeing how strange, Xi Ling's last sentence made me even more unable to shut up, "Hey, what did I look like just now?"
Me: "... So in the future, you don't have to be that person when you pass on a message."
Xiling was still trying to change back to her original form. After working hard for a long time, she finally gave up, and then started chatting with Bella Villa in Sandora's appearance. The next thing: "Sandora has something to do with me, let's take a step first—you can use the public database at will, and you also plan to plan the development plan of the abyssal apostles. In addition, Zadom recovered two days earlier than you. He is now at the headquarters Live, and I will also organize him into the Abyss Independent Regiment, so that you can get all the soldiers under your command."
Harlan waved his hand domineeringly: "Do your best, I'm not a recruit!"
I hurried to the research center, feeling a little anxious, because I heard Sandora’s tone just now was very urgent—well, it was very urgent to hear the voice copied by Xi Ling, and I was worried that some fatal experimental accident happened here : It's not that Tavel has never done something like blowing up half of the research institute. Although it has been less in the past two years, is the lower limit of a mad scientist beyond the reach of ordinary people
As a result, when I arrived at the research institute, I found that everything was normal here. Not only was the building intact, but I also did not see a rescue team. Groups of Tavel and groups of other technicians were busy in an orderly manner. With a cheerful and excited mood. I followed the direction in the spiritual connection to the central area. In the largest laboratory, I saw one Tavel and one Tavel were analyzing the experimental data of the other two Tavels with three Tavels, and there were several towers. Weier was helping several other Tavels to upgrade a coffin-like device to the multi-functional analysis platform. Several Tavels came to greet me... I looked around in a daze and found that there were Nearly two-thirds of the staff are Tavel's quality projections! The assistant technicians only take up a small part, and they are all busy with peripheral equipment - this must be a super important project, so the glasses lady has mobilized a lot of her threads to this place, but my first reaction is still It's as if I'm in South Korea and I'm watching a clone beauty contest... Well, Tavel is quite beautiful, and it's not a problem to throw the Korean clone beauty contest for a lifetime.
I was shocked by a group of girls with glasses, and my mind was a little confused.
I quickly found Sandora from the pile of tavels, thanks to her eye-catching golden curly hair, otherwise it was really not easy to find her. Sandora was discussing things with Tavel in front of a platform in the middle of the laboratory. I leaned over and patted her on the shoulder: "Good guy, there's a big battle here—what the hell are you doing?"
"We are trying to resurrect the ancestors." It was Tavel who answered me. I found that this Tavel was a little different from the surrounding mass projection: the edges of her body did not have those shaking interference lines, and it looked more real.
"Ah, Tavel, it's been a long time since I saw your real body." I hurriedly greeted this girl with solid glasses, and then realized what the other party said just now, "Wait! Are you resurrecting your ancestors?!"
"It's just an attempt, and it has failed many times." Sandora said softly, moved away from her body, and pointed to the alloy platform next to her. I looked in the direction of her finger, and only then saw a crystal container embedded in the platform. The container looks a bit like an Egyptian-style coffin. I recalled it a bit before I remembered that it was the inner liner of the ancestral hibernation cabin I found from the Far Frontier world.
And inside this crystal coffin, lay a middle-aged man with gray beard and hair quietly, with a peaceful expression, as if he was in deep sleep.
"The subordinates have created a new universal interface to be compatible with the ancient dormant equipment. This is the experimental platform. We have also created a series of facilities to decipher what is going on in the 'stagnation state' of the material in the hometown," Tavel said. The voice was a little brisk, and it seemed that she was quite sure about the whole plan, "Your Majesty, you know that things from the home world are in a strange 'stagnation' state, this stagnation state preserves the remains of the ancestors, but it also makes it difficult to revive Heavy: It seems impossible to reactivate the flesh while stasis is in effect, and the tissue always quickly returns to its dead state—but now we've made a breakthrough."
"By reactivating the flow of information, we can now break the stasis," Sandora raised her finger and pointed upwards, "As long as this device is activated, all the home substances in the stagnant state within the scope of the laboratory will be permanently restarted, and the resurrection process can It went on as normal."
Following the direction of Sandora's finger, I saw a complex and huge mechanism installed on the top of the laboratory. It looked like a ring formed by interlacing crystal clusters and hexagonal metal plates, and it was constantly emitting Pulse-like flashes, in fact, I saw this thing when I came in just now, but at that time I thought it was a laboratory decoration, and a new ring light tube was installed... Well, let's respect ourselves.
I can only listen honestly from the beginning to the end, after all, I don't have much say in these high-tech matters, but at this moment, a feeling of joy or anxiety has begun to fill my heart: resurrecting the ancestors, this amazing The plan has always been unrealistic, and the time span is too long, which makes me feel that this is an almost dreamy project, but now Tavel has reached this point
The project that I thought was like a fantasy, now it is so real in front of my eyes, I feel a little short of breath, it feels like you usually dream all day long to inherit the wealth of the million Guan family, never thought that this thing will come true One day, when I opened the door one morning, I saw an old man in Arabic clothes standing outside, holding your leg, "I am your long-lost father, I have more than 20 oil fields..."
...Basically, this feeling is very unreal and dreamy. Although it is full of expectations, it is even more disturbing-what if the Arab uncle escaped from the Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital next door
I had these messy thoughts in my mind to calm down. It seems that Sandora has made up her mind to let the ancestors open their eyes, and technically, this project is really possible. But at this moment, I suddenly thought of a logical question: "If the stasis is lifted, will the ancestor's body start to decay?"
"In theory," Tavier nodded, "Although the stagnant state is not static in time, there are similarities between the two in terms of physical phenomena. After the stagnant state is lifted, the substances that make up the ancestor's body will no longer be immortal, and they will Counting from the moment of death of the body, it slowly decays and rots like normal matter—after all, they are mortals, and after death, their bodies will decay."
"We can use technical means to delay or even completely stop the decay process of these remains on the physical level," Sandora took over, "but the key is the soul... If the souls of the ancestors are also preserved by the stagnant state, then as long as the laboratory When the device above is activated, the soul will start to dissipate, because the soul fluctuations of the ancestors have not been captured so far, so I am afraid that even if the soul still exists, it is too weak to be preserved... "
"Ola came here earlier today," Tavel said, "She is the most powerful leader bee, with extremely high sensitivity to the soul, but even with her strength, she has not been able to perceive the ancestors. Existence of the soul. The soul of the ancestors may have dissipated, or it may be too weak. Let's assume the second situation first, then after the stagnation is lifted, the time left for us will be quite limited: there is no way to delay the soul of the ancestors. Dissipation process. Theoretically so."
I understood Tavel's meaning: Even if the ancestor's soul is still alive, it is too weak to "extend life" by any technical means. This means that the resurrection process will be like a race against time: once the freeze is lifted, we must complete the resurrection before the ancestor's spirit dissipates naturally.
Of course, there is the worst situation, that is, the souls of the ancestors have already disappeared hundreds of millions of years ago. The current efforts of Sandora and Tavier are all wishful thinking. Even if the resurrection is successful, they can only get a blank body—— But I guess everyone at the scene is unwilling to think about it.
When I mentioned the words "time is precious", the first thing I thought of was Qianqian. Her ability to "buy time" is needless to say, but I soon felt unreliable: for obvious reasons, The ancestor's soul must be in a "free" state during the entire resurrection process, and Qianqian cannot interfere with this process.
The last possible shortcut was also blocked.
I looked at the remains of my ancestors lying quietly in the crystal coffin, and realized that I would soon witness history.
Success, or failure, will be revealed in a very short time. RS