After two hours of traveling at full speed, the shuttle arrived at the universe where the accident occurred.
This is a small world located in the border area. The basic cosmological constants are quite different from the capital world. These differences cause the material density of this universe to be far lower than that of the capital. The data show that there is no dark matter in this world at all, and there are almost no large galaxy clusters in space. Although it is still very young, the star-making movement in the universe has almost stopped, and the space looks extraordinarily dark, cold, empty, and lifeless—this is not A place suitable for the birth of advanced civilization or colonization, it is so barren that it is almost cruel, but it is an excellent place for deep diving experiments. The low density of matter and the rare number of celestial bodies can prevent the rapid spread of pollution in the abyss. The unsuitable environment for the birth of life allowed the engineering troops to complete the evacuation without much effort when building the test port: it is said that only two star systems appeared in this universe life.
A barren land in the true sense.
Of course, this is not the universe where the deep dive experiment was originally conducted, because both the gate of the abyss and the port of the deep dive have a "shelf life", with continuous testing, sampling, external stimulation, and throwing detectors into the gate of the abyss and other messes Every time such an exchange of information will lead to a decline in the stability of the gate, the drop in stability to a certain level will naturally increase the risk of the experiment, so the gate that was originally used for deep diving has been destroyed together with the entire universe. A new proving ground we found a few months ago. Of course, if this test site is also abandoned, the deep diving project can still continue. Things like the gate of the abyss will never disappear. There are still a few qualified gates of the abyss in Tavier's material library-this It is definitely the most dangerous "material" that the empire has ever stockpiled. Anyway, a few years ago, I never dared to imagine that I would put a few of these things in my backyard for experimentation...
After completing the registration, the shuttle passed the space barrier that was in a blocked state, and the current status of the port was also presented to us. Tavel pointed to the space outside the porthole, where there is a large space building made of modules: "The middle is the control The center, the monitoring station and the observation tower are all on it. There were originally four observation towers, but now two of them have been scrapped, and the remaining two have stopped operating due to power outages."
I nodded and carefully observed the situation outside. Now this distance is close to the "radiation critical point" of the gate of the abyss, and the shuttle is slowly circling at a low speed more than ten kilometers away from the completely shut down control center. I have the opportunity to confirm whether other than the control center, this place has suffered Loss. In the surrounding space, you can see many huge buildings floating independently. These buildings have silver-white outer armor and fully enclosed structures. Most of them are obelisks or polygonal prisms. They are various auxiliary facilities of the port, such as Data centers, material delivery stations, automated turrets, or barracks. In addition to the iconic blue energy lines on the surface of all buildings, there is also a layer of pale golden halo floating. This halo is actually holy light—a small team of Xiling angels also participated in the deep diving project recently. The power of the holy light they are good at can be blessed on anything, which is equivalent to adding an extra layer of protection to the facilities here except for the psionic shield. Coupled with the extreme sensitivity of the holy light to the abyss, these are blessed Light-filled facilities can also act as alarm devices. These buildings are in good condition now, and it seems that the inexplicable explosion did not spread to other facilities, which basically eliminates the possibility of the abyss causing trouble: the abyss is best at pollution and spreading, if it can really destroy If the control center is the most tightly guarded, there is no reason why the surrounding facilities are still intact.
My sight finally focused on the control center pointed out by Tavier: it is very conspicuous and large in scale. Although it is more than ten kilometers away, I can see every inch of it clearly with my enhanced vision. It was a huge square platform with a side length of about several kilometers (visual inspection is not accurate, I roughly judged the size of the platform based on a small warship moored above the platform), and its lower part is a double-layer structure—at least it has become It has become a double-layer structure, and the empty space between the two layers looks like a horizontal rift. In the depths of the rift valley, there are still huge energy jets bursting out suddenly, and the giant "lightning" can jump several kilometers away in space at once. According to the damage of this double-layer structure, there should have been some armor plates or vertical bridges connecting the upper and lower floors, but now only the torn metal stubble can be seen protruding from the row of fracture points. The broken crystallization lines and various pipelines swayed slightly due to the impact of the energy jet.
The main building facilities are distributed on the upper part of this platform. A large hexagonal building is located in the center. On the ground around it is a large area of extremely dim, cobweb-like light flow, which is probably still in the energy network of the site. With a little psionic energy remaining, those crystallized networks still exude extremely dim blue light, so they can be distinguished at a glance, and the hexagonal building is undoubtedly the central monitoring station: the heart of the control center. I thought the monitoring station was at least superficially intact, but a closer inspection revealed a gap in one corner, and a little distance conversion showed that the "little hole" was probably quite large—this is terrible, it seems that the control The big explosion that occurred on the lower floor of the center even penetrated the monitoring station above. How big is the scale of this explosion? !
The upper platform is surrounded by four huge obelisks. Those silver-white giant towers are naturally the observation towers used to monitor the gate of the abyss. Part of it burst open like a blown ball, and the originally indestructible charged armor was easily torn into a miserable state due to internal damage. The jagged metal beams maintain the connection between the tower and the platform in the lower part of the tower, just like the tragic bones after the skin and flesh have faded away. Fortunately, these metal beams are strong enough to prevent the observation tower from being completely blown out—even though they It seems useless to stay here.
The remaining two diagonal towers seem to be intact, but due to the interruption of the energy supply, they are also completely dark, with only a very few lights flickering on the surface, there should be key equipment with independent energy.
The entire control center was in tatters, as if it had been shot through by the enemy. The energy was completely paralyzed, and most places were dark and lifeless. Seeing this scene in silence, Lin Xue couldn't help baring her teeth: "It looks so miserable..."
"Find a place to stop first, and call the person in charge of the security and the people who were closest to the explosion point when the accident happened," Sandora said in a deep voice. From seeing the status of the control center, her face was quite ugly, " By the way, has the person closest to the explosion point been revived?"
Tavel was silent for a while, as if he was communicating with the people in the resurrection center, then shook his head: "The front-line personnel have been seriously injured, and their souls need to recover before they can start resurrecting, but you can directly communicate with their souls."
"Well, let's make arrangements," Sandora nodded, "In addition, upload the structural diagram of the control center, as well as all the readings of the abyss gate before the accident."
The shuttle finally parked at the control center that had been basically destroyed. There was a small take-off and landing point and a temporary workstation at the corner of the upper platform. One of the quality projections), it is about the size of a small office building after unfolding, which is enough to serve as office locations and command posts for various working groups. The expert team we brought here met with the accident handling team organized by Shenzhen Submersible Port itself, and then each of them went into busy work. I stood next to the shuttle, looking at this magnificent space complex—it has completely lost its brilliance without its energy supply, and those huge armor plates look very bleak under the sparse lights. In the distance is the central monitoring station. Here I see the crack: it looks several meters wide and more than ten meters long, and it rolls outwards. It should be a violent impact from the inside that penetrated the roof of the building. A large number of autonomous machines are busy running around in sight, repairing burned lines, welding broken support beams to prevent further structural collapse of the platform, or installing various sensors. There should be a stable gravity field and an open air circle, but now I feel that the gravity under my feet is less than one-third of normal, and the surrounding air circle is gone.
I bounced lightly, and wiped my nose awkwardly because I couldn't breathe, this action was seen by Tavier.
"After the energy supply was interrupted, all irrelevant equipment was shut down, and the remaining energy was transferred to the database and the core computer room." A mass projection of Tavel suddenly appeared beside me, "The database is preserved, and the core computer room... is still there. Can’t get in so not sure how it’s going to be there. The gravity field and the open air circle are just comfort things, they were the first ones to be turned off.”
I waved my hand: "It's okay, I'm just not used to it... What the hell are you doing?!"
I looked at this mass projection Tavel with a horrified expression—her appearance shocked people! There is a large penetrating hole in the abdomen, and the legs are empty from the thighs down, so they can only talk to people floating in the air. This is completely blown into almost two pieces on the battlefield! Of course, there is no bloodstains on her body and no tragic scene of exposed muscles and bones. Firstly, the apostle of Xiling does not have the body structure like blood and human beings. Secondly, this is just a mass projection in front of me. The scars on her body look terrible but not True, but... still permeable.
"Oh, although I wasn't there when the ground floor exploded, I was in the monitoring station, over there—" the Tavel mass projection who was blown up into a tragic appearance said indifferently, and pointed back to the monitoring station. Huge gap, "A jet of psionic energy pierced through the dome, and the sparks that burst out exploded on the body, and it became like this. Anyway, it is mass projection, and it can still work, so there is no 'recycling and regeneration'. Let's talk about it when things are too busy to forget." , Efficiency comes first."
I am speechless, don’t look at her as a girl with glasses, the image of such a tough guy is really heart-shattering, I know that there is no way to let Tavel quickly replace this projected body with the human way of thinking, and I can’t see her With such a miserable appearance, I had no choice but to take off my large coat and tie it to her at the bottom of her chest, covering her stomach and the fracture zone of her lower body to some extent: "That's it, I will try my best to treat you as a coconut tree spirit, Otherwise, I'd be awkward if you were dangling like this..."
Mass Projection Tavel: "... oh"
Farewell to this very shocking mass projection—in fact, it is not considered a farewell, because Tavel’s body is standing next to him, and all mass projections are directly controlled by Tavel, so it should be said that Tavel sent her After this body was transferred to another work site, Sandora and I came to the accident disposal center, which is the temporary work station next to it.
An assistant technician connected the structural diagram of the control center to the holographic projection, and next to it was the image of the gate of the abyss. Tavel's other intact quality projection introduced us to the place where the explosion occurred and the situation at the time: "Now It has already been determined that the place where the explosion occurred initially is here. The A-13 to A-15 sections of the lower area, and the hyperspace output ends of the power furnace are all concentrated in this place. Whether it was the explosion that destroyed the power furnace, or the power furnace exploded first Everything else, the chain reaction started from here. Then all the energy lines in the control center were overloaded, and along the main energy supply pipeline, the explosion went straight from the lower layer to the upper layer, blowing up all the connecting bridges and protective walls along the way, and finally caused Observation towers 1 and 3 were destroyed. Another wave of shock arrived at the monitoring station three seconds after the first round of explosions. This explosion did not completely destroy the monitoring station, but penetrated its dome, and then all equipment was offline. Fortunately In those three seconds, the automatic disaster protection system was activated, and the database of the monitoring station survived. However, because the main computer room was buried deep under the armor plate of the platform and was close to the place where the first round of explosions occurred, it was already covered by a super-strength psionic energy field. No one can get in for the time being. The chance of the main computer room being completely destroyed is more than 80%."
"What's special about the host room?" Sandora raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Data, because all the information collected from the gate of the abyss must be filtered and detected before it can be sent to the database, so the main computer room has a cache mechanism, where the detailed detection data of the gate of the abyss when the explosion occurred is stored there, and it has not been uploaded in time. to the database..."
"That is to say, the rescued database is not helpful to find out the cause of the accident, is it?" Sandora shook her head, "The things in the database are all old data from a buffer period before the explosion."
"We have observation records from external sources," an assistant technician stood up, "about the gate of the abyss. We established an additional observation point for the gate of the abyss a few days ago under the prompt of Mistress Lin Xue. Although the function is insufficient, Some basic information is still there."
I turned my head and looked at the eldest lady beside me in surprise. This girl was shaking her head with a face of the unpredictable world at the moment—in fact, she had been shaking her head for more than ten minutes since just now, but I never knew What's wrong with her, she thought that the girl had taken the wrong medicine. At this time, she noticed my gaze, and the eldest lady showed an even more unpredictable smile: "Crafting the future is a delicate thing. There are some things that can be done but not said. , there are some things that can't be said and can't be done... Hey, wait until I finish talking, don't turn your head... "
I have turned my head to watch Sandora analyze the monitoring data of those abyss gates. From the screen, the Gate of the Abyss is always the same, a black two-dimensional round cake, at most slightly scaled at the edges under the control of the surrounding suppression towers, but the various charts recording its monitoring data are showing extremely high The speed refreshes, the above data is simply dazzling. Although I don't quite understand... Well, although I don't understand at all, Sandora nodded while watching, and finally she frowned: "There is no problem with the data, the gate of the abyss seems to have no movement at all... except for a scale A very small amount of information overflow, but the amount of information overflow is probably no bigger than a meteorite."
"Do you suspect that something ran out of the gate of the abyss and hit the control center?" I asked.
"Look at the structure of the control center," Sandora pointed to the holographic analysis diagram, "This is the protection of the energy unit... Oh, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it. In short, the safety factor of this building complex is super high, except for external factors , the probability of its internal collapse is infinitely close to zero. The energy center in the lower area that exploded first, of course, this location is protected by four layers of armor and two independently operating shields, which looks indestructible, but it is not the same as the internal collapse. Compared with the odds, armor and shields are at least likely to be breached."
One is a defense system with almost no loopholes, and the other is armor and shields that are solid, but at least tangible and have an upper limit of protection. It is true that the latter has a higher chance of being breached.
The expert team also made the same judgment as Sandora: the possibility of the destruction of the control center caused by external factors is far greater than internal factors. Although the internal explosion that eventually destroyed the entire site, this internal explosion should have been triggered by the outside world.
So I could only agree with Sandora's opinion, but I couldn't figure it out, so I turned my head and looked at Tavel (the main body) beside me: "I didn't detect anything flying out of the gate of the abyss before the explosion. Bar?"
Tavel’s body has been in Shadow City, but her quality projection has personally experienced the scene here, so just ask her directly—speaking of the ability of the glasses lady, it’s amazing to think about it. I think no matter which corner of the empire the research facilities are You can ask her about the situation, she is an eyewitness anytime and anywhere...
"There is no such report," Tavel nodded, but quickly changed the topic, "but it does not rule out the possibility that something has rushed out of the gate of the abyss. What comes out of the gate is not necessarily a target that can be observed, due to the special nature of the abyss Nature, anything that overflows inside it may appear as disordered data, and will not be transformed back to its original form: matter or energy after crossing the critical point of radiation. So it cannot be observed within the critical point of radiation around the abyss gate Whether it is ejecting matter (or energy), everything is disguised, and it can only be judged based on the information overflow of the gate whether it is leaking something. Of course, this is limited to more 'natural' things, if it is a deep diving ship When something comes out of the gate, it will automatically eliminate the influence of the abyss."
This is why Sandora checked the information overflow of the gate of the abyss for the first time just now.
But at this moment, another shock came from deep underground, and rumbling resonance echoed in the workstation. RS