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The detectors sent by the civilization on the other side are actually no different from the detectors made by the Empire in terms of structural strength and other aspects, except that its abyss protection technology is a mystery to us, and its materials have many unexplainable properties , this thing is not more resistant to beating than the things made by the empire, so such a thing is theoretically not a threat to the control center.
No matter how fast it hits, it's useless, and it's useless to exceed the speed of light so that it has infinite mass-this is not a speed problem, but a "level" problem: because our control center has psionic shields. The psionic shield is something that can provide indiscriminate defense against all external threats, because psionic energy's position on the void ladder is on the same level as the entire world, so everything in the world will be weakened by the psionic shield, "speed" and " "Kinetic energy" is just a concept defined within the scope of the universe, so even if this thing hits the platform at the speed of light, more than half of its speed will be burned instantly, and then its body will also be burned—even if it hits the platform at the speed of light. The first layer of shields can't get through. Of course, it may use the same energy as psionic energy itself, so it can offset part of the shield, but I don't believe that such a small detector can carry enough energy to melt through two layers of shields.
It will crash outside the control center, instead of breaking through all the latter's defenses all the way, and survive the detonation of the energy core in a near-intact state - but all of this is only if our control center has the shield open .
"You said that before the explosion, the defense system of the control center was down?" I stared at Sandora dumbfounded, and you said that it would be great if she made another joke: how could the imperial equipment fail like this
"I know you don't believe it," Sandora shrugged, "but that's how the system logs are recorded, and this is not a human operation, but all the hosts of the defense system ordered to shut down the underlying protection of the platform at the same time. There is no shield, full It can be armored and depressurized. The control center was completely undefended during that short period of time. The 'black shuttle' should have hit it at that time. It was not hindered at all. After the depressurization, the charged armor was just a little harder. Facing a sufficiently high-speed kinetic energy bomb, it is not much stronger than ordinary materials, and I guess that the 'Black Shuttle' also has a shield when it is turned on, so after the two phases are cancelled, our big platform is destroyed, that thing The son is safe and sound."
I said "uh" and didn't know what to say.
I know about powered armor, it's widely used on anything that needs heavy protection. Because no matter how strong the material is, its defensive power will only be reflected in its "strength". Even if you get a piece of neutron star material, it has no resistance other than being very hard, so the Apostle of Xiling uses a more advanced charging armor . By infusing psionic energy into high-affinity metals, each molecule of this armor plate is relatively fixed, and at the same time, it gives the armor an energy resistance that is almost comparable to that of the Protoss armor. This is the charged armor, and it is also here. After the technological level of the empire, the only valuable physical armor (any other form of pure material armor will be eliminated, because pure matter can never withstand the power of psionic energy). But the powered armor can also be broken: if its energy field is turned off, which is commonly referred to as "pressure relief", then a piece of powered armor will have no characteristics except that it is extremely hard.
Pandora can punch a hole in it with a head hammer—that girl's forehead is charged.
Therefore, it is very normal for the black shuttle to break through four layers of armor. If its speed reaches a certain level, there is no difference between four layers of armor and four layers of cotton. exist.
"Is it a simple system failure, or is it a mistake in the settings of the staff?" I frowned, wondering why the control center would automatically turn off the defense of the bottom area. It was just... like welcoming a black shuttle.
"Both are unlikely," Sandora turned around and slowly flew out, saying in the spiritual connection, "The probability of a single system 'failure' is less than one in ten million, and the three sets of redundant The probability of system failure at the same time is negligible in my opinion, and the secondary defense host in the bottom area also has its own judgment. When it receives an instruction such as 'giving up defense', it will repeat it to the upper host. Do you think it is possible to repeat a failure command twice to the subordinates? As for the mistakes in personnel settings, it is not to mention that the core code of the fortress facilities is not allowed to be changed casually. Only Tavel and the defense commander here have permission to rewrite these codes, not to mention that the Apostle of Xiling will not make such a low-level mistake-make a system loophole and cause the defense network to go offline? Just kidding."
With such a big stone in my heart, Sandora and I quickly returned to the upper level of the platform, where Tavel and Lin Xue were already waiting. The latter still couldn't help but have a worried look on his face, but when he saw me, he immediately changed into a grinning smile, and the eldest lady came up and patted my shoulder: "Hey, the tough guy is back—the one who was bombed How does it feel to fly around?"
Immediately, I knew that this half-immortal girl was probably "looking" at me the whole time. She was a little moved but also embarrassed, so I scratched my hair: "It's exciting, it's exciting..."
Tavel's reaction after seeing the "Black Shuttle" was completely within our expectations. The glasses girl jumped up to a height of more than 200 meters: there was insufficient gravity on the platform, and she forgot when she got excited. Then a large group of senior assistant technicians were called over, carefully transferred the several-meter-long black detector into a special sample storage container, and sent it to the research facility near the deep diving port to wait for knocking.
I can see that Tavel's body also wants to carry out research with the past immediately, but Sandora stopped her: "Just let your mass projection go, you and the defense commander here and the main designer of the deep dive port, come here, There are special circumstances that need to be analyzed."
Tavel saw the serious expression on Sandora's face, and immediately bowed and retreated.
Soon, the defense commander of Deep Diving Port and several staff members who seemed to be between soldiers and scientists arrived at the temporary workstation under the leadership of Tavel. The reason why those staff members look between soldiers and scientists is because they wear white uniforms of technicians, but they are bigger than most imperial soldiers, and they have a murderous temperament besides fierce faces. I suspect that this group of scientists carrying heavy artillery into the battlefield is no slower than soldiers rushing—Zhen Nima is indeed a guy who dares to study at the gate of the abyss. How do you think Tavel has cultivated so many scientific lunatics at the same level as her
"This is the defense system log I found from the only device that can still be read," Sandora uploaded the information she found to the public information link, "The platform was completely undefended before the accident happened , I wonder if anyone has discovered this."
The Deep Dive Harbor Defense Commander is a male officer with a thin face and deep eye sockets. As a very "special" experimental facility, a considerable number of defense forces are stationed here, and this officer is the supreme commander of the local defense force, and the only person in the local area who has the authority to close the base defense through external codes except Tavel . If the current situation were placed on soldiers of ordinary races, I am afraid that it would have been a long time ago, but the imperial military officer is different. He just recalled it carefully and shook his head without changing his face: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there is no relevant record. All monitoring points report everything. Normal, no soldiers or scientists reported base defenses down until the explosion."
Sandora nodded: "Well, I understand. Now let me talk about my opinion: the problem should not only be the core host, but also the monitoring devices in various places, but the records of those detection devices have been destroyed, so this is just Just a guess. After the core host shut down the base defense, the monitoring system also made a collective error. When the defense in the lower area was down, it reported that the base defense was normal. They didn't discover the anomaly in the first place."
"The only thing that shut down the defenses was the lower quarters, and it did so less than a minute before that black bump arrived," I interjected. "There must be some connection—I mean, I think it's almost The platform is welcoming Hei Shuo to give him a shot, Sandora, do you think the system failure here is affected by Hei Shuo? For example, the abyss reaction on it. "
When I found the black shuttle, there was no abyss reaction on it, but this was probably purified by the psionic energy in the buffer lattice. It cannot be said that it didn't have an abyss when it first crashed in. I still remember the phantom energy vortex that tore apart the space, which was caused by the black shuttle when it passed through the corridor. Now that I think about it, it is probably the remaining abyss power on the black shuttle that destroyed the local space structure, so that the phantom energy Part of the reactor pulled into the real world: the more I think about it, the more likely it is.
"I really think so," Sandora pondered. "In fact, I think there is almost an inevitable connection between the black shuttle and the paralysis of the base defense. The two things can no longer be explained by coincidence. But with such a small Can the abyssal power carried by the probe destroy the control center of the entire control center?"
"Theoretically... this won't happen," Tavel shook her head vigorously. She designed most of the site's structure and control system, and she wrote the defense core code herself. The glasses girl didn't believe herself Well-designed things will have such a fatal flaw, "Let's not talk about the tightness and stability of the defense system, as far as this 'fault' is concerned, it doesn't look like the work of the abyss. The destruction of the abyss has always been blind and disorderly. Yes, and it's very direct. It may directly explode the shield of the facility, or it may directly shatter the armor belt, but it will definitely not hack into the host computer, rewrite the program, fool the monitor, and then disguise everything as The accident of the energy furnace going berserk: Abyss does not have this kind of thinking ability. Theoretically, it is."
"This question will not come to fruition, at least for now." Lin Xue, who had been silent all this time, suddenly muttered something silently, and the scene immediately became quiet. What's up?"
"I didn't see anything," Lin Xue said lightly, "I just made sure that there are no clues around us. All valuable information has been destroyed with the explosion. This secret will be hidden for a long time. After it is revealed Before opening, any accident investigation is a waste of time. Instead of wasting energy investigating this, we should change our thinking and think about another situation: What would happen if the defense system in the control center did not go crazy?"
Sandora and I showed disappointment at the same time: After the prophet announces that there will be no result, this matter will really have no result. This has been proved countless times. In today's revival era when time and energy are very urgent, Lin Xue's predictions certainly helped the New Empire avoid many detours and saved a lot of resources, but this kind of abruptly putting aside a big unsolved case and not thinking about it It still makes me feel uncomfortable—well, if you don’t want to, don’t think about it, anyway, it’s not the first time it happened, according to Missy, it seems that the truth of this incident will be revealed in the future? Since it doesn't have much impact, it's okay to wait quietly.
I focused my thoughts on the hypothesis proposed by Lin Xue: "If the defense system is not convulsed? Of course there will be no accident in the control center."
"No," Sandora raised her head suddenly, "I understand what Lin Xue meant: if all the mainframes are normal, the black shuttle will crash on the shield—this extremely precious sample will be destroyed before we even notice it. In that case, it will be lost.”
The eldest lady laughed mysteriously: "That's it, so is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
"The control center can be rebuilt, and the lost observation records and test data can be obtained again at any time, but the black shuttle is something we cannot manufacture. The deep-diving ship has not yet touched the critical point in the abyss. Which of the two is better?" Precious..." Sandora said, and glanced at Tavel, "In this way, we should be grateful for this accident."
Seeing the cautious expression on Tavel's face, I knew the importance of the black shuttle and the control center in terms of scientific research value.
Sandora looked around, and seemed to feel that there was no need for the meeting to continue, so she stood up: "Then follow the instructions of the Prophet, and temporarily put aside the accident investigation—but we still need to collect all the information that can be collected. Organize them all for future use. Tavel, you should carry out the research and analysis of that detector yourself, and repair the equipment here as soon as possible, and the deep dive plan should be restarted."
Saying that, Sandora and Tavel looked at Lin Xue together, and the latter nodded, indicating that the catastrophe she had predicted that day was over, and Tavel asked uncomfortably: "Mistress, Won't the failure of the control center happen again?"
"No, this is the first and last time." Lin Xue nodded with certainty, "Although I can't see the reason clearly, it happened for Hei Suo, and there will be no second time in the future Yes. The security system in the control center is fine, you can rest assured."
The managers of Tavel and Deep Dive Harbor left here one after another and returned to their jobs. Soon there were only me, Shandora, and Lin Xue left in the huge meeting room. Sandora rubbed the center of her brows, as if she was a little tired: "I think this matter is planned by someone. The black shuttle appeared, the defense system went down, and the monitoring device failed... It's a chain of events that made the detector complete. It fell into our hands, and I never believed in luck, it reminds me of a conspiracy."
"Indeed, if you think about where that thing ended up — in those crystals in the middle of the big platform," I agreed, "I'm just noticing this now: Without the protection of those release buffer crystals, a small detection The weapon must have been ashes when the big platform exploded, so the angle at which it penetrated the platform is simply magical."
A detector with thin skin and little blood, even if it is carrying a psionic shield and escorted by the mass effect at the speed of light, it is impossible to penetrate a space fortress with copper walls and iron walls on the premise of its own survival, even if the space fortress Open the door to let it hit and actively expose the energy core to let it penetrate, and the detector will also be destroyed when the fortress explodes, unless it is "properly" embedded in a protective layer after the impact: for example, it can A buffer crystal that absorbs explosion damage. Sandora is right. This series of events has nothing to do with accidents at all. This is a carefully calculated and adjusted "capture operation". It is not surprising to say that someone planned all of this. But who can do this? What is the point of doing this
The Apostles of Xiling have been ruled out, but it is impossible for the enemy to do it—because obviously the ultimate beneficiary of this incident is the empire. If it is the style of the fallen apostles, they should rather destroy what they can't get. It won't let it fall into our hands, unless they really spend so much time trying to smash one of our space stations—I remember that Abyss Xiling doesn't seem to be a disabled girl.
"In short, let Tavel transfer Hei Shuo to the shadow space today, and put things in his own home to make people feel at ease. I'm afraid this universe is not too 'safe'. After returning, I will let the Garden of Death reset this The coordinates of the world, I don't want to encounter a group of fallen apostles when the deep dive ship is about to set off."
Although the investigation of the system failure has been put on hold for the time being, at least the investigation into the accident of the control center explosion has been completed, and we have completed our work here and started our journey back to Shadow City. Tavel will follow up later: she needs to do some simple tests and treatments on the black shuttle first to ensure that it is completely harmless. After all, she is going to bring something to the capital world, and it is impossible to be careless.
The deep dive plan was restarted after being postponed for almost half a month. The new type of deep-diving ship is sent to the test port, where the deep-diving ship will undergo the last round of testing before the start-up before the control center is rebuilt. Tavel seems to be extremely confident about the newly designed spaceship. She is in this ship A lot of breakthrough technologies were used on the ship, and taking advantage of the temporary suspension of the deep dive plan these days, some high-tech modules that were kindly supported by Harlan were installed on the ship—these technologies from the Fallen Apostles were originally intended to be installed What is on their deep diving equipment is now firstly applied to the imperial spacecraft. I don’t know if Abyss Xiling thought about this result at the beginning.
Anyway, I always thought that getting Harlan to get a fat beating into the imperial camp was one of the most worthwhile things I have ever done... RS