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Due to the particularity of the void, there is no exact concept of "territory" and "border" here. These two words are only used for the convenience of description, and they are directly used in the area where the New Empire and the Abyss Empire meet. In fact, this area is not Belonging to either side of the New Empire and the Abyss Empire, it is a "watershed" composed of a series of worlds without sovereignty. These worlds and empires are only one step away from the fallen apostles, even the most difficult to transfer in the void. Large starships can jump from these neutral worlds into the empire zone or the abyss zone as long as the engine runs for one cycle, so these universes sandwiched between the warring parties are regarded as boundaries by both sides.
I don't know if I should sympathize with these worlds, they're like hamlets on the border of two warring superpowers—no, worse than that, they're not just hamlets caught in the middle, It's still the kind of small village that has no sovereignty and can be pinched by anyone. They are not protected by the empire, nor can they be protected by the fallen apostles. Once the two behemoths on both sides of them suddenly want to fight, this kind of world will be extinguished almost instantly, just like when we bombed on the border of the empire. Like the lost universe, the end of the world is ushered in in the blink of an eye.
According to the plan, we first rushed to the fortress world on the edge of the empire. This is a pure garrison universe with no name and only a number. Almost all celestial bodies in this small universe have been converted into weapon base stations and legion portals to ensure that it can withstand the onslaught of the fallen apostles when a full-scale conflict breaks out. , and quickly mobilized the main force from the territory. All major legions have squadrons here to carry out side missions, coupled with the long-term reserve echelon and Imperial Defense Force stationed locally, the entire world can almost be regarded as a war machine with a radius of tens of billions of light years. Most of the outposts set up around the "conflict point" are provided by this fortress world to provide defense and logistical support. The sentry troops starting from here are equivalent to falling into the sight of the fallen apostles in an instant. Of course, the fallen apostles Patrols and Sentinels will all be monitored here as well. In this way, the two sides are moving around each other under the eyes of their deadly enemies, maintaining a temporary "peace" under the fragile and almost non-existent security shackles, and even this breathless "peace" is the result of the abyss The special operations team risked their lives to go deep into the enemy's rear to spy on intelligence, coupled with the results of countless fierce border battles and partial victories of the Lord Defense Forces.
After staying in this fortress world for a while, a group of us boarded the border transport ship with the sentry troops who were about to change the guard. After leaving the world barrier, it was actually equivalent to leaving the last inch of the empire: those outposts were floating in the void In the depths, almost half of one foot stood within the sphere of influence of the Abyss Empire.
But we will not really go to the outpost with the sentinel troops: according to the plan, everyone will leave the transport ship before it arrives at the destination, and then sneak into a main material world on the way, which is the "treasure treasure" marked by the Father God. Place". Fortunately, this universe is one that is less "concerned" by the enemy, because it is relatively more on the side of the empire, and our actions will basically not be exposed.
"I don't know how long the situation in this place can last." There was no scenery to see in the void, and the process of simply waiting seemed quite boring. Bingtis sat in his seat, mumbling while spreading his wings and combing his feathers , "The fallen apostles seem to have been quiet for a long time. According to their activity patterns, the longer the quiet time, the more bad water they will hold back. Next time, their movements will definitely not be small."
I took a look at Bingtis, but there was nothing wrong with it. I don't know if she was really influenced by the "Xiling household registration". The tone of this female hooligan just now was completely like that of an apostle of Xiling. She probably didn't realize that she had almost regarded the empire as her hometown.
The commander of the sentinel unit was sitting not far in front of us. He was a veteran who had experienced many battles. He looked at the holographic image beside him and suddenly reported: "Your Majesty, the enemy's interception is about to appear."
Enemy interception—this was also part of the plan. I stood up and prepared to board the assault ship with the others to "meet" the interceptors. Now it is close to the large outpost at the front line, which is the distance between the two sides throwing bricks at each other. I pressed the heads of Pandora and Viska next to me, and asked casually: "How large is the interception firepower? What's there? "
"Self-explosive probes and self-explosive drones, conventional artillery cannot be used in the void. This kind of self-destructing thing with its own order field is the only effective weapon other than special warships," the old sentinel captain said in a strange way. He replied in a familiar tone, "Generally, every time we reach this position, the enemy will release three waves of harassment, sometimes four waves, but that is rarely the case. Then the outpost will also release the same amount of self-destructing unmanned The machine passes by, and this round happens once every three days."
"How effective is this interception?" Bingtis asked strangely.
"Some of the sentinels will be killed in battle, but they cannot break through the defense of the ship. The dead soldiers will be resurrected directly in the resurrection facilities of the outpost, so in fact, only vehicles such as individual fighters and assault ships will be lost, and the opposite is the same —After all, the scale of the battle is too small, and it is difficult for the two sides to really and completely kill each other."
It must be difficult for ordinary people to understand what this life-like fire line feels like every day. Anyway, my scalp is numb, and at this time Bingtis asked curiously: "Why hasn't the interception you mentioned come yet?"
The sentinel commander also showed some doubts. He kept looking at the holographic screen beside him, and said in a low voice: "It stands to reason that it should have appeared... The time concept of the fallen apostle is really messed up... Bridge, have you detected the enemy's interception firepower? "
A voice quickly rang out in the cabin: "No, the front is safe."
The sentinel commander thought for a while: "Notify the outpost, this time we should release the self-destruct spaceship first, the fallen apostle may have forgotten."
I:"… "
I don’t know what you guys think, but I immediately came up with the following dialogue:
"Enemy commander, enemy commander! This is the headquarters of the Imperial Army! We have reached your line of defense, where are the mines?"
"Enemy Commander, Enemy Commander! This is the headquarters of the Abyss Empire! We are resting today, no mines!"
"Enemy commander! Please correct your attitude! You are soldiers, and it is your responsibility to lay mines!"
"Enemy commander! Please correct your attitude first! Who told you that you didn't clear the mines the day before yesterday? How can we lay mines before our minelayers are repaired!!"
—Basically at this rhythm...
I don't know if the "reminder" from the Imperial Army worked. Anyway, a few seconds later, a sharp siren sounded in the transport ship, and a group of order fields marked as hostile targets were rapidly approaching the order field of the fleet: Fallen Apostles The self-destruct interception came.
We quickly teleported to the assault ship that had been prepared for a long time, rushed towards the enemy self-destruct units that broke into the order field of our fleet as an attacking force, and then... let the spaceship automatically fight back while "trying" to be sunk.
It's easy to get out of the transport ship and enter the main material world, but maybe the enemy will notice and be mistaken for our intention to establish bases in those sensitive areas: after all, this place is crowded with hundreds of enemy outposts , I really can’t imagine how strict their monitoring will be, so our plan has an extra step, which is to pretend to be a Sentinel spaceship destroyed by the fallen apostles—in this place, the Sentinel spaceships of the two warring parties are destroyed every day. Do not arouse suspicion. The destroyed spaceship will lose the order field, then fall out of the formation, and finally fall into the main material world in the form of wreckage, we pretend that we are wreckage...
Anyway, it must conform to the local daily situation from beginning to end. Only in this way can the camouflage be achieved to the greatest extent. Given the special nature of this mission, such caution is necessary.
After falling into the world barrier, everything will be easy to handle. With the interference of this barrier, the actions of a few of us will not be noticed as long as we don’t make too much noise. After all, the confrontation between the Imperial Army and the fallen apostles The whole point is in the void, the several universes here... people and animals are really lying there harmlessly, and no one wants to waste firepower and let them get shot if it is not necessary.
According to the commander of the sentinel, the interception firepower of the fallen apostles is often limited, so it takes a skill to be sunk, but fortunately we have a prophet. This is the first time that the young lady used her own power to aim at the enemy's muzzle and hit it upwards. After the entire line of the assault ship's shield was marked red, the old lady wiped the sweat on her forehead and told me One sentence: "... so exciting!"
Then the spaceship crashed.
We disengaged from the spaceship at this instant and jumped into the physical world.
It seems that everything is going well, the fallen apostles will not know that a group of incredible guys have sneaked into this universe under their noses, I take a deep breath, and the feeling of stepping on the ground is really good.
"Oh, it looks like we'll start looking for it from here," Bingtis stretched his body while retracting his overly conspicuous wings, "The scenery is pretty good."
We looked around and found that we came to a place full of life.
The place where everyone settled was an open field overgrown with weeds. The open field was surrounded by tall coniferous trees. There were faint shadows in the woods and there was no end to it. It seemed to be a rather large dense forest, and low shrubs could be seen between the shadows of the trees. Bushes are growing wantonly, shrubs, weeds, and aerial roots of giant trees have almost blocked all passages in the forest, and the ground in the forest is covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves and rot: this is obviously a place that is inaccessible. We should be in a glade in a coniferous forest.
I looked up at the sky, the sky was blue, cloudless, and the sky was clear, and the air in this place was also very clean. Although it always felt a little strange to breathe, it may be because the composition of the atmosphere here is different from that of the earth. It doesn't matter - after all, breathing is just a habit for me since a long time ago.
"The teleportation location was selected by the scroll." Bingtis took out the scroll that Father God gave us from his arms. It is now glowing with a slight golden halo, and it is gradually dimming. "The clue should be I'm on this planet, but I haven't sensed the aura of the star field artifact, so it seems that I need to check it out."
"It feels weird," Xue Lin set up a pergola to look around, and muttered, "There is such a planet that looks like a national park in the most tense place where the Imperial Army and the Fallen Apostles confront each other, tsk tsk— Why is the sense of disobedience so serious?"
I smiled and didn't say anything. In fact, everyone can feel the sense of disobedience that Lin Xue said: just outside this world, it is almost a void that separates us from each other. The outposts are facing each other, and two of the most terrifying behemoths in the void are ready to break out in a full-scale conflict here at any time. Any so-called "peerless dangerous place" is like a kindergarten compared with the "Void Fire Line" outside, but there is a The world barrier, in this universe where neither side dares to set foot first, everything looks no different from the ordinary world, there is even such a vibrant planet here, even...
An unknown emerald green bird fluttered over the crowd and let out a burst of chirping calls.
There was even a bird, a bird so excited, so ignorant.
Bingtis didn't know what to think, suddenly smiled and shook his head: "So sometimes ignorance is bliss—should we go?"
"Let's get to know the situation of this place first," I said, and took Ding Dong out of my pocket casually. Xiao Douding was still alive and kicking when he first set off, but now he has curled up into a small ball and fell asleep: it really fits the bill. Her style of work and rest habits makes jet lag a thing of the past when I arrive in another world. I poked the little one's stomach and cast an awakening spell on Douding who was still confused, "Ding Dong, see if there is anyone in this place."
Because we are in a sensitive area, and we don't know how sensitive the fallen apostles' vigilance can be, so we didn't scan the destination before passing through the world barrier, and now we don't know if there are intelligent natives on this planet, Ding Dong creatures This is where the radar comes in handy: Xiaodouding is like a probe when it comes to scanning for life.
"Hi!" Dingdang turned over and sat up, only to realize that he had arrived at the stop. The little thing understood what he was going to do, nodded happily, and flew to the trunk of the nearest tree. Suddenly, I heard the sound of the whole forest. There was a rustling sound: all plants and animals were disturbed, responding to the inquiry of the ruler of life.
"Someone!" Ding Dang flew back lightly and neatly, circling in front of me, "There is a village outside the forest, and a few tens of kilometers away is a big city, and a few hundred kilometers away is the capital, across the planet There is a big lake, in which lives a two-hundred-year-old three-headed snake. The three-headed snake said that he has a toothache, and there is a small group of snow apes next to the planet's Antarctic Circle... "
I:"… "
Although Xiao Budian sums things up in such a mess, at least I know that she has counted the life of the entire planet in just a few seconds, but I don’t know if it includes single-celled animals...
It would be nice to know that there are indigenous peoples on this planet. First of all, we were sent to this place according to the scroll given by the Father God. The scroll recorded vague information about the artifact, so the thing we are looking for may be on this planet. Secondly, it is an artifact with a very high sense of existence. If there are residents on this planet, they will probably develop around the power of this artifact, and at worst, they can find clues to the artifact in their culture or legends. Similar incidents are not uncommon. When a scientific expedition team recovered the remains of the old empire, it was discovered that the aborigines in that place had built city-states all over the planet centered on psionic reactors.
So everyone walked out of the woods with a happy mood. Of course, I first asked Ding Dong about the general situation of the village outside the woods, and at least confirmed that the aborigines in this world are also humanoid creatures. This is very important. After all, this world is already in the "far frontier" of the star field, and the information disturbance force of the Protoss is relatively weak here, so the owner of this planet may not be human. It's quite possible that the world's primates were wiped out by their scaly, reptilian relatives before they could walk upright—and that would undoubtedly cause us some communication troubles. The "farther" the world from the God Realm, the easier it is for weird life forms to appear. Although this is not absolute, the general trend is like this.
Fortunately, Starfield's information disturbance power is quite powerful. Dingdang gave us a description of the situation of the aborigines in this world. They should be similar to Earth people—that is, similar to the "standard human appearance" formulated by Starfield. We don't need to consider the species communication problem.
This jungle seems to be rarely visited by people. The soft rotten soil and fallen leaves and strange plants overgrown on the road make it difficult to walk. I suggested that everyone fly over, but the eldest lady objected——
"Look at the clear sky, look at the original scenery, look at the trees, grass, and moss, and the clean air in Shadow City. Why are you so uninteresting in wood? Walking with your girlfriend in the fallen leaves It's so romantic in the pine forest, you have to learn to enjoy life... "
What Lin Xue said is quite reasonable, but I think she should get off my back before saying this: Missy really enjoys it!
"Walking around is good," Bingtis led the way in front, and the female hooligan seemed to be in high spirits, "If you want to save trouble, once you get used to it, you won't even bother to walk. If you don't believe me, let the angel in your head go." Come out and let her take two steps."
Looking at the rough road conditions in front of me, I guessed that Alaya would have to crawl forward the whole way to take two steps, and finally arrived at the destination...
Pandora followed silently, and was very well-behaved the whole time, while Viska and Qianqian ran around wildly. These two big and small bears with endless energy have been running around collecting a bunch of things that they think are very cute. The interesting things were brought back and shown to me. At first it was wild grass and wild flowers, then wild fruits and stones appeared, and then there were all kinds of birds and beasts struggling constantly, and finally when the two of them worked together to drag a two-ton saber-toothed tiger ( It looks like) happily yelling: "Brother (A Jun), I caught something interesting—" I finally couldn't help it anymore, and ordered the two girls not to run around, and asked them to follow the main force. It would be fine if Sandora followed us. The items collected by Viska and Qianqian can at least be used to fill Her Majesty's stomach. What's the use of them carrying a saber-toothed tiger and following us now...
Just as we let the tearful saber-toothed tiger go, Ding Dong suddenly came out of my breast pocket: "Ah Jun, there is someone." RS