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After the shipboard host announced that the system was ready to return to the team, I finally couldn't help but wonder in my heart, and asked a question to the spaceship AI that should theoretically have no personality: "What does Warren Field mean to you?"
"The crew of this ship, the only survivor, the priority guardian," the shipboard host quickly replied in that straightforward tone, but Sandora and I waited patiently for the next sentence, and sure enough, there was a few seconds of silence The last voice added, "This ship is not sure whether the logic is normal, but this ship regards Warren as a system supplement for this ship."
"Take it as a supplementary part of yourself," Sandora seemed to have a slight smile on her face, "You shouldn't have generated these data, but there are enough strange things about this ship, so it's okay to keep it so strange... Warren Field is your partner, and that's what the 'weird logic' you're producing means."
"This ship doesn't understand, this ship doesn't have a personality system."
"It doesn't matter," Sandora smiled and shook her head, "Really, it doesn't matter."
It seems that everything is as I guessed, the starship commander tens of thousands of years ago fell in love with the AI of the spaceship—two souls with completely different life forms, one of which does not even have a body, but this does not stop They have loved each other for decades. Theoretically, a starship mainframe without a complete personality should not have such feelings, but it may be because of her special model, or it may be some kind of benign failure caused by the damage of the spaceship, or it may be purely a miracle. The shipboard mainframe produces humanity.
As sad as those decades of solitary journeys were, it suddenly occurred to me now that the story might not be so sad: Warren? Field and the shipboard main engine have lived together for decades. The space-limited cabin section of the spaceship is their entire world. They have never been separated until one of them dies. Looking at it from another perspective, this is a mutual understanding and love of ordinary people. Birth, old age, sickness and death—the only difference is that this place is extraordinarily deserted.
At this time, other imperial soldiers who were on standby outside had already entered the spaceship as planned, and one of the squads found Warren according to the route map we left? Regarding Field's body, an imperial soldier reported to him: "Your Majesty, the remains of the starship commander have been found, what should we do?"
I thought about it and made a decision: "Handle it with care, don't damage it, take it back, and bury it on the cemetery planet under the Military Control Department according to the standards of the fallen heroes of the servant army."
The Apostles of Xiling do not have funeral customs, but the servant army does. Under the name of the military command department, there are "tomb stars" dedicated to burying dead soldiers. These cemetery planets are usually completely scrapped and cannot even be converted into colonial planets. Decommissioned star warships Transformed, Warren? Strictly speaking, Field is not a member of the New Empire's servant army, but I think he should be qualified.
Sandora also had no objection, and she connected to the Shadow City database again: "Personnel information database, log in a set of family data, Warren? Field, male servants, Hikona humans, N-CCER- 06, female Xiling apostle, battleship host, partnership."
It may be that the family data relayed by the emperor himself is too strange. The server program of the personnel information database sent an inquiry: "Your Majesty, one of them is from an unrecorded vassal race, and the other is a shipboard host?"
"That's right," Sandora said and repeated the information of the two of them again, "Just record it like this, the legacy of the old empire."
There is no doubt in the personnel information base: the words left over from the old empire are enough to explain almost everything.
Then we came to the previous event hall, where there is a large holographic device, which is more convenient to check the information just obtained. Sandora connected the data terminal to the holographic device in the center of the hall, and the secret of this ghost ship finally fully surfaced.
The first piece of information is the captain's record. This is Warren? Field woke up to the observation data recorded for decades. The starship commander found these data boring, but in our opinion, this thing is of great significance: this is the data that is extremely rare and urgently needed by the new empire. Observations near the contaminated area some time after the collapse of the empire. Since the old empire completely closed its borders and expelled all the observers of the Protoss at that time, there were very few observation records after the collapse of the old empire, and only a few remnants from the automatic outposts can be preserved and have fallen into our hands. Data, and now with the void readings accumulated by Warren over the past few decades, we have the opportunity to go further in the study of the "catastrophe", and we can gain a deeper understanding of the changes in the entire turbulent zone after the collapse of the empire.
Sandora took a rough look at the observation data and uploaded them to the engineering/scientific research ship. These things can be brought back to the workaholics in the research center to deal with. Now we are more concerned about the other information out.
According to past experience, the Ark of Exile will always carry the last information of the space it belongs to, usually the technical data and situation description left by the ruler of the space to other survivors-you can think of this as some kind of "last words", which means This legacy is of great significance.
However, the strange thing is that Sandora filtered all the keywords of the data and found no information related to the attribution of the sky zone, nor did she find the name of Emperor Xiling who issued the mission document to the "Xiling VI". Name: It's still the same weird situation as before, I can't find the "origin information" of this ship!
Sandora frowned and muttered while searching for keywords: "It's strange, the designers of the spaceship mentioned here are referred to as 'special authority individuals', but this special authority individual obviously does not refer to a certain emperor... here it is It is mentioned that there are three sky zones that participated in the construction of a large number of Arks in Exile with the series name of "Xi Ling", but they still did not specify which three sky zones, nor did they mention the name of any emperor, as if these are irrelevant of."
I also leaned over to look, and the "special authority individual" was indeed mentioned in the initial information about the spaceship, but the mysterious designer never revealed his real name. Sandora's reading speed is very fast, she has already read more than half of the documents directly, and the puzzled look on her face has not diminished but increased: "If there is no problem with this document, the emperors of the three heavens did not participate in this batch of documents. Regarding the design and manufacture of spaceships, I don’t think they even know that their starports are producing these unplanned spaceships... Could it be that Emperor Xiling’s control over the sky area under his name has weakened to such an extent during the catastrophe?”
The construction of these spaceships is full of doubts: the designer is unknown, and the person who ordered the construction is also unknown. Even the Emperor of the Sky Zone knows that these spaceships are unknown. I can’t think of anything under the strict authorization and logic system of the empire. These things can be done bypassing the monitoring of the permission tree. Moreover, the mysterious "special authority individual" not only built a large number of spaceships in the three sky areas at the same time, but also got a large number of uninfected servants onto the spaceships, and issued them drifting missions. The apostles participated, so didn't the Xiling apostles who participated in these things back then report their work to their emperor
I also thought of the strange features found after entering the ghost ship: no logo, no model, no code, no nameplate for all equipment, and only the main engine on the entire ship has a code with unclear meaning and does not conform to the naming rules (main engine The code of the class unit should start with X, but the main engine code of this ship starts with N), which does not conform to the system from the beginning to the end - but these ships are built like this, and not only built, but also set sail in large quantities Rafting missions, one of the boats even survives to this day.
"Forget about the builders of these ships," Sandora realized that it was a waste of time to dwell on this issue, so she cut off her thoughts decisively, "Let's look for the initial mission log and the message... The shipboard host mentioned that there is a message, then Stuff might tell us something."
There are basically no surprises in the initial task log. In summary, there are three points:
First, do everything possible to escape from the collapsing Empire zone and avoid all units with the Imperial Army logo on the route.
Second, after successfully escaping from the Empire Zone, sail silently, wait for the chaos to end, and then cruise along a route that does not seem to have any meaning. Sandora and I guess that this route should meet other exiled spaceships, probably for Join others.
Third, if you encounter survivors from other sky areas, pass a message to them.
The focus is on that message, it is very brief, but the content made Sandora and I stunned on the spot:
"To any Xiling apostles or servants who may have survived the disaster of the abyss:"
We kept tinder! Repeat, we kept tinder! "
If there is no accident, when you read this message, the Xiling Empire has collapsed and disintegrated, and the impact of the abyss will destroy all the worlds in the empire area. The Xiling apostles in the empire area may have been extinct or nearly extinct, but if the calculation is correct , there should be a very small number of survivors who have successfully escaped from the Empire area like this spaceship. You are randomly floating in the void, but according to the calculated impact scale, the number of safe exile routes is limited, so the surviving exiles still have a chance to be the same as This ship meets and reads the information. "
Because it is impossible to judge when the chaos will subside, the main functions of this ship will be frozen during the drifting period. The arrival of other survivors, that is, you will reactivate the spaceship (if it is not malfunctioning), if the chaos is over at this moment, and The Xiling Apostle Spiritual Network has been completely disintegrated, so please do the following: "
Read the attachment to this message, it records the coordinates of a remote world far from the shock, which should still exist. Please go to this world and search carefully. There is a Xiling emperor and his Xiling host who are isolated on a certain local planet. They cannot leave that world and are isolated from the main network of the empire, so they are not polluted. "
That is the last fire of the empire! Repeat, that is the last spark of the empire! "
But please note that this ship has an automatic connection protocol, and it will release the safety isolation of 'Fire' after it enters that safe world, so please be sure to confirm two things before performing the above actions: "
First: The onslaught is over, and the abyss in the Empire Zone has subsided or at least stopped spreading. "
Second: The data network of the Xiling Empire has been disintegrated. Because the disaster spreads through this network, it is very likely that it will continue to occupy the network nodes, so this must be confirmed, otherwise the fire will be polluted! "
If you cannot confirm the above two points, please reset the ship to a silent state and wait for the moment when everything is completely calm. "
Be patient and keep waiting, the empire never fails and the day of victory will come! "
Sandora and I looked at each other, this message was another blockbuster, the amount of information directly blew us both up!
"Look at the attachment quickly!" Even Lilina yelled at the side, and Sandora immediately unfolded the attachment of the message file. It really is a set of world coordinates—it is difficult to describe the content of the world coordinates in specific words. It can only be understood through direct reading of information, so I won’t repeat it here. Sandora marked her seat, and Lilina jumped up and down restlessly beside her: "Hurry up, hurry up, maybe the people over there are still alive! We have made another big discovery now! Another emperor , there is also a Xiling host."
But Sandora and I didn't move at all. Lilina was excited for a long time alone, and found that neither of us made a sound, and suddenly became strange: "Eh? Boss, big sister, why are you unhappy?"
"Why do I feel that this coordinate is a bit familiar?" Sandora frowned and muttered, while I was comparing that coordinate with the historical records in the general database, and finally I knew what was going on: "This Isn't it the world you were trapped in back then!"
The scene was completely quiet all of a sudden, and even Ding Dong, whose intelligence had never been online, got half of his body out of my pocket, and muttered there with horror: "Ah, there is so much information this time..."
"The tinder mentioned here..." Sandora stared at the letter from 70,000 years ago, "Is it me and Bubble?"
At this time, my head was still in a mess. It took me a long time to combine all kinds of information. Now surfaced!
And not only the victim surfaced, we also saw other plans hidden behind the "safe isolation" back then: the safe isolation of Sandora and her revenge army in a different world is just one part of a big plan, Behind this ring, there is actually a large group of Arks in exile, and a plan to rebuild the empire!
"So that's what happened..." Sandora muttered to herself while browsing through the message and the following coordinate data several times, as if she wanted to engrave them in her mind, "Put a The emperor is isolated in a safe world, and then releases a large number of fugitive spaceships to perform drifting missions, wait for the empire area to calm down, and then rely on the original confluence plan to restart these arks, and finally bring back the "fire" and rebuild the empire... This was my plan at the beginning Is it a part of it?"
"This is almost a big gamble from the beginning to the end," Lilina smacked her tongue and couldn't help muttering, "Every link in the middle may go wrong, especially those arks, which are basically things that survived by luck, and They can't restart until they meet other survivors... why not just program the Ark itself to wake up automatically?"
"Because the person who made this plan doesn't know when the impact will end," Sandora quickly figured out the reason, "making a series of timed wake-up procedures will only increase the danger. If the spacecraft is far away from pollution The area is still very close or the infected Xiling apostles are still chasing and killing these spaceships. Automatic awakening will increase the chance of being destroyed. It is relatively safer to set it to wake up when encountering other survivors. More survivors It means that the situation has calmed down, at least it means that the spacecraft is not on a dangerous course. There is only one fire, so even delaying the time is better than increasing the risk."
Sandora calmed down faster than I did: Although she herself was inexplicably set as a fire seed, this Her Majesty the Queen really has a big heart. But in fact, she really doesn't need to care about anything. Instead, she should thank the mysterious person who made the plan: If it weren't for the "safe isolation" back then, the line of the Vengeance Army would definitely be swallowed by the abyss like the other Xiling apostles.
We have studied the many doubts that Sandora was trapped in the different world before: the spiritual network was blocked, the cross-world equipment was inexplicably stuck, the Xiling host lost production capacity, and finally ran out of an imperial soldier, and because of some kind of " Suicide Program" died on Earth. It is difficult to explain these kinds of abnormalities with simple "abyss interference" or equipment failure, so our final conclusion is: Sandora and her soldiers were originally protected by a security barrier like a Faraday cage. On the surface, they seem to have lost their freedom, but on the other hand, this safety barrier protects them from the impact of the abyss that is destroying the empire. Sandora's ability to survive and meet me is almost entirely due to that "safety barrier".
From the day we came to that conclusion, we knew there was someone behind the scenes planning everything, and it was definitely a pretty prescient one, and now we're seeing another part of that plan: Ark of Exile.
Then there is only one question before everyone: who is this person
"Actually... I have a little idea in my heart."
After much hesitation, I still decided to speak out my astonishing conjecture.
Sandora raised her eyebrows, and her tone seemed to reveal that she had guessed something: "You mean..."
"Only one 'person' could have done all of these things: perceive the dangers of that crazy experiment from the most macroscopic point of view; completely cut off the connection between the Vengeance Army and the Imperial Data Network and remotely shut down your equipment; Under the approval of Emperor Xiling, some resources were used to secretly manufacture a batch of spaceships; finally, this exile mission was launched—only one 'person' could theoretically do all these things at the same time, Xiling, that cluster consciousness!"
Of course, now we have given this collective consciousness a new name: Abyss Xiling, to distinguish it from the little girl in Shadow City who obeyed orders.
Lilina was dumbfounded, and the little crow "quacked" at the side, but Sandora had expected it, she didn't show too much surprise, but lowered her head slightly with a sinking face: "Theoretically, there is only this cluster consciousness. With this ability, there are still many things that cannot be explained-Xiling theoretically overrides the entire spiritual network and can control all devices connected to the spiritual network, but she still had to obey various basic agreements back then, and those agreements determined Given that her authority is lower than that of the emperor, and she cannot destroy the integrity of the network, how can this be explained?"
I thought about it, and I already came to some vague conclusions... RS