Regarding the "special authority individual" who isolated the Vengeance Army to a safe area and created these exiled arks, Sandora and I both thought of the cluster consciousness on the Imperial Data Network: Xiling, but at the same time, Sandora La also has something she can't figure out, which makes her still not fully convinced of our guess, that is-how did Xiling violate the basic agreement
Now there is also a group consciousness on the side of the New Empire. Although she is much weaker than the group consciousness on the abyss side, the essence of the two is still the same. We have mastered the activity form of this group consciousness by studying the ever-changing girl in Shadow City. And the code of conduct, then Xiling, who kept the fire and built the Ark of Refuge, must also follow these codes of conduct. Although the other party has now become the ultimate authority in the fallen apostle camp, when the power of the abyss has not completely distorted the data network, that abyss spirit is subject to the basic agreement.
The basic agreement determines that the emperor has the highest jurisdiction over the total data network, and determines that the action of cluster awareness should first take network security as the highest criterion. These two points are the biggest difficulties of the Tinder plan back then: the authority is lower than that of the emperor, so the cluster awareness will be It is impossible to bypass the monitoring of the Emperor of the Sky Zone to secretly manufacture those spaceships. With network security as the highest criterion, then the cluster consciousness cannot separate Sandora and her Avengers Guards from the total data network (this is a kind of sabotage behavior of network nodes). These two principles should be inviolable to the Abyss Xiling back then.
I frowned and thought hard for a long time, vaguely feeling that this might still be related to the abyss: "Sandora, what do you think if the emperors of those three heavenly regions have died?"
"You mean... there is a gap in supervision?" Sandora raised her eyebrows, "You mean that these spaceships started to be manufactured after those three sky areas were already polluted by the abyss, so the data segments of those sky areas were no longer available at that time. Followed the network protocol?"
"It's possible," I nodded with uncertainty, "Think about it, why are these spaceships jointly manufactured in three sky areas, not one or four? I don't think it's because the Abyss Xiling needed Three sky areas, but the situation at that time only three sky areas met the conditions: only in these three sky areas, Abyss Xiling can circumvent the constraints of the network protocol. The local emperor has died, and the ruling system has collapsed. According to another Security constraints: In the case where the operator cannot guarantee the security of the system, the system AI or the program on the network can take over the local equipment. Abyss Xiling should have used this constraint to take over the remaining starports in the three sky areas. .”
The constraint I mentioned is one of the general protocols found in various Imperial devices. We all know that the things made by the empire have one thing in common, that is, their AI is so high that they can think about anything. Sometimes when a spaceship is blown to pieces, its turrets that are blown out can also become intelligent on the spot. Floating cannons continue to fight for a while, and even some fragments of spaceships that have been blown away will become intelligent, floating around in space to organize defensive positions. Each disassembled device can think independently and operate independently. Capabilities are based on this "emergency initiative" agreement. This agreement stipulates that when an unexpected situation occurs and the personnel in a certain area cannot normally control the equipment, and the current area is under a huge threat, all local equipment that can think for itself will operate autonomously, and various automatic programs on the network will also be activated. Will take over facilities that are not sufficiently intelligent: this protocol apparently also applies to the Xiling cluster consciousness, which is itself a "giant program".
It's just that under normal circumstances, the effective scope of this agreement is at most one battlefield, but during the collapse of the old empire, the effective scope of this agreement was expanded to take the sky area as the unit—even if the scope is so expanded, it still takes effect.
"Bypassing personnel monitoring, starting the star port by yourself, and using automated equipment to manufacture these spaceships from beginning to end..." Sandora touched her chin, trying to reproduce the process of making these arks by Abyss Xiling, "This process should be without With any personnel involved, if it's the three already polluted sky areas, she can't find many Imperial soldiers to send, but the high-level starport does have the ability to create some spaceships without human participation. Okay , the explanation of this question is clear, let us assume that Abyss Xiling has found a small colony that has not been infected yet in the three polluted sky areas, and has created a batch of exiled spaceships in those corners. The specific details Don't pursue it, probably only she knows... Then there is another problem, how to explain it, that is, she cut off the connection between the Vengeance Army and the main data network. An act of self-mutilation that is not allowed in the internet protocol."
"Under normal circumstances, it is definitely impossible to disconnect the network, but if there is a network failure, it is always no problem to block those failure points according to the safety rules." I have already figured out what is going on, "Don't forget Yes, Abyss Xiling had been infected at that time... In fact, she should be the first to be infected in theory, because the impact of the abyss spread directly in her body, but the cluster consciousness is too large, no matter how fast the pollution speed is, She has been awake for a longer time than the others. Therefore, in the case of 'disconnection', she actually followed the agreement: in the case of some nodes being necrotic, the monitoring program of the data network can disconnect the connections of these nodes. This is in line with the rules. So in fact, it is not she who cuts the Avengers out of the network, she cuts herself: for the entire network, she herself is the polluted 'necrotic node', and she follows the security Agreement, cut your own necrotic node out of your normal node."
Thinking about the situation in reverse, everything can be explained immediately.
It's some startling speculation, but at least so far, all the details fit the facts.
"In the final analysis, it's still our speculation," Sandora suddenly sighed softly, "If this is true, I really don't know how to feel. Back then, I actively planned so many plans to preserve Xiling civilization, and even sent the revenge army The protected person turned out to be the Supreme Commander of the Fallen Apostles today, what could be more ironic than this?"
I have nothing to say, I can only spread my hands with a strange expression. Haven't I encountered too many dramatic things over the years? The archive built to preserve civilization almost turned into a disaster. The greatest scientist of the old empire became the most cunning enemy of the new empire. Harlan, who once sheltered the tree elf civilization and left advice to other civilizations, once turned into an abyss The most powerful fallen emperor in the camp, of course, if what we encountered today is really as speculated by myself and Sandora, it should be the most dramatic of all dramas:
Today, the supreme commander of the fallen apostles, he did his best to protect the fire of civilization back then, even at the expense of a strong man cutting his wrists. Even Sandora and her personal guards may be protected by the abyss Xiling himself... Who would believe this? !
The scene fell silent, although as Sandora said: everything is speculation, but considering that in the old empire period, only the group consciousness on the Internet was capable of doing all this, in fact, this speculation can almost be said to be the truth . Now there is an explanation for the strange "blank state" of this ship: the reason why it does not have military emblems and codes printed on the hull is precisely because its designer and builder is a group consciousness that lives on the Internet, and this group consciousness There is no need for real-world identification methods, and it is meaningless for Abyss Xiling to inlay nameplates on equipment, so this spaceship looks so weird. The peculiar code of the main engine of the spaceship should also be for this reason: Abyss Xiling can identify it conveniently.
As for how Abyss Xiling sent the servants to the spaceship, and how to give them tasks, this is still unclear for the time being, but it should be a small problem: she has the ability to affect the real world and has the ability to issue tasks. At that time, the empire area was in chaos, and those vassal races were running around like headless chickens. How could there be too much energy to distinguish the source of the order? It is enough to know that there is an ark ready to break out.
Lilina kept her head down and wondered what she was thinking about. At this moment, she suddenly broke the silence: "Boss, since the elder sister was isolated by Abyss Xiling back then, why didn't Abyss Xiling go after it was completely polluted?" Chasing and killing the revenge army? Doesn't she know that what she left behind is a disaster?"
Sandora and I were terrified, Lilina is indeed Lilina, this pseudo-loli from the bone black to the creases always thinks about the darkest side: Abyss Xiling is completely two personalities before and after being controlled , Then why didn't she turn around and get rid of the troubles she left behind after she fell
"Perhaps she realized back then that she would go crazy like the other imperial troops sooner or later, so she deleted the coordinates of that world, or she may have simply cleared the entire plan from her database," Sandora looked at the A message that is still circulating, "She is a meticulous person, it is impossible not to think of these backhands."
"Anyway, let's do it first," I was really overwhelmed by these messy things, and unless I can find Abyss Xiling to confront me, all conjectures about the truth of the year can only be conjectures, so I simply Stop this topic here, "Let's acquiesce that Abyss Xiling was the great savior back then, anyway, this will not affect the current situation between the New Empire and the Fallen Apostles... There should be nothing wrong here, should we drag this ship back? "
"Call work and go home," Sandora folded her arms and shook her head slightly, "I'm also a little confused, so I have to smooth it out when I go back."
Then the scouts and staff who entered the ghost ship quickly took over the affairs here. A group of us returned to the engineering/scientific research ship. Warren? Sandora also emphasized the traces of Field's life and not to destroy that small farmland. The two heads of state ordered to take care of these inconspicuous things at the same time, which surprised the imperial soldiers, but the talent of the apostles of Xiling to obey the orders made them not ask too much, but when facing those relics, the imperial soldiers seemed to be facing the enemy : A small group of soldiers even set up twenty machine gun turrets around the farmland, and they don't know who they are defending...
After returning to the ship, the weird and dignified expression on the faces of Sandora and I certainly did not escape the attention of other people. Even a rough girl like Qianqian who was born with few eyes noticed, and she came up to ask with great concern. Did Sandora and I steal the expired food on the ghost ship? Although the direction of concern is not right, it has fully proved how obvious the expressions of Sandora and I are, so we summoned everyone to One piece, published what was seen on the ghost ship.
These news were unexpected, thrilling, and jaw-dropping, so everyone, including a reinforced concrete woman like Bingtis, was shocked from the beginning to the end. Everyone will naturally be Warren? Field and the shipboard host were touched, but even more shocked by the speculation about Abyss Xiling: this speculation almost subverted everyone's cognition and three views.
"I really want to run over and confront that abyss Xiling," Bingtis said in a sentence that almost expressed everyone's aspirations, "It's a pity that we knew this news a little late, when we were in the 'Rift Valley'. I had a face-to-face chat with that Abyss Xiling, and it would be great if we met this ghost ship at that time... There will be no chance to meet that guy again in the future."
Sandora is more considerate to her good Jiyou: "If you miss, go, I won't stop."
Me: "...Actually, it doesn't make much sense to find Abyss Xiling at this time. She is no longer the group consciousness that fully protects the fire of civilization. Even if she admits that she did these things, it's useless. You still have to fight."
Qianqian looked at me, opened his mouth with unrestrained thoughts and dared to say: "Ah Jun, why don't you try punching me in the face..."
I was frightened by this girl at the time: "Qianqian, don't think so, Abyss Xiling is the collective consciousness of the entire group of fallen apostles, do you know how large her soul is, and even if I have this purification ability ... Where can I find the 'face' of Abyss Xiling, she has only one interface like Xiling in the real world at most."
Qianqian thought about it and thought it was the same, and finally kept silent.
"Xiling VI" was towed back to Shadow City later that afternoon. This ancient spaceship, which was so dilapidated that it was almost completely disintegrated, had to undergo a series of treatments. The first was structural reinforcement and internal emergency repairs, because I was really worried about it. The severely aging and leaking energy core will explode suddenly: with the status quo of the ghost ship, even if it really disintegrates like this, I wouldn't be surprised. Then the technicians will copy the ship's database and hand it over to Tavel and her scientific research team. As an ark that inherits the fire of civilization, it must have a large database, and there must be valuable technical information and old empires there. Some audio-visual records of local conditions and customs (also mentioned in Warren Field's diary), these things are very precious.
Although the plan that Abyss Xiling painstakingly formulated back then is beyond recognition, and most of the links failed to proceed according to her plan, but in any case, after a series of dramatic events, the plan was finally partially realized: Shando Ra and her revenge army were preserved and became an important cornerstone of the new empire. The information in the ark was also returned to the empire after several rounds, but the realization of these links was definitely different from what the planners expected. .
I don't know how Abyss Xiling will feel now knowing what happened here. I'm afraid that even her temperament has changed drastically, she will be dumbfounded by this twists and turns of fate.
After returning home, Sandora and I were bored in the room and went through everything again, basically confirming that it was Xiling (specifically Abyss Xiling) who built these exile spaceships and shielded the revenge army back then, and we I also suddenly understood the meaning of the names of these exiled spaceships: everything is so simple, these spaceships are coded in the form of "Xi Ling" + "number", the reason is just... the cluster consciousness used its own name to name the spaceship. .
But now the name of the cluster consciousness that makes the spaceship has to add the word "abyss" in front of it.
"Although the collapse of the old empire was rapid, it was a giant after all, and the process of collapse took about hundreds of years," Sandora leaned on the head of the bed, her eyes slightly blurred, "the sky area that was not destroyed immediately Basically, they all adopted self-help. Even if they couldn’t save themselves, they tried their best to protect those uninfected races within their sphere of influence. There were so many things like the Ark in Exile and the Wandering Planet back then. It’s just that Unexpectedly, there was an Internet ghost among the people who took self-help back then... Before that, no one was aware of the existence of this ghost, but after that she became the leader of the Abyss Empire. the guy."
I sat next to Sandora, and stretched out my hand to touch her hair: "Thinking about it now, Abyss Xiling's self-rescue actions were still one of the few that were effective. The project of the archives failed completely, and Harlan only had time to save her. The elf descended from the tree and left a suicide note. We haven’t seen any other fleeing fleets or civilized sparks so far. In this way, only two people’s “fire preservation” succeeded. One is the foresighted old lady. Half of the five-day zone was saved, and the other one was Abyss Xiling, she saved you. Maybe I should thank her, if it weren't for the safety barrier back then, I wouldn't be able to see you."
Sandora smiled warmly, and then seemed to think of something suddenly: "That's not necessarily true. With my strength, even if I am swallowed by the abyss, I shouldn't die. Instead, I will become a fallen apostle like everyone else. Then we can still die." Let’s meet, if I’m lucky and I meet after you awaken your ability, we’ll still be together, but you’ll have to beat me up…”
Me: "Isn't it too weird for us to talk about this topic?"
Sandora thought for a while, then shivered twice, and rolled awkwardly on the bed: "Okay, let's not talk about these heavy topics, let's talk about something lighter-Ah Jun, I'm hungry , I want to eat in the house today, please help me bring the food."
I:"… "
This topic is more "heavy"! RS