No accidents, no explosions, no casualties, everything in the deep diving port is as usual, the deep diving ship has just completed a fairly smooth voyage, and the ancestors have nothing to do this time—just when I heard the good news and was about to breathe a sigh of relief When I was looking for a place to sit down, Tavel's next sentence stunned me: "It's a hundred times worse than an accident!"
I staggered, and quickly grabbed the armrest of the seat and turned to look at Tavel: "Have you learned to scare people like this?"
Sandora frowned, but she was much calmer than everyone else: "What's going on? Just now I saw that not only the deep dive project department, but all other departments that study abyss activities seem to be very lively."
"We may have discovered a major trend in the activities of the abyss," Tavel said carefully, as if he didn't know how to convey that major discovery in the most appropriate language, "It has never appeared before, and it may be the result of recent changes in the abyss reason… "
Qianqian looked around and found that most people's expressions were rather confused, so she raised her chest confidently: "I don't understand!"
Tavel also knew that it was not the time to drag those special terms, she turned her head and turned on the holographic device, and let Sandora look at the data on it and the scanned image inside the gate of the abyss, while explaining to others in the most concise way: " We have previously discovered that there is a 'discontinuity zone' in the lower layer of the abyss. The intensity of the abyss in this discontinuity zone is very irregular. Not only the pollution concentration fluctuates, but also this fault is drifting all the time. When the belt is still, it will scan the intensity of the surrounding abyss fluctuating violently, everyone must know this, right?"
Sandora and I heard this information when we came to Shadow City last time, but Qianqian and the others could also learn about these things through the data network at home, so almost everyone on the spot nodded together. Except for the sloppy guy Bingtis: she still needs some time to adapt to her identity as the "Apostle of the Spirit".
"There is no record of this discontinuity in the deep diving data of the old empire era," Sandora glanced at the holographic image not far away, "so we guess that this discontinuity is a change inside the abyss, and it is in the abyss. It's only recently."
The appearance of the "discontinuous zone" subverts everyone's conventional understanding of the abyss. It lets us know that the abyss, which is almost as old as the void, is not eternal, but also has internal activities. Sandora will It is regarded as one of the most important discoveries since the establishment of the new empire, and ordered Tavel to increase research efforts and monitor the situation of the "discontinuity zone" at any time.
Looking at Tavel's performance now, there is no doubt that the discontinuity brought out the situation.
"After that deep dive, my subordinates arranged two more dives at close intervals, and made a large number of unmanned deep dive probes based on the first deep dive ship of the New Empire to get close to the discontinuity zone. "Tavier projected more information, most of which were data and tables that I couldn't understand, but there were also some visual simulations of the abyss environment. On those images, large groups of distorted black fog could be seen. Each group A time point and a continuous period are marked next to the black fog, which should be the monitoring situation of the discontinuous zone. "Take the experiment of discovering the 'discontinuous zone' as the first time, then this is the record of the second dive. , This is the third record. The latter are the data sent back by unmanned detectors. If you compare these data together, you can find an obvious trend... "
I looked at Tavel apologetically, not knowing whether I should admit that I really didn't see the "obvious" trend...
"The discontinuity zone is approaching the surface," Sandora played normally, and she saw the trend at a glance, "Almost every detection touched the discontinuity zone earlier than the previous one, although there were a few exceptions in the middle, but That should be offset by fluctuations in the discontinuity itself, so in larger trends it becomes easier and easier to detect the discontinuity."
"This is the situation," Tavel turned off the holographic projection in the room, with an extremely serious expression, "that violently fluctuating, wave-like thing is slowly approaching the surface of the abyss. In theory, it is."
When I heard this, cold sweat slowly broke down: Although I am not an expert, I can still understand this simple and straightforward words. To put it bluntly, there is something terrible at the bottom of the abyss that is approaching the gate!
This matter is quite serious: According to our previous discovery, all the gates of the abyss are actually connected, and behind these gates is the same "space" - of course, there is no normal concept of "space" inside the abyss, here is just an image Saying - every abyss gate is the same distance from its bottom. Now there is a huge "discontinuity zone" that is constantly drifting towards the surface. If this trend does not stop, the final result is likely to be that some kind of "something" will burst out from all the abyss gates simultaneously.
But it is too early to draw any conclusions: we are not sure what the nature of the discontinuity is, so we are not sure whether it is some kind of real disaster, let alone whether it can escape from its own " The "hotbed" is the abyss environment. If it is like a surge in a conductor, which can only toss in the conductor and cannot spread to the non-conductor environment, then this matter will not be harmful. But to be honest, I really don't believe that I can be so lucky to encounter such a harmless situation for humans and animals. Is it not easy for me to be tossed by fate in the past two years...
"Anything else to discover about this discontinuity than this impending trend?"
Sandora frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly raised her eyebrows and looked at Tavel.
"The only thing that can be determined is this imminent trend," Tavel pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "There is also a less certain speculation: the subordinates have launched a large number of unmanned detectors, and let them rush directly into the discontinuous area regardless of the cost. belt, although none of the detectors survived, they seemed to have reached a place similar to a boundary, where the pollution fluctuations flattened out at that blurred boundary, and the graph of the abyss enhancement became regular again. The subordinates believe that The discontinuity zone should be something with a fixed 'depth' or a fixed 'width', like a wave released from the bottom of the abyss. As long as the protection technology is strong enough, the deep dive ship can safely pass through the discontinuity zone and enter the normal abyss Environmental. In theory."
Listening to Tavel's speculation, I think this discontinuous zone is becoming more and more interesting, and it is also challenging everyone's views on the abyss: At first, we thought that the abyss was immutable, but the discontinuous zone appeared, and then We thought that the discontinuous zone should be fixed, but now it has started to float in this direction. You said that in two days, something will float out of the "discontinuous zone" to greet the people of the world of order, what should I do? Shouldn't it be surprising
"Can you confirm the danger of that thing now?" Sandora folded her hands on her chest, her face sinking into water. "Is it possible for it to endanger the real world, or—is it possible for it to leak from the gate of the abyss?"
"It's impossible to judge," Tavel shrugged, this time even this confident glasses girl admitted that she couldn't see through one thing, "Theoretically speaking, the discontinuous band is just a 'feature', not an actual wave Or anything substantive, but in the abyss environment, there is no difference between 'substantial' and 'non-substantial', so subordinates are not sure whether it will enter the real world. Theoretically, it is."
"I hope it will only toss in its old den," Bingtis scratched his hair and muttered, "I have to report this to Father God."
Sandora nodded immediately: "Yes, the protoss must be notified immediately. If I remember correctly, the protoss should have started a similar deep-diving experiment, but they started late, and they probably haven't discovered this thing yet... Bingtis, you Work hard these two days."
The female hooligan waved her hand nonchalantly: "Oh, oh, anyway, I was born to run errands for you unscrupulous guys—do you have any other messages to carry? It's not easy to travel far away. of."
I thought about it, and there was only one thing: "Bring a few leek boxes before departure..."
Before I finished speaking, the people around me began to glare at me. Sandora rubbed her forehead with a helpless expression: "Ah Jun, let's talk about business."
I spread my hands: "It's not an exaggeration to bring a small gift, and I have troubled Xingchen many times, so bring some gifts to show my heart."
Bingtis looked at this side with a strange expression: "With a few vegetable cakes, Father God can be mobilized to run around. Under the void, only you and my aunt can do it."
Sandora and I said in unison: "Auntie?"
Bingtis shrugged: "King Huron..."
Seeing that the topic of crooked buildings caused by me is about to become high-energy, I quickly waved my hands to get everyone's attention back: "Okay, okay, I'll talk about the souvenirs later. Bingtis, you go over this time and ask by the way." Regarding the deciphering of the artifact, the coordinates of the home world are also a big deal... I don’t know if it’s an illusion, why do I always feel that the gate of the abyss in the home world has something to do with what we encountered?”
Lin Xue has been silent since just now. At this time, Wen Yan squinted and looked at this side: "Why do you feel something that the prophet didn't see?"
"So I don't know if it's an illusion," I spread my hands, "I'm just guessing, think about it, the home world was destroyed by an abyss gate of abnormal scale, and that abyss gate does not meet our expectations. The conventional cognition of the abyss, the 'discontinuity zone' that is approaching now does not conform to our impression of the abyss, is there any connection between the abnormal and the abnormal?"
Lin Xue waved her hands with contempt: "Hey, I've been guessing for a long time. By the way, Xiaoxue, have you heard of such a thing as 'discontinuous belt' in the future?"
It was only then that I remembered that there was such a crucial insider at the scene: Xiaoxue came here many years later, and she might know the research results of future scientists on the abyss!
I didn't even think of asking that brat at first, the reason is very simple: this girl dangles in front of me all day long, and the whole family is almost used to her existence from top to bottom, I almost forgot that she just never A shadow projected from the future. As for why Lin Xue still remembers it, it is probably because of her carefulness as a mother.
Xiaoxue was busy teasing a little crow on her shoulder at first, but when she heard Lin Xue's question, she also showed confusion: "Discontinuous tape? Why didn't I know there was such a thing? When I was in the Abyss knowledge class The teacher never said that."
"Could it be that you just skipped class?" Lin Xue looked suspiciously at her hard-to-discipline daughter, who suddenly cried out aggrieved: "How is that possible! I had excellent academic performance back then, and every time I passed the test paper I was able to fill in the answer sheet before sending it out... "
Lin Xue and I immediately looked at this brat with strange eyes. The latter felt a slip of the tongue with a frustrated expression on his face: "Dad, Mom, can you pretend you didn't hear it? I passed the exam when I was young, and I can cheat two pocket money..."
This girl's IQ is plummeting. It is estimated that if she speaks a few more words, she will basically be insulated from pocket money for the rest of her life.
At this moment, Lin Xue hugged her shoulders and muttered: "I said, can't you two be more serious when we talk about business?"
As soon as I heard that the real child's mother had spoken, I quickly shrank my neck at the same time as Xiaoxue, lowered my head and looked serious.
Now it seems that Xiaoxue probably really doesn't know about the "discontinuous band", which means that there is no such thing in the future abyss, and since there is no such thing in the textbook (you said it is such a high-powered textbook) Speaking of this kind of thing, I can make a wild guess: the discontinuity didn't actually have any bad effects, it didn't even cause any major incidents.
It's very simple. If that thing really caused the Abyss Gate to explode, Xiaoxue should have seen related content in children's books. I can imagine what the Imperial Ministry of Education will do to popularize science related to the Abyss They are not afraid to teach the common signs of the end of the world and self-rescue methods in the texts of the second grade of elementary school.
Others have similar views, but Sandora still reminded: "Don't be too optimistic, after all, things that are connected to the abyss cannot be good things."
On this point, everyone present agreed.
Everyone showed a thoughtful look, thinking about the possible hidden meaning behind this incident. Only Pandora and Viska seemed not very interested in the big situation in front of them. The sisters only cared about two things: Who to kill and how much to kill, other than that, even if the Abyss Gate broke out, for them, it was just waiting for the order to lead the army. So the two are 1.2 meters very boring. The two sisters are shaking their bodies in sync at a stable frequency, looking like a tumbler that is swinging at the same time as the two. I stretched out my hand to press the heads of the two little girls, and I was wandering with them while thinking about things, and finally I suddenly noticed a key question that I hadn't asked: "By the way, at this speed, when will the discontinuous belt 'float' to the top?" Near the gate of the abyss?"
Tavel looked worried: "If this is its constant speed at present, the 'discontinuous zone' will reach the gate in the fastest three hundred years, but I don't know if it will 'overflow' from the gate. Theoretically That's right."
I stopped shaking immediately: Three hundred years? !
Well, I was taken aback before, thinking that this was going to be a big deal, but it turned out that there are still three hundred years left, isn't it a long time to prepare...
As soon as I thought of this, I heard Sandora exclaim in surprise and worry: "Three hundred years? So fast?"
Bingtis behind him also exclaimed: "Hey mom, it's just a blink of an eye! Can we react in time?"
Then Sandora and Bingtis communicated worriedly there, as if the Void Cataclysm would happen in two days. I, Qianqian and others were stunned to watch, and I could tell from the expressions on other people's faces It can be seen that Qianqian and the others have the same thoughts as mine: they all think that three hundred years is actually quite a long time, and they didn't expect Sandora and Bingtis to react in this way...
In the end, even Viska grabbed Pandora's arm and muttered, "Sister, it's pretty fast."
Pandora nodded silently, and continued to wander there.
Me: "..." Forget it, don't worry about time with these guys who have lived through several cosmic cycles, anyway, sooner or later, I will lose the concept of time like the protoss.
Tavel’s report has been finished, and Bingtis went back to pack up his things and prepare to go to the God Realm. Pandora and Viska were so bored that they almost rolled on the ground, so I put them and the same boring Qianqian I also sent them back (drag Xiaoxue away by the way, Xiaoxue is not boring, the main reason is that I am afraid that she will stay here and cause damage), and in the end the only ones left here are myself, Sandora and Lin Xue. Sandora glanced at Tavel: "Is there any plan for the next step?"
"My subordinates will conduct another deep-diving test in the near future," Tavel nodded, "Because of the existence of the discontinuity zone, the current deep-diving activities are somewhat different from the past. The submersible is fragile, but the basic protection measures are the same. These detectors form a sensitive detection zone around the deep submersible, which can ensure that the deep submersible can be withdrawn before the discontinuous zone violently oscillates.”
"So, there are still rules to follow in the discontinuous band?" Sandora asked curiously.
"The fluctuations in a small range will not deviate too much," Tavier nodded, "but as you go too deep into the discontinuity zone, this kind of law will become more and more difficult to find. At present, we can let the deep-diving ship stay in this place safely." In the middle of the 'wave', it may be dangerous to go deeper. Theoretically, it is."
I remembered that my ancestors have also participated in manned deep dives, and I couldn't help asking: "Are the ancestors okay?"
Those ancestors with high enthusiasm for work are as desperate as today's imperial soldiers, and their desperate spirit is too easy to make people frightened.
"The situation is very good," Tavel said with a smile on his face. "The ancestor's immunity to the abyss is amazing. The most dangerous part of manned deep diving is that personnel cannot directly observe the equipment on the spacecraft, and have to go through a lot of converters." And the safety barrier can know what is happening outside the spaceship, otherwise there is a possibility of contamination, and the ancestors completely ignored this danger. After omitting these conversion and filtering equipment, the working state of the deep-diving ship is unprecedentedly stable. The theory... Well, That's it."
It looks like everything is going in a good direction except for the discontinuity that is approaching. RS