(Happy New Year everyone! According to the old habits, we still don’t need to ask for leave during the Chinese New Year—what about the red envelope monthly ticket?!)
The ever-approaching discontinuity brings a lot of pressure to people. Although I still think it will take at least three hundred years to reach the gate of the abyss, it seems that the time seems to be quite abundant, but these three hundred years are in Sandor. In the eyes of La, Bingtis and others, it was just a blink of an eye: these fierce people who have lived for several cosmic cycles are now busy preparing for the possible impact.
We have a Xiaoxue who came back from the future, but it is a pity that this bear child is still not counted on at critical moments: she knows nothing about "discontinuous belts". This could mean that the discontinuity did not end up having any consequences, or it could be something else that prevented it from being included in future textbooks. Anyway, Xiaoxue's attitude shouldn't cause her to be paralyzed. Sandora is right, things that have anything to do with the abyss can't be good, and it's definitely not too much to treat it as a huge threat no matter what.
I accompanied Sandora to understand the other situations of the deep dive plan. Normally, Lin Xue would have been bored and went home by this time, but today she seems to be very enthusiastic about work, and she actually followed me and Sanduo La and I listened to the report here for a long time, and she came over after Tavel reported the plan for the next deep dive in detail: "Tavier, don't you have something to report about me?"
I was taken aback for a moment: "Girl Lin, what did you discuss with Tavel again?"
"No," Lin Xue waved her hand, "I knew she had something to report today when I got up early, and she was holding back just now to give me a surprise. Tavel, I took my heart, it's hard for you to be so humane It's a pity that I will definitely miss surprises in my life."
Tavel was stunned by Lin Xue's few words, and finally pushed his eyes a little embarrassedly: "Uh, I do have something to report... It seems that it is indeed very difficult to circle around with the prophet. Your majesty, what else?" With Mistress, this subordinate is very happy to show you a new technology—in addition, the main developer of this new technology is not my subordinate, but Lady Alleria."
As soon as I heard this, I immediately regained my energy: Although we don't know much about technology, we are good at joining in the fun. I suddenly regretted not letting Qianqian stay, that girl prefers to join in the fun... But forget it, she is a huge crowd in her own right , there was a shallow one at the new product launch conference, the chances of it crashing were simply too high.
Tavel led the way, and Sandora, Lin Xue and I followed behind. The group of four soon arrived at the teleportation station in the research institute: Teleportation points like this are very common in various facilities in the empire. Used to transport people and small items of goods directly from one department to another, the transmission distance may be in the Shadow City, or it may be two or three worlds away. You can think of them as a kind of super elevator. These teleportation stations are small and simple, often so simple that they don’t even have independent cabins, just like the stations on each floor of the research center, which are actually an open space at the end of the corridor, with control panels embedded on the side walls, and blue veins on the ground. Out of a circular area, there is a line of words suspended on the ground in the middle of the ring: Personnel and cargo transmission, no weight limit, please do not leave the circle, set it and go, stop halfway, it is strictly forbidden to stick chewing gum under the controller.
This is the small station used for teleportation between facilities, which is similar in size to the civilian teleportation station on the street outside, except that it uses a special "route". In addition, the last sentence of the prompt just now was added by me after Xiaoxue came here.
"Going to the teleportation station? To another space?" Seeing Tavel setting the teleportation target there, I was immediately surprised: According to the display on the panel, the teleportation target point is not even in Shadow City, but has already arrived in a different space.
"Let's go to the second research center established by Alleria," Tavel said mysteriously, "the scientific research department of the mysterious department."
Just when I was about to say something, the teleportation station started, and a brief glare flashed in front of my eyes. After the light and shadow in front of me gradually stabilized, I found that I had come to an unusually wide white hall.
This white hall has a significantly different style from Tavel's research institute. Tavel's research institute is covered with steel and cool colors. The tough and simple overall atmosphere makes it easy to think of a high-tech future base, everywhere It embodies the three principles of "precision, efficiency, and unity", but the white hall in front of me is more like some kind of... a religious place. I don't know how to describe this atmosphere. This is a place the size of two or three football fields. It is roughly oval in shape. The ground is a layer of dark gray-white material, with metal and rock The texture in between is glossy, while the surrounding walls are white, and a faint halo diffuses from the walls, giving people the feeling that all the surrounding walls are translucent. The hall has a tall curved dome, with streamlined support beams resembling bird bones radiating outward from the center of the dome. Its shape and texture give people a light and elegant impression. In fact, there are not many decorations in the hall, only the place where the dome and the wall are connected has a circle of pale golden lines, and at the base of the streamlined support beams on the dome, you can see carvings that resemble angel wings. As far as the hall is concerned, there are only these two decorations that can be said to be elegant to the limit: here adheres to the consistent principle of "simple decoration, emphasis on practicality" of the Apostles of Xiling, but due to the overall color matching and the arc shape of the shape of the hall, here Still gives a light and elegant aesthetic.
This is the consistent style of the mysterious building that was recently rebuilt and flourished in the empire. This style is elegant and soft, even reminiscent of the palace of heaven. It is hard for people who come into contact with it for the first time to believe that this is the construction of those iron-blooded and cold spirit apostles. But it really comes from the architectural art of the apostles of Xiling, and there is a more elegant wall of angels in the city of heaven, where there is a large group of angels whose minds are only long live the empire and war is justice —After all, the Apostles of Xiling are still the apostles of Xiling. How much nitroglycerin they have in their heads seems to have nothing to do with how beautiful the houses they built.
This must be the "research facility on the mysterious side" that Tavel mentioned. I really didn't expect that such a short time has passed. Not only has Aurelia restarted most of the basic industries in the Celestial City, but she even re-normalized the research team. A: The civilization reconstruction ability of the Apostles of Xiling really makes people unable to look directly at it.
There are many staff members busy walking through the hall, and quite a few of them are angels with wings like Alaya. They have unique silver-haired golden pupils, which distinguish them from the Protoss of the Star Region. It can be seen that this is the Xiling Angel who "hatched" from the Wall of Angels not long ago. It seems that not all Xiling angels have put into the battle sequence, and some of them should be more specialized in research and development projects like Alleria. In addition to these spirit angels, there are many staff in the hall who look similar to ordinary apostles. They wear white robes similar to Tavel's, but the coats look longer, and the collars are inlaid with golden patterns ( The researcher uniforms of the team under Tavel's name are blue emblems or patterns), and in other details, their clothing styles seem to be somewhat special: this should be the standard clothing of the mysterious side researchers.
Everyone here looks like a gentleman and a scholar, but I guess the researchers here are just like the battlefield madmen under Tavel, they are crazy people who can take out seventy or eighty kinds of explosives from their pockets at any time the scientist…
"Oh, it looks pretty good here." I looked around, and couldn't help but praise, although I didn't understand what was going on, but the place was quite open and bright, um, that's what it meant.
The outsider watched the excitement and the insider looked at the doorway. Sandora looked around and made a more professional evaluation: "This place is quite bright."
I:"… "
It doesn't seem to be very professional... Well, Sandora is not from a scientific research unit anyway.
Just as we were praising this spacious and beautiful place, an elegant figure shrouded in holy light suddenly floated down from above, and the kite angel Aurelia appeared in front of everyone with a smile: "Your Majesty, And Mistress, I just heard the news from Tavel, are you here to inspect the 'Omen' system?"
"Omen?" When I heard this name, I subconsciously glanced at Lin Xue, thinking that this thing was related to Lin Xue just by hearing the name, and then shook my head, "We don't know what we are here to see, Lord Tavel Mystery didn't say anything."
"Please follow me," Alleria gracefully spread her wings and floated backwards, "This is a versatile system with a wide range of uses, and you will definitely be satisfied with its effects."
At this time, another holy white light descended out of thin air, and Alaya's figure slowly emerged in the white light: Sister Angel felt the familiar atmosphere around her, and she automatically woke up from hibernation. She rubbed her eyes and looked around, and found They were all familiar scenes, and I was a little dazed for a while, and then realized when I saw Alleria floating in front of me: "Aurelia? You rebuilt the Temple of Knowledge?"
Only then did I realize that the name of the "research center" on the mysterious side was "the sanctuary of knowledge", and the cultures of the two sides are still different.
"We found the fragments of the Temple of Knowledge on the border of chaos, so we started rebuilding ahead of schedule," Alleria said respectfully to Alaya, "Some databases in the fragments of the temple are still usable, and the over-limit experiment Most of the chambers are well preserved, and the reconstruction process is smoother than expected. The only problem here now is the lack of personnel, but the scholar-type apostles cannot be rushed, and can only be cultivated slowly."
"Oh," Sister Angel nodded with that unique confused expression, but her words were not confused at all, "Is it repaired according to the old church site or redesigned? I remember that there was a The expansion plan is coming, the number of imaginary laboratories is not enough, but something happened before the expansion.”
"Don't worry, the expansion has been completed," Alleria sighed slightly, "It was rebuilt according to the expansion plan that was not realized that year. Although it was 70,000 years late, the expansion of this place was finally completed according to the design. gone."
There was a dull smile on Alaya's face, and she smiled slowly, with a very relieved tone: "Okay, another task has been completed."
The structure of the Temple of Knowledge is very different from the research center on the technology side. The whole building seems to be built by relying on space expansion and other magical space distortion technologies. It is filled with vast spaces, and many spaces are not The geometric structure conforms to reality. For example, you see a door next to each other on a wall, but no matter which door you open to enter, you will see a very wide new room, just like all the doors It seems that they all lead to a different space. You will see abrupt stairs and corridors on the wall or on the ground, but there is no space for these things on the other side of the wall. This building should not be established in the normal spatial structure. , but this is how it was built. This way of building reminds me of ghosts hitting walls...
Tell me how I thought of this!
Alleria led us through several gates, none of which followed the normal spatial structure, so I guessed that I should have entered a place like the folding space laboratory, and then we finally came to a slightly The smaller rotunda, this is the laboratory. This place also looks very different from the lab on the tech side, all the equipment and facilities seem to have a streamlined and elegant appearance, and basically I can't see the purpose—of course I can't see it in the lab on the tech side Use of those things. There are few large-scale equipment here, but there are many runes and virtual "devices" floating in the air. I saw some staff members "writing" a series of lines by touching the runes in the air or directly in the air. It’s an eye-opener to have a novel way of manipulating devices around you or things on a test bench. However, after looking around, I couldn’t find where the “harbinger” device was. There are many operating platforms similar to gravity-free platforms, but there are all kinds of floating things on those operating platforms, and it’s impossible to see which one is the focus of analysis. .
"'Omen' is not a specific device, but a general-purpose system that can be embedded in various devices." Alleria immediately explained after hearing my question, "All the devices you see here are embedded We have a trial version of the 'harbinger' module, and we are validating its applicability across a broad spectrum, from weapons to shields to soul uploaders."
"What the hell is it?" I couldn't help asking.
"An indeterminate rune array, Tavel originally tried to use psionic frequency division to simulate the power of the prophet to observe multiple world lines, but in the end we found that the rune system with higher uncertainty is more effective, As Alleria spoke, she led us to the nearest test bed. She communicated with the scholars here, and then waited for the on-site staff to prepare all the equipment, "You can directly look at its Effect."
There is a shield generator floating on the zero-gravity area of the test bed, and it is the kind of individual external shield generator commonly used on the technology side. It seems that just like what Alleria said, the "harbinger" is a general-purpose shield generator. Although it is manufactured in the Sanctuary of Knowledge on the mysterious side, it is not only the equipment on the mysterious side that is tested here.
Alleria touched the crystal panel under the weightless platform, and the ordinary-looking shield generator was fixed in mid-air by a set of floating devices, and then she casually pulled out her golden holy sword from the air. The long sword of light swung towards the shield generator.
Of course, this test slight attack was immediately blocked by the psionic shield, but unlike the normal stress shield, the generator was actually activated before Alleria summoned the long sword!
Afterwards, Alleria tested a few more times: she held up her long sword and swung it in front of the shield generator, and even released scorching holy light to bombard it a few times—it was only a few millimeters away from hitting the generator, but The shield generator showed no sign of being activated.
I know that this individual external shield is used to enhance the defense of soldiers, and it can add an additional layer of protection in addition to the shield of the Xiling Apostle itself. This kind of equipment has two kinds of working states: stress type and long-term type. The former will only be activated when the threat enters its scanning range, while the latter is open for a long time. Obviously, the instantaneous protection of the former is much higher than that of the latter. . However, the error rate of the stress system is a problem that cannot be ignored: it scans for high-heat, high-energy, high-speed or other threatening things that are too close to itself, but not every scan is timely and accurate, and the problem of false alarms is very serious. Sometimes the external shield is activated, but the attack just misses the soldier - this may be because the soldier was lucky to escape the attack, or it may be that the enemy's luck is really bad, so the energy of the stress shield is wasted.
Moreover, in the face of an attack that is too fast, the stress mode may not be able to respond. If the opponent uses a psionic attack without delay, the soldiers can only set this shield in a long-term position with low protection. Working mode: After all, the attack of psionic weapons is faster than the speed of light, and there is no time for any sensor to react.
And I have already realized what is going on with the shield equipped with the "harbinger" system in front of me.
It is predicting! Decide when you want to activate before the event happens!
Alleria tested several times, and sometimes her attack would hit the shield generator just a millimeter away, but the latter showed no sign of activation (if it was a normal stress mode, there would be high-energy damage at very close range. The reaction is fast and it should have been activated long ago), sometimes she did not do anything, but the shield generator was still activated, and the next second after the shield was activated, the attack would strike out of thin air: Aurelia The Holy Light Spike that Ya summoned with silent casting was originally an unavoidable assassin attack, but the "harbinger" system had already reacted before Alleria herself realized that she was about to attack!
"This is the 'harbinger'," Alleria put away her weapon a little unhappily. It seems that even if she knew what she was testing, dealing with something that was almost a prophet still made this kite angel quite depressed, but very Soon her tone became proud and high-spirited, "Theoretically, there is no system of misjudgment, it will only defend against things that will hit you 100%, even if the attack has not yet come, even if the enemy has not thought of pulling the trigger , it will also activate, and if it does not activate, it means that the attack will indeed miss without hurting yourself, even if the deadly threat is only one millimeter away from the protection target, it will not activate at all. No waste, and No mistake, 'Omen' is such an embedded pre-judgment system." RS