I looked at the dark and deep space around me, with piles of doubts in my mind.
This is indeed the interior of the gate of the abyss, and it is the interior of the gate of the oldest abyss. The vague unpleasant feeling in the surrounding environment also proves that I have not gone to the wrong place, but here is the place I jumped into in my memory The gate of the abyss is different: the interior of the gate of the abyss in memory is a chaotic space between the perceivable and the imperceptible, and all information is in an indeterminate state, because the scenes seen by the naked eye belong to the "imperceptible" space. Therefore, you will feel extremely dark around you. In the gate of the abyss, the only "scenery" you can see is the chaotic "air mass" that occasionally surges out of the deep darkness, and even those air masses are They are not real matter or light and shadow, they are indescribable information storms, your senses come into contact with these information, but you cannot understand them, so they appear in the form of chaotic air masses to the naked eye—all of the above are normal gates to the abyss The interior scene.
However, here, I didn't feel the obvious aura of madness and confusion, and I didn't feel the dizziness when I came into contact with a large amount of "indescribable" information. A little discomfort. I looked around, but I didn't see the chaotic "air mass" that is often seen in the gate of the abyss, nor did I see any other strange things. The most incredible thing is that the space here is very stable, and the coordinates are in a perceivable state, which means that what I am in is just a normal void without light! This doesn't look like an abyss environment at all!
Oh yes, there is still a little difference between this place and the normal space: there is that faint abyssal reaction all around, if other ordinary people come in, they will probably go crazy in an instant.
"You can feel the difference," Father God slowly floated in front, his voice sounded in my mind, "The space here is solidified, except for the atmosphere, there is almost no chaos and collapse here. Element."
"There should be a shared space behind all the gates of the abyss." I got used to it and found that activities here are much more convenient than inside the normal gates of the abyss. "The fallen apostles have used this to do this once before." , they started from their own territory, and then sneaked all the way to the empire in the abyss domain and then emerged... "
"I know this, you told me before," Father God nodded, "so you judge that there is a connected space 'below' all the gates of the abyss, we have also confirmed this situation through research, and in all the gates of the abyss It is also true that the same discontinuity is observed in the gates... with the exception of the case here, the place below the oldest gate to the abyss."
"It looks like a normal space," I looked up at the exit of the abyss, the silver halo left when the crystal lake was opened can still be seen here, so there is no need to worry about getting lost in it, "even the space coordinates here are stable of."
"Not only the space coordinates are stable," Father God said, pointing to the distance, "the earth."
Then I saw a sudden flash of light erupt in the direction of Father God's finger, and then large stretches of mountains and dangerous rivers began to emerge out of thin air following the trajectory of the flash. This spectacle lasted for a few seconds, almost like a breath. A vast continent appeared before me. However, not long after, this continent began to disintegrate and split. After just six or seven minutes, it was shrouded in various catastrophes, and then gradually swallowed up by the surrounding darkness.
"Although it will be destroyed soon, it is indeed possible to use Genesis here," Father God explained, "which means that despite the harsh surrounding environment, it still supports the existence of the most basic order, and even allows mortal matter to survive here. A moment and a half. You also know that the normal abyss environment is a 'vacuum area of order', and anything with order but no resistance will be deprived of its own existence in an instant, and then collapse in the blink of an eye... But the piece of land just now was created without protection. Being able to be born means that the most basic order exists here."
"What's going on here?" I don't know anything about these high-tech professional knowledge, but I can understand Father God saying a sensational thing: the gate of the abyss allows an orderly creature to emerge from nothing. This is absolutely against the essence of the abyss.
"I don't know," Father God shrugged, "and there are many strange things. We also conducted a deep dive here, and then went down all the way to find the discontinuity zone. Guess what we found? "
I looked at Father God's half-smile, and made a bold guess: "The wrench you dropped when you built the house?"
Father God: "... I appreciate your optimism, but can we be more serious?"
I spread my hands: "Aren't you embarrassing me, I don't know what you found down here."
"The core of the deep dive—that is, the deep dive ship made by the Protoss—advanced all the way to the place where the discontinuity should have appeared, but nothing was found," Father God looked down at the endless darkness below, as if to see the depths of the day. The place where the submarine arrived, "Then we let the equipment continue to dive, and it turned out... In the end, the core of the deep dive hit the end of the space, and then emerged from near the gate of the abyss."
I froze for a moment before I realized it: "You mean this place is not only a space, but also closed?"
"After arriving at the boundary of the space, it will return to the starting point, which means that the space is closed and continuous. After that, we tested it many times, and the return path is exactly the same each time, which proves that this place is not only closed and continuous, but also has a stable structure. It is the abyss environment that makes it impossible to draw the spatial structure here with ordinary methods." Father God sat down cross-legged in mid-air, and his calm and indifferent voice echoed in my mind, "So the children used some Indirect methods, such as continuously putting detectors in all directions, can roughly clarify the structure here, and confirm that this is a huge cavity similar to a long and narrow cave. The cave is symmetrical everywhere, extending from one point to an infinite point. to the boundary of the closed space, and then accurately return to the starting point... just like the second type of closed order universe.”
"Is this still an abyss?" I sat cross-legged in mid-air like Father God, my face full of bewilderment.
"Of course it's the abyss," Father God said with a chuckle, "look at the environment here, if you bring equipment to test the various constants here, you will find that chaos and inconsistency are still the main theme of this place, but other than that Besides, it's structurally solidified."
I noticed that the other party mentioned a word: curing.
Chaos is solidified, changes are solidified, destruction and chaos are solidified, no matter what they are, when they are solidified, they must no longer conform to the consistent nature of the abyss, because the abyss is ultimately a thing that promotes "change". To push everything to destruction, it does not allow anything to stay in its current state, and it will push everything that can be infected to destruction until there is no ashes left of the target. This is the nature of the abyss.
But what if the abyss itself solidifies
"Do you have any guesses?" Father God suddenly looked up at me, "The children tried to explain this phenomenon with theoretical research, but they encountered a lot of trouble, maybe our two intuitions will be closer than their theories truth."
"The talent of void creatures," I scratched my chin, "but I really can't think of any explanation for it for a while... According to this, this abyss gate is independent from other abyss gates. A space with fundamental order, bounded, symmetrical, closed, indirectly measurable, without fixed constants, and free of discontinuities...let me think."
Father God smiled, and waited patiently for when I could come up with a clue. I pondered for a long time beside me, thinking about how to stimulate my "intuition", and then slapped my head: If intuition can be actively stimulated, Is that still a passive effect!
Not everyone is like Tavel, even schizophrenia can be used as an active skill training...
So I stopped tossing my little brain cells, and directly said a certain word that I vaguely thought of: "I think this place looks like a relic, or something that has been burned... Anyway, it used to be very active, but now it is cooling down." something that came down."
"I also have this feeling. We both have the same intuition, so it seems that the truth is almost the same," Father God laughed. "I said that this place is like a 'solidified' place. If we regard the normal active abyss as It is flowing magma, then this place is a bit like cooled magma rock, chaos solidifies into order, and space is the first to be ordered. If this is true, then this place may not be completely 'cooled'. As time goes by, it should continue to 'solidify' until the chaotic tendency here completely disappears and it becomes an ordinary initial space. But this may take a long time, and I don't necessarily have the patience to follow and observe it. .”
I suddenly remembered the question I wanted to ask before but had no chance to ask: "By the way, the gate of the abyss has been in the God Realm for so many years. Is this the first time you know what it looks like inside? You haven't come down before?"
"It came down a long, long time ago," Father God replied, and the Lord could say "a long, long time ago". It hasn’t been too long since it was established, and I only know a little about the gate of the abyss, and I came down once at that time.”
"Didn't you realize that the environment here was weird?"
"Do you think I'm always looking for the gate of the abyss to jump down when I have nothing to do?" Father God gave me a weird look, "After I got down, I thought it was too dark and it didn't feel good, so I haven’t stayed here for long. Although I have seen other forms of abyss gates since then, I haven’t given much thought to them. You know, void creatures are an inert race. Unless necessary, void creatures will not take the initiative to make trouble Thing - I don't have time to analyze the nature of each abyss gate one by one. After that, I created the Protoss, but the main activity goal of the Protoss is to destroy the abyss. The children have also conducted several activities similar to deep diving to check under the gates What the hell is there, but they found that it would not help to completely wipe out the abyss, so they didn't continue to go deeper... As my derived power, the gods also partially inherited the inert side of the void creatures, which should be regarded as the only shortcoming of the star field gods Right. If I hadn't heard about the discontinuity from you not long ago, I really wouldn't have noticed this gate here again: I almost forgot about it."
I also quite agree with Father God's statement, especially the part about inertia: "Indeed, procrastination alone is almost everyone's late stage. But let's talk about why the apostle Xiling under my name can have a single muscle After extensive research, did you discover the discontinuity zone earlier than you?"
Father God looked at me even more strangely: "... You didn't create the Xiling Apostles, and they are not lazy-have you forgotten that this empire is actually picked up?"
I slapped my head: "Oh, yes, I have been emperor for so long, I almost forgot."
I spent some time in this dark, empty space with Father God to learn more about the strange nature of this place. This space is said to be a closed space, but strictly speaking it is semi-closed. The Gate of the Abyss is a passage between the virtual and the real. When the reflection of the lake surface in the crystal lake fades, this space opens a hole, but due to A two-dimensional plane like the Gate of the Abyss does not follow the normal laws of space, so this opening does not affect the sealing of the space itself: if you do not master the special or have special powers, things that fall into this space will still never be able to escape of.
"How did you say this space was formed?" I knew Father God definitely didn't bring me here to show off that I just discovered that I have a super-sized basement, and he must have discovered something else, so I asked curiously.
"I have a guess," Father God nodded, "The Abyss of Inertia... I don't know how much you know about this concept?"
I didn't expect Father God to mention this word, and I was a little dazed for a moment, and then I nodded vigorously: "I know, I know this, of course I know-a group of scientists over there have studied this, and I still don't have a clue."
Father God nodded, and said unhurriedly: "The Inert Abyss is also a kind of normal abyss. It is also destructive and can cause world collapse and various disasters, but the Inert Abyss is weakly contagious and can only be infected once. , there will be no secondary jump, the inert abyss is easier to be suppressed or even reversed than the active abyss, and the transformation speed of individuals infected by the inert abyss is extremely slow. The above are the laws we have summarized, which should be similar to what you have summarized. "
I nodded: "Well, we have been studying this for a long time. You also know that Sandora was infected by the abyss once before, but she later recovered completely by her own ability. This incident is very unusual. So some scientists on my side speculated that what Sandora encountered was the inert abyss. The dividing line between the inert abyss and the ordinary abyss is quite blurred, and 'infectiousness' is still an indicator that cannot be quantified, so the Sandora incident There’s never been a conclusion.”
"In any case, the inert abyss is a real concept," Father God looked at the darkness around him, "if it develops to the extreme, will it be such a gate to the abyss?"
I was stunned, I really hadn't thought about it just now!
However, this statement seems reasonable at first, but I still feel that there is something wrong. After thinking about it for a long time, I hesitated to say: "The Inert Abyss does seem to be more 'docile', but the one in your basement... look Isn't it too weird? It can no longer be described as docile."
"That's why I said 'develop to the extreme'," Father God spread his hand and pointed to the surroundings, "This unusual place is slightly similar to the Inert Abyss: safe, gentle, and tends to be stable. It's just that the Inert Abyss is just infectious However, the destructive power remains the same, and the phenomenon of the abyss in this space is a step deeper in terms of 'inertia'. In the past, we always regarded the abyss as an eternal thing, and believed that all the gates of the abyss would not be degraded naturally. But now you also know that the abyss is actually changing from time to time. Since it changes overall, why doesn’t it mutate locally? The inert abyss may be an intermediate state, and some doors of the abyss are generated under unknown reasons Downgrading, destructiveness and contagion decrease, this creates an inert abyss, and if it continues to develop like this, it may be the gate of the abyss at the base of the gods. If the normal abyss is regarded as magma, this is probably A cooling and solidification process."
The conjecture of the Father God is very interesting: the normal abyss will suddenly become stable for unknown reasons (the Father God calls this 'downgrade'), and then an inert abyss will be created, which is suspected to be the case that Sandora encountered back then. Then the inert abyss continues to degrade, cool, and solidify, and the disorder tends to order, forming the gate of the inert abyss. This process continues to develop and deepen, and it becomes the basement of the father's house. The whole process sounds like a powerful and unconstrained style , Unbelievable—anyway, it challenges my three views.
"Theoretically, there will be no 'downgrade' phenomenon in the abyss," Father God also admitted, "but now there is indeed an abyss after downgrade, so let's not worry about whether it is logical or not, but admit this fact , and find a way to find out its cause on this basis. I have an intuition that if we can explain the connection between the inert abyss and this weird place we stayed in, maybe we can reveal the secret of the abyss' evolution and further develop Understand what the 'discontinuity band' is."
"Then have you researched how the Inert Abyss came from?" I looked up at Father God.
Fang Fang shook his head in a bachelor way: "No way, this project has just started, and I was thinking that if you are free, you will also mobilize your own scholars to help with the research. We can have a joint project to ponder the inertial abyss and God Realm together. The basic connection, anyway, the samples are here, you can send someone over to study, I will take care of the board and lodging... "
"Let's get busy for a while, the research center is busy with just one deep dive plan." I nodded cheerfully, but at this moment, an urgent communication suddenly broke into my mind:
"Ajun is me, Sandora, there is movement from the fallen apostle!" RS