This is a branch corridor near the core area of the Imperial Admiral. Since most of the soldiers are waiting for orders in the standby position during the fleet transition, this branch corridor is very deserted, but I saw a person here. Come by yourself.
It was a girl in black with long straight blond hair, fair skin, dark red pupils, and long black silk gloves on her hands - she didn't look like an imperial soldier from the clothes, but she could see the clothes hanging on her chest. I knew who it was from the small silver and white metal plate: Xiling.
"Xi Ling?" I hurried up two steps, "Why are you here?"
This Internet ghost seemed to be wandering aimlessly, and she was startled when she saw me suddenly appearing. The girl in black jumped half a step back like a bunny: "Ah... oh, it's His Majesty the Emperor."
"Why are you still distracted?" I found that the behavior of the other party seemed a bit weird: Xiling is indeed a little careless, but as a cluster consciousness with super high processing speed, it is quite rare for her to be distracted to this extent. It is even more concerning to appear on such a warship that is heading to the frontier, "Didn't you say try not to run out, this ship is going to the border of the empire, and it is not safe for you there."
Only then did Xi Ling look around curiously, with a face of sudden realization: "Oh, it turns out that this is inside the spaceship."
Me: "..." Did this girl sleepwalk in here? !
"I feel fine." Xi Ling looked at me with a smile, "My main body is on the entire network. The body on the spaceship is just an interface for interacting with the outside world. This small information focus is on the whole The degree of influence of the distributed state does not exceed one ten-thousandth, as long as there is a place covered by the imperial network, it will be the same wherever I am."
What Xi Ling said makes sense. It seems that I still use the way of thinking in the real world to imagine the life of such an online ghost, but I am still curious: "Aren't you usually with Tavel in Shadow City? Today How did you wander around here?"
"I don't know," Xi Ling shook his head honestly, "Suddenly wanted to come out and take a look, and then directly downloaded the interface to this place - just now I was still wondering where this place is, it looks really different from Shadow City .”
"Suddenly want to come out and take a look?" I looked suspiciously at the black-clothed girl who seemed to be still in a daze in front of me, and I always felt that something was wrong in my heart. Seeing my expression, Xi Ling began to nod vigorously in this direction: "Yeah, yeah , I just suddenly wanted to come out and take a look... "
I hurriedly stopped her: "Okay, okay, my hair is all over my face... Since you want to come out and take a look, you can just turn around, but don't leave this ship, and you have to take the Admiral of the Empire first." Download the ship's zoning map and travel rules for each time period, this is the general flagship, don't you know it like you do at home?"
Xi Ling nodded happily, then hummed an unknown tune like a wandering soul, and wandered off without knowing where to go.
I watched that weird girl disappear at the end of the corridor, and I suddenly had a doubt in my heart: Could this guy's abnormal behavior be related to the convulsions of the fallen apostle? Or... related to the problem in Abyss Xiling
I don’t blame myself for being so sensitive and suspicious. The main reason is that we are in an extraordinary situation right now. There is obviously a big mess on the Fallen Apostle’s side, and Xiling and Abyss Xiling have the same origin. The rift on the Internet has already proved These two Internet ghosts, which should have been completely separated, are actually still in touch. Now Abyss Xiling may have been played off, and I am worried that this impact will affect Xiling.
Thinking of this, I immediately lost the interest to relax, and hurried back to the bridge. Sandora, who was presiding over the situation in the control hall, saw me returning to the officer's platform with a serious face, and immediately approached curiously: "What's wrong? I have such a complexion. serious."
"I met Xi Ling," I said while patting Lilina who had already rubbed against my leg, "She is in a strange condition, she is wandering around the spaceship in a daze, I suspect that she also sensed the fallen apostle. Chaos ensued."
Sandora Bingxue is smart, so of course she immediately thought of what I meant: "You mean she has the same origin as the Abyss Network?"
I nodded, and told Sandora all the details of my guess and meeting Xiling, who shook her head after a little thought: "We can't restrict Xiling's activities, you and I are her activity point, so I can only let her continue wandering on the spaceship... But she is very obedient, since you said not to let her leave the Imperial Admiral, then she should not run around. The inspiration of the spirit... This is not sure, maybe it is possible, but as long as you hang on the Internet, Xiling is protected by a firewall. If Xiling of the abyss really dares to contact Xiling directly, it will be annihilation for the fallen apostles disaster."
"Actually, don't worry too much," Sandora paused and added, "Xiling is right, what is active in the real world is just one of her interactive interfaces, and her own distribution will always be the entire network, even if If something goes wrong with the interface, at most some of the nodes are not working properly temporarily. The vitality of Xiling is probably as strong as that of the entire New Empire, so don’t worry too much about it.”
"That's the only way to go." I smacked my lips helplessly, "Why do I have a bunch of uneasy guys around me... Xiaoxue, please help Dad with the fortune telling."
"Dad, you have to respect the profession of prophets, you know?" The bear boy not far away stretched out his face from the back of the chair, "Now we are very close to the abyss area, and we can indeed see something... Xiling It seems that I was really attracted by the abyss area, but it is harmless, this trip will go smoothly without dying, and everyone can live forever as long as they don’t die, so don’t worry.”
I exhaled, and after half a second, I reacted violently: "Aren't you talking nonsense!"
How fast Xiaoxue reacted, as soon as I yelled a word, she slipped into Sandora's arms with a sharp sound: "Second Mom, save me!"
Although I feel that the lawless brat dares to talk nonsense on such occasions, it makes my teeth itch, but it seems that thanks to the brat's trouble, the only feeling of unreliability in my heart quickly disappeared. I looked up at At the command seat below, just about to ask how long it will take to arrive at the station, I heard a steady and gentle broadcast sound from the main engine on the ship: "Attention all units, the last jump is completed, and this ship is about to enter the material world. The chief is ready to report on their respective situations... Countdown to enter the material world: 10, 9, 8... "
Accompanied by an inconspicuous vibration, the spaceship's void engine module shut down, the starship's drive mode was switched to a coordinate engine for navigating in the material world, and more than a dozen control seats under the command hall that were on standby all the way entered After entering the working mode, various departments began to report the situation and exchange information. Sandora turned on the independent holographic device on the officer's platform, and the scene outside the spaceship appeared in front of everyone.
This is a frontier world, very close to the abyss area. Like all frontier worlds, this universe located on the sea of swords and mountains of fire is a complete military fortress, and there are no civilian facilities or colonies in the entire universe. Most of the celestial bodies and mass-intensive belts in space have been cleaned to prevent them from becoming a springboard and "hotbed" of abyss pollution, and the remaining celestial bodies will become imperial bases or be transformed into large-scale weaponry platforms. The place where the fleet is parked is the largest military port area in the universe. It is located on the edge of a dark yellow dense cloud. It consists of four defensive planetary fortresses, an artificial star, and thousands of large and small planets orbiting these celestial bodies. Composed of small starports and heavy factories. The nearby space cloud with a radius of hundreds of thousands of light-years is still undergoing intense star-making movement. Its high energy level and active fusion reaction make it very bright. If you are far enough away, you will find It looks like a ball of shiny cotton candy in space—but because the military port area is right next to this cloud, and the air mass in space cannot be as dense as the "fog" in the public impression, so in the Those of us within the range of the clouds will only feel that part of the space is emitting an abnormal dark yellow luster.
The Royal Fleet is moored in the high orbit of the outermost planetary fortress in the artificial star system. After a series of military mobilizations, the current 1st, 4th, 6th, and 7th Fleets, together with the reserve echelons that were previously filled in other outposts in the far frontiers, have gathered the strength of nearly seven legions in total. In this universe, huge fleets are moored above the four planetary fortresses in the artificial star system (the other two echelons are on standby at another star port farther away), and they are now only waiting for an order to go Head to the front for the first ever large-scale battle against the lands of the Fallen Apostles.
And we are waiting for the best time to come.
Seeing tens of thousands of starships gathering in front of me is of course a very exciting thing, but I have been more excited in the past two years, and now I have experienced a lot of wind and waves, so I am not surprised by honor or disgrace. Let me take a look at the busy but In the command hall in an orderly manner, he turned his head and asked Sandora: "It seems that the servant fleet will not be needed this time."
"Everyone has their own responsibilities," Sandora's face was calm, and I found that the more the eve of a large-scale war, the more she showed this calm and indifferent appearance, "The servant army helps to patrol and defend or fight for the imperial army." It is really good to manage some second-line battlefields, but this time we are going to rush directly into the abyss area, and it is difficult to convert the quantity of servants into quality-in case they are polluted by the local environment and become enemies, it will be a bigger problem. "
Bingtis is also sitting on the officer's platform, and like us, she also has a set of holographic devices and tactical analyzers in front of her, but I guess this female hooligan can use them to watch movies Nothing else: she was poking around with her Protoss-style crystal terminal, keeping in touch with the frontline troops in the God Realm.
"The battle sequence on the front line is now in a fierce exchange of fire with the fallen apostles, as chaotic as possible," Bingtis noticed my gaze, and took the initiative to report the situation without waiting for others to speak. "It was smooth at the beginning. All of them are scattered small troops of fallen apostles—it seems that they were scattered, and those sporadic fleets were easily wiped out, but the enemy quickly reacted. The apostles should also activate strategic-level weapons like the Garden of the Dead or high-level star warships, and reports from the front line say that the various rules and cosmic constants on the battlefield have become very weird, and they are moving towards an environment that is increasingly unfavorable to the Protoss."
"It's a star warship, similar to the Warsong," Sandora immediately judged, "It takes a coincidence to create something like the Garden of the Dead, and the Fallen Apostle probably doesn't have it on hand. If all the star warships are on the field, it seems that the enemy is paying attention to it." It was really drawn in.”
The elder sister immediately asked: "Then when shall we act?"
"How many troops have the Protoss invested so far?" Sandora looked at Bingtis.
"This... The calculation of the combat power of the Protoss is slightly different from that of your fleet. It may not be easy to convert directly the strength of the troops. You can think that it is roughly equivalent to the strength of the troops you have gathered here today. Well, it is slightly stronger, but it is not bad. Too much. This is already the limit of the troops we can mobilize without affecting the expedition plan and weakening the defense of each world."
I was suddenly a little surprised: "So there are only so many? Is the impact of the expedition plan so great?"
Bingtis waved his hand: "What do you think? If it weren't for the expedition, we would have sent out ten times more troops than we do now! Every expedition the Protoss will clean up all the void areas that they can reach, and the scale is so large that it can surprise you , but now quite a few expedition teams have already set off, and those who haven’t set off are also making preparations, you can’t let Father God throw the soldiers who will go to the battlefield tomorrow into another battle ahead of time, can you?”
I nodded as I listened, and at the same time I was secretly amazed at the strength of the Protoss. Sure enough, only the Apostles of Xiling in the old empire could pull out troops of the same size as the Protoss. Although the new empire is developing rapidly, compared with those old rich men ... Sure enough, the gap is still quite large.
Of course, if Father God heard this sentence, the other party would definitely say cheerfully: "The gap is not that big, just work hard for a while and catch up..."
Sandora didn't think so much, she was just thinking about the march, and after a moment of pondering, she shook her head: "Wait a little longer... The fallen apostles are only attracted, but not trapped, they are easy Back on defense, wait a little longer."
Sandora is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the fallen apostles to mobilize the troops on the other side of the front to be completely tied up by the gods, and then attack from this side, so that we can use the smallest cost and the fastest speed Break through the iron wall of the abyss area, but it is uncertain when this time will come: it may only take an hour or two, or it may take a day or two, but no matter how long it takes, as long as it can achieve the result of directly smashing the dragon , everything is worth it.
I looked at the mighty imperial fleet on the holographic image, and suddenly raised my head to look at Sandora: "We can scan to the abyss area, and the fallen apostles can also scan to the empire area, they should know that we have sent more troops to the border , at least you should be prepared, right?"
"Of course, they're just not sure about the exact number: I made the Death Garden cover the void route in the Empire area as much as possible, so the number of fleets that the fallen apostles can scan should only be about half of the actual number," Sandora said indifferently Smiling, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether they can scan it or not. If I were the commander of the Fallen Apostles, I should have thought that the empire would stab me from the side the moment I started a war with the Protoss, but even if they knew that there was such a knife, they would not It’s just that we can’t avoid it. Both sides in the war are not fools. If the other party has a plan in mind, their respective commanders will more or less think about it, especially when we are facing a bunch of guys who know the tactics of the empire well... The wait now is just for Forced by the situation, the fallen apostles had to choose to give up a front: either they were defeated by the gods, or they were broken by the imperial army, there was no choice."
I looked at Sandora's figure, all her attention was now focused on the holographic projection in front of her eyes, and the shimmering light from the projection device floated on her face, outlining for me the profile of a warsong princess with no distractions .
Sandora's meaning is very clear: she is not worried that the fallen apostles know the actions of the imperial army, because the situation has reached this point, the fallen apostles have not many choices, and they can just watch the imperial army and the gods fight against each other. However, they can only hold one of them—according to the plan of me and Father God, the protoss with strong continuous combat capability is responsible for putting pressure on the enemy, and the imperial army is the one responsible for breaking through, so we To wait here, when the pressure brought by the Protoss on another battlefield reaches its limit, the Fallen Apostle will have to give up the line of defense on this side.
The situation seems to be so smooth that it is unexpected—I find it hard to believe that the Fallen Apostles would fall into such a dangerous situation so easily. Obviously, in the past few years, they have been so powerful that the New Empire can't breathe.
Just because of several consecutive deaths and convulsions in the past two days, is this huge abyssal empire going to commit crimes on its own
"Ah Jun, what are you thinking about?" Sandora's voice suddenly sounded from not far away, and I woke up suddenly, so I expressed my uneasiness and confusion.
"Indeed, I'm thinking about this too," Sandora nodded, "If we can really defeat... no, even if we just cripple the enemy, I think it's too unreal. They shouldn't fall so easily They shouldn't be defeated so easily just because they used to be called 'Xi Ling'. So we must be careful, even if we break through the barriers of the abyss area, we should not get carried away."
Xiaoxue closed her eyes on the seat not far away, and stopped answering anyone's inquiries. She seemed to be accumulating energy, or she might have seen an unstable future route, so she needed to reduce her "high position" as much as possible. "Observer" activities to reduce the chance of collapse in the future, Lin Xue would often fall silent like this and ignore anyone, so I am not very worried about Xiaoxue's state.
As long as she doesn't warn, it's good news.
Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, this brat is really asleep...
We didn't wait too long, after only a few hours, Xiaoxue suddenly opened her eyes: "It's time to leave." RS