This ancient data terminal seems to be working a little bit badly. When it was connected to the spaceship's main database, the holographic image above it flickered violently for a while before it finally stabilized. Sandora guessed that this might be due to the long-term lack of energy supply of the spaceship or a crash. Some of the crystallization lines of the data terminal may have been degraded, but this failure does not affect the use. After some debugging, we entered the root directory of the data pool.
"The voyage log... there are only some coordinate records and the self-inspection report of the spacecraft, which seem useless, and the technical parameters of the spacecraft, which are not very useful," Sandora sifted through the seemingly valuable information, "Oh, found That's right, this should be the file left over from that year."
The holographic projection flickered for a while, and then a familiar figure appeared in front of us: the elder sister in military uniform.
"Sister, you look really awkward in a military uniform." I tilted my head slightly and muttered, and the person involved also agreed, "It must be boring to wear this outfit all day now."
At the beginning of the video file, there was a pause for a few seconds, and then a slightly distorted voice came: "... The equipment is good, and the recording has started. Now we have left the parent star, and we are entering a void that no one has ever stepped on. If the previous observations are correct , we will come into contact with that powerful sleeping creature here. In order to prevent no one from knowing the situation here after an accident, I will leave a diary in the form of this video from now on, and leave it in every spaceship in the fleet. Backup. According to the scan of the void completed fifteen minutes ago, the number of worlds in this area is very rare, and there are only three shapeless deformed universes within the range of one hundred and twenty engine jumps. The accompanying technicians could not explain this situation, we can only attribute it to the influence of the activities of void creatures: the latter suppressed or dominated the evolution of surrounding information during the growth process, resulting in , the 'Genesis' activities in this area were all aborted. I can't be sure if this guess is correct. If it is correct, then the power and specialness of the void creatures will be far beyond what I imagined before. I think this operation may be successful... Anyway, To rely on void creatures to resist the impact, the stronger he is, the better."
The first video was so short, after it was played, I couldn't help touching my sister's arm: "Sister, you plotted against me in your previous life."
My sister conveniently clamped my head under her arm, and pinched my scalp vigorously with both punishment and pampering: "How many times have I said that it happened in my previous life—and why don't you want to?"
Bingtis became serious at this time: "This is a serious business, you just want to show off your sister and brother, and wait until you go home?"
At this time, the second video has been found by Sandora, and the elder sister (previous life) who is dressed in military uniform and has a serious expression, how strange it looks, began to speak seriously on the video: "The fleet has arrived at the destination, and everything is going well. According to the previous measurement , the void creature is sleeping here, but now the fleet is facing a very embarrassing problem: we can't see him."
It’s not quite accurate to say that you can’t see it at all. Strictly speaking, you can still observe signs of the existence of void creatures: this has a large amount of information radiation from unknown sources, and there is a stable space like a world barrier or an order field that floats out of thin air. There was a set of very regular pulses, but none of these could be said to be biological signs. The above phenomenon may be the result of the activities of void creatures, but our understanding of this kind of peculiar life seems to be too little. Before departure, no one thought that it was unfathomable when it was in a deep sleep state. An unfathomable life... How should we establish communication with him... Oh, it seems that talking to himself is a bit too much, so today's record ends here. "
"You were unfathomable when you were in void form?" Bingtis suddenly turned his head and glanced at this side, "No, I could see clearly when we were fighting, although you were a little dark, with The sense of presence is still relatively high.”
"Isn't this the same thing?" I was a little dumbfounded, "If there is no guess, the sleeping Void creature is actually in a 'return state', or a 'fugue state', in addition to being aware of its own existence , We are completely indistinguishable from the void, we are 100% integrated, and it is normal to not be able to observe it. Those "signs of activity" that my sister saw in her previous life should be nothing but world wreckage, and I was born from the inside of the world wreckage."
Bingtis nodded: "Oh, it's equivalent to your eggshell, right?"
Me: "..." I shouldn't have started with this female hooligan!
"I almost understand what you said about 'merging with the void', isn't it like throwing a slime into the water?"
Me: "..." This female hooligan is not finished yet!
Sandora had already filtered several worthless videos at this time, she waved to us: "Don't make trouble, it's time for Ah Jun to come out."
I once again: "..." In other words, why do I feel that the topic of this aspect is always getting weirder than the other
The image of my sister (previous life) appeared on the holographic projection again, and this time she seemed to have a happy expression on her face: "Everything went well, and I finally succeeded in establishing a dialogue with the void creature, but the other party took the initiative to find it: it seems that he noticed Arrived at the visit of the fleet. This is a new life full of curiosity. He asked a lot of things related to spaceships and Xiling apostles. It seemed that he was very surprised to see a free consciousness other than himself for the first time. The initial contact was very Well, the void creature is friendly, and as we expected—he has an instinctive distaste for the abyss, and an instinctive liking for orderly worlds. Now we're trying to figure out how to explain our plan to him, while making the void creature Understand what he should do. This last point seems to be a problem, the newborn void creature does not know what power he has... To be precise, he does not know what 'power' is, it is a willful and free will, in There is nothing on the void ladder that can restrain him, so he lives like this casually, sleeping for an indeterminate amount of time, I hope that this void creature can figure out how to open the screen before the time Fanna won runs out... ah… "
The elder sister on the video was interrupted in the middle of her speech, and what interrupted her was a black ball that suddenly jumped from the side of the screen. The ball looked a little bigger than a fist and was not very regular , looked like a slightly deformed ball of ooze, this weird "thing" suddenly jumped into the screen, and then circled around in mid-air and refused to leave. My sister (previous life) began to frantically try to drive away Ball, while quickly explaining: "By the way, the void creature created a 'body' for talking with material life, which is the ball in front of me... His curiosity seems to be a little too strong! He seems to have a lot of knowledge about us. The life of the body is very interesting, but he seems not very good at controlling his own entity, this ball has no facial features so far... Please don't make trouble, I'm recording something very important... Don't touch that button! Don't touch that panel! Don't touch that ...who will help drive him away?"
The black ball is still rushing back and forth on the screen, I even think he made a face at the camera, but my sister (previous life) who always gave a calm and serious impression was disturbed by this sudden rush Yuanqiu was at a loss for what to do, so the second half of this supposedly serious video directly turned into a farce, and finally ended in a frenzy.
Everyone stared dumbfounded at the hologram, and then I felt several eyes on me—the only reason I haven't dug a hole in this situation is that the ship is an antique, and I didn't bother to dig it...
"If my concubine's guess is correct..." Bingtis was the first to speak, and her interested eyes were like a small knife scraping back and forth on my body for several rounds, "The ball just now should be yours. Last life."
"So Ah Jun's void form in his previous life was a ball?" Even Sandora couldn't help joking, "Ah Jun, don't you always complain that your void form has no face? You don't have to complain now, do you?" —You didn’t even have arms and legs in your last life, but you’ve made progress in this life.”
"Can we not talk about this topic..."
I just said halfway, even my elder sister said: "Ah Jun was a brat in his previous life."
I wanted to cry without tears: "Sister, I won't bring you like this, wouldn't you be young at that time!"
After this video, there are several records, which are basically the communication between the Apostle Xiling and me in my previous life. There is no deviation in this aspect from the information we already have, and at the end of these records, there are countless changes. Major events of human destiny:
Void Creatures are expanded at the first level, and the top tower of the white equipment is suspended in seconds.
Sandora found a record of this incident in the back of the video file, but it was no longer a video, but a pure text record. The recorder was unknown, and the content was only a short paragraph:
"...the plan failed, and the void creatures couldn't resist the impact of that scale. Maybe the impact has been weakened, but I don't know if the parent star can survive... I'm not sure how long I can stay awake, but there may be a glimmer of hope for reincarnation. Work hard with this goal. The servant fleet has been disbanded, and I have switched the authority identification method of this ship to the second mode... Maybe 'she' has already calculated this point when she delivered this spaceship to me. The ship's authority identification library only needs a password to switch to the second mode, so I hope 'she' can also calculate what happened after the plan failed. In any case, our attempt failed, and I hope other plans are still in accordance with Expected trajectory to…”
The record ends here, there should be something behind, but I don't know if it's a database failure or something, anyway, it was erased.
The first noticeable thing we found was that there were only words, not images.
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be your sister who left these words," Bingtis looked at the Xilingwen filled with a lot of garbled characters, and nodded while saying, "I can only leave words, which means that at that time she It has lost its entity, this is the record left after your attempt to save the world, the people on this ship should have died in that accident.”
My sister couldn't help but hugged her arms. This topic made her feel uncomfortable: "Why do I feel that what happened today is so weird from beginning to end?"
"It's right to be weird," Bingtis waved his hand, "Who can be happy to see my last words back then."
Me: "..." I think the biggest mistake I made today was to bring this woman with me!
Looking at the final record in front of us, we all felt a little curiosity: At that time, my sister and everyone on the spaceship had "dead" under the impact of the abyss, and only our two souls were left (of course there were even weaker ones). , Fanna and Reki's soul fragments, that is, today's Qianqian and Lin Xue), and these words were obviously recorded in that situation, so what kind of state did we leave these "last words" at that time? Woolen cloth
Bingtis deserves to be very knowledgeable, and he even has a lot of ideas in this regard: "You should have temporarily formed a mixed spirit creature. You and your sister took turns sitting in the manor. Since you were still a fool at the time, the message on the spaceship It was left by your sister when she was awake. Another possibility is that the two of you are possessed in the host computer of the spaceship in the form of chaotic consciousness. Since you were a fool at the time, these messages were directly entered by your sister. From the database. Both guesses are possible, but no matter what, in the end the ship took your souls all the way through the void, and finally smashed a hole in the earth... Well, this is what happened before you died."
I finally couldn't bear this female hooligan with ten plus words, so I opened the portal of Shadow City, grabbed Bingtis's arm and threw her in...
"It's done, the world is quiet now," I let out a long breath, then looked at the message, trying to see more things from this short paragraph, and finally found some interesting things, "Sando Hey, sister, have you noticed that a 'she' is mentioned here, and it is said that this 'she' delivered the spaceship to the 15th sky zone... "
Before I could finish my sentence, I couldn't say any more, because a name flashed across my mind like lightning...
At this time, Sandora, who was operating the data terminal, suddenly made an unexpected voice: "Wait! There is a file here!"
"What?" I temporarily put aside the almost ubiquitous name in my mind, and curiously approached it.
"I don't know," Sandora shook her head while checking the document, "There is only a number, no date, no recorder, and no key code for query. It should have been stored at the bottom of the database, but I put After reading all the diaries left by your sister back then, it popped up by itself, as if it was executed automatically."
At this time, the mysterious file had started to play automatically. Sandora found that this old antique data terminal was out of control. It had completely turned into a fully automatic projection device. The chart and display accessories disappeared, replaced by an ordinary-looking girl with long black hair.
"Whoever reads this document, no matter who you are, hello," the black-haired girl said, "You can call me Xiling. This is a database equipped with a restrictive intelligent question-and-answer program. Questions provide you with limited information, I will first show some of the entries contained in the database, and the information you can obtain will be included in the subordinate entries. You will have ample opportunities to ask questions, but this database will judge you independently based on the way you ask Are you entitled to an answer."
The scene was so quiet that you could almost hear a needle drop.
The black-haired girl in front of me is different from every image of Xi Ling we have seen, but this is not important, because Xi Ling's appearance is inherently uncertain, as long as one can be sure now: the one in front of me is exactly the old Xi Ling. Xiling in the empire period!
It was a conjecture in my brain that I didn't have time to say a moment ago, but I got such a direct confirmation the next moment, which made me a little confused, and after I calmed down, countless questions came to my mind.
"Why is there something about her here..." I opened my mouth, and what I wanted to say the most was really this sentence.
Even my sister was a little bit emotional: "It seems that in the various self-help plans of the old empire, she has intervened a lot. Sandora's revenge army counts as one, and the Ark of Exile we discovered a few days ago counts as one. How can the 15-day area not With her... Isn't the concept of the fifteen-day zone split?"
My sister reminded us in one sentence: Isn’t the concept of the 15-day zone split? Hadn't Abyss Xiling been divided into another network before her sister set off to contact the void creatures? What about this ship and this image before us
Sandora frowned and didn't speak, she lowered her head and fiddled with the data terminal, and finally gave up after finding that she couldn't directly control the latter: "It's locked, the deepest layer of the database is indeed encrypted, and even the authority system doesn't recognize it... Something that violates the basic structure can only be created by that network consciousness."
"Can you answer our questions?" I looked up at her, remembering the image in front of me saying I was a database of intelligent responses, "Are you an advanced intelligence or a simple program?"
"Keywords detected, converted... to display database entries." The image in front of me said in an unchanging tone, and then a large list was refreshed under the image. At this moment, I could determine what the other party was: A simple program left by the Internet ghost is not an advanced thing like a shard of its consciousness, and it should have no thinking ability.
Sandora carefully observed the refreshed entries below, thoughtfully: "Based on the question-and-answer process to infer whether the questioner is a survivor of the empire? Is this your design purpose?"
"Entry 1741, Answer: Yes."
"Your designer gave up using the authority library to activate this program because she thought that the imperial authority system might have collapsed when you woke up, so this system cannot be trusted?"
"Key entry 9009, answer: yes."
"You have stored the delivery of the spaceship to the 15-day zone and the complete plan of the 15-day zone self-rescue plan. This record is actually prepared for survivors from other celestial zones or other self-rescue plans. The purpose is to let them Do you know where the remnants of the Fifteen Sky Zone might be located?"
"Final key item 9010, answer: yes. You can open the entire database, welcome to check it out."
Sandora breathed a sigh of relief, with a happy look on her face: "Sure enough, it is similar to what I guessed. The question-and-answer program is just a superficial cover. The real function is to confirm whether the questioner is a survivor of the empire during the question-and-answer process. Just come up with enough keywords, and the database opens up."
I also exhaled, and said to myself that fortunately I wasn't the one who asked the question just now, otherwise I don't know how long I would have to struggle with this program shell today... RS