"Hehe, your welcome ceremony is quite grand."
Seeing the outer space scene displayed on the holographic screen, Abyss Xiling said in an indifferent attitude, "It's just dealing with a communicator, so why go to war?"
The garrison troops in the deep dive port have all assembled above the gate of the abyss, and the main guns of all the warships are locked on the deep dive ship that is slowly floating out of the gate of the abyss. You can imagine this scene standing in the middle of the square. Unlucky, and a circle of anti-tank guns lined up around the square-basically that's the rhythm.
I didn't expect Sandora's battle to be so large, but after hearing Abyss Xiling's words, I couldn't help but mutter: "After all, it's you, and the circle of main guns outside means that you are The weight in the eyes of the new empire."
"Should I be proud of the number of these main guns?" Abyss Xiling glanced at me with a half-smile.
Under the guidance of the navigation signal and the "welcome" of countless main guns, the deep-submersible ship approached the star port, and then was firmly locked by the fixed force field of the port. The broadcast of the shipboard main engine came from the hangar, informing that all channels had been closed. Turning on, I looked at Abyss Xiling: "Can you walk by yourself? Do you want me to push this big box to send you out?"
"Although I really want to nod, but you definitely don't want to," Abyss Xiling shrugged, and then the black metal box beside her slowly floated up. The box rose about ten centimeters high, and at the same time, a A handle with a simple shape, and then I watched Abyss Xiling push his box forward, "Fortunately, a small function was designed at that time, and basic movement is still possible."
I was dumbfounded: "..."
Now I can understand why Abyss Xiling said that she "can't move" and asked us to help "move" her into the deep diving boat. I dare to say that the movement method of this black box is so high-end—it turns out to be a small manual stepless speed changer. Cart!
I don't know what the expression on my face was when I got out of the deep diving boat. Anyway, it must be very stiff. The guy next to me doesn't play cards according to the routine!
Sandora, Harlan, and a large group of port guards were already guarding the exit of the connecting passage. As soon as the passage door opened, I first smiled at them as normal as possible: I can't let others see that I have been manipulated by the abyss Xiling The three views are unstable.
Sandora and Harlan took two steps to come to me. Their eyes coincided with the black box. Sandora looked curious: "This box is... Abyss Xiling?"
"I'm here," Abyss Xiling turned around from behind the box, "I should have pulled the box out just now, so that you can see me first, well, this is an area that needs improvement."
Leaving aside the astonishment on Sandora's face, the moment Harlan saw Abyss Xiling, the expression on Harlan's face was richer than anyone else's. He looked at his former boss, opened his mouth for a long time before finally uttering a sentence The words came: "Are you here?"
"Yes, I'm here."
"You shouldn't have come."
"But I've come..."
Before the two of them finished talking, I quickly interrupted with a sentence: "Stop, stop! The style of writing is wrong, the style of writing is wrong..."
Abyss Xiling glanced at me inexplicably, but she didn't feel that the conversation just now had any sense of sight, and then she looked Harlan up and down: "Well, it seems that you have a good life here, although at the beginning I According to the calculation, your chance of survival is indeed not low, but I didn't expect you to survive so smoothly."
"Sure enough, it's all calculated by you," Harlan looked at Abyss Xiling with burning eyes. He and his entire legion were directly "sold" by Abyss Xiling to the New Empire. The uncle didn't say anything , but seeing the former boss who sold himself decisively again, he must have been filled with emotion, and this time he finally had the opportunity to ask some things face to face, "Actually, there is something I have never thought about... you talk directly to the void creature Sometimes you need to give up some nodes as a buffer, which is not a problem, but you can give up some insignificant nodes, such as a group of war puppets. The big warlords who have been organized... This price is a bit unbelievable to me. Even if I occasionally resist your orders, it is not so annoying. You must know that I left the Abyss with a complete industrial production chain. Is this also what you calculated?"
"Everything is being calculated," Abyss Xiling nodded, and then looked around, "The atmosphere here is not very good, and now is not the time to talk about these details, I want to find a place where I can talk about things quietly, Shando La, I think you should be ready?"
"Of course," Sandora didn't say much, before turning her head and walking towards the higher-level control area of Starport, "I've prepared the living room—for now, I'll treat you as a visitor for the time being."
I took advantage of this moment to secretly touch Harlan's arm: "How does it feel to meet your former boss?"
"It's very complicated," Harlan's voice sounded tangled, "Actually, I've never seen her before, and you know that 'that lord' never showed up when he was in the camp of the fallen apostles. For us, it is basically equivalent to an order that appears on the Internet at any time and must be executed. It has always been an abstract symbol. Now that I see a real person, I have no way to connect her with 'that adult'. How does it feel? How strange do you think?"
"It's understandable," I twitched my lips. "Five years ago, the 'alien' in my mind was just a symbol. Look at how specific these three words have become to me now."
As usual, Harlan couldn't keep up with my speaking rhythm again, so he could only start another topic. He looked at Abyss Xiling walking beside Sandora, and the big box dragged by Abyss Xiling: "This box What is it?"
"I don't know either. It's probably her body. She said it's a communicator made with some new technology. It's probably because of this box that she can talk to me directly without worrying about being purified by the power of the void."
The four of us (Abyss Xiling can be considered a "person", right?) soon came to the "reception room" prepared by Sandora. This is a small room located in the control center of Starport. The style of the room is simple and there are no furnishings. , and has already made special "arrangements", Abyss Xiling discovered the special features of this room as soon as he came in: "There are quite a lot of monitors in this place, are you still worried that I will pollute your network?"
Sandora sat down at the only round table in the center of the room, and looked at Abyss Xiling with a smile on her face: "Yes, we just don't trust you. With the current camp relationship, this shouldn't be too much."
Abyss Xiling sat across from us, with her big box beside her. The expression on her face has not changed from the beginning to the end, always with a kind of indifferent smile, even if Sandora said so bluntly The words didn't make her show the slightest emotion: "I know, but at least I can assure you of one thing: everything I said here today is 100% true, and you don't have to worry about any loss. Now I want to To confirm a few things, you can answer them or not, but you should not have to hide these questions. First: How much do you know about the Void Cataclysm?"
Sandora and I looked at each other, and felt that there was really no need to hide this question. Abyss Xiling probably knew no less about the Void Cataclysm than the Empire, so I coughed dryly: "Just started, it can be said that it is still a head A foggy state. We can only be sure that there was such a thing and what happened after it happened, but the cause of it is completely unknown."
"Well, it's as I expected. Then the second point: Do you have any more stable contact methods with the civilization on the other side?"
"Not at all," Sandora took the initiative to speak this time, "It seems that you are also trying to solve this problem?"
"Indeed," Abyss Xiling nodded happily and admitted, "We are looking for a way to establish a stable connection with the other side, and there is no progress yet, but I think it is at least a little deeper than your research: I have an old empire in my hand. Some data, and something floating over from the other side... well, you've now seen the largest pile of wreckage of all. And the third and final question: if there is a way to permanently reduce the abyss phenomenon in the void Are you interested in the frequency and harmfulness of it?"
Sandora's eyes narrowed all of a sudden: "This is what you said you want to cooperate with?"
The smile of Abyss Xiling seemed to be brighter: "Yes, after completing my great cause, the order in the void will be improved as a whole. This is a very attractive bargaining chip for you. I am here today to talk about this. Okay Yes, I have probably learned some real-world negotiation rules. I should show my sincerity to you before formally discussing things, so now is your time to ask questions. If you want to know about the great cause and bridge building, just Ask. Of course, some other things are also fine, anyway, the plan has reached this stage, and there are not many things I need to hide from you."
Until now, I still feel that the sudden appearance of Abyss Xiling is a little unreal, and I also think her actions are too abrupt, but anyway, the other party sitting here is a fait accompli, so I might as well take this opportunity to learn more about her plan. I sorted out my thoughts and tried to find a breakthrough to open up the topic, but when I really wanted to do this, I found that I couldn’t open my mouth: tons of questions piled up, and I didn’t even know what to ask. Where should I ask!
Abyss Xiling glanced at this side with a half-smile: "Feeling unable to speak? In fact, I also feel a little bit like this. There are too many things to say and I don't know what to say... Well, just follow my rhythm Explain everything, starting from the beginning of everything. Sandora? Kelvi? Ulasses, do you know what is the beginning of the collapse of the empire at the end of the empire?"
Sandora frowned: "You mean those X projects that conduct research on the nature of the void?"
"Although that wasn't the beginning of everything, but if you want to understand everything, it's really faster to start from then on," Abyss Xiling let out a very humane breath, as if she, as a projection, also needs to breathe , "Project X was really just some hot-headed research activities at the beginning: the law of void operation, artificial control and even manufacturing void, trying to build equipment that can directly use void as energy, and even inventing experimental devices that do not consider the laws of reality at all , most of the projects in the entire X plan are indeed such hot-headed ideas, and no matter which one succeeds, it is enough to advance history, but even the experiment that eventually led to the collapse of the empire is not really a big deal to me—at least It doesn't carry enough weight compared to what I'm about to say."
I noticed that the eyes of Harlan and Sandora have changed. Apparently, the statement "the accident that led to the collapse of the empire is not a major event" is full of impact. Abyss Xiling successfully mobilized everyone on the scene curiosity.
"Among the many projects that Project X is in full swing, 'Deep Dive' was only the most inconspicuous one at first," Abyss Xiling paused before continuing, "Compared to the research on the origin of the void, throwing a few into the gate of the abyss Probes or driving a spacecraft in a circle is obviously not enough impact, but there is one researcher who is obsessed with it, and that is Occam."
He is one of the best researchers in the old empire, and he is specialized in studying the abyss... well, we can talk about these introductions later, in short, he designed and built the first deep diving ship, and it took a long time To perfect it, it was also the first time he sailed a boat close to the critical surface of the bottom of the abyss, confirming the existence of the 'civilization on the other side'. "
But his research didn’t last, and you know exactly what happened: the unlucky Occam happened to meet the rampant Legion of Destruction, the only deep dive ship was destroyed by the Legion of Destruction, and until the empire collapsed, Occam Tom couldn't rebuild it. "
The Deep Diving Project was suspended, and soon the attention of most researchers was attracted by other more seductive things: at that time, a research on the void had just made a breakthrough, and many people believed that this would make the empire The power is advancing by leaps and bounds, but the civilization detected at the bottom of the abyss was quickly ignored... It can't be said that no one paid attention to it. Occam is still following up on this project, but no matter what, until the day of the accident. Couldn't go any further. "
"After that, there was a catastrophe. The attempt to artificially create a void failed, and the abyss began to sweep across the empire area. You should know a lot about this, so I don't need to go into details. What needs to be mentioned is some self-help at the end of the empire. At present, it seems that few of these plans are successful. What really work is the concept of splitting the 15-day zone and the vengeance army fire that I kept—you seem to have found out the connection between these things and me. I talked to the new emperor about the Vengeance Army when I was on the deep dive ship."
Sandora showed a slight smile: "In any case, I would like to thank you at this time. If it weren't for your protection at the beginning, I should be the same as those polluters in the abyss area now."
"I'm just following the highest principle of 'Empire interests first'," Abyss Xiling waved his hand indifferently, "In short, I helped the Vengeance Army when the disaster came, and the concept of the fifteen-day zone was split I rushed over to help before I was done, so far it seems that only these two things are the most successful. After finishing everything, I curled up in the network again. At that time, I thought that there was nothing to do anyway, so I just resigned myself to death Well, but then the first thing happened that I didn't expect..."
I rubbed my chin: "If I'm not wrong, I have to be pulled out and flogged the corpse once when I was killed when I drove the Dayue Tower."
Abyss Xiling smiled: "Don't say that, from the final result, you did save a lot of people - although more than half of them survived and became polluters. In short, the power of void creatures has crossed the barrier of concept separation, although it cannot be measured. However, the pollution in the abyss area was neutralized to a certain extent, and the infected apostles survived, turning from a doomed fate to a deep sleep. As a network consciousness, after all my subordinate nodes fell into a deep sleep, I naturally also fell asleep. Then I entered a state of suspended animation. This hibernation lasted for about 70,000 years. From time to time, some sleeping polluters woke up and had limited activities for a few years, and I would wake up accordingly. There are probably dozens of times in the past... 70,000 years, dozens of times, just being sober and thinking intermittently, I finally had the opportunity to sort out what happened, and repair my own functions bit by bit. In this self-healing process, I found an unexpected situation: I was somewhat unshackled from the grassroots agreement."
"Then you go from being a network maintainer to being a super administrator," of course I knew what was going on, "and you bypassed a small part of the protocol to establish control over the 'nodes'."
"I planned something similar after the disaster and before the deep sleep began, but I had given up hope in this regard at the time, but I didn't expect it to succeed by chance in the end," Abyss Xiling nodded , "You are right, I became the ruler of the abyss in this way, I established my own control system before all the nodes awakened, and began to look for the next target of action: I am a network consciousness, I There has to be a mission objective to make it work, and that objective is easy to pin down: The empire is broken, so I'm going to revive it."
Sandora and I said in unison: "Even if we stand in the abyss camp?"
"Yes, even if I stand in the abyss camp," the black-haired girl nodded indifferently, "I said it before, I don't have the concept of camp, any camp is the same to me, the empire is the empire, in order to rebuild it, you need to follow It doesn't matter who is the enemy, as long as the Empire can stand up again, I will declare war on everything."
"Declaration of war on everything, you are right," Sandora couldn't help clapping her hands, "I can understand your thoughts, so go on, I haven't found out what this has to do with your great cause and bridging What about the relationship, and what happened to the civilization on the other side?"
"We know that there is a civilization on the other side of the abyss, and the other side also knows it, and it is earlier than we know it," Abyss Xiling said slowly, "Not long after I woke up and just decided to rebuild the empire, a ship came from the other side. The ship... To be precise, it is the wreck of a ship, the pile of things you just brought up. In these wrecks, I see the hope that the empire will rise and never decline." RS