Today is the second day that Abyss Xiling came to Shadow City.
Bingtis had already gone to God Realm yesterday, and sent Father God's reply through the God Realm-Shadow City special line. As expected, Father God was also very shocked by the news brought by Abyss Xiling. Obviously, even as profound as he was, there was something he couldn't figure out. He has also studied a lot of things related to the Void Cataclysm, but because he has not been able to access the key information from the other side, the research progress of the God Realm in this area is still far behind that of Abyss Xiling. Father God is already organizing a group of experts and scholars, and has forwarded the news to Huron. Now we are waiting for the reply from King Huron, and then the four families will gather—this will be the most special and memorable event in the history of the void. A cooperation between two major protoss, the Xiling Empire, and an Abyss Empire. No matter how you look at these four families, it seems that a strange guy has mixed in...
Because I was thinking about the matter of Abyss Xiling, I hurried to the research institute after dinner early this morning. Sandora was going to deal with some matters in the military department, so she didn't accompany her, but Lilina was going to the temple. Followed along the way, although I suspect that the latter's statement of "going to the temple for morning lessons" is completely nonsense, her real idea must be to visit the abyss Xiling...
I can clearly feel that the institute is busier than usual, and the atmosphere is more tense than usual. On the one hand, it may be that Tavel has increased the manpower of various project teams of the Deep Dive Project, and on the other hand, it should be from Abyss Xiling Arriving here made the staff here feel somewhat strange: Anyway, she is also the supreme commander of the Abyss area, even now that we know her true purpose, the "prestige" of Abyss Xiling is still spread far and wide, such an enemy The leader of the army suddenly came to the Shadow City as a guest, even if you put Sandora on it, it would be awkward.
I found Tavel (ontology) and Abyss Xiling in the large research room of the Deep Diving Project Department. These two seemed to get along fairly well. They were discussing technical matters next to a set of holographic equipment. Two assistant technicians are helping to operate the equipment and record things. Tavel is a standard scientific madman + imperial soldier. As long as she has orders from her superiors and research goals, she can devote herself to her work well. This is also one of the reasons why Sandora and I can safely entrust her with important tasks, and now looking at her devotion when arguing with Abyss Xiling about technical issues, it is obvious that she has almost forgotten the origin of the other party, and completely It is regarded as an academic opponent of the same level.
I held Lilina by my side to keep her from making trouble, and then went up to say hello to Tavel and Abyss Xiling: "Hey, what are you two doing?"
"I salute you." Tavel immediately returned the military salute, and Abyss Xiling looked at the little dwarf beside me curiously: "This doesn't seem to be the apostle of Xiling? Although it has the power of the star field gods, it doesn't seem to be it." Pure God... Is this also your researcher?"
"This pope is the empress of benevolence, benevolence, kindness, love, compassion, salvation, immortality and mortals in heaven and earth! The spokesperson of Ding Dang, the captain of the twelfth team of the fourth team of the third regiment of the Eternal Legion under the Goddess of the Star Realm God of Life, the shadow One of the top tens of thousands of masters in the city, Ke Luo Ke Yu Ke, a girl who can be a sister, a sister, and a wife, the leader of the ghost and animal team in the first family's bear child camp, has long occupied the armrest on the left side of the couch in front of the TV , Now it has occupied the Discovery Channel for two months, are you afraid... Hey boss, let go, I haven't finished yet, there are more than a dozen knights under the Pope who have not introduced... "
I took out a handful of snacks and stuffed them into the mouth of this snake spirit loli, and looked up at Abyss Xiling, with a somewhat embarrassed face: "Don't mind, she's always been so crazy and startled. This is Lilina, The people in my family are representatives of the God Realm when their minds are normal, she came here today to visit, just pretend she doesn't exist."
"Visit?" Abyss Xiling was taken aback for a while, "This is an irrelevant person... Are you just running around like this?"
"You have nothing to do with personnel!" Lilina swallowed the snacks hard, rolled her eyes while being choked, and jumped up trying to hit Abyss Xiling's stomach, "The Pope has worked hard in the empire... I can't remember how many years In short, you understand for yourself, how could this Pope be an irrelevant person! But you, this Pope uses the omnipotent conspiracy theory to look at it like this, and thinks that you have a conspiracy... "
I have long been used to people like Lilina going crazy, but Abyss Xiling was obviously seeing this kind of battle for the first time. She was dumbfounded for a moment, then turned to look at me curiously, and opened her mouth to babble: "Why are you Is there such a strange guy around? And your shadow city is also... I didn’t get in touch with it yesterday, so I didn’t notice it, but today I found that more than half of the residents here are not the apostles of Xiling. In my impression, the soldiers of the Empire are completely different. Armored scorpions are keen to paint abstract paintings on their carapaces, Xiling hosts are queuing up to buy desserts, and there are completely unnecessary things like vending machines in the military area... More outside the military area It’s a mess, why does the ruling center of the empire need things that can’t be understood at all? What’s the commercial street for?”
I glanced at Tavel, and the latter shrugged: "I didn't let her go out, my subordinates just showed her the promotional video of the Shadow City tour made by Mistress Qianqian, and then asked Xi Ling to chat with her for a while It's just that she seems to have a hard time accepting it."
"It's not hard to accept," Abyss Xiling immediately retorted with a stern face, "It's hard to understand. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and I don't have the position to guide your urban planning. I just don't understand what's the use of this status quo. .”
"Every fallen apostle who has just arrived has the same idea as you. Harlan and Zadom were more surprised than you at the time." I shrugged indifferently, "If I have to say... This is the imperial route I chose, I think it It should be developed like this, so I slowly built it like this, and it seems that everyone is very satisfied with this status quo. This has not affected my empire efficiency, and the imperial soldiers are also used to this kind of life, and the following families and the macro world They are all very satisfied—isn't this better than your lifeless abyss area?"
Abyss Xiling thought for a while, and finally shook his head with a straight face: "I can't understand, I can't calculate, I don't see how this will help the empire, probably it has something to do with you not being a pure Xiling apostle... But since your new The empire is developing well, so maybe your route makes some sense. Anyway, it has nothing to do with me, and there are no other races in the abyss."
While I was talking to Abyss Xiling, Lilina had sneaked up to the latter's big box while no one was paying attention, and began to pick it up curiously, and then I suddenly saw the image of Abyss Xiling suddenly turned blue Wow, Lilina immediately bluffed: "Wow! Boss, look, this projection mode is the same as the equipment on our spaceship! The usage is the same!"
A strange look appeared on Abyss Xiling's face, which was never disturbed: "Can't she calm down?"
With a wry smile, I stepped forward and grabbed Lilina by the collar to lift her up. The latter danced and kicked in mid-air: "Boss, put me down! Don't force me, I will be contagious when I go crazy! It will infect you." Don't be afraid..."
After throwing this guy into the basket, the world finally became peaceful, and the strange look on Abyss Xiling's face became more and more obvious: "I don't know how to describe it, but she seems to have a kind of hostility towards me... I'm not sure about my judgment Inaccurate, after all, the collective consciousness does not understand the way of thinking of creatures in the real world."
"She is hostile to all strangers. Let's not talk about this for a while, how is your communication with Tavel going?"
Tavel took the initiative to step forward and said: "Your Majesty, your subordinates have sorted out the previous data stored in this device and all the information brought by Abyss Xiling, and are now comparing these data with our own research data. At present The comparison results corresponded exactly."
"That is to say, the information she brought is true?"
Talking about the technical field, the expression on Tavel's face was extremely serious, and he spoke meticulously: "It seems so at the moment, but before getting all the information, the subordinates cannot make any conclusions about the Void Cataclysm. Theoretically, it is so."
"I also inquired about some things from Xiaoxue... I'll talk about that later. How about the wreckage I brought back?"
"The main body of the wreckage is still in Ganaku, and only a part of the wreckage is currently undergoing routine inspection," Tavel nodded. "According to the current analysis results, those wreckages did come from the opposite bank. They lack many key properties, not without them, Rather, it is unmeasurable, which is the characteristic of the material on the other side."
I looked at the holographic device next to Tavel, and what was displayed on the projection was a black material fragment, which should be what I brought back. Looking at the strangely shaped fragments, I suddenly had an idea: "What if these fragments were put together?"
Abyss Xiling shook his head: "It's useless, we can't restore the spaceship from the other side, even if we can understand it technically, we can't make the missing key components of the spaceship: using materials from 'this side' won't work."
"Of course I didn't intend to fix this thing - it's all broken like scum, who expects it to be able to open," I said with my shoulders in my arms, "I just want to see what this thing looks like, by the way Can you figure out the general structure of the spacecraft, maybe it can provide some inspiration for the deep diving equipment we make."
"Whatever, anyway, it really won't waste any time, but I don't think your attempt is worthwhile." Abyss Xiling seemed not very interested in this topic, "I thought so too at the beginning, and I tried to recover three points One of them, but they gave up after finding out that there was no benefit in doing so. Their deep dive protection technology has some reference value, but the spaceship structure is completely meaningless, and we can't use it. Of course, if this is your personal interest, there is no way .”
"Tavier, please arrange some people to put these pieces together," I looked at the glasses girl next to me, "Don't take it as an important task, just don't delay the business."
Then I learned about the progress of the deep dive project and the deep dive project on Abyss Xiling, and the results were basically as expected: regardless of the new empire or the abyss area, the deep dive research conducted was based on the fragments of the old empire On the basis of this article, although Abyss Xiling's memory bank has a lot of materials left over from the old empire, she was severely injured in the disaster that year after all, and a lot of these materials were damaged, so her various projects were carried out. It didn't go well either. On the other hand, on the side of the New Empire, we have less basic information, but we have obtained the prototype ship of the deep submersible ship. Although the spaceship was damaged in an accident, Tavel still learned as much as possible from it before then. Enough technology has been dug out, so the New Empire, which is seriously dated in various technologies, can only keep pace with the abyss area in terms of deep diving technology.
Generally speaking, the deep-diving research in the New Empire and the Abyssal Area is about the same. No one can break through the peak technology of the old Empire era, but it is probably due to the so-called luck. The most critical things floating from the other side are all Falling into the hands of Abyss Xiling, she is far ahead of us in terms of intelligence.
However, there should be a reason for this situation: the old empire responded to the call from the other side, and the other side did not know what happened here after that, so they should still be based on the fuzzy coordinates they had mastered back then. "This side" sent things, and Abyss Xiling occupied the remnant territory after the fall of the old empire, so it was only natural that she could receive those things. In this way, the "Black Shuttle" found in the territory of the New Empire and the Protoss is actually an unexpected harvest.
If I didn't guess wrong, those black shuttles were actually detectors that went the wrong way.
Tavel and Abyss Xiling discussed some technical issues for a long time, and I couldn't intervene in the middle. I only knew that they were comparing the deep diving technology of the two camps, and at the same time looking for an "entry point" for the next step of cooperation. After all, the New Empire and the Abyss have been isolated, and the deep-diving technologies of the two sides have developed independently without interfering with each other. Now they have become two completely independent systems, and the two sides have to work on this cutting-edge technology. Of course, it is impossible for cooperation to simply produce a bunch of experts, and then just pile up all the materials together. It is necessary to make far-sighted planning in advance to avoid wasting time and energy—well, I am just not good at this kind of far-sightedness...
"Your deep dive ship is already very mature in technology, at least the direction is right, as long as you continue to improve, you can naturally manufacture more advanced large ships," said Abyss Xiling after seeing the new empire's deep dive ship Affirmed—Of course, what she saw was only the basic structure, and the technical details will not be disclosed until later, "Now your problem is that you don't have a good 'adaptability' to the abyss environment, and you can only rely on hard resistance to improve the spaceship's performance." Endurance, once the protection system shuts down, the spaceship itself will be destroyed instantly."
I finally understood this sentence, so I quickly expressed my opinion: "I know, this is equivalent to wearing an invulnerable armor on the outside, but the body inside is deficient in vitamins from A to Z..."
Abyss Xiling looked at me silently: "Your metaphors are always accurate...but always very strange."
Lilina and I stayed in the research center for a while, after getting a general understanding of Tavel's work progress and the status of the wreckage and materials brought by Abyss Xiling, there was nothing to do, so I was about to leave. But before I left, I suddenly remembered something, so I asked Abyss Xiling casually: "Let me ask you, you were the one who protected the Avengers back then?"
"That's right," Abyss Xiling nodded, "Although the later 'return method' was a bit unexpected, this plan is basically the most successful one among the self-rescue plans I personally formulated."
"The abyss infected by Sandora, do you know?" I recalled the strange infection state on Sandora, "She seems to be infected by the inert abyss, but the inertia is not the second, mainly because of her current The state is a bit weird... "
Originally, I just asked casually. I didn't expect that Abyss Xiling would have any answers. After all, planning a plan that spans tens of thousands of years and is almost entirely based on luck is enough to defy the sky. I didn't expect Abyss Xiling to be able to Back then, he included uncontrollable factors such as "the abyss" into his plan, but he didn't expect her eyes to suddenly become serious: "Her state is weird? Tell me about it."
As soon as I saw the expression on Abyss Xiling's face, I knew that this matter was not simple, so I hurriedly held Lilina, who was already a little restless, to calm down the girl, and then put the weird "unpurified" state on Sandora's body back to the original Tell Abyss Xiling.
"... In short, it's the situation I'm talking about. The infection on her body is completely different from other people's. It hasn't weakened after being by my side for so many years, and there is no sign of changing its nature."
Abyss Xiling frowned: "Are you sure it's different from others? Maybe it's just a small change?"
"Sure," I nodded vigorously, "there are many examples of infected people on the New Empire side, counting the entire Abyss Independence Group that Harlan brought over, I can easily pull out millions of cases with different symptoms for you." In this case, there is absolutely no wrong judgment in this regard.”
"That seems to be exactly what I guessed," Abyss Xiling pondered, "Actually, I didn't expect it to be successful. After all, I didn't know about bridges and void structures back then. At that time, even the Inert Abyss was just It's just a guess..."
I was impatient: "What's going on?"
"To put it simply, the world where the Vengeance Army was 'safely isolated' was special. I knew there was an abyss there, and I knew it was a relatively 'safe' abyss," explained Abyss Xiling. In the last few hours before, there was a telemetry detection station that discovered the abyss phenomenon in that world, but at that time I had already detected anomalies in the core of the test site, and realized that a disaster was about to erupt, so within those few hours I quickly Make a plan carefully, which is to temporarily conceal the alarm signal from the telemetry station and isolate the revenge army. As for the subsequent launch of the ark and other things, they are all slowly completed after the big shock begins—you should know this, the collapse of the empire It has lasted for hundreds of years, and it was not completed in an instant."
I nodded and signaled Abyss Xiling to continue.
And Abyss Xiling first asked me a question: "Actually, there are many imperial expeditionary troops fighting outside. In addition to the revenge army, there are several armies that were not in the empire area at that time. Do you know why I chose the revenge army as the ' Tinder'?" RS