The Shadow City Research Center is a building with a strange spatial structure. Most of its areas are connected with space distortion devices. This building, which looks like only a few buildings, actually has an unimaginably vast space inside. The most important The laboratory, the sample storage and the data center are all set in encrypted different dimensions. The connection point between these independent spaces and the research center may be a door opened in mid-air, or a wall marked with numbers, It may even be just a few specific floors. As long as you walk over with the transmission code, you will come to a strange and unpredictable hyperspace laboratory.
This magical multi-layer space structure was designed by Tavel himself. One of the purposes is to allow those large-scale projects to be completed in the research center. The second purpose is for safety. We are familiar with the projects carried out by imperial scientists. No firearms, no military laboratories set up in a different space, I'm really worried that they will blow up Shadow City sometime...
Those different-dimensional spaces that have no specific function and simply use a vast and stable spatial structure as an experimental site are called "crack laboratories". There are nearly a hundred such crack laboratories, and Tavel built it based on the data submitted by Abyss Xiling The various facilities raised up and the pair of wrecks we dragged back are in the No. 1 crack laboratory. At the same time, this laboratory is also the basic laboratory of the "Bridge Project" and is mounted on the name of the "Deep Diving Project Department". Next, Tavel will be in charge of it personally, and Sandora will personally supervise it.
The dark but not pitch-black chaotic space is boundless, and it is impossible to judge the scale of this different space by sight. In the center of the No. 1 crack laboratory, there is a moon-sized luminous body. It can also act as a source of gravity and an operating platform in specific project requirements. A series of facilities are running on the low-level orbit of this man-made celestial body, including a large experimental space station, an open operating port, and of course residential areas and factories: some projects may take a long time, and even one-time operation It will take several months or even a year. During this process, the researchers are basically unwilling to leave the experimental site too far, so there are even living facilities here.
Between these orbital facilities, you can see small spaceships shuttling fast, some transporting goods, some carrying people, and the rest are basically unmanned special autonomous machines: autonomous machines in the form of spaceships are basically It can only be used in scientific research projects. Running around in a spaceship in the laboratory "room", I am afraid that this kind of scene can only be seen in the imperial facilities. Those crazy scientists really made everything extraordinary.
The observation hall of the orbital station is located on the top floor of this high-rise building. Except for one closed silver-white alloy wall, the other three sides are open structures. The transparent energy barrier isolates the inside and outside of the hall, like three super huge Floor-to-ceiling windows, we stood behind the "floor-to-ceiling windows" and watched the blue arc of light burst out from the surface of the "Silver Moon" from time to time. Father God was a little bit emotional: "You are already testing the new shield energy source. You have traveled much farther than the Protoss."
"After all, it started 70,000 years ago," I said as I glanced at the woman beside me. She had black hair and black pupils, a thin body, and a gentle but indifferent smile on her face. Beautiful but always has a sense of alienation. Beside her is a large black box like a wardrobe. The red light flow on the surface of the box keeps wandering. "The data you provided seems to be all right. Tavel has put the third The first-generation deep dive shield generator has been created, but the energy consumption is too high and needs to be solved.”
"Take your time, there is still time," Abyss Xiling maintained an eternal smile, but his eyes fell on Father God and King Huron curiously, "I didn't expect you two to come together, as far as I know You have been in a state of chasing and fleeing for a long time."
Father God's face was a little embarrassed: "How do you even know this..."
"Don't be bound by inertial thinking, the spirit of the abyss was not produced after the collapse of the empire," the black-haired girl said indifferently, "I am in the same line as the one 70,000 years ago."
I took another look at the proving ground below, then looked back from the "space", and led everyone back to the long silver-white alloy table in the center of the observation hall. The cataclysm and the bridging have been recounted, now Xing Chen and Sister Sheila should have smoothed things out, right?"
There were not many people at the long table. In addition to Xingchen, Sheila, Abyss Xiling and me, there were Sandora and Harlan present. In addition, Tavel, as the person in charge of the entire project, was also there, and he was present, sitting on the table. Across the table.
Just now Abyss Xiling repeated what she had learned about the Void Cataclysm in front of Xingchen and Sheila, and explained clearly some things that Bingtis did not convey in place.
"The new model of the void is very interesting." In this situation, Sheila, who has always seemed a bit carefree, was unexpectedly calm. Like a professional researcher, she became very interested in the void conjecture of Abyss Xiling. "About It will take a long time to discuss whether it is like a membrane in nature, but as far as it is concerned, it is indeed closer to the truth than previous conjectures. Then the creation of the world of order will cause the "deformation" of this membrane, and the abyss and the great The cataclysm is the zeroing of different intensities adopted by this membrane in order to restore the level. Building a bridge on the membrane so that the order worlds on both sides can communicate with each other can alleviate the imbalance and make the catastrophe no longer excessive... All conjectures seem to be It makes sense, and I personally agree with it.”
"How detailed is the information you got from the other side?" Xingchen glanced at Abyss Xiling, "Can you show me?"
"Of course," Abyss Xiling took out a scroll that had already been translated and handed it to Father God, "the technical aspects have been omitted, so you must not have paid attention to that."
Xingchen and Sheila began to analyze the contents of the scroll, while Harlan, Sandora and I waited quietly. We have read these materials in advance, of course we know their contents, but just like the information we found from Hesuo and the calls I occasionally "heard" from the other side, these materials are fragmented, with many ambiguous semantics, the abyss Xiling may know more than the New Empire, but she is far from being able to communicate with the civilization on the other side.
"According to these materials, they are not the first to propose the 'bridge building' plan of the civilization on the other side," Sheila raised her eyes, "There are currently two super civilizations on the other side, but they can be sure that they are not the 'first generation'. Before them, there were other people who came into contact with the truth of the void, and the will to 'build a bridge' circulated in this generation of super civilizations, and each generation tried to build a bridge, but basically failed."
Abyss Xiling nodded: "The other side is obviously stronger than our side in terms of 'inheritance'. Although their super civilization is not as long-lasting as ours, they can pass on the will of building bridges from generation to generation. There are many races in the middle that seem to be Naturally died out during the bridge-building process or simply became extinct due to experimental failures, but the project has not stopped changing hands several times."
"Admirable," even Father God couldn't help giving a thumbs up... well, to show his respect, and then he returned the scroll to Abyss Xiling, "Bridge building needs to be implemented by both sides, so the other side has never been successful?"
"Yes. According to the intermittent information sent from the other side, the original 'bridge' requirement did not mention that both sides need to be opened at the same time. The bridge can be stabilized, and those previous failed bridging attempts are likely the result of separate work."
"That is to say, in order to ensure the success of the bridge, the first step must be to ensure smooth communication with the opposite bank," Harlan cut to the point in one sentence, "Otherwise, even the synchronous activation of the starting end will not be possible, and the 'bridge' will soon be activated. It may crash when the other end is unable to respond for a long time. In addition, it must be considered that the start-up ends manufactured on both sides of the strait will definitely use different technologies and 'materials'. Compatibility and mutual translation in this regard are also important issues. Now according to our My guess is that in order to establish a stable connection with the opposite bank, at least one needs to "dive" to the critical zone at the bottom of the abyss, and build a long-lived thing like a relay station there to transmit the signal. This is another technical difficulty. It’s impossible to dive to that depth, let alone set up a relay station.”
Harlan is worthy of being an expert in this field, and has basically considered everything needed for the project.
The holographic device on the long alloy table projected the deep diving ship currently used by the empire, as well as the structure of the deep diving ship and the current limit parameters. I looked at this thing with some fascination, but I didn’t know how to improve it. : Even an expert like Tavel is troubled by this problem, and a layman like himself should never even try to help. I'm just wondering: when will this ship go down to the critical level
That sounds out of reach.
In the traditional abyss-void model, we believe that the lair of the power of the abyss lies below the gate of the abyss, a distorted and chaotic area completely filled with "things" called the abyss, and according to the fact that the "opposite shore" exists, the abyss The bottom of the gate is regarded as a vast but limited isolation zone. This isolation has a layered structure. The abyss aura will increase sharply from the surface down. When it reaches the bottom layer, the abyss aura will be strong to the limit. But the process will be reversed, the pollution will be weakened, and the chaos will subside, just like two gradient belts that are mirror images of each other. In this model, the region where the abyss structure "inverts" is the critical layer.
In the new model proposed by Abyss Xiling, everything is actually the same, the only difference is that Abyss Xiling denies the nature of "Abyss" as a definite "thing", and the new model believes that Abyss is not a clear "thing". ", but just a general term for a series of processes, and there is no lair under the gate of the abyss, but a special "structure" in the void, but this structure is just located in the origin zone of the void zeroing reaction, so it has a strong abyssal sex. Apart from this difference, the description of the "critical layer" is the same in both models.
The strongest deep-diving ships of the old empire only managed to get close to the critical layer but failed to reach that area, not to mention the deep-diving equipment made by the new empire: I'm afraid they can't even reach half of the limit depth.
Sheila rolled her eyes, looked at the deep diving ship in front of her and at the abyss Xiling, and suddenly thought about it: "I don't know if you will use Huron's technology..."
"You guys also have deep diving boats?" Xing Chen looked at the other party in surprise, "Why haven't you heard about it?"
"It's not a deep dive ship, it's a node set up under the gate of the abyss." Sheila took out a crystal prism from her body. The prism was only the size of a palm and emitted a soft milky white light. "We never thought about what would be at the bottom of the abyss." It's worth exploring, but in order to monitor the movement of the abyss gate and try to collect the outbreak rules, we are currently building a node that can run in the abyss environment for a long time, it can continuously provide clean energy in heavily polluted areas, because It is not used for extreme detection, so the absolute protection of these nodes may be weaker than your deep diving equipment, but the endurance of the power core is absolutely trustworthy."
Xingchen took the crystal prism, put it together with a translation scroll, and covered it with a set of energy runes, which was obviously decoding the data: it turned out that the "prism" was something similar to a memory, The technology trees of the three major gods are really different.
After a while, the decoding was completed. Xing Chen copied a few scrolls and handed them over. Sandora, Tavier, Abyss Xiling and Haran each had a copy. Of course, I also have a copy, but if you understand it or not, let’s talk about it...
"Very valuable stuff!" Tavel showed an excited expression just after glancing at the content on the scroll. This great scientist who has always been known for his calmness showed such an expression. The weight of the information in the scroll can be imagined "If these parameters are accurate and the conversion process is correct, it can solve the problem of unstable power of deep-diving ships and easy pollution of energy sources!"
Harlan didn't speak, but he also smiled when he looked at the scroll, and nodded while looking at it. Obviously, this information is of great value. Abyss Xiling looked at the scroll with a thoughtful expression, as if analyzing whether his deep diving equipment could also use these things.
Father God has read the data in the scroll (of course, this is not all the data of the nodes made by the Huron Protoss, there are only some key data, and it is very fast to browse through), he smiled: "In this case, the star field is There is also some experience in "propulsion". The children have recently researched a method for stabilizing information drift in the abyss environment, which can make deep-diving navigation more stable and faster-and it will be easier to disengage in case of emergency. "
"We need to set up a joint working group." Harlan tapped his finger on the table, as if to make a final decision, "Huron, the star field, the empire, and the abyss area all have their own views on the 'dive' field, but The progress is not deep enough, and if they are combined, it will have a huge effect. In addition, I initially suggest that the joint laboratory be placed on the empire's side: at present, it seems that the largest and most advanced deep diving port is here."
No matter in terms of comprehensive strength or cutting-edge technology, the empire is always weaker than the star field. After all, the other party's family background and development history are there, while the new empire is not only relatively young, but also experienced a decline in family fortune. It's normal to fall behind. But only in terms of deep diving technology, the New Empire seems to be ahead of many people: the star field is advanced and powerful, but their focus has not been on deep diving projects for a long time, and the research method of the abyss is not like "diving" The rough way, the situation on Huron's side is similar, but the two major protoss fell behind this time.
Perhaps only Abyss Xiling's deep diving technology is better than ours, but it's a pity that the abyss area is in a mess now. The new army has dealt a heavy blow to this "former big devil", and half of her research facilities are down. In the hands of others, it is now an embarrassing state of having no technology but not many resources available.
The joint research was a consensus reached by everyone long ago, and Harlan's proposal was also reasonable, so the two god kings and the commander of the abyss area did not express any objection. In the end, Sheila only had one question: "Run from us to your side It’s not an easy trip.”
"Can you send the key personnel here?" I looked into the other person's eyes and asked expectantly.
"Oh, of course there is no problem with personnel," Sister Sheila waved her hand, "I mean that large-scale facilities cannot be transported: manufacturing nodes and prototypes need an industrial foundation, otherwise I just bring the blueprints and you can't make it. There is no industrial foundation Then, even the smallest parts have to be built bit by bit from the basic production facilities... ”
"It's still more convenient for our Xiling mainframe technology." Sandora said with pride on her face as she secretly poked my arm.
"But I always feel that this sister has other plans..."
I was just halfway through when I saw Sheila pat Xing Chen on the shoulder: "So Xing Chen, you have heard my difficulties, right? I can only transport the people here by myself, and you have to come and help me carry those things." Big guy. I know you're good at 'voidwalking', don't push yourself away."
"Finally, I've made some progress," I secretly slandered this elder sister. "In addition to pulling and having children, I have learned to use tricks."
When the two love marathons were "flirtatious" over there, Abyss Xiling suddenly ended her contemplation, and she coughed twice to call everyone's attention: "I still have a question."
All eyes were on her.
"Empire... The Abyss Empire and the New Empire here are technically in the same line, so it's not a big problem, but coupled with the Holy Light of the Star Field and the power of truth of Huron, what we want to manufacture is a device of three races mixed , "Abyss Xiling looked around everyone, "Three-race hybrid, this is a three-race hybrid! Huron's power core, star field thrusters, and Xiling's protective layer, can this system really work? Not even energy It doesn't work!"
Sure enough, Sheila and Xingchen immediately showed worried expressions on their faces, but Tavel immediately took out a small metal rod from the portable space: "Don't worry, we have this: the source energy mine."
(I dug a lot of holes, and found that the ending is a difficult thing... By the way, a new month has arrived, why don’t you come to support with a monthly ticket?) RS