Sheila looked at the ancestor Xiling with an interested look on her face, and I was a little curious: "What's wrong?"
"It feels... There is something strange about him, something is not quite right," Sheila is seeing the ancestors of the Xiling people for the first time, and I don't know how much she knows about the latter, but she looks like I don't know anything, "I just heard that you resurrected your ancestors, and I didn't expect to see them so soon... They are? Why is the entanglement of information on them so strange? It seems that there is a pause in some place, a part of the information Solidified, but not completely frozen."
Sure enough, they are one of the most knowledgeable duo in the void, and Sheila saw the strange "immortal state" of Xi Ling's ancestor at a glance.
"We didn't figure it out either," I shrugged. "When the ancestors were discovered, they were in a strange state of immortality. The effect of time seemed to have disappeared on them. The bodies of the ancestors remained in the same state as before state. Thanks to this state, we can resurrect them. In fact, the situation you see now is different from the original state. After the resurrection, the bodies of the ancestors have been reactivated, so the original immortal state has also loosened. , the feeling of 'stagnation' at the beginning was more obvious than it is now."
"Oh," Sheila frowned, she seemed to have heard a lot about Xiling's ancestors from Xingchen, and now she seems very concerned, "Strange immortal state, I have never heard of such a thing, Whether it is secular matter or supernatural things, even gods who have reached immortality, will not enter this immortal state that seems to be passively stagnant. According to my observation, it is not so much that he is immortal, it is better to say that he no longer responds to changes '. Time is a one-sided and abstract thing, and sometimes even loses its meaning. Only the 'change' it brings is the key, and this change seems to show signs of 'partial failure' in the Xiling ancestors."
Well, it’s another unknown theoretical popularization, but fortunately this time the popularization time is not long, and Sheila doesn’t seem to intend to waste her words on this topic. She finally took a deep look at her ancestors, and then suddenly realized that she It's a little impolite to stare like this, so I quickly stuck out my tongue: "Oh, sorry, I will do this when I encounter something I am interested in, and I don't mean to offend."
Ansers didn't care much about being looked at like this, but he didn't expect King Huron to apologize so readily. The old man waved his hand generously: "It's okay, it's okay, we all know that we belong to a 'special phenomenon', and we usually cooperate with research , are almost becoming living specimens.”
Sheila glanced at me rather reproachfully: "You are really rude to your ancestors."
I helplessly rolled my eyes at Tian: Although there is nothing wrong with this accusation, it feels strange that I am a "Xi Ling Apostle" who has become a monk halfway. Ansers can't be regarded as my own ancestor anyway. By the way, do void creatures have the concept of "elders"
"By the way, why are you interested in coming to the temple?" I remembered my doubts at the beginning, so I looked at the ancestors curiously: they didn't have religious booklets in their hands, and they didn't wear miracles around their necks. The weird consecrated cross and Buddhist beads were obviously not fooled by the gang of unscrupulous peddlers and magic sticks around the temple area. And they themselves are not very used to going out and wandering around. After all, the deep diving project is going on intensely, and they are the most important crew members of the deep diving boat in the project. They usually have little rest time, and they basically go back to Shadow City occasionally on vacation. The research institute sorts out materials and cooperates with research or something, and there is little interest in going out for sightseeing.
"We're on a long vacation," said a middle-aged man behind Ansers. I remember that he should be one of the interior equipment operators of the spaceship. , the technicians plan to check all the equipment on the spacecraft, collect data, etc. before scrapping the spacecraft. Before the new spacecraft is put into use, we still have two or three deep-dive missions, and there will be a long vacation in the middle of each deep dive. Let's take the whole ship apart for inspection... Oh, unfortunately, I don't know much about this deep-seated stuff. This time, it was Anna's suggestion to come to the temple: she felt that the atmosphere around the temple can maintain the skin, and then pulled all of us together. Woke up."
Anna is also one of the ancestors, and is a youthful lady who is very sensitive to her appearance and "amazing age issues", so I can understand her thinking, but the jingle aura really has no effect on beauty- The little thing puts his whole body on my face with a "slap" every now and then, don't you see that I still look so frustrated now
I also understand after hearing the explanation from my ancestors. I know that Tavel has already started to prepare for the next stage of the large-scale deep diving plan in advance, no matter how much technology and resources the God Realm can provide, Before the final version of the deep-diving ship is finalized, it will definitely need several transition ship types, and it is also necessary to prepare for the manufacture of new ships earlier. Except for the first deep-diving ship that never returned, as long as each ship can return to the voyage, it is a valuable experimental material in itself, and the group of imperial technicians who are passionate about science will certainly not let it go.
At this time, Sheila and Xingchen have already run to the side to discuss it. I know that this is because King Huron is very curious and is learning more about the ancestors of Xiling. I can't blame the other party for being too gossip. After all, there are special existences like ancestors. Even void creatures have never seen it, not to mention that these ancestors have experienced those weird things, and created today's Xiling god system: Although they are mortals, the imprints they left in the void are absolutely No less than any god.
I took this opportunity to chat with Ansers, basically to learn about the living conditions of the ancestors and the situation of the deep dive test. I can see these things in various reports, but when I chat with the person concerned It must feel different from reading a report—after all, I can't read most reports...
Ding Dong was bouncing around on my head a little boringly, the little thing doesn’t like to listen to those complicated things, her life is made up of cuteness and candy, so the little one started to ask to fill herself after bouncing on my head for a while A vacancy in his life: "Ajun, Dingdang wants to eat candy... You unbutton the button, Dingdang is hungry..."
In order to prevent this little guy from overeating, sometimes I will button up my pockets, so the three major enemies of Ding Dong's life become exams, studies, and buttons on my coat pockets...
After Sheila and Xing Chen finished talking and Ding Dong settled down in his pocket for the time being, I found Xing Chen and asked the question that the ancestors are most concerned about at present: "How about the 'home world'? That database should have Have you been sent to the God Realm for a while?"
As soon as they heard this topic, several ancestors really came forward immediately, and everyone had eager expressions on their faces.
"Great progress has been made. After processing it with various cracking and data restoration techniques, the contents of that memory have basically been read out, and the clear coordinates of Xiling's "hometown world" are also in sight."
The ancestors suddenly showed a happy look and looked at each other full of joy, while I cautiously asked: "I have a clue, but I haven't found the meaning yet, right? What's the problem?"
"The problem is not big, the main reason is that time has passed, even if there is a regular world drift, there will be deviations. In addition, the "hometown world" of the Xiling people has suffered a catastrophe, and its drift law may have changed, so It is not at the 'initial position' recorded in the original coordinates. But it doesn't matter, the world drift can be calculated, and the information leakage caused by the end of the world is also an error that can be corrected. The children have now calculated more than a hundred possibilities According to the drifting situation, Xiling people's "hometown world" must be in one of the coordinates. It's just that these coordinates are quite remote, and most of them are in relatively dangerous and unknown areas, and it will take some days to check even a dozen at a time. "
In the end, Xingchen added another sentence in order to reassure the ancestors of Xiling: "In short, you don't have to worry, I will notify you as soon as there is news. Although the Protoss has a bad sense of time, as long as the action has already started, it will never be delayed. .”
Well, this boss also knows that the Protoss' concept of time is a problem.
"Do you want to use the empire to help?" I asked with some embarrassment. Originally, this matter should be solved by the empire itself from the beginning to the end, but the protoss have been tossing up and down for so long, and now they even send people to investigate the truth. They are all reimbursed by the Protoss for their travel expenses. It seems a bit unreasonable for the empire to watch the whole process, "We have a high-speed void shuttle, which is no slower than you."
"Of course, it would be better if you have extra manpower," Xingchen smiled cheerfully, and he would not be polite to anyone in this regard, "but I don't recommend taking too risky actions. Those suspected coordinates are all abnormal. Dangerous places, some areas have been identified as highly polluted areas entrenched by the abyss, even as dangerous as the abyss area, so it is not enough to send high-speed shuttles alone, and there must be a considerable size of guards, otherwise they may not be able to return Come on, if you really want to help, you'd better discuss it with Sandora."
The other party tried to put things lightly, but I saw a trace of seriousness in his gentle eyes. Even the Father God showed such an appearance, and the danger of those "suspected coordinates" in his mouth can be imagined. I thought about it and showed a cautious expression: "Well, then you first give us a copy of the area where those coordinates are located, and I will discuss with Sandora how many people to send there."
After I finished speaking, I raised my head, looked at the lofty mother planet Gaia and exhaled slightly: Another big event seems to be settled, and to find the home world, the long-cherished wish of the Apostle Xiling is probably half completed.
Xingchen and Xila stayed in the capital of the empire for three days, and then set off back to the star field. They were going to set off from there and embark on the long road to the Huron God Realm after passing through several very ancient jump points. Sheila said that there are too many things that need to be transported here, so other void creatures must help carry them-of course we all know that this is an important part of her childbirth plan, but who would not open their eyes and take the initiative to point it out? Anyway, I dare not, after all, I can't beat her...
In the past three days, other things related to bridge construction have not been delayed. The first is the star port reconstruction plan: Tavel has led her expert team and a large number of engineering teams to transform the deep dive port. Currently, three orbital bases have just been built. . It is the largest port in the empire, and it is also a relatively "new" port. Due to the special nature of the abyss gate, it will become unstable after a certain amount of information overflow, so the lifespan of any deep diving port is not long. Now, the port we chose as the first-phase joint test base has just been in operation for a few months. Under the control of the brand-new suppression tower system, this port should still be used for the first half to one year, theoretically. Well, that last sentence was added by Tavel.
We still have several similar ports like this. Even if one of the ports collapses, we can immediately transfer the deep diving ship to other ports to continue the experiment, so as not to delay time: the footsteps of the Void Cataclysm are pressing, leaving us time Not much anymore.
And Harlan and I arrived at the border of the empire a few days later: the personnel and supplies promised by Abyss Xiling are about to arrive.
Sandora is still in charge of affairs in Shadow City, and Harlan was dragged to attend the handover event because of his identity as the "former fallen apostle emperor". The face was still like a playing card.
"Relax, it won't be so embarrassing even if you meet acquaintances," I poked the uncle next to me. Harlan is usually a serious and rigid person, and it's interesting to see him in embarrassment occasionally. I have never seen you so solemn when I met Ling."
Harlan tidied up his clothes, with the expression of playing cards still on his face: "That's different. When I was a fallen apostle, I never saw the true face of Abyss Xiling. She has always been a transmitter for me, but Other people are different... If the person sent to hand over is someone he knew before, I really don't know how to speak."
I shrugged. This is a consideration that others cannot share and it is difficult to empathize with. I should concentrate on waiting for the "good things" promised by Abyss Xiling to appear.
This world is exactly the fortress universe that the empire laid down when it attacked the abyss area a few days ago. Now it has been repaired and has become part of the "new frontier" after rebuilding the sovereign hub and becoming more impregnable. It has two sets of worlds Although the gates are all under the jurisdiction of the same sovereign hub, the two sets of world gates lead to completely different directions: one leads to the inland of the empire region, and the other leads to the abyss region.
This is out of caution. Although Sandora decided to let the empire area and the abyss area directly border, after all, we have to consider the pollution on the opposite side. It is necessary to keep a buffer structure between the empire transmission network and the abyss area transmission network. Of course, another reason is to be wary of Abyss Xiling: we cannot let her take the initiative to send things to the Empire area, and the right to open the port must be on the Empire side.
We are now at the newly established Sovereign Hub, twenty AU next to the old Sovereign Hub. Sandora let the celestial system fleet leave a star warship here as a fortress star, and built a series of functional stations on the orbit of the fortress star, including orbital observation stations and world gate generators (there is also a set of larger-scale The gate of the world is light-years away, but this time it will not be used), and now Harlan and I stand on the upper platform of the orbital station, watching the deep and dark outer space: there, a large-scale dark vortex has Formed, its diameter is almost the size of the moon, and around the vortex is a circle of world gate generators that have been deployed. There is a mysterious light blue glow on the generator, and its brightness and flickering frequency indicate that the gate has been connected.
Abyss Xiling stood behind me and Harlan, her eyes were calm, she didn't know what she was thinking.
Our wait did not last long. When the time agreed upon by both parties arrived, all the generators around the World Gate produced a violent flash at the same time, like a halo suddenly illuminating the deep dark space. The chaotic vortex in the center of the halo It also changed from unreal to real, and we saw some black shadows slowly emerging from the gate: it was a transport ship.
Now that Abyss Xiling has shown so much sincerity, the empire must of course show enough trust, so these "special materials" from the abyss area came to the empire for the first time without facing the forest of guns in the universe of domination.
Three black-red starships with a length of tens of kilometers and the appearance of three-layer stacked plates slowly left the gate of the world. The light around them flickered for a while, and these spaceships immediately stabilized from the final illusory state to the physical state. And there are a large number of small spaceships behind them. The detection equipment sent back the scanning results of those small spaceships. I found that they are all starships with a size of several hundred meters and a maximum of only a few kilometers. "It's beautiful" can be regarded as pocket-sized in Xiling's design.
And the shapes of those small spaceships are also quite weird: they don't look like any kind of main battle spaceship, and I can't find even a similar design in the Imperial arsenal. The "Tobayer-style design" also has the "classic Mohs" shape with a thick and thick appearance, but with a rough aesthetic, and of course there are more popular coffin-board spaceships. The shape of each small spaceship is different, and the facilities outside look strange, and basically they do not have the characteristics of a combat spaceship.
Seeing those strange things, I couldn't help turning my head to look at Abyss Xiling: "You said there are some extra 'gifts', are these things?"
Abyss Xiling had a vague smile on his face: "This is what we use to detect the gate of the abyss. Of course, it is not a deep-diving ship, but a model that cruises in the shallow layer of the abyss. You should understand these things Impressive, right? Back then I almost used them as military spaceships... It’s a pity that I haven’t been able to complete the combat model modification until today: the difficulty of fighting in the abyss environment is second only to firing in the void environment.”
I suddenly opened my mouth wide: it turned out to be these things! No wonder it looks weird and a little familiar!
Abyss Xiling looked at my expression with a smile, and his tone seemed to be a little cheerful: "Probably Void will always take care of his own son, these things are still cheap for you in the end."
I was choked by the words "pro son", but I couldn't help asking: "Is it okay to hand over such confidential things to the New Empire?"
"Secret?" Abyss Xiling didn't care much, "It's just that it can still be called a secret now. When the four parties jointly carry out research, a rudimentary spaceship like this will be manufactured by you soon, so it's better to give it a favor now. And to be honest, I am also very sincere in cooperating, and thinking about intrigue and hiding technology in front of the Void Cataclysm is purely courting death."
I nodded, and walked towards the transmitter with a smile: "Then go say hello to your subordinates." RS