"Uneasy?" I immediately widened my eyes, trying to see a clearer message from the eldest lady's face.
Lin Xue's eyes narrowed again, and this time the pale white light leaking out of her eyes was more obvious than before. When she opened her eyes again, I could only see a depth: "It's just that I'm restless, I can't see anything. something specific."
Lin Xue's prediction is not omnipotent. There are many factors that can interfere with her prediction process, such as unprecedentedly powerful energy, visions of the void, and abyssal reactions—these destructive things can completely destroy the entire causal line, and naturally there are The forces that interfere with so-called destiny. Therefore, Lin Xue's prediction about the deep dive is the least clear among many predictions. Basically, he can only determine whether the experiment will be successful, but he cannot determine the specific situation that will be encountered during the process. Especially now that the cataclysm of the void is approaching, and the discontinuous zone under the gate of the abyss is getting closer and closer to the world of order, the young lady's power seems to have been disturbed to a certain extent because of this, and her judgment on "deep diving" has become increasingly blurred.
But even so, her prophecy is still the most important reference before the start of each deep dive. After traversing the entire void, nothing more useful and accurate than her prophecy can be found.
"Will this deep dive fail?" I glanced at the communicator next to me while talking. Ansers didn't hear the conversation here, he just frowned at the communicator, and then continued to be busy with the work at hand , and I began to think about whether to interrupt this deep dive.
"It's very vague. It seems that this experiment was successful, but my intuition makes me a little uneasy about the process," Lin Xue said carefully. In such a serious place, the eldest lady completely restrained her bad habits. "I can't see the deep diving process. Moreover, since the abyss interrupts the event line, the long-span prophecy directly targeting the ancestors will also be disturbed, and all you see are fragments."
Sandora raised her index finger against her chin: "Do you want to stop first? It may be that today's gate of the abyss will be unstable. Anyway, the new ship has just completed commissioning, and it won't break if it is left alone. We don't have to rush this day or two of."
I looked at Tavel. Of course, this great scientist does not want her project to be postponed. Her eagerness for experimental data is unimaginable to others, but she also knows how important the prophet's suggestion is at this time: for the prophecy For those who are concerned, let alone intuitive vigilance, even an occasional sneeze or a cold war may be linked to the future, words and deeds should not be taken lightly, and now Lin Xue obviously feels restless, then The risk of the experiment going as planned is just too great.
"It can be postponed for a while, and when we do a few more inspections on the gate of the abyss, there may be variables that have not been discovered before," Tavel nodded, "but it is best to discuss it with the ancestors, after all, they are the first operators. And... uh, it's not very easy to persuade."
The old ancestors are notorious for their stubbornness. Although they will strictly abide by the orders as long as there are orders, no matter whether I or Sandora, when facing the old ancestors, they can not give orders without giving orders, so that the old people are happy to cooperate. our ultimate goal.
"What's going on?" At this time, Ansers' voice came from the communicator. Although our hasty and low-pitched conversation could not be heard clearly on his side, the other party must have noticed that the atmosphere here is not right, "Look at you The expression is quite dignified, what's wrong?"
"Lin Xue has a bad premonition," I said bluntly, "She is not sure what the outcome will be, but she is restless. We are discussing whether to cancel the operation this time and wait until the problem is clarified."
"Cancel the operation?" Ansers really had a gloomy look on his face, but he maintained his emotions with the self-consciousness of a soldier. The old man frowned and looked at this side through the communicator, "Just because he is not in a good mood Ning? Is there a clear conclusion that the experiment failed?"
"No," I didn't mean to deceive the ancestors in this regard, "but I'm not sure it will succeed. You also know that the state of the abyss has become more and more unstable recently, and the prophecies related to it have been greatly disturbed."
"Then you can't cancel it hastily," Ansers' eyebrows were almost twitched, "I also know a lot about the vague predictions of the prophets, and I know what they mean. It should be the deep dive that succeeded in the end, but the encounter in the middle There was a small accident-we have encountered such accidents several times, there is no problem, maybe this time it just happened that the prophet was on the scene to observe it and felt it."
Finally, Ansers' brows stretched out, and his expression was very relaxed: "I know some of you must say that I am old and stubborn, but the time is waiting for no one. The deep dive experiment is very important. Today is the most 'climate' of this port in the recent period. It's a good day, it's a pity to miss it. Of course, we will pay attention to safety. If we really encounter any problems below, we will definitely go up as soon as possible. This is a new ship, and its ability to withstand pressure in dangerous situations is comparable to the previous ones. The old ship is much stronger."
The old ancestor didn't seem to be worried at all, but it didn't ease the mood of Shandora and me. I looked at Lin Xue again, but the expression on the other party's face was obviously hopeless.
At this time, Abyss Xiling suddenly floated over with her big box. She has never liked to talk very much in such a gathering place, but now she actively persuades her ancestors: "A little delay will not affect the 'great cause' Your progress, your lives and the submersibles you are on are all precious property of the Empire and cannot be wasted in reckless actions."
This is a rather "Abyss Xiling style" way of speaking, but the ancestors seem to be able to listen to this kind of persuasion, Anses nodded slightly, and then looked at Abyss Xiling with a slightly weird expression: "You still For the sake of the empire."
"I never abandoned it." Abyss Xiling nodded, with the same smile on his face as before.
The first meeting between the ancestors and Abyss Xiling was a little embarrassing, because the ancestors who had experienced the exile life at the time felt disgusted with everything related to the abyss. When they knew that a group of Xiling apostles had been polluted and transformed into fallen apostles This is even more so at times. They can accept those abyss apostles who have been reversed and transformed, but they are extremely repulsive to the polluters who are killing and looting in the abyss area—but the cooperation of Abyss Xiling and the historical truth brought by her make everyone Unexpectedly.
It took half a month from the top to the bottom of the empire to accept the facts and change their attitude, let alone the ancestors.
But this was all a few days ago. Now the ancestors have clearly understood the philosophy of Abyss Xiling and the reasons for her previous actions. Although she still can't agree with her dangerous way of thinking, she still doesn't agree with the "Fallen Apostle" camp. The cognition is much more objective than before. Although the new army among the fallen apostles is still the mortal enemy of the empire, the ancestors are still acceptable to those "benign elements" who are willing to cooperate with the empire and follow the rules in the future. And now some of the senior scientists in the joint testing ground are fallen apostles. After so many days of cooperation, the relationship between the ancestors and Abyss Xiling has been normalized.
"Then pause for a while, but I don't recommend canceling it directly," Ansers made a compromise reply, "It can be put in a few hours later, according to the laws we have learned before, the vision changes under the gate of the abyss are the longest The cycle is only less than one hour, even if something happens to it, it will return to normal within an hour, and if it exceeds this cycle, it must be a long-term abnormality that we have not yet grasped, and there is no point in waiting for a long time , In the end, we will send someone down to investigate the situation.”
The opinions of the ancestors this time are well-founded, and now they are no longer laymen, but put forward suggestions from the perspective of front-line experimenters, so others naturally can't say anything more. I glanced at Tavel and got an affirmative answer from the glasses girl, so I nodded: "Okay, postpone it for three hours, and take advantage of this incident to check all the equipment again to prevent accidents caused by external causes."
With Lin Xue's words "uneasy", I have already regarded "an accident occurred during the deep dive" as an established fact.
The unexpected situation did not make the staff of Shendiving Port panic. After all, "deep diving" itself is a project that is always accompanied by danger. This sudden drill has been carried out countless times. The deep-diving ship kept its power core idling and stood quietly above the gate. Batches of autonomous machinery and engineering machines flew out from various nodes to check the deep-diving ship and the suppression devices around the gate. At the same time, the deep-diving port Other equipment has also undergone self-inspection again, and all facilities that will exchange data with the deep-diving ship have to go back to the previous debugging process.
Sheila looked at the busy hall in front of her, listened to the hurried but well-organized reports, and suddenly said with a smile: "You are all quite professional, and you have done it countless times just by looking at it."
"We started 70,000 years ago." I said with a smile, directly adding the deep dive history of the old empire to the new empire.
"The inspection of the deep diving ship is completed, and everything is normal."
"The suppression system has been checked and everything is normal."
"The sensitive communication array has been checked and everything is normal."
"Information quarantine has been inspected normally, everything is normal..."
A message was sent back to the control center, and all systems were operating normally. Ansers remained patient, and everyone at the scene remained patient. The two hours seemed a bit long, but it was finally over.
"That feeling is still there," Lin Xue exhaled. Even the always calm and calm Prophet was a little uncertain about the situation when facing the abyss, but she still nodded, "It seems that it may be really nervous, or it may be It's just a normal 'little accident', since it can't be avoided... let's go ahead."
Tavel turned around and ordered calmly: "The engineering ship releases the locking device, and the deep-submersible ship switches to its own power, ready to dive."
Ansers showed a "rest assured" smile to everyone on the communicator: "I will be careful. Then... United I, set sail!"
The deep diving ship broke free from the lock, quickly approached the gate of the abyss, and finally disappeared into the darkness.
Perhaps it was infected by Lin Xue, even I couldn't help but have a strange thought in my heart: Will it really be a farewell
Under the influence of this kind of thinking, time seems to be slowed down, so that the "blackout time" of a few seconds from the deep dive ship entering the gate to the restoration of communication seems to be as long as several years, but with the communicator The noise on the plane disappeared, and the image with some interference but still clear reappeared. The voice of Ansers relieved all the nervous people: "This is the United I. It has successfully entered the gate, and all the components of the spacecraft are in operation. Good. Oh, better than expected."
Lin Xue also relaxed, and even had time to lightly kick me to make fun of it: "Look at the stupid name you gave, there is no creativity at all, what is United I, if you don't know it, you think it was produced by the Second Agricultural Machinery Factory .”
"It's better than the Bluefly." I squinted at the eldest lady, feeling relieved for a while.
The naming of the new spaceship has caused a lot of people in the first family to struggle for quite a long time. If she hadn't shown her imagination, I am afraid that my idea of "United I" would not have gained the upper hand...
"Don't let your guard down so quickly, the deep dive has just begun." Sandora reminded everyone cautiously, making us realize that it is not the time to make fun of each other.
For most people at the scene, it is not the first time that "throwing things into the gate of the abyss" is done, and everyone is familiar with the first few tasks of it. The control center issued a series of instructions according to the regulations, and Ansers accurately executed and recorded the data: this is the first step in the actual combat of the new ship, and these tests have been carried out several times in the previous stage of unmanned diving test, so No surprises at all.
"The power core is stable, the energy is surging, the output is accurate, the conversion device is working very well, the components made by the source energy mine... tsk tsk, there is no pressure at all for such a large energy flow, the shield refreshes normally, and the balance exceeds 100% Ninety, the new propulsion system is also very good, and it is perfectly compatible with Xiling's 'Bloodline' controller." Ansers was full of glory, for an old captain, nothing is more exciting than a perfect new ship I was happy, "Well, the situation under the Abyss Gate is also normal. I saw the workstation set up here a few days ago. It seems that it is in good condition and can run for a long time. Let me just say, what? There will be problems."
I looked at Tavel with a satisfied smile: "Well done, I really didn't expect you to be able to build a new ship in such a short period of time... The efficiency of Xiling Apostle is amazing enough."
The joint manufacturing of deep-diving ships by the four parties has to face not only their respective technical problems, but also the crucial technical integration and compatibility issues. Although the Xiling Apostles are extremely efficient, their "joint thinking" talent is very good at A large number of verification models were quickly tested under virtual conditions, but the speed at which Tavel made new ships was still staggering. Originally, I thought it would take at least three months for her to produce the finished product.
"Deep diving technology leads to the same goal by different routes, and the two protoss have already achieved considerable results in their respective deep diving fields. The subordinates just integrated the ready-made things into a framework," Tavel smiled modestly, "and The experts from the two protoss and the abyss area are very conscientious, and they are also thinking about the method of technological integration, so it is not difficult to just put the finished product together. Of course, the more important thing is our active energy mine."
"Yeah, the source energy mine that made me look like a fool." Abyss Xiling said sourly beside her. She has lived in Shadow City for a long time, and she has also learned a lot of vocabulary unique to "this side".
The large-scale holographic projection shows the picture from the deep submersible ship. The spaceship is still cruising in the shallow area, and in the center of the picture is a working platform protected by a light blue mask. This working platform looks like a rapidly arranged On the scientific research station, there is only one building that looks like a barracks on the small triangular platform: this is the forward outpost we set up under the gate of the abyss, and this is the latest one.
In the chaotic abyss, this kind of outpost is the only thing that has color, substance, order and long-term existence. Of course, their "permanence" is also relative.
The deep-diving ship approached the forward outpost according to the predetermined procedure, and compared their respective monitoring data of the abyss. First, they ensured that neither the outpost nor the deep-diving ship was polluted, causing cognitive errors. Then the second step of today’s experiment officially started:
The deep diving ship dives and approaches the discontinuity zone.
If you want to establish a connection with the other side, you must cross this discontinuous zone, so you must study this thing thoroughly no matter what.
The diving process was smooth and boring. Everyone waited with nervousness and anticipation for the deep diving ship to touch the strange and inexplicable moving interlayer. The time seemed to be stretched again, and the control center could only hear voices from various seats. The tense and orderly reports and instructions, with occasional on-site reports from Ansers or other ancestors.
It seemed that Lin Xue's premonition was really just nervousness.
"Already close to the discontinuity zone... Keep approaching... Touch the upper layer of the discontinuity zone..." Ansers's steady voice woke me up from the feeling of time slowing down, "Turn on the special detector, collect pollution readings and order and disorder peaks, and prepare to calculate The 'range' of the discontinuity. Call the command center, is the data received there clear?"
A high-ranking Xiling Angel is the operator of the communication module. She checked the data sent back in front of her, compared whether the clutter in the data is the carrier of pollution, and quickly came to a conclusion: "The data is accurate and reliable. Recording."
The communication device used by the deep diving ship is the relic of the 15-day zone that we took back from the Merova people, the peak-level deep diving equipment made by the old empire, and now it seems that this old antique is in better working condition than the most advanced things we have at hand.
The discontinuous band readings sent back by the deep diving ship were presented to everyone, as weird, absurd and turbulent as ever.
The concentration of pollution fluctuates from high to low, and the order is chaotic and the peak shakes like a paper tape spit out by a seismograph. The entire discontinuous zone is in a state of "vibration" all the time, and its overall trend is constantly approaching the real world, but its "position" cannot be determined within a certain period of time, and it moves like a leap within a certain range : This is also the most dangerous part of the discontinuity zone. You may think that you have only touched its relatively flat surface, but in the next second you will find that it suddenly "jumps up" a lot, overwhelming the entire deep-diving ship. Wrapped in deadly ultra-high concentrations of pollution.
But for now, everything looks safe.
"The deep-diving ship 'hover' in this area for one hour," Ansers repeated the instructions in the plan. No matter how stubborn the ancestor was, this time was strictly in accordance with the regulations. The magnitude of the leap, try to determine how 'thick' this thing really is."
Time passed by, and the data was transmitted bit by bit, but Lin Xue's exclamation suddenly came from my ear: "Quickly get out!"
"Zi-"
Interfering noise and a cloud of clutter replaced the sound and picture of the communicator. RS