Continuous noise and noise replaced the normal picture and sound of the communicator, and the signal from the deep diving ship was interrupted abruptly.
All the monitoring equipment in the control center lost their signal sources, and only gray and black distorted patterns remained on the central holographic projection. The disturbing alarm sounded in the lobby for a second, "Warning! Lost deep dive" Ship! Warning! Lost deep dive ship!"
The emergency team reacted immediately and went to check the control center system and various communication devices deployed in space. The main engine of the base started to activate the backup signal tower to strengthen the connection to the deep-diving ship. The tower erupted with bright light, forming a large halo of radiance: this is to prevent violent changes inside the gate of the abyss, causing the entire port to self-destruct.
And I fell into a momentary stupefaction: Within a millisecond, everything was gone
One moment ago, the old man was still happily sharing what he saw with us on the communicator, admiring the superior performance of the new ship, and the next moment, the whole ship completely disappeared in all channels
Tavel's voice sounded in the hall radio, calm and powerful: "Keep calm! The communication team should not give up tracking, increase the strength of the antenna, and turn on all the spare channels. The communication system of the deep diving ship may have dropped to other frequency bands. The main system The monitoring team immediately sorted out all the exchanged data from 30 minutes ago to the present to see if the abyss pollution is blocking the channel. 'Gatekeeper' troops, immediately check the telemetry device near the gate. I want to know the situation below the abyss gate! The disaster response team boarded the backup deep dive ship and set up a beacon inside the gate!"
A series of clear and effective instructions were sent to everyone through the lobby broadcast. Fortunately, the talent of the Xiling apostles allowed them to remain calm in the face of any unexpected situation. The expert team began to implement the accident plan without wasting even a second . However, with the strengthening of the communication array signal and the widening of the frequency spectrum, the deep submersible ship still disappeared without a trace, and there were only clutter on all communicators.
I noticed that Sandora's eyes changed rapidly a few times, but she also remained calm, and despite the deep worry in her eyes, she waited for Tavel to issue the emergency order before asking in a calm voice: "What's going on? Why is the signal suddenly interrupted?"
Sandora did not rashly ask "Has the deep-diving ship been destroyed?" On the one hand, no one wants to think in this direction; It was only integrated after many simulation tests. Even the old deep-diving ship can hover near the discontinuity for several hours. The survivability of the new ship is unreasonably worse.
"I can't be sure, the signal source suddenly lost, it may be forcibly blocked by some factors, or the communication system of the deep-diving ship was polluted by the abyss and self-destructed, or it may be some kind of 'information deflection' effect that caused the deep-diving ship to The signal sent cannot be understood by the world of order." Tavel also did not mention the possibility that the deep dive ship has been destroyed, but simply analyzed the possible reasons for the loss of the signal. "These accidents have never happened, but they are all possible in the abyss environment. The situation. We are turning on all the backup communication antennas. If the main engine of the deep submersible ship did not go down directly, they should be making similar attempts on their side, and the signal can always be restored."
"Even if there is a catastrophe, it will not cause the spacecraft to collapse instantly," Abyss Xiling added next to it, "We have done a test to impact the United I with the highest concentration of abyss pollution in theory, even in that case The spacecraft can also persist for at least 20 minutes, instead of disappearing in the blink of an eye like now... There is no way for a new ship to be 'insta-killed'."
While the scientists of the empire were intensely and orderly relocating the signal of the deep submersible ship, the Protoss experts were also not idle. Although they were responsible for components such as propulsion, energy, and structural protection, they were not responsible for the communication system, but the Protoss There are a lot of strange things that can come in handy in this situation, and soon there will be many starstone platforms or amethyst castles exuding mysterious brilliance above the deep diving port. Although the facilities of the door cannot be directly connected with the deep diving ship, they can determine whether a catastrophic explosion has occurred at the bottom of the abyss by measuring the readings of the abyss—even if there is a trace of breath leaking up when the deep diving ship is destroyed, they can also observe it. .
As long as these observation points do not send any intelligence, that is the best intelligence.
A deep submersible ship similar in structure to the United I, but smaller in size and simpler in structure, was ready and released from another star port. It quickly approached the gate of the abyss and hovered for more than ten seconds to collect data. After calibration, the deep diving ship opened its special shield and plunged into the deep dark disk.
This is the spare deep-diving ship, which does not undertake any scientific missions and has no scientific research modules. Its only mission is disaster relief, because it saves a lot of scientific research and scanning devices (this is also the largest facility on a genuine deep-diving ship). It is lighter and more reliable, and its reduced size also doubles the contact surface between the surface shield and the abyss. The only disadvantage is that it cannot undertake any deep-diving missions except for disaster rescue, and it cannot collect data or conduct tests. The time is also shorter than the United I.
Since the beginning of manned deep diving, Tavel has prepared two such spare ships or special rescue ships for each deep diving ship. is worth it. The spare boats never came in handy when experimenting with older ships - honestly, I'd rather they never come in handy!
"This kind of thing happened on the first voyage of the new ship," Bingtis was a little heartless and a little big-mouthed, and said something in his mind, "I can't help but think of Titany..."
Then everyone started to stare at her viciously, even Father God looked at this heartless girl in a weird way, so Bingtis quickly shrank his neck: "Sorry, I'm having a brain twitch, and I'm also a little nervous."
I knew that Bingtis was definitely not malicious, and she was no less nervous than anyone on the scene, so I didn't pursue it. I just continued to stare at the communicator in front of me, hoping to see even a little bit of it, except for the noise. other things.
The first spare ship successfully crossed the gate, and first put a temporary transfer station on the spot to enhance signal transmission, and then went to the "advanced outpost" to connect its working components and the outpost: this is also to enhance signal transmission .
Before clear evidence appeared, everyone believed that the deep-diving ship was still there, but they could not transmit the signal. This was not only an instinctive psychological tendency, but also a scientific judgment based on the performance of the new spacecraft.
"I retrieved the system log of the outpost mainframe within one minute before the loss of contact, and found no abnormality." The No. 1 backup ship quickly sent a report, and then began to "dive" quickly, and put in a transfer every other depth of dive stand. This kind of transfer station can only work for a few hours in the abyss environment, relying on limited pre-stored energy to operate, and its only function is to ensure smooth communication in extremely harsh environments: in the abyss, ensuring smooth communication with the world of order is the first Important matter.
"Let the second spare ship be ready," one of Tavel's mass projections instructed the disaster response team, while not forgetting to remind the No. 1 ship, which is conducting search and rescue operations, "No. 1, pay attention to the dive speed and the surrounding environment Changes, No. 2 will respond soon."
"Yes, No. 1 ship understands," the commander of No. 1 ship replied briefly, and then continued to dive and set up a transfer station, but just when the next transfer station was just starting to operate, we suddenly heard the commander's excited speech Voice, "Signal! Signal from Union I!"
At this moment, more than an hour has passed since the deep diving ship lost contact—more than an hour.
"Transfer," Sandora said in a deep voice, and then the communicator in the hall had a clear and recognizable image again, but it was not the scene of the command module of the deep submersible ship, but a pile of fluctuating curves and graphs. A large number of charts refreshed quickly, "is the low-capacity channel of the spacecraft, which is broadcasting the 'health status' of the deep-diving ship."
I couldn't quite understand the consciousness of such a complicated chart, so I simply asked, "What's the situation?"
"It can only be confirmed that the power core and the shield group are still operating normally. The capacity of this channel is extremely low. It is used to indicate your position and 'still alive' when all signals are cut off," Sandora frowned. But there was no worry in the eyes at the beginning, "The power core and shield are not shut down, so there is no problem with the core of the spacecraft. At most, the detection module and antenna device are destroyed. There are some alarm parameters in the signal, and some of the spacecraft are indeed seriously damaged. Damaged, but I'm not sure which part it is. Ship No. 1, get closer, and the enhanced signal should be able to contact the deep dive ship."
"Ship No. 1 understands." The search and rescue team responded immediately, and then accelerated the dive, approaching the place where the United I disappeared: the upper layer of the discontinuous belt. But they were very careful when they dived. Obviously, the possible changes inside the gate of the abyss made them quite nervous.
There is also a tense and depressive atmosphere in the control center. Although those clear instructions and reports can relieve this feeling a little, the heavy pressure is still entrenched in everyone's heart.
There is a golden light swimming in the depths of Sandora's eyes.
Bingtis stroked his hair subconsciously.
Lin Xue has closed her eyes, and her whole body seems to be independent of another time and space, a transcendent time and space.
Sheila frowned, and lavender lines appeared on her bare arms and neck, probably planning to transform herself to save people.
A subtle sound suddenly came from the communicator, accompanied by the surprise call of the commander of the No. 1 ship: "Found the signal source! The antenna and identification library are being recalibrated... connected! It is a deep diving ship!"
A hissing noise came from the communicator, and a large group of distorted colored lines jumped on the holographic projection like frantic balls of thread. This is the effect of super interference, and it has rarely been seen since the beginning of the deep dive plan. At a time of such violent disturbances, but at this moment, there seemed to be nothing cuter and more intimate to everyone present than these disturbances: these disturbance patterns proved that the communication came from an orderly and resolvable source, undoubtedly the United I number.
The operators began to adjust the antenna and filter the noise. Bubble's voice came from the radio: "I have taken over the host computer of the Deep Submersible Port, and now use the redundant computing power of the main network to assist in analyzing these signals."
The interference on the communicator finally subsided gradually, and those frantic colored lines barely condensed, finally presenting a picture with severe color distortion, but still clearly distinguishable. Thurse, he looks fine and uninjured, but the command center behind him is obviously just recovering from the chaos, there's a lot of equipment that's belching smoke, and some plumbing-like stuff hanging from the ceiling : This is a manifestation of the overload of the energy pipe network. The only good news is that these damages do not seem to hurt the root of the deep-diving ship, and the self-inspection signal of the deep-diving ship from the low-capacity flux channel is still stable.
"This is Union I... zizi... United I... call... strong interference, discontinuity... control center, here is United... zizi... call control center... zizi..."
The voice is severely distorted but still distinguishable. Under Bubble's repeated analysis and the enhancement of a large number of transfer stations, the signal gradually strengthened, and finally reached the point where it is possible to talk.
Sandora pressed the platform in front of the communicator: "This is the control center, what's the situation?"
Ansers' voice came after a delay of a few seconds: "The spare experimental cabin was damaged and abandoned. One of the three main systems was overloaded and damaged and abandoned. The energy network was seriously overloaded, but the emergency protection device responded in a timely manner. Only sacrificed A set of redundant energy grids. The status of the mainframe of the spacecraft is still normal, and we are restarting various automatic systems."
"what is going on?"
"Severe tremors in discontinuous bands," Ansers' voice sounded unusually calm, although small-scale sparks and smoke explosions still erupted from time to time in the command hall behind him, but none of these seemed to affect the old man's work, "It's The movement is discontinuous, and so is the tremor. We misjudged the "jump" of the discontinuous zone before. It will tremble in a small range within a certain period of time, but it will move violently once in extremely rare cases, and we just caught up with it. "
It seems that the accident was really caused by the strange environment inside the abyss. Sandora frowned. Obviously, it is meaningless to continue the experiment now: "Give up the deep dive and return immediately. The state of the spacecraft is no longer able to continue the mission."
This time Ansers was silent for a long time strangely, and in this silence, I suddenly had a bad premonition.
"We won't go back," the old man finally said, with a calm voice with a touch of free and easy, "Now I will upload the last collected data to you, and then keep the antenna power fully turned on until the connection is completely lost. Hours, these data are precious, I hope you can make good use of them... "
Sandora reacted from her stupefaction, and interrupted fiercely: "What's going on!? What's going on if you don't come back?"
"The spaceship has already crossed the discontinuity, and we only have the last set of energy networks left, there will be no chance for reverse thrust," Ansers said quietly, "We are now on the other side of the discontinuity, and Still diving at a constant speed."
The entire control center was silent.
"The spaceship has crossed the discontinuity?" I couldn't believe what I heard, and subconsciously repeated it.
"Yes, we crossed the discontinuity zone, or the spacecraft didn't move, but the discontinuity zone suddenly became active and crushed us." The old man could still smile at this time, "In any case, we have completed this ahead of schedule. 'Mission', crossed the line in an unexpected way. It's a good thing, the ship collected a lot of data during its crossing of the discontinuity, which you will all need, sooner or later Well, the next ship doesn't need to spend time slowly accumulating data... "
"Don't give up in such a hurry!" Lin Xue suddenly jumped in front of the communicator, her voice was urgent and fierce, "Since you can pass through it once, you have a chance to wear it back again! Now return to the voyage immediately, we can send a rescue ship in the future Coordinating near the continuous zone, void creatures can create stability in the abyss environment... "
"Don't waste resources," the old man said seriously, "the most important systems of the spaceship have been severely damaged, especially the energy network, the output is very unstable, and the discontinuity is a fatal threat to this unstable system. Having been deep dived several times, I know how far this ship can go - even if it's new. Now we have to give this ship one last mission!"
Then he slowed down his tone: "Don't bother, you are a prophet, you shouldn't act recklessly."
Finally, the old man glanced over all of us, and he suddenly laughed: "Actually, we have a risky plan now..."
If we continue to dive, will we reach the critical layer? "
If we can survive to reach the critical layer, won't it be closer to the abyss if we go 'down'? "
If the little girl's theory of Abyss Xiling is correct, the abyss on the other side may be harmless to the deep diving ship...at least it is low harm. "
So we don't necessarily die, there's a 1 in 100 chance of surviving - as long as we keep going. "
The old man told us these things one by one in an orderly manner, perhaps this is the result of their discussion during the hour when they lost contact: the only hope of survival is to move on, before the deep dive ship is twisted and shredded by the abyss Break through that critical layer!
The next thing can only be hoped that the theoretical model of Abyss Xiling is correct.
Sandora was silent, silent in a stressful posture, but in the end she waved her hand to the side, as if to grab something: "... pay attention to receiving the last data, don't miss anything."
Her understanding of "deep diving" is no less than that of experts on the scene, and she can already judge the chances of rescue after knowing the current situation.
Then she looked at the communicator again: "If you really crossed the critical layer and left a relay device there, there should be a lot in the spaceship's ganache."
"Of course, we have already thought of this, maybe this can solve the communication problem that has plagued the empire for a long time," Ansers smiled, and there was only tranquility on his slightly old face, "Don't worry, don't be sad, we are soldiers, now Just go to the battlefield."
It's not hard to accept, and we're happy to accept it—we've set sail like this once, long, long ago, in a hurry, in ignorance, when we fled from our homes to meet us with the unknown: the unknown The void, the unknown world, everything unknown... Now it's just another set sail, and like last time, it's still going to the unknown. "
As a captain, I think I should embrace this unknown instead of running away from it... Think of the mystery on the other side, think of a completely unknowable new world that even the gods have never seen, as long as we move on, we will Got to see it, albeit a little earlier than expected. "
I am very happy and at ease in Empire, I feel at home, thank you. "
But I am the captain, the captain of the ark, and my crew and I should fall down on the way to open up the unknown world, instead of slowly decaying and dulling at home. "
The days at Empire were just a short stop, and now it's time to set sail again. Compared with the first time I set sail, this time is better... "
The sound and images stopped abruptly, the deep-diving ship exceeded the relay distance of the transfer station, and the antenna could only receive the last observation data, showing that the deep-diving ship was accelerating towards the critical layer.
Ten minutes later, the last bit of data exchange was unsustainable.
All avenues, one piece of silence. RS