All avenues, one piece of silence.
The deep submersible ship has completely disappeared within the broadcasting range of all transfer stations. The communication antenna automatically increased its power to the maximum, but there was only silence in response to the control center. The communicator displayed an alarm sign of no signal, and another station next to it recorded The device displayed the data packets received from the deep diving ship. The last data packet failed to be transmitted successfully, but 90% of the data arrived completely.
The hall was unusually quiet, and many eyes were on our side. I knew they were waiting for an order, but Sandora next to her remained silent, so she could only take a step forward by herself: "Collate the data of this deep dive, The tracking records including the status of the deep diving ship and the changes of the gate of the abyss must be collected. Upload the last data packets to the main network, and use the computing power of the main network to solve the situation of the discontinuous zone as soon as possible. Tavel, You analyze this accident based on the tracking records of the deep diving ship... Anyway, give a conclusion."
I can only assign to this level: I can't figure out anything more professional.
Sandora took a deep breath at this time, her expression calm as usual: "Before the final conclusion comes out, it will be regarded as an accident for the time being. Tavel, hurry up to manufacture a new deep-diving ship, and this time we must express the new deep-diving boat with the discontinuous zone." Factors of variation are taken into account.”
"Yes, your will." Tavel's body appeared in front of us, saluting solemnly, the vision under the plain glasses was as indifferent as water, but if you look carefully, you will find that there seems to be a flame burning deep in her eyes : This is the annoyance, self-blame and flaming motivation instinctively produced by the top person in charge of a scientific research project after encountering such a vicious accident.
"That's it, let's follow the worst case plan for the rest, and we have practiced it on weekdays." Sandora waved her hand to the hall, "Continue to work, and the remaining few shallow detection projects today will be handed over to the automatic Observatory."
After giving these orders, we left the experimental base.
Tavel organized a meeting that day to judge the accidents encountered by the deep dive ship based on the last collected data. The data packets sent before the complete loss of contact contained complete self-inspection records of the spacecraft. The meeting lasted for several hours, and the conclusion was expected by everyone: we don’t know enough about the discontinuity zone, and its fluctuations are irregular. It is an accident that the deep-diving ship encountered its most irregular fluctuation.
I was sitting on the sofa in the living room in a daze, while my sister was ecstatically watching the blue sky and white clouds outside by the window. The house is very quiet. Although those brats didn't go to the experimental base, they could tell from the atmosphere at home that there was a big problem in the experimental base, so they all behaved extraordinarily well-behaved and quiet, and most of them were in their respective rooms on the second floor Stay still, even the bastard fox is no different at this time, she lay on the side docilely, rolled up a glass of water with her tail and handed it to me: "Master, drink water."
I took the water glass and saw pet biscuits soaked in it, so I put it on the coffee table again: "Forget it, I'm not hungry."
Then go on in a daze.
I don't know how long it took, but I felt a figure walking over unhurriedly from the side, and a tender white foot in slippers in my sight kicked me lightly on my leg: "By the way, you wouldn't do this Just be depressed to the point of looking for death and life? Can the big man take care of you a bit?"
When I looked up, I saw that it was Lin Xue, followed by the bear kid Wang Xiaoxue, so I beckoned them to sit down next to me: "I have seen so many life and death, how can I be so fragile, I was just thinking about a question... Well, quite Important issues."
"Problem?" Lin Xue pulled her daughter to sit down on the left side of the sofa while talking, but Xiaoxue cleverly crawled to the other side with her hands and feet, and surrounded me with her mother from left to right. I thought you were depressed."
"It's a little depressed, after all, I've known the old man for so long." I nodded, rubbing Xiaoxue's hair unconsciously, "But the accident has already happened, and now we should consider the follow-up work and preventive measures. Delaying major events. And to be honest, the ancestors may not necessarily have no possibility of surviving, I was thinking about this just now."
"You mean to cross the critical layer in the middle?" Lin Xue saw that I did not look depressed, but was actively looking for ideas and inspiration, with a relieved look on my face, "Indeed, according to Abyss Xiling's conjecture After crossing the critical layer, it is equivalent to half stepping into the 'opposite shore', the nature of the order and abyss will gradually change, and the abyss of the 'opposite shore' will not be so harmful to the products of the 'local shore'. There is no way for deep diving ships Breaking through the discontinuity on the main shore, but if you go all the way... it is not impossible to survive the desperate situation."
"Yes, as long as it can break through the critical layer, the survival rate of the deep submersible ship is very high. It has more than ten layers of protection. As long as the core area is not completely 'extinguished', it can still move." I felt confident gradually, "The only problem now is: how to determine whether the deep-diving ship has successfully reached the other side? Even if the chance is only 1%, we have to find a way to confirm it."
Lin Xue pinched her chin and fell into thought, with a very serious expression on her face. I noticed a flash of white light in her eyes, but in the end she shook her head: "I may not be able to help, the ability of prophecy can't help When it comes to the other side, you can’t even see the slightest bit of information.”
Of course, I didn't expect Lin Xue to rely on the prophecy to confirm this matter, I just mentioned my thoughts to her, and at this time I suddenly remembered something: "By the way, didn't you vaguely predict once before the deep dive?" ? The result of the prediction is that the deep dive was 'successful'?"
"Yes, I'm also thinking about what this prophecy represents." Lin Xue's eyes narrowed slightly, "My prophecy will only be blurred, or there will be misunderstandings due to the understanding of the prophesied scene, but there will be absolutely no mistakes. So the facts will not be contrary to the prophecy. The goal of today's deep dive is to collect the data of the discontinuous zone, and the premise is the survival of the deep diving ship. Now the data of the discontinuous zone has been collected in excess, and the rest is the deep diving ship Survival... I made a prophecy on this basis and the conclusion was 'experiment successful'."
"That is to say, the deep diving ship is still alive?" I used a cautious tone, after all, it has something to do with the "opposite shore", and everything seems uncertain.
"It can only be said that it should still be alive before it crosses the critical layer. The validity of the prophecy lasts until the moment it touches the critical layer. One more step is the thing on the other side, which is beyond my 'vision'," Lin Xue exhaled. , "So we must hope that the model of Abyss Xiling will not make mistakes. And even if her model is correct, the abyss on the 'other shore' is less harmful to things on the 'local shore', and it cannot be said to be completely safe: no matter how small the harm is It is also dangerous, and with the dilapidated state of the deep diving ship, it is also very challenging to sail for such a long time."
"If they really made it to the other side alive, how can we be sure?"
"So I have ordered a large number of communicators to be placed at the gate of the abyss, and continue to send transfer stations to the depths," Sandora's voice suddenly came from the side, "In addition, the protoss and the abyss Xiling have already agreed, They will put their own detectors under every abyss gate within their sphere of influence, and as long as there is news from the other side, they will receive it immediately."
"Even if the deep-diving ship survives to the other side, it won't be able to send signals here?" I was a little puzzled, "The antenna of that spaceship is not so powerful, and it is almost broken."
"What we want to receive is the signal from the civilization on the other side, not from the deep diving ship," Sandora laughed. "The deep diving ship has a high probability of appearing within the sphere of influence of the civilization on the other side. According to the current understanding of them, they The ancestors should be rescued. As for whether the spaceship will land in the barbaric void far away from the civilized area... it is out of the scope of consideration. I discussed with Abyss Xiling just now, and she judged the distance between the two sides based on the signals received from the other side and the drifting objects. The mapping relationship should be "fuzzy correspondence". Although the void is infinite, a deep-diving device launched by a super civilization to the gate of the abyss is very likely to emerge from the territory of the super civilization on the other side. This seems to have something to do with information mapping, but The specific mapping formula is still being calculated. In addition, there has been a certain degree of information exchange between the opposite bank and the local bank. Although it is intermittent, it also enhances the degree of information correlation between the two. The chances of a submersible appearing in the wild are slim."
I listened to the conclusion brought by Sandora, and I also agreed in my heart: Indeed, the void is infinite, it is infinite in the true sense, no matter how powerful the empire and the gods are, it is about zero compared with the entire void, then the "opposite shore" What are the chances that the probes launched by civilization to the "home shore" will be found by the empire or the gods
It is as if there is a needle on the front and back of an extremely wide piece of cardboard. These two needles pierce the cardboard at the same time. In the case of pure luck, how likely are they to meet halfway
If there is no "fuzzy correspondence" mapping relationship, purely from the perspective of probability, the probability of the detector launched on the other side being found by the empire will be infinitely close to zero, even if the other side is launching a detection when it roughly has the coordinates of the old empire However, they were lucky enough to establish contact with the empire at first... so no matter what, I believe that this kind of "fuzzy correspondence" relationship exists. Get in touch with super civilization.
Sandora and I didn't think about the situation where the deep dive ship has been completely destroyed or drifted to no man's land, because in that case all efforts would be meaningless. Rather than giving up like this, we would rather use the existing theory To catch even the slightest bit of hope. Looking at Sandora's blue eyes as calm as water, I thought of one thing: "It is still difficult to establish communication with the other side, and the probability of receiving the signal from the other side by means of enhanced antennas and relay stations is still too low—if this works, let's I have successfully contacted the other party before."
"So I asked them to set up a relay station when they crossed the critical layer," Sandora mentioned the last thing she confessed to Ansers at the time, "I don't know if the power of the relay station carried by the deep diving ship is enough, but that It is already the most advanced equipment that the empire can manufacture. If it is only used for information forwarding, it is stronger than the antenna of the deep submersible ship itself. In theory, through the signal enhancement and layer-by-layer transfer here, we can receive The relay station information from the critical layer, and if the abyss communication technology on the other side is sufficient, they should also be able to contact the relay station... through its relay, we may be able to contact the other side."
I nodded: This is one of the important goals of the Deep Dive Project—to set up a relay station on the critical layer that can be used for cross-strait communication. It's just that we can't try this goal in our plan until at least half a year later.
"If it succeeds, it would be a blessing in disguise." Xiaoxue kept silent, but at this moment she suddenly arched her arms in my arms and muttered sullenly, "The project that was supposed to start half a year later can be brought forward today." Completed. After contacting the other side, we are preparing to build a bridge. Anyway, our side is ready, and the other side started earlier, so it should have been ready long ago."
The three elements of bridging: the start-up terminal, a stable void environment, and simultaneous communication between the two sides of the strait. Now the two elements are ready, and the last one is missing.
I suddenly remembered one thing, that is, before officially cooperating with Abyss Xiling, the empire observed that the frequency of abyss activities in the void has been significantly reduced for several months, and the void in a considerable range has entered a calm period. I don't understand what's going on, but now that I think about it, I figured it out: It turns out that it was the final stage of Abyss Xiling's "great cause" from then on.
"Okay, at least it's easier now," I stood up, and stomped my feet briskly, as if to shake off the dull atmosphere that was pressing on me before, "Things are not that bad, waiting for the good news from the other side Bar."
Lin Xue lay down on the sofa, and her tone became brisk: "Ms. Ben has a hunch that there will be good news."
At this moment, I suddenly felt someone tugging on my trousers: "Master."
Looking down, she turned out to be a bastard fox: She had been lying quietly until now, and at this moment she felt that we had finally finished talking about the business before raising her head. It was the first time I met this guy who was so honest, so I naturally became kind to her: "What's wrong?"
"Is the business done?"
"Well, it's basically the end of the discussion."
"Then can I express my opinion?"
"Uh... you say."
Master Hu Immortal immediately shouted: "Patriarch, you stepped on my tail just now, it hurts, it hurts—"
A group of golden fur balls, dazzling like a little sun, jumped up and down around the entire living room, yelling and yelling as they ran. The few of us were stunned to watch this bastard's crazy behavior, and the expressions on our faces were collectively sunny to cloudy...
But just when I was about to hold that guy down and educate her, Lin Xue softened her heart: "Forget it, maybe she just thinks the atmosphere is too dull and wants you to be happy."
Me: "..." It really belongs to the style of this bastard.
The accident of the deep diving ship dealt a big blow to the entire bridging plan, and also revealed to us the irregular and unpredictable side of the abyss in a more straightforward way. Even the experts and scholars of the Protoss were confused and moved Frustrating, but it's got to go on anyway, and as long as the Void Cataclysm hangs over all worlds of Order, no sacrifice will stop us from building bridges.
Strengthen the interception of signals on the other side, improve the structure of the deep-diving ship, analyze the specific strength of the discontinuity zone and formulate corresponding solutions. After the accident, various tasks have been carried out in an orderly manner. Although there is still no news from the ancestors, everyone They all cheered up and faced those challenges again with more high-spirited fighting spirit.
It's just that before the assembly of the new deep-diving ship is completed, all "dive" projects have to be postponed for half a month to a month.
On this day, I settled down a group of young people at home, and led Pandora and Viska to the research institute.
The two one-meter-twos are not interested in scientific research and the like. At this time, they would rather carry their guns to the border of the empire to find trouble with the "New Army". Abyss Xiling is firmly suppressed, and all worlds in contact with the empire have surrendered, and due to the "feat" of Abyss Xiling, there is almost no too strong abyss activity in the entire void that the empire can observe. Naturally, there was no such thing as a purification expedition, so the two 1.2 meters were completely idle. These two little guys are prone to problems if they are idle for a long time, so bringing them to the research institute is purely to lead the younger sister to relax.
At least they should be interested in the new weapons of the research institute, right
Sure enough, the two little girls were quickly attracted by the new things in the weapon design department, and they ran away without a trace, and I found Tavel, who was busy in the deep diving project department in real body, and was here without accident I saw Abyss Xiling.
What people didn't expect was that Sheila was here too.
"We are studying the void model of Abyss Xiling, and by the way compare it with the discontinuous data collected before," Sheila said as soon as she saw me, and then pointed to Abyss Xiling, "Her model is already perfect, This time, the size of the discontinuous zone has been determined, and the approximate energy consumption of the bridge should be estimated.”
Before, because we didn't know how "wide" the void structure was that separated the two sides of the strait, we didn't even know how much energy consumption was needed to build the bridge. How much energy input.
I greeted Tavel and Abyss Xiling, and asked Xila casually: "Why didn't you pester Xingchen today?"
"Him? Your messy Tinker Bell completely killed the World Tree, and Xing Chen went to rescue the scene in person. Tsk tsk, that little thing is really big."
"This deep-diving accident reminded us," Tavel said bluntly after I sat down and talked about professional issues, "The chaos of the abyss is reflected in all aspects, including the aspects we think we have mastered its laws. Its only law is that there is no law. Even if the discontinuous zone is constantly approaching the real world as a whole, its irregularity will be reflected in this process. It is no longer possible to describe the discontinuous zone in any descriptive and repeatable mathematical language. gone."
"It means don't try to get through the discontinuity zone by taking advantage of the rules or prescribing the right medicine," Sheila explained next to her, "The only way is to fight hard, like United I, with a strong enough shield to resist the past." .In addition to this, it is not advisable to bypass the danger according to the operation law of the discontinuous zone."
"So I came up with a new structure for the deep dive ship," Abyss Xiling floated over, "I found inspiration from a 'Black Shuttle' you captured."
So I leaned forward and started researching a new deep dive ship with two and a half experts (Sheila counts as half)... RS