Deep diving test port, control center-monitoring team.
In the space outside the control center, one hundred and twenty-two sets of antennas point to the gate of the abyss, and more relay stations and abyss communication arrays than these antennas operate day and night inside the dark gate. A seamless communication link continuously monitors the "world" below the gate at a very high cost of loss, not daring to miss it even for a second.
Today is the seventh day that the deep dive ship has completely lost contact. Like the previous six days, only clutter is transmitted from the antenna, and there is no orderly information that can be decoded. The gate of the abyss is like a frenzied vortex , there is no life at the bottom of the vortex.
However, the high-ranking Xiling Angel, who is in charge of the communication system and monitoring system, still dutifully waits in the work area of the monitoring team, focusing all his attention on the equipment in front of him, even if what comes from his ears is always the disorganized Interfering with the signal, this silver-haired, golden-eyed female angel dared not relax in the slightest—even though all she recorded during the six days was clutter.
According to the "dive" speed of the deep submersible ship and the rough calculation of the void model, if the deep submersible ship can survive, it should have arrived at the other side and sent back a message by now, and the delay in sending back the message may only be One: The deep diving ship has been completely destroyed, or although it successfully reached the other side, it unfortunately fell into the barbaric void without super civilization.
The apostles of Xiling will not be disturbed by negative emotions. Even the most basic soldiers are immune to various emotional and psychological abnormalities (unless they are attacked by special existences such as spirit snatchers or psychic assaulters), but even if the mind is tough Rutie, when they think of the possibility that the deep diving ship is completely destroyed and the ancestors have all died in battle, they still feel dejected.
"Zizi—"
As a senior researcher, Angel Xiling was not disturbed by the irritability in her heart. She just frowned and put bad thoughts into another process at the core of her thinking, while the main process was still paying attention to the monitoring equipment in front of her.
"Zizi—"
There seemed to be some orderly signals coming from the monitoring equipment, but they were quickly covered by clutter, and when I searched again, I couldn’t see anything. In the historical records, there were only a bunch of seemingly meaningless lines and irregular patterns. Combined garbled characters.
"Zizi—"
Just when the Xiling angel was about to switch the monitoring channel and temporarily forget the momentary expectation just now, the brief signal appeared again, this time it seemed to be more obvious than before, and a message was displayed on the recording system Small curves that are continuous and repeat within a certain range. "Zizi—Zizi—", the repeated orderly signals sounded as if hitting the core of thinking!
Signal! Orderly signal! This is an orderly signal from the other side!
The huge emotional shock seems to break through the threshold of rational thinking, but this is just a momentary illusion produced by the core of thinking. The duty officer kept calm at the first time. She did not cheer ecstatically, nor did she Calling her companion or superior, according to the regulations, she immediately connected to the host on duty in the control center, uploaded these short signals to the host, and used the latter's super computing power to start analyzing these short codes, and then she adjusted a One-third of the one-hundred and twenty-two sets of antennas focused all of them on the frequency band that received the signal just now, and tracked the signal source with one-third of the monitoring power of the entire control center. In the end, it seemed that it was not enough, so she added fifteen sets of antennas—so that signal appeared more clearly on the monitoring system.
This is not necessarily the news of the ancestors, it is very likely that it is just a call from the other side. After all, they have been doing this, and this time is probably just a coincidence. No conclusions can be drawn until the final facts cannot be determined. This is the professionalism that a technical worker must have, so Angel Xiling wisely kept calm after doing all this, just quietly waiting for the host to send back the crack information.
The wait didn't last long, but it seemed like a whole year had passed. With a slight system prompt, the cracked message appeared on the holographic projection in front of me. It was just a few short words. Seeing these words Words, Xiling Angel has no doubts:
"We're still alive."
Sandora and I were woken up from ** by an emergency communication at 4:30 in the morning. My sister and Qianqian were also woken up together. Of course, I believe Lin Xue should have received this reminder at her home too. A general "alarm", because I sensed a burst of irritability in my spiritual connection: it was the wake-up anger of a young lady who didn't get enough sleep and was woken up hastily.
But soon no one had any opinion on this emergency communication, because the news came from the deep diving port: the ancestor is still alive!
Even with the fastest void shuttle, it takes a whole hour to run from the capital of the empire to the deep diving port, and this time we don't need to attend any experiments in person, so the whole family who was awakened from sleep did not Instead of going to the deep diving port, he ran directly to the Shadow City Research Center, connected to the monitoring team of the deep diving port through the data network, and asked the other party to transfer the signal.
When a group of us rushed to the deep dive project department, Harlan and Abyss Xiling had already been waiting here, and Tavel's body was debugging a set of equipment in the center of the hall.
Seeing us appear, Harlan didn't say a word, just raised his finger and pointed at the holographic projection next to him.
There is only one sentence on the holographic projection: "We are still alive."
And under this sentence are dense data and charts, indicating the forwarding strength, receiving law, encoding method, etc. of this information. In addition, there are various data required for information source location and reverse transmission. I understand, but I know this is the key to deciphering this short piece of information and helping us connect to the other side.
"Only this sentence?" Sandora frowned and looked at Abyss Xiling, where Tavel was busy operating the equipment, so naturally she could only let the second expert on the scene speak.
"Well, it's been broadcast for three minutes in total, and the content is only this sentence," Abyss Xiling nodded. There was a red light on the big box behind her moving quickly, and there was a clear buzzing sound coming from the box. Obviously she also It is in the state of high-speed calculation: her body is not here. During the high-speed calculation, the spiritual network in the abyss area is actually active, and the current state of this big box is the result of massive data exchange. "The actual broadcast length should be longer than this, maybe It is the interference of the discontinuous band that affects the communication quality, so that your antenna can only receive the information for these three minutes, and because the antenna is not strong enough, the information sent from this side should not reach the other side. I don’t know if the other side is receiving it. The broadcast may be terminated at any time. Antenna strength and discontinuity interference... It's an unsolvable problem."
I ignored Abyss Xiling's exclamation, and saw that Tavel's busy work seemed to have come to an end, so I hurriedly asked: "How is it? Can you increase the strength of sending and receiving? What about filtering interference?"
"The sensitivity of all antennas has been raised to the highest level. Bubbles has also built a mainframe array to filter interference. The reception problem should be resolved soon, but the strength of the antenna... the strength of a single machine is difficult to continue to improve. Now the technology is limited. Theoretically, this is the case .”
Qianqian couldn't help crying at this moment: "Then what should I do?"
"Increase the number, multi-point broadcast, and channel overlap to improve the quality of communication. Although the cumulative number cannot fundamentally increase the broadcast intensity, it can greatly improve the clarity of the broadcast, allowing the relay stations on the critical layer of the abyss to use higher The power works, and the decoding on the other side will be easier," Tavel said quickly, "The subordinates have activated the communication systems of several other backup deep submersible ports, and Starfield is also connecting their detection stations online as soon as possible. Broadcasting several Abyss Gates at the same time will definitely make a difference. Theoretically, it is."
"However, the communication networks between the Protoss and the Empire are not directly connected. If you use an over-limit connection, you will have to go through the translation process. This is a loss in itself and reduces the coordination of the network," Abyss Xiling said, "This will affect the effect... and the Protoss The detection station is limited by its own structure when broadcasting. Its signal format is fixed. It may interfere with the signal broadcast by the empire, which will increase the workload of the relay station. Wait a minute, there is mine in the abyss area Deep dive port, I can start broadcasting from there, it only takes a few minutes to synchronize."
"Using the radio station in the Abyss Area..." I froze for a moment, with a strange expression on my face, "I dare not think about it before."
Sandora lowered her eyes and was thinking about other things, and then she raised her head: "Well, using the broadcast point in the abyss area is a good way, and it can greatly expand the channel, but there is a problem: the network in the abyss area and the empire Isn’t the network in the district absolutely isolated? How to synchronize? This kind of multicast can only work when it is synchronized. Although the data network of the Protoss and the data network of the Empire need to be translated, they are at least connected.”
At that time, I almost wanted to pick up the second half of the sentence as soon as my brain twitched: why can't it be mobile
However, considering that he might be killed by Sandora if he said this sentence, he didn't dare to say it.
"Isolation is to prevent me from being purified, so as long as I avoid purification..." Abyss Xiling glanced at me, then shrugged, "Of course, I know you definitely don't agree to let void creatures leave the imperial network, so there is a compromise , isolate the data link of the deep diving port from your main network, and synchronize this part of the data link with the network in the abyss area. After sending the information, restore the network, and remove it by the power of void creatures that may infiltrate from the abyss area. pollution. Although the steps are a bit cumbersome, a Xiling host with sufficient computing power can perform this process. You only need to pay a little risk and trust: are you willing to let your deep dive port data link open to the abyss area?"
She might have thought that Sandora would hesitate, but the latter nodded decisively: "Okay, no problem."
Noticing the surprised expression of Abyss Xiling, Sandora smiled: "During this time, the Abyss has been showing sincerity, and we can occasionally show trust. And it's just a deep diving port... The current power of the empire can also create a few new ones at any time, and the number of spare abyss gates is double digits."
This time, Abyss Xiling didn't have any more comments. I noticed that her figure suddenly dimmed a lot, and the big box behind her also emitted a brighter red light: she should be mobilizing resources in the abyss area.
This kind of network delivery is not a physical operation, but a data calculation based on a virtual environment. Just point a part of the telemetry antenna to a few specific coordinates in the abyss area, and then let the Xiling host perform calculations on the network to establish a temporary data exchange. platform, so everything was completed quickly: all the deep dive ports in the Empire Zone and the deep dive facilities in the Abyss Zone were temporarily connected into one, and a super-powerful broadcast system was formed in just ten minutes.
After the new system was built, Tavel took a few deep breaths solemnly, as if she, as an apostle of Xiling, also needed this way to calm her mood, then she straightened her face and sent the edited information Through this huge multipoint broadcasting system, it is sent to the "lower floor" of the gate of the abyss: "This is the Xiling Empire, the message has been received, please reply."
We still don't know how large-scale information exchange this fragile connection path can withstand, so instead of sending images or audio hastily, we sent a simple text with a self-decoding "dictionary" attached. It's for some kind of translation program on the other side: if they use a similar translation program.
According to the information received from the other side, the civilization on the other side should be able to understand the law of self-decoding. Anyway, multi-layered considerations are not a bad thing.
Then there was a long and difficult wait of several minutes, the message had been sent, and then all the antennas in the Empire Zone and the Abyss Zone would continue to broadcast the message to the opposite shore, and all we could do was wait: there was no effective enough There is no "send-receipt" method to refer to. No one knows whether this message has successfully reached the destination, and no one knows how long the "communication delay" is in the weird structure that separates the two sides of the strait. All you can do is wait until the reply arrives.
"This is the Starlink Federation. After receiving the message, say hello to the Xiling Empire."
A line of text suddenly appeared on the communicator, and there was a special mark under "Star Ring Federation", indicating that this word is not a noun with an exact meaning translated according to the decoding rules, but a "temporary name" that facilitates understanding and communication between the two parties , neither transliteration nor free translation.
The text was shaking on the communicator, which seemed to indicate that the people on the other side had the same excitement when sending this message.
The hard work of countless epochs finally ushered in the dawn at this moment... Connected! !
"Long live!!" Qianqian was the one who couldn't restrain her emotions the most, so she was the first to cheer. Under her influence, even a reserved person like her sister couldn't help being elated, and soon several of them succeeded. There was a mess, but Tavel and the experts on the scene remained calm: Although their eyes were equally burning, no one affected the work at hand.
"Okay, okay, there will be opportunities to celebrate in the future," I had to press my head to calm down the girl, and then while hugging the energetic girl who was still scurrying around, I turned my head to look at Tavel, "Ask about the ancestors."
Tavel revised and perfected the "dictionary" again based on the news sent from the other side, and then based on the information collected before and the information submitted by Abyss Xiling, he initially determined the best signal format for communicating with the civilization on the other side, and then sent out the first Two texts: "We are aware of the 'bridge building' related matters. Now one of our scientific research ships has been involved in turbulence and lost contact. Is it on your side?"
After the message was sent, there was another period of silence. After three minutes, something appeared on the communicator. I looked at the time and said to myself: three minutes of delay, a small part of which was consumed by layers of transfers and information transcoding. Coupled with the distortion effect of the abyss environment on "time", these things should be compensated by technical means, and the rest is probably the "hard delay" on both sides of the void. How long will this period last? One minute or two minutes? Can it be solved by technical means
A line of words was displayed on the communicator: "The spaceship was severely damaged, but the core remained, and the personnel on the spaceship were unharmed."
"Huh—" I took a deep breath, although I had seen the words "we are still alive" before, but this time I got a more affirmative answer, and my heart completely fell back.
Next, Tavel began to send messages one by one, sending our most concerned issues to each other in as concise a way as possible. This communication process was maddeningly slow: every sentence was delayed by several minutes!
This is simply unimaginable for people who are used to the convenience of the empire's data network. Even those who are used to the simple Internet on the earth will not be able to accept this kind of slow communication, but this is the "local shore" and the "opposite shore". The only way to talk. We, the high-ranking officials of the empire, gathered in front of the communicator. In front of our eyes were the best scientists of the empire, using the most advanced communication equipment in the void (should be the same on the other side), using the most concise information coding at present, and communicating for a few minutes. Difficult communication of a few words.
We dare not send too much information at a time, because according to the calculation of signal noise, once the amount of information exceeds a certain threshold, it is possible to burn down the relay station at the critical layer: that is our only reliance on communication with the other side, if it is burned , God knows when the next one will be deployed, we can't have another "accident".
"It feels like a group of aliens wearing power armor squatting in a cave to make fire." Qianqian was as creative as ever, and the metaphor she proposed was extremely novel but exquisite, "Can the ancestors survive on the other side? "
"I think it's okay," I watched Tavel struggling to communicate with the other side, and said casually, "The materials on the other side and this side are not 100% incompatible, and the civilization on the other side is also a super civilization, we all have a way to deal with Hei Suo With the wreckage of the deep diving ship on the other side, it should not be a big problem to feed a few survivors on the other side."
This difficult communication lasted for several hours, and we finally figured out what happened after the deep dive ship lost contact. RS