The smooth and smooth days lasted for a long time, which made me think that the days would continue in such a peaceful and peaceful way. The long-awaited "eat and sleep to tease the children, go to and from work to tease the children, feed the birds and walk the dog to tease the children, mix and The wonderful life of "eating, waiting to die and teasing the children" has arrived, but Tavel used a report one morning to cause ripples in the already peaceful life.
Today I was playing chess with the little crow, the chess pieces are figure crow gods and wild jingles, these little ones wear mini armor and uniforms, and act as chariots and horses on the chessboard-it looks weird, but this is the little guys One of the usual favorite pastimes.
I commanded a wild Dingdong to take a step forward on the chessboard, and then watched the hand-made little crow on the chessboard crackle and fight with the wild Dingdong, and finally the hand-made little crow that should be eaten according to the chess rules relied on physical skills The advantage kicked Wild Ding Dong off the chessboard... Don't be surprised, the chess rules in our family are so magical. Although other people play chess, who wins and who loses on the chessboard still depends on the ability of these little girls to play and fight , I really don't know how I am so excited to play with the little crow until now.
At this moment, I suddenly felt a movement in my heart, and Tavel's slightly hurried voice came from the spiritual connection: "Your Majesty, the news from the other side is from the ancestors."
"What's going on?" I heard that Tavel's tone was not normal, and realized that this was not the "homely" content like the previous few days, and suddenly frowned. Although the little crow on the opposite side didn't know what was going on, he could recognize the atmosphere, so he quickly put the hand-figured girls on the chessboard back into his hair, and watched curiously with a large group of wild jingles. with me.
Tavel didn't answer directly, but directly sent a sorted document. I read it quickly, and forcibly suppressed the fluctuations in my heart: "Does Sandora know? What about Harlan and the others?"
"It has been synchronously sent to all Xiling apostles at the general level and above," Tavier replied, "His Majesty Sandora suggested an emergency meeting, should we start now? Do you want a virtual meeting or..."
"Go to the headquarters of Shadow City, this matter is extraordinary," I quickly made a decision, and after a little hesitation, I decided to bring a few others with me, "By the way, inform Abyss Xiling and ask her to tell the apostle who meets the authority requirements They. They also have this qualification."
Tavel didn't express any doubts, and after a promise, he went to prepare for the venue. I turned around and saw a curious little face almost stuck to the tip of my nose, and the little crow rubbed against me affectionately: "Master, what happened?"
"Don't worry, it's not a bad thing." I rubbed the head of this ignorant but well-behaved bird. "The reason for the destruction of the hometown world has been found...it was discovered under such circumstances."
The little crow tilted her head and looked at me. Obviously, she didn't have much real understanding of this problem, so I had to pat the little girl's hair to let her wait at home, and then opened the portal to go to Shadow City: Sandora was originally In Shadow City, Qianqian and her sister should open the door and teleport there by themselves later—they are taking a walk outside right now.
As soon as the portal opened and before I had time to step in, I heard a crackling sound of bare feet stepping on the floor from the second floor, and then a drawn-out voice sounded from far and near: "Child—her dad—wait for me!" …”
I watched the mother of the loli-type child in a white dress pounce on her hungry tiger, raised her hand to catch her in mid-air, and then grabbed the house girl who was full of five poisons and dangled in the air: "Are you at this time?" Are you supposed to be working overtime in Shadow City? Didn't you say when you came back?"
Bubbles dangled twice in the air: "I just came back, of course the first thing to do is to say hello to the figurines in the room first, and then to you - but now the business is important, and the figurines can only be placed first. Let's go aside, the child's father, let's go!"
I:"… "
However, Pao Pao's occasional erratic behavior is considered normal, at least she can put down her handicrafts in front of major events, so I don't talk to her, just put the little girl in the armpit, and take a step Go through the portal.
As soon as I came out of the portal, I arrived at the headquarters of Shadow City. There were already many people sitting in the meeting room. Commanders with general and above authority and who are currently on standby in Shadow City are eligible to attend. I looked around and found my position, so I took the struggling child and her mother to the seat: Bubble, as the mother host, has special authority: she is not a general or a branch leader, but she is a database of all empires , so she has the right to know (but not necessarily the right to decide) on matters involving "confidentiality".
"Yo, Chen," I just sat down next to Sandora when I heard a carefree voice behind me, "I was called here too... why does it feel so strange? A half-assed apostle like me Does it count?"
"Who told you to be the leader of the clan? The system defaults that the leader of each clan has general authority. It can't happen that a certain clan is excluded from the circle of the empire." With a look of great interest on his face, "Anyway, it's nothing to let you know about this matter, and it will all be made public soon. But by the way... now you understand how I feel as an apostle of Xiling who has become a monk halfway. This is the first time I have participated in this kind of event." Clan meeting' doesn't it feel weird?"
"It's a little bit," Bingtis, as the weirdest "Apostle of Xiling" in history, could not help but show a little restlessness at this time. She straightened her dress and skirt and looked at me with a very serious expression, "Then you Look at the current appearance of the patriarch, is it appropriate?"
I looked at the rare and serious female hooligan: "Sure - but you put away the brick in your hand first."
"This is a notebook! My concubine is used to taking notes in meetings..." Bingtis just wanted to quibble, but accidentally touched the chain on the bottom of the "notebook", so she laughed dryly and put away her bricks amidst a clatter , and then his expression changed, "Is everything in the notice true? The demise of the home world is related to the last bridge building?"
I nodded silently and didn't speak anymore. At the same time, a twisted portal suddenly appeared in the air not far from me, and a beautiful silver-haired figure walked out of it briskly. It was Bella Villa.
"I thought you couldn't come." Harlan looked up at her, "Isn't Sylvia always in charge at this time?"
"If there are other things, I won't come, but today is different," Bella Villa smiled, while sitting in the seat of the emperor-level Xiling apostle, she looked at the people around her, and her eyes suddenly fell on a board. On the tall and thin man with a straight face: that is the leader of the fallen apostles who came with Abyss Xiling, Ivan Sain, "It seems that everyone who can come has come, even the 'old friends' in the Abyss area... It is a one-off Gala."
"There is also a meeting in the Abyss area." Abyss Xiling is three places away from me, she chuckled at this side, "It was 'broadcast' through me. Let's not discuss the 'orthodoxy' of the two empires for now." At least one sentence Chen Jun said is correct: Fallen apostles are also qualified to know these things, and the home world belongs to all of us."
"Everyone should be here." I looked up at the opposite seat, and found that there seemed to be two empty seats, "Why is the general seat free? This room should be automatically set up according to the specific attendees." ?”
As soon as the voice fell, two dumb hairs stood up with a "bo'er", and the voices of Pandora and Viska came from the "empty seat": "Brother, we are here!"
Me: "... Oh, everyone is here, let's get down to business."
"Everyone should have received the information." Sandora didn't talk nonsense, and said directly to the business, "This news came from the other side, and the sender was Ancestor Anses, and there is a guarantee of the authenticity of the news at the end of the document In addition, it has been confirmed through technical means that the signal source and the encryption process are all right, so it can be directly regarded as real information."
"If this news is true," I naturally took Sandora's words, "then our home world is very likely to be destroyed due to man-made reasons, and it is precisely because of an unsuccessful bridge."
Even though this news has already been released to the memory bank of everyone present, when I said this conclusion again, it caused a small buzz.
"This is the original text of the information." Sandora put the report that was divided into a dozen times before sending the complete report on the holographic projection so that everyone could see it. There is a 90% chance that the world is the 'new world' mentioned in the information."
I didn't look at the hologram because I knew what it said:
"... After further contact with the Star Ring Federation, the other party readily disclosed their database in the field of bridging, including various technical documents, as well as dossiers and files related to bridging. These technical materials should have been classified originally, but once The technology needed to 'build a bridge' is difficult to apply in other areas, and the harm of leaking out is actually limited. Secondly, we have been regarded as a 'technical partner', and it seems that we have gained a lot of trust...
…the technical documentation has been organized into multiple data packets, which will be forwarded to the Empire after the second relay station goes online, and we found something shocking in the historical dossier: due to the long period of the void cycle in each season, it is enough to produce Several super civilizations, so many civilizations tried to build bridges before the Starlink Federation. These civilizations that tried to build bridges are all extinct now, but the various records of their bridges have been preserved, and have been circulated in the civilization circle of 'this side' for a long time...
…there was a civilization that came closest to successfully building a bridge, and that civilization had the ability to launch the probe directly to the opposite bank, and ensure the survival of the probe after that, and the civilization was named Σ. Their detectors reached the other side, the void where the Empire and the Protoss resided, and discovered a 'new world' that was extremely suitable as a 'bridge pier', so they unilaterally activated the long bridge start...
…Because I don’t know enough about bridge construction, I don’t know that two start-up terminals and calibration are required to build a long bridge. This time, the closest successful bridge construction failed in the end. The "New World" was hit hard, and the Σcivilization was also hit by the abyss, and it never recovered. After 120,000 years, it was annexed by another super civilization that came from behind...
... This dossier mentions the basic situation of the 'New World', including space parameters, cosmological constants, material bands, and a star map. It is more than 90% similar to the hometown world in our memory...
...the imaginary picture of the 'Bridge of the Void' that collapsed back then (the exact information has been lost). The 'Gate of the Abyss' that destroyed the home world in the "Gate of the Abyss" is more than 90% similar... "
Afterwards, there were some more fragmented descriptions. Obviously, the ancestors would not be able to sort out too many well-organized things from those complicated and numerous ancient files. After all, they are mortals, not supercomputing units like Bubbles, but Even if the information is a bit messy at the moment, it is enough to reveal a lot of things.
"The situation is very clear," Sandora coughed lightly, "A very long time ago, even before the 'Star Ring Federation' on the other side and the empire on this side were far from being established, there were many bridges on the other side. Try, one of the civilizations called Σ was the void overlord on the other side at that time, they had superb deep diving technology, and they launched a probe to this bank-this just confirms the information we have from the Protoss: the home world was once A super-civilization visited, but the Protoss found no traces of super-civilization around their home world.
Now it seems that the Σcivilization doesn’t know enough about bridge construction, or they misunderstood the concept of “working at both ends” and thought that they could start the bridge construction by sending a probe here, so their bridge construction attempts failed So, a rift containing the power of the abyss was opened in the home world, which indirectly led to the 'primordial disaster', and Σcivilization itself became a funeral object in this process.
The truth that our family has been searching for so far may be true. "
Sandora still used the word "maybe" cautiously, but to be honest... I think this is the truth.
In fact, long before today, I had guessed about this aspect: the destruction of the home world was really strange, and the scenes before the end were also different from the normal abyss phenomenon, so I suspected it had something to do with "bridge building" from the very beginning.
But it has been so long since the destruction of the hometown world, even so long ago that the Xiling civilization, which was almost wiped out at the beginning, developed into the third god race in the void... For such a long time, the race that almost succeeded in building a bridge never appeared , The Void Long Bridge only exists in the blueprint so far, so there are only two possibilities: either my guess is wrong, the home world has nothing to do with the bridge, or... the civilization that tried to build the bridge in the first place is extinct.
Anyway, it definitely won't be the Starlink Federation on the other side - their deep diving technology obviously can't meet that standard.
After Sandora's voice fell, the scene fell into a short silence. I saw a lock of hair dangling behind the opposite table, so I asked, "Viska, if you have any comments, just say it."
"Oh," Viska jumped off the chair and stood up... In fact, there is no difference between standing and sitting. Since the chair is already very high, I can still see her combing her hair when she is sitting. Now I can only hear her at all. The voice came from under the table, "Brother, brother, what are we going to do? Revenge? But the civilization that built bridges in those days was completely extinct."
As expected, he was a war mad twin with Pandora, and the first thing he thought of was to fight over.
"As Viska said, the culprit of the original disaster has already destroyed himself, so the premise of 'revenge' does not exist." Harlan coughed lightly, and said slowly, "What I want to announce today is another matter : Amendments to the details of the original order."
Because I was just a "foreign apostle", I didn't realize what it was when Harlan mentioned the original order, but soon I remembered the concept of these four words, and I suddenly became horrified.
The initial instruction, the strongest obsession in the hearts of the Xiling people when they fled their hometown, was also the first course of action that was input when the first generation of apostles "primarch" was born. Momentum for action: Revenge.
Perhaps it is difficult for perceptual and changeable mortals to understand what this "initial order" means, but for the apostles of Xiling, the importance of the initial order even exceeds their lives!
Revenge, endless revenge against the culprit who caused the "original disaster", has been driven by hatred to this day, ignited by hatred, but not swallowed by hatred, but controlled the power of hatred to allow himself to evolve step by step to today, Everything is to avenge the culprit, even if the opponent is something that can never be destroyed, even if the opponent is a "natural phenomenon" in the void, continue to fight, this is the original order.
Before today, the object of revenge in the hearts of the apostles of Xiling was "the abyss", which was simple and clear, but now the object of revenge has suddenly become complicated: it is indeed the abyss, but the abyss is only a part of it. There are so many causes and effects: the long-extinct super civilization, the failed bridge-building attempt, the collapsed gate, the out-of-control abyss... The original simple end of the world has finally been reduced to a complex and huge operation, and the demise of the home world It's just a trivial "small problem" in this operation!
"The core of the original order was 'revenge', but now the target of our revenge has perished, and the abyss is just a small factor in that 'accident', it is not qualified to be the person responsible for the whole thing," said Shando La Shensheng said, "Therefore, there was a conflict between the original order and the status quo. According to the corresponding logic left by the ancestors, it can be considered that the condition of 'revenge' is missing and has terminated."
"Free the race from the obsession with 'revenge'?" A sly gleam flashed in Bella Vila's eyes, and she seemed to guess what Sandora meant, "Then our long-term war with the abyss..."
"This war will never stop. As long as the world of order is still under the threat of the abyss, Xiling civilization will continue to move forward," Sandora looked at Bella Villa, "but our initial motivation is no longer the obsession with revenge , but a more earthy, simpler, and longer-lasting force: the defense of order and the glory of the empire. This is also what the ancestors meant—but they did not force us to modify the original order as creators, they just proposed the above Proposal. Let’s vote now. This may be the smallest meeting of emperors in history, and it is also the meeting with the largest number of participants. Those with authority above the general level have the right to vote. This vote is of great significance. The revision of the original order, Is there any objection?"
(Recommend a book, "The 4.6 Billion Ensemble of Evolution", which will tell you stories about extraterrestrials... Well, actually, I want to call it the chronicle of extraterrestrial ecology. Those who are interested in science fiction can go and read it, In addition, give the author a lot of encouragement, I feel that this book should have better results.) RS