Abyss Xiling spent a lot of effort to explain the existence form and construction method of the startup side, many of which are abstract and difficult to understand proper nouns, but in the end I can still roughly understand what's going on:
The activation end is a set of things that are different from any existing technology. It is neither technology, nor magic, nor is it the magic of the Protoss or other mysterious knowledge. The technology required to build the activation end does not belong to any kind of technology that can be The classified "technical tree" seems to be closer to the origin of the void, so it is very likely that it was invented by the void creatures on the other side in the previous season, and it is not the product of any mortal or god race anyway. But now its inventor has been erased by the cataclysm, and no one knows what the real principle of the startup is.
We only have some processing plans, and we can only follow them.
Therefore, Abyss Xiling had to choose to use the heart of the world as the material to make the starting end, because she didn't know what other "materials" could be used besides the heart of the world, and she didn't even know what the heart of the world would bear in the process. The function is not very clear-the essence of the heart of the world is a bunch of abstract data, but the starting end finally presents a physical form. The process in the middle is a mystery. Abyss Xiling observed the whole process, but it is completely unable to understand it.
Perhaps the void creatures can understand this process from their own special perspective (after all, it may have been thought of by a smart compatriot on the other side at first), but now there is obviously no time for me and the other two seniors to study it slowly.
"So the 'blueprint' for manufacturing the start-up end comes from the other side?" I looked at Abyss Xiling, "You didn't make it clear before."
"The basic part comes from the other side." Abyss Xiling nodded frankly, "But you also know that the communication back then was not as convenient as it is now... In fact, it was not considered a connection. I saw the basic manufacturing method of the starting end from the drifting database from the other side. , and this method is not complete, only the core part, and it is the core part that is incomprehensible, and it took several years to verify whether it is harmful. In addition to this core part, other components on the startup side It’s all something I’ve slowly figured out over the years.”
"You are really good," I smacked my lips. "So you collect the world heart as a raw material because you don't know if other things work or not? Wait. So the star ring federation on the other side also manufactures the startup terminal in this way?"
"They can use a more...humane method." Abyss Xiling sighed, "They started very early, at least millions or even tens of millions of years earlier than us, so they can slowly customize some eligible blank worlds .Then extract the heart of the world in a harmless situation. And they also have time to artificially create a quiet zone. Place those artificially created blank worlds on the nodes as 'sacrifices', which do not require sacrifice. But I don't After a long time, I found some omens after waking up. A catastrophe is brewing. Although the time is unknown, I know that I can't wait any longer. Coupled with the change of thinking mode after the abyss infection, I adopted a more 'efficient' method."
"Should we directly use the ready-made universe as a sacrifice..." I think it is better to stop this topic. "Let's not discuss this. Anyway, the core of the startup side is finished now, right? There is no time for you to create a new one. —And your 'high-efficiency means' is definitely not allowed to be used anymore, what are you going to do?"
"Even if I have to collect the Heart of the World again," Abyss Xiling spread his hand helplessly, "It requires a precisely customized Heart of the World, and it will take a long time to select these raw materials from the entire void, and it is not enough It will definitely be found. I said that I use an efficient method, which is also compared with the other side. Generally speaking, it takes a long time. So what we can do now is... Find an alternative method as soon as possible. In the end, the heart of the world is just The state of entanglement of information, it is not difficult to artificially create a false entanglement body, but we are not sure how it works when synthesizing the core of the startup end... So I plan to use artificially synthesized false information entanglement bodies to replace the heart of the world."
Harlan was quite worried: "Can it be so simple? It sounds like a whimsical plan."
"I have failed before," Abyss Xiling admitted the previous failure experience frankly, "I considered looking for a substitute from the beginning. After all, if I can artificially synthesize a substitute, the efficiency will be much higher, but several tests at that time failed. Oh... Maybe this road is very difficult, so after many years of trying on the other side, I can only choose to slowly cultivate raw materials by building the world in large quantities, but this road is not necessarily a dead end. To be reasonable? It’s just an information entanglement body. What’s the difference between the heart of the world and the man-made entanglement body? I think that as long as you understand the difference between them, you can solve everything.”
I don't know if it's an illusion, but from Abyss Xiling's tone, I heard a feeling of broken jars.
It seems that she has realized that the collapse of the startup core is an irreparable loss. Even if the Protoss and the New Empire don't stop her, she can't use the so-called "efficient means" to recreate a core before the catastrophe arrives, so she just I can hope for the "shortcut" that has no hope at all, and it is a shortcut that has failed.
I can see that her broken pot is broken, and of course other people on the scene can too. Xing Chen took a deep look at Abyss Xiling: "The idea is good, but the success rate seems to be worrying... But the Protoss and the New Empire If you help me to experiment together, it should still be possible to succeed, after all, you didn’t fully prove that this road won’t work, maybe you just lack of help.”
Abyss Xiling's face remained unchanged, but his eyes seemed to brighten a bit: "I hope so."
"But I think you should have a backup plan," Sandora said suddenly, "A qualified decision maker shouldn't put all hope on one path—what if the 'shortcut' really doesn't exist?"
"Then forcibly activate the startup terminal of the current broken version," Abyss Xiling looked at the holographic projection in the center of the room, his eyes sharpened, "The core collapsed, but I can use a huge amount of external mathematical rate equipment to forcefully activate it. Then use the power of all ethnic groups to suppress the gate of the abyss. The main function of the core part is to ensure the stability of the giant gate of the abyss before the long bridge is connected. This process will not take long. We may not be able to do it alone. But how about all three void creatures and all our high-tech equipment? Maybe it can last until the door is opened. And even if it fails... Even if it fails, it can create a short-term connection between the two sides of the void, which can greatly relieve the void Unbalanced on both sides, the catastrophe will be delayed for a long time, at least we have the opportunity to continue testing other ways. However, this delay can only work once, and now this broken start-up terminal cannot withstand more tossing, A few more times and it might just fall apart."
This is a fallback method. But situations are stronger than people. Everyone present could only accept this compromise.
"Let's talk about the situation at the starting end first. The situation is not good, but it's not all helpless," Sister Sheila found the atmosphere a bit dull. Immediately clap your hands to get everyone's attention. "Then let's talk about other things—Abyss Xiling, you said there was other bad news? What happened to the core of tranquility? It seems that that place was also blown up?"
Me: "..." Miss, are you really trying to adjust the atmosphere? You might as well let us continue to study the startup side!
"The core of tranquility is no longer tranquil." Abyss Xiling showed helpless expressions much more today than before. "Actually, you should have guessed it. Which universe could withstand such a violent big bang at that time? The whole world was almost destroyed. It was torn apart. The world barrier was nearly scrapped by the force of the void, a large number of celestial bodies disintegrated into information elements, and the underlying data of the entire world was as chaotic as it was... It was almost like encountering vicious abyss pollution, and the end of the world was about to happen."
As she spoke, she adjusted the holographic projection in the center of the room, and the current appearance of the Serenity Core suddenly appeared on it. At least the distorted starry sky is intact, but the quiet core now...
The starry sky has dimmed. I don’t know how many celestial bodies were deleted by the void in the big explosion that day. The remaining starlight is distributed in space in an irregular structure. The frequency spectrum is chaotic and the structure is crazy, like a severely disturbed TV screen .
Large and disturbing shadows drift slowly in the background of the starry sky. These shadows are not simple dark bands. If you observe carefully, you can see very complicated things from the shadow bands. They are some distorted lines with extremely Dim colors, it looks like galaxies have been squeezed into long strips and squeezed into them.
And in the next picture, we also see a huge empty area in space: although the surrounding stars are thin, there are at least celestial bodies, but in that abnormal empty area, the universe seems to be chewed out by a giant beast of nothing.
"The star collapsed, the mass leaked, and the original material balance was broken. The whole world is still experiencing huge turmoil. It may take many, many years before the new balance is established. It is also possible that the new balance will never be established. Those dim Stripes are celestial bodies that have been squeezed into other dimensions, and they can no longer be found. All we can see are the last silhouettes they left in this world before they were squeezed into other dimensions," Abyss Xiling sighed, " That big empty area that you last saw was even worse, it was a black object—you all know how rare black objects are, but the core of tranquility now has black objects on a scale that is equivalent to several galaxies connected together. It is the result of the lack of order, it can be said that the order there has almost been shattered, and now we can only use the sovereign hub to forcibly restrain it, so as not to cause the world to fall apart."
Tavel was the most qualified expert present, and she directly told everyone the consequences of this situation: "It means that the security center can no longer undertake the task of 'opening the door'."
Abyss Xiling nodded: "We can regard bridge building as a common bridge project. It requires two very strong 'bridge piers'. The core of tranquility is the bridge piers on our side. It took me a long time to carefully adjust This world, but the big bang disrupted the balance of the core of tranquility... The team of experts is still trying to save that universe, but it is still 'dead'."
Although I don't really understand those things that are too professional, I instinctively think that a separate universe is better than the startup side. After all, the latter is made of countless world hearts as raw materials, and it also uses on technology. After all, the Tranquility Core is the result of the adjustment of Abyss Xiling. It should not be too difficult technically, at least Abyss Xiling is fully aware of the whole process.
However, Abyss Xiling could only spread his hands and shake his head after hearing my guess: "It's not that simple. It is not difficult technically to prepare a quiet core, but it takes time. Everyone still remembers the process of building a bridge? We need to create a quiet core. Opening a huge abyss door, this door may be even bigger than the giant abyss that destroyed the old empire back then, so the "open door world" will be under great pressure. In order to relieve this pressure, except in a large void To create a calm environment within the scope is to build a "quiet core". I use the lazy abyss to subtly transform the suitable universe, let it gradually adapt to the abyss environment, and even become a kind of space between the orderly world and the lazy abyss. Only in this way can it persist in the 'opening stage' of bridge construction. This kind of transformation takes a long time. Moreover, it also has high requirements on the world structure, and not any world can do it—it must be stable enough from the beginning, and it must be With just the right scale and information capacity, it will take a long and painful run-in after the door of the abyss appears inside it to persist until the inertization of the abyss is completed. Another point: even we cannot control the phenomenon of the door opening of the abyss. The appearance of the door of the abyss is Random. Creating a Tranquility Core is more like a stroke of luck: not only must the world parameters be right, but also the Gate of the Abyss happens to appear, and the scale of the Gate of the Abyss must be not too big or small. It is not easy for me to build a Tranquility Core.”
I couldn't help but smack my lips when I heard such a lot of restrictions: "It's equivalent to winning the lottery hundred times?"
Sandora immediately glared over with a vicious look.
Okay I know I'm getting down to business now. But it’s not like I lost the chain when I complained occasionally. I really felt this kind of emotion: When I first saw the core of tranquility, I just felt that the universe was so strange, but I never thought that it would consume so much energy of Abyss Xiling!
If we really regard bridge building as an ordinary civil engineering project, then the starting point is the piers on both sides of the bridge, and the large-scale empty and calm area is the river bank with geological standards. What about the role of the "peaceful core" in the universe? Should it be something like a foundation, or a cement grouted column that connects the bridge piers to the river bank? By the way, I don't seem to know much about civil engineering...
"There is only one Tranquility Core?" Sandora bit her lower lip, the difficulty of the situation made Her Majesty feel quite dizzy, "It sounds like this kind of universe is really not easy to build, but you have prepared one for so many years Tranquility core?"
"There are indeed two spare universes, and they are also called 'Tranquility Cores'. Dragging them to the Calm Zone can replace No. 1 Tranquility Core," Abyss Xiling replied, but before everyone became happy, she splashed A basin of cold water, "I have to remind you, since it is an alternate universe, there must be flaws, and you also know how uncontrollable the process of modulating the core of tranquility is, it is not something that can be mass-produced, but more like an original handmade product , so the quality of each Tranquility core is uneven, and the other two backup universes are barely usable—I am a little bit sure if the startup side is intact, but now we may have to forcefully build a bridge when the startup side core crashes, Inferior bridge piers with bean curd foundation, you are willing to die, I am too lazy to bury... "
Me: "... where did you learn this weird way of speaking?"
"Your database, didn't you give me some reading permissions last time and suggested that I learn the rules here?" Abyss Xiling looked at this side, "It is said that it is helpful to integrate here, but I find it useless. People still reject me, but it's a fun way to talk."
I immediately wanted to complain again, but I didn't dare to speak because I was worried that I would be bitten half to death by Sandora, but even if I didn't speak, I was punched by Sandora: "Ah Jun, you can't stop after you finish your business." Add a bunch of weird 'personal hobbies'?"
I laughed dryly: "Heh... talk about business, talk about business."
Abyss Xiling spread her hands: "The business is over, there is only so much bad news, do you want more?"
I couldn't help showing a look of anticipation: "... Then there is no good news?"
"This one really doesn't exist."
I:"… "
Sister Sheila looked up at the ceiling, and after a few seconds, she suddenly let out a long sigh: "We have worked so hard together, and now we have to rely on luck to bet on whether we can survive this catastrophe? To be honest, I don't like this feeling very much. "
"I don't like anyone, but the situation is stronger than others," Xingchen couldn't see any pressure on his face until now, and he didn't know if it was pure magnanimity or his emoticon package was not full, anyway, it was always the kind of neither arrogant nor impatient I can't say it's all luck. After listening to it, I feel that there is still a lot of room for us to maneuver, and even in the worst case, the catastrophe can be postponed for a while—Abyss Xiling Didn’t I say that the forced activation of the activation terminal also has a certain effect, as long as there is still room for buffering, everything is possible, we can discuss it with our compatriots on the other side to see what they can do.”
"That's right," Sheila scratched her hair, "Their inheritance is much stronger than ours."
"That's it, the meeting is adjourned today," I stood up, "...the amount of information is too much, I have to go back and sort it out."
Everyone nodded one after another, expressing that they wanted to go back to stroke, and soon everyone left.
Only me, Sandora, and Abyss Xiling are left in the huge room, and we still have something to talk to her about.
(If you are interested in buying physical books, you can go to the bar to have a look. The first batch has special codes, and the physical books have been rewritten =.= For details, please refer to the previously announced rewriting plan) (To be continued...) RT