The black exterior, the unremarkable outer shell, the weird pile of irregular spheres, the overall appearance of the indescribable style... This thing looks strange, but I am not unfamiliar with it at all, because it Just recently I brought it back with my own hands.
In the world of refuge, this is what is stored in the storage of the God's Forge - the mysterious device that Abyss Xiling tried his best to protect tens of thousands of years ago, but no one knows its true function.
Is this thing a "substitute" to solve the startup dilemma? ! Can it replace the boot-side core? !
"Do you know what it is for?" I stared for a long time, then turned my head and looked at Tavel in disbelief, "This thing can replace the core of the boot end? It looks ugly..."
"Don't judge anything by appearance, why do you still have such a bad habit?" Abyss Xiling's voice suddenly came from the side, "As my father, you should be more fair and wise... Although I was quite supportive at first. Surprised, I didn’t expect that what I preserved back then was such an important thing—it was the start-up end of the manufacturing on the other side, um, it’s just the core part.”
Sandora and I both have expressions like this: 0_0!
"Yeah... the launcher made by the other side?!" I exclaimed after a few seconds, "Are you sure?! This thing is... damn it, it looks so ugly, but it's the launcher made by the other side! ?”
"It's true, my subordinates have found conclusive evidence inside this device," Tavel nodded vigorously beside him, "although it feels unbelievable to just put it in front of you. And it doesn't look like it in appearance …but it’s really the launch-side core.”
I quickly waved my hand to ask Tavel to pause for a while, because my thoughts are rather chaotic and I need to smooth it out. Much needed to be touched! Looking at that big lump (it is so ugly that it can be described as "bump") and strange-shaped things in space, I can't imagine that I accidentally found a startup core from the other side! How did it survive to this day? No... It should be said how could it exist? ! When did the other side launch such a brutal thing this way? How can the star ring federation on the opposite side have such superb technology? They have to rely on luck to throw a detector here! And it doesn't look like the equipment made by the other side, the style seems to be deviated...
But in any case, it is so real in front of everyone, no matter how incredible it is. We now have a startup core at hand, which was preserved by Abyss Xiling more than 70,000 years ago, came from the other side, and looks intact! When we have the greatest difficulty, when everything seems to be going nowhere, this thing is there!
"Is this a coincidence or luck?" I don't know what to do with the expression on my face, I can only spread my hands and look around everyone, "Who are you to hit me to see if I'm dreaming... Bingtis put down that Evil bricks! Lin Xue, what are you going to do with that mace! Hey, I was just joking and didn’t let you really fight... Xiaoxue, you dare to join in the fun, don’t you?!”
"Why are they like this?" Abyss Xiling stared dumbfounded at the chaos that erupted in front of her eyes. Her rational and rigid thinking was completely unacceptable to this way of unfolding. "It's a very serious environment now! My father is so unreliable people?"
"Oh. This is the style of our family." Although Sandora will not participate in this kind of mess, but at least it is commonplace. She patted the shoulder of Abyss Xiling, "This can effectively ease the atmosphere, and if you As part of our family, sooner or later we have to get used to it."
"I will lead everyone to settle down on the other side—after the bridge is successfully built," Abyss Xiling straightened up. Deciding with unprecedented firmness, "Having to stay away from this weird family... I feel like my logic is going to hurt."
At this time, I was finally sure that I was not dreaming, but I still looked at the ancient equipment in space that looked like a small planet in disbelief. I feel that this dramatic development is really unexpected: "The start-up core, the start-up core made by the other side! Happiness comes so suddenly, it's like a dream... Bingtis, stand there for me, I just sigh! Then who... Tavel, come over and explain, how can you be sure that this thing is the core of the startup side? Doesn’t it mean that its function cannot be seen from the scan image at all?”
"Yes, the routine scan without damaging its structure really didn't yield anything, and the expert group couldn't figure out what its function was." Tavel explained what happened, "but after the routine scan was invalid With the authorization of Madam Lin Xue, we decided to take a look at its shell. This move is a bit risky, because no one knows whether opening its shell will cause any other reactions to this ancient device, but the research is in the end It has to be like this every step of the way—and then we found this."
While talking, Tavel took a black "metal" plate (I can't see what material it is made of) from the autonomous robot next to him and handed it to me: "This is part of the shell, although it can't be seen on the surface. , but the entire shell of that thing is put together with countless fragments of this size, it seems that its builder doesn't care about its mechanical strength, or the shell is not very important at all."
I took a look at the shell fragment, and the most eye-catching thing on it was a line of sharp-edged Xiling text: "This is the core of the startup end."
Everyone: "..."
"Uh... just write it so plainly?" Sandora leaned over to take a look, and her tone was suddenly quite strange, "I haven't noticed it before?"
Tavel is really amazing, and his face didn't change at this time: "Yes, these texts use a special etching method, which was not found by conventional scanning, and at the beginning of the research, only non-destructive detection was carried out out of rules. No one thought that there would be words on the inner layer of the shell. The research department has a set of very strict protection rules for this kind of super-large and complex ancient heritage. We can only apply to the superiors when the conventional scanning fails.' Destructive research', which means taking it apart and looking at it. In theory."
I think I know why Tavel didn't discover the secret of this big thing until now, but there is nothing to say: study all the rules. High-value antiques cannot be dismantled casually, after all, once such things are dismantled, they will be a hard loss. It is not easy to repair, so the target can only be disassembled when the research has reached the final step. But who would have thought that Abyss Xiling left words in this thing back then... Isn't the way Abyss Xiling left a message a bit strange
"Almost every piece of the inner layer of the shell has such a message written on it, and some fragments are written about the concept of the boot terminal and the bridging, but I don't know why I didn't find anything like a memory. If there is such a thing, it should be able to I discovered the truth earlier." Tavel's tone was also quite strange. Like me, she couldn't understand why Abyss Xiling used such a primitive and weird way to leave a message to later generations.
"Because the nature of the boot end is very special," Abyss Xiling himself answered, "Although I can't remember what happened back then, I know the weird nature of the boot end. Any storage devices placed at its core will be cleaned, even The device itself will gradually disappear, and only the information left on the "material structure" of the boot can be preserved. This is a bit like imitating the zero-return effect. But the real principle is unknown. In other words, except for the engraving on the boot You can leave a message, and anything that doesn't belong in it will be deleted - even if the launcher is not running. Anyway, the launcher I made is like this, and the other side should be similar, after all, we use the same set of blueprints. "
"So there's such a thing?" I was quite surprised, but I didn't delve into it too deeply. If something like the startup side doesn't have one or two weird features, then something is wrong. "Okay, don't go into the details. In short, we can I'm sure this is the core of the start-up end, I really didn't expect that it would take no effort to find nowhere to find it—Abyss Xiling, as a commenter back then, what do you think now?"
Abyss Xiling looked at the black fragment and the message on it that she had long forgotten. Nodding seriously: "I suddenly felt that I was really amazing back then!"
Me: "..." When this guy said this, the expression on his face was serious and outrageous, she didn't mean to be joking at all!
Bingtis also looked at the fragment curiously, and suddenly said: "Why is it engraved on the inside? Didn't we discover it long ago when it was engraved on the outside? It also saves everyone from worrying about it for so many days. Even Chen is so heartless. The lungs are almost depressed."
"There's no need to say the second half of the sentence," I rolled my eyes at Bingtis, and then I was a little curious. "What does it mean to be engraved in it? Are you afraid that people will see it at first glance?"
Abyss Xiling shook his head quite irresponsibly: "I don't know, the memory of that year has been emptied—maybe I have engraved words inside and outside, but was worn out by some strange characteristics of this thing? It's also possible It was erased by that nervous shipboard main engine, her mind is so abnormal, she can't tell when she sees that there are words on the surface of the things in the storage room and thinks it is not clean, so she will wipe it for her... "
I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "Suddenly I feel that this is very possible!"
In short, there was such an interruption, and the people at the scene didn't care why Abyss Xiling wanted to engrave these words on the inner layer of the boot shell. I was also excited and thought of the question at the beginning: "Why is there A launcher from the other side? The technology on the other side doesn’t seem to have reached this level at all—the Star Ring Federation is similar to us, and they are all in the stage of trying their best to launch a few probes to the opposite side. They should have been 70,000 years ago Weaker, how could it be possible to launch such a large starting end?"
"Because this thing was not launched 70,000 years ago, nor is it a product of the Star Ring Federation—" Tavel took a deep breath, as if to give us a period of mental preparation, and then she said the second half of the sentence, "It comes from an earlier era, before the home planet escaped... This is the thing that caused the destruction of the home world! It came to this shore with the gate of the abyss back then!"
As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked, and even Sandora almost exclaimed!
Even before Tavel opened his mouth, I was a little mentally prepared to accept any kind of bizarre answer, but I never expected the truth to explode to such an extent! This thing turned out to be the "gate component" that caused the Xiling people's home planet to flee!
Sandora's eyes were in a trance for a moment, but she quickly calmed down, and quickly glanced at the huge relic in space with an expression of disbelief. Finally, I set my sights on Tavel: "Are you sure? Is this the starting point that opened the door to the abyss of the ancestor of the hometown world?!"
Tavel nodded slowly and forcefully: "You can be sure that the inner layer of the shell is indeed engraved with this information. If Abyss Xiling didn't intend to make such a bad joke for future generations 70,000 years ago, then This should be the truth: the launcher in front of us led to the extinction event of the home world back then, and it was one of the original door-opening devices!"
I subconsciously glanced at Abyss Xiling next to me, and then felt that although she was an unprecedented brat who could deceive her father, she would never make such a vicious joke that killed people. In particular, 70,000 years ago was considered a matter of her previous life, and Xi Ling was not a brat at that time.
Sandora didn't say anything immediately, she just turned her head slowly, looking at the huge relic floating in the dark space, looking at the "initial factor" that triggered everything: it was this thing, from a civilization that had long since died out on the other side. The creation opened the door to the five-light-year-long mutant abyss and destroyed the hometown of the Xiling people. Let the latter be forced to flee, and finally opened the history of the Xiling Empire, that unattractive and weird thing is the starting point of everything—even I, a half-way monk, find it difficult to calm down, I can hardly imagine Sandora's heart What kind of storms are you going through.
But in the end, Her Majesty just ended her emotion with a sigh: "Staying in the past is of no help, we should be glad that we have shaken off the shackles of hatred - Tavel, don't care where it came from, it's just an ancient device , an ancient device that can be used by the empire. Do you understand?"
"This subordinate understands." Tavel gave a military salute with a calm and solemn voice.
"Okay," Sandora nodded. "Now let's talk about the information about it. How did this thing fall into the hands of Abyss Xiling? I can be sure that no one in the old empire knew the existence of this startup terminal at all. At that time, no one even knew what it meant to build a bridge—this Things should not have been in the hands of Abyss Xiling in the first place."
"We don't know, the 'message' in the startup terminal didn't mention this matter," Tavel shook his head, "This extraordinary creation must be immortal, probably it has been floating somewhere in the void. Then in The right time fell into the hands of Abyss Xiling, and the subordinates think that this is not an important issue, the point is that it should be usable, and that is enough."
Tavel's outlook on life is also relaxed enough, as long as it can solve the problem, it is a good thing, no matter where it comes from-this is also the way of thinking of most Xiling apostles. But I still couldn't help taking a look at Abyss Xiling: This main character is theoretically the linker of all the things in front of me. A lot of messy lines are connected together, she holds the most historical truth, and she is the weaver of most epic events. If the Void, Abyss, Cataclysm, Empire and other behemoths are regarded as a complicated and disordered three-dimensional net, then Abyss Xiling is in command of the center of this big net most of the time. Although there are a lot of "accidental factors" that can be said to be overwhelming (such as the recognition of the father two days ago, such as the oldest bear child, such as the full talent of cheating father, 70,000 years of persistence in cheating, etc.), but I have to admire this complex and simple "final black hand" from the bottom of my heart. However, this black hand also has something that she can't grasp: facing the activation end that she has preserved tens of thousands of years ago, she can only be as full-faced as we are. I was at a loss, and after seeing my sight, I could only turn my head helplessly: "It's useless to see me, I really don't know where I got this back, it will probably become an unsolved mystery."
At this time, Tavel had already begun to introduce us to the various properties of this startup terminal. She pushed her glasses, with a serious expression: "First of all, my subordinates want to report a rather strange phenomenon: the message in this startup terminal has indeed confirmed that it came from On the other side, this thing is very different from the products we salvaged on the other side in the past. Its components do not have the phenomenon of "missing attributes". Although it is still impossible to analyze what kind of substance it is, its quality, strength, physical and chemical The properties and other indicators can be measured, which is very different from the general products of the other side. This is also the most important reason why we did not connect it with the other side at the beginning: this thing looks normal, and it does not look like it is from the other side. Theory That's how it is."
There is no "missing attribute"? I raised my eyebrows immediately, curious about this fact.
As we all know, the biggest barrier between the opposite bank and the local bank is "incompatibility". From matter to energy to anything else, in short, except for the void, all the secondary products on the void ladder on both sides of the bank are incompatible. We salvage The substances on the other side often have strange phenomena that cannot be measured in quality or hardness, and even the abyss on both sides cannot affect the other side (this is also the foothold of the "big cause" of Abyss Xiling), this incompatibility The manifestations of various substances are not quite the same, but they must exist more or less.
Today, detecting whether an item has "unmeasurable properties" is already an important indicator for us to judge whether the item comes from the other side.
But the ancient boot-end core in front of me is completely compatible with this shore? !
I looked at Tavel, and asked her if she was sure about this matter with an inquiring gaze, and the latter immediately nodded firmly: "The subordinate said at the end of the sentence 'theoretically so' is just a mouth craving, in order to increase cuteness, in fact Subordinates are completely sure of their own test results."
I:"?"
I feel like I heard something very useless but informative just now!
"Oh, that sentence just now was suggested by Bubble to my subordinates. She said that this can increase His Majesty's favorability. Although I don't understand what it means, there is no loss if I say it," Tavel explained sternly, and then at any rate I Before the expression collapsed, he continued the topic, "In addition, the subordinates also found that this ancient device has no energy response... We may have to find a way to solve its energy supply problem, but compared to the dilemma of the core at the boot end that cannot be repaired, this should be better solved. Some."
After Tavel's voice fell, Abyss Xiling spoke next to him: "Let me explain something, about the startup terminal... There should be some connection between the two sides." RP