In our eyes, Kotomine Kirei's conjectures about the nature of the world are as naive and ridiculous as the idea of a round sky and a square place in the ignorant period of human beings. Although there are places that fit the reality, they are generally just a crude model, but I really didn't expect that, Hongyue actually exploded suddenly according to Yanfeng's calculation.
It really makes people not have a minute of leisure. I just killed the Roman Heroic Legion in the inner world, and I have to play a level-breaking game with Kotomine Kirei's small b team in the watch world. I finally met the level b and had a conversation After the frame, the scene has to be switched back to the inner world, and there is no time to breathe. I said, can you at least give me a time to pause the archive
But complaints are complaints, the situation waits for no one, and the business still needs to be done.
I have completely sealed Yanfeng's magical ability. This person's only goal is to find out the truth of the world. For such a guy, simple treatment can make it harmless: I asked Ding Dong to contribute her picture album when she was in kindergarten, He claimed that it was the ancient rune tome that recorded the mysteries of the world, and Yan Feng believed it. I guess a random picture in those pamphlets would be enough for him to study it honestly until his death. He will be responsible for monitoring him in the future, and Kotomine Kirei has already dealt with it now.
And the unlucky Gunner Ku Chulin—please allow me to use such a trivial adjective as "unlucky" to apply to this man who is comparable to Xianglin's wife. When the man in the iron mask threw it in front of us, I was confused. I didn't associate that pile of things with Cu Chulainn until Ber explained.
The process is very simple, a thorough gang fight, according to the exact process provided by ber, Cu Chulainn first relied on his complete body to become a superman for 15 seconds, that was called a hey hey, and there will only be five One-fifth of the strength of Ber and others were completely suppressed, and then...
Then Rider was beaten out of his temper.
It is completely unimaginable that Rider, who is always bored playing games alone, would go berserk. She directly applied for complete liberation, and even Medea and Sasaki also rose up and became a perfect body. Thinking that Cu Chulainn, who was all LEVEL5 in front of him, only had time to "rely" before he was covered with a layer of mosaic.
And now he has to face the bruises all over his face and bow to the four heroic spirits, three women, one man, who just beat him up, and call him "senior"—Yah, he has been touched by Sakura's tentacles... ahem, he has become an Avalon heroic spirit An honorable recruit in the army.
After solving these two last troubles, we returned to the inner world, and Tohsaka and Ilya naturally followed because of curiosity. Anyway, these two followers, big and small, can't get rid of them now, so follow along, as long as they don't Just ask to go to the moon with the army.
Renault and his army have already established a temporary outpost at the place where they first landed. Dozens of photon cannons switched to fort mode form a circular defensive circle, and are set up at intervals of one hundred meters in front of the fort. A series of bunkers and missile towers were deployed urgently. These small integrated buildings obviously adopted the modular technology of the Protoss. The construction was completed in Li, and this kind of construction technology is already a leap forward.
And in the center of this simple and effective fortification, stands a 100-meter-high Xiling space sensor, which is obviously transmitted from the shadow city as a whole. The crystal-metal hybrid tower emitting faint blue light has been broken down into several pieces. The independent cylindrical parts slowly rotated in the air, making a low "whining" sound in the wind, which seemed to have started.
As for the huge battlecruiser, the Hyperion, hovering silently in the mid-air behind the entire defense circle, like a dark cloud or a dormant monster that landed on the ground, it is definitely not the original Hyperion. The things that the power system can do are things like anti-gravity engines that come from imperial technology.
Even though there were no enemies in the other world, Renault did not let down his vigilance in setting up such strict fortifications. This shows the rigorous style he cultivated during the years of difficult wars.
Tohsaka and Ilya are of course the first to see such an alien base that only appears in sci-fi movies. After all, they have seen a grand but dazzling alien landing battle and a super advanced base that can be observed in front of them. It's different. The two of them looked around curiously as soon as they entered the guard post. Even the red A, who was always used to having a straight face, ignored his image at the moment, looking around and being amazed. The only one who remained calm was probably Uncle B, as Arer and the second member of the AB golden combination (by the way, when did this combination appear?). In addition, the three-meter-high giant simply dismissed the turret tanks all around.
"Well, the action is very fast."
Sandora looked approvingly at the skirmish that had already taken shape, and nodded slightly, while I faced Renault who was coming up, and asked, "How is the situation now?"
"It just broke out ten minutes ago," Renault said, still wearing the thick power armor. Although he had been promoted to the chief executive officer of the New Eden Federation, he was still used to going to the front line in this situation, and Kerrigan Wearing the alloy light armor specially made by Ghost Agent, he waited beside him without saying a word, "The red moon suddenly expanded several times within the line of sight, and continued to cover the entire sky within three minutes. At that time, the gravity on the ground was almost zero. , there was also severe electromagnetic interference, but it did not cause any real damage. Two sets of gravitational isolation devices and temporary psionic shields from the empire protected my soldiers. The empire sensor was just sent over, and your chief scientist is debugging It, she won't let us get close."
Tex rubbed his waist and walked over from behind, just in time to hear Renault's words, and continued: "That woman is really barbaric, I just wanted to go and have a look, but she was thrown out of the position directly, the Xiling people even the scientists The combat power is so vigorous... hiss..."
This is the so-called scientist who knows martial arts, and rogues can't stop them—but a scientist who is so violent that he throws others out... Is Tavel, who is always quiet, another identity is the masked superwoman who saves the earth
Renault had an embarrassing expression on his face, and he spoke to Tex with a sense of helplessness in his tone: "You should be thankful for flipping through other people's scientific research secrets without authorization, but being thrown out instead of getting two peanuts."
"Don't mind, Tavier doesn't have any opinions on you, but she doesn't like to be disturbed when she is working." I punched Tex's chest, who was still suffering from liver pain, "You should feel lucky, we Half of them are used to shooting first and then talking, and Tavier is considered the quieter one."
"I think I should still find a good bottle of wine to suppress my surprise," Tex muttered as he drifted away, "Maybe it would be a good choice to marry a bottle of seventy-year-old brandy for the rest of my life."
It wouldn't have hit his head just now, right
"Rin, you guys are waiting here... Uh, what are you doing?"
I turned my head and said to Tohsaka and Ilya, only to find that the latter had already started to talk to those mighty "alien warriors" at this time, which made the other party very embarrassed. Due to military discipline, they are not good at answering strangers' questions casually. , but the two curious babies in front of me seem to belong to my boss's boss's boss... the ultimate boss's friend, I can't afford to offend them at all. He simply pulled off his mask coolly, saying that he is just an NPC, and the dialogue he can complete is limited to the sentence "Our ancestors are fooling you".
"Wow, big brother, can Ilya take a photo with them?" The little silver-haired loli ran up to me and happily tugged on my sleeve, while the machine gunner who had been pestered by her for a long time just now was covered in blood. Shivering, I could almost see through the orange mask a big, sweaty face inside.
"Stop making trouble, this is a military control zone." When it's time to be serious, I still have to be serious. I resolutely stopped Tohsaka and Ilya from causing trouble to the marines, and then dragged Zeratul over. "Go play with this alien uncle"
"Great Teacher, this..."
As soon as the unlucky Zeratul said a word, he was dragged away by Ilya's cheers.
"Sure enough, people who are with you always become very personal very quickly." Kerry said convincingly.
When I saw Tavel, the debugging of the sensor had been basically completed, and started to guide the upcoming support fleet, and our respectable female scientist was busy sorting out the data uploaded from the downstream information endpoint, looking busy. I originally thought that even if a researcher was to be sent over in such a situation, he would be an ordinary Xiling technician. I didn't expect that Tavel, the chief scientist of the empire, would come to the scene in person, which made me somewhat feel that something was unusual.
"Your Majesty, you came at the right time."
Noticing our arrival, Tavel walked up to us quickly, "The energy burst of Red Moon entered the first round of dormancy seven minutes ago, but we have collected a lot of data just now, and the conclusion is shocking."
"what happened?"
Hearing that the calm Tavel used the word "shock" to describe my discovery, I also became nervous. The other party swiped twice in the air with his hand, dividing a rectangular suspended screen, on which a series of rolling The data and graphics are dazzling.
To be honest, if you want to talk about the shortcomings of this intellectual Yujie in front of you, besides the weird love for coffin-shaped objects, this habit of bringing out a lot of complicated data every time you report something to me is also very annoying. One of the embarrassing things for people, because every time I feel that I am simply illiterate, and no one knows the things on it...
"Although the subordinates know that you don't understand the above things, please don't protest by reading comics?"
Ah, I was complained by my subordinates, and I was still complained by people like Tavel.
I took back the comic book in my hand embarrassingly, and scratched my hair: "Say it, say it."
Intellectual Sister Yu sighed helplessly, pushed her glasses and said: "Your Majesty, when the energy of the Red Moon erupted on a large scale, several information explosions totaling three milliseconds occurred in the inner world, and these information were constantly being monitored. Captured by the Garden of the Dead, we have analyzed some ancient things from it-the information may have come from before the world fell into disorder, and was bound by the powerful energy of the red moon and has not dissipated-theoretically so."
"Yeah, and then?" I pretended to understand, and asked with a nod.
"Then we found that the way that information is organized is very similar to the general-purpose shadow space."
"Oh." I nodded.
The time ticked for three seconds.
"What did you say?"
It's over, I was half a beat just now.
"This strange space, which we call the inner world, is a mirror image of the outer world, and reflects energy fluctuations that are very close to the shadow space." Tavel repeated word by word with a serious expression.
"Viska" I twitched the corner of my mouth, feeling a toothache, then turned my head and patted the little girl who was dangling at my clothes, "Did the world you killed before include this model?"
The little girl showed a serious memory expression, and it took a full half a minute for her small brain, which was calculating trillions of times, to sway gently under my cold and sweaty gaze: "No."
"Okay, we're clear of suspicion, now you can continue your analysis."
It's hard work to have a sister who has caused countless disasters, isn't it? I see this message in your eyes.
"Well, the basic situation is like this. It is very likely that the inner world used to be a shadow space, just like our shadow city. It is a parallel world opened in a different dimension based on the external reality. Of course, its volume is even larger. Huge, it may even have duplicated the entire solar system, but its management center was destroyed.
What we see now is the shadow space after it got out of control. Its external information acquisition module seems to be still partly in operation. Therefore, on some "relics", it shows a high degree of synchronization with the watch world, which made us mistakenly think that It is a natural mirror image of the outside world, but in the information explosion just now, we found clues that it has been copied. "
After Tavel finished speaking, he closed the dazzling message box, leaving me time to digest this shocking fact.
Looking around, this desolate and dilapidated Gobi, the fragmented land under the red moon... the whole inner world is actually an out-of-control shadow space
If this is the case, the problem will be big. Xiling Technology is notoriously difficult to deal with, especially when they cause us trouble.
"Now we can't find any remaining traces of the shadow space," Tavel whispered, "Chaos is everywhere, and exploration is difficult. Everything here has been disordered for too long. Even the most powerful Xiling host can It's hard to reverse who it used to be."
"But the generating device of the shadow space must still be operating somewhere," Sandora said affirmatively, "otherwise this place would have collapsed long ago, Tavel, could it be that moon?"
Sandora refers to the huge red moon hanging in the sky. The latter is emitting a mysterious and distant light at the moment, hiding its secrets deeply under the boiling energy sea.
"That's the most likely scenario," Tavel nodded, apparently her research team had also demonstrated this, "Red Moon is the only place we haven't been able to explore clearly, and it obviously has a high-energy reaction inside. , if there is a control core in this out-of-control shadow space, it can only be inside the red moon, but in my database, the empire has never had a star warship like the red moon: there is no entity on its surface, it is completely a The energy body with a high concentration layer, the strange energy radiated outward will still cause harm 50,000 kilometers away, which basically determines that it cannot be used as a space base, and the energy form of the Red Moon itself is also different from the conventional energy of the Empire. different… "
"You mean, that thing called anti-phantom energy?" I raised my eyebrows and asked casually looking up at the sky.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the red moonlight is something that has the same wavelength as psionic energy, but the waveform is completely opposite. According to the Xiling energy level decline theory, this energy must be the result of the decay of a higher level of energy, but I have tried With all the models, it is impossible to deduce how this strange energy should decay from void energy—theoretically impossible."
"By the way, in this way, those black crystal daggers that allow ordinary people to enter the inner world..." I suddenly remembered the two crystal daggers that Kotomine Kirei found. One of the collections bought at a high price in the hands of a mysterious old man while traveling. The collection also included two faded jadeites, a cross consecrated by an eminent monk, and a stone that accidentally fell into the fireplace and melted into a jelly on the spot. The night pearl, and those two black crystal daggers are the only remaining real treasures that make him not scold his mother.
If any strange things are mixed in the above paragraph, you can just ignore it, and you should know that there is more than one wretched guy in this world who belongs to Sikaro...
"The key is just a resonant crystal that allows non-Xiling apostles to enter the shadow space. The material is quite ordinary. Apart from the empire, there are at least a thousand civilizations that can make this crystal, and it is in no way similar to ordinary crystals when it is not activated. There is no difference," Tavel shrugged, "so I didn't think about what it was for at first. It may be a gift prepared by the founder of this shadow space for the imperial family at that time, but now due to the loss of control of the shadow space, its identity Authentication is disabled and anyone can use it—in theory.”
"Have you ever observed that planet up close?" Sandora asked casually while looking at the constantly refreshing data on a floating window beside her.
"Two unmanned probe spacecraft are observing at a distance of several kilometers above the red moon, but at such a close distance, our scanning equipment still cannot penetrate its energy barrier."
I am not surprised by the futility of the detection spacecraft. After all, that planet is most likely also a product of Xiling, and it may also be a special equipment in the heyday of the empire. Relying on two small detection spacecraft to penetrate the star warship The barrier of the super Xiling celestial body is simply a joke.
"Baby, do you feel that there is something in the middle of that moon?"
I touched Sandora who was flipping through the data next to her. The latter raised her head, followed my gaze, and nodded after a while: "It seems like a bright spot?"
As far as I can see, there seems to be a spot in the center of the huge moon hanging in the sky that is not very bright but is incompatible with the surrounding colors. With Sandora's confirmation, I am sure that I am not hallucinating, and the actions of the two of us seem to be It became a signal, Tavel on the side, and the technicians who were working next to the sensor also raised their heads, looking at the huge red moon in doubt, and the sensor antenna hummed in the wind The sound, then, gradually took on strange noises.
It's like a sharp bird song.
"The sensor is disturbed, and the energy intensity of the red moon is rising"
"There's been a lot of misinformation flooding the comms link, we're trying to troubleshoot..."
"Report sir, we have lost contact with those two probe spacecraft... The other side is silent on all channels, the red moon is expanding... The No. 1 probe spacecraft has been confirmed destroyed, and the No. 2 spacecraft has escaped from the energy storm and is returning at full speed."
A series of tense reports sounded almost at the same time, not only from the technicians who were manipulating the sensors, but also from the remote monitoring team staying in Shadow City and the observers stationed in the low-earth orbit of the inner world. The staff got busy instantly, and Tavel immediately rushed to the nearest information terminal operator and asked loudly: "What's going on? What destroyed the detection spacecraft?"
"Report sir, it's psionic energy, it's psionic energy frontal bombardment of the cruiser's main gun level, the image sent back by the No. 2 spacecraft shows that the attack comes from..."
"From Red Moon."
I added what the operator had left, and looked up at the sky.
It can now be seen very clearly that it is a bright blue spot.
The bright spot that appeared in the center of the red moon expanded rapidly, reaching the point where the shape could be distinguished by the naked eye in a short while, and its expansion speed showed geometric multiplication, spreading like a drop of blue ink dripping into a pool , and not just this one spot, on the surface of the red moon, visible to the naked eye, at least a dozen blue spots are expanding outward at the same time, and the entire giant moon is like a paper-cut being swallowed by blue flames. Inside, it has turned into a deep blue ocean hanging in the sky.
"When Sasaki was summoned... the moon in the sky turned blue..."
A sentence Medea once said suddenly echoed in his ears, and then overlapped with the strange astronomical spectacle in front of him.
The blue moon really appeared. A