"You are my only hope."
Looking back, it seems that as long as this sentence or something similar appears, it is not good, especially when it is said by a beautiful woman, it is almost a curse of law like going back to the hometown to get married. This sentence is like going up the mountain of swords and going down the sea of fire, going through fire and water without hesitation, and the implication is: this strong man, die for us
This is how it is translated into vernacular.
The queen girl in front of me just said this majestic sentence in such a grand manner, let alone hesitation and embarrassment, she didn't even bat an eyelid—in fact, more than an hour has passed since the beginning of the conversation, that The total number of times Her Lady Queen whose name is so long that it can be picked out to form a chapter on its own is not more than the number of times that Qianqian calmed down.
"You really flatter us, you usually use this hasty attitude to decide the affairs of the country, Your Majesty the Queen..."
With an unbearable expression, I pressed my temples and said, thinking, can't you come up with something more creative? And in front of someone else's girlfriend, she said this ambiguous line that is so ambiguous that it is easy to raise the flag. Although that girl is just a stupid girl with no brains, what if she suddenly gets sharp and comes to bite someone
"My judgment can't be wrong," the girl queen didn't hear the teasing in my words at all, "it's the first time that 67,000 logical terminals have come to a completely consistent conclusion, you are by far the most powerful and most powerful The army that may turn the situation around, you have enough power to fight against the shepherd alone, high-tech warships that are comparable to or even better than the queen's fleet, and shield technology that can resist the shepherd's destructive weapons, your appearance , may be the long-awaited miracle of the Kingdom, if anyone wants to leave this abyss-like universe, then you will be the only ones to lead the way. What I just described is actually not very confidential information. Sooner or later, you can use your own To detect all of this in the same way, that is only to show my sincerity."
"Defeat the shepherd," my elder sister said noncommittally, "do you really think it's possible?"
Two hundred Xiling motherships almost wiped out the Queen's fleet with tens of thousands of warships. Under such a disadvantage, it is incredible that the queen has such a wish.
"Escape from the cage, this is the initial and ultimate goal of Gotak's free kingdom. We don't expect to defeat the shepherd. What we want is to escape from this universe. For this, we need any possibility to travel through the world. The advanced technology, the out-of-world technology from the New Voyager, and the mysterious technology from the Shepherd are all what we desire to obtain, and to get the latter, we must have enough power... Our research on the Shepherd has already been carried out. For a hundred years, after paying a price that other countries couldn't understand, they finally became one of the most powerful countries in this star field relying on the super advanced technology that they stole from their teachers. , It is also possible that the entire kingdom will be wiped out abruptly one morning. Their unpredictable behavior is a sharp sword that is always hanging over the kingdom. Therefore, I hope to get your help. This is 67,000 logic terminals. conclusion."
"You're a little too used to using those logical terminals to replace your own thinking," I sighed, and stood up, "Of course, maybe this is the characteristic of your race... I will help, of course, the reason may be as you imagined It's not the same (in order to wipe out the 'rebels' of the empire), then let's go back and add up... wait, I almost forgot."
The moment I was about to leave the room, I remembered a question that I had been curious about before. I stood still and looked at the expressionless Her Majesty who was always sitting on the throne like a sculpture. I touched my chin: "I am talking to those I found out when the Imperial Army, which is what you call the shepherds, was fighting. They never killed your flagship. You should also know that without our joint shield technology, only relying on your fleet's The force field effect device, it is impossible to withstand the salvo of their two hundred main guns, right?"
"Sorry, I can't answer this question. The shepherd's behavior cannot be judged logically."
... Forget it, I won't tell you, as the head of the empire, I am looking for awkwardness.
A door leading to the outside suddenly appeared in the completely sealed room, just like when we entered, I and a few high-ranking empires who were full of thoughts—except maybe Qianqian—leaved this strange throne together, although we couldn’t see We didn't know what to expect, but our intuition told me that Her Majesty's "gaze" followed us until it was blocked by the gate.
Biberu was still waiting outside the door. This silvery ball prime minister didn't ask what the queen had said to us. On its fully reflective mirror surface, I could see the expressions on the faces of several of us. Not very good-looking, all overcast.
Well, except for Qianqian again.
In this way, with a full stomach and thousands of thoughts, our group returned to Elsword.
"It's really, really bad."
In the officer's lounge, my elder sister leaned lazily on the sofa, looking up at the ceiling and muttering to herself.
"Lin Xue seems to have known something a long time ago. It is really not a good idea to appear in front of the natives of this world as an imperial army." I rubbed my temples, "What is going on with the imperial army of this world? Obviously there is no sign of being polluted by the abyss, but it's like going crazy... Pandora, do you think the apostles of Xiling will have this kind of collective mental illness?"
I was met with a huge blank stare.
"My lord, I am very sorry for the sudden interruption, but maybe you will be interested in our research results."
Just when I was thinking about where to start with the weird situation of this universe, a window popped up in the air, and Tavel's blurred mass projection jumped onto it, "Please come to the lower level Gnaku, We have made a major discovery about the spirit power of this world."
The lower level of the Elsword Gnaku, this warehouse-like area that originally stored the Protos psychic crystals, was semi-abandoned after the Notre Dame was replaced with a psionic reactor, and now it has been transformed into a research facility for Tavel , when I led Qianqian, who was purely for fun, to Ganaku, where a large mechanical component was being cut, Tavel's mass projection hovered in the air, directing a group of people who had just been sent from the Imperial Admiral The Xiling technician who came over further disassembled some of the mechanical fragments that were dismantled into a pile on the ground.
At a glance, it looks like a waste collection station.
"What the hell is this?" It was the first time I saw such a research site, and it was quite strenuous to jump forward among the metal parts all over the floor, and I had to be careful not to step on some unlucky researcher, Xiling technicians were like that This kind of guy who goes crazy after entering the working state, I guess even if I step on them by myself, they will have to wait until after work to react, "Tavier, have you changed to scrap buying?"
"This is a few Xiling individual fighters we captured, as well as the core compartment of an assault ship that we recovered. They have now been completely disassembled. My technicians are manually separating the mutated control devices of these things. .”
"Captured?" I was taken aback for a moment, then overjoyed, "It's really not easy. I thought they all blew up after the main force retreated."
"Where are the soldiers who betrayed the empire?"
What Weiska cares about is another matter. The little guy threw a cannon all over the place (you see our quantifier, one place), with an excited look on his face ready to extract a confession by torture. The Pandora next to him is similar , but what she threw out was a ceiling floating cannon.
Since we have captured the individual fighter plane, it means that we have captured the pilot in the fighter plane. Even if the opponent is a combat puppet without much independent consciousness, we can still pry the intelligence of the rebels from their memory core. This is very simple. logic.
But Tavel's answer surprised everyone: "There is no driver, not in the individual fighter plane, nor in the cockpit of the assault ship. None of these imperial vehicles have a driver. These are their control systems—in theory. .”
Tavier adjusted his glasses, and pointed to a part that was almost invisible on the ground beside him.
"It's all weird terminals that can't accept external control at all. These war weapons are controlling themselves, but they are not artificial intelligence, but a more exotic automatic device that can respond almost like artificial intelligence. There is no independent consciousness in itself," Tavel said, picking up an arc-shaped part from the ground, and the moment this part came into contact with the mass projection composed entirely of energy, violent sparks erupted, and then dimmed, " They reject any form of energy contact, so it is difficult for us to analyze these fragments with conventional instruments. It can be said that in addition to the appearance, these imperial vehicles have completely mutated into something else-in theory. "
Qianqian slowly bent down, picked up a disc-shaped part marked with a yellow mark, looked at it over and over, frowning and thinking from time to time.
Just when I thought the girl had discovered something, Qianqian threw the thing out with a "whoosh". Two seconds later, a researcher was knocked over and exclaimed from a distance.
"Wow sorry, I thought it could fly back like a boomerang"
… Do you dare to be any more boring
"Ahem," Tavel ignored the foolish behavior of his mistress almost as usual, and continued to report, "We separated a complete set of control centers from an almost undamaged individual fighter plane. Completely mutated, but still retains the basic storage device that conforms to the Xiling technology architecture. Before it was stimulated by external energy to self-destruct, we read some strange codes from it. These codes are very strange. They do not conform to any existing Known and reasonable language structure, and full of redundancy, it should be an unorganized string with very low execution efficiency, but when they are executed as a whole, they are highly rational... "
"Can you pick what I can understand?"
After resisting for a long time, I finally found that the words in Tavel's mouth had become something from another dimension in my ears.
"... In summary, these anomalous Imperial vehicles have formed their own language system, have their own self-regulatory rules, and the possibility of communicating with their controllers and seeking solutions is completely ruled out-theoretically. .”
"Vehicles, their own language system, are really old-fashioned sci-fi horror themes, enha," I looked at the surrounding analysis platforms and war weapons spread out on the dismantling area, "could it be the high-intelligence weapons made by Xiling?" Will it also produce this kind of bloody failure like artificial intelligence?"
"No, they are not faulty, and Imperial Technology will not produce such a loophole similar to Matrix," Tavel obviously knows about Matrix, it may be that Bubbles continuously uploads various film and television works to the entire information link As a result, "All these mutated vehicles have no signs of intelligence. At least these low-level units do not have the ability to think. As my subordinates mentioned just now, their control systems are not artificial intelligence. All abnormal vehicles are Under the control of a complex behavior template, it may be some kind of rules defined by the common language between them. If this illogical language can be deciphered, maybe we can find the reason why this cosmic imperial army is out of control—theory That's how it is."
Looking at the busiest and most dedicated Yujie in front of me, I was suddenly a little ashamed: "Well, it seems that you have to work hard again, and I can't help you in this regard—by the way, Shando What do you say over there? You should have uploaded the situation here to the Shadow Fortress, right?"
"Yes," Sister Eyes nodded, "His Majesty Sandora thinks that these mutations should be related to some kind of infection, similar to the abyss infection, which caused system disorder in the normal imperial war machine, and self-proliferated these contradictory control modules , this conjecture is also one of our research directions, I hope this is not the case.”
I nodded, deeply convinced.
An abyssal infection is enough to cause headaches. If you have another viral flu that everyone in Xiling will be infected with, we are going to have a headache to death in hygiene and epidemic prevention.
"Let's go, girl, stop playing, let's go back to the upper area," Seeing that Tavel and her researchers are about to fall into a new round of busyness, I called out loudly to an energetic girl who no longer knew where to go. When I came back, before I left, I suddenly remembered something, and I turned around and reminded Tavel, "Tavier, let the researchers pay attention, and try to expose the characteristics of Xiling in front of the aborigines of this world as little as possible. We can only rely on Imperial warships to identify the 'Shepherd', but it is better to be careful to avoid trouble."
"This subordinate naturally knows," Tavel nodded, "These researchers have received special training from Commander Sikaro before coming here, and they are very good at stealth operations and camouflage."
I:"… "
I know the meaning of the phrase "there are successors" that Sicaro said when I was assigned to be on duty on the Admiral of the Empire.
I don’t know if it’s because everyone who is related to me has the physique to attract trouble, or Lilina, who is naturally black, is born to be a troublemaker. I thought everything would be fine after I came to this world, but I didn’t expect to be here There will be an unprecedented complicated situation, and even Sandora admits that she is at a loss for things here. When leading Qianqian and Pandora sisters back to the upper layer of Elsword, Fina and Tavel's words are always Hovering in my mind, for a while, the innocent wanderers who were toyed and killed by the brutal and chaotic "shepherd", and for a while, there was a mutation like an infection, as if it was staged an artificial intelligence-infested imperial vehicle, I would I can't imagine what else I will encounter in the future. At this time, I really need to contact Lilina as soon as possible. In this weird and dangerous world, that girl disappeared not long after she came here. I hope nothing happened to her. .
Such chaotic thoughts troubled me all the way, and then stopped abruptly when I came to Lingwang Square.
"Cheers Avalon Viva Crystal Viva"
The moment I got out of the elevator, the oncoming waves of cheers pushed me back directly.
The one in front of me is called a group of demons dancing wildly, and that one is called a boiling anti-glooming sky. I know the truth. If you want to change to someone who doesn’t know, come and see which monster’s cave you think you have entered.
The entire Crystal Square is crowded with emperors and generals from all ages. At a glance, it looks like an open-air banquet. The floor is full of tobacco, wine, tea and sugar, the flowing water of Kawagoe, Ganlu, cuisines and drinks of various ethnic groups and regions in various ages. The pavement is almost two miles away, where the heroes are drinking, playing cards, chatting, bragging, standing, sitting, lying down, drinking and ordering five drinks and six drinks, calling friends and calling for friends, one hundred and eight professional hooligans dare to shout about the water of heroes. These ancient heroes are really weak in comparison, why are you preparing to dismantle the ship
"Celebration, celebration, such a victory in the battle, the morale is boosted, it should be celebrated to show the might of our imperial army, you guys, don't keep your face so sullen, the king is happy today, and I will give you a special honor to drink two glasses with you It’s also possible~~~”
I lowered my head expressionlessly, looking at the King of Heroes, who was only 1.5 meters tall, like a little adult, trying hard to pat my shoulder on tiptoe, and suddenly my eyes lit up, and I grabbed the collar and slipped away. stand up.
"Let me down, you bastard, let me down, woohoo, I'm still a wounded man!"
Why didn't you call yourself a wounded person when you held half a catty of Moutai and blew on the bottle
"Zeratul, cry if you want to."
I casually threw the dancing Jill sister aside and asked her to go to Sasaki to play tricks. I suddenly found a bleak figure squatting in the corner. When I went over, it turned out to be Zeratul.
The latter silently raised his head, looked at me, and said in a low voice, "As you can see, it is really troublesome to have no mouth..."
I:"… "
Finally, have you been corrupted too? The serious Uncle Z in the past? Seriously, the holy land of your clan has become Erliqiao vegetable market, is there any V