In the current Shadow City, as long as you look up at the sky, you will find a spectacular and mysterious arc-shaped land above the extremely high clouds in the sky. Above the shadow city, it extends to the limit of your vision in all directions. The slight arc bulging in the middle makes people vaguely realize that this land is actually a part of a spherical shape, but its hugeness and grandeur make it impossible to see it. the whole picture.
The land in the sky is covered with a layer of silvery white and emerald green. The silvery white is a city made of alloy, and the emerald green is a lush jungle with lush plants.
It's like another world reflected in the sky.
This spectacle in the sky has been the most talked-about topic among the residents of Shadow City in the past two days. Its grandeur, mystery and magnificence have attracted more attention than the air fortress of the Military Command. Many people are guessing The background of the reflection world, and many people are busy spreading various versions of the truth because they are well-informed or know some inside stories, but in fact there is only one truth, and it is extremely simple: it is the capital planet of the New Empire, the mother planet Gaia.
Well, I know that the original name of this parent star is not Gaia, but considering that this planet has become the temporary body of a phantom girl, I decided to name it Gaia.
The universe reconstruction work of the original Koprulu star area has been completed, and even the post-adjustment work has been completed. Gaia and the parent star she controls naturally have no mission in that galaxy, and discussed it with Sandora. After a while, I decided to transfer this planet to the shadow space - and this was a few days ago, when we were still busy with the war in the Mobrador universe, I signed the capital star transfer agreement at my leisure Order, when we returned triumphantly, Star Gaia had been hanging above Shadow City for two and a half days.
Although the order was quickly signed after the tense battle, this idea is not rash.
After a long period of construction, the shadow space has become the safest place in the territory of the new empire. All our top command centers are concentrated in this artificial universe, and the headquarters and space-time administration are also here. In contrast, what should have been The home planet, which is the center of imperial rule, has been busy with infrastructure construction and demolition and resettlement in a sub-civilized space area. This is a bit awkward anyway. The work of relocating the home star should have been on the agenda long ago, and it is only now being completed. It's actually been a bit of a delay.
I have to say that the impact of another world hanging in the sky is very big, especially for some people with depression phobia, it is definitely not comfortable to look up at the sky with a continent hanging upside down, Guy When Ya first transferred here, the psychotherapy industry in Shadow City prospered for two days. The income growth rate of psychologists was almost the same as the growth rate of the ideas in Qianqian’s head. Finally, Gaia had to open the mirror image of the mother star itself. System, the visual weakening of the projection of the parent star continent over the shadow city can be considered to solve this psychological panic, so now we see the sky continent only as a somewhat ethereal picture and not think that Mount Tai is about to overwhelm. And speaking of the mother star hanging in the sky, it is actually not quite right. Considering the huge difference in size between the mother star and Shadow City, this statement should be reversed: the current Shadow City is hung upside down on the mother star It's right up in the northern hemisphere. Although it’s just a matter of statement, Gaia seems to be quite concerned about it. She insists that Shadow City should be regarded as an artificial satellite of the parent star and not the other way around. I can only explain this as Gaia and the planet. It's been too long, and she has almost thought of herself as a planet—it's the same reason that An Weena has been very friendly when she sees crows recently...
After Sandora mentioned that the soul of the Vengeance Army could not be fused with any kind of body, I happened to look up at the sky, which is also an important reason why our mortal IQ turned around faster than Sandora , I immediately thought of a person whose symptoms were exactly the same as those ancient souls, and that was Gaia.
It also loses the body conceptually, it also cannot use any type of apostle shell, and it can only be stored in the large array machine as data. More importantly, Gaia also personally said that her current The appearance was caused by a test disaster.
Although she never said anything about the disaster of the experiment, but if I deduce it, I can almost be sure that she should be referring to the experiment that Sandora just said, which was mentioned by l-15, which inspired the Vengeance Army disaster. Those Avengers copied the soul rewriting method that caused Gaia's situation, thus completely destroying the spirit network of Xiling in their sky area.
Gaia has an advantage after transferring the mother star to the shadow space, that is, we can go to see her at any time. Of course, what we see is only a light blue phantom, but compared with the holographic image, it can be seen in the mother star. The feeling of chatting with Gaia on the stars is still different.
The military passage in the Dimensional Hub Plaza has a portal directly leading to the control hub of the mother star. Sandora and I quickly reached our destination through this gate.
"I was sleepwalking when I first came here."
Looking at the familiar yet novel steel city around me, and the lush jungle in the distance, I smiled and said to Sandora.
This magnificent city is the control hub of the mother planet. Although it looks like a bustling city in the future, it is actually an unattended autonomous "building complex" rather than a place for people to live. It is called the mother star control hub. As the name suggests, one of the functions here is the dispatch center of the entire planet. More than half of the dazzling alloy buildings around are all kinds of computing and processing facilities. The elevated roads and bridges are the protection slots for various connecting cables, and Gaia’s “information” is passing through these buildings and cables continuously, so strictly speaking, this control hub is Gaia’s “self”.
Due to her own super high computing power or comprehensive performance, this special parent star has a completely autonomous control hub, which I only recently learned. Originally, I thought that all the emperor's home star hubs were uninhabited cities. Later, when I chatted with Sandora, I realized that my own was a special case: Sandora's home star hub was much more lively than here, and Gaia's The Hub has only a small group of regular garrisons, and the rest are self-discipline machines under her direct control.
This control hub is so huge, it is completely different from the small and powerful processing equipment of the empire (such as Xiling mainframe). A computing facility as huge as a city is not too big, but now, 80% of the functions of this hub are in a state of shutdown. If you look around, you will find that although all the silver-white buildings are There are blue energy patterns floating, but there are only a few buildings with regular lights flashing, and a small part of these buildings are the adjustment devices of the mother star itself—you can see how idle Gaia is usually. up.
As soon as Sandora and I came to the control hub, we immediately attracted Gaia's attention. A small group of self-discipline machines floating in the air like octopuses muttered their internal common language, leading us to a not far Gaia is waiting for us in a small square at , surrounded by a large circle of self-discipline machines crawling around—it seems that this is the scene of her life on Jupiter when she is usually bored.
We had already explained our purpose when we were teleported over, so after seeing us, Gaia didn't ask any more questions, but nodded clearly.
"About my current situation?" The light blue translucent image in front of my eyes reached out and gently stroked an autonomous machine that was swimming around beside me. The latter seemed to feel it, and made a comfortable gurgling sound , and then flipped over, the octopus-like multi-purpose robotic arm spread out in the air to form a projection array, and then opened a holographic image of about one meter more, "This is the structure diagram of the parent star, and the two majesties should be familiar with it."
Sandora and I nodded.
"This location is the control center. The largest 'city' on the parent planet is actually a servo array. The port for my interaction with the outside world is on this array, and it is also the storage area for 90% of my information." Gaia spoke unhurriedly. Under her control, many self-discipline machines were the same as the first machine. They circled around us with their belly up and unfolded many holographic images.
I opened my eyes wide and looked at these never-before-seen images in amazement: they seemed to be a documentary!
More than a dozen video screens are playing around us, but what is displayed is not the numbers and graphs I am used to seeing on these Xiling devices. It is like many live videos, without many complicated and unclear technical symbols. , but it is easier for me to understand. There is a busy dispatch center on it, a large group of imperial technicians rushing through, a reactor bursting with dazzling sparks, and spaceships flowing endlessly, but these are not things that make me dumbfounded. It is really difficult to calm down at a glance Yes, there are familiar faces in several pictures for a long time.
Pandora standing on the podium with a blank face, Alaya who is obviously slipping away with a gentle smile, and Gaia standing calmly inside a crystal prism surrounded by halos— Not the light blue phantom now, but a real girl with beautiful long lavender hair, bright lavender eyes, and a long white dress.
In addition to them, there are also some familiar faces, but after the faces of the three of Pandora appeared on the screen, my attention was not focused on other people. Sandora looked at the videos played in a loop around her, and said for a long time, "Is this a video from the old empire?"
Gaia nodded: "Yes, this is the image data left over from a research project that year, and I lost my body after the failure of that research project."
Although Sandora and I had guessed something, our eyes were still wide open at this time.
Gaia recounted what happened that year. This is the first time I heard the complete story from her mouth: "Gaia, the full name is the distributed array Xiling host host machine-Gaia type, I It used to be the last parent machine of the old empire's distributed array Xiling main machine. As recorded in the video, I used to be the same as Bubble... "
As soon as he opened his mouth, it was big news.
But Gaia didn't give me much time to digest the information, because obviously what she's going to say next is all blockbusters, and if I digest them one by one, I'm afraid I'll have to digest them until next month, so she continued without stopping : "There are many different models of Xiling hosts, such as bubbles. The special name should be 'honeycomb co-processing Xiling hosts', but these should not be what you care about." Gaia pointed out tactfully My deficiency in comprehension.
"The Gaia-type Xiling host is the last model of the distributed array host, and I am the prototype of it, and the only Xiling host that was put into use in the end. The reason is very complicated. In short, Gaia changed from a series code name to It became my exclusive name. And that experiment was part of a scientific research project on soul transformation that was going on at that time."
"At that time, the empire was at the end of the era of great expansion, and the apostles of Xiling gradually reduced their wars of conquest of the new world, and instead devoted themselves to the research of technologies to further strengthen their own civilization, and further research on their own souls was one of the many research projects at that time. One of the most powerful Xiling hosts at that time, I served as the computing mother node in the sky area, and at the same time, I was also the first test subject to undergo transformation, because of the special life form of Xiling hosts, our souls are more capable Subject to various transformations, and with a strong self-healing ability, plus I am the host of Xiling, I can record first-hand data better than other subjects... "
"Then... the experiment failed?"
I asked cautiously.
Gaia nodded silently, and an automatic machine with four legs turned upside down floated over with the holographic projection on its belly. What appeared on the projection were some very messy images, as if they had been greatly disturbed during the shooting. The broken crystal prism, the main engine slot that kept flashing alarm lights, the girl that was gradually dissipating into spots of light, and Pandora who was holding a group of researchers on the ground to be shot one by one—he was stopped by Alaya, who looked dumb back then up.
"Do you usually watch these things?" I looked at Gaia and the automatic machine that was playing the scene of the disaster with a strange expression. I was a little nervous and distressed. It has become a psychological hidden danger-usually a person lives alone in this huge empty city and watches his own death video, is this something ordinary people can do
"I usually don't watch this. It's what His Majesty wants to watch. I usually watch the central ten episodes. Those jokes are quite funny." Gaia replied seriously, and I was speechless.
Under Gaia's explanation with pictures and texts, Sandora and I have already understood what was going on in the original experiment, and after removing the parts I didn't understand... Well, there is nothing left, anyway, I only know a few things. One thing, they wanted to transform the souls of the apostles of Xiling to make their souls more immortal, but this transformation failed in the end, and the mutated souls were not strengthened at all, but were inexplicably erased from a certain "concept", becoming It is too incompatible with any kind of body. If you compare it with an example, it seems that you want to optimize your own mother, but when you optimize it, you play off. The mechanical layer code of the mother directly jumps from binary to 30 binary , but all computers in the whole world are binary mechanical codes, so your mother has become a lonely ghost since then, and can only be turned into a wisp of remnant memory in your mind...
This is the case with Gaia, her soul has been transformed into a completely unreasonable appearance, as if the binary system has been programmed with 30 binary numbers, and since then nothing that can be called a body cannot accommodate this soul.
The only good thing is that although the body is no longer compatible with the soul, Xiling Empire's technology still did not let her die. Those scientists who almost made Pandora line up and shoot them finally found something similar to a translator. Gaia's soul exists on this mother star in the form of data, most of her data is stored in the control center, and some conceptual things that are not easy to understand are combined with the entire planet, this is the current Gaia .
So the question we are most concerned about now is: Is this process reversible
No one has forgotten the original purpose of our coming to Gaia, we are not here to observe the recording work of lv, we plan to arrange for Sandora's old subordinates to return to life.
But this kind of thinking was actually poured cold water when Gaia told her experience just now. As she explained the reasons for the incompatibility of the soul bit by bit, the cold water gradually transitioned to ice water. It can be said that when When Sandora and I asked with the last bit of extravagant hope whether this process is reversible, the two of us have actually come here from the winter swimming in Heilongjiang almost: from the top of the head to the ground of the feet.
Sure enough, just as I had already guessed, Gaia shook her head without hesitation: "Of course it is irreversible, otherwise I wouldn't be like this."
I looked at Gaia's light blue translucent phantom, and thought that it was difficult for her to use quality projection because of the different base systems, and I thought so: If this process was reversible, the girl in front of me would still be here as a movie all day long what
"That's tantamount to nothing."
I drooped the corners of my mouth and shrugged my shoulders helplessly at Sandora. She lowered her head and said nothing for a long time, and suddenly said quietly: "In this case, I'm afraid they really won't be able to accept it."
For the Apostles of Xiling, the most difficult situation to accept is this: from now on, it becomes a piece of information that can't do anything, consumes an amazing energy supply every day to maintain its own existence, and even a large group of leader bees can't do anything. If you don't do it, you will be responsible for maintaining yourself every day, and you will live a real rice bug life from then on.
The reason why Gaia can still perform her duties after losing her body is because she was originally a Xiling host, and what she has to do has nothing to do with combat. As long as there is a powerful enough auxiliary servo array, she can continue to do her previous work. And what about Sandora's veterans? They are all warriors, and the only thing they can do for tens of millions of years is to fight. If you give them a server the size of a star, they can't research things that the host of Xiling can understand. The race of the Xiling apostles is different from that of humans. Their "origin" determines too many things. A newly created apostle will be determined for the future racial role. A soldier who has been trained to the limit will not understand scientific research. A researcher After going to the front line to fight for a thousand years, you can't beat an officer. Pandora has only grown one centimeter in the past tens of millions of years. Sister Scorpion said that she would rather die than heat her blade. Sikaro is the only one. He In addition to fighting, I learned to read palms and resell pirated discs...
Thinking of this, I can only sigh with Sandora.
But—still this lovely word, but, Gaia suddenly spoke, it seems to give us some turning point.
"Your Majesty, in fact... the l-15 Grand Warlord has already communicated with me. He has an idea about the future of the 100,000 Vengeance Army veterans..."
(Guess what happened to the Avengers?) RO