Chapter 1,121 The Shadow City Was Not Built in a Day

There is a silver-white pyramid building in the center of the Forgotten Garden. This is the Xiling Mother Nest we are using now. Different from the Xiling Mother Nest that everyone usually sees, the appearance of this pyramid building does not have those high-tech alloy shells and clear and straight energy veins. It looks more like a religious art. The product is divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts. The upper part occupies two-thirds of the height. It is extremely smooth and clean. It constantly changes its reflectivity under the reflection of the sky, and it seems as if a layer of living scrolls is floating on the surface. The lower part occupies one-third of the height of the entire pyramid, and its surface is decorated with complex golden reliefs and runes - but they are not decorations, but some functional facilities of the pyramid. I only know them and energy collection. Regarding matters such as reuse, a significant difference between the energy usage technology between the mysterious side and the technological side is that the latter relies on the "Paswell Nether Energy Recharging System" to centrally collect and circulate the energy field within the building complex, while the former It is customary to cover the surface of each building with simple and easy-to-replace runes to distribute this work to the entire base. Therefore, compared to the buildings on the technology side, the mysterious facilities built by the Xiling Apostles always look more beautiful. Pretty: at least they have lots of wonderful "patterns" on their surfaces.

This brand new building was designed and built by Aurelia in the past few days with Paopao's help. It is essentially a mother nest, but it uses the mysterious side of the peripherals so that it can directly use the Forgotten Garden building. The data port of the group. In the Crystal Hall at the core of the Brood. Bubbles and small bubbles are ready. Here are two identical crystal prisms placed side by side, with the peculiar "mother and daughter" inside. Among them, Bubble has been working inside for several days, while Little Bubble was just connected online a few minutes ago. Now the latter is curiously tapping the crystal wall in front of him, and then looking at the people standing outside, happy The ground giggled with joy.

"Are you sure that Little Bubble won't screw up?" When Alleria and Odyssey, two hard-working employees of the Odyssey (why did I suddenly come up with such a word?), went to check the conversion device. , Bingtis touched my arm worriedly. "I think what she wants to do most right now is probably to break up the slot of her own console and take it home..."

"It'll be fine once it's connected," Sandora explained to Bingtis, "The personality of the Xiling host will not affect the working status. Don't look at Xiaobu Buo like this, she has also performed many tasks."

"Everything is normal, the conversion stability is within the ideal range," Alleria flew out of the lattice room next to her. Falling behind us, "The hybrid spiritual apostles who accept advanced connections are also ready. Follow Her Majesty Sandora's suggestion. Let them lie honestly in the amplification node cabin without executing any additional thinking commands."

Sandora lightly touched the crystal panel in front of her, and with an almost imperceptible "sizzling" sound, a set of holographic projections immediately appeared in front of everyone, with Sivis's image displayed in the center. Behind Sivis, you can see hundreds of crystal prisms arranged neatly. The respectable female adjutant took the initiative to report without waiting for me to speak: "Your Majesty, the Shadow City host array is ready, and all commanders who need to accept high-level connections have also been synchronized with the amplification node."

"My daughter and I are fine." Not far to the left, Bubbles in the crystal prism suddenly opened its eyes. Her voice immediately came from all directions in the Brood Hall, and as soon as she spoke, the entire Crystal Hall was filled with bright lights. Little Bubbles suddenly jumped up and down in his host slot happily, Bubbles ninja He couldn't help but glance at his daughter, with a helpless look on his face, "I'll synchronize with her first, otherwise this kid will tear this place apart."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bubble and Little Bubble fell silent at the same time. Especially the latter, the change was particularly obvious. One second he was jumping up and down like a restless little monkey, and this second his eyes were closed like a deep sleep. Beauty, only the "guaguaguacri" in the public channel of spiritual connection lasts for a long time, echoing everywhere...

"The Garden of Death activates five minutes of preparation."

I looked at the timing numbers on the control panel and connected to Tavel. The other party is now at the Garden of Death control center, personally sitting in to ensure that this huge system does not cause any accidents, or that it can be reached in time when an accident occurs. Take care of everything. From here we can clearly see the situation in the control hall opposite. In front of the neatly arranged monitoring and control terminals at all levels, technicians in white clothes stand ready. Everyone is like a still statue waiting for the final order, although I always I can’t remember the names of the huge number of research team members, but I can name everyone in the control hall in the picture. From left to right, they are Tavel, Tavel, Tavel, Tavel, Tavel and Tavel...from right to left of course.

Tavel's body led her hundreds of mass projections to occupy the entire control hall, and her team of assistants were outside operating peripheral equipment. Standing in the center of the screen is of course Tavel's true form, her expression full of confidence: "The system's five-minute countdown has begun."

Although I have become accustomed to the sight of this technician sister with superior combat power (in every sense of the word) relying on a large group of high-quality projections to do a lot of work, the visual impact of such a large group of Tavels standing together is still quite big. , I glanced at the Tavel army behind the opponent with admiration, and then nodded and said: "The first task is to ensure the safety of the two worlds. Neither Sandora nor I require you to succeed once, but No losses are allowed."

Tavel smiled confidently: "Your Majesty, please believe in my calculation. It will succeed the first time. Reason..."

Sandora and I said in unison: "No need to say the second half of the sentence!"

Well, if this sister's mantra is used at this time, it is really not auspicious...

"The final execution order of the Garden of Death has been confirmed, and the system has started a one-minute countdown," a soft and calm synthetic voice sounded in the hall, "The Shadow City host array is connected normally and connected to the network normally. Preparatory data begins to be input into the stack area... Xinxiang host The unit connection is normal, the grid connection is normal, and the preliminary data begins to be input into the stack area... All the information amplification nodes have been named in sequence, one hundred and sixty-seven key keys have been logged in, and the key pre-reading has been completed... The startup code of the Garden of Death has been verified. , the system starts a fifteen-second countdown, and all operations are irreversible... The system starts a ten-second countdown, nine. Eight, seven...three, two, one - run."

A sound of ever-increasing pitch suddenly sounded in the Crystal Hall, and soon turned into a series of continuous, rhythmic resonant sounds. This sound, like a tuning fork being struck in a long and narrow corridor, was the sound of the entire Brood Nest. The unique sound of power operation. The crystal prism where the bubbles and small bubbles are located continuously raises layers of gorgeous halos from bottom to top, and these halos are generated under their feet. and gathered above their heads. As if doing a full body scan, this process lasted for nearly ten minutes before slowly relaxing again. The continuous sound in the hall turned into a low and soft sound of equipment running. The auras on the two mother Xiling hosts were still there. Yes, but no longer moving quickly. What happens here is the only thing we can see directly. As for the situation in other places, we can only see it through the holographic projection in front of Sandora. There are no alarm messages and everything is running smoothly.

"The system is normal. It will switch to pure logic mode as planned," Bubble's voice echoed in the hall. It has changed from the lively and lively loli voice to the inorganic stiff and flat tone, "The calculation load is 80%, the estimated completion time is temporarily unknown, and we are preparing to activate the brood backup cooling system."

Following Bubbles, Little Bubbles' voice also appeared on the broadcast in the Crystal Hall: "Guacridine, Guacridine Guoacridine Guua..."

Me: "..." Do you know how creepy it is after this series of notes with unknown meanings are read out in the same tone?

"I'll leave this to you." Although I knew that in this state, Bubbles would no longer respond to me with the same "enthusiastic attitude" that made people laugh or cry, I still looked at the crystal prism in front of me and said with a smile. The little girl in the middle opened her eyes and replied in an inorganic tone: "The load of this machine is 80%, and the load of the entire unit is 82.5%. The mission can be successfully completed."

The dissolution of the conceptual separation and the merging of the two worlds can be completed in just an instant, but before that it takes about a day to redefine and compile all the information involved, as if the two countries merged into one. There may only be one moment recorded in history books: in xx AD, the two countries merged into one. But in real history, this process may have gone through hundreds of years of running-in and conflict, and there are too many things that need to be adjusted.

But for the two parent stars that have been apart for tens of thousands of years, this mere day's wait is nothing.

As the system load became higher and higher, Bubble finally simply adjusted the logical response to the lowest level and stopped responding to all communication requests except direct commands. This newly built mother nest also opened all additional energy vent channels. and heat dissipation device. When we left the mother nest an hour later, this building had already used more than 30% of the energy allocation of the entire Forgotten Garden, and this was still a part of the entire system with a lighter workload. It can be seen from this that this joint system that spans two worlds and consists of hundreds of Xiling hosts, a set of death gardens and the spiritual network of hundreds of senior apostles is carrying out a huge project - perhaps in the old empire era , joint operations of similar scale are not uncommon, but in the new empire, this is really the first time.

Happily, the first attempt has gone as smoothly as expected so far.

"The load of the unit is already 90%," Sandora also connected herself directly to the mother's nest to monitor the working status of bubbles and small bubbles at any time, and at the same time, she could put her spare computing power to use. , when we returned to a temporary command post near the Forgotten Garden Mother Nest, she said, "That girl is very busy this time. It is not easy for a mother host to have such a high load. Normally she is the highest I have never used more than 80% of my calculations."

"Wow, the performance of bubbles is so strong," I was a little surprised and worried at the same time, "Is there any problem?"

"The computing power is sufficient, the information exchange has entered a stable state, and there will be no major fluctuations. Moreover, Gaia is also online. She has used all her free memory to serve as a redundant stack area for the entire network," Sandora He tapped his forehead lightly and said, "In addition, there are a large number of Xiling apostles on the outer edge of the network who are using their free resources to provide auxiliary computing to the hosts. This network has a very strong fault tolerance rate. Not to mention... we also have prophets. .”

After Sandora's words fell, I couldn't help but glance to the side. Lin Xue was lying lazily on the couch with her eyes closed, looking like she was taking a nap, but she could vaguely see something under her nose. The white halo is flowing. Just like every key operation in the past, Miss Prophet had to escort the whole process of this operation. In fact, even the previous moment of activating the death garden was a "good day, auspicious time, and good time" that the Miss had repeatedly confirmed. Nothing can go wrong.

The temporary command post is a typical imperial mystical building. There are several terraces in the middle and upper part that look toward the sky. Since I had nothing to do for the time being, I went to the highest terrace and looked at the buildings in the clouds that were hidden by the clouds and mist.

Although there is a system behind him that is so huge that ordinary people cannot imagine it is running at full capacity, and its data throughput in one second will exceed the sum of all the information that some ordinary civilizations can create from birth to death, but behind this system In the world outside, everything is still so peaceful. The space that had been renamed the "Kingdom of Gods" was so silent that even the sound of the wind could not be heard. It was as if the things he had activated before were all an illusion. However, great changes in the world are actually happening. Everything around him and within sight is being recalculated. The basic mathematical laws they execute are deduced by the brood shrouded in light not far away. After adding additional information, Re-inject the world through the Garden of Death, and the "worldview" of the entire world will quietly change without you being aware of it. I don't know when this is all done. Whether there will be even the slightest change in the appearance of the celestial city in front of me, but it is certain. For many people around them, their world will be turned upside down. It's like you originally thought that you were an orphan left in an orphanage to make a living by no one. Suddenly you learned that you actually have at least two hundred relatives scattered all over the world, and you have at least three oil fields in Saudi Arabia. You said that your world can't be turned upside down... Well, I won't let my mind wander at this time. .

"It looks so deserted." When I was lost in thought, a dull and soft voice suddenly sounded in my ears. I turned around and saw that Alaya had landed on the terrace at some point, and behind her was always following. The kite sister Alleria was floating around vaguely. The former looked at the block below in ecstasy, with a bit of loss in his tone. Those wide pure white walkways, corridors decorated with gold rims and crystals, huge towers, and the cities in the sky. There are almost no people in these grand building complexes, but they must have been very lively back then. Perhaps you can see angels flying around or hanging on the walls, troops of spellcasters marching in formation, and imperial soldiers all over every corner of the city. They are bustling, living, gathering, and shouting in these magnificent buildings. The slogan of the empire is always ready to go out and beat the brains out of so and so... Although some strange things were mixed in, it was such a lively and prosperous scene.

But now, it feels like an empty city. Although all the buildings are still as bright as before, and even except in the world of gods and fairy tales, you can no longer find a magnificent city that can compare with this place, but it is still lifeless. In the entire Celestial City, apart from our family, there are only 300 senior Xiling officers, less than half of whom are still lying in dormant cabins; the total number of former royal guards rescued from ruins in various places is less than 70,000, which is still Counting those golems and elemental guards, the entire Celestial City is made up of the surviving facilities on the former home planet and all imperial colonial stars in the capital universe. Think about how much area per capita this place has. Well, with you as the center of the circle, if you run out of gas in a Xiali, you may not meet the second one that can walk upright...

"It will be fine soon. Wasn't the Shadow City empty at the beginning?" I smiled and couldn't help but reach out and pinch Alaya's wings. Thinking of the scene of Shadow City back then, I really lamented how time flies and how much changes have taken place - the original Shadow City was just like the current Celestial City, even more desolate and desolate than this one, with only one lone ghost in the huge dark space. At that time, there were only 300 commanders around me in the whole world. The Shadow City was basically just like its name, an empty city with only lone shadows. Now, four years later, who could have imagined that the empty city would turn into a city. The hub of thousands of worlds, called the "Imperial Capital" and "City of Miracles" by countless people in the macro world? Such huge changes and rapid progress are probably miracles that only a race with unprecedented efficiency like the Xiling Apostles can create. A bright smile appeared on Alaya's face, and he nodded vigorously to me happily, pointing to the sea of ​​clouds in the distance: "Brother Jun, we will make this place as prosperous as Shadow City, for sure! Right?"

"Alleria, what are you looking at? Is there something on my face?"

I casually caressed Alaya's wings twice, and noticed that Alleria, the kite angel who had been silent beside her since just now, seemed to be "looking" at me, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's nothing, it's just... unexpected." Alleria's voice seemed different today. "You are too special, not quite like the king in my impression..."

"Yes," I laughed, "I know. From your point of view, do you think I am qualified?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, your Support is my biggest motivation.)