Chapter 1,124 Let Them Live Their Lives Listening to the Alarm

(I’m asking for votes at the beginning of the month. I didn’t notice that it’s the beginning of the month so soon.)

The book follows the text and opens two chapters. It is said that when the genius girl Chen Xiaoxue saw that the Lin family's house was at the foot of the mountain, she screamed, held down her head, and when she landed in front of the servant of the Lin family, she bowed and said: "Little girl She is a concubine whom the daughter of your family made when she was studying in that barbarian country. She has come here to seek refuge with you. Please tell me something." The servant saw that the visitor had a sinister look on his face and did not dare to say anything. He walked to the back hall and saw the master of the Lin family. Madam, so-and-so-then that naughty child Chen Xiaoxue wandered around and found her mother while no one was paying attention.

Oh my god, I have changed my writing style, but the basic situation is like this...

"She said she was a classmate I met when I was studying abroad in Bavaria! She also announced that she had been secretly in love with me for half a year when she was in Bavaria," Lin Xue said through gritted teeth during the mental connection, "Now she has caught me All the female creatures in the family are called sister - except my mother, but including me!"

Me: "...Actually, the fact that she didn't include your mother shows that she is still filial..."

"Do you believe that I will come over and bite you even though my father beat me all over my head?" the eldest lady said conspiratorially.

I quickly coughed twice: "Ahem, that kid Xiaoxue is so outrageous! Why is he so insignificant!"

"Anyway, I know you released her." The eldest lady's voice sounded a little weak, so Xiaoxue must be by her side now, and all kinds of weird situations are happening one after another. No matter what, it’s still my daughter’s fault. Even if I omitted more than ten years of upbringing, I could easily figure out the girl's behavior pattern. She would never keep her peace with Lin Xue. It's just that Miss Lin and I usually suppress her together, and Xiaoxue is quite obedient. Now Lin Xue is the only one, and that naughty kid is still in the excitement of visiting his grandparents' house for the first time. I really can't imagine that kid. How lively it would be - maybe I should have asked her to blow up the US Embassy just now...

"That's it, I'll keep an eye on this guy for the time being. Well, as long as she doesn't continue to cause trouble," the eldest lady was silent for a while, probably because she was busy stopping Xiaoxue from demolishing her own house, "This time I'll give it to you first." Remember - besides, it’s not convenient for me to educate my children here, so you must remember to repair your daughter properly after she goes back!"

The eldest lady hung up the communication and continued her passionate family life. I turned around and saw that adults and children had formed a circle in the living room. Basically, they all look full of expectation - you say how bad our family is.

I told everyone about the current situation of the genius girl Chen Xiaoxue. Qian Qian listened leisurely and fascinated - she loved to join in the fun, and Lin Xuena was obviously very lively now. My elder sister hit me on the head: "You were better than her when you were a child."

I feel quite unconvinced. I admit that I was naughty when I was a child. After all, I also formed a duo with Qianqian back then, but to say that I am as naughty as Xiaoxue is an exaggeration. point? As a result, as soon as I raised this question, my sister started recalling the various pranks Qianqian and I had done together when we were young. I can’t explain the specific content. Anyway, even Bingtis, a tyrant in the world who dared to smash the principal’s glass in front of all the teachers, listened in leisurely fascination... Was I really that bad when I was a kid?

At this time. Shandora suddenly came over and patted me on the shoulder: "Ajun, come with me to Shadow City after dinner later."

I look at Sandora. Then he looked at the large family who were laughing and joking, and nodded slowly: You still have to work when you have to work.

So after lunch, I didn’t hang on the balcony with Lilina to perform photosynthesis as usual. Instead, accompanied by Sandora, I went to one of the lecture halls of the Shadow City headquarters. Sivis and some senior officers were already there. This wait. Behind Sivis, there was a strange device that had not been seen in this lecture hall before: it was a group of broken metal fragments floating in the air. The total size of the floating objects was about half a meter, and each metal fragment appeared... Out of the arc shape, perhaps they should be combined into a rather large circle. Apart from this group of fragments, no peripheral equipment that may be related to it can be seen at the scene, indicating that this is an independent thing.

"Oh, this is a magic energy device that we have just restored. Its function is similar to a fixed portal, but the energy source is magic energy, and it supports a more 'fuzzy' operation method. This is what my subordinates are about to show you. One of the things.”

Noticing the curious look on my face, Sivis first pointed to the equipment behind her and explained, and there were two words in her words that made me focus suddenly: "Magic energy? In other words, the mysterious system What about the technology?”

"Yes, it comes from the subordinate's own memory bank," Sivis smiled. "They are now extremely clear, and many principles that were originally ineffective in the real world have suddenly become available. The first one after the conceptual separation state is lifted Intuitive phenomenon, what results is that the device you see is successfully restored. Although it is not of much value in terms of functionality, it should be a milestone.”

I stared intently at the metal fragments floating in mid-air, constantly randomly dissociating or combining together, with shiny mysterious symbols flashing on their surfaces. These symbols can have a magical impact on the real world just by their shapes. But not long ago, it was just a bunch of garbled code that Sivis deemed as wrong information... During the process of conceptual separation, I never intuitively saw what changes had taken place in the two worlds, but this thing in front of me was The only "evidence" that allows people to clearly and intuitively realize that everything has happened.

"The dissolution of conceptual fragmentation cannot be directly observed with the naked eye, but we must accurately track how far it has spread and what value it can bring to us now," Sivers said as he launched the report The projection array in the hall, a large number of charts and strange schematic diagrams of facilities and equipment appeared in front of us. The other senior officers in the report hall still remained solemn, but I could feel the change in the surrounding atmosphere. Therefore, even if I couldn't understand most of the contents of the holographic projections around me, I realized that these things must be of great significance, and Sivis continued to report, "Chief technician Tavel designed a virtual network before this. This network was downloaded into the memory core of each hybrid Xiling apostle before the conceptual separation was lifted to track everyone's memory changes. At the same time, we monitored the empire's central database. As well as the information in the entire new empire's spiritual network In the past twenty-four hours, all 'basic information' has increased dramatically, and has now nearly doubled. A large number of unproven mathematical systems and theoretical models have appeared within the empire's territory. These appear out of thin air and can be directly The knowledge read by our mental network has been tested one by one and confirmed to be consistent with their self-consistent structure. In other words, it can be transformed into actual products. The conceptual separation has been confirmed to be lifted, and researchers are seizing the time to rebuild Complete the empire's database. Chief Tavel applied to establish at least three new research groups. Simultaneous exploration in three directions: the systematic organization of mysterious technology, the integration of mysterious technology and the existing science and technology of the empire, and most importantly, the integration of mysterious technology into the empire's existing science and technology. It is the fastest way to transform technology into actual productivity and combat effectiveness."

"Agree," Sandora thought for a moment before making a decision, but she added, "But these three groups will be jointly responsible for the research center and the people from Celestial City, Alleria Odyssey. , and Alaya are very suitable to lead such work."

"Tavel needs to change her habits." I laughed. "She has been researching in her own field. She doesn't know much about the technology of the mysterious system. What she has to face this time is a brand new field - but she has become Become an apprentice."

"I believe she will do a good job," Sandora responded. "An excellent chief technician does not mean omniscience in many cases, but knows how to let those more professional people accomplish the team's goals. .The chief technician is both a scientist and a team leader, and his job is similar to that of a general."

I looked at Sivis and said what I was most concerned about right now: "Okay, let's put the good news aside for the time being and talk about the bad news. According to Alleria's judgment, the lifting of the conceptual separation will be a major issue in the entire process. It is happening simultaneously within the void, and now the magic equipment and occult knowledge we have on hand have emerged, which means... the same is true for the fallen apostles."

"Yes," Sivis nodded. The female adjutant with a fierce temperament also showed a solemn look at this moment. "The only advantage of the empire at present is that we are prepared. Before the conceptual separation is lifted, we have prepared a large amount of idle production and The research team has also secretly set up an experimental universe. Even if the Fallen Apostles are aware of all this, they will definitely be a step behind us in the formation of these technologies. However, the advantage of this kind of preparation is limited, and once the enemy is in By launching an attack on us during this period and consuming our energy, the New Empire will lose the advantage gained by preparing in advance - because the New Empire lags behind the Fallen Apostles in terms of infrastructure and the number of worlds it occupies. , we cannot withstand the attrition and setbacks. Another thing that my subordinates want to report is this: the spy team that went to investigate the border of the fallen apostles has detected a world equivalent to one and five times the direct territory of the new empire, but it is still The end of the enemy's frontier is undiscovered. The deepest part of their dark empire is hidden in the ruins of the old empire. It is filled with twisted and chaotic things. Even if it is not intercepted by the enemy fleet, it is difficult for our reconnaissance team to enter the other side of the barrier... "

"Wait a minute," I couldn't help but interrupted the other party, "You said that our reconnaissance force has approached the base camp of the fallen apostles? How did they do it? What are the enemy's movements?"

"My Majesty, that is the reconnaissance force that you personally ordered to form..." Sivis said euphemistically, while calmly tidying up the already flawless commander's uniform, "The members are from His Highness Xiaoxue. The elite commanders from the original Fallen Apostles Legion who successfully 'persuaded' them to surrender. They know part of the border world of the Fallen Apostles and know the enemy's behavior habits. They have been patrolling outside the territory of the Fallen Apostles. Seven days ago, they arrived in the void. In the deepest part, unable to move forward, Chief Tavel speculated based on the intelligence sent back that the reconnaissance team may have contacted the border of the old empire. The ruins of the destroyed world formed a twisted and entangled barrier, known as the 'Chaos Wall' structure. Now Most of the reconnaissance team has returned, and only a few special observation ships are still monitoring part of the known territory of the Fallen Apostles in a relatively safe area."

"Ahem. I know, I know," I waved my hands quickly, thinking that I shouldn't be this confused yet. "I just didn't expect that they would make such great progress... and actually find their opponent right under the enemy's nose. of the interior.”

"In fact, according to the judgment of the headquarters, the fallen apostles should have noticed the existence of one or more groups of reconnaissance troops on their borders," Sivis frowned. "The reconnaissance teams have repeatedly discovered that the enemy is strengthening the information barrier of their border world. Moreover, Void sentry towers and roving troops have been added outside the world barrier. Because of the existence of these things, our reconnaissance team has never been able to confirm the status of the Fallen Apostles and can only roughly touch the location of their border world. Just like here - Traces of the fallen apostles' reconnaissance ships have also been found on the border of the empire. Although they are repulsed every time, I am afraid that these 'rangers' are still monitoring somewhere near the border world."

I am also aware of the situations Sivis mentioned. After many confrontations, they even attacked each other's homeland. There is no longer a state of complete ignorance between the Fallen Apostles and the New Empire. We can detect a few border worlds of each other. And each has set up reconnaissance ships outside the opponent's border. Due to the special properties of void. It is very difficult to scan a small reconnaissance ship outside the world barrier, and even if it can scan the other party, the latter can often hide its traces again easily: you only need to modify your "information representation" to instantly cross ten The borders of several worlds. The confrontation and confrontation in the void is such a weird "tacit understanding" state. However, the intelligence collected by these means will not directly affect the situation. Neither the fallen apostles nor the new empire will allow enemy scouts to detect the situation in their own world. All the void reconnaissance ship can collect is the coordinates and scale of the target world, but it knows nothing about its internal conditions. So this is not enough to lead a war.

On the border, battles, large and small, take place almost every day. In most cases, the garrison of the border world is expelling or chasing spy ships, but the scale of this battle has never risen to the level of a fleet battle, and this dull situation has lasted for nearly a year. But I estimate that this balance is about to be shaken, and the reason for the shake is the sudden fusion of the parent star. There are two possible reactions to this on the part of the fallen apostles. The first is that they think they have somehow gained the ability to kill everyone, and have a lot of incredible knowledge falling from the sky, so they can’t wait to knock on the door and seek death from the new empire; the second is the consciousness of the Fallen Apostles. He discovered that the great changes that occurred within his own territory were related to the new empire, and then came to find out the situation no matter what. Regardless of the possibility, fighting will inevitably break out again on both sides. The only difference is that the former will break out into a full-scale war, while the latter may mean a local surprise attack. Taking into account that the fallen apostles are not short-sighted, I think the second possibility is very high.

No matter what the reason is for enemies to appear on the borders of the empire, it is something we don’t want to see now – when you hold down the technology tree, do you want to see a circle of onlookers appear at your doorstep?

Shandora could certainly think of this, so while ordering to speed up the integration of new information, she also ordered to strengthen the alert level on the border and have the first and second legions ready for battle at any time, but before that, It would be better for us to find ways to postpone the coming battle as much as possible - for the first time in history, the new empire has some advantages in the technology tree, but these technologies have not yet been converted into actual military power, so we need time to realize this The advantage is expanded - at least an army of spellcasters can be expanded to fight.

Maybe... it's time to take the initiative to cause a little trouble on the enemy's border.

"We must delay the enemy's actions." Shandora and I said almost in unison, and then couldn't help but look at each other: the two of us thought about it again this time.

"Is there any way we can cause a little trouble on the enemy's border now?" I said, my eyes fell on Sandora, and she smiled at me: "You mean, disrupt their line of sight?"

"Absolutely, create all kinds of illusions so that they can't figure out what the empire is thinking." I slowly expressed my thoughts. "We can harass their borders in a painless way, increase the number of spy troops and small The number of fleets in the fleet is large enough to give the illusion of a surprise attack on a border world - of course, these illusions are easy to see through, but frequent actions like this should confuse the enemy. Now the fallen apostle is worried about the large number of people appearing in his territory. The mysterious technical data should be very confused. They should be able to associate the reason for the appearance of those things with the New Empire, but they would never expect that we did it on our own initiative - because they are also vested interests. In other words, they don't know During this change, the New Empire has always been in control of the situation. So we have to act like we really have no control over the situation, so that the Fallen Apostles will think that the New Empire is scrambling to prevent them from researching those technologies - then the Fallen Apostles will think that in After the emergence of these technologies, they were actually the ones who had the upper hand... No matter what ideas they had, they would never think of attacking the empire for a moment - unless more than half of the other party's officers were hot-blooded impulsive elements. As long as these actions are effective, the empire will There will be enough time to form an army of spellcasters here - and it will be formed secretly."

In fact, my idea is very simple, that is, through deception and illusion, let the fallen apostles think that now is a good time for them to suppress the technology tree, and deceive them to make them study the secret knowledge at home - but no matter how they Research, as long as they don't come to the New Empire to harass us, their research progress will definitely fall behind ours.

Sandora listened to me with a smile, nodded and commented: "It is an idea that may be effective. At least for a period of time, the attention of the fallen apostles will be disturbed, and they will not think of coming to attack us for the time being. Then... Sixth Legion, I'll leave this matter to you." Sandora turned her head to a tall male officer at the end of the conference table: "Your Legion is an expert in dealing with fallen apostles, to select a group of troops who are the fastest and best at sneak attacks. Break into pieces and appear at the enemy's border with a high profile. But remember: you are not going to fight a frontal battle. All fleets are not allowed to directly attack the enemy's military strongholds. You must find a retreat route before starting any operation. I don't want them here. Too many people were lost in this kind of harassment battle. I just want them to keep appearing on the enemy's radar screen - let the fallen apostles live their lives listening to the alarm." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to recommend it. Tickets, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)