Chapter 1,139 I Heard It - I Just Heard It

Super-intensity broadcasting and listening to the void have been going on for a day, and we have not yet received any reply from the Fifth Fleet. However, because the Garden of Death system has adjusted the power to an unprecedented level, we accidentally discovered the fallen apostle in the border area of ​​the empire. With a small wave of spy troops, Pandora and Viska rushed over to satisfy their desire to fight that they had accumulated for more than two months. According to the bits and pieces of intelligence that the two sisters of One Meter found from the wreckage of the enemy ships, and the reports of the spy troops deployed at the border of the Fallen Apostles, the enemy has indeed been a bit suspicious recently: According to my previous plan, we have integrated the Sixth Fleet As Zero, he frequently appeared in the border areas of the Fallen Apostles. Although he did not carry out any substantial attacks on the enemy, he seemed to have done enough to serve as an outpost for the large forces to move in. As a result, the Fallen Apostles have greatly strengthened their border alert level, and several worlds have entered a state of complete blockade - it is estimated that the enemies are studying their mysterious technologies in those worlds. At the same time, they have also increased the frequency of espionage activities on the border of the empire. It seems that they want to know what is going on here and whether mystical knowledge has also appeared in the new empire. However, due to early preparations, the enemy's spy troops are basically unable to scan the situation within the empire, and even if they get a little bit of information, it is false information that we deliberately released. On this front, everything is going according to plan—at least for now.

I just don’t know when the fallen apostles will realize that they have been fooled. By then, they will probably launch a large-scale attack at all costs. I hope Bellavilla’s spellcaster army can come in handy before then.

Put aside the matter of the fallen apostles. What we are most concerned about now is the situation of the Fifth Fleet. Since no new intelligence has come in, we can only analyze the only information at hand, which is the "clearest" video of dozens of seconds received by the Fourth Fleet.

After the restoration by Xiling scientists using special means and the maximum fuzzy deduction performed by the Xiling host, we finally saw something extra from these dozens of seconds of video. It is now confirmed that the specific person who issued the distress call did not appear in the video - in this video, the cry for help was just a voiceover. The video footage looks like a chaotic battlefield, and it doesn't look like a space battle. Shandora felt that hidden in those blurry black shadows was the scene of the planet's surface being bombed. The video is of course from the perspective of the Fifth Fleet. That is to say, it is the Fifth Fleet that is being bombed. The surface of the planet appears in the picture, indicating that the Fifth Fleet may have really found a universe where it can temporarily settle down a few years ago - or it may be that the fleet is unsustainable in the void. Forced to fall into a certain universe, its crew was moved from the ecologically exhausted spacecraft to the surface of the planet. Regardless of the possibility, their current situation is terrible. When the planet is bombarded by space fleets. Basically, the death of this planet has been pronounced. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns will never turn the tide of the battle. They can only delay for a limited time or temporarily give the enemy a certain deterrent effect, especially when the defenders are at a disadvantage. Bombing often means that the battle is coming to an end. Therefore, Sandora judged that by the time this distress signal was delivered to the Fourth Fleet, the planet in the video must have been lost.

According to the content of the distress message, the Fifth Fleet had already begun a collective evacuation when its home planet was bombed, and it was likely that it could be delayed for a while. This is good news.

Shandora looped the dozens of seconds of video that had been processed many times and could no longer improve the definition many times, so that everyone in the family (except for a bunch of doll heads who could only make things more confusing) had watched it. He expressed his conjecture about the attacker:

"I think the Fifth Fleet may have encountered a servant army left over from the old empire."

"What's the reason?" I have some vague guesses in this regard, but I'm not as sure as Sandora. And I didn’t know what clues made me feel like this, so I asked casually.

"First of all, they mentioned the imperial symbol, which means they saw something with the imperial symbol on the battlefield, which must be referring to the enemy," Sandora spread her hands. Explaining one by one, "But they also mentioned that the identity of the enemy is unknown - the exile fleet has been hunted by the fallen apostles for many years. They are extremely familiar with the imperial battleships, so if they are facing real imperial battleships, they will never say The identity is unknown, so the attacker should be a third-party force with the imperial logo. I can only think of the servant army. According to the intelligence we have now, the fallen apostles have not cultivated their own vassal race at all - in fact, since they are now It is also impossible for the Abyss camp to find servants from ordinary races, so there is no servant army for the fallen apostles. To sum up, those who launched the attack on the Fifth Fleet should be the... dependents left over from the old empire era."

"What's the reason for the attack?" My sister knocked on her forehead, looking confused. "There's no reason. The fallen apostles hunted down the exiles because they were polluted by the abyss and killed everyone on sight, but the servant army of the old empire should not have transformed into The possibility of the Fallen Legion, ordinary races simply cannot bear the damage caused by the transformation of the abyss. Therefore, the servant army of the old empire should not attack the Fifth Legion because it is contaminated by the abyss. In addition, there is no way to explain why the two They will encounter each other. The void is so big and the Fifth Legion has fled so far, but they still met. It is too far-fetched to explain this by coincidence."

My sister's confusion is very reasonable. We had discussed before that after the demise of the old empire, there was a possibility that those servant armies would transform into the abyssal camp like the fallen apostles. We later came to the conclusion that - absolutely impossible. The Xiling Apostles will be transformed because they have strong enough individuals and special racial talents. The primordial energy that has spread to individual soldiers gives the fallen apostles a chance to survive the destruction stage of abyss pollution. The energy reactor built in a different space can Let them have enough energy to transform the abyss in their bodies for their own use, but ordinary races obviously do not have this power. Of course, a very small number of their super-powerful units may be converted. But the number must be very small, and they cannot form a legion like the fallen apostles. Therefore the Fallen Servant Army cannot exist.

Therefore, no one knows why a group of servants who survived the old empire launched an attack on the Fifth Army. Of course, the most incredible thing about the whole incident is that the Fifth Army has gone to such a remote place, and it is still there. When something like this happens...

"Rather than why the two groups of people fought, I'm more curious now about how the distress signal was sent." Sandora was sitting on a high-backed chair by the window, enjoying her lunch time, while looking at Shen Rushui said. "The current location of the Fifth Fleet is deep in the void that even the Empire has not been able to detect. Even if the Death Garden system can broadcast the information to that location, it is still unclear. But the Fifth Fleet sent a distress signal - —How did they do it? Carrying out ultra-long-distance cross-world communication in the void, and ensuring instant delivery of information without relay stations, is an absolutely cutting-edge technology. It took the empire thousands of years to develop this The technology is perfect and popular, but the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet did not have this capability when they lost contact hundreds of years ago. It is impossible for them to make such a big technological leap. Not to mention... the situation of the Fifth Fleet It should be worse than the Fourth Fleet, they don’t seem to have the conditions to develop this new technology with peace of mind.”

"Huh, I just came back from the God Realm and asked you a question," Bingtis's voice sounded immediately. She was sitting opposite Sandora. Unlike the latter's queen-style elegant afternoon tea, this female gangster was Hold the teapot and pour it into your mouth. And the black tea is just sesame cakes with shredded pickles - the goddess temperament in her body is gone. "The void node closest to the Fourth Fleet has also detected vague information fluctuations. It should be the distress signal you have on hand, but there is Something is not normal - the defender of the Void Node said that when they detected those fluctuations, the thing had decayed to the point where no pattern could be seen at all. And it was almost as chaotic as the clutter formed after the destruction of the world. It is impossible to reconstruct this kind of signal into anything meaningful, let alone turn it into a short movie of tens of seconds..."

"Hey...can you at least pay attention to your appearance when drinking tea? You're an insult to black tea..." Sandora watched Bingtis break up the sesame cakes and put them into a big tea bowl. The veins suddenly popped out. To the elegant Her Majesty the Queen, a bad friend like Bingtis was simply the dark side of her life.

Sister Bing pointed behind Sandora casually: "Okay, look at the samovar as tall as a person behind you. How elegant are you... I just came from the God Realm, okay? I haven't had lunch yet. .”

Sandora rolled her eyes and looked at the sky speechlessly, completely powerless against the behavior of this female gangster.

Sister thought for a while alone and expressed her opinion: "In short, this distress signal itself is very problematic, right? It has obviously weakened to the point where it is completely indistinguishable, but the universe where the Fourth Fleet is located suddenly changes again. If you are strong, will it...be a trap?"

As soon as my sister finished speaking, the living room suddenly became quiet, with only the sound of Bingtis eating sesame cakes crunching. Then almost everyone turned to look in the direction of Xiaoxue (her mother was not here): "Look quickly!"

"It's not necessary. The distress signal is fine." Xiaoxue was studying the elementary school textbook that Xiaopao brought from school without raising her head at the moment. "I even saw something happened to the Fifth Fleet. The distress signal must be real. Eh, Dad, do you think the academy has been putting pictures of eop-03 in the picture literacy program since the first grade of elementary school? Isn’t that a bit cruel? I remember when I was a child in elementary school at Imperial College, pictures were used for picture literacy. There were two half-naked men..."

"Pfft--" My attention was instantly cut off by Xiaoxue's words, "First grade of elementary school? Two half-naked men appeared on the picture literacy course?! Who compiled this textbook? Why did that kind of thing appear? !”

"Brother Haier, Dad, why are your thoughts so impure..."

I thought about it and decided to continue studying the Fifth Fleet. This kid Xiaoxue talks too much. He had to complain about every sentence and it would make me suffer from asthma for half a year.

"My intuition tells me that this matter needs attention." Sandora finally couldn't stand Bingtis's wasteful behavior and pushed her giant teapot to my side. "I'm talking about the process of the distress signal spreading in the void. There may be problems with discontinuities. Its intensity has produced unexplained fluctuations, and the transmission 'distance' exceeds the theoretical value. These anomalies should be studied by the expert team. Void is the foundation of all things. It has not changed at all. , we all need to pay attention at all times.”

After saying that, Sandora suddenly showed a thoughtful smile: "Perhaps we will discover another void 'phenomenon' that we have never noticed before, an abnormality caused by communication between two quadrants with a huge gap. Amplification phenomenon. If this phenomenon is real and controllable, perhaps we can suddenly expand the empire's vision to places that even the Star Territory Protoss have never observed. I really look forward to seeing something there..."

Sandora fell into her delusional state as she spoke... Well, okay, it shouldn't be said to be delusional. It should be the Queen's vision of the future from the perspective of a leader. But in my opinion, this is indeed almost a delusion - how far away is that? Let's not talk about fallen apostles now. We haven't even finished the Fifth Fleet yet...

"The child's father! Come here quickly, I've heard from you!"

Whatever you say, come on, right now. An emergency call from Bubble suddenly came through the mental connection. After a day and night of listening, the newly built set of super-power amplifier antennas finally received the signal from the Fifth Fleet!

The portal leading to the world of exiles has been open for a long time since yesterday, so we came to the planet Kerudak again in a short time. This time, in addition to Sandora and her sister, even Qianqian and the god clan sliver The five-person group also came over, claiming to be here to help - although I really don't know what else they can do besides being good at eating and making trouble.

The hall on the first floor of the parliament building is very different from the last time we came here. It is now crowded with senior officials of the Fourth Fleet. There are strange creatures of various races as if they are holding an expo. Some invisible temporary installations are installed in the center of the hall. Function of Toberu equipment. It may be a terminal of a communication device or the like. Two Toberu scientists are nervously adjusting the control panels that emit green light. Around the equipment, there are several holographic projections floating in the air. The images on the projections are still messy, but according to expert analysis. These messy images are indeed from the Fifth Fleet.

A lolita with an awl on her head was jumping around and gesticulating around those Toberu experts, looking more expert than the experts: "Hey! Didn't you see the clutter in the six-way frequency band? That's a redundant frequency band, just filter it out That's it... Why is the screen of the three units black? No, it's frozen again! How many years has your communication array not been maintained... Ask the people in the computer room upstairs to check the adapter. Why do I feel like there is noise in my head... …Ah, it’s okay, it’s okay, it’s not a problem with the computer room (pfft-pfft). It’s just a bit of poor contact here. Okay, the signal on the main road has been stable, and the Garden of Death is synchronizing this channel and maintaining the current rhythm. I’m optimistic about it. You guys - ah! Her father, you are here!"

"What's the matter with the awl on her head?" Bingtis looked stiff and pointed at the strange decoration on the bubble head.

"Antenna." I explained concisely and concisely. I saw the "Parliament" not far away, leading a group of senior officials-looking people to walk quickly, so I went up to say hello, "Have you eaten... No, I said How is the situation now?"

The "Parliament" didn't hear the first half of what I said, but heard the second half. It nodded and said: "Thirty minutes ago, the equipment suddenly responded and intercepted the data header that was suspected to be the encrypted ciphertext of the United Fleet. This... Xiling host, right? She said that she and her... daughter captured a signal source. We are still tracking this signal source. If we can track it stably, we can probably establish contact. "

"That means we can't talk on the phone right now," I nodded and waved for Paopao to come over, "How's the progress over there?"

"Still tracking, the signal source has shifted very seriously. The Garden of the Dead can only increase the listening range to ensure that the target is not lost, but the accuracy is very problematic," said Paopao, turning his head slightly. "Boss, you also know that everything in the void relies on information representation to maintain its order, and the Fifth Fleet is now on the run. They are running from one quadrant to another. Of course, the information representation that the fleet has It keeps changing. Every time the Garden of Death sends a feedback signal, it will be mixed with a layer of encrypted 'shell'. I have to crack this layer of 'shell' before I can send a call to the other party. At that time, the target will be transferred to someone else. The information representation outside their fleet has been refreshed, so calls from here will be blocked..."

"...Say something I can understand."

"The Fifth Fleet's voice can be heard here, but they can't hear our voice - oh, the bandwidth is not enough at this critical moment," Bubble said, stamping his feet suddenly, and then took out another phone from his pocket. An awl came and was inserted into the head with a "pop" sound. "Huh... Fortunately, I was prepared in advance. This will be much better."

Everyone: "..."

I have finally figured out the situation of the Fifth Fleet, that is, they do not know that someone is trying to talk to them, and the signals they send out to the outside world are naturally impossible to actively pair with the receiving antenna of the Garden of Death. Therefore, for the entire system, they Just sending in one direction. Due to the extremely long distance, even the Garden of Death system can only make one call at a time to the signal source of the Fifth Fleet, but the latter changes its information representation all the time, responding to the penetrating reports written in the previous second. The text will be blocked by the newly formed information representation in the next second. This kind of communication dilemma will not occur in the world, and there is no need to worry as long as the empire network can cover it. If both parties have a uniform message conversion rule agreed in advance, it can be avoided. But now, due to the cross-border Problems such as too many quadrants, the power limit of the Garden of Death, the lack of unified and coordinated message formats between the two parties, and system delays were completely exposed. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)