Chapter 1,160 What the Hell Is This?

The scientific research ship is parked at the boundary area of ​​the space air mass, about thousands of kilometers away from the obvious material enrichment zone. Looking from here, the air mass is like a static cloud and mist mountain range, quietly spanning the entire field of vision in front of you, and in Inside the air mass, in the deepest part of the deep darkness, a continuous flash of light can be seen, illuminating the uneven valleys and cracks inside the air mass like veins. I stared in one direction for several minutes. Although due to the huge size of the air mass, it was impossible to determine with the naked eye where the center of the air mass was at this distance, my intuition allowed me to focus my gaze in one direction.

"It should be right there, it...maybe it's coming to find me."

Sandora glanced at me suspiciously, and there was a bit of worry in her voice when she spoke: "Ajun, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I immediately laughed and patted Sandora's arm to reassure her. "I'm sure I'm not affected, but you also know that I sometimes have special intuitions. There's something there. It has been sending out signals, and it seems that it hopes to communicate with us, but...is there any reaction from the radar?"

I said the last words to the busy information console below. A senior assistant technician was monitoring the information fed back by the general-purpose radar. After hearing this, he immediately reported loudly: "Your Majesty, the radar has not found anything! We are not in the air mass. No matter other than normal gas clouds is found inside, there is no energy response exceeding the gas cloud itself!"

"That is to say, only I can receive the information it sends, and I receive it through a vague form of intuition." I shrugged at Sandora. "What Tavel said is right, maybe it is a super-common sense substance." , completely outside the material and information genealogy that the Empire has mastered.”

"What did you find inside?" Ilson looked at his servant of God, a burly male protoss wearing red armor with fiery red hair - judging from these characteristics, he should be one of the four major gods. There is a soldier from the other gods, maybe the God of Fire. The burly red-haired man stood up straight when he heard Ilson's question and replied loudly: "Yes, Master! We have explored the core of the gas cloud and discovered abnormal spatial phenomena and a diameter of Kilometers of suspected material block, but the target is highly active and may be in a certain critical state. We are worried about destabilizing it and therefore do not act rashly. It is now certain that the target is moving randomly within a radius of two hundred kilometers from the center of the air mass, but it is not certain Is it subject to external control or has the ability to autonomously control it?”

"It's a complete mystery that even gods can't see through..." my sister muttered. At this moment, a report from the front staff came from the communicator: "Your Majesty! The first working group has already contacted The Protoss working group gathers! We saw that thing!"

After the scientific research ship docked, Tavel sent an experienced working team to contact the Protoss staff inside the gas cloud, because he was not sure what the environment inside was like and whether the hyperspace jump operation of the spacecraft would be harmful. The "foreign object" was affected, so the work boat the team boarded was driven by conventional means and has only now arrived at its destination.

"Take over the screen." Sandora said immediately.

The control hall of the scientific research ship is the same as the control hall of most spaceships in the empire. There is a set of very large holographic equipment in the center. Soon the assistant technician passed over the scene of the on-site working team. Inside the gas cloud situation appears before our eyes. In the picture, dozens of autonomous machines and several assistant technicians wearing special protective light armor are carefully moving forward in the turbid clouds and fog. Leading the way is a team of divine servants, and their target is a huge giant in the distance. of...a round ball.

Yes, a sphere, we have been looking for it hard. What we found today after many days is actually a huge sphere. According to the report of the servant of God just now, its diameter is about one thousand meters: He is The working group that cautiously approached was already huge in comparison. Judging from the picture, the ball is not as manic as everyone imagined, rushing around. On the contrary, it is quiet and... beautiful? Magnificent? Gorgeous? I can't explain it, the shell of this ball seems to be alive, with large clumps of colorful colors floating on the ball slowly, merging, grading, separating, and then entering the next cycle, so bright and The ever-changing colors are really different from the cosmic dark spores I imagined at the beginning - I don't know what cosmic dark spores are, but the word suddenly popped up and it seemed very interesting, so I used it like that. ()

"We are very close. The shell of this thing is highly active, but the non-contact scanning device cannot read any useful data, and all other non-contact devices cannot affect the target. It is like a shadow, only It can be seen, but it does not return any information other than the spectrum. It is not yet known whether it has an entity," the assistant technician leading the team reported. At the same time, a staff member wearing protective armor in the middle of the screen waved his hand. It seemed to be him. When saying, "Your Majesty, the color changes on this are regular, indicating that it is a logical man-made product. Judging from experience, this highly flexible and man-made shell will most likely react to physical 'contact'." Moreover, the staff of the Protoss used other means to determine that the shell was in a certain critical state, and rash contact may have unknown consequences."

"On what basis do you judge that this thing is in a critical state?"

I glanced at 123’s Servant of God curiously. Although I knew that the God Clan was stronger than the Xiling Empire in terms of overall strength, it stands to reason that the Empire should not be weaker than the other party in terms of scanning technology, or even slightly stronger than the other party - after all, both sides Each technology tree also has its own expertise, and Xiling Apostle is better at scanning technology. But this time, how did the Protoss judge that the thing that could hide even the most advanced radar of the empire was in a critical state?

The red-haired servant of God thought for a moment and replied loudly: "The vice-captain's intuition!"

I:"……"

Everyone: "..."

Erson: "Ahem, the vice-captain of this squadron has amazing intuition. I know her. That guy always relies on intuition, and his accuracy rate is **10%... When the radar is ineffective, he is only the sixth best among women. The senses can still be used, right?”

I couldn't help but put my eyes on Miss Lin, who was taking a nap on the table: "Sixth Sense, it's your turn to speak."

"If you poke it with your hands, that thing will ignore any non-contact effects, right?" The eldest lady rolled her eyes and looked over. "The traction field can't drag it away, and the space warehouse can't be loaded. Sooner or later, you won't have to poke it with your hands?"

Me: "..." Although what she said makes sense, she always feels that this statement is more or less worth complaining about.

In the end, we decided to directly contact the sphere with various weird qualities that even the imperial scanning equipment and the perception of the gods could not penetrate. However, considering the possible dangers, this work was handed over to those who acted with the working group. The autonomous machines and the people in the work team evacuated several kilometers away, opened the shield of the work ship, and were ready to jump into the space folds to avoid possible explosions. This is not to be overly cautious or unreasonable, but the main reason is that the ball is too uneasy - would you just pick something up on the roadside and just eat it?

Okay, Sandora dares...

The self-disciplined machine carefully approached the huge ball and touched it under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes. At this moment, many people's hearts moved. And the next second, the huge ball lived up to everyone's expectations. There was a slight change in the place you were looking at: the ever-changing magnificent colors on its surface suddenly paused. But just when many people thought that what was coming was a big explosion or the collapse of space or the rupture of the sphere or a bunch of little monsters and tentacle monsters popping out of the sphere——

In the end, that thing didn't even fart and continued to pretend that he was a sex changer.

The working group reported what they detected at the scene: "It was confirmed that the target responded to direct contact, but there were no further changes. The sphere did not have any energy, gravity, heat, magnetism or other attributes detected, except for vision. Apart from the effect, we did not find any attributes produced by the target. Oh, there is one attribute. The detector sent a hardness report it sensed, confirming that the shell of the sphere is solid, and the type of surface material is probably equivalent to some kind of Crystals."

Shandora glanced at me: "Arjun, can you feel anything?"

I was the only person at the scene who might have something to do with the big ball, so Sandora would ask this, but when the color on the surface of the ball stopped just now, I didn't feel anything, so I shook my head.

"Continue testing. If necessary, you can sacrifice a few self-discipline machines to try." Sandora ordered concisely and clearly, and the working team in front began a series of tests.

They began to let the autonomous machine make a direct physical impact on the ball, release electromagnetic pulses at close range, try to use gravitational pull to affect the target, illuminate various energy beams, and finally even used psionic energy and holy light - -It cannot be said that it has no effect at all. After being illuminated by high-level energy that is close to the source, such as psionic energy and holy light, the shell of the sphere shows a tendency to collapse. This shows that the target can be destroyed, and its strength is not as strong as we imagined. So powerful, but other than knowing that the target can be destroyed, no other tests we conducted yielded any valuable intelligence.

That ball is a stubborn mute, and would rather die than tell us the secrets inside it.

"According to the data collected so far, the target's shell is solid, has hardness and structural strength, can be seen with the naked eye, and can reflect light normally, but other than that, it has no mass, no radiation, and the internal structure cannot be scanned and identified. There is no material composition, because its mass is zero, it is not even affected by gravitational pull. It is a product that challenges common sense and violates the rules of the world." Sandora looked at the report sent back by the working group. "It actually exists, but too much is missing. The key attributes are like..."

"It's like a damaged data packet, occupying hard disk space but cannot be deleted or moved. There is an empty icon but the content cannot be read." I accepted it casually.

Sandora nodded: "Either it was 'born' and designed like this, or it was damaged for some reason - I don't mean physical damage, but damage to the source at the information level, and then after the damage It has not disintegrated, but has survived in the real world.”

"It's all possible." Sister nodded and said.

I thought about it and suddenly connected with a certain knowledge point that I had come into contact with before: "Why did I think of the Black Sun?"

"Are you talking about black celestial bodies that are produced due to the lack of key laws?" Sandora nodded slightly. "It can only be said that the surface properties are slightly similar, but black celestial bodies cannot be observed through conventional methods, and they will not be the same as the current ones." Everything in the world exchanges information, but the thing in front of us... can be seen with the naked eye, and the hardness of the other party can be felt by physical contact, so it is not a black celestial body."

While we and a group of experts from Tavel were puzzled, the working team at the front had completed all the testing methods they could think of, including crashing an autonomous machine into the ground at hundreds of times the speed of sound. On the outer shell of the sphere: This impact caused a huge wound on the outer shell of the sphere, which fully demonstrates that the target's "material" technology is actually not very high. However, the strange thing is that such an entity without mass suffered such an impact. There was no movement at all. Well, after some testing, we learned more mysteries: the target can selectively ignore certain physical phenomena in the current world view, such as the law of kinetic energy and the like... In fact, this is not surprising, the existence of the target itself is It’s already challenging the worldview.

"What the hell is this thing?" Looking at the messy data sent back by the engineering team, Sandora and I fell into deep thinking. After pondering for a long time, I looked up to the sky again and sighed, "What the hell is this thing? "

"You just said it once." Lin Xue rolled her eyes and looked over.

"I want to go over and see for myself." I found that the working team over there could not think of a better way to test other than blasting the target to pieces with one shot. I finally couldn't sit still and stood up and said, "You guys wait here - I Drive over in void form."

Shandora didn't say much this time. She knew that I couldn't persuade me to make a decision under any circumstances. Of course, she also knew that if I drove over in void form, I would probably not encounter any danger. But before leaving, Bingtis suddenly stood up: "Wait a minute, I will follow you."

"You? Why are you following me?" Shandora looked at her lost friend, and then she thought about it without knowing where she was. She nervously tugged on my sleeve, "You can't touch the master's food."

"...You are really completely ruined..." The rogue goddess looked at Sandora with a dumbfounded look. "I am the highest-ranking god here. This world is still the territory of the gods. Now the head of your country wants to personally explore. Can I not follow you all the way?" ?”

Shandora was speechless, and finally shrugged: "I can't help it. I suddenly feel that you are becoming more and more threatening recently."

Bingtis originally planned to pull me to set off, but Sandora stopped after saying a word, blinked and looked over as if she had discovered an interesting new world, and nodded seriously: "You suddenly Remind me - my criterion for choosing a mate is that I can fight, fight, and support the family. According to the current situation, there are really not many people who can beat me head-on. Among them, I need to choose someone who can support the family, resist, and more importantly, be a male. And..." As she spoke, Bingtis began to look me up and down. Her eyes revealed an unscrupulous aura that only Sister Bing could carry, as if she was picking something in the market: "And in the long run, Look, in the future, apart from God the Father and King Huron, I am afraid you will be the best fighter in the entire void... Congratulations, you are on my candidate list!"

I:"……"

Everyone: "..."

Anyway, the scene was quiet for a while. Sister Bing's ability to make surprising remarks was no less than Qian Qian's in some respects. The difference was that the reason for Qian Qian's surprising remarks was that the girl's mind was often unreliable, while Sister Bing's ability to make surprising remarks was that The surprising reason is that although there is nothing wrong with her brain, there is something wrong with her worldview: she dares to speak out about anything she catches, and treats normal morality as nothing. She said this casually in front of Sandora and the others, but she still rolled her eyes and said that the world has nothing to do with me, which made the people around her have veins and couldn't react.

I was stunned there, trying to process Sister Bing's words in my mind for a long time. I found that from a sociological point of view, this should be regarded as a half-confession, but I observed the other person's face - it was still the usual one with no heart or lungs. Doesn't matter the appearance. I was a little confused. I didn’t know if this guy was joking, saying it casually, or if he didn’t know what he was talking about: he didn’t seem to be serious anyway.

"Wow, I am so charming?" Bingtis waved his hand in front of my eyes. "Are you scared to death? Okay, I just said it casually. Besides, even if I am serious, you can't As a contestant who has just been shortlisted, there is no need to be in such a hurry... Hey, Sandora, should I take away your dry food first?"

After saying that, before we could react, Sister Bing had already grabbed my arm and appeared thousands of miles away (this is an adjective) - right in front of us was facing the huge, incomparable and impenetrable giant circle. ball.

"You're killing me." I looked at Bingtis with a grimace and complained through the spiritual connection. The other party just said: She just said it casually, but I have every reason to believe that many people are not casual. The first thing I heard was, "If you're optimistic, Sandora will kill me. If you're not optimistic, she will form a team with Qian Qian Lin Xue and the others to kill me..."

Bingtis also whistled in the spiritual connection: "Well, life needs some passion. I haven't found a partner in tens of millions of years. Isn't it enough to have a mouthful in front of Nizi?"

I:"……"

I found myself speechless a lot today.

In order to quickly get rid of this awkward state of speechlessness, I focused on the stubborn and silent giant sphere, with a surface as colorful as a chameleon.

In the end, the biggest question before me is still: What the hell is this!