Chapter 1,179 The Lifeless Workstation
"It might be spectacular later..." Xiaoxue grabbed my hand and said mysteriously. The mysterious look on the naughty child's face made people very curious. I knew it must be her through her special eyes. What did I "see", but I didn't ask much, because I knew that this child had the same problem as her mother: she never told what she knew, and what she said was never complete. When she said it, she expressed it comprehensively and described it vividly and colorfully. Flexible application is basically deceiving people.
Engineering ships began to drop probes with jump functions throughout the space. These probes instantly reached the end of this small "universe" with a radius of only tens of thousands of kilometers, and formed countless groups of symmetrically distributed space distortion generators. These generators The function is to "reverse" the space. Spatial inversion is a technology that sounds very obscure but is actually...actually very obscure. Its simplest description is: assuming that space is a Rubik's cube with countless levels, and the observer is a For a creature that can understand a neat picture, if the side of the demon facing the observer is disrupted, this side will be incomprehensible to the observer. Normal space is ordered, equivalent to a neat Rubik's cube, and the observer is a conscious creature located in the space. Under normal conditions, all information will be presented to the observer at the same level, such as mass, light, gravity, Size, etc. are all adjectives that you are familiar with and can be used to describe external objects. Normally, they are on the same "level", so that you can perceive that this is the orderly state of the Rubik's Cube. The inversion process is to disrupt this neat state. After an entity is inverted, it is equivalent to the disrupted face of the Rubik's Cube. All information has drifted to other places, and because the observer lives in the "current level" Biology, so for the observer, what is inverted is equivalent to disappearing.
The process and results of this are obvious. Just slightly shifting a value can make the Rubik's Cube fall from the "tidy" state to the "untidy" state. This operation is usually used to conceal and protect important facilities because it has good encryption: as long as you do not master the algorithm, you will never know which side the thing you are looking for has been flipped. To a low-dimensional observer, Objects in the inverted state actually enter a space that is always one dimension higher than your perspective, and high-dimensional space has countless possibilities (think of the dimension difference database), which is equivalent to a chaotic Rubik's cube with countless orders and countless faces. And what you are looking for is among these countless things - so as long as you don't have a device that uses the same algorithm to perform cracking calculations, the probability of finding something hidden is infinitely close to zero.
Therefore, although the technical strength of the Protoss is not bad, they are still at a loss when facing an imperial facility that is solidified by the end of the world and is always in a state of reverse phase. Are you a math major who is studying for a master's degree and a Ph.D. degree? But without touching the game, can he know how much mana a level 90 naked mage can recover per second without using the buff... Okay, no more nonsense.
The space distortion generator has completed synchronization and started to "pull" the misaligned space back to its original position, just like rearranging a messed up Rubik's Cube. Anyone who has come into contact with the Rubik's Cube knows that although it looks very confusing, Big, but as long as you understand the principle of the Rubik's Cube, it is actually not difficult to reshape it. No matter how high the order of the Rubik's Cube is, the algorithm of the reshaping process remains unchanged. At most, it will greatly increase the workload. In the final analysis, the Empire's inversion technology is an encryption method that protects against the outside but not the inside. At the beginning, no one thought that the Empire would split and deal with itself one day, so many things that use encryption algorithms can be used by the Empire's equipment. The cracked space in front of us is an example. In less than two minutes, all the misaligned spaces were marked out and then put together one by one.
In an instant, the hidden truth appears before us.
A huge bloody whirlpool that seemed to swallow up the entire world occupied our entire field of vision... No, this was not just a whirlpool, but a storm stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers! The chaotic and crazy colors of blood and black twist to form the eye of the storm, and all of us are standing in the center of this storm!
One second, there are only chaotic and dark space clouds in front of you. The next second, you are in the eye of a storm that can force normal people to suffer from both claustrophobia and vortex phobia. The visual impact is huge. , even though I have been to a stormy planet like the Misty Planet, I was shocked when faced with this scene. Qianqian was even more exaggerated - he disappeared in front of us with a sharp sound, and only a few seconds later Reappeared, and patted his chest in fear: "Huh... I switched to my character and went back to the spacecraft to drink a cup of tea, listen to some light music, sleep again, watch two movies, listen to two crosstalks, and finally calmed down. Yes—I have a phobia of whirlpools.”
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Father God was also dumbfounded: "...just for a while...well, just like you said, she is quite powerful."
I knocked Xiaoxue's head gently, knowing in my heart that this girl must have been holding back her bad intentions to see her father being frightened, but it was a pity, although this bloody storm that penetrated the sky and the earth was indeed very disturbing. My liver trembles, but I have seen a sight that makes my liver tremble more than this. A ruthless man who claims to have a mountain collapsing in front of him and can remain calm as long as he closes his eyes, how can he let a child get his wish?
"What's going on with this storm?" I couldn't help but look at Father God, but the other person spread his hands in a shameless manner: "You ask me, I ask who is going, this is your thing - I'm here to lead the way. "
Okay, I forgot about this. It seems that we still need to contact the expert group. The answer given by the expert group is that they have sent engineering machines to enter the storm wall to investigate. The large bloody whirlpool in front of them left the experts scratching their heads. In their impression, there was no facility in the empire that would produce such a scene. Therefore, many scientists suspected that this was a runaway that was originally assumed to occur in a normal facility in this universe. An energy storm was generated. Due to the impact of the end of the world, everything in this universe was fixed like a snapshot in the few hours when the end of the world occurred. Along with this energy storm, it also hovered in an inverted state for tens of thousands of years.
The few of us were hovering in mid-air. After adapting for a while, this huge vortex had no impact on our visual impact. It was just that its blood-red color made people very uncomfortable. But as I thought about it, When he wasn't wearing sunglasses to protect his body and mind, news came from the engineering machine: They found a workstation that still reacted to energy inside the storm wall. If they guessed correctly, it should be the research facility established here by the empire back then.
Everyone immediately boarded the engineering spacecraft and headed for the destination. Soon, we passed through the endless storm wall and entered an even crazier area. I noticed that at the moment when it passed through the storm wall, the detector of the engineering spacecraft showed a very high energy reading, and the energy read was all kinds of strange, ranging from phantom energy to ordinary electromagnetic energy, making people doubt this. Could the storm be a microcosm of the end of the world: at the moment the universe collapsed, all the energy in the space with a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers was absorbed.
The torrent of energy sweeping through the storm wall is of course countless times more powerful than the eye of the storm, and it is mixed with a large number of material fragments and torrents of elementary particles that cannot be analyzed. Perhaps after everything in the world is torn apart to the extreme, it will inevitably It must be a red and black tornado. Fortunately, these things that swept through us were not a threat to our shields. We were welcomed by what looked like a spectacular energy storm and arrived at the workstation that miraculously survived: it was a six-six-meter machine suspended in the air. It is a side-shaped building with a large size. It is estimated that there is a complete living area inside. Judging from the complete platform at the bottom, this is originally a space building. Its anchoring system must still be functioning, because the entire station remained stable amidst the frantic hurricane around it, like an island in the middle of a tidal wave. The engineering ship found a universal locking port suitable for connection at one end of the platform where the hexagonal building is located, but we soon discovered that the locking port was damaged, and the workstation itself no longer responded to any external signals, so the final solution was that we Disembark a few hundred meters from the workstation and approach the target in a dog-paddle style.
...that’s weird! Anyway, it is a workstation that has been scrapped, and the worst case scenario is that it will be forcibly connected. After smashing the locking port of the workstation platform, the engineering ship and the space workstation formed a dumbbell-like combination. We arrived at the station platform through the twisted and broken suspension bridge.
The entire emergency landing process was perfect, giving me the feeling of a blockbuster film - it would have been even more perfect if there wasn't Qian Qian holding a camera next to me and taking pictures along the way.
Wearing protective light armor and reinforced shields, the assistant technicians and engineers got off the spacecraft, assigned their tasks quickly and orderly, and began to inspect this large-scale abandoned workstation: in fact They are the real protagonists of this mission. Work that sounds particularly sophisticated, such as exploring ancient facilities, studying old imperial machines, and measuring data in the core of the storm in a different world, is definitely not something that a few of us laymen can handle. —— Even Father God is just here to join in the fun. We follow the engineering ship to come and go. At best, it means that the leader is going to the front line to direct the work. At worst, it is... let's just pick up the good news, okay?
"It should be part of a larger space structure. Look at the long broken bridges at the end of the platform." Xiaoxue pointed to the far end of the platform. Following the direction of her finger, you can see the extension of the platform where the workstation is located. Several gray-white alloy roads emerged, but they have all been torn apart. The part on the opposite side of the road has disappeared, leaving only twisted metal stubbles. Pipelines protruded from those stubbles, and due to some resonance phenomenon under the stimulation of the energy storm, And there were sparks of creaking.
Huesca had been taking out the probe from his pocket, and at this time, he was followed by a large group of small things that were buzzing like a swarm of bees (I'm sorry to say they looked more like flies). , and then these probes disappeared neatly in front of our eyes. Maotong Loli explained: "I sent them nearby to see if there are any other workstations. Since this site has been preserved, maybe there are other survivors. What about the part—brother, am I smart?”
As soon as Viska finished speaking, Pandora began to put the probe in a hurry - sometimes Pandora is indeed not as smart as Viska. Is this because the former's dull gourd attribute is too severe?
"The energy storm here should have been an abyss suppression system." A senior technician sent the latest detected data. Looking at the report, Xiaoxue analyzed it seriously, "There is nothing that can be done about the detection machine now. It is close to its bottom layer, but there may have been an abyss gate there originally, which was the entrance during deep diving. The storm body was established around the abyss gate, and it is estimated to be in a 'self-mirror' state... Oh, that is to say, No matter which direction you enter the storm, you will find yourself facing the upper entrance of the storm. This is a suppression system designed to deal with the special 'eternal two-dimensional plane' state of the Gate of the Abyss. It has functions in countless directions. Countless bodies collapse into a single 'direction' depending on the observer, in order to maximize the suppression of anything released by the abyss. This system is not very common, because it is very difficult to set up, and most of them There is no need to take such pains to preserve the Gate of the Abyss for a long time.”
It usually looks like 25,800,000, but I didn’t expect Xiaoxue, a naughty kid, to know a lot in this area. Perhaps as she said, she has received a full set of elite education that an imperial princess should receive since she was a child. She is A genuine royal elite, not a cute vase - this is the only thing I feel happy about this child. Of course, what is not gratifying is: in order to provide her with this level of elite education, what kind of tutors did Lin Xue and I find for her...
Since the sweeping energy storm is also mixed with a large number of material particles of unknown composition (all types of matter in the entire universe can be found in these particles, right?), after the strong wind formed hits the shield around everyone, the material particles was decomposed, forming a looming halo, like a beautiful iris coating. Through this thin layer of light haze, I looked up at the workstation in front of me that had stood in the storm for tens of thousands of years, and suddenly discovered There was a flash of blue flashing across the top of it.
At first I thought it was an illusion, but soon, a second flash of light appeared again. Against the background of the black and red storm, this blue light was particularly conspicuous, and I was now certain that it was emitted by a facility on top of the workstation. light.
"That place is still functioning -" I pointed to the top of the workstation. "Maybe it's a protective device, otherwise there's no way to explain how this workstation survived to this day."
At this moment, good news came from the engineering soldiers: they found the entrance to the workstation.
The entrance is hundreds of meters away, and has been buried by a large number of collapsed alloy plates and black crystalline material of unknown composition. If it weren't for the perspective scanning equipment, no one would have imagined that there is a passage behind this pile of garbage. The engineers commanded the autonomous machinery to cut away all the obstacles at the door, revealing a hexagonal alloy gate - perhaps the accumulations played a protective role. This gate looked much newer than the surrounding walls. Of course, that doesn't make sense: given the extent of the damage to this shoddy place, no matter how new the gate is, it won't be possible to swipe the card at this time.
An assistant technician removed the data interface next to the gate, connected his scanning terminal to the data interface, and reported to us half a minute later: "The internal defense facilities have been offline, which can directly destroy large..."
"Boom!" A loud noise interrupted the assistant technician's last word. The alloy gate broke a big hole under the bombardment of conventional artillery, revealing the dark corridor inside. Pandora hugged her hand cannon, which she regarded as a treasure. In her arms, she wiped the muzzle of the cannon, and then gave me a dull expression - she wanted to gain back the favor from Huesca in terms of mobility.
Me: "...Okay, move forward, pay attention to safety, and it is strictly forbidden to throw bombs anywhere."
Entering from the gate, there was first a dark corridor, so Father God himself said: "There must be light." This made me feel very moved. Then, guided by the workstation structure diagram scanned by the sentinel probe, The group of people began to move towards the first room that seemed to contain important equipment. This huge lifeless building has a weak and weird gravity. It seems that its gravity generator is still struggling, but the gravity it generates is 45 degrees from the ground - so we all decisively shielded the gravity field here. , the impact is not big anyway. There was an unusual silence in the long corridor. The original sharp and whistling sound of the wind was isolated from the distant entrance, and it seemed as if it was coming from another world. After leaving the black and red and depressing sky background, I feel that the interior of this lifeless workstation is more comfortable: although if possible, I still hope that both of these things will be solved quickly.
The engineers and Xiling technicians were divided into more than ten teams according to the personnel ratio of three to one. As they passed through forks in the road, they separated into groups. Soon, there was only the last group of staff left around us: they were the members of the team. Our senior technicians and the best soldiers will always move forward with us in the coming time. The probe has roughly figured out the structure of the workstation. It is a four-story building. There are not many floors, but the floor height is exaggerated - maybe this is because there are some special facilities inside that occupy a relatively large space? God knows. The workstation was originally supposed to be on the fifth floor, but part of the topmost floor was destroyed, which is the floor a little higher up where the shield generator is suspected to be. Now there are only some fragmented crystal domes left. This is very regrettable. Because according to the structure of the workstation, it is likely that important observation equipment is located there, and its damage means that a lot of data has been destroyed by the energy storm.
The five members of the God Clan, Father God, and several God Clan scholars followed us all the way. Except for the five men, everyone else had curious looks on their faces: They probably didn’t have much contact with the Empire’s technology, and the things here were very different. They were all weird. When one of the protoss reached out to pick at a protrusion on the wall next to him, Bingtis decisively went up and slapped him: "Don't act like a bumpkin, okay?"
Father God smiled awkwardly, well, it was very embarrassing - these usually majestic gods were really cute in front of their own people, it was a bit too cute to say so! Can that uncle over there stop taking pictures everywhere like Qian Qian? ? You are God! (To be continued.