Chapter 1,182 Attacker?

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The power of the abyss and the psionic energy are mixed together, maintaining a fragile dynamic balance that will never end as long as it is not broken. The result of the conflict between the two extremes of order and non-order is like a tenacious anti-virus software running into each other. A downloader virus hiding in the background forced the other party into an endless loop, and the scene in front of them was this completely uncontrollable energy storm. The self-purification ability of the nether energy makes it repel the abyss, and the abyss constantly makes the nether energy show the same chaotic tendencies as itself. The end of the world destroys all the orderly things in the universe. Only these two things that have exceeded the scope of the world view will be destroyed in the end of the world. After that, there was still an endless fight. The shield of the scientific research ship has reached its peak, and it is now struggling to move forward in this storm. Due to severe spatial distortion, the path of the ship is no longer a "flat state" that can be explained by mathematical laws, so our forward speed is very fast. Slow, and all space jumping devices cannot be activated. But overall it went smoothly, and the damage to the spacecraft caused by the energy field at the bottom of the storm was controlled within ideal values. This kind of scientific research ship is specially designed to work in dangerous environments, also known as the frontline fortress laboratory. After sacrificing weapons and tactical systems, it gets extremely reliable protection, and the mad scientist Tavel With a frenzied attitude, he installed a special shield for deep-diving ships that had just completed mass production testing on the No. 2 scientific research ship. This helped a lot: the biggest threat to us at the bottom of the storm is not the crazy psionic energy, but It is an active abyss. If there is no targeted shield, conventional spaceships cannot last long here. This is why I chose to let the second ship come down: it is the only specially modified scientific research ship, and it was well planned when it came. it works.

"There seems to be something wrong with the No. 4 shield generator. The intensity fluctuation exceeds 3%, which puts the redundant unit on top. The spacecraft's self-repair system has been activated... The situation is improving. The host has strengthened the monitoring of all shields. Prevent penetration.”

"This is the lower reactor. We have switched the output mode and the energy grid has begun to increase. It is expected to last for thirty minutes."

"This is the third propulsion group. The alarm has been lifted and we can accelerate again."

"This is the research and development engineering section. We have successfully recovered the sampling probe and are analyzing the energy field structure in the bottom area of ​​​​the storm."

The command hall of the scientific research ship is busy, and the information in the channels at all levels is refreshed and circulated at a dizzying speed. On the various holographic images around the hall, what is displayed most is the scene outside the spacecraft. The black-red storm is now almost in a state of chaos. Dark and disgusting clouds have begun to appear occasionally. In some fleeting pictures, there are even weird pure black two-dimensional patterns. Signs indicate that we are approaching the Gate of the Abyss—to be precise, we are approaching the "final suppression zone" where the Gate of the Abyss contacts the storm. After passing through this suppression zone, the scientific research ship will escape from the storm. But it will enter a more dangerous place: the "port" where the old empire conducted deep dives, which may have become some kind of gate to the abyss.

But everyone present was basically relaxed and not under much pressure. After all, we have two void creatures sitting in charge, and one of them is at an unknown level? ? Level elite. as a? ? Super elite, Father God was even studying the working scene in the command hall with great interest, and then sighed with me: "It looks very powerful. You actually created a resistance shield specifically for the abyss so early. Back then we But it took... it should have taken a long time anyway, before a magical spell with similar functions appeared."

"Father, don't underestimate those guys called scientists in their research institute," said a silver-haired man. The beautiful lolita with blood-red eyes walked around, looking around, and kept mumbling, "Those guys are basically crazy, they don't act according to common sense at all, as long as it's you They dared to seriously study almost everything they could think of. I don’t know what else they didn’t dare to test. I remember seeing Tavel’s report on Chen’s desk once. They wanted to study the Gate of the Abyss. To reach the extreme value of dynamic balance, just smash the planets near that thing one by one. When the Gate of the Abyss erupts out of control, they will cut off a piece of the contaminated area of ​​the universe and throw it into the void. This is how they accumulate data. …”

Father God was stunned: "...What if there is a big outbreak?"

"Destroy the entire universe. The experimental area is deserted anyway. Those scientists who are not afraid of death basically do not count themselves in the list of potential casualties. If they withdraw, they will write research reports. If they die inside , just wait for others to write a research report, and at the same time, you can complete a research report yourself, they think this is a good deal..."

I finally couldn't help it anymore and pressed the big "loli's" head hard: "It's not that exaggerated, okay?"

The other party slapped my hand away and stared straight at me with his big blood-red eyes: "Anyway, it's almost the same. I admire them very much. Their life-threatening spirit is as awesome as my own. Also, don't touch my body." Head, do you see that women under 1.34 meters tall can be regarded as their own lolita? Do you know that the person standing in front of you is a mature woman? "

Me: "..." I almost forgot, the guy in front of me who looks like half a dingdong taller than Pandora is actually the one whose front armor is so thick that it almost defies logic. He talks foul language and dares to hit it with a meteor hammer. The female gangster at the Pantheon Gate: I still can’t accept this setting!

"I said, how long do you plan to play?" I squinted to the side, and Bingtis, who had shrunk himself, was climbing onto the seat on his hands and knees, "Also, why don't you know how to adjust the length of your hair too? How about reducing the scale?”

Bingtis's ankle-length hair is simply a trademark. In addition to being very stylish, it is also one of the few feminine features of this female gangster besides the front armor. In my impression, only Aura has the same long hair. , well, there is also a naturally stupid bishop named Lola. Normally, it would look a bit pleasing to the eye and stunning, but now that Bingtis has shrunk down to look like this, and her hair has not shrunk at all, things are more joyful. She wiped the floor exceptionally clean, and her hair And because it was dragged on the ground and kept getting tangled up in various things...

"You know a basket. Don't you think my beautiful hair is very charming?" Bingtis wrapped himself into a rice dumpling with his hair, leaving only his head outside, "I am traveling at a speed of 7200r/s. Do you believe that rotation can slap you until you can no longer take care of yourself?"

Me: "..." In the mind of this female hooligan, is this the explanation for being charming?

According to my estimation, Bingtis should have fallen into a new state of human madness now: she has countless personal madness modes, and perhaps this is one of them. Under normal circumstances, no one can stop her at this time, even Father God is just watching from the sidelines, so it's better not to argue with her. And how to say it. Although she has a bit of a bad temper, Sister Bing in her big lolita form is quite interesting, and there is an unexpected sense of joy, especially when Qianqian takes advantage of her not paying attention and goes around behind the chair to pull the hair of this female gangster. After tying the chairs together...

After all, Sister Bing is just a bit of a 250-year-old. This is not the same route as Qian Qian, a strange girl who can kill half a dozen people with a flash of inspiration...

At this moment, the synthesized voice broadcast from the ship's host rang out in the command hall, diverting my attention from the furious female gangster next to me and the carelessly smiling escape girl (who also took my attention away from her). The two's attention was attracted): "Attention, this ship has reached the critical point. There is a high degree of abyssal pollution in the front. The working efficiency of the ship's stability system has decreased. All personnel must be prepared for secondary impact resistance. The impact is coming - three, Two. One, out of bounds!”

At the same time as the broadcast sounded, violent vibrations swept through the entire hall.

This is an impact caused by strong abyssal pollution that suddenly affects the battleship's stability equipment, causing system chaos. Technically, it is a phenomenon that cannot be solved and prevented, but the spacecraft itself is also equipped with a device sufficient to resist such an impact, so the impact It only lasts a few seconds, and then the spacecraft can adapt to the environment and activate and reset various protective equipment in response to contamination. soon. The violent shaking gradually subsided. The alarm sound in my ears gradually weakened, and the various devices with flashing red lights returned to normal after a few self-check beeps. The staff on the ship started working as usual as if nothing had happened. The ship's main computer began to report the damage caused by the direct crossing of the contaminated area: mild damage, a set of redundant shield generators overloaded and burned out, and the No. 4 propulsion unit It was down, but restarted quickly. A senior technician reported to us: "The critical point has been safely crossed. The ship is now in an absolute pollution zone, the protection system is fully powered, and the entire ship has entered the highest safety control mode."

"At this point, it's equivalent to having half a foot in the abyss." I sat up from the chair, and the shrunken version of Bingtis next to me simply smashed the seat to pieces, and the silky silver hair was already torn. It's like a water plant, "Look, it is indeed the Gate of the Abyss!"

On the holographic screen showing the real scene outside the ship, a dark and ink-like perfect circular shadow occupies nearly three-fifths of the area. It is so dark that it seems that even the darkness itself is swallowed up by this shadow. It is an active ship. State's Gate of the Abyss, outside this "gate", we saw ancient psionic energy suppression equipment, arrays of psionic energy towers suspended around the Gate of the Abyss, firmly confining the latter's pollution... ...well, mostly imprisoned in the Shadow Zone. This is a scene less than a few hundred meters below the scientific research ship, and above the scientific research ship, a huge dark red vortex is spinning crazily almost against our shield, and the frantic energy emanating from it is swirling around the scientific research ship. The shield aroused layers of unpredictable light curtains like aurora. Just looking at that scene for a few seconds can make people feel an unprecedented sense of oppression and the fear of being swallowed: Now The location of the scientific research ship is an extremely narrow conflict zone between the energy storm and the gate of the abyss. This zone is even less than a thousand meters thick. All dynamic balance is focused here. After the end of the world, this universe was only The remaining fragments are also maintained by the balance of this mere thousand meters thick.

"Oh, it looks like the stability is not optimistic." A high-pitched and arrogant voice sounded in my ears. I turned around and the first thing that caught my eye was a pair of seven-foot-tall... It's a female gangster. Well, it's not that she's mentally weak, it's mainly because she's so eye-catching. The big loli who was wiping the floor with her hair and jumping up and down while talking dirty words was gone. She was replaced by this big-breasted lady who could wear an evening dress and go to the streets to fight with people. People were stunned: "Ha, you've transformed again?"

"There is definitely something wrong with your girlfriend's brain," Sister Bing told him, then pointed at the door to the abyss displayed on the holographic projection, "Look, the equipment installed by your empire back then was still on."

Around the Gates of the Abyss. In that chaotic space, the most obvious thing is the large number of tall towers arranged neatly. They are the suppression towers set up by the imperial scientists who were stationed in this universe for deep diving experiments. Half of them have been extinguished, damaged, collapsed or even... Only a solitary base was left, but the remaining suppression towers worked miraculously. No one could explain how these ancient devices survived tens of thousands of years, and more importantly, after the destruction of the empire. Thousands of years later, they are still operating as usual today: perhaps their special security level allowed them to escape the disaster that swept through the empire's spiritual network.

"Oh -" Qianqian said in a long voice, "It looks similar to the tower Tavel installed next to the deep dive port. It should be genuine? Should we take one apart and put it back? Tavel will probably like it very much. "

I nodded: "Demolish it!"

This was originally one of the purposes of our coming here. Among the most important scientific research projects in the empire now, the deep-diving program is undoubtedly the most important one. Our original purpose of coming here was not only to find out some details of the old empire’s deep-diving operations. In addition, another main goal is to see if there are any old Imperial equipment that can be dismantled and studied. Now the deep-diving equipment of the new empire is all emergency goods imitated by Tavel based on the blueprint of the deep-submersible prototype ship. Our main technology tree has not been repaired yet, let alone deep-diving technology, which is very important in the old empire era. There is nothing that has been thoroughly studied. Therefore, when I heard that the Protoss might have discovered a test site for the old empire's deep-diving program, the most excited person besides Sandora and I was Tavel. She submitted a research report of more than 30,000 words to me. and the project follow-up application, which can be summed up in one sentence: take apart everything that can be taken apart.

It's a pity that there are really not many valuable things left in this world, and that workstation is basically an empty shell. At most, we can collect half a ton of sand and go back - and then let Tavel try to sift out the en-166 samples from it. For the rest, we can probably only dismantle the two suppression towers from the Gate of the Abyss and go back. .

Several groups of specially equipped engineering probes rushed out from the ejection port of the scientific research ship and rushed towards the nearest scrapped psionic energy suppression tower. These engineering probes were upgraded variants of ordinary autonomous machinery. Submarine ships are similar to the "three-skinned shield" against the abyss, but due to extreme miniaturization and power limitations, the effect is inevitably not as good as that of the mother ship, as soon as it leaves the shelter of the scientific research ship. Those probes began to erupt with crackling sparks. Entering a state of continuous damage, partly due to the overloading of the probe's shield. On the other hand, due to the influence of the abyss, its parts are gradually self-destructing - but this is normal. Only the core of this small robot is reusable, and all peripherals mounted on them are disposable. Equipment, after all, those things are in direct contact with the abyss.

"Judging from the scene, the Gate of the Abyss must have exploded once," I said, pointing to the psionic energy suppression towers on the screen that were obviously destroyed by internal explosions. "These towers self-destructed, but the suppression towers did not self-destruct." function. However, the Gate of the Abyss should have been re-suppressed before it fully erupted, and the remaining suppression towers were successfully restarted. It's just a pity that it seems that the star port during the deep dive has been destroyed, otherwise maybe something more useful can be found. technical information."

"Okay, today's harvest is big enough," Bingtis sat on the console with his legs crossed, "That en-166 is not enough for you? Now I just want to go back, take a shower and sleep..."

At this moment, the voice of the shipboard host suddenly interrupted the female gangster: "Warning, the engineering exploration plane is under attack. Repeat, the engineering exploration plane is under attack."

"What's going on?" I immediately leaned out of the officer's platform and asked loudly. The team responsible for monitoring the engineering reconnaissance aircraft immediately transmitted their surveillance footage to the officer's platform. The person in charge's voice sounded confused: "Your Majesty, this... The autonomous machine was attacked by this thing, should we prepare to fight back?"

The scene of those engineering exploration planes being attacked appeared. A group of us immediately moved forward nervously, and then became speechless at the same time. There was no abyss rampage as expected, no out-of-control sentry cannons and self-destructing exploration planes, only one that looked twisted. Eight shabby and tattered... autonomous machinery, or something that seems to be an autonomous machine. It looks three times larger than the probes it is attacking. There are traces of repair and modification everywhere on its body. A normal autonomous machine. It has a round main body and various working arms distributed symmetrically, but it looks like the remains of three or four autonomous machines have been pieced together. This strange thing has signs of damage all over its body, and the two working arms are still It's broken, the paint is completely unclear, and even the core components in the body are looming. Now this thing is "attacking" our probe, and its two working arms have protruded for low-energy cutting. The beam knife patiently scratched the shield of the exploration machine next to it. A cutting knife of this level had no effect on the enhanced shield at all, but it was unmoved at all and just "slowly" "Fighting", and its remaining working arms are not idle, and are rhythmically beating several other autonomous machines that are constantly trying to get closer to the base of the suppression tower due to their mission goals. It looks like... Use fly swatters against armored vehicles.

Everyone: "..."

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