Chapter 1,361 Hard to Guess

I don't think anyone would have guessed what was going on in the deepest parts of the psychic network, yes, anyone.

The supreme leader of the new empire and the supreme leader of the fallen apostles, two people who should be mortal enemies no matter what circumstances they meet, are now sitting face to face. There is no tense situation, no fighting, but seemingly normal chatting.

I don't even know how the situation in front of me came to be, nor how to calculate this inexplicable "harmonious atmosphere". It seems that the initiative was not in my hands from the beginning. I was completely distracted by this incredible event. It was like being pushed around, unable to find any reason or opportunity to take the initiative, so by the time I reacted, the situation had already become like this.

Xiling on the side of the abyss was sitting a few meters away in front. As two opposing parties, this was an incredibly close distance, while Bingtis was still playing her role of "guard" safely. She was still equipped with that armor and stood beside me with a solemn expression: In fact, she didn't have to do this at all. After all, the term "guard" was a bit of a joke. She should be my partner, but in this situation, Bingtis decided to provide me with some "momentum support" in her own way. Have you ever seen this arrogant female gangster like this, like a warrior queen, standing behind others as a decoration? Anyway, I was quite touched.

"Chen, if you have an idea, I am confident that I can use a brick to take away the top, middle and bottom virginity of that girl in one second..."

Bingtis whispered in the spiritual connection.

Me: "..." It should be noted that all the above-mentioned touches are limited to when this female gangster doesn't speak.

"Do you know where this place is?" Just when I was struggling with how to start the topic, Abyss Xiling, who was sitting opposite, spoke seemingly casually.

"We call this place the Rift Valley, a dark area in the spiritual network that cannot be explored," I said while observing the movement on the other side. The other party gave people an incomprehensible feeling. Her non-hostile attitude was simply It's so strange.

"Rift Valley..." Abyss Xiling seemed to show an imperceptible smile, "It's very appropriate, but I call this place 'Fault Zone'. A name that sounds similar - so I guess the two words 'Rift Valley' The word should have been told to you by the little girl on your side, and she and I should have the same taste."

I was very curious: "What kind of place is this?"

I thought that the other party would definitely not answer this question: because it might be related to the secret of the fallen apostle, but I didn’t expect that Abyss Xiling was far more frank than I imagined: "You should know it by the name, right? Fault Zone, you and ours The place where the network is cut off. Even a foreign emperor should know that your new network and the abyss network were originally one in the old empire era - the Fifteen Days Zone cut it off, but even the so-called conceptual separation is still there. Traces are left on the fracture, and the split nodes still record the mapping relationship when connected. However, due to the conceptual separation, the target of the mapping relationship can only be a null value, which forms a fracture zone. I don’t know if you can answer this Do you understand?"

I was surprised for a moment, then suddenly reacted: "Do you know about the conceptual division of the Fifteen Days District?! You knew it from the beginning..."

"No, my memory is based on network data, so the memory about the Fifteen Days Area has been blocked for a long time as the concept was separated." Abyss Xiling looked at me with a half-smile, "I should thank you, you guys It was only after the isolation in the Fifteen Days Zone was lifted that I could recover these memories. It's a pity that I didn't discover the anomaly in the data sea at the first time, otherwise it would have been a good time to launch a strong attack..."

She only recently restored all the records about the Fifteen Days District, but her words also revealed a more important information: long before the collapse of the old empire, the highly confidential concept separation plan of the Fifteen Days District had been Abyss Xiling knows!

"It's nothing strange," the other person didn't seem to mind that he revealed these secrets. "You know, a long time ago, when the empire was not divided, I was the highest consciousness on the Internet. The secrets of each region were placed in front of me without any defense. I could leisurely read through the pages of the far-sighted man. All the plans drawn up by His Majesty the Emperor are under my supervision until they come into effect. I know much more than you can imagine."

I tried to stay calm. Yes. There was nothing strange about what the other party said - he just confused her current state in the abyssal camp with the old empire, more than 70,000 years ago. The Abyss Xiling in front of me is still one with the Xiling of the New Empire. She was once the noble collective consciousness of all the apostles, a great life that is completely uncontaminated, and has the highest authority on the Internet, so she knows the Fifteen Days Zone The secret plan is not surprising. Back then, she would never have thought of doing anything bad to her compatriots - and by the time she was able to do bad things, the conceptual separation had erased many of her memories, and it was only recently that this state was lifted. I can only be glad now that the other party did not notice the anomaly in my database as soon as Celestial City returned. The new empire's magic forces can develop in the stable environment that they got by luck.

"According to your statement," I thought slowly, "after the network split, the mapping relationship between them has become a mess, resulting in the same result as physical isolation, but this rift - or fault zone, although There is a black barrier effect, but they are obviously connected together, so what..."

"I connected it," the other party smiled, and that smile was as precise and elegant as a mask, "Strictly speaking, you and I worked together to connect it - powerful void creature, your soul is mine. The most destructive thing you have ever experienced, you can even ignore the impact of conceptual separation. When you are protecting the Fifteen Days District, you also spread your power to the empire's main network that should be completely isolated to the other side. You spread I got this little bit of power by chance, and I used it to maintain my self-awareness for tens of thousands of years until my own transformation was over. And your power also left the same mark on both breaking points of the network. Using the weak connection between the two imprints, I was able to reconnect the two networks that had been completely separated, and then find an opportunity to retrieve the other half of my nodes... It's just a pity, although I successfully established Connection, but it still creates something like a fault zone. The black barrier here is preventing data exchange. My great plan...is blocked by a firewall."

I was stunned. It took a long time to smooth out all the deep meaning of Abyss Xiling's words: This rift...

Could it be that he caused it back then?

I remembered what happened in the Fifteen Days District: When my sister was still the emperor of the Fifteen Days District, she separated the Tian District Network and the Empire Main Network into two parts before the abyss struck, and used such extreme methods as conceptual separation, from The entire sky area is protected at the information level. After that, the nodes that are cut between the sky area network and the empire's main network will theoretically be completely unable to connect.

Later, my sister's past life found my past life, and we jointly carried out a less successful attempt to save the world...

According to Abyss Xiling. The power of void creatures has crossed the barrier formed by the separation of concepts: the fault zone between the Sky Zone Network and the Empire's main network is useless to void creatures. My power that was not very controlled back then surged through this channel with limited bandwidth. Entering the abyss where the fallen apostle lives...

The power of the void creatures left an indelible mark on the rupture point between the two parts of the network. In the future, the empire's main network transformed into the spiritual network of the fallen apostles, while the fifteen-day area network split into two parts. It's on the technology side. Part of it is on the mysterious side (I believe you will not forget that my biggest mistake when I opened it was not distinguishing between these two parts. As a result, my power was too spread out and I died...). They eventually became the backbone network of the new empire today. .

In fact, what Abyss Xiling does is not much at all: she just connects the two parts of the imprint that are originally from the same source. The rift is a phenomenon she catalyzed, but in essence, this is the "legacy" I left behind "...

"Oh, you look quite surprised," Abyss Xiling said this in a statement-like tone. "It's all what you left behind. This fault zone is also one of your legacies."

"So, the reason for the 'black barrier' effect in the Rift Valley is that the power of the void creatures is at work," Bingtis couldn't help but speak, "The void creatures blocked this channel, and the information in the network is not protected by the order field here. , so it was swallowed up.”

"This is only part of the reason. The more important reason is that... after such a long period of isolation and tens of thousands of years of transformation on our side, the basic protocols of the two networks are no longer compatible. Unless one of you and us is willing to completely compromise , enter the opposite camp. Otherwise, the black barrier will probably never be lifted..."

"Is it really okay for you to tell me so much?" I suddenly interrupted Abyss Xiling. This weird atmosphere was really strange, "We two are mortal enemies - why do I feel you are not nervous at all?" No?"

"Dead enemy, the conclusion of logical reasoning is indeed like this," the other party said indifferently, "That doesn't affect me talking to you. It's very boring here, and the real world is even more boring. Anyway, what I tell you is not of much value. You know No amount of more can do anything... As for the tension? Are you saying that you or the little girl next to you are planning to take action? Believe me, it doesn't mean much. You know my life form. Pure strength means nothing to me. What is in front of you is just an interactive interface."

Bingtis made a sound and took back the meteor tile in her hand: She had been holding that thing to show off, but now it seems that Abyss Xiling is facing a clear opponent: We can't eliminate a person on the Internet. Unless the two of us can unleash a willpower equivalent to the combined thoughts of billions of fallen apostles, we may not even be able to pull God the Father over. This is not something that can be solved by strong strength at all.

So even if Bingtis really uses bricks to instantly take out the upper, middle and lower sections of the opposite side... we will only be able to smash away an interactive interface at most.

I looked down at my feet. In this dark space, I couldn't see anything except the three people talking, and naturally there was no ground. I understood that my feeling of being grounded was just like the continuous falling just now. It was just an illusion. , is a false sense created by the person opposite to facilitate conversation: the other person obviously knows a lot about this place, at least she knows how to create virtual senses here.

We are in the black barrier, in the echo of the power I left behind back then, but it is obvious that I have lost the ability to control this part of the lost power: they have coexisted with this network for a full 70,000 years, and are now part of the Rift Valley If a part of it is forcibly stripped away, it may be able to destroy the network connection with the fallen apostles, but it is more likely to kill millions of imperial soldiers: they are my soldiers, people, and even relatives. This is an option that is impossible to put into practice.

And even if the Rift Valley is destroyed, I'm worried that Abyss Xi Ling will find a way to establish other connections: before Xi Ling (idiot version) arrives, the other party has been studying this place for a long time. If she really disappears in the Rift Valley Later, other connections were established, and at that time we really had no choice. Some things have to be guarded against.

Abyss Xiling could probably guess what I was thinking, but she just watched quietly, with an atmosphere that I couldn't understand lingering around her. So much so that I had the illusion that the other party was not my enemy for a moment - I shook my head violently, threw away this random thought, and looked at the person opposite me seriously: "What is your purpose?"

"You don't need to know," the other party shrugged, "Of course I won't tell you all this kind of thing, we are enemies."

"Cross this black barrier. It's the network of the fallen apostles, right?" Bingtis said next to him.

"But you can't cross over, just like I can't get over to you," Abyss Xiling looked into Bingtis's eyes, "You have experienced it just now, haven't you? Coming down from the fault zone is an endless road. Road, this balance point is the only channel for both of us to communicate directly. In fact, this is a good thing: here, the two parts of the network are partially shared, and you don’t have to worry about being impacted by the huge sea of ​​consciousness of the Abyss Empire. I don’t have to worry about losing my own network. Node, here, I can borrow local resources to complete communication, otherwise it is not a good idea to stay connected to void creatures for a long time: I suffered a lot last time."

"Is Haran really the abandoned son you let go?" I exhaled. "You are so cruel to your own people."

"Who knows, he is really not easy to control, but... some things are always quite frustrating, just like now. The visit of you two uninvited guests." Abyss Xiling stood up, seeming to be a little bored. . "To be honest, nothing can be solved by chatting here. I still have a lot of things to be busy with, such as destroying the world and so on."

I noticed that Bingtis next to me was momentarily excited, but she calmed down, and then I stood up too. I felt that I still had a lot to say to the person opposite: the other person seemed to be a rational individual who could communicate. , not as crazy as most of the fallen apostles, but I just can’t figure out why this abyssal spirit is so committed to destroying the world. This sudden conversation was so precious, and it caught people a little off guard. If I had known that I would encounter such an old enemy in the Rift Valley, I should have started preparing the interview script yesterday...

As if he completely guessed what I wanted to say, Abyss Xiling suddenly laughed: "I am not hostile to you or your new empire."

The expressions between Bingtis and I are like this: ○_○!

"No hostility?! Are you mentally ill?" The fiery-tempered Sister Bing was the first to lose control. "No hostility, you go around making trouble for others? If you don't have hostility, your army and the imperial army will beat their brains. Come out? Without hostility, you can destroy the world one by one? Without hostility..."

"You are not the Apostle of Xiling," Abyss Xiling looked at Bingtis coldly, "You are a god. It is very inexplicable for gods to appear here. I can completely regard you as air, so be quiet."

When has my sister, Da Bing, ever experienced this kind of stimulation: "Jing, uncle! I will flatten the nine inches above your navel with a brick..."

I stretched out my hand to push Bingtis down and turned to look at the other side: "I can't believe your statement that there is no hostility. You have caused a lot of trouble for me."

"It's just what needs to be done," Abyss Xiling didn't even look at Bingtis, "I have no hostility towards you. The war between you and me is out of some necessity, goal, demand, execution - it is against it. Everything is actually not a contradiction, just block it out.”

I was speechless and suddenly realized that I was facing a kind of mechanical logic.

According to this, the empire and the fallen apostles will have to fight forever, unless the Abyss Xiling can give up her "goal" and stop destroying the world. But this sounds like nonsense: I don’t believe that words can make such a determined group consciousness change the plan she has been executing for so many years. If cannons are useful, why should naval guns be used? - Viska said so.

"Maybe we will meet again - on the battlefield," Abyss Xiling waved his hand and turned towards the darkness, "I will block the gateway in this area. Talking to you is good, but meaningless and a waste of time. .”

This hard-to-understand guy smiled and said "no hostility", and then smiled in front of me and made a declaration to continue the war. I couldn't figure out what her logic was at all. All she had was her last words. After she escaped into the darkness, she faintly heard:

"Tell that 'Xiling' over there that if you want to get close to the fault zone, lower the priority of your node indexing process by one level - but there is nothing fun here..."

Everything returns to silence.

"What the hell is going on?"

After being embarrassed in silence for a while, Bingtis was finally the first to be unable to bear it any longer. She looked at the direction in which the Abyss Xiling disappeared, as if she had a lot of anger and didn't know who to vent it to.

I'm even more confused than she is: the amount of information I've experienced in the past few dozen minutes is greater than all the events I've encountered in the past month combined. Now that that weird guy is gone, I have the opportunity to slowly chew on her. The little bit of information revealed, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that there was a secret hidden behind it that people couldn't even imagine. After thinking about it for a while, I felt that I couldn't understand it, so I waved my hand to Bingtis: "Anyway , go back first, I’m afraid I have to discuss this matter with Sandora before making a decision.” (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest support. Motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read.)