Chapter 1,458 It’s Actually Her?

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After the shipboard host announced that the system was ready to return to the team, I finally couldn't help but feel curious and asked the spacecraft AI, which in theory should have no personality, a question: "What does Warren Field mean to you?"

"The crew of this ship, the only survivor, the priority subject of supervision," the ship's host quickly replied in a straightforward tone, but Sandora and I waited patiently for the next step. Sure enough, after a few seconds of silence The last voice added, "This ship is not sure whether this logic is normal, but this ship regards Warren as a system supplement for this ship."

"Do you regard it as a supplementary part of yourself?" Sandora seemed to have a faint smile on her face, "You shouldn't have generated this data, but this ship has enough weird places, so it's okay to keep it this weird... …Warren Field is your partner, and that’s what the ‘weird logic’ you generate means.”

"This ship doesn't understand. This ship has no personality system designed."

"It's not important," Sandora smiled and shook her head, "Really, it's not important."

It seems that everything is just as I guessed. The starship commander tens of thousands of years ago fell in love with the spacecraft's AI - two souls with completely different life forms, one of which didn't even have a body, but this doesn't mean anything. Preventing them from falling in love with each other during their decades of companionship. In theory, a starship host without a complete personality should not have such feelings, but it may be because of her special model, or it may be some kind of benign failure caused by the damage of the spacecraft, or it may be simply a miracle. This ship The shipboard host produced humanity.

Although those decades of lonely journey were sad, I suddenly feel that this story may not be so sad after all: Warren Field and the shipboard host lived together for decades. The spaceship cabin with limited space is their entire world. They have never been separated until one of them dies. From another perspective, this is the mutual understanding and love of ordinary people. It's just birth, old age, sickness and death - the only thing that's different is that this place is extraordinarily deserted.

At this time, other Imperial soldiers who were originally waiting outside had entered the spacecraft as planned. One of the teams found the body of Warren Field according to the route map we left. An Imperial soldier reported to them: "Your Majesty, the starship command was found. How to deal with the official remains?"

I thought about it. The decision was made: "Handle with care and do not damage it. After taking it back, it will be buried according to the standards of the fallen heroes of the servant army on the cemetery planet under the Ministry of Military Command."

The Xiling Apostles do not have funeral customs, but the servant army does. The Military Command has "grave stars" specially used for burying fallen soldiers. These graveyard planets are usually completely scrapped. Transformed from a decommissioned star battleship that cannot even be converted into a colonial star, Warren Field is not technically a member of the New Empire's servant army, but I think he should be qualified.

Sandora had no objection, and she connected to the Shadow City database again: "Personnel information database, log in a set of family data, Warren Field, male servant army. Haikena human, n-ccer- 06, female Xiling apostle, battleship host, companionship."

Perhaps because the family data relayed by the emperor himself was too strange, the server program of the personnel information database sent a question: "Your Majesty, one of them is from an unrecorded vassal race, and is the other a shipboard host?"

"That's right," Sandora said, repeating the information of the two of them, "Just record it like this. The affairs left over from the old empire."

There is no doubt about the personnel information database: the words "legacy affairs of the old empire" are almost enough to explain everything.

We then came to the previous activity hall, which had a large holographic device, which was more convenient for checking the newly obtained information. Sandora connected the data terminal to the holographic device in the center of the hall, and the secret of this ghost ship finally came to light.

The first piece of information is the captain's record. This is observational data recorded by Warren Field during the decades since he woke up. The starship commander found these data boring, but to us it is of great significance: this is extremely rare at present and the new empire urgently needs it. The data is an observation record near the contaminated area during a period after the collapse of the old empire. Since the old empire completely closed its borders at that time and expelled all observers from the Protoss, there were very few observation records after the collapse of the old empire. What has survived to this day and fallen into our hands are only a few remnants from automatic outposts. Data, and now with the void readings that Warren has accumulated over decades, we have the opportunity to go further in the study of the "catastrophe" and gain a deeper understanding of the changes in the entire turbulent area after the collapse of the empire.

Sandora took a cursory look at these observation data and uploaded them to the engineering/scientific research ship. These things can be brought back to the workaholics at the research center to deal with them. What we are more concerned about now is the Ark. Additional information comes out.

Based on past experience, Ark of Exile will carry the last information of the region it belongs to, which is usually the technical information and situation description left by the ruler of the region to other survivors - you can think of this as some kind of "last words", Such last words are significant.

However, the strange thing is that Sandora filtered the keywords of all the information and found no information related to the location of the sky zone, nor did she find the name of Emperor Xiling who issued the mission document for the "Xiling Ship No. 6" Name: It’s still the same weird situation as before, the “origin information” of this ship cannot be found!

Sandora frowned and muttered while searching for keywords: "Strange, the designers of the spacecraft mentioned here are all referred to as 'special authority individuals', but this special authority individual obviously does not refer to a certain emperor...here It was mentioned that three regions participated in the construction of a large number of Arks of Exile with the series name of "Xiling", but it still did not specify which three regions, nor did it mention the name of any emperor, as if these are irrelevant Similar."

I also looked over and saw that the initial information about the spacecraft did mention a "special authority individual", but this mysterious designer never revealed his real name. Shandora's reading speed was very fast. She had read more than half of the documents directly, and the look of confusion on her face continued to grow: "If there is no problem with this document, then the emperors of the three regions did not participate in this batch of documents." The design and manufacturing of spaceships. I think they don’t even know that their star port is manufacturing these unplanned spaceships... Has Emperor Xiling’s control over the world under his name weakened to this extent during the catastrophe? "

There are many doubts about the construction of these spaceships: the designer is unknown, the person who ordered the construction is also unknown, and even whether the Emperor of Tianzhu knows about the existence of these spaceships is unknown. I can’t think of anything under the empire’s strict authority authentication and logic system. This can be done by bypassing the monitoring of the permission tree. And that mysterious "special authority individual" not only built a large number of spaceships in three regions at the same time. They also brought a large number of uninfected servants to the spacecraft and issued drifting missions to them. This process all required the participation of the Xiling Apostles. So didn't the Xiling Apostles who participated in these things report their work to their emperor? ?

I was reminded of all the strange features I found upon entering the ghost ship: no logo, no model number, no coding. All equipment has no nameplates, and only the shipboard host computer in the entire ship has a code that is unclear and does not comply with the naming rules (the code for the host unit should start with x, but the host code for this ship starts with n). From the beginning They are not in compliance with the system to the end - but this is how these ships were built, and not only were they built, they also performed rafting tasks in large numbers. One of the ships even survives to this day.

"Ignore the builders of these ships for now," Shandora realized that struggling with this issue was a waste of time, so she decisively cut off her train of thought, "Look for the initial mission log and messages... The shipboard host mentioned that there were messages, That thing might tell us something."

There is basically nothing surprising about the initial mission log, which can be summarized in three points:

First, do whatever it takes to escape from the collapsing Empire Zone. Avoid all units with the Imperial ** logo on the route.

Second, after successfully escaping from the Empire Zone, we sailed silently, waiting for the chaos to end, and then cruised along a route that did not make any sense. Sandora and I guessed that this route should intersect with other exile spaceships, probably for Join the others.

Third, if you encounter survivors from other regions, forward a message to them.

The focus is on that message. It was very short, but its content made Sandora and I stunned on the spot:

"To any Xiling apostles or servants who may have survived the disaster of the abyss:"

We kept the fire! repeat. We kept the fire! "

If nothing unexpected happens, when you read this message, the Xiling Empire has collapsed and disintegrated. The abyss impact will destroy all the worlds in the empire area. The Xiling apostles in the empire area may have become extinct or nearly extinct. But if the calculation is correct, there should be a very small number of survivors who have escaped from the Empire Zone as smoothly as this spaceship. You are floating randomly in the void, but according to the calculated impact scale, the number of safe escape routes is limited, so the surviving exiles There is still a chance of encountering this ship and reading this information. "

Because it is impossible to tell when the chaos will subside, the main functions of this ship will be in a frozen state during the drifting period. The arrival of other survivors, that is, you will reactivate the ship (if it is not malfunctioning). If the chaos has ended at this time, and The Xiling Apostle Spiritual Network has been completely disintegrated, so please perform the following operations:"

Read the attachment to this message. It records the coordinates of a remote world that is far away from the impact and should still exist. Please go to this world and search carefully. There is a Xiling emperor and his Xiling host who are isolated on a local planet. They cannot leave that world and are isolated from the empire's main network, so they are not contaminated. "

That was the last spark of the empire! Repeat, that is the last fire of the empire! "

But please note that this ship has an automatic renewal protocol. After it enters that safe world, it will release the safety isolation of 'Tinder', so please be sure to confirm two things before performing the above actions:"

First: The impact has ended, and the abyss in the empire has subsided or at least no longer continues to spread. "

Second: The data network of the Xiling Empire has been disintegrated. Since the disaster spread through this network, it is very likely that it will continue to occupy the network nodes. Therefore, this must be confirmed, otherwise the fire will be contaminated! "

If you cannot confirm the above two points, please reset the ship to silent state and wait for the moment when everything is completely calm. "

Be patient and keep waiting, the Empire never fails. The day of victory will finally come! "

Sandora and I looked at each other. This message was another bombshell. The amount of information it contained directly shocked both of us!

"Hurry up and look at the attachment!" Even Lilina yelled from the side. Sandora immediately unfolded the attachment of the message document. It was indeed a set of world coordinates - it is difficult to describe the content of world coordinates in specific words. It can only be understood through direct reading of information, so I won’t go into details here. Sandora marked the seat, and Lilina was jumping around restlessly: "Go quickly, go quickly, maybe the people over there are still alive! We have made another big discovery now! Another emperor , and there is also a Xiling host."

But Sandora and I didn't make any move. Lilina was excited there alone for a long time. When she found that neither of us made a sound, she suddenly became strange: "Eh? Boss, eldest sister, why are you unhappy?"

"Why do I feel that these coordinates look a little familiar?" Sandora frowned and muttered, while I was comparing the coordinates with the historical records in the general database. Then I finally knew what was going on: "Isn't this the world you were trapped in back then?"

The scene suddenly became completely quiet. Even Dingdang, whose intelligence has never been online, got half of his body out of my pocket and muttered with a horrified look on his face: "Ah, the amount of information this time is so huge..."

"The fire mentioned here..." Sandora stared at the letter from 70,000 years ago, "are it me and Bubbles?"

My mind was still in chaos at this time, and it took me a long time to combine all the information. After I finally regained my clarity, a surprise slowly came to my mind: the person who isolated Sandora and part of her revenge army elites in another world. Now it has surfaced!

And not only did the perpetrator surface, we also saw other plans hidden behind the "safe isolation" that year: safely isolating Sandora and her revenge army in another world is just one part of a big plan. Behind this link, there is actually a large group of exiled arks and a plan to rebuild the empire!

"So that's what happened..." Sandora murmured to herself while browsing the message and the coordinate data behind it several times, as if she wanted to carve them into her mind, "Put a person just far away from the empire The emperor of the area was isolated in a safe world, and then released a large number of escape spaceships to perform drifting missions. After the empire area calmed down, he relied on the original preset rendezvous plan to restart these arks, and finally brought back the 'Spark'. Rebuilding the empire... I was originally Is it part of this plan?"

"This is almost a big gamble from beginning to end," Lilina smacked her tongue and couldn't help but muttered, "Every link in the middle can go wrong, especially those arks, which basically survive by luck. Moreover, They have to wait until they meet other survivors before they can restart... Why not just set up an automatic awakening program for Ark itself?"

"Because the person who made this plan doesn't know when the impact will end," Sandora quickly figured out the reason. "Developing a series of timed wake-up procedures will only increase the risk. If the spacecraft is too far away from the contamination, If the area is still very close or the infected Xiling apostles are still chasing these ships, automatic awakening will increase the chance of being destroyed. Setting it to wake up only when encountering other survivors is relatively safer. More survivors can It means that the situation has calmed down, and at least it means that the spacecraft is not on a dangerous route. There is only one kind of fire, so even a delay is better than increasing the risk."

Shandora calmed down faster than me: although she was inexplicably set to become a fire type, Her Majesty the Queen has a really broad mind. But in fact, she really doesn't need to care about anything. Instead, she should thank the mysterious person who made the plan: if it weren't for the "safety isolation" back then, the lineage of the Revenge Army would definitely have been swallowed by the abyss like other Xiling apostles.

We have previously studied the many doubts about Sandora's being trapped in another world: the spiritual network was blocked, the cross-world equipment was inexplicably stuck, the Xiling host lost its production capacity, and an imperial soldier finally escaped, and because of some " Suicide program" died on earth. It is difficult to explain this kind of anomaly with simple "abyss interference" or equipment failure, so our final conclusion is: Sandora and her soldiers were originally protected by a safety barrier like a Faraday cage. Although On the surface, they seemed to have lost their freedom, but on the other hand, this safety barrier protected them from the abyssal impact that was destroying the empire. Sandora's ability to survive and meet me is almost entirely due to that "safety barrier".

From the day we came to this conclusion, we knew that there was a figure behind the scenes who planned everything, and it was definitely a very prescient figure. Now we have seen another part of this plan: the Ark of Exile.

Then there is only one question before everyone: Who is this person?

"Actually... I have a little idea in my mind."

After much hesitation, I decided to tell my surprising conjecture.

Sandora raised her eyebrows, and her tone seemed to reveal that she had guessed something: "You mean..."

"Only one 'person' could do all of these things: perceive the dangers of that crazy experiment from the most macroscopic perspective; completely cut off the connection between the Avengers and the Imperial Data Network and remotely shut down your equipment; With Emperor Xiling's approval, a part of the resources were used to secretly build a batch of spaceships; and finally, the exile mission was launched - only one 'person' can theoretically do all of these things at the same time, Xiling, that cluster consciousness!"

Of course, now we have given this cluster consciousness a new name: Abyss Xiling to distinguish it from the little girl in Shadow City who obeyed orders and obeyed orders.

Lilina was stunned, and the little crow "quacked" next to her. However, Sandora had expected it. She did not show too much surprise, but lowered her head slightly with a serious face: "Theoretically, there is only this cluster consciousness. Although she has this ability, there are still many things that cannot be explained - Xiling theoretically overrides the entire mental network and can control all devices connected to the mental network, but she still had to obey various basic protocols. Those protocols It has been decided that her authority is lower than that of the emperor, and she cannot destroy the integrity of the network. How to explain this?"

I thought about it and already had some vague conclusions in my mind... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please Read at m.)