Chapter 1500: Meet Again

This ancient data terminal seemed to be working poorly. When it was connected to the spacecraft data library, the holographic image above it flickered violently for a while before finally settling down. Sandora guessed that this might be due to the spacecraft's long-term lack of energy supply or crash. Related to the impact of the accident, part of the crystalline circuit of the data terminal may have deteriorated, but this slight failure does not affect the use. After some debugging, we entered the root directory of the data library.

"The voyage log... only has some coordinate records and spacecraft self-inspection reports, which seem useless. There are also technical parameters of the spacecraft, which are of little use either." Sandora sifted through the seemingly valuable information, "Oh, Found it, this should be the file left back then."

The holographic projection flickered for a moment, and then a familiar figure appeared in front of us: my sister in military uniform.

"Sister, you look so awkward in military uniform." I tilted my head slightly and muttered, and the person involved agreed: "It must be boring for me to wear this outfit all day long."

The video file begins with a few seconds of pause, and then comes a slightly distorted voice: "...The equipment is good, start recording. Now that we have left the home planet, we are entering a void that no one has ever set foot on. If the previous observations There is no doubt that we will come into contact with the sleeping powerful creature here. In order to prevent no one from knowing what is going on here after an accident, from now on I will leave a diary in the form of this video and leave it in each spacecraft of the fleet. Download the backup. According to the void scan completed fifteen minutes ago, the number of worlds in this area is very rare. There are only three shapeless and deformed universes within the range of one hundred and twenty engine jumps. The 'Genesis' activity has changed in this area. It has become a rare phenomenon. The accompanying technicians cannot explain this situation. We can only attribute it to the influence of the activities of void creatures: the latter suppresses or dominates the evolution of surrounding information during the growth process, causing it to mature before it is fully mature. Before, the 'Genesis' activities in this area were all aborted. I am not sure whether this guess is correct. If it is correct, then the void creatures will be far more powerful and special than previously imagined. I think this operation may be successful... No matter How, we have to rely on void creatures to resist the impact, the stronger he is, the better."

The first video was so short. After it was played, I couldn't help but touch my sister's arm: "Sister, you plotted against me in your last life."

My sister conveniently put my head under her arm and pinched my scalp hard, punishing and doting at the same time: "How many times have I said that it happened in my last life - and what's the reason why you don't want to?"

Bingtis' face turned serious at this time: "We are doing business now. You just want to show off your deep brother-sister relationship, why don't you just wait until you get home?"

At this time, the second video has been found by Sandora. Her sister (previous life), who was wearing a military uniform and had a serious expression, began to speak seriously on the video: "The fleet has arrived at its destination, and everything went well on this trip. According to the previous measurements . The void creature is sleeping here, but now the fleet faces a very embarrassing problem: we can’t see him.”

It’s not quite accurate to say that you can’t see it at all. Strictly speaking, you can still observe signs of the existence of void creatures: this area contains a large amount of information radiation from unknown sources, a stable space that floats out of thin air, similar to a world barrier or an order field, and also There is a very regular set of pulse signals, but these cannot be said to be biological signs. The above phenomena may be the result of the activities of void creatures, but it seems that our understanding of this special life is still too little. Before setting off, no one thought that it was unpredictable when it was in a sleeping state. An unpredictable life... How should we establish communication with him... Oh, it seems that talking to myself is a bit too much. So that ends today’s record. "

"Are you unpredictable when you are in the void form?" Bingtis suddenly turned his head and glanced here, "That's not right, I could see clearly when we were fighting, even though you were a little darker. The sense of presence is still relatively high.”

"Aren't these the same thing?" I said, dumbfounded. "If you haven't guessed, the sleeping void creature is actually in a 'return state'. Or it is called a 'fugue state'. In addition to being aware of its own existence, , there is no difference between us and the void. We are 100% integrated, and it is normal to be invisible. The 'signs of activity' that my sister saw in her previous life should be nothing more than the wreckage of the world, and I was born from the inside of the wreckage of the world."

Bingtis nodded: "Oh, it's just like your eggshell, right?"

Me: "..." I shouldn't have started with this female gangster!

"I almost understand what you mean by 'merging with the void'. Is it the same as throwing a slime into the water?"

Me: "..." Is this female gangster still in the end?

Shandora had already filtered out several worthless videos at this time. She waved her hand to us: "Don't make trouble, it's time for Ajun to come out."

I said again: "..." Why do you feel that each topic in this area is always weirder than the last?

The image of my sister (previous life) appeared on the holographic projection again, and this time she seemed to have a happy look on her face: "Everything went well, and I finally successfully established a dialogue with the void creature, but it was the other party who took the initiative: it seems that he noticed The fleet came to visit. This was a new life full of curiosity. He asked a lot about things related to the spaceship and the Xiling Apostles. It seemed that he was very surprised to see a free consciousness other than himself for the first time. The initial contact was very Well, the void creature is very friendly, and as we expected - he shows an instinctive dislike of the abyss, and an instinctive affection for the world of order. Now we are trying to figure out how to explain our plan to him, and at the same time let this void The creature understands what he should do. This last point seems to be a problem. The new void creature does not know what power he has at all... To be precise, he does not know what 'power' is at all. This is a willful and free will. , nothing could restrain him on the stairs of the void, so he lived like this casually, sleeping for who knows how long. I hope that this void creature can figure out what to do before the time Vanna bought runs out. Open the screen...ah..."

The elder sister on the video was interrupted mid-sentence, and what interrupted her was a black ball that suddenly jumped from the side of the screen. The ball looked slightly larger than a fist and was not very regular. , looking like a slightly deformed ball of ooze, this weird "thing" suddenly jumped into the picture, and then circled around in mid-air and refused to leave. My sister (in the previous life) began to frantically try to drive away the ball, while explaining quickly: "By the way, the void creature created a 'body' for talking to material life, which is the ball in front of him... His curiosity It seems a bit too exuberant! He seems to be very interested in us beings with bodies, but he doesn't seem to be very good at controlling his own entity. This ball has no facial features yet... Please don't make trouble, I am recording something very important... …Don’t touch that button! Don’t touch that panel! Don’t touch that…Who’s going to help drive him away?”

The black ball was still rushing around the screen so fast that I even thought he was making a face at the camera. However, my sister (in her previous life), who always gave people a calm and serious impression, was caught by this round ball that suddenly rushed over to disrupt the situation. The ball was at a loss, so the second half of this supposedly serious video turned into a farce. Finally, it ended in a flurry of excitement.

Everyone stared at the holographic image in stunned silence, and then I felt several eyes falling on me. In this case, the only reason why I haven't dug a hole yet is that the ship is an antique and I don't want to dig... …

"If I'm not mistaken..." Bingtis was indeed the first to speak. Her interested eyes were like a knife scraping my body back and forth several times, "That ball just now should be You last life."

"So it turns out that Arjun's void form in his previous life was a ball?" Even Sandora couldn't help but make a joke or two, "Arjun, don't you always complain that your void form has no face? You see, you don't have to complain now, right? ——You didn’t even have arms or legs in your last life, but you’ve made some progress in this life.”

"Can we not talk about this topic..."

Just when I was halfway through speaking, even my elder sister spoke up: "Ajun was a naughty kid in his last life."

I almost wanted to cry without tears: "Sister, I didn't do this to you. Weren't we still young at that time!"

There are several records after this video, which are basically the exchanges between Apostle Xiling and me in my previous life. There is no deviation from the information we already have in this regard, and at the end of these records. That big event happened that changed the fate of countless people:

The void creatures are activated at the first level, and the top tower with white equipment will be destroyed in one round.

Shandora found a record of this incident behind the video file, but it was no longer a video, but a simple written record. The person who recorded it is unknown, and the content is only a short paragraph:

"...The plan failed, and the void creatures cannot withstand an impact of that scale. Maybe the impact has been weakened, but I don't know if the home planet can survive... I'm not sure how long I can stay awake, but there may be a glimmer of hope for reincarnation. , we should work towards this goal. The servant fleet has been disbanded, and I have switched the permission identification method of this ship to the second mode... Perhaps 'she' had already calculated this when she delivered this spaceship to me. Point, the ship's permission recognition library only needs a password to switch to the second mode, so I hope 'she' has also calculated what will happen after the plan fails. In any case, our attempt failed, and we hope that other plans will be successful. It is still developing according to the expected trajectory..."

The record ends here, there should be more stuff later, but I don’t know if it’s a database failure or something else, but it’s been erased anyway.

The first notable thing we discovered is that there are only words here, not images.

"If I guess correctly, it should be your sister who left these words," Bingtis looked at the Xi Lingwen that was filled with a lot of garbled characters, and nodded while saying, "I can only leave the words, indicating that she was It has lost its entity. This is the record left after you failed to save the world. The people on this ship should have died in that accident."

My sister couldn't help but crossed her arms. This topic made her feel uncomfortable: "Why do I think what happened today is so weird from beginning to end?"

"That's right, it's weird," Bingtis waved his hand, "Who can still be happy after seeing his last words?"

Me: "..." I think the biggest mistake today was to bring this prostitute with me!

Looking at the final record in front of us, we all had a curiosity: at that time, my sister and I and everyone on the spacecraft had "died" due to the impact of the abyss, and only the souls of the two of us (and of course the weaker ones) were left. , Fanna and Reki’s soul fragments, which are today’s Qian Qian and Lin Xue), and these words were obviously recorded under that situation, so in what state did we leave these “last words” at that time? Woolen cloth?

Bingtis is indeed knowledgeable, and he actually has some ideas in this regard: "You should have temporarily formed a mixed spiritual creature, and you and your sister take turns to be the boss. Since you were still a silly boy at the time, the message on the spaceship It was left by your sister when she was awake. Another possibility is that the two of you possessed the main engine of the spacecraft in the form of chaotic consciousness. And since you were a stupid boy at the time, these messages were entered directly by your sister. Database. Both guesses are possible. In short, no matter what, in the end, this ship carried your souls all the way through the void, and finally made a hole in the earth... Well, this is what happened before you died. "

I finally had enough with this female hooligan whose words contained so much sand. He opened the Shadow City portal, grabbed Bingtis's arm and threw her in...

"It's done, the world is peaceful now," I breathed out, and then looked at the message, trying to find out more from this short paragraph, and I found some interesting things, "Sando La, sister. Have you noticed that a 'she' is mentioned here, and it is said that this 'she' delivered the spacecraft to the Fifteenth Sky Area..."

Before I could finish my words, I couldn't say any more, because a name flashed through my mind like lightning...

At this time, Shandora, who was operating the data terminal, suddenly made an unexpected voice: "Wait! There is a file here!"

"What?" I temporarily put aside the almost ubiquitous name in my mind. He leaned forward curiously.

"I don't know," Sandora shook her head while checking the document. "There is only a number, no date and no recorder. And there is no key code for query. It should have been stored at the bottom of the database, but I put it After reading all the diaries your sister left back then, it pops up on its own. It seems to be executed automatically."

At this time, the mysterious file had started to play automatically. Sandora discovered that this antique data terminal was no longer under control. It had completely turned into a fully automatic projection device. The holographic image above it shook a few times, and all the text The charts and display accessories disappeared, replaced by an ordinary-looking girl with long black hair.

"Whoever reads this file, no matter who you are, hello," the black-haired girl said, "you can call me Xi Ling. This is a database equipped with a restricted intelligent question and answer program. It will depend on your Asking questions provides you with limited information. I will first show some of the entries contained in the database. The information you can obtain will be included in the subordinate entries. You will have ample opportunities to ask questions, but this database will independently judge you based on how you ask. Do you qualify for an answer?”

It was so quiet that you could almost hear a pin drop.

The black-haired girl in front of us is different from every image of Xi Ling we have seen, but this is not important, because Xi Ling's appearance is originally uncertain. Now we only need to be sure of one thing: the one in front of us is the old one. Xiling in the imperial period!

One moment it was a guess in my mind that I had no time to express, and the next moment it was so directly confirmed, which made me a little confused. After I calmed down, countless questions came to my mind.

"Why is there something about her here..." I opened my mouth, and what I wanted to say the most was indeed this.

Even my sister was a little emotional: "It seems that she had a lot of involvement in various self-rescue plans of the old empire. Sandora's Revenge Army is one, and the Ark of Exile we discovered a few days ago is one. How come the Fifteen Days District is also involved?" Aren’t we separated from her... the concept of the Fifteen Days Area?"

Sister’s words reminded us: Isn’t the concept of the fifteen-day area divided? Wasn't Abyss Xiling already divided into another network before her sister set out to contact the void creatures? So what is going on with this ship and this image before us?

Shandora frowned and said nothing. She lowered her head and fiddled with the data terminal. After discovering that she could not directly control the latter, she finally gave up: "It's locked. The deepest level of the database is indeed encrypted. It doesn't even recognize the permission system... This kind of thing that violates the basic structure can only be created by the network consciousness."

"Can you answer our questions?" I remembered that the image in front of me said that I was a database with intelligent responses, so I looked up at her, "Are you an advanced intelligence or a simple program?"

"Detected keywords, converted...displayed database entries." The image in front of me said in an unchanging tone, and then a lot of lists were refreshed under the image. At this moment, I could confirm what the other party was: this should be just A simple program left behind by the Internet ghost back then was not an advanced thing like its consciousness shard, and it should have no thinking ability.

Shandora carefully observed the entries refreshed below, thoughtfully: "Based on the question-and-answer process, infer whether the questioner is an empire survivor? Is this your design purpose?"

"Item 1741, answer: yes."

"Your designer gave up using the permission library to activate this program because she believed that the empire permission system might have collapsed when you woke up, so the system cannot be trusted?"

"Key entry 9009, answer: yes."

"You have stored the process of delivering this spacecraft to the Fifteenth Sky Zone and the complete plan of the Fifteenth Sky Zone's self-rescue plan. This record is actually prepared for survivors from other sky zones or other self-rescue plans. The purpose is to let them Do you know where the remaining parts of the Fifteen Days Area may be located?"

"Final key entry 9010, answer: yes. You can now open the entire database, welcome to check it out."

Sandora breathed out, with a happy look on her face: "Sure enough, it's pretty much what I guessed. The question-and-answer program is just a cover on the surface. The real function is to confirm whether the questioner is an empire survivor during the question-and-answer process. Just come up with enough keywords and the database opens.”

I also exhaled and thought to myself that it was lucky that I wasn't the one asking the question, otherwise I don't know how long I would have to deal with this program shell today... (To be continued...)

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