Chapter 1504 The Wreckage in the Abyss

Shandora and I soon arrived at Tavel's research institute, and as expected, Harlan was also here: As an expert with deep understanding of the abyss, Harlan is now one of the leaders of the deep diving project.

Tavel did not show politeness to us, and went straight to the point when we met: "The deep dive port just sent another confirmation message. There is indeed a large amount of debris under the Gate of the Abyss. These debris are currently slowly moving towards the real world. The specific number is unknown and the interference is too strong.”

"Is it from the other side?" Sandora looked into Tavel's eyes and asked the question that everyone present was concerned about.

"We can't be sure for the moment. We don't have the technology to track the drifting objects in the abyss, and to be honest, the appearance of debris in the abyss is already unlikely." Tavel shook his head. "Any ordered matter will quickly disintegrate in the abyss environment. Collapse, its dissipation speed is even faster than that in the void. If something like a deep submersible encounters a shield shutdown or other malfunction in the abyss, it will be completely decomposed in about ten minutes, leaving no wreckage at all. It is even more impossible to 'drift' for a certain distance. My subordinates think those wreckage are very strange and there are too many doubts."

I turned to look at Harlan: "Have you taken any measures now?"

"We are temporarily monitoring and sealing the deep dive port." Harlan spread his hands. "Originally, I planned to salvage them and take a look, but suddenly I remembered that the fallen apostles have studied abyss diving technology. They have the ability to Those who sail in shallow abyss areas, if these wrecks are traps set by them, it will be a big trouble to salvage them."

Harlan's words made me wake up from my excitement in an instant. I touched my hair and said to myself that fortunately the old traitor in front of me... was thoughtful and had spent a long time in the fallen apostle camp. What he was worried about might really happen. .

"But we can't just leave it alone," Sandora thought for a while and then made a plan. "Sooner or later, we have to salvage those things and take a look. If it really comes from the other side and we miss it, the loss will be huge. I It is estimated that they will not be able to sustain themselves for a long time in the abyss. Let’s go to the deep dive port in person to take charge. Ajun went over to support everyone. If it was really something brought by the fallen apostle, it would be purified on the spot - no matter how big they are I can’t resist Jun’s prodigal son turning back..."

I quickly covered Sandora's mouth: "There's no need to mention the name of that deceiving skill!"

Tavel nodded expressionlessly: "Then my subordinates will prepare the shuttle now. According to the state of the wreckage, they can last for a long time. Your Majesty, don't worry."

After Tavel left the scene temporarily, I turned to Harlan: "By the way, do you want to follow? You are an expert."

"Of course I have to go and have a look," Harlan smiled. "It's okay if it comes from the other side. If it really floats from the abyss... it will happen that we meet our old friends. Don't compete with me then. Ah. I haven’t been able to use my hands and feet much since I switched sides.”

I was speechless for a moment, and said to myself that it is indeed a product of Xiling. Uncle Harlan, who usually looks like a mature, stable and reliable big brother, is really as explosive as Pandora in his heart. Looking at the fighting spirit in the other person's eyes, it seems that he is using nitric acid. Glycerin grown in soilless cultivation...

Soon Tavel had everything ready. A few of us boarded the shuttle to the deep dive port, but Tavel herself did not board the ship with us, because she already had seven or eight mass projections waiting at the destination. This ubiquitous schizophrenic girl with glasses can travel all over the empire in an instant. You deserve to have high-level elites - what kind of mess is this...

The deep dive port has special security measures for safety reasons. There is no way to jump directly through the world gate, so you can only go there by high-speed shuttle, which delayed more than two hours. But Tavel was right: the wreckage was in very good condition, and it was visually estimated that it could survive in the abyss for a long time. When we arrived at the deep dive port, not only had the latter not been destroyed by the abyss, but it was still approaching the world of order unhurriedly. No matter how flooded the world was, it had nothing to do with me once the gate was closed.

The deep dive port is still the same as before, with a lonely Abyss Gate floating in space, and countless suppression towers controlling its activities around it. A control platform and various ancillary facilities have been built at the critical point of the Abyss Gate to monitor the port. . The only thing that is different from the last time we came here is that there are many more space buildings here: some of them are laboratories, used to carry out several new special researches, which require extremely large-scale abyssal environments. And we can't move this kind of environment to the Shadow City. So Tavel built many such laboratories near the deep dive port, and now their size seems to be almost that of a dense asteroid belt. The remaining new buildings are mainly shield broadcast towers and measurement and control facilities: since the last deep dive port control platform was destroyed by the "Black Shuttle". Tavel paid special attention to improving the security level at the port site. Although we don't know how effective these shield broadcast towers and measurement and control points will be against things like the "Black Shuttle", it is better than nothing.

The shuttle landed smoothly at the upper parking port of the control platform. As soon as we landed, we met Tavel (mass projection) who had been waiting here for a long time. She saluted us: "Your Majesties, the observation room and deep submersible ship are ready. Ready."

I twitched the corner of my mouth and said, "Well... we meet again. It's quite convenient that you are everywhere."

"Actually, Your Majesty can also consider making a mass projection," Tavel's unknown mass projection number suggested ardently. "I can specially design a mass projection that suits your daily senses, so that Your Majesty can deal with some of the needs of running around. It will be more convenient for you. Are Your Majesty Sandora and His Majesty Harlan interested in this? I can come with you..."

"No need!" The three of us said in unison, and then I looked at Harlan and Sandora curiously, "Why don't you like this too? It's because I don't have the habit of schizophrenia, but you seem to be able to control the body in multiple threads. Bar?"

Harlan shook his head cheerfully: "My multithread is specialized in combat. It would be fine if you gave me one or two thousand more floating cannons, but a few more bodies are really of no use, and I don't often On a business trip."

Shandora also shook her head: "I can control mass projection and have used this before, but I personally don't like it. Releasing the power of the Soul Reaver through mass projection will have a sense of perspective dislocation. In the end, this is the research and development staff. The skills used are not suitable for a combat system like ours. And..." Shandora glanced at me as she said this, "And if I were divided into seven or eight people and stood in front of you. No matter which one you kissed, I would be tempted by myself. Stealing your husband's illusion, and you have to consider what Qian Qian will do if she becomes interested in this matter. Her mind is already filled with unlimited ideas. If she really wants to split it into a quality projection, I guarantee she can do it. Hundreds of thousands of selves with different personalities..."

I suddenly didn’t dare to continue thinking deeply about this topic: this exploration reached an ethical level!

In the center of the control platform is the largest laboratory in the deep diving port. This large building, which covers an area of... well, I don’t know how much, is directly connected to the high-sensitivity signal towers around the control platform, and these signal towers are also connected to the abyss. Through the suppression towers around the door and several unmanned observation stations inside the door, through a complex information forwarding path, we can safely observe the movements inside the Abyss Gate. Last time, we recaptured an advanced communicator manufactured in the Fifteen Days District during the old empire from the Merova people. Tavel and Alleria have reverse-engineered the communicator and applied its principles to various deep-diving facilities. Now it is much easier to understand the situation inside the gate outside the abyss gate than before. What we have seen is The "scene" we arrived was also much clearer than before.

In the largest observation center of the Central Laboratory, Tavel pointed to a set of pictures on the holographic projection: "Those are the wreckage."

I looked at the holographic image in front of me. This image was a direct observation image from the observation station located inside the Gate of the Abyss. The lifespan of those observation stations was short, but they could transmit clear enough and first-hand information during working hours. This was an amazing technological advancement - although I have never understood all technological advancements.

There is only darkness in most places in the image. The most conspicuous thing that can be seen in this dark background are clouds with erratic shapes. These clouds appear and disappear constantly. This is the most disturbing thing in the abyss. The puzzling "shock phenomenon". And between these clouds were what Tavel called "wrecks." It took me a long time to distinguish them before I could see the shape of those things: they seemed to be scattered fragments of different shapes and sizes.

No wonder we can conclude that they are wreckage. Judging from their shape, they must be what they look like after something big breaks into pieces.

Nothing can be directly observed in an abyssal environment, because all observations are based on "orderliness." You need a minimum of "measurement" and "data" to describe whether something exists and what it looks like. You need volume to describe objects, temperature to describe hot and cold, and distance and coordinates to describe it. Describe the location - and these ordered data are all chaotic in the abyss, so the usual observation method in the abyss environment is "indirect comparison", using information-sensitive radar to scan a certain area, and then scanning the second area after a short period of time all over. Overlap the results of the two scans. After removing duplicate data, the remaining "highlighted" part is the picture of the abyss (this picture is only theoretical. There is no entity in the real abyss). Even special beings like Sandora and I use the same method to "see" things after entering the Gate of the Abyss, except that our observation medium changes from radar signals to spirit and will. Having said all this, I just want to mention one thing - under normal circumstances, everything we see in the abyss should be just a blurry silhouette, but those wreckage are real and details can be distinguished. "Real thing"!

It’s almost as clear as what can be directly observed with the naked eye, and it even has color!

If you don't consider that it is just a pile of debris, this scene is not impossible - if it is a deep-diving ship that is operating normally, then because it maintains an environment similar to an order field, this environment passes through itself The method of explanation ensures its own order, and it can naturally be directly observed as it is now, but those things are obviously just a pile of debris. There is no shield around them, no triple refresh protective layer, and even no energy reaction. That's just a bunch of lifeless fragments of matter. How do they stay in this state?

At this time, the laboratory's system broadcast interrupted his thoughts: "The self-inspection of the deep submersible vessel has been completed and the dive will begin in fifteen minutes."

Shandora touched my arm, and then I remembered that I came here to serve as a safety catch. At present, the large and small fragments don't look like things made by the fallen apostles, but I still want to be just in case. It's good to be prepared. I touched my chin and thought about it for a moment, then made a decisive decision: "I'll dive in too. It would be safer to open the protective layer from the inside."

"Are you sure?" Sandora suddenly looked over in surprise, "It's the same with opening a barrier outside. It's easy to have accidents when diving deep."

"It's okay." I smiled nonchalantly, "The ancestors are all on the deep-diving boat. They are not afraid of accidents. What should I be afraid of as an immortal? Tavel, it's okay to add someone to the deep-diving boat temporarily." ?”

"No problem," Tavel (mass projection) replied immediately, then she gave a few instructions to her assistant and then turned around, "It's ready. You can just go to Port No. 1, another mass under her The projection is there to respond.”

Me: "..." You might as well take over all the positions here by yourself.

It didn’t take much effort for me to arrive on the deep-diving ship. This was my first time stepping into this extremely special spacecraft, so I was inevitably very curious about everything around me. As soon as I entered the main control room of the spacecraft, I couldn’t help but look around. stand up. This redesigned spaceship has relatively ample crew space, although it cannot be compared with those large starships that often have a space city inside. But it is still very spacious for a short-term voyage, but I looked around and found that it is no different from an ordinary imperial spaceship: simple and bright silver-white battleship interior, wandering blue light that can occasionally be seen on the walls or ceiling, and There are data terminals that can be seen everywhere, as well as autonomous machinery that is slowly flying through the air and is responsible for daily maintenance of the spacecraft. These things are often seen on other spacecrafts. It seems that although the functions of deep submersible ships A bit special, a bit weird in appearance. It doesn't make it look like an alien hatchery from the inside out - I don't know why, but as long as it has anything to do with the abyss, I always associate it with some weird mutant scenes...

"Your Majesty?" Anseth's voice came from the side, "I just received a transmission signal, why are you here in person?"

The ancestors sat in two rows on the work bench in the main control room. They were all wearing the standard military uniforms of the New Empire, with the special mark of the Deep Diving Project Department on their collars. They were all neatly dressed and had serious expressions, and several of them were still holding formal weapons in their hands. He was busy inputting commands on the console, and he seemed to have become a very professional deep-diving boat operator. Ansers and several ancestors turned around and looked in the direction of the teleporter in surprise. Obviously a little surprised that I came in person.

I waved my hand to him: "I'll be your shield. Don't mind, just dive down. Just think of me as a spaceship part..."

Ansers knew my habit of talking nonsense, and after roughly understanding what I meant, he stopped asking more questions. Instead, he turned around and continued to unravel the various equipment restrictions of the deep-diving ship: This spacecraft is equipped with very There are a lot of special equipment. These things either have a limited service life or have strong interference with the surrounding environment (such as the shield device that simulates the world barrier, which will seriously affect the stability of the surrounding space when it is turned on), so it can only Turn it on manually when you are about to dive. I looked at Ansers's familiarity in manipulating these things, and couldn't help but muttered: "It seems that you are learning these new things very quickly."

"Teaching programs, memory input, everything is quick," Ansers shrugged. "It's very easy to just learn how to use these devices. It can be directly implanted into the memory. Even their principles can be directly input into the brain. , but it is too difficult to turn it into knowledge that we can flexibly master. We can now memorize many advanced theories, but no one knows what they mean... I am afraid it will take us a long time to understand ourselves. Just keep the teaching materials in your head. Well, that’s not bad, at least you have something to do.”

At least there is something to do - this seems to be the life motto of the ancestors, at least Ansel's life motto, "Never become a useless person at any time." They are taking the next step in promoting this creed. We have come this far.

"The deep-diving ship is approaching the door of the abyss," Ansers reminded me a few minutes later. "There may be a little vibration. It's best to sit on a chair."

I waved my hand to him and released my power while transforming into the void form: "Leave me alone. It's best not to touch things in this form, as it can easily damage the chair."

Ansers stared blankly at His Majesty the Emperor, who had turned into a black faceless man, with a look of disbelief on his face: "This is..."

Only then did I remember that this was probably the first time the other party had seen my void form, and I quite understood his surprised look: "Oh, this is what the legendary void creature looks like in full form. It doesn't look easy even though it looks like it. I understand, but it’s still quite strong.”

Ansers immediately nodded clearly: "Oh, it turns out you're still facing this way. I thought that was the back of your head."

Me: "...Sail the boat with peace of mind, sail the boat with peace of mind."

You said I was offending someone by being so bold and shameless! Why should everyone be surprised?

In short, the deep-diving boat finally passed the gate smoothly, and I didn't feel too strong a vibration. A few minutes later, the strange pile of debris that came from nowhere appeared on the monitor: I didn't expect it to be so close to the real world. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read.)