Chapter 1514: The Plan for that Year?

Today is the second day since Abyss Xiling came to Shadow City.

Bingtis had already gone to the God Realm yesterday and sent the reply from God Father through the God Realm Shadow City special line. As expected, Father God was also very shocked by the news brought by Abyss Xiling. Obviously, even as knowledgeable as he was, there were things that he could not understand. He has also studied a lot of things related to the Void Cataclysm, but because he has not been able to access the key information from the other side, the research progress of the God Realm in this area is still far behind that of the Abyss Xiling. Father God has already organized a group of experts and scholars and forwarded the news to the Huron side. Now we are waiting for the reply from the Huron God King and then the four families will gather together. This will be the most special and memorable event in the history of the void. A cooperation between the two major protoss, the Xiling Empire, and the Abyss Empire. No matter how you look at these four families, it seems like there is a weird guy sneaking in...

Because I was thinking about the Abyss Xiling, I hurried to the research institute after eating early this morning. Sandora had to deal with some matters in the military department, so she didn’t accompany her, but Lilina wanted to go to the temple, so she didn’t go with her. I followed her along the way, although I suspected that the latter's statement of "going to the temple to do morning classes" was completely nonsense. Her real idea was definitely to visit the Abyss Xiling...

I can clearly feel that the institute is busier than usual, and the atmosphere is a little more tense than usual. On the one hand, this may be because Tavel has increased the manpower of various project teams of the deep dive plan, and on the other hand, it should be Abyss Xiling's The arrival made the staff here feel a little strange: after all, he is also the supreme commander of the Abyss Zone. Even if we now know her true purpose, the "prestige" of Abyss Xiling still spreads far and wide. Such an enemy The leader of the army suddenly came to Shadow City as a guest, and it would be awkward for you to be on Sandora.

I found Tavel (the body) and Abyss Xiling in the large research room of the Deep Diving Project Department. The two seemed to get along quite well. They were discussing technical matters next to a set of holographic equipment, with only Two assistant technicians are helping to operate the equipment and record things. Tavel is a standard scientific madman + imperial soldier. As long as she has orders from her superiors and research goals, she can devote herself to her work well. Even if she has the ruler of the Abyss standing in front of her, she can remain calm. This is why Sandora and I can trust her. One of the reasons for the heavy responsibility, and now looking at the way she was engaged when arguing with Abyss Xiling about technical issues, it was obvious that she had almost forgotten the origin of the other party, and completely regarded him as an academic opponent of the same level.

I pressed Lilina to my side to tell her not to cause trouble, and then stepped forward to greet Tavel and Abyss Xiling: "Hey, are you two busy?"

"Salute to you." Tavel immediately responded with a military salute, while Abyss Xiling glanced at the dwarf following me curiously: "This doesn't seem to be a Xiling apostle? Although it has some power from the Star Realm God Clan. But it doesn't seem to be the case either. Pure God...Is this also your researcher?"

"This pope is the benevolent, benevolent and kind-hearted female pope in heaven and on earth who is universally respected by all immortals! She is the spokesperson of Dingdang, the captain of the 12th team of the 3rd regiment, the 4th brigade of the Eternal Legion, the goddess of the true god of life in the star field. Shadow One of the top tens of thousands of masters in the city, a girl who can control girls and women, a capable sister and a married woman, the leader of the devil group in the naughty kid camp of the first family, who has long been occupying the armrest on the left side of the couch in front of the TV. , have now dominated the Discovery Channel for two months, are you afraid... Hey, boss, let go, I haven't finished talking yet, there are still more than a dozen knights under the Pope who have not been introduced..."

I took out a handful of snacks and stuffed them into the mouth of this sick loli. Looking up at Abyss Xiling, his face was somewhat embarrassed: "Don't mind, she has always been so crazy and startled. This is Lilina, a member of my family. When her brain is normal, she can be regarded as a representative of the God Realm. She is here today. She’s just here for a visit, so just pretend she doesn’t exist.”

"Visit?" Abyss Xiling was stunned for a while, "This is an unrelated person... Are you just running around with him like this?"

"You have nothing to do with personnel!" Lilina swallowed the snack hard. While rolling his eyes while being choked, he jumped up and tried to bump into Abyss Xiling's belly, "This Pope has been working hard in the empire for... I can't remember how many years. In short, you understand for yourself, how can this Pope be an unrelated person! It's you. . This pope uses the omnipotent conspiracy theory to look at this and feels that you have a conspiracy..."

I have long been used to people like Lilina going crazy, but it was obviously the first time for Abyss Xiling to see this kind of battle. She was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at me curiously, opened her mouth and started talking: "Why do you Is there such a weird guy around? And your Shadow City is also... I didn't have much contact yesterday, so I didn't notice it, but today I found that more than half of the residents here are not Xiling Apostles, even if they are Xiling Apostles, They are completely different from the Imperial soldiers in my impression. Armored Scorpions are keen on painting abstract paintings on their carapace, Xiling hosts are queuing up to buy desserts, and there are completely unnecessary things like vending machines in the military zone... Military Zone There is even more chaos outside. Why does the empire’s ruling center need things whose use is completely unclear? What is the commercial street for? "

I glanced at Tavel, who shrugged: "I didn't let her go out. My subordinate just showed her the Shadow City tourism promotional video made by Mistress Qianqian, and then asked Xiling to chat with her for a while. It’s just that she seems to find it difficult to accept this.”

"It's not hard to accept," Abyss Xiling immediately retorted with a straight face, "It's hard to understand. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, and I don't have any position to guide your city planning. I just don't understand the use of this status quo. .”

"Every fallen apostle who has just arrived has the same idea as you. Harlan and Zadom were more surprised than you at the beginning." I shrugged indifferently. "If I have to say... this is the imperial route I chose. I think It should develop like this, so I slowly built it like this, and it seems that everyone is very satisfied with this status quo. This has not affected the efficiency of my empire. The imperial soldiers have also adapted to this kind of life, and the following families and Hong The world is also very satisfied. Isn’t this better than your lifeless abyss area?”

Abyss Xiling thought for a while, and finally shook his head with a straight face: "I can't understand, can't calculate, I don't see how this will help the empire, probably this is related to the fact that you are not a pure Xiling apostle... But since your The new empire is developing well, so maybe your route makes sense. Anyway, it has nothing to do with me, and there are no other races in the abyss."

While I was talking to Abyss Xiling, Lilina had sneaked up to the latter's big box without anyone noticing. I started to pick at it curiously, and then I suddenly saw the image of the Abyss Xiling suddenly turn blue. Lilina suddenly exclaimed: "Wow! Boss, look at this projection mode, it is the same as the one on our spaceship. The equipment is the same! The usage is the same!”

Abyss Xiling's always calm face showed a hint of weirdness: "Can't she calm down?"

I smiled bitterly and stepped forward, grabbed Lilina's collar and lifted her up. The latter was dancing and kicking her in mid-air: "Boss, put me down! Don't force me, my madness is contagious! I'm afraid it will be contagious." Not afraid..."

After throwing this guy into the basket, the world finally became peaceful. The strange look on Abyss Xiling's face became more and more obvious: "I don't know how to describe it, but she seems to have a kind of hostility towards me... I'm not sure about my judgment. Accurate or not, after all, swarm consciousness doesn’t quite understand the way of thinking of living creatures in the real world.”

"She is hostile to all strangers. Putting aside this for now, how is your communication with Tavel?"

Tavel took the initiative to step forward and said: "Your Majesty, my subordinates have sorted out the preliminary data stored in this device and all the intelligence brought by the Abyss Xiling. Now they are comparing these data with our own research data. At present, The comparison results are completely consistent.”

"Does that mean the information she brought is true?"

When talking about matters in the technical field, Tavel's expression became particularly serious, and his speech became meticulous: "It seems so at present, but before getting all the information, my subordinates cannot make any conclusions about the Void Cataclysm. Theoretically, it is so."

"I also found out some things from Xiaoxue... I'll talk about this later. What happened to the wreckage I brought back?"

"The main body of the wreckage is still in the Gnaku. Currently, only some of the fragments are undergoing routine inspection." Tavel nodded. "According to the current analysis results, those wreckage did come from the other side. They lack many key properties. It's not that they don't have it. Rather, it is unmeasurable, which is exactly the characteristic of the material on the other side.”

I looked at the holographic equipment next to Tavel, and what was displayed on the projection was a black material fragment. It should be something I brought back. Looking at these strange-shaped fragments, I suddenly had an idea: "What would happen if these fragments were put together?"

Abyss Xiling shook his head: "It's useless. We can't restore the spacecraft from the other side. Even if we can figure it out technically, we can't manufacture the missing key components of the spacecraft: we can't use materials from 'this side'."

"Of course I don't intend to repair this thing until it's broken into pieces. Who expects it to be able to drive," I said with my arms crossed, "I just want to see what this thing originally looked like. By the way, I can see how it works." If we can’t figure out the general structure of the spacecraft, maybe it can provide some inspiration for the deep-diving equipment we build.”

"Whatever, it won't waste any time anyway, but I don't think your attempt is of any value," Abyss Xiling seemed to have little interest in this topic, "I thought about it at the beginning, and tried to recover three points. One, but later found that there was no profit from doing so and gave up. Their deep-diving protection technology had some reference value, but the spacecraft structure was completely meaningless and we had no use for it. Of course, if this is your personal interest, there is nothing you can do about it. .”

"Tavel, please arrange for some people to put these pieces together," I looked at the girl with glasses next to me, "It doesn't need to be a too important task, just don't delay the business."

Then I learned about the progress of the deep dive project and the deep dive project on the Abyss Xiling side. The results were basically as expected: regardless of the new empire or the abyssal zone, the deep dive research conducted was based on the fragments of the old empire. Based on the chapter, although Abyss Xiling's memory bank contains a large amount of data left over from the old empire, she was seriously injured in the disaster that year, and a lot of these data were damaged, so her various projects were carried out. It didn't go well either. On the New Empire side, we have less basic information, but we once obtained a prototype of a deep-submersible ship. Although the ship was damaged in the accident, Tavel still tried to learn as much as possible from it before that. Enough technology has been dug up, so the new empire, which is seriously outdated in all technologies, can only keep pace with the abyssal zone in deep-diving technology.

Generally speaking, the deep-diving research in the New Empire and the Abyssal Zone is half-measured. No one has been able to break through the technological peak of the old Empire era. But it is probably the so-called luck. The most critical things drifting from the other side are... Falling into the hands of Abyss Xiling, she is much ahead of us in terms of intelligence.

However, there should be a reason for this situation: it was the old empire that responded to the call from the other side. The other side doesn't know what happened here after that, so they should still be sending things to "this side" based on the vague coordinates they mastered back then, and Abyss Xiling occupied exactly the area after the fall of the old empire. It was natural for her to receive those things from the remaining territory. In this way, the "Black Shuttle" discovered in the New Empire and the Protoss was actually a bit of an unexpected gain.

If I guessed correctly, those black shuttles were actually detectors that went the wrong way.

Tavel and Abyss Xiling discussed some technical issues for a long time, and I couldn't get in the middle of it. I only knew that they were comparing the deep-diving technologies of the two camps, and at the same time looking for "entry points" for the next step of cooperation. After all, the New Empire and the Abyssal Zone have always been isolated. The deep-diving technologies of both sides have developed independently without interfering with each other. Now they have become two completely independent systems. Of course, if the two parties want to cooperate on such cutting-edge technology, they cannot simply produce a bunch of experts and then just pile all the information together and be done. Far-sighted planning must be carried out in advance to avoid wasting time and energy, right? , I’m just not good at this kind of foresight...

"Your deep submersible ship is technically very mature. At least it is heading in the right direction. As long as you continue to improve, you can naturally create more advanced large ships," Abyss Xiling said after seeing the new empire's deep submersible ship. Of course, what she saw was only the basic structure, and the technical details would not be made public until later. "The problem you have now is that you have poor 'adaptability' to the abyssal environment. You can only rely on hard resistance to improve the endurance of the spacecraft. Once the protection system shuts down, the spacecraft itself will be destroyed instantly."

I can finally understand this sentence. So he quickly expressed his opinion: "I know, this is equivalent to wearing a suit of invulnerable armor on the outside, but the body on the inside is deficient in vitamins from A to Z..."

Abyss Xiling looked at me silently: "Your metaphors are always very accurate...but always very strange."

Lilina and I stayed in the research center for a while, and after roughly understanding Tavel's work progress and the status of the wreckage and data brought by the Abyss Xiling, nothing happened. So I was ready to say goodbye and leave. But before leaving, I suddenly remembered something, so I asked Abyss Xiling casually: "Let me ask you, was it you who protected the Revenge Army back then?"

"That's right." Abyss Xiling nodded, "Although the later 'return method' was a bit unexpected, this plan is basically the most successful self-rescue plan I personally formulated."

"Do you know about the abyss that Sandora was infected with?" I recalled Sandora's strange infection state, "She seems to have been infected by the abyss of inertia, but whether she is inert or not is secondary, mainly because of her current condition. The situation is a bit weird..."

Originally, I just asked casually, not expecting the Abyss Xiling to have any answers. After all, planning a plan that spans tens of thousands of years and relies almost entirely on luck is enough to defy the heavens. I didn’t expect much from the Abyss Xiling. Back then, she had included uncontrollable factors like "the abyss" in her plan, but she didn't expect her eyes to suddenly become serious: "Is she in a weird state? Tell me."

As soon as I saw the expression on Abyss Xi Ling's face, I knew that this matter was not simple. I quickly pressed down Lilina, who was already a little restless, to calm her down, and then put Sandora's weird "unpurifiable" state to its original state. Tell Abyss Xiling.

"...Anyway, this is the situation I mentioned. The infection on her body is completely different from other people's. It has not weakened since she has been with me for so many years, and there is no sign of changing its nature."

Abyss Xiling frowned: "Are you sure it's different from others? Maybe it's just a small change?"

"Sure," I nodded vigorously, "There are many examples of infected people in the New Empire. Counting the entire Abyss Independent Group brought over by Harlan, I can easily give you millions of cases with different symptoms. In this case, you will never make a mistake in this regard.”

"Then it seems to be exactly what I guessed," Abyss Xiling mused, "Actually, I didn't expect it to be successful. After all, I didn't know about bridges and void structures back then. Even the Inert Abyss was just Just a guess..."

I was impatient: "What's going on?"

"To put it simply, the world where the Revenge Army was 'safely isolated' was special. I know there is an abyss there, and I also know that it is a relatively 'safe' abyss," Abyss Xiling explained, "After the collapse of the empire, In the last few hours before, a telemetry detection station discovered the abyss phenomenon in that world, but by that time I had already detected anomalies in the core of the test site and realized that a disaster was about to break out, so within those hours I quickly He made a plan to temporarily conceal the alarm signal from the telemetry station and isolate the Revenge Army. As for the subsequent launch of the Ark, it was slowly completed after the big impact began. You should know that the collapse of the empire continues. It took hundreds of years and was not completed in an instant.”

I nodded and signaled Abyss Xiling to continue.

Abyss Xiling first gave me a question: "Actually, there are many Imperial Expeditionary Forces fighting outside. In addition to the Revenge Army, there were several armies that were not in the Empire area at that time. Do you know why I chose the Revenge Army as the ' Tinder'?"