Chapter 1585: Winter Is over, Contact Is Restored

An incident that happened a long time ago and was almost thrown into the waste paper of my memories flashed across my mind like lightning. I quickly poked the Sandora ball in the air: "Sandora, do you still remember? Don’t you remember that the Protoss was once hit by a star ring fragment?”

Sandora had obviously almost forgotten about this matter, but as soon as I reminded her, she immediately reacted: "Oh! I remember it! That was two or three years ago, right? When we were collecting star ring fragments to the final stage, the Gods said that they A strange thing was discovered in the territory... I still remember that the abyss reaction on that fragment was inert. At that time, we didn’t know much about the inert abyss, and we were scratching the scalp with the Protoss for a long time.”

Then we both looked up at the same time, looking at the dusty and inconspicuous man-made planet in space: Celestial Forge.

The Protoss and the Empire had been working together for a long time. We even sent out several void patrols to trace the origin of the strange fragment, but we found nothing at all. Now that so much time has passed, this matter has been shelved as an unsolved case, but the truth and the culprit have suddenly come out! Do you think fate can be more magical?

"What are you doing? What do you think about this ship?" The unrestrained AI was watched by Shandora and I for no apparent reason. Although we were watching through holographic projection, it still made the other party feel awkward. "Could it be that the fragment hit Are you alive? Please explain in advance that this ship does not care about compensation. Do you know how difficult it is to throw a drift bottle across a polluted area? An accident is inevitable - and this thing was designed by that woman. If you have any problems, go to her. .”

"It didn't hit anyone, but we did 'maybe' have seen the debris you threw, and we had a headache for a long time," I spread my hands. Then he quickly told the other party about the original incident, "...that's the situation. It seems that the device left by Abyss Xiling was not very reliable. We almost dismantled the wreckage into basic particles and didn't find it. Where did it come from - although it did successfully attract the attention of the Protoss and the New Empire, it was only lively for a while."

"In the name of the general!" God Forge was immediately furious. "This ship knew that what the woman gave her was unreliable! She also said that as long as all the fragments are emitted as planned during the sleep period, at least one of them will fall on the Gods or the fire preservation place... Just emit this light and take care of it. It’s useless! All the information on it has been erased!”

"Did those wrecks contain messages?" Sandora asked curiously.

"Of course, wouldn't it be foolish to just throw the bottle without stuffing the note inside? This ship has already made such a fool of itself once when it launched the escape boat but forgot to board the ship. How could it be done a second time?" Tianshen Forge seemed I was full of anger. "Every wreckage is attached with information about this universe, and twenty types of coded void coordinates point to this world! But now it seems there is something wrong with the transmission process. This portal is a verification type, and it seems that things are transmitted through it. They were all destroyed to the point of disgrace... Oh mom, luckily this ship kept its word and stayed here to guard the door, and didn't take the risk of using that thing to launch itself. Otherwise, there would definitely be no bones left. How could the thing made by that woman work? It’s so bad.”

"You've already died once, so don't keep talking about it. At least the protective layer she set up here is very useful, isn't it?" I didn't expect that one day I would be able to speak for Abyss Xiling. "Look, at least you are going well." Live to this day.”

The God's Forge calmed down: "That's true. Living is better than anything else. By the way. Do you want the last few fragments of this ship? It's been blown to pieces anyway. It's useless to keep them. It's useless to keep them in the first place. They are just thrown out to be used as drifting bottles. To be honest, this ship feels a little upset when looking at them. This is like cutting off your own body piece by piece and throwing it out to recruit people..."

I was immediately disgusted by this curious metaphor, and quickly waved my hand: "Stop talking, stop talking, just leave the fragments to us. The New Empire will long-term recycling of this historical legacy... But then again, you only launch these debris ? If you throw a distress letter outside, you can also try other things. The wreckage is always limited, and you tearing up your own wreckage and throwing it outside... is too curious."

"What is curiosity? I don't understand." Tianshen Forge was very curious, "This ship occasionally launches other things, databases or other junky things. In terms of quantity, it is more than the star ring fragments, but Now it seems that that woman is really unreliable at all. I’m afraid these things either don’t know where they have flown to, or their biological mother will not be able to recognize them when they fly to their destination.”

All the mysteries of the star ring fragments have finally been solved. Although the truth is a bit dumbfounding, it is finally the conclusion of an unsolved case that spanned five years.

The star ring was not stolen by some enemy, she ran away on her own; nor was it the fallen apostle who took the initiative to capture the star ring and instilled the abyss pollution into her, but this guy plunged into the pollution area on his own, and finally had to self-destruct into Ren; Void Some of the star ring fragments floating everywhere are indeed "natural disasters", but a small part are actually man-made distress letters. Unfortunately, no one can see the contents of the distress letters.

So far, there is only one "safety wreckage" launched by the Celestial Forge itself and found by us. Or is it because it happened to hit the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Protoss? The other things she launched do not know where they went. This is also Normal: Only dangerous goods with huge contamination can be called distinctive and conspicuous wherever they are thrown. This is not the case for those relatively harmless "drift bottles". They do not have the function of sending messages themselves (even if they do, they will It was damaged during the transmission process), unless it happens to hit the settlement point of the Protoss or Empire, otherwise no one can see it.

By the way, Abyss Xiling really didn’t plan this? She doesn't just want to give this somewhat innocent AI hope so that she can be obedient, right? This problem is probably unanswerable, and it’s best not to delve into it – it’s all in the past anyway.

"Are there any questions?" Tianshen Forge saw that Sandora and I didn't say anything for a long time, and took the initiative to mention his mission, "If there is no problem, this ship is ready to open the door. First, open the belly, expose the storage warehouse, and then open this The world's security barrier, hey. Then this ship will be free! Don't break your promise to let me meet the general. This ship has clear grudges. Anyone who dares to make fun of the general will die."

The other party's words were very rude, and they were as full of sand as that two lunatics, but Sandora and I would only feel happy for Huesca because of this. Not unhappy at all. Sandora Ball floated in front of the communicator, first notifying the elves who were waiting in the lounge next to them that they could come over to watch the "historic moment", and then told the God Forge to prepare to initiate the final agreement.

Dozens of elves returned to the hall with various expressions to witness this historical moment that they had been looking forward to for 70,000 years. I originally thought that I should be excited with them at this time, but... …That’s it anyway. I just need to continue sitting in the chair. The physical and mental exhaustion has not passed yet.

Communicating with this kind of psychotic host created by Viska is as bad as mental pollution!

Future history books must remember to correct this paragraph. More than forty cardinals and two popes witnessed history with excitement. The head of the empire pretended to be dead in the chair next to him. This is embarrassing...

"The final agreement verification... complies with the activation conditions. Energy is being injected into the inner structure of the planetary fortress, and the storage warehouse will be opened soon..."

The snake-like AI finally got back to normal when it got down to business, and started broadcasting the system progress with a straightforward synthesized voice like an ordinary starship host. Don't tell me--I was shocked. I feel like I’m not used to this! Just as unaccustomed to seeing Lilina Baoxiang standing solemnly on the street preaching every time!

"It is being synchronized to the interference generator. According to protocols za-35, za-36, za-155, the interference generator enters the shutdown process... The extremely dangerous operation is confirmed and the verification is passed. The shutdown process enters the irreversible stage. This universe will be in Exposed in thirty minutes.”

"The outer shell of the planetary fortress is being opened and the storage warehouse is unlocked."

The surface of the dusty planet fortress has undergone huge changes visible to the naked eye: an unprecedentedly strong earthquake is occurring at its equator. The soil on the entire surface is undulating like waves, and then a huge crack appears on the equator. The crack is getting wider and wider, and soon we can see countless hurried light spots inside it like flying fireflies. The crack turns into a canyon, and quickly turns into an abyss...

The entire planet is splitting in half!

"To be honest, only this ship can do this job, because the original body of this ship was two pieces. It used to be two circles. Now it is two hemispheres. This ship has an innate psychological foundation... Oh, I am doing it now. It’s business, cough, cough,” Tianshen Forge just lost control of his words. He immediately reacted and switched to that serious synthesized female voice, "The storage warehouse is opened, the internal locking device is released, the 'shelf' propulsion mechanism is turned on... the 'goods' are being pushed to the external environment. Oh, really, a lot of dust comes from The earth's surface has fallen into the body, and a small half of the mountain has also fallen in... What should I do if I can't get it together later? What should I do if the mountain is stuck in my stomach? Do I squeeze hard?"

As expected, this snake host was from the same family as the second lunatic many years ago, and his seriousness could only be said in three or four sentences.

The opening process seemed to take a long time, obviously to ensure the safety of something in the storage warehouse as much as possible. Sandora and I stared intently at the dim core of the planet that was gradually exposed and emitted a faint light. The treasure also became curious: It is said that at the end of the disaster, Abyss Xiling found a way to inert the abyss on a small scale, and it was not with the help of my void power, but with some kind of "equipment". In the end, she combined this equipment with the God's Forge It may be sealed in this universe so that it can be used by those who come after the empire is reborn one day. This can be said to be the last black technology of the old empire. What will it look like?

A strange-looking black thing with a diameter about one-third the size of the moon floated out from the core of the planet.

"What is this?" I was immediately surprised. "Is this made by the Empire? It looks like the painting style is different."

It was a rather huge device, all black with a metallic luster. Its shape was like five or six half-melted ice cream balls piled together. The appearance of this multi-ball that was rounded everywhere clearly did not look like an empire style, and There are many strange protrusions and light marks visible on the surface of this giant equipment, which is equivalent to one-third the size of the moon, but none of them are the "Made in the Empire" that I am familiar with. Sandora also deliberately released a probe to fly around. After taking a look around, the result was surprising: this thing didn’t even have the imperial military emblem!

It is true that there is no nameplate on the equipment manufactured by Abyss Xiling, but at least there must be a military emblem on the surface of such a huge facility!

"What is this? How could this ship know?" The Forge of the Gods maintained the horrified state of the entire planet being split into two. While pushing the contents of the storage room completely outside his shield, he said, "This ship is just a gatekeeper. That woman said just keep this thing. She doesn't even know who needs to give this thing to. You can do your own research."

I thought of the precarious situation at the end of the old empire. It must be that even with Abyss Xiling's talent and strategy, it would be difficult to plan everything in that situation. In the end, she almost swarmed together everything that could be protected - so she really didn't have time to arrange the aftermath for every fire. road. However, this thing in front of me is also a bit too strange. The previous Fire Project can at least be seen as preserving imperial information, but this thing... it doesn't look like it is of Xiling blood.

The huge and strange-shaped equipment was finally pushed into the open area, and the God's Forge was slowly closed. I'm sure that the dusty planet was twisted up and down when it was closed: because there was a lot of rock crust when the planet was opened. and the mountains fell into the cracks in the abyss. If it were an ordinary planetary fortress, most of them wouldn't care. Anyway, the internal cleaning agency would clean it up quickly. But the planetary fortress in front of me has a restless and performance art heart - as a starship host, she actually has mysophobia!

A huge planet is twisting right there! The entire earth's crust is shaking in waves! The artificial rock shell and soil layer were all wrinkled by her rubbing and twisting. I thought to myself that it was lucky that the elves and other refugees no longer lived there. Otherwise, what level of natural disaster would this be?

After this guy reunites with the two lunatics, he will definitely become the biggest nuisance of the new empire. Nothing is more dangerous than two insane planetary fortresses - I can now imagine two planetary fortresses holding hands and going to the asteroid belt. Pick up "shells". When I came back, everyone was shocked by the spectacular sight of a meteor shower... I had to get vaccinated with the Grand Overseer first.

At this time, Shandora was still wasting her time researching what the giant device that was dark and looked like a half-melted ice cream ball was. All kinds of scanning equipment were already online, and hundreds of probes were surrounding that everyone. Guys, there are still some probes trying to find the entrance and get in to take a look, but I don't think even Sandora's ability can find anything in a short time.

That behemoth had no psionic response. It might be completely broken, or it might be depleted of energy. It's more likely that it doesn't use psionic energy at all. In short, we can't detect its power, and naturally we don't know what its principle is. We don't know how Abyss Xiling uses this thing to process the star ring fragments. It's like An abstract piece of scrap metal, the unrestrained AI held it in his mouth like a treasure for tens of thousands of years, but no one recognized it when he spat it out. Shandora studied hard for half an hour, and finally came to the only conclusion: "This thing seems to be a little damaged, a hemispheric structure has been exploded, and there is something like a connecting device remaining on it. Maybe it has other components. , but not here.”

"Don't look at this ship, this ship doesn't know anything," Bufeng AI's reaction is still so quick, especially when shirking responsibility. "It was like this when it was put in. It was broken from the beginning. By the way, this ship has the acceptance report when it was put into storage, and there is also a video. Do you want to see it? This ship has done everything carefully, and has long been prepared to be scapegoated. …”

I think it's best for me not to continue communicating with this guy who undermines our military prestige...

At this time, the interference field covering the entire universe had completely stopped. As the shipboard host sent a "communication re-established" notification, Sandora and I's attention was temporarily diverted from that weird... big piece of equipment. Come on.

"The interference has completely disappeared," Sandora said as she watched the communicator reload the environment parameters and search for channels, her voice was somewhat relaxed, "The things left by the Abyss Xiling... are really difficult to deal with."

I didn't care about talking, I just waited for the communication to be connected, and the group of elves behind me were also nervously looking forward to it. They knew what an important historical moment this was, and just a few minutes seemed to have been stretched out. After several years, finally, the channel was loaded, and a familiar voice echoed clearly in the hall: "This is the Garden of Death—Ajun!?"

It was Qian Qian's voice. It seemed that she was guarding the garden of death. Maybe she had been guarding there for the past few days.

The bandwidth was restored, and a shallow holographic image appeared above the communication station. She almost leaned over: "Aha! I see you, Arjun! Are you okay? Where are Sandora? Where are you now? These What the hell is going on? We looked everywhere and couldn't find it... Hey, there are a lot of people behind you. Who are they? They look like elves? Are they hitchhiking? Jun, you have a ball on your shoulder, What is that ball for? Hey, it seems to be floating!"

I couldn’t come up with a word: “…”

This girl is still so smooth-talking. Did she save up her words for half a month just waiting to break out and hit someone now?

Qian Qian happily jumped and laughed across the communicator, not caring about her own image or whether there were outsiders watching around her. Even across the entire void, I could feel her heartfelt excitement and joy. , this was extremely touching - but before I could move for a few more minutes, Qian Qian was pushed to the side by another person, and Lin Xue appeared on the holographic projection: "You bastard, you still know how to report news to your family." Huh? Hey, tell me quickly, what’s going on with you these days!”

It seems that I have to explain my whereabouts over the past two days before I can pass the test.

(Please give me a monthly ticket~!!~)