Chapter 1596 Stagnation

The boot end crashed at 40% power.

According to Abyss Xiling's calculations, the starting end must run at least 50% of the power to be able to forcefully build a bridge, and this is only a forced start and may not be successful, and now this 40% power... It can be said to be useless.

Even the system cannot be fully revived.

"It seems that without core support, it is useless to rely solely on external units to provide computing power," Abyss Xiling sighed, "Even if the computing power is sufficient, it cannot guarantee the stability of the system. When the pressure reaches a certain level, it will collapse on its own. No, it’s worthless.”

I thought about it and made a guess with the optimistic attitude of a layman: "It doesn't feel much different...forty to fifty percent is just a little bit different. Maybe I can reach the standard next time if I work hard." What? We can change to a stronger energy device..."

"It seems that I have only inherited your power," Abyss Xiling glanced at me silently, "Your optimism is simply not like that of my real father - mistakes in such a rigorous project cannot be made with 'hard work' Can you just say it in three words?"

My eyes suddenly jumped up: "Then talk nicely! I'm your father!"

Abyss Xiling nodded: "Yes, I know, why do you have to emphasize it again?"

I scratched my head: "It's nothing. I wanted to say this before, but now I can finally say it openly... Why don't I feel it anymore?"

Abyss Xiling looked confused, and others around him hid their faces as if they couldn't bear to look directly at it, but my emotion came from the bottom of my heart, okay? During the years when I was fighting life and death with the Abyss, I had such a strong idea. After every battle, I will firmly believe in my heart, that one day I will find out the mastermind behind the fallen apostles, and then slap me with a victor's attitude: stand still after being beaten, and call me daddy - until a few months Before, this was a great wish in my heart, just for my own entertainment every time I was depressed, but... it turned out that it was so unpredictable that it actually came true. Before I even slapped her, she... I recognized my father, and now I can confidently say "I am your father" to Abyss Xiling. Seeing her nodding and admitting with a confused expression on her face... I always want to explore what I was doing in the past few years of my life. Is this world line really okay?

However, these messy thoughts in my head are destined not to be shared by others at the scene. Abyss Xiling just looked at me with a strange expression for a while, and then sighed: "Without core components, the repair of the startup end is just a matter of time." There are limits. We have now repaired almost all the parts that can be repaired, and used external equipment to replace the parts that cannot be repaired. It can be said that there is no room to continue construction. This 40% progress... is the current expert team It's the limit, and trying to make it go one step further is as difficult as challenging the rules of the void."

"And strictly speaking, the actual available power range of the startup end is far less than 40%," Tavel also added, "After all, we have to find a way to make it practical. Instead of just pushing it at a certain peak. Okay. According to the situation just now, the entire system runs stably when the load does not exceed 30%, and then problems begin from the energy module to the data link. In other words, the stage after that is actually just collecting data. Data is of no use when building bridges, that’s the theory.”

"That's it, Tavel, please sort out the data before you can't solve the core problem. The repair work of peripheral components still has to continue," Sandora waved her hand, then turned to Abyss Xiling, "You also want to Find a way, after all you made this thing.”

"That's natural." Abyss Xiling nodded, then hesitated slightly. "Um... I should call you stepmother, right? Xiaoxue asked me to add some knowledge in this area two days ago. Although I don't think it makes sense, it seems that you creatures in the real world value these very much."

Shandora's calm expression suddenly collapsed. She turned around and glared at Xiaoxue who was lying on the table pretending to be dead. Then she watched Abyss Xiling jump out word by word: "Li! That! Bear! Child!" ! Zi! Stay away! Point! There’s no point in learning from her.”

Although he didn't understand what was going on, Abyss Xiling nodded. At the same time, seeing Sandora's expression, I suddenly became very unoptimistic about Xiaoxue's pocket money next month. Well, maybe I can’t wait until next month, because I saw Lin Xue’s expression again…

"By the way, Tavel," I still remembered what Lin Xue said two days ago, "have you emptied the warehouse?"

Letting the startup end forcibly start without a core is just a no-brainer. The only hope to truly solve the problem is to rebuild its core. However, according to Abyss Xiling, even if the Protoss and Xiling Apostles join forces, it will not be possible in a short time. We need time to create a new core, and Lin Xue gave us a hint when we faced this dilemma: there is no need to dig deep, the solution is right now.

But most of the time, the prophet's prompts were not very clear. Tavel could only rely on her own understanding to find clues. Faced with my inquiry, she seemed a little ashamed: "Your Majesty, my subordinates are incompetent... I haven't found it yet."

"It's okay, just look for it slowly. No matter how fast the catastrophe happens, it won't hit you tomorrow." I breathed out and turned to look in the direction of Lin Xue and Xiao Xue, but the two prophets looked at each other before I could say anything. He lay down on the table and pretended to be dead. It seemed that this was a problem that couldn't be pointed out directly. "Well... in short, you can put some of your energy on other projects in the institute. If everything goes as it should, you can always find it."

I am very confident that Lin Xue has never missed a beat in this aspect.

Tavel nodded and accepted his order, then left. Seeing that there was nothing going on here, my sister waved to everyone to go home: "Everyone, please go back first. It seems like today..."

As a result, before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a whirring voice in the communication channel: "Hey, the general is leaving? General, won't you stay a little longer? General, her brother, won't you stay a little longer? ? You haven’t seen the mastery of the divine transformation skills of this ship and this woman..."

"Try saying 'ship woman' again! Don't think you can be so crazy just because you were the flagship of the year! General, please allow me to give this idiot a good beating. Because even though I don't understand what she is saying, she is It seems like he is cursing someone..."

"What are you so obsessed with, you lunatic? This is a word I just learned from the data network two days ago. The top host named Bubble is studying 'Ship Woman' every day, so I use it. Can you please stop being so pretentious? If you don’t like it, don’t play!”

Me: "..." I finally felt that the serious atmosphere was disturbed by these two ships...

In the end, Viska left her two good subordinates to "educate" her, and a group of us returned home with worries about the current situation of the startup end and our own troubled thoughts.

Time passed like this, and things seemed to have reached a deadlock.

The good news now is that our days have finally ushered in the long-lost peace. What we have been looking forward to every day for a break without fighting now seems to have finally come true. The complete pacification of the Abyssal Zone, coupled with the transition of the large-scale Abyssal phenomenon in the void into dormancy, means that the Imperial Army no longer has to worry about major wars in the near future. Although every world will always encounter a little trouble, our family seems to be able to do it a little bit. Take a long vacation.

The bad news is - the maintenance progress on the startup side has completely stalled.

As Abyss Xiling said, without core components, no matter how excellent the expert team is, they can only do piecemeal work on the peripheral facilities of the startup end. They tried their best to repair and rebuild the "shell" of the startup end, and Those wreckage reassembled into a planet-sized whole, and then successfully made the combination reach 42% load and run stably for more than ten minutes in the second ignition test, but that's all they could do Reached the limit.

Relying entirely on a bunch of peripherals and a set of host arrays as replacements. It is impossible to shoulder the burden of building bridges, both theoretically and practically.

The Star Territory Protoss is still dispatching more experts, and the Huron side also has a group of personnel and supplies sent to the Empire area after a long journey. They tried to analyze the structure of the startup end from the perspective of their own technology tree. Let’s see if we can rebuild a core using the Protoss method. Abyss Xiling was not secretive at all. She readily took out all the information, including an ancient database she obtained from a drifting boat on the other side many years ago (this database contained the original blueprint of the startup), but She also admitted that she was not optimistic about the efforts of the Protoss: after so many years of research on the starting point of the Abyss Xiling, she knew very well that this thing was beyond everyone's understanding.

Those who understand the principle of this thing have already failed in the last season's catastrophe, or their memories were washed away like Xing Chen. The latter is more likely, because we now speculate that the launcher should have been invented by two void creatures on the other side in the last era. However, the two inventors have deleted their accounts and retrained this season, and have now entered a stage of continuous cuteness. It must be hopeless.

Another report indicating the slow progress of the project was placed in front of him. Even though I am almost lacking in heart and lungs, I feel a little anxious. Bingtislai is also pretending to read the report in my study. Before I could sigh, she said "Alas": "Alas... why is it so difficult... You said it would have been better if those two void creatures on the other side had persevered more in their previous lives, and at least left a backup manufacturing plan and product instructions. Well... you void creatures are really unreliable in your work."

"Please don't insult my nation - although we are indeed lazy," I raised my eyes and glanced at Bingtis. This female gangster was also wearing an imperial uniform from someone who didn't know where she came from. Her profile looked like It was a heroic female general of the empire. It would have been better if she didn’t have a toothpick in her mouth. “By the way, why are you reading the report here too?”

"Isn't this nonsense? After all, I am also the leader of the branch, a high-level Xiling apostle, your right-hand man. In any slightly normal setting, I would have at least the title of deputy commander or above and enjoy the treatment of the protagonist. Let's take a look. Reporting is my duty, so I just treat it as helping you solve your problems." Bingtis bit the toothpick loudly, not forgetting to show off the piece of clothing that didn't fit well (everyone knows the reason for the fit, female Xiling There are really not many people among the apostles who can match her figure who are wearing the imperial military uniform. "Look at this outfit. What do I want from Sivis? Except for the fact that I can't fasten the buttons on the chest, everything else is..." Very good. Hey, I made a mistake. After being poached by you for no reason, I even forgot to get my work clothes. I am so kind to you."

I glanced at Bingtis silently. It felt like the female gangster who claimed to be here to help her "solve problems" was indeed full as usual and had nothing to do, so she came to cause trouble.

"If you really have nothing to do, go and play with Xiaodeng. Weren't you so excited two days ago that you wanted to teach her how to cast the Holy Light?"

"I'm not good at dealing with naughty kids." Bingtis, as a former senior naughty kid, said very shamelessly that he had a estrangement with the naughty kid, and then abruptly changed the topic, "Speaking of which, the second batch of Looking for Home World It seems that the search team has already set off, right? Do you think they will find anything this time?"

I thought about it and felt that this topic was meaningless to guess: "I'm not Lin Xue, how can I guess it. But I hope they can find something. Even if they can't find the home world, it would be good to find some clues - now This matter at the start-up side has made all the three Void clans panic, and we really need some good news to cheer everyone up."

After I finished speaking, I found that Bingtis didn't answer for a long time. I looked up curiously, but was surprised to find that the female gangster was looking here steadily without blinking.

"What's wrong?" I was stared at by this guy. "Is there something dirty on my face?"

Bingtis didn't say a word, he just got up and came over, dragging me out.

"Hey, what's going on..." I was stunned by this guy's sudden move and suddenly exclaimed. "I haven't finished reading the report yet... Where are you dragging me to?"

"Go out with me to get some fresh air. I've been here with you looking at documents for three hours. I'm so exhausted." Bingtis said to himself. The steps didn't stop at all. This style of walking away regardless of other people's opinions is really in line with her definition of a female gangster. By the time I reacted, she had already dragged her to the living room. Sandora was passing by with a plate of snacks. Seeing the two of us so curious, He asked: "Where are you going?"

"Take your dry food and run away!" Bingtis replied very fiercely.

When Shandora heard this, she was no longer worried: "Oh, come back early and eat tofu puffs at night. Anweina made it herself."

Bingtis' steps froze and he turned to look at Sandora: "Uh... By the way, you're not worried? Don't you usually value your dry food?"

"If you two really elope, it won't be like this - I don't know you yet? Who takes it seriously?"

"Tch." Bingtis made a sound and dragged me out of the door. I only heard the voices of Qian Qian and Sandora talking from behind in the living room: "Oh, let's eat tofu nao at night. Sandora. Dora, do you prefer salty tofu curd or sweet tofu curd?" "Can tofu curd be eaten without adding concentrated sulfuric acid?"

At the last moment when I was completely dragged out by Bingtis, a thought crossed my mind: The salty-sweet war that has plagued mankind for many years really couldn't even raise a spark in my own house... Sandora likes to use concentrated sulfuric acid when eating tofu. If it's light, add coffee. That doll adds yogurt to everything he eats. With the above three warriors, the battle between salty and sweet is nothing!

Finally, I was dragged to the street by Bingtis. This female gangster used illusions to disguise herself as an ordinary person, hiding her ankle-length silver hair and blood-colored eyes. She looked like an ordinary female college student going out for shopping. , and I also saw her greeting some vendors on the street corner very familiarly. Obviously, this image of her appears often in this area.

The majestic goddess, the lord of all realms, her favorite place to visit when she goes out is the fake street next to our house. Several other protoss are basically active in this area. I must admit that these are the five protoss. The only good thing about this group is that they are relatively easy to care for.

"You are really nervous," I scratched my hair and followed Bingtis, "I think about it every day. But what is there to see here? After wandering around here all day, it is not as good as Shadow City. ...Forget it, just don’t go back too late, I’m still busy.”

Bingtis turned to look at me. Outsiders couldn't see her true appearance, but those blood-red eyes stared at me and I kept getting goosebumps: "...What's wrong?"

"You are like this when you go shopping with Sandora?" Sister Bing gritted her teeth. "After all, you are going shopping with a woman. You don't always talk about going back as soon as you open your mouth. Do you know that it hurts people?"

Me: "..." I almost forgot that my big brother Bing is actually a girl.

So we just wandered around aimlessly. Bingtis's thoughts were not as out-of-the-box as Qianqian's, but they were far beyond what others could figure out - in short, I didn't know what she was thinking, so I could only follow this guy around. Just chaos. It seemed like she didn’t have a specific place she wanted to go, she was just bored and wanted to get some air. She dragged me around for a long time without seeing her buying anything. Instead, she ate all the street snacks. After half an hour, I couldn’t bear it anymore. He couldn't help it anymore: "What about that? You can save some food for dinner when you go home at night. Be careful that Sandora fills your stomach with weird things in the name of helping you appetize..."

This reason finally made Sister Bing feel wary. She threw the snacks she had in hand into her pocket, then motioned for me to follow. The two of them found a bench in a small park on the street and sat down to rest.

The two didn't speak for a long time: Bingtis didn't know what he was thinking, and I was thinking about the startup.

But the silence was finally broken. Bingtis suddenly slapped me on the shoulder: "Chen, your mentality has been wrong these past two days."

me?"

"I say you have been in a wrong state of mind these past two days!" Bingtishu suddenly came to me only a few centimeters away from me, his blood-stricken eyes burning, "Aren't you usually quite heartless? Why are you starting this thing now? Have you finally lost your composure?"

It suddenly dawned on me that this was what happened.