Chapter 1598 The First Thing

The dark appearance, the unattractive shell, the weird pile of irregular spheres, the overall appearance of an indescribable style... This thing looks strange, but it's not unfamiliar to me at all, because This is exactly what I brought back with my own hands not long ago.

In the sanctuary world, this thing is stored in the storage room of the God's Forge - a mysterious device that the Abyss Xiling used its last effort to protect tens of thousands of years ago, but no one knows its true function.

Is this a "substitute" to solve the startup dilemma? ! Can it replace the boot core? !

"Do you know what it does?" I stared for a long time, then turned my head and looked at Tavel in disbelief, "This thing can replace the startup core? It looks pretty ugly..."

"Don't judge anything by its appearance. Why do you still have such a bad habit?" Abyss Xiling's voice suddenly came from the side, "As my father, you should be more fair and wise... Although I was also I’m quite surprised, I didn’t expect that what I saved back then would be such an important thing – it was the starting point for manufacturing on the other side, well, it’s just the core part.”

Sandora and I both had the same expressions: 0_0!

"Right... the starter made by the other side?!" I exclaimed after a few seconds, "Are you sure?! This thing is actually... Oh my God, this thing that looks so unremarkable is actually the starter made by the other side. end!?"

"It's absolutely true, my subordinate found conclusive evidence inside this device," Tavel nodded vigorously beside him, "Although it feels incredible to have it right in front of you, and it doesn't look like it. … But it’s really the launch-end core.”

I quickly waved my hand to ask Tavel to pause. My thinking was quite confusing and I needed to sort it out. I needed to sort it out so much! Looking at that big pile of weird things in space (it’s so ugly that it can be described as a “big pile”), I couldn’t imagine that I had accidentally found a startup core from the other side! How does it exist to this day? No... I should say how could it exist? ! When did the other side launch such cruel things towards us? How can the Star Ring Federation across the street have such superb technology? They have to rely on luck to throw a detector here! And it doesn’t look very much like the equipment made on the other side of the country. The style seems to be different...

But no matter what, it is so real in front of everyone. No matter how incredible this thing is, we now have a startup core on hand. It was preserved by Abyss Xiling more than 70,000 years ago and came from the other side. It still seems to be intact! When we encounter the greatest difficulties, when everything seems to be at an impasse, this thing appears!

"Is this a coincidence or luck?" I don't know how to look at the expression on my face. I can only spread my hands and look around at everyone, "Would any of you hit me to see if I'm dreaming... Put down Bingtis That sinful Brick! Lin Xue, what are you going to do with that mace! Hey, I said I was just joking and didn’t let you really fight... Xiaoxue, you dare to join in the fun, don’t you, a brat like you?!"

"Why are they like this?" Abyss Xiling stared blankly at the chaos that erupted in front of her eyes. Her rational and rigid thinking was completely unable to accept this way of development. "This is a very serious environment now! My father is such an unreliable person?"

"Oh, this is our family's style." Although Sandora would not participate in such nonsense, she could at least make it commonplace. She patted Abyss Xiling on the shoulder. "It's a great way to lighten the mood, and if you're going to be part of our family, you're going to have to get used to it sooner or later."

"I will lead everyone to settle on the other side - after the bridge is successfully built," Abyss Xiling straightened up, expressing his determination with an unprecedented firmness, "I must stay away from this strange family... I It feels like your logical component is going to hurt.”

At this time, I finally confirmed that I was not dreaming, but I still looked at the ancient equipment in space that was as huge as a small planet in disbelief. I feel that this dramatic development is really unexpected: "Start-end core, the start-end core made by the other side! Happiness comes so suddenly, it's like a dream... Bingtis, just stand there and don't move, I just sigh! Then who ...Tavel, come here and explain, how can you be sure that this thing is the core of the startup terminal? Doesn’t it mean that its function can’t be seen at all from the scanned image?”

"Yes, conventional scanning without damaging its structure really yielded nothing, and the expert team couldn't figure out what its function was," Tavel explained what happened in a stern manner, "but after the conventional scanning failed, We got the authorization from Mother Lin Xue. We decided to take apart its shell and take a look. This move was a bit risky, because no one knew whether taking apart its shell would cause any other reactions to this ancient device, but in the end, the research It had to be like this every step of the way – and then we discovered this.”

As Tavel spoke, he took a black "metal" plate from the autonomous robot next to him (I couldn't tell what material it was made of) and handed it to me: "This is part of the shell, although it can't be seen on the surface. , but the entire shell of that thing is made up of countless pieces of this size. It seems that its builder does not care about its mechanical strength. Or the shell is not very important in the first place."

I took the shell fragments and took a look. The most eye-catching thing on it was a line of sharp-edged Xiling text: "This is the core of the startup terminal."

Everyone: "..."

"Uh... is it written so clearly?" Sandora poked her head over to take a look, her tone suddenly became quite strange, "I haven't noticed it before?"

Tavel is awesome. At this time, his face did not change: "Yes, these words used a special etching method, which was not found by regular scanning. Moreover, when we first started researching, we only conducted non-destructive detection due to rules, and no one thought that there was something inside the casing. There will be words on the layer. For this kind of very large and complex ancient heritage, the research department has a very strict set of protection regulations. Only when conventional scans are ineffective can we apply to our superiors for 'destructive research'. That means taking it apart and taking a look. That’s the theory.”

I finally understand why Tavel has not discovered the secret of this big thing until now. In fact, there is nothing to say: study all the rules. High-value antiques cannot be dismantled casually. After all, once such things are dismantled, they will be a hard loss. Repairing None of them are easy to repair, so the target can only be dismantled when the research reaches the final step. But who would have thought that Abyss Xiling left a message in this thing back then... Isn't Abyss Xiling's method of leaving messages a bit strange in itself?

"Almost every piece of the shell has such a message written on the inside. Some fragments also write about the concept of the boot end and bridging, but I don't know why I haven't found anything similar to memory. If there is such a thing, it should be able to The one who discovered the truth earlier." Tavel's tone was also a bit strange. Like me, she couldn't figure out why Abyss Xiling would leave a message to subsequent people in such a primitive and weird way.

"Because the nature of the startup end is very special," Abyss Xiling himself answered. "Although I can't remember what happened back then, I know the weird nature of the startup end. Any storage device placed at its core will be cleaned, and even The device itself will slowly disappear. Only the information left on the 'material structure' of the startup terminal can be preserved. This is a bit like imitating the zeroing effect, but the real principle is unknown. In other words, except for the engraving on the startup terminal You can leave information, and anything that does not belong to it will be deleted - even if the launcher is not running. Anyway, the launcher I made is like this, and the one made by the other side should be similar. After all, we use the same set of blueprints. .”

"So there is such a thing?" I was quite surprised. But I didn’t delve too deeply into it. If something like the boot end didn’t have one or two weird features, it would be wrong. “Okay, let’s not go into the details. In short, we can confirm that this is the core of the boot end. I really didn’t expect that it would be impossible to break through the iron shoes.” It takes no effort to find a place - Abyss Xiling, as the person who left the message back then, what do you think now?"

Abyss Xiling looked at the black fragment and the message on it that she had long forgotten. He nodded seriously: "I suddenly felt that I was really powerful back then!"

Me: "..." This guy had a serious expression on his face when he said this. She didn't mean to be joking at all!

Bingtis also looked at the fragment curiously, and suddenly said: "Why should it be carved on the inside? Didn't we already find it on the outside if it was carved on the outside? It also saves everyone from worrying for so many days. Even Chen, who is so short-tempered, I’m almost depressed.”

"There's no need to say the second half of the sentence," I rolled my eyes at Bingtis, and then became a little curious, "What do you mean by carving it in? Are you afraid that others will see it at first sight?"

Abyss Xiling shook his head quite irresponsibly: "How could I know that all the memories of that year have been wiped out - maybe I carved words both inside and outside but they were erased by some strange characteristics of this thing? Or maybe Maybe it was wiped by that nervous ship-based host. Her brain is so abnormal, she never knows when she sees writing on the surface of something in the storage warehouse and thinks it's dirty, so she helps to wipe it..."

I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "Suddenly it feels like this is very possible!"

In short, with such an interruption, the people present did not care why Abyss Xiling wanted to engrave these words on the inner layer of the boot shell. I was also excited and thought about the question at the beginning: "Why is there such a thing?" A startup terminal from the other side? It seems that the technology on the other side is not at this level at all - the Ring Federation is similar to us. They are both at the stage where they are struggling to launch a few detectors to the other side. They were 70,000 years ago It should be weaker, how could it be possible to launch such a large starting end?"

"Because this thing was not launched 70,000 years ago at all. It is not a product of the Ring Federation -" Tavel took a deep breath, as if to give us time to mentally prepare, and then she said the second half of the sentence , "It comes from an earlier era. It comes from before the great escape from the home star... This is the thing that caused the destruction of the home world! It came to this shore with the gate of the abyss back then!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked, even Sandora almost screamed in surprise!

Even before Tavel opened his mouth, I was mentally prepared to accept any kind of bizarre answer, but I never expected that the truth would be so explosive! This thing turned out to be the "gate component" that caused the Xiling people to escape from their home planet!

Shandora's eyes were dazed for a moment, but she quickly calmed down, quickly glanced at the huge relic in space with an unbelievable look, and finally focused on Tavel: "Are you sure? That's it. This launcher opens the door to the ancestral abyss of the home world?!"

Tavel nodded slowly and forcefully: "My subordinates can confirm that the inner layer of the shell is indeed engraved with this information. If Abyss Xiling did not intend to make such a bad joke to future generations 70,000 years ago, then This should be the fact: the launcher in front of us caused the extinction event in our home world that year, and it was one of the original door-opening devices!"

I subconsciously glanced at Abyss Xiling next to me, and then I felt that although she was an unprecedented naughty child who was very capable of cheating. But she would never make such a nasty joke that would kill someone, especially 70,000 years ago in her previous life, when Xiling was not a naughty child.

Sandora didn't say anything immediately. She just slowly turned her head and looked at the huge relic suspended in the dark space, looking at the "initial factor" that caused everything: it was this thing, from a long-extinct civilization on the other side. creation. It opened the door to the five-light-year-long mutated abyss, destroyed the hometown of the Xiling people, forced the latter to flee, and finally started the history of the Xiling Empire. That weird and inconspicuous thing was everything. The starting point - even I, a halfway monk, find it difficult to calm down. I can hardly imagine what kind of turmoil Sandora is going through in her heart.

But in the end, Her Majesty the Queen just ended her emotion with a sigh: "It is useless to stick to the past. We should be glad that we have got rid of the shackles of hatred - Tavel, don't care where it comes from, this is just an ancient Equipment, ancient equipment that can be used by the empire, do you understand?"

"I understand." Tavel gave a military salute with a calm and solemn voice.

"Okay," Sandora nodded. "Now let's talk about the information about it. How did this thing fall into the hands of Abyss Xiling? I am sure that no one in the old empire era knew the existence of this startup terminal. At that time, no one even knew what building a bridge meant - This thing should not have been in the hands of Abyss Xiling in the first place.”

"We don't know. The 'message' in the startup terminal didn't mention anything about this." Tavel shook his head. "This extraordinary creation must be immortal. It is probably floating somewhere in the void, and then in The right time fell into the hands of Abyss Xiling, and my subordinates think this is not an important issue. The point is that it should be usable, and that is enough."

Tavel's outlook on life is also relaxed enough. As long as it can solve problems, it is a good thing, no matter where it comes from - this is also the way of thinking of most Xiling apostles. But I still couldn't help but glance at Abyss Xiling: This master is theoretically the connector of all the things in front of me. It was she who somehow obtained this ancient starting point, and it was she who separated the destruction of her home world and the cataclysm of the void. A lot of complicated lines are connected together, and it is she who holds the most historical truth. And it itself is the weaver of most epic events. If the void, abyss, cataclysm, empire and other behemoths are regarded as a complicated and disordered three-dimensional network, then the abyss Xiling serves as the command in the center of this large network most of the time. Although there are a lot of "unexpected factors" that are confusing to talk about (such as the recognition of the father two days ago, the oldest naughty child, the cheating of the father with full talent points, the persistence of cheating for 70,000 years, etc.), but I must admire this complex and simple "ultimate black hand" from the bottom of my heart. However, this black hand also has something that she cannot grasp: facing the boot end that she preserved tens of thousands of years ago, she can only be as full-faced as the rest of us. He was at a loss, and after seeing my gaze, he could only turn his head away helplessly: "It's useless for you to look at me. I really don't know where I picked this up. It will probably become an unsolved mystery."

At this time, Tavel had already begun to introduce us to the various properties of this launcher. She pushed up her glasses with a serious expression: "First of all, I would like to report a rather strange phenomenon: the message in this launcher indeed confirmed that it came from On the other side, this thing is very different from the products we have salvaged from the other side in the past. There is no "missing attribute" phenomenon in its components. Although there is still no way to analyze what kind of substance it is, its quality, strength, physical and chemical properties The properties and other indicators can be measured, which is very different from the general products from the other side. This is also the most important reason why we did not connect it with the other side at the beginning: this thing looks normal, but it does not look like it comes from the other side. Theory That’s how it goes.”

There is no "missing attribute"? I suddenly raised my eyebrows and became curious about this fact.

As we all know, the biggest gap between the other side and our own side is "incompatibility". From matter to energy to anything else, in short, except for the void, all the secondary products on the ladder of void on both sides are incompatible. We salvage The materials on the other side often have strange phenomena where the mass or hardness cannot be measured, and even the abyss on both sides cannot have an impact on the other side (this is also the foothold of the "great cause" of the Abyss Xiling). This kind of incompatibility The manifestations in various substances are not quite the same, but they exist to a greater or lesser extent.

Today, detecting whether an item has "unmeasurable attributes" is an important indicator for us to judge whether the item comes from the other side.

But the core of the ancient launcher in front of us is completely compatible with the mainland? !

I looked at Tavel and asked her with probing eyes if she was sure about this. The latter immediately nodded firmly: "My subordinate said 'theoretically this is the case' at the end of the sentence. It's just a quirk to make it more cute. In fact, I am completely sure of my test results."

I:"?"

I feel like I just heard something very useless but very informative!

"Oh, what I said just now was what Paopao suggested to my subordinates. She said that it could improve His Majesty's favorability. Although she didn't understand what it meant, there was nothing to lose by saying it," Tavel explained in a serious manner, and then at least I Before his expression collapsed, he continued the topic, "In addition, my subordinates also found that this ancient device has no energy response... We may have to find a way to solve its energy supply problem, but compared to the dilemma of the startup core being unable to repair, this should be better. Fix some.”

After Tavel's words fell, Abyss Xiling spoke next to him: "Let me explain some things. Regarding the startup end... there should be some connections between the two sides."