Chapter 1613: That Light (Ending)

The "Deformed Entropy Walkers" stayed on the home planet for many days. They never left while the imperial fleet was busy building various ancillary equipment at the start-up end, and they were always slowly increasing in number, although the final increase rate had slowed down to maybe a There would only be one or two Abnormal Entropy Walkers coming to the "party" throughout the day, but they did keep gathering.

Dingdang used his natural power to communicate many times with these strange information-virtual-spirit three-dimensional hybrid creatures (actually not called this name, but I really don’t know how to describe them), although the abnormal entropy walkers didn’t even They have their own language system and do not have any organs to communicate with other creatures, but they can still talk to the guardians of life. From this, Dingdang learned the habits of these magical creatures: they live in the distant depths of space (tens of thousands of miles away from here). Hundreds of light-years), usually rely on free energy in space to maintain their shape, but they must rely on swallowing "information" to reproduce or grow larger. This is why they can survive in this stagnant universe, but from the outside, They are very similar to spiritual creatures.

The Abnormal Entropy Walkers are very weak to us, and they don't even have attack power in front of the Imperial soldiers. But to most ordinary races, these creatures are probably weird and dangerous, because they are born with the ability to swallow information and even eat it. Even if the devouring process of a race's "knowledge" and "history" is very slow, it is completely unpreventable for ordinary races. It can be said that they are born with almost mythical creatures, so Dingdang wrote a set of life form corrections for them. Code, so that the Abnormal Entropy Walkers can be safer, at least not harming the outside environment at will - the home world is about to be connected to the Imperial Zone. We cannot exterminate a species at will, but we cannot let them become a threat.

The reason why the Abnormal Entropy Walkers came to their home star is the same as mentioned before: this is their breeding season. These space spirits come to the mother star to be "irradiated" every few hundred years (capital standard time scale). Breeding often lasts for several months. The area near the Gate of the Abyss is an area where information surges very frequently. The abyssal environment weakens the world barrier here, causing material leakage and information exchange to occur frequently. This is one of the "holes" in the home world (there are also holes in the depths of the universe). The other holes were left by the catastrophe that year) and are one of the only places in this stagnant universe where new "information" can be generated. The Abnormal Entropy Walkers gather here to celebrate. A gluttonous feast, using their ignorant thinking to understand the universe. When enough abnormal entropy walkers gather, they will even produce high intelligence - enough to confuse the meaning of their own existence. Ding Dong heard them The whole race was attracted by the muttering in confusion.

If it were in other worlds, a group of indigenous creatures that were in primitive times and posed no threat would not have attracted the attention of the imperial army, but here, even Sandora devoted her busy schedule to the abnormal entropy walkers. Big concern: Although Xiling Apostle is not good at emotional aspects, matters related to his hometown are an exception. The generals and emperors of the empire believe that these blue-light space floating spirits are the embodiment of the never-compromising spirit of their home world. Even the blue light emitted by them is reminiscent of psionic energy (Abyss Xiling protested but was ignored. Discoloration Psionics have no human rights), so some guys who couldn't help in the bridge construction project began to study these creatures. Qian Qian even suggested taking a few abnormal entropy walkers back as pets - everyone must still remember that Qian Qian is a A caring girl who can raise whatever she catches. But in the end, Qian Qian gave up this idea because she found that the Deformed Entropy Walker had no neck, and no neck = no way to tie a leash = no way to walk = no way to keep it as a pet, so she gave up.

Anyway, I don’t quite understand how Qianqian’s logic works.

And in the "accompaniment" of these abnormal entropy walkers. The bridge construction project also progressed smoothly to the critical moment with extremely high efficiency.

Perhaps we have experienced too many twists and turns over the years, and almost everything we do has encountered exponential resistance, so the character we have accumulated over the years is finally paid off at this moment: there are no rebels to fight against the autumn wind. There was no hostile race to start a war, no sudden technical problems due to cheating, and the giant abyss gate did not suddenly collapse. All factors that could lead to the failure of the project have been eliminated in advance or will not happen at all. There is nothing more. Things can stop us from building bridges.

The second month when the Imperial fleet arrived in the home world.

All the facilities around the launch terminal have already been operating at full power, and the originally loose working field has been transformed into a large and dense group of artificial celestial bodies by the large number of space factories that were added in the later period. This celestial body group has a radius of 0.3 astronomical units and is generally in the shape of an irregular ring. It is composed of a large number of factories and computing cores, and countless working spacecraft (80% of which are newly manufactured by us here, praising the advancement of the empire) battlefield deployment technology) shuttle among them. Turn this huge ring into a busy and vibrant place. The work site is far away from the start-up end. It does not directly contact the start-up end, but is a "logistics facility" that provides additional computing power and energy transfer for the start-up end. The two rely on a large number of space gates and fast-moving spaceships to connect them.

And in a place further away from the workplace, it is crucial - the energy station.

Everyone still remembers that the startup terminal is a terrifying thing that requires a lot of energy. When we competed with the New Army for the startup terminal, to be honest, it was thanks to the fact that it took ten days and a half to charge the power of this thing that the Imperial Army was at the end. They caught up in a moment and did not let the new army succeed. At the beginning, the New Army found that the conventional nether energy wells were insufficient and even frantically detonated their own territorial universe, but they were unable to get the starter started in time. The crazy energy consumption level of this thing is evident.

Therefore, the most important thing we did after arriving here was to immediately start building large-scale nether energy wells. From the moment the first working base station was deployed over the Gate of the Abyss, a thousand nether energy wells were simultaneously constructed. . The imperial fleet prepared a large number of builders and prefabricated modules before setting off, and those mass-produced hosts also diverted most of their computing power to direct the construction (the startup terminal has not been activated anyway, and the mass-production bubbles also have time). Under full-strength construction, the largest energy array in the history of the New Empire was piled up.

This is a huge building complex composed of a thousand nether energy wells, three nether energy abyss, and countless nether energy reactors. Everyone knows the principles of these nether energy facilities, and their main bodies are located in the critical layer of the void. Decay energy is extracted from the void and transmitted to the real world. The external interfaces of the Nether Energy Reactor are connected together to form a large building complex like a floating island in space, while the output end of the Nether Energy Well is a huge facility that looks like a cylindrical space station, the Endless Nether Energy Abyss It is the old technology that the New Empire has just mastered, the most powerful ultimate reactor, which can blow up the entire universe if not careful - their output end looks like a huge tombstone, with a gray surface. No decoration, square...well, actually it looks like a coffin, but I really don't want to say that...

This building complex floats hundreds of astronomical units away from the Gate of the Abyss. The reason why it is so far away is that it is worried that too large energy surges will stimulate the gate and cause unpredictable accidents, and the energy they generate A huge amount of energy is transmitted to the starting end through the hyperspace device and the conversion and focusing equipment on the workplace, thus forming an efficient energy transmission system.

Surging psionic energy filled these devices, illuminating the dark universe. The entire energy station was wrapped in a blue haze, looking like a vague city in the clouds. Every time a building in the energy station was completed, it was put into use immediately, so its charging of the starting end actually lasted for one It's been a month, and the latter now finally reveals its familiar and spectacular appearance: a large ball of brilliant white light.

The white beam of light that penetrated the sky and the earth that we saw in the past also appeared again. It penetrates the entire home world and messes up the optical phenomena of the entire universe - but this is only temporary. It is said that everything will recover after the startup terminal starts normally.

This white beam of light continues to grow. And gradually swallow up the starting end, and finally the starting end will temporarily disappear in front of our eyes, leaving only a ray of light shining in the space, which is a sign that the charging is nearing the end. When the starting end is fully activated, this process will be reversed, the white light column will slowly shrink, and the white light at the starting end will appear again, just like the scene during the decisive battle at the Serenity Core in the past.

Well, although the memory is not very good, I am eagerly looking forward to it starting soon - visual inspection is really fast.

On the upper platform of the Imperial Admiral, Abyss Xiling watched with us the brilliant beam of light in space. It is parallel to the Great Rift of the Abyss, and looks like a long bridge of light that shoots from the beginning of the universe and extends to the end of the universe. It's spectacular.

"In the last step of building the bridge, the starting end of the peak state will be released, and then it will merge with the gate of the abyss," Abyss Xiling said unhurriedly, "At that step, we will no longer need to participate. , if the data and calculations are correct... the long bridge will be erected here, and the two sides of the void will be connected forever. The bridge itself will become the void's own structure and therefore very strong, unless there is a great cataclysm and disaster in the void that we don't know about. The void will undergo a huge cataclysm, otherwise it will exist forever. Well, it is theoretically impossible."

I held Little Bubbles in my arms, held Tinkerbell on my head, and carried the little dolls. On the left was Pandora and on the right was Viska. Sitting in a spectacular and busy manner as always, after hearing Abyss Xiling's words, I poked my head out from the gap between a few naughty children: "What if the long bridge is harmful - I mean just in case, there is really nothing we can do." Can it be dismantled?”

"Of course it's not that easy to demolish, otherwise the new army wouldn't have regarded the Long Bridge as a magic weapon for victory and would occupy it at all costs." Abyss Xiling glanced at me, "Of course there are no absolutes in the world, since the void contains everything Possibly, then we have to assume that the long bridge can be destroyed, but maybe this requires five void creatures to rush up and explode themselves? Who knows, I don’t pay attention to these, pure speculation about things that cannot be calculated is meaningless, at least for me It’s meaningless. Also, Father, can you please stop being so rude? It’s very inappropriate to let these members of the royal family, who are supposed to be commanders of the army, hang around like this.”

I tried hard to maintain my balance and smiled at Abyss Xiling: "Are you envious? You can also come and hang up. In theory, you are also a naughty child under my knees. It's weird. I really didn't get used to it at first, but now I really Once I accepted this setting, I found it quite interesting."

A strange light flashed through Abyss Xiling's eyes, and then she turned to look at the big box that was as tall as one person beside her, and prepared to smash the box on my shoulder: "Father, are you serious?"

When I saw it, I immediately fainted: "Forget it. You are no worse than Xiaoxue when it comes to bearishness."

At this time, Harlan suddenly came to the platform. He looked like he had something to report. The big brother was not surprised at all when he saw the lively scene in my body. He just smiled indifferently, and then nodded to me: " Chen, everything is ready on the other side, and their startup terminal is fully charged. They are just waiting for our ignition news."

"It's probably only two or three days here." I looked back at the beam of light in space. "It would be great if we dragged the psionic Death Star over. That thing would definitely work better than any reactor."

"But you have to spend half a year dragging it from the Empire District," Harlan shrugged. "Just be content. It is not easy for such a large project to be carried out safely to the end."

When I heard this, I sighed with admiration: "Yes, it's not easy. Everything... is finally settled."

Three days later. The starting end completes charging.

The brilliant beam of light that penetrates the sky and the earth is converging. With just one command, it can be completely condensed into the starting end. In the center of the beam, the dazzling white light ball is already expanding and contracting like breathing.

All preparations have been completed, the startup terminal has been charged, and the peripheral computing array has sufficient load balance. Security measures and system controls have been tested hundreds of times to ensure that they are foolproof. Abyss Xiling conducted a large-scale inspection of the startup terminal, energy station, external computing array and other systems based on the information at hand, and determined that these things were operating in full accordance with the design specifications.

And more importantly. Our communication with the other side is smooth, and several relay stations located in the critical layer of the abyss are working well. The Ring Federation even launched two more manned relay stations in the past few days regardless of the cost to ensure that the bridge construction can proceed smoothly.

If the bridge fails, the workers in the manned relay station will be unlikely to survive, and there is no guarantee that the deep submersible ship of the Star Ring Federation can survive in the depths of the abyss for a long time. It has crossed the discontinuous zone twice - it can be seen that the other side has fallen. What determination.

It can only succeed, not fail.

The activation control terminal of the bridge is on the officer platform of the Imperial Admiral. The giant holographic projection in the command hall has been expanded to the maximum, allowing us to see the activation terminal in the distance as if we were actually there. All the ancillary facilities around the latter have been dismantled. Now, except for the white light ball in the center, only a few anchoring force field generators around the light ball are still operating.

everything's ready. Just activate the system. What is used to activate the system is a row of crystal plates, I, Sandora. Sister, Harlan, Belavera, Abyss Xiling, Ivan Sain, whether it is the previous emperor or the current emperor or a strange creature (especially the Abyss Xiling), in short, everyone who must be present has a control in front of them. If you activate these crystal plates at the same time, a long bridge will be established.

"I can't believe that we have come this far safely," Shandora looked at the crystal plate with the word "ready" on it, and said with emotion, "Is this a step that is more symbolic than practical?"

"A moment in history, you always have to give historians something to record." I grinned and watched the countdown in front of me slowly move towards zero. In fact, this countdown was not really necessary - there was a time difference in error tolerance. For a full hour, this is the limit of the independent support system of the two activated ends of the long bridge. As long as we and the other side activate the system within an hour, there will be no problem.

The countdown was still going on, and the historic moment was about to come. My sister had already put her hand on the controller. She smiled and said: "At least it looks solemn. She is not happy that Qianqian has no chance to touch this." "

The countdown has entered thirty seconds, and I put my hand on the crystal plate like everyone else: "Then let history roll forward - this sentence can be added to the examination points of the Imperial College in the future. Now listen to my countdown: Five, four, three, two, one, zero, exciting... Hey, Haran, why did you press it in advance?"

The system sounded an alarm sound indicating that the operation failed. Harlan raised his hand innocently: "I thought it would be enough to count to zero, but I didn't expect you to have an 'activate'."

I was stunned and waved my hands vigorously: "Do it again, three, two, one, zero, activate! Sister, why didn't you press it?"

"Didn't we count down to five just now? Why did it start from three?"

"Don't worry about the details, okay!" I pointed at the countdown timer. It had passed zero and was now counting -1, -2, -3. "We are in a hurry. This is such a serious matter!"

"I'll count, I'll count," Abyss Xiling shouted, "Three, two, one, zero...Hey, you guys didn't move at all!"

Everyone said in unison: "Why don't you shout 'activate'?!"

I broke out in cold sweat at a speed visible to the naked eye: "Forget it, forget it, this is unreliable. Let's use mental connection. This synchronization rate is relatively..."

"My spiritual connection is delayed," Abyss Xiling raised his hand, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not compatible with your network and need to be translated once."

"I think I don't have to participate in this," my sister also raised her hand, "I have abdicated for 70,000 years."

"What's going on with you, Harlan?"

"I just want to remind you that the countdown is already minus one hundred and thirty seconds."

"Hey, don't worry, let's press together!"

"Ivan Sain, why did you press it down without making a sound?"

"Didn't you say leave it alone?"

"stop!!"

In the end, Shandora couldn't stand it anymore. Her Majesty the Queen pushed everyone away domineeringly, removed the temporarily modified joint controller in front of her, revealing the only activation crystal board underneath, and slapped it with her mouth at the same time. Still angrily: "I know Qian Qianchu's ideas are never reliable!"

In the distant space, a ball of white light suddenly expanded into a gate of unprecedented scale.

The system made a pleasant beep, indicating that the startup was successful. I murmured to myself with a stiff expression: "This historic moment... It's finally a historic moment... Why did it end like this?"

Bingtis looked at him unhappily for a long time. At this time, he finally felt relieved and taunted him angrily:

"Haha, at least this time the historians really have something to write about!"

(Well, that’s it for now, everyone can start spreading the flowers)

——Even the ending ps is different

Finally, I want to say that the world structure of Xi Ling is destined to be written forever, and you can also find a pause to finish the story anytime and anywhere, so after thinking about it, I decided to satisfy my obsessive-compulsive disorder and finish the book on the last day of June= . =

Xi Ling's story is not over yet (because it is a story that cannot be ended). Let me think about the future development...

Maybe there will be extras, maybe some 2.0 stories will be updated, maybe the previous chapters will be modified, and of course, there may be other ways to continue to build the world view of Xi Ling, so that it can not only be unfolded from the perspective of Saint Father, but Multi-route construction has turned into a huge system. In short, there are many plans. Please continue to pay attention here, some things will be released here.

The new book will be released in about a month, but I have to take a break before then - it's so tiring.

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