Chapter 986: Bottom of the Abyss

The naughty kids who were playing Battlefield 1943 at home were all kicked upstairs to take a nap by their elder sisters, including xl34, who was still unfinished, and xl28, who was used to singing silently, as well as a group of other weird super-evolved mass-produced consoles. I was very happy Fortunately, there are enough rooms in the house - I mean, I'm glad that Pandora prepared enough space expansion devices for the house before, even though her original purpose was to use them as ganakus to invade the earth.

Bingtis is lying on the table writing an inspection. The core idea of ​​the inspection is to deeply understand how serious a mistake it is to encourage underage girls to use dangerous toys, including anti-tank guns, in other people's homes. It is difficult to imagine such a temperamental person. However, there were times when the hot-tempered Sister Yu was so honest when writing the inspection, but considering that the person sitting in front of her supervising the work was Father God, it was actually conceivable. With the instigation of this female gangster and the backing of the "Goddess' Blessing", the three-party melee between the Rose Maidens group, the mass-produced host group, and the group that wreaked havoc on the country and people, including Qianqian and Lilina, fired nearly half a ton of ammunition in twenty-five minutes. Not only was there a layer of bullet casings on the floor at home, but a lot of steel balls poured out when Lin Xue put on her shoes. An Weina was sitting on the top of the cabinet, cleaning the quilts one by one from her crow's nest. The flattened DUM bullets created a spectacular scene in the living room. It is estimated that no ammunition of this density could be found in Leningrad after the war. Bingtis only used the goddess's blessing to deal with the damage of the ammunition, but she didn't think about cleaning up the house. What's even more annoying is that in order to "mark the little players who have been eliminated", she removed her control of the baby heads. The cleansing technique meant that my sister and I had to spend fifteen minutes washing our hands and changing clothes for those little guys who got into trouble when they saw water! God testifies, you don’t know how difficult it is to wash Cuixingshi’s face. She was more troublesome than a mercury lamp, and holding her under the faucet was as serious as killing her. Of course, Little Bubble also gave her sister a lot of trouble: the girl ate half of the soap without paying attention.

What's even more irritating is that even though there are rules for elimination by being shot, none of these little girls evacuated the battle according to the regulations. Mercury Lamp's whole body was turned into black coal briquettes by the RPG and she was still fighting bravely. She had to say that she had The original color of the clothes... Well, by the way, am I infected by that Bingtis guy? I care about this nonsense!

Qian Qian was also a direct participant in this naughty child's quarrel, and was even the leader of one party - Lilina and she formed the third team in the three-way melee. Codenamed the Combination of Disasters for the Country and People, Qian Qian serves as the captain and political commissar, and Lilina serves as the vice captain and everything else. However, Qian Qian does not have to write the examination. This is not to favor her wife. The main reason is that no one dares to read the examination if she writes it: she is afraid of the impact. intelligence.

After the living room was almost cleaned up with the joint efforts of super maid Anweina and super maid apprentice Busujima Saeko. Shandora and I sat down with the few remaining guys in the family who could do serious work. Study Tavel's research report.

This research report is about a piece of wreckage, which was the wreckage that was fished out from the basement of Father God's house last time. She found a data recording device similar to a black box in the wreckage, and there were some very interesting things in this device.

"At first, no one discovered that this thing actually saved data, until we found some marks in the core database of the abyssal submersible ship - the one that Ajun spit out last time. These marks showed that the data dropped from the deep submersible ship Any independent equipment has an emergency recording device. The purpose of these recording devices is to save the final research data in the event that the deep-submersible ship unfortunately dies and cannot return, in the hope of returning to the main material plane. The empire's Frontline scientists do make such preparations. More than half of their projects have hidden dangers of no return, so they are used to backing up all research data everywhere as if they were writing a will," Sandora explained to me when the black box was discovered. The reason is, "I just didn't expect them to go so far as to leave recorders on the coordinate indicators they threw out."

"According to the information left by the recorder, after the deep-diving ship left, it chose to continue moving toward the depths of the abyss based on the last remote control command. This beacon has extremely powerful protection. It once had a satellite that was completely A shell made of gold and stone. It also has three layers of shields. This is because once the deep-diving ship crashes, these ejected beacons will be responsible for sending back the final information. Therefore, their protective power is actually stronger than that of the mother ship as a whole. , this is not surprising, the 'black box' made by the people on earth should generally be the strongest part of the vehicle. Surprisingly, this coordinate marking device was very lucky, and it did not encounter an abyss attack that exceeded the design threshold. , its camouflage system continued to operate for tens of thousands of years before being shut down due to exhaustion of energy. This layer of camouflage system provides an information mark similar to the abyss reaction, allowing units under camouflage to be less vulnerable to abyss attacks. This is the x of the end of the empire. One of the abnormal technologies created in the plan was applied to some components of the deep-diving ship. If you look at its logs, when this camouflage system was turned off, the empire had been sleeping for tens of thousands of years."

I was very surprised: "This shows that it is still functioning normally after the empire fell into sleep, because the abyss blocked external communication, it did not collapse from the inside due to network pollution, and the abyss environment protected the only surviving empire creation?!"

"Black humor." Father God used a very Earth-like word to evaluate this matter.

Shandora continued to point out the key parts of the log to us: "According to the records here, until all the equipment in the wreckage was forced to shut down, the beacon had penetrated into an incredible place. According to the calculations of the small host, it was far away from anything. A gate to the abyss, the radar in all frequency bands feeds back only the breath of the abyss, and no trace of the main material universe remains. That is the core hinterland, and this small lighthouse has been floating to the innermost core of the abyss realm without any danger. , Tavel calculated that the chance of this happening was less than one in 100,000, and it did just that. After the camouflage system was turned off, the beacon began to suffer serious erosion, and the three layers of shields were extinguished one by one, and then the star The gold and stone shell was corroded cleanly, and the remaining structure became what we see, and then - yes, Arjun. This is what the most critical index you just saw tells about: in all After all the protective systems were eroded away, it should have been the moment when this wreckage came to an end. But the exact opposite happened!"

Sandora said this and took a deep breath: "The abyss has calmed down!"

"However, the calm has not disappeared." Father God could roughly understand the report. He clicked on a string of data on the holographic projection. "Your words indicate that at the current time/space point, the concentration of the abyss is positive infinity. .”

"Incredible." Sandora nodded, "The hinterland of the abyss has an infinite concentration of pollution as we imagined, but what is different from what we imagined is that all the abyss here are in a dormant state, and there is no chaotic destructive storm. .There is no hostility. There is no erosion. The abyss flows peacefully and does not attack any targets, including beacons that trespass into their own homes."

"That's a distance that not even the gods have successfully reached," Father God sighed. "Our deepest expedition has never been there. There is no hostility in the hinterland of the abyss. It's really incredible."

"What's even more incredible is here." Sandora glanced at me, as if to prepare me, and then opened another report, "This is its communication record. Arjun, you should remember that the deep-diving ship is here Before leaving the abyss, a wide-area message was sent. This message sounded like a request for contact. Your guess at the time was that this message may be a deep-diving ship to verify the theory that all abyss gates are connected to each other behind the scenes. It sent this. It sent this in the abyss, hoping that the listening stations located at the exits of other abyss gates could hear the message. However, the log on the deep-diving ship mentioned that because the diving distance was not enough. This message should be buried in the abyss. In the environment.

"In fact, this is not the case. Their message survived tenaciously. Although it was extremely weak, it should have traveled further than this floating lighthouse. The black box of the lighthouse recorded a communication that lasted for several seconds, showing that it tracked this channel that was still echoing. Replay call…”

My sister said in surprise: "Traced? That message has been sent out for tens of thousands of years, and at that distance, it should have weakened to the point where it is completely unrecognizable."

"The problem is, this message is no longer the original version," Sandora breathed out, "This is Tavel's conjecture. This message is not the original version sent back then. It was picked up by something and then amplified. Then it was broadcast within the abyss for tens of thousands of years."

For a moment, there was silence in the living room, as everyone was digesting and processing this huge amount of information, including Father God.

As if she felt that our surprise was not complete enough, Shandora paused for only a few seconds before continuing: "The beacon was seriously damaged at this time, but it was still functioning. It did the last thing before the radar system stopped. : Randomly select a 'direction' on the main material plane and broadcast this message with maximum intensity.

"According to the abyss expansion count on the log and beacon, this forwarding occurred between fifteen and seventeen years ago. The main material plane it selected vaguely points to the current territory of the New Empire. Everyone knows what happened next. Yes, it came out of God the Father’s house for some inexplicable reason.”

"To sum up, Arjun, what did you remember?" Sandora said at the end and looked here.

I slowly put my hand on my forehead, as if this could suppress the raging thoughts: "At the 'Brigade Wall' of the Temple of the Supreme Life Goddess, I went back to the past. Fifteen or sixteen years ago, Qianqian and my sister and I I once encountered a dark sky that was misreported as a solar eclipse, and I heard a voice at that time... I can't help it, some things are really unscrupulous once they start to be dramatic."

"What Arjun heard at that time was not the message sent by the deep-diving ship, but something that was received by something at the bottom of the abyss and then amplified and translated back." Sandora turned off the holographic projection, "Father God, you and the abyss It has been in contact for the longest time, how do you envision its structure?”

"The abyss cannot be regarded as energy, nor can it be regarded as matter," Father God said slowly. "I have always believed that it should be regarded as a phenomenon and concept, but at the same time, the abyss can be measured. According to the process of the creation of the abyss, when a world is born, there will be a copy of the abyss. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the two. But maybe in this process, I only paid attention to its 'phenomenal' level. Behind it, there is something we have never known. The mysterious world... I can't tell now whether the feedback of this information is a conscious thing, or it is just a natural phenomenon produced by some structure at the 'bottom' of the abyss - I mean the echo wall kind."

"First of all, we confirm a new fact: the abyss has a bottom, or in other words, the abyss has an end. Opposite this end, there may be one or more conscious individuals. There may also be a system that can be described by order information. Structure', after all, without such a structure, it would be impossible to process such a complex message and then broadcast it for tens of thousands of years."

I looked at Sandora and Father God with serious expressions, and suddenly made a decision:

"Tavel, how far has the deep-diving ship's database been repaired?"

"Read eighty percent, my majesty." No matter when, Tavel had at least one mass projection in working condition, so she immediately responded, "The logs have been completely deciphered, and the technology of the deep-diving ship itself Ninety percent of the parameters have been cracked, and technical documents such as research results have been cracked at a slower pace. The quantity is too huge."

"You can put that away first - do you have a way to restore the deep submersible now?"

There was silence on Tavel's side. The strong and confident Yu Jie used a hesitant tone this time: "Your Majesty, it is theoretically possible, but there are some sensitive and dangerous projects..."

I didn't press, waiting for Tavel to explain.

"If your request is to completely replicate a deep-diving ship, then I'm afraid you have to use the black technology in the Red Moon Cube," Tavel said in one breath, "Abyss camouflage technology. Void superimposed shield, self-consistent Mathematical law protection network, and also need to build a dimension difference database - the core of the existing dimension difference database is bound to a frequency and cannot write new data, and the apostles who can unlock this frequency lock have died countless times. For ten thousand years, we can only create a new one. Due to the contradiction of the dimension difference database in the mathematical system, this means that we must destroy the one at hand to leave room for a new database to form. This is also the black part of the Red Moon Cube. Technology. In addition, after completing the blueprint of the deep submersible ship in our hands, there are still 10% gaps. These gaps require reverse engineering to fill, which takes time. We have sufficient manpower, but we do not have enough hosts to handle such huge data. Come and help with the work.”

I glanced at Shandora. She had been listening in the channel between me and Tavel. After the communication was temporarily suspended, she rubbed her eyebrows and whispered: "Sure enough, we have come to this step. The Red Moon Cube, really. I don’t want to be exposed to that kind of thing…Ajun, do you really want to follow the same path they took back then?”

"Their path may be right, but they are going too fast," Father God suddenly interjected, "You are a creative race and can always discover clues more keenly than us, but you are too easy to rush forward, and every time Every plan will be completed by any means necessary. I once reminded you... Well, it doesn't make sense to say this now. I just think that maybe your compatriots really discovered the secret of the depths of the void back then, maybe... wait, maybe it was... The Great Cataclysm of the Void, so they launched those rash plans to study the void, and that deep-diving ship may not only be used to study the abyss, but it’s a pity that they went too hastily, and were stubbornly unwilling to listen to us. Suggestion. Now we really might as well try what they did back then. I believe you won't make the same mistake this time. After all, now you have a void creature as your leader - Chen's laziness will be well tempered The adventurous spirit of your entire race.”

Me: "... Just say I'm an abs."

Father God nodded slightly: "What is ABS?"

Sandora's eyes suddenly brightened after her father's voice fell, and she thought of something else: "You mean, someone might have noticed the void cataclysm at the end of the old empire?"

"It's just a guess. After gradually connecting many things together, perhaps this is the only reason that can explain why you suddenly launched so many adventurous and dangerous plans, and these plans are all used to study and create voids. This ship you call a deep dive The same goes for ship's battleship. Although it is used to explore the abyss, the abyss is also the most important phenomenon in the void. It can almost be said that the essence of the abyss directly reaches the truth of the void. If there is a secret hidden at the bottom of the abyss world, then this secret is probably also covered by the void.”

"It's a pity that I don't know anything," Sandora shrugged self-deprecatingly. "At the end of the old empire, I was the only one who was still out on the expedition. That time I ran too far and even reached the edge of the information network. After three thousand years of expedition, everything turned upside down. .”

I put my hand on Sandora's shoulder and pressed it slightly. Although I want to say that this is a blessing, at least she escaped the catastrophic abyss storm and only fell into a weak state. But how can this be said? I couldn’t say it at all. Really, if I said it out of mind, I would have deserved it if she dipped me in chili sauce and ate me raw...

"You tell me, if it was such an important discovery, why didn't they tell the Protoss, good friends for life...ahem, right?" Bingtis was resurrected without knowing when he was full of blood, and he wrote the three thousand words eloquently. He put the check in my hand and sat on the sofa with his legs crossed. "Chen, please check it and give it a good review."

"A sense of honor? Racial self-esteem? Or simply excessive self-confidence," Sandora smiled bitterly and shook her head. "At the end of the old empire, these things expanded everywhere, and too many unnecessary negative tendencies spread among all the leaders. Although the My knowledge is limited, and I am sure what is going on. We are confident that we can solve all problems, at least we will not shed tears until we see the coffin. And for a standard Xiling apostle, protecting your own race is your own business. You Think about it, just because we are afraid of death, we pathetically applied for assistance from our allies, and even asked God the Father (the only void creature that the old empire could come into contact with at the time) to authorize all of our own territory in order to be exempted from the void cataclysm. 'Again? No matter how good your relationship with the Gods is, you can't accept this emotionally."

Bingtis curled his lips and said: "I want to save face and suffer the consequences."

"The glory of the race is not just about face," Father God smiled gently, "the real Apostles of the Xiling and the real Gods will do the same thing. Well, let's not talk about these, those are still our guesses. , who knows what happened to the old empire, why they discovered the Void Cataclysm but did not tell anyone, or even whether they really discovered the Void Cataclysm, these are still uncertain. The most important question now is not speculation. History, but think about it - what is in the abyss." (To be continued)