Chapter 987 Hey, Who Am I Going to Do?
(I am asking for a monthly ticket in the middle of this lull, mainly because I suddenly remembered this.)
In the next few days, everyone was studying this issue:
What happened at the end of the abyss?
This proposition is probably one of the ultimate questions since the emergence of conscious creatures in the void. I think Father God and the "crazy girl" on Huron's side should have thought about this question countless times before, but obviously, this question is not So easy to answer.
You have to jump into the gate of the abyss. There are crazy devourers and corroders on all sides. You have to fight against attacks from everywhere, and you have to deal with the desire for destruction from deep within yourself. In such an environment, you can't move forward all the way. When you encounter a bump that exceeds the threshold, you will be protected by several layers of shields and armor that are weakening every second. The moment they are penetrated, the whole ship will die. In the territory of the abyss, even if you have the ability to shuttle Even the world-capable imperial battleships or star gods can't find a way to escape. If you want to see the scene at the limit of the abyss, then the only option is to sink all the way with your eyes closed, hoping that luck will be with you, and you can Let you live to come to that zone of peace where possible. As for returning home - there is little hope.
This is a journey that is daunting enough just to imagine. The feeling of being immersed in the pressure of death at any time and moving forward will accompany you along the way. Neither the fearless imperial army nor the powerful divine expeditionary force succeeded in reaching this point. , the only remains of a beacon that could possibly complete the journey in history: it had the most powerful shield and a shell made of astrology. But when it was salvaged tens of thousands of years later, it was like a ball of molten slag. And this beacon may not actually reach the end point, it may just be close to there.
"But it's worth trying." Sandora said.
We finally decided to rebuild the abyssal submersible ship. The name of this project has only two words, "deep submersible". In the plan, the first batch of three deep submersible ship imitations with basic functions will be manufactured in the near future. These imitations use conventional databases and unattended AI. The Red Moon Cube has not been completely cracked, and the deep submersible ship blueprint has not been fully cracked. Now that the analysis is complete, this kind of imitation has reached the limit of what can be achieved. If they're lucky, they may be able to reach the same depth as the deep-diving ships of yesteryear. Then try to respond to the broadcast reflected from the bottom of the abyss, but there is little hope for these unmanned scientific research ships to return because their protection technology is insufficient. The key technologies that ensure the long-term survival of the deep-diving ship in the abyss are the Trinity Shield that simulates the world barrier and something named "Abyss Simulation Device". A sample of the former has been produced. But the latter requires the black technology in the Red Moon Cube. This device can produce an information representation that is very similar to the abyss, thereby greatly reducing the chance of encountering targeted attacks. Although the abyss is a simple phenomenon without intelligence, there are still such things as "abyssal creatures" in the abyss. Most of them are formed after creatures from various worlds are deeply assimilated, and some are formed by the condensed power of the abyss. Consciousness, this kind of thing will actively look for enemies, and the function of the "abyss simulation device" is to reduce the possibility of the deep-diving ship being discovered by these minions.
It will take Tavel at least several months to manufacture this kind of thing, and a truly fully functional deep-diving vessel will not be available until at least a year later, so until then, we can only conduct research with imitations that have gone and never come back.
It is very likely that the unmanned deep-diving vessel will not be able to return. The only thing they can send back is data. These data are the most precious things, but it is not easy to receive them completely. After entering the gate of the abyss, all information exchanges will be interfered with, and the interference is so strong that Lian Xi The spiritual connection of the spiritual apostles will be intermittent, so it is quite difficult to maintain real-time communication with the deep-submersible ship. Tavel and other scientists tried one method after another to transmit information back, but advanced technology seemed to have encountered difficulties. Breaking the barrier: No wave band can escape the interference of the power of the abyss. In the end, scientists had no choice but to accept the fact that after the deep-diving ship enters the gate of the abyss, it will be unrealistic to maintain instant communication.
And the ultimate solution was finally proposed by Qianqian (Okay, I admit, the only one who can still come up with a method at this time is this weird girl whose thinking is never restricted by anything): use a drift bottle.
In fact, it is to use black boxes. Since the deep submersible ship will inevitably be destroyed, and we cannot exchange data with it in real time before then, the only way to extract scientific research results is to recover the fragments of these destroyed ships. Qian Qian's suggestion is to have each ship carry thousands of "drift bottles". This way you can always get out of the abyss safely.
The most primitive and stupidest methods are used to solve the most advanced and difficult problems. This reminds people of the ultimate solution that humans took to solve the problem of being unable to write with a pen in space: using a pencil.
When Qianqian mentioned the words "drift bottle", Sandora couldn't help but smile with emotion: "It seems that sometimes we really have to use this stupid method. The solution to the ultimate problem is often the ultimate one." Simple. Then let the deep submersible ship carry countless black boxes with the strongest protection performance. Each black box is used to record key data. After the deep submersible ship is destroyed, these black boxes will move toward the exit as much as possible. When the target becomes smaller, It will be much easier to let them return safely. But there is still a problem: without strong enough power, the black box cannot leave the Gate of the Abyss on its own, just like the method of removing the remains of the beacon from the Gate of the Abyss in the God Realm. Likewise, we need to salvage the black box."
The living room has been transformed into a command center, with shimmering holographic projections everywhere. My sister fiddled with the pictures in front of her with some boredom, and reminded: "But it's much more difficult than that. The Gate of the Abyss in the God Realm is benign. Yes, there was no harm a long time ago, but what the deep-diving ship has to pass through is the active abyss gate. By then, a large part of the 'drift bottles' will also come up from these places. Who dares to go to that place? Salvage?”
This is a huge problem, even if we immediately build a group of deep-diving ships and throw them into the gate of the abyss. And a large group of black boxes carrying information were successfully returned. It is extremely difficult to salvage the latter from the Gate of the Abyss. A black box without enough power cannot break through the chaotic layer of the Gate of the Abyss, so we can only jump in and retrieve it ourselves...
This is much more challenging than grabbing a cell phone from the toilet.
Father God, together with a group of five people from the God Clan, Shandora and I, together with the cheating father in the family, sneaked into the crowd. You looked at each other and I looked at you. Finally, Bingtis suddenly shrank his neck: "Don't worry, I'm right." That one has a psychological shadow. I have been tied to that kind of thing for so many years. If you jump in again... I would rather die."
"The risk factor is very high, and if ordinary people go in, even if the power is strong and they return safely, it is very likely that the abyss will be released. Think of the door of the abyss as a thin film covering highly toxic substances, then the things on the main material plane Frequently entering and exiting the Gate of the Abyss is equivalent to constantly punching holes in this film. A slight mistake will cause a big explosion," Sandora said. "It's nothing if a deep submersible enters and exits once, but if we salvage those black boxes If so, it would be a large-scale and frequent operation.”
Father God nodded: "We must find a way to safely recover the black box and not let the Gate of the Abyss burst out. The Gate of the Abyss currently controlled by the Protoss and your empire is used as a research sample. It is heavily guarded nearby and has a large number of elites. Troops, once the Gate of the Abyss they guard is freed from oppression, it will be a disaster within a disaster. The Gods cannot afford it."
Xiaoxue looked at our serious expressions, thought for a moment, and raised her hands carefully: "Dad, mom, second uncle, aunt, second aunt, third aunt, second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle..."
I pressed the girl's mouth with a look of collapse: "What on earth do you want to say?"
Xiaoxue spread my fingers and said, "Don't we have a group of people who are most suitable for this job?"
Everyone was immediately shocked, and almost twelve mouths said in unison: "Who?"
Xiaoxue spread her hands: "Have you forgotten? When I ran out from the Fallen Apostles, I took away an army group. Now they are still on standby at the border of Shadow City. Although it is a bit politically tainted. But after all, they have abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, parents. You can’t discriminate against them, right?”
When Xiaoxue said this, I suddenly realized: I really forgot about them!
Xiaoxue instigated an entire group of armies from Harlan - of course, now their organization has not reached the standard of a complete fleet. When they raided from the fallen apostle world, they suffered a lot of battle losses, and the abyss spaceship was in the new empire. There is no way to replenish troops in an organized manner. The fleet now includes thousands of starships including small spaceships. Sandora and I haven't decided what tasks to assign them yet, so we just left them there for now. Xiaoxue said that these former fallen apostles were discriminated against - but this was actually nonsense on her part. Although the number is a bit larger and the identity is a bit more sensitive, the fallen apostles who have been purified by void creatures are actually no different from normal apostles. Those soldiers who surrendered also obtained the authority system certification of the new empire and regained the imperial soldier code. It's just that they haven't re-entered the organizational structure yet.
It would be perfect if they came to help complete the "deep dive" plan. Their spaceship is simply an abyssal aggregate, and engaging in such extremely dangerous salvage work is simply a piece of cake!
"Who controls those abyssal fleets now?"
My sister asked smoothly, and I pointed to Viska, who was trying to stack twelve sugar cubes together: "Her."
Viska looked up in confusion: "Huh?" Then the twelve sugar cubes collapsed. This is the temporary commander of the New Empire's most special fleet - the Abyss Fleet. Outside of the battlefield, this little girl is not reliable at all.
Of course, since she has a nitroglycerin head like her sister, I don't think she is very reliable on the battlefield.
The abyss is the abyss. The only person here who is qualified to command an abyssal fleet is Viska. Although Sandora is half an abyssal creature, she only uses that power to enhance her combat effectiveness. She does not know about the abyssal transformation of the fleet. How to fight next. Bellavera is a former fallen apostle, but now she hibernates an average of six days out of seven. Carter Carlo is a fallen apostle with a standard background. Unfortunately, he also led a group of death squads when he was in the highest military rank. Moreover, he is still the senior advisor of the Third Intelligence Core and does not care about commanding the army. In the end, this army It became Viska's general fleet, which just filled a gap: Pandora had its own general fleet, but Viska was unable to form a direct legion due to his special fighting method. These abyssal fleets have come at the right time.
The only thing that makes people uneasy is that this girl Viska doesn't seem to be good at leading troops in combat. Like Pandora, she is a combat-type apostle, but unlike Pandora, she lacks an external thinking circuit like Sivis, so it is quite uncomfortable to let the abyss fleet, which can hardly replenish its troops, rush to the front line. It's a safe thing, people can be resurrected after death, but after their abyss spaceship is destroyed, where can I create another group? Of course, Huesca also has his own adjutant, the lunatic AI named Chen, but he speaks from the bottom of his heart. With such a cheating adjutant, Viska might as well have a parrot...
"Viska, let your abyssal fleet participate in the 'deep dive' plan. We need them to go to the Abyss Gate to recover the 'floating' deep-diving ship fragments." Sandora glanced at Viska and said. The little girl nodded and continued to play with the candy cubes enthusiastically.
"It's such a long-lost feeling," after allocating all the preparations that could be done in advance, Sandora breathed out and said with a sigh, "I think of every adventure on the road to the evolution of civilization - the first electromagnetic Fever, the first time to make fire (it seems that in the history of civilization of the Xiling Apostles, electromagnetic phenomena were something that was mastered before fire), the first time to leave the land for the ocean, the first space exploration. The first time to stay away from the motherland Star... There are always similarities between the ignorant first adventures. The pioneers used those crude and even ridiculous primitive tools to explore the unknown world. After entering a higher level of civilization, looking back, maybe the things used in these explorations will be similar to Making stone tools is as simple as standing in an Imperial starship and watching the human Mars probe land. Who would have thought that these two things are used to explore the abyss: drift bottles and salvage divers..."
I thought to myself that Sandora suddenly became artistic, even though what she said seemed to make sense - even though I didn't quite understand it.
The "Deep Submersible" project has officially begun, and Tavel has begun manufacturing the first batch of replicas of the deep submersible ships, which may take several months.
Although we had imagined rebuilding a deep submersible ship before, we never expected that this idea would eventually turn into such a large operation. We actually want to build a large group of deep-diving ships - unmanned in the early stage, manned in the later stage, and it is even possible that Sandora and I will go aboard ourselves in the final stage - to explore the bottom of the abyss. This is almost contrary to the cautious attitude we decided at the beginning. What makes such a change is that the calm state at the bottom of the abyss makes people irresistible. Secondly, Father God gave me encouragement: in his opinion, the black technology in the Red Moon Cube has good and bad qualities. If it is used as something that makes the entire race obsessed with it, or even fanatical about it, it will undoubtedly be an artifact to destroy the country. However, if it is only used as a cutting-edge scientific research within a limited scope, it is still very useful. In this process, we must pay attention to the issue of scale. The empire just failed to resist the temptation of these "technological miracles" and rashly expanded the field of void research, which led to disaster. Now that it has learned from the past, Tavel will not make the same mistake.
What's more important is that according to Father God, as long as there is a void creature in the new empire, there will be no big trouble: void creatures are almost immune to the pollution of the abyss, and can even purify them in turn. As long as my spiritual power still reverberates in the spiritual network of the new empire, it is impossible for the abyss to spread catastrophically. The super outbreak that caused the collapse of the old empire left many Xiling technicians with psychological shadows. Now they can relax a little bit. .
Tavel mentioned that the current number of staff in the research center is sufficient, but it lacks powerful super hosts to assist in data processing. Now this problem has been solved: six super-evolved mass-produced hosts have entered new jobs, that is Help Tavel reverse engineer the still incomplete blueprint of the deep submersible ship. The feedback information shows that the six little sisters are working extremely well. It seems that they have taken another step on the road of evolution after being guests at home. of. Shandora guessed that this was because the previous super-evolved hosts were not sure whether the changes they had made were a trouble or a fortune for the empire. In addition, they were worried about being sent for decomposition and research, which made them very uneasy and thus unable to exert their full potential. Strength, after receiving direct affirmation and close contact from the leader of the empire and his mother, these mass-produced machines that already had "hearts" were no longer burdened, so they exerted their performance 100%. This is an interesting explanation, but it is difficult to verify, because it is speculated that there are about a hundred consoles that also have evolutionary tendencies, and I can't stand a hundred naughty children making noise at home - really On that day, I will apply for political asylum in Zimbabwe!
Autumn is coming to an end now, and the weather is getting colder day by day. She got up early and wore a cool dress when she went out. When she came back, she told me with a puzzled look on her face that she had gained 2% on the road. Hundreds of people turned around, and I continued to sit in the yard with a maza as usual, sipping hot tea, watching the less powerful sun, and paying homage to another year that was about to go away.
Then, a beautiful girl with a ponytail and a petite figure suddenly appeared in my sight - she flashed past the gap on the far right of the courtyard wall, and then her figure jumped along the row of gaps: she was approaching the courtyard. wall gate.
Just when I was still wondering whose girl this was, who could ignore Sandora's mental interference, there was a knock on the door.
Just as he had rehearsed in advance, Yakumolan quickly gathered his tail and ran back to the house holding his own fried tofu and dog food biscuits. Anweina, who was learning to lay eggs with the Crow couple, flew to the roof. I put Ding Dong He stuffed it into his pocket and told her not to come out casually, then made sure that the mercury lamp was not swinging outside, and finally opened the door with a smile.
Outside the door, a petite girl with dark purple hair tied in a long ponytail smiled like a flower.
I quickly glanced at the girl in the handsome black trench coat: "Our house has no water meter or electricity meter. The Internet fee is covered for three years. There is no need to deliver water or insurance. The problem of the child's kindergarten has been solved. Please ask for directions. Uncle Wang across the street..."
The purple-haired girl suddenly patted my shoulder hard and shouted loudly: "Haha, you are so interesting - is Xingchen here! Xingchen! Xingchen!! Xingchen, come out!!!"
(Hey, I went bankrupt during the renovation and now I’m waiting to pay off the debt...so if I can subscribe to it, can I at least give it some toilet money...) (To be continued)