Otherworldly Mysterious Gate

The expedition of the Lin Shu team has finally come to an end. Because of the distance, the dragon vein where Lin Shu is located is getting farther and farther away from the dragon vein of the Hope, beyond the ten-day voyage. Contact It has become unstable and unreliable. The question before Lin Shu is whether to continue walking along this dragon vein, or to turn back and join Lin Bu, and continue to advance along the original dragon vein.

Lin Shu couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he decided to walk forward for a while, and if the distance continued to increase, he would consider whether to turn back.

In fact, there is a slower-speed Rain Spirit behind Xiaoxing, and it is not very likely that Lin Shu wants to move on. However, Lin Shu is still a little unwilling.

The transformation of the Rain Spirit is still in progress, and it will not stop for a long time. In order to ensure the smooth birth of the Rain Spirit, the Rain Spirit cannot be too far away from Xiaoxing and Hope, so that it can be obtained at any time. The support and guidance of Xiao Yu and Lin Shu and others.

One of the original intentions of the reduction of the size of the Rain Spirit is to be able to realize deep subspace flight. If it cannot fly in the deep subspace, the Rain Spirit will be abandoned by the expedition team sooner or later.

This arduous task is not only researched by Nilaya with all her strength, but also many research institutes on the Hope and Xiaoyu have participated in it, and there are many proposals, but the current problem is mainly stuck in entering and exiting the subspace. energy loss above.

The advantage of the Rain Spirit is that it is very solid in texture. In this way, no additional barrier protection is needed to enter and exit the deep subspace. Of course, this also solves the trouble of setting up a super huge barrier, but.To create such a large hole in real space and subspace.Nor is it an easy task.

And in order to prevent the phenomenon of black hole or energy eruption when the deep subspace is connected with the real space.When the spaceship enters the deep subspace, it actually enters and closes layer by layer, so the energy expenditure for continuously breaking open the space is quite huge.

The original ant nest used a strong gravitational field to carry out similar subspace navigation, but when the mass was greatly reduced and the effectiveness of the gravitational field was lower than the critical value, this kind of flight was no longer possible. If you want to fly in subspace, you need to find another way.

It is precisely because both Lin Duo and Nilaya understand the difficulties facing the Rain Spirit and the expedition team.So they have already made up their minds about Lin Shu's choice, and they don't care about Lin Shu's procrastination. They are now focusing on solving this problem. Regarding Lin Shu, he can do whatever he likes. Toss, anyway, he can't run far.

Xiaoying took a trip and brought some nanny star ants, transformed star ants, and hair spirits back to the Hope. Many researchers on the Hope are waiting eagerly for the arrival of these magical species. We will try our best to decipher the abilities of these two magical star ants.It is hoped that new discoveries can be made from it to promote the progress of existing alchemy and refining techniques.

As for the idea of ​​imitating these star ants to make similar machines.There is no market at all. According to Mao Ling, it is better to make machines than directly produce this kind of star ants. Anyway, as long as you give a fixed order, these star ants will work honestly. What you need to do Just give it enough food. How is this different from a machine?

While the entire expedition team was busy absorbing and assimilating the new technologies and knowledge brought by the Star Ants, Lin Shu had already turned his attention away from the Star Ants because he discovered something more interesting.

The cause of this matter is also related to the Star Ants. In order to experiment with the improvement of the command method of the Star Ants, Lin Shu equipped Xiaoxing with some Star Ants to serve as scouts for the Star. They will carry multi-functional detectors. For activities, using larger combat star ants as vanguards has the advantage of being able to carry more functional probes, and the power of the probes can also be made greater, and the maneuverability is much better.

The disadvantage is that it is easy to expose whereabouts, and the consumption is also greatly increased. Fortunately, star ants eat everything, and the things planted in Xiaoxing's ship are also very popular. If you are really lazy, you can just grab some meteorites and feed them. .

During an extreme communication link test, two star ants mysteriously disappeared. Of course, this is the limit distance test of the communication link. It is also possible that they accidentally ran out of the test range and became two space meteorites. Fortunately, star ants have no wisdom, otherwise they would die of grief.

However, even if it was an accident, Lin Shu would carefully analyze the cause of the accident. After analyzing all the signals, Lin Shu confirmed that the two star ants responsible for the test did exceed the maximum transmission distance of the signal. However, The strange thing is that before that, Lin Shu had already sent a signal to return home, but the two star ants did not seem to receive the signal. As for the possibility that the star ants did not execute it on purpose, it did not exist.

The problem is, since the signal from the sensor can be transmitted back, there is no reason why the two star ants cannot receive the order to return?So what is the reason why the two star ants did not obey the order to return?There were only two answers that Lin Shu could think of, either the two star ants were dead, or the two star ants were controlled by something else.

But there is also a problem here. If something is close to the star ants, those detectors cannot find it, but the data of many types of sensors all show the same problem, that is, nothing has entered the range that can threaten the life of the star ants. .

As a result, the problem became weird. In the vast universe, whenever you encounter weird things, you must be hooked on danger. Lin Shu immediately gave the order to stop advancing, and at the same time sent the scout star ants Go out and set up a large-scale warning circle around.

In order to prevent the star ants from being killed or controlled silently, Lin Shu also specially installed a soul characteristic sensor on the star ants. Once the inherent soul fluctuation of the star ants changes, the sensor will immediately send an alarm to Lin Shu. .

Then, Lin Shu sent another two star ants to the place where the two star ants disappeared.

In the command room, except for the on-duty personnel, only Jessie and Xiaoxing were there, and everyone else was busy with the matters of the Rain Spirit Clan.Nilaya has been disappearing for several days just walking around in the command room.

Jessie sat beside Lin Shu nervously.Squeezing Lin Shu's shoulders to look at the data on the projection.And the image taken by two star ants monitoring each other.

"How far is it from where we lost contact last time?"

"3 units, there are still [-] minutes to arrive."

"Let them slow down, distance them slightly, and pay attention to the changes around them."

"Yes...too bad, the soul characteristic sensor is alerting...the star ant is dead."

"Data, all data, fully recorded."

Lin Shu was a little nervous. In fact, he had been observing the data changes just now.In fact, there is no change in the data at all. The gravitational force is normal, the magic energy of each department is normal, the energy dissipation of dragon veins is normal, high-energy radiation, and background radiation are normal. The normal ones can no longer be normal!But... the star ant died just like that, silently and inexplicably. This strange and inexplicable situation made everyone in the command room feel a little creepy.

"Husband, is this something invisible?"

Jessie asked worriedly, but Lin Shu couldn't answer, if it was invisible.It was too invisible.

"Xiao Xing, send the second group to continue heading towards this area. Adjust the sensor to the state with the highest accuracy, sacrificing the detection distance."

"clear."

"In addition, based on the distance just now, it seems that the other party is approaching me. Calculate the distance between the two places just now and calculate the speed of the other party's movement. We will maintain the same speed and evacuate sideways."

"Yes."

Not long after, the two star ants lost their lives again, but the data on all the sensors were still completely normal. It seemed that there was a dead area, and they would die if they entered it. Moreover, this area was still moving towards the direction of the little star, and the speed was still there. Not low, a gloomy atmosphere gradually spread in the command room.

"What the hell is this? Is it a dead zone, where you will die?"

Jessie asked everyone's question in a considerate manner. Lin Shu smiled and shook his head: "If there is such a region, it must be made of something. The strange thing is that our detectors have no response at all. The only possibility I can imagine is that there is something non-physical in there, and not very dense."

"Huh? Immaterial type? Soul? Could it be the legendary undead?"

Lin Shu laughed: "Necromancer is not a legend. Necromancer refers to the soul of a dead life? That is a real thing. However, Necromancer cannot exist in the material world for a long time. For Necromancer, the material world Just like a violent sandstorm, the constantly moving matter will break up the soul energy and become free soul energy, and finally the undead will disappear without a trace."

"But..." Jessie frowned, as if she was stumped by some question, and after thinking for a while, Jessie finally let out a sigh of relief: "I always feel that there is something wrong with what my husband said, but again Can't figure out what's wrong?"

"Hehe, you must want to talk about how things like spirits and gods exist."

"That's right! That's it. Didn't they have been broken up?"

"Have you forgotten the Dragon's Nest Formation? Orderly and powerful soul power can in turn interfere with material energy and protect the soul body. In fact, our magic and spells are the interference of the soul on the material energy. After death, those souls are not complete when they leave the body, and they don't know how to directly use pure soul power to interfere with material energy and protect themselves, and time does not allow them to explore and study how to Self-preservation, soon, they will be destroyed. There is a special example here, which is the dragon soul, but even in the dragon soul crystal, the soul preservation time is quite limited."

"Then... what if you have studied these skills before you were alive? Will your soul be able to exist independently after death?"

"Correct!"

"Eh? Then our Taoist sect has been practicing this?"

"Hehe, you just found out!?"

Jessie blushed, she just thought too straightly, and her mouth was a little too fast.

"Then, the one just now, is the soul body?"

"It's possible. This time we need a star ant carrying a soul energy detector. Also, Xiaoxing activates the peripheral fixed soul formation and ten-direction soul gathering formation, and is on standby at low power." (To be continued...)