The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Are you really using the term 'construction site'..."

"From the perspective of labor intensity, it is very close. In terms of danger, it is even better. It is probably the feeling of working hard while moving bricks."

"Emmmm..." Oregana couldn't refute this statement, she asked, "Did you find any techniques worth learning?"

Obtaining new technology and sample equipment from wreckage is an important part of technological advancement in clashes between civilizations.With such a large structure, there must be something worth using inside.But for this, War Scythe shook his head, saying that the only things worth using in it were mines——

"Souvenirs and archeology are more meaningful, and the noteworthy technology has not been discovered yet." He said, "The design idea is remarkable, but in fact there is no original and amazing technology. It can only be said that Very thoughtful, and then there's the scale aspect, which is amazing... about that level. There may be some good stuff on the AI ​​side, but the damage to the main thinking core is pretty bad, some of it was lost in the shelling and subsequent explosions, and some of it fell into disrepair Yeah, there are two teams trying to restore it, but I still don't think I can restore anything in the end. The database did find a few, but I don't have much hope to be honest."

"That's a bad review."

"I'm just telling the truth," he shrugged, and glanced at Nyarlathotep—she wasn't very interested in these technical evaluations, and was eagerly waiting for the next topic of War Scythe "But , there are still many things worthy of attention. Dr. Fred Landrace, I will leave the explanation to you."

He stepped aside so that the unobtrusive man behind him appeared in front of everyone.

This is a man in his 40s, with a bookish look between his brows, and an abstract blue star ring badge on his chest, which means that he is a researcher of the star ring community.He saluted lightly, and said:

"Everyone, I'm Fred Landrace. I'm engaged in archaeology, especially the subcategory of the relationship between ancient civilizations and dark worms."

Oregana raised her eyebrows slightly:

"We remember you and your team," this is the earliest researcher in the Ministry of Consolidation who came into contact with historical issues related to the dark worm. As early as when he first studied the ruins of the space station next to the dark worm's hatching planet and analyzed the database left by its civilization , his name has repeatedly appeared in various papers.In these respects, Fred Landrace's knowledge and insights are unquestionable.She asked, "Tell me, what did you discover this time?"

"The first thing to explain is that this time because there is no need to analyze the language, the deciphering speed is very fast." The man said, "It took my team 48 hours to complete the image of Mr. War Scythe from the excavation site. The translation of the data..."

He is not a member of the front line, and he dare not let such a precious talent go with him in such a dangerous place.And Fred Landress also knew that he was not a person with strong physical strength, and he took a huge risk to go to a place where even the most skilled marines would die if they didn't pay attention, just to satisfy [his own eyes] See the murals and database]'s wishes, it is extremely irresponsible behavior for both yourself and the accompanying guards.

As long as you have the pictures and databases you have taken back, you can conduct research without any obstacles, and you don't have to stick to the form.

But Oregana has doubts about one of the details:

"Huh? No need to parse the language?"

"The language of the Torch Alliance has not been lost. Even after so many years, there are still creatures who know this language alive." Nyarlathotep answered this question, and she said, "We learned from Latiman Got all the relevant information."

Indeed, it would be much easier to have this.Most of the researchers have simple brain implants, like the ones that people on the scientific expedition will install, and they are of the type that can quickly learn languages.Latiman provides a complete language pack. After installing the language patch through this interface, Fred Landrace and his happy partners no longer have any problems in reading and writing. Look at the It is easy to work part-time with the things read from the notes and memory.

"Mom, it's living history...then, let's begin, Doctor."

"Well," he nodded, "First of all, the purpose of this mural is very clear. Its function is to inform future generations of the history of the Torch Alliance, its main process of prosperity and decline. It may have been drawn for more than 300 years, and the participants There should be 24 to [-] generations."

300? !

Although I knew that the mural was a big project, I didn't expect it to be this big.And after 300 years, 24 to [-] generations have passed... Is the life span somewhat short?Or does it reproduce a bit faster?

"So many? Isn't there only one corridor in the mural?" Nyarlathotep's eyes also widened. "There are others?"

"Yes, ma'am." Fred Landrace replied, "From the end of the corridor to the room where the training cabin is placed, and the entire living area behind, it's all painted. The entire ecological area, the place that can be painted is all painted. And it shouldn't be just one ecoregion—it could be global, covering all the people here at the time."

"……Uh."

"These murals and the words on them all reflect a characteristic. The earlier the time, the clearer the logic. The later, the stacking of pictures and words, and the more serious the confusion of language logic. As for the writing at the end, most of it is unreadable."

"Is it infected?"

Abnormal lifespan, as well as thinking slipping into the abyss and falling into madness, these are the characteristics of deep dark worm infection.

But there is a problem here -

The infection of the dark worm is usually bound to the mother body. When the mother body is wiped out, the infected body will die. This has been seen in Letitia and Tancala.But judging from the time, in the life of building the mechanical world, the insect swarm has been wiped out or repelled here, the infection should have disappeared, but the infection did deepen without the mother's presence.

"The probability is very high...Although this is different from the information we used to have, it is the only answer that can be given in the past now." Fred Landrace said, while talking, he put some of the information The comparison between the translation and the original text of some passages is displayed in the projection:

The scope of hysteria has expanded, and the mode of transmission has not yet been clarified, and any isolation method has failed.What they intend to do is unknown, but one thing is certain, they are no longer our countrymen.In this small space, we have nowhere to hide, and we can only survive by confronting head-on.

Hopefully burning the bodies will stop this plague.

Will we ever get back what we lost in the past?Just based on how few people we have now?

I'm starting to understand what they're thinking...we can't save our world anymore, we need help, and they just want help to get the Torch Alliance back on their feet, damn...why didn't I find out sooner?The signal must be sent out, to the place of origin!Time is running out.

The subsequent handwriting was blurred beyond recognition.

"Several battles took place inside, which seems to be the efforts of its residents to suppress the infection. Judging from the murals behind it, the result was a failure."

"From what I can read, the last inhabitants have been sending messages to the universe, trying to get in touch with that particular world," explains Fred Landrace, "They call it the 'Origin'. ', thinking that everything in the world was born there, and I must leave here and go back to that world. But it failed. The AI ​​​​in the mechanical world had already blocked itself under the control of the bottom-level command at that time. When will this command be issued? It's no longer known, which makes all the messages trying to contact the 'place of origin' not sent out."

"It feels like a lot of terrible things happened at that time..."

What happened on the star warship at that time is now slowly surfacing.The self-enclosed AI, as well as the infection that should not have spread, have emerged together with some temporarily unsolved mysteries.

While thinking about these things, Oregana put together the analyzed 'place of origin' and the coordinate data of Latiman's hometown - the two should describe the same place.The place of origin of the dark worm, the Horqin prairie of the carapace cocoon.

but……

"Eh?"

"what happened?"

"These two points are far apart." Oregana raised her head and looked at Nyarlathotep with a confused expression, "It's not the same place at all..."

"Eh?"

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Chapter 883 Chapter 792: This is what happened when I was young

There is no record of cross-world voyages in the early days of the shining carapace cocoon, and they all thrived in the original habitat. The subspace synapse of the dark worm only grew after contact with the shining carapace cocoon, and it did not cross the world before that. ability to sail.

The birthplaces of the two may meet far away, but they are still in one world.For example, if the origin of the two is regarded as two files on the computer, these two files are in two folders under the same directory, and the previous directory is the same.

The last inhabitants of the infected have been sending messages to the universe in order to contact the dark worms, just like the gene stealer group attracts the tentacles of the great devourer, leading destruction into their own world.At first Oregana thought that this should be sent to the origin world, but the result of analysis was not the case.

The root directories are not the same, their targets are elsewhere.

"The shining carapace cocoon escaped from the world of origin, and the time span between the time when the dark worm carried out the "Seven Little Sheep" type of deception is still quite long." Nyarlathotep pointed up a finger and pointed out, "At the time of infection It has already spread, so it is not surprising that there are multiple infected galaxies?"

"Hmm... that's right..." Oregana showed an embarrassed expression, "The time span is too long, and our thinking seems to be a little behind."

"Emmmm, some people say that lifespan affects the perception of time by living things. It seems to be true."

"We suspect that you are hacking us, but we have no evidence."

"It doesn't matter, it's all trivial." Nyarlathotep shook his hair, "Open the star map and show me."

"Which one do you want?"

"The one that shows the world, and marks the available routes for sailing across the world by the way."

"Ah."

Oregana made a gesture, and Liu Lizi immediately took out the holographic projector, and the sky above the room was immediately occupied by dense, star-like light spots.Each point of light represents an island-like world 'floating' in the warp, connected by intricate thin lines - those lines are routes called 'channels'.But this is just called a 'fairway', it doesn't mean that there is really a road similar to the subspace corridor, it just means that the 'distance' between the two is relatively short, and it can be formed with the help of the attraction between the worlds The slipstream travels to the adjacent world more quickly.

However, the direction and intensity of this slipstream must be analyzed in detail. It is commonplace for two-way and one-way streets to change directions at any time, or to stop working suddenly, and there is no safety at all.The race that can use these 'channels' to move between worlds is not the only one, but up to now, this channel map is basically only used to research and detect the movement of the dark worms.

The bridgehead world group where the Consolidation Department is located has such connections with multiple external worlds.But at this moment, it means that the "channels" connecting to the outside world are all dark, which means that the frontline troops have blocked most of the "leakage points" by using space operations and other methods, and the utilization rate of the channels has dropped to a state where it is almost unusable.This can make the dark worms get lost in the subspace, and it is difficult to find the correct entrance to break into the world—but this is only temporary. The uncertainty of the subspace makes it possible for new leaks to appear at any time. This is The reason why the frontline troops still cannot relax.

Of course, this picture is not to scale——

Most of the star maps that can be directly displayed in the conference room have wrong proportions. This is just to give the viewer an intuitive impression. The specifics still depend on the marked data.This is not to fool people or perfunctory, but there is really no way...

This is physically impossible.

Take the solar system as an example, if you want to make a full-scale solar system, and determine the schematic diagram of the sun as a sphere with a diameter of one meter, then the earth is [-] meters away, about the size of a dollar coin, and Neptune is directly to [-] Kilometers away.The so-called astronomical scale is roughly like this.

Moreover, the 'distance' between the various worlds is not an exact 'value', and the size of the world cannot be presented as a 'fixed value' either. It can only be roughly indicated in the form of connections between worlds. It’s just a visual image—ordinary people can’t really understand this picture at all, because there is actually a database under this picture. If you don’t use something to connect your thinking to it, it’s just a special effect.

Nyarlathotep took the wireless access device from Liu Lizi, stuck the hair on the patch that should have been attached to the temple, and connected it to the database by simulating brain waves.She blinked her eyes, and in her line of sight, the entire projection came alive. When her line of sight turned to any light point, various data of that world would appear in her mind.

"Wow... It's the same as before, such a rough data flow, it's like being messed up by a stick." Fu Xingzhi Chaos frowned, with a helpless expression on his face, "Change it a little bit. .”

"I didn't intend to use it for ordinary people. It's pretty good now."

Oregana showed an expression of indifference—even though she said so, the civilian version (low configuration version) of this system is being made, and there are even practical products on the market, initially for entertainment The system was gradually installed in various places later, Haitu said more than once that this is "increasingly cyber-oriented".

Of course, in order to consider the user experience, the data flow that the civilian version can transmit per unit time is far lower than that of the military version.

Of course, Nyarlathotep's ability to withstand this kind of data flow, she just wanted to tell a dirty joke.Oregana’s choice is not to answer the call. Mahiro Yasaka once said that the more you answer the call at this time, the more energetic she will be, so the legion leader chooses to talk about the business directly:

"Did you find something you wanted to see?"

"I'm looking," she puffed her cheeks to express her dissatisfaction with Oregana's refusal to answer, but her work didn't stop at all—the emerald green pupils moved quickly in the eye sockets, scanning the pictures that only she could see. data obtained.Although the speed is so fast that it is a bit disgusting, it also proves that she is not low in efficiency. "Suddenly thought of something."

"whats the matter?"

"It's a thing with a long history." Her eyes focused on a spot of light, with a recalled expression on her face, "At that time, the refuge world group was still being built, and everyone was trying their best to investigate the world that had not been infected. Use The method is similar to yours..."

"Oh?"

After reading the coordinates, he immediately asked to see the star map for comparison, which meant that Fu Xingzhi Chaos must have thought of something extraordinary.She doesn't look like she's joking—there's seriousness in those eyes (although it looks like she has a sense of falling San that is unique to the Ke system).

Oregana was very curious about this.

She looked up at the bright and dark spot of light, and said:

"Find familiar coordinates?"

"I've seen this coordinate elsewhere before—the transmission coordinate you found in the mechanical world." Nyarlathotep closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the pupils in each eye became Two of them, two of them looked at Oregana, and the other two continued their previous work, "That's good."

Is it true that it is Nyarlathotep?The characteristics of the faceless god are so proficient, it is just difficult for her to compare the shape of a fox with her fingers, but it can cause tons of SAN blows to ordinary people next to her.

"What a hammer! It looks so disgusting, you should be normal! Take the extra eyeballs for us!"

"It's polite to look at people when they speak. People still know this kind of thing. Teacher Yugo Sotos taught it in Universal Elementary School."

"Doing this kind of thing in front of Abigail, I'm afraid Teacher Yugo Sotos will know about it later, maybe Yugo will call Azathoth and talk about it..."

"Sorry I was wrong..."

Either this is a very sharp guy who saw everyone's tolerance, scratched it and ran away; or this guy is a natural fool.Oregana tends to be the former.After scratching, she changed the number of eyes back and became serious again, as if she had replenished some kind of unique energy:

"At that time, we found a lot of infected starships here-right here."

She said, calling out the marked world, cutting a projection to enlarge it:

"It was still a young world. The first intelligent civilization of the main body has entered the space age, and traces of superluminal navigation have been confirmed..." Fu Xing's chaotic face showed a reminiscence expression "At that time, I had just graduated from the University of the Universe. What kind of experience, running around with a detector all day long, screening the world-that is, deciding between life and death, those with signs of infection should be eliminated, and those without signs of infection should be marked for further investigation.”

The name of this school is so perfunctory... But it is said that the exam is quite difficult, and Nyarlathotep's brother didn't seem to pass the exam... (thinking)

Although it is not common for a top student who graduated from an excellent school to take on an important job as soon as he enters the society, it is still possible, but is it really okay to hand over this kind of job of identifying the world to fresh graduates?Her boss heart is also quite big...