The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"It seems that there is a spiritual reaction... It seems that someone is calling us. It seems to be saying... Zhi... Zhi... Chief Librarian?"

The chief think tank died when the ring was activated 10 years ago, and what was left on Requiem was only a fragment of her consciousness.There is probably only one reason for staying here all year round, and that is because her lover, the missionary, is still here.She still loves him, but she also knows his threat, so even if she chooses to go to the end with the forerunner, she must leave a fragment of consciousness here to stare at the missionary.And now that the missionaries are defeated, what does she want to say to the group of people who defeated her lover?Or, will you catch up with the messengers of chaos that you haven't seen for a long time?

From all aspects, Oregana really wanted to have a good chat with the chief think tank.

"Sure enough, we knew she would come out sooner or later." Rather, it was much later than expected to show up now. "Turn on the psionic sensor, let's see what she plans to say!"

"Yes!"

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PS3: Thanks to brother かざざみゆうか for helping to draw the character pictures and writing [Character History (laughs)] (link points to [Various notifications and setting data volume])

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Chapter 1084 Chapter 117: Old Myth

Chief think tank, life shaper, one of the most familiar pioneers.She is very knowledgeable and has encountered countless different beings and different life forms.During the 1 years after the defeat of ancient humans, the chief think tank, as a god, helped humans slowly recreate the primitive society, and before the halo was activated, as described in the myth, samples of all living things were collected and placed in Safe in the shield world and within the ark.

Because of her efforts, the life in this world can flourish again in just 10 years (after all, 10 years is like a flick of a finger in the evolutionary process).Her achievements are unparalleled, even surpassing the gods described in many civilization myths, but her name has not lasted forever.

In the previous battle, the chief think tank did not show up at all. Oregana once thought that the chief think tank did not leave fragments of consciousness like the original one-this situation is very common, because only a small loophole can change a lot thing.But now this communication has denied Oregana's guess. She may have been scruples about something before she didn't come out.

The thing that is scrupled is probably the missionary who is currently lying on the bed and cannot move.

Liu Lizi looked at the jumping communication signal on the screen, with a delicious stick in his mouth, he meowed and said:

"The forerunner really has psionic technology. It looks like it was done with wetware?"

"It should be. After all, there are only a few ways to make machines use psionic energy." 76 replied, "We will soon know why the forerunners banned the use of psionic energy in this world. Scythe, can you hear me? The think tank chief called The phone is coming."

【I'm coming. ] From the opposite side of the communication came the hectic sound of War Scythe, and there was the faint sound of putting down chopsticks [connected connected!I thought he was gone! 】

It seems that Oregana is not the only one who thinks this way.Thinking of this, she said:

"The mental protection system is online. Prepare to resist mental pollution."

"Yes!"

As long as it is psionic transmission, it must be treated with care. This is an iron rule-this is not only for your own safety, but also for the safety of the other party in many cases.Because if you directly use your own thinking to connect to the psionic communication on the other side, if one doesn't pay attention, then the other psyker will experience some... uncontrollable changes due to the influence of the Chaos Demon's thinking.

Such as height loss, cat ears and so on.This will bring many adverse effects, so we must pay attention to it.

After finishing all this, Oregana turned on the communicator, and a strange figure immediately appeared in the projection in the middle of the room.

It was a humanoid female creature, nearly three meters tall, and the tall 76 directly became a lolita in front of her, and Oregana and Liu Lizi, who were not wearing power armor, stood next to her and their proportions were close to those of Nohara. Mizu and Nohara Shinnosuke.At the moment when she looked up, Oregana's complexion was quite complicated... This lady must be very suitable for wearing a long white dress, and then wearing a big white hat, making a popping popping sound from her mouth Going around the wall...

God, you are so tall... (covers face)

"Eight... chief think tank?"

In the white light, the woman's face gradually became clear.Just like the missionary, her nose is very flat, almost nothing, but this does not make her look scary, because the eyes of the think tank are very gentle, and the kindness of the brow is like a painting. Bodhisattva in general.She wears a strange hat on her head, which looks like some old women like to gather their hair around the ears, but in fact it is a whole man-made metal component, which may be a portable thinking assistance system or psychic power Terminal, right?

Generally speaking, the appearance of her here is really like a statue of a god.It is not the visual effect created by various lighting and special effects, but the moment it appears.

After looking around, she said to Oregana:

"I never thought that the messenger from the Chaos Realm would come back to this world." Halfway through the words, the chief think tank showed a mixture of joy and sadness on his face, "I represent the last forerunner... no, who am I now?" It doesn't mean it anymore. Anyway, thank you for stopping him, I thought everything was over..."

Oregana shrugged. Generally speaking, this is difficult to answer, but she has her own thoughts:

"We are also scared to death. Except for human beings, the civilization of this world is abusing the heritage left by the forerunners. Human beings have been deflated for the past 30 years. And just recently, they almost pulled the missionaries one step ahead of us. Get up. But now," she said, pointing to the next room, "the missionary's defeat also means that these things have temporarily come to an end, but don't worry, he is still alive."

The chief think tank breathed a sigh of relief inconspicuously, but she immediately showed a puzzled expression:

"Huh...? You are... different from before."

This attitude is exactly the same as that of 343 Heavy Hammer Sparks at that time. It seems that the messenger of the Chaos Realm really left a very deep impression on the pioneers.

"Times have changed, and there are many things that can be changed in 10 years. We really want to know what happened in this world in the past...It is a very lucky thing to meet the parties now, after all, not everyone can keep 10 years of sanity and memory."

After hearing this, the chief think tank showed a thoughtful expression, and the worries hidden between his eyebrows seemed to dissipate a little. After a pause of two seconds, the fragment of the pioneer asked:

"Can you tell me one thing first?"

"Excuse me."

"Did the shelter be built successfully?" She looked at Oregana fixedly, and asked word by word, "I want to know whether our sacrifices at the beginning were effective. We paid for our own future. Does it make sense? What did I get in the end? Ever since the connection between the worlds was cut off and all communication was cut off, I couldn’t get any information, and I was almost suppressed by...him in turn, but I never forgot the beginning A promise from the Messenger of Chaos to the Forerunner."

Has the shelter been built successfully?

As soon as this sentence was said, Oregana knew that there was something to be done, and she would definitely be able to solve most of her doubts during this time.But before that...

She had to answer these questions first.

The chief think tank's words sounded like a soldier trapped on an isolated island during the war. When decades passed and someone finally found her, the first thing she asked was【Is the war over?who won 】.In the past 10 years, this question has probably been killing her sanity, right?On one side was her husband who had gone mad and was sealed, and on the other side was this question... Oregana didn't know what the sacrifices made by the forerunner were, but this didn't affect her feeling the weight contained in this question.

Oregana decided to answer truthfully. She straightened her chest and looked directly into the eyes of the Chief Librarian:

"We don't know the original promise, and we don't know what happened in the past 10 years. As we said before, even the records are drowned in the vast pile of books, and it is difficult to find. But there is one thing We can give you a clear answer." She swallowed, looked at the hopeful expression of the chief think tank, and said loudly, "That means the shelter has been built successfully. We are guarding the gate of the shelter to the outside world, and we are clearing up the money that slipped through the net. fish."

The image of the chief think tank shook for a moment, she clutched her chest, tears oozed from the corners of her eyes and trickled down the corners of her eyes.Obviously it's just a fragment of consciousness and not the real person, but she looks like a living person who can't control her emotions now—or, in terms of way of thinking, she is no different from the original chief think tank.In the next few minutes, there was only the sound of this 'giant' sobbing slightly in the air.

It took her a long time to suppress herself—even though she was crying, her voice didn't choke. Maybe it's because the stereo projection doesn't need to breathe?Expressing emotions and talking through different channels, which makes the current appearance of the think tank look a bit weird, all kinds of emotions are squeezed together like plasticine, without any concealment:

"Great...all was not in vain...our sacrifices were worthwhile..."

"As for what that promise is, we have no way to confirm it yet, but we will do our best to investigate it later." Oregana waited politely until she calmed down before saying, "Can you tell us what happened at that time?"

"Of course. I know that the efficiency of the library query system in Chaos Realm is very low. It's not surprising that I can't find it in a short time."

"what……"

It seems that the forerunners cooperated deeply with the subspace back then, and even you know this... But the problems that have been noticed at that time, why have they not been resolved until now?Is it because there is a lack of reliable network administrators and programmers in the subspace library?Thinking about it carefully, compared with the subspace, the network system inside the Ring is extremely clean and efficient... Is it because the system has not been established for a long time, so there is not much redundant data in the system?

I was still thinking about it here, and the chief think tank over there continued to say:

"Then start with the creation of the world by the pioneers..."

You put it here and start from Pangu's creation of the world!

"No, no, no! You don't need to start so early!" 76 hurriedly waved her hands instead of Oregana, who was completely blank. "Let's start with the arrival of the messenger!"

"It seems that the loss of records is not as serious as I imagined. I thought it was all gone." Seeing the reactions of several people, the nature of the chief think tank has obviously improved-this person is a biologist, definitely Interested in the 'new form of subspace creatures', she glanced back and forth at several of them, and stabilized her mood with amazing restraint.

"When the messengers of Chaos came, we were at war with the humans. At that time, the humans attacked several of our colonies and burned everything on them. Then we went to war...It was a tragedy, if At that time, if the human general could communicate with us first, the situation would not be the same as later. But history has no if..."

At that time, the Flood Demon attacked humans, the entire planet was completely swallowed up, and the Flood Demon began to expand wantonly.In desperation, human beings began to plunder the world of other species by force to make up for the loss.Not only that, humans are still purifying the infected planet.When the Forerunner world was infected, they immediately became the target of the orbital strike of the human fleet. Under the cover of intensive firepower, millions of Forerunners died.

From the perspective of the pioneers, what did the beginning of this battle look like? ——Humans suddenly got into trouble, grabbed the shop everywhere, and started burning glass without saying a word.Who can stand this?Some might stand it, like the Gemmen who were attacked by Raddam, but the Forerunners saw this as an aggression against them, igniting their anger at the unrestricted expansion of humans.The two sides are so barred.

So far, the history of the forerunner is still the same as the 'original'.

"Because they were being chased, wasn't it?"

"That's right. The war against the Flood consumed a lot of human military resources and destroyed countless human worlds. They are afraid that the Flood will continue to expand, but of course this behavior will not be accepted by us. In the end we defeated humans, and That's when the messengers of Chaos came - they came after a living star, and that star possessed a psionic response so strong that the world trembled, felt it as it passed the galaxy The consciousness of the forerunner was drawn out, and no one was spared."

It's completely different here!

A living star with strong psychic powers, and the chaotic fleet chasing it-this seems to be the forces of the warp hunting the super mothership class.And judging from the description, the combat effectiveness of this super mothership class is incredible. After all, from what I have seen now, what I have fought against, and what I have seen in the records, there is no super mother ship class that just opened fire. In the past, it was possible to swallow all the souls next to it like an automatic pickup.

The faces of several people immediately darkened.

"It's a dark worm..."

"Sounds like an amazingly strong individual."

"That's right." The think tank chief said, "We assisted the messenger to defeat it and its army, which caused us to suffer a lot of casualties. At that time, we had just finished the war with humans, and we knew that the Flood was a difficult thing to deal with. , and immediately encountered this again, which made our entire society feel extremely uneasy. And that messenger...is a person with an abnormal mental state. He is manic and bloodthirsty, with a strong desire to kill. It is difficult for people to trust .His subordinates are not even normal 'creatures' at all. We have seen a lot of warp space creatures, but so... this is the first time I have seen pure ones. In the process of contacting him again, we have greatly improved our understanding of the Chaos Realm I understand, but it just makes us feel even more uneasy."

"It will indeed be like this..."

The head of the think tank showed a wry smile on his face, and the helplessness in it reflected a sense of powerlessness that could not go away:

"That was really... a heavy blow to everyone's spirit. The millennium war with humans has seriously polluted the subspace of this world. Our pain and anger, human pain, anger and despair, and borrowing The Flood who is making waves with this emotion... and the powerful creature called the 'star devourer' who was attracted by it. Some people reflect on whether our actions in the war are [-]% correct, and whether we have really overdone it , but the Supreme Council was unwilling to admit this. My husband was also hit hard by this, because it was he who crushed the resistance of mankind and defeated the morale of mankind with despair. Responsibility, and the children followed him to death in front of humans, which made him gradually become... paranoid."

Oregana nodded thoughtfully.

The protracted war between the two interstellar civilizations will indeed pollute the subspace, because if there is a perennial war, people’s more and more negative emotions will definitely accumulate in the subspace and affect the subspace, and then reversely affect the material universe .This is the so-called matter determines consciousness, and consciousness is active in matter.In this case, if there is a strong enough psionic reaction, it will attract bugs...

Nowadays, the subspace disturbance caused by a simple war between two civilizations is not strong. If you don't detonate a super large-scale psionic explosion deliberately, it will be difficult to attract bugs.This is after the Sanctuary World Group was established. After cutting off the access and transmission paths, it is difficult for the bugs outside to notice the situation inside, and it is not so easy to get in.But that was not the case back then. At that time, everywhere was everywhere, all roads led to Constantbul, and bugs came and went whenever they wanted.

Millennium-long wars, powerful civilizations, and a large number of intelligent life forms are all tags that attract bugs.

"The messenger brought information about this race—then of course we will fight against this creature. We are the forerunners and the guardians of all things. The roots of civilization have long been under our careful protection. As long as there is life The land will be filled with the wisdom of our countless generations, and our power is like a glorious sun, shining on all intelligent life, allowing them to flourish and develop under impenetrable protection."

The chief think tank spoke with undisguised pride, but there was regret and loneliness in the words—countless ages have come to an end, the power like the shining sun has dissipated, and there is no way to 'tightly protect' talk about.No matter where you look at it, there is a sense of twilight.

"But at this moment, the Flood came back, and they launched an attack when we were intercepting the star devourers going to this world." She clenched her fists hard, "This caused the pioneers who had not ended the war not long ago to fall into a trap." At this moment, the envoy sent us such a message..."

"what news?"

"Establish a refuge world group to solve all this once and for all, because the situation is too serious to continue, and all worlds are in crisis. Just like the flood, if you don't stop it quickly, wait for their power to grow There is no chance at all. So..." The chief think tank took a few deep breaths, as if he had made up his mind:

"The grand planner agreed to the envoy's request, and the forerunner will assist the Chaos Realm in the establishment of the refuge world group."

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Chapter 1085 Chapter 118: Inheritance and Memory

"The grand planner agreed to the envoy's request, and the forerunner will assist the Chaos Realm in the establishment of the refuge world group."

Oregana nodded silently.

The Flood's attack was already fierce and difficult to resist, and asking for help to build the Sanctuary World Group at this time... In various senses, it would be fatal.Because in most cases, this job is to let your troops block the opening when the original natural passage between the world and the world is cut off here, for as long as it can be blocked.

No matter how you think about it, you know that this loss must be quite astonishing... No, before mentioning the loss of troops, you have to take out so many troops first.While responding to the two-line attack of the Flood Demon and the Dark Worm on the mainland, they also picked out a large army to go to the 'border' to block the gap.For the pioneers, this decision must be quite difficult.

But Hongtu Jiang made this decision.This may be due to his pride as a forerunner, or the teachings from the 'Mantle' (Mantle) - the word Mantle can be translated as a mantle, and it is also a responsibility to be passed on.It endows the pioneers with a kind of religious devotion, and at the same time advocates the sense of responsibility and mission of "delivering all living beings".

To be honest, the last paragraph is in line with Tartarus's code of conduct. The first article of the "Cruel Angel (referring to the Four Gods Chosen) Program of Action" is 'Salvation'.But the forerunners had some problems when practicing the 'mantle' over the long years.

After the forerunner regarded himself as the leader of all things, the warrior class firmly believed that openly opposing the forerunner was tantamount to contempt for the idea of ​​the mantle, and wiped out all opposing forces without hesitation.Sensual superiority also allowed the Forerunners to isolate themselves from other races.What's more, the Forerunners regard any civilization claiming to be the true heir to the mantle as heretical.

Not only that, the forerunners not only did not allow each race to gain a place based on its own strengths, but on the contrary eliminated the conditions for the progress of every civilization. With the existence of guardians like the forerunners, any external forces that can force civilization to technological and cultural progress Threats are all eliminated.When the force of the forerunners cannot gain an advantage in the face of new and powerful enemies, no one can hold their backs—because the race that was originally capable of developing a powerful civilization has not been returned to the primitive era. , to domesticate the new elephant or muskfoot, is to live under their shelter in the greenhouse and enjoy decent peace, and at this moment is completely unable to deal with the strong wind outside.

"Is there no objection to his idea?" The Skull Maker asked softly. "Judging from the situation at the time, there must be a lot of controversy about this decision, right?"