Sword of Daybreaker

civil war…

Gawain stood on the edge of Merita's back, his sights crossed the huge dragon wings, and he stared for a long time at the torn port on the distant "horizon" and the wreckage of the spacecraft that was blasted into three sections by some powerful weapon. The scale of the wreck is so amazing that a piece of debris floating in the void weightlessly is almost the size of a castle, and just think about how indestructible this thing is when it is intact, and the force that will destroy it is enough. Increasingly frightening.

Indeed, only the weapons of the sailors can destroy their own heritage so simply and thoroughly.

"I watched these destroyed wrecks carefully," Melita's voice came from the front. "Some of them were obviously destroyed without resistance. The spacecraft was parked in the harbor, and the defensive weapons of nearby facilities were still there. Keep in a locked state, while others... destroyed each other in the internal melee, the port attacked the spacecraft, the spacecraft bombed the port, the wreckage fragments were mixed together, and there were traces left by the collision...It feels like here. The command system suddenly went mad, and he fought himself, and the result of this terrible'civil war' is that there is only one intact spaceship left in this'homeport'..."

Gawain silently listened to Merita's words. He didn't know for a moment whether he should breathe a sigh of relief because the sentinel was seriously injured in the system conflict or he should be frightened by the terrible destructive power of the vision. There was a complicated expression and a low voice: "You are right... The command system here is really crazy."

"Indeed crazy?" Melita tilted her head slightly. She had not been in the hut before, so she didn't know the messages left by the elven twins at this moment. "What does this mean?"

"...The home port you see in front of you is the'sentinel', and the spaceships that were destroyed should be the'execution and investigation agency' under the control of the sentry," Gao Wen sorted out the ones he had just obtained in his mind. Intelligence, while thinking about it, said slowly, "This ancient system was built by the sailors 1.8 million years ago. However, at least a thousand years ago, it was already polluted by the back tide. The sentinel’s original mechanized system was generated. A mind, a mind full of malice..."

He has a low voice, telling everything he has seen in the cabin, including not only the ins and outs of the "sentinel", but also the affairs of the elven twins and Modil Wilde. In the process of his narration, Melita appeared to be exceptional. Serious and silent, except for instigating the giant wings to keep flying from time to time, all her energy seemed to be immersed in the astonishing truth and huge amount of information that Gawain brought.

Although Melita's face could not be seen from this angle, Gawain could feel the emotional change of this Miss Blue Dragon-she was obviously shocked, and seemed to be frightened.

"The basic situation is like this," Gao Wen said at last, "Now we have made some speculations based on the existing intelligence. We believe that the tide of escape from the tower should now be dragged by Lady Ye, and it has successfully entered reality. The "sentinel" of the world may be taking new actions because they have been unable to converge with the tide for a long time. This action is mostly related to the changes in the Deep Blue Network."

"Speculation..." Melita said slowly, and then there was obviously loss in her emotions, and even serious self-doubt, "The pollution has leaked out at least a thousand years ago...Natalrond's experience for so many years What exactly did the monitoring monitor..."

I monitored the loneliness—Gawain almost said so subconsciously, but considering that Melita might not want to go down on the spot, he didn't dare to say this.

"Talrond's monitoring at least ensures that the reverse tide cannot spread directly outside the real world. If this is destined to be a disaster, then this disaster has been delayed by you for 1.8 million years," think a little, Gao Wen shook his head and said, "It should be unavoidable that its spread between the legacy of the sailors, whether it is you or your god, it was impossible to monitor the sentry system at the beginning, so you have done what you can do. all."

"But this disaster was the bane planted by our dragon at first," Melita said very soberly. As a dragon, her pride made her unable to avoid the mistakes her family had committed. "If we hadn't been recklessly Starting the Reversal Plan will never create such an out-of-control monster in the sailor’s legacy, and none of this will happen at all now..."

Having said this, she paused for a moment, and slowly said in a particularly solemn tone: "If a decisive battle breaks out, the dragon clan can be the vanguard... This is what Speaker Andal asked me to convey."

"...Your'human' population is not much left," Gao Wen said lightly, "If you don't beat it this way, it will kill the clan."

"We are here to stay-according to the original plan of the dragon clan, we should die in the coming-of-age ceremony," Melita said, shaking her head slightly, "and for the dragon, betraying responsibility itself is no different from death."

Gawain didn't say much, and he didn't have to say much. Melita's attitude at the moment not only represents her "person", but also represents the will of the entire ethnic group behind her. The dragon... this special race has always had a tough and united mind, and they can endure for an adult ceremony. For more than one million years, a plan for the extinction of the tribe was engraved on the bottom of every member's mind. Then when they made a new decision... it was impossible to persuade others to persuade them.

What's more, this is indeed the evil result they made millions of years ago.

"Anyway, now we finally have a clear timeline," Gao Wen said slowly, "The infection and out-of-control process of the sentinel and the reverse tide is finally no longer the same as before."

Melita nodded slightly, and at the same time, a clear timeline was gradually and clearly outlined in her mind:

At least a thousand years ago, the body of the upsurge was still trapped in the tower, but its pollution has begun to spread in the legacy of the sailors and polluted the sentry system located in the deep sea. Then the Gondor Empire rebelled against the plan and an experimental accident occurred. Sisters Lerna and Ferna were transported to the sentinel homeport in the accident. They were captured and copied by the sentinel who had lost control at the time. Then they were washed away and trapped in the wreckage area of ​​the giant tree of reincarnation. The sentinel transferred her mind to the Elf Twins. One of the duplication body successfully broke free of its own program restrictions and entered the mortal world;

In the following hundreds of years, the Sentinel was dormant in the human world, and its status was changed from an academic adviser of the rebellious plan to a dark priest of the end of all things. The Sisters Lerna, who was trapped in the Sentinel’s home port, gradually investigated the truth and restored her memory. And aware of the threat of the'sentinel';

Six hundred years ago, Modil entered the high tide tower, was polluted by the high tide, and was subsequently rescued and purified by the Dragon God. However, the effect of this purification was doubtful. In the following ten years, Modil continued to travel around the world. , Until he disappeared during an adventure to the north of the mainland-now it is known that he actually fell into the sentinel homeport in the "deep sea" and appeared in front of the trapped elven twins, and at that time he had already begun to contact the power of the night lady , And there are signs of memory instability. The elven twins informed Modil about the sentinel's warning, but the latter split then, carrying the "sentinel warning" half of the body into the kingdom of Lady Night, and the other half of the body returned to the mortal world, beginning to lose his memory. Keep on wandering

At the same time, around this period of time, the body of the adversity finally broke free from the tower seal with the help of the deep blue fissure—it is still unsure whether it has taken any other actions after getting out of the trap. Only one thing can be determined: the current adversity, It should be trapped in the Kingdom of Shadow God.

What happens later... is that everything will end up doing things around Old Anzu. The "sentinel" in the form of elven twins is planning its sinister plan in a low-key manner, until Cecil rises and everything is dead. After the fall, the "sentinel" could no longer find help in the human world, so he retreated into the wasteland of Gondor and continued to do things...

While Melita was lost in thought, Gawain did not speak again, but he was not in a daze, but kept focused, sinking his consciousness and communicating with the surveillance satellite on the planetary orbit and the sky orbit. station.

The barrier of the “deep sea” environment cannot interfere with the advanced heritage of the sailor. Even if Gao Wen is separated from the Sky Station by an unknown number of different spaces at this moment, he still successfully connects to his own body and the orbital space station. After his dizziness and "sense of detachment of the soul", his vision gradually expanded, and the familiar satellite monitoring interface and the interactive interface of the Sky Station appeared in front of him at the same time.

Gao Wen settled down and began to perform an operation he had performed many times: "Sky, expand all online facilities-including surface units."

In the next second, countless dots of blue light and a huge star ring appeared above the planetary diagram in front of him. It was the satellite array, space station group, and sky station in space. After a short delay, On the planet's surface, a high-tower projection representing the orbital elevator has also emerged-this is all the facilities that can be contacted by the Sky Station.

Of course, most of them are just "connected". Those ancient downtime satellites and space stations are basically unable to perform any tasks. Compared with the sentinel system located in the deep sea, the state of those conventional satellites is obviously worse than that. It's one and a half.

Perhaps only Cangqiang Station is in a better state, but Gawain's control over it is very limited.

Gawain silently stared at these flashing projections "in front of his eyes". After a moment of contemplation, he once again communicated with the main control system of the sky: "Are there no more facilities for connection?"

The main control system of the sky cast an indifferent mechanical response deep in his consciousness: "The list has been fully expanded."

"...Query the level system, codenamed ‘Sentinel’." After a moment of silence, Gao Wen asked again.

"...Error, the'Sentinel' system is offline and the status cannot be determined."

Gao Wen's heart moved-Cangqiong Station's reply was not "No such information", but "Sentinel system is offline", which shows that under normal circumstances, there should be some kind of communication protocol between Cangqiong Station's main system and Sentinel system. !

His mind flew around, thinking about what could be useful in the information in front of him, thinking about whether there is a "key point" between the sentinel system and the sky system for him to intervene in and use, he knew that he must be very careful, because the sentinel The system and the sky system are equal, and the sky station authority he obtained through the "BUG" may not be able to deal with this situation. On the other hand, the "back tide" that pollutes the sentry system has a huge impact on the sailor's legacy. He didn't know whether his "external soul" would also be affected by this kind of pollution.

If one is wrong, Gawain himself will overturn the car.

While thinking, he continued to communicate with the sky: "Has the sentry sent back an error log?"

Cangqiong Station continued to respond with indifferent machinery: "Invalid query, there is no need for peer-level systems to transmit error logs to each other."

"How long ago was the sentry's last contact?"

"System backtracking... The last data communication occurred 1355 planetary revolutions ago."

Before 1355...this is probably the real time when the sentry system loses control, and it is also the time when the tide pollution spreads to the deep sea!

Gawain silently wrote down this new clue in his heart, and then he pondered it over and over before speaking again: "...If there is some kind of evidence that the sentry system has a fatal failure, it must be destroyed to prevent the entire system from crashing, what should be done?"

He waited expectantly, but the cold and rigid Sky Master System did not respond to his special question.

This may be beyond the processing power of Cangqiong Station, or maybe... he has not found the key "point" yet.

He continued to try, trying to dig out more secrets related to the sentry from the limited response of the Sky Station, and a feasible plan to destroy the out-of-control system...

After a long time, Gawain opened his eyes on Melita's back. He saw that the steel ground below was slowly moving backward, and directly below was a piece of building on an alloy high platform, composed of countless silver-gray and light golden prisms. The combined "Tallinn", there is an electric arc flashing in the depths of the Tallinn, the ancient lights illuminate the surroundings, and Melita's voice comes from the front: "You woke up from'meditation'?"

"Ah, yes."

"I heard you meditate like just now," Melita said. "After meditating, you will solve a lot of problems. Is it the same this time?"

"...In the face of today's super trouble, one meditation may not be enough," Gawain said helplessly, and at the same time a little curious, "What's down there?"

"The center of the whole'homeport'. I actually want to find the control center here, but that place looks like an energy node...this'homeport' is too big, we may not understand its structure for a thousand years ."

Gawain didn't say a word, but silently looked down at the flashing "Tallinn", and he heard Melita's voice sound: "You said, if we blow up this place, can we destroy the entire "home port"?"

"First of all, there is a question-what do you use to blow up this stuff?" Gawain sighed, "Use the magic of friendship?"

"...Although I don't know what the magic of friendship is, I guess the most powerful magic and weapon in the world will not work," Melita said helplessly. "Let’s not talk about the scale of that thing, just around it. The floating energy intensity exceeds the total output of the old Tarrond shield. I can’t think of any weapon that can break through the energy barrier below...not to mention that this'homeport' may still have some kind of automatic counterattack. mechanism…"

Miss Blue Dragon shook her head as she spoke: "We can fly around here now, perhaps because we haven't made any threatening actions, and once we show some kind of hostility, this home port I’m afraid that my immune system is about to be activated..."

Gawain touched his chin with a thoughtful expression: "Immunity..."

(End of this chapter)