Xiling Empire

The dismantling of the black wreckage of unknown origin is actually not very technically difficult. Regardless of the material or the protection technology, it is far below the level of the technology of the Empire, which is basically the level of the high-level servants. The high-level equipment to deal with such a thing is a big deal for the disassembly experts who have been tossing with Hesuo for several days. After a simple scan, the technicians determined the layer-by-layer structure of the black cube and locked it. A rectangular container at the core: If the guess is correct, the coffin that Miss Lin refers to should be that thing in essence.

Then, under the guidance of the young lady, the experts found the "energy knot" located near the core of the cube, which is the only place where the entire cube has an energy response, but it is now in a silent state, with the energy level and activity released. Very low, if it is not reminded by the young lady in advance, I am afraid no one will pay attention to this humble gadget-but according to Lin Xue's prediction, it is precisely this energy knot that will suddenly get out of control and burn down in the final step of disassembly. Cube core. Otherwise, there is a treasure in the house of a prophet, Lin Xue's existence has no idea how many times the loss that has almost been inevitable for me has been avoided.

After a brief discussion, the technical experts decided to cut from a ridge of the cube and completely pierce part of its shell: anyway, looking at the state of this thing, it also knows that its shell has no retained value. After breaking through the shell, the intricate mechanical structure and crystallized energy lines inside the cube appeared in front of everyone, and the next operation needs to be a bit more delicate. Because these internal structures may have some research value, the two self-discipline machines separated the seemingly full-featured modules from the inside of the cube by precise dismantling, and then expanded the scope of the cutting operation. Sandora took the distorted module from an assistant technician, who seemed to have experienced high temperature and kinetic energy shocks, and looked curiously. After a while she handed me the module: "Ajun, do you feel familiar?"

"I? I'm afraid I can't create a sense of familiarity," I shrugged. "It seems that only the original Spirit Apostle like you can have that weird familiarity. What does this thing have to do with the Spirit Apostle ..."

"I'm not saying this," Sandora said. "I'll show you this module, its design ..."

I took the dark thing in puzzling, and watched it over and over again and again, I can't see its function, I can only see a lot of parallel inlays in the middle of a lot of unclear alloy components. The mosaic reflected cold light under the light. After a closer look, I found that it was actually some kind of dark blue crystal. No more ... can't see it.

"It feels a little bit related to the Empire equipment," Sandora's tone was not very sure, "Of course. It looks like there is a big gap, but this crystal conduction structure is a classic design. Now many energy equipment of Empire equipment The basic architecture is built on this structure-but the difference is really not small compared to the thing in your hand. It gives me the feeling that the current thing has a very subtle similarity in architecture with the Empire equipment. "

At this time, the self-discipline machine that cuts inside the cube finally came into contact with the barrier. It was a completely sealed alloy protective cover. There was a weak energy flow on the protective cover. In the original historical line, this layer The seemingly fragile protective cover was directly dismantled and the cube core was burned. However, since Lin Xue had already given a warning in advance, such a thing would certainly not happen. Miss Prophet grabbed my hand and drew it on the cube: "Come, try hard."

Me: "... Can you stop saying such strange things?"

While talking, I found the "energy knot" that was emitting a weak energy response, and then completely controlled it with my own special power: "Well, continue to operate, I will drain its energy. "

There was a slight “snack” from the cube, and the phase cutter of the self-discipline machine easily destroyed the core shield. At the same time, in my telepathy, that energy node quickly reacted strongly and was about to self-destruct-but it was easily annihilated by me. At this time I suddenly came up with an idea: such a decisive device is really full of immediate sight.

"That's it. Remove the bomb now." Lin Xue commanded blindly ... Okay, it's not a blind command. "The second machine cuts the base and the hexagonal lock first, don't hesitate to cut it, Anyway, the mechanical lock has been scrapped. When the first machine waits for the bracket to start to pull down, it will explode a little. Do n’t worry about it. The uncle who stayed there over there, do n’t touch the parts in front of you, first Remove the next one, otherwise you will be cut off by Tavel himself tomorrow afternoon—don’t ask why, this is the butterfly effect, do you understand the butterfly effect! Aurelia, you lift the left wing up twenty centimeters and stay for a while To splash dirty things on your wings ... Ah, and that white-haired beauty over there, don't touch ... Um, you've touched it, well, I just remind you that you will be unlucky after ten minutes ... "

Coco Keina floated beside the council and said dullly after a long time: "... The first time I saw such a strange command scene, some people did not rely on technology and experience, but directly based on the future picture they saw. To give orders, every step is frightening. "

I understand Cocokina ’s feelings, but he probably has n’t heard of what is called Raiders: When you play a decryption game to a critical moment, you suddenly pop up a second goods holding this game Raiders to give you spoilers from the beginning to the end At that time, you should be able to understand what kind of existence Lin Xue is. No, Lin Xue should be more powerful than that, because she not only looks at the guide to know what you should choose next, she also knows what you look like after being spoiled by spoilers all the way, and deeply understands how to continue Makes you more crazy ... well, it's far away. I mean, under the premise of not making trouble, Miss Lin's "spoiler" ability is actually quite cute.

There was a constant jingling sound inside the cube, and the self-discipline machine was busy inside. Then “哧 ——” sounded softly, as if something was slipping off the support frame, and then the dirty Autonomous Machine No. 2 murmured from the large hole on the side of the cube, carefully lifting it. A metal cylinder emitting a faint blue light is what Lin Xue calls an "energy knot." This is probably an energy device with inefficient energy harvesting and energy storage functions. I do n’t know how Lin Xue calls it: The prophet always speaks this way, sometimes she does n’t know why she uses a specific noun. Describe what you see, anyway, you just follow it unconsciously. I took this half-meter-long from the self-disciplined machine, and looked at the metal column like a monocular with a thick head, and stunned in my hand: "You energy."

Yes. There are obvious psionic energy residues in the metal columns, and the pattern is very similar to the psionic spectrum used by the Empire. In fact, phantom energy is not the only energy source of the Apostles of the Spirit. It is as if Holy Light is not only used by the astral gods. In fact, as long as you can contact the civilization of the void, you can basically master this super energy that decays from the void. According to the frequency spectrum and the degree of decay, these energy may have some differences in characteristics, but basically they can be called It is phantom. The most remarkable feature of the psionic power used by the Empire is the blue that represents high activity, and now I am sure. The phantom response carried by the metal cylinder in his hand is the standard energy of the empire.

Things seem more and more interesting, and now we are 100% sure. This cube is related to the empire. Not only does it use the standard energy of the empire, but also its internal structure, or architecture, has subtle commonalities with the technology that the empire now uses, but the technical level of the cube is obviously weaker than the real empire. Technology, it's more like an old antique or a cottage, isn't it ...

Is this something used by a tributary race in the old empire?

Are the Merovas actually hunting down another group of Empire vassals?

I messed up and thought about it in a marginal way, until a loud noise called "Dangdang" came around to draw my attention away. When I turned my head, the original side of the cube finally couldn't bear the continuous internal damage. In addition, it was already severely damaged. About half of the pieces were broken directly from it and fell to the ground after a loud noise. A gray-faced female assistant technician with short white hair is standing. It looks like it hasn't escaped: scientists rarely keep their skills agile at work.

Lin Xue shrugged: "Look, I said you'd be out of luck in ten minutes."

With this effort, can you tell people to avoid it in advance?

With the collapse of this part of the structure, the inside of the cube was also dismantled, and the core fixed by the complicated mechanical locking device was also exposed to us. The self-discipline machine removed it from the support frame and moved it to the open space. Then I saw its original appearance: it looked like an old dorm room.

"Open it." Sandora said without hesitation-we are not worried that rushing to open would kill the life that may exist in the dorm, because there is a fatal injury to the side of the dorm, if there is life in it, now He died early.

The cover of the hibernation capsule was peeled off in bright cutting sparks, and appeared before us as an unusually burly warrior wearing power armor all over his body-of course, no life response.

"This kind of power armor ..." Sandora leaned down and looked at the armor worn on the remains. "It looks like an old design pattern. The psionic shield generator still relies on the energy box on the back. To provide extra energy, but it is indeed the infrastructure of Imperial Technology, but I ca n’t see which equipment has been eliminated in this area. This looks too old, even if it ’s not suitable for servants. Well, the armor shell is well sealed, and the remains inside may have been powdered, but it is still possible to analyze the life form. Open his mask and be careful, it may be fragile inside. "

Two assistant technicians approached under Sandora's order. They changed their fingers into slender probes, pierced the slits in the remains of the power armor of the remains, and opened the armor normally from the inside-they I didn't use the cutting method, I was probably afraid of damaging the contents. This set of armor does not know how many years have passed, but it is incredible that it can be opened smoothly, the mask on the helmet is opened, and everyone around you takes a breath of air.

I thought I would be in the presence of a highly weathered corpse of one of the servants of an old empire, and there might even be a suspicious mass of organic powder. It may even be empty at all, but none of it is full of the remains of soldiers.

There was no weathering, and it did not turn into a powder at the moment of contact with the air. The remains almost completely maintained the appearance of his life. He is a strong man, close to human beings, but there is no small difference from human appearance. His skin looks more The texture like metal or plastic has almost no gloss. It appears off-white, and there are neat blue lines around the face, and the lines are actually directly inlaid on the skin, like some kind of line, reminiscent of a robot skull that does not cover the bionic skin. This appearance made me think of the robot soldier for the first time, but after careful discrimination, I didn't feel like it. The other party didn't have that kind of bluntness. He should be a real life, just ... a bit similar to the war puppets made by the empire.

"This ..." Sandora spit out a word for a long time. Then she suddenly realized something, and put her hand on the forehead of the remains. A series of flashes of light flowed through my eyes, as if scanning the other person's internal structure. After a while, I heard her wondering to herself, "This ... is an apostle? A spirit apostle?"

"OK?" I was a little surprised, but I didn't feel too incredible. To be honest, I feel quite confused now, and I and Lin Xue are halfway home. The origin of the Earthman (at least in this life), is not an original Apostle such as Sandora, so Sandora and the imperial technicians on the scene have a strange reaction to me, and I can only Vaguely felt that the situation was not right, but did not know what Sandora was feeling. It was really aggrieved.

"Yes, sure. This is an apostle of the spirit, but it is so ancient that I can't even believe that the body structure of the apostle of the spirit can be like this ... inferior," Sandora stood up. He instructed other staff members to further process the remains, "I know the body structure of each type of Apostles, but this one ... except for the identification features, there is nothing consistent with my memory. Most of the components in his body are The solidified, even some parts, are still in the stage of poor mechanical substitution, which is very different from the half-energy construct of the current Spirit Apostle, and I ca n’t scan the other person ’s memory core, I do n’t know it was the beginning It was not installed, or it was damaged by an accident ... It is impossible to determine the age of the apostle. He was a soldier of the old empire era, but this super old antique model ... can't even recognize it now, you can imagine that there should be How old. "

I tried to keep up with Sandora, trying to look at the whole event from her perspective, and Lin Xue thoughtfully said, "That is, the model that may have stopped serving before you were born? Even in the database Super-old models without any records? "

Sandora nodded: "I'm afraid that's the case, and in this way ... I'm afraid the cube in front of us is also a thing of the age. Is the time now in billions of years? Maybe even longer! It's incredible, so old Things that have been preserved to this day still appear to us ... "

"The age that is totally unthinkable ..." Lin Xue couldn't help but sigh. "The shelf life of things made by the Empire is very long, but the shelf life of things made so long ago is so exaggerated?"

"Unexplainable, unexplainable," Sandora held her forehead. "Well, I need to calm down even now. In theory, it is impossible to preserve such an ancient thing, not to mention it seems to be still in a void environment. Drifted for a while, but it has been preserved and looks in good condition-you send this remains and cubes to the institute, no matter what means, give me a detailed report as soon as possible, including His approximate service date and cause of death, if possible, find out if there is any data recording equipment. The most important point: it must not be damaged! "

"Yes! Your will!" The uncle of Vitok or Kotovi or any other name immediately made a military salute, and with a serious expression began to command his assistant to carefully collect everything on the scene into Genna. in. I glanced at Sandorla, who was in deep thought, and tried to say, "So ... are the Merovas snatching the remains of an old Empire soldier?"

"It's even more unreasonable, right?" Sandora looked at me, grinning bitterly. "Things have entered a larger fog zone, the remains of an old Empire soldier may have special significance to us, but for What is the value of those Melova rebels? "

"No matter what the value, they are dead," Aurelia kept silent, and couldn't help but say, "They have stolen a large part of your Majesty's property, and wiped out the empire's badge. Shooting at the corpses of soldiers from the old empire, what are the lunatics planning to do? "

"You don't even know?" I glanced at Aurelia ~ www.readwn.com ~ She was the only one who might know the Mellowes, but she shook her head at me: " I know the level of the Merova wars and how to direct them to charge, but other than that, the cultural beliefs and ways of thinking of the Melovas ... can only be said to be sloppy ... uh, majesty, you It is also known that the old empire had a little bit of a policy on its servants ... "

"Forget it, I knew it was going to be like that," I said, waving my hands weakly.

We did not stop at Kailudakdo, but returned directly to Shadow City to follow up the experts' analysis of the cube and the remains. This time, neither Sandora nor I waited too long. That afternoon, An explosive news came from the research center.

Tavel himself reports to us:

"Your Majesty, we may have discovered a primitive."

PS: In recent years, earthquakes have occurred frequently, and now it is also affected by Sichuan. Living in a city reconstructed from the ruins after the earthquake, such as Tangshan, I have heard many people talking about it, and the old people who survived that year also booed. Those who have the ability can do something. Even if they don't have that ability, at this time, let's meditate on peace for the people in the disaster area.