Xiling Empire

It took me a lot of work to convince Harlan that Sylvia-or that Belavila was not what I am now, and then pulled him to sit near the window and asked for some snacks and Greek Serbia's handmade freshly squeezed juices. Harlan kept his expression stunned all the way, watching Sylvia busily behind the counter, not returning until a plate of snacks was placed in front of him. I glanced at him curiously: "Are you familiar with Bella Villa?"

"It's not too familiar. When the old empire was still alive, she and I were far away from each other, so there wasn't much intersection, just after being polluted-you know, we've had a few times in the fallen apostles camp. Acting together, "Harlan said casually while observing the delicate pastry in front of him." Although I don't know much, I know Bellavira is an indifferent person. How to get along. The gap with this is almost ... I still can't believe the scene in front of me. "

"That's it when we brought her back," I talked about Bellawela's transformation into Sylvia, and I spoke for ten minutes before explaining the ins and outs. "That's it, Bellaway La split into two people, the original personality was sleeping most of the time, and Sylvia controlled this physical activity. But recently Bellavira has recovered some vitality. She is trying to help us train the raven and mystery as much as possible. The caster unit on the side, when she is better, she will also go to the city of heaven to help. "

"I can't believe this is what she did," Harlan pointed to the snack on the table. "Any normal Spirit apostle cannot make such a gorgeous and meaningless thing. I can feel this is called Greek Hervia's personality was very different from Bella Villa's. She didn't even have the consciousness of being an apostle of Spirit. It was incredible. This had never been the case before, and a powerful Emperor of Spirit was injured to such an extent. "

Harlan said that the normal Apostles of the Spirit can never do these things in front of us. I believe that there is a standard of Sandora's cooking. As for Harlan's sigh, I don't take it for granted: "I think Sylvia is in a good shape now, and Belavila has admitted that Sylvia is a bit like the personality she created to escape and rest. Sylvia likes ordinary days. She's peaceful, a little lazy, and kind of overkill. I've never seen anyone angry with her: Bella Villa has been yearning for such a life for a long time, and she can have this. The chance to have a rest is actually good. "

Harlan was thinking, maybe he didn't understand this mentality. He is different from Bella Villa. I can see that this is an old emperor who is still burning with fighting spirit, and he has not encountered the kind of betrayal that Bellavira encountered. The latter is already tired, so I just want to rest and hope to live in a place where I do n’t need Use your mind to worry about the world in peace and contentment, and live your life safely. Most of the former cannot agree with this "escape" idea. Sure enough, Harlan shook her head slightly after thinking: "I can't understand it, but that's Bella Villara's idea. She decided so that no one else could say anything."

"Actually good. She also helps me with a lot of things now-if I just wake up." I smiled and said that Harlan didn't understand Bella Villa: It was just right: I was afraid he would talk to the latter too I plan to retire. I really want to do that. Sandora and I have lost a lot of money. I tried to catch such an old emperor in order to give my elder care. Haran said that I wouldn't even cry when I retired.

"What is Occam's betrayal ..." After a few seconds of silence, Haran suddenly sighed, "He was a good self-disciplined man before the fall. Although he was a scientific researcher, he had the roots of a soldier. He Loyalty to the Empire and his mission seemed a bit harsh in his field of research, but at other times he was kind to everyone-so we gave him the nickname of "honest man." Occam is something I've seen. The best scientist of the company, even after corruption, he is also the best, but he did not expect that he would eventually come to this step ... The corruption that killed that day turned us into a monster ... "

"You have a good relationship with Occam?" I heard that Harlan knew the Occam very well, and suddenly he cared.

"In day 103, Occam was originally my chief technician," Harlan raised his head and looked into my eyes. "Also the best scientist of the old empire, I thought you knew this."

I opened my mouth suddenly, and remembered after a long time that I did hear about it: "I did know it, but I didn't think about it for a while-what, if you don't mind, tell the situation over there Let me talk about you? I'm curious about the fallen apostles-you know, Bellavira's memory is already disorganized, and the other fallen apostles we caught are not high enough. "

Harlan smiled and nodded indifferently: "Of course, no problem, but beforehand: I know it may not be much more than Bella Villa. What you said a few days ago is right, our memories are passive, in the abyss After the impact subsided, a lot of deep memory was washed away, and I only saved insignificant parts. "

"After the disaster, the order of the old empire was completely disrupted. Only less than one-third of the original emperor and their high-ranking apostles survived. In addition, for a long time, the state of muddy sand was scattered. The first thing that the Lord did after the appearance was to reorganize the fallen apostles. 'It' never appeared, but it could control everything through the spiritual network of the apostles, and it directly used this irresistible control to divide us again Some of the emperor's strength is well preserved, and there are more survivors under his control, so he became a few pillar military giants, taking charge of the remaining areas of the old territory-I am one of them, my reset The ability to protect a large number of military facilities during the disaster. After the chaos period ended, I became one of the strongest emperors. The remaining personal strengths are well preserved, but the emperors who have been incomplete are divided into two categories: In a better situation, he became the leader of the independent legion, forming his own faction, with legions and territories, but without the power of the sky zone. Belavila is his The situation is worse. They can only depend on others. The emperors or generals basically have more or less personal strength damage. The men are almost completely destroyed. They can no longer pull the legion, and only Can be a hawk dog under the military giants or commanders, they still retain the names of emperors or generals, but to be honest ... these titles have no meaning, 'the Lord' uses its criteria to judge the value of an apostle, it I do n’t care if it ’s a former emperor who was assigned to be the commander of the fleet by others. It does n’t care about anything. Except for the “big cause”, it does n’t even show any emotional tendencies. I even think that “the adult” It's not a real personality at all ... at least not as clearly as you and me. "

Of course not--I thought. If the guess is correct, the "admiral" of the fallen apostle is another part of the consciousness of the spirit that split out of the spirit, the super life born in the spiritual network of the spirit apostle. This super life is completely different from the "outside people" The way of thinking, she will never care about things in the real world. It's as if the spirit couldn't tell the difference between dusk and morning. However, it seems that the spirit is more humane than the "adult" of the fallen apostle. At least the spirit has joy and sorrow and seems to like Sandor and me very much. The abyss version of the fallen apostle is completely complete. Like a feelingless rule machine.

Harlan mentioned the great cause just now, and of course I was more interested in it, but it was just as expected. Harlan waved his hand apologetically: he couldn't answer what the great cause was. This part of the data must be the core secret of the fallen apostles. It was the first batch of deleted data at the moment when the reverse transformation was completed.

"In fact, the above are all relatively lucky," Harlan returned to the topic of the relationship between the fallen apostles, "even if they fall from the emperor to the commander. It has no effect on us, anyway, the spirit apostle does not have much concept of power. The same is true even if we become fallen apostles: we do n’t need to pursue power. What ’s really unfortunate is the part of the apostle who completely collapsed after the catastrophe but did not die, and was rejected by the spiritual network because he offended 'the Lord' Go out ... "

Haran's eyes changed: "They were called 'Tearers,' in short and concise, the part that was torn from the apostle community. The tearers were either severely wounded in the disaster that year, or even chaotic. After the end, they are unable to restore their sages, and even the severely mutated individuals whose forms cannot be restored, are either kicked out of the spiritual network in the later stage and deprived of all the authority of the 'Betrayer'. The Ripper is rejected by everyone and they cannot connect to the general The net was regarded as a “freak” by the former compatriots, and most of the Rippers died quickly: they were always sent to perform the most dangerous tasks, or to go to unknown areas as pioneers, and they did not even have troops , Even if there is no command, so they can only be mixed with the abyss monsters, driving the beasts and turning themselves into beasts ... "

"Like ... Caesars?" I suddenly remembered the first fallen emperor I encountered, and it now seemed that the fallen emperor, who could not even maintain the apostolic form, was exactly like the tearman in Haran's mouth.

"He was indeed one of the Rippers. I heard he was killed in a pioneering operation in an unknown area," Harlan nodded. "It looks like he encountered you. No one will investigate him after Caesar's death. Cause of death, the group of fallen apostles only mentioned his name when announcing the death list. You can imagine how sad the ripper is. Corruption has changed our nature. If it was the old days, we would never look at it like this. A former fellow, even if he accidentally lost all his power, we will treat the fellow as a glorious veteran, but in the fallen apostle group, we give up all feelings except for the goal given by 'the Lord', Under this premise, individuals who cannot provide power for the 'great cause' are easily discarded, and everyone does not hesitate. "

Harlan and I sighed for this, but the past has passed, and there is nothing to regret. I still mentioned the border war a few days ago: "What was going on at the time? Everyone can see that you are wrong , You and your army are like sleepwalking ... "

"That's all I want to say," Hara stared sharply. "Sleepwalking-the word is very appropriate. In those days, my state of mind was chaotic. I didn't know what I was doing. I could only determine one thing. I And my army seems to have been executed by 'that adult', not at the real level, but at the level of the spiritual network: the last thing I remember. It is the spiritual connection of all of us to the access point. Transfer to a separate network segment, and then open this network segment. After that, the memory is chaotic. "

I couldn't help leaning my upper body forward, and a vague speculation crossed my head like lightning: "You said that your spiritual link was in contact with something else? How did you feel at the time?"

"You may not believe it," Harlan grinned. "Do you know why I led all my subordinates out of the 'over there' territory?"

I shook my head to express ignorance.

"In the turmoil, I produced something like an illusion," Harlan shook his head and grinned, "I seem to suddenly find myself surrounded by countless enemies. I can't remember whether I gave the order or remember At that time, what was happening to the subordinates around us. In short, we seemed to come out of the breakout. At least we felt that it was a breakout. After leaving the sphere of influence there, we temporarily lost our goal and then attacked the new empire by instinct: This is the only thing we can find. "

"You said that you were surrounded by enemies on the fallen apostle's ground?" I quickly put together the pieces I had guessed, "Let me take a look at it: 'That lord' first link your spiritual link with The main net is isolated. Then let your part of the network come into contact with some outside force. After that, all of you are in a horrible spirit. Soon after, you have an “illusion” and feel that the surrounding apostles are all enemies. . "Breakout" left the base camp, and after that-have you lost contact with the spiritual network of the fallen apostles? "

Harlan nodded: "In fact, at the beginning of that murky state, I felt that the connection between me and the general network was weakening, and after breaking out of 'the other side', this network connection was completely broken. That being said, I was a 'teacher' for a short while, "Harlan said, laughing at himself. Then it seemed to think of some details: "Yes, now when I think about it, the feeling of being insinuated is a little bit like being ... by you, uh, when the prodigal turned back ..."

I: "... let's not mention the name of such a trick on such a serious topic, you can just say that things have passed."

"In short, the two feelings are similar. They are suddenly in a state of chaos, they do n’t know where they are, they are confused about their surrounding friends and enemies, a suppressed deep personality starts to fight for dominance with themselves, and then it ’s behavioral. Abnormal. If you have to say something different, it is even more rapid when you are affected by your inverse transformation power. "

After hearing this, I finally fully understood: The cause of Harran ’s large-scale invasion of the empire was that he experienced an incomplete “reverse transformation”. This reverse transformation initially only made him break away from the abyss empire, and the subsequent invasion behavior It is entirely in the case that Harlan's army has no goals to do, and it is a subconscious move-no wonder that the battle was like a sleepwalking battle.

So where does his reverse transformation come from?

Only the void creatures have the ability to reverse transformation, and Haran's entire army is affected by this kind of reverse transformation-like effect, which is reminiscent of the new empire's technology to use the spiritual network to purify the fallen apostles-just ha Lan's subordinates also became abnormal after their spiritual link was manipulated by "the adult", so there is only one explanation: before Haran and his army fell into "sleepwalking", they and a void creature Created a spiritual connection.

I recall the time Harlan invaded the empire, and it was estimated that the moment when his anomaly occurred should be shortly before that. At that time, there was only one incident that fell into my sight: when I set off for the distant land, I entered somehow. In the state of void travel, a voice suddenly contacted himself at that time. The origin of the voice was unknown. I thought "it" was the civilization from the other side of the abyss, but now I think that the other side's civilization does not seem to have mastered the technology of instant messaging here. And the voice that communicated with me at that time was very strange. Although I only had a few "exchanges" with the other side, I could clearly feel that mysterious voice of the other day and the speaker of the other side's civilization Different.

I remember what the voice said to myself at the time, and something that sounded inexplicable at the time gradually explained: the voice actually reminded me subtly ~ www.readwn.com ~ It is not from the other side, and it is hanging up the communication Earlier, "it" revealed an important piece of information:

In order to connect with me, "it" lost a lot of "things" in just a few minutes.

In the beginning, I naturally supplemented his brain with the following: Civilization on the other side needs to consume an amazing amount of resources to connect with this side, but now I think that this "loss" can be something else, such as a network node.

Because the hyperlink is established with the void creature, the owner of that voice will be impacted by the force of the void every second. It loses nothing else under this impact, it is its own component: the spiritual node.

That voice is "the Lord" in the mouth of the fallen apostle!

Harlan looked at my face with a clouded expression, and couldn't help wondering: "What do you think?"

"If I'm not mistaken," I looked at Harlan's eyes, "I know your identity as that" adult ", and not long ago, she had contacted me actively, even if you and your army were abnormal. Related to that connection: She used you as a buffer to connect with me for a few minutes of direct spiritual connection! "(To be continued ...)