Xiling Empire

After two hours of full speed sailing, the shuttle reached the accidental universe. />

This is a small world located in the border area. There are no small differences between the basic cosmic constant and the capital world. These differences cause the material density of this universe to be much lower than that of the capital. The data shows that the world is completely free of dark matter, and there are almost no large galaxy clusters in space. Although it is still young, the star-making movement in the universe has almost stopped, and the space appears extraordinarily bleak, cold and empty, and lifeless—this is not It is not a place suitable for the birth of a higher civilization or for colonization. It is barren to almost cruel, but it is an excellent place for deep diving experiments. The low material density and the sparse number of celestial bodies can prevent the rapid spread of abyss pollution, and the unsuitable environment for the birth of life allows engineering troops to complete the evacuation without any effort when building the test port: It is said that only two stars in this universe have appeared life.

Really barren land.

This is certainly not the universe in which the deep-dive test was originally performed, because the abyss gate and the deep-dive port have a "shelf life". With the continuous testing, sampling, external stimulus, and throwing detectors into the abyss gate, it is a mess. Every such information exchange will lead to a decrease in the stability of the gate, and the decline in stability to a certain degree naturally increases the risk of the test. Therefore, the gate that was initially deep dived has been destroyed with the entire universe. Right now this is A new proving ground we found a few months ago. Of course, if this test site is also abandoned, the deep diving project can still continue, and things like the gate of the abyss will never disappear. There are still a few qualified abyss gates in Taver's material library that can be used— This is definitely the most dangerous "material" that has been stored in the history of the empire. Anyway, in the past few years, I would never dare imagine that I would put a few of these things in my backyard for experiments ...

After completing the registration, the shuttle passed the blocked space barrier, and the status of the port was presented to us. Tavel points to the space outside the porthole, where there is a large space structure built of modules: "In the middle is the control center, the monitoring station and the observation tower are all on this. There were originally four observation towers. Now two of them have been scrapped, and the remaining two It stopped running because of an energy outage. "

I nodded and watched the situation outside carefully. Now that the distance is close to the "radiation critical point" of the gate of the abyss, the shuttle slowly loops at a low speed at a speed of more than ten kilometers next to the completely stopped control center. I have the opportunity to confirm whether this place has suffered other than the control center Loss. In the surrounding space, you can see many huge buildings floating independently. These buildings have silver-white outer armor and fully enclosed structures, most of which are obelisks or polygonal prisms. They are various types of auxiliary facilities at the port, such as data centers, material transfer stations, automatic turrets, or military camps. In addition to the iconic blue energy lines on all building surfaces, a layer of pale golden halo floats. This halo is actually holy light-a small group of spirit angels have also recently participated in deep diving projects. The holy light power they are good at can be blessed on anything, which is equivalent to adding a layer of faintness to the facilities here With extra protection beyond the shield, and the extreme sensitivity of the Holy Light to the abyss, these blessed facilities can also serve as alarm devices. The condition of these buildings is very good now. It seems that the inexplicable explosion has not spread to other facilities, which basically can rule out the possibility of the abyss: the abyss is best at pollution and spread. If it can really destroy the tightly guarded control center, there is no reason why the surrounding facilities are intact.

My sight eventually focused on the control center pointed out by Tavel: it was conspicuous and very large, albeit a dozen kilometers away. With my enhanced eyesight, I can see every detail of it. It was a huge square platform with a side length of several kilometers (visual inspection is not accurate, I used the small battleship parked above the platform to roughly estimate the platform size), and the lower part was a double-layer structure-at least now Into a double layer structure. The empty place between the two levels looks like a rift valley crossing. Deep in the Rift, there is still a continuous stream of huge energy bursts. The giant "lightning" can jump up to several kilometers away in space at once. According to the damage of this double-layer structure, there should be some armor plates or vertical bridges connecting the upper and lower layers, but now only the torn metal stubble can be seen at the row of break points. Broken crystallized lines and various pipes sway slightly due to the impact of energy jets.

On the upper part of this platform are the main building facilities. A large hexagonal building is located in the center, and the surrounding ground is a large dim, cobweb-like light flow. There is a little psychic energy left, and those crystallized networks still emit extremely dim blue light, so they can be discerned at a glance, and the hexagonal building is undoubtedly the central monitoring station: the heart of this control center. I thought the monitoring station was at least superficially intact, but I took a closer look and noticed that there was a crack in one corner of it, and if I converted the distance a little, I judged that the "little mouth" was quite huge-this is really bad, it seems The big explosion that occurred in the lower level of the control center even penetrated the monitoring station above. How big is the scale of the explosion? !!

The upper platform is surrounded by four huge obelisks. The silver-white giant towers are naturally observation towers for monitoring the gates of the abyss. I saw two of them completely scrapped at a glance: they are diagonally distributed, the lower half Some burst like a blown-out ball, and the original indestructible charged armor was easily torn into a miserable state due to internal damage. The gigantic metal girders maintained the connection between the high tower and the platform in the lower half of the tower, just like the tragic bones after the flesh had disappeared. Fortunately, these metal girders were strong enough that the observation tower was not completely blown out. They don't seem to be of much use here.

The remaining two diagonal towers looked complete, but due to the interruption of energy supply, they were also completely black, with only a very small amount of light flickering on the surface, which should be the key equipment with independent energy.

The entire control center was tattered as if it had been shot through by the enemy, the energy was completely paralyzed, and most places were dark and lifeless. Lin Xue saw this scene silently. Can not help but fangs: "It looks terrible ..."

"Find a place to stop first and call up the person in charge of the security guard and the person closest to the explosion point at the time of the accident," Sandora said in a deep voice. From the state of the control center, her face was quite unsightly. By the way, is the person closest to the explosion point resurrected? "

Tavel was silent, seemed to be communicating with the people in the resurrection center, and then shook his head: "The frontline personnel have been seriously injured. Their soul needs to be restored to start the resurrection, but you can communicate directly with their souls."

"Well, let's arrange it," Sandora nodded. "Alternatively, upload the structure of the control center. And all the readings from the Abyss Gate before the accident."

The shuttle was eventually parked on the control center that had been completely destroyed. At the corner of the upper platform, there was a small take-off and landing point and a temporary workstation. The quality projection one) is set, and it is about the size of a small office building after it is unfolded, which is enough for various working groups to serve as office locations and command posts. The expert team we brought here met the accident handling team organized by Shenzhen Deep Dive Port itself, and then devoted themselves to the busy work. I stood by the shuttle and looked at this magnificent space building complex-it lost all its luster without energy supply. The huge armor plates were particularly desolate under the sparse light, and in the distance was the central monitoring station. Here I saw the crack: it looked several meters wide and ten meters long. Rolling outward, it should be a severe shock from the inside that broke through the building's ceiling. A large number of self-regulatory machines are busy running around in sight, repairing the burnt lines, and welding the broken support beams to prevent further structural collapse of the platform. Or place various sensors. There should have been a stable gravity field and an open air ring, but now I feel that the gravity under my feet is less than one-third of the normal value. And the surrounding air ring is gone.

I bounced lightly, and rubbed my nose a bit awkwardly because I couldn't breathe. This action was seen by Tavel.

"After the energy supply was interrupted, all irrelevant equipment was shut down, and the remaining energy was transferred to the database and the core computer room." A quality projection of Tavel suddenly appeared beside me. "The database is kept, the core computer room ... now I ca n’t get in so I ’m not sure what ’s going on there. Gravity fields and open air circles are just things that provide comfort. They were the first to be closed. ”

I waved my hand: "It's okay, it's just a little uncomfortable ... What's wrong with you ?!"

I looked at this quality projection, Tavel, with a terrified expression-her appearance was a shock! There is a large through hole in the abdomen, and the legs are empty from the thigh roots, so they can only float in the air to talk to people. This is completely blown up on the battlefield! Of course, there is no blood on her body or the tragic appearance of bones. One is that the Spirit Apostle has no blood and human body structure. The other is that this is just a projection of quality in front of me. The scars on her look terrible but not. True, but ... still infiltrating.

"Oh, although it wasn't there when the ground floor exploded, I was in the monitoring station, just over there—" said the tavern quality projection that had been blown into a tragic appearance, turning his back and pointing at the monitoring station. That huge rift, "A psionic jet penetrated the dome, and the burst of sparks burst into the body. This is the quality projection, and it still works, so I didn't perform the" recycling ", and waited to forget about it. Well, efficiency comes first. "

I'm speechless, don't look at a glasses lady, the image of such a tough guy is really trembling, I know that there is no way to make Tavel quickly change the projection body in a human way of thinking, and she ca n’t see her With such a miserable appearance, she had to take off her oversized coat and tie it to her chest down, covering the belly and the lower body's fractured band to some extent: "Let ’s do this, I will try to treat you as a coconut tree. Why do n’t you dangle like this ... ”

Quality projection Tavel: "... oh"

I made this very shocking quality projection-in fact it is not considered to be anything else, because Tavel's body is standing next to it, and all quality projections are directly controlled by Tavel, so it should be said that Tavel has her After transferring this body to another work site, I and Sandora and I went to the accident disposal center, which is the temporary work station next to it.

An assistant technician connected the structural drawing of the control center to the holographic projection. Next to it is the image of the Abyss Gate. Another good quality projection of Tavel introduces us to the place where the explosion occurred and the situation at the time: "Now it can be determined that the place where the explosion originally occurred is here, a- From 13 to a-15, the hyperspace output end of the power furnace is concentrated in this place. Whether the power furnace is destroyed by the explosion, or the power furnace first explodes and destroys other things, the chain reaction starts from here. Then all the energy of the control center is controlled. The line was overloaded, and along the main energy supply pipeline, the explosion rushed directly from the lower area to the upper area, blasting all the connecting bridges and protective walls in the middle along the way. Finally, the observation towers 1 and 3 were destroyed. Another wave of impact was in the first round Arrived at the monitoring station three seconds after the explosion. This explosion did not completely destroy the monitoring station, but broke through its dome, and then all the equipment went offline. Fortunately, the automatic disaster security system was activated within that three seconds. The monitoring station ’s The database survived. However, the main engine room was buried deep under the platform's armor plate. Near the place where the first explosion exploded, it was already shrouded in a super-strength psionic field. No one can enter for the time being. The chance of the main room being completely destroyed is more than 80%. "

"What's special about the main engine room?" Sandora raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Data, because all the information collected from the gate of the abyss must be filtered and tested before it can be sent to the database. Therefore, the host room has a cache mechanism. Detailed detection data of the gate of the abyss are stored there when the explosion occurs, and there is no time to upload it. To the database ... "

"That is to say. The rescued database did not help in investigating the cause of the accident at all, did it," Sandora shook her head. "Everything in the database is old data of a buffer period before it explodes ..."

"We have external observation records." An assistant technician stood up, "About the gate of the abyss. We set up an additional observation point on the gate of the abyss a few days ago at the prompt of Mother Lin Xue, although the function was insufficient, Some basic information is still available. "

I turned in surprise and looked at the young lady beside me. At this moment, the girl was looking at the unpredictable world, and she was shaking her head there—in fact, she had shaken her head for ten minutes just now, but I never knew what was wrong with her and thought that she had taken the wrong medicine. . At this time, when I noticed my sight, the young lady gave a more profound smile: "Carving the future is a delicate work. Some things can't be said, some things can't be said ... you wait Do n’t turn around after I finish ... ”

I've turned my head and watched Sandora analyze the monitoring data for those abyss gates. From the picture, the gate of the abyss is always the same, a black two-dimensional round cake, at most slightly scaled under the control of the surrounding suppression tower, but the various charts recording its monitoring data are extremely high. Speed ​​refresh, the data above is simply dazzling. Although I do n’t understand ... well, although I do n’t understand at all, Sandora nodded while looking at it, and finally she frowned: "There is no problem with the data, the gate of the abyss seems to have no movement ... except A very small amount of information overflowed, but this amount of information overflow is probably not larger than a meteorite. "

"Do you suspect that something came out of the abyss door and hit the control center?" I asked.

"Look at the architecture of the control center," Sandora pointed at the hologram. "This is the protection of the energy unit ... oh you don't understand it. It doesn't matter. In short, the safety factor of this building complex is extremely high, except Externally, the probability of its internal collapse is infinitely close to zero. The first explosion occurred in the energy center of the lower zone. Of course, this location is protected by four layers of armor and two independently-operating shields. It looks indestructible, but internal Compared to the chance of collapse, at least the armor and the shield may be broken. "

One is a protection system with almost no loopholes. The other is a sturdy, but at least tangible, armored and shielded shield. Indeed, the latter is more likely to be breached.

The expert team also made the same judgment as Sandora: The external cause of the control center is much more likely to be destroyed than the internal cause. Although the internal explosion of the entire site was eventually destroyed, the internal explosion should be triggered by the outside world.

So I can only agree with Sandora, but I can't understand it, so I turn to look at Tavel (the body) beside me: "Nothing was detected flying out of the abyss door before the explosion. Right? "

Tavel's body has always been in Shadow City ~ www.readwn.com ~ But her quality projection has personally experienced the scene here, so just ask her directly-say that the ability of the glasses lady is really amazing, I think it does n’t matter which one is in the empire. It is OK to ask her if there is any problem in her research facilities. She counts witnesses anytime, anywhere ...

"There is no such report," Tavel nodded, but his words turned quickly, "but it does not rule out that the gate of the abyss may have something to rush out. The object that comes out of the gate is not necessarily an observable target, because of the special nature of the abyss By nature, anything that overflows inside may appear as disordered data, and it will change back to its original form after crossing the critical point of radiation: matter or energy. Therefore, it cannot be observed within the critical point of radiation around the gate of the abyss. Whether it is projecting material (or energy), everything is camouflaged, and it can only be judged whether it is leaking things based on the information overflow of the gate. Of course, it is limited to more 'natural' things, if it is a deep submersible ship When something comes out of the gate, it automatically excludes the effects of the abyss. "

This is why Sandora checked the Abyss Gate for the first time.

Just then, another vibration came from deep in the ground, and there was a roar of resonance in the workstation.

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