Xiling Empire

There are weirdness all over the ghost ship: a spaceship lacking "identity", a starship architecture that does not conform to common sense, a core zone-specific facility for carbon-based organisms, a highly silent starship system, and a star that may have died The fragmented diary left by the ship ’s members—there are more and more pieces of information, gradually leading us to an answer, but until the final answer is revealed, I still have a hard time imagining who made this spaceship. And what happened to this spacecraft during tens of thousands of years of drifting.

Warren Field's diary is still being discovered one after another, but because these things are carved on the wall or some other surface, it is difficult for us to organize them in order, only from the east to the west. The text slowly sorted out and summarized the experience of the old Empire servant commander waking up alone in the exile spacecraft.

It is now certain that the spacecraft did fail-although it may seem incredible that something made by the Apostles of the Spirit failed, its wake device did have an accident, and it should have come in contact with other people who came out of the Empire The wake-up system will only activate after some survivors, but the awakened occupant is only one person. The commander named Warren Field recorded most of what happened after he woke up: in the first few days He maintained an optimistic attitude. After more than ten days, he began to have complaints and negative emotions, but these negative emotions did not seem to have affected them for a long time. As can be seen from his diary, he quickly adjusted his own. Mentality.

The next diary is engraved on a pillar in the hall, and there are several more inconsistent words at the back:

"Warren Field's diary, on the 32nd day, I completed routine work and routine chores, and tried to get the ship to review the wake-up process again. This is something I have to do every day. The results of the review are the same as before. The reason for not waking up early may be that part of the system left a hidden danger when the spacecraft was attacked. To prevent others from being woken up in advance, the main release side of the wake-up process was transferred to two sets of backup systems, which were accepted by the ship-based host This suggestion, it seems that it is also aware that it may be malfunctioning. Today should be a day to celebrate. This stubborn shipborne host finally compromised with a carbon-based organism. Of course, it is more likely that it has nothing to do with the compromise. It is the machine itself. I made a logical judgment, but anyway, I should find a way to cheer myself up. "

"Warren Field's diary, day 28. Emotions are not very good, but I have reviewed my previous behavior and mental state. The previous training was still useful. I discovered my emotional problems in time. It seems that I need to adjust my mood. .Loneliness is not such a fatal thing. As long as you find enough things to do, your busy life every day will dispel the feeling of loneliness. I added two daily tasks to me, including cleaning my main activity area and backing up the radar report to another. In a data terminal. The cleaning work was originally carried out automatically, but I convinced the equipment responsible for this work that carbon-based organisms need to exercise regularly to maintain health. It has a much better temper than the ship-based host. I plan to spend a few days Studying food mixes, the substance generator should be able to make more weird things. "

"Warren Field's diary. Forty-fourth day, I found that I haven't kept a diary for a long time, and this is inevitable: everyday life is the same, there is nothing different from the previous day. Lack of change, There is no need to record, so the diary in the future will probably record once every so long. It is only a good idea to write down what I think is worth writing down. I do n’t have to worry about the walls in the spaceship being inadequate— — I hope others don't complain when I wake up I carved the spaceship like a primitive cave. "

"Warren Field's Diary. On the 60th day, the tedious days are really difficult, so today I did a more risky thing: I took the shuttle to the starship city twenty kilometers away and took a circle. The situation is the same as expected. The situation is complete. The damage to the spacecraft is very serious. The people in the starship city and the people in the outer station should die instantly when the attack comes: the mortal body is so fragile. If the people on this ship The words of all apostles of the spirit may be completely different. The apostles of the spirit will survive, then repair the ship in a short time, and land in a certain world and come back again-but what is the use of these? It is mortal. After returning to the core area, the energy network of the spacecraft was reset to reduce the energy supply in the outer area, and if further damage occurred, the outer area could be completely abandoned by the shipborne host. The shipborne host agreed to this. Plan, I started to think that stubbornness is actually cute. "

"Warren Field's diary. On the sixty-first day, the peripheral area has completely decompressed and artificial gravity has been turned off. The only place where there is a living person on this spacecraft is here now, and the jamming device is recommended by the carrier-based host. Concentrated in the core area, this greatly improves the silence level of the spacecraft. It should now be more difficult to detect the signs of life and thinking in the spacecraft from the outside. Even if there is a psychic assault man standing on the spacecraft shell, he can never detect my thoughts. , It makes people feel more at ease. "

That's it for the diary on the post. Later we looked around the hall and found no more text. It seems that the main record is not here.

Sandora gently stroked the nicks that had been going on for tens of thousands of years, and her brows frowned slightly: "Now it seems that this ship was specifically designed for escape, it should be built after the catastrophe, Time is short, which probably explains why it does not comply with Starship regulations. Thanks to the special design, it escaped when it was almost completely destroyed. "

Lilina has given up looking for a life response. Under the influence of a cutting-edge interference device, even if the protoss's life induction will fail, let alone her, so this girl came together to participate in our topic: "Then why the spaceship crew is a Help mortals? Aren't the Spirit's apostles more powerful? Since they can build such a ship, why not run by themselves? "

"Maybe they are infected, so they can only let the uninfected vassals rush away," Sandora answered without thinking, "We have seen this example many times. The hope of the old empire The spiritual apostles, while still awake, handed the last boat to the uninfected, so of course they could run one by one in emergency situations, regardless of whether they were servants or imperial soldiers. "

I frowned beside me for a long time. I always felt that something was not right, but when I looked up, I saw that the little crows were staggering and walking in a chaotic line behind Medivh. Then I suddenly realized: the fleet!

"This ship is a single ship," I looked up to Sandora. "Whether it was a ghost ship we found or various records found here, there was no evidence of the existence of other exile ships, as an escape team. Is this a bit small? "

If a certain area of ​​the old empire had the ability to make this escape ship, then theoretically it would also have time to make more. For the empire, it is almost impossible to make time for only one ship, and the escape team we have found so far has never been as small as a ghost ship. Even tree elves, they used it to escape. It's also an entire fortress of the planet, carrying billions of civilians-and what about this ghost ship? There is only one ship, a ship of tens of kilometers long, which is a behemoth for starships made by other civilizations, but only a small boat for the large fleet that escaped after the collapse of the old empire.

Sandora was immediately aware of the problem. She nodded: "It's true. Warren Field's diary never mentioned other ships, and he didn't think about looking for other ships, indicating that the ship really did set off in a single ship that year ... although the scale of the disaster was very large Large. But most of the celestial districts died after decades or hundreds of years, which is enough time for them to release more arks, unless ... "

I immediately asked: "Unless what?"

"Unless this exile team was completely dispersed at the time of departure, each spacecraft took a different route." Sandora spread his hand. "This is also possible, although the single ship population and resources will be limited after the dispersion. It will bring difficulties to reconstruction in the future, but this greatly increases the success rate of fugitives, and some heavenly emperors can make this decision for granted. "

I nodded and accepted the statement, and then looked around the hall: "Let's look for any other diary. That Warren can't just write such a few things, most of the records should be elsewhere, in the office or something. "

The gang of little crows suddenly flew again and went to search for a workplace. It was nothing difficult to find. After all, the workplace didn't need to be hidden like the sleeping center. We soon found a pass on the other side of the hall. Access to the work area.

As soon as we entered the channel, we saw a new diary, which seems to have been engraved here by Warren Field:

"Warren Field's diary. On the tenth day, I have been thinking about why I was awakened by myself and not by others. I finally found out that this can only be attributed to luck. Destiny made a very bad joke with me. That way, the future I am going to meet may not be optimistic at all. Today I was slightly depressed for this matter, but when I was ready to start work, I felt better: at least I could still be in the spacecraft with peace of mind like now. Walking around, breathing, eating, doing my own thing, yes, I'm alive, better than those killed. If I think about it this way, the things I face are not the worst. I think I can Keep this self-consolation for a long time, until one day you can get used to it. If this life can really get used to it. "

We walked along this aisle that marked the direction of the work area with lights, and finally came to a corridor with many rooms. On both sides of the corridor, we could see a gate every ten meters, marked "Observation room" "," Communication control point "," food manufacturing room "and other words, the structure of this corridor is obviously different from the normal Empire Starship, it looks like the old-fashioned deep space ship, various The functional facilities are crowded in a small place (for a tens of kilometers long spaceship, this corridor is really a small place). Obviously this is also specially designed. I guess a small cabin with full functions like this is in the spaceship. There are many more, so that even if the spacecraft is severely injured, it can shelter the people inside it under some normal conditions. Look at the bleak and tragic appearance of the outer layer of the ghost ship. These specially designed modular small worlds are really Played a role.

"This is for the ordinary race," Sandora looked at those function rooms, many of which were meaningless to the Apostles, such as recreation rooms and gyms. The use of these rooms is self-evident, "It seems that the design The infection had spread by the time of the spacecraft, and the builders of the spacecraft had not thought about allowing the Apostles of the Spirit to board the ship from the beginning. "

"Boss! There's a new diary here!" Li Lina ran around with a bunch of little crows, and suddenly found something on the door not far away. It was a food-making room, with a messy handwriting on the door:

"Warren Field's diary. This is awful! The food-synthesis device refuses to provide more acid acid hormone drinks! The stupid machine thinks that drinking two glasses after a meal will affect the judgment of a soldier, and Is it even more stupid than this? Well, I do have a bit of greed these days, but I need this thing to keep myself energized! I have n’t exercised for a long time. I just looked in the mirror and found myself like a savage. The refreshing drink, I was really decadent enough that I could n’t even continue my work—although I do n’t know if the so-called work is meaningful or not, there is nothing in this hell. The reports I wrote are for Who sees it? "

Several of us looked at each other: there was no date in this diary. And it is very obvious that the person who left the diary has fallen into an anxiety and restless state. A person who comes out of a civilized society, when he is decadent to the habit of developing from the civilized society, this is a very bad thing. Signal.

Lilin is an expert in this area, she frowned, her voice low: "He is beginning to give up maintaining his image, which means that he is breaking away from the code of conduct that civilized society has left for himself. This is a slope. Once you slide down Can't come back. "

The records we found next confirmed Li Lina's concerns. There are more records in the food manufacturing room, some are early diaries, and there are dates and daily work and mood records. But there is also a lot of nonsense in the middle, and some even have no endless words, which are all gossip in a mental disorder:

"Warren Field, you are the ruler of this little kingdom. You should be happy! Go and declare your rule on the chairs in the event hall!"

"I ran all the way through the corridor of hundreds of meters naked, and no one came out to stop me. This kind of thing is so relaxing. Maybe I should try it earlier-the lying idiots saw their The commander would be surprised if he was so unrestrained. "

"I'm still insisting on recording these meaningless things, okay, then I will carve another sentence today."

"I feel like I'm getting bunny. I had a fever yesterday. The medical surveillance drone forcibly dragged me into the medical room, took a shower, and cut a few pounds of hair, but those stupid machines didn't know it. What more should be done, they should send me back into the hibernation cabin! That thing is stuck, hasn't the spaceship system been found? Oh, yes, it hasn't been found, the hibernation system has already malfunctioned. "

"Look what I found, a pool of blood, oh my god, there was a homicide on this spaceship! Haha, Sheriff Warren, this is your own blood ... Damn it, it seems I have to go to the medical room , Why do I have to engrav such things on the wall? "

Such unconscious slang appears more and more in normal diaries. Since most records have no date, we don't know how to arrange the order of these words. The only thing that can be determined is that over time, The lone starship commander is losing his mind.

We searched in several rooms for the record left by the starship commander, hoping to know his final outcome, but it was difficult to find clues between the gibberish graffiti and the normal diary of the time. We The last logical record he found was the twelfth year after his wake:

"Warren Field's diary, 4325 days, everything is messed up. I woke up from the empty cabin and saw that I was disheveled, my hair was over a foot long, and I walked naked after taking a bath. After entering the workshop, I remembered that I should change clothes first. This is never the case-although I have done it before, well, I ca n’t remember. In short, I am still working, observing ... no matter what I am observing Today, my brain is very chaotic all day ~ www.readwn.com ~ Before, I do n’t know how many days my brain was very chaotic. It seems that I have n’t written a diary for months or a year. Today I am in a strong impulse. It does n’t make much sense to record these things. Maybe it ’s just a dream? I ’m actually lying in a dormant cabin, waiting for the spacecraft to safely reach a certain world or to meet a survivor who ran out of other heavens, and then was woken up and decently. Get out of the spacecraft and say hello to other starship commanders-oh yes, this should be a dream. The hibernation system arranges such a dream to prevent long periods of sleep from damaging my brain. But apparently the Apostles of the Spirit did not know much about the physiological characteristics of carbon-based organisms. The dream they designed was terrible. I would rather not ... oh, since it is a dream, then I will continue to work, Warren, Field Diary, 4,325 days ... "

Behind are some obscure graffiti, and it looks like a password, but it is meaningless after deciphering. This is the last logical and dated record we can find in the workspace. In addition, it is Those crazy nonsense.

Obviously, the nonsense was written after this record.

Starfleet Commander Warren Field, completely woke up in his twelfth year after being awakened alone. To be continued. .

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