Xiling Empire

The voice of the Abyss Spirit came from all directions: "I'm here to remind you to withdraw."

The scene was quiet for a few seconds before I began to cry with laughter: "When you say withdrawal, you can withdraw? Why are you speechless?"

"Do you really think that you can bring down the entire abyss this time?" Abyss Spirit only asked a question lightly. "The speed of the protoss side has slowed down, and how much can you continue to move forward?"

A word from Abyss Hilling made me and Sandora silent: we had discussed this before.

Can this expedition wipe out the entire abyss?

When I initially discussed the joint march with the Protoss, I still held a very optimistic attitude. I felt that this unprecedented military operation might have the opportunity to clear the entire abyss area, but after the real war began, the situation did not seem to have thought at first. So smooth: The Protoss's army size is less than expected, and the resistance in the abyss is surprising. What's more important is that the internal divisions of the fallen apostles are not as expected: they did have a civil war as we expected, but the civil war did not consume them too much power. The fallen apostles split into the new army and the old army. In part, it seems to be completely opposed, but according to the records of those logs, this division seems to have been completed under a planned situation. The new and old two fallen apostles have only used limited military friction to determine the leadership of the abyss, but they are far away. Far from exhausting itself to the cripple. The presence of the abyss spirit now in front of the crowd is even more proof: the old army has not died, they are just partial.

The roots of the fallen apostles are all there, so the protoss quickly encountered the powerful counterattack of the enemy. It can be said that they successfully dragged the main force of the fallen apostles, but the reverse is also true: the fallen apostles dragged the army of the protoss— And the abyss area still has the strength to continuously send reinforcements to the emperor's front.

In this case, it seems to be impossible to bring down the entire abyss area with this war. We also confirmed this after some discussion, so the goal of the action changed from smashing Huanglong to scoring as much as possible. . It seems that Abyss Spirit has seen this through.

"This is a very delicate state. Isn't it?" Abyss smiled, and seemed unable to feel the tense atmosphere between us and her. "The Protoss is in the most powerless period, and the number of your army is also a problem. I Although the empire has been divided, it still retains almost 90% of its strength-of course, half of them have not listened to my orders much, but this is not important. In the face of pressure from you and the protoss, even those who are not obedient The guys will also hit the front line ... you can't hit the entire abyss area. Continue to advance will only increase the damage quickly. I know you have blocked the fleet of the "New Army" by quickly destroying the sovereign hub. Within the country, but you should be very smart, which means that when you advance to the inland zone, you will face a large number of enemies ... are all 'accumulated'. "

"This sounds like negotiation, and it really seems to be thinking for us," Sandora looked at the hologram in front of her with her arms folded, "what's the good for you? Really what you mean, even if you let it go Continuing the offensive with the Protoss, we can't hit the inland of the Abyss, so you can survive if you do nothing. And as long as the Protoss retreats, the fallen apostles can even rise again, so you should not protect yourself ... ... "

"Who would ask the enemy to retreat for such a boring reason to survive," Abyss Helio interrupted Sandora's words lightly. "I just don't want to waste my time and energy on worthless things-I have very important things to do."

"Do you treat us as a fool?" Bingtis said loudly. "If we retreat, you will not be able to engage in your own small plot quietly? Who will watch your opponent sharpen his knife at home."

Abyss grin smiled indifferently: "Yes, after you retreat, I can concentrate on doing things, but you do n’t retreat and you just spend time here. At best, it can only interfere with my energy. If you are really smart, you should Choose the route that maximizes your interests, so the most important thing now is to quickly end this farce-you have already got the results you want. The four border worlds, using them as nodes, you can put a dozen universes into yourself The sphere of influence, believe me, if we continue to push forward, we will not get a greater result than this. "

"Oh, we get a little territory and retreat with satisfaction, and then you continue to quietly get your" great cause ", maybe one day the whole void will be turned upside down, which is quite a good deal for you," Sandora Squinting his eyes, he looked at each other. "You're not good at negotiating. Think of us as stupid people."

"Perhaps you are right, I don't quite understand the thinking habits of you tangible creatures. I will just put all the pros and cons on the table, and then calculate the value of them accurately with you, and finally choose one that is good for both Good option, it seems that you do not accept this way of thinking ... well, then add another chip: if you continue to march, the 'new army' and 'old army' will end the division, regardless of the abyss at that time Who is the ruler of the district, you will not face any trouble, and if you retreat in this way, the friction confrontation between the "new army" and the old army will continue, so at least for a long time, you all Don't worry about the threat of the abyss. How about this chip? "

"Ah, it's as if you are working with us to weaken the fallen apostles inside and out," it seems that the words of the abyss Hilling are too incredible, and Sandora can't help laughing, "This chip is quite heavy , But the question is ... don't you think this is too incredible? You should be the enemy of us! "

"I said, I'm not hostile to you," Abyss Healing fell on me and Bingtis when he said this sentence. "I took actions based on logical judgments and calculations, and this series of actions is just like you Conflict, that's all. Now logical judgments and calculations have reduced my confrontation with you, nothing to do with any personal relationship. "

Sandora quietly waited for the Abyss to finish speaking, and discussed with us in the spiritual connection: "Ajun, how credible do you think this guy is?"

"It's impossible to judge. We didn't even study the spirit in Shadow City thoroughly. Who knows what this kind of network ghost's thinking process is," I answered with a big head. "In theory, she should be right, Abyss Spirit is a network consciousness. It relies on things like logic libraries and protocols to operate, so she should have no sense of good and evil and enemy-consciousness, but this guy has been mutating for tens of thousands of years, who knows that she still does n’t follow logic. Come……"

"No matter how mutated, her life form hasn't changed," Sandora groaned. "The abyss may not have 'hostility'. She acts based on her logic and calculations, whether it be against us or against us. Collaboration is a kind of calculation ... I am considering another aspect now: Is her proposal reliable? "

It seems that Sandora has decided to believe that the Abyss Spirit is "no hostility", which is really incredible. But if you think about it carefully, you ca n’t understand it. You can think about the blue screen of the system when you usually use a computer, the various black hands when playing games, and the white smoke when you draw a card.-Is this software hostile to users? ?

Of course not, it's just black ...

Abyss is a program-like life. Of course, she has a complete personality, self-awareness, and is not limited by rigid logic. It's completely different from the "artificial intelligence" in the general sense. Here, saying that she and programs are similar to her "code of conduct". When the final goal is clear, she will take a series of actions as needed, and these actions will confront the emperor. It is also possible to cooperate with Emperor, but no matter how you act, one thing is always the same: it has nothing to do with her personal feelings.

Her feelings and actions are completely separated, and everything is based on logic. This is the procedural side of the Abyss Spirit—theoretically.

"It's really not good for us to continue to talk about what she said," the older sister listened to us discussing for a long time. It was only then that the opinion was expressed, "The Protoss side can't be moved anymore. We can at most destroy a few border worlds, but we can't keep it down. If the front is too long, we will be short on strength. "

"And the fallen apostle may end the division and reunify at any time ... oh, the body knows why the abyss, the spirit, is looking forward to us retreating, and still has its own ideas," Bingtis said, suddenly figured out What? She shot her head and looked at the holographic image in the center of the hall. "That ghost shadow over there, are you worried that if we continue to fight, the 'new army' and 'old army' will be passively reorganized, and then you may completely control the Live the situation, right? "

Abyss's spirit expression remained unchanged: "Yes, if external pressure reaches a threshold, the network split will end, and I have only 50% certainty that I can maintain control of the empire after the network reintegration. I do not want It's out of control-it's a worse situation for you, the master of the new army is a more troublesome guy than me. "

"You want to say that the **** of the fallen apostles by you is less harmful than the **** by the new army, do you?" Sandora nodded. "Perhaps that is true ... now it seems we really have no other way to go. "

Abyss Xiling smiled: "Yes, the big picture is the most important thing. You don't have to give up greater interests because of your anger. So, is the negotiation completed like this?"

"Not yet," I suddenly interrupted the other side. "We agreed to withdraw troops now, but before that there are a few questions, of course you can not answer, I just ask: what is the cause of the great cause, you have nothing at all Ca n’t tell? What happened to the abyss division? And finally—what is going on in the universe, where are all the people here? ”

"Three of them, two of them are the hardest to answer," Abyss Helen sighed. "About the great cause ... well, I did not think it had anything to do with you before, but since you really So persistent, maybe it ’s okay to tell you now ... do you know 'bridge'? "

When the word "bridge" came out, the scene was unprecedentedly silent.

I am no stranger to these two words-the mysterious civilization "on the other side" in the abyss has mentioned the "bridge" more than once!

"Big cause is a bridge?" Even Bingtis, a grinning female hooligan, was stunned. "You are tossing such a big movement, it is the end of the world and you are storming the world of God, in order to build a bridge ?! What about the bridge I think of? The bridge should tell you something ... "

The abyss He Ling nodded for granted: "It's a thing-opening a passage from this side of the abyss to the opposite bank, in the final analysis is such a simple process."

"This requires you to destroy so many worlds ?!" The elder sister's eyes widened, and she couldn't help but interrupt herself now. "And you collect the heart of the world everywhere ..."

"Do you know how to build a bridge?" Abyss Xi Ling simply raised the question without waiting for her sister's words to fall.

Seeing us shaking our heads, the abyss of Hei Ling slightly tilted his mouth: "At least we know one of them-the fastest one. Perhaps there is a gentle way to bridge, so you don't need to destroy so many ordered universes and you don't need a lot of mass. The heart of the world, but I have to bridge it before the cataclysm in the void. There is no choice but to stop there. "

"This is also related to the Void Cataclysm ?!" I feel like a mountain of information is overwhelming myself, "Your great cause is to build a bridge to the other side before the Void Cataclysm? Why? In order to avoid the catastrophe Catastrophic? "

"Building a bridge is only the first step. My ultimate goal is to make the empire return, and there is no possibility of falling," Abyss Xiling looked at us with a smile, "Don't show that kind of look, what I said is true It ’s just that the empire I want to rebuild is slightly different from the great kingdom in your mind. I fight for my camp. This is not surprising. As for avoiding the cataclysm in the void ... In fact, this was an untenable proposition from the beginning. , New Emperor, the moment you accidentally hit the abyss of the Spirit Network tens of thousands of years ago, we don't have to worry about the cataclysm in the void ... don't forget that the fallen apostles were created indirectly by you of."

I was speechless for a while, and Sandora and Fedith and the others were looking at him with strange looks.

Abyss Spirit is right. The fallen apostles were created by me indirectly. This was known the last time I went with Bingtis to check the "rift valley" in the depths of the spiritual network and met Abyss Spirit.

In the catastrophe that caused the empire to collapse 70,000 years ago, I reached an agreement with my sister (the previous life), who was then the ruler of the fifteen days. I went forward to resist the abyss impact that spread to the fifteen-day zone, but because the conceptual fragmentation could not withstand the informational power of the void creatures, my power crossed the barrier created by the conceptual fragmentation, and the old empire data network that was completely polluted at that time was Too short contact.

It is this little power that diffuses the past. Greatly weakened the abyss activity in the old empire network, leaving a large number of infected Spirit apostles to complete their transformation alive-they are now the fallen apostles.

If I was not so careless 70,000 years ago, the fallen apostles and the abyss area today would not have survived at all.

We always thought that the fallen apostles might take action because of fear of the great cataclysm in the void, and think of their "great cause" as a self-help. But now Abyss Spirit wakes everyone up in one sentence: Since the fallen apostles were created indirectly by void creatures, they have been “marked” with the “mark of forgiveness” from the beginning, and they have no fear of cataclysm in the void!

"Then you ..." I looked at the Abyss. But he just interrupted after saying three words.

"That's all for today. You must be interested in more details of the great cause, but this is not the time to explain them," Abyss Schilling ordered us from each guest and started to turn off the holographic projections in the hall one by one. See you again soon. Regarding the division of the abyss zone ... Don't dig deeper, I'm not going to tell you. "

As the last projection of the Abyss Healing was about to disappear, Bingtis shouted his last question: "Then you tell us at least this universe is going on! What do you mean by removing all the people here?" Give it to us for nothing? "

"It ’s a gift for you. This universe is just a test piece to test new technologies that will allow me to talk to Void Biosecurity ... I have collected enough data and the border world has been shot down by you , This universe you just dispose of it at will ... "

As the words fell, the shadow of the abyss finally disappeared before us.

"I feel like I'm hearing a lot of incredible things," lightly rolled his eyes and looked up at the ceiling at the innocent forty-five degree angle of humans and animals.

"That guy has always spoken this way, and he said a lot of inexplicable things in Rift last time," Bingtis looked at the holographic devices that had returned to the standby mode with a little annoyance, apparently invisible. The conversation where the initiative is in the hands of the other party makes Bing Sister very upset. "Then what? Let's just go back like this?"

"Notify the entire army and prepare to retreat." Sandora ignored the Icethus, but established contact directly with the imperial fleet on standby. Sivis didn't ask much, and simply began to execute the order. It was the second maniac. He whispered, "What's going on! Why didn't you hit it before you even hit it? Only four universes can be seen when you hit it?"

"We just met the abyss spirit coming ~ www.readwn.com ~ I replied smoothly," There is a lot of communication below ... "

Before I finished talking, the two lunatics immediately blew up: "What !? Enemies! The enemy dare to ambush the Lord General, and ambush her brother by the way! Where are you in the abyss? Come out! Look at my ship smashing your base! My ship's main gun, you can't be afraid of a main gun, you can give my ship out ... "

"Okay, she just showed up in the communicator," I cried and laughed to interrupt the mad man who was already excited. "Now I have tons of new information to deal with, and the situation of the fallen apostles is worse than We expected it to be okay. It's not the time of the final battle. Prepare to retreat. "

The lunatic stunned for a long time, and finally helplessly uttered "Oh", but Sandora showed a thoughtful look, and it seemed that she had some thoughts.

"It's okay to retreat ..." Sandora said slowly, "but I think we should leave something ... The borderline of the fallen apostles, it's time to change shape."

(You say this is not much information!) (To be continued ...)