Chapter 1014: Text Messages Mislead the Country

It is said to be a letter, but it is actually more than that. There is a lot of messy information in the database. A rough directory shows that it contains scientific research projects, voyage logs, video materials, messages, and many other information, and all of this information is It was sealed in an encrypted file signed by Harlan Croix Levallette.

We looked at each other. Sometimes when faced with such dramatic things, even if we are used to it, we still can't think of what kind of expression to use to face it. This is as interesting as Sandora Kelvi Uracis. Long names with a bit of a classical aristocratic temperament often appear in the documents of the headquarters recently: most of them are about the military strength analysis of the fallen apostle, Harlan Croix Levalette, which refers to the recent fierce battles with the Imperial Army. , the fallen emperor who has caused us heavy casualties, His Majesty Harlan.

It was he who rescued the Green Star tens of thousands of years ago, and it was his general, Zadom, who sent the Green Star on his escape journey at the last moment. Tens of thousands of years have passed by, but history has taken a detour. The two are connected again from another direction: Zadom, the former imperial general who personally served as Queen of the Green Star and allowed the tree elves to escape, is now coming to destroy the planet.

I don’t know what the mood of those two people is now. Will their frantic minds that have been controlled still feel sad?

"There's something wrong with the data?"

When the patriarch saw us looking at each other with strange expressions, she couldn't help but become extremely worried. What she was most worried about was whether these precious information had been damaged: the tree elves had spent tens of thousands of years for this, escorting these heritages from the territory of the old empire. to the new empire. If there is really a problem with the data, the blow to them will be huge.

"No, the information is fine, we thought of something else."

Sandora replied calmly. At the same time, he shook his head slightly at me: Don't tell them yet, the tree elves are not ready to accept such a blow. This is the message I saw in Sandora's eyes.

"Scientific research projects only have a directory, but no substantive content such as results. They are not scientific and technological data." Sandora began to read the data in catalog order, and she put the letter left by Haran at the end. In order to be able to study them without distractions for a while, "Maybe he wants to tell us what the last act of the old empire's X plan was like before it completely went bankrupt. The navigation log is the Green Star's log. There are also some parts that were originally planned. Route list, it seems that this planet has deviated very far from the route. Video... I will talk about these later. Finally, these are the messages."

Sandora connected the message left by Harlan to the holographic projection. The malfunctioning holographic device shook a few times before the picture stabilized, showing a tall and burly figure. Wearing a majestic Imperial military uniform, a middle-aged man with thick brown hair appeared on the screen. He looked forward and held an Imperial command knife floating with psionic flames in his hand. This outfit looks familiar to everyone - it is the complete outfit that the head of the empire would wear on formal occasions.

"No matter who you are, who has obtained and can read this information. I send my greetings to you and hope that you can keep this information forever. Until it can be put to use," the middle-aged man said calmly, "I It is Harlan Croix Levalette, the leader of the Xiling Empire. I hope that those who obtain this information will still know this brilliant and glorious name.

The fact that you can obtain the information intact shows that these exiles finally successfully escaped from the circle of destruction, and their identification devices confirm that you have the qualifications to contact psionic energy, or have a heritage relationship with the empire. I personally hope it is the latter.

If you can contact the exiles and pass the identification system of the exile starship, then your civilization level should be high enough, but you will most likely still not be able to understand what I am going to say next. This does not matter, this is just a message.

The Xiling Empire is facing a crisis of destruction. This crisis is caused by ourselves. Its root and direct cause is the wrong research direction of the void and the uncontrollable explosion of the abyss. I would like to just give you advice on this: No matter whether you have already When you come into contact with these concepts, please keep one thing in mind - restraint, and do not think that you really have control of everything under any circumstances. The void is more uncontrollable than you think.

If you have been in contact with the abyss - I don't know what you would call the latter, maybe a plague, a disaster, or something else, but the following phenomena can basically confirm them: the state of their main material world is an impossible state. Explore the two-dimensional plane of the structure. This plane will be attached to any place, including the surface of the star. These things will then spread rapidly. The initial abyss infection will cause the contacts to be emotionally manic, the equipment will work abnormally, and accidents will occur frequently. The later abyss infection will Disturbing the physical constants, the disaster escalates exponentially until space itself collapses. This is a rapid and irreversible process. If you have ever been exposed to this kind of thing and escaped by chance, then I can tell you its name now: the abyss.

Please record the following content and save it until you come into contact with a civilization that can understand these contents - before starting those crazy research projects, we received an abnormal signal from the bottom of the abyss, yes, we went deep into the gate of the abyss, that It was a routine scientific research mission into the phenomenon of the abyss. Scientists launched a new type of unmanned deep submersible ship. It advanced to a location in the gate of the abyss that no one had ever reached before. After the deep submersible ship was destroyed by the abyss, it succeeded. The recording equipment was returned to the main material plane, and regular and significant signals appeared in the recording equipment.

These signals were not sent into the abyss by any means from the main material plane. We finally confirmed that these messages came from the bottom of the abyss. No matter what existed there, it was trying to get in touch with the main material plane.

These signals make people feel confused and uneasy. The abyss has never shown such properties. Even those abyssal creatures with the ability to think have never produced similar logical or rational behaviors. It challenges our long-standing basic world view and This led the empire to start large-scale advanced research. We know one thing for sure: the only way to know what's at the bottom of the abyss is to go and find out. We built the original deep-diving vessels and various detectors. We hope to get in touch with the voice at the bottom of the abyss again, but everything is progressing slowly. In the end, we decided to use the power of the void..."

What follows is a history that is already familiar to us. In fact, at that time, the empire had already launched Project The incident mentioned by Harlan was not the cause of Project Ten's raison d'être is to fight the Abyss, and now they see their chance to crack the secret of this ultimate enemy. So he immediately became excited. Projects in Project The forbidden technology created the first and last prototype deep-diving ship. This starship, which was modeled on the original deep-diving ship and took a hundred years to research and build, was the most advanced deep-diving equipment in the old empire. It was once close to a certain "critical point" calculated by scientists. According to this critical point Letter is the longest distance that can be directly communicated with the bottom of the abyss, although the deep submersible ship failed to cross the critical point in the end. But it successfully sent out a communication from the deepest position: that was the strongest communication that could be carried out during the heyday of the old empire's technology. Under normal circumstances, I am afraid it would be enough to broadcast to thousands of worlds, but in the abyss deep. No one can tell how far these signals will travel.

For a long time after that, scientists from the old empire waited at every abyss gate. Looking forward to getting feedback from the bottom of the abyss again and getting in touch with the mysterious signal source. During this period, the Old Empire completed countless seemingly brilliant technological achievements and then shelved them after discovering that they could not be used at all. They created the Red Moon Cube and built a psionic starship to preserve the cube. They tried Controlling the evolution direction of the void, they tried to use it like psionic energy. In an inexplicable encounter, they also lost the deep-submersible ship - Visca should be responsible for this, but there is no way to pursue it, because that Shortly thereafter, disaster struck.

The "letter" left by Harlan not only contains his own audio and video information, but also a series of video clips and various graphic tables. It seems that when he left this information, he tried his best to condense everything in the empire into this short message. In just ten minutes, his image appeared in front of us again after the last video ended: "Time is running out. I hope that the civilization that has obtained this information can properly preserve it and disseminate it as much as possible. So that it can be spread to the kingdom of the gods - if you have the ability to talk to them. Now all our networks and external interfaces have been severely polluted by the abyss, and the empire's territory has become a circle of destruction infected with virulent poison. Anyone in this situation Any act of external communication may cause the abyss to spread and even endanger the gods. The only hope is these frontier planets that have not been infected, and they are about to set off now. There are thousands of backups of this information, and I hope that at least one of them One in a thousand can escape the disaster.

Harlan Croix Levallette, over. "

The message ended, leaving only a mess of blue and white lines on the holographic projection.

Sandora was silent for a moment, then turned to ask Tavel's quality projection: "Tavel, have you finished downloading these materials?"

"It's been saved. There's actually not much information," Tavel replied quietly, "This is just a message."

"I think this message is more valuable than a bunch of scientific and technological information. How is the situation of the tree elves?"

"Some people have woken up, but their memories are stuck in thousands to tens of thousands of years ago - depending on the date of their slumber. Now these elves who have just woken up are very restless. Well, the commotion is obvious. It really doesn't look like those in the old empire. A vassal race. My subordinates are gathering the awakened tree elves and preparing to send them to their home planet first. Lord Gaia has activated two ecological domes, which should allow them to recover faster. Then I'm afraid it will take time for them to do it. Know the status quo.”

"Sister, please go over and help." I touched my sister, "Those imperial soldiers are not this material."

My sister agreed and ruffled my hair before leaving, with a doting look that made people helpless. Qian Qian lay down next to me and put her head on my arm. His big eyes looked around and then at me, and then he said after a while: "Ajun, I'm in a bad mood."

"This way the timeline is basically clear," Shandora turned off the projection equipment. He sat back on the chair and looked up at the sky, "This is a new discovery. We would never have thought of it before... Before the deep submersible ship appeared, someone received an active communication request from inside, and then started the out-of-control era of the Empire's X plan, the Abyss ...what exactly is there.”

I rubbed my forehead and connected things in chronological order. In the end, a clear line was formed: During the heyday of the empire, the Xiling Apostle launched Project X to study the void. In the early days, although this plan was bold, it was still controllable. The scientists maintained the necessary sanity, and then, a new type of detector that routinely detects the gate of the abyss returned and brought back text messages sent from the bottom of the abyss, and then. Inspired by this, the scientists and rulers of the empire suddenly accelerated the progress of Project X, and all projects began to develop in extreme directions, and black technology began to be allowed to be used. The Red Moon Cube is built, and then. Occam built a deep submersible ship in an attempt to establish contact with the signal source at the bottom of the abyss. There must have been many similar experiments during the same period. Later, Occam's scientific research army was attacked by Visca's rebels, and the deep-diving ship was destroyed. It seems that the empire has never been able to build a second deep-diving ship after that. , and then, a catastrophe occurs.

The empire was silent for many thousands of years, until one day in 1990, a snotty-nosed kid heard a voice in the alley, and the wheel of fate continued to move forward - and fell into the ditch without hesitation.

A dozen years later, a new empire was established.

"I suddenly thought of something - more than ten years ago, I once encountered an abyss, um, a phenomenon that seemed to be an abyss." I slowly tapped my temples, recalling what I had recalled on the wall of the Temple of Life. Childhood memories, "At that time I heard a sound. We always thought it was the message sent by Occam's deep submersible. After echoing in the abyss for many thousands of years, it suddenly emerged from a certain abyssal fissure in the earth. Come out, now I feel there is something suspicious in this."

Shandora nodded, she had already thought of certain facts: "According to your memories and the log we got from the deep-diving ship, the two sentences are actually different. What you heard is another version."

"So that's not the sound of the deep dive ship, but the response of something at the bottom of the abyss after receiving the communication from the deep dive ship: it's answering us."

"It's a pity that it's tens of thousands of years too late." Lin Xue's tone was quite emotional.

"Now it's up to them to wait for the response again," Sandora suddenly showed a weird smile, "What exactly is at the bottom of the abyss - we thought at first it just received the broadcast from the deep-diving ship, and then amplified it and fed it back, but Now it's almost the opposite, they were the ones who sent the message first, and the Empire is the one who responded."

"Hey, has anyone thought of something else?" Qianqian wandered for a few minutes, then suddenly came back to her senses. Something extraordinary seemed to appear in her magical little head, "Plan It appeared normally before the old empire received the information from the Abyss for the first time. It was only after the detector brought back that information that the whole thing got out of control. I think maybe Project X had already been affected by the Abyss by that time. ...With the help of that piece of information, the abyss was hidden in that piece of information. It has been lurking since then, slowly affecting Project X and those scientists. In the last experiment, the void directly decayed into a super abyss. Maybe it’s the seeds hidden in this message that finally grow and emerge.”

When Qian Qian said this, I didn't know if it was an illusion, but I always felt that her tone was so gloomy.

One thing she said is believable, that is, the Abyss may really be hidden in a piece of information, saved by the detector's database, and then contaminate the Imperial scientists when others read the database. After all, it can Contaminating all known things, under the void, no one is 100% immune to the abyss.

"This is impossible," Sandora shook her head. "Do you know how many security barriers there will be in the hinterland of the empire? If it was really hidden in the message back then, it should have disappeared the moment the detector data core was salvaged. It was eliminated. And it has been lurking in the mental networks of so many scientists for a long time: this is even more impossible."

"But it comes from the bottom of the abyss," Qianqian reminded. "No one has ever been close there. Who knows whether the abyss there will be very cunning and disguise itself as an ambassador of peace or something."

We suddenly felt hairy all over. Qianqian, this girl, usually kept her mind running on the road without stopping. Occasionally, when she thought about normal issues, she was able to hit the point so magically. If her guess was really right, then what happened back then? The empire was destroyed by a text message?

"Well, Your Majesty, I'm afraid my subordinates have something to report now," Tavel's mass projection suddenly interjected. Her body was processing the database far away, and this mass projection stayed here to report the situation to us. " We just found a piece of information from the database, which is the piece of information they received from the bottom of the abyss, and... it's the original."

Suddenly, the surrounding atmosphere became even more hair-raising.

"Now," Qian Qian raised her hand weakly, "now it's in our hands." (To be continued)