Chapter 1,037 The Other Side of the Door

When the command center was strangely silent for a few seconds, Sandora called again: "Engineering team, return immediately. Your mission has been completed. Repeat, return immediately. This is an order."

A few seconds passed, but there was still no response. People at the scene looked at each other: something happened?

Tavel, who was in charge of on-site dispatch, immediately judged that the situation might be bad. The communicator had completely lost the signal of the work ship, and every member of the first engineering team was out of the mental network. This made the situation turn from bad to worse in an instant, and the mission was about to begin. The joy of completion turned into sudden disaster. After another unsuccessful call, Tavel turned to her assistant team: "Emergency support team, check all channels immediately, Obelisk increases output power and prepares to forcefully enter the gate, the second engineering team is ready to receive the ship, your ship is the only one right now You can still enter the gate..." Before she could finish her words, she was suddenly interrupted by a report from the lower console: "Chief technician, the stability of the Gate of the Abyss is rapidly declining! The obelisk's output is approaching its limit!"

"What!?" Tavel looked at the surveillance data in shock. If she had learned to curse, she must have cursed by now. "What's going on? Why did the stability of the gate suddenly decrease?"

A senior assistant technician quickly checked the data and instrument logs while reporting loudly: "The reason is unknown, but we must have allowed too much information exchange between the abyssal realm and the material world... This is illogical, when the deep dive began The stability of the gate has not dropped so much. And this time we only transferred a few databases..."

"Okay, we will conduct accident analysis later. Now we must find a way to rescue the engineering team!" Sandora suddenly spoke up, interrupting the assistant technician's analysis. "Tavel, what can we do in this situation?"

Tavel is paying close attention to the readings of the Abyss Gate, frowning: "Almost nothing can be done. The gate has begun to collapse, and now we have activated all the obelisks to suppress this process. Only in this way can it be supported to the nearby The garrison evacuated the scene, but there was nothing more that could be done. The Abyss Gate that began to collapse would first transform from a phenomenon into a semi-entity. The black surface had already shown a tendency to assimilate with the material world, and soon this The black surface will crack, and when it cracks through the entire plane, there will be a big explosion. This door must be destroyed before then. Anything passing through the door now will cause the crack to grow. Once in the material world and the abyss realm If a large enough hole is created between them, the collapse speed of the gate will increase dozens of times... We can send some people into the gate. Or a small boat, but the upper limit is only this. A larger penetration will completely destroy the gate. Break it."

Sister and Lin Xue both looked nervous, but didn't know what to do. Although they were powerful now, they lacked experience. They didn't know what they could do to help in this situation, but Qian Qian soon understood. Switched personalities. Beginning to manipulate her powerful time power, although Qian Qian under her inner personality has a bad personality, it is undeniable that she is more...well, smarter than her outer personality. She looked at the Gate of the Abyss, which was causing large-scale ripples, and clenched her fist: "I will delay its time...as much as I can."

"Can you do it?" I asked uneasily. What we have to face now is not as simple as an army, but an abyss gate that is about to erupt. This thing... can it really be delayed by stopping time?

Qian Qian looked at her hand and showed a satisfied smile: "I am becoming stronger every day. Now it is no longer what it used to be. It's a pity that I don't have the chance to try its power. Now this is a good opportunity to test it. I I just want to see what kind of power I have mastered. Besides -" she glanced at me, "questioning your partner is not a good habit."

I have long been accustomed to Qianqian suddenly turning into a black middle-aged girl, so I just gave her a cautious look, and after she walked onto the teleporter, I turned my gaze to Tavel: "Now we may have a little more time - but no It will be too long. Now you take people out of this world, take away everything that can be taken away, and then let the Garden of Death focus all its energy on this universe. I want them to exile this world into the void in the shortest possible time. Go inside. Sandora, please help me pay attention to the subsequent spread of the abyss. This world is still mounted in the macro world network. We must not let it contaminate other universes. Sister, Qianqian will finish using her ultimate move later. She definitely needs someone to take care of her. Take care of her and hold down that impulsive girl. Lin Xue, tell me your fortune now..."

"This trip is a serious crime. If you dare to go, I'll beat you up!" Lin Xue stared at me unceremoniously. After staring for half a minute, he rubbed his eyes. "I can't figure out what happened after crossing the gate of the abyss, at least on the other side of the gate. I can't figure it out if you're on the other side, unless you plan on letting me follow you."

"That's impossible." I flatly refused.

Lin Xue had already figured out my plan, and Bingtis looked over at this moment: "Wait... you're not going to jump in, are you? Damn, are you crazy? This thing is not your swimming pool. !”

"I don't plan to go in for a swim either." I slowly released my power and felt the void filling my body - everything around me became ethereal. It seemed that I had moved away from the way of perception of the material world and turned to a higher way. From the perspective of analyzing all the feelings that the material world gives me, the void form, now I seem to be getting more and more accustomed to this wonderful sensory journey, "You see, the void form, the abyss cannot pollute the void, it can only dissipate in front of the void, That’s an iron rule, I’m that thing’s natural enemy.”

"But do you know how many times that thing is bigger than you?" Bingtis looked a little angry, "You are not fully mature yet. You can't maintain this form for too long in the void and in your own territory..."

"Tavel, how long will it take to evacuate everyone?" I made a calm gesture to Bingtis, and then looked at Tavel, who thought for a moment and replied: "Five minutes, everything They have all entered the teleportation sequence. Your Majesty, I have no right to interfere with any of your decisions, but from the perspective of a scientific researcher, I think your decision is very risky."

"It's just the shallow part of the abyss, and it's very close to the gate." I knew there were still five minutes left, so I hurriedly moved my body. This doesn't make any sense, but it seems to give myself a little psychological effect: telling myself that I'm ready, "Well. Actually, I'm hiding something from you - when I was training how to purify the pollution of the abyss, I secretly came into contact with the original body of the abyss. . It’s just the kind of two-dimensional pattern that’s fixed in the ghost energy field. There’s nothing wrong with it, really. Otherwise, do you think I’m out of my mind today?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the surrounding temperature seemed to drop by five degrees, and Sandora's gritted teeth came over her: "We have to have a good talk after we come back..."

I turned my head and found Sandora sharpening her claws: one side of her body had been shrouded in black mist, and one arm turned into a huge black claw, which was the form of the abyss. "What are you doing? You're not going to use this to scratch people, are you?" I asked in a cold sweat.

"I'll go there with you." Sandora said matter-of-factly, and then looked at the time, "Okay, there's no time to waste, get ready to go."

Before I had time to say anything, Sandora had already made her decision, and then grinned at me: "You forgot one thing: you are not afraid of jumping into the gate of the abyss, and I am even less afraid: I have already jumped once. I am 100% I am sure that I will be safe and sound in it.”

"Okay, okay, it seems I have to add one more," Bingtis stretched, the black wings on his back spread out in an instant, and a light golden mist of holy light filled the air around him. "I also have the experience of fighting against the Gate of the Abyss, and it seems that I am the only one present who is relatively strong, right?"

Sandora glanced at Bingtis, as if she wanted to stop him, but found that she couldn't refute Bingtis's reasons from her own point of view, so she could only nod in acquiescence.

It seems that no one can change the minds of these two. One is a queen and the other is a female gangster. They are both tough-minded in character. I smiled and nodded to my sister who still looked worried, and then looked at Lin Xue: "Don't bother, just see how lucky I am today."

"Not bad, except for the possibility of being beaten by my wife." Lin Xue rolled her eyes at me and said angrily. I don't know if she included herself in the beating list.

Except for a few commanders who needed to stay at the end and Lin Xue and others who had to stay alive or dead (oh, and we also have to count Qian Qian who is maintaining time stasis near the gate of the abyss), the staff in the test site quickly After being evacuated, all that was left in this universe were some unattended workstations and three guys who were planning to jump through the gate. We teleported directly to the Gate of the Abyss and stood on the obelisk of psionic energy closest to the gate. The door had begun to expand before it collapsed. The obelisk under the three people's feet, which had not originally touched the door, was now located in an area shrouded in black mist. A hundred meters away from the feet was the Gate of the Abyss, which was surging like liquid. The obelisk that originally suppressed the gate now seemed to be an isolated island in the black ocean. The blue barrier released was barely connected to other nearby obelisks, trying to prevent the gate from collapsing with all its strength. I have known about the strange spatial phenomenon of the Gate of the Abyss before: no matter which angle you look at this gate, what you see will always be a black round surface facing you. It is obviously a virtual reality presented in the three-dimensional world. Dimensional phenomenon: transcending dimensions and forming a system of its own. The function of the psionic energy obelisk is to use psionic energy that can also take effect in all dimensions at the same time to bind the gate of the abyss, so that it can be solidified in the material world, thereby forming a fixed plane. Now the gate in front of us seems to be about to break free of this dimensional lock, because when we turn our eyes to other angles, the gate of the abyss we see is already a black round cake that gradually stands up.

"Well, it's a familiar feeling," Bingtis covered her nose, as if she could really smell it in this environment, "I just remembered that the bearded man reported that his work ship was contaminated. , and then he suddenly hung up the communication, right? Maybe he realized that the situation was not good at that time and was ready not to return - by the way, he also specifically reminded you not to send a second engineering team down, absolutely. Something bad was coming, but he didn't have time to report it."

"I also thought about it," Shandora sighed, "There are many guys like this among the imperial soldiers. Their loyalty is commendable, but there are some guys who will cause headaches."

Bingtis glanced at me and Sandora, and suddenly laughed: "For a work ship and a group of engineers. The head of the empire personally jumped into the gate of the abyss. Chen would do such a move because of his character So, what about you? Sandora, I remember that you are a calmer queen. Are you infected by the hot-blood factor by your partner? "

"Only his blood is hot," Sandora said bluntly and scratched me with her one-meter-long claws, "I am really sure that I will be fine: I have the breath of the abyss. The fog in the gate will not take the initiative. Attacking a signal source with properties similar to its own. This is the characteristic of the abyss, it does not destroy things that have been destroyed."

"Oh. I found a whirlpool, which may be the breakthrough point mentioned by Tavel -" Bingtis suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted. We stopped here for a few minutes, just to find a more suitable time to jump in. Bingtis's eyes seemed to be better, "The goddess of darkness gave me red eyes, so that I can find darker things in the dark gate of the abyss... Oh, it doesn't rhyme anymore..."

Sandora and I: "...Stop talking nonsense! Jump quickly!"

It only takes a few seconds to fall into the gate of the abyss under the gravity of the red giant star. When I walked through the so-called gate, there didn't seem to be any special feeling. I felt like I was just passing through a layer of undulating water. Maybe there was some "soft" touch? Or maybe it was just our own psychology. After all, when we jumped down, the shape of the Gate of the Abyss was already like a pool of spring water.

"We're here now?" I said to myself, opening my eyes, the red sea of ​​fire surging in the red giant storm had disappeared. Just like the shattered illusion before, there was only endless darkness in front of me.

The surroundings were filled with an indescribable sense of disharmony. As a void creature, I didn't feel the harm the abyss had done to my body. But the ubiquitous rejection and a kind of heart-wrenching "crisis is approaching" feeling still make me quite uncomfortable. This feeling is like covering your eyes and ears, and then surrounding you with caged beasts. You can't see or hear them in a cage, but a certain vague smell makes your hair stand on end. The beasts in the cage can't hurt anyone, but your keen spirit will tell you: danger is imminent.

It's such an unpleasant atmosphere, but fortunately, I don't seem to feel that the abyss can corrode my body. It seems that even a highly polluted environment like the Gate of the Abyss can't cope with such a level gap as "void". Quantitative changes cannot overcome qualitative changes.

First of all, we must find a way to restore "sight". No matter what method we use, we must be able to perceive the surrounding environment. I recalled the method Sandora told me to release my spiritual power and look for the "trajectory of order being destroyed" while looking for tangible targets: those were the things sent in from the other side of the gate, including the work boat and Sandora. Dora and Bingtis. This novel method of "seeing" is much more troublesome than using the eyes, but years of training on my own spirit have given me some skills. Soon, a turbid fog appeared in my "vision", spinning rapidly, The indescribable storm, the turbulent flow that changed its trajectory arbitrarily and incompatible with any common sense of physics, and Sandora and Bingtis who followed him down, turned out to be beside him. It was really scary when they suddenly emerged from the darkness. He jumped by himself.

Sandora noticed the change in my expression, wrinkled her nose, and asked with a smile: "It seems that you have adapted, how do you feel?"

"It's not good, it's quite bad. I feel like the whole environment is trying to kill me," I curled my lips, "But it's better than expected. I don't feel like anything is destroying my body, or to put it simply, there's nothing at all. The feeling of being in contact with the abyss.”

"Because they retreated voluntarily," Bingtis spread her wings. The huge black wings were filled with a contradictory golden holy light, which looked like black-hearted cotton... Ahem, her face felt relaxed. He looked at me with interest, "I and Sandora are ready to resist, but after you opened the void domain, the abyss began to retreat, and now they are all wandering around the periphery of your 'halo' , Didn’t you notice? Those fogs are detouring in a surrounding spherical area. Well, you’d better keep this state, I and Sandora are now protected in your halo.”

Bingtis said, laughing and joking: "Damn, there are times when I am protected by men!"

Sandora immediately added seriously: "It's my man. I will collect the rent after more than an hour."

"Ahem," I coughed dryly, secretly glad that I didn't have anything to blush about now, and then looked around, "I can't see where the work ship is. How far can we see in this environment?"

"It's not much farther than a mortal's sight." Bingtis took out his holy book and tore off a page. The page turned into light spots and spread out. "They can expand your range of perception in the abyss environment. We The Protoss will occasionally enter the Gate of the Abyss to perform tasks. You have your own probe technology, and we have similar things - although the lifespan is relatively short, just one minute."

"Is that the Gate of the Abyss? Where did we come in?" I looked around and found that there was a huge, invisible edge diagonally above me (perhaps above? Now I can only judge the up, down, left, and right from my own angle) Swirl group, countless large and small vortex patterns floating on the dark background, exuding gray-white luster, combined into a whole to roughly present a circular array, the vortices are constantly colliding, devouring each other, and then impacting the edge of the array, From these whirlpools, I vaguely felt the familiar atmosphere of the material world: This feeling cannot be explained clearly, but it is like being locked in a completely sealed box, and suddenly there is an opening somewhere, even with my eyes closed. , you can also feel the fresh air flowing in from there.

"It seems so...it was originally supposed to be a static gray-white mirror, but now it's like this...it should be the reason why the gate collapsed. Something disturbed the peace, and it was done on this side of the gate." Bingtis analyzed it very professionally. In this regard, it seems that she is more knowledgeable than Sandora: the exaggerated lifespan and experience of the gods are full of superiority at this time.

Sandora reminded: "Don't go too far. Once we can't see these whirlpools or feel them, we can never go back - unless we can find another abyss gate before our strength is exhausted." .”

"It's such a big lump, it's a long way to go to an invisible distance," Bingtis laughed, and then suddenly froze, "Well, we found the work boat... but there are other things around it!" (To be completed.) Continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)