Chapter 1,309 Speculations About Barriers

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What caused the Revenge Army to be trapped in another world - we don't care what it was, whether it was a program or a supreme order - it was like a barrier that destroyed Sandora and her soldiers at that time from the old empire. It was protected from the catastrophe of heaven and earth.

So we finally decided to call it the "unknown barrier effect," or simply "the barrier."

This barrier looks like a cage, but its real function may also be a safety cage prepared for tourists in the ecological park. Although you are locked inside, its function is to protect you from attacks by predators from the outside. The various locks it imposed on the Revenge Army now seem so targeted: prohibiting the activation of cross-world equipment, this is to prevent someone from returning to the abyss contaminated area, prohibiting communication beyond this universe, this is to prevent someone from accidentally Reconnect to the old empire data network and prohibit the construction of various large-scale equipment. This is to prevent the Revenge Army from developing methods to crack the barrier. Sandora believes that if the function of the bubble is not locked at that time, then as long as there is enough volume, Sooner or later, she would be able to discover the abnormalities in the soldiers' bodies through massive calculations and lift the barrier. Therefore, in order to eliminate this unstable factor, the "barrier" simply locked all the functions of the Xiling host.

As for why the Revenge Army couldn't even leave a primitive planet at that time, I think this may be because a certain threshold of the "barrier" was set too high. For absolute safety, it adjusted the level of locking on the Revenge Army to a very high level. level, even directly shutting down the aerospace ability of Xiling Apostle. This is supposed to minimize the chance of someone jumping out of the world. There are various extreme environments in the universe, near giant celestial bodies where energy and mass are highly concentrated. The stability of space will decrease. In this distortion zone, it is easy for "loopholes" to other worlds to appear, which is the space flash phenomenon. In order to prevent the revenge army from approaching such loopholes, the barrier simply fixes everyone on a planet. Above: This is not impossible.

certainly. Before today, if someone made such a guess, I would definitely think that it was because his head was squeezed by the door. There is a one-way inference problem: "The barrier protected the Revenge Army" and "The barrier was created to protect the Revenge Army." The two are different. Without sufficient evidence, we can only say that the lock-down state at that time indeed allowed Sandora to survive, but we cannot say that the real purpose of this lock-down state was to protect the Revenge officers and soldiers. But now we have dug up those clay tablets from Mesopotamia. Things are different.

Soldiers who jumped out of the "safe zone" were prohibited from returning and were killed outside the barrier by a higher-level "lock order". This was obviously a typical measure used to fight the plague, and the "barrier conjecture" gained the most powerful support.

"I have figured out something now," Shandora said slowly. "We had such a barrier in the old empire. We built an isolation zone in the abyss contaminated area. Place the wounded soldiers inside. If any wounded soldiers accidentally escape, Outside the isolation zone, we will directly send sanctions drones to execute them - but this isolation zone is only used to protect the servant army or local indigenous people. The self-purification ability of Xiling Apostles is much more effective than the isolation zone, so We have never used this measure on ourselves."

"After the catastrophe, the abyss pollution in the empire was much more serious. Your self-purification was not enough, so the Xiling apostles also needed isolation and protection." I glanced at Sandora, "It's just that no one thought of this back then. a little."

Shandora spread her hands: "No way, that thing is too weird. Who would have thought it was a protective barrier? We didn't know what was going on outside at first, so we were imprisoned directly in a completely confused situation. Later, we didn't know what was going on outside. After I figured out what was going on outside, I didn't have that much energy to study what was going on in the original 'lockdown state'. If the fox hadn't dug up these muddy pimples, I might have forgotten about it."

I turned my head and pinched the fox girl's ears to praise her, even though she had degenerated into a husky, even though she was eating and lazy every day, even though she dug through the yard today. But she did make a great contribution this time. I was thinking of rewarding her with a pack of bone biscuits, but this girl might be violent and hurt others, so I will take her to have her tail cleaned and blow-dried in two days as a reward.

Fox has been lying next to the coffee table, peeping her head and listening to us telling stories that we couldn't understand at all: she knew nothing about what happened to the Revenge Army back then. She didn’t know what the “lock” and “barrier” that everyone was talking about were, but she knew that these topics were all caused by her, so she showed great interest from the beginning to the end. It was amazing, she actually To be so interested in a topic that I don’t understand at all, and to listen from beginning to end...

"Now there's a question." My sister got up and got a glass of water, and then came back and continued, "Who built this barrier? How could he be so capable of trapping Sandora without even noticing? "

"It may be another emperor, or it may be some kind of 'survivor cluster'," Sandora thought for a while before guessing, "We all know that although the disaster in the old empire broke out quickly, it also lasted for hundreds of years. It is declared over. Many leader-level apostles have persisted for a long time. They have carried out various self-rescue actions during this period - you all remember the Documentation Hall. In fact, the separation of concepts between the Documentation Hall and the Fifteen Days Zone is the fault of the survivors. Some of the self-rescue actions are successful and some fail. There may be some survivors that we don't know about who have also taken action. Some survivors may have discovered that the Revenge Army was just outside the contaminated area, so they immediately cut off The communication between the Revenge Army and the Imperial Data Network has locked us down."

"Tch, why do you feel that the rest of the story is completely pieced together by brainstorming?" Bingtis rubbed his eyebrows a little depressed. This guy has been pretending to be a think tank for a long time, and now he finally feels that he has no patience, "There can't be Is this any real information?"

I quite understand Bingtis's complaint. After all, we really have very little information at hand. This discussion has been a reasoning competition since an hour ago, and that's why. We have many inferences that we dare not say to death - what is certain now is only the fact that the Revenge Army was once protected by some kind of "barrier effect", everything else has yet to be determined.

"Let's first assume that the 'barrier' conjecture is correct," Sandora ignored Bingtis's words. "This barrier obviously has many traces of 'rush work'. It cannot determine whether the people who escaped the barrier have been infected. , it seems that it is impossible to judge whether the world outside the barrier is safe: after the abyss eruption ended 70,000 years ago, this barrier has never disappeared, indicating that it does not even have a shutdown process. This should be due to the time when the barrier was set up. Be urgent.”

"So, is the Revenge Army a kind of fire that was protected to the death by some of the surviving emperors..." My sister was filled with emotion, "It's a pity that they didn't have the chance to explain the situation to Sandora."

Sandora nodded: "The entire spiritual network has been contaminated. Therefore, I and the Revenge Army could only be isolated without knowing anything. If they had contacted me at that time, they would have failed in an instant. "

"But having said that, how did this barrier suddenly lift?" Qian Qian muttered incredulously, "Didn't you say that it has no sensing ability? After the abyss impact, it remained stubborn for nearly 70,000 years. Why did it suddenly Gone……"

After Qian Qian finished speaking, the whole family's attention focused on me. I pointed at myself inexplicably: "Huh?"

"Your friend, the void creature, is online," Bubble's voice came from the crack of the crowd (because she was too small), "As soon as the child's father comes online, the network will be reshuffled, there is such a thing as a barrier. Ultimately, it works by blocking channels or interfering with key equipment. At that time, Pandora was equivalent to the external network for the barrier. The barrier was to prevent internal network equipment from connecting to the external network, so it would naturally jump out, and then the child's father Drop that thing in seconds.”

I scratched my hair: "Um...why don't I remember it?"

I felt a look from the child's mother through the cracks in the face: "There are many things that you have no memory of - why don't you say that there are a few things that you have done from the time you took the throne to now that you have an memory of?"

I thought about it and felt very sad and angry.

In fact, there are still many things that are unclear about this "barrier" statement. For example, how did the surviving emperors (if they really existed) manage to quickly establish a barrier without Sandora noticing? : This is impossible in the Xiling authority system. An emperor cannot exceed his authority to control the armies of other emperors, let alone control other emperors themselves. For this, Shandora believed that it was most likely due to the abyss: the abyss impact that year destroyed almost everything in the old empire's spiritual network. Perhaps at some point, even the permission system was briefly shut down. Maybe the people who set up the "barrier" took advantage of this loophole to imprison all members of the Revenge Army - okay, I know this is still unclear, but at least it is a reason, right?

The discussion about "barrier" ends here, even if the reasoning continues. No more information could be obtained. Shandora decided to ask the soldiers who were trapped in the other world with her to undergo a full-body examination, and even she herself did an internal scan to see if she could find any traces of the "barrier". Although it was of little significance, It's better than doing nothing.

When everyone got up and went about their own business, my sister suddenly sighed: "The people who built the barrier back then should be gone."

Sandora was silent for a few seconds and sighed: "It could be worse: they may already be on the side of the fallen apostles."

This was originally an unpleasant guess, but I suddenly thought of something else: "Wait, if what they said on the side of the fallen apostle might be a good thing, you forgot that I still have..."

Before I finished speaking, Bingtis clapped his hands: "By the way, the prodigal son turns around and punches me in the face!"

Me: "...can you not mention this name?"

Sandora's eyes also lit up, because for the new empire that has mastered the key "technology" of "reversal of transformation", the fallen apostle is no longer a completely hopeless polluter. As long as we can successfully capture it, we will and Xiaoxue can reverse them and turn them into normal Xiling apostles. If what originally imprisoned the Revenge Army in another world was really a conscious "barrier", and if the person who set up this barrier is still alive, then they are almost 100% in the camp of the fallen apostles. According to them, when the catastrophe comes, they will have The fact that Yuli was able to create such a barrier while awake will be a group of powerful leaders, and they will also have considerable influence in the current fallen apostle camp - this points out a clear path for our future actions. .

"I will convene a headquarters meeting tomorrow." Sandora said vigorously, "In future operations against the fallen apostles, we will try our best to capture the enemy leaders. I must understand what happened back then!"

I thought about it and felt that it was really easy for Sandora to say that. With the combat power of the new empire, it was quite reluctant to fight the fallen apostle head-on. Now it is still required to capture other generals alive every time there is a war - you might as well expect a dozen emperors to surrender with their armies from the other side. Of course Sandora could think of this, so she calmed down her excitement a little and smiled awkwardly at us: "It's just a general direction, just a general direction... Just do your best."

This head-swelling discussion is finally over. All that's left is to make fine adjustments to various future military operations based on the newly acquired intelligence. As well as arranging a general physical examination for all members of the Revenge Army, Sandora decided to supervise this matter personally, which made me feel happy and relaxed. Ji Shanshan stood up and began to clean up the clay tablets on the table. These precious lumps were no longer of much use to us, but Ji Shanshan seemed to like them quite a lot. This flat-chested dwarf rarely hummed a tuneless ballad. It's as brisk as a festival.

"I'm very happy. These things are your treasures?" I patted Ji Xuanxiao's head and said casually.

"Can't you be happy when you see something familiar?" Ji Shanshan quickly threw a bunch of mud lumps into his personal space, and then looked at me with special vigilance, "Wait! You don't want to bring these Leave the clay tablets to humans, right? You can do this kind of thing..."

I thought about it and realized that Ji Shanshan was right to be worried: these clay tablets were part of the earth's culture, and it seemed reasonable to hand them over to humans. But I had no intention of doing so at all. Because we have been working hard to erase the traces of the empire from the earth, and we will not let the people on earth come into contact with any more "influence" than necessary until they are sufficiently developed. For this reason, the Love Without Borders organization has demolished or moved away dozens of ancient ruins (just look at those scientific expedition teams that littered non-burnable garbage back then!). Nowadays, these clay tablets reveal too many obvious things. Information about extraterrestrial civilizations will have an extremely bad impact on earth's civilization: it will make earthlings think that they are a captive race created by aliens, which is obviously a bad inducement.

Although we hope to guide people on earth to enter space as soon as possible, the stimulation of things like the Xiling Empire is still too strong: it can easily lead the fragile earth civilization to go astray.

Of course, the more important reason is: I find it troublesome.

"Since the things on these clay tablets did not become the mainstream of Sumerian culture, it means that they eventually became a small branch that was eliminated in human history. Don't let these branches disrupt the less concentrated energy of the people on earth. ”

Got my word. Ji Shanshan was so happy that she hugged her clay tablets and ran away to the second floor - but soon she ran down again in a hurry because there were still a lot of clay tablets in the yard.

"You look a bit like a divine ancestor now," Bingtis sat on the sofa next to him like a tiger and a dragon, watching the conversation between Ji Shanshan and me with cold eyes. "Think about issues for mortal civilization from a higher perspective..."

I suddenly frowned: "Why do I feel so uncomfortable when you say that: as if I have become a villain?"

"Because you think you have interfered with the progress of mortals?" Bingtis chuckled, "Don't be too sensitive, this is an inevitable phenomenon. When you are strong enough, even if you take a breath, it is enough to make the secular world turbulent. , you can no longer have no impact on the world like ordinary people - no matter how careful you are, it will be useless. I will give you a recent example: three days ago, I heard Sandora mention that in order to build a new Void Laboratory, you approved the fine-tuning of the speed of light in a certain world. Do you know what this one-ten thousandth fine-tuning means? It means that in that universe, there are millions of intelligent races that have never contacted the Empire. Choosing another technology tree in the future, for you, this is an unintentional side effect, for those mortals, this is - destiny."

I:"……"

"That's it. If you are so powerful that you are like destiny to another race, then you will never be able to get rid of this responsibility. Our Protoss has spent countless years studying this problem. Finally, under the guidance of Father God, we understood The responsibility of God: God is not involved in the world. It does not mean that God has no contact with mortals at all, but that God will not distort the wishes of mortals according to his own wishes. In addition, you have more or less impact on the world, regardless of the impact you have on the world. He’s fucked.”

Finally, Bingtis patted me on the shoulder proudly: "Remember what I said from the bottom of my heart: The greater the power, the more troubles there will be."

I:"……"

This guy is truly my life coach, he speaks from the heart.

In fact, sometimes I also think that Bingtis, the female gangster, is quite good - although she is fierce, vile, violent, and willful and goes out to look for trouble every now and then and spends my money lavishly, but other than that... other than that, she doesn't seem to be very good. What advantages are left...

In short, what I mean is that Bingtis can always stand up and give me some guidance or comfort when I am confused, especially when I am confused about major issues such as power and responsibility. This female gangster usually looks like a fool, but what she has accumulated over hundreds of millions of years is not just her biceps. Her awareness of strength and responsibility, authority and mission is worthy of the name of a goddess. I can’t remember it anymore. I know how many times I have been enlightened by her. Her enlightenment is full of ruffianism, but it is suitable for my carefree personality: if you find a serious teacher and good mentor to talk to you, I may not be able to listen. .

Maybe this female gangster has a soft and delicate heart hidden under the edges and corners of her body. It's good for me to hypnotize myself like this, which can effectively filter out the sand in her words.

Seeing Bingtis walking toward the door with his arms swinging, as if he was ready to go out and spend some money, I called out from behind: "Thanks, Bingtis."

Bingtis waved his hand without looking back: "Save it, you will want to kill someone when I come back from shopping..."

I:"……"

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