Chapter 1527 Handover

Sheila looked at Ancestor Xiling with an interested look on her face. I was suddenly curious: "What's wrong?"

"It feels... there's something strange about him, something not quite right," Sheila said. This was the first time she saw the ancestor of the Xiling people. I don't know how much she knew about the latter, but she looked like He had no idea at all, "I just heard that you resurrected your ancestors. I didn't expect to see them so soon... Are they? Why is the entanglement of information on them so strange? It's as if there is a pause in some places, Part of the information is solidified, but it’s not completely frozen.”

As expected, Sheila was worthy of being one of the two most knowledgeable people in the void. Sheila could see the strange "immortal state" of Xiling Ancestor at a glance.

"We don't understand it either," I shrugged. "The ancestors were in a very strange immortal state when they were discovered. Time seemed to have disappeared on them. The ancestors' bodies remained as they were a long, long time ago. state. Thanks to this state, we can resurrect them. In fact, the situation you see now is different from the original state. After resurrection, the bodies of the ancestors have been reactivated, so the original immortal state has also been loosened. , the feeling of 'stagnation' at the beginning is even more obvious than now."

"Oh," Sheila frowned. She seemed to have heard a lot of things related to Xiling's ancestors from Xing Chen, and now she seemed to be very concerned about it. "Strange immortal state, I have never heard of such a thing. No matter whether it is secular matter or extraordinary things, or even gods who have reached immortality, they will not enter this immortal state of passive stagnation. According to my observation, it is not so much immortal as it is that it no longer responds to changes. '. Time is a one-sided and abstract thing, and sometimes it even loses its meaning. Only the 'change' it brings is the key, and this change seems to show signs of 'partial failure' in the ancestors of Xiling."

Okay, it’s another piece of theoretical science popularization that I don’t know much about. Fortunately, this popular science session didn’t last long, and Sheila didn’t seem to be wasting her time on this topic. She finally took a deep look at her ancestors, and then suddenly realized that it was rude to look at her like this, so she quickly stuck out her tongue: "Oh, sorry, that's what I do when I'm interested in something. No offense intended."

Ansers didn't care much about being looked at like this. He didn't expect the Huron God King to apologize so heartily. The old man waved his hand generously: "It's okay, it's okay. We all know that we are a 'special phenomenon'. We usually cooperate with research. , almost becoming a living specimen."

Sheila looked at me reproachfully: "You are really rude to your ancestors."

I helplessly rolled my eyes at the sky: Although there is nothing wrong with this accusation, it feels really strange that I am a "Xiling Apostle" who has become a monk halfway. Ansers can't be regarded as my own ancestor no matter what. Do void creatures have the concept of "elder"?

"By the way, why are you interested in coming to the temple?" Only then did I remember my initial doubts, so I looked at the ancestors curiously: they had no religious pamphlets in their hands, and no strange things hanging around their necks. The strange consecrated cross and prayer beads were obviously not fooled by the unscrupulous vendors and magicians around the temple area. And they themselves are not usually used to wandering around. After all, the deep diving project is in full swing. They are also the most important crew members of the deep-diving vessel in the project. They usually have very little rest time. When they go back to Shadow City during holidays, they basically sort out materials at the research institute and collaborate on research. They are rarely interested in going out for sightseeing.

"We are on a long vacation." A middle-aged man behind Ansers said. I remember that he should be one of the internal equipment operators of the spacecraft. "I heard that a new generation of spacecraft will be built recently, and the current deep-submersible ship is preparing to retire. . The technicians plan to check all the equipment on the spacecraft before abandoning it, collect data, etc. We have two to three deep dive missions before the new spacecraft is put into use, and there will be a long vacation between each deep dive. Use Come and dismantle the entire ship for inspection... Oh, it's a pity that I don't understand this deep-seated thing. Anna's suggestion to come to the temple this time: she felt that the atmosphere around the temple can protect the skin, and then she took all of us Come together."

Anna is also one of the ancestors, and she is also a young and energetic woman who is very sensitive to her appearance and "surprising age issues", so I can understand her thoughts, but the jingle halo really has no effect on beauty. Every once in a while, something would slap its whole body on my face. Don’t you think I still look like this?

After hearing my ancestor’s explanation, I understood. I knew that Tavel had already started preparing for the next phase of the large-scale deep dive plan in advance. Regardless of the technology provided by the Abyss Xiling and the resources provided by the God Realm, It will definitely take several transitional ship types before the final version of the deep submersible ship is finalized, and it is also essential to prepare for the construction of new ships as early as possible. Except for the first deep-diving ship that never returned, as long as every ship could return completely, it would be a valuable experimental material in itself, and the imperial technicians who were passionate about science would certainly not let it go.

At this time, Sheila and Xingchen had already gone to the side and started talking in silence. I knew that this was because King Huron was out of curiosity and was learning more about the ancestors of Xiling. I can’t blame the other party for being too nosy. After all, there are special beings like the ancestors. This is something that even void creatures have never seen, not to mention that these ancestors have experienced those weird things, and single-handedly created the current Xiling God System: Although they are mortals, the marks they left in the void are absolutely No less than any god.

I took this opportunity to chat with Ansers, basically to learn about the recent living conditions of the ancestors and the situation of deep-diving experiments. These things can also be seen in various reports, but chatting with the person involved It definitely feels different from reading a report. After all, I can’t understand most reports...

Dingdang was bouncing around on my head a little boredly. The little thing didn’t like to listen to those complicated things. Her life was made up of cuteness and candies, so the little one bounced on my head for a while and then started to ask for fillings. A gap in life: "Arjun, Dingdang wants some candy... Unbutton your buttons, Dingdang is hungry..."

In order to prevent this little guy from overeating, I sometimes button up my pockets, so Dingdang’s three enemies in life become exams, study, and the buttons on my coat pockets...

After Sheila and Xingchen finished muttering, and Dingdang settled down in his pocket for the time being, I went to Xingchen and asked the question that the ancestors were most concerned about at the moment: "How about the 'Homeworld'? That database should have been Has it been some time since you were sent to the God Realm?"

As soon as they heard this topic, several ancestors immediately came forward. Everyone has an eager look on their face.

"There has been great progress. After processing it with various cracking and data repair techniques, basically everything in the memory has been read out, and the clear coordinates of Xiling's 'home world' have also been revealed."

The ancestors suddenly showed happy expressions and looked at each other with joy, while I cautiously asked: "You have a clue, but you haven't found it clearly yet, right? Are there any questions?"

"The problem is not big. The main reason is that it has been a long time. Even if there is a regular world drift, there will be deviations. In addition, the Xiling people's 'home world' has suffered a catastrophe. Its drift rules have probably changed, so It is not at the 'original position' recorded in the original coordinates. But it doesn't matter, the world drift can be calculated, and the information leakage caused by the end of the world is also an error that can be corrected. The children have now calculated more than a hundred possibilities. According to the drift situation, the Xiling people's 'home world' must be at one of the coordinates. However, these coordinates are quite remote, and most of them are in relatively dangerous and unknown areas. Even checking a dozen at a time will take some time."

Finally, in order to reassure the Xiling ancestors, Xingchen added: "Anyway, you don't have to worry, I will notify you immediately as soon as there is news. Although the God Clan has a poor sense of time, as long as the action has been started, it will never be delayed. .”

Okay, this boss also knows that the Protoss’ concept of time is a problem.

"Do you want the empire to help?" I asked with some embarrassment. Originally, this was something that the empire should have solved by itself from beginning to end. But the Protoss has been struggling for so long. Now even when they send people to investigate the truth, the Protoss reimburses the travel expenses. It would be too unreasonable for the Empire to watch the whole process. "We have a high-speed void shuttle. It is no slower than you."

"Of course, it would be better if you have extra manpower," Xingchen smiled cheerfully. He won't be polite to anyone in this regard, "But I don't recommend too risky actions. Those suspected coordinates are all in extremely dangerous places, and some areas have been identified as highly polluted zones entrenched in the abyss, even the same as the abyss area. It’s dangerous, so just sending a high-speed shuttle won’t work, and there must be a considerable escort force, otherwise they may not be able to come back. If you really want to help, you’d better discuss it with Sandora.”

The other party tried his best to talk about the matter very casually, but I saw a hint of seriousness in his gentle eyes. Even Father God showed this look, so we can imagine the danger of those "suspected coordinates" in his mouth. I thought about it and showed a cautious expression: "Well, then you first give us the situation of the area where those coordinates are located, and I will discuss with Sandora how many people to send there."

After I finished speaking, I raised my head and looked at the high-altitude home planet Gaia and exhaled slightly: Another major event seems to be settled. Finding the home world, the long-cherished wish of the Xiling Apostle is probably half completed.

Xingchen and Sheila stayed in the capital of the empire for three days, and then set off back to the Star Territory. From there, they would embark on the long road to the Huron God Realm after passing several very ancient jump points. Sheila's statement is that there are too many things that need to be transported here, so other void creatures must help carry them. Of course, we all know that this is an important part of her plan to have children, but who would take the initiative to point it out without opening their eyes? Anyway, I don’t dare, after all, I can’t beat her…

In the past three days, other things related to bridge construction have not been delayed. The first is the star port reconstruction plan: Tavel has led her expert team and a large number of engineering teams to transform the deep submersible port. Currently, three orbital bases have just been built. . It is the largest port in the empire and a relatively "new" port. Due to the special nature of the Gate of the Abyss, it will no longer be stable after a certain amount of information overflow. Therefore, the lifespan of any deep-diving port is not long. The port we chose as the first phase of the joint test base has only been in operation for a few months. Under the control of the new suppression tower system, this port should be able to be used for the first half to a year. In theory, this is the case. Well, that last sentence was added by Tavel.

We still have several similar ports like this. Even if one of the ports collapses, we can immediately transfer the deep-diving ship to other ports to continue testing to avoid wasting time: the void cataclysm is approaching step by step. There is not much time left for us.

Harlan and I arrived at the border of the empire a few days later: the personnel and materials promised by Abyss Xiling were about to arrive.

Shandora is still presiding over affairs in the Shadow City, and Harlan was dragged to attend this handover event because of his status as the "former fallen apostle emperor". The latter's expression has changed from embarrassment to the present, standing with me in the Star Port Hall. His face still looked like a playing card.

"Relax, it won't be so embarrassing even if you meet an acquaintance," I poked the uncle next to me. Harlan is usually a serious and rigid person. It's really interesting to see him in embarrassment occasionally, "It's interesting to talk to Abyss Xi. I have never seen you so solemn when I met you."

Harlan straightened his clothes and still had a poker expression on his face: "That's different. When I was a fallen apostle, I had never seen the true face of Abyss Xiling. She was always a transmitter to me, but It's different for other people... If the person sent to hand over the situation is a guy I knew well before, I really don't know what to say."

I shrugged. This was a consideration that others could not share and could hardly empathize with. I should just concentrate on waiting for the "good things" promised by Abyss Xiling to appear.

This world is exactly the fortress universe that was knocked down during the Empire's massive attack on the Abyss Zone a few days ago. Now it has been repaired and has become part of the "New Frontier" after rebuilding the sovereign hub and becoming more impregnable. It has two sets of worlds. door. Although they are both under the jurisdiction of the same sovereign hub, the two sets of world gates lead in completely different directions: one leads to the interior of the Empire, and the other leads to the Abyss.

This was out of caution, although Sandora decided to have the Empire Zone and the Abyss Zone directly border each other. But after all, we have to consider the pollution on the other side, so it is necessary to maintain a buffer structure between the Empire Teleportation Network and the Abyssal Zone Teleportation Network. Of course, another reason is to be wary of Abyss Xiling: We cannot let her take the initiative to send things to the empire. The right to open the port must be on the empire's side.

Where we are now is the newly established Sovereign Hub, twenty astronomical units away from the old Sovereign Hub. Sandora asked the celestial system fleet to leave a planet battleship here as a fortress star. And a series of functional stations were built on the orbit of the fortress star, including orbital observation stations and world gate generators (there is also a larger set of world gates several light years away, but they are not used this time). Now Harlan and I are standing on the upper platform of the orbital station, staring at the deep and dark outer space: there, a large-scale dim vortex has taken shape, its diameter is almost the size of the moon, and around the vortex is a circle that has unfolded. World Gate Generator. The generator glowed with a mysterious light blue light, and its brightness and flashing frequency indicated that the door was connected.

Abyss Xiling stood behind me and Harlan, his eyes were calm, and he didn’t know what he was thinking.

Our wait did not last long. When the moment agreed upon by both parties arrived, all the generators around the World Gate simultaneously produced a violent flash, like a halo suddenly illuminating the deep dark space. The chaotic vortex in the center of the halo From illusion to reality, we saw some black shadows slowly emerging from the gate: it was a transport ship.

Since Abyss Xiling has shown so much sincerity, the empire must also show enough trust, so these "special materials" from the abyss area came to the empire for the first time without facing the forest of guns. in the dominating universe.

Three black-red starships that were tens of kilometers long and looked like three layers of stacked plates slowly left the world gate. The light around them flickered for a while, and the spacecraft immediately stabilized from the last illusory state to the physical state. Behind them were a large number of small spacecrafts. The detection equipment sent back the scanning results of those small spacecrafts. I found that they were all starships with a size of several hundred meters and a maximum of only a few kilometers. After getting used to the "big" concept, "It's beautiful" Xiling's design can be considered compact.

And the shape of those small spaceships is also quite strange: they don’t look like any kind of main battle spacecraft. I can’t find even a similar design in the imperial arsenal. At the same time, their shapes are also different, with long and narrow shapes. There are also "Torbayesque designs", "classic Mohs" shapes with a rough appearance but a rugged aesthetic, and of course there are also coffin-board spaceships that are more popular. Each small spaceship has a different shape, and the facilities outside look strange, and basically none of them has the characteristics of a combat spacecraft.

Seeing those strange things, I couldn't help but turn my head and glance at Abyss Xiling: "You said there are some extra 'gifts', are these the things?"

Abyss Xiling had a vague smile on his face: "This is what we use to detect the gate of the abyss. Of course, it is not a deep-diving ship, but a model that cruises in the shallow layers of the abyss. You should be familiar with these things Very impressive, right? I almost used them as military spaceships at the beginning... It's a pity that I haven't been able to complete the combat model modification until today: fighting in an abyss environment is second only to firing cannons in a void environment."

I suddenly opened my mouth wide: It turns out these are these things! No wonder it looks weird and a bit familiar!

Abyss Xiling looked at me with a smile, and his tone seemed a little pleasant: "Probably the void will always favor his own son, and these things will eventually come to an advantage for you."

I choked on the word "son", but I couldn't help but ask: "Is it okay to hand over such a confidential thing to the new empire?"

"Secret?" Abyss Xiling didn't care much, "It's just that it can still be called a secret. When the four parties jointly start research, you will soon be able to create a basic spacecraft like this. Why don't you give me a favor now?" And to be honest, I am also very sincere in cooperating. In the face of the void cataclysm, still thinking about intrigues and hidden techniques is just seeking death."

I nodded, then walked towards the teleporter with a smile: "Then go say hello to your subordinates."