The scientific research ship has arrived at the bottom of the eye of the storm. There is a quite powerful and chaotic energy field here, and not surprisingly, there is a quite strong abyss reaction here. w w .
The power of the abyss and the psionic energy are mixed together, maintaining a fragile dynamic balance that seems to never end as long as it is not broken. The result of the conflict between the two extremes of order and non-order is like a tenacious anti-virus software running into each other.
A downloader virus hiding in the background forced each other into an endless loop, and the scene in front of them was this completely uncontrollable energy storm. The self-purification ability of the nether energy made it repel the abyss, and the abyss continued.
Let Nether Energy show the same chaotic tendencies as himself. The end of the world destroyed everything in order in the universe. Only these two things that have gone beyond the scope of the world view are still fighting endlessly after the end. The protection of the scientific research ship
The shield has reached its peak and is now struggling to move forward in this storm. Due to severe space distortion, the path of the spacecraft is no longer a "flat state" that can be explained by mathematical laws, so our forward speed is very slow, and all space
The jump device cannot be started. But overall it goes smoothly. The damage to the spacecraft caused by the energy field at the bottom of the storm is controlled within the ideal value. This kind of scientific research ship specially designed to work in dangerous environments is also called the frontline
In the Fortress Laboratory, after sacrificing weapons and tactical systems, it gained extremely reliable protection. Moreover, the mad scientist Tavel also used a frenzied attitude to install a special shield for the deep-submersible ship that had just completed mass production testing.
On this No. 2 scientific research ship, this helps a lot: the biggest threat to us at the bottom of the storm is not the frenzied psionic energy, but the active abyss. Without targeted shields, conventional spacecraft cannot persist here for long. This
This is also why I chose to let the No. 2 ship come down: it is the only specially modified scientific research ship, and it was really useful to have a thorough plan when it came.
"There seems to be something wrong with the No. 4 shield generator. The intensity fluctuation exceeds 3%. The redundant unit has been put on top. The spacecraft's self-repair system has been activated... The situation is improving. The host has strengthened the monitoring of all shields.
Prevent penetration.”
"This is the lower reactor. We have switched the output mode and the energy grid has begun to increase. It is expected to last for thirty minutes."
"This is the third propulsion group. The alarm has been lifted and we can accelerate again."
"This is the research and development engineering section. We have successfully recovered the sampling probe and are analyzing the energy field structure in the bottom area of the storm."
The command hall of the scientific research ship is busy, and the information in the channels at all levels is refreshed and circulated at a dizzying speed. On the various holographic images around the hall, what is most displayed is the scene outside the spacecraft, a black and red storm.
Now it is almost a state of chaos. Dark and disgusting clouds begin to appear occasionally. In some fleeting pictures, there are even weird pure black two-dimensional patterns. There are various signs that we
It is approaching the Gate of the Abyss - to be precise, it is the "final suppression zone" where the Gate of the Abyss comes into contact with the storm. After passing through this suppression zone, the scientific research ship will escape from the storm, but it will enter a more dangerous place:
The "port" where the old empire conducted deep dives may have become some kind of gate to the abyss.
However, everyone present is basically relaxed and not under much pressure. After all, we have two void creatures sitting in charge, and one of them is an unknown level elite. As a level elite, Father God even
He studied the work scene in the command hall with great interest, and then sighed with me: "It looks very powerful. You have actually created a resistance shield specifically for the abyss so early. We spent so much money back then... Anyway, it should be
It took a long time for magic with similar functions to appear."
"Father God, don't underestimate those guys called scientists in their research institute," a beautiful lolita with silver hair on the floor and eyes as red as blood walked around, looking around and talking in her mouth.
I still don’t forget to say, “Those guys are basically lunatics. They don’t play by common sense at all. As long as it’s something you can think of, they dare to study it seriously. I don’t know what else they don’t dare to experiment with.”
——I remember seeing Tavel’s report on Chen’s desk once. In order to study the dynamic balance extreme value of the Gate of the Abyss, they smashed planets near that thing one by one, waiting for the Gate of the Abyss to erupt.
When things get out of control, they cut off a piece of the contaminated area of the universe and throw it into the void. This is how they accumulate data..."
Father God was stunned: "...What if there is a big outbreak?"
"Destroy the entire universe. The experimental area is deserted anyway. Those scientists who are not afraid of death basically do not count themselves in the list of potential casualties. If they withdraw, they will write a research report. If they die inside
, just wait for others to write a research report, and at the same time, you can complete a research report yourself, they think this is a good deal..."
I finally couldn't help it anymore and pressed the big "loli's" head hard: "It's not that exaggerated, okay?"
The other party slapped my hand away and stared straight at me with his big blood-red eyes: "Anyway, it's almost the same. I admire them very much. Their life-threatening spirit is just as awesome as my own. Also, don't touch my body."
Head, do you see that women under 1.34 meters tall can be regarded as their own lolita? Do you know that the person standing in front of you is a 10% female?"
Me: "..." I almost forgot, the guy in front of me who looks like half a Dingdang taller than Pandora is actually the one whose front armor is so thick that it almost defies logic. He talks foul language and dares to hit it with a meteor hammer.
The female gangster at the Pantheon Gate: I still can’t accept this setting!
"Say, how long do you plan to play?" I squinted to the side, and Bingtis, who had shrunk himself, was climbing onto the seat on his hands and knees, "Also, why don't you know how to adjust the length of your hair too?
How about reducing the scale?"
Bingtis's ankle-length hair is simply a trademark. In addition to being very stylish, it is also one of the few feminine features of this female gangster besides the front armor. In my impression, only Aura has the same long hair.
, well, there is also a naturally stupid bishop named Lola. Normally, it looks a bit pleasing to the eye and stunning, but now Bingtis has shrunk to this look in equal proportions, and her hair has not shrunk at all, so things are more joyful.
, she wiped the floor extremely clean, and her hair was constantly getting tangled with various things because it was dragged on the floor...
"You know a basket, don't you think my beautiful hair is very charming?" Bingtis wrapped himself into a rice dumpling with his hair, leaving only his head outside, "I am traveling at a speed of 7200r/s
Do you believe that rotation can slap you until you can no longer take care of yourself?"
Me: "..." In the mind of this female hooligan, is this how you explain the charm?
According to my estimation, Bingtis should have fallen into a new state of personal madness now: she has countless personal madness modes, and maybe this is one of them. Under normal circumstances, no one can stop her at this time, not even Father God.
They are all just watching from the side, so I'd better not argue with her. And what can I say, even though she has a bit of a bad temper, Sister Bing in her big lolita state is quite interesting, and she has an unexpected sense of joy.
Especially after Qian Qian took advantage of her not paying attention, went around behind the chair and tied the female gangster's hair to the chair...
After all, Sister Bing is just a bit of a 250-year-old. She is not following the same route as Qian Qian, a strange girl who can kill half the sky with a flash of inspiration...
At this moment, the synthesized voice broadcast from the shipboard main unit rang out in the command hall, diverting my attention from the furious female gangster next to me and the carelessly smiling jumping girl (who also took my attention away from her).
The two's attention was attracted): "Attention, this ship has reached the critical point. There is a high degree of abyssal pollution in the front. The working efficiency of the ship's stability system has decreased. All personnel must be prepared for secondary impact resistance. The impact is coming - three,
Two, one, out of bounds!”
As soon as the broadcast sounded, violent vibrations swept through the entire hall.
This is an impact caused by strong abyssal pollution that suddenly affects the battleship's stability equipment, causing system chaos. Technically, it is a phenomenon that cannot be solved and prevented, but the spacecraft itself is also equipped with a device sufficient to resist such an impact, so the impact
It only lasts for a few seconds, and then the spacecraft can adapt to the environment and activate and reset various protective equipment according to the pollution situation. Soon, the violent vibrations gradually subsided, and the alarm sound in the ears gradually weakened and flashed.
Various equipment with red lights returned to normal after a few self-check beeps. The staff on the ship started working as usual as if nothing happened. The ship's host computer began to report the damage caused by directly crossing the contaminated area:
Mild damage, a set of redundant shield generators were overloaded and burned out, and the No. 4 propulsion unit was shut down, but was quickly restarted. A senior technician reported to us: "The critical point has been safely crossed, and the ship is now in an absolute pollution zone.
, the protection system is fully powered, and the entire ship enters the highest security control mode."
"At this point, it's like having half a foot in the abyss." I sat up from the chair, and the shrunken version of Bingtis next to me simply smashed the seat into pieces, and the silky silver hair was already torn.
They looked like water plants, "Look, it is indeed the Gate of the Abyss!"
On the holographic screen showing the real scene outside the ship, a perfect circular shadow as black as ink occupies nearly three-fifths of the area. It is so dark that it seems that even the darkness itself is swallowed up by this shadow. It is an active ship.
State's Gate of the Abyss, on the periphery of this "gate", we saw ancient psionic energy suppression equipment, arrays of psionic energy towers suspended around the Gate of the Abyss, firmly confining the latter's pollution...
...Well, most of them are imprisoned in the shadow area. This is the scene less than a few hundred meters below the scientific research ship, and above the scientific research ship, a huge dark red vortex is spinning crazily almost against our shields.
The frantic energy that diffused from it inspired layers of unpredictable light curtains like aurora on the shield of the scientific research ship. Just looking at that scene for a few seconds can make people feel an unprecedented sense of excitement.
The sense of oppression and the fear of being swallowed: The current location of the scientific research ship is an extremely narrow conflict zone between the energy storm and the gate of the abyss. This zone is even less than a thousand meters thick, and all dynamic balance is based here.
The focus is that after the end of the world, the remaining fragments of the universe were maintained by this balance, which was only one thousand meters thick.
"Oh, it looks like the stability is not optimistic." A high-pitched and arrogant voice sounded in my ears. I turned around and the first thing I saw was a pair of seven-foot-tall...
She's a female gangster. Well, it's not that she's mentally weak, it's mainly because she's so eye-catching. The big loli who just wiped the floor with her hair and was jumping up and down while swearing was gone, replaced by this one who can wear an evening dress.
The ** sister who went out to fight with others in the street suddenly made people stunned: "Ha, you have transformed again?"
"There is definitely something wrong with your girlfriend's brain," Sister Bing looked at him and pointed at the door to the abyss displayed on the holographic projection. "Look, the equipment installed by your empire back then was still on."
In the chaotic space around the Gate of the Abyss, the most obvious thing is the large number of tall towers arranged neatly. They are the suppression towers set up by the Imperial scientists who were stationed in this universe for deep diving experiments. Half of them have been
Extinguished, damaged, collapsed, and even only a lonely base was left, but the remaining suppression towers worked miraculously. No one could explain how these ancient devices became more important after tens of thousands of years.
They are still operating as usual even after the destruction of the empire for tens of thousands of years: perhaps their special security level allowed them to avoid the disaster that swept through the empire's spiritual network that year.
"Oh -" Qianqian said in a long voice, "It looks like the tower Tavel installed next to the deep dive port. It should be genuine? Should we dismantle one and put it back? Tavel will probably like it very much.
"
I nodded: "Demolish it!"
This was originally one of the purposes of our coming here. Among the most important scientific research projects in the empire now, the deep-diving program is undoubtedly the most important one. Our original purpose of coming here was not only to find out some details of the deep-diving operations of the old empire.
In addition, another main goal is to see if there is any old empire equipment that can be dismantled and studied. Now the deep-diving equipment of the new empire is all emergency goods copied by Tavel based on the blueprint of the deep-submarine prototype ship. We
The main technology tree has not yet been repaired, let alone deep dive technology, which was not thoroughly studied in the old empire. Therefore, when I heard that the Protoss might have discovered a testing site for the old empire's deep dive program, I finally
Apart from Shandora and I, Tavel was the only one who was excited. She submitted a research report and project follow-up application of more than 30,000 words to me. She summed it up in one sentence: Put everything that can be dismantled back together.
It's a pity that there are really not many valuable things left in this world. That workstation is basically an empty shell. At most, we can collect half a ton of sand and go back - and then let Tavel try to see if we can get en- from inside.
166 samples have been screened out, and the remaining ones can probably only be taken back by dismantling the two suppression towers next to the Gate of the Abyss.
Several groups of specially equipped engineering probes rushed out from the ejection port of the scientific research ship and rushed towards the scrapped psionic energy suppression tower closest to them. These engineering probes were upgraded variants of ordinary autonomous machinery.
Submarine ships are similar to the "three-skinned shield" against the abyss, but due to extreme miniaturization and power limitations, the effect is inevitably not as good as that of the mother ship. As soon as they leave the shelter of the scientific research ship, crackling noises begin to erupt on those probe aircraft.
Sparks popped and entered a state of continuous damage. On the one hand, the sparks were caused by the overload of the exploration plane's shield, and on the other hand, it was due to the influence of the abyss, and its mechanical parts were gradually self-destructing - but this is a normal situation, this kind of
Only the core of small robots is reusable, and all peripherals mounted on them are disposable equipment. After all, those things are in direct contact with the abyss.
"Judging from the scene, the Gate of the Abyss must have exploded once," I said, pointing to the psionic energy suppression towers on the screen that were obviously destroyed by internal explosions. "These towers self-destructed, but the suppression towers did not self-destruct."
function. However, the Gate of the Abyss should have been re-suppressed before it fully erupted, and the remaining suppression towers were successfully restarted. It is a pity that it seems that the star port during the deep dive has been destroyed, otherwise maybe something more useful can be found.
technical information."
"Okay, today's harvest has been big enough," Bingtis sat on the console with his legs crossed, "That en-166 is not enough for you? Now I just want to go back, take a bath and sleep..."
At this moment, the voice of the shipboard host suddenly interrupted the female gangster: "Warning, the engineering exploration plane is under attack. Repeat, the engineering exploration plane is under attack."
"What's going on?" I immediately leaned out of the officer's platform and asked loudly. The team responsible for monitoring the engineering reconnaissance aircraft immediately transmitted their surveillance footage to the officer's platform. The person in charge's voice sounded confused: "Your Majesty, this...
The autonomous machine was attacked by this thing, should we prepare to fight back?"
The scenes of those engineering exploration planes being attacked appeared. A group of us immediately moved forward nervously, and then became speechless at the same time. There was no abyss rampage as expected, no out-of-control sentry cannons and self-exploding exploration planes, only one that looked twisted.
Eight shabby and shabby... autonomous machinery, or something that seems to be an autonomous machine. It looks three times larger than the probes it is attacking. There are traces of repair and modification everywhere on its body. A normal autonomous machine.
It has a round main body and various working arms distributed symmetrically, but it looks like the remains of three or four autonomous machines have been pieced together. This strange thing has signs of damage all over its body, and the two working arms are still there.
It's broken, the painting is completely unclear, and even the core components in the body are looming. Now this thing is "attacking" our probe, and its two working arms have protruded for low-energy cutting.
The beam knife patiently scratched the shield of the reconnaissance machine next to it. This level of cutting knife had no effect on the enhanced shield at all, but it did not move at all, and just "slowly"
"Fighting", and its remaining working arms are not idle, and are rhythmically beating several other autonomous machines that are constantly trying to get closer to the base of the suppression tower due to their mission goals. It looks like...