Pressing my hand on the crystal, all I felt was a cold touch that was no different from other devices around me, and a faint tremor when the crystal was running. This time I didn’t do anything like say hello to a stone because I was complained about last time.
With.
But I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel that I should hear some kind of response, even if it’s just a moment, even if it’s a vague response, anyway, I should hear a certain “voice” from this crystal.
", this sense of having no reason is inexplicable. I don't know how I came up with such an idea, but once this idea appears, I can't suppress it. Yes, respond, there should be something here that responds to me, but it is not there now.
Already.
"Ajun, is there something wrong with the crystal?" Sandora saw that I hadn't spoken for a long time and couldn't help but become curious, "By the way, you're not thinking about saying hello to this crystal again, are you? Didn't you try it last time?
"
"Say hello to Crystal?" Gaia repeated curiously.
"Well..." Sandora showed a subtle smile, "Based on how this crystal escaped from the Empire and fell into the hands of the Merova people, we feel that it seems to have its own consciousness and that it escaped on its own initiative.
In the Imperial District, Arjun finally tried to communicate with this thing... He seemed to think that there really was a mind in the crystal..."
Gaia looked blank, and a line of words popped up on her head quite skillfully: nowloading...
"Ahem," I coughed twice in embarrassment, "don't mention this. But I don't know why. Anyway, I always feel that this thing should have a way to communicate. After all, it is indeed very abnormal.
I escaped from the Imperial Zone under certain circumstances." I said, and I raised my fingers and tapped the crystal surface twice, and the latter made a crisp sound like hitting a tuning fork.
"Do you doubt that this thing can become conscious, and can also make its own plan to escape from the Empire?" Gaia finally finished loading at this time. Her translucent body flashed twice to show that she was very interested in this topic. "
The database capacity and core architecture of the crystal are not designed to carry consciousness. No matter how powerful this isolated device is, it cannot theoretically generate thoughts. Well, consciousness... the generation mechanism is quite complicated, and it may also involve soul science.
.My subordinates believe that the conjecture that crystals produce consciousness is too bizarre."
Not only Gaia thinks so, but Sandora, who originally proposed this idea, actually means the same thing. However, the process of this crystal leaving the Empire Zone was so tortuous that it makes no sense to explain it using probability theory. Everyone is talented.
I came up with such a half-joking idea, but I didn't expect Gaia, who is serious by nature, to analyze it seriously.
"Speaking of which... this was one of the recording devices in the Fifteen Days District back then. Is there any information in it that can be used today?"
I temporarily put aside such nonsense as the crystal thinking, and became interested in the things stored in the crystal. It is a host part of the Tiandi Data Center, and it was still a database at that time. This is very tempting.
Yes, what is the most important thing in the current new empire that is waiting to be developed? Of course it is knowledge! Basically, few of the technologies handed down from the old empire are complete to us. Tavel has always made our technologies better through tinkering.
Shu has become normal again. She has mentioned to me more than once during casual conversations that she hopes to get more information on old empire technology that can be studied. This crystal seems to give people some hope.
But Gaia quickly extinguished this hope: "This is a sky zone database, not a technical database. Most of what is stored here is the garrison intelligence of the fifteenth day zone and the logs uploaded by the ruling zone. It was very
Useful. But now it can only be read as a history textbook. The universes mentioned in the database have basically perished and nothing is left."
"Hiss..." I twitched the corner of my mouth. Today, Gaia and I seemed to have taken turns bringing up several depressing topics. Although the other party might not care much, I still felt quite embarrassed.
There doesn't seem to be much worth studying about this crystal. Tavel probably agreed to transfer it to the home planet after confirming that there was no technical information in it. Its greatest value is that it serves as the heart of the world.
carrier, but now this value will soon be gone: the two parts of the Fifteen Days Area have now merged, and the Heart of the World certainly cannot continue to be divided into two parts. In a few days, Gaia will split
The information entanglement point attached to the crystal is uploaded to the Garden of Death, and then there, the information entanglement point will be merged with the carrier of the world heart of the mysterious side mother star, that is, the metal ring. The last point of the former Fifteen Sky Zone was split.
The parts just merge into one.
In fact, I am quite curious. The Heart of the World is an illusory source of information. How does Gaia operate such an invisible and intangible thing... But after thinking about it, I still didn't dare to ask her, because I guess I can't listen.
I understand, even if I beat myself to death I wouldn’t understand...
As for the crystal itself, it will no longer have anything to do with the Heart of the World. It will just be an old Imperial device that is still running well. It will probably be installed by Gaia on her new server. I heard Gaia
Sister Ya has already planned to add a set of servers at the north and south poles of her home planet. She now has two hobbies every day, one is to name the autonomous machines distributed across the entire planet, and the other is to add more servers to herself.
I think this kind of lifestyle of installing new parts for myself every day when I have nothing to do is really... quite like the fresh style of Xiling Apostle.
After confirming the status of the crystal, I was still confused about my unreasonable feeling, but I still left the underground data center with Sandora. Later, Sandora wanted to go to the headquarters, so she left first, and
I plan to stay on the home planet for a while, and then go to Celestial City to see it.
It feels good to return to the surface of the earth: I admit that the large hole in the mantle looks quite spectacular, but that environment really does not meet human aesthetics. The sky outside has already set, and there is only a red sunset left on the horizon. There is no such thing here.
In the place of stars, the sunset in the sky is naturally created with simulation devices. When I and Gaia came to the surface, I randomly selected a teleportation point. Now we are at a construction site in the northern hemisphere. Standing on a high ground, I see
There is a huge ring-shaped structure under intense construction below. Those autonomous machines that have been specially designed to use the same information materialization equipment as the "builders" are flying around busily. Working on this huge ring structure
The ring structure was being repaired, and Gaia was standing beside him. Suddenly, a feeling of familiarity came to my mind.
The landform in front of me seemed a bit familiar...and the posture of Gaia next to me also seemed a bit familiar.
"Your Majesty, it seems that you still have an impression." Gaia saw the look on my face and suddenly became happy, "This is the place where I met you for the first time. This highland and the shallow valley below. It is you.
The area I wandered through at that time.”
All of a sudden, the scene nearly five years ago came back to my mind: I was confused and wandering in a dream, with a gray and lifeless steel world in front of me. I was accompanied by only the hollow heartbeat and my own footsteps, and it was like this.
In a certain place, a phantom-like beautiful woman suddenly appeared next to her. With a cry of joy, the black and white world suddenly restarted...
"That was the most glorious minute in my life, the minute I resurrected from the dead and the long night finally ended. Although I only spoke a few words to you at the time, that scene is still fresh in my memory." Gaia's face
There was a smile on her face. The phantom-like woman had a sense of vitality. I still remember the first time I saw her five years ago. At that time, I thought that what I saw in front of me was a shadow, and even "
The idea of "Fairy Sister", and now, the shadow is still illusory, but "Gaia" has become a real individual around me. This illusion that seems to overlap two periods of time lingers in my mind, and finally I got rid of it.
Shaking his head: "I remember that this is a city, with steel jungles everywhere. The ring structure below is somewhat impressive. I remember that there was a large ring-shaped square in the center of the city when I first saw it... But that
It’s just a square.”
"The city has been demolished because there is no value in continuing to exist," Gaia said matter-of-factly. "The home planet has been re-planned. Many of the original things here have been moved to the southern hemisphere. Now it will be converted into an additional nether energy well.
, according to my plan, the mother planet will fully strengthen its functionality and management core position, and will no longer be used as a residence for the apostles. All you can see is the landscape of the past... Well, do you feel a little regretful? "
As if thinking of things like human sensibility and psychology, Gaia looked here with a bit of embarrassment: "The reconstruction of this place is not necessary. At that time, I only chose to transform this place for convenience and proximity. If you...
"
"No, it's okay. I just remembered the first time I met you, and I felt a little emotional." I said with a smile. Although I may have some regrets, how can I put it... Who doesn't dress up among girls, right? Yes.
For Gaia, who uses her home planet as her body, her plan for the planet is probably just for dressing up. When I think of this, I immediately feel that it is better not to talk nonsense.
Speaking of which, Gaia dressing up once makes a big noise...
"Oh." Gaia definitely didn't know what I was thinking of just now, so she could only say "oh" in a half-understanding manner. At that moment, a small autonomous machine flew from the sky and diverted her attention.
Waving in the air, the round little robot made a series of chirping sounds and landed. Gaia smiled and hugged the machine, which was nearly twice the size of a football, as if she were holding a pet. She fiddled with the controls behind the autonomous machine.
panel, while introducing it to me: "This is a new model. It is small in size, and the round shape looks a bit stupid, but it is very powerful and is especially good at repair and maintenance work inside complex machinery. I am planning to mass-produce this model.
Then send it to the Grand Overseer's Revenge Fleet. Those soul warships without crews are very welcome to little guys like autonomous machines that can help them with internal maintenance. It seems that the batch sent before is not enough."
Gaia is now smiling like a flower. She has been keeping autonomous machines as pets for more than a day or two. At first, I thought it was her habit of living alone on her home planet for many thousands of years, driven by loneliness.
But now this view has been shaken: Gaia has a lot of ways to pass the time. She can send engineering teams all over the world by putting on makeup. What time is boring? So this should be a personal hobby of hers
Just like Pandora keeping her precious baby as a pet, I have seen Pandora holding her baby baby more than once, scrubbing and cleaning it, and staring at it for most of the day.
It seems that everyone around me has some weird problem...
I said goodbye to Gaia and watched her figure holding a ball in one hand and waving goodbye to me disappear into the distorted light curtain of the portal. After a moment, the scenery in front of me turned into the majestic city of heaven.
Cloud buildings. The surrounding atmosphere suddenly changes from a super-technological future city to a floating palace like the palace of gods in apotheosis. This kind of switch is very exciting no matter how many times it happens.
The celestial city has also ushered in twilight. However, the night in this place is of course different from what you see on the surface: there is no earth in the celestial city, and its entire world is floating in a completely boundless sea of clouds. When twilight falls,
The glow does not appear in the sky above you. Instead, it surges around you and under your feet. This scene is certainly unscientific, but this is how the Tianjie Urban Theme Pack is designed. If it feels unscientific, please complain to Qianqian...
I seem to be quite lucky this time. Not only did I catch the most beautiful sunset moment of the day in Celestial City, but I also encountered the aurora curtain. As you can imagine, the aurora in Celestial City hangs directly in the entire space.
.The brilliant curtain wall of light pours down from the endless zenith, and will extend into the sea of clouds that are also invisible at your feet. These dream-like curtains of glare quietly and slowly change, move around, and even pass through.
Your body and you have passed through the curtain wall of light. The faint light mist emitted by the cloud building itself in the celestial city blends with these aurora hanging between the sky and the earth. Under the darker and darker night, people feel like they have walked into
In a dream that spreads freely. When I saw such a scenery for the first time, I didn't even dare to breathe, as if I was afraid of disturbing this short dream. And even now, I can't help but stop under the aurora curtain...
…
Then take out the data terminal, take photos, and post on Weibo...
There's no way around it, I'm just a layman, and what I was interested in doing just now was just scenery...
But I didn’t come here just to see the scenery...well, not just to see the scenery. I came here to find someone to understand the situation. On the teleportation platform at the top of the East Angel Wall, I had just waited for less than ten seconds.
, he saw that the space not far ahead was distorted, and then an elegant figure shrouded in holy light condensed out of thin air with the faint sound of wind. What finally appeared in front of him was a figure with two wings on his back.
of angel.
This is a female angel. Like all the angels on the Xiling side, she has silver-white hair and golden pupils. Her face is stunning, and her facial features are small, giving people a slightly thin feeling. This angel with a strange appearance
She was wearing a dress that was similar to Alaya's favorite long dress. The slim-fitting waist dress showed off the angel's slightly slender figure. Well, she was quite poor.
I blinked: "Who are you?"
The angel in front, who was meeting for the first time, had a look of surprise on his face: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? I'm Alleria!"
I was stunned for a moment and looked at the woman with wings in front of me again. I didn't recognize it at first sight, but when I reached out to cover her face, I immediately recognized her. This delicate figure had once been covered by Qian Qian's face.
After testing the front armor that seemed to be present and not present... As expected, after covering her face, it was Alleria: "Hey, I didn't recognize it at first. It's the first time I saw your face."
Alleria's smile was a little stiff, and the wings behind her could not help but twitch: "Your Majesty... This subordinate just lost himself due to his deep sleep... He said at that time that sooner or later he would return to his original appearance."
I looked at Alleria with envy: "I really envy you guys who are obviously incorporeal creatures and can grow faces at will..."
Alleria: "?"
"It's okay, it's okay," I quickly waved my hand and put the matter of void form behind my mind, "I mean you are quite beautiful in your true self, okay. I heard that you just completed a big project, and I was very curious, so I came here.
have a look."
Alleria seemed very happy when someone complimented her on her beauty. She had not seen anyone for a long time. Then she turned around, raised her hand and released a holy light that reached the sky in the distance: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is
It’s a surprise. After several rounds of growth and catalysis, we finally have enough numbers to form such a company.”
Alleria deliberately paused mid-sentence, and just as she finished speaking, I heard a melodious music-like sound coming from the distant night sky.
The aurora directly above my eyes became extremely bright in an instant, and the golden holy light spread rapidly downward from the top of the aurora. It was as if heaven had opened its door and the light of God was spreading to the mortal world. When these bright brilliance spread to the entire aurora curtain
As they went up, countless powerful figures filled with a sense of holiness began to separate from the light.
They are Xiling Angels, full-form angels like Alaya and Alleria, and they are gathering in overwhelming numbers!
Just a moment later, his eyes were filled with these powerful creatures shrouded in holy light. They were so numerous that he felt that he could not count them for a moment, and he could only judge that the number must have exceeded ten thousand!
"For forming such an angel battle group," Alleria turned around with a smile, "The full strength is 35,000 people. Please review it by Your Majesty."