Sometimes, solving a mystery doesn't mean clearing the air. In this fucking reality, most of the mysteries are followed by a lot of more dazzling things. I feel like trying to find out the truth of that year is like trekking through mountains and rivers.
When you finally cross a big river, what you see when you look up is the South Pacific...
Regarding the soldier who wandered to Earth, we currently have the following clues: He came to Earth at least in the early days of Uruk, that is, more than 5,000 years ago (this is the earliest evidence we have)
), according to the tomb discovered in the Taklimakan Desert that day, he died more than a thousand years ago, with a span of 3,500 to 4,000 years in between.
According to the Sumerian clay tablet records, we can know that the soldier traveled to this primitive planet after arriving on Earth, and based on his series of actions - teaching the natives to identify the stars, teaching the locals astronomical and geological knowledge, and trying to change the local environment
Aboriginal writing - it is judged that he was trying to leave some kind of mark on the earth's indigenous civilization to serve as a "beacon" in the future.
Of course, you can also guess that he just wants to be a live Lei Feng and want to improve the quality of life and technological level of the primitive people on the earth: but this guess is obviously a bit too unreliable, and it is not in line with Shandora's understanding of her own soldiers, so
We abandoned this conjecture early on.
In any case, it was right that he wanted to leave a "mark", but with the power that a Xiling apostle should have, he did a very bad job.
If a primitive civilization is systematically guided, three thousand years is enough time for the latter to master the technology of space navigation. There is a related specialized discipline called "Civilization System Reconstruction", which originally studied such a situation
: When a civilization that originally had advanced technology collapsed, how to reconstruct its technology tree in the shortest possible time while ensuring the healthy development of the civilization. This subject is used as a basic course in the Imperial Military Academy
Open to all students, it belongs to one of the branch courses of "Civilization Preservation and Salvation". According to the classic cases in the textbook, this kind of civilization reconstruction only requires
The local people can complete it in five to ten generations. The situation on the primitive earth is different. However, the analysis method described in this course can still be partially applied, so Sandora made the "Three Thousand Years to Master the Full Colonization Technology in the Star System"
” inference.
As a Xiling apostle, of course the soldier should also know this, but his guidance to the primitive people of the earth at that time seemed messy, and he never persisted. He did not use the ready-made rules and regulations that should be in the memory core at all.
.So Shandora judged that the soldier's logic system may have been affected by some factor, making it unable to continue to operate.
If you want to leave a message that "higher civilizations have been here", the soldier has another simpler way, which is to "carve a mark" directly on the earth. Although ordinary soldiers do not have the ability to build imperial facilities,
But he can always make a hole in the earth, right? Pandora put forward her opinion: If she wanted to use the power of ordinary Imperial soldiers to leave a lasting trace as long as possible on a planet, then she would sneak in
Go to the Mariana Trench and bury a dozen unstable psionic crystals. Although doing so will cause the extinction of half of the species on earth, it will permanently change the planet's landscape, leaving behind a crust that is clearly not naturally formed.
Curling traces, and the radiation produced by the psionic crystal can last for a long time on this planet, creating a large group of alien creatures: these are "logos" that can be preserved for a long time, which is better than teaching the local primitive people to star and write cuneiform.
Many times more effective.
But the soldier didn't do this. From this, Sandora judged that most of the equipment on his body was also locked, and the only ones he could use were his own guns and "light weapons" such as small floating cannons.
In any case, all we can do is guess, one guess after another. The evidence at hand is too little, the information is not enough, and what Xiaoxue can see is not much more detailed than what is recorded on the clay tablets. These guesses are intertwined into
A huge ball of thread made everyone feel confused and confused.
But just when everyone was trying to think about what happened to that soldier back then, I suddenly felt something in my heart and thought of another thing: "Sandora, do you still remember the time when we first met? You and your
The army is stranded on a planet polluted by the abyss..."
"Ah, of course I remember. That was the first time we met." Shandora was stunned and immediately replied briskly. It was originally the worst period in her life: the most aggrieved episode in Princess Warsong's life.
The battle, but now that she recalls it, she has regarded it as her precious memory: because it was the anniversary of the first time we met.
Of course, I’m not bringing up this topic just to reminisce about the past with Sandora, but because I have a question that I haven’t thought about for many years: “You were trapped on a primitive planet at that time... I can understand that when the equipment is affected,
It is difficult to escape from the universe without the support of the imperial coordinate network, but you couldn't even leave that planet at that time, right? I now know a little bit about the imperial weapons and war methods. If you could at that time
If we leave the current planet, build something like a rail gun in space, and do saturation bombing below, wouldn't the battle be resolved in an instant?"
Shandora was slightly startled after hearing this, and seemed to connect certain things: "Well, you are right, if we can build space facilities or take out the spacecraft, the battle will be easily solved: In fact, my personal
There are all kinds of small and medium-sized warships in space at any time for emergency replenishment of combat power. These warships cannot be of much use on large battlefields, but they are more than enough to deal with a primitive planet."
I know this. Each Xiling apostle will have his own aircraft in his personal space. Ordinary soldiers have individual fighter planes, while apostles above the commander level have regular battleships, and leader-level aircraft like Sandora or Pandora.
The apostle would even stuff an entire fleet into his personal space. Sandora was trapped on a primitive planet, but didn't she have a spaceship in her personal space? It stands to reason that she and her soldiers could escape from the battlefield on the spot.
, and then simply blow up the entire planet: anyway, it has been deeply polluted, and the local civilization has long been extinct. But just like the Xiling soldier who wandered to the earth thousands of years ago, Sandora has also disappeared.
Doing what she should have done easily.
"It's not just a matter of spaceships. Even without spaceships, we can enter space: Xiling Apostles can conquer the universe with their own individual power," Sandora spread her hands, "But all our equipment cannot be started. Including
Most of the components in his body seem to be malfunctioning. He cannot leave the universe, cannot build a spaceship, and cannot even take out the large equipment in the portable space. The aircraft are all forcibly locked in the atmosphere mode, and Bubble's construction module is also offline.
For seventy thousand years."
I turned to look at Bubble: she was originally a subordinate of Sandora, and she was there during the whole process when Sandora was trapped in another world. She is an unprecedentedly powerful architectural Xiling host, and now everything in the new empire is
She took the lead in the construction of our Kuiper Belt space base and the earliest star port. But during the 70,000 years that Sandora was trapped, she could not even build a space capsule launch tower. At the time, she was not aware of these things.
I didn't understand it, so I didn't have too many questions. I just thought it was a simple malfunction of the equipment of the Revenge Army. But looking back now, it seems that there were many unclear explanations for Sandora's trap back then.
"We can think of it this way: the situation of the Revenge Army was the same as that of the unknown soldiers who wandered to the earth. All the components of their body were locked, and all the equipment that could be used to escape from the current position could not be used," Sister said, "Or in other words
: Anyone who is a member of the Revenge Army is locked. Although the unknown soldier was accidentally transported to a different world, the locked state on him was also brought over, and became more serious."
Shandora pondered: "Is it a locked state... Indeed, if you think about the two things together, some problems seem to have clues. In fact, I have never understood what happened to the abnormal state of myself and the soldiers.
I once thought that the local abyss environment destroyed our equipment, but now it seems that the Trek soldier did not get out of the locking state after leaving the abyss area. This locking did not come from the outside, but from...
"
Saying that, Sandora stretched out her hand and pressed her chest: "Comes from the inside of Xiling Apostle?"
No one can explain this problem clearly. It was a mystery at the beginning because there was no way to analyze it, so this mystery has been kept until today: It’s not that no one has thought about this matter. It’s just that we can’t figure it out at all. So we just leave it for now.
It’s just that a batch of clay tablets from the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia have once again put this mystery in front of everyone. And this time, there seems to be some sign of the mystery being loosened: the experience of the lost soldiers explains what caused the original
The reason why the Revenge Army was trapped in another world was not the local abyss environment, but some factors within their bodies. Even if they could leave the world that trapped them, they continued to be troubled by some abnormal state.
"And the soldier might have been killed by this 'internal cause'," Bingtis suddenly interjected, pointing to the clay tablet on the coffee table, "Probably after he came to Earth, he also thought of working with us.
Now he was thinking of the same thing, and he found that because he rashly jumped out of the universe that trapped him, his condition inside his body deteriorated rapidly, so he began to prepare for death."
With the extreme lack of evidence at hand, it is quite difficult to advance the inference to this point, but Sandora is obviously trying to speculate on more things: "Now it can be confirmed that when she was trapped on that primitive planet,
My soldiers and I are all 'locked' by something, but this locking is not easy to find. It is easily covered up by the local abyssal power. If we didn't find these clay tablets today, we don't know.
I’m afraid I will never guess what that soldier did during his three thousand years on earth. The ‘lock’ at that time came from the apostle himself rather than the external environment.”
I frowned. The various reasons why the Revenge Army was trapped in another world have basically been deduced, but even if it comes from factors inside the apostle's body, we don't know how it came about. Make a "lock"
The person who planned it was obviously not Sandora herself, so besides her, who else could do such a thing?
Trapping a Xiling Emperor and the emperor's most elite soldiers on a wild planet, locking all their equipment, and even locking the functions of their own bodies - and under this premise,
It didn't harm them at all. The powerful vitality of Xiling Apostle was still there. Sandora didn't even realize that there was something abnormal about her body back then!
Even just now, she had just guessed from the information revealed on the clay tablets that her body had been locked by "internal factors".
"This feeling is terrible," Sandora suddenly said with some irritation. She rubbed her forehead vigorously, as if she wanted to rub out what was troubling her. "I feel like there is something wrong with my body. But I don't know.
Where is the cause of the disease...should we go for a comprehensive examination? If we don't find out what is 'locking' me and those soldiers, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat safely."
In fact, I want to say that after all these years have passed, maybe the "thing" that caused the Revenge Army to be locked as a whole has long since dissipated. But after thinking about it, I found that I can't use such a reason to reassure myself.
: In any case, Sandora and her soldiers encountered an internal "malfunction" in their body at some point in the past, even if it seems to be "healed" now. But as long as I can't figure out what happened for a day, I will feel sad in my heart.
Nothing is lost...
"Perhaps we can change the direction," Sister said suddenly, "Regardless of where this 'lock' comes from, let's first think about its use. Sandora, what do you think if the Revenge Army was not 'locked' back then?
In that world, what would happen?"
"Of course we have already dealt with the local abyss pollution and left that ghost place," Sandora said matter-of-factly. "Even if the old empire collapses and loses the support of its home planet, the army I have at the time is enough to destroy an army of that size.
The abyss is polluted, and there is Bubble next to me. In a short time, she can create a world gate from scratch..."
"Then what?" My sister suddenly interrupted Sandora and asked seriously.
Shandora fell silent for a moment. After a moment, she spoke in a low voice: "...I will return to the empire as soon as possible to find out what happened."
"Then the Revenge Army will all be destroyed in the remaining abyss environment of the old empire," Bingtis took a breath. This female gangster who has always been fearless is now aware of the chilling possibility, "
An abyss environment that spreads over more than a hundred sky areas and has almost no boundaries... When the old empire first collapsed, the abyss pollution area was even larger than it is now. I bet even the ace army of the Gods would not dare to plunge into that damn place.
Shandora, if you really led your remnants back to the country back then, you would never be able to come back!"
"Is it possible that this 'locked state' saved my life?" Sandora shook her head in disbelief, "Judging from the results, it is indeed the case. But this guess is a bit reluctant. It is possible that this 'locked state' is just
It just protected the Revenge Army unintentionally, so theoretically it shouldn’t have any motive!”
"Indeed, if you only have one-sided experience, it would be difficult for my guess to be established, but I think there is another piece of evidence here, which is very strong." Sister raised her finger and pointed to the clay tablet on the coffee table, "Look, Trek to
The soldier on Earth was obviously more severely 'locked' than you, and he might even have died in this state in the end. This shows that the 'force' that prevents the Revenge Army from leaving will change in intensity according to the situation, and it prevents you from
Returning to the empire and strictly prohibiting soldiers who have left from rejoining the army sounds a bit like..."
"It's a bit like the method of dealing with the plague," Bingtis snapped his fingers, "First draw a safe zone, and then protect the uninfected people and strictly prohibit them from going out. This kind of ban can be said to be relatively mild: it's just not
You are just allowed to go out. But if someone has successfully escaped, he will have to face much more severe measures if he wants to come back: he will be killed on the spot. The Revenge Army was in a state as if it was placed in a safe zone, and you and
All connections between the old empires, including spiritual connections, have been cut off. For the abyss, this is a perfect barrier. And the soldier who accidentally escaped from the world is a suspect who is potentially dangerous to the 'plague protection system'
Infected. I estimate that the program developed by 'someone' who created this safe zone should be quite crude. It does not have the ability to judge whether the people who are about to pass through the 'blockade zone' are infected. It just mechanically prevents everyone from leaving, and
Prevent people from entering more radically. It can only be said that the soldier was unlucky. He accidentally left the barrier and was naturally recognized as an infected person by this rigid system. When he tried to return to the main force, the barrier, or rather
The 'locking mechanism' that trapped the Revenge Army made the decision to let the soldier self-destruct."
This is the final summary made by Bingtis.
Bizarre, grotesque, and unbelievable, but it perfectly fits every piece of information we have so far, and it also explains why the Avengers soldiers who wandered to Earth died in the first place.
"A soldier who accidentally ran out is really such a big hidden danger?" Qianqian scratched her hair and said a little bit angrily. She may have felt that the "barrier" was a bit too impersonal - even though the barrier was perfect from beginning to end.
It's assumed.
"There is no way. In that situation, no matter how cautious you are," Sandora sighed, "If a soldier who ran away is not dealt with, he will most likely try to reconnect to the old empire's data.
The network, you all know how polluted that network has become. Even if only one person reconnects to the network, he can bring the plague back when he returns to the Revenge Army. Maybe the soldier will not die at first, but he must be
Did he do something he shouldn't have done to trigger the 'barrier' execution process?"
During the conversation, Shandora fully agreed with the speculation about the "safety barrier".
Then there is only one question: Who made this barrier? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please