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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 devastating disaster.
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 wild beasts from the outside. It
The various lockdowns imposed on the Revenge Army now seem to be 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 making a mistake
Connected to the old empire data network, the construction of various large-scale equipment is prohibited. This is to prevent the Revenge Army from developing methods to crack the barrier. Sandora believes that if the function of the bubble was not locked at that time, then as long as there is enough mass production
Host, sooner or later she will be able to discover the abnormalities in the soldiers' bodies through massive calculations, thereby lifting 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 capabilities of the Xiling Apostle. This should be to reduce the chance of someone jumping out of the world as much as possible. There are various extreme environments in the universe, near giant celestial bodies with high concentrations of energy and mass. The stability of space
Sexuality will decrease, and "loopholes" to other worlds will easily appear in this distortion zone, 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: this
It's not impossible either.
Of course. 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 "It was created to protect the Revenge Army."
"Barrier" are different. Without sufficient evidence, we can only say that the lock-down state at that time did indeed allow 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 that we have dug up those clay tablets from the Mesopotamia, the situation is 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 and placed 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 became much more serious. Your self-purification was not enough at all, 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 without knowing anything. Later.
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 show my praise. Although she had degenerated into a husky, even though she was lazy about eating every day, and even though she dug through the yard today, she did make a great contribution this time, I thought.
Reward her with a pack of bone biscuits, but this girl may get violent and hurt others, so 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, poking 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 "locking" and "barrier" everyone talked about were, but
She knew that these topics were all caused by her, so she showed great interest from beginning to end. It was amazing that she could be so interested in a topic that she didn't understand at all, and started to listen from the beginning.
It’s the end…
"Now there's a question," Sister stood up to get a glass of water and came back and continued, "Who built this barrier? How did he get such a great ability to trap Sandora without even knowing it?
"
"It may be another emperor, or it may be some kind of 'survivor cluster'," Sandora thought for a moment before guessing, "We all know that although the disaster in the old empire broke out quickly, it also lasted for hundreds of years.
It's over. Many leader-level apostles have persisted for a long time. During this period, they have carried out various self-rescue actions - you all remember the Documentation Hall. In fact, the separation of concepts between the Documentation Hall and the Fifteen Days Zone belongs to the survivors.
Some of the self-rescue actions were successful and some failed. 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 imprisoned us in place."
"Tch, why do you feel that the next 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 data at hand. This discussion has been a reasoning competition since an hour ago. It is precisely because of this that many of our inferences do not dare to be said to death——
What can be determined now is 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, I am afraid that their success would have been lost in an instant.
"
"But having said that, how did this barrier suddenly lift?" Qian Qian muttered in disbelief, "Didn't it mean that it had no sensing ability? After the abyss impact, it remained stubborn for nearly 70,000 years. Why did it suddenly disappear later?
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 instantly."
I scratched my hair: "Um...why am I not impressed?"
I could feel the eye roll from the child's mother through the cracks in the person: "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, such as how the surviving emperors (if they really existed) were able 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, Sandora believes that it is most likely due to the abyss:
The abyssal impact of that year destroyed almost everything in the old empire's spiritual network. Perhaps at a certain period, even the authority system was briefly shut down. Perhaps 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 the "barrier" ends here. Even if we continue to reason, we can't get more information. Sandora decided to let the soldiers who were trapped in the other world with her back then undergo a full-body examination. Even she herself
Do an internal scan to see if you can find any clues about the "barrier". Although it doesn't make much sense, 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 might be worse: they might already be on the side of the fallen apostle."
This was originally an unpleasant guess, but I suddenly thought of something else: "Wait, if they are on the side of the fallen apostles, it might be a good thing. You forgot that I still have..."
Before I finished speaking, Bingtis clapped his palms: "By the way, the prodigal son turns around and punches me in the face!"
Me: "...can you please stop mentioning 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 the person who set up this barrier is still alive, then they are almost 100% safe.
In the Fallen Apostles camp, based on the fact that they have enough energy to create such a barrier in their waking state when the catastrophe comes, this will be a group of powerful leaders, and they will also have a considerable influence in the current Fallen Apostles camp.
influence - 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 difficult to fight the fallen apostles head-on. Now she still requires that the generals be captured alive every time they fight - you might as well
We expect that a dozen emperors will come to the opposite side and surrender with their armies. Of course Sandora can think of this, so she calmed down her excitement a little and smiled awkwardly at us: "It's just a general direction, it's just a general direction.
...Just do your best."
This head-swelling discussion was finally over. All that was left was to make fine adjustments to various future military operations based on the newly obtained intelligence. As well as arranging a general physical examination for all members of the Revenge Army, Sandora decided
I can feel happy and relaxed if I personally supervise this matter. Ji Shanshan stood up and started to clean up the clay tablets on the table. These precious lumps are no longer of much use to us, but Ji Shanshan seems to like them quite a bit, this flat-chested dwarf
Rarely, he hummed a tuneless ballad. It was as brisk as if it were 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 pile 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 it makes sense for Ji Shanshan to be so worried: these clay tablets are part of the earth's culture, and it seems reasonable to hand them over to humans. But I have no such plan at all, because we have been working hard to remove the traces of the empire's past.
Erase it from the earth. Before the people on earth are sufficiently developed, they will not be exposed to any "influence" beyond what is necessary. To this end, the Love Without Borders organization has demolished or moved away dozens of ancient ruins (you see
Look at those scientific expedition teams that littered non-burnable garbage back then!), now these clay tablets reveal too much obvious information about extraterrestrial civilizations, and they will have an extremely bad impact on earth civilization: making earth people think that they are being
A captive race created by aliens, this 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 energy of the people on earth who are not very focused.
Already."
After getting my promise, Ji Shanshan was immediately elated and ran up to the second floor with her clay tablets in her arms - 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. "From a higher perspective, consider the common people's civilization.
question……"
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 world turbulent.
, you can no longer have no impact on the world like ordinary people - no matter how cautious 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 will be an unintentional side effect for you, but for those mortals, this is fate."
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 is not 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 some impact on the world, no matter how little impact you have on the world.
He’s fucked up.”
Finally, Bingtis patted me on the shoulder boldly: "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 mentor, he speaks from the bottom of his heart.
In fact, sometimes I also think that the female gangster Bingtis is quite good - although she is fierce, 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 strength 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 have lost count of how many times I have been touched by her.
After some enlightenment, her advice was full of mischievousness, but it suited my carefree personality: if you find a serious teacher and mentor to talk to you, I might not be able to listen to you.
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 content 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:"……"
The sand content is indeed quite high. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please read it.)