Chapter 1343 The abyss independent group on the right track
"I may have spoken to 'that lord' of yours." I came back from the memory and said to Harlan.
The old emperor in front of me suddenly widened his eyes when he heard this, and stared at me with an expression on his face as if frozen. Only when I couldn't help but punch him did Harlan finally react: "You said you and 'That Sir
'Have been in contact?!"
"It's not just contact. I told you, your sleepwalking state a few days ago may also be caused by this." I sighed, suddenly feeling that this guy in front of me is probably the most unlucky guy I know. "
In fact, before you invaded the border of the empire - probably when you and your legions suddenly went insane, I once communicated with a guy of unknown origin. I only heard her voice. At first I thought she was from another country.
A place. It wasn’t until you provided some information just now that I realized that she was probably your boss behind the scenes. That voice came across the void and only talked to me for a few minutes... It might have been longer... I was
When entering the void, I couldn't sense the flow of time. The voice said a lot of inexplicable things, roughly that she was very interested in me. I still remember the last thing she mentioned: In order to talk to void creatures, she would do it every day.
She is suffering losses every moment. If the losses she is talking about are you - then that explains everything."
Harlan didn't have much information. He didn't know that the boss behind the fallen apostles was actually a swarm consciousness, so he felt a little baffled by my inference. He raised his own question: "How can you be sure that the voice is 'that adult'?
?Is it just close in time? Or is it just because my legion had signs of direct spiritual connection with void creatures not long ago?"
"Do you know that 'that adult' you are talking about does not actually exist in the real world?" I asked a big question.
Harlan was stunned as I expected: "What does this mean? You said 'over there' is now controlled by a spirit creature?"
"It's even more incredible than spiritual creatures. Many races that have mastered information network technology have created similar life forms, but the apostles created the most powerful one." I said, with a sudden movement in my heart, and I snapped my fingers.
"Xiling, come here."
Xiling is everywhere - as long as there is a place covered by the Empire Information Network, it is the back garden of the super consciousness. She can hear all the calls to herself within the coverage of this network. She can also upload and download herself to places covered by the network.
Anywhere. In fact, it is a bit inaccurate to say that Xi Ling is "everywhere". Strictly speaking, her ontology is the entire area covered by the network. There is no concept of "presence" and "absence" at all: Xi Ling's ontology reaches
Thousands of worlds are so big, and we creatures in the real world all live in her "shadow". Rather than teleporting to somewhere, it is better to say that she has chosen a coordinate in her "body".
It's just a temporary interactive interface created in front of us creatures trapped in the real world.
It is precisely because of this special property of Xiling that when I finished speaking, the surrounding air made a crackling sound as if it was electrified, and a large number of crystal clear light particles gathered from all directions. In less than two seconds, one
A girl with long straight golden hair, fair complexion and ruby-like eyes appeared in front of us. The girl had a noble appearance. With a sharp beauty, she was wearing a pure black long dress, with her left hand on her left hand.
Wearing long black silk gloves, before she opened her mouth and giggled, she looked like a princess coming from the dark night. The only thing that ruined the atmosphere was a silly metal sign hanging on her chest, just like a
Like an elementary school student or an Alzheimer's patient, this sign has her name and the contact information of the Imperial Military Department written on it...
Xi Ling has to change her appearance every time she appears. Her insensitivity to the real world means that she can’t remember what she looks like at all. She basically forgets what she looks like as soon as she sleeps. From this point of view, Qian Qian prepares for her.
The little sign is really useful - without it, I might not have been able to recognize that the girl in front of me who looked like an exotic princess was Xiling.
"Her name is Xi Ling," I pointed at Xi Ling and introduced to Haran. "Theoretically, she is the same kind of being as the boss behind the fallen apostles, but she is slightly weaker and under control. Xi Ling, this
It’s Harlan. You should have information about him.”
The blond girl happily gave Harlan a military salute. Her tone was not as serious as her military salute: "Hello, I know you. You are node hf-35s1-s57-cxee15, Harlan Croix Leyva.
Your Majesty Wright, welcome home, I am Xiling." After saying hello, the girl's attention quickly shifted. She happily ran to the counter to greet the silver-haired mole: "Sylvia! I want some more snacks!
I want the black, round one with chocolate on it, Tavel likes it!"
Someone must have realized the biggest difference between Xi Ling and ordinary apostles: she may salute the emperor, but that is because others taught her to do so, plus a certain instruction. However, from her own perspective, all apostles
There is no difference at all. To her, Haran is firstly a node number composed of numbers and letters, secondly the name of a real creature, and finally a Xiling Emperor. The reason for this is very simple: the "Xiling Apostle"
"Network Node" is the only one that will not change as their authority or power increases. The only meaning of this node to Xi Ling is to provide an "AND or NOT gate". She can't tell the meaningless things that make up her own.
What are the differences between countless nodes? An LCD TV costing tens of thousands of dollars and a desk lamp costing dozens of dollars. Their plugs are essentially just a few pieces of copper and a ball of plastic. This explanation is easy to understand.
Already...
I turned to Harlan: "Do you feel anything?"
"I...I'm not sure..." Haran looked at Xiling's back blankly, "I can't feel her identification information. She should be a Xiling apostle, but her identification code is not open to anyone?
Does she have higher authority than the emperor?"
"It requires some technical means to query Xi Ling's identification code. Direct reading is not possible. You don't have such a high processing capacity. Her body is discretely distributed throughout the mental network," I said to Xi Ling who was waiting for the snacks to be ready.
He waved and called her over, "Do you know how to send documents directly to ordinary apostles through the Internet? You try to send something to Haran, anything will do."
Xiling thought for a while and sent the price list from Sylvia's store. As expected, Harlan's expression changed.
"Is this the encoding and forwarding rule that you usually receive from 'that adult'?" I asked.
Harlan nodded slowly: "For a moment, I even thought it was really... This method of encoding and transmitting information is incredible. It completely bypasses the existing communication protocol. There is no way to query the source of the information, nor can it be found.
The forwarding track is as if the information comes from the Xiling Apostle’s network itself, rather than a specific sender.”
"Xiling is a cluster consciousness. She is indeed the spiritual network itself, and so is the 'that adult' you call."
At the moment, I explained everything about Xiling to Harlan in detail, and learned about this special life form. Naturally, he knew why his old boss needed to sacrifice a lot of spiritual nodes to contact the void creatures. Finally, we
The topic returned to "that adult": "So according to my judgment, the boss behind the fallen apostles used you as consumables or buffers in order to talk to me. She was essentially just a ghost living on the Internet.
If an individual does not create an interactive interface like Xiling, she can only communicate with the outside world in a completely unprotected form: you can imagine what it would be like to turn off all the firewalls in the spiritual network. The information disturbance of void creatures has no impact on the outside world.
The will of the abyss side is a fatal toxin. I believe that in those short few minutes of communication, the 'Abyss Side Xiling' on the opposite side almost consumed all the nodes she used to buffer - that is, you, when she ended
Communications are coming in quite a hurry."
Harlan was stunned for a while, then suddenly shook his head with a wry smile: "It turns out that this is the case, that we are always controlled by our own mental network? Well, this makes sense, if we regard her as the racial consciousness of the Xiling apostle
, but he has the qualifications."
The old emperor was somewhat self-deprecating, so I will not continue on this topic. Now I am basically certain that the person who suddenly contacted me was the ruler behind the fallen apostles. Now I am faced with an unprecedented unsolved mystery:
Why did she do this?
I thought about it and felt that the other party was definitely not seeking psychological counseling from me...
"I can't give you the answer to this," Haran heard my doubts and spread his hands helplessly, "I can only say that 'Sir' must have her own plan. Everything she does has a goal, but from now on
No one knows what she wants to do specifically. She only gives orders, and we can occasionally deduce some plans from these orders. But more than that, only 'that adult' himself knows."
"In any case, sacrificing a military giant under his name and his entire army just to have a direct connection with void creatures for a few minutes seems to be too much of a loss." I shook my head in confusion. "This is what I will do in my life."
The highest appearance fee ever..."
Harlan gritted his teeth and looked at me: "Your appearance fee is mine!"
Me: "...Okay let's not talk about this. In short, you were sold by your boss, but I think Xiling on the abyss side should not be a fool. Even if he sells his teammates, he should sell it for a good price. Do you think she and a
What do void creatures gain by talking for a few minutes?”
Harlan stretched out his hand and drew a circle on the table, as if using this small movement to help himself think: "Thinking about the worst, maybe she can briefly invade the empire's network by connecting directly with you, steal intelligence, or try to understand the weaknesses of void creatures.
, to think about the worse, maybe she has left something in the empire network or your spiritual world through this direct connection, such as a spy program or something."
I blinked: "Why are there only bad and worse, but nothing else?"
"Of course," Harlan laughed, "and worst of all—"
Me: "...I think you tend to be a little pessimistic."
Harlan waved his hand nonchalantly: "It's a good thing to be pessimistic. Only by imagining things to the worst can you make the best preparations. The worst-case scenario is: 'My Lord's' plan is already close to success, and her plan does not need to stay."
There are too many people, so some subordinates who are not very obedient to discipline become things that can be thrown out and sacrificed. You can imagine that on the battlefield, the army that is about to win and return home will throw away the redundant munitions and improvised supplementary soldiers that are inconvenient to carry.
It’s common sense in the military to be a war puppet.”
I broke out in a cold sweat on the spot. Harlan was right. Apart from the bad and worse, there is the worst thing: what if the Abyss side Xiling feels that the situation is determined and does not regard the empire as a threat at all.
, then it’s really not a big deal for her to sacrifice millions of nodes!
Harlan seems to be a hard-line thorn in the circle of fallen apostles, so he was regarded as an abandoned son by the Abyss side Xi Ling. How to put this, to use a line from the second grade: I have been cast into the kingdom of heaven. Only the most loyal
Only a servant can follow - Harlan obviously did not meet the standard.
There is at least room for coping with bad situations and even worse situations, and if it is the worst situation - it is too late to do anything, and the "great cause" of the fallen apostle may be just around the corner!
"The above are all speculations," Harlan comforted me. "Although I can't remember the details of the 'Great Cause', I always feel that it should not be realized so soon. In my memory, our actions regarding the 'Great Cause' have been at a deadlock for a long time.
'Sir' seemed to be trying to break through a certain technical difficulty. Until I left, there was no sign of a breakthrough in this technical difficulty, and I clearly remembered what other plans she had after the protoss started their expedition. It took a thousand years. Although it was short-lived, it could
There is still a lot to do.”
I grinned and waved my hands. This is the rhythm of never having too many bad things falling from the sky: "Okay, let's stop this topic here. Let's put aside the situation of the fallen apostles. Now let's talk about your affairs.
Son - what are your plans for the future?"
"Plan?" Harlan was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "You want me to do something, right? You are the biggest here, tell me."
"Then let me make it clear that the abyssal apostles in the empire have now been established. I need an experienced supreme commander - Viska is not good, she is too lazy to even command her own general army, and her personality is completely like a child. So I want to
You help me run the Abyss Independent Regiment. The size of this legion is roughly equivalent to a regular main legion, and there are also some miscellaneous units that we captured from 'over there'. I can tell you clearly that their organization is chaotic.
I can’t bear to look at it, it’s a complete mess.”
I directly made it clear to Haran about the situation of the Abyss Independent Group. Anyway, as long as the other party takes over this stall, he will definitely find the problem as soon as possible. Instead of letting him panic at that time, it is better to take a precaution now. I communicated with Apostle Xiling.
You don't have to be too careful at times. They don't do this.
I waited expectantly for Harlan's reaction.
"I thought about it," Harlan deliberately paused for a few seconds before saying slowly. "If I'm not mistaken, I'll take my old soldiers back with me - they should all be taken away from me by you, right?
"
Me: "...you summed it up well."
"It's such a big circle..." Harlan's expression was somewhat subtle, but he still nodded happily, "I agreed, let an old general lead his former soldiers, is there anything better than this?
"
I took a deep breath and secretly glanced at Sylvia who was humming a tune and wiping the countertop behind the counter. I thought to myself, they are both emperors. Why is there such a big gap in their sense of responsibility?
Then we talked about Harlan, the supreme commander, and the positioning of the Abyss Independent Regiment. First, I explained to the other party the current governance structure of the empire: due to various reasons, the new empire temporarily stopped implementing the old empire’s sky zone.
System, the entire empire has only one large area, which is jointly governed by all emperors and top generals of the empire. Secondly, the military parliament system of the old empire is followed: the head of the empire, the generals and the lower-level staff jointly form the imperial military headquarters, which orders the legions according to the authority tree
, Xiling Apostles who are generals and above have their own external legions - such as the general guards of Pandora and Viska, the royal fleet of Sandora and I, etc. This legion is the only one fully commanded by the corresponding commander.
In addition, the regular army of the empire is under the orders of the military department - the emperor still has the first authority group, but without the emperor's order, the commanders of each legion can mobilize their own troops in emergencies.
Harlan will retain the authority of the emperor, but he will be responsible for less things: he focuses on the construction of the Abyss independent group and the construction of territories for those abyssalization apostles. Now that the latter has reached a large scale, I think it is time to build a new abyssal apostle in the empire.
The territory has specially opened up some universes suitable for their survival. After all, the abyssal troops have a special "nature". If they stay with normal races for a long time, they will always have an impact on the latter. This is not something that can be controlled artificially.
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In short, these things that are about to be built independently need to have a clear person in charge, and this person in charge must have high enough authority: Harlan is very suitable.
"I thought I could relax a little and become a legion commander or something." After hearing my arrangement, Harlan seemed a little regretful, "So you are still responsible for building your own house?"
"Don't even think about retiring," I chuckled dryly. "Theoretically, you have five emperors in the empire now - but look at it, Bella Villa has a mental breakdown for twenty hours a day.
In the next time, I just train magical girls. My sister has deleted the emperor's authority. She prefers to take care of the children at home. The only ones who are really in charge of things are me and Sandora. If you also remove the emperor's authority, the new empire will have five points from the Emperor's Council.
Three-thirds of the members are on strike..."
"...Although that's true, why is your statement of 'three-fifths' so strange?"
"If there are only three of you in the clan, sooner or later you will be able to master the trick of using the number of people as your advantage."
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