After two hours of sailing at full speed, the shuttle arrived in the universe where the accident occurred. />
This is a small world located in a border area. The basic cosmological constants are quite different from those of the capital world. These differences cause the matter density of this universe to be much lower than that of the capital. Data show that there is no dark matter in this world at all, and it almost does not exist in space.
Although the large galaxy cluster is still very young, the star-making movement in the universe has almost stopped, and the space appears extremely dim, cold, empty, and lifeless - this is not a place suitable for the birth of advanced civilization or colonization.
It is so barren that it is almost cruel, but it is an excellent place for deep-diving experiments. The low density of matter and the rare number of celestial bodies can prevent the rapid spread of pollution in the abyss. The environment that is not suitable for the birth of life makes the engineering troops waste no time in building the test port.
The evacuation was completed at any time: It is said that life has appeared in only two star systems in this universe.
A barren land in the true sense of the word.
This is of course not the universe where the deep-diving experiments were first carried out, because both the abyss gate and the deep-diving port have a "shelf life". With the continuous testing, sampling, external stimulation, and throwing detectors into the abyss gate and other messy things,
Every such information exchange will lead to a decrease in the stability of the gate. When the stability drops to a certain level, it will naturally increase the risk of the experiment. Therefore, the gate where the deep dive was originally carried out has been destroyed together with the entire universe. Now this is
The new testing site we found a few months ago. Of course, if this testing site is abandoned, the deep-diving project can still continue. Things like the Gate of the Abyss will never become extinct. There are still items in Tavel’s material library
Several qualified abyss gates are available - this is definitely the most dangerous "material" ever stored in the history of the empire. Anyway, a few years ago, I would never have dared to imagine that I would put a few of these things in my backyard.
For testing purposes...
After registration, the shuttle passed through the blocked space barrier, and the current situation of the port was presented to us. Tavel pointed to the space outside the porthole window, where there was a large space building made of modules: "In the middle is the control
The center, monitoring station and observation tower are all up here. There were originally four observation towers, but now two of them have been scrapped, and the remaining two have stopped operating due to energy interruption."
I nodded and carefully observed the situation outside. The distance was now close to the "radiation critical point" of the Gate of the Abyss. The shuttle was slowly circling at a low speed more than ten kilometers away from the completely stopped control center. I had the opportunity to confirm that except
Outside of the control center, has this place suffered any other losses? Many huge buildings floating independently can be seen in the surrounding space. These buildings have silver-white outer armor and fully enclosed structures, most of which are obelisks.
Or polygonal prism, they are various ancillary facilities of the port, such as data centers, material transfer stations, automatic turrets or garrison stations. In addition to the iconic blue energy lines on the surface of all buildings, there is also a floating layer
A pale golden halo. This halo is actually holy light - a small team of Xiling Angels have also recently participated in the deep diving project. The power of holy light they are good at can bless anything, which is equivalent to the facilities here.
With the addition of an extra layer of protection in addition to the psionic energy shield, and the extreme sensitivity of the Holy Light to the abyss, these facilities blessed with the Holy Light can also serve as alarm devices. Now these buildings are in very good condition. Look,
It seems that the inexplicable explosion did not spread to other facilities, which basically eliminates the possibility of Abyss being at work: what Abyss is best at is contamination and spread. If it can really destroy the most tightly protected control center, then there is no reason
The surrounding facilities are still intact.
My eyes finally focused on the control center pointed out by Tavel: it was very conspicuous and very large, even though it was more than ten kilometers away. With my enhanced vision, I could see every detail of it clearly. It was a huge square.
The platform is probably several kilometers long (visual inspection is not accurate. I roughly judged the size of the platform based on a small warship parked above the platform). The lower part is a double-layer structure - at least it is now a double-layer structure.
The empty space between the two floors looks like a rift valley crossing over. Deep in the rift valley, there are still huge energy jets bursting out suddenly. Giant "lightning" can jump several kilometers in space at once.
Outside. According to the damage of this double-layer structure, there should have been some armor plates or vertical bridges connecting the upper and lower layers, but now only torn metal stubble can be seen poking out from that row of fracture points.
Later, the broken crystallization lines and various pipes swayed slightly due to the impact of the energy jet.
The main building facilities are distributed on the upper part of this platform. A large hexagonal building is located in the center. The ground around it is a large area of extremely dim, spiderweb-like light flow, which is probably still in the energy network of the site.
There is still a little ghost energy left, and those crystallized networks still emit an extremely dim blue light, so they can be distinguished at a glance, and the hexagonal building is undoubtedly the central monitoring station: the heart of this control center. I originally thought that the monitoring station
At least on the surface, the station was still intact, but after closer inspection, I found a crack in one corner. Calculating the distance a little, I judged that the "small hole" was probably quite huge - this is really bad. It seems that something happened on the lower level of the control center.
The big explosion even penetrated the monitoring station above. How big is the scale of this explosion?
The upper platform is surrounded by four huge obelisks. Those silver-white giant towers are naturally observation towers used to monitor the Gate of the Abyss. I saw two completely scrapped towers at a glance: they were distributed diagonally, and the lower half was
Parts of it exploded like a blown rubber ball, and the originally indestructible charged armor was easily torn into a miserable state due to damage from the inside. The rugged metal beams in the lower half of the tower maintained the tower and
The connections between the platforms are like bones after the skin and flesh have been shed. Fortunately, these giant metal beams are strong enough, so the observation tower was not completely blown away - although they seem to be of no use if they stay here.
The remaining two diagonal towers seemed to be intact, but due to the interruption of energy supply, they were also dark, with only very few lights flickering on the surface. There should be key equipment with independent energy sources there.
The entire control center was in tatters, as if it had been shot through by an enemy. Its energy was completely paralyzed, and most places were dark and lifeless. Lin Xue watched this scene in silence. She couldn't help but bared her teeth: "Look.
It’s so miserable to go up there…”
"First find a place to park, and gather together the person in charge of the security and those who were closest to the explosion point when the accident occurred," Sandora said solemnly. Her face looked quite ugly when she saw the state of the control center, "
By the way, is the person closest to the explosion point resurrected?"
Tavel was silent for a moment, seeming to be communicating with the people at the resurrection center, and then shook his head: "The frontline personnel were seriously injured. Their souls need to recover before they can start resurrection, but you can communicate directly with their souls."
"Well, let's make arrangements," Sandora nodded, "and upload the structural diagram of the control center and all the readings of the Abyss Gate before the accident."
The shuttle finally parked in the control center that had been basically destroyed. There was a small take-off and landing point and a temporary workstation in the corner of the upper platform. This workstation was established by the person in charge of the deep dive port after the accident (actually Tavel's
It is set up by one of the quality projections). When unfolded, it is about the size of a small office building, which is enough to serve as an office and command post for various working groups. The expert team we brought is organized here and at the deep dive port itself.
The accident response team met, and then each got involved in their busy work. I stood next to the shuttle and looked at this magnificent space building complex - it had completely lost its luster after losing its energy supply. Those huge armor plates were sparse.
It looked particularly desolate under the bright lights. In the distance was the central monitoring station. Here I saw the crack: it looked several meters wide and more than ten meters long. It rolled outwards, and it should have been penetrated by a violent impact from the inside.
On the ceiling of this building, a large number of autonomous machines are busy running around in sight, repairing burned lines, welding broken support beams to prevent further structural collapse of the platform, or placing various sensors. There should have been
Stable gravity field and open air circle, but now I feel that the gravity under my feet is less than one-third of the normal value. And the surrounding air circle is gone.
I jumped slightly and wiped my nose awkwardly because I couldn't breathe. This action was seen by Tavel.
"After the energy supply was interrupted, all irrelevant equipment was shut down, and the remaining energy was transferred to the database and core computer room." A mass projection of Tavel suddenly appeared next to me, "The database is saved, and the core computer room...now
I can’t get in yet so I’m not sure what the situation is there. The gravity field and the open air circle are just things that provide comfort, they are the first ones to be closed.”
I waved my hand: "It's okay, I'm just not used to it... What the hell are you doing?!"
I looked at this mass projection Tavel with a horrified expression - her appearance shocked people! There was a big hole in her abdomen, and her legs were empty from the thighs down, so she could only float in mid-air and talk to people. This
It looked like she had been blown into almost two pieces on the battlefield! Of course, there was no blood on her body and there was no tragic scene of exposed muscles and bones. Firstly, the Xiling Apostle did not have blood and a body structure like a human being. Secondly, this was just a human body in front of me.
Mass projection, the scars on her body look scary but not real, but... they are still permeable.
"Oh, even though I wasn't at the scene when the bottom floor exploded, I was at the monitoring station, right over there -" Tavel Mass Projector, who was blown into a tragic appearance, said indifferently, and turned back to point at the monitoring station.
That huge crack, "a jet of nether energy penetrated the dome, and the sparks burst out and exploded on the body. Anyway, it was a mass projection, and it could still work, so I didn't carry out 'recycling'. I'd forget to talk about it after I was busy with other things."
Well, efficiency comes first.”
I am speechless. Even though she is a girl with glasses, the image of such a tough guy is really enough to make people tremble. I know there is no way to make Tavel quickly change this projection body using human thinking, and I can’t look at her.
With such a miserable look, he had no choice but to take off his loose coat and tie it to her lower chest, covering the broken belt of her belly and lower body: "That's it, I'll try my best to treat you like a coconut tree.
Otherwise it would be awkward for me if you were swinging around like this..."
Mass Projection Tavel: "...Oh"
Saying goodbye to this very shocking mass projection - actually it doesn't count as saying goodbye, because Tavel's body is standing next to him, and all mass projections are directly controlled by Tavel, so it should be said that it was Tavel who made her
After the body was moved to another work site, Shandora and I came to the accident processing center, which was the temporary workstation next to it.
An assistant technician connected the structural diagram of the control center to the holographic projection. Next to it was the image of the Gate of the Abyss. Another intact mass projection of Tavel introduced us to the place where the explosion occurred and the situation at that time: "Now
It has been determined that the place where the initial explosion occurred is here, in the a-13 to a-15 section of the lower area, where the hyperspace output of the power furnace is concentrated. Whether the explosion destroyed the power furnace, or the power furnace was destroyed by the explosion first.
Other things were found, and the chain reaction started here. Then all the energy lines in the control center were overloaded. Along the main energy supply pipeline, the explosion rushed from the lower area to the upper area, blowing away all the connecting bridges and protective walls along the way. Finally, it resulted in
Observation Towers 1 and 3 were destroyed. Another wave of impact arrived at the monitoring station three seconds after the first round of explosions. This explosion did not completely destroy the monitoring station, but penetrated its dome, and all equipment was offline after that. Fortunately
Within those three seconds, the automatic disaster security system was activated, and the database of the monitoring station survived. However, because the main computer room was buried deep under the armor plate of the platform and close to the place where the first round of explosions occurred, it was shrouded in a super-strength psionic energy field.
No one can get in at the moment. The chance that the computer room will be completely destroyed is over 80%."
"What's special about the main computer room?" Sandora raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Data, because all the information collected from the Gate of the Abyss must be filtered and tested before being sent to the database, so the computer room has a cache mechanism. The detailed detection data of the Gate of the Abyss when the explosion occurred is stored there, and has not yet been uploaded.
to the database..."
"In other words, the rescued database is not helpful at all in tracing the cause of the accident, is it?" Sandora shook her head. "The things in the database are all old data from before the explosion...a buffer period."
"We have observation records from external sources." An assistant technician stood up, "About the Gate of the Abyss. We established an additional observation point for the Gate of the Abyss a few days ago under the prompts of Mistress Lin Xue. Although the function is insufficient,
Some basic information is still available.”
I turned my head and looked at the eldest lady next to me in surprise. This girl was shaking her head as if she had an inscrutable world under her control. In fact, she had been shaking her head for more than ten minutes since just now, but I never stopped.
Knowing what was wrong with her, I thought the girl had taken the wrong medicine. At this time, she noticed my gaze, and the eldest lady showed an even more mysterious smile: "Carving the future is a delicate matter, and there are some things that cannot be done.
Say, there are some things that can be said but not done... Hey, please wait until I finish speaking and don't turn around..."
I have turned my head to watch Sandora analyze the monitoring data of the Gate of the Abyss. Judging from the screen, the Gate of the Abyss will always be the same, a black two-dimensional round cake, at most it is slightly under the control of the surrounding suppression towers.
Edge zooming, but the various charts recording its monitoring data are refreshing at an extremely high speed. The data above is simply dazzling. Although I can't understand it... well, although I can't understand it at all, Sandora
But she nodded while looking at it, and finally frowned: "There is no problem with the data. There seems to be no movement at the Gate of the Abyss... except for a very small information overflow, but the amount of this information overflow is probably no larger than a meteorite."
"Do you suspect that something came out of the Gate of the Abyss and hit the control center?" I asked.
"Look at the structure of the control center," Sandora pointed to the holographic analysis diagram, "This is the protection of the energy unit... Oh, it doesn't matter if you can't understand it. In short, the safety factor of this building complex is extremely high, except
Due to external factors, the chance of it collapsing internally is infinitely close to zero. The initial explosion was the energy center in the lower area. Of course, this location is protected by four layers of armor and two independently operating shields. It seems indestructible, but it is different from the internal
Compared with the probability of collapse, armor and shields at least have a chance of being breached."
One is a protection system with almost no loopholes, and the other is armor and shields that are strong but at least tangible and have upper limit of protection. It is true that the latter has a higher chance of being breached.
The expert team also made the same judgment as Sandora: the possibility of the control center being destroyed due to external factors was far greater than internal factors. Although there was an internal explosion that ultimately destroyed the entire site, this internal explosion should have been triggered by the outside world.
So I could only agree with Sandora's view, but I couldn't figure it out, so I turned to look at Tavel (the body) beside me: "Nothing was detected flying out of the abyss door before the explosion.
Bar?"
Tavel's body has been in the Shadow City, but her mass projection has witnessed the scene here, so just ask her directly - the ability of the girl with glasses is really amazing when you think about it. I think no matter which research facility is in the corner of the empire,
You can ask her about the situation, she can be considered a witness anytime and anywhere...
"There is no such report," Tavel nodded, but quickly changed the subject, "But we cannot rule out the possibility that something may rush out of the gate of the abyss. What comes out of the gate may not necessarily be a target that can be observed. Due to the special nature of the abyss,
Nature, anything overflowing from its interior may appear as disordered data, which will transform back to its original form: matter or energy after crossing the radiation critical point. Therefore, it cannot be observed within the radiation critical point around the Gate of the Abyss.
Whether it is ejecting matter (or energy), everything is disguised, and you can only judge whether it is leaking things based on the information overflowing from the gate. Of course, this is limited to more 'natural' things, if it is a deep-diving ship like this
When something comes out of the gate, it will automatically eliminate the influence of the abyss."
This is the reason why Sandora immediately checked the information overflow from the Gate of the Abyss.
At this moment, another vibration came from deep underground, and a rumbling resonance echoed in the workstation.