I looked at Sandora's body that had been transformed by the abyss, and I was particularly surprised by what she said: "You have never changed? Why do I feel that everything is normal with you?"
"So you are usually too careless..." Sandora sighed helplessly, "Because I have controlled these abyss powers from the beginning, unlike other infected people who were in a crazy state at the beginning, so you
I didn't notice this - of course, I never noticed it before. It wasn't until so many things happened recently that I became more and more interested in the nature of the abyss, and then accidentally noticed that my situation was different from other people's. You also
Remember, when we first met, I showed you my abyssal power..."
I nodded immediately: "Yes, you showed me your paws as if you were showing off a new toy. I was very impressed. You even scared me at that time."
Shandora was grinding her claws on the balcony railing while rolling her eyes at me: "What do you mean by showing off a new toy? I just want to be honest... Let's not talk about this, you probably didn't have the ability to accurately sense the abyss at that time.
, so the impression may not be deep, but I have always accurately recorded my physical condition: what was the pollution level at that time, and what is the level now, and it has never changed at all after being around you for more than five years. But other people are different, even if
They are those soldiers of the Abyss Independent Regiment who have never met you and have only received a routine purification on the spiritual network. Their pollution status before and after contact with you is hugely different... Don't you think this is strange?"
I looked at Sandora, then curiously grabbed her paw to study: "It's indeed a bit strange, but your situation was different from theirs from the beginning - they were all crazy at the beginning, so after being purified by me
The changes were obvious after that, and you took care of the abyss by yourself from the beginning, so you didn’t need to purify it, and naturally there were no changes on your body... By the way, your paws turned out to be cool to the touch, right?"
"Maybe it barely makes sense," Sandora was obviously not convinced by this simple explanation, and her tone was very disapproving. "But I think the situation is more complicated than this. Don't forget that your purification ability can not only be used actively, but also
This is a passive effect. Weska was always crazy for a period of time when we first caught him. Later, he gradually became normal after being with you for a long time. This means that as long as he stays around you, he will be affected.
There is no question of whether it is necessary or not. And putting aside all the circumstances, let’s analyze it from a pure theory: you represent the order side of the void. You are the natural enemy of the abyss. In theory, as long as it is the abyss, even if it has been suppressed by me
The abyss will also be affected by you... By the way, can you please stop smelling my paws, it feels so perverted..."
I let go of Sandora's giant paw with a very serious expression: "There's nothing perverted about kissing my wife's hand - it's just a little harder."
Shandora: "...This is serious business, can you be more serious!"
"I understand what you said," I raised my hand and pressed Sandora's hair. It seemed that the other party didn't need to make jokes to help relieve the pressure. "In the final analysis, this situation is: all the people who have come into contact with me
All infected people are showing signs of improvement, but you are the only one who has developed drug resistance and has not changed at all in the past five years. Because the abyss on you has been harmless from the beginning, and it has not lost control in the past few years, so we have always been
I ignored this question... By the way, have you asked Tavel to check it for you?"
"Of course she has checked, but she is a pure scientist. She can only tell me from the data that everything is normal," Sandora put away the giant claws of the abyss, turned around and leaned on the balcony railing, raising her neck to look at the sky that already showed stars.
, "I feel a little irritable. I feel as if I'm isolated... It's okay to be isolated, but I'm still isolated from you. Do you know how awkward this is?"
I gently stroked her hair: "You can change the angle. This proves that you have a special relationship with me, so you don't take the usual path..."
"So sometimes I envy your heartless attitude towards life," Sandora sighed, then turned her head and bit my hand lightly, and then walked towards the house, "It looks like
You don’t know what’s going on with your purification mechanism. Let’s study this later. I’m going to eat something first. Anweina, are there any snacks in the kitchen..."
"Mistress, dinner will be served shortly."
"I know, let's have an appetizer first. Let's get a few sets of steamed buns rolled into flatbreads, and we'll have them as a snack before the meal..."
Listening to Shandora and Anweina's voices coming from across the balcony door, I could only chuckle, and then lean on the balcony railing to look at the stars like Shandora just now, but there was already another thing in my heart.
Tuan Mi Wu: What is going on with Sandora?
No one had ever been curious about her condition before, because cases of being polluted by the abyss and returning to normal were very rare. There were lack of enough examples for analysis and research. Naturally, no one could tell whether Sandora's condition was normal or not. However,
It's different now: more and more former fallen apostles have begun to appear in the empire, and even the Abyss Independent Group has become an organic organization. We have countless examples to analyze, and the abnormalities in Sandora suddenly became obvious.
All people who have been contaminated by the abyss will change after coming into contact with me, even top powerhouses like Harlan and Bingtis are no exception, but Sandora can be sure that the abyss reaction in her body has never diminished.
It has not reduced its activity - of course this may be related to the fact that the Abyss in her body has been controlled, but as she said, things cannot be concluded so simply.
Somehow, I suddenly thought of Abyss Xiling again, that haunting, omnipresent, powerful person who seems to have a foot in the door no matter where she goes: Could this have something to do with her!?
This may seem a bit neurotic, but don’t forget one thing: when the Revenge Army was trapped in another world, it was the product of Abyss Xiling’s plan!
Abyss Xiling is a cautious and meticulous guy, which can be seen from the various self-rescue plans she has formulated and the success rate of those self-rescue plans: almost every area in the old empire that can struggle has saved itself, but so far it has definitely succeeded.
Basically, all her self-rescue plans came from the hands of Abyss Xiling. Everything she planned seemed to have no loopholes. Even some seemingly insignificant details turned out to be meaningful in the end. So what the Revenge Army did back then
There is an abyss in the trapped world. Could this be a mistake?
I frowned and started to look back at these points in time: after the Revenge Army was trapped in the other world, they basically started a war with the local abyss monsters immediately. At that time, the Abyss Xiling was releasing the Ark Fleet. In the next hundred years or so,
The contaminated area has been gradually deteriorating. However, it did not completely collapse for a while, which means that at least during that hundred years, Abyss Xiling was still awake and had the ability to check whether her various plans were proceeding smoothly: If the Revenge Army encounters
The abyss is an "accidental product", so she has a full hundred years to correct everything!
But she didn't. Sandora and her soldiers fought fiercely on a primitive planet. They were obviously the retained fire, but they had to continue to face the threat of the abyss. If this was not a flaw in the plan, then there was only one answer.
: Abyss Xiling did it on purpose.
She needs to expose the Revenge Army to the local pollution, and even... she needs an infected Xiling Emperor.
One thing must be noted during this process: Abyss Xiling made this plan in a "wake state". Before she was controlled by corruption, she made the decision to merge a vital fire with Abyss!
Why would a Xiling apostle who was mentally sound and absolutely loyal to the empire make such a decision?
Of course, there are still some unclear explanations. For example, Sandora's original march plan was decided by herself. Her route to a world polluted by the abyss was also random, and should not be controlled by the abyss Xiling...etc.
, it seems not necessarily, what if the abyss Sandora faced back then were arranged in advance?
As these conjectures deepened, I felt creepy: How big does that internet ghost plan to be?
I shook my head vigorously, feeling that I had already thought about this issue too complexly and deeply. Moreover, many of them were just conjectures that could not be confirmed at all. Even trying to break my head was in vain, so I could only put it aside for now.
Maybe after you think about these things a little more clearly, you can go to Sandora to discuss it.
"Brother, brother!" A cheerful cry suddenly came from below. I looked down and saw a pair of sparkling red cat eyes. Viska pulled the corner of my clothes and swayed there.
"So you are here! Brother, what are you looking at?"
"Why did she turn into a cat ear again?" Seeing this quirky girl made me feel happy, and I pinched her fluffy cat ears - by the way, I had transformed into a cat once on Haisenwood.
After that, this girl seemed to be very interested in cat ears, "I didn't see much, just studied the stars, oh, and the moon by the way."
Viska's personality is not suitable for thinking about those complicated problems. But if she knew what I was thinking about just now, this girl would definitely not be at ease. She is the type who wants to join in the fun even if she can't help, so instead of
Let her work in vain. It's better not to let her know first. I made up a random reason and diverted this girl's attention aside.
It gets dark quite early at this time of year, and the moon has already risen in the sky. Weska and I stood on the balcony railing and watched for a while, and suddenly said: "Brother, look at how round I am!"
I looked up at the moon in the sky with a weird expression: "...well, it's quite round."
"Human beings seem to have thrown a lot of messy things on me," Viska muttered with a frown, "There are detectors, lunar rovers, and big footprints, especially that footprint. They plan to give it to me."
I want to keep it as a cultural heritage forever, and I want to clean it up..."
I immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "Don't mention it! Do you know how hard people on earth work!"
"But it's time for me to take a shower," Viska looked up at me, "Other people's Glory starships are usually put away, but mine has been left outside for more than 700,000 years. It's so dirty..."
I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead: "There is a rock crust outside your planetary fortress, okay?"
"But there was no detector." Viska scratched her hair vigorously. It seemed that the sympathetic hyperlink between the moon and her was abnormal again. "It's itchy! I don't know what happened to the fuel used by the people on earth. It seems to be burning."
It’s not clean and there are a lot of residues…”
I felt that if we continued this topic, it would be too weird to take it back, so I quickly pinched Viska’s face to divert her attention: “Okay, okay, when the people on earth are ready to mine helium-3 on the moon.
How about we make a new moon to replace you? You hang in the sky for a few years first."
"Mining helium-3?" Viska's eyes suddenly lit up, "Oh, by the way, the people on Earth seem to have this plan... Then we won't change it until they finish mining."
This time it was my turn to wonder: "Why do you have no objection when someone is mining on you?"
"The helium-3 in the rock shell is so annoying. I've wanted to clean it out for a long time," Viska gestured happily, "I'll treat it like an earthling and polish it for me, and also give me a massage..."
I was stunned: "..."
As expected, the only topics we can talk about with Viska are this weird one!
Over the next many days, we finally ushered in the calm days we had been waiting for.
The spacecraft that crashed on the earth 70,000 years ago has been successfully transported to the Shadow City, and all the corresponding aftermath work has been completed perfectly. Several expert teams, under the leadership of Tavel, conducted inhumane research on the spacecraft - the basic process
It was dismantled so that even my own mother didn’t recognize it. Just as expected, this spaceship has no serial number, and there are no nameplates on all the equipment in the spacecraft, just like the one Warren Field took.
The Ark is a "blank" old Imperial starship. Now we know that this "blank" state is the characteristic of things made by Abyss Xiling - I believe that if we encounter similar "blank items" next time,
We will definitely be able to figure out where it came from as soon as possible.
But for now, I would rather not encounter these troublesome things again: Has the Abyss Xiling brought too many troubles to everyone?
The situation on the other side of the border is also business as usual. The new boundary line has stabilized. Now the Abyss Independent Regiment is accelerating the construction of fortresses at several border nodes. From the day the New Empire and the Abyss Zone truly border, our need for border defense will follow.
It has been raised to a new level. Now we not only need a large number of defense forces, but also border sovereignty facilities that can withstand forced jumps and a large number of space fortresses - at least the same level as the turtle shells we saw on the fallen apostles' territory.
.And the number should be larger. This is a very heavy construction task, but Harlan personally supervised it, and he confidently guaranteed that the Abyss Independent Group can undertake all the construction work, so there is no need for Shan and I to do this.
Dora is too worried, we just need to pile up enough Imperial Guard troops to the border while the Abyss Independent Regiment is busy attacking the base.
As for the Abyss area... well, whether they are willing to admit it or not, the Abyss Xiling seems to be quite "cooperative": the internal strife of the fallen apostles continues in a tepid state.
The Empire and the Protoss have conducted several high-intensity telemetry surveys of the Abyssal Zone. The detection results are consistent, confirming that there have been military frictions of various sizes within the Abyssal Zone. If you guessed correctly, the new army and the old army are still fighting for certain things.
These conflicts seem to have well restrained the energy of the fallen apostles (no matter which faction they are). The frequency of their activities in border areas has dropped to a historical low, even if the new empire is right under their noses.
Building a border fortress underneath, the latter seems to have no time to care. Of course, there are still some necessary reactions, such as self-destructing drone attacks that are better than nothing and provocative probe push. It is not so much a war as it is a
He sent us a text message saying, "Brother is not dead yet"...
The border forces intercepted some self-destructing drones and probes, and finally confirmed that these things came from the "New Army": It seems that Abyss Xiling kept her promise, at least her troops did not run out to cause trouble, and the guy seemed to be really focused
Yu helped us contain the new army.
However, the more the other party appears to be so harmless and true to its promise, the more uncertain I feel: Who is Abyss Xiling? Look at her many plans that could scare people and her ubiquitous...
This almost ghostly figure... would he really be reduced to what he is today?
I now even suspect that even the "split" of the Abyssal Zone is part of her plan. This plan may even have been formulated by her 70,000 years ago!
Okay, this may be an exaggeration. Now as long as it involves the issue of the Abyss Xiling, I am always in a state of neurosis...
In short, the situation in the Abyss Zone seems to be very good. Although the fallen apostles have not died many, at least they do not plan to come out in the short term. I just don’t know how long this stalemate can last. According to my experience of being cheated in the past few years,
It is possible for them to settle down for two years, it is possible for them to settle down for two days, and it is even more likely that they will drive a hundred thousand troops to the gate of the empire early tomorrow morning to greet me... This is life! I have basically been doing this for the past five years.
They tricked me all the way!
Facts have proved that I really cannot live a quiet life for a long time. I finally spent a few days at home with peace of mind, and finally something happened.
At noon this day, I was holding Little Bubble and basking in the sun in the yard. While letting my thoughts spread freely in the warm sunshine, I was trying to correct the messy pronunciation and grammatical habits of the little girl in my arms (if Little Bubble
If the language really has grammar), he was as lazy as a salted fish, and then the emergency communication from Shadow City rang in his mind like a reminder.
The emergency communication was sent by Tavel, and the content contained only one sentence: "A large number of unknown objects were found in the abyss gate used for deep diving, suspected to be some kind of debris group!"
The moment I heard this news, I knew that the amount of information brought by this matter was probably no less than the split of the Abyss Zone - my peaceful life was over again.