Shandora and I soon arrived at Tavel's research institute, and as expected, Harlan was also here: as an expert with deep understanding of the abyss, Harlan is now one of the leaders of the deep diving project.
Tavel did not show politeness to us, and went straight to the point when we met: "The deep dive port just sent another confirmation message. There is indeed a large amount of debris under the Gate of the Abyss. These debris are currently slowly moving into the real world.
The specific number is unknown, and the interference is too strong."
"Is it from the other side?" Sandora looked into Tavel's eyes and asked the question that everyone present was concerned about.
"We can't be sure for the moment. We don't have the technology to track the drifting objects in the abyss, and to be honest, the appearance of wreckage in the abyss is already unlikely." Tavel shook his head. "Any ordered matter will quickly disintegrate in the abyss environment.
Collapse, its dissipation speed is even faster than that in the void. If something like a deep submersible encounters a shield shutdown or other malfunction in the abyss, it will be completely decomposed in about ten minutes, and it is impossible to leave any wreckage.
It is even more impossible to 'drift' for a certain distance. My subordinates think those wreckage are very strange and there are too many doubts."
I turned to look at Harlan: "Have you taken any measures now?"
"We are temporarily monitoring and sealing the deep dive port." Harlan spread his hands. "Originally, I planned to salvage them and have a look, but suddenly I remembered that the fallen apostles have studied the abyss submarine technology. They have the ability to
Those who sail in shallow abyss areas, if these wrecks are traps set by them, it will be a big trouble to salvage them."
Harlan's words made me wake up from the excitement in an instant. I touched my hair and said to myself that fortunately the old traitor in front of me... was thoughtful and had stayed in the fallen apostle camp for a long time. What he was worried about might really happen.
.
"But we can't just leave it alone," Sandora thought for a while and then made a plan. "Sooner or later, we have to salvage those things and take a look. If it really comes from the other side and we miss it, the loss will be huge. I
It is estimated that they will not be able to sustain themselves for a long time in the abyss. Let's do this. We will go to the deep dive port in person to take charge, and Ajun will go over to support everyone. If it is really something brought by the fallen apostle, it will be purified on the spot - no matter how big they are
I can’t resist Jun’s prodigal son turning back..."
I quickly covered Sandora’s mouth: “There’s no need to mention the name of that deceiving skill!”
Tavel nodded expressionlessly: "Then my subordinates will prepare the shuttle now. According to the state of the wreckage, they can still support it for a long time. Your Majesty, don't worry."
After Tavel left the scene temporarily, I turned to Harlan: "By the way, do you want to follow? You are an expert."
"Of course I have to go and have a look," Harlan smiled. "It's okay if it comes from the other side. If it really floats from the abyss... I'll meet my old friends. Don't compete with me then.
Ah, I haven’t been able to move my hands and feet much since I switched camps.”
I was speechless for a moment. I thought it was indeed a product of Xiling. Uncle Harlan, who usually looks like a mature, stable and reliable big brother, is indeed as explosive as Pandora. Looking at the fighting spirit in the other person's eyes, it seems that he is using nitric acid.
Glycerin grown in soilless cultivation...
Soon Tavel had everything ready, and a few of us boarded the shuttle to the deep diving port. However, Tavel herself did not board the ship with us, because she already had seven or eight mass projections at the destination.
The world is waiting. This ubiquitous schizophrenic girl with glasses can travel all over the empire in an instant, with high-level elite points. You deserve it - what a mess...
The deep dive port has special security measures for safety reasons. There is no way to jump directly through the world gate, so you can only go there by high-speed shuttle, which delayed more than two hours. But as Tavel said
That’s right: those wrecks were in very good condition. And it was visually estimated that they could last for a long time in the abyss. When we arrived at the deep dive port, not only had they not been destroyed by the abyss, but they were still moving unhurriedly towards the world of order.
If you get close, you won't care about the floods in the world. Once the door is closed, it has nothing to do with me.
The deep dive port is still the same, with a lonely Abyss Gate floating in space, and countless suppression towers controlling its activities around it. A control platform and various ancillary facilities for monitoring the port were built at the critical point of the Abyss Gate.
.The only thing that is different from the last time we came here is that there are many more space buildings here: some of them are laboratories, used to carry out several new special studies. These studies require extremely large-scale abyssal environments, and we always
This kind of environment cannot be moved to the Shadow City, so Tavel built many such laboratories near the deep dive port. Now their size seems to be almost that of a dense asteroid belt. The remaining new buildings
The main ones are shield broadcast towers and measurement and control facilities: Since the last time the deep-diving port control platform was destroyed by the "Black Shuttle", Tavel has paid special attention to improving the security level of the port site. Although we do not know these shield broadcast towers and
Measurement and control points are very effective against things like "Black Shuttle", but having them is better than nothing.
The shuttle landed smoothly at the upper parking port of the control platform. As soon as we landed, we met Tavel (mass projection) who had been waiting here for a long time. She saluted us: "Your Majesties, the observation room and deep submersible ship are ready.
Ready."
I twitched the corner of my mouth: "Well... we meet again. It's quite convenient that you are everywhere."
"Actually, Your Majesty can also consider making a mass projection," Tavel's unknown mass projection number ardently suggested. "I can specially design a mass projection that suits your daily senses, so that Your Majesty can deal with some of the needs of running around.
It will also be more convenient. Are His Majesty Sandora and His Majesty Haran interested in this? I can come with you..."
"No need!" The three of us said in unison, and then I looked at Harlan and Sandora curiously, "Why don't you like this too? It's because I don't have the habit of schizophrenia, but you seem to be able to control the body in multiple threads.
Bar?"
Harlan shook his head cheerfully: "My multi-thread is specialized in combat. It would be fine if you gave me one or two thousand more floating cannons, but a few more bodies are really of no use, and I don't often
On a business trip."
Shandora also shook her head: "I can control mass projection and have used this before, but I don't like it personally. Releasing the power of the Soul Reaver through mass projection will have a sense of perspective dislocation. After all, this is the research and development staff.
The skills used are not suitable for a combat system like ours. And..." Shandora said and glanced at me. "And if I were divided into seven or eight people and stood in front of you, no matter which one you kissed, I would still be beaten by myself.
Stealing your husband's illusion, and you have to consider what Qian Qian will do if she becomes interested in this matter. Her mind is already filled with unlimited ideas. If she really wants to split it into a quality projection, I guarantee she can do it.
Hundreds of thousands of selves with different personalities..."
I suddenly didn’t dare to think deeply about this topic: it seemed that I was almost reaching an ethical level!
In the center of the control platform is the largest laboratory in the deep diving port. This large building, which covers an area of... well, I don’t know how much, is directly connected to the high-sensitivity signal towers around the control platform, and these signal towers are also connected to the abyss.
With the suppression towers around the gate and several unmanned observation stations inside the gate, through a complex information forwarding path, we can safely observe the movements inside the abyss gate. We took back the old city from the Melova people last time
Tavel and Alleria have reverse-engineered the advanced communicator manufactured in the Fifteenth Sky Zone during the Empire period. They have applied its principles to various deep-diving facilities. Now they want to use it outside the Gate of the Abyss.
It is much easier to understand the situation inside the gate than before, and the "scene" you see is much clearer than before.
In the largest observation center of the Central Laboratory, Tavel pointed to a set of pictures on the holographic projection: "Those are the wreckage."
I looked at the holographic image in front of me. This image was a direct observation image from the observation station located inside the Gate of the Abyss. Those observation stations have a short lifespan, but they can send back clear and first-hand information during working hours.
, this is an amazing technological progress - although I have never understood all technological progress.
There is only darkness in most places in the image. The most conspicuous thing that can be seen in this dark background is the clouds with erratic shapes. These clouds appear and disappear constantly, which is the most disturbing thing in the abyss activities.
It's a "shock phenomenon" that people can't understand. And among these clouds are what Tavel calls "wrecks." It took me a long time to distinguish the shapes of those things: they seemed to be objects of different shapes and sizes.
Scattered pieces.
No wonder we can conclude that they are wreckage. Judging from their shape, they must be the appearance of something big after being broken into pieces.
It is impossible to directly observe anything in an abyssal environment. Because all observations are based on "ordering", you must have a minimum of "measurement" and "data" before you can describe whether something exists and what it is.
What is the appearance of existence? Volume is required to describe objects, temperature is required to describe hot and cold, distance and coordinates are required to describe position - and these ordered data are all chaotic in the abyss. So usually in the abyss environment
The observation method is "indirect comparison", using information-sensitive radar to scan a certain area, and then scanning it a second time after a short period of time, overlapping the two scan results, removing duplicate data, and the remaining "highlighted" part is
Picture of the abyss (this picture is only theoretical, there is no entity in the real abyss). Even special beings like me and Sandora use the same method to "see" things after entering the gate of the abyss, but we
The observation medium has changed from radar signals to spirit and will. Having said so much here, I just want to mention one thing - under normal circumstances, everything we see in the abyss should be just a blurry silhouette.
However, those wreckage are real objects, and the details can be distinguished!
It’s almost as clear as what can be directly observed with the naked eye, and it even has color!
If you don't consider that it is just a pile of debris, this scene is not impossible - if it is a deep-diving ship that is operating normally, then because it maintains an environment similar to an order field, this environment passes through itself
The method of explanation ensures its own order, and it can naturally be directly observed as it is now, but those things are obviously just a pile of debris. There is no shield around them, no triple refresh protective layer, and even no energy reaction.
That's a bunch of lifeless material fragments. How do they maintain their current state?
At this time, the laboratory's system broadcast interrupted his thoughts: "The self-inspection of the deep submersible vessel has been completed and the dive will begin in fifteen minutes."
Shandora touched my arm, and then I remembered that I came here to serve as a safety catch. At present, the large and small fragments don't look like things made by the fallen apostle, but I still want to be just in case.
It's good to make some preparations. I touched my chin and thought about it for a moment, and made a decisive decision: "I will dive too. It would be safer to open the protective layer from the inside."
"Are you sure?" Sandora suddenly looked over in surprise, "It's the same with opening a barrier outside. It's easy to have accidents when diving deep."
"It's okay," I smiled nonchalantly, "the ancestors are all on the deep-diving boat. They are not afraid of accidents. What should I be afraid of as an immortal? Tavel, it's okay to add someone to the deep-diving boat temporarily."
?”
"No problem," Tavel (mass projection) replied immediately, then she gave a few instructions to her assistant and then turned around, "It's ready, you can just go to Port No. 1. Another mass under her
The projection is there to respond.”
Me: "..." You might as well take over all the positions here by yourself.
It didn’t take much effort for me to arrive on the deep-diving ship. This was my first time stepping into this extremely special spacecraft, so I was inevitably very curious about everything around me. As soon as I entered the main control room of the spacecraft, I couldn’t help but look around.
Get up. This redesigned spaceship has relatively ample crew space. Although it cannot be compared with those large starships that often have a space city inside, it is still very spacious for short-term voyages. However, I checked around and found that
I found that this place is no different from an ordinary imperial spaceship: the simple and bright silver-white battleship interior, the occasional wandering blue light that can be seen on the walls or ceiling. There are also data terminals everywhere, as well as slowly flying in the air.
The autonomous machinery responsible for the daily maintenance of the spacecraft. These things are often seen on other spacecrafts. It seems that although the function of the deep-sea submersible ship is a bit special and the appearance is a bit weird, it is not possible to see it from the inside.
The outer capital has become like an alien hatchery - I don't know why, but whenever I'm connected to the abyss, I always associate it with some weird mutant scenes...
"Your Majesty?" Anseth's voice came from the side, "I just received a transmission signal. Why are you here in person?"
The ancestors sat in two rows on the work bench in the main control room. They were all wearing the standard military uniforms of the New Empire, with the special mark of the Deep Diving Project Department on their collars. They were all neatly dressed and had serious expressions, and several of them were still holding weapons in their hands.
Busy inputting commands on the console, he looked like he had become a very professional deep-diving boat operator. Ansers and several ancestors turned around and looked in the direction of the teleporter in surprise, obviously not interested in me coming in person.
It feels a little surprising.
I waved my hand to him: "I'm here to serve as a shield for you. Don't mind, just dive down. Just think of me as a spaceship part..."
Ansers knew my habit of talking nonsense, and after roughly understanding what I meant, he stopped asking more questions. Instead, he turned around and continued to unravel the various equipment restrictions of the deep submersible ship: This spacecraft is equipped with very
There are a lot of special equipment. These things either have a limited service life or have strong interference with the surrounding environment (for example, the shield device that simulates the world barrier will seriously affect the stability of the surrounding space when it is turned on), so it can only
I manually turned it on when I was about to dive. I saw Ansers operating these things with ease, and I couldn't help but muttered: "It seems that you learn these new things very quickly."
"Teaching programs, memory input, everything is quick," Ansers shrugged. "It's very easy to just learn how to use these devices. It can be directly implanted into the memory. Even their principles can be directly input into the brain.
, but it is too difficult to turn it into knowledge that we can flexibly master. We can now memorize many advanced theories, but no one knows what they mean... I am afraid it will take us a long time to understand ourselves.
The teaching materials in my mind. Well, this is not bad, at least I have something to do."
At least there is something to do - this seems to be the life motto of the ancestors, at least Ansel's life motto, "Never become a useless person at any time", they are taking the next step in this creed.
We have come this far.
"The deep-diving ship is approaching the door of the abyss," Ansers reminded me a few minutes later. "There may be a little vibration. It's best to sit on a chair."
I waved my hand to him and released my power while transforming into the void form: "Leave me alone. It's best not to touch things in this form, as it can easily damage the chair."
Ansers stared blankly at His Majesty the Emperor, who had turned into a black faceless man, with a look of disbelief on his face: "This is..."
Only then did I remember that this was probably the first time the other party had seen my void form, and I quite understood his surprise: "Oh, this is what the legendary void creature looks like when it's in full form. It doesn't look easy even though it looks like it.
I understand, but it’s still quite strong.”
Ansers immediately nodded clearly: "Oh, it turns out you're still facing this way. I thought that was the back of your head."
Me: "...Sail the boat with peace of mind, sail the boat with peace of mind."
You said I offended whom by being so bold and shameless! Why should anyone be surprised?
In short, the deep-diving ship finally passed the gate smoothly, and I didn’t feel too strong a vibration. A few minutes later, the pile of weird wreckage that came from nowhere appeared on the monitor: I didn’t expect it to be far away from reality.