The deep-diving ship has completely disappeared within the broadcast range of all transfer stations. The communication antenna automatically increased the power to the maximum, but the response to the control center was only silence. The communicator displayed a no-signal alarm sign, and another one next to it recorded
The device displayed the data packets received from the deep submersible vessel. The last data packet failed to be transmitted successfully, but 90% of the data arrived completely.
The hall was unusually quiet, and many eyes were focused on us. I knew they were waiting for orders, but Sandora next to me was always silent, so I could only take a step forward: "Compile the data of this deep dive.
Including the tracking records of the status of the deep submersible and the changing patterns of the abyss gate, we must collect the last data packets transmitted to the main network, and use the computing power of the main network to decipher the situation of discontinuous bands as soon as possible. Tavel,
You can analyze this accident based on the tracking records of the deep-diving vessel... Anyway, come up with a conclusion."
I can only be assigned to this extent: no matter how professional things are, I will not be able to understand them.
Shandora took a deep breath at this time, her expression calm as usual: "Until the final conclusion is made, it will be regarded as an accident. Tavel, step up the construction of a new deep-diving ship. This time, we must express the new discontinuity zone."
Variation factors are taken into account.”
"Yes, your will." Tavel's body appeared in front of us, and she saluted solemnly. Her vision under the flat glasses was as indifferent as water, but if you look closely, you will find that there seems to be a flame burning deep in her eyes.
: This is the annoyance, self-blame and burning motivation that naturally arises after encountering such a vicious accident as the top person in charge of a scientific research project.
"That's it. The rest will be done according to the worst accident plan. We have practiced it on weekdays." Sandora waved her hand to the hall, "Continue working. The remaining shallow detection projects today will be handed over to the automatic observation station.
.”
After giving these instructions, we left the experimental base.
Tavel organized a meeting that day to determine the accident situation encountered by the deep-diving ship based on the final data collected. The data packets transmitted before the contact was completely lost contained complete self-inspection records of the spacecraft. The meeting lasted for several hours.
, the conclusion is as expected by everyone: we do not know enough about the discontinuous zone, and its fluctuations are irregular. The deep submersible ship encountered its most irregular fluctuation, which was an accident.
I was sitting on the sofa in the living room in a daze, while my sister was staring at the blue sky and white clouds outside by the window. The house was very quiet. Although the naughty children did not follow them to the experimental base, they could know from the atmosphere at home that the experimental base was out.
It was a big problem, so everyone behaved very well and quietly, and most of them stayed in their respective rooms on the second floor. Even the useless fox was no different at this time. She lay on the side very docilely and used
He rolled up a glass of water with his tail and handed it to me: "Master, drink some water."
I took the water glass and saw pet biscuits soaked in it, so I put it on the coffee table: "Forget it. I'm not hungry."
Then he went into a daze.
I don’t know how long it took, but I felt a figure walking slowly and slowly from the side. In my sight, a tender white foot wearing slippers lightly kicked my leg: "By the way, you won’t be like this."
Are you going to be so depressed that you seek life and death? Can the big shot be a little considerate?"
I looked up and saw that it was Lin Xue. Behind me was the naughty boy Wang Xiaoxue, so I waved to the two of them to sit next to me: "I have seen so many separations between life and death. How can I be so fragile? I was just thinking about a question... Well,
Quite an important question.”
"Problem?" Lin Xue said as she pulled her daughter to sit down on the left side of the sofa, but Xiaoxue cleverly climbed to the other side using her hands and feet, and her mother surrounded me on the left and right, "I still
I thought you were depressed."
"I'm a little depressed. After all, I've known the old man and the others for so long," I nodded and rubbed Xiaoxue's hair unconsciously, "but the accident has happened. What we should consider now is the follow-up work and preventive measures. We can't
It will delay the big thing. And to be honest, the ancestors may not have any chance of surviving. That's what I was thinking about just now."
"You mean to cross the critical layer in the middle?" Lin Xue saw that I did not look depressed, but was actively looking for ideas and inspiration, and there was a look of relief on my face, "Indeed, according to Abyss Xiling's conjecture
, after crossing the critical layer, you are halfway to the 'other shore'. The order and the nature of the abyss will slowly mutate. The abyss on the 'other shore' will not be so harmful to the products of the 'local shore'. There is nothing that deep-diving ships can do
We have to cross the discontinuous zone on our shore, but if we move forward... it is not impossible to survive the desperate situation."
"Yes, as long as it can break through the critical layer, the survival probability of the deep submersible ship is very high. It has more than ten layers of protection. It can still move as long as the core area has not completely 'snapped'." I felt that my confidence was gradually increasing.
"The only question now is: How to determine whether the deep-diving ship has successfully reached the other shore? Even if the chance is only one percent, we must find a way to confirm it."
Lin Xue held her chin and fell into thinking, with a very serious expression on her face. I noticed a flash of white light in her eyes, but in the end she still shook her head: "I may not be able to help, my prediction ability can't help
When it comes to the other side, I can’t see even a shred of information.”
Of course, I didn’t expect Lin Xue to rely on predictions to determine this matter. I just mentioned my thoughts to her, and at this time, I suddenly remembered something: “By the way, didn’t you make a vague prediction before diving deep?
?The predicted result is that the deep dive is 'successful'?"
"Yes, I am also thinking about what this prophecy represents," Lin Xue narrowed her eyes slightly, "My prophecy will only be vague or misunderstood due to problems in understanding the prophecy, but it will never be wrong.
So the facts will not be contrary to the prediction. The goal of today's deep dive is to collect data on the discontinuous zone, and the premise is the survival of the deep-diving ship. Now that the data on the discontinuous zone has been collected in excess of the limit, the remaining part is the deep-diving ship.
Survival...I made a prediction based on this, and the conclusion is that the experiment was successful."
"Does that mean the deep-diving ship is still alive?" I used a cautious tone. After all, this was related to the "other shore". Everything seemed less certain.
"It can only be said that it should still be alive before it crosses the critical layer. The validity of the prophecy lasts until the moment it touches the critical layer. If it crosses one step further, things will happen on the other side, which is beyond my 'vision'," Lin Xue exhaled.
, "So we have to hope that Abyss Xiling's model will not make mistakes. And even if her model is correct, the abyss on the 'other shore' is less harmful to things on the 'local shore', and it cannot be said to be completely safe: no matter how small the harm is,
It is also hazardous, and given the dilapidated state of the deep-diving vessel, it is very challenging to sail for such a long time.”
"If they really made it to the other side alive, how can we be sure?"
"So I have ordered a large number of communicators to be placed at the Gate of the Abyss, and to continue to launch transfer stations into the depths," Sandora's voice suddenly came from the side, "In addition, the Protoss and the Abyss Xiling have also made an agreement.
They will place their own detectors under every abyss gate within their sphere of influence, so that as long as there is any news from the other side, they will receive it as soon as possible."
"Even if the deep-diving ship survives and reaches the other side, it won't be able to send signals to this side anymore, right?" I was a little confused. "The antenna of that spacecraft does not have such high power, and it is almost broken."
"What we want to receive is the signal from the civilization on the other side, not the deep submersible ship," Sandora laughed. "There is a high chance that the deep submersible ship will appear within the sphere of influence of the civilization on the other side. Based on our current understanding of them, they
It should save the ancestors. As for whether the spacecraft will land in the wild void far away from the civilized area... it is not considered. I just discussed it with Abyss Xiling. She judged the cross-strait based on the signals and drifting objects received from the other side.
The mapping relationship should be a 'fuzzy correspondence'. Although the void is infinite, the deep-diving equipment launched by a super civilization towards the gate of the abyss is very likely to emerge from the territory of the super civilization on the other side. This seems to be related to information mapping,
However, the specific mapping formula is still being calculated. In addition, there has been a certain degree of information exchange between the other side and the local side. Although it is intermittent, it has also enhanced the information correlation between the two. This mapping may be enhanced as a result. To sum up,
The chance of a deep-diving ship appearing in a wilderness area is very small."
Listening to the conclusion brought by Sandora, I also somewhat agreed in my heart: Indeed, the infinite void is infinite in the true sense. No matter how vast the empire and the gods are, they are approximately zero compared to the entire void. So the "other shore"
What is the chance that the probes launched by civilization towards the "home coast" will be found by the empire or the gods?
This is like having a needle on both sides of an extremely wide piece of cardboard. These two needles are piercing the cardboard at the same time. What are the chances that they will meet halfway if it is purely luck?
If there is no "fuzzy correspondence" mapping relationship, purely in terms of probability, the probability of a detector launched by the other side being found by the Empire will be infinitely close to zero, even if the other side later launches the detection when it roughly has the coordinates of the old Empire.
Although they initially established contact with the empire, they still had bad luck... So no matter what, I believe that this "fuzzy correspondence" relationship exists. It is precisely because of this connection that the "other shore" can communicate with the "home shore"
contact with the super civilization.
Sandora and I didn't think about the situation where the deep-diving ship had been completely destroyed or drifted into no man's land, because in that case all efforts would be meaningless. Rather than giving up like this, we would rather rely on the existing theory
To seize even a tiny bit of hope. Looking at Sandora's calm blue eyes, I thought of one thing: "It is still difficult to establish communication with the other shore. Relying on enhanced antennas and relay stations to receive signals from the other shore
The probability is still too low - if this worked, we would have successfully contacted the other party long ago."
"So I asked them to set up a relay station when they crossed the critical layer," Sandora mentioned the last thing she told Ansers at the time, "I don't know if the relay station carried by the deep-diving ship is powerful enough, but that
It is already the most advanced equipment that the empire can produce. If it is used purely for information forwarding, it is more powerful than the antenna of the deep submersible ship itself. In theory, through the signal enhancement and layer-by-layer relay here, we can receive it.
Information from the relay station in the critical layer, and if the abyss communication technology on the other side is sufficient, they should also be able to contact the relay station... Through its relay, we may be able to contact the other side."
I nodded: This is one of the important goals of the deep dive plan - to set up a relay station on the critical layer that can be used for cross-strait communications. However, we plan to not attempt this goal until at least half a year later.
"If it succeeds, this will be a blessing in disguise." Xiaoxue had been silent for the whole time, but suddenly she hugged me and muttered in a muffled voice, "The project that was supposed to start in half a year can be advanced today.
Completed. After contacting the other side, we are ready to build the bridge. Anyway, our side is ready, and the other side started earlier, so it should be ready a long time ago."
The three elements of bridging are: startup terminal, stable void environment, and synchronous cross-strait communication. Now two elements are in place. The last one is missing.
I suddenly remembered one thing, that is, before officially cooperating with Abyss Xiling, the empire had observed for several months that the frequency of abyssal activity in the void had significantly decreased, and the void in a large area had entered a period of calm. At the beginning, we were still
I didn’t understand what was going on, but now that I think about it, I understand: It turns out that it was the final stage of Abyss Xiling’s “great cause” from that time.
"Okay, at least I can feel more relaxed now." I stood up and stamped my feet briskly, as if to shake off the dull atmosphere that had been pressing on me, "Things are not that bad. I'm waiting for the good news from the other side.
Bar."
Lin Xue lay down on the sofa and said in a brisk tone: "I have a hunch that there will be good news."
At this time, I suddenly felt someone tugging at my trousers: "Master of the house."
I lowered my head and saw that it was indeed a second-rate fox: She had been lying quietly until now, and it felt like we had finally finished talking about the business before we raised our heads. It was the first time I met this guy who was so honest, so I naturally became kind to her:
"What's wrong?"
"Have we finished talking about the business?"
"Well, we're basically done talking about it."
"Then can I express my opinion?"
"Uh...you say."
Master Fox Immortal shouted out at the top of his lungs: "Master, you stepped on my tail just now and it hurts..."
A ball of golden fur that was as dazzling as a small sun jumped up and down around the entire living room. It was running and shouting, and we were stunned to see this idiot's crazy behavior. The expressions on our faces were like a collective sunny turn to cloudy...
…
But just when I was about to hold the guy down and educate him, Lin Xue relented: "Forget it, maybe she just thinks the atmosphere is too dull and wants to make you happy."
Me: "..." It really belongs to this second-rate style.
The accident of the deep-sea submersible ship caused a big blow to the entire bridge-building plan. It also revealed to us in a more straightforward way the irregular and unpredictable side of the abyss. Even the experts and scholars of the Protoss were confused and confused.
Frustrating, but no matter what, everything must continue. As long as the void cataclysm still hangs over the heads of all ordered worlds, no sacrifice can stop us from building the bridge.
Enhance the detection of signals from the other side, improve the structure of the deep submersible ship, analyze the specific strength of the discontinuous zone and formulate corresponding solutions. All the work after the accident was carried out in an orderly manner. Although there is still no news about the ancestors, everyone
They still cheered up and faced those challenges again with higher morale.
But before the new deep-diving vessel is assembled, all "submersible" projects have to be postponed for half a month to a month.
On this day, I arranged for a group of children at home and led Pandora and Viska to the research institute.
The two 12-meter-tall girls are not interested in scientific research and the like. At this time, they would rather carry guns and go to the border of the empire to cause trouble for the "New Army". However, there is really no war that requires their participation recently: the New Army has been captured.
The Abyss Xiling is firmly suppressed, and all the worlds in contact with the empire have surrendered. And due to the "feat" of the Abyss Xiling, there is almost no strong abyss activity in the entire void that the empire can observe.
Naturally, there was no purification expedition, so the two 1.2-meter-talls were completely idle. These two little guys are prone to getting into trouble if they are idle for a long time, so bringing them to the research institute was just a way to take my sister to relax.
.
At least they should be interested in the institute's new weapons, right?
As expected, the two little girls were quickly attracted by the new things in the Weapons Design Department, and they disappeared in a flash, while I found Tavel who was working in his real form in the Deep Diving Project Department, and as expected, he was here
I saw the Abyss Xiling.
What people didn't expect was that Sheila was also here.
"We are studying the void model of the Abyss Xiling, and by the way, we are comparing it with the discontinuous zone data collected before," Sheila said proactively as soon as she saw me, and then pointed at the Abyss Xiling, "Her model is already very complete.
This time we have determined the scale of the discontinuous zone, and we should be able to estimate the approximate energy consumption of the bridge."
Previously, because we didn't know how "wide" the void structure dividing the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was, we didn't even know how much energy was needed to build the bridge. We could only imagine that the energy part would be piled up to the upper limit and prepare for how much energy input the start-up end could withstand.
How much energy input.
I greeted Tavel and Abyss Xiling, and asked Sheila casually: "Why didn't you pester Xing Chen today?"
"He? Your messy Tinkerbell completely brought down the World Tree, and Xingchen personally went to the rescue. Wow, that little guy is so proud."
"This deep diving accident has reminded us," Tavel said directly after I sat down, talking about professional issues. "The chaos of the abyss is reflected in all aspects, including the aspects where we think we have mastered its laws.
Its only law is that there is no law. Even if the discontinuous belt continues to approach the real world as a whole, its irregularity will be reflected in this process. Any describable and repeatable mathematical language can no longer be used to describe the discontinuous belt.
Already."
"It means don't think about using tricks or seizing the rules to prescribe the right medicine to get through the discontinuous zone," Sheila explained next to her. "The only way is to resist hard, like the Union I, with a strong enough shield to resist it.
.Other than that, it is not advisable to try to circumvent the danger based on the operating rules of the discontinuous belt."
"So I thought of a new deep-diving ship structure," Abyss Xiling floated over, "I found inspiration from a 'black shuttle' you captured."
So I got together and started researching a new deep-diving vessel with two and a half experts (Sheila counts as half)...