(Please give me a monthly pass! I don’t know if it’s useful, but I’m sure it’s true if I just ask for it!)
There is only deep darkness here.
All things are nurtured in darkness.
However, "darkness" is not enough to describe everything in front of you. Even, in this place, the word "before your eyes" does not exist.
If a place mixes all the information together to form a sea of chaos that cannot be perceived or described in any way, then this sea of chaos has two extremes at the same time.
It is extremely rich and contains everything. Information that you can describe and cannot describe are all ups and downs in this ocean. If you have enough knowledge and power, you can assemble everything from this sea of chaos, even the world.
, even gods.
It is also extremely nihilistic - because everything here is in a state that cannot be accepted by conventional logic and senses. Any information rooted in the real world cannot describe the nature of the Sea of Chaos. If something is completely incomprehensible to you,
, then for you, this thing does not exist. In this ocean of chaos, all mortal creatures are blind and deaf - if they cannot grasp the truth.
This is the void, the first place I "saw" when I woke up from the hazy state of mind.
People who have not had an in-depth understanding of the void usually assume that this place is a dark vacuum area. Because nothing can be felt, it is normal to have such an illusion. However, this description is far from the truth.
The word "darkness" itself is a word created by humans to describe a specific phenomenon in the world. For the real absolute nothingness, something that can be described as "darkness" should not exist. Similarly, "vacuum" is just a mortal
It's just an illusion caused by the limits of the senses.
In fact, the void has no color, it is not full of light, but it is not dark at all. It does not have any matter, but there is absolutely no vacuum. It is just that it has exceeded the sensory logic of ordinary creatures. In the illusion, people call this place
It is a dark and cold vacuum territory. However, if you can have another kind of vision - I mean a way of perception similar to vision, which can distinguish order from chaos, then the void will show a magnificent side.
Just like what I see now. It is undulating gently. Like an endless ocean, the surface of this ocean rises and falls very gently, indicating that we are passing through a place where the concentration of the universe is very low: perhaps millions of units.
There are only a handful of universes within the information offset, which is why it can be so peaceful here. Compared with the vague empire territory map in my memory, I roughly judge that the fleet should have crossed one-third of the macro world by now.
area: This is the only "quiet" place in the macroworld network. For some unknown reason, the probability of the universe being born in this area of the void is very low.
I remembered that I was in the lounge of the Imperial Admiral, and the fleet had just left the shadow space for less than a few minutes when I fell asleep. This means that I suddenly entered this state of wandering in the void after sleeping for a while.
This is not the first time that I have entered this state, so I don’t feel any panic now. I just feel a little inexplicable - I don’t know why I suddenly started to "sleepwalk". This kind of wandering in the void, which Sheila jokingly calls "walking",
It is the unique ability of void creatures. By liberating one's own essence and regaining the perception skills in the cradle, one can become one with the origin of all things. At the same time, this is also the only way that one can see the "
I just mentioned that if you have another kind of vision, you can see the majestic side of the void - there are only three "people" who have this kind of vision, and I even estimate that I can only count half of it.
Because I have only initially mastered the method of actively entering the void roaming state, I have tried several times when I had nothing to do before, using the void roaming method to "meet" Xingchen and Sheila, but the success rate has always remained at
About 60 to 70%. Sometimes when I'm in a bad state, I can put myself to sleep but still can't enter the void. So I say that I can only be considered half a "person" who has mastered the super-class perspective. But no matter how you put it,
, overall this is a very good experience. Although it cannot be described in words that humans can understand, it feels... quite relaxing. Of course, I have also accidentally entered the "return to void" state.
, just like this now. Because I followed the fleet to make an ultra-long-distance jump in the void, and I happened to be wandering in the sky, I might enter a wandering state. But this time... I don’t know if I am overly worried. I always feel that there is something wrong.
Not quite right.
I have never used my void abilities while sleeping, so I lack the prerequisites to enter the wandering state. Moreover, I am usually quite dead when I sleep. To put it simply, when I fall asleep, I am like a vegetative person, wandering around the world.
The chance of Hu Meng being turned upside down is very low. This does not meet the normal conditions for me to "return to the void" unexpectedly. I feel like I suddenly fell in like this, or something pulled me...
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And vaguely, I remembered what sounds I had heard before in my dazed state.
It was the voice of a person speaking. I couldn't tell the gender, and there was no joy or sadness. He mentioned a door - and then nothing more happened.
Damn, I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, okay?
Well, let’s not mention what the unfinished voice said. Looking back now, it was another communication without beginning and end. This reminds me of the voice that I have heard several times before. I suspect
This is again the paranoid people building bridges and roads on the other side of the abyss who are tirelessly trying to talk to themselves. So maybe this time I am inexplicable - entering a state of wandering in the void is also related to their sudden contact. According to Tavel and the Empire gang
The rigorous arguments of scientists - in fact, I think it is basically random speculation, because they have no way to examine the souls of void creatures - they believe that when I occasionally establish contact with the other side of the abyss, my soul is extremely active, almost
A state that is not bound by the real world. In this extremely active situation, and just following the fleet through the void, it may enter this wandering state.
You see, even if Sandora is not around, my analytical skills are still very useful.
I drifted aimlessly in this chaotic and undulating ocean, and drifted easily and comfortably. I watched the slowly turbulent sea of void around me with a mentality of taking it easy as I came. Perhaps because I entered the "return to the void"
"In this state, the inertia of void creatures has become more obvious than ever before. I know that I am on a long-distance expedition, and I also know that I am about to fight my old opponent for brains. But at the moment... there is no sense of urgency at all.
Because there is no need for a sense of urgency. In the state of wandering in the void, the time scale is not synchronized with the outside world.
"You look relaxed."
A voice suddenly came again, this time extremely clear, but still indistinguishable from male to female.
I finally woke up from my laziness and looked around blankly - then I remembered that I had no eyes, so I concentrated and began to perceive everything in this sea of emptiness.
Everything was quiet, nothing existed. The owner of that voice was not here. He might have come from a distant place...maybe even beyond the borders of the empire. This was what his intuition told him.
It wasn't Xingchen's voice, nor was it Sheila's. A fourth person appeared in the void?
"Are you looking for me? What a pity, I'm far away from you, and there's more than just distance between us." The voice didn't disappear like the usual lackluster communications. This time, he actually answered it.
Go down!
I was shocked when I heard this. What does this mean? This means that the communication has basically been established stably! This means that the two of us can talk normally! This means that the conversation between the two parties has progressed from sending notes to WeChat level.
Got it!
Of course, there is no point in worrying about what it means now. I have to prevent the other party from suddenly hanging up again. So I quickly organized my thoughts, and I replied in a somewhat unbelievable way: "You are from... the other side of the chaotic sea?"
"... It seems there is a misunderstanding, but... I won't answer any of your questions for the time being." The voice paused. Because I couldn't hear the other person's emotions, I had no way of guessing what the owner of the voice was thinking.
The expression is replying, which is undoubtedly a disadvantage in this kind of tentative conversation between the two parties. Of course, there is also an advantage. Even if the other party can see my tq, they will definitely not be able to see my expression: For the first time, I feel that I am faceless in the void form.
It’s pretty good too…
"... Are you very cautious?" I didn't quite understand what the misunderstanding was about, but the other party seemed to be cautious and unwilling to reveal anything more, so I changed the topic, "Okay, let's talk about something else.
Yeah, it’s hard to talk to me. Do you have anything to do with me?"
"I just want to confirm something and see if you are as reliable as the calculation result." The voice said more and more nonsense, and now it has not mentioned anything about building a bridge: in the past, the one on the other side of the abyss
As long as a civilization transmits information, it must always say "building bridges", and this one in front of me seems... different from before?
"It's very dangerous to talk to you." The voice didn't mean to explain too much at all. He was almost talking to himself, "Just a few minutes of contact may cause me to lose a lot... You don't have to worry about it. Now I
I have collected the information I want. I need to go back and think about it. There are too many things to weigh. Goodbye. I hope the next meeting will be more pleasant.
Just like when it came, the voice suddenly disappeared, saying a lot of nonsense, leaving me clueless.
I hope the next meeting can be more pleasant?
In other words, is it unpleasant for us to meet this time?
I thought about it for a long time and felt that the other person was a little crazy.
It seemed that the other party would never appear again, and maintaining the state of "returning to the void" for too long would also lead to a lack of energy after returning to the material world, so I ended this unexpected "wandering".
When my consciousness slowly emerged from the deep darkness to the surface, I opened my eyes and saw a familiar scene in the cabin. After detecting that the owner of the rest cabin had woken up, the main light in the room was immediately slightly raised to weaken the darkness.
It will not cause discomfort to people, but at the same time, it will not wake up another guest in the room: Ding Dong is still sleeping.
Look at the time, the spacecraft should still be in the process of jumping at this time.
There were very subtle smacking sounds and vague sleep talking from the small table next to me. It seemed that Dingdang was dreaming about eating something again. The little one mentioned my name softly. In her soft murmur, my name and the second
Eleven kinds of candies and ice cream are arranged together and played in a loop. I am very happy, this means that I am indeed one of the most important things in Dingdang's life: equivalent to a lollipop. And accompanied by the little things gently
As I murmured in my sleep, my thoughts became clearer. As I recalled the conversation I had with that weird voice in my fugue state just now, I felt more and more that the situation was different from before.
The way and content of the other party's words are different from the previous messages sent by the civilization on the other side.
He didn't mention the matter of building bridges again, but started to take an interest in me personally?
I'm afraid this problem is not clear for the time being, and now I have a more important problem to solve: I'm having trouble sleeping!
Now I am so envious of the heartless three-inch boy next to me who can sleep in a biscuit box!!
In this way, in the sleeplessness of the supreme commander in the second half of the night, the formations of the Sixth Fleet and the Imperial Admiral, as well as the huge number of servant army support fleets we carried, arrived at the farthest border. The place where the main force is now stationed is not
One of the three universes that sounded the alarm is a desolate world adjacent to it. Because we are worried that if a conflict breaks out with the fallen apostles in advance, it will be too late to move the battlefield, which will cause a large number of casualties to the natives of the macro world and even trigger the local end of the world.
.
After all, this level of war is no longer something that the weak races in the macro world can face.
When I came to the command hall, my sister and Xiaoxue were already waiting here. Dingdang sat on top of my head and looked around. He saw that his four live treasure men were playing cards with Bingtis, so he flew away happily.
In the past - I don't know how a little guy who stands only a head taller than a playing card plans to play cards, but it looks like the little kid also wants to get involved.
"The fleet of the fallen apostles is outside the barrier. We have set up an order field trap. As long as they face this world, they will be pulled closer to the material plane." Sivis saluted us from the command seat, and his clear voice said
sounded in the command hall, and the giant holographic projection in the middle of the hall showed the size and current rough arrangement of the enemy fleet. "But it seems that the enemy is aware that our army is fully prepared. They have no signs of launching an attack yet, and are still in the process of attacking."
Gather more numbers. It seems that while our army is increasing its troops, the fallen apostles have also mobilized their local troops."
"Their support route will bypass the entire empire territory. This is a very long front." I shook my head. "Their follow-up troops should not be more, there will be one wave at most. Xiaoxue, be prepared."
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"The enemy will not launch an attack for the time being," Xiaoxue stood on the officers' platform, the white halo in her eyes slowly flowing, and her voice was steady and powerful. "The estimated time is about six hours. Their last wave of reinforcements has already arrived.
On the way...well, as dad said, it's the last wave."
This naughty child who is always laughing and joking now has an extremely serious expression. She is wearing a straight uniform of a senior imperial officer, and there is an inexplicable cold aura surrounding her body. This kind of aura is not unfamiliar to me. I am in the imperial army.
Every officer in the army can feel it. It is the aura that people who have experienced a real battlefield will unconsciously exude when they concentrate all their energy on preparing for a battle. Today's Xiaoxue looks the same as usual.
They are completely different from each other.
This is not the first time I have seen this big naughty kid transform into this form that looks like a veteran on the battlefield. I am not surprised. I just focus on the image sent back by the void probe. The enemy fleet is in the void order.
People gathered quietly in the venue, with no intention of hiding their whereabouts.
Now the fallen apostle and the emperor are already within the range of each other's cannons. They are facing each other head-on. Both sides have no tricks - at least that's what it seems on the surface.
We are all old rivals. The conflict between us started from testing each other, hiding and beating around the bush, and finally gradually developed to what it is now, directly deploying troops on the enemy's territory, and the tension between fleets is tense. Regardless of whether we are the enemy or ourselves, every ship
The spaceship will only release one message: Come, fight until it hurts!
However, I still can't figure out why the other party appears in such a place, this fringe world that is far away from their territory and has no strategic value at all. An expedition spanning such a long distance across the entire empire's borders is just to attack
A civilian world with almost zero local defense capabilities?
The fallen apostles' brains are burned out...well, their brains are already burned out.
"If you launch a surprise attack before the enemy's support troops arrive, you may achieve greater results," Sivis spread the Storm Commander's power to the entire legion and made suggestions at the same time. "My subordinates recommend directly launching Order Disruption
Tool, pull the enemy into the effective range of the order field trap."
All squadrons of the Sixth Army have been reunited. The Royal Fleet is at the core of the combined array. Now we are fully prepared for the attack. According to Xiao Xue's judgment, the enemy's support force is only one wave. It seems that Shadow City is on standby for another wave.
The two legions don't even have to show up.
"Raid..." I judged the current situation. Indeed, the imperial army has been assembled, and the expected number of enemies has been completely exposed to our army due to the prophet's ability to cheat - if there is no prophet, be cautious
The officers will definitely not choose to act in advance at this time, because this may be exploited by the enemy's follow-up troops that can enter the battlefield at any time, but we have a prophet, so we have nothing to worry about.
But I think maybe I should wait a little bit... for a better time.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but this battle has always given me an inexplicable feeling. It started suddenly, and then the incident escalated inexplicably. Almost in the blink of an eye, armies were confronting each other on the border of the empire, and everything was progressing at an abnormal pace.