Chapter 710: We recaptured the city—albeit with a bit of trouble
Chapter 710: We took back the city - although there is still a little trouble
The majestic golden pyramid stands quietly in an unusually open square. The openness of this square cannot even be described as a small plain. It has experienced hundreds of thousands of years of wind and frost and turned into a historical relic.
Traces of history are inevitably left on the pyramid. Ancient vines wrap around the exterior of the pyramid. Thick moss spreads on the base of the mother nest. The metallic luster of the pyramid's super alloy shell is still there under these coverings.
It is shining brightly, but there are also mottled marks in many places, which are the scars left by the baptism of war hundreds of thousands of years ago. After the Xiling host inside was silent, the self-repair of the brood has also been shut down, and hundreds of thousands of
For years, they only operated as urban scheduling machines with super computing power, but they could no longer produce a builder to repair the declining glorious city.
After asking the city guard next to me, I also learned some secrets about this "temple" and the ancient customs of this ancient civilization that have been passed down among the people for hundreds of thousands of years.
Since leaving their homeland, the Atlanteans have never made any changes to the mother nest. Even the vines and moss growing on the mother nest were brought out from their homeland after the end of the world.
They regarded it as a sacred plant and protected it. For a long time, the Twin Temples-the Day Palace and the Midnight City have been the Atlanteans selecting new citizens and recruiting talented warriors.
To become a "factory" of "servants of God", every Atlantis baby needs to receive "divine grace" according to gender according to gender near the energy outlet on the periphery of a certain hall of the Twin Temple, that is, let all parts of the body
A small number of people receive radiation from the psionic energy outside the mother's nest. They firmly believe that this low-dose radiation will temper the bodies of newborns and leave a mark on their souls and bodies (because of the special nature of the psionic energy of the mother's nest, this
The mark is actually a non-fatal radiation burn). This mark allows them to gradually get closer to the thoughts of God during the journey of life. At the end of life, the Atlanteans who have received "divine grace"
You can also ascend to heaven and coexist with God by relying on the "marks" in your soul. In other words, the skin scars left by radiation are for the Atlanteans a GPS on the journey of life and an invitation on the road after death.
Correspondingly, sinners who have committed the four major sins of "blasphemy, treason, surrendering to the enemy, and killing compatriots" will have this mark removed in a ceremony (cutting off the part of the limb with the mark, and the sin of irradiating the forehead with the ray)
People are very happy), announcing that they have forever lost the opportunity to enter the kingdom of heaven. If their sins are serious, even their descendants will be disqualified from receiving radiation. Therefore, in the Atlantis common saying, "have not been exposed to radiation" is
A very bad insult, roughly equivalent to "There is no little dick downstairs" in Chinese...
As for the "leap" ceremony (this ceremony is actually a name created by the Atlanteans themselves, which is a literal translation from the Xiling text, so there are several interpretations of the translation, the closest one refers to the ascension of the person),
It is the greatest honor that an Atlantis warrior can receive in his life. They are sent into the mother nest and lie down for a day and night near the computer room with the strongest radiation (called the ultimate place). During this period, they do not eat or drink.
Every three hours, an ancient prayer should be recited to cleanse the body and mind.
After twenty-four hours, ordinary warriors will be transformed into servants of gods, mastering the powerful power of gods. On earth, those things are called special powers - special powers that can be used to destroy the world.
These legends that have been passed down from ancient times and have been passed down to this day have a self-evident weight in the minds of the Atlanteans, but in my opinion, they are more or less weird: they treat me with religious worship.
Familiar Xiling technology products use symbolic explanations to explain the most common daily activities of Xiling apostles. How should I put it...
Perhaps the gods of the Star Realm will also have this strange feeling towards their believers when they are worshiped by mortals: a little ridiculous, but also a little cute - except for the weird one Ding Dong.
"It looks like there was a fight here."
Raven 001 looked around at the situation and said slightly warily.
The large square where the ancient Xiling Mother Nest is located is a place where no one is allowed to destroy it. Even after a disaster occurs, those mutated monsters should not be so interested in fighting in this place. But now, except for the mother nest in front, it is still intact.
Except for the damage, the square is full of devastation, a scene after the war: the huge stone pillars fell to the ground and turned into small fragments. They were once used for religious worship and symbolized the granite arch of the gate of heaven.
The roof has disappeared, leaving only a large piece of rubble in front of the mother nest. The ground is covered with deep cracks up to half a meter wide. These cracks have rough edges and are straight as a whole. It seems like a giant iron rod directly hit the ground with thousands of tons of momentum.
Open these wounds on the ground.
And among the ruins, there are still a large number of corpses scattered all over, all of which are those of mutated monsters. Their death states perfectly match the surrounding scenes of ruins destroyed by violence. They are all kinds of strange and miserable. Among them are
Some were cut into pieces, some were stretched into silk, and some were twisted and burnt. The monsters that the armored scorpions chopped into pieces before were neater than them. They were everywhere in the square.
The suspicious dark red traces are the marks left by the monsters who were even more unlucky than the monsters whose corpses were cut into thousands of pieces: they didn't even have a piece of flesh left, and the last trace in the world was just a color.
"I can see at least three cuisines, and at least the knife skills are very similar." Looking at the corpse of the monster in the square, Monina frowned and sighed, and Cirnuo vomited.
Looking at the large square that seemed to have just resisted the end of the world, the Atlantis warriors felt very heavy, and others began to concentrate on alert. Uncle Kenser had been sensing something with half-squinted eyes, and then suddenly made a discovery.
, stepped forward, and everyone looked at him in confusion. After a while, the uncle carried two people out from behind a pile of pillars not far in front.
One was Lin who was snoring slightly, and the other was Ilson who fell into a deep coma for various obvious reasons.
Uncle Kenser carried the two masters who were sleeping soundly on the battlefield and came to the crowd. He threw them on the ground one by one and nodded slightly: "No one was injured, very good, very good."
Monina stepped forward to take a look at the situation of the two of them and made a judgment: "Lin's intelligence has not recovered yet. The child fell asleep when he was tired from playing. The stupid brother was knocked unconscious. Lin's huge power can be taken head-on.
To stun any protoss of the same level, even if my brother is fully armed, he can't resist a few hits."
"It seems that this place is the masterpiece of these two living treasures." I clicked my tongue and looked at the Shura field around me.
Just as he was talking, there was a slight sound of armor clashing on the ground. Ilson was indeed a bright garrison specializing in defense. At this time, Youyou woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw a group of people including his sister.
The helpers were chatting around him like they were in hospice care, and suddenly they felt very panicked. Their armors jingled on the ground and they turned over and got up: "Are you all here?"
"Is this your masterpiece?"
I asked, pointing to the large square that looked like a tsunami ruin and the various processed cold meats scattered across the square. These monsters were obviously the Atlantis city guards who were stationed around the mother nest before. Of course, now they have followed the abyss.
Infected and turned into enemies. Maybe there were fallen Valkyrie and Anubis here before, because the energy fluctuations of psionic energy remained in the air, but there would be no corpses left after the death of those two special soldiers.
Ilson looked around at his surroundings a little dizzy, and immediately became energetic. He looked very satisfied, as if he had made a great contribution: "Of course it goes without saying! Killing these monsters is not difficult at all.
No, you all know Lin's strength. Basically, one punch will kill all of them. That girl and I were like wolves entering the flock of sheep, rushing left and right to sweep through thousands of troops. Everything was wiped out in the blink of an eye, and dozens of people appeared in the middle.
A flying female warrior and a wolf-headed soldier caused us some trouble, but Lin is a dragon and has high natural energy resistance. Their lightsabers and lightning basically met their nemesis. Lin opened her mouth and spit out dragon breath a few times.
I burned everything, eh, I won’t go into details, anyway, it was all solved in the end, and I wasn’t injured, but I still have a headache.”
I have already expected the fighting power of these two protoss. If the Xiling Apostles are secondary gods, then they were just dealing with the miscellaneous soldiers created by the secondary gods. Damn it if it is still difficult.
, and Monina looked thoughtful, and suddenly asked for a long time: "Brother, why have you been talking about how Lin killed the enemy for a long time? What did you do? Why did you still have a headache and fainted in the end?"
Ilson stiffened for a moment, looked at the sky and began to whistle.
Monina thought for a while and was shocked: "You won't just let Lin hold her and won't break away, will you?"
"Nonsense! You don't know how strong that girl is!"
I trembled for a while, and looked at the countless half-meter-wide huge scars on the ground around me with horror. The ground was made of artificial rock as hard as battleship armor, and then I looked at Ilson's forehead with sympathy -
Your defense is so high, you don’t even have a bag!
There is no doubt that the weapon Lin used in the battle just now... was the 123. Dingdang, you have a good team.
"Lin is particularly lethal when she is mentally deficient," Monina said, turning a blind eye to her brother's miserable experience, "Of course, only to her own people."
At this time, Lin, who was the culprit, finally woke up. The Dragon God girl let out a long yawn, rubbed her confused eyes with her fists like a little girl, and then looked at the group of us in a daze.
After getting up at the right time and having low blood pressure, she hurriedly got up, lowered her head timidly and asked in a low voice: "Everyone...did I do something wrong just now?"
"No, you killed thousands of enemies," Monina patted the shoulder of the Dragon God girl who had returned to normal comfortingly, "It's just that the weapons are a bit more worn."
Ilson was shaken after hearing this.
After confirming that there were no enemies around, ordinary soldiers formed a defensive formation on the spot around the mother nest to protect the control center layer by layer, while I and the four living treasures of the gods stepped into this building that has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.
Historical ancient buildings.
Just like the ancient buildings we passed before, although the outside of this mother's nest is full of historical traces, the inside is as clean as new. The surrounding crystal walls are still crystal clear and free of impurities. The power of the abyss has still not penetrated into this building.
In a building that is not built with ordinary materials, except that there is no host in charge, and there are no light spots representing the thoughts of the host in the crystal wall around us, this place is no different from the ordinary Xiling Mother Nest.
A group of five people quickly arrived at the central computer room of the Brood. Compared with the central computer room of Bubble, the light here was dim. Although it was also a crystal clear world made of crystal, it seemed lifeless. Inside the crystal prism in the center of the room
Empty, with not even a trace of energy flowing. The mother's nest that has lost its host is like a giant that has lost its soul.
Monina and Lin began to curiously click on the base of the host slot, while I contacted the mass-produced host on standby at the back and took out an information terminal at the same time.
The dull little face of the mass-produced host appeared on the holographic projection, and next to it was a vast pile of complex data and charts: "The connection attempt has begun... The attempt failed. The remote host was physically disconnected. Confirm that the remote mother nest signal is in good condition. Please check
Host slot."
"Okay, okay, stop playing." I waved Monina and Lin away, and followed the system prompts to match the information terminal with the host slot.
A compatible program has been prepared in the information terminal that allows this ancient Xiling Mother Nest to accept external control without a host. This is what I just downloaded from Pao Pao across the world. As the most powerful
For the host series, Paopao has deep research on the operation and modification of all Xiling hosts and their accessories, naturally including the Mother Nest, which was widely used in lower-level hosts hundreds of thousands of years ago. According to the instructions from a few hours ago
The technical advice I received from Pao Pao is that due to the age of manufacture, there is a compatibility issue between the serial number of this antique Xiling mother nest and the operating system version number of the Xiling host we brought, causing both parties to always prompt errors when connecting remotely.
678 has no remote connection. There are only two ways to solve this problem. Either downgrade your Xiling host, or refresh the identification number of this nest. My choice is of course the latter, although it all sounds like
They are all full of embarrassing and divine flavor.
"The system upgrade is completed. The operator identification information is being verified. No local user was found. Please choose your intervention method."
"The system provided by Pao is really friendly, just like Windows." I muttered and reached out to select Remote Desktop.
"Remote desktop is established, please select the operation type."
"Is it so troublesome to use a temporary system?" I shrugged and chose remote assistance.
"Remote assistance starts, please select the assistance level."
After a while, I clicked on remote control.
"Remote control starts, please select the control time: a short while, a while, a long while."
I:"……"
"You have chosen a conference. To ensure the security of your data, the system is refreshing the super verification code. Please enter the serial number and verification code."
Everyone: "..."
"The serial number and verification code are correct, and the remote control is being established... I'm sorry, because the information link has encountered a very bad problem. You may not be able to solve this problem even if you toss it to death. Therefore, the connection establishment failed this time. This system
We regret to inform you that you have lost your remote connection. We hope you will give us feedback on this unexpected situation. For complaints, please call 21549310023566540321 and ext. 1347890630. For product renewal, please press 1. Rescan users and no local users are found. Please choose your intervention method.
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"Meet your sister!"
I shouted angrily while mentally connecting with Sandora: "Girl, I can't connect remotely here! Is there something wrong with the compatibility package that Pao Bao just sent?"
Sandora is also activating another Xiling Mother Nest. She was quite surprised when she heard this: "Eh? Really? It's going very well here!"
I was suddenly stunned. I was about to contact Paopao to ask what happened to the compatibility package she gave me. A slight "beep" sound suddenly reached my ears. Then, the crystal wall of the central computer room gradually emitted a normal sound.
The brilliance of initiation.
"I'm sorry that I just deceived you. The remote connection has been successfully started."
Let me tell you, if I hadn't brought a backup with me, I would have smashed this unfortunate thing by now!
We were confused by the situation in front of us at first, but after a few seconds we finally realized it: Wasn’t it because I was stopped by onee-sama before setting off and didn’t come to Gensokyo! How could the child’s mother take such revenge?
In any case, this Brood that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years has finally been successfully started under the control of the remote host. The crystal room around us is gradually being filled with blue-white light. This is the situation when the Brood does not have a host.
The computer started simulating normal operation, and there was a slight buzzing sound coming from under the empty host slot. Then, the crystal prism above it was instantly filled with countless complex bright lines, and the data terminal in my hand also began to refresh the interface, and it was crooked.
Big characters like a turtle crawling appeared on the ground:
Virtual optical drive 1.0 started successfully.
The characters of Bubble are still so elegant. I deeply regret that that girl still refuses to download a normal font library for her head.
The synthesized female voice of system self-test sounded in the main engine room: "The colony ship control system is reconnected and online, the main energy source of the brood is offline, the auxiliary energy is offline, external energy supplement is detected, the core system will run in basic mode. Detect the armed system...
The system is seriously damaged, with 5% of the available external defense weapons and 75% of the internal defense weapons available. The psionic energy pipe network partially collapsed, energy supply was terminated from areas d-3 to d-6, and there was no response to the call. The Olympus energy furnace was offline. Call
No response. Retrieve the city guard location mark... Warning, the number of city guards is dangerous, and abnormal status guards are found... The command is received, and the guard search is blocked. The Valkyrie Regeneration Factory is online and running well, and the Anubis Regeneration Factory is online.
, insufficient power, operating rate 75%, found Valkyrie in abnormal state, Anubis in abnormal state... Prepare to reset the regeneration factory control system..."
"The whole system self-check is completed, miscellaneous self-checks are started and automatically hidden...Operator, you have a message from Shadow Fortress, please check it."
I was stunned. Before I could say anything, the system started to automatically read the information:
"The child's father~!~! Let me tell you some sad news, our daughter is missing again..."