Star Empire

"...Has another...top civilization fallen into such a situation? It has to be said that for the entire void, this is a terrible disaster, even...somewhat difficult to understand, and I am afraid, there will be some It’s hard to accept.”

Looking at the terrible results that had been presented, the figure on the throne shook his head regretfully, "I feel sorry for Σ's experience, but in the face of some long-established principles, we should not choose to give in... It is also difficult for me to judge the matter itself. Perhaps, only history and order can ultimately measure it."

"In the results obtained from the anchored part of the void information wave interception array, the theoretical starting-end reactions have been detected...According to our previous simulations, they may have been based on a variety of methods including critical layer drift bottles. This method has completely restored the complete startup end, and may even have reshaped some of the functional details of the startup end - but now it seems that some of what they have done is beyond our imagination."

"...The current situation is regrettable." The figure of the Void Will sighed slightly, "Perhaps some parts of this problem are simpler than we thought, and some parts are more complicated... The files will be retained for the time being and will be previewed as much as possible. The results will be implemented, and when sufficiently critical new variables emerge, the future course of action will be modified."

"Then Lord God King, let's go on." Elendis's focus also fell on the "deep" figure: "Σ civilization... is relatively rare. According to our vague measurement method, it can be The existence of being included in the top civilization, if they appear in such a situation during the chaos of the sea..."

"Intensify the detection of Σ and the screening of responses to border chaos, and prepare to withdraw some teams and move some border worlds to avoid impacts. As for the bridge building itself, God Realm itself maintains its original attitude for the time being. Our own bridge building actions are in line with We cannot be too hasty in trying to communicate - we do not yet have a detector that can directly reach the critical layer and return safely or transmit information back, and our conditions are not yet met."

"At the same time, the scale of our civilization is large enough to broadcast its influence to the entire order environment. Within the constraints of inherent influence, we must act cautiously, because our destiny no longer belongs to us alone - at the same time, Our original intentions cannot be directly distorted by changes in the outside world. At least, we still need to stick to our principles."

The shadow of the Void Will stares at the gorgeous brilliance on the wall of the throne room. In the ever-changing brilliant light flow that may not be fully explained by exhausting all words, it shows endless order and evolution, and the silent support behind it all. Watchers of all pedestals.

"...I'm afraid we can't make absolutely substantial changes in policy until some of the most critical variables emerge - we know that when we build the bridge, time has gone through trillions of world reincarnations compared to the original era. ——Before that, we may have some idea of ​​the price paid for the failure of many other super, maybe even top-level civilizations, but I’m afraid we don’t fully know...”

"...Among the enlightened ones, there may be some ancients who have not brought themselves back from death, or there may be some influences from me and my compatriots that have not completely faded... But now..."

"There are some situations that cannot be fully understood by the children. Perhaps, they should be kept at the bottom of their hearts and the hearts of their children forever..."

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"Lord God King, I don't know if it is appropriate to think this way."

"It doesn't matter, the void still records some things, and many things between "us" have not changed."

"I understand, Lord God King."

"Including you, I want to remind every child that you must pay attention. We may..."

"... facing a change."

"There are many traces that indicate that there are unclear activity trajectories in the void. Beyond the boundaries of the endless distance, there are also children who have established contact with the mortal realm and certain intelligent beings beyond the infinite distance, and even established high-level relationships. Temporary diplomatic contacts, but due to the existence of many unstable phenomena, the relevant content is still missing..."

"After Σ suffered heavy damage, even if it showed such a state, we could not directly characterize it. Σ's high-risk experiments have been almost continuous for a period of time, and they also have in-depth research on bridge building, and we also exchanged After many plans... There must be a large number of protection systems within their civilization, and there must be self-rescue plans or fire plans... The request for help may arrive. But it is also worth noting that a considerable part of the remains of our allies have died. It will turn into a claw of disaster..."

The figure on the throne cast his gaze at Elendis, as well as the countless projections of gods behind Elendis who were simultaneously preparing to listen to orders: "We need to improve some of our previous assumptions - on the one hand, we must ensure as much as possible the void space and The safety of civilizations in the territories subordinate to the God Realm, on the other hand, if there really are some absolute existences in the void that we have not yet fully confirmed on the overall level of the God Realm... we need to take action."

…

Under the gaze of Void Will, the projections of the gods are gradually dispersing.

However, no matter how concealed, the complex emotions including confusion and tension revealed by the gods cannot be completely suppressed - the owners of those scattered figures are all over the God Realm and the vast territory of the God Country. Among them, the supreme gods of different pantheons and the first-level high-ranking gods in the divine world.

They are not only high-ranking gods, but also their friends and their children.

No matter which pantheon they belong to, which culture they have, how they understand order, what attitude they adopt to express their authority and shoulder their responsibilities... they are all their own children. No matter how strong the team becomes, how powerful they become, nothing will change.

It is impossible to hide the thoughts of "children" from themselves.

For a long time, there have been super beings known as the "non-staff gods" who have developed to the top level of civilization and can be on par with the gods. In them, gods can even see their own shadows and the shadows of their own future. .

But now, the boiling sea of ​​chaos has made the life or death of this almost extremely powerful existence unknown.

Even God cannot remain indifferent.

The past here may or may not exist. I know that within and outside the chaotic dream, some messy creations and strange drawings that may be systematic but with unknown details seem to have been in dreams among the children. Their intensity waxed and waned, and they even came close to being fully realized, but that wasn't enough to touch the absolute crux.

Now... I'm afraid it will take a long time and enough awareness to understand all the changes - even the gods have not seen with their own eyes what will happen after such an accident occurs in the top civilization.

In addition to these "shallow" parts, there will be more problems at deeper levels - children are already aware of this, but such a long time is enough to make many problems that have been perfected The structures and plans have failed or even collapsed. To rebuild them all, it takes time, strength, and attitude.

...I need to make some decisions, representing everything, representing everything and all possibilities in the void, from all angles. Here...there are some possibilities, but it's too early to reveal them now, and it's difficult to truly accept them.

In the vast void, this island of order is reassuring. This island allows many lives to survive in a reasonable way. All this does not require excessive interference, so why should I distort the operation possibilities with external force?

Order and rules cannot be established in a day or two. The existing environment is finally formed through the stacking and fusion of countless historical iterations - maybe now it seems that there are ideas to shape such an environment, but before that, many Many factors have completely transcended the constraints of a single linear time in the process of reality's continuous shaping.

The gap is still there, and it is so big that the children themselves are not even aware of it. There are some surfaces that children understand, apply and transform, while the rest...at least for now, need to be left to yourself. They may already be related to children, or they may be far away, forever.

There will always be some secrets in the void, and to keep those secrets... there will always be some space needed.

In the past, this didn't seem to be a problem.

It’s just...can I achieve self-transcendence without relying on external forces?

Of course I love the children, of course I like order, of course I like this quiet and clear environment, but behind the love and cherishment, how should I face everything in a more precise way? Of course you can change everything, you can make everything obey your will, but do that, always do that, always do that...

Are there other bright colors in the void?

The trajectory of information has become different. Compared with before, all this may make a huge difference.

So, will the changes reach that critical point that will light up the future...?

Void Will carefully withdrew its thinking and deduction, carefully withdrew its power and smoothed out the ripples that were already restless and spreading in the deep and boundless thick fog in the middle layer of the God Realm.

This is all very good and should continue to be maintained. This kind of thinking and this kind of revelation is enough now.

Everything is as usual.

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"... According to our current analysis, the intensity of the death wave is very strange. According to the results of our current observations and records, the intensity of the death wave should not be that high, and the impact of the death wave that spreads across our entire universe has not reached that high either. The power of pollution and the intensity of infection, not to mention the strange balance between the death tide and the structure of the ship on those Σ creations - we have also considered pollution from other angles, but the material strength of Σ is very difficult to understand and we cannot match it Come up with relevant models.”

"Why are there so many unanswered questions? Zhai Cahir, I can only ask some more questions that in your opinion should have been solved. Are the spaceships that appear in the fragments of the world caused by the reorganization of information? Or was it just thrown over as is?"

".I prefer the latter, but the nearly invulnerable shell on the surface of the death tide and Σ creation is really complicated and beyond my ability to analyze. I can't give you a good answer."

"There is really no way." Vidoville waved his hand, "Cavenriel, what is the situation shown by the void scanning radar? Is there a more stable world of order that we can live in?"

"There is still a vast area of ​​​​void. Compared with the old Ark fleet, even the function of the scanning radar has been greatly strengthened on the premise of sufficient basic conditions, but on this basis, it is quite There is still almost deathly silence within a large area." Before Cavinriel could finish his words, the message sent by the spiritual link seemed to attract his attention instantly, "Correction, the above content is not an absolute real-time situation."

"…How to say?"

"Just now, the perpetual clock timed, at 9:25, section A, November 4, 4133, Year of Exile, the void scanning radar detected the instantaneous birth and disappearance of a frequency. From the captured frequency analysis results and its presence in the void Judging from the residual intensity of the information left behind, it is likely that it was an extremely rapid creation and end of the world event from our perspective."

"???Creation and Doomsday?" This topic can be said to make Victorville momentarily confused. In any case, casually talking about the birth and death of a world, such a change of topic is still beyond the imagination of most people today. Acceptance range, "In other words, not long ago, a universe could have been born and destroyed in an instant in the void?"

"Based on the information we have obtained so far, it should be the situation you mentioned."

Cavinriel nodded, "But there is still a lot to add. First of all, it is really impossible to determine whether the cosmic space we are familiar with is universal within the void. After all, the fragments of the post-apocalyptic world are very The possible source is the "target universe" we have reached before, and the only two samples are not enough for us to determine whether the entire void is like this."

"In the previous wave of void information, I also saw a world that seemed to be composed of rings within the scope of the order field, but it was just an afterimage. I don't know whether it was shaped by natural forces. , or a technological creation of certain civilizations...perhaps many phenomena that have occurred in our world that cannot be incorporated into physical laws are related to similar activities."

"It's a pity. Some ancient documents were of little significance at the time and were not included in the knowledge preservation plan. They have been destroyed by the death wave pollution. Now even if we want to make comparisons, we have no source of data." Thinking of this, Victorville still Shake his head.

"But there's really no way around it, Cavinriel. If you have time, take the time to do this. Record all the world patterns mentioned in all the ancient documents that you can still recall, including In literary works, the world that operates based on arcana or other conventional forms of energy that we do not recognize are all recorded. These will be used as preserved samples to detect "a large enough information body that can create information within the void." "Perturbation" is this concept correct?

"Understood. Your Majesty, according to the information intercepted by the void radar, it can be said that there are many abnormalities in the appearance and disappearance of that frequency. On the one hand, a stable frequency is from birth to destruction, regardless of its internal timeline. How drastic the difference is to us, even if a billion years inside it is equal to one second of ours, this is just a concept within the world barrier. The world barrier itself is like a protective cover, or the packaging of the world. …”

"The time mark part that makes up the world barrier serves more as a reminder, indicating part of the nature of the world, just like an identity statement, rather than directly exposing the changes in the world directly in the void. Otherwise, this barrier cannot exist stably in the void. Another point is that the analysis results of this frequency itself are very serious."

"Abnormal condition?" Vidoville frowned slightly, "It won't be like the engine we studied before."

"That's not the case." Cavernrel quickly denied, "In our understanding, the intensity of the representation frequency of the world as an imaginary number should be the standard strong law level, applicable to the entire void. If it is true that the frequency of all types of worlds is If there is a positive number, or "1", then the imaginary frequency is to superimpose something similar to i behind these parameters and perform complex conversions to form such an error or "paradox". exist."

"This part of the technology is taken from the creations of the "Σ" civilization. Although it is not yet certain what the specific strength of that civilization is, judging from the information we currently have, the things created by that civilization should not be connected. We can all be in situations or think about situations that we can’t even consider.”

"I'm paranoid. Chief, please continue."

"Yes, the birth and annihilation of frequency should not proceed at such a fast speed. Even if the frequency is abnormal, it is still the first-level existence created by the void. This kind of existence as a whole should not be It is annihilated at such a fast speed. In fact, according to our observation, this world seems to have been born and expanded a small part, and then something key was suddenly pulled away, just like a bundle was connected. It’s as if the binding part of the huge and complex creation was instantly pulled away.”

"In other words, do you think that a key element that maintains the stability of that world suddenly disappeared?" Vidoville instantly thought of the situation of Weisrifan: "You are saying that it is possible that there may be something similar to that world. Is it possible that the "world consciousness" or "heart of the world" of that universe was stripped away by an external force?"

"It's just that there is a possibility. This is the most likely situation we can think of." Cavinrel's face showed a kind of disappointment as a scientific worker. Vidoville knew that as the chief scientific officer , he is not so willing to use conjectures and speculations based on very little data to explain these key issues that plague the road ahead of civilization - but now, as a pioneer on the road to chaos, many reluctances have to be Facing.

"We have only roughly captured the end of the world twice so far. One was the home world and the other was the "target world". The explosion of the last world fragment crystal energy to destroy an already chaotic remnant soul is not a real doomsday. , its recording value is limited to the dispersion and impact of a huge information body after it collapses in the void."

"Attention, the next long-distance void jump is about to begin. The spacecraft mathematical rate host enters a high-load state and begins to calculate the void information offset." A prompt from the spacecraft AI interrupted the current discussion topic.

"This jump is longer than the information distance changed by our previous two evacuations plus two months of regular cruises." Looking at the results sent by the host in the spiritual link, Victorville gently said He sighed, "If this kind of technology could have been put into use more than two thousand years ago, maybe we could have saved more people."

"The void information offset technology at that time was still not adequate. At that time, although we could apply the information offset either on the edge of the order field, or directly on one or several ships, as long as the overall offset The amount required to move in the void is sufficient. It has nothing to do with the amount of information in the order field. This point has always remained unchanged. Otherwise, we may not be able to carry His Majesty Wei Ruifan who is suspected of being a world consciousness but without frequency representation. Jumping in the void, but at that time, the mathematical rate core encoding information is offset, and then the variables are output along the crystalline rails for specific effects, and the flaw of this approach is."

"Once there is no "physical connection" of the crystal rails and the ability to make long-distance void shifts, misalignment and packet loss are likely to occur during sudden acceleration, and the same is the result of forced destabilization. "

"As for the consequences, it is the loss of information after the packet is lost, just like Ikarim's right leg that is obviously physically sound, but cannot be healed until the soul is repaired and the information is completed."

"Fortunately, when we shut down the ship's internal structures on a large scale, we were still able to leave enough to ensure that the entire ship maintained a uniform information structure and preserved the crystal energy tube network. In addition, the spacecraft's void navigation was relatively stable in the later period. , otherwise if there is another convulsive acceleration, I am afraid that a large part of the fleet will be lost in the void... It is really dangerous."

"Tsk, from this point of view, we can say that we are really lucky."

Vidoville thought about the situation and immediately agreed with Cavinrel's statement, "Appendages are indeed very convenient, but it is still very hard for him." Vidoville casually switched his vision to panoramic mode. , except for the people surrounding him such as Cavinriel and Zhai Cahir, all the structures of the spacecraft quickly disappeared from his sight, and the environment in the order field was directly presented in front of his eyes: in a Outside the range of a solid layer of pale golden light film, there is an endless void of pitch black and no information feedback.

“We are still in exile in the Ark, and we still have not found a stable foothold, but at least now, compared to struggling to survive, the daily actions of the majority of citizens should be called “life” to a higher degree. "