Star Empire

"——Your Majesty, the spacecraft is out of control!" No more than a minute after the first abnormal situation was reported, a shrill abnormal alarm instantly popped up from every system and equipment of the spacecraft, covering it with unrecognizable signals. The original control system of the ship was removed.

The howling navigation system showed with difficulty that the ship's information offset difference was increasing, which meant that the ship's void speed was rapidly accelerating uncontrollably.

“…our own information stability?”

"It's not damaged yet, but..."

"Maintain current status and turn off all alerts."

".yes."

After blocking all abnormal alarms, Vidoville gently opened a pale golden protective box that had been stored in his will space. What was stored in the box was a standard hexagonal crystal pillar, sealed in the crystal pillar. There was a mist-like purple light. Under the purple light, the entire crystal column was coated with a mysterious and mysterious color.

In the flickering purple light, the entire ship seemed to be enveloped in a strange atmosphere, and there seemed to be many lines... that were being blended together.

Everyone fell into silence. In front of their eyes, the information deviation difference that had already exceeded the ship's limit carrying capacity countless times was constantly passing through the order field of the ship. From time to time, there were shocking loud noises from the source that could not be found at all. came from the source as if they were the wails of a monster from the darkest abyss. However, no matter what the abnormality was, the ship was still moving crazily through the void, heading in a distant and unknown direction.

Time seems to have lost its meaning, and the changes have stopped one by one in silence. At this moment, I don’t know how long it will last.

"The highest level alarm, the ship has suffered its own loss. The instantaneous disturbance of the first and second shield crystal matrices exceeds its own ability to withstand it. The crystal energy charging armor is damaged. The whole system overload has been activated. The ship body can still hold on for five minutes." The highest-priority ship's own alarm sounded like thunder in the tranquility around Victorville, completely dispelling the silence that seemed to have lost all meaning in time.

"The navigation system cannot recognize the current environment...the environment is abnormal, and continuing to scan may cause irreversible damage to the ship."

After waking up from the dream, the first search of the navigation log showed that in the past that could not be perceived, the spacecraft itself had crossed an immeasurable distance...

"Report the current primary situation immediately!"

"Your Majesty, we have entered an unknown space of order. The matching rules of self-consistent motion are unknown. The information in this area fluctuates... We are almost in the core of the crystal energy power furnace!" In Victorville's field of vision, a new The panoramic display replaced the previous darkness and the golden light patterns that flashed from time to time, like satin.

Outside the spacecraft's crystal energy shield, within the range that can be detected, there is only a pale whiteness.

Soon, changes occurred again. The blazing white light near the spacecraft suddenly faded, and the pressure of the shield suddenly reduced to zero. Even though there were still countless plasma-like jets passing near the spacecraft at almost zero distance, but these theoretically There will be an unknown torrent with a very large impact, but it seems to be just a passing shadow, a passerby who hastily left from different time and space and different planes. They don't seem to have any interest in this place, nor do they have any interest in coming to this small place. Small ship interactions.

"What is this..." All the people who came here with Victorville thought that they were ready to face all possibilities, but when the reality really unfolded, the shock in their hearts was still silent. Spread out, it is a scene more shocking than death:

After the white light that was originally enough to completely blind any detector dissipated, the white land was vast. This "earth" was not any entity, but was full of surges and fluctuations like stars.

Countless prominence-like jets splashed out from the blazing land. Some of these jets fell back into the white earth after rising to a certain "height", while other parts suddenly lost their shape and evaporated. up in the air.

In this kind of fluctuation like the breathing of a star, the intensity of all the indicators that can be detected and sensed around it exceeds the limit. This place may be a world, or it may be a star that is as huge as the world. Inside and outside the corona of a star of unimaginable size, there is the glow of a sea of ​​fire whose scale is beyond description and statistics.

Just looking at these boiling jets gave Vidoville a splitting headache.

"A navigation signal has been detected. The content is very confusing. The fluctuations only seem to show a desire to communicate. The format of the signal is consistent with the signal format we are currently using. The signal source comes from..." Follow the navigation system Looking at it, the dreadnought fell into a brief silence.

"These two shadows...can't be wrong." "Yes, it is a creation of Σ, and its scale is larger than the spacecraft we encountered before that can directly trigger the end of the world without any explicit charge. It's much bigger, but at present, they don't seem to be activated yet, and the navigation signals are released from these two spacecrafts..."

In front of the dreadnought, perhaps at the "lower front", where the distance is already difficult to measure, there are two black spaceships that are so huge that physical creations cannot even imagine them. According to the memory and perception generally possessed by the Imperial people, , their long axis exceeds 300 million kilometers, which brings a serious sense of unreality. Under the invisible pull, the distance between the dreadnought and the two giant spaceships is being shortened, and as the distance shortens, it seems that some invisible mapping is distorted - all the sea of ​​light and flames gradually become invisible, and they become invisible. Entered the "back".

"...At present, it seems that it does not have any change factors that are consistent with our records and represent activity, but even if it is not activated, its impact on us is absolutely suppressed..."

Faced with such drastic changes, everyone can still feel that there does not seem to be any strong emotional fluctuations in the surrounding nodes.

At this point, apart from facing it in a calm and almost numb state, I am afraid that any unnecessary emotions and actions will be in vain and may even be full of danger.

But is it really okay to let down your guard like this? Where does this kind of belief come from! ? From the determination to dare to die and be completely irresponsible? Or are there other influences here?

In the purest darkness, a black land spread out of thin air.

"It seems that we have probably entered the interior of one of the two spaceships..." Vidoville took out several probes from the will space and made sure that there was nothing detectable in the nearby space. After being imprisoned, the probe matched some basic information of this space under the action of its own crystal energy transition engine, and quickly accelerated to a million times exceeding the star's basic light speed.

In the darkness and chaos, the golden light emitted by the probes that were far away from the starting point passed through the dark and lightless space structure. Even though they were far apart, the probes were still clearly visible.

…

"Incredible, incredible! Before we came in, we could roughly judge that the long axis length of the two spacecraft was more than 340 million standard kilometers, but here, it is only the part that the probe has scanned, at the end of time and space before it appears. Under the premise, the part of this inexplicable ordered space that can be understood and measured is already larger than a medium-sized river system, but there is still no sign of the existence of any boundary."

Looking at the probe that was constantly lighting up the field of vision and the still endless darkness, Cavinrel couldn't help but sigh in admiration, "Even without any degree of information disturbance response, this level of spatial expansion still exists stably."

"Hey? How did you get in? Are you the person you are looking for? It does seem familiar." A clear voice sounded in the darkness. Although the "voice" was not loud, everyone present sounded like thunder. generally--

No matter why such a "voice" still exists here - everyone knows the owner of this voice! !

A figure appeared next to Vidoville, "You have the reason and method for me to pull you here."

"Wesrifan, you..."

"Huh? Sorry, this does sound a bit familiar, but... it shouldn't have anything to do with me, right?" The girl in a white dress in front of Vidoville walked around this small group that was very out of place compared to the environment. Two circles, "Ah... I'm sorry, I can indeed feel that you have a sense of familiarity, a sense of trust that can be trusted, but... I really can't recall that you have this sense of familiarity with me. s reason."

"Τοσμασείρεντοπστηκεκαιρχίσεηανλυση... The correction of the ideographic ability of all phenomena has been completed, the existence of the order body has been confirmed, the secret entanglement database has been activated, and the development stagnation of this organization has been lifted. Outsiders please note that this database can support three interactions. When the three interactions are completed, the remaining calculations The force will evaluate the status of outsiders and make subsequent decisions based on the questions raised by outsiders. Outsiders are requested to direct their interaction applications to the current environmental creation and macro issues. This process is irreversible."

While Victorville and others were still trying to figure out the current series of situations, sudden words suddenly appeared, interrupting everyone present's thinking. Not far away, the original darkness gradually faded away, revealing a pitch-black sphere with a smooth texture under the light of crystal energy. Near the complex Σ emblem, black and red patterns had begun to peel off the sphere. Original integrity.

"What, what is this? I don't like the smell it exudes!" The girl in a long skirt jumped behind Victorville as soon as the sudden voice appeared, "Besides, there seems to be something nearby. There are also a lot of malicious noises, very..."

Death shrouded everyone, and Vidoville seemed to freeze for a moment. He didn't know what judgment he had made, and what would happen in the future. At the moment, it seemed that he could only wait for a short time... Even he couldn't I don’t know what effect waiting will have.

In an invisible place, the solidified wave pressed down instantly as if it were unlocked, and the story was temporarily stuck, but this does not mean that the story itself cannot be written.

…

"Now it seems that there should be no choice... This is actually to find three answers to answer the doubts that we have not figured out. Why is the third one so special? It has been mentioned too many times..." Reluctantly calmed down and I can't let myself completely return to a problem-free state, but for now, it's enough. The unknown whisper to whom he was speaking disappeared. Vidoville suppressed the discomfort all over his body and frowned, "Cavenriel, do you have any specific details to ask or any suggestions?"

"Your Majesty, you need to show firmness, that's what I'm suggesting."

"I understand, then, I apply to proceed——"

"Sorry, please wait a moment." The girl in white lightly poked Victorville's shoulder.

"Well, what's wrong? Ah, this is -" As he spoke, Vidoville felt some pressure and invisible erosion for a moment. He nodded, while she glared fiercely at the dark and empty interior of the spacecraft. After taking a look, his little feet lightly stomped on the "floor" that corresponded to an unknown part of the spacecraft.

The mass detection device of Vidoville and others did not detect gravitational waves escaping from the girl's body, or other forms of forces that aggregate matter, at least, no similar disturbances. Vidoville had reason to believe that the figure in front of him might even be lighter and more ethereal than it looked.

However, after that delicate white foot stamped down, the entire spacecraft, or perhaps both spaceships, suddenly shook violently. I don’t know what the structure of the space here would be, but if there are no protection and buffering measures, , at this time, the wingtips of the spacecraft may have set off a devastating shock.

"Well... I'm sorry to disturb you... It was too noisy just now, I'm sorry."

"The people she protected have disappeared, and the civilization she protected is crumbling. Her last efforts may not have even been noticed by the spacecraft. In the face of the huge gap, no matter how hard we struggle, nothing can be done... …”

"As for herself, her soul frequency, memory and personality have all been washed away..."

Vidoville wanted to sigh - the body equation used in life resuscitation retained many of the "habits" of the previous body. But now, in the end, he did not intend to let his entanglement and bad mood further reduce the bad atmosphere here. One point. After careful consideration, he looked at the black sphere with the Σ emblem painted on it: "Explain the current environment where all this is happening. "

"Transferring relevant information into corresponding meanings..." The response came quickly. For a moment, Vidoville felt as if he was completely seen through. All his thoughts, all meanings, how they were formed, what they might correspond to, and what they represented What, where did each word come from, as recent as now, as far back as our ancestors had not yet established civilization?

The originally smooth and round surface of the black sphere suddenly appeared with ravines, and the ravines exuded a black-red light. The sphere increasingly exuded a violent and dangerous aura, as if it would self-destruct at any time.

"After the meaning has been corresponding, we began to organize the information and give feedback. The two giant spaceships were deliberately built by some individuals in the old Σ civilization. The original design goal was to be used as a doomsday ark that could save civilization in the event of a major disaster."

"About 45 billion years ago, the old Σ civilization as a whole has been slipping into danger. Under such circumstances, the last few remaining sane void areas in Σ have gathered all their strength to fight in the void. Split the heart of the world among the countless worlds to collect the materials needed to forge the doomsday ark."

"The Ark itself is strong enough to deal with most dangers in the void. The Ark carries special technical modules inside, and they are an important guarantee for the revival of the technical system."

"The ontology of the white earth is called [Void Fierce Sun] after its meaning has been reorganized. It is an extreme product of the old Σ civilization that contains experimental and protective meanings."

"...They have meaning, they are weights, which means..." The last words disappeared into the depths of the invisible gap.

"In this way, there are some questions that can already explain...why our civilization has been in danger between order and void for hundreds of thousands of years...This sun is very likely to be the source of the influence...perhaps That large-scale explosion also came from here. Even at such a long distance, it was still..." Vidoville murmured, some lines had been connected, and he felt that there seemed to be an endless storm and pressure hitting his face. They came, but they were not caught. They were just swept away, like a breeze that had dissipated before it started.

"Applying for a second interaction - how did this happen and why did this happen?" After thinking for a while, Vidoville raised his head firmly.

"..."

A black-red mist enveloped the surrounding environment. The black ball suddenly became more damaged.

"Be careful, there is danger." A strange field covered the position where Victorville and others were standing. At some point, the girl gently stood behind Victorville, and gently placed a hand on Victorville's body. , just like this, Vidoville felt an ethereal, powerful, quiet and irresistible force.

The black fog dissipated, and gray occupied the entire space.