Star Empire

This is a vast and dark space, and there is almost nothing in this vast space.

Here, the nihilistic environment has no direction, and even the most precise sense cannot define everything here. Except for a few lights that seem to be far away from the end of the world, most intelligent life can only look directly at this space. The will and soul will be swallowed up by this endless darkness and depth.

In the darkness, two faint rays of light flashed, and at the end of the distant space, a huge crystal spire recorded the transmission process from the base camp ahead.

The scale of the crystal spire is very huge. In order to bear the important task of supporting this vast and solid order field and providing huge energy for the core function of the entire space - the void super portal, the length of the three-order projection exceeds tens of millions. There are several huge divine power furnaces connected in series inside the thousand-meter-long huge crystal spire, and above the tall spire of the crystal spire, there is a pair of vague eyes floating.

The main body of the spire is approximately a huge hexagonal pyramid, with several layered additional structures extending upward from the bottom of the huge tower and gradually reducing it. Around the base of the tower, on the periphery of each rigid ridge, there will be a support tower extending outward in the opposite direction, pointing toward the darkness like a sharp sword. At the tops of these towers, there are always bright lights. Continuous light.

In the connection between the tangible and the intangible, they provide the giant tower itself with indestructible protection at the level of countless powerful laws; at the same time, they are also the information exchange hub of the tower itself, lighting the way home for the gods who are away from home. At the same time as the lighthouse, it also guides the direction of the giant eye's sight.

In this dark space, there are a total of twenty-six such giant towers.

In the void, more similar structures are being planned, constructed, and launched one after another in the near future, or perhaps in the long future.

This is God's portal.

Perhaps 180,000, perhaps 200,000 years ago, a huge sea disaster swept across the void. The subsequent high-intensity information collision and countless environmental conflicts caused the emergence of the main axis of civilization that has lasted for hundreds of millions of years. The weak fluctuations, caught in the cracks, and the chaotic birth and annihilation process of the world have caused certain distortions and distortions that are difficult to quantify in the long-term precipitation. Even the main axis of time is no longer credible.

Before the chaotic and twisted time, in this massive sea disaster that could be said to be unprecedented in scale, the Σ civilization fell.

In another victory of the Chaotic Sea's counterattack against Order, all the communication creations used by the Gods to contact the Σ civilization and the Void Bridge across the long white area have also been destroyed. The raging black tide swept away the glorious Order and swept away what was left by the Order. most of the traces.

ΣThe dark and distant vast wasteland with countless dangerous and corrupt ghosts wandering around, as well as the subsequent coincidental encounter between the two major divine races and the endless void and abyss separating the divine realms, to a considerable extent stimulated these establishments. At the Void Order network level, the construction of ultra-large-scale ultra-long-distance communication base stations, these huge structures have quickly become "rigid needs" that are completely necessary and even urgently needed even for the gods.

This information relay station is the only base station that has been built so far, and it will also be the largest one. On the one hand, it maintains the connection between the two divine realms and the extremely large-scale circulation of real information - almost all the huge resources required to build the World Ark were mobilized through it and finally sent to the base camp.

On the other hand, it also directly provides support to the two most direct front lines, as well as the front line base camps that have been gradually established as needed during the tens of thousands of years of war.

With the completion of the World Ark project and the phased end of the super-large-scale dispatching of the Protoss, an extremely rare "carrying window period" has ushered in. But the temporary desertion here will not have any impact - it is an absolute transportation hub and the first artery on the busy route in the future.

"I have to say, it's really dark here... What's the name of this phenomenon? Pseudo-perspective, right? And it seems to be more than just this. The children said that the near, far, and small are actually metaphors. , this chaotic transitional environment between order and void will weaken the representation of information transmitted over long distances. I still understand this part, but the seven laws of information and the more than 80,000 information construction rules that follow are beyond my comprehension. I can’t understand it at all… To be honest, I don’t remember thinking so much when I was shaping the divine world and order.”

"Because we contain the truth, but we are not just the incarnation of the truth. We are actually at completely different levels from the children. The way we understand the void and all things is also completely different. Although at the level of order, we are not the same. Everything can be done, but if we want to face the laws embodied by another cognitive system, then we may have to study it carefully before we can know which part of our inspiration they correspond to. Even if we add The translation ability of all phenomena will actually not alleviate much trouble——"

"Besides, if you are worried about this, you might as well worry about whether you can still find the void bottle that you may have thrown in the critical layer or somewhere else in the last era, and whether you can still understand the drawings inside."

"But to be honest, the children are indeed quite powerful. Although we can't understand them, they have indeed made this place look good. It is said that the portal itself is strong enough to directly transmit an entire weapon. World Fleet, such a large amount of remote information transfer can be said to be quite considerable even for us."

"So, when are you going to stop?"

"Tsk, I just flicked my forehead as a joke to ease your mood a little bit..."

"Ha, it's only been a few thousand years, right? The roles have been reversed so quickly? It seems that you have matured a lot after playing hide and seek?" Huanxi tried his best to shake off the hand on his head, Floating slowly in the void and circling around Gou Chen's figure, "Look away?"

"I just like to be quieter and more regular. It's obvious that you always think I'm stupid... First of all, when you meet someone with the same level but different style of communication, it takes time to adapt. You have to admit this, and Personally, I always subconsciously believed that exchanges like ours should be more serious..."

"Who should I show it seriously? To you? To me? To the children? Our private communication does not require diplomatic rhetoric and those so-called official attitudes. As long as civilizations sign an agreement and adhere to good principles, what else can we do outside of principles? You can’t just talk about it casually? And even if it’s serious, who can hold us to this level of seriousness?”

"Okay, okay, as long as you think you can speak clearly, and the rest of the communication method doesn't matter, I'll naturally have no problem." Gou Chen shrugged helplessly, "But... having said that, I always feel that the plan is practical Still can’t keep up with the pace of change.”

"Hmm? Well...that seems to be the case."

"Originally we thought that we had to personally lead the team and lead the entire clan's strength to drive unparalleled for trillions of years in the huge chaotic sea pollution area caused by Σ. We must personally take action to start from the endless vast void. Screen out the whereabouts of those dangerous creations, and then decide whether to conduct thorough research and transformation on them or directly find a way to destroy them without having a major impact..."

"But now, with the emergence of the World Ark and a series of products that emerged after the explosion of technological foundations, the God Clan Expeditionary Force no longer needs our constant intervention. In fact, there is not all order within the chaotic sea coverage area of ​​Σ. I am afraid that if we are among them It has triggered too many battles beyond the level of order. If too much deliberately shaped void power is poured into it, it may affect the operation of the order. The weight creation may be dangerous but may be controllable in the end, and they are all too far away. It’s so far that we can’t get through it if we don’t release our own power, right?”

"Yes, the infinity on the void level determines that the development of the order itself can reach the infinite level, but maybe it has only happened once, or maybe there have been countless catastrophes that have interrupted this process. Children in the past time Although they have slowed down to a certain extent, they have not stopped moving forward, and reality is urging them to transform those theoretical technologies into practical objects with practical value..."

"However, judging from my understanding, the resources consumed to create the World Ark itself are indeed huge. For the first time, it has caused a visible change in the basic resources of the God Realm."

"It is estimated that there will be very few super beings who can directly borrow the power of the void. The power of the children and the enthusiasm they burst out are indeed very impressive... Indeed, in these short few hundred thousand years, think about what happened So many things have happened, so many changes have we faced. After countless trials and countless entanglements, we finally decided to follow the original agreement and start a thorough expedition. Now we can withdraw some of the mobilized reserve individuals. Among them, we have How many unexpected surprises have we faced..."

"The term omniscience and omnipotence... still contains too many absolutes for children. If this term is to be established on the void level, its conditions can be said to be extremely harsh - maybe even as harsh as the void itself." Faced with Huanxi's tone that eventually became complicated, Gou Chen couldn't help but sigh.

"It is very harsh to begin with. It can even be said that the word itself is impossible to establish. In the face of order, but the void environment that has been seen through, we now may not be considered omniscient and omnipotent, let alone facing the void environment. The unknown environment and the void itself - we still have too many secrets hidden inside even our own bodies, and then when it comes to the void itself... how can we study it!"

"It's true..." Gou Chen nodded slightly, "Just ourselves, we still keep too many secrets and unknowns..."

"To be honest, apart from you and me, I generally don't believe anyone who talks about omniscience and omnipotence. Without limiting the scope, it's just nonsense. I don't believe it. Even the empty question of what to eat next...forget it, it's difficult anyway. How can guys who can’t solve all their problems not let their own problems kill the concept of omniscience and omnipotence..."

"...Next...meal? Have you ever struggled with this?"

"Oh, it turns out that a long, long time ago, I was bored and went to experience life in the mounted mortal world. Then during that experience, I roughly summarized it and found that most mortal creatures, including those in the material state, are highly aggregated. Including energy-state creatures and field-state creatures, they are basically unable to directly possess sustainable power like gods. The process of these creatures obtaining external energy is, well, eating. Among them, the most common types of Closed cycle humans and humanoid creatures can be said to have the most diverse eating methods and food types. I also "borrowed" the relevant senses, and eating felt really good, so after I came back, I asked the elves and gods to think about it. Method. Forget it, just don’t mention it.”

"In any case, the gods on the side of order should be said to be good at controlling information. Even if they imitate, the food they should make will not be bad."

"That's the problem. A good player is a good player, but I just don't know why it is like this. I even wonder if the influence of Doelanka is still there."

"This is really an anecdote. By the way, now that we are here, do you need my help before we leave?"

"Don't leave in a hurry. You have to go back with me once to do me a favor." Huanxi grabbed Gou Chen and said, "If I remember correctly, those void bottles we once sealed together need us. Only the joint will of two people can be activated - considering that the catastrophe will definitely completely wash away our personality, and building bridges is not just a cause of our race, I did not add personality recognition to the drift bottle - now with the With the collapse of Σ, we have lost the power to directly reach the critical layer. On the one hand, the children have to spend more time studying large deep-diving ships. On the other hand, it depends on whether our disturbance can bypass the chaotic sea. Corrosion, reactivating those drift bottles."

"No problem, but..." Speaking of these drift bottles, Gou Chen couldn't help but have a flash of worry on his face, "How much do you think the reliability of those drift bottles can be left? The restart of the era itself will shuffle all the creations of order. It's absolutely...I'm still a little worried. Before this, there were quite a few super civilizations and top civilizations in the void. Although the drift bottle itself is zero compared to the entire critical layer, in fact, I'm afraid it is like Like a bright light in the endless darkness, even if they are disguised, it should be said that the environment around them is different from the direct chaotic sea environment. I don’t know if there is enough left in these drift bottles until now... We will Now that we have met, we have the possibility to consider reviving these ancient legacies, but we don’t know whether these legacies themselves still exist and whether they are still valid.”

"Now we have some reserves in history, and these drift bottles are just a better alternative. On the one hand, we try to find these heritages. If we can't find them, we start the experiment again. The children still have them on hand. There are many remaining data from other super civilizations, although most of them are fragmented, but this is far better than starting from scratch."

In this regard, Huanxi is not too entangled——

"Furthermore, the number of floating bottles is quite large, and they are also extremely strong. In order to make them more dispersed and safer in the critical layer of the chaotic sea as much as possible, if I remember correctly, we even directly deployed them when we deployed them. It distorts all the void quadrants so that they can be spread far enough. Σ, or other super civilizations, it doesn’t matter even if they find some of these drift bottles. In fact, there are quite a few of these drift bottles, and their plan is to give them to Found by other civilizations.”

"After being activated according to the previous Fire Plan, these drift bottles will "drift" and leave the critical layer in the manner of information disintegration and inverse concentration gradient. They will move in groups to both sides of the theoretical void simultaneously. However, after experiencing that After the complete rewashing of the Wheel, I can no longer answer how many changes have occurred within the Chaos Sea Domain - if the void creatures retain too many memories, we will not be able to focus on the future."

"I hope this plan can adapt to all the changes." Gou Chen nodded.

Recently, drastic changes have occurred several times, from the Σ fleet that broke through the defense line of the void outpost at the first boundary of Dongting Shenque as reported by the children, to the unprecedented fault zone disaster, to the worst plan ever, the plan led The whole clan launched a forceful attack at all costs, and then the two clans met and recognized each other as compatriots. In just a few hundred thousand years, the new mapping law brought great and new vitality to the ancient technological system.

The emergence of the World Ark has made the war situation itself relatively no longer accompanied by eternal cruelty.

Void Fierce Sun went from documents, to speculation, to more clear perceptions and responses.

In just a few hundred thousand years, the order network suspended above the void environment has vibrated too many times, and the number of times has been large enough to arouse the emotional and intense attention of void creatures-even Facing the powerful Chaotic Sea Fault Zone, void creatures may not even blink an eye.

"Reality is always a mess. After Nerocat's mess was dismantled by order, they were like balls of yarn rolling all over the floor after being dismantled, spreading their influence and debris all over the place that we can't even do now. Touching the depths of the endless void; after the mess of Σ was dismantled, it directly touched our hearts, and can even be said to have affected our future direction to a considerable extent. Such "post-life" can also be said to be unprecedented; and no matter how specific it is, To the mess that reality is.”

"It's worth the eternity of our efforts to straighten it out."

At the end of the dark space, the giant tower that felt the command started silently. The blue arc was born from the origin, crossing one node after another like connecting constellations and finally returning to the origin. In the space channel activated instantly, the two The figures held their hands together tightly.

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Kingdom of God.

"It's much deserted here than before." Standing on the street in the outer connection area, Gou Chen couldn't help but sigh softly.

"This is a transit area for material exchange between the Divine Realm and the attached world of the Divine Realm. There are often various large or small material exchange activities between children and between children and mortals. There are quite a few in Wanhua Divine Court. Areas like this were built and finally formed by the gods and mortals over a long period of time." Looking at this part of the empty street in front of him, where there were not many people moving around, Huanxi also sighed slightly. .

As part of the peripheral area of ​​the God Realm, this place itself also has unlimited shaping potential. However, in order to reduce the serious problems encountered by mortals as much as possible, the powerful gods suppressed the originally powerful chaotic attributes here on the one hand, and on the other hand The spatial structure and background environment here should be further solidified to prevent the fragile sanity of mortals from disappearing in the huge information vortex generated by the expressive ability of all things.

This series of practices finally made this place look more like an advanced and huge three-dimensional city than a mysterious and solemn kingdom of God. Tall buildings with different styles are lined up in rows. There are several parallel layers of "floating earth" throughout. Vehicles or figures flashed through the dense and complex traffic network from time to time. However, now, compared with before the expedition, the place was much deserted.

"No matter what, I still have some sporadic leisure time now. Let's take this opportunity to wander around again. After I get the results this time, you will be the host next time I go to your place - we Let's get a better feel for each other's style and behavior habits, which may also be helpful for future cooperation." After a slight silence, the two figures were like two small meteors, quietly streaking across the endless dark sky. Pass.

"Although the children's own strength and powerful divine authority allow them to obtain endless resources directly from the void, many times they still prefer to get together like mortals and communicate with each other while meeting each other. In addition to what I have seen and heard, I exchange some items that I may not use very much, but may be useful to other gods, ranging from some interesting mortal tributes, decorative materials or living components. As big as the singularity of the universe or even the entire world..."

As he spoke, Huanxi and another figure beside him landed around a small room that looked a bit like a grocery store - in Gou Chen's opinion, this small room was slightly longer than the one he had just stopped at. The buildings in the god-human docking area are more casual, but here, the information has been completely activated. Although this cabin looks very random, it already has pure "god blood".

"Come in and take a look. Generally speaking, places like these are run by the most direct world management gods. Weird and weird things from different worlds, as well as various small inventions of children, have begun to appear in the world of gods. The source of circulation is often here." Huanxi gently opened the door and nodded slightly to the shopkeeper who saluted him.

"We often look at everything from the world, from the quadrant, from the huge divine civilization, or even from the level of void. However, order itself does not only exist in those vast and even somewhat empty concepts. It can only be added Only after understanding these different levels and details, large and small, can the world of order be finally complete.”

"What is this?" Gou Chen was curious and took out an encapsulated force field from the grocery shelf that looked like it was made of some kind of wood. "This looks like... a small balance?"

"The balance tower is a relatively common one here. Well... it can be regarded as a toy. One end of it is placed for order, and the other side..." Huanxi paused and his expression became more serious, "Yes Chaotic sea, when these two things are placed on both sides of this scale, the scale will be perfectly balanced.”

"...You gave me a little help?" Gou Chen asked quietly.

"It should be said that it gave some inspiration in terms of algorithms and ideas. After all... the void is too deep. Even if it is a thin layer of decayed order, its properties and the properties of the void jointly determine its behavior every day. Every invisible detail has infinite depth and infinite possible combinations. Under normal circumstances, children's methods are difficult to deal with reaching or even exceeding the uncountable or even unspeakable infinites, as well as the chaos brought about by infinity. . Therefore... if you want to determine this result more accurately, you need a higher level of external assistance - at least, in the current order environment that has taken shape."

"And the final result...Do your children think of this result like this...Then this is really a toy worth pondering..." In this regard, Gou Chen couldn't help but sigh, "The essence behind the phenomenon... …It’s heavy.”

"...Bridges and cataclysms...their existence actually reveals quite a variety of possibilities. According to the results of our long-term observation and calculation, if all the repulsive shadows melt, all chaos excluded from the world of order will If all the seas pour in in an instant, they will completely obliterate all order in the void - impartial, no more, no less."