Star Empire

"...The trend is——!!"

Suddenly, consciousness is cut off, senses are blocked, and past experiences are erased out of thin air. Everything seemed to be white, no shades, no flaws. Endless reincarnation, repeated cycles, everything is so solid and dense, there is no possibility of any breakthrough.

In Vidoville's fragmented perception, the countless existential network soul frequency responses in the background came to an abrupt halt.

So far, as a member who has guided the growth of the empire and played the most critical role in the development of the empire, Vidoville's own memory contains a considerable part of the empire's supporting experiences and experiences. After the last remaining clarity was blown away by the violent information storm, Vidoville fell into silence, and the atmosphere was extremely strange and wordless for a short time, as if the entire empire network was "frozen" in an instant.

The fruits of hundreds of thousands of years of narrative structure-related research that began after the "Seven Thousand Years War" in the visible and invisible world and time began to slowly grow under the stimulation of this eerie tranquility. slowly exert its unique value.

Some chaotic information flows slowly surface from the depths of history and memory that have not yet been destroyed. They come from anywhere in the empire and are flowing to any node in the empire. The power of the network host and broadcast base station has reached its extreme. The frequency and structure of the information waves released from the radar begin to move closer to the soul. Between the tangible world and the conceptual world Deep in the empire's network, countless dim hazes of light began to try their best to guide the restorative disturbances flowing to the node wounds. After the initial delay and buffering, "compensation" slowly began. The past history and the lives that have been lost are now They also have the ability to influence reality and save their "children".

A little bit of clarity, some severed memories began to slowly squirm, slowly pouring out from the chaotic depths of Victorville's consciousness, like a clear spring emerging from a desert that had been dry for hundreds of millions of years - compared to the huge In terms of chaos, this little bit of clarity and calm may not be as good as a tiny ice slag in the corona of a purple supergiant star.

However, this bit of calmness is enough to give this sea of ​​consciousness that is still alive the hope of balancing the exploding reason.

The passive forced recovery of the huge host array, which is far more powerful than the empire's most superior information calculation and matching core, and the "neutralizing weight" effect of the huge sea of ​​information driven by the endless leap equation, also There is the indifference and calmness after momentary forgetfulness. There may be cruel factors behind these things that make people so desperate that they cannot even recall or study them, and they are effectively using this little bit of precious clarity to gradually restore their will.

At the same time, this precious calm and positive factor quickly covered all the souls in the entire empire who could still respond with the amplification of the "Guo Shi Wushuang" soul's stable pulse wave.

Broken memories are being reassembled.

"The trend...the unknown information trend that may cause the world of order around the empire to tremble...is it them? But...even the probes and the most powerful void scanning array launched by the empire that have reached the farthest point are... I didn’t see any shadow of them, even me—wait, can’t you see it, or haven’t you seen it?!”

Fear, consternation and entanglement, which are most often associated with Vidoville and the Empire, are the feelings that can give creatures of order the strongest stimulation while their reason and perception are still there. Once again, Vidoville's heart is suppressed - perhaps Was it that the fleet of the empire was indeed unprecedentedly powerful? Perhaps the stellar wind of the blazing sun blocked some disturbances coming from the distant void and caused it to mutate without anyone noticing? The warning has expired, it's too late, it's too late.

The invisible crystal energy flames burned every element, every nerve and every thought thread in Vidoville. Pain and regret gnawed fiercely and twisted Vidoville's mind. This feeling...

Faced with the despair that brings about the cruelest and bloodiest way of death in the entire concept, I'm afraid it's nothing more than this... Wait? ! !

Some memories may exist on the surface. They may be stored in a certain node, they may be lurking in a frozen thinking thread, or they may leave a thread in the endless ocean of information that can be processed. Ripples of topological tracing. Under normal circumstances, these memories may be difficult to recall for a while, but this does not mean forgetting in the true sense. Given time and environment, those echoes buried deep in the heart can always be heard again - however, this is not normal right now.

The nature of narratives is directly related to general conceptual memories, because they are the connection of everything, the correlation of everything, and what is recorded in the memory and how to record it are all inside the network. All operations on this network are carried out simultaneously on many levels in the broad conceptual network woven into all memories. Being powerful may be able to withstand the impact on oneself, but being powerful is not omnipotent - besides, there may be loopholes behind this power, many of which

The most terrifying effect after a narrative layer attack is not confusion and forgetfulness, but that after knowing that something related has happened to you, you can't recall what you forgot - compensation can make everything return to consistency, but compensation It is difficult to completely restore the lost accurate memories, and it is difficult to repair the broken history. Even if they are connected again, as if they have really experienced it all, those reconstructed memories are real A microcosm of history, or a forcibly restored fantasy?

"What is the gap between experimentation, self, theoretical design and macroscopic application-?!!"

"Death Tide——?!!"

"Lil! Joint meeting of commanders of the combined fleets in the sky! All emperors and decision-makers in the sky! Answer immediately!"

"Zizi - His Majesty, the fleet - heavy, stable distortion...ZiZi - Fierce sun...ZiZi..."

"Interference?! Has the empire's existential network suffered such strong interference? The consciousness command transmission link has been almost cut off?!" Vidoville quickly mobilized more verification resources to establish and coordinate the encrypted and strengthened command channel. In the direction of cracking the unknown interference, at the same time, Victorville's already cold heart was filled with a despair that could no longer be felt -

The interference caused by the functional branches of the decisive battle flagship and the sudden explosion of the fault zone to the empire's existence network was already very strong, but it did not reach such intensity! Moreover, that was hundreds of thousands of years ago. In the development process of nearly a million years, the empire's current network anti-disturbance level, robustness and overall functional redundancy reserve can be said to be thousands of those of that era. Ten thousand times! !

Even if all their attention was once attracted to themselves, most of the influence and disturbance were actually carried by themselves, and the disturbance left to the network was no longer violent... However, even if all the two incidents are considered, even the two incidents can be evened out. It is difficult for Victorville to imagine the factors behind the gap. What exactly appears in the void outside the empire's territory? ?

"Zizi——Recovery. Channel reconstruction. Emergency feedback. The Void Fierce Sun has encountered a super high-intensity bombing that far exceeds that of a single Doomsday-Creation. It has now..."

"What? Already what?" Vidoville's eagerness made his virtual consciousness order weaving speed eight minutes faster, but even if the emperor or representative commander who answered the communication at the other end did not publish their detailed on-site inspections , Vidoville also roughly guessed some of the possible results.

"It is no longer possible to establish any effective rational communication with it. The soul signal and consciousness fluctuation belonging to Emperor Weisrifan can no longer be detected in the Lieyang Order Field. The activity of Void Lieyang has dropped significantly. Your Majesty, the Σ Decisive Battle Flagship has released The power of Doomsday-Creation far exceeds the upper limit of our previous observation records, and it is speculated that all other Σ battleships have never demonstrated its "full power" in the past."

".What is the extent of the fleet's losses?"

"The number of barrier-class losses was 1,729, the number of Shengmang-class losses was 3,992, and the total number of Xingqi-Holy Judgment ships was 9,277,995. The total number of fleet block losses is vague and difficult to immediately confirm."

". It will definitely not stop after this narrative layer bombardment. Even if we have compensatory measures, the broken history cannot be completely restored. This statistics may never be accurate. The eleventh sky district emperor... Cassia and Where are the response reports from all its auxiliary groups?!”

Although I don’t have high hopes, no matter how illusory it is... it’s possible, right?

Bandwidth is being continuously expanded and communication quality has been stabilized. However, all the common connections between himself and the empire's overall existence network have not yet been completely restored. The authority system itself will not be able to see clearly for a while how many details have been distorted, so there may be many more cracks that he can see. , how many details will be forgotten by myself and everything... This vagueness may represent the last glimmer of possibility.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Eleventh Sky Region, Alice Shia, was killed in the attack on the Σ fortress group ten thousand years ago. The Eleventh Sky Region is in"

".I understand, I will return immediately"

A name that has never been recorded by oneself cannot appear on the list of emperors of the empire, nor on the list of existing high-ranking commanders of the empire - the high-ranking fleet commanders and fleet block coordinators of the empire , and the captains of all flagships and key node motherships have long been nameless. Their identifying characteristics are soul frequencies and unique codes.

A certain previous emperor was killed, killed by a narrative attack. Destruction spread along that emperor's memories and experiences, burning all the stories he or she had.

But the highest authority of a Tianzhu cannot be blank. There should be an emperor in that Tianzhu, otherwise the story of Tianzhu will no longer be valid. But the place where the emperor should have been has been burned down, so what should we do?

Rewriting a similar story, creating a vague person with a vague name, using this vague person's vague experiences and memories to form a pillar, filling the holes that were previously burned due to narrative blows, this is the implementation of narrative compensation measures process.

Narrative compensation takes effect.

In the memories of many people, the lines of history have been activated and altered. I'm afraid...many people will never remember, let alone think that there was such a ruler of the Sky Region in the history of the empire... Even if there is, it's just a story...

Wei...Vesrifan...so--no, that's not the case!

Vidoville could not imagine that just because he was tracking the escaping decisive battle flagship and ran away a little bit, everything in the entire empire had been turned upside down in his own confusion.

Why should I pursue him? Why should I once again clean up the cluster of danger signals that appeared in the void and were approaching the empire's territory? Why didn't you send all your fleets to guard the Void Fierce Sun? ! The Void Fierce Sun is affecting the fate of the entire empire! How could you be so irresponsible!

Wait, maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago, but now doesn't the entire empire understand how big the gap between the two sides is? Even if the personality and sensibility are wiped out, the empire is proud of itself when it thinks of its numerous scars during the millions of years of expansion and expansion? ! Do you feel that your power is huge enough, that your efforts are enough, or...

Is everything arranged? !

If Σ really intends to cultivate these "lower civilizations" in order to one day reshape their own civilization, then why do they still do this? Are they not afraid of directly destroying their potential donors?

No, that's not right - the huge amount of information in the blazing sun distorts fate and may bring about various influences that are beneficial to the development of the empire: probabilistic lightning clusters, void field environment, field life, imaginary number technology brilliance... Is all this an illusion?

Why should I pursue him?

destiny……

Are they here to harvest, or are they here to destroy——?

What are you doing? ! What did the empire do because of this? ? !

…

Countless endless loops, countless thoughts that were once suppressed at the bottom of thinking and memory, and countless thoughts that were once locked by Occam's razor, are pressing towards Vidoville as the real environment is once again violently shattered.

Deep in the cold heart, countless yellow bells from the underworld have been ringing. The silent but soul-stirring underworld sound is tearing at the soul of Victorville. The paranoid and distorted voice spans the quietest and darkest morning and dusk. Indescribable shocks erupted from all of his sensors.

The endless ocean of information around him seemed to have turned into endless flesh and blood in an instant. He had been swallowed by the giant beast, just waiting to be digested, decomposed, and turned into unimaginable nourishment...

The stinging pain on the soul level caused by the danger warning forced Victorville's consciousness to be forcibly pulled out of the quagmire of entanglement and pain by the most direct power of his body and the most intuitive, real pain.

He is no longer in a void environment. As far as the eye can see, if there are substantial black and red clouds and fog, it has surrounded itself, and everything has become real and illusory. Reality seems to be an illusory reflection trembling in the water waves, and the eternal tranquility and fragmentation in the dream More like reality…

"This is... a group of enemy ships?! When..."

Thick fog, or order correction wide-area fusion field, does have the power to completely distort and rewrite the real environment and obscure the truth. But for Vidoville, this is not as good as the never-ending violent and twisted storm inside the fault zone that once completely deviated from the orderly environment. In the darkness, the shadow creators hidden behind the invisible clouds appeared one after another under the re-lit scorching gaze:

Eclipse, Dark Star, Crescent Moon, Long Sword, Notch... countless flagships of various types. Each of these ships once demonstrated the power of a single ship to suppress or even destroy the world, and around these huge figures, dots of blood formed a complex and solid matrix. The flashing red light and flowing darkness show that their "activity" seems to be greatly enhanced than before.

"Virtual point jump...the logical thinking deployment pointer group is overburdened, and there is a problem with the active calculation ability...soul enhancement pulse wave..."

"——Damn it! You guys, stay out of the way!!" Shrouded in the increasingly strong rotten atmosphere of the death tide, Victorville could no longer suppress his emotions. Pain and entanglement were raging in the endless vast ocean. They were like a swarm of insects. And like the plague, when it grabs the endless source of information, it completely burns all calculation resources and stable redundancy.

The light of reason became weak and powerless, like a candle in the wind. In a trance, a dim white wall of light quickly closed, instantly cutting off all the "tentacles" of the wide-area fusion field of order correction that were licking the flagship's self-consistent law armor. On the wall of light, countless blood-red arrows shattered into pieces, leaving not even a ripple behind. The moment they touched the wall, their basic meaning of existence was completely stripped away.

Deep in the dark and twisted clouds, two pairs of opposite celestial poles suddenly unfolded. Under the catharsis of pure violence and power, the narrative layer attack that penetrated memory and history tore an obvious gap at the edge of the void information wave, but——

"The number...the number has actually reached such a high level?!"

"I said--"

"Don't get in the way!!"

With the main flagship as the center, the dazzling stream of light set off shock waves capable of swallowing darkness and chaos inside the order correction wide-area fusion field that had begun to form a world-like barrier. Under the burning of the divine will, the existential deflection beacon and the erratic and unstable joint shield were quickly extinguished. The layers of perfect material on the surface of countless ships that were impeccable even with the most picky mathematical logic were peeled off layer by layer. Countless targets emerged from the void, and between order and the void, a shadowy "mirror" reflected the terrifying and distorted reflections of countless ferocious information peaks.

Reality and shadow, the weight of existence is inverted.

"All-out bombing on a double level..."

"——!!"

Vidoville's already numb heart began to throb again, and he had forgotten how much torture he had suffered in his heart just in this short period of time not long ago. The underlying logic area coldly carried out its own inherent reaction that had been determined millions of years ago - the world line tree showed that countless existential reflections were being taken into Vidoville's body, and most of them were already incomplete. .

"This is--"

As the ship fell into the void, the coldness, calmness and ethereal calmed down the chaotic feedback echoes returned by most of the sensors. The last glimmer of reason finally regained some control before being drowned here. The long-range virtual point jump that required a lot of active calculations was finally successfully launched. Before jumping to the next target, Vidoville finally got a glimpse of... the possible truth of the trend.

In the deepest core of the endless black and red clouds, there is a shadow that is so vast that it is immeasurable. Not to mention seeing through it, or even just forcing one's "eyes" to look at it, one's mind and soul seem to be completely swallowed up.

And the existence of the huge "canopy" outside the core...

It is countless chaotic order fields! !

The gap he had just torn out, to that thick cloud...

Based on the most optimistic estimate of my remaining sanity, I am afraid that at most it would be equivalent to extinguishing a few sparks among the vast stars in my home universe.

"Woo--buzz~~"

This was the last signal he caught when the virtual point jump occurred.