Star Empire

Chapter 311: Deus Ex Machina—Dialogue in the Shadows (Part 1)

".This is the battlefield."

The tentative attack did not last too long. After confirming that the current environment would not kill him in the short term and wipe out the Void Sun, Weisrifan grabbed an existential vortex that fell here and directly joined the battlefield.

There was almost no hesitation, and the battle became intense from the beginning.

Countless arrows and spears with bloody lines rose from the depths of the earth. They jumped between the world of order and the invisible boundary of the void. Their vague and illusory afterimages marked their mastery. Ballistics, their way of jumping may be another way to use the imperial weapon called the Spear of Nothingness to fall from the void into an orderly environment.

They do not interfere with each other, and the paths they form are endless. They bypass the dark lights and shadows that also cross the paths and mixed with various unknown entities into the sky, and rush towards the scorching sun that illuminates the nine heavens.

The sunlight turned into torrential rain, pouring down from the sky. Sunlight occupies many paths, blocking countless mappings. Many missiles collide with the sun and are directly annihilated in light and darkness, and the black space they leave behind is also neutralized. As for the missiles that broke into the order field, even they could not penetrate deeply into the order space that was so viscous that it almost turned into an actual wall. Their sudden explosions used the darkness where no rules of observation existed to cut off a small piece of the boundary of the sun. After the insignificant light, they disappeared.

The earth veins are surging, the bells will disturb your existence, the bells will kill your life, but that doesn't matter.

Endless Taichu information was extracted from the earth's veins and sent to the central tower. On the top of the tower, the black-red giant star maintained by the mainland and the decisive battle flagship became brighter, and a new set of information module "ammunition" has been charged.

The stars begin to compress, as if giving a warning, and the surrounding space seems to have intelligence. They are slightly separated from each other, providing a void channel for the coming information burst to exert its maximum destructive power in the currently required mode. The blood-red spears were activated, and they passed directly over all attacks still in their path, and took the lead in contacting the order field of Lieyang.

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Part of the surface of the blazing sun seemed to be blown up in an instant. They converged in the same direction, constantly superimposing each other, forming turbulent waves that could even slightly deform the planet.

The depths of the pupils of countless eyes began to become brighter, and they ignored all the attacks that constantly harassed the boundaries and shields of the order field. All eyes and all wills gathered in one place following Weisrifan's instructions. Among them, there is a solid and long-confirmed reflection - they are the parts that will be sacrificed. Weisrifan knows that this Part of it is "locked" by Doomsday-Genesis.

The blood-red light beam tore open the boundary of the order field and penetrated layers of shields. The part of the changes it is given to promote are only the purest disintegration and destruction. They are the variable factors that are causing huge changes now, the powerful aggregation of information from the beginning. It tore through the defenses woven above the zenith and met all eyes.

This attack is very powerful, and there are many such powerful attacks.

The swaying star crown shattered the light pillar itself and inserted more and more loopholes into it. Doomsday-Creation began to be affected, and it was deflected and split to form countless jets. They finally descended from the sky, bombarding the surface of the blazing sun with ripples mixed with blood. The storm formed by these ripples can span the huge "representation surface" of the blazing sun, turning the entire sun into a mouth in the void. A huge bell that rings.

Waves of what might be called a painful feeling converged on the body that was infinitely close to non-existence for Lieyang itself, the projection of Lieyang's nominal control core. The girl frowned slightly, and she tapped the surface of the sun with her toes. This weak movement, like a drop of water, made the somewhat unstable surface of the sun become quiet again.

He is not sure whether he is the "center" of the void, but what is certain is that he must be the center of the current battlefield.

Intensive attack and defense interact at all levels, and what they observe through the "habits" that are most adapted to each other is the complicated interaction between the strings and the bright and cruel canopy in the dark and deep sky. The borders of the canopy have many defects and many edges that should not appear - they have obviously been cut off by the so-called "timeline shattering" attack, and have been thrown into some black areas that can never respond to real-life interactions. .

Two mountain peaks, two suns, surrounded by stars, every breath and every flicker between them shakes the heterogeneous starlight. Although the sound of the bell is still erasing everything, the creations with their heavy protective structures, their own incomparable power, and their profound heritage do not care about this.

They are just charging. The blood-red stars have condensed countless spears, as well as many star rings and hundreds of anti-flares that are as deep as the void. They will soon be projected out to clean up. Chaos encircled the battlefield.

On the other side of the blood-like sky, a bright beam of light burst out from the celestial pole of the sun. Two groups of white masses that alternately climbed or descended in a spiral shape rose from the celestial shell. They constantly surpassed each other, alternately climbing up or down. Falling downwards, the various attributes they contain become more and more different, and some of them become more and more microscopic. They fall into the smallest, least regular and nature-less micro-element level. Opposite them, the endlessly extending Tianji Pillar illuminates The highest horizon represents the limit of what can be lit now.

The nine-layered sky echoes with the long tolling of the death knell, and the blazing pillar of light that penetrates the order exists between the nine heavens. The bells of order that obliterate everything recorded collide with the bombardment of the narrative layer corresponding to the white polar ring that is constantly rippling. At the actual information level, the solid existence level and the ethereal transcendent image level annihilate each other.

Two suns, they have the same origin, they share field and existence attributes, they are powerful because of the same power and influence, the light between them seems to directly represent two extremes, they are incomparable to each other.

Countless stars fell between their shocks.

"Alas..." Weisrifan sighed again. Although in her eyes, the light and shadow released by the shining purple wing were quite clear, it never responded to her, nor did she respond. " His” other half’s call.

She knew why the Void Matrix stayed with her. She also knew what he had thought and done, and what they had done and thought. There were many things she wanted to say, but now, there was nothing. A suitable enough opportunity.

Every moment, the casualties of the stars scattered around the continent and up and down the sky are increasing rapidly. What is formed into the stars is an extremely powerful super fleet that the empire may have never seen before in its history.

But they can't simply and roughly tear through the defense layer of the continent itself. I'm afraid they can't do it just by relying on them - I can see that this continent covered in heavy armor and flashing black and red light patterns is unimaginable in the void. A huge facility, it has three layers of the most direct and strongest protection system, which can almost cover most of the information model of Jiutian. Perhaps to some extent, it may really be "unsolvable" "of.

Perhaps from the perspective of chaos, there may be some loopholes that can be exploited at the fragile boundary between void and order, where the rules themselves are not stable, but if they are considered loopholes for these three barriers, then for For the various creations of the star civilization itself whose technological level may be far lower than theirs, those loopholes may simply be chaotic and lawless places, and may even be forbidden areas of existence.

During the small window of time to resist the attack, she noticed the anti-parametaphysical entities that she had released and were now wandering outside the barrier.

Those formless light masses will give you a sense of calmness and tranquility at a glance, as if the distracting thoughts in your heart will be cleared away by them.

"If according to my idea, everything here is fragmented, and their phenomena and essence cannot completely correspond, regardless of whether the relationship between them is good or bad, this is understandable and naturally true, but such a density …”

Weisrifan knows a lot. Although she is still "learning" until now, the knowledge she has accumulated and the memories formed by her body are enough to allow her to understand some things that she may not have been able to understand before, or may not understand because of herself. inherent concepts and subconsciously refuse to understand the transcendent content.

She just wanted to let the endless crazy and noisy part of this huge void device and the empire "above" fade away.

These unknown entities with their own anti-paraphysical force fields shuttle between the stars and the dark void. They constantly change their movement patterns so that as much of the range as possible can be affected and enveloped by them. Within the scope of the power of these entities, although the Star Fleet has not changed its fixed operating mode, Weisrifan can feel that some invisible forces are unnecessary and will only cause harm if they are fought hard. There seem to be fewer confrontations

"?!" A series of suddenly agitated void intervals from "behind" attracted part of the girl's attention. She looked behind her, towards the direction from the empire, and saw a tragic scene:

Perhaps the ringing of the bells has completely penetrated most of the world inside the first quadrant of the empire. Having been swept by the violent and violent whirlpool for tens of billions of years, and having been wiped out by the continent's invisible and insubstantial bells that shook the nine heavens and all realms that might exist in the void, countless worlds had their foundations of existence and lives wiped out. Inside the branches, more and more worlds finally began to crack and shatter.

They themselves can no longer resist. Even if they themselves are endlessly perfect and are countless times stronger than the naturally born world, even if the powerful power of all control equipment and protective equipment continue to consolidate the foundation of the world, they can no longer persist.

From the time they were first born to now, negation and incompleteness began to appear in all their operation logs and recorded memories. It was as if they were denying themselves.

The final result is countless doomsdays. The fluctuations they create in the void may not directly have actual fragments of information flowing here, but in the eyes of Weisrifan, those worlds are almost unified. Detonating the brilliant waves created...

If it were in a certain natural world, it might be no less than pressing all the mass into the light in an instant.

Order is almost annihilated, and the way of heaven may have disappeared in quite a few areas.

But who is really willing to face such an environment?

I have already heard, in the past history, those words from the soul and the heart have already pointed out that civilization no longer exists, and the war has been fought like this, except for myself, for the past survival concept and the past. People, for the disasters that never really stop in the void, I am afraid they are the only factors worth fighting against.

The entire war has now reached this stage, and all its original possible meaning has been lost. For survival, these battles have to continue, and the meaning is gone. In other words, if the flames of war sweep over, all meaning will be damaged.

"In the final analysis, whether it is order or the way of heaven, no matter what it is, they are structures generated by order in the void. They are not part of the immediacy of the void."

Yes, the detailed standards of orderly environments are different for different levels of existence, but it will at least have a general meaning. This general meaning is that such an environment can roughly guarantee that most life forms can survive in these environments.

If we really think that the world itself can also participate, and the idea of ​​animism is indeed true, then it is not the void itself that gives order to countless worlds, but the countless worlds themselves and all things inside the world work together to jointly serve themselves. The final withdrawal of the fighting for living space - that is the current order.

The consequence of destroying the rules of order annihilation itself is to destroy the home that most life depends on for survival, and may even leave you with nowhere to hide. Only the existence of order itself will be injured. The void will only stay there forever, no matter how big of a problem or disaster it creates, when everything is gone, it will just silently clean up everything, and then allow the new environment to continue to sprout and grow.

"well……"

But who would give up their own path and opportunities because of this?

Most of the existences of order, whether observed or not, will have their own pride. Otherwise, if you survive to the point where it is difficult for you to even find a shred of dignity and security for yourself, then what value does survival have in itself?

"..."

It seems that it cannot be generalized.

But in most cases, it seems that as long as most existences still have a firm will of their own, they will not hesitate to take up arms the moment their pride is shattered.

"Take up arms...? These contents do not seem to have actual existence attributes..."

"The star crown of the blazing sun cannot directly block the impact of the bell, but here."

Seeing that the Dark Continent, which was already killing everything, was using the power of the bell to sweep across most of the quadrant, Weisrifan also secretly made up his mind -

Hope is empty, hoping that if they can still wake up, they can forgive themselves.

It's just that in the void, there may not be many people I know who can still be considered human beings here.

There are many entities with a strong atmosphere of pollution scattered here, and deep in the core of the blazing sun, a huge door appeared because the shielding layer was "broken through" by the unprecedented pressure of order. That quiet and dangerous door It is dismantling everything, but at the same time, the radiation brought about by the continuous rise of the surrounding order can continue to be neutralized and spurt out from the depths of that gate, or in other words, all the information is falling into it. "Return to Zero" impact.

Even when he looked at the gate, the gate was darker than the void.

That was probably a Death Tide Gate of unprecedented scale.

Weisrifan lowered her head slightly, and moved her gaze away. The heavy attacks that were constantly bombarding the protective barrier in the sky above seemed to be isolated from the world for a while.

A new solar storm is about to break through the surface of the scorching sun, but this time, all information bodies are no longer stable and controllable - their bodies are covered with black and red two-dimensional patterns.

"We can only try to control them as much as possible, and hope that this place will not become a new "fault zone."

The erupting flames cast an ominous dark shadow on the invisible barrier.

This place looks like the inside of a dead tide realm. The swirling clouds and mists, the strange space with no depth, and the strange time that has lost the weight of history and the frivolity of the moment all together form this place.

However, to be able to move around in such a place... I don't know why, but this seems to be something unusual and strange.

But this guess is not entirely correct - the so-called clouds and whirlpools inside the dead tide field should not actually exist. They should be "imagined" by the observers themselves, and they should not Will have such obvious substantive attributes. From this point of view, this place does not exactly look like the realm of death tide, but more like some kind of nothingness - a dream?

The blank but solid light slowly cuts through the surrounding darkness, creating a series of irregular diffusions or vortices. The "footsteps" are moving forward, and the dark fog seems to cover the way forward, but there does seem to be solid ground "underfoot".

"……This is where?"

"I feel that my ancestors have summarized very useful theories and principles. They are equally applicable even if they apply to reality, right?"

Behind the light group, a figure wearing a platinum uniform suddenly spoke, and when his words stirred up some insignificant ripples in an insignificant corner of this dark and weird space, part of the black mist that made up the sky and earth suddenly Dispersed, what emerged from it were stars that were as bright as neural structures, and bits of light that seemed to have been specially mentioned among the stars.

And among them, many stories seem to be heading towards an end, towards an unbreakable barrier. Countless branches continue to expand, but they are still unable to break through a certain bottleneck. It is as if at that stage, all possibilities for development have been cut off, and they can only choose to stop.

"Stagnation does not mean not moving forward, and simplicity does not mean falling behind. Metaphysically and indirectly, the correlation lies in how to think about the relationship between phenomena and essence. Some people care too much about every detail, so much so that even instinct and stability If we have to question reality, wouldn’t it be too dangerous to rush into understanding the essence of things?”

"……Who are you?"

"It is normal for the direction of the civilization to be corrected, and the ideas and development path of the civilization to be corrected are equally important. Everyone has used such words, but when it is implemented, the problem is enough to break the constraints and presuppositions of one of them. manner."

"I don't know if it's too late to explain it now - you use "Supremeness" to describe "turning civilization back on track from a possibly deviant path." And the meaning of "Ancient Civilization Suppression Agreement" is that under certain conditions Integrating and coordinating the countless civilizations that exist under the rule ensures that the countless civilizations will not be unable to develop, nor will there be excessive conflict with each other.”

"...Perhaps, this word has experienced the corrosion of the turbulent sea, and after experiencing the test of time, it has completely deteriorated."

"Then look at it this way. There is nothing that needs to be changed, and there is nothing that needs to be explained. In the face of the bloody facts, any explanation is in vain. But in the future, you and I, and everyone... we will probably need something like this too. . Can we try our best to ensure that it does not become corrupted in any environment?"

"... Luan Hai? I don't know this word, and I haven't heard of it, Zheng Zheng Agreement? We haven't used it, I haven't used it... Who are you?"

"I'm Woodstevedoville, we all are."

After the words fell, the figure seemed to lose its activity for an instant, looking like a lifeless puppet. The white light entity wanted to get rid of this guy who casually revealed his strange identity, but it followed him closely like his own shadow.

"...All?" The light entity was silent for a while, and he was ready to continue "walking on."

"...Actually, if we refer to macroscopic probabilities, the possibility that a high-frequency Taichu information source will naturally appear within a certain world is very, very low. Most worlds cannot spontaneously be compatible with such existences, and the world may be destroyed because of them. Being tampered with, mutated and collapsed invisibly - the constants within the world can only change uniformly. Once incongruity occurs, it may subvert everything that was originally stable. However, as a self-consistent information aggregate, the world itself allows chaos. Allowing higher-level beings to glide through—"

In the sky, the former stars collapsed. They turned into fragments and were swept away by nothingness. A bright and huge golden disk rose into the sky. The disk seemed to reveal endless noise and changes. They themselves might even be distorting the world. Base. The darkness in the center of the disk has never been recorded before.

"Actually, it's good to be simpler. Think about it. In fact, many logical whirlpools and judgment traps have not been faced and experienced by many people. Most people just regard the new fields as normal extensions of the previous physical rules. Your sufficient basic research has actually avoided the emergence of various logical loopholes and paradoxes to a considerable extent. If you are able to do this, you have actually been recognized by yourself and the void."

"However, few people seem to think about why the matter in the world is compatible with crystal energy and arcana. In fact, the research has been very in-depth, but we all seem to default to the partial information structure within the world due to the mixing and reorganization of matter. There is nothing wrong with the formation of a cavity into which crystal energy can be integrated, but this is just an appearance."

“Gifts on the life level can bring about too strong connections and influences, which is dangerous.”

After the words fell, the inorganic and godless feeling once again climbed onto the figure that was almost the same as the former. He fell silent and followed the first figure like a shadow.

".If there is another sentence, will he also come up with the previous sentence: "He is Woodsvedoville, and so are we"?" The white light entity looked at the strange environment around it and continued to move forward.

There is no time here. The time for each step is infinitely short and infinitely long. In the blank interval, the original reference system cannot take effect here. The light entity has thought about what is going on here and how to leave, but those thoughts soon lost their effect.

He could only keep going.

Time began to flow again, and the light and shadow in the sky suddenly shattered, and the fragments turned into little streams of light dripping down, like rain.

In the sky, there are dozens or hundreds of bubbles floating in the darkness of nothingness. Inside the bubbles, some lights that are brighter and faster than starlight are flowing. They seem to be above the plane of reality, or, They may be on every possible plane of reality.

"Resource paranoia...is really an interesting word, but it is not a bad thing to be aware that the void can provide unlimited resources. Even...it can be said that knowing that "resources are infinite" is one of the basic thinking for survival in the void. .”

"You must truly understand the true meaning of infinity in order to be able to face the countless worlds and possibilities in the void with a relatively rational and safe attitude - those endless resources are just there, no matter how many there are. People fight for them, they are endless. Of course, there will always be many people who take many detours, and I also took many detours, otherwise I would not be here."

Another figure greeted the erratic light entity at the head of the team. It looked somewhat similar to the first two figures who claimed to be Woodstead Vidoville, but this figure was different from the first two. But it seemed a little unpredictable, as if he had formed a layer of shadow that could block him, but strangely, the irregular fog around him seemed to be blown away by it.

"We all know that in that meeting, I am you, and you are all me, and we are all the same." The figure that seemed to exude a vague golden light patted the shapeless light.

“It is impossible to confirm whether the new power furnace is developed by ourselves, and it is impossible to confirm whether the new power furnace may have a technical backdoor that cannot be determined and cannot be cracked. Therefore, we can only dispel confusion and doubts through self-deception - ha, this is normal, And after all, you have that kind of responsibility, which is a wise move in some circumstances. However, these influences seem to have directly formed your "Occam's razor" later on, and everyone seems to be consciously or unconsciously trying to ignore those dangerous but The confidence weight is very high."

"But in fact, all our physics, all our logic, have been edited. The facility named Dark Star Fortress is actually the world circuit base of Σ. They can weave all the internal laws of the world, And we’ve all lived in that system.”

"The truth is there. In fact, no matter what means are used to obtain it, as long as it is truly grasped, the truth belongs to any existence, and no existence can take them away. A powerful enough existence may be able to compose it Part of that is normal.”

The picture shattered again, and the vitality and soul contained in the vivid figure seemed to dim at the same time. It walked towards the end of the team without saying a word, becoming a new puppet.

".Inexplicable." The white light and shadow flickered slightly for a few times, but then, the scene displayed in front of it was a bit strange, and it even seemed to make itself inexplicably throbbing and familiar? The light entity is confused about this. It doesn't quite understand where these feelings come from, and it doesn't know what real impact these things that don't know why they are called "emotions" will have on it. .

"Do those shadows really affect me? Do they bring these effects to me?"

In the sky, hundreds of worlds were shattered. They were scattered into countless pieces like planets torn apart by the high-energy rings of matter and ultra-high-energy gamma rays produced by supernova explosions, constantly shattering and evaporating in the void. , turned into a mass of abrupt existences with unknown meanings, and then was directly swallowed up by the void.

"Reconciliation agreement, this word is ubiquitous, it was and still is."

"When it was implemented, everything had entered an era that we may not have imagined. We no longer know the rules that were once set and what errors may occur."

"Reality is ordered, and it operates according to some rules. These rules may be so solid that there are no loopholes, and anything that goes beyond the rules is prohibited."

"It is also possible that these rules themselves are fragile, and the environment in which they are located is also full of loopholes, and they can be crossed at will - it has been known that the so-called Σ drains all the power of its own territory before building a bridge, which makes A lot of the information that maintains the rules has been stripped away. The rules are powerful on the surface, but fragile on a broader level, and these fragile possibilities can lead to many unimaginable results."

"Be careful with those numbers—"

As we walked more and more, the road seemed to be lit up by more and more figures, a white light group, followed by groups of lifeless shadows that just followed the light abruptly. They lit up the wilderness, causing the fog and strange vortexes to slowly fade away, and a vague purple light seemed to appear on the distant land.

"Woodstevedoville? What is this? ...Name, title? It's really strange." The white light entity started to think in its heart while walking forward, completely unaware that its thinking was getting deeper and deeper. And he already has the prototype of his head and limbs.

The sky has turned dark fish belly white.

"Understood, what is needed to deal with it is not a small group of small gates, but a large enough mixed pollution."

The battle lasted not long, but the endless bells that seemed to ring from the depths of the heart and soul could constantly deprive oneself of physical strength, making one fall into exhaustion. In a daze, one even seemed to have a trace of energy. Feeling sleepy.

Pulling himself together, Weisrifan looked at the dark continent that held up the Nine Heavens. Within it, many branches of earth veins in the smallest details had begun to extinguish. The black and red light patterns dissipated from the earth, and the blood no longer flowed to the tip. , capillaries no longer flow through them. And the black material that originally shone with a smooth luster now has more roughness and cracks, as if the vitality contained in it is completely evaporating.

Correspondingly, there are "stars" surrounding the continent and the sky. Although the artillery fire has not stopped, and this feast of life and death in the vortex wind wall has never ended, Weisrifan can already see that those "star clusters" have begun to decay, and they are slowly losing their health and integrity. As discrete groups of sinking sand.

I underestimated this continent, and to a certain extent also underestimated the real environment of this battlefield, as well as some of its possible basic logic.

Infinite resources and countless worlds can provide unimaginable and terrifying upper limits.

In a planetary system, no matter how powerful the civilization is, it is impossible to mobilize energy that exceeds that of the galaxy's sun.

In a star system, no matter how powerful the civilization is, it is impossible to mobilize energy that exceeds that of the entire galaxy.

Within the large-scale filamentous structure of the universe, one part or one nerve cannot possibly shake the whole.

The universe alone cannot surpass the Big Bang.

No matter how large a limited environment is, they will always have limitations, from nature, from the limitations of the surrounding environment.

But in the void, this upper limit may only be restricted by the limits of one's own imagination and calculation ability.

Many bubbles were released - the amount of information they contained and the frequency of information they could form were very small. The frequency occupied by the world itself could contain many such small branches. Many bubbles bypassed the information annihilation missiles and the universal light. The doomsday-creation that is released and spreads like sunlight is tightly attached to the "edge" that has begun to clearly affect the original operating mode of information.

"I hate the death tide, but I want to use the death tide to fight here."

"well"

The communication has no effect, and they will not leave. It is even possible that the strong will originally hoped for such an ending - almost dying together, and what can be left behind by the other party.

I can't be sure, and facing the now empty channel, I can only comfort myself in this way.

Over such a long period of time, whether they themselves or the people they know, they have made mistakes, large and small, some of which may be smoothed over in a short period of time, and many of which may even last throughout history.

She adjusted herself, and also adjusted the countless seals leaning against the mainland, as well as the extension of all her fields in the confrontation.

"The resonance begins."

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