Star Empire

"lhjl1864343, do you know about the "Crystal Energy Storage Connection Cabin"?"

"Ah, I know this. Every imperial life form with permissions of level 3-1 and above will have it. Activating it is also one of the things to do after enrolling. You haven't woken up yet, so we will do it for you. ”

"Thank you. It seems I'd better understand what happened before. I'm still a little confused." After expressing his agreement, Kriz hung up the phone. He turned his gaze to the door in front of him, which seemed to lead to a far away place, and concentrated. Soon, notes were being generated from around the door. They were floating obediently around Kriz, waiting to be taken.

"Resource storage. This is one of the specific measures to continue to deepen the implementation of the concept of unlimited anti-crowding. After having formal authority, every empire needs to store far more resources than it needs to survive. This is the civic duty of the empire, It is also a safeguard for citizens.”

"If the individual bound to this storage bank needs to live in other worlds for a long time, he should transfer it together with this storage bank. If he is serving on a certain vehicle, he should have a storage bank at his permanent residence and on the service vehicle. Under normal circumstances, When it is necessary to move the place of residence, formalities should be completed first to complete the relevant handover. After deducting the amount of resources that should be allocated according to imperial regulations, the remaining portion can be freely disposed of by the corresponding individuals in compliance with imperial laws. In a state of emergency, the empire has the right to Unconditionally requisition all relevant information and conduct unified dispatch and control."

"Activation is very simple and there will be no loss. What this means is that in normal times, sufficient quantity is produced, and the parts beyond the regulations can be freely used, but if there is an emergency, the control over it must be handed over to the empire. It seems to be a relatively "portable" thing. Its production volume is nine hundred and ninety-five thousand six hundred times as required by the empire's specifications?! Wait, what does the empire's specifications say? This quantity is..."

Kriz quickly flipped through the webpage with his own thoughts, and the numbers in front of him stunned him: "It is one hundred and five hundred and sixty-eight times the amount required for normal life of an individual in this empire?! What is this going to do? !”

The huge multiples and completely incomprehensible arrangements made Kriz confused for a moment. In a daze, a sentence seemed to begin to seep out from the surroundings. They floated in front of Kriz's eyes like a mist.

"What is written here?" Kriz opened his eyes hard, and he saw that the fog began to condense into clear words: "I would rather cry looking at the resources that need to be destroyed every year, than kill the resources that are usually enough for use. The idea of ​​​​but? What kind of sentence is this?"

Kriz wanted to understand what the "unlimited anti-crowding concept" was, but obviously it was more important to understand what had happened before and what had happened to him. Moreover, you also need to think carefully about how you need to prepare for the upcoming "military training".

"It looks completely different from us. I didn't expect to see arcane entities and Zerg on campus." qxzp96349 curiously looked at the other teams a little further away from him. "I have never seen them before. At best, I can only He said he heard it from previous classes."

"Well, it seems to be related to the environment, because different lives have requirements for the environment. Life that lives with arcane power will definitely prefer an environment with arcane power. A world like ours may not be very suitable. them?"

"Not entirely. The world we are in is a transportation hub, and basically the direction we take care of is very comprehensive. There is also an arcane environment in this world, but the arcane environment is generally not prepared for us, so we usually Unnoticed and unseen, arcane environments do not disturb us - they have different phases of activity and directivity."

"Have you finished your xs4028 class? Don't make such a big move next time something happens. Before, you were as motionless as if you had lost your soul. It was really scary."

"Yeah, sorry."

"Attention all units - stand at attention!"

After the words fell, a tall figure in military uniform appeared in front of several teams, "The first training you are about to conduct is about to begin. The authorization activation code for the equipment has been issued. You must assemble your own within the specified time. All the equipment!”

"Wait, is he really shouting? To transmit information through vibrations of a specific frequency and amplitude? It's not a communication of ideas, and it's not going through the empire's network?!" Noticing this, Kryz was surprised, but time could not help it. He continued to be immersed in his own little world - "Hurry up and download the relevant drawings!"

".It's a bit strange. It feels like there are a lot of things here that don't belong to this era. It's like there are many different levels of things mixed together." Kriz began to transfer the crystal energy output from his body to the realization of the drawings. During this process, his own body also began to be wrapped in a layer of pale golden light.

"Gun? Armor?" When these things were materialized, their entities input a large amount of information into Kriz's mind, and their usage made Kriz feel even more strange—— The logic of their use is very simple, and even the most complex usage does not involve any advanced content.

Obviously, they can appear here because crystal energy was used when making them. The fact that they all use crystal energy makes them qualified to stand on the same starting line as everything around them. If crystal energy is not used, their degraded bodies can probably be pushed forward to a level that can be used by less than planet-level civilizations?

"Now, let me briefly explain what you are going to do - the field will then unfold to form a series of scenes. The target will be set in the center of the scene. Each of your groups needs to start moving from the edge to the center of the field. Overcome all difficulties that may be encountered on the way and place a guidance beacon near the target. If you guide the long-range weapon set at the edge of the field to successfully hit the target, it will be considered a success. If this goal is not achieved, it will fail. This training will be repeated until Until you succeed, you will not be able to use weapons and vehicles other than those specified during the training process - are there any questions?!"

".No."

"no problem."

"there is none left."

"Very good. It seems that you have all read the mission statement - this is very important. You should also pay attention to it in the future. You must memorize the precautions and learn to apply them. Now let's start to form the scene. The scene will take ten seconds to form. Training will officially start later. If you act early, you will be locked - start!"

What responds to the command is a series of "slices" - the scene is formed by superimposing countless layers of thin slices. They are printed out of nothingness, and then fall down layer by layer, stacked on the previously vast and empty "land". However, as the stacking continued, the students staring at the scene began to feel waves of creepiness in their hearts.

"This scene doesn't look right. It's very narrow and dark."

"I noticed some of the symbols and details that had very bad connotations."

"The sky has become overcast. Something seems to have absorbed the original light there. Are those clouds?"

"It's as if something mutated has invaded, and not only has it been invaded, it's also been extremely severely distorted. I don't know how many sources of pollution there may be that could affect the mind and perception."

"Is this a direct acknowledgment that there must be such a thing inside?"

"Wait, those scenes—they're extended!"

"Ten seconds countdown, you can start to move freely after ten seconds, pay attention to your mission goals!" The mutated and desolate mountains, the huge metal earth that seemed to be cracked by endless drying, the ferocious-looking "tree-like bones", the gloomy and dim The sky and dilapidated buildings rushed towards the place where the team stood like a tide. At this time, the voice of the order seemed to have been washed away by the tide, and was washed away to a distant place that did not belong to this world.

"Why does it feel like everything here is so rushed? It's as if there is no time left for us to prepare."

"Check our equipment and finish it quickly. The environment here gives me a bad feeling." isha354588 has begun to carefully check his armor to confirm whether the configuration details on the armor are intact. "There is also a dagger on the leg strap? This gun has a firing limit. Please be careful not to use up the energy too early. There is probably no room for us to replenish it here."

"The helmet can assist observation and positioning. The isolation screen and internal filter can help filter some harmful information. The beacon is in our backpack. Each person carries three. According to the actual requirements of the mission, as long as there is one beacon, it can Once activated within target range our mission is accomplished.”

"Other vehicles cannot be used. It seems that we can only walk on our own legs. The environment here is very chaotic. It is estimated that the accuracy of short-distance jumps will be greatly reduced. Everyone must pay attention to safety, short-distance jumps and other types of If you are not sure about the form of transmission, try not to use it."

"Equipment inspection completed."

"Equipment inspection completed."

"Let's go, the map we were given only has macroscopic content, and we need to figure out the details on our own - everyone, please be careful and don't scatter your actions!"

Crack, Crack. The soles of the boots hit the ground, making a sound that would only be made when hitting metal.

Since they didn’t know the actual situation of the scene, Kriz’s team didn’t start the action very quickly. While gradually exploring the surrounding situation, the four of them also carefully tried to contact the surrounding things to see what they would do. What role do you play in this training?

"This alloy-style ground is very solid. The things we are currently allowed to use are difficult to effectively destroy it. Well, the properties of these large entities around us are also very similar to it. It seems that training does not encourage us to destroy the terrain."

"Don't pay too much attention to the details. There is a very weak rhythm here, which can stimulate our negative emotions such as anxiety and fear, and we seem to be unable to block it at the moment."

"The beacon seems to have the ability to stabilize reality. You see, if you take the beacon out, the sensor readings will become stable even if you don't activate it."

"Is that our goal?"

"Where?" Everyone looked up to the direction pointed by Kriz. There was a mountain deep in the rolling lightning clouds, a mountain that was much larger and taller than the surrounding undulating hills - that mountain's There seemed to be something floating on the top of the mountain, like a symbol or some kind of creature wrapped in a golden halo.

"Judging from the location, it should be. Then we should insert the beacon around the glowing thing. Speaking of which, the location of the long-range weapons is not too far away from us. If we can see it from here, then Those weapons should be able to aim directly, so why do we need to specially place beacons?"

"Stop asking, let's go quickly. Be careful not to look at that thing too much. Although it is golden, it gives people a very bad feeling."

"qxzp96349, what did you see?"

"That kind of light makes you feel warm when you first see it. I feel... I seem to want to accept it, but as long as you calm down and pay attention carefully, you can feel that it is like it is trying to penetrate your body and spirit. , drill deep into your eyes."

After saying that, she turned back and let the strange existence floating on the top of the mountain completely disappear from her sight.

…

As the properties of each thing were recorded, the team began to move faster, from walking slowly, to walking fast, to running.

Along the way, the scenery that was constantly being left behind began to attract Kriz's attention. It looked like a deserted mountainous area, but this supposedly deserted place was filled with the remains of what should have been living things. He remembered the "forests" and other things that existed on some planets with natural ecology before, and the remains here seemed to be the "forests" that had been scorched and then filled with metal. But he also vaguely felt that this place should have been inside the spacecraft. The spacecraft should have been torn out a big hole. This gap connected a place that was originally completely different from the world where the spacecraft was located to the spacecraft. What leaked from that space polluted the environment inside the spacecraft, and eventually caused the entire ship to undergo a very complete mutation. What are the random thoughts? Which ones are true?

"Ten minutes have passed now. As agreed in advance, we are conducting phased equipment calibration."

"There is a large error in the walking recorder and clock. Please check whether your route display is normal."

"No one was left behind along the way, we could all see each other, and the path we took should be exactly the same, but when you look at my distance monitor, it shows that I took a completely different path."

"This should be an equipment problem. It may be because the environment here interferes with the equipment in such a way that those long-range weapons cannot aim directly at the target."

"But why? Aren't the devices we use driven by something similar to us?"

"Maybe it's because we are living beings and have our own souls, wisdom or independent consciousness. Maybe some of this makes us better able to resist such pollution and interference."

".maybe?"

"Wait a minute, what's going on with these stains on our surveying data? What about yours?"

"This——!! There is also one, but the place is different! What's going on? Can things recorded in this way also be defaced?"

"I don't think the change in the handwriting seems to have been defaced, but rather like it melted away on its own."

Sizzle! Some kind of brisk emission sound suddenly broke into the consciousness of the four people. Everyone followed the sound. Somewhere in the distance, a brilliant purple light pillar penetrated into the clouds. Under the purple light, the darkness here seemed to be dispelled. A little more.

".Purple? Is that an arcane beacon?"

"Wait, be careful!" lhjl1864343 pulled qxzp96349 hard, and qxzp96349 also found that he was originally standing on a relatively flat small platform, but under the shining of purple light, half of the platform was "evaporated", and the evaporation Under the platform behind, there was a huge pond exuding dense fog. Some kind of reddish-brown viscous liquid was surging in the pond, and it made "gurgling, gurgling" sounds from time to time.

"Before this, the ground-penetrating radar did not show any abnormalities. You see, there have been great changes in some places on the road we walked before. But the ground-penetrating radar has never reported an error."

"Is the scene here so fake that it looks real?"

"Probably not. Maybe there are many things here that are "real" originally. What we see is what it looks like after being distorted. But the beacon has the function of stabilizing reality. It will force the distortion to recover, so we can see it." These hidden things. In other words, the distorted things should have really changed before they were forcibly restored by the beacon, so there will be no problems with our detection."

"The equipment has been calibrated—wait a minute, look at the pool that just appeared!"

"Ready weapons!"

With a "click" sound of being loaded, something began to break away from the dirty pond. It soon "smelled" a different smell here, and it quickly rushed over here without giving any attention to the surrounding area. Too many people at the same time.

Four light beams cut through the dirty space, two of which hit the monster's five legs covered with smooth carapace. The light beams were bounced away, causing no harm to the monster. The other two beams of light hit the center of the monster's chrysanthemum disk-like body and one of its main tentacles respectively. The monster was penetrated, and its crawling speed slowed down significantly. The four people who understood their opponent's weakness began to concentrate their firepower, and soon the monster stopped moving completely.

"Can this kind of shell deflect crystal energy fire?"

"It doesn't seem right. It's not that the crystal energy firepower was deflected, but that the launched crystal energy came into contact with new commands, and its mode of operation changed..."

"Five-legged monster...isn't this symmetry a bit strange?"

"Look at its tentacles... I feel like I know why the course design requires the tanks we design to use removable self-protective armor." qxzp96349 picked up a burnt "twig" and poked it gently The monster's fallen tentacles were immediately wrapped tightly around the branches.

"I don't want to touch this thing, I don't even want it within my sight."

"Let's make sure before we leave to see if this monster has really lost its threat."

The four light beams swept across together and completely cut the monster's body.

"I think it's okay...Kriz, what are you studying?"

"Beacon."

"...The operation method of the beacon is already very clear. There are two levels. The first level is for us to use, and the second level is really used to guide long-range weapon attacks. It is estimated that the function of the arcane beacon is basically the same. , is there any problem with this?"

"There's no problem with that... maybe I haven't thought about what I'm going to say yet. I think the problem is the purpose of this training - think about it, we were pulled here in a hurry, and we didn't talk about tactics at all. We have paid attention to coordination and even started to get familiar with the equipment after entering the venue. Using equipment with ancient technology to attack an obviously highly polluting target under very complicated circumstances... What is this for?!"