Star Empire

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"I don't know how xs4028 is doing now..."

Outside a wall, the three people sitting together looked at the closed door uneasily.

"Although I don't know who the person who is talking to Kriz is, we should all agree on one thing - his authority level should be very high."

"The specialness of xs4028 may be higher than we imagined. We may have underestimated this before. The abnormality he showed can actually explain something - when xs4028 has abnormality, he may not be able to control himself. The body...the conditions required for a body made by the Empire to completely lose control are extreme, right?"

"qxzp96349, do you have anything to say?"

"No... I'm just a little uneasy." qxzp96349 looked at the restraint lock on her wrist, and then at the upright soldiers standing on both sides of the room. She shook her head, indicating that she didn't want to be involved in this issue. What are your views on .

"Okay. Chief, do you think the earthquake we encountered this time is related to xs4028?"

"I think it's not just "related"... I've probably seen the impact. The crystallization phenomenon has occurred almost exclusively here in the world, and xs4028 is almost the center of the incident... Although the approach of presupposing conclusions is not correct, but For now, I don’t think there’s any big problem with this speculation.”

"...I think we need to be prepared to say goodbye to xs4028."

"... Preparation for saying goodbye? Haven't we all gone through it before when we went through the primary education stage and the intermediate education stage? Why do we need to make special preparations for this?"

"Try it, how many specific experiences can you recall? How many of the classmates you have been with can you remember? Even if you think about it again - have you deliberately remembered them before and now? ?Have you ever noticed this yourself?"

"Indeed, no. It seems that trying to remember others requires special effort, and our recognition methods are also protected by memes. Is this a deliberate request for us not to remember others clearly? But so If we think about it, the prevention is not complete. As long as we pay attention, we can remember the parts that should be remembered."

"There should be corresponding considerations in this. I still believe this, but...well, there is not much, just think that we need to be mentally prepared. If xs4028 needs help, we will help. If he really Whatever changes happen that we don’t expect, we shouldn’t let these changes have too serious an impact on us.”

"Well, just be mentally prepared for the unexpected."

"That's what I said, but unexpectedly this area is really too big, huh? Why is there suddenly an extra room?" Halfway through, qxzp96349 suddenly noticed that there were four independent dormitories in this dormitory. The fifth door. At the same time, xs4028 walked out together with the "big shot" whose identity was still unclear.

"I encountered some unexpected situations, but I'm fine at the moment. You don't have to worry about this." Kriz first said hello to several of his roommates, and then followed ui65312 outside the house. And every time they passed a row of fully armed soldiers, those soldiers would follow them neatly, forming a strict queue.

"Do I need another full checkup?"

"Yes, you are also sensing your status, and the empire is also monitoring it accordingly. No matter which aspect of you has obvious changes, no matter which way such changes are recorded, you will You need to undergo a comprehensive examination, and you need to take the initiative to sort out your feelings and submit a report. This is responsible for yourself, the imperial beings around you, and also responsible for the empire."

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"I don't think we should be surprised whatever happens with xs4028."

The restrictions in my hands have been lifted, but the restrictions in my heart have become clearer.

The lights in the corridor still illuminated all the details without blind spots. After the heavily armed soldiers left, the people who were supposed to be active here reappeared in the corridor. However, although the scene here can be changed back, the atmosphere here...at least cannot be changed in a short period of time.

"...Forget it, it's useless for us to think too much, and we'd better not think too much." Recalling the various precautions that were explained before, isha354588 felt that all his processors seemed to be frozen.

"Let's be more practical, principal, are there any changes to our upcoming activity arrangements?"

"The content has not changed, but the time has changed. The notice given to us by the school said that our next project has been postponed because of the need to clean up the sedimentary crystals caused by the earthquake and re-determine the void route."

"Delaying the time to go to an undetermined world for surveying and mapping? To be honest, I am looking forward to that event. Redrawing the void route... How big a movement is this?"

"It is said that the earthquake caused many new unstable worlds to be generated." lhjl1864343 swiped the screen floating in front of him absentmindedly, "These new worlds have caused interference to the original void routes."

"Look, the crystals attached to the walls have begun to dissipate!" The two looked in the direction of isha354588's fingers. The strange crystals that had been attached to the surrounding walls were gradually melting and dissipating. In addition, the crystals that had peeled off and broken began to melt gradually, as if an invisible warm wind was blowing over the ice crystals.

"It shouldn't be delayed for too long, right?"

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"It was delayed by seven days... This time is longer than previously expected."

"The main reason is that it takes time to adjust the void route... This is the main reason."

"Are you still discussing this? Aren't you going to judge the way we boarded the ship before?" isha354588 knocked on the matching table in front of the seat. "We have to go to the port and check everything with the spaceship environment one by one. Parameters, you have to find your own seat after boarding the ship! What era is this scene?! No matter how you look at it, it’s not a scene that should happen with our current level of technology, right?”

"...Indeed, this is indeed very strange." lhjl1864343 nodded, "We need to board the ship in this way, and other methods are banned. There are also very strict and cumbersome inspections when boarding. Come in After that, we still need to find the corresponding seats ourselves...and it just won’t work in any other way, without any reason. To be honest, this is already a bit strange.”

"...could it be related to xs4028?"

"... I think it is possible, but the correlation should not be particularly big... If it is for safety reasons, boarding the ship in other ways will not affect safety. The methods we have experienced did not make the boarding process complicated. It’s more secure, but it becomes cumbersome and complicated.”

"Why deliberately create such a situation?" isha354588's brows almost twisted into a few words: "It is obviously the same thing, but this thing always has to change its execution method, such as boarding a The boat might pull us in from a long way away soon, without even saying hello in advance... If all of this was explained as preparation for an accident, I would feel like I had already lived in an accident. .”

"Okay, isha354588, don't forget, this is also a military training project. It is written in the mission statement that we need to learn obedience. I don't think there is any need to complain because of these parts."

"Just talking casually... Speaking of this mission, I originally thought that we were required to bring our own equipment and tools. I didn't expect that we were not assigned such a mission. For me, it is a little bit disappointing... …”

"Our mission is to measure various parameters and underlying logic of the world. Only task groups that require sampling and analysis need to make these preparations. The things we need come with the spacecraft, and... think about it, that level of equipment , we can’t prepare on our own now.”

"However, this operation is finally safe enough." qxzp96349 said suddenly. "You don't have to face a twisted and weird environment. Everything is done inside the ship's hull, which is wrapped in heavy protection, and there are huge escort fleets around it..."

"...Speaking of the escort fleet, I checked before. The size of the fleet that protects training surveying ships like ours...calculated in terms of battle carriers should be in the range of two thousand to five thousand battle carriers. But protection The escort of this surveying and mapping ship... They are obviously much larger than this. And there are many big guys in the escort - they must be of a higher level than the battle carrier, and they should belong to what a senior said before It’s the type that can usually be read but not memorized.”

"Indeed. But this time, as protected persons, we have the right to know some of their information." lhjl1864343 held up a piece of constantly changing light particles with his hand.

"Look here, the hull of this kind of battleship is roughly in the shape of an acute-angled triangle, and a semicircle has been dug out of the bottom of the hull. At the same time, there is a bright spot structure constrained by three rings at the tail of the hull. This type The universal identification code of the battleship is SFLG-XM-3 Shengmang class, and the hull of this type has an elongated ellipsoid shape, but it is covered with densely packed hemispherical raised battleships of different sizes. Their universal The identification code is SFLG-XM-8 Vision Class, and their level is super flagship."

"And the last one has two main parts. The core part is a huge hemisphere holding a big pyramid. This big pyramid seems to be leaning on the "mountains" behind and on both sides of it, while the outer part is There is a huge saucer-shaped ring with a gap in the bow direction, and ten cylinders extend from the upper and lower sides of the ring. The universal identification code of this type of warship is SCFLG-XM-11 Qingming Holy Seat Class, which is the core flagship of the position .”

"Is it higher than the super flagship level?!"

"Let me see." lhjl1864343 began to read more information, "Well, the answers to this question are different in different periods. When the empire first manufactured them and graded them, super flagships and position core flagships were completely equal. The difference between them lies in their design purpose: warships classified as super flagships are often proficient in attacking or assisting fleets in attacking targets, while positional core flagships are mostly used as logistics bases or auxiliary centers."

"As time goes by, the importance of the core flagship of the position begins to be higher than that of the super flagship. The changes are very complicated and interspersed with many historical events. At present, the level of the core flagship of the position is indeed higher than that of the super flagship."

"How could we need such a thing to protect us?" isha354588 shook his head subconsciously, "I think it should be the reason for xs4028 and the person who came to him. After all, I don't think there is any other reason to fix the already mature activity. Such a degree of change in the flow of activities. They seem to be the only possible "other factors."

"xs4028, I thought Kriz was the most approachable one at first, but now it seems that he is getting further and further away from us."

"Chief, are you using a clone this time?"

Although the appearance was the same, Kriz could tell at a glance that the "Chief" sitting next to him was not the real person.

"Yes, because if I want to use my body to go with you, the garrison may affect the stability of the world you want to observe. The empire has extremely strict and severe regulations in this regard - under normal circumstances, when If the authority of an individual is higher than a certain level, his body cannot leave the territory of the empire, nor can he have close contact with other intelligent individuals. As the authority level continues to increase, the existence within the empire that he can come into contact with will also gradually increase. Reduced. And - he will not be able to leave the protective circle of the garrison."

"Wouldn't this... make you feel too... restricted?"

"Of course it will be if you just look at it from the perspective of an independent individual. However, the increase in authority level is not a one-way request from the empire. Your own decision also has the same impact weight. If you make a decision, in terms of authority Climb up the ladder, then when you make a decision, you will also give up something, such as part of your privacy, part of your freedom and part of your independent self. Therefore, I will not feel "restricted" .”

"Then I will..."

"I'm not sure about this, xs4028. I can only say that because of your specialness, the empire may elevate your power by leaps and bounds. You are special, important, and powerful."

"Can I have time to think about it?"

"Yes, but I'm afraid it won't be too long - the model established by the empire believes that you grow very quickly. When your independent consciousness and wisdom are integrated with your "body", you will be with us in a short period of time. It will usher in its own "maturity" with a high-intensity but undetermined information burst. If you want to think carefully and clearly, it is best to rush before this."

"Chief, can you give me some advice?"

"I would naturally suggest that you try to follow the arrangements of the empire. When you are fully mature, your power and your senses will be different from those around you, which will make you feel lonely. If you get the corresponding permission , then you will have a circle that can connect with you again."

"I think this will at least prevent you from feeling like "I'm special" or "No one can understand me" in the future. Moreover, if you accept the elevation of authority, you can get someone who won't let you down. You feel that the environment is too oppressive. The empire has calculated that if you enter the mature stage, the world you lived in before and the lives living around you will appear fragile to you. "

"At present, I can't give you too much advice at once, and I'm afraid you can't digest it. You really need some time to think about it. Stay calm, don't be anxious, don't get too entangled, and don't study the problem too deeply. Death—they’re not conducive to your thinking.”

"Okay, thank you, chief." Kriz stood up and bowed to ui65312 sitting next to him. Then he walked towards where his roommates were. A shaking so subtle that it was almost imperceptible began to quietly slap the hull, but this shaking did not last long. After Kriz returned to the team, the shaking also stopped, and at the same time, the vast and endless starry sky appeared. The fleet has arrived at its destination, and the opening of the outer shield of the surveying ship declares the start of the surveying activity.

After the "sinking" process from the void into the ordered environment was completed, the escort fleet guarding this small surveying ship immediately converted the dim joint shield from the fusion mode used to assist in fitting the world barrier to internal representation suppression. model. Under the suppression of this layer of shield, the super flagship and the core flagship of the position, which alone are enough to make the world tremble and collapse, can finally place themselves under the ordinary starry sky.

Many carrier-based aircraft shaped like manta rays swam out from the "belly" of the mother ship through the coordinate conversion channel. They sail into the depths of the star sea with the powerful navigation system they carry, and the members sitting inside them are ready to use their own hands to mine the material of this world and explore the structure of this world.

"Okay, then we have to start our work." The Liuying in front of him soon embraced the embrace of the sea of ​​stars. lhjl1864343 turned around and began to assign tasks within the group: "xs4028 and I will explore the world order rules and Logical structure, isha354588 and qxzp96349 are responsible for reading the cosmological constants and sorting out the rules of creation, is there no problem?"

"No." "No problem." "No."

"Then, let's start working and raise the workbench."

For the current imperial technology, measuring a world is not difficult, and it does not require complicated equipment. With the opening of a series of covers and the adjustment of equipment, the original seats and tables were replaced by two platforms, and the "cannon barrels" on these two platforms pointed towards the starry sky... They looked like they were very, very old. telescope.

"xs4028, I'll leave the task of data reading and analysis to you, okay?" lhjl1864343 operated the equipment and fired a straight golden light deep into the space-time structure to ensure that it could penetrate the "entire world".

"No problem, this process is actually to see what kind of matrix the crystal can detect through the space-time structure that the light penetrates, and then determine how many linearly independent vectors there are in its maximum irrelevant group based on the characteristics of this matrix. . However, the information that can be read in this way is not the three-rank reading, but the time dimension and space dimension within the space-time structure. These data need further processing."

"Chief, record these contents: the number of spatial dimensions is 29, and the subdivision method is 4+9+16, the number of macro-dominant dimensions is 4, the number of micro-structure expansion dimensions is 9, and the number of projection expansion dimensions is 16. The number of time dimensions is 2. The information operation mode here controls time for the main information body, and there is less time-line splitting.”

"...Speaking of the Headmaster, don't you think that most of the worlds we see are almost like this? The dimensions that can accommodate more information expansion do not exist as ordinary space dimensions, but as other vector dimensions. Form exists in the world...it is still a little more troublesome when performing three-rank conversions."

"...That's true, but it may be that we haven't seen much yet. After all, the number of worlds we have seen is really not that many."

"Um……"

Although he promised, Kriz vaguely felt that something was wrong here - it was not that he saw too little of the world, there were many fragments to show that... there was a strong external force that shaped all of this, and they gradually came into being. Similar rules, although this is a bit vague but absolutely correct... So, what is going on with all this?

At present, it seems that... you may need to wait until you have higher authority before you can rely on yourself to know why. In the final analysis, it is more freeing to know the knowledge yourself.

While the detection was going on, small golden manta ray-like spacecraft returned to the fleet from the depths of the star sea from time to time. Kriz could hear what the "students" in the spacecraft were talking about, roughly about the characteristics of the materials he collected, how the local performance during the collection process corresponded to the laws of creation and operation of the universe, etc. There was nothing too profound in it, and Kriz didn't listen carefully to the specific content. It's just that this lively noise... makes me feel at ease.

"...the maximum information transmission speed of the actual application layer of the space-time structure is 1.6e11 standard star kilometers per second. Since the space-time here has large-scale consistent oscillations, the local contraction and expansion speed of the space-time structure itself is higher than the actual application layer constraints, so the actual There are different realms of reality at the application level…I get it, I’ll note it.”

"Isn't this right? isha354588, are you sure there is nothing wrong with every step of your operation?" On the side, the two people who were studying the rules of creation on another workbench seemed to have a dispute, and the content of the dispute attracted xs4028 and lhjl1864343's attention.

"I promise that I did nothing wrong. Every step of my operation is in accordance with the specifications!"

"But, but! Look at our results - the first reading result of each position can be considered to be uniform and stable, but the second and third results are very different. Do you know, this kind of result means The space-time structure here will collapse after just one look, and it will be the end of the world after just three glances!"

"But how do you think it is possible for the operation to change from correct to incorrect without changing the details of the operation? Look, even if I measure a point twice without changing anything, the result will be read The difference is so big!”

"...What's going on?" Kriz blinked, "Something went wrong during the observation process?"

"The result is very strange... I have checked my operation steps many times, and I didn't find any errors in my operation..."

"Based on the data you have obtained so far, what do the results indicate?" Kriz asked.

"The constants of the universe are unstable and will change immediately after being disturbed. The basic logic of the world is also very unstable - the logic of forming matter will change at a very fast speed."

"...Doesn't that mean that the interior of this world is very unstable? I don't think it should be." Kriz scratched his head, "I don't see that the things here have such a nature, and doesn't this only increase the danger... …”

"——Wait a minute, I'll ask the chief."