Star Empire

The work logs and monitoring data that should have been rigorous and clearly written were seriously defaced. At this time, they were like mud stuck on the terminal in front of him.

bxhs5489's brows wrinkled as if they were hung with three locks, and he carefully checked the ambiguities in the work log. During this process, a strange coincidence gradually began to be noticed by him: the contents of the work logs and files recording the detection data had lost all contact with the "five".

It appears that some inexplicable contamination has invaded and infected the contents of the file, centered around the "five" in the file.

Further queries by bxhs5489 further confirmed his conjecture: all fields with a meaning of five, all non-zero page numbers that can be evenly divided by five, and paragraphs with a total amount of information that can be evenly divided by five have all become garbled characters, and these garbled characters are being displayed. radially infecting the still relatively normal text content around them.

These garbled characters look pink and sticky, giving people a warm yet disgusting feeling. They don't look like the Empire's creations, and they shouldn't appear among the Empire's creations.

This is the most intuitive feeling these garbled characters give bxhs5489.

Unexpected and reasonable.

It’s not that bxhs5489 does not accept this form of pollution penetration. A long time ago, I had noticed this from the various announcements issued by the Black Gate Fortress and my employee safety rules that gradually began to thicken: there is a pollution phenomenon with unknown details related to the "five" factor that is spreading. . But before that, it was mainly physical entities that were hacked.

Under the premise of the unification of information, there are no structural barriers between everything. That is to say, regardless of the nature of the entities, their essence is information, which is formed by a large amount of information arranged and combined according to different rules. polymer.

The existence of this premise makes it difficult to completely isolate information bodies from each other, because if something is contagious at the information level, then the shields, armors and isolation measures composed of information actually become Potential, potentially infected targets.

If we extend this, it would not be wrong to imagine the situation a little more extreme, or even to understand it as "if you have the ability to infect one thing, you have the ability to infect everything" - this is "reasonable" ".

The "unexpected" is due to the gap between theory and practice. Ideal situations and extreme situations are not really actual situations after all. In reality, the differences between information aggregates cannot be ignored. An imperial artifact used as a tool is completely different from the way a document is composed of information.

If an external source of infection wants to invade them, then the source of infection actually needs to break through two completely different "mazes". Breaking through one of the mazes will not bring much effective guidance experience for the source of infection to break through the other maze, but now It seems that the situation may not be as simple as imagined.

"It seems that the problem has been identified, so we need to report it carefully, and then let those responsible for this part consider how to repair these damaged logs and record files. How long will it take them to Come up with reliable solutions. Also, what is the specific type of contamination? Memetic organisms? Is it a dangerous supernatural power that is not currently being exploited? Or is it a dangerous variant of a known supernatural power? ?”

bxhs■489 is ready to send the report it has compiled to the corresponding receiving department. However, just before he confirmed sending, he suddenly found that his body seemed unable to move.

"——??" bxh■■489 thought his body was under control. However, he only struggled a little more violently, and his left arm was torn off by his own strength. .

Click--Plop--

First there was the crisp sound of crystals breaking and shattering, and then there was the muffled sound of some soft object covered with slime hitting the ground.

bx■■■■89 watched blankly as his arm fell to the ground and melted into a puddle of rotten flesh that was leaking gelatin. He wanted to issue a warning, but he couldn't control his body. Something blocked his mind, cut off his connection with the Internet, blocked his throat, and blindfolded his eyes.

In the last moments before losing consciousness, he found that his body was melting. He suddenly remembered that his unique soul identification code contained the number "5".

"Heimen Fortress-Heimen Fortress Upper Area Command jointly announced: Starting from the issuance of this announcement, if the unique soul identification code of all staff and reserve personnel contains the number "5", the unique soul identification code will cease to be used. Personnel whose unique soul identification codes are no longer in use will receive new staff identification codes issued by Black Gate Fortress."

"Heimen Fortress-Heimen Fortress Upper Region Headquarters jointly announced: Starting from the issuance of this announcement, the unique soul identification codes of all staff and reserve personnel will cease to be used. Blackgate Fortress will issue new staff uniformly to all staff Identification code. Please do not recall your own soul identification code. Except for all your bosses, you do not know or remember any of your colleagues. Please do not try to recall their unique soul identification code."

"Black Gate Fortress - Black Gate Fortress Upper Area Headquarters jointly announced: All floors and rooms with serial numbers containing five or divisible by five will gradually cease to be used. The buffer period will be three years, starting from the time when this announcement is issued. Please Attention all staff, if you are working in an area that is about to be blocked, please organize your information during the buffer period and evacuate your current work area. Please report to the preparation facilities specified by the fortress as soon as possible after evacuation. If you have not If you cannot evacuate within the specified time, you will be blocked and isolated and lose all support."

"Black Gate Fortress - Black Gate Fortress Upper Area Command jointly announced: Starting from the issuance of this announcement, all monitors have attack authority. You can decide whether to attack abnormal information sources in the void. You will not be subject to any rules. punishment and any censure.”

"The Black Gate Fortress Upper Area Command announced: Starting from the issuance of this notice, all staff can hold lethal weapons. The lethality of the weapons you hold should not be lower than that that can kill you or your colleagues in an instant. Die 2207 times. If you find a suspected staff member wearing irregular uniforms, a suspected staff member whose appearance you think does not match your recognition, or a suspected staff member whose face you cannot see clearly, you have the right to execute these persons on your own .You don’t need to take any responsibility.”

"Heimen Fortress-Heimen Fortress Upper Area Command jointly announced: Starting from the issuance of this announcement, all sleep cabins will be deactivated. If anyone needs to rest, please go to the rest stop in the living and entertainment area. Please do not sleep. .If violated, you will be shot 22177 times."

"The Black Gate Fortress Upper Area Command announces: From the time this announcement is issued, please try not to rest. If you must rest, please ensure that there are no less than three guardians when you rest."

"The headquarters of the upper area of ​​Black Gate Fortress announced: From the issuance of this announcement, out of consideration for the safety of the fortress and all the staff of the fortress, from the issuance of this announcement, the upper area of ​​Black Gate Fortress will be joined by Rumeng Cruise. An automatic patrol team composed of missiles. Please note that the target of the Dream Cruise Missile is the weak link between dreams and spirit. Please be sure not to sleep, and be sure not to relax your spirit and will."

"The upper-level headquarters of the Black Gate Fortress announced that the patrol team composed of the Dream cruise missiles is organized according to specific tasks. The formation methods of the Dream cruise missile patrol teams that comply with the regional rules include three-, seven-, and nine-missile groups. Upper level There are no other formations in the region. If you encounter a substandard cruise missile patrol, please report the situation to your superiors immediately. If you are confident, please try to destroy the substandard missile patrol you see. Team."

"Heimen Fortress-Heimen Fortress Upper Area Command Joint Announcement."

"Announcement from the upper level headquarters of Black Gate Fortress."

One by one, emergency notices and mobilization announcements were transmitted from the command headquarters through the broadcast system in the Black Gate Fortress, and they were sent to every imperial life working in the fortress. At the same time, they were also bound into volumes and turned into increasingly thick employee safety rules. These safety instructions will be issued to reserve personnel filling job vacancies.

In the process of these emergency notices and transfer announcements gradually turning into a thick book, time measured in hundreds of billions of years has passed.

The development of the Star Empire continues. Within the empire, new technological means gave birth to new imperial departments and new regions. As time goes by, some things with the color of the times begin to gradually lose their former aura, while some things have withstood the test of time and become stronger in the process of continuous accumulation.

Outside the empire, the borders were once again stretched.

The wind field of Void Lieyang has covered a vast area. Even now, the empire has not discovered the boundaries of Lieyang's vast wind field. Under the protection of this invisible but warm powerful wind field, the borders of the empire seemed to be breathing. The empire breathes every 300 million years, and each breath pushes the original boundaries a little further into the dark void.

However, no matter how the empire's borders expanded, the huge hole left by the orders of Vidoville and others hundreds of billions of years ago remains empty and desolate. Since the order to isolate the Black Gate Fortress from the outside world was issued, the empire has breathed more than six hundred and fifty times. But until now, the vast void area centered on the Black Gate Order Field is still extremely desolate, extremely close to pure nothingness.

"Monitor 3-17-798713794, entering duty status."

In front of a monitoring employee station, a person wearing a sack-like work uniform sat down after confirming that there was nothing abnormal about the surrounding environment. Before that, he had gone through many screenings and interrogations: he carefully passed through the damaged floors and locked rooms. He did not become curious about those rooms and floors, nor did he hear anything strange coming from inside. sound. He didn't meet any strange staff on the road, nor did he say an unnecessary word to anyone.

On the way here, both the Zerg lifeforms and the humanoid lifeforms were normal, and none of the Zerg lifeforms were missing eyes or legs. The proportions of human limbs and head are also normal. Everyone has a head, a pair of arms and a pair of legs. The head is the shortest, followed by the arms, and the legs are the longest. He looked directly at the Mengmeng cruise missiles flying in front of him, but the latter did not regard him as a target.

He looked in the mirror many times along the way, and he made sure that his head and limbs had not turned into twisted slender fingers, and there were no strange things in the mirror.

When he was finally able to enter the work station, he still needed to pay attention to one issue - check the previous work logs and files recording monitoring data. This is an extremely important but boring part of the job: going through all the documents left behind by the previous shift of inspectors is no less than doing this part of the job all over again.

But there is no way, this must be done. If we are lazy, the data processing center will receive much more contaminated data than now, and there is no way to analyze the contaminated data - this means There are many people whose previous work has been in vain.

However, the reality is even more severe. Even if the work is done in vain, it can only be regarded as a trivial matter. If the contaminated samples condense with each other and cause further damage, then the problem will be serious.

Fortunately, there is no problem at the moment - the data presented in front of him is not damaged, they are all presented in front of him intact.

There are some relatively harmonious fields - this is not a problem, "five" and "5" are indeed unusable now, but this does not mean that the empire does not need them. Using external forces to replace them will definitely not be as covariant as the original content. For example, (8-3) will definitely not look as harmonious and beautiful as a single 5.

But there’s nothing you can do about it, good looks have to give way to practicality.

Monitor 3-17-798713794 activated the marking disk in front of him, and a layer of "celestial sphere projection" appeared on the hemispherical transparent window in front of him. This layer of celestial sphere projection corresponds to the void around the Black Gate Fortress. Using it, monitors can draw the relative positions of targets in the void like constellations.

Sometimes, if the research goals are very scattered, it is important to pay attention to the relative positional relationship between these scattered goals. Many times, the connections between these scattered targets may reveal some unexpected clues and properties, and this information cannot be analyzed by analyzing data alone.

Monitor 3-17-798713794 operated all this carefully, and the fluctuations recorded by the previous monitor were carefully marked on the celestial sphere in front of him one by one.

"Huh?!" The movement in 798713794's hand suddenly stopped. He discovered that the images he drew on the celestial sphere were somewhat unusual. At present, he has only drawn a few dozen points out of hundreds, but the distribution of these dozens of points

His fingers subconsciously moved across the celestial sphere, trying to outline the "outlines" of the shapes formed by these scattered points.

The outline looks very much like a hand, but the fingers on that palm are obviously longer and more twisted than "normal" fingers, and their arrangement is also very different from the fingers on my own palm.

"——What kind of rubbish are you doing?!"

"I've had enough! I quit! If you are willing to accompany me, just be happy to spend time with that unfortunate emperor here! I quit, I quit!!"

"?!" The moment they heard these unusual words, everyone's hands, including monitor 3-17-798713794, condensed into a thick ball of light. Dozens of fists were thrown before the second character was uttered. These fists did not directly hit the source of those words mixed with anger and violence. They stopped out of thin air as if they hit an invisible wall.

Dozens of cracks exuding scorching white light tore open the space within the fortress, and the powerful force leaping in the cracks broke free from the safety locks of the imperial weapons. They were like swimming dragons, like lightning, and in an instant they tightly wrapped around the figure that had fallen to the ground. The man's work clothes were torn into fine strips by this powerful external force, and the body wrapped in the work clothes was also torn to pieces.

However, the torn overalls and shattered body didn't end there.

The staff who launched the attack were horrified to find that the body did not stop spewing those vicious words just because it was shattered into pieces. Malice and aggression seem to have taken on a physical form. They are like thick clouds ejected from a large chimney, and are still being released by the body at this time. The body fragments that fell on the ground were not golden, but pink mist began to seep out from the sections of the body tissue.

And a fragment of the torn work clothes slowly fell to the ground, and that piece happened to retain all the special identification patterns on the work clothes.

There are five lines.