Star Empire

It happened so suddenly.

A universe that existed stably not long ago, a universe that was very similar to my hometown, shattered into pieces and disappeared in just a few minutes. Even a void exploration ship equipped with an order field generator and a crystal energy power source, in this way Even in the face of the disaster, he failed to send any message about himself.

The universe is solid and stable. This concept has been passed down in the federal civilization for tens of billions of years.

The fact seems to be true, no matter how hard the people of the Federation try, they melt planets, blow up stars, distort space, and annihilate patches of galaxies in the white zero-point energy flash of vacuum in various high-energy experiments. , even forcibly unfolding the higher dimensions originally curled up at the quantum scale and creating imaginary number space, something that is fundamentally incompatible with the real world, cannot have any substantial impact on the universe. It seems that no matter how human beings squander their power, the huge The universe has the ability to restore everything to normal.

For countless years, people will only think of ways to break through certain obstacles through higher energy levels and more short-term controllable means. However, no matter what impact people have, the universe will not take it seriously. At most, it will use some troublesome natural phenomena to inflict small punishment on the parasites in its body, and then silently smooth out the insignificant battlefield created by these bugs.

Then in front of everyone's eyes, the universe was shattered as easily as a planet made of burned glass. It even seemed simpler than tearing apart stars.

The golden hall fell into a terrifying silence. Looking at the information clutter filling the scanning range in front of them, and thinking of the failed detection ship, everyone present had heavy expressions as if frozen.

After a long time, Vidoville reluctantly raised his head, his eyes lightly scanning the console array, "Who... can give me an explanation? Even if it is a guess."

"...I'm sorry, Archon, we really can't explain this..." Cavinriel's voice was broken. Obviously, this reality that exceeded all expectations also made the string that kept him sane close to collapse.

"What we can determine at the moment is that the void has extremely strong dissolving ability. Any matter, even crystal energy, if not protected by a sustainable self-consistent information range field such as a world barrier or an order field, they will soon be destroyed. Everything will be eliminated and become part of the void again. The reason for the loss of the detection ship is that it directly contacted the void with its hull without being able to activate the order field in time. Under the influence of the original power... it returned to the origin. As for The reason for the fragmentation of the universe..."

"That's all, that's all..." Vidoville sighed longly and stretched out his hand to stop what Cavernrel was going to say next. "To be realistic, after the universe is shattered, will it have an impact on our universe?"

"According to the current situation, the fragmented remnants of the universe may collide with our universe." Cavernrel pointed to the echo captured in the scanning array: "In the void, all the ways of advancing the world of order It is no longer applicable, because there is no concept of distance, direction, speed, etc. in the void, and engines that operate on the premise of the existence of the above concepts will not be able to operate because they have lost their theoretical basis."

"If we want to move in the void, what we need to do is to use something that has only recently been identified by us, which is called "information offset." Only by constantly changing the information offset of the order field can we constantly adjust the order. Only by expressing partial information about the objects in the field can our creations "move" in the void."

"However, our technology is still very primitive at present, so the method we use is similar to the warp space bubble jump propulsion method, using the world itself as a huge order information body to produce a "pull" on existences similar to the inherent information fluctuations of its world barrier. So essentially our push is reactive.”

"……Passive?"

"Now another universe that is "close" to us is completely shattered. Those huge cosmic remnants cannot be assimilated by the void in a very short time, and the huge information fluctuations generated by the fragmentation of the universe itself are enough to provide these remnants with Enough motivation.”

"Once they collide, the information of the two universes will come into contact with each other. If the laws of order between the two universes are not completely inconsistent, then these laws may gradually merge into a new "intermediate state." If they are completely inconsistent, then It is possible for it to be completely annihilated due to conflict, just like the imaginary number space we once created. Indeed, many of the constants and laws of that universe are very similar to ours, but they are essentially different, and we can only act accordingly It is speculated that the former is more likely, but it cannot be determined.”

"Alas..." Eisendel sat down slowly. After a long time, he finally said: "...The current situation has exceeded the limit of our understanding. This incident will be sealed for now. Let's collect and summarize it. Take a look at the current valuable data and start as soon as possible... the development of an active void engine that can generate information offsets directly based on control."

"Well, by the way, Cavinriel, how much military power do we currently have in this area?"

"Your Excellency, all the fleets you brought when you moved the main location of the work still exist and are in a first-level combat readiness state. The turrets of some battleships have also been improved and can use some crystal energy weapons. At the same time, there is also a ship with A test prototype of the same model as the void exploration ship but not equipped with a void engine. From a planning perspective, we currently have two brand-new platforms specifically designed to match crystal energy power that have been demonstrated and can be put into production after you order them."

"There is no need to use any ships with crystal energy reactions." Vidoville thought for a moment and replied, "If fragments of other universes collide with this universe, events we have never seen before may occur. We It is necessary to protect the safety of the federal people outside. As a military consul, I order that all ships immediately return to their original ports in the large universe area to stand by! Contact all fleets! Kalost, you will execute the detailed arrangements for this part!"

"Yes, Archon!" Caloust saluted and disappeared into the space station.

"Then, let's... eh? Zhai Cahir?" Weisrifan was just about to arrange the plan that she should prepare according to her responsibilities, but before she could finish her words, a wave of manic, corrupt, and... Violence and other negative auras that cannot be described in a suitable word permeated the space station. At the same time, there was an abnormality on the side of Zhai Cahir. His original calm aura quickly faded. In the blink of an eye, he seemed to It became a source of terrifying aura, and all that could be felt from him was violence and destruction.

The isolation shield popped up almost instantly, but this dim light golden film seemed to be unable to prevent the aura of violence and destruction from spreading.

"What's going on?" Wei Ruifan was shocked and took a few steps back according to his body's instinctive reaction. Zhai Cahir knelt on the ground, covering the back of his head with both hands, and kept banging his head against the floor. It seemed that a dangerous will was taking control of Zhai Cahir's body, and black and red two-dimensional patterns began to appear. On the back of Zhai Cahir's hand, a strange distortion was caused in the space, accompanied by black mist and crackling flashes of light.

"This...what the hell is going on?"

Almost at the same time as the change occurred, several beams of teleportation light instantly lit up in the hall. Groups of fully armed self-disciplined soldiers rushed out of the beams and built a human wall in front of several senior federal officials. Eisendel had already put up his hand. In the emergency manual emergency defense system's lever position, as long as it is pushed up, the high-frequency crystal energy can completely destroy the selected target.

"Ah!!!" Zhai Cahir knelt on the ground and roared in pain. The guards in the hall had unlocked their weapons one after another. Black and red patterns were spreading along Zhai Cahir's body, as if his body was again Devoured with souls.

However, just when the Archon was really about to make up his mind to kill him, a circle of purple electric light suddenly lit up on his body. The lighting of these electric lights seemed to temporarily suppress the destructive aura of Zhai Cahir. spread.

Taking advantage of this glimmer of clarity, Zhai Cahir suddenly exerted force and violently pulled off a plug-in from the back of his neck along with a piece of flesh and blood. Then he swooped down and pulled out the plug-in, flesh and blood together with his right hand. They were sent together to the vicinity of the energy-guiding exit of the crystal energy launch pad. However, in such a short period of time, most of the tissue adhered to the chip had become gangrenous under the strange black-red pattern corrosion, and the chip had also been damaged. Most of it turned into crackling black mist, "Fire now!"

The moment Zhai Cahir threw himself in front of the crystal energy channeling facility, Isendel quickly closed the handle to the output position almost like a conditioned reflex. A golden stream of light instantly penetrated all obstacles in front of him and instantly appeared in the air. A large hole was burned into the crystal energy alloy on the ceiling, and the intensity of the purple electric light on Zhai Cahir's body instantly increased, burning out all the black and red patterns on his body.

After doing this, the exhausted Zhai Cahir fell to the ground. The bloody back of his neck, his right hand that had been amputated at the wrist, and the hideous and rotten wounds made everyone present tremble with fear.

“…maintain isolation!”

After Zhai Cahir fell, most of the electric light on his body dissipated, and the remaining small part gradually condensed at the wounds on the back of his neck and right hand. Under the gentle illumination of purple light, the wounds surged. The corrupt aura gradually dissipated and began to gradually repair Zhai Cahir's damaged limbs. Under the long and intense armed gaze, Zhai Cahir slowly regained consciousness after an unknown period of time.

"Zhai Cahir, what happened to you? What is the aura spreading around you?" Vidoville asked loudly.

"Archon...Archon...immediately...let Kalost come back...immediately impose an isolation on me..." Zhai Cahir struggled to stand up, but the weakness caused by what happened just now made him unable to do so. To issue any effective command to his body, he could only try to turn his head in the direction of Vidoville and Vesrifan, his eyes widened, "That's...the computer entanglement control chip! The top host of the information collection network collapsed Got it!"

"What?" Vesrifan exclaimed in an instant, but before she could finish her words, an urgent text message was sent to Vidoville's mind: "Archon, I am Kalost, Warp Space All the facilities set up at the exit have lost contact, and the fleet cannot go to the outer universe on time."

"Stay where you are, don't take action, don't communicate with the universe!" Vidoville's abrupt and even somewhat inconsistent orders confused Calouste, "Your Excellency the Consul?"

"Just do it!"

After yelling at Kalost, Vidoville looked nervously at Zhai Cahir lying on the ground. The crystal energy light released by the crystal energy sentry cannon and the arcane energy emanating from Zhai Cahir's body dispelled the atmosphere that had previously filled the air. The dangerous smell in the air and the spreading black and red patterns also disappeared under the attack, but there were still inevitable and terrifying gaps where the patterns originally existed.

Countless crystal energy beams formed a transparent barrier, strictly isolating the injured. After countless scans and the dangerous aura on Zhai Cahir disappeared, the space station's AI scanned his soul. After the alarm was lifted, the guards began to turn off their alert modes in batches.

"...I'm feeling better now...If the effect lasts longer, my soul and body will definitely collapse...I don't know what this weird existence is..." Zhai Cahir shrank his body and struggled to sit up, gathering The purple electric light on his wound was slowly treating his wound. After regaining some energy, Zhai Cahir looked at the two consuls with a serious face, "It has been confirmed that the information collection network information computer host has been destroy."

"What?" Upon hearing this, Wei Ruifan's tone and volume instantly increased an octave.

"The plug-in I pulled out from the back of my neck just now is the information computer host authority chip." After recovering for a while, Zhai Cahir's two wounds began to slowly squirm and recover, but under the strong appearance, Everyone could feel his extremely weak soul and his varying mental state.

"After I was able to control arcane energy to a certain extent and came into contact with the priority nature of arcane magic, I improved the plug-in so that the hosts on the main network can maintain a certain degree of communication with me without me staying there all the time. Interaction...The status of that chip is bound to the status of the host, and part of the status of the host will be reflected on that chip synchronously."

What just acted on me was just a little bit of insignificant reverberation that spread through the bound state. It was already certain that... the information computer host had been invaded by that inexplicable destructive force. "

After saying this, Zhai Cahir's body trembled.

"Just such a entangled and bound plug-in... In addition, you haven't finished speaking yet, right?" Eisendel carefully stepped forward and helped Zhai Cahir check the wound through several layers of visible or invisible protection. , “The adaptive defense capability of the information computer host is the highest in the entire network, and it also has the highest authority and priority in the entire network. Unless it is manually controlled, the instructions issued from it are... for lower-level hosts at all levels... …”

"...The highest host command is exempt from inspection, and it is often only used to send the most important commands...When the indescribable terrorist existence spreads...any firewall is useless."

"So... that is to say..." After hearing Isendel's addition, Weisrifan lightly covered his mouth and stood there blankly.

"That's right, Your Excellency." Zhai Cahir glanced at the right hand that was growing five fingers, and struggled to stand up with the help of Eisendel, "It is very likely that starting from the highest host of the information computer, all levels of regional hosts and some The distributed microcomputers used for experiments, as well as all networked equipment, including all space resonance wave generation hubs, space station AI hosts, automatic security systems, and everything else, the federal information collection network is heading towards destruction, or has been completely destroyed."

"No way?" Despite facing this cruel fact, Wei Ruifan still had a trace of struggle in his heart, "There is no problem with the information computer in the closed area. I have read your information, here The information computers have not been replaced."

"Your Excellency, the information computer network in the blocked area was split into independent network segments shortly after the warped long wall was formed, and is no longer connected to the main network. In order for the two blocks to be mutually stable, this network segment is very independent. High, even physical means may not be able to connect communications. Moreover, in order to isolate possible crystal energy radiation pollution, our authority system is connected to the main network through many layers of repeaters with fuse effects, but now …”

Cavenriel added, "After confirming that crystal energy may have the ability to spread along network links, Kalost changed the operating frequencies of all network nodes in the blocked area. Due to the arcane energy, we have not yet The research yielded no valuable results, so it is impossible to determine how Calost bypassed the protocol to split the network segments."

"During the crystal energy research phase, we have roughly determined that the information collection network filled with trace amounts of arcane energy can be changed by disturbances caused by "high authority" human bodies. It is roughly determined that it is at the level of thinking activities, but the specific mode of action is still unknown. . In addition, the long wall of Warp World itself is an isolation measure with a strong degree of filtering. With no physical connection, network connection being cut off, and strong physical isolation protection, it is normal that there are no problems here, and it is ours. Lucky."

"..." The drastic change in reality caused a double-layered error in logic and sensibility. Weisrifan felt that her vision went dark and almost fell down. Victorville reached out to hold her up in time to prevent her from falling to the ground. , "...The top priority is to understand what is happening in the universe outside!" He waved his hand, and the image of Kalost appeared on the holographic display in front of him.

"Caluster, send probes and drones with the highest security level to the big universe...the highest level of isolation! Find out as soon as possible what is happening in the outside world!"