Star Empire

The black building shaped like an umbrella rib is now completely damaged, and its remaining order field has completely disappeared. At the same time, the Σ emblem that was very bright just now on the oblate hinge in the middle of the umbrella rib also dimmed, and the light ceased to exist.

After the umbrella rib was damaged, an obvious gap appeared in the void barrier that seemed to be maintained by it, and through this gap, people saw what was wrapped in the barrier.

Because it is still separated by the void, and the current conditions are not enough, it is still unknown what the giant structure in the barrier looks like, but it can be seen from many passive detection methods that can explain the nature of the target from other directions. Its scale has been Enough to rival the Quadrant Continent!

"Strange, there seems to be no sign of activity here, but its variable activity seems a bit unclear. Kriz, what do you think?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is indeed true. It is so large that it is difficult for me to describe it easily. But it did not cause any disturbance to the surroundings, and there was no sign of any activity." Kriz confirmed as quickly as possible that he could take a look After clearing up the details, he turned his back:

"ΣCivilization can control information to a very high level, but according to the clues left by previous stories, if such a huge entity is operating, it should cause disturbance to the surrounding environment no matter what. It still seems to distort its surroundings, but its body is completely silent."

"Lil, Kriz, do the hexagrams you calculated before still count now?"

"...Of course." "Yes, Your Majesty, the clues have not changed, and the continued story has also not changed."

"Well." After Victorville carefully thought about the surrounding situation, he had a rough plan in his mind: "The general flagship will continue to monitor the ancient Σ building and the void near the barrier crack to ensure safety. At the same time, the general flagship will send out The ship shadow carrying observation equipment conducts further inspection of the giant creations and failed Σ buildings within the barrier."

When adding protective barriers and anti-epidemic measures to his existential ship shadow, Victorville felt an inexplicable familiarity - it seemed that he had experienced this many times since he began to "take charge" of the star civilization until today. matter. "Such things" are basically unexpected, cannot be handled by existing plans, and the consequences are unknown.

Sometimes, "things like this" end up being rendered harmless relatively effectively. But there are many times that "such things" eventually lead to serious consequences. Tsk.

"The ship's void survey radar has been connected to Weiss Ruifan and the Narrative Singularity. The ship's "Guo Shi Wushuang" soul amplification system has been confirmed to cover all surrounding units. The operating weight of the three major attack mapping split systems is 70% of the command source , 100% of the Immortal Wall, and 30% of the boundary line. This ship will closely monitor all information flows in this area to strictly prevent possible information leaks. The Arcane Throne Ship Shadow will explore the unknown giant structure in the barrier, the void The matrix ship shadow will explore the Σ ancient building."

Vidoville quickly refined the deployment. He took a few deep breaths, and then, two "shadow ships", one purple and one gold, that looked the same as the empire's main flagship, but were made of light, were peeled off from the main flagship.

The golden ship shadow gradually approached the Σ ancient building floating in the void. The purple ship shadow carefully got through the newly opened hole in the void barrier, staring at the giant structure standing in the void from a considerable distance away.

It is very difficult to find an entity without an order field in the void. In addition, the "stealth performance" of the self-consistent law armor itself is very good. The ship shadow of the void matrix had to use comprehensive radar with the assistance of Kriz and others. The array searched for a while before accurately locating the umbrella-like ancient building within a rough range.

"Lil, Kriz, did you find anything new?"

"I don't have it yet, Wood. All I can surmise is still the same part as before."

"Your Majesty, the purpose of this building has been changed to a certain extent. It seems to have received some additional modifications. These modifications, I guess, were carried out to be able to input information. And... it should be these modifications that led to the The connection between the building itself and ΣCivilization increased, and the increased connection caused the death tide pollution to invade the building."

"The traces of death tide pollution have been clearly observed." After successfully approaching the Σ ancient building, the ship shadow of the Void Matrix pulled the building into its own order field, and its full picture was finally exposed in front of him.

"The scale of the building itself can be considered very huge. The external materials that make up the building are confirmed to be self-consistent law armor. A large extended structure similar to a node trident was observed where the "umbrella handle" should have been. It is speculated to be a broadcast The installation and performance are strong." As the ship's shadow flew around the building, Vidoville carefully recorded the features of the entire ancient building bit by bit.

Since the empire has suffered many interferences from powerful external forces during its development, the empire's creations are very obviously affected by events and times. This has led to the possibility that the styles and shapes of the empire's creations in different eras may differ from each other. It will make a big difference. For example, the communication equipment on a large battleship may be a series of arc-shaped bulges protruding from the hull on the "Zhanwang" class, while on the Qingming Holy Seat, these equipment may be packaged inside a huge cylinder.

When seeing the ships of the Empire, it is very difficult to identify at a glance what the various functional areas of each ship look like and where they might appear without a wealth of knowledge. But Σ's creations do not have such problems. Their creations seem to have quite clear requirements for form in many aspects.

For example, Σ's large communication nodes will be made in the shape of a trident. The shape of their flying wings, their appearance size, and the degree of completeness of the Σ emblem that appears on their bodies. These seem to be affected by the "form requirements" of Σ.

Although the exposure of these contents may make Σ's creations more vulnerable to "directed strikes", now, based on the empire's existing foundation, Vidoville has to doubt that when Σ civilization was in its heyday, these forms of them Will the requirements also be a part of further strengthening their creations? Will these form requirements also contain powerful "toxicity", which will cause a powerful response when the creation itself is subjected to hostility and attacks from the outside world?

However, no matter what, the Σ that was once powerful enough to make the star civilization at the end of the Decision Era and now feel out of reach has now become a part of past history.

"The blockade is very tight. We have preliminary analyzed the appearance of the entire building and the internal structure that can be explored. The self-consistent armor of this building is very complete. It is speculated that the hinge part in the middle of the umbrella rib has changed in what Kriz said The barrier was pushed out of the "use" stage. The corrosion traces caused by dead tide pollution only appear in this part, and the pollution invades from the outside in, so the degree of penetration of dead tide pollution into this building is very low."

Vidoville began to use slightly more forceful means to further peek into the internal details of the entire building. In the process, he ordered the engineering fleet on standby outside to retreat and raise all the shields. This Σ ancient building should be very special. Unlike the decaying corpses that were in chaos after being contaminated by the death tide, this ancient building probably retains some of the settings of the old Σ civilization, which may very well include special facilities for snooping and detectives. Strong countermeasures set up for testing.

"Strange, there is no reaction at all? The empire can now make creations counterattack without any energy. There is no reason why Σ can't do this."

While monitoring the shadow of his ship, Vidoville glanced at Vesrifan and Narrative Singularity, who were waiting for him. The two shook their heads again, indicating that they had not discovered anything else that could be called "danger" or anything. "Offensive" story thread.

At the same time, all the enemy detection equipment equipped by the general flagship did not detect any response to the attack - although its three major attack mapping and splitting systems may still be less perfect than Σ's original equipment, this set of equipment at least It has already fought against the Quadrant Continent, the Decisive Battle Flagship Functional Branch, and the Decisive Battle Flagship Team, and successfully blocked the latter's attack without letting its attack affect the ship itself before its own defenses were damaged.

The technical content in this Σ ancient building is not so high that my enemy detection system cannot detect it at all, right? Faced with such silence, Vidoville felt a little uneasy, and he began to further try to use more powerful means to penetrate his "eyes" into the interior of the building——

The environment inside the building is very monotonous, with black and smooth materials making up every inch of the walls of the passage. The channels are circular, reminiscent of the tube structures found in some natural protists. There were no lights in all the passages, and although the environment in the building was dark, it did not make Vidoville feel eerie. On the contrary, he felt that the environment here revealed solemnity and solemnity. If a traveler came here, he might dare to sleep here.

While thinking this, Victorville continued his investigation. He suddenly discovered that on the hub building in the middle of the umbrella ribs, in the center of the area surrounded by patterns eroded by the death tide pollution, there seemed to be an obvious gap in the dome there. The gap passed through the rather weak armor and The building is connected by the main passage. The main channel has now been filled up, with a large number of stacked tubes occupying the original space of the channel, and those tubes are directly connected to the huge node trident on the back of the umbrella rib.

"Direct connection? It seems that when the purpose of this place began to change as Kriz said, Σ "people" outside the barrier transmitted information to the inside of the barrier from here." Vidoville checked what he had done. The process also has its logic, and there are no obvious flaws or serious loopholes in it. After determining these circumstances, he suspended his continued exploration of the Void Matrix and turned his attention to the Arcane Throne.

At this time, the shadow of the Arcane Throne ship, which had been staring at the giant structure in the void from a distance, began to gradually close the distance between itself and the giant creation floating in the void. The shadow of the Arcane Throne Ship continued to refine and scan the huge peak of existence attributes in the void, and the overall picture of this giant structure standing in the void gradually became more complete in the eyes of Victorville and others.

The main part of the giant structure is a very large oblate sphere. There is a long, narrow and towering huge pyramid above and below the oblate sphere - they bring back bad memories of Vidoville. He has seen such pyramids in the past. When fighting against the Quadrant Continent.

He frowned and continued to inspect this huge void structure.

On the periphery of the oblate spheroid main body, there are twenty-six oblate spheroids that are basically the same shape as the main body, but smaller and flatter. The number twenty-six reminded Vidoville of the twenty-six identified void quadrants in the void.

These smaller hemispheres are connected to the main body through channels, and the shape of these channels looks somewhat like "lava drawing" - when two fused boulders are separated, the adhesion between them is preserved. Coming down and cooling into obsidian glass, this is how the passage between the two gives Vidoville the feel, both in terms of shape and texture.

On the outermost side of the giant structure, there are three huge rings. The number 3 has special significance for Σ, so elements related to the number "3" can be found in many creations of Σ civilization. Compared with the size of the giant structure itself, the ring is neither wide nor thick. At this moment, they stopped completely, like a three-dimensional gyroscope with the pause button pressed.

"The integrity of the giant structure itself is very high, and no obvious signs of damage have been detected. The material that makes up the continent is self-consistent law armor. The level of self-consistent law armor is the same as that of the previous umbrella-shaped building, as well as most of Σ's flagships. Similar to battleships, this material is called "intermediate self-consistent law armor" by the empire. A deeper and comprehensive analysis of the megastructure is being conducted."

"The Quadrant Continent should be made of the same material as this giant structure. If this view is correct, perhaps we can boldly assume that Σ has not yet widely used the highest level of self-consistent law armor..."

"It should not be completely dead inside. When I get close enough, I can feel that my perception will be distorted by external forces, the original sense of direction will fail, and all tensors will be clearly marked as positive or negative. Requirements. This should be a sign that its self-order definition ability is still in effect. The state of this continent should be different from the buildings outside. The buildings outside have fallen into a complete shutdown state, while it "maintains Doville considered for a moment how to describe its state.

"It currently only shows silence, but this is not because it is dead, it is as if the pause button has been pressed. Lil, narrative singularity, what should we do next? Do you have a clue?"

"Your Majesty, my point of view is...use that Σ ancient building that may be a communication node to activate this giant structure." After a moment of silence, Kriz said slowly.

"Lil, what do you think?"

"...I think...it can be done." After a longer period of silence, the figure with partial consciousness of Vesrifan nodded to Vidoville.