Star Empire

"Forget it, think about it, what can we ask for?" Vidoville turned around and let out a long sigh: "Now, being able to survive is already the most fortunate thing. .”

".Don't think too much." The two people standing next to the soul scanning tunnel stepped out of the messy equipment on the floor. Vesrifan stepped forward and patted Vidoville gently. Shoulder, "Let's start our work as soon as possible. The requirement now is efficiency first."

Vidoville nodded silently, and before leaving the cabin, he suddenly said: "Isendel, you have done a good job, please continue to do research and try to make enough theoretical reserves. If one day we can really escape, , then these reserves of theoretical knowledge are the most important notes and indexes for our breakthrough again."

"I understand, your majesties, please rest assured." Eisendel nodded solemnly.

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"Although we don't know whether what we are doing is right or not, and what the impact will be in the future, but for now... we already have the ability to control the helms of the Ark Fleet and the Civilized Fleet - after that, the efficiency and internal efficiency of the entire fleet will The stability has been greatly improved..."

"Don't think too much. We are just crossing the river by feeling the stones now, and we can only take one step at a time - the whole collection we need to know is really too big, and any of our thinking patterns now may make us Big mistake in the future.”

While browsing the last remaining flagship communication nodes of the entire fleet, Weisrifan made brief notes on them. Under the operation at the conscious level, facing countless screens, the interactor no longer needs to be like a top. Go to real-time processing of windows with different weights.

"Making mistakes is inevitable, and mistakes are bound to happen. Many times, even if we happen to be able to predict the occurrence of mistakes, and even think of a set of ways to avoid them, we may end up in this trap. It took me many falls to finally come to an understanding...I'm afraid this, according to your terminology...is at the level of strong law."

"...Forget it, it's useless to think too much. There are too many conditions missing now. If you think too much, you may ignore too much. This feeling is really uncomfortable..."

"In addition, Vidoville, we... must first strictly demand ourselves." Weisrifan looked at the man beside him seriously, "The federation used to be loose, with countless black boxes operating independently and in parallel, but now it is different - —As long as the steering wheel in our hands turns, it will affect the whole body."

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In each Ark that is gradually returning to normal life, various activities that are relatively low-energy consumption and useful are also being re-started. After almost the entire Ark fleet was damaged, routine inspections began with the return of normal life, and soon became a very important part.

In Ark No. 1, which is the flagship, there are two relatively special inspectors engaged in this work - Vidovir and Vesrifan, the two star emperors.

However, there are not many special parts. In addition to having the highest authority and better physical and derivative configurations, the emperor does not have many life privileges than ordinary soldiers or citizens. When the authority agreement is reorganized, the two levels above The authority hierarchy has been determined: authority is only to unify forces and enhance the execution and efficiency of various tasks, while the greater significance of the emperor's authority is to bridge the requirements of the remaining network segments:

The influence of the highest authority must continue. At least, these two highest authority cannot be lost. Regardless of the entity holding the authority itself, these two authority must exist. Otherwise, the network will likely be stuck.

Under the current circumstances, any major changes to the network itself are tantamount to directly destroying the network on the physical level. No matter what problems arise in the network itself, the result will be that the star civilization residing on the Ark will be destroyed no matter what. Unaffordable.

In the current state, what the star civilization needs to do is to survive in the void, and then on this basis, it can make as much technology or knowledge reserves as possible.

As for the part of sailing the ship, including the reserve team in the main control hall, there are enough operators to watch various monitors or sensor equipment, and after the information is summarized, based on this data, Cavinrel and the others Enough to make a decision. And those two current "emperors" seem to be less necessary for the current cab.

They decided to follow the patrol team and inspect the hull - of course, those parts that were confirmed to be safe enough.

Anyway, they did the same thing before the fleet was ridden by world fragments, but now they have more things to check.

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"Now... I have to say that these pipe networks are really complicated." Looking at the golden crystal veins half-buried in the wall and running through the ship's hull, Victorville shook his head slightly.

In the ever-expanding corridor around him, a considerable number of floating monitors were flying along the corridor at high speed while scanning the crystal rails on the four walls. Judging from the overall condition of the Ark, most of the space inside the huge hull is occupied by several major large cabins such as the power furnace, the bridge, and several major crystal energy crystal storage warehouses. However, this does not mean that the remaining Small portions are easy.

When designing and manufacturing these giant arks, several major scientists such as Zhai Cahill and Cavinrel made a lot of predictions about the possibilities that the arks might encounter. Danger, especially for super dangers like the Death Tide, which have unknown origins, are difficult to stop, but are extremely harmful and pervasive, the Ark hull can be said to have made great efforts to protect everything that could be done at that time:

Before it was made, someone had suggested what to do if the Ark encountered a situation similar to when the crystal energy vortex just erupted, and the chaotic material directly ignored the strength and crushed the color nuclear force material, and then finally formed on the Ark hull. The result is that a huge number of corridors and passages as complex as a three-dimensional maze are layered around the living cabin and the core cabin. These huge corridors are also lined with dense isolation doors. Generally speaking, the design idea is to complete the armor with structural resistance.

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"Well, there's no way, Your Majesty, this is a necessary task." The soldier standing next to Victorville also had a look of helplessness on his face, "The last time the death tide invaded the ship's hull, it caused serious damage to the ship's structure. The impact, especially on these crystal energy conduits at the far end, is that on the one hand, the dead tide has damaged their structure to a certain extent, on the other hand, during the purification of the ship body, the amount of information impact from the mathematical rate core has increased sharply, making these ends The pipe network has experienced overload damage such as cracking, and you must know better than me about the possible consequences of these damages."

"Ah, I know this." Victorville waved his hand and stopped talking. After a short period of silence, some light spots that were brighter than the background appeared in several nearby corridors. These light spots quickly gathered from all directions. together, and finally stopped on the monitor lanyards equipped by Vidoville and the Guardsmen.

"This part of the inspection scan has been completed, and a small number of guide rail damage points have been detected, and the degree of damage is within the allowable range." After summarizing the data, Vidoville breathed a sigh of relief, "The mathematical rate core will flow part of the information After compilation, it will be used to fix these holes. The situation has been reported, let’s go to the next part.”

"Understood, Your Majesty." The soldier nodded, and a teleportation halo lit up under their feet. As the halo flashed, their figures quickly became illusory, and then disappeared.

Then, the two figures reappeared in front of another blocked protective door, as if the previous process had been reversed.

"There should be less cuts like this in the future." Vidoville tidied up his clothes and said, "Huh? This place should be considered a "restricted area" in the past, right?" Looking at the protective door in front of him, he After hesitating for a moment, he remembered its original function.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this part is close to the second bridge. Beyond this door, it is already very close to the second bridge long-distance accessory cabin that has been exposed to high-frequency crystal energy as a key suspected area where the death wave may be lurking. section, the crystal rails in this section of the cabin no longer accept direct instantaneous transmission according to safety requirements."

"... After the last exploration, the entire second bridge has stopped operating and been completely blocked. However, some of the cabins in these auxiliary cabin sections that are far away from the pollution center have not been completely destroyed. They still have use value; some The cabins are more awkward, and the main pipe network "arteries" pass through their bulkheads, which also prevents them from being abandoned. Although the time interval is longer, inspections are also needed here." Soldiers around Vidoville He added with a deadpan expression.

"Understood." Vidoville stretched out his hand and gently pressed the transparent crystal plate floating beside him. The closed isolation door in front of him soon opened with a sharp sound of glass breaking and a huge friction noise.

"You can directly see the difference in this area." After opening the door, Victorville immediately noticed that the upper and lower guide rails of the door and nearly half of the door panels facing the "inside" had varying degrees of crystals. Chemical phenomenon, and the inner wall of the cabin is covered with large and small golden crystal plaques. These plaques are densely spread on the originally smooth light golden structural material.

If they were any uglier, Vidoville might think that this place had been infected with some kind of memetic attack. After releasing the surveillance scanners to screen those cabins, the two of them paid close attention to the two scales running through the side walls of the corridor. The crystalline guide rail, which was already much larger than the previous area, continued to go deeper along the corridor as planned.

Along the way, after opening hatches with increasingly serious problems, Vidoville felt that she had almost mentioned Vesrifan, and her experience of personally leading the former exploration force had passed. Again.

After the destructive irradiation of powerful crystal energy light, various abnormal phenomena originally entrenched in this area have basically disappeared, replaced by golden crystal sculptures with different images, such as those embedded on the wall, revealing mysterious and beautiful , golden patterns of fear and madness, golden stalactites with crystal texture hanging from the ceiling.

The surface of the trapezoidal crystal guide rails laid on the side walls is becoming increasingly rough and uneven, just like glass soaked in hydrofluoric acid or the surface of a planet that has experienced more than a dozen waves of meteorite rain. In some severely damaged areas, the guide rails are The surface is already glowing with electric light.

"It seems that the damage is more serious than we thought." After a partition door that was almost completely crystallized was carefully opened, the two had to use additional auxiliary light sources to see clearly what was going on here:

In the middle area of ​​the last corridor, two long rails extending from the outside turned directly upward at a sharp right angle and submerged into the ceiling.

Vidoville knew that after the two guide rails entered the ceiling and then made a right-angle turn, they would connect to the side rails extending from the mathematical core to the left side of the hull. Now the mathematical rate core is outputting extremely low power here, and the information flow composed of a very small amount of high-frequency crystal energy can just mark the damaged location here without causing too much danger.

"Looking at it this way, it seems that this is the only obvious damage here." The soldier in charge of the escort pointed to the gap with golden luster next to the protective door, "But Your Majesty, there is one thing we Not fortunately, our surveillance scanners have all been deployed, and it will take some time for them to complete a complete cabin exploration."

"Looking at the degree of crystallization inside, I know how bad this place was before it was purified again."

Even though he had activated the shield to protect himself and his team to the highest level, Vidoville still gasped when seeing such a scene.

The main structural materials of the spacecraft are all derived from the strange metal structures that can store liquid hydrogen. Although liquid hydrogen or similar liquid fillers are no longer necessary later, one thing remains the same: compatibility with crystal energy. sex.

Crystal Energy Alloy takes advantage of this property and uses crystal energy to "charge" itself to comprehensively improve various attributes and resistance. Under normal circumstances, the crystal energy storage alloy will not be crystallized, but now, this section of the corridor does not look like a corridor at all, but more like a limestone cave with gold as the main color:

The molten metal hung down from the ceiling and was cooled and solidified, forming gray-white stalactites. The side walls were covered with rows of elongated hemispherical protrusions, like flowstones adsorbed on the wall. There were many. Snapshots of crystal lightning radiated from the wall that had lost its edges. Deep in the corridor, a certain emperor even discovered a crystal-like spherical lightning sculpture that was still showing its teeth and claws in the last millisecond of his life!

"Your Majesty, I'm going to take a look first." The soldiers beside Vidoville gently pulled the emperor behind him, and he walked carefully deeper into the corridor. At the isolation door, Vidoville was adjusting the light source. Direction, although the lights are very bright, the interior of the corridor is still a bit too dark.

"Well, the condition of this section of the cabin is better. There is only a small gap in the final section of the track that needs attention." After a while, the soldier returned to the isolation door. "This time the detection has been completed. We can also go back to summarize the situation. , by the way, we will provide guidance for the next inspection.”

"Wait a minute." Vidoville blinked hard, "Soldier, pay attention to the ground."

"The ground.??" The soldier looked confused, but when his eyes swept across, he was also stunned: the ground that was originally supposed to be made of crystal veins and solid super metal had some kind of gelatinous texture at some point. The soles of his combat boots were actually stained with a substance similar to gold mud.

"What is this?" After gently scraping off a little bit with the physical isolation force field, the soldier looked at this strange substance of unknown origin with a confused look on his face, while the Star Emperor on the side also looked at the substance suspended on the soldier's fingertips. He was full of doubts when he saw the golden clay-like substance. He was sure that there was no such thing on the spacecraft.

"I thought I saw it wrong just now, could it be..." Vidoville also activated the detection force field and began to try to analyze the substances with unknown structures.

"...I have never seen it before, and I am very sure that there is no such thing on the ship, and there is no record of the exact impact of such a thing. Is this a substance produced by the combined action of death tide and crystal energy? I do remember the first When exploring the second bridge, the exploration team was slowed down by a sticky substance similar to asphalt in the corridor, but this thing was completely different from the thing that looked like asphalt oil, and It stands to reason that after being irradiated with crystal energy, shouldn't all incompatible substances be turned into crystals?"

"Your Majesty, I cannot answer this question."

"Forget it, bring some samples to Zhai Cahir, he will probably have a clue... I don't know why, but I always feel that these tiny things are like the original metal plate has been damaged more than once." Victorville will A little sample was put into a small storage box that was carried with him. "Let's go and collect the data collected by the surveillance scanners. This daily hull inspection is completed."