Star Empire

"The situation is very abnormal. According to the sporadic feedback received from the flagship, these abnormalities first appeared two months ago. According to the current physical fitness of citizens, coupled with various plug-ins and auxiliary modules, such a short period of If it causes such a large-scale multiple abnormal diseases in a short period of time, this should not happen unless it is an erasure meme or a specially designed targeted weapon."

"Yes, that's true." Weisrifan nodded, but her eyes were still focused on Vidoville: "We need to investigate the possible problems as soon as possible... Don't you feel uncomfortable for the last digression?"

"It doesn't matter...it's just a matter of changing clothes..."

Later, the flagship general control hall, the round table meeting.

"That is to say, some people in the fleet are beginning to develop "pathological changes"?" Zhai Cahir gently tapped the table with his right hand, his face full of seriousness, "The types are different, and the severity is also different. These conditions are different. It started gradually in the last few months?”

"It's hard to say whether this situation has occurred in the entire fleet. Currently, the only ones with confirmed reports are the flagship, Ark No. 10 and Ark No. 16." Vidoville looked at the chief control technician who was thinking hard: "I have an idea. ?"

"Let me sense it." Zhai Cahir stretched out his hand to summon a floating golden light screen. He calmed himself down and used it as a springboard to enlarge his vision. After a short period of "watching", Zhai Cahir came from I came back to my senses from the state that was almost soul-departing before:

"I scanned the status of some members of this ship based on random sampling, and I haven't found any abnormalities so far... No, I can detect the abnormalities. There is a certain degree of information fluctuation on them, but... I don't know this How to judge this kind of fluctuation? The information of the intelligent body can increase or decrease to varying degrees with changes in thinking and experience. Everyone has this kind of fluctuation and the degree varies. I am not sure whether this can be used as a certain kind of judgment. according to."

"Your Majesty, a soldier claimed that there was a major abnormal situation that required a face-to-face report. Do you want to lift the protective barrier?"

Vidoville was about to speak, but in an instant, he saw Zhai Cahir's face suddenly turned a little ugly and he shook his head slightly. Seeing such a scene, he was stunned for a moment, and then understood: "AI, don't Lift the protective barrier and allow the soldier to pass the information through a dedicated line when reporting, and then let this information pass through the crystal energy and distortion information to check twice for security filtering."

After giving instructions to the AI, Vidoville looked at the chief control technician, whose body began to tremble slightly: "By the way, is this true?"

"I can only say that it is similar, but the degree is very weak. I can't determine it rationally." Zhai Cahill covered the back of his neck. "The degree is very weak. It seems that it has no ability to spread at present. Maybe I was hurt by it, and now I am too sensitive to it. The influence is different but the form is still the same. The breath of death tide."

".AI, temporarily lock down the lowest level network of the flagship and prepare for suppression." Wei Ruifan further added to AI.

"Greetings to the rulers of the empire." In front of the protective barrier, the soldier gave a slight salute and immediately reported. The content of the report was passed to the minds of several people in the meeting after going through two security filtering systems: "In the first There was a fight in three residential areas that was not reported."

"What?" Vidoville said in astonishment, "The word "fight" has almost become an ancient word in my memory. Even when the information unification was forced to withdraw, the federal citizens' resistance to the outbreak did not appear. When did such low-level violence return to our civilization?"

"It may indeed be the influence of the death tide." Weisrifan gently took Victorville's hand. "One of the effects of the death tide on us is that it interferes with the mind. In the death tide, our calmness will be disturbed. Our will will be softened, that's for sure. Now that such unnatural violence suddenly appears, we have to consider this direction."

"I know." Vidoville nodded, and then connected to the external channel: "Understood, we will go to investigate as soon as possible. Thank you for your hard work. Return to your job as soon as possible."

After Vidoville's words were sent to the soldiers through the transfer line, the soldiers outside the protective field immediately turned around and left, but at this time an accident happened: before taking a few steps, the soldier's left leg suddenly bent and He was quickly bent by an invisible force into an angle that a normal body could never achieve, and then he fell to the ground.

"This is..." Wei Ruifan was shocked when he saw this: "Guard! Take him to the soul research room under the bridge! Mathematical rate core, activate the crystal energy to illuminate the beam!"

"Your Majesty, there is no need to activate purification, there is no risk of infection, and the network conditions are normal." Zhai Cahir quickly added, "I was too sensitive before. He was indeed strange, but it was not enough to cause such a high-level emergency plan."

Vidoville rolled his eyes at Zhai Cahir, and then waved his hand gently. Outside the protective barrier, the mathematical rate core whose brightness was increasing stopped its pressurization operation, and the light spots on the tops of the three obelisks became bright again, and The movement posture of the mathematical environment protective shell that rotates at high speed in the constraint field has also returned to stability. On the other hand, the soldiers directly under the bridge who gathered together confirmed that the situation was normal after a short period of standby, and then returned to their original guard positions.

"Vidoville, Ikarim, you two are responsible for remote listening, which can be regarded as an extra layer of insurance." Weisrifan stood up, "The other three chiefs, prepare protective gear, let's go check it out together. What went wrong.”

"clear!"

After a while, four figures appeared in the soul research room below the main control hall of the first bridge in the flash of the teleportation halo. As soon as they entered, their attention moved to the location of the test bench: The top of the small obelisk installed at the top of the scanning tunnel has been lit. A vague and dim shield isolates the core facilities under the obelisk from the outside world. Outside the equipment group, several people The guards with serious expressions were staring closely at the central sleep chamber that was slowly operating.

"How is the situation?" Weisruifan asked impatiently before his body had completely stabilized.

"Your Majesty, he. His condition is very strange." The people guarding the equipment group also looked confused. "His left leg is broken."

"What?" The four people, including Weisrifan, were a little bit stunned. "What did you say? Broken bones? If I remember correctly, when our individuals strengthened their lives, their bone strength has been strengthened to a level higher than the maximum. A good titanium alloy material is much stronger, and in order to make up for the loss of impact absorption due to excessive bone strength, the cartilage and synovial fluid in the joints have also been changed accordingly, right?" Zhai Cahill looked sternly Staring at the soldier in front of him, "Are you still sure about the result you said before?"

"Confirm, Your Excellency Chief." The soldier faced Zhai Cahir's question with a firm look. "We have checked it with the high-frequency scanning beam we carried. It is true. On the end near the knee, his tibia and The fibula has been completely broken, and we find it difficult to understand this result."

"Vidoville, Ikarim, please ask the shipboard AI. Is there any brief and violent local mechanical abnormality in the main control hall of the first bridge just now?" Weisruifan immediately contacted the main control room. Controlling the two people sitting in the hall, she soon received a response:

"The shipboard AI has determined that there were no abnormalities in the main control hall just now. The order field is stable, the physical laws are uniform, and any changes are within the controllable range."

"There is nothing unusual in the hall." Weisruifan hung up the communication and shook his head, "Zhai Cahir, go and check the soldier's body, and then focus on the abnormalities in the information structure. Then, you guys first Come here." Weisrifan called to the soldiers in charge of the surveillance equipment team and temporarily turned off the obelisk's protective screen.

Zhai Cahir arranged his protective equipment, and then carefully approached the soul scanning tunnel where he once lay, which was surrounded by many ancillary equipment. While he closed the obelisk protection at the top of the arc, Weiss The obelisk on Ruifan's side lit up again, opening a transparent barrier.

"There is no problem with the soul. There is no abnormal information disappearance. The bone density is normal, and all physiological indicators are normal. The physical properties are okay?" Zhai Cahir was suddenly startled, "What is this?"

"What's wrong?"

"Strange, there are two "vulnerable points" on the calf bone of his leg. Bone density, the most important indicator for maintaining bone strength, is completely normal, and there are no lesions. But there is one thing. At this point, the strength is expressed. The information disappeared."

"The information disappears?" Wei Ruifan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is it a dynamic change? Or is it an occasional situation?"

"There is no continuous disappearance of information observed so far, but such a change is completely beyond our understanding. No, wait!" Zhai Cahir suddenly screamed, his eyes quickly retracted from Weisruifan and refocused on the lying body. On the "patient" in the medical cabin, "a section of the ulna about five centimeters long in the observation target's right hand was found to be mechanically restrained and disintegrated." He stopped the machine, carefully pulled out the soldier's right arm and began to slowly apply force on it. Strength, "Huh? Yield strength and shear strength? Keep the normal indicators unchanged?"

"This seems unreasonable, right?" Eisendel was already confused: "No matter how unified the information is, at least these information that is just another way of saying it should be bound to each other, either together or not. Right?"

"It is indeed unreasonable. It is very unreasonable. It is not consistent with common sense, principles, physics, and unified principles." Zhai Cahill shook his head, "This is a paradox. At present, it can be determined that this phenomenon that can be temporarily judged as information loss is It occurs continuously, spontaneously and in an extremely unstable manner. It is speculated that the abnormalities in other Empire individuals are similar, so pathological conditions can occur and the self-discipline detection system of the spacecraft can be bypassed to a certain extent."

"I don't know how to describe it accurately, and I even think that in this case, our knowledge and actual situation have fallen into metaphysical misunderstandings, but at least this is the fact for now... we can't refute it."

"So... what's the possible conclusion?"

"My two majesties, I'm afraid I can only talk about my intuition this time - these changes are related to the death wave to some extent... I have seen some information fluctuations, and those fluctuations probably represent information The gradual collapse of the body... The death tide may have a wider impact than we imagined, or it may be that even though its phenomenon in intuition has disappeared, its subsequent impact still exists..."

"It is much more dangerous than we thought, and may be much more mysterious..."