Star Empire

"Indeed, we need to find a "soul container" to replace the body as soon as possible. The bodies of these people who are in trouble have not completely lost their activity. In other words, they can still drive these things like the legendary zombies or living dead. The corrupting bodies are acting, but I am afraid that soon these bodies as human beings and as carbon-based life forms will be completely destroyed, and then the souls will be exposed. Even with the crystal energy fused into them as redundant for stability maintenance, the souls in the current definition will be stripped away. Leaving the container alone is still dangerous."

"The soul... I am afraid that our specific understanding of it and the judgment of its function are still very rare... For life... such an important thing must be played with in the hands of us two-handed swords..."

"Actually, after understanding the specific situation and having a solution, these problems themselves...well, at least they are not the end of the road." Victorville felt a little more at ease: "...It just so happened that the burned-out storage crystal was due to the previous big It consumes a lot more, and when the time comes, these can be used as half a hard drive."

"And now it seems that this series of practices has finally produced results that follow the trend." Ikarim replied expressionlessly while looking at the "bodies" lying on the ground.

"After losing the body and storing all the crystals in the soul state, most of the active areas of the spacecraft can stop supplying energy. Now from the structural distribution point of view, the information flow distribution in most cabins in the Ark is equal. In order to To prevent the death tide from remaining in the ship, in the past few decades, the light of crystal energy has been shining on every corner of the ship... Theoretically, the purification should have been complete, unless there is still such invisible pollution..."

"Now, if the active population of the Ark decreases, then the functions of the corresponding part of the ship body can also be shut down to reduce consumption... This may be regarded as self-comfort, but at least, we can worry less - at least, in the future Our current understanding and approach - using superconceptual mathematics... can explain the soul..."

“Considering the self-explanatory, self-existent, self-consistent, and even self-adaptive properties of the soul itself, our ability to explain the soul at least...represents a representative subset of the souls we can manipulate..."

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"It has been determined that the basic crystals of all other surviving arks' crystal energy storage crystals are well preserved. According to the relative relationship between the amount of crystal information storage obtained from the previous knowledge preservation plan and the currently known amount of soul information, we currently The crystals you have are enough.”

In front of the mathematical rate core in the bridge hall, Vidoville hung up the communication from Ark No. 17, "Since there is no physical connection of crystal rails between the various arks, and the communication bandwidth is limited, such a large-capacity information flow even Supporting breakpoint resume transmission also makes it difficult to ensure that all the data can be delivered to the flagship without loss. In this process, we can only obtain the corresponding information selection formula first, and then assign it to each ship to handle it on their own."

"Your Majesty, I already have ready-made results for this part." Eisendel shook a transparent light screen in his hand, "This process is actually very simple, and it is safer than the earliest "instant transmission" of separation of soul and body. , after all, now, the strength of our souls has been greatly improved, which in itself reduces the technical requirements related to this a lot."

"Then, you go and implement it immediately. If there are not enough manpower, you can adjust the guards as you like. If it still doesn't work, I will arrange all the situations and I will help." After Vidoville sent the two people away, his attention turned to Zhai Cahill: "At present, have you summarized the relevant laws of the "morbidity" of living individuals?"

"There is indeed a pattern." A faint purple light flashed in Zhai Cahir's eyes, and a huge holographic projection unfolded in front of the two people. In order to avoid the light emitted by the mathematical rate core behind him from interfering with the intuitive vision, in the holographic The data displayed in the projection is represented by purple: In a very simple histogram, there is only one pillar standing tall, reaching the top of the coordinate axis. However, there is another coordinate that fluctuates but does not. Not completely dyed red by the alienated color. Above the last two coordinates, a number is displayed simply and intuitively: 0.

"The problem only occurs at the lowest level of authority? This is quite troublesome. More than 95% of the remaining population are ordinary people and soldiers at this level of authority. If this situation really If it continues to spread, eventually sealing the souls of more than 200 million people in crystal will be quite a big project." Looking at the pillars that were still soaring in the holographic projection, Victorville's expression also became serious:

"Logically... it shouldn't be like this. These ordinary citizens and soldiers have lived in the blockade for more than two thousand years longer than I, Vesrifan, and Ikarim. Even though the crystal energy fusion chips we use are better than theirs, Their integration level and level should be higher than those of us, but why didn't we react at all? Especially me, I will never feel the cramping pain caused by the death wave invading my brain. I can’t even forget it.”

"Hmm... It may include all the people who have been in the long wall of the warped world. Compared with a few people, there is no more diffuse crystal energy equivalent to two thousand years of uninterrupted crystal energy. It may also... be the diversion of the authority layer. .”

In this regard, Zhai Cahir slowly shook his head, "The level of crystal energy is higher than that of all things in the world, and naturally it is also higher than the time of this universe which is only at the level of weak laws. It is constrained by the level of information about the composition of the body. Then We must and can only follow the flow of time within the universe. Therefore, using ours as the basic reference system, we directly extend the origin chronology by more than two thousand years..."

"But for crystal energy, it is not affected by the reference system in this universe, so it is still radiating externally at a "constant" speed. It's just that in the "eyes" of crystal energy, our movements are accelerated for a period of time. Thousands of times. All in all, those with the lowest degree of crystal energy integration are indeed ordinary civilians. As for the military... In fact, a considerable number of soldiers have already undergone crystal energy soul enhancement. I don’t know if they will be different. Performance……"

Plop - a slight muffled sound came from the distance, and Victorville's eyes were drawn over. At the entrance and exit on the other side of the hall, several fully armed soldiers were lifting a man wearing the same equipment from the ground. During the process, Vidoville could clearly see that the hands of the soldier receiving help had been obviously stretched like rubber bands.

"... Pretend I didn't say it." Zhai Cahir slapped his forehead and rubbed his face hard, "It seems that the problem is not here... These people are real crystal energy enhancers. Their enhancements The level is indeed higher than that of you, so it seems... If we want to find a reasonable explanation for the time being, we can only start with the network and permission system."

"Is this possible?" Vidoville was a little surprised. "The most direct thing is that when the death wave spread on the Internet, I was also invaded, but why was I fine?"

"...Your Majesty, do you remember that before that disaster, your mental state was not normal for a period of time? During that time, although there was no direct contact, the death wave began to gradually disintegrate your defense line. When the death wave spreads in the network, you are indeed eroded, but the protective measures of the network itself still block most of the damage for you, otherwise what you feel will definitely not be just pain."

"...The Internet still has such a function?" After Zhai Cahir mentioned this matter, Vidoville felt that he had not understood the details of the network itself for a long time. During the interaction, he had been battling with the underlying protocols of the network, instead ignoring the normal parts of the network, but he still felt a little strange about this.

"The reason why you were injured before was because the death wave spread along the information entanglement between your plug-in and the network. It was arcane energy that maintained this information entanglement, right? And it was also the cause of the instant collapse of the universe outside the blockade. Later, It is estimated that the death wave has invaded the network and swallowed up the entire universe in an instant along the super-light information highway based on arcane magic. However, we are still using a remaining network segment... Is it okay?"

"I can only say that it should still have an effect." When mentioning this, Zhai Cahill was also full of uncertainty: "In any case, everything we say now is just speculation, at least I can't give any more information. Good conclusion.”

"Our network is based on crystal energy. Whether it is a physical crystal rail or crystal energy information wave remote communication without actual physical connection, the process of information interaction is filled with active crystal energy. , they themselves can play a certain purification and filtering role. And after the network runs in the crystal energy environment, all firewalls will also have the same level."

"If the previous information collection network was really swept away by the death wave and collapsed instantly, then a very important reason is that there was no equivalent protection capability in that section of the network, just like what Cavern Riel once encountered. I have seen that after Eskett's soul was fused with crystal energy, it caused a situation where the authority wall was ignored. The previous main network should have been crushed by the death wave once, and in the process it served as a super-light communication bridge. The trace amount of arcane energy had the opposite effect, but it should be different now."

"Well, no matter what, I have to make key observations on myself." Thinking of the increasing number of "living dead" and the severely mutated, ferocious and rotten corpses in the second bridge, Victorville's back Then he felt a little hairy, "If I could, I really don't want to see that kind of phenomenon again, even though I know it's impossible."

"Because of those two giant shadows, the fragments of the world chasing us, and everything we've been through?"

"Yes, it's because of the greasy-looking black-red space building and the small piece of ancient history we captured." Victorville wanted to activate the panoramic mode and take a look at the starry sky again, but the Ark did not have this Even if there is a function, beyond the few light spots following "behind" is endless darkness, the ultimate chaotic place where everything exists but does not exist. Thinking of the extreme of the void, Victorville decisively stopped him. Inner thoughts.

"That civilization that widely uses the Σ symbol, their facilities can drag the severely contaminated cosmic debris across the void to accurately pursue our small fleet, and a small flying-wing fighter can be equipped with what we speculated in theory. , the most advanced equipment that can do this in the universe or the world of order - the coordinate definition engine, and these are even done when they have been contaminated."

"It is absolutely certain that this civilization must have very powerful technology, so powerful that we cannot imagine it, but they cannot resist the death tide. However, in a world that has been seriously polluted by the death tide, their facilities still maintain stability and considerable quality. Performance. Based on this, I can be sure that they must have considerable research and practice on this."

"Wait a minute... It seems like they have interacted with us either explicitly or implicitly countless times throughout the entire process... to some extent... the depth of their connection with us... is quite profound. "

"……What?"

"The reason that may trigger the current series of events may be the reason why they can capture us - based on our degree of connection with them... This is just my guess, but if we say... the spread of the death wave If the scope is any contact... the relationship will most likely fall into one of these terrible paths."

Zhai Cahir sighed, "Our understanding is still too lacking...but no matter what...only if we can survive, we are qualified to talk about all this..."

"Yes, yes, being able to survive is the prerequisite for everything." Looking at the rising numbers on the holographic screen around him, the young emperor sighed deeply, "Leave from ignorance, crawl in ignorance , and then fell asleep... By the way, let me ask you a question."

Vidoville suddenly looked at the chief control technician seriously: "What do you think of those two giant shadows that appeared in our universe in ancient history?"