Sword of Daybreaker

In view of the specific situation of Tarrond and the practical problems in the production cycle, Gawain conceived a set of adjustment plans for the downgrade and transformation of the Gorgon aerial platform. In Rebecca’s view, the Gorgon after the downgrade and transformation The youth version is far worse than the original version, but in the eyes of Gao Wen, even after such downgrade adjustments, the Gorgon platform on Tarrond as a communication node is more than enough or even "more than" too much.

After all, it was just a communication node used as a communication node with anti-aircraft guns, alloy armor, and a small aircraft landing platform. This is outrageous enough...

"When these Gorgon platforms are in place, the communication between Tarrond and the Loren continent will be fully restored. At that time, our alliance can be said to be'one body'," Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief. With a relaxed and happy expression, he said to Rebecca, who was lowering his head to study the materials, "In addition, we can also benefit from Tarrond's order, which can more or less make up for the construction of the Earthly Dawn and the standard version. The huge consumption of the Ergon Fortress..."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help laughing, and a certain granddaughter Zeng xN who had always been resentful recently appeared in his mind: "And this way, Heidi can also sleep well."

"Um..." As soon as Gawain's voice fell, Rebecca showed a somewhat hesitant expression. The girl grabbed her hair and said nervously, "Actually, I just wanted to tell you that the Magic Technology Department is in After exploring the test data of Earthly Dawn and Gorgon, we have some new ideas. We plan to build a batch of ultra-high-altitude anti-gravity platforms and set up several semi-permanent planetary and atmospheric monitoring stations on the top of the magic turbulence layer. Come and do some research..."

Speaking of this, she was obviously frustrated. After observing Gawain’s face, she quickly explained: "You see, our research in this area is indeed lacking, although all countries have astronomical observatories and astrological associations to study planets. And meteorological institutions, but we have never built such a research facility in an ultra-high-altitude environment. If there was such a thing for a long time, let alone the research assistance, even the actions of the cultists in the wasteland have been from the beginning. Can't escape our eyes... Uh, and..."

Rebecca racked her brains to think about what more convincing reasons could the ancestors support her "spending money plan", but before she finished speaking, she heard Gawain's voice from the other side: " This is really fascinating for you to go back and draw up a complete plan. I will study and study with the experts in your technical department to see what should be done."

"You agree?" Rebecca suddenly widened his eyes in surprise, and then an uncontrollable smile appeared on his face, "Okay!"

"Don't be busy for now, I just said that you can study and research, and only approve this plan after confirming the value of this semi-permanent platform." Gawain glanced at Rebecca, who was already excited, but despite what he said, The girl obviously couldn't listen to it. Obviously, based on her understanding of the ancestors, she knew that this matter was pretty sure. Gao Wen could only sigh helplessly when she saw it, saying that this silly roe deer was Hetty's lifelong enemy. …

As soon as he sighed in his mind, he heard a rhythm of footsteps in the corridor, followed by a knock on the door, and Hetty's voice came into the room: "Ancestor, is it convenient for you now? "

Gao Wen looked at Rebecca, who was still immersed in happiness, as if he hadn't heard anything around Rebecca. He raised his head and said to the door: "Come in."

The door of the study was pushed open immediately, and Hetty, wearing a new deep purple dress, walked in. Perhaps it was because of the Victory Day celebration. She had a confident and happy smile on her face, and her footsteps appeared to be lighter than usual. As she walked to the desk, she noticed Rebecca who was standing in the room, her face suddenly showed a somewhat unexpected look: "Rebecca? You are here too... Why do you have a smirk, what good has happened?"

Rebecca only noticed the appearance of her aunt at this time, her neck shrank, and her face was visible to the naked eye, and she became embarrassed. Gawain next to him hurriedly waved to Hetty when he saw the situation: "You will know when you look back. Rebecca has a new study plan."

Heidi: "...?"

Then before her aunt could react, Rebecca turned around and rushed towards the study door. In the next second, she was left with her voice coming further and further away from the corridor: "My ancestor, aunt, I will go back and make a plan first. Book!"

Heidi looked at Rebecca's departure direction blankly. After a while, he silently summoned the hand of shaping and closed the door of the study. After the door was closed, he let out a helpless sigh: "Hey..."

Gao Wen couldn't help but laughed and teased her: "I saw you summon the power shaping hand and thought it was going to bring her back directly to have a fight."

"She's now...can't be treated like an ignorant child at the time. Although she hasn't improved much in many ways," Heidi shook her head tiredly, "Forget it, look back and see what she intends to do, but Would it be like'summon a hundred fire elements and put an expletive broadcaster in between them to see if we can make a super-large purgatory incendiary bomb' or'use a supercritical accelerator to launch another supercritical accelerator to see if it can work properly' this A whimsical thing would be great... but since you have no objections, then her thoughts probably won't be too weird this time..."

Gao Wenwan did not expect that Rebecca would usually propose such a weird project plan, and he did not expect that Heidi was not only the chief butler of the empire, but also that the brake disc of the empire was responsible for forcibly pressing the maddening head of the empire steel ball. Within the three views of normal human beings, he couldn't help but sighed in his heart, and he couldn't help but touch his chin and muttered: "You said that, I'm really curious about what happens when I launch another supercritical accelerator with a supercritical accelerator. …If the track and mechanical structure can be carried..."

Halfway through his muttering, Hetty screamed: "Ancestor!"

"Okay, I'm just kidding," Gawain smiled and glanced at Huarong's eclipsed granddaughter Zeng xN. "Don't worry, Rebecca just wants to launch several ultra-high-altitude exploration platforms for the surface and atmosphere. Environmental research, this can be said to benefit the country and the people in the long-term. I won’t talk about it in advance. What can you do if you come to me?"

Heidi suddenly coughed, his face slightly serious.

"Yes, this is a document that just came from Ogure’s Ancestral Peak listening station." She put the folder she was holding in front of Gawain and pulled out one of the pages. "I think the content above You need to see it yourself."

"Ancestral Peak Listening Station?" Gao Wen frowned slightly, and immediately realized the origin of this document, "Is it the ‘Starry Sky Signal’ that they captured the new content?"

Since the initial discovery of the signals between the stars, Gawain has personally promoted the establishment of a large number of monitoring stations at home and abroad to capture those occasional "Xinghai Communications", and the Ancestral Peak monitoring station located in the territory of the Ogure tribe is so far The site with the most "achievements" is confusing to scholars, but recent intelligence shows that Ancestral Peak is most likely a very special "site" on this planet, and there may be a deep blue one in its deep layer. The magical power of the well, and at the same time, due to the influence of the source, the time and space structure of the entire ancestral peak is unusual, which makes it seem to be more likely to receive "messages from afar" than other places on the planet, and now, After nearly a year, this area really caught the call among the stars again.

And the "call" it captured this time is obviously very different from the past.

Gawain's gaze scanned the overview at the beginning of the document, which included the working status of the monitoring station and the original signal pattern when the signal was captured this time. Heidi's voice came from the side: "...interference in the ancestral peak area. After the disappearance, the local monitoring station has resumed operation. The local fairies first noticed the abnormality in the antenna. These signals seem to have converted a new transmission method. The transmission efficiency is higher than before, and the content is more than before. Complicated, we are not yet sure whether this is a targeted adjustment or just due to the technology upgrade of the sender...

"About two days ago, after adapting to the new signal mode, the goblin technicians of the Ogure tribe successfully recorded a relatively clear and complete communication, and then based on the'dictionary' brought back by General Philip from the Wiplanton Observatory. ', the scholars have tentatively translated this newsletter, and we have found some...clear words and sentences, the content of which is a little nervous."

Gawain's gaze swept across the document slowly, and those translated texts specially printed in bold font came into view clearly and sharply:

"...Call the unknown civilization Alpha... This message will be sent in a regular loop. If you do exist and are capable of responding, please answer... The cycle is approaching, the message left by the sailor... There is evidence that the stars are about to flicker... We need to call each other... Unknown civilization Alpha, if you do exist in the target location, please answer, call...please answer..."

Gawain fell into a long silence, as if contemplating, until a few minutes later he broke the silence in a low voice: "There are a lot of unreadable parts on this."

"Yes, this is the limit that the current'star solvers' can achieve," Heidi nodded and said, "Although the'dictionary' brought back by General Philip can interpret alien characters in theory, it is actually used in the process. We found that the language and characters used in these Xinghai communications have changed slightly, just as our characters will change with the development of society, and the characters of'their' have obviously changed in the past few centuries. But this It is only a secondary reason, and a more important reason is that the language logic of'their' is different from ours, and it will take time to fully adapt."

The dream-like name of the star solver comes from the ancient legends of the spirit tribe. The ancestors of the spirit tribe used poetry to describe the thorny days, and called the "star solver" the oldest prophets and wise men in the forest.

They were the earliest meteorologists and astronomers. In many of Ogure’s poems, these people who were the first to look up at the sky were described as being able to predict the cloudy, sunny, rainy and snowy by observing the trajectory of the stars, and listening to the secret echoes in the sky. Good and bad, after a long period of time, these predictive abilities that were once regarded as "miracle" have gradually been summarized and evolved into the knowledge of meteorology and astronomy that modern people are familiar with, but the name of the star solver is still passed down in poetry to this day. , And it has been given a new meaning today.

After Philip found the ruins of the Verpland Observatory in the wasteland of Gondor, and brought back from the ancient observatory the "alien dictionary" left by Sir Scott to the world, Gao Wen ordered the establishment of a special A team of scholars from China came to study this legacy and started the translation of that "alien signal" based on it. This work was boring and difficult. Learning an "alien language" from scratch is by no means easy. What's more, the language logic of this alien civilization is very different from the intelligent creatures of this planet, and scholars have only a dictionary that has been outdated for centuries, and occasionally it will be caught by monitoring stations everywhere. That’s it, the "newsletter" composed entirely of mathematical language and abstract symbols.

The Duchess of the North, Victoria, is familiar with the ancient legends of various countries. After this team of scholars was formed, she proposed the name "Star Solver", and now the Star Solver not only refers specifically to the scholar group established by the Cecil Empire, It also refers to the "translation teams" established by Typhon and the Silver Empire, as well as scholars who are dedicated to analyzing alien signals in transnational projects.

Although the war has just ended, this work has started since Philip found the "dictionary", and it has been going on for half a year. Even in the most intense and critical days of the war, the three empires did not interrupt this work. Things.

"Only from these translated parts, I can already roughly understand the meaning of the information," Gao Wen breathed out slowly, calming down some turbulent mood, "...The intention of'active communication' is very obvious, and it has never appeared before. Through this situation."

"Yes," Heidi nodded slightly, with a serious expression, "Star interpreters have translated all the information received by our monitoring stations throughout the years. Although there is still a lot of content that has not been deciphered, it is only from the present. For the translated part, it is not difficult to judge that the signals sent by'they' before are all the purest'data'. The basic mathematical symbols, basic coordinates, and basic character list are like simply announcing their own existence. , Or it’s like..."

Heidi frowned, as if she didn’t know how to accurately describe her thoughts at the moment, but Gawain had understood her meaning and took the initiative to speak: “It’s like standing on the only stage in the dark, facing the empty and silent audience. Xi introduced himself over and over again, and now"

He said, tapping the document on the table with his fingers.

"They seem to have discovered...there is an'audience' under the stage."

"This is what makes people a little nervous," Heidi said in a deep voice, "The goblin scholars in charge of the Ancestral Peak Listening Station have already had heated discussions on this matter, and our scholars are almost like this. The signal’s civilization seems to have suddenly realized that there may be a'audience' within their broadcast range. No one knows whether this is good or bad, and..."

"And it's not certain whether the'Unknown Civilization Alpha' mentioned above refers to us," Gawain looked at Hetty's eyes, "After all, all the signs show that the signal of'their' is just a non-directional whole area. Broadcasting, the starry sky is vast, and there are so many stars. Perhaps the intelligent creatures within this broadcast range are not the only one of us."

"Ancestor, do you think..."

"This matter is not only related to ourselves," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "We need a high-level meeting to send Typhon and Baiyin anxiously."