Chapter 1,392 Who Is Planning All This?
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There is actually no difference between the structural strength of the detectors sent by the civilization on the other side and the detectors made by the empire, except that its abyss protection technology is a mystery to us, and its material has many unexplainable properties. , this thing is not more resistant to beating than the things made by the empire, so in theory, such a thing poses no threat to the control center. ◎Literary Museumr />
No matter how high the speed it hits it is useless, it is useless even if it exceeds the speed of light and has infinite mass - this is not a speed problem, but a "layer" problem: because our control center has a psionic shield. The psionic energy shield is something that can provide indiscriminate defense against all external threats. Because the psionic energy's position on the void ladder is at the same level as the entire world, everything in the world will be weakened by the psionic energy shield. "Speed" and " "Kinetic energy" is just a concept defined within the scope of the universe, so even if this thing hits the platform at the speed of light, more than half of its speed will be burned instantly, and then its body will be burned away—— Can't even get through the first layer of shield. Of course, it may also use the same energy as the psionic level, so it can offset part of the shield, but I don't believe that such a small detector can carry enough energy to melt through two layers of shields.
It would crash outside the control center instead of penetrating all the latter's defenses. It would survive in a nearly intact state after detonating the energy core - but all this requires that our control center opens the shield. With.
"You said that before the explosion, the defense system of the control center was down?" I looked at Shandora dumbfounded. You said it would be nice for her to make other jokes: How could the imperial equipment still have such a malfunction?
"I know you don't believe it," Sandora shrugged, "but this is what the system log records, and this is not a human operation. Instead, all the hosts of the defense system ordered to turn off the underlying protection of the platform at the same time. Without a shield, full The armor also released pressure. The control center was completely undefended during that short period of time. The 'black shuttle' probably hit it at that time. It was not hindered at all. After the pressure was released, the charged armor was just a little harder. Metal, facing a sufficiently high-speed kinetic energy projectile, is not much stronger than ordinary materials, and I guess the 'Black Shuttle' also has a shield when it is turned on. So after the two offset each other, our large platform was destroyed, and that thing My son is safe and sound."
I said "uh" and didn't know what to say.
I know about rechargeable armor, which is widely used in anything that requires heavy protection. Because no matter how solid the material is. Its defensive power is only reflected in its "strongness". Even if you get a piece of neutron star material, it has no resistance except being very hard, so Xiling Apostle uses a more advanced charged armor. By infusing psionic energy into high-affinity metal, each molecule of this armor plate is relatively fixed, and at the same time, the armor is given energy resistance that is almost comparable to the armor of the gods. This is charged armor. It is also the only physical armor that is still valuable after reaching the technological level of the Empire (any other form of purely material armor will be eliminated, because pure matter can never withstand the power of a cannon of psionic energy). But there are times when charged armor can be broken: if its energy field is turned off, it's what's commonly known as "pressure relief." Then a piece of charged armor has no characteristics other than being extremely hard.
Pandora can smash a hole in it with her headbutt - that girl's forehead is charged with energy.
Therefore, it is normal for the black shuttle to be able to break through four layers of armor. If its speed reaches a certain level, there is no difference between four layers of armor and four layers of cotton. If there is still a layer of "psionic energy" on the surface of the black shuttle, the four layers of armor are equivalent to non-existence.
"Is it a simple system failure? Or is it a staff setting error?" I frowned, wondering why the control center would automatically turn off the defense in the bottom area. It was just... like welcoming a black shuttle.
"Both are unlikely," Sandora turned around and slowly flew outwards, while saying in the mental connection, "The chance of a single system 'failure' is less than one in ten million, and three sets of redundant In my opinion, the probability of system failure at the same time is negligible, and the secondary defense host in the bottom zone also has its own judgment. When it receives an instruction such as 'give up defense', it will repeat it to the upper-level host, and the upper-level host Do you think it is possible to repeat a malfunction command twice and send it to subordinates? As for errors in personnel settings, let alone mistakes. The core code of fortress-type facilities is not allowed to be changed casually. Only Tavel and the defense commander here can He has the authority to rewrite these codes, not to mention that Xiling Apostle will not make such a low-level mistake-creating a system vulnerability and causing the defense network to go offline? Just kidding."
With such a heavy heart in mind, Sandora and I quickly returned to the upper level of the platform, where Tavel and Lin Xue were already waiting here. The latter couldn't help but have a worried look on his face, but after seeing me, he instantly changed into a carefree smile. The eldest lady came up and patted me on the shoulder: "Hey, the tough guy is back - he was bombed How does it feel to fly around?"
Immediately I knew that this half-fairy girl was probably "looking" at me the whole time. I was slightly moved but also embarrassed, so I could only scratch my hair: "It's quite exciting, it's quite exciting..."
Tavel's reaction after seeing the "Black Shuttle" was completely as expected. The bespectacled girl almost jumped more than two hundred meters high: there was insufficient gravity on the platform, and she forgot about it when she was excited. Then a large group of senior assistant technicians were called over, and they carefully transferred the several-meter-long black detector into a special sample storage container, and sent it to a research facility near the deep diving port to wait for knocking.
I saw that Tavel's body also wanted to follow him immediately to conduct research, but Sandora stopped her: "Just let your mass projection go. You and the defense commander here and the main designers of the deep dive port come over, There are special circumstances that require analysis.”
Tavel saw the extremely serious expression on Sandora's face and immediately bowed and left.
Soon, the defense commander of the deep dive port and several staff members who looked to be between soldiers and scientists arrived at the temporary work station under the leadership of Tavel. The reason why those staff members look somewhere between soldiers and scientists is because they are wearing white technician uniforms, but they are bigger than most Imperial soldiers, and besides their fierce faces, they also have a murderous temperament. I suspect that this group of scientists carrying heavy artillery can rush to the battlefield no slower than the soldiers - Zhennima is indeed a guy who dares to squat on the Gate of the Abyss to conduct research. Why do you think Tavel has trained so many scientific lunatics on her level?
"This is the defense system log I found from the only device that can still be read." Sandora uploaded the information she found to the public information link. "The platform was completely undefended before the accident." , I wonder if anyone has discovered this."
The Commander of Deep Dive Port Defense is a male officer with a thin face and deep eye sockets. As a very "special" testing facility, a considerable number of defense forces are stationed here, and this officer is the supreme commander of the local defense forces. He is also the only local person besides Tavel who has the authority to turn off the base defense through external codes. . If the current situation were to be dealt with by soldiers of ordinary races, they would have been able to sort out the chaff long ago, but the imperial officers were different. He just recalled it carefully and shook his head without changing his expression: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there is no relevant record. All monitoring points reported that everything was normal. Until the explosion, no soldiers or scientists reported that the base defense was closed."
Sandora nodded: "Yeah. I understand. Now let me tell you my opinion: The problem should not only be with the core host, but also with the monitoring devices in various places. However, the records of those detection devices have been destroyed, so this is just A guess. After the core host shut down the base defense, the monitoring system also made a collective error. When the lower area defense was down, it made a report of "base defense is normal", and even the branch terminals throughout the base showed this. Therefore, the Sentinel We didn’t notice the abnormality at the first time.”
"It was only the lower area that turned off the defense, and it was turned off less than a minute before the black lump arrived," I interjected, "There must be some connection - I mean. I think this is simply It’s as if the platform is waiting for the black shuttle to give it a shot. Sandora, do you think the system failure here is affected by the black shuttle? For example, it carries the abyss reaction.”
When I found the black shuttle, there was no abyss reaction on it, but it was probably purified by the nether energy in the buffer crystal grid. It can't be said that it didn't carry the abyss with it when it first crashed in. I still remember the psionic energy vortex that tore open the space. It was caused by the black shuttle when it passed through the corridor. Thinking about it now, it was probably the remaining abyssal power on the black shuttle that destroyed the local space structure and pulled part of the nether energy reactor into the real world: the more I think about it, the more possible it becomes.
"I do think so," Sandora pondered. "In fact, I think there is almost an inevitable connection between the black shuttle and the paralysis of the base defense. The two things can no longer be explained by coincidence. But just by such a small Can the abyss power carried by the detector destroy the control center of the entire control center?"
"Theoretically... this won't happen," Tavel shook her head vigorously. She personally designed most of the structure and control system of this site, and even wrote the code for the defense core. The girl with glasses didn't believe it. Something he carefully designed would have such a fatal flaw, "Let's not talk about the tightness and stability of the defense system. Judging from this 'fault', it doesn't seem to be the work of the Abyss. The destruction of the Abyss has always been blind. It is programmed and very direct. It may directly explode the shield of the facility, or it may directly shatter the armor belt, but it will never be so meticulous in invading the host, rewriting the program, deceiving the monitors, and then disguising everything. An accident that caused a runaway energy furnace: Abyss does not have this kind of thinking ability. Theoretically, this is the case."
"There will be no result to this question, at least for now." Lin Xue, who had been silent all this time, suddenly muttered silently, and the scene suddenly became quiet. I looked at the eldest lady expectantly: "Girl, are you watching? What happened?"
"I haven't seen anything," Lin Xue said lightly, "I just made sure that there are no clues around us. All valuable intelligence has been destroyed with the explosion. This secret will be hidden for a long time. When it is revealed, Any accident investigation before the start of the operation is a waste of time. Instead of wasting energy investigating this, it is better to change your mind and think about another situation: What would happen if the defense system in the control center did not go crazy?"
Shandora and I looked disappointed at the same time: after the prophet announced that something would not have results, it really would not have results. This has been proven countless times. In today's renaissance era, where time and energy are very urgent, Lin Xue's predictions have certainly helped the new empire avoid many detours and saved a lot of resources, but this kind of abruptly putting aside a big unsolved case and not thinking about it It still feels like it's heart-wrenching and uncomfortable--well. If you don't want to, don't think about it. It's not the first time it has happened anyway. According to the eldest lady, it seems that the truth of this incident will be revealed in the future? Since it won't have much impact, it's okay to wait quietly.
I focused my thoughts on the hypothesis proposed by Lin Xue: "If the defense system had not ventilated? Of course nothing would have happened to the control center."
"No," Sandora suddenly raised her head, "I understand what Lin Xue means: if those hosts are all normal, the black shuttle will crash into the shield - this extremely precious sample will be destroyed even if we are not aware of it. If so, it will be lost.”
The eldest lady smiled mysteriously: "That's it. So is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
"The control center can be rebuilt. The lost observation records and test data can be obtained again at any time, but we cannot build the black shuttle. The deep-sea submarine has not yet reached the critical point in the abyss. Which of the two is better? Precious..." Sandora said and glanced at Tavel. "In this case we should be grateful for the accident."
Seeing the cautious expression on Tavel's face, I knew that the black shuttle and the control center were more important in terms of scientific research value.
Sandora looked around and seemed to feel that there was no need to continue the meeting, so she stood up: "Then according to the prophet's instructions, let's put the accident investigation aside for the time being - but we still need to collect all the information that can be collected. All the information has been sorted out for future use. Tavel, you should conduct the research and analysis on that detector yourself, and repair the equipment here as soon as possible. The deep dive plan should be restarted."
With that said, Sandora and Tavel looked at Lin Xue together, and the latter nodded, indicating that the catastrophic accident she predicted that day was over. Tavel asked uneasy: "Mother, will the failure of the control center not happen again?"
"No, this is the first and last time." Lin Xue nodded firmly, "Although I can't see the reason clearly. But it happened just for Heisuo, and there won't be a second time in the future. There is no problem with the security system of the control center, you can rest assured."
Tavel and the management staff of the deep dive port left here and returned to work. Soon only Sandora, me, and Lin Xue were left in the huge conference room. Sandora rubbed her brows and seemed a little tired: "I feel like this happened as if someone had planned it. The black shuttle appeared, the defense system was down, the monitoring device failed... all the interlocking links made the detector intact. The earth falls into our hands. I never believe in good luck from heaven. This makes people think of conspiracy."
"Indeed, think about where that thing ended up - in the crystals in the middle of the big platform," I agreed. "I just noticed this now: without the protection of those energy-releasing buffer crystals, a small The detector must have followed Hui Hui when the big platform exploded, so the angle at which it penetrated the platform was simply magical."
A detector with thin skin and low health, even if it carries a layer of psionic energy shield and is protected by the mass effect at the speed of light, cannot penetrate a copper-walled space fortress without surviving. Even if the space fortress If you open the door to let it hit and actively expose the energy core to let it penetrate, the detector will also be destroyed when the fortress explodes, unless it is "just right" embedded in a protective layer after the impact: for example, it can Buffer crystal that absorbs explosion damage. Shandora is right. This series of events has nothing to do with accidents. This is completely a carefully calculated and adjusted "capture operation". I would not be surprised to say that someone planned all of this. But who can do this? What's the point of doing this?
The Xiling Apostle has been ruled out, but it is impossible for the enemy to do it - because it is obvious that the ultimate beneficiary of this matter is the empire. If it is the behavior of the fallen apostle, they should rather take what they cannot get. Even if we destroy it, we won't let it fall into our hands, unless they go to all this trouble just to destroy one of our space stations - I remember that Abyss Xiling is not a disabled girl.
"Anyway, let Tavel transfer the black shuttle to the shadow space today. Only by putting things at home can people feel at ease. I'm afraid this universe is not very 'safe' anymore. After I go back, I will ask the Garden of Death to reset this The coordinates of the world, I don’t want to encounter a group of fallen apostles attacking when the deep-diving ship is about to set off.”
Although the investigation into the system failure has been temporarily put on hold, at least the investigation into the explosion in the control center has been completed. We completed our work here and set off on the road back to Shadow City. Tavel will follow later: she needs to do some simple tests and processing on the black shuttle first to ensure that it is completely harmless. After all, she is bringing something to the capital world, and it will not work if she is not careful.
The deep dive plan was restarted after being delayed for almost half a month. The new model of deep submersible ship was sent to the test port, where the control center would be rebuilt before the deep submersible ship would undergo a final round of testing before launch. Tavel seemed extremely confident about the newly designed spacecraft. She was on this ship. A lot of groundbreaking technologies were used on the ship, and during the days when the deep-diving plan was temporarily suspended, some high-tech modules that were kindly supported by Harlan were installed on the ship - these technologies from the fallen apostles were originally intended to What was installed on their deep-diving equipment was now first used on the imperial spacecraft. I don’t know if Abyss Xiling had thought about this result.
Anyway, I have always felt that beating Harlan to the Imperial camp was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done...