I successfully tricked the highest Dragon God into chatting with the crazy computer system. Based on the former's eloquence and the crazy computer system's almost equal level of nagging, I estimated that the two of them would be able to chat until 8: 30 am tomorrow. During this time, we would have plenty of time to discuss serious matters — such as researching leek boxes.
… I seem to have been infected by Father God.
"Tell me the truth. How big of a grudge do you have against the woman on the other side of the communicator?" After I returned to my seat, Father God couldn't help but lean over to look at me. His expression seemed to be filled with misunderstanding. This was normal, as the highest-level Dragon God's mouth was the type of thing that could effectively take revenge on society within a twenty-kilometer radius. Most people wouldn't be able to imagine why someone would voluntarily push someone else in front of his mouth unless there was some deep-seated hatred between them. Of course, the most important part was that Father God probably wouldn't have imagined that there was someone in this world who was almost on par with the highest-level Dragon God …
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about when we are going to enter the world fragment." I waved my hand and put the two of them aside. I turned to look at the holographic projection not far away. It was showing the exterior view of the fleet. I could see the Protoss's Void Node and all kinds of strange objects (I wasn't sure if they counted as their spaceships) floating quietly near the fleet. There were also some small bright spots darting between the floating objects. They were probably the Protoss's working team. "Other than the guards, I also brought a group of scientists. They are almost the best in the Empire. They will definitely be useful."
Father God nodded. "Of course. We don't know anything about your technological creations. They are two completely different systems. The exploration team found some facilities in the wreckage, but they had no idea how to activate them. But you'll have to wait for a while. Our people are currently reinforcing the barrier near the world fragment. You know, it's a world that's about to disappear. Any slight disturbance could destroy the world barrier. If we want everyone to enter, we have to reinforce it. "
I nodded to express my understanding. Then, I called for a high-level technician who had followed the army and asked him to organize professionals to help reinforce the world fragment. This was the benefit of planning thoroughly before we set off. We brought along a large number of experts in various fields that might be useful. These experts belonged to a special small team: the New Empire Explorers.
This explorers team was a small team made up of three of the most advanced research ships and several auxiliary ships. Their goal was to explore the ruins of the Old Empire. They could be considered as a "unit" of the New Empire. Shallow Shallow felt especially close to this team. These exploration experts probably reminded her of her father: They were basically leaders in digging ancestral tombs.
While the staff members were busy with their work, Father God and the others came to the platform at the top of the Empire General to observe the troops that the other party had brought. I didn't know what Father God was thinking, but I was filled with curiosity. This was the first time I had seen a regular Protoss army. There were so many different types of troops, and they were fully equipped. It was a formation that could fight against anyone. It was a completely different concept from the Protoss teams that I had seen before, and the God's servants of 123.
Currently, we were still in the Void Realm. From the "coordinates", we should be outside the Time, Space, and Law barrier of the world wreckage. Hence, the troops needed to rely on the Orderly Field to maintain stability in the Void. As the Protoss's Orderly Field had been active for some time, its scale was much larger than the Empire's fleet. We could vaguely see a layer of faint golden halos enveloping a spherical space with a radius of thousands of kilometers. We couldn't see the situation from afar, but we could still see the Protoss's base from up close. The core of their base was the Void Node. Those huge, majestic, and mysterious buildings that could exist forever in the Void served as their command center. It was probably similar to the motherships of the Empire's fleet: providing fire support, carrying a large number of troops, having a logistics module, and could even escape with the small gray ships around them. And near those Void Nodes, there were dozens of floating platforms or floating islands. These platforms carried a large number of buildings and functional facilities. But to me, those strange things were just mysterious and majestic. Just like how the Protoss didn't know how to fiddle with the Empire's sentry cannons, we had no idea what those spires and steles they built were for. Thanks to Father God's explanation, I learned that these floating platforms were also transportation and living facilities. Every floating platform or floating island had a standard combat squad stationed on it (just like Tinkerbell's five-man squad), as well as the Follower Gods under these combat squads (the most elite of the Divine Servants or the personal disciples of a certain Righteous God). The Follower Gods were mainly responsible for maintaining and operating the floating platforms. They could transform the floating platforms into weapons of war or temporary camps, but they normally wouldn't participate in direct combat. The Righteous Gods of the combat squads would be the ones who would charge into battle.
Further out, there were other things around the floating platforms. Usually, it was something like a sentry tower or a "cannon" that I didn't understand. It was obvious that they were unmanned facilities. Perhaps they were the first batch of cannon fodder when the war started, and they could also take on a certain close-range defense mission. And in between these unmanned facilities, there were also a large number of strange-looking "objects" floating around. Some looked like elemental creatures, some were simply little balls of light, and some were geometrical objects that looked like children's toys, constantly changing shape as they floated around.
"Those are all divine power creations, and they have all kinds of functions." Godfather excitedly pointed out the objects in the Protoss's base and explained them to me one by one, as if he was showing off the new furniture he had just bought. "You should know that the Gods have different powers. Every Divine Faction has more than ten specializations. That's why a combat squad's combat methods are extremely diverse. Depending on the members, they all have their own tactics. These divine power creations are support items created by the Righteous Gods of the combat squads. They're used to strengthen their positions and individual combat strength, or they can even serve as soldiers. Of course, there are also some that are useless. The main reason why they're released is because they can't be retrieved. Children like to create random things when they're bored. If they don't have a place to put them, they'll just throw them onto the battlefield. Even if they can't be used in battle, it's still good to have them self-destruct … "
Icetis pursed her lips. "That's why the Protoss always wins their battles through chaos. It might seem like a Void Node descending and the scene of an entire army attacking is very majestic, but in reality, our main tactic is still to throw bricks …"
Godfather silently glanced at this problem child. "That's just your personal tactic."
Sister Bing stuck out her tongue and didn't say anything for once.
The Protoss's formation gave me a very novel feeling. Their combat methods and military model were completely different from the Imperial Army. Although they looked very mighty, it was very difficult for them to give off the feeling of an "army." This was probably related to their "level-by-level squads" and "regional grouping" model. Their army could always be broken down into many highly similar small components, just like Lego bricks. The advantages of this model were obvious: they were extremely flexible and had a high survival rate in their regions. They could almost ignore any kind of adverse environment that could cause chaos in a large army. This was because they didn't have the requirements for a large army to fight. Also, as long as they cooperated well and commanded well, they could regroup in any way at any time and form any kind of army. A combat squad plus a floating platform could be a complete army. A Void Node plus dozens of combat squads could also be a complete army. Several Void Nodes together could also be a complete army. It was almost impossible to break them up — because they were already scattered to the point of no end.
The disadvantages of this model were also obvious: small squads lacked overall organization, which made it impossible for them to display the overwhelming advantage of a large army. There was no way to rely on the same type of troops to create an "army wave attack." This meant that their squads had to "nibble away" to advance in battle. Also, because the regular Protoss army fought in small squads, each with their own tactics, and the composition of each squad was different, this brought great difficulty to command and cooperation. In a normal large army, an ordinary soldier only needed a few months of professional training to be able to take on all the roles that he needed to take on. But what about small squads like the Protoss? Each of their squads would probably need a very long time to complete their cooperation training with all the squads in the entire battle order, and their commanders would need even longer to get used to their own work.
No tactics could be perfect, this was a rule.
But for the Protoss, this kind of small squad combat was indeed the most suitable model — they were individually strong, so they were more suitable for small group combat. If you let a group of strong guys line up in a square formation, the combat power wasted would far exceed the coolness value that you would gain. The size of each of their squads was summed up through countless years of experience, they knew how large of a combat squad they should form in order to maximize their combat power. As for the trouble of cooperation and command …
Please allow me to remind you, this was a group of weirdos who could spend the New Year as if it were seconds. They had compulsory education for more than 1300 years, and Jingle hadn't even graduated yet …
Do you think that these magical creatures would care about the time spent on training? They could train a small squad to fight for hundreds of millions of years, I reckon that no one would care more about training time than them.
Just as I was discussing with Godfather about the combat methods of our respective armies and studying how the Protoss and Schilling could maximize their combat power by forming an alliance, a high-level God suddenly came to the upper platform and bowed to Godfather.
"Master, the reinforcement of the world has been completed, the passage can be used now."
"Oh, oh, thank you." Godfather seemed to have just remembered that there was such a matter, he nodded to the Protoss who came to report the news, then turned his head to greet the group of experts and scholars from the Realm of Gods that he brought with him. Of course, I don't know any of them, I only know Qian Yuhao among the people that Godfather brought with him this time, that trash is still busy torturing the second lunatic of the Visca Family. I reckon that if Godfather still had a little bit of love for this world, he wouldn't have called him over at this time. I also gathered the group of scientists that I brought with me, and the two parties headed to the target world's wreckage from the Void Node and the Empire's Admiral's ejection port, and agreed to meet on the other side.
Xiaoxue and I boarded the second research ship, and when we passed through the spatial passage that the Protoss helped to open, we encountered a slight bump. It seemed that even though the passage had been established, and the world barrier had been reinforced once, this ancient wreckage still lacked stability. Of course, it could also be that there was still a problem with the compatibility between the Empire's equipment and the Protoss's equipment. Anyway, it was just a small problem. In the end, we successfully passed through the worrisome spatial passage, and from the Void Realm, we entered a murky world.
The three research ships hovered in a triangular formation in the turbid space, while all the engineering ships and heavy escort ships were in position around us. Almost at the same time when we arrived, the Protoss's men appeared beside our small fleet. Compared to the Empire's massive ships, the Protoss's team of experts did not look as flashy. There were only two obsidian platforms that were a few hundred meters long, and that was all they had. Other than that, the most flashy thing was the dozen or so golden twin-headed dragons that acted as bodyguards, and it was this flashy place that collapsed when one of the dragons slammed into the platform beside it. Lin was indeed a clown who would not forget to act cute and sell out her teammates at any given moment, and she was so gullible. After being fooled by Icetis, the silly dragon happily ran over to be her bodyguard, and why didn't 123 and the others stop her?
I saw Godfather waving at us from the outer space, and so I left the spaceship with Shallow Shallow and the others who were bored in the spaceship, as well as the Protoss's cops who were hitching a ride on the spaceship, and came to Godfather's side. Apart from a few unknown Protoss following behind Godfather, there was also a blonde girl who was clutching her head with a depressed expression. She was Lin, and it seemed that she had been ordered to leave the escort team.
"No matter how many times I look at it, your spaceships are truly spectacular." Godfather looked up at the three research ships that were slowly turning and constantly releasing engineering probes, his face filled with interest. "The Protoss's starting point might be too high, and they are born with no pressure to survive, which caused my children to not have much creativity. What they have developed over hundreds of millions of years is not as interesting as what you have developed over hundreds of years."
As Godfather spoke, he turned back to look at the obsidian platform that he had brought with him, a little resentfully. "Just this kind of cruising platform, they used over twenty thousand years to improve it, and the final result was from a rectangular platform to a square platform … because we really don't need any more functions."
I said, "… Let's talk about the Abyss."
I looked at the surrounding space as I listened to Godfather's explanation of the general situation of this world. This was an extremely narrow "universe", and its scale made it hard for people to believe that it was a world. Currently, the confirmed stable region was only a few tens of thousands of kilometers in radius. This could be an important base of the Empire in this universe back then, which was why this tens of thousands of kilometers of space had been reinforced and preserved to this day. Outside this region was the Dimensional Chaos Zone, where spatial distortions were severe. At any time, three-dimensional space could fall into two-dimensional space, or jump from two-dimensional space to three-dimensional space, which was a pain in the ass phenomenon, such as a three-dimensional space falling into a two-dimensional space, or a two-dimensional space jumping into a three-dimensional space, would happen at any time.
After the destruction of the world, there were a lot of abnormal "natural phenomena". Other than a relatively stable space and some physical matter, everything else was chaotic. The research ship found that the law of universal gravitation here had gone haywire, and all matter was under the abnormal law of gravity. Their absolute mass in this universe fluctuated, and sometimes they were affected by gravity, and sometimes they were independent of gravity. In this case, other than the creations of the Empire, all celestial bodies in this universe had been torn apart. The optical phenomenon was not right either. There were no celestial bodies or matter that could emit light in this space, but there was still a beam of light that still shone on the world, showing us this chaotic and dark space. After analysis, we found that this beam of light had "disappeared" for tens of thousands of years. It was the afterglow of the Final Spark on the day of the end of the world, and it was thrown into some kind of error state, shining until now. In the wreckage of a seriously collapsed world, similar abnormal phenomena were almost everywhere.
Because of the influence of the gravitational disorder, the fleet activated a large-scale gravitational isolation field. One was to facilitate the operation, and the other was to prevent the mass of the fleet from damaging the ruins of this world. We observed our surroundings under the protection of the isolation field. Everywhere we looked was chaos, as if the world had just been born. Thick and indistinguishable clouds filled the entire space, and the never-ending flash moved slowly in the clouds, like a monster in the deep sea. Under the guidance of the Scholar Protoss, the research team had locked on to the only point of accumulation of physical matter in the space. It was located in a place slightly away from the center of the "universe." The radar showed that there was a vortex structure there, but in fact, we saw nothing.
I looked at the chaos in front of me, confused. "What about the ruins?"
Xiaoxue looked at the report sent back by the engineering probe. After studying it for a while, she told me, "It has been inverted. No wonder the Protoss didn't find anything here. He even asked us to take a look. There is a long-lasting inverted effect here, and it is probably locked at some point in the inverted extreme value because of the end of the world."
I looked at her in surprise. Isn't she a naughty child? Why does she look like an expert now?
"Dad, don't be surprised," Xiaoxue puffed her chest out proudly. "I am a princess of the Empire. I have received an elite education since I was young. You and mom had a good upbringing back then!"
I thought about it and agreed with her. I was a novice, but Xiaoxue was different. It was hard to say whether her first toy when she was born was a doll or a terminator. Based on this, at least at this point in time, Xiaoxue's education level should be higher than her father's, right?
A technician reported through the information link, "We have found the inverted frequency. We have confirmed that the entire world fragment is in the inverted state. We will begin the correction of the universe in three minutes."
Xiaoxue blinked and suddenly grabbed my and Shallow Shallow's hands. "Dad, Shallow Shallow, Mom, hold on tight. It might be a spectacular scene later."
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