The probe sent by the civilization on the other side was no different from the probes made by the Empire in terms of structural strength and other aspects. Other than the fact that its abyssal defense technology was a mystery to us and that its material had many unexplainable properties, this thing was no more resistant than the ones made by the Empire. So in theory, such a thing could not pose a threat to the control center.
No matter how high its speed was, it was useless, even if it exceeded the speed of light and had infinite mass. This was not a problem of speed, but a problem of "hierarchy." Because our control center had a psionic shield. The psionic shield was something that could defend against all external threats. Because the position of psionic energy on the Void Stairway was the same as the entire world, everything in the world would be weakened by the psionic shield. "Speed" and "kinetic energy" were concepts defined in the universe. So even if this thing hit the platform at the speed of light, its speed would be reduced by more than half in an instant, and then its body would be burned. It could not even pass through the first layer of the shield. Of course, it might have used the same energy as the psionic energy, so it could offset part of the shield, but I did not believe that such a small probe could carry enough energy to melt through two layers of shields.
It would crash outside the control center, not all the way through the latter's defenses. After detonating the energy core, it survived in a nearly intact state. However, the premise of all this was that our control center's shield was open.
"You said that before the explosion, the defense system of the control center went down?" I gawked at Shadora. She should have made some other jokes. How could the Empire's equipment malfunction like this?
"I know you don't believe me," Sandora shrugged. "But that is what the system log recorded, and it was not a human operation. All the mainframes of the defense system ordered to shut down the protection at the bottom of the platform at the same time. Without a shield, the rechargeable armor was also pressurized, so the control center was completely defenseless for a short period of time. The 'black shuttle' should have crashed into it at that time. It was not hindered at all. After the pressurization, the rechargeable armor was just a slightly harder metal. In the face of a high-speed kinetic energy bomb, it was not much stronger than ordinary materials. And I guess the 'black shuttle' also had a shield when it was turned on. So after the two canceled out, our big platform was destroyed, but that thing was safe. "
"Uh …" I did not know what to say.
I knew about the rechargeable armor. It was widely used on everything that needed heavy protection. Because no matter how strong a material was, its defense would only be reflected in its "sturdiness." Even if you got a piece of neutron star material, it would not have any resistance. So, the Shiring Apostles used a more advanced rechargeable armor. By injecting psionic energy into a metal with high affinity, every molecule of the armor would be relatively fixed. At the same time, the armor would be endowed with energy resistance that was almost comparable to that of the Protoss armor. This was the rechargeable armor. It was also the only physical armor that still had value after reaching the technological level of the Empire (all other forms of pure material armor would be eliminated because pure material would never be able to withstand the power of a psionic cannon). But rechargeable armor could also be broken. Rechargeable of Rechargeable armor. If one were to Empire, the armor would, Apostle would be able, if they were not, and could not.
Pandora could smash a hole in it with her head. That girl's head was rechargeable.
Therefore, it was normal for the black shuttle to break through four layers of armor. If its speed reached a certain level, the four layers of armor would be no different from four layers of cotton. If there was a layer of "psionic energy" on the surface of the black shuttle, the four layers of armor would not even exist.
"Is it a simple system failure, or is it a mistake by the staff?" I frowned. I could not understand why the control center would automatically turn off the defense of the bottom layer. It was like … they were welcoming the black shuttle.
"Both are unlikely," Sandora turned around and slowly flew out. She said through the mental connection, "The probability of a single system failure is less than one in ten million. The probability of three redundant systems failing at the same time is negligible in my opinion. Furthermore, the secondary defense host in the bottom layer also has its own judgment. When it receives a command such as' Abandon defense ', it will repeat the command to the upper host again. The upper host will repeat the same command twice to the lower host. Do you think this is possible? As for the personnel error, it is even more impossible. The core code of fortified facilities is not allowed to be changed. Only Tawil and the defense commander here have the authority to change the code. Moreover, the Shiring Apostles would not make such a low-level mistake. Creating a system loophole and causing the defense network to go offline? What a joke. "
With such a big stone in my heart, Sandora and I quickly returned to the top of the platform. Tawil and Lin Xue were already waiting there. The latter couldn't help but look a little worried, but after seeing me, it instantly changed into a carefree smile. The missy came up to me and patted my shoulder, "Hey, the tough guy is back. How does it feel to be blown around?"
I immediately knew that this half-fairy girl was probably "looking" at me the whole time. I was slightly touched and embarrassed, so I scratched my head and said, "It was very exciting, very exciting …"
Tawil's reaction after seeing the 'black shuttle' was completely within our expectations. The bespectacled lady almost jumped more than two hundred meters high. The gravity on the platform was not enough, so she was too excited and forgot about it. After that, a large group of senior assistant technicians were called over. They carefully moved the few meters long black detector into a special sample storage container, and sent it to the research facility near the deep submergence port to be hammered.
I could see that Tawil's main body wanted to immediately go over to conduct research, but Sandora stopped her, "Just let your projection go. You, the defense commander here, and the main designers of the deep submergence port, come over. There is a special situation that needs to be analyzed."
Seeing the extremely serious expression on Sandora's face, Tawil immediately bowed and retreated.
Soon, the defense commander of the deep submergence port, as well as several staff members who looked like a soldier and a scientist, came down to the temporary workstation under Tawil's lead. The reason why those staff members looked like a soldier and a scientist was because they were wearing the white technician uniforms, but they were bigger than most of the Empire soldiers. Apart from their fierce faces, they also had a murderous temperament. I suspected that this group of scientists were no slower than the soldiers when they carried heavy artillery to the battlefield. They really deserved to be the people who dared to squat on the Gate of the Abyss to research. How did Tawil cultivate so many scientific lunatics of 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 in a completely unguarded state before the accident. I want to know if anyone has noticed this."
The defense commander of the deep submergence port was a male officer with a thin face and deep eye sockets. As a very 'special' experimental facility, a considerable number of defense forces were stationed here, and this officer was the highest commander of the local defense forces. He was also the only person, other than Tawil, who had the authority to shut down the base's defense through external codes. If the current situation had happened to the soldiers of other races, they would have been shaking in fear, but the Imperial Army officer was different. He carefully recalled for a while and shook his head without changing his expression. "Your Majesty, there are no relevant records. All the monitoring points reported that everything was normal. Until the explosion, no soldiers or scientists reported that the base's defense had been shut down."
Sandora nodded. "Well, I understand. Now, my opinion: the problem should not only be the core mainframe, but also the monitoring devices everywhere. However, the records of those monitoring devices have been destroyed, so this is just a guess. After the core mainframe shut down the base's defense, the monitoring system also collectively made a collective error. When the defense of the lower layer was down, it reported that the base's defense was normal. Even the branch terminals in the base showed the same, so the sentinels did not notice the anomaly immediately. "
"Only the lower layer's defense was shut down, and it was less than a minute before the black blob arrived," I interrupted. "There must be some connection. I mean, I feel like the platform was welcoming the black shuttle to attack it. Sandora, do you think the system failure here was affected by the black shuttle? For example, the abyss reaction on it or something like that. "
When I found the black shuttle, there was no abyss reaction on it, but it was probably purified by the psionic energy in the buffer crystal lattice. It couldn't be said that it did not bring the abyss with it when it first crashed in. I still remembered the psionic vortex that tore the space apart. It was caused by the black shuttle when it passed through the corridor. Now that I think about it, it was probably the remnant abyss power on the black shuttle that destroyed the local spatial structure and pulled a part of the psionic reactor into the real world. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was possible.
"I do think so," Sandora muttered. "In fact, I think the black shuttle and the base's defense are almost inevitably connected. These two things can no longer be explained by coincidence. But with the abyss power carried by such a small detector, can it destroy the control center of the entire control center? "
"In theory … such a situation should not have happened," Tawil shook her head vigorously. She personally designed most of the structure and control system of the station, and the code of the defense core was written by her. The bespectacled girl did not believe that something she had carefully designed would have such a fatal flaw. "Let's not talk about the security and stability of the defense system. Judging from this' failure ', it doesn't seem to be the work of the abyss. The destruction of the abyss has always been blind and disorderly, and it is very direct. It may directly cause the shield of the facility to explode, or it may directly shatter the armor belt, but it would never be so detailed as to hack into the mainframe, rewrite the program, deceive the monitor, and then disguise everything as an accident of the energy furnace going berserk. The abyss does not have this kind of thinking ability. In theory, yes. "
"There won't be an answer to this question, at least for now." Lin Xue, who had been silent all this while, suddenly muttered to herself. Suddenly, the scene quieted down. I looked at the missy expectantly. "Girl, did you see something?"
"I didn't see anything," Lin Xue said calmly. "I just confirmed that there are no clues around us. All valuable information has been destroyed in the explosion. This secret will be hidden for a long time. Before it is revealed, any accident investigation will be a waste of time. Instead of wasting energy investigating this, it is better to think about another situation. If the defense system of the control center did not go crazy, what would happen? "
Sandora and I showed a look of disappointment at the same time. After the prophet announced that there would be no results, there really would be no results. This has been proven countless times. In today's Renaissance era where time and energy were very tight, Lin Xue's predictions certainly helped the New Empire avoid a lot of detours, and also saved a lot of resources. But the feeling of putting a big unsolved case aside and not thinking about it was still uncomfortable. Well, if you don't want to think about it, then don't think about it. It was not the first time it happened anyway. According to what the missy said, it seemed that the truth of this incident would be revealed in the future. Since there was no impact, it was fine to wait quietly.
I focused my thoughts on the hypothesis proposed by Lin Xue. "If the defense system did not go crazy? Of course, the control center will not have an accident. "
"No," Sandora suddenly looked up. "I understand what Lin Xue meant. If the mainframe was normal, the Black Shuttle would have crashed into the shield. This extremely precious sample would have been lost without us noticing."
The missy 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 at any time, but we can't make the Black Shuttle. The submersible ship has not yet touched the critical point in the abyss. Which of these two is more precious …" Sandora said and glanced at Tawil. "In that case, we should be grateful for this accident."
Looking at the cautious expression on Tawil's face, I knew the scientific value of the Black Shuttle and the control center was more important.
Sandora looked around and seemed to feel that there was no need to continue the meeting. She stood up and said, "Then, according to the prophet's instructions, let's put the accident investigation on hold for the time being. But we still have to collect all the information we can and save it for future use. Tawil, you should do the research and analysis of the detector yourself. In addition, repair the equipment here as soon as possible. The deep diving project should be able to restart. "
As she said that, Sandora and Tawil looked at Lin Xue together. The latter nodded, indicating that the catastrophic accident she had predicted the other day had ended. Tawil was still worried and asked, "Madam, will the failure of the control center not happen again?"
"No, this is the first time and the last time," Lin Xue nodded with certainty. "Although I don't know the reason, it happened because of the Black Shuttle. There will not be a second time. There is no problem with the control center's security system. You can rest assured. "
Tawil and the management of the deep diving harbor left and returned to work. Soon, only Sandora, Lin Xue, and I were left in the large conference room. Sandora rubbed her eyebrows and seemed a little tired. "I feel like this is all planned by someone. The appearance of the Black Shuttle, the downtime of the defense system, the failure of the monitoring device … It's all linked together to let the detector fall into our hands. I never believe in good luck. This makes me think of conspiracy."
"Indeed, if you think about the last place that thing stopped — in the crystals in the middle of the large platform," I agreed. "I only noticed this now. If it wasn't for the protection of the energy release buffer crystals, a small detector would definitely have turned to dust when the large platform exploded. So, the angle at which it pierced through the platform was amazing."
A detector with thin skin and little HP, even if it carried a layer of psionic shield and had the protection of the mass effect at the speed of light, it would still be impossible to penetrate a space fortress with its own survival. Even if the space fortress opened its door and exposed its energy core for it to pierce through, the detector would still be destroyed when the fortress exploded. Unless it was embedded in a protective layer after the impact, such as a buffer crystal that could absorb the damage of the explosion. Sandora was right. This series of events had nothing to do with accidents. It was completely a carefully calculated and adjusted "capture operation." I was not surprised to say that someone had planned all of this. But who could do this? What was the point of doing all of this?
The Shiring Apostles had already been ruled out, but it was impossible for the enemy to have done it. It was obvious that the ultimate beneficiary of this matter was the Empire. If this was the style of the Fallen Apostles, they would rather destroy something that they could not get than let it fall into our hands. Unless they really went through all this trouble just to destroy one of our space stations — I remembered that Abyss Schilling was not a disabled girl.
"In short, let's get Tawil to move the Black Shuttle to the shadow space today. It's only reassuring to leave the thing at home. I'm afraid this universe isn't too 'safe' anymore. When I return, I will ask the Garden of Death to reset the coordinates of this world. I don't want to encounter a group of Fallen Apostles when the submersible ship is about to depart. "
Although the investigation of the system malfunction had been temporarily put on hold, at least the investigation of the explosion in the control center had been completed. We completed our work here and embarked on the road back to the shadow city. Tawil would follow behind us. She first had to do some simple tests and treatment on the Black Shuttle to ensure that it was completely harmless. After all, we were going to bring something back to the capital world, so we had to be careful.
The deep submersible project had been delayed for about half a month before it was restarted. The new deep submersible ship was sent to the experimental port. Before the control center was rebuilt, the deep submersible ship would undergo the final round of tests before it was restarted. Tawil seemed to be very confident in the newly designed spaceship. She had used a lot of groundbreaking technology on the ship, and during the days when the deep submersible project was temporarily suspended, she had installed some high-tech modules that were kindly provided by Halland. These technologies from the Fallen Apostles were originally going to be installed on their deep submersible equipment, but now they were first used on the Empire spaceship. I wasn't sure if Abyss Schilling had thought of this result at the beginning.
In any case, I always felt that beating up Halland and sending her to the Empire camp was one of the most worthwhile things I had ever done …
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