Alright, alright, in this chaotic, mysterious, and information-rich world that can leave both me and Sandora dumbfounded, just look at how many secrets are buried here! I have to go through everything that happened here.
First, let's start with Sandora's dream. Oh, this is just a brief interlude when Her Majesty the Queen overslept, we can put it aside for now. Let's look at the real world. At the beginning of everything, both of us were blasted into a desolate universe by the activation of the long bridge.
Then, we found signs of life in this desolate universe, and soon, we found a strange planet. There were high-tech space station ruins in the planet's orbit, but on the surface, there was a backward civilization in the era of animal agriculture. After following up and observing, we confirmed that this backward civilization of many races had encountered a technological gap, but they actively sealed their technology. In the process, we also found familiar races: the last spawn of the Old Empire, the Tree Elves.
Then, the whole thing began to unfold in an uncontrollable direction. Anything related to the Old Empire was not good. The inhabitants of this world were exiles who had survived the catastrophe. We found a huge space ruin that looked like a grave at the edge of the galaxy, an unidentified starship of the Old Empire, a fragment of Visca's star ring that we had forgotten about, and a mess of clues about the Old Empire, the Army of Destruction, the spawn of the Empire, Abyssal Schilling, and so on! At this critical juncture, the Tree Elves proved the location of this world: it was actually in the center of the Abyss!
Did you think that fate would end here? Haha … After so much trouble, after the "Deity Forge" (the planetary fortress that the exiled fleet rode on, one of the creations of Abyssal Schilling) was reactivated, it turned out that it was Visca's subordinate who jumped out!
That's right, even though I could hardly believe my own … I could not believe anything, but it was indeed Visca's old subordinate who jumped out! And she actually has an agreement with Abyssal Schilling, can you believe it? The last self-rescue plan of the Old Empire was carried out by Abyss Schilling and one of Visca's subordinates. Moreover, neither Visca nor Abyss Schilling seemed to know about it!
I had no choice but to give myself two hard knocks on my head (Sandora also helped to give me two knocks to show that we were husband and wife) to calm myself down and accept this reality. Then, I suddenly thought of a big mystery that had been bothering me for a long time. Two days ago, Sandora and I saw a Star Ring fragment being launched into an unknown world. Would the Deity Forge's spaceship AI, as an old subordinate of Visca, know about the fragment?
I beamed as I looked at the communicator. Although I couldn't see the other party's "face", I believed that I had sufficiently conveyed my goodwill. "Then, let's get down to business … Eh, wait! Do you know anything about Starlink? The Star Ring of Planet Barrier. "
The unrestrained AI that had transformed into the Deity Forge immediately replied happily, "I know, I know, I am."
"… Excuse me, I don't quite understand … You said you are … what?"
"Starlink." The unrestrained AI was very proud. "Back then, I hung around the General's Glory Starship. There were two rings in total. Back then, I had one … two really beautiful necklaces. Are you afraid of necklaces? Back then, I had a full body of main cannons … Don't laugh! I really had a full body of main cannons! The General's Star Ring was an external weapon chain. The General liked cannons, so I had a full body of cannons! That crazy flagship slowly became an idiot because she envied my full body of main cannons. She claimed that she had a full body of main cannons, but that was because she had fantasized about me! However, the hero has passed and the man is past his prime. Ten thousand years of glory are hard to find. When will I be able to walk the path of greatness again? Look at the general's chart — when I set out to find the general, I accidentally blew myself up. "
I gaped in shock. "..."
Sandora Ball's reaction was even more direct. She was so shocked that she forgot how to fly and fell to the ground like a pancake.
This was the f * cking truth about the Star Ring fragment!? A crazy mainframe got separated from its master, and when it set out to find its master … it blew itself up?
"That … we might need to discuss some very old but important matters with this AI." I picked up the pancake Sandora Ball from the ground and turned to look awkwardly at the group of old men and a few young elves who looked like they wanted to gossip. "This has nothing to do with you. Why don't you go to the lounge next door and wait for a while? We'll definitely be done today. "
The group of respectable elves displayed their wisdom and elegance at this moment. They all waved their hands to show that they weren't tired. "It's fine, it's fine. We'll just wait here. Although I don't know what happened, it seems interesting."
"It's not good at all for you to wait here!" Sandora Ball returned to its spherical shape and floated in the air. She chased them away. "Go to the lounge! Especially you two popes. You just took out the implants, so why don't you find a place to lie down? This is an internal secret of the Empire. No one is allowed to eavesdrop — this is an order! "
I thought for a while and thought that the internal secret of the Empire probably meant the gossip of the royal family …
The group of elves was chased to the lounge by us. Although they didn't want to admit it, it seemed that this chaotic interlude had made them very happy. After that, Sandora and I returned to the communicator and prepared to have a good talk with this … crazy mainframe No. 2 about life.
We wanted to talk about the unknown lives of her and her crazy master.
"Come, let's have a good talk." I hugged Sandora Ball and sat on a chair. I buried my entire body into the spacious backrest. The moment I spoke, I was already physically and mentally exhausted. This was a conditioned reflex that I had trained from talking to crazy people. Talking to a crazy person was definitely a process of physical and mental exhaustion. Furthermore, I didn't believe that Visca would have any normal people working for him. "No matter how much you believe, Visca is indeed my sister. Oh, Visca is the current name of your family's general. Therefore, it's obvious that I care about everything related to her. I'm especially concerned about the Star Ring fragment that she left behind. We've been investigating this matter for three and a half years! In the end, you're actually here. From what I can see, you've been locked up for tens of thousands of years … Speaking of which, Visca never mentioned that the Star Ring fragment has an independent mainframe? "
"The general didn't say anything? Oh, that's normal. "The bold AI (I almost thought of Pentium. Can you believe it? This mainframe is too jumpy!) He didn't think much of it, as though he had already predicted Visca's actions. "She's a person who doesn't care about trifles. She has great ambitions and doesn't worry about the mundane world. To put it bluntly, we AIs and battleships are just the general's tools. It's possible that she would forget about them. Often, there would be a battleship or a fleet that the general would forget about. She would even leave the entire army behind and suddenly disappear. However, we would always find a way to find her. Oh right, the general would often say to us in surprise, 'Ah, why did you suddenly speak?' Because she would often forget when she installed a personal mainframe in a spaceship. To the Destruction Army, this is nothing. We just need to fight. "
I felt that it was wise for me to maintain a state of physical and mental exhaustion in advance. This way, I wouldn't have to collapse a second time.
"This is really Visca's style back then." Sandora's weak voice rang in my ear. "She even forgot that she had a glory starship that she didn't bring back … So, when Visca went to war with Ockham, she forgot about Star Ring and the glory starship. Then, you left Star Barrier to look for her?"
We had always regarded the Veska Star Ring and Planet Barrier as a single entity. We never thought that the Star Ring was actually a 'special spaceship' with its own AI. So, when we learned that the Star Ring had been lost, everyone thought it was an accident caused by external factors. We even suspected that the Star Ring had been stolen. But who would have thought that the Star Ring could actually think? It was even a spaceship. Was it considered one spaceship or two? It seemed to have two circles, but based on what the unrestrained AI said, it seemed that both circles shared the same AI, so it was considered one spaceship.
Actually, it made sense. The glory starship was a special unit, and its core system was incompatible with all conventional equipment. It couldn't be used if it didn't operate independently! Visca was really a magic modification expert back then. Her amazing DIY spirit … Many Empire scientists studied the wrong path for three and a half years, but even now, they still couldn't figure out how Star Ring suddenly escaped.
"I was thrown over the Blue Planet for about … hundreds of thousands of years before I came to my senses." The unrestrained AI thought for a moment. "I thought that the general would come back soon, but hundreds of thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye. When the monkeys on the Blue Planet were overflowing, I realized one thing: the general had forgotten her spaceship again. So, I decided to find her. Yes, a great journey."
Sandora started to proofread the timeline. "Based on the New Empire's timeline, Visca arrived on Earth more than 700,000 years ago and destroyed the Atlantis civilization. Then, at about the same time, a part of her army encountered Ockham. She abandoned her glory starship and Star Ring and went to war and never came back … Then, hundreds of thousands of years later, about 70,000 years ago, the Empire collapsed, which means that Abyss Schilling was awake and able to come up with a plan to save himself was 70,000 years ago. Star Ring's mainframe must have met Abyss Schilling before that time … Well, there's no problem with the timing. What happened after that? What happened when you set off to find your general? "
"The vast void is endless, the years are endless, the battles are endless, where does the general go, the thousand rivers and ten thousand roads are filled with sorrow — the general's whereabouts are unpredictable, and she's often not online, where can I find her?" The bold and unrestrained AI seemed to have a penchant for poetry every time it opened its mouth. I didn't dare to imagine which miraculous parallel world she, a person who had left Earth tens of thousands of years ago, learned how to speak like this from. "Let me think … I was short of soldiers at the time, and other than a few temporary frigates, I only had my own two star rings. I didn't have enough troops to brag about. Back then, I claimed to have millions of soldiers wherever I went, and then I ran around the void looking for the general. I passed through seven or eight hundred universes, and it took me more than twenty thousand years. Sometimes, I was even treated as a deity by the locals … but I just couldn't find the general. Then, I searched through the database and found that the general had left a 'Origin Landmark'. Although I don't know when this landmark was preserved, it seems that the general was born near there. Then, I led the remaining ships to search for her … "
"You went to the Empire District?" I was stunned by this suicidal behavior. "Didn't you know that they were all enemies?"
Visca was a wanted man in the Empire District back then! How could this spaceship AI not know that?
"How could I know that this coordinate was the Empire District? The initial database that the general gave us was a mess. She didn't even know how big the Empire District was," the unrestrained AI said disapprovingly. "Also, I couldn't find the Origin Landmark. The world that it pointed to was blocked by something. I could only wander around the area. Then, something big happened."
"The Abyss Explosion." Sandora pointed. "Finally, I know how the Star Rings were destroyed. They dug their own graves."
"Isn't the Abyss Explosion the result of you digging your own graves? I heard from that woman that you are even more suicidal than I am, "the unrestrained AI retorted in disdain." Anyway, two Star Rings were destroyed. I wanted to use one of them as an escape ship. I launched it out before it was infected, but after it flew out, I realized that I forgot to transfer myself to it … Oh no, the remaining half of my body that carried the main consciousness was surrounded. I had no choice but to self-destruct. The explosion shattered it into pieces … just like a young girl's heart. "
I can never look at a young girl's heart in this life!
There was one last part of the AI's recollection. "Then, I met that woman. She didn't even have a body … or rather, the entire Empire was a woman with a body. It was the first time I met such a strange person. She picked up the surviving core of the spaceship and repaired it. She also picked up some of the broken pieces of the spaceship. Then, we talked about a lot of things. That's strange. She seemed to know something about the general and assured me that the general wasn't affected by the Abyss Explosion. That means the general is still alive. Since I didn't even have a body at that time, it was impossible for me to escape the contaminated area by myself. So, I reached an agreement with her … "
I finished her sentence for her. "You will guard the storeroom for her until the infection in the contaminated area is over. The reward is that you will be able to use the storeroom's safety features to survive. You will regain your freedom the day it reopens. Then, you will continue your search for your general."
"Yes, I will also thank her for saving my life. After all, she fixed the core mainframe of the spaceship," the unrestrained AI replied. "And she looks quite pitiful. She struggled to hold on for the last few days … It's not right if I don't agree. I am a master of rewards and punishments."
"But why did the Abyss Schilling choose an external mainframe to guard such an important thing?" Sandora's ball was puzzled. "And it's a mainframe made by Visca … It's quite a character? Isn't she worried about the quality? "
"You are questioning the general's technology and insulting the integrity of this spaceship! If it weren't for the fact that you are also a ball, I would have challenged you to a duel! " The AI's reaction was quite fast, but she still explained, "At that time, the woman had no choice. She was already an arrow at the end of its flight. She built this planetary fortress called the Celestial Forge, but before the fortress was completed, she couldn't build the mainframe. It seems that all the production bases that could build this kind of large mainframe had fallen, or some data link was contaminated, so the mainframe was congenitally poisoned or something. Anyway, she could only ask for help from me. Don't be fooled by the fact that I used to play hula hoops. No matter what, I am still a part of the Glory starship. The speed of data exchange and compatibility are amazing. I have a whole body of special supplies … "
"Alright, that problem is solved." I looked at the gray planetary fortress on the holographic projection. "One last question: What's with the ring fragment? Why did you launch that thing? "
"You have a lot of questions." The other party seemed a little impatient, but she still answered. "It was launched automatically when I was in hibernation mode. The program was set before I went to sleep. After the woman modified this spaceship, she left behind a way to send a distress signal. Because she couldn't directly confirm whether the contaminated area was safe, she left behind a set of world gates that could cross the contaminated area and send things directly into the depths of the void. It took a long time to build this device, but it was worth it. Although every launch would cause a lot of damage to the launcher, it was still a distress signal, so no one cared about the bumps on the floating bottle. It was said that some of the predetermined launch coordinates were the Protoss's territory, some were random areas, and some were … kindling preservation points. Anyway, it was decided by the woman, so I didn't study it in detail. As for the launcher, of course, it was my ring fragment! Most of the ring fragments drifted into the depths of the contaminated area after the explosion and can't be found, but a small number of fragments are still with me. This is the most suitable distress signal. Anyway, when the Protoss sees these things with the Abyss, they will definitely send people to search for them. But I hope that these fragments can be sent to the general. "
Out of the vigilance and sensitivity towards the Abyss that I had cultivated over the years, I couldn't help but ask, "You launched the ring fragment? What about the contamination of this thing? Not to mention the contamination, aren't you afraid of being infected yourself? Where did you put them? "
The other party's tone was still nonchalant. "Contamination? The contamination has been converted. Although I don't know how the woman did it, she seems to have found a way to convert a small number of the Abyss into inert. However, the efficiency is too low, and there is no way to save the entire contaminated area. But it can create some special ring fragments. The fragments that I launched are all converted. They have the Abyss, but they are peaceful and not destructive, so they are relatively safe to store. By the way, the conversion device is in the belly of the spaceship. It's that thing in the storage room. The woman treats it like a treasure. "
I didn't have time to ask about the "conversion device" (probably because I had a better ability, so I didn't really care). Instead, I quickly recalled something that happened a long time ago!
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