It had a pitch-black exterior, an unseemly outer shell, a large number of strange irregular spheres, and an overall style that I couldn't even describe … This item seemed rather strange, but I was no stranger to it at all, because I had personally brought it back not long ago.
In the sanctuary, the Deity Forge's storage room was this thing — a mysterious device that Abyssal Schilling had used his last bit of strength to protect tens of thousands of years ago, but no one knew its true function.
This thing was the "substitute" to solve the problem of the startup core?! It could replace the startup core?!
"Do you know what it does?" I stared at it for a long time before I turned around and looked at Tawil in disbelief. "This thing can replace the startup core? It looks really ugly … "
"Don't judge anything by its appearance. Why do you have such a bad habit?" Abyssal Schilling's voice suddenly came from the side. "As my father, you should be more just and wise … Although I was quite surprised at first, I never thought that the thing that I had preserved back then would be such an important thing — it is the startup core of the Creation on the other side. Mm, it is only the core."
Both Sandora and I had the same expression: 0 _ 0!
"The … the startup core of the Creation on the other side?!" I exclaimed a few seconds later. "Are you sure?! This thing is actually … What the heck, such an ugly looking thing is actually the startup core of the Creation on the other side?! "
"It's true. I've found conclusive evidence inside this device." Tarver nodded vigorously. "Although it's inconceivable that it's placed right in front of us, and it doesn't look like it … it's definitely the core of the startup terminal."
I quickly waved my hand to signal for Tawil to pause. My thoughts were a mess and I needed to sort them out. I really needed to sort them out! Looking at the huge (it was so ugly that it could be described as a "lump") oddly shaped thing in space, I didn't dare to imagine that I had accidentally found the startup core from the other side! How did it exist until today? No … I should say, how could it possibly exist?! When did the other side ever launch such a vicious thing at us? How could the Federation of Rings have such advanced technology? They had to rely on luck just to throw a detector over! Moreover, it didn't look like the equipment made on the other side. The style seemed to be different …
But no matter what, it was right in front of everyone. No matter how inconceivable it was, we had a startup core in our hands. It was a startup core that was preserved by Abyssal Schilling 70,000 years ago. It came from the other side of the ocean, and it seemed to be in perfect condition! When we encountered the greatest difficulty, when everything seemed to have reached a dead end, this thing appeared!
"Is this a coincidence or luck?" I didn't know what to make of my expression. I shrugged and looked at everyone around me. "Can anyone hit me to see if I'm dreaming … Icetis, put down that sinful brick! Lin Xue, what are you going to do to that mace! Hey, I was joking, I didn't ask you to fight for real … Xiaoxue, you naughty brat, you dare to join in the fun?! "
"Why are they doing this?" Abyssal Schilling gaped at the sudden explosion of chaos before her. Her rational and rigid thinking couldn't accept this way of development. "This is a very serious situation! My father is such an unreliable person? "
"Oh, this is our family's style." Although Sandora wouldn't participate in such trivial matters, she was at least used to it. She patted Abyssal Schilling's shoulder. "This can effectively ease the atmosphere. If you want to be a member of our family, you will have to get used to this sooner or later."
"I will bring everyone to settle down on the other side. After the bridge is successfully built," Abyssal Schilling's entire body tensed up, and she expressed her determination in an unprecedented manner. "We have to stay away from this strange family … I feel like my logic components are going to get hurt."
At this moment, I finally confirmed that I wasn't dreaming. However, I still couldn't believe my eyes as I looked at the ancient equipment in space that was as large as a small planet. I felt that this dramatic development was really unexpected. "Startup core, a startup core made on the other side of the ocean! Happiness came too suddenly. It's like a dream … Icetis, stand there and don't move. I'm just lamenting! Who … Tawil, come over here and explain. How can you be sure that this thing is the startup core? Didn't you say that we couldn't see its function from the scan? "
"Yes, the conventional scan without damaging its structure did not yield any results. The experts couldn't figure out what its function was," Tawil explained the matter in a methodical manner. "But after the conventional scan was ineffective, we got the authorization from Matriarch Lin Xue and decided to dismantle its shell to take a look. This move was a little risky because no one knew if dismantling its shell would cause the ancient equipment to react in any other way. But that's how we found this. "
As Tawil spoke, he took a black "metal" plate from the autonomous robot next to him (I couldn't tell what material it was) and handed it to me. "This is a part of the shell. Although you can't see it from the surface, the entire shell of that thing is pieced together with countless pieces of this size. It seems that its creator didn't care about its mechanical strength, or the shell wasn't that important in the first place."
I took a look at the shell fragment. The most eye-catching thing on it was a line of sharp Schilling text: "This is the startup core."
Everyone was speechless.
"Err … It's written so clearly?" Sandora poked her head over to take a look. Her tone was a little strange. "We didn't notice it before?"
Tawil was amazing. His expression didn't change at all. "Yes, these words were etched in a special way, and the conventional scan didn't find it. When we first started the research, we only did a non-destructive scan because of the rules. No one thought that there would be words inside the shell. The research department has a set of very strict protection regulations for this kind of super-large and complicated ancient heritage. Only when the conventional scan doesn't work, we can apply to the higher-ups for 'destructive research,' which means to dismantle it. That's the theory. "
I finally understood why Tawil didn't discover the secret of this huge thing until now. Actually, there was nothing much to say. According to the rules of the research department, high-value antiques couldn't be dismantled. After all, once this kind of thing was dismantled, it would be a hard loss, and it wouldn't be easy to repair. So, only when the research was at the last step could the target be dismantled. But who would have thought that Abyssal Schilling had left words in this thing … Speaking of which, wasn't the way Abyssal Schilling left his message a little strange?
"Almost every inner layer of the shell has such a message. Some of the fragments also wrote about the concept of the startup terminal and the bridge, but I don't know why we didn't find anything similar to a memory card. If there was such a thing, we would have discovered the truth earlier." Tawil's tone was also a little strange. Like me, she couldn't figure out why Abyssal Schilling would use such a primitive and strange way to leave a message to the later generations.
"Because the nature of the startup terminal is very special." Abyssal Schilling was the one who answered. "Although I can't remember what happened in the past, I know the strange nature of the startup terminal. Any storage device placed in its core will be erased, and even the device itself will slowly disappear. Only the information left on the 'material structure' of the startup terminal can be preserved. It's kind of like an imitation of the zeroing effect, but the real reason is unknown. In other words, apart from the information carved in the startup terminal, anything that doesn't belong to it will be erased — even if the startup terminal isn't running. In any case, the startup terminal I created is like this, and the one on the other side should be similar. After all, we use the same set of blueprints. "
"So that's how it is?" I was quite surprised, but I didn't think too much about it. It would be strange if the startup terminal didn't have one or two strange characteristics. "Alright, let's not delve into the details. In short, we can confirm that this is the core of the startup terminal. I never expected to find it so easily after searching far and wide for it. Abyssal Schilling, as the person who left the message back then, what do you think now?"
Abyssal Schilling looked at the black fragment and the long-forgotten message on it. She nodded seriously. "I suddenly feel that I was really amazing back then!"
I was speechless. She had an unbelievably serious expression when she said that. She wasn't joking at all!
Icetis also looked curiously at the fragment. She suddenly said, "Why did you carve it inside? Didn't we discover it a long time ago? It saved everyone from worrying for so many days. Even Chen, who is so simple-minded, almost became depressed. "
"You don't have to say the second half of the sentence." I rolled my eyes at Icetis. Then, I became curious. "What does it mean to carve it inside? Are you afraid that people will see it at first glance? "
Abyssal Schilling shook her head irresponsibly. "How would I know? My memory of the past has been erased. Maybe I carved the words inside and outside, but they were erased by some strange characteristic of this thing? Or maybe it was erased by the neurotic mainframe. She's so crazy. Who knows when she saw the words on the surface of the storage room and felt that they were dirty, so she helped to erase them … "
I instantly broke out in a cold sweat. "I suddenly feel that this is very possible!"
Anyway, with such an interruption, the people present didn't care why Abyssal Schilling had carved the words on the inner layer of the outer shell of the activation terminal. While I was excited, I thought of the question from the beginning. "Why is there an activation terminal from the other side? The technology on the other side doesn't seem to have reached this level. The Federation of Rings is similar to us. They are at the stage where they can only send a few probes to the other side with all their might. They should have been weaker seventy thousand years ago. How could they have sent such a huge activation terminal over? "
"Because this thing wasn't sent over seventy thousand years ago, and it isn't a product of the Federation of Rings …" Tawil took a deep breath. It seemed that she wanted to give us some time to prepare ourselves. Then, she said the second half of her sentence, "It came from an even earlier era, before the escape of the mother planet … This is the thing that caused the destruction of our home world! It came to this side with the Gate of the Abyss! "
As soon as she said that, everyone was shocked. Even Sandora almost screamed in surprise!
Even before Tawil spoke, I was a little prepared to accept any kind of bizarre answer, but I never expected the truth to be this shocking! This thing turned out to be the "Gate Component" that caused the escape of the mother planet by Abyssal Schilling!
Sandora's eyes appeared to be in a trance for a moment, but she quickly calmed down and looked at the huge relic in disbelief. Finally, she looked at Tawil and asked, "Are you sure? This is the activation terminal that opened the Gate of the Abyss in our home world?! "
Tawil nodded slowly but firmly. "I can confirm that the inner layer of the outer shell is indeed engraved with this information. If Abyssal Schilling didn't intend to play such a nasty joke on future generations seventy thousand years ago, then this should be the truth. This activation terminal in front of us caused the extinction of our home world. It was one of the original opening devices!"
I subconsciously glanced at Abyssal Schilling next to me. Then, I felt that although she was a very naughty child who was unprecedented in history, she would never play such a nasty joke that could take someone's life, especially when seventy thousand years ago was counted in her previous life. At that time, Schilling was not a naughty child yet.
Sandora didn't say anything immediately. She just slowly turned her head and looked at the huge relic floating in the dark space, looking at the "original factor" that caused everything. It was this thing, a creation from a long-dead civilization on the other side of the ocean, that opened the five-light-year mutated Gate of the Abyss, destroyed the Schilling Schilling's home world, forced them to flee, and finally started the history of the Xiling Empire. That ugly and strange thing was the starting point of everything. Even I, a person who only learned to be a monk halfway through life, couldn't calm down. I could hardly imagine what kind of storm Sandora was going through.
But in the end, Her Majesty just let out a shallow sigh to end her lamentation. "It's useless to dwell on the past. We should be glad that we have escaped the shackles of hatred. Tawil, don't mind where it came from. This is just an ancient device, an ancient device that can be used by the Empire. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Tawil saluted, his voice calm and solemn.
"Good." Sandora nodded. "Now let's talk about it. How did this thing fall into the hands of the Abyss Schilling? I can be sure that no one in the Old Empire knew about the existence of this activation terminal, and no one even knew what 'bridge' meant back then. This thing shouldn't have been in the hands of the Abyss Schilling in the first place. "
"We don't know either. The 'message' in the activation terminal didn't mention anything about this." Tawil shook his head. "This kind of extraordinary creation is definitely immortal. It's probably floating somewhere in the void, and then fell into the hands of the Abyss Schilling at the right time. I don't think it's important. The point is that it should be usable, and that's enough."
Tawil's outlook on life was also very relaxed. As long as it could solve problems, it was good stuff, who cared where it came from. This was also the way most of the Shiring Apostles thought. But I could not help but glance at the Abyss Schilling. The Lord was theoretically the conduit of everything before us. She was the one who somehow got the ancient activation terminal, and she was the one who connected the destruction of our homeworld and the Void Cataclysm. She was the one who knew most of the historical truth, and she was the weaver of most of the epic events. If the Void, the Abyss, the Cataclysm, the Empire, and other behemoths were seen as a disorderly three-dimensional web, then the Abyss Schilling was in the center of this web as the commander most of the time. Although there were a lot of 'unexpected factors' that gave me a headache (such as the recognition of the father two days ago, the ancient bear child, the maximum talent for deceiving the father, and the persistence of deceiving the father for seventy thousand years), I had to admire this complicated yet simple 'Ultimate Culprit' from the bottom of my heart. But this Ultimate Culprit also had things that she could not grasp. Facing the activation terminal that she had kept for tens of thousands of years, she could only look as confused as us, and when she saw my gaze, she could only look away helplessly. "There's no use looking at me. I really don't know where I picked this up from. It's probably going to become an unsolved mystery."
At this time, Tawil had already begun to introduce the various properties of the activation terminal to us. She pushed up her glasses, and her expression was serious. "First of all, I have to report a rather strange phenomenon: the message in the activation terminal did prove that it came from the other side, but this thing is very different from the other side's products that we have fished up in the past. Its components do not have the phenomenon of 'missing attributes'. Although there is still no way to analyze what it is, its quality, strength, physical and chemical properties can all be measured, and it is very different from the other side's products. This is also the most important reason why we did not associate it with the other side at first: no matter how you look at it, it really does not look like it came from the other side. In theory, yes. "
There is no 'missing attributes'? I instantly raised my eyebrows, and I was curious about this fact.
Everyone knew that the biggest barrier between the other side and the other side was' incompatibility '. From matter to energy, to anything else, in short, other than the Void, all secondary products on both sides of the Void Stairway were incompatible. The materials that we had fished up from the other side often had the strange phenomenon of being unable to be measured in terms of quality or hardness. Even the abyss on both sides was unable to affect the other side (this was also the foundation of the Abyss Schilling's great cause). Such incompatibility was expressed in different materials, but it was more or less present.
Up to this day, detecting whether an item had 'unmeasurable attributes' was already an important indicator for us to determine if an item came from the other side.
But this ancient activation terminal core was actually compatible with the other side?!
I looked at Tawil, and with a probing gaze, I asked her if she could confirm this matter. She immediately nodded firmly. "I said 'in theory' at the end of the sentence as a pet phrase to make it more cute. Actually, I am completely certain of the results of my test."
I, "?"
I felt like I had just heard something very useless, but also very informative!
"Oh, Bubble was the one who suggested me to say that. She said that this would increase His Majesty's favorability towards me. Although I did not understand what she meant, there was no harm in saying it," Tawil explained matter-of-factly. Then, before my expression collapsed, she continued the topic, "Also, I discovered that this ancient device does not have any energy reaction … I am afraid that we will have to think of a way to solve the problem of its energy supply. But compared to the predicament of the activation terminal core being unable to be repaired, this should be much easier to solve."
Right after Tawil finished speaking, Abyss Schilling spoke up. "Let me explain something. About the activation terminal … there should be some connection between the two sides."
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