The light blue clouds in the sky had completely merged. It was unknown where these extraterrestrial visitors who seemed to be 'living beings' came from, but it was certain that they were using this ancient planet as a resting place. Innumerable blue halos surged and merged in the sky, and there were no longer any gaps between them. The glistening radiance wandered in the clouds, and the bright stars and lines swam in a wide range, as though they could jump from one cloud to another. Was this because all the light clusters had merged into one? Or … were they exchanging something that they were carrying? No one could say for sure.
"So beautiful …" Shallow Shallow lifted her head as she was captivated by the wondrous and beautiful scene. "It's like the sea is hanging upside down."
Shallow Shallow was right. The scene was really like the sea was hanging upside down, or rather, an ocean was floating above everyone's head. The light clusters that gathered and undulated were no different from the ocean, and the light spots and lines that kept jumping between the clusters of light were more like the ripples on the surface of the sea. There was no atmosphere on the homeworld, so no sound could be heard, but looking at the blue sky that hung upside down, I could almost imagine the sound of crashing waves.
"These clouds have shrouded the entire homeworld, and it's getting thicker." Sandora looked at the MDT in her hand in amazement. The holographic projection above the MDT was showing the aerial view taken by the Empire Admiral. In the image, the homeworld had become a shimmering blue ball of light, and the illusory light had covered it with a layer of light, so much so that we almost mistook it for the return of the ocean. "The source of the clouds has been identified. There are two spatial signals, one from a solar system that is 126 light years away, and the other 130 light years away. These clouds have teleported here from such a faraway place, as though two races that are far apart have come to gather."
"What are they?" Bryndis raised her head in surprise. This knowledgeable female gangster also seemed to be at a loss at this moment. Perhaps the scene in front of her wasn't that strange to her, but this scene happened in her homeworld that should have been completely dead and stagnant for many years. We couldn't help but be amazed. "Life? Can this world really give birth to life? "
"It's life." A soft voice resounded in my head. Then, I felt my chest pocket being pushed open from the inside. It turned out that Jingle, who was sleeping, had been attracted by the scent outside. The little guy stuck half of his head out of my pocket and looked around for a long time. Suddenly, he looked very happy. He climbed onto my shoulder through the folds of my shirt and waved his little arms at the sky. He shouted in the public channel, "Life! Life! Although they were very primitive and weak, they were still living beings! Even Sister Goddess has never created such a life form! "
Even Jingle had come out to determine the nature of these orbs, so there was no doubt about their nature. Although Tawil still did not understand how these things that did not even look like spiritual creatures were born, that was not important. What was important was that … they were really alive.
A phrase suddenly popped into my mind:
This was the home of the Schilling civilization. Like its people, it would never die. Even in death, their souls would continue to move forward. Life was born again here!
"Jingle wants to study how these life forms work!" The little Life Goddess danced on my shoulder for a while. Suddenly, she showed an unusually serious expression. "Jingle can hear their cries. They are confused about the strange state of the universe they live in, and they are confused about their current state of being unable to continue evolving. They feel the power of the Life Goddess, so they are asking for help … Jingle will help them!"
After saying that, Jingle had already flapped her wings and rushed into the sky. Flapping her wings in a vacuum was meaningless, but Jingle's flapping seemed to be a subconscious action, just like how Lin needed to flap her wings to fly in the void. As the little green light rushed into the sky, I was surprised to see that the "azure sea of clouds" surged as if they were welcoming Jingle. As expected … err, I forgot who said it. In short, it meant that the Life Goddess was the guardian of all life forms, whether you were carbon-based or silicon-based, physical or spiritual, as long as you met the definition of life recognized by the gods, you would be included in the Life Goddess's protection. Those blue clouds were obviously native to my home world, and they were born in this stagnant Abyss. Naturally, they did not belong to any known life forms, but they still rejoiced at Jingle's power. But then again, how did that unreliable little Jingle intend to help? It felt like that little thing was hot-blooded and would directly rush over. In theory, there was no plan …
"Then what should we do?" I looked around and felt that the strange phenomenon in the sky would not end anytime soon. Although it was good to stay here and enjoy the scenery, it seemed that we had a great responsibility. "By the way, the homeworld seems to be used as a transit station by these new life forms."
"It's okay, I think the ancestors would not mind." Sandora, the ruler of the Empire, was surprisingly open-minded at this moment. She put away the MDT and turned to open a teleportation portal. "We still have a lot of business to do. Get ready to put the activation terminal in place."
We teleported back to the Admiral of the Empire. The fleet quietly left the ancient but no longer looked dead in a state of stealth. We returned to the sky above the Gate of the Abyss and began to make some preliminary preparations for the bridge.
The relevant data collection was almost complete. As the Abyssal Schilling had already worked on the Tranquil Core No.1, and the New Army had unexpectedly done something good when they forcibly built the bridge, they had left us a lot of valuable first-hand information. So, the team of experts that we brought with us could almost be said to be skilled workers — at least, they were skilled workers in the steps before the activation of the activation terminal. We spent half a day setting up the detectors. These detectors were made during the voyage. They were disposable but very useful. They were specifically used to detect the degree of inertia and stability of the Gate of the Abyss. Moreover, the power of the detectors was very small. Even if it exploded above the Gate of the Abyss, it would not affect the safety of the entire test site. The specific data would be sent to us later that day. It was expected: in front of us was an unprecedentedly perfect "bridge pier."
There was no need to worry about the degree of inertia from the very beginning. The size of this Gate of the Abyss was beyond imagination, but it was able to maintain itself without collapsing. This was enough to prove that it was an extremely inert gate. However, its stability was a little worrying. This gate had been open for countless years. This gate had been here since Icetis's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great- It was hard to say whether the gate would have changed over the years, such as falling into disrepair or declining stability … But fortunately, everything was perfect.
Abyss Schilling admitted that even if she was given another thousand or eight hundred years and allowed to destroy worlds at will to collect materials, she would not be able to create a Tranquil Core that was as useful as her homeworld.
Looking at the report in front of her, Sandora swallowed the last mouthful of spicy rice dumpling in satisfaction. "Although the civilization that failed to build the bridge made a lot of mistakes, at least the quality of the gate they opened was not bad." Then she marked the report as read and sent it back to the team. "Start construction immediately. Also, Halland, please be responsible for contacting the other side. We need to keep in touch with the other side at all times."
The only one who could eat non-stop on the officer's platform was Sandora. The others did not have as good an appetite as the queen. Halland, the conscientious leader of the Empire, of course, had more integrity. He was focused on the progress of the engineering team and kept in touch with Evansyen, who was at the frontline of construction, as a senior technical consultant. (The advantage of an expert leader was reflected here. The two emperors in charge of building the bridge were both technical talents.) Hearing Sandora's words, Halland just nodded and continued with his work. On the other hand, Icetis always wanted to say something. "Speaking of which … the civilization that built the bridge gave people a really complicated feeling. Sandora, do you hate them or should you thank them?"
Shadora raised her eyelids and glanced at Bryndis. "This question is meaningless. They're already dead."
Belavilla was in a rare moment of clarity. Seeing that Sandora did not want to answer the question directly, she took over the topic. "This kind of hatred is really meaningless. It is a waste of time to pursue this with the dead. Our revenge is over. Now it is time to look forward. And to be honest, if not for the catastrophe, perhaps there would not be today's Xiling Empire. Karma, time, that is all. The civilization that built the bridge hastily … self-destructed because of their own mistakes. This is the reckoning. "
Icetis shrugged and did not say anything.
A large number of engineering spaceships had already built temporary base stations near the Gate of the Abyss. These base stations were basically the products of the engineering spaceships' disassembly, transformation, and reassembly. So, it did not take much time at all. The advanced battlefield development technology of the Empire was really versatile. Other than allowing those bastards from the City of Shadows to throw out a big stall that covered a few square meters and was fully equipped with display racks, containers, and trolleys, the best way to use it was to build a base on the spot. Within a few hours after Sandora ordered the construction to start, we had a distributed work field that spanned tens of thousands of kilometers. Because construction in space was not so tight, and we also needed a lot of space to install the large facilities in the later stage, the distance between the buildings was quite far. This work field was made up of hundreds of stations that looked like spaceports. Each 'spaceport' had a hexagonal central platform and more than ten alloy 'long arms' that extended into space. The central platform was where the heavy factories and large computing cores were located, and those 'long arms' were really docking ports for spaceships to take off and land.
As mentioned above, each base station had a large computing core. This was because the bridging process required an astonishing amount of data throughput. Even if Bubble were to personally process the data, she wouldn't be able to handle it all. So, we had to load all the workstations with additional computing units in order to build an outpost computing network. These additional computing units were made up of a simplified version of the Schilling Nest, a mass-produced Bubble, and two servers. In order to make them work, we had prepared hundreds of mass-produced mainframes before we set off.
Now, the work field had been anchored 150,000 kilometers above the Gate of the Abyss. (Compared to the entire Gate of the Abyss, it was as small as a pebble. Ding, five light years of the Gate of the Abyss! How many lanes would this bridge be?). The mass-produced girls were ready to go to their 'battlefield'. At this moment, Bubble was standing on the upper platform of the Admiral of the Empire, admonishing her hundreds of daughters that looked exactly like her. The 1.1-meter-tall mother mainframe had a solemn expression. "My proud daughters, it's time to test you! This will be the New Empire … No, this will be the most important moment for the entire Void. You have a lofty mission on your shoulders! I will fight side by side with you, and we will carry out high-intensity computing for a few days to half a month. This depends on how much the activation terminal eats, and how powerful our energy furnace is. Remember what your mother told you now: Shadow Clones are power! Profound meaning? Multiple Daughter Clones! Hurrah! "
Then, hundreds of mass-produced Bubble shouted in a flat voice with dull expressions, "Profound meaning? Multiple Daughter Clones! Hurrah! "Speaking of which, how did you cheer for the last emoji?
Watching Bubble lead her daughter's shadow clones into a teleportation screen of light, I felt like … this project wouldn't fail. This was something I had many years of experience: every time the troublemakers in my family went crazy, the project we were about to do would unexpectedly succeed. I still haven't figured out the reason, but it was mostly because the Void's brain was too big …
As the workshop slowly operated, the activation terminal was also sent to its predetermined position.
Currently, the activation terminal was still in a 'sleeping' state, but it was slowly waking up. It wasn't easy for us to drag it all the way from the Empire District. Even when it was retracted, it was still two-thirds the size of Earth, and due to various strange properties, it could not be folded, compressed or stored by any spatial equipment. Hence, Tawil could only add an ugly large frame outside, and install a large circle of void engines so that it could activate its own orderly field. In the end, it was barely modified into a planetary battleship with the ability to travel through the Void. It could be said that this huge equipment was the most important reason why the Empire Fleet took almost a month to travel here. A month! I could hardly imagine that the advanced Void Fleet would need a month to travel to a station. It was all because of this big guy. But now that this thing was in place, let's not grumble about it.
The fully activated activation terminal was a brilliant and domineering white ball of light, but now that it was in a 'half-asleep' state, this thing looked more like a weak yellow dwarf star. Its ugly frame and various temporary equipment were being removed by the work ship, and it itself was turning from an ugly shamate dwarf star to an ugly … bumpkin dwarf star. I don't know why I wanted to ridicule this thing so much, probably because I was blown away by it once, and that wasn't a good memory. The cute Sandora ball could be said to be the only bright spot for more than a month. Let's stop here, I can't keep digressing.
The activation terminal was placed in the Gate of the Abyss (or should I call it the Eye of the Abyss or Abyssal Fissure?). The center of the Gate was only a few hundred kilometers away from the fissure itself, and it could be said to be close to the surface of the fissure. Although I knew that there wouldn't be any problems, Halland still ordered a large number of anchoring force field generators to be installed around it to prevent this thing from 'falling' into the Gate.
Yep, if this really happened, it would definitely be the worst joke in the history of the Void, and I would have to cry. I also had to admit that Halland's considerations were reasonable: the space-time near the Gate of the Abyss was chaotic, and although it didn't have gravity, who knew if it wouldn't mess up space-time and drag the activation terminal in. The journey to the Void was fraught with danger, and now we were at the last shiver, and we had to make sure this last shiver was in place.
The activation terminal, which was smaller than Earth, was placed in the center of the Gate of the Abyss that was five light years long, and it seemed rather inconspicuous. At first, I thought that if the spherical activation terminal was placed in the center of the Gate of the Abyss that was shaped like an eye, it would look like an eyeball, but now it seemed like it was at most a trachoma … But even though the size difference between the two was huge, we still successfully completed the installation work, and it seemed that the system was very compatible.
And when the activation terminal was installed in place, Jingle, who had been running around outside, finally came back, and she brought information about the blue orbs.
Those strange light blue space creatures were still hovering above the mother planet, and new 'clouds' were constantly being teleported from the depths of the universe to join this gathering. These creatures obviously had the ability to observe, and some of them moved slightly towards the Gate of the Abyss, as if they were very interested in the Imperial Army's construction site, but they were obviously full of fear of the power of the Abyss, so in the end, they didn't approach.
Jingle called them the 'Distorted Entropy Walkers'.
The little one who returned from afar had a face full of excitement, as if she was excited to find a new life form. She bounced around in my palm, and I had to retract my attention from the construction site (at this moment, I was observing the construction progress with Sandora and the others at the space base station). Jingle's soft voice came into my ear, "They are Distorted Entropy Walkers, named after the life form! They are not energy creatures, nor are they physical creatures, but something that has something to do with all life forms. They were born many years after all the species in this universe had gone extinct, and were produced due to the information turbulence caused by the Gate of the Abyss. They themselves are a large mass of entangled information, and they are strange creatures that entered from pure mathematical space into the real world. Jingle has yet to figure out how they live, but she only knows that they use the mother planet as a place to 'bask' in the sun. They absorb the torrent of information here, and every time they bask in the sun, they can produce new offspring … "
Bask in the sun? It's more like basking in the abyss!
The world is so big, and there are so many strange things.
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