What does the famous Queen of Blades, Kerrigan, fear the most?
Let me tell you, it's a little loli who is one meter tall, has an IQ of three years old, and can't even form a complete sentence.
I had to face this problem. As a Schilling Host, Little Bubble actually had a moment when she was growing up. Of course, there might be other reasons, but in any case, Little Bubble was now approaching her mother Sandora in some ways. For example, she would first use her teeth instead of her eyes to analyze anything she grabbed. The combination of Little Bubble's strong curiosity and a child's fondness for biting things had finally given birth to an existence that even the Zerg Overlords feared: Steel Teeth Little Bubble v1.0!
In short, she was a mischievous child who could sneak up behind you at any time and suddenly take a bite out of your bony wings …
For some reason, Little Bubble was extremely curious about the two pairs of bony wings behind the Queen of Blades. They seemed to attract her as much as a shiny crystal. Perhaps it was because she had finally discovered something new and interesting in this boring place …
In any case, Kerrigan's bony wings had regenerated no less than four times in just two to three days, and every time, she could only hold back her anger. As for the culprit, apart from being forced to brush her teeth several times a day, she was still at large in every corner of the Empire Admiral that was suitable for hide-and-seek.
"Okay, okay, now let's divert our attention from your unlucky bony wings," I said, trying hard to ignore Little Bubble, who was still hanging behind Kerrigan and swaying left and right with her body movements. "How much of your takeover of the Zerg have been completed?"
"Basically, but there is still a small part of the Zerg that is outside of my control," the Queen of Blades decisively gave up on the bony wings that she had just regenerated at 9: 30 in the morning. She resigned herself to her fate as she watched the little girl twist her wings around. "The speed at which the shadow developed self-awareness is faster than I imagined. Perhaps it's because of the rapid increase in the number of Zerg that caused the super-brain to evolve too quickly. Although I eventually succeeded in assimilating that part of the spiritual power that originally belonged to me, 'she' left me with a small problem. The Zerg in Irthana has been separated by 'her'. Now, they are about to produce a new Overlord, and then they will be out of my control forever. Maybe I should leave that planet to you to continue showing off the strength of the Empire. Throw it into the sun or something — that's the most suitable ending for them."
"I will destroy the entire Zerg race, but not now," I said with a shrug. At the same time, I recalled Liliana's analysis: Kerrigan's mental state is very strange. She seems to be constantly swaying between humans and Zerg. She uses human logic to think, but uses Zerg values to define her final actions. Sometimes, she puts the interests of the Zerg race first, as if she really is a Zerg. But more often than not, she is thinking about her own interests, using the entire Zerg race as a bargaining chip for her own interests.
I should quickly return to her human side. Although she won't amount to much, it's still too uncomfortable to have such a schemer by my side.
"The entrance to the Holy Land is in front of us. Please stop your fleet for now."
Zeratul, who had been keeping a distance from Kerrigan, suddenly spoke up. At the same time, he glanced at the Queen of Blades without batting an eyelid.
The massive Empire fleet quickly came to a stop with its unique coordinate braking method. A probe was released and began to deploy space probes nearby.
"Don't worry, I have no interest in your Holy Land. I will do my job as a sentinel," the Queen of Blades responded contemptuously to Zeratul's subtle glance. "Strictly speaking, both our races are now working for the Xiling Empire. You should at least show some sense of Proteus' honor in this regard."
"No, Proteus is not a subordinate of the Xiling Empire. I'm just standing here in my own name, and you … should be the most untrustworthy one …"
Zeratul's tone was low and powerful. Although he spoke slowly, every syllable carried unquestionable strength.
"Oh? Is this the last bit of dignity of the 'Protoss' at work? " The Queen of Blades retorted. "Then why is the entire Shakuras running around looking for clues just because of an order from Emperor Schilling? Isn't this a sign of submission? "
"There are only orders and obedience in the minds of the Zerg, but we are more aware of justice and faith. We are acting for the justice of the entire Sector!"
"Enough!" Sandora impatiently interrupted the conversation between the two, which was gradually turning hostile. Every time these two guys with deep hatred came together, Sandora inevitably had to use her coercion to shut them up. "Zeratul, I'm not interested in your dispute! Zeratul, where is the Holy Land you mentioned? Is it this boundless universe? "
That's right, in the direction of the 'Holy Land' that Zeratul mentioned, we didn't see anything at all. It was empty space, and there was nothing that could be used as a visual reference. If this is the so-called Holy Land, then the Proteans must be really annoyed. At the very least, there should be a beacon here, right?
"That's right, the Holy Land, but it's the Dark Holy Land …" Zeratul's voice actually trembled faintly, "Strictly speaking, our Holy Land has disappeared in front of us. There used to be a sacred spaceship built by the ancient Shernaga there. That giant spaceship has been moving autonomously for tens of thousands of years under some kind of force that we still don't understand. We treated it as a moving Holy Land, but not long ago, the Holy Land disappeared here … In front of us is the final boundary — your star map is much more accurate than ours — there is a boundary that cuts off everything, the most thorough Shadow Territory. Conventional means cannot observe its existence at all … We paid a great price here. Many excellent warriors rushed into it when they were searching for the Holy Land and never came back. The other warriors were completely brainwashed by the sudden eruption of 'revelations' just by getting close to it, almost turning into madmen who hate everyone … They are still under the guidance of the Wise Ones, but unfortunately, I'm afraid that before the 'revelations' are completely eliminated, they will not be able to get rid of their control. Until now, we still can't observe any abnormalities in this space. At first, we guessed that there was a spatial anomaly here, but later we found that the space here is very smooth."
"No, it's not that you can't observe it, but you haven't mastered the method." Sandora pulled up the scan results of the warship. "A place that has been denied is the ultimate emptiness, second only to the endless void."
The universe was empty to begin with, but the spherical space was even more empty. Not only was it empty, but it did not even have the background radiation and various microwaves that existed everywhere in the universe. There was nothing there, and even the gravitational scan was interrupted.
What was worse was that this barrier could not be observed from the outside. There was a strange layer of overlapping space on the surface, and any observation method would be distorted to the other end of it. So in the eyes of conventional scanning systems, this was a normal area. Even if the Proteus' radar was more advanced, they would not be able to see the truth here. So many Proteus exploration teams were swallowed by this invisible abyss.
But the scanning system of the Schilling warship was not afraid of this. It had a legendary third-person perspective …
In other words, we were conducting comprehensive observations from a higher dimension. Our radar set its view to every coordinate within half a light year of the battleship and observed this place from every dimension. Then, we compared the data and drew a picture of that strange space.
"It looks like … a ball …" Shallow Shallow looked curiously at the huge object that appeared on the holographic projection, but hesitated. Then, as the space gradually became clearer in the scan, she suddenly became surprised. "Wait a minute … Ah Jun, don't you think it looks like … a sun?!"
"It's not like, it's actually a sun!"
Sandora frowned and confirmed Shallow Shallow's guess.
On the spatial picture reconstructed by the scanning system, a huge sphere was suspended in space. That was the appearance of the strange space that Zeratul called the "Holy Land of Darkness." When we zoomed in, we could clearly see that the edge of the black sphere was constantly surging with something like fire. Sometimes, the huge flames that erupted could even reach thousands of kilometers high. As the sphere appeared to be absolutely "black," we could not see if the side facing us was also burning with flames, but that was something that could be confirmed without even thinking about it.
Looking from this direction, it looked like a paper cut — a paper cut of the sun.
A burning black fireball, a dark sun, it swallowed the Proteus exploration team, swallowed an ancient Shernaga spaceship, and in an even more ancient time, who knew what else it had swallowed. The universe was too vast, and a sun in this boundless void was not even as eye-catching as a soybean.
"Black Sun …" Zeratul's voice was low and filled with fear. "I've witnessed the birth of a dark star … but now, I think I've finally faced the ultimate darkness and emptiness of the universe. It's the real Black Sun …"
"No, it is not emptiness," Sandora shook her head. "It just cannot be described by this world."
"Sandora, do you know about this phenomenon? How did it come about? "
Although I didn't understand what Sandora and Zeratul were talking about, I was sure of one thing: Sandora knew what this Black Sun was (Now it can be confirmed that the strange space was an absolutely unobservable sun).
Sandora gently brushed away a strand of blonde hair on her forehead and said, "This phenomenon is quite rare, but the Schilling people have been exposed to this kind of thing for a long time. The Black Sun is just one of the manifestations of this phenomenon. It may also be a black planet, a black race, or … a black galaxy. There are many reasons for their appearance. Back then, we found at least 117 conditions that led to the existence of darkness, and each of the reasons was not a good thing."
"What is it?" This was what Zeratul was eager to know at the moment. This kind of existence, the dark paper cut in the space, made him feel uneasy from the bottom of his soul.
"I can only say that they have something in common: the existence of darkness was once a normal thing. This Black Sun may have been a normal star a long time ago, full of brilliance and enthusiasm. It may even have given birth to its own life, but its laws have been deleted, clumsily deleted."
"Why does matter exist in reality? What do you Proteus scientists think of this problem? "Halfway through, Sandora suddenly changed the topic.
Zeratul was slightly taken aback, but he still replied, "Because reality exists around matter."
This was really a novel argument. So this was the worldview of the Proteus people?
"Very close," Sandora smiled approvingly. "But it's not comprehensive. The real reason why matter exists in reality is that it can be known and defined by reality. We and God call this … the embodiment of laws."
"The existence of laws is the only basis for determining whether something exists or not. They are used to describe, define, and prescribe changes and concepts. These things are intertwined to form existence, just like a series of parameters in a virtual world that defines a virtual individual. So now the question is: what if some of these parameters are deleted?"
Zeratul was now deeply attracted by this magical theory. Even the Queen of Blades, who had been keeping a distance from him, came closer. Well, the latter still had Little Bubble hanging on her — it seemed that she would have to start regenerating the other wing later.
"Disappear from reality? After it loses its own … laws? " Zeratul asked tentatively, the light in his eyes flashing like a curious child seeking knowledge.
"No, it will become the thing in front of you: a black existence."
An indescribable existence will be rejected by the world, just like an unidentifiable pendant will become a question mark on the information screen of a fighter jet. The world can't understand this sun, but it can't ignore its existence either. So, the self-protection program is activated. The world is divided into a precise data stack area, and the indescribable erroneous data is expelled here. The star is still burning alone, burning in a way that can't be understood by any means. And the black sun we see now is actually not the star itself, which can no longer be described, but a security zone used to preserve the star. But for the sake of convenience, the two are usually considered to be overlapping and equivalent. So, you should understand now, right? "
"I should have taken the Level 3 exam in the first place …" I said seriously, and then quickly tried to salvage the situation before Sandora could make a scene. "But I still understand the general idea. So, that space is an absolute vacuum?"
Sandora shook her head slowly and smiled at me. "Ah Jun, 'vacuum' is also a concept. There is no concept there. Strictly speaking, it should be called 'unidentifiable'."
I looked at the other holographic projection system, which showed the unprocessed scene of outer space. It was dark, empty and desolate.
The black sun was there, burning quietly, but no one could perceive its existence. In any dimension that could be described, that space was smooth and complete, and no one could see the bottomless abyss hidden beneath it.
"What's in the black sun?"
After the initial shock, the Queen of Blades asked quietly.
"To you, hell is a world that can't be described by laws. Everything happens randomly, or it doesn't. Life is defined as death, and molecules are defined as energy. You go backwards in time, or even worse: you are directly designated as never having existed. But the crew of the Admiral of the Empire is not afraid of this. Our spaceship, along with the entire Schilling race, is set to be 'an absolute existence independent of chaos'. This is the result of our research a long time ago. "
Sandora did not finish her sentence. This was the result of our research a long time ago, but now we can no longer reproduce the glory of that time.
I didn't know how the Xi Ling people had managed to do it, but they had managed to modify their entire race from the level of natural laws, allowing their entire race to become an existence that would never be affected by any paradoxes. This might have included some sort of eternal agreement with the Gods. Of course, it was also possible that they had researched a self-consistent natural law that allowed the entire Xi Ling race to adapt. This was far beyond my imagination.
The Admiral of the Empire slowly began to accelerate, together with its huge fleet, moving in the direction of the black sun. It was a celestial body that was more than a hundred times larger than the star that Earth orbited (at least it was a celestial body before it became like this). We could not see its existence, but the spaceship's detection system used multi-dimensional co-imaging technology to depict the shape of the area. We were now close to its outer shell. The huge size of the Admiral of the Empire was as small as a moth sticking to a wall in front of a star.
Of course, this moth was much more powerful.
Although our technology was still incomplete, the efforts of the Schilling people in ancient times had left behind an astonishing amount of wealth. At the very least, we could easily enter this place where, in theory, no Order could exist.
After confirming the existence of the black sun, the Queen of Blades was even more certain of her decision not to enter it. Leaving aside the question of whether Zeratul would allow a Zerg Queen to approach his sacred land (even if that sacred land had probably been torn apart by the wrong laws by now), entering the black sun would cause her to lose her leadership over the Zerg. This consequence was enough to make Kerrigan hesitate.
She stayed outside the black sun, leaning close to the cold outer shell of the dark star (strictly speaking, the safe space that the world used to store the star). She volunteered to act as a sentinel. In fact, she was once again under surveillance. An entire fleet of Expeditionary Class Heavy Frigates was watching her.
Together with her were Renault and his entire squad. Although they were also very interested in this mysterious "celestial body", they still obeyed our arrangements and stayed with the Queen of Blades outside the black sun. This was another form of surveillance for the Queen.
Zeratul moved with us, using a method that sounded unbelievable. I ordered the Dark Templar Zeratul to be temporarily accepted as an honorary citizen of the Xiling Empire.
I know it sounds quite difficult to understand, but just by giving such an order, Zeratul gained the ability to move around inside the black sun. He was immune to the chaotic laws of the black sun.
The power of the laws was so powerful. Of course, the only thing we could use now was the power of the laws left behind by our ancestors …
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