Tawil projected a hologram in the air. Looking at the dazzling images and data, he said in a pessimistic tone, "This is the conclusion after many tests. Miriya's information flow is not unlimited. The Revenge Army's shadow space and the real world add up to the information flow of two worlds. Miriya has to coordinate the information flow of the two worlds at the same time to prevent the channel from collapsing. In this state, her design lifespan is only forty-eight hours. After this time limit, her information flow will stop. There are two reasons that led to the termination of her information flow. The first is the limitation of her inherent functions, which can be buffered by connecting her to Bubble. The second is a command based on the most basic script. This command was left behind when Miriya was put into the container, and it limits the girl's lifespan. We tried everything we could but couldn't remove this command. It can even be said that Miriya's existence is based on that command, and it can't be revoked. "
Sandora frowned, thinking about something. I asked frantically, "What do you mean? Did the Revenge Army create Miriya to make her a consumable that can only be on duty for forty-eight hours?! "
"Ah Jun, let Tawil finish." Sandora nudged my arm and reminded me softly.
Tawil nodded. "I'm afraid so, Your Majesty. This is in line with the thinking of the old Empire. We never waste resources, let alone give the enemy a chance to take advantage of us. If our previous speculation is correct, Miriya is actually the key that the Revenge Army left behind for their Queen. In other words, under normal circumstances, Miriya should think like a Shiring Apostles. She will carry out her preset orders, even if she is to be used as a consumable. However, due to various accidents, Miriya only left behind core data. She has been raised as a normal human for more than ten years. That is why we find it hard to accept. If everything had gone according to the original plan, she should not have had a mind, and should not even have appeared in a human form. When Miriya came out of the container, she instinctively scanned the genetic structure of Zagu and Biluna, and then simulated a human form to protect herself. Until now, this had become her fixed form. This is the conclusion we came to after scanning her deep memories many times. "
"In other words, if no one had activated the ruins, and Miriya's vessel had not been destroyed in the war, she would have been stored in the form of a string of data until I returned to this world. Then I would have used this string of data to open a portal that would last for two days and bring the warriors out?" Sandora sorted through the series of events and had a rough idea of the final plan of the Avengers. "Ah Jun, I'm reminded of the example on Earth, Schrodinger's cat. The difference is that before the cat opened the box, it was confirmed that it was dead or alive, but when Miriya opened the box, it was confirmed that she was alive …"
I faintly sighed and said, "I remember that Zaku said that they found a mouse in the ruins. We should be glad that the mouse was scared to death by Luna. Otherwise, Miriya might not even be able to walk upright right now …"
The joke must have been very cold, because neither Tawil nor Sandora laughed.
"Why forty-eight hours?"
I finally focused on the question that I couldn't let go of. I also had another question: Miriya's identity was the Heart of the World, but her lifespan was only forty-eight hours after she started working. Was the world going to end after that? However, I was able to answer this question myself. The Heart of the World was capable of jumping. It was a body of information entanglement. Only after attaching itself to a physical existence would it be called the Heart of the World. If Miriya died, the Heart of the World would immediately jump to something else in this world. But by then, it would have nothing to do with Miriya.
"To be safe," Sandora had already thought through many things, "because they were not sure if their queen would return, and they were not sure if the first to return to this universe was the queen's army or the enemy. If the enemy found a way to obtain the key, the shadow space would open the portal. So the key must be effective for a short period of time. Forty-eight hours, just enough for the Imperial Army to rush out of the shadow space, and enough for them to hold on until the key disintegrated and the space closed again when they were invaded. "
"After the collapse of the Old Empire, the Army of Vengeance must have been attacked by the Abyss. Otherwise, they wouldn't have locked themselves in this way." Tawil nodded.
Sandora agreed, but she still suggested that we keep our opinions to ourselves, "These are all guesses. Before entering the shadow space, any conclusions are meaningless."
I said anxiously, "Now, there's something more important to consider. Can we really watch Miriya lose her life just to open a portal for us?"
After being in contact with the Shiring Apostles for so long, I had a good understanding of all kinds of strange life forms. I knew very well what it meant for an Information Entity like Miriya to stop the flow of information. It was more thorough than the death of a human. She would not leave anything behind. Her body would turn to ashes, and her soul would cease to exist. Because Information Entities did not have a body and a soul.
"Actually, if we move fast enough, Miriya won't have to be sacrificed."
Tawil suddenly said.
I was shocked, "Huh? What do you mean? "
"Miriya's design lifespan is indeed forty-eight hours, but this doesn't mean that we have to use up all forty-eight hours in one go," Tawil said slowly, "If we can retreat from the shadow space within forty-seven hours and fifty-nine minutes, Miriya won't have to die."
Sandora and I exchanged glances, then said to Tawil with a strange expression, "In other words, Miriya can actually be 'closed'?"
Tawil nodded.
I instantly banged my head on the table. I raised my head and looked at Tawil frantically, "Then why did you make it sound so tragic?!"
"Did I?" Tawil pointed at himself, baffled. "I was just stating the facts. This is the most basic etiquette of a scientist."
I put my hand to my forehead and quickly let out a breath of relief, "That scared me to death. I thought that person had finally decided to go the route of depression … If that's the case, we can ask Miriya to open the door when we enter the shadow space, then let her rest. When we're done wreaking havoc in the shadow space, we'll send a signal for her to open the door and let us out, right?"
Tawil revealed his pessimistic expression again, "I'm afraid that won't work. Miriya is a one-time use. She was designed to only have one chance to open the door. From the moment she opens the door to the moment we complete the task in the shadow space, then to the moment she ceases to operate, the time will be forty-eight hours. There can't be any breaks in between. There's no pause button. In theory … Mm, that's the truth. "
"What the heck!" I was about to have a nervous breakdown from the evil designs of the Avengers back then. "Do they have to be so careful?!"
"We should be thankful that even though there's no pause button, Miriya still has a shutdown button. Otherwise, wouldn't you be even more frustrated if we had to use up all forty-eight hours in one go?" Sandora glanced at me faintly, "Now, what we have to consider is the next thing. Forty-eight hours, which is actually just two days, what can we do?"
I was stunned, my expression changing subtly.
What can we do in two days? It's more than enough if you want to do some small things. Those who are impatient have two days to complete the tasks from meeting to getting married. But what do we intend to do?
We intend to destroy a world — within forty-eight hours.
Anyone who has watched the movies would know that the most powerful aliens in the movies would take a few days to destroy Washington, and in the end, they would most likely be foiled by a hothead. This hothead could be a high school sophomore who had a female classmate who had been abducted by the aliens at least once or twice, or a middle-aged uncle who had a dispirited career and had a wife who was often neglected by him due to work. He would usually be awakened from his bed at 4.30 am when he was about to have sex with his wife. This would usually be the first scene after the opening credits. Obviously, we had gone off topic again.
What I wanted to say was that it was difficult to destroy a universe in two days. This involved a profound, almost philosophical question, "What is destruction?" Let's continue to use Washington as an example. Anyway, the Americans themselves didn't feel the pinch, right? In the minds of ordinary people, if Washington was bombed into ruins, it would be considered destruction because it meant that the homes that humans had built had lost their value. But to Earth, Washington was just a coordinate of latitude and longitude. If you bombed it into honeycomb coal, latitude 38.913611 degrees north and longitude 77.013222 degrees west would still exist, but the elevation would change. This wouldn't be considered destruction. It would be even more fun to raise this concept to the level of the universe. In theory, as long as a space existed, as long as the rules of the space existed, it wouldn't be destroyed. Everything in the world, including the planets, were just temporary residents who happened to be placed at a certain coordinate. They had long-term property rights, but no one would compensate them after they were demolished, because in the eyes of the world, they still existed.
If we wanted to destroy the shadow space, it wouldn't be as simple as blowing up the celestial bodies and the base of the Avengers.
The Shiring Apostles were one of the ancestors of space technology and also a veteran of the rules of technology. They were good at hiding their bases in any spatial layer. Even if the entire universe was reduced to a pot of primordial soup, they could still be at ease in it. If we want to solve the problem of the Avengers once and for all, the shadow space must completely disappear, including its space, time, rules, and concepts.
The last time we did this was in the Keplu Star Zone. We used a thermal start to drop the place to the state before the Big Bang, and then Genesis. That level of doomsday obviously met our requirements. But I still remember one thing: before we used the thermal start, it took Pandora and the others more than a month to prepare the World's Arbiter.
From a scientific point of view, the current Avengers wouldn't give us a month to prepare our ultimate move, and then watch the three Glory starships enter their shadow space.
"Do we have the technology to delete a universe in 48 hours? I mean, if we were to prepare it from the beginning, not the few minutes of thermal start. "
"We did in the past," Sandora said awkwardly.
Oh, that was during the era of the old Empire. What Sandora meant was that we didn't have the technology now.
I wanted to say that the Protoss definitely had the ability to do so, but looking at Sandora's expression, I felt that it was best not to say it.
At such a critical juncture, if we needed someone else's help to dig up the graves of our former soldiers, I wouldn't be able to accept it, let alone Sandora.
I began to think about what I could do in 48 hours with my own power. I realized that I was really amazing. In such a long period of time, I could use the Void Territory to engulf an area the size of a solar system, provided that I didn't die from spreading it too much. I could also open a Void Crack and let it slowly corrode the shadow space. However, the Avengers would probably find a way to block it themselves. I thought of a few methods, but none of them would work. In my memory, the only major victory that was related to 48 hours was when I was in my second year of junior high. I finished all my homework on the last two days of winter break. That was one of the two most memorable experiences that I had before I turned eighteen. The other experience was when I was in my fifth year of primary school. My elder sister had brought me to the countryside to play. Fatty Li and I had gone to steal some fruits from Old Qian's house. Both of us had been discovered. I was proud that I had outrun Fatty Li, but unfortunately, we hadn't outrun the dog that was guarding the garden …
When I came back to my senses, I realized that Sandora was gaping at me. It turned out that she and Tawil had called me a few times already. I scratched my head awkwardly. I suddenly understood one thing. Why would Shallow Shallow, that heartless girl, fall in love with me? We are the same kind!
"Cough cough. Have you come to a conclusion?"
I asked as I scratched my head awkwardly.
Sandora nodded with a heavy expression. "There is a way, but the losses will be great. At the very least, it is the only feasible method that we have with our current strength."
Tawil continued, "Your Majesty, every Shadow Dimension has a control core. Because it is a world that is formed purely through the distortion of information, it exists on the basis of 'non-existence'. This requires a powerful central control system to ensure that the massive amount of information will not be canceled out due to paradoxes. For example, our Shadow City is such a control core. The Avenger's Shadow Dimension is extremely large, so large that the real world is unable to contain it. Thus, its control system should also be very large … Perhaps, after we enter the Shadow Dimension, the first thing that we will scan and lock onto will be this control core. At that scale, it is basically impossible to hide. The massive surge of information will render any kind of concealment method ineffective. "
"You are saying that we should directly destroy this control core and cause the Shadow Dimension to collapse?" I knocked on the table. This plan was so straightforward that even a child could think of it. But in reality, it was not very reliable. "Have you forgotten how many Avenger soldiers there are? The number of motherships that they have gathered in deep space is already three times that of our regular fleet. If we want to attack their control core, the number of troops that we will have to face will definitely exceed this number. We will have to defeat enemies that are several times our size within forty-eight hours, and then destroy the control core at the same time. Even if we have a celestial system fleet, we can't do that, right? "
"No, it should be possible. We have the Psionic Death Star." Sandora shook her head. "Its special structure can withstand a very large amount of damage. And Tawil is confident that after we enter the Shadow Dimension, we will be as close to the control core as possible. The distance will not be more than twenty light years. This is the distribution of the Shadow Dimension determined after analyzing the coordinate system that Miriya had recorded. It is 100% reliable. If we go all out and do it … "
I noticed that Sandora rarely hesitated on a topic, so I couldn't help but urge her. In the end, her next words made me slam my head on the table. "Ah Jun, if the Psionic Death Star directly crashes into it, no matter how sturdy the target is, even if it has a Law-class defense, it will still be destroyed. The Psionic Death Star's main structure is mainly made up of high-density psionic energy, which is close to the intensity of void energy. It is enough to destroy Law-class defense. "
I looked at the two scary women in front of me with sweat dripping down my forehead. "So after discussing for so long, the conclusion that you came up with is to use the entire Star Fortress to crash into it?!"
I had to admit that this was the craziest attack plan I had ever heard, and it was definitely powerful enough. Pandora and Visca's violent aesthetics were nothing in front of this queen who had begun to conquer the world tens of millions of years ago. Just look at what a terrible idea Sandora had come up with!
I counted on my fingers and realized that there were two key points to realize this plan. First, our psionic death star had to be able to withstand all the intercepting firepower along the way. I didn't believe that the Avengers would just watch as a fixed star fortress smashed into their own headquarters. During that twenty light-year journey, the psionic death star would probably have to withstand the firepower of the main cannons of both sides combined since the start of the battle. Second, after destroying the control core of the Shadow Dimension, could the Death Star Fortress still be usable? It was going to crash into the core fortress of the entire universe, which was fundamentally different from a little kid breaking a glass ball.
In the end, I came to a conclusion: this was a terrible idea filled with the flames of war and romanticism.
But what made me feel helpless was that Sandora had already agreed to it unilaterally …
"Don't forget that the Celestial System Fleet has the protection of the second gap system." Sandora comforted me on the way to the headquarters after leaving the research center. "If the Star Fortress can't withstand it, we still have a chance to pause for an emergency, and then …"
"And then what?"
I stared at Sandora's bright eyes, trying to find a hint of madness in them. If that was the case, I would have a reason to persuade her to calm down. However, her gaze was always calm and decisive.
"I have already spoken to Icetis. Her Divine Concept has the authority to destroy the universe. Do you remember when we first met, she almost used Universe Collapse against you?"
I felt a chill run down my spine. The memory of that female pervert's combat power when she was in a hysterical state was still fresh in my mind.
"The most powerful thing about the Protoss is not their combat power, but their innate authority over any world. Bryndis is especially good in this aspect. Her power as the Goddess of Light is not good at destruction (?). Her power as the Goddess of Light isn't good at destruction (?), but her Authority. It's just that … once she uses this Authority, Icetis's actions won't be considered as her personal actions. This is equivalent to the Gods directly intervening in this war with their official power. "
At this point, Sandora sighed. "If it's possible, I really wish that I could personally hold this funeral for them, but the situation is dire. We only have forty-eight hours. Allowing my best friend to participate is already my bottom line."
I was silent for a few seconds. Then, I reached out and pulled Sandora's shoulder under my arm. "Well, I support you. But let's try our best to protect the Death Star Fortress. Our family's finances are still tight right now …"
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