The Large Disassembly Platform was one of a series of new facilities built by the research center. It was specifically used to deal with the increasing number of large-scale relics of the Old Empire. As the territory of the New Empire expanded and the Macro World Outposts gradually developed into small-scale colonies or military bases, more and more relics of the Old Empire were discovered. The ancient Schilling relics that scientists could study gradually changed from "gadgets" to large and functional ancient Schilling equipment began to become a frequent visitor of the research center. So, Tawil ordered another expansion of the research center's hyperspace laboratory and the construction of this comprehensive facility called the Large Disassembly Platform.
It could be said to be a combination of our old analysis laboratory, disassembly center, closed garage, and other research departments. Usually, each platform would occupy an independent hyperspace laboratory. It used multi-layered space nesting technology to ensure that even the largest thing could be disassembled in an "indoor environment". For example, the spaceship fragment that was dragged from Visca's "head".
In the dark, distorted gravity space, the huge cylindrical mechanical body was held in the air by invisible shackles. All the covering on the surface had been cut off, including the twisted pipelines and half-melted armor. They were firmly "stuck" in place because of the distorted gravity around them. Every inconspicuous part was subjected to the most comprehensive examination. Multi-functional probes and Schilling technicians in white uniforms were constantly traversing the huge pipelines. They were looking for any data recording devices that might have survived. The leader of the research team was a middle-aged man who looked very mature. I did not know him, but since Tawil gave him this position, he should be a good enough scientist.
There were many hexagonal metal platforms floating in the air next to the Large Disassembly Platform. The metal platforms were randomly distributed, and they were only connected to each other by a seemingly illusory light bridge. These wide platforms were observation points of various levels. They carried a large number of the most sophisticated analysis instruments and were directly connected to the main computer of the research center. The highest level platform was even directly connected to the core computer of the Shadow Realm, which was Bubble. This was why when Sandora and I stood on the platform, we saw a holographic projection in front of us showing Shepard dismantling a pineapple with his bare hands …
"I'm bored." Bubble's portrait appeared in front of us. As the core computer of the capital of the entire Empire, this girl had the ability to make her portrait appear anywhere in the Shadow Realm. "The human network is paralyzed, and we can't brazenly launch all the satellites in the world in one day. I can only download their games and play them myself. But it's really boring …"
"Alright, alright. You only know how to bully earthlings all day long." I 'pressed' Bubble's portrait back into the interface. She immediately stuck out her tongue and shrank her neck. "You want to play games? Connect to the Macro World Network and play with Skynet. Otherwise, go and wreak havoc on the campus network of the Imperial Army Military Academy. You and the Osaka guys can fight ten thousand against ten thousand … "
Half of Bubble's head popped out from the control interface. She imagined the spectacular scene of ten thousand Shepards and ten thousand Diablo bare-chested and swinging bricks at each other. She was instantly fascinated.
Sandora nudged my arm to get me to focus on the important matter at hand.
In front of me was the lively scene of scientists dismantling ancient Schilling equipment. Of course, it was spectacular, but I was already used to it. Even if they dismantled anything in front of me, it wouldn't affect me at all. What really affected me was what Sandora had told me earlier.
"I got them to scan the logic core of Planet Barrier thrice," Sandora said as she bit her lower lip. "Visca's Glory Starship is very strange. Its logic core is a separate system. Although it is part of Visca's spirit, she doesn't seem to know about the existence of the logic core. This might be the result of Visca's extreme mental instability back then. The fragments of her consciousness that were separated from her soul a second ago were no longer part of her logic system the next second. Hence, the logic core of Planet Barrier is in a mess. We used three different methods of scanning before we managed to retrieve all the system logs from the core. Visca even volunteered to help in the process, but in the end, she was even more confused than us."
"In the system log, we found something unusual."
As Sandora spoke, she pulled out a few simple messages and placed them in front of me.
"This is the last log before the collision: Planet Fortress's third dock area, accepting docking request. Docking request approved. Starting to guide the target spaceship to land."
I was surprised. My mind was in a mess. I started to pinch my cheeks.
"This is the system log that was refreshed at the same time when the collision started. It is still the third dock area: Target spaceship's landing procedure initiated. Docking zone barrier removed. Beginning landing."
I continued to be surprised and confused. I continued to pinch my cheeks.
"Stop pinching," Sandora reprimanded softly. "I'm still looking at it."
I was speechless.
Her Majesty the Queen who used to be upright and valiant had been completely corrupted!
"What's going on with these logs?"
I had a subtle expression on my face as I looked at the two simple system logs in front of me. There were countless guesses in my head, but I didn't dare to voice them out. However, Sandora had obviously done a thorough analysis many times. Plus, the evidence that she had in her hands could be said to be irrefutable. Hence, her answer was swift and certain. "This wasn't a collision. It was a guided landing that was carried out according to normal procedures. Planet Barrier accepted the landing request of the impact object. Then, it opened its door wide and welcomed the three explosions."
"This isn't scientific!" I exclaimed in shock. Then, I shook my head. "Of course, it isn't magic either. A guided landing? Why would Planet Barrier guide the three battleship wreckages to land? Also, this system log hasn't been uploaded to Visca yet. The little girl didn't expect this collision at all. When the explosion happened, she even broke the coffee table and sofa at home … "
That's right. That accident also provided Sandora with a midnight snack.
"But if this is true, it would explain why Planet Barrier didn't sound an air defense alarm or activate its defense mechanism." Sandora was still analyzing this unlikely possibility. Even though the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was amiss. Since there wasn't any reliable information, she could only accept that a lot of unreasonable things had happened. "Because it was a landing procedure approved by the core system of Glory, all the warning systems chose to remain silent. Because the target made contact with the starship 'under normal circumstances,' none of the air defense cannons sounded the alarm. When the collision occurred, the upper deck of Planet Barrier was still carrying out the default port opening procedure. This procedure doesn't require human intervention. More importantly, every Glory starship operates independently. Most of its operations have nothing to do with the usual battle sequence. The garrison troops in the base have no way of knowing what the upper deck is doing. Under normal circumstances, only the owner of Glory starship, who is Visca, can check the automatic operation of the starship. But …"
Sandora didn't finish her sentence, but I knew what she was saying. Only God knows what Visca is doing. Her understanding of Glory starship isn't even comparable to the recipe for the Alps lollipop. Letting that crazy little girl understand the purpose of her Glory system log is no less than letting Pandora win the next Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, that little girl might choose to conquer the world and award herself the Nobel Peace Prize, but that's not within our scope of discussion.
"Glory starship's autonomy is too high. When it determines that a foreign object is not a threat, all the warning radars attached to its equipment register will default to be safe. This is originally used to improve the efficiency of the equipment." Sandora sighed. "This is normal. Glory starship is the most reliable equipment the Xiling Empire has. Its rate of error is lower than any other equipment, but Visca is an exception."
"Let's not talk about this first. Why would the moon base guide three starship wreckages to crash into itself?"
I raised my hand and pointed at the disemboweled wreckage No. 1. The culprit that caused a huge explosion on the surface of the moon and directly caused the child's mother to be hit by ERROR-35 was being dismembered. Only now did we find out that when it crashed into us, it had actually applied to enter the country. This is as hilarious as Osama bin Laden's application to travel to Washington, DC, was approved by American Airlines!
"I have a guess." Sandora reached out and brushed her blonde hair behind her ear. She revealed a complicated smile. "Maybe this is an unsuccessful forced landing …"
"… Huh?"
"These three objects have basically been identified. The two smaller wreckages are the acceleration modules of the vector engine, and the larger wreckage is the universal buffer plug-in of the battleship's energy core. They came from the same spaceship, a disintegrated Eternal-class battleship."
Sandora's voice was calm and steady as she looked at the construction site in the distance.
"We still don't know where this battleship came from. The explosion destroyed the data recording devices on the three universal modules. However, we can at least confirm one thing: whether it is the acceleration module or the large capacitor, they don't have the function to send a landing signal. Before the collision, it should have been a spaceship that sent a landing request, not these three pieces."
"In other words …" I understood what Sandora meant and frowned. "At that time, an Eternal-class battleship was about to make an emergency landing on Planet Barrier, but it couldn't hold on before it landed …"
Sandora took the initiative to finish my sentence. "That battleship was probably on the verge of collapse before it requested to make an emergency landing. After the inter-world teleportation portal opened, it exploded into pieces on the other side of the portal. In the end, only the two acceleration modules and the large capacitor were left on Planet Barrier. The only problem now is that a normal captain of an Empire battleship would never do such a thing. They would have judged the situation of their spaceship on their own. If there was no chance of a successful landing, they would have chosen to self-destruct instead of forcefully landing and bringing disaster to their comrades. It's a pity that the navigation module of that unlucky spaceship didn't make it through the world gate. Otherwise, we would have more data to analyze. "
"We've already analyzed enough," I sighed from the bottom of my heart. I sighed from the bottom of my heart. I couldn't help but feel emotional about this catastrophic forced landing. Emergency landing was a word that made one's heart tighten. This word wasn't just something Hollywood used to attract attention. Only those who had personally witnessed the shocking scene of a gigantic spaceship crashing into the ground with thick smoke behind it could understand the cruelty of such a thing. This spaceship that crashed into Planet Barrier was unfortunate. I could imagine the tragic scene of it trying its best to rush towards the spatial gate while it was on the verge of collapsing. I could also imagine the tragic scene of it breaking apart right before the spatial gate. In the end, this traveler didn't manage to make it back to the base … Wait a minute, back to the base?!
"I say, this unlucky spaceship can't be Visca's from back then, right?!"
I pointed at the accelerator that had been dismantled into a pile of non-flammable garbage and looked at Sandora with a horrified expression.
"You finally figured it out." Sandora didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she shrugged. "We finally know a problem that we have been neglecting all this time. Where exactly is Visca's army from back then?"
My mind was racing as all kinds of wild guesses scrolled across the screen at the speed of dozens of T's per second. Secrets from the ancient era flashed across my mind as I started to guess what kind of strange state Visca's army was in back then. They had a supreme commander who didn't have the ability to think normally. Did their middle-level commanders even have a normal view of the world?
Alright, I knew that I might have been overly surprised and my thoughts were running wild.
"Wait, if this was Visca's spaceship from back then, then it might make sense that it was forced to land on Planet Barrier. But wasn't Visca originally part of the Fallen Apostle's camp? These wreckages … "
"This is a mystery. I hoped that Visca would be able to recall something, so I had her scan her memory core, but the chances aren't high." Sandora shook her head. "These three wreckages don't have any signs of the Abyss. They behave exactly like normal Imperial Army equipment in all aspects, so I'm guessing that it should be a remnant from before Visca joined the Fallen Apostle's camp. However, no one knows what this spaceship experienced after its supreme commander became a Fallen Apostle. Why has it maintained its' pure 'state until now, and whether it has any companions? All the evidence has probably disappeared in the space storm."
"Could this be the case?" I rubbed my forehead as I worked hard to develop the reasoning cells that I wasn't very good at. "When Visca joined the Fallen Apostle's camp, there was a split in the army under her command, and a portion of the commanders rebelled and became an independent fleet?"
Sandora looked at me with a strange expression. "This is a very bold guess. Visca's Army of Destruction might really have done such a thing. She created an army when she lacked the necessary equipment and Schilling's Matrix. These forcibly created soldiers should be different from the complete Shiring Apostles. It isn't impossible for a mutiny to happen."
However, all of this was just a guess. Only Visca could possibly know the true situation, and that little brat was still a muddle-headed little lunatic. So, the trail was cut off again.
However, to be able to obtain so much information in just a short day was already beyond my expectations. Now, we knew that all the wreckage came from an Eternal-class battleship, and this battleship should be the remnants of the Army of Destruction. We also guessed that Visca's former subordinates might have split up, and some of these former subordinates might still be alive. All of this information was enough to make the commanders of the headquarters excited for a few days. Even though I felt that it might not all be good news — saying this might make Visca feel awkward — I felt that even if the Army of Destruction was split into the Fallen Apostles and the Fallen Apostles, not a single one of them would be good. After all, they had wiped out many worlds back when they weren't under the control of the Chaos Abyss. This was just like how the chefs who made Peking Duck suddenly split into two camps. One group insisted on roasting the duck, while the other group started to have a special liking for braising the duck. Damn it, they did split up, but who did the duck offend? Wasn't it all the same …
So, I sadly realized that if my guess was correct today, we might have to deal with another Army apart from the Fallen Apostles, even though the scale might not be as large as the former.
This terrible guess had yet to be confirmed, but it had already seriously affected my mood. However, I wasn't worried that if the remnants of the Army of Destruction really existed, making them our enemy would affect Visca's mood. In fact, that cat-eyed little girl had no feelings for the Army of Destruction that she had single-handedly built. In most cases, she would even forget that she had a group of subordinates who killed without batting an eye. According to Visca's own intermittent descriptions and the things that Belavilla occasionally told me when she was clear-headed, that certain little girl had done many things at the frontlines, where she would suddenly recall something and disappear without a trace. In that era, Visca was even more inconceivable than Shallow Shallow, so I didn't believe that Visca would have any feelings for her former subordinates.
After coming out from the disassembly platform, I took a look at Visca on the way. The little girl was currently undergoing a deep memory core scan. Currently, she had already disabled six mainframes. In the corridor outside the examination center, there was a row of Mass Bubble Coils that were restarting one after another. Pandora was waiting at the entrance like an exquisite porcelain doll. She had already received information about a certain failed forced landing. When she saw me, the little girl only nodded her head imperceptibly.
"If they are enemies, kill them all."
This awkward older twin sister used this sentence to express her determination to protect her younger sister.
At noon, Miss Lin, who had made up for an entire morning's sleep, slowly woke up. She had already treated this place as her own home. She tugged on her fluffy cartoon shoes and came down to eat as if she was sleepwalking. Low blood pressure after waking up seemed to be a common problem for Misses, and Lin Xue was no exception. No matter what time it was, as long as she had just woken up from a deep sleep, Lin Xue would definitely be in a state of daydreaming. This was often the only opportunity for me to gain the upper hand in a battle with her. For example, I would put chili oil in her food or secretly flip Miss Lin's chopsticks. Every time, I would be able to have a great time. And Liliana said that this was a typical example of a reverse increase in IQ.
Right now, I was carrying out such an activity that was beneficial to the body and mind: I carefully drank the egg drop soup in front of Lin Xue and placed the empty bowl in front of Miss Lin who was eating with her eyes closed …
Then, the doorbell rang.
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