While the scientists in Toberu were busy debugging the equipment and learning how to read the messages from the Imperial Data Network with the guidance of the bubbles, Sandora had already lost some patience, she knew that every minute of delay in the Dao Dao would increase the likelihood of losing contact with the Fifth Fleet again, because no one knew what "area" the Fifth Fleet would move to next, and the "movement" in the void did not have any trajectories, directions, distances, and other characteristics that could be tracked in normal space. As long as they are within the void jump radius of the Fifth Fleet ships (a radius is just a colloquial term, strictly speaking, the maximum offset that modifies their own information representation), they can flee anywhere at any time, and at the same time escape from their pursuers, they can also jump out of the scanning radius of the Garden of the Dead at any time. Although the Garden of the Dead has been opened to its maximum scanning radius, the possibility of the Fifth Fleet suddenly "disappearing" is still extremely high.

And the call messages we sent still can't "shine" on the other side.

Just now, Sandora and Bubbles explained to me the techniques of cross-quadrant communication in the void, and I have a certain understanding of this kind of communication: we all know that although the void is chaotic, seemingly disorderless, and has physical "uniformity", from the perspective of information theory, the void also has the characteristics of "inhomogeneity": it is divided into quadrants. Although the reason for this is unknown, it is indeed divided into areas that are not physically isolated, and they are like virtual partitions of a hard drive, separated only because of their "characteristics" (that is. Physically, in fact, each Void Quadrant overlaps each other, and they are the Void), when located in two different Void Quadrants, not only will the worldly realms contained in them be very different, but even the Void Realm will be affected by information shifts. Thus, communication takes place in the void that spans more than two quadrants. And when at least one of the two parties is in a moving state, the sender and receiver will be out of sync, because the 'movement' in the void means that their own information representation is also changing. This means that the decoded copy of the 'mover' changes at any time, and within the same quadrant, this change is regular. As a result, the various decoders that come with the communicator can maintain communication, and between different quadrants, this change will exceed the limits of what any logic-based decoder can calculate, and the communication will be blocked. Within the Imperial Information Network, the solution to this problem is to set up a relay station, and ensure that there is at least one communication relay station in each Void quadrant. These relay stations are immobile, so they are not affected by the transquadrant barrier effect, and can send messages to each other, which they then relay to the Void ships in the current quadrant; And if the communicating party has left the coverage of the relay station (that is, left the Imperial Information Network), as a pioneer ship deep into the void. It relies on a fixed communication protocol to maintain contact with the rear, and the communication protocol will determine that at least one packet in the message sent by both parties contains information representations of all the quadrants that the "Mover" may reach within the radius of a void jump, so as to ensure that as long as the "Mover" is still in these quadrants, it can keep in touch with the headquarters, and the next communication between the two sides will take place. This "decode-address packet" will be refreshed and relocated to the "mover", and in this way, the communication-refresh packet-mobile-communication-refresh packet, the process must be repeated again and again, and the communication between the two parties can continue. And between the Fifth Fleet and us, apparently, neither condition is met: it is neither located within the Imperial network. There is no unified communication protocol with us. Of course, there was such a communication protocol between it and the Fourth Fleet a long, long time ago, but according to the working principle of this communication protocol mentioned above, we can find that this process must be based on the fact that the two sides maintain a certain frequency of contact, and each contact successfully refreshes the "decode-address packet". Once one of the parties jumps away from the "address book" recorded in the last communication, the communication protocol becomes invalid.

Communication between the Fifth and Fourth Fleets has been interrupted for hundreds of years, and this communication agreement is now long expired.

Of course, the above knowledge is limited to communication in the Void Realm, and basically there are very few cases of this kind of communication, after all, even the Star Domain Protoss is not a race that lives in the Void, we all live in a stable and orderly world, and the "position" of these Worlds in the void can be considered to be unchanging, so naturally there is no need to worry about the situation where communication is blocked. Generally, the ones that are often used in advanced Void Communication Techniques are those special spaceships that perform exploration and cruising missions in the Void Realm all year round.

Or the Exile Fleet.

"That's not the way to go," Sandora said with a frown, and she tapped her finger twice in mid-air to turn on a set of holographic projections, and Tavel's image appeared in the center of the frame, the female scientist who had been online since the beginning and took over the live operation of the Death Garden, "Tavel, tell me what you think." The biggest difficulty in establishing communication between us and the Fifth Fleet, and your plan of response. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," Tavel nodded, and refreshed the complex data and charts under her image, I could only roughly see that this was the operating state of the Departed Garden, and saw countless warnings of "Messages are lost, no return information has been received", "The biggest problem now is that we can't grasp the true 'coordinates' of the Fifth Fleet, all the messages received by the Departed Garden are expired, and the messages we send are also expired, and we try to include as many quadrants as possible in the messages that send out." Decode-address packet', but the Fifth Fleet probably won't know how to identify this packet, and they won't even be aware of these signals at all, because the communication protocol between us is different, even the base system is different. If we want to break this deadlock, we need to be more precise about what to target, and know which quadrant they will jump to – which is now completely in the dark. Theoretically, yes. ”

To hear the word "blind" from a scientist like Tavel, who is known for his rigor, is a remarkable situation. I immediately felt the embarrassment faced by the staff of the departed garden, and the next second, perhaps to my soul, I felt a bright light pass through my mind - Tavel said we need to be more precise about the target?

That is, she needs a sight with a predictive function?

My eyes involuntarily fell on Xiaoxue, and then Sandora and her sister seemed to think together, and more and more eyes began to focus on Xiaoxue. The latter is known as a genius girl with six sharp senses. She suddenly had a wit: "What do you think I'm doing?" I didn't get into trouble today, Dad, you can't be idle, so just beat the kids and play......"

"Less nonsense!" I grabbed her and threw her to Bubbles, "Is there a way to add her to your system." ”

Meanwhile. I also explained my thoughts in detail to Bubbles in the Psychic Connection, and the other party immediately nodded and pulled out a third awl from his pocket. Xiaoxue immediately became anxious when she saw that thing: "Eh! What are you doing! I'll tell you, if you dare to poke me with that thing, I'll ...... you anxious."

"Look at you." Bubbles pouted, removed the transfer device at one end of the awl, lowered his head and modified it a few times, and then took out a pair of glasses-like things from his personal space, and combined the two parts together, and it became a thing that was as stupid as the children's toy XX magical girl transformer. She gave this thing to Xiaoxue's eyes: "Here, put it on." ”

Xiaoxue was stunned for a moment, her face full of awkwardness: "That...... You'd better poke me with an awl......"

"What so much nonsense!" I slapped the girl into the seat next to me. The "Magical Girl Transformer" that took the bubble and put it on for her, "Steal the fun, when the Imperial Data Network was not yet formed, your mother had to lie in a coffin to connect to the radar......"

"But this thing is too embarrassing to wear, and changing to handsome and cool sunglasses is no better than this colorful plastic frame...... Xiaoxue couldn't stop complaining while wearing the silly shame glasses. But the latter had already activated, and a blue halo began to diffuse from where the device came into contact with the skin, and adapted to Xiaoxue's mental frequency, "Eh, wait, it's kind of interesting." In the left lens, there is also a new episode of this spring, hey, Aunt Paul, you are so good, the original sample film that you watched directly? ”

I silently glanced at the child's mother, who twisted the awl on his head and did a hard job: "Okay, it's been synchronized with Xiaoxue's spirit band, now the Death Garden will send the next batch of data packets, and we will keep changing the offset in the middle, Xiaoxue, you focus on the Fifth Fleet, and then the system will automatically guide you to establish a connection—just like the process of scanning the otherworldly world with the coffin-like antique equipment back then." ”

Xiaoxue made an OK gesture and began to hum a song to watch cartoons, and I don't know if she heard it clearly, but looking at the meaning of the bubbles, the system is working normally. The surrounding circle of Toberu scientists and senior officers of the Fourth Fleet kept a blank stance at everything in front of them, and I guess for them the way the First Family of the Empire worked was a little different. However, no one stepped forward to talk, and more people chose to roll their eyes, and the world has nothing to do with me - except for the Toberu scientists, whose eye structure cannot roll their eyes.

The two most unreliable guys finally got to work, and attention was once again focused on the information fed back by the amplifier system. Tavel teleported what was displayed in the Garden of the Dead to us, and on the holographic screen, in addition to a bunch of incoherent data, was the system's prompt: "Attempted to send a signal...... Signal loss, track the next source...... Trying to send a signal...... Signal loss, track the next source ......"

Then, about a minute and twenty-five seconds later, after the Garden of the Dead made a full-power broadcast, something different finally appeared on the hologram: "Send signal...... Arrival echoes are detected to determine the source information characterization...... The tracking system starts tracking, sending signals...... Arrival echo detected, identifiable information detected, font database retrieved...... Error, information mismatch. Try to connect again, connection is successful, ready to try ...... second time"

After the communication was established, there were several failed matches, and the compatibility of the decoding rules between the two sides was below the system threshold, which may be due to the fact that the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet had lost contact for a long time, and the former's communication technology had changed, but soon, the Fifth Fleet discovered that the unfamiliar signal was using the same encoding method used by the exiles, and the communication began to become stable.

In the display window that represents the decoding ratio. The recognizable code finally broke through the threshold, and within a thousandth of a second, a "decoder-address packet" was sent according to a preset process, and as the address packet was updated and sent back to the receiver in the Garden of the Dead, Tavel was happy to announce that a stable channel had been established.

"An encrypted packet containing navigation information has been sent and a confirmation has been received." "The system is gradually increasing its bandwidth and is now beginning to exchange communication protocols between the two parties...... Thirty seconds is expected. ”

The Toberu scientists in the hall were holding their breath. Nervously looking at the communication terminal that was still only a clutter, there was nothing they could help with now, and the communication matrix located on the surface of the planet Kerudaq had been successfully activated. The channel was also functioning steadily, and the task of calculating and converting all the data was completely on the side of the Imperial equipment, who could only follow the progress of things as nervously as the other senior officials. Thirty seconds was a short time, but it was perhaps the longest thirty seconds of their lives for the Fourth Fleet officers present, and it was hard for outsiders to reconnect with another group of survivors, who had thought that they were the only exiles who had survived in the past. Eventually, when the surrounding suddenly came a system prompt that "the direct connection has been established, and the communication can be stable". And the moment a relatively stable picture appeared on the communication terminal, a neat deep breath sounded in the hall.

A hologram in the center of the room pops up with heavily distracting but still discernible video, with what appears to be the interior of the battleship in the background - huge equipment and busy staff can be seen flickering in the distance, as well as a large image showing the exterior of the ship. In the middle of the video, a tall "creature" with a translucent body that looks like a spirit, and doesn't even have a fixed form or facial features, "he" seems to be lying in front of the communicator, hurriedly fiddling with the panel in front of him, although he can't see where the voice organs of the spirit creature are. But we heard a majestic and deep male voice: "This is the Haydn III Giantship, Commander-in-Chief Coco Kekina, repeat, this is the Haydn III Giant Ship, Commander-in-Chief Coco Kekina, we have received your signal, please answer!" Does anyone hear me? ”

The "......Council", which has always maintained a high level of composure, was shocked at this moment, and instantly flashed in front of the communication terminal, "Coco Keina, this is the Council of Hunard...... Oh, my God...... You're alive! ”

"Uonard......" The movement of the spirit creature named Coco Kina visibly stiffened, and then suddenly three rows of blue-white light flickered where he looked like his face—it was supposed to be his eyes," Ancestor Allen was on top...... You are the Fourth Fleet!! You're still alive! The Fourth Fleet is alive! ”

Cokekina's voice echoed in the hall, and of course in the bridge he was on, and through the video footage, the soldiers who were busy in the distance could be seen turning their heads and staring blankly at each other, some of them seemed to have finally thought of what the "Fourth Fleet" meant (these people are likely to be members of the new generation, they may have only heard of the Fourth Fleet in historical materials), and suddenly looked shocked, but Coco Kekina quickly ordered the staff to be quiet: "Stay calm, Continue to jump towards the intended target, pay attention to all information fluctuations within one quadrant, and initiate emergency evasion as soon as new information with an offset of more than 15 percent appears. ”

"Coco Keina, how's your situation going over there?"

"Very bad, very bad, we are under attack, and now we are barely able to get out of the enemy's tracking, but I don't know when they will catch up again. The new home, which has just been built for two hundred years, is finished...... Ancestors are above, there must be something wrong with this communicator, I can't see your picture, what is the situation of the Fourth Fleet now? How many more starships have survived? Have you gotten rid of those monsters...... Wait a minute...... You can reach us, and the signal strength is higher than it was a thousand years ago...... Could it be that the Fourth Fleet is also moving to this position? ”

"No, the Fourth Fleet...... The situation should be much better than yours," the Council gave me and Sandora an awkward look at the word "monster" before responding to Cocokina, "We've found a safe new home not long ago, and the Fallen Apostles can't attack here. Eighty percent of the Fourth Fleet's starships were preserved and were not attacked again for hundreds of years after they lost contact. ”

Cokekina's three eyes lit up at the same time, which may have been a sign of joy: "Congratulations, it seems that some of the survivors of the year can finally continue to live." ”

"The most important thing now is the situation on your side," the Council immediately interrupted Cocokina, "we've sent a navigation signal, it indicates a safe area, now with the engines on full swing, evacuate here, we have enough strong fleet to repel any enemy." ”

Coco Kena lowered her head, as if checking something: "Yes, we received these packets, and the host has parsed them...... But you don't know how far we are from the target marked by this navigation signal...... I'm afraid we'll be caught up before we can evacuate to our target...... Ah, the communicator has been restored, and now you can see your image here. It's pretty clear. Wait a minute! ”

Coco Kina suddenly stared at the picture tightly and asked in a low voice, "Why did a person wearing the Imperial Symbol appear in the communication screen?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )