Speaking of the fallen apostles, they seem to have calmed down again for the time being.

Yes, "as if", even if they haven't made the slightest movement in the last month or two, and even the monitoring posts in the void have rarely found any traces of the Fallen Apostle fleet, I can only use the word "as if", no one will believe that the Fallen Apostles are really dormant. Although they have achieved a lot of success in their last few operations, they have suffered huge losses strategically, and from what I know of them, such losses will not only not silence the enemy, but will make them do everything they can to turn the situation around.

It's just that the Fallen Apostles are quite cunning guys at the same time, and they rarely take the initiative to appear before they are sure of it, so no one knows what is going on in the territory of the Fallen Apostles now, and they can only look at it on the surface, and the enemy is temporarily nested in their own territory.

The Third Intelligence Core has assembled more than a dozen Special Ops squads, and these Special Ops Squads have identities that we never thought of before: Fallen Apostles, or "former" Fallen Apostles.

Presumably, everyone still remembers what Xiaoxue's bear child did when she came over: she rebelled against Harlan's entire group army! And that group army suffered a lot of losses when following Xiaoxue to break through the enemy's blockade line, and the battleships that survived in the end were no longer enough, and then we shrunk and reorganized this force and added it to Viská's troops, and Viska the Abyss General finally had his own formal legion, but Sandora and I both felt that it was not a good idea for this special unit to be placed on the battlefield to fight with the enemy, so they were more often used to carry out special service missions. Carter? Carlo seconded hundreds of experienced former Fallen Apostle commanders from the legion who had been at the top of the army to form special operations squads, which have now infiltrated the enemy's borders. They lurk there, and if the enemy has any trouble, the empire will be the first to get the news.

This is much more reliable than the Void Sentry for remote observation.

In fact, I hope that these special forces can sneak into the enemy's territory all the way and ambush them on their homeland, and then the emperor can find an opportunity to attack inside and outside, and maybe completely destroy the remnants of Harlan's strength. It could even snatch a few universes from the fallen apostles, but the idea was only to think about. The extraordinarily effective spiritual network among the Apostles of Hilin is the most effective defense against spies, and Harlan must know which of his soldiers have been rebelled against the New Empire, so the commander of the Special Operations Team will not find a chance to infiltrate the enemy team. Now they can only rely on their knowledge of the defense systems of the various worlds on the side of the Fallen Apostles to get as close to the enemy's borders as possible, and one step further will be doomed.

The fallen apostles tinkered with their own machinations on their own turf. Naturally, the Empire's side will not be idle. In addition to the rotating arsenal and starport, the busiest task right now is the scientific research team led by Tavir. Their most important research topics at the moment are two, one is to analyze the fragment of King's Landing, in order to reverse engineer something from it that we can use, and this project has not made much progress now, after all, King's Landing was also a strategic weapon in the old imperial era, and the techniques used are complex and difficult. In addition, God the Father and King Huron had beaten that thing to pieces, and there was still a long way to go to restore the principle of King's Landing. The biggest development in Tavel so far is the design of modifications that can be used on small and medium-sized warships based on the way King's Landings are powered, allowing the starship's reactor to be overloaded twice at four times the power after one overload - and then returned to the factory for overhaul. We know that the Dao Overload Technique is also an important part of the Xiling Empire's Maddening series of technologies, which make the already outrageous power of the Imperial weapon still capable of fighting chicken blood, and now. Overloads have been strengthened, and the new technique allows a ship to burst out four or five times its combined strength in a broken cauldron until it burns out all of its main guns and shield generators. Bubbles has decided to call this mod effect Bloodthirsty Mania...... By the time I found out, the girl had already entered the name into the database.

The second big project the team is working on a deep-diving vessel, and this project has already made a lot of progress: I really didn't expect it, they are almost building a prototype boat!

Of course. It was a test vessel that could not carry people, and the "depth" of the dive was completely incomparable to that of the prototype of the dive ship of the time, and it could only carry a limited amount of test equipment. These devices send the measurements back in the most stupid way, that is, after the deep-diving ship can no longer withstand the pressure and self-destructs, it "floats" itself to the abyssal gate, where it is salvaged by the troops waiting near the gate. This is still the idea that was mentioned at the beginning, and Sandora commented that in the face of a field that knows nothing, the stupidest method is often the most effective.

As you can imagine, the information that can be harvested in the end by this kind of drifting bottle-like processing is quite limited. A sample vessel carries hundreds of escape units, each of which uses a different type of protection. Of these, no more than five will be able to escape completely, but this is also a test: Tavel is desperate to know if there is another way to further enhance the resistance of the deep diving equipment to the abyss, so he gathered his best assistants and set up hundreds of escape units.

The first dive time of the sample ship has not yet been decided, and Sandora feels that as long as the first ship is successfully built, it can dive immediately, anyway, it is not manned, and the experimental area will definitely choose an unmanned universe (the lesson of the old empire makes us feel that any large-scale test test is not as safe as directly placing the test site in an unmanned universe during operation, even if it costs two or three times the cost of logistics and equipment for this), which can save a lot of steps.

As for the deep diving site, several conditions should be met: there is no life in the universe, or there are only a small number of low-level creatures, and the universe with intelligent beings and civilized civilization must be absolutely excluded; There is at least one Abyssal Gate, and the stability of this Abyss Gate must reach a certain level, the entry of the deep-diving ship and the later salvage work will destroy the stability of the Abyss Gate, and if the initial stable state is not enough, it is easy to cause disaster; The scale of the Abyss Gate must not be too large, otherwise the existing suppression equipment may not be powerful enough.

Bubble has begun to sift through the database on a large scale to find the best environment for testing: it's always good to be prepared. The Empire's current power range is not small. But to find such a qualified test universe is not just talking, we can't compare with the old empire - the deep diving experiment back then must have been much easier than ours, that land is vast, what kind of universe is not?

Another thing that has to do with the "people" is the new members of the empire.

The Dryads have almost adapted to the environment of the new Empire. The hundreds of millions of elves who were scheduled to emigrate have now all moved into their new homes and built temporary cities, and they are perfectly satisfied with the rudimentary ecological dome on the New Oasis, which is at least much better than the scorching and desolate ecological environment in the mantle, and more dryads are engaged in the work of the Temporal Authority, and these newly appointed liaison officers will become the special "ambassador race" of the new empire. It may not be long before these gentle and resilient elves will become the unique label of the Empire, but now they still need to learn, to learn the Imperial Code from the Imperial soldiers, and to learn the rules between the new Imperial Clans from the representatives of other clans, which is a headache: the Dryads are a more romantic race, and they are somewhat liberal. This can be seen from the fact that they travel for most of their lives, it is impossible to reverse this character, they did not have time to accept the iron fist rule of the Apostle of Hilin in the old imperial era, and I do not intend to forcibly twist the will of these free elves in the new imperial era, as long as they can learn to complete the task accurately.

About Dryads. There is also unexpected good news: at some point, they have become good friends with the Exiled Fleet, the only race within the Empire's power that has a cold and cautious attitude towards the Empire, and the Dryads are expected to be a breakthrough in improving this situation!

The Exiled Fleet is made up of refugees who fled the collapse of the old empire, ruined and hunted for tens of thousands of years. The sins committed against them by the fallen apostles are almost innumerable, even though the New Empire and the fallen apostles are completely opposites, but in the eyes of third parties. It's really hard to distinguish between the two, and in the eyes of most civilians in the exiled fleet, the soldiers of the new empire are still ruthless and dangerous, but they don't bother them for the time being.

The presence of the Dryads confused the already frightened refugees for a moment, and then softened their attitudes.

We don't send Imperial soldiers when we contact the Exiled Fleet. In most cases, the servant army was sent to send representatives, and now the Dryads serve as the Empire's diplomatic team. I casually included them in the list of missions, and the tribes of the exiled fleet saw an unprecedented representation of the Empire: gentle, humble, always smiling, with toys and sweets distributed to children in their pockets......

I firmly believe that this last one will have the greatest impact on them.

Regardless, the presence of the Dryads has greatly eased the Exiled Fleet's nervousness about the Empire's representatives, and it is optimistic that it will not be long before their impression of the new Empire will change. I must admit this time that Lilina's advice had paid off very quickly, and I looked forward to the day when the suffering people of the exiled fleet would put aside their worries and side with the Apostle of Killin. Of course, now they are also considered to be the imperial camp, but the state that the two sides cannot cooperate after all has made Sandora very dissatisfied.

"It feels so good...... After throwing that troublesome tail to the diplomatic mission, the whole world was quiet. ”

Lilina lay barefoot on the carpet, her head dangling to find Tinker Bell's figure, without the slightest hint of archbishop temperament, while muttering contentedly, she was referring to the green calyx, the tree elf girl she stuffed to the team of liaison officers sent to the exiled fleet, so she herself got a rare few days of free time, the whole person is now degraded to the point of no return, look what Ya is doing now, play hide and seek with Tinker Bell! I wonder how much advantage Jingle Bell has in this game?

"It looks like she's going to be back in two days," I glanced at Lilina, and felt the need to make the smug girl nervous at a critical moment, "Ever heard of Xiao Beisheng's new marriage?" ”

Lilina was rummaging through the small drawer of the water dispenser for the figure of Ding Dong, and when she heard this, she shuddered, and then squirmed behind the sofa like a big caterpillar with a sad face......

Jingle Bell emerges from a vase two meters away, cheering with joy as it is her one hundred and seventy-sixth triumph in hide-and-seek with Lilina...... You see. In fact, this is the only place where Ding Dong is stronger than everyone else, in the game of hide and seek that does not allow the use of special abilities, she has defeated our family more than 1,400 times, I have to remind you, no matter when you play hide and seek with a little bean Ding who is only less than twelve centimeters tall. You don't know what she's hiding in your pocket......

At this time, the kitchen door knocked softly, and Avena came over with a large plate of bright and crystal clear things, and Sandora, who was playing chess with her sister next to her, immediately threw down the chess pieces and greeted her, which was specially prepared for her - I couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles under Her Majesty's majesty, so I finally asked Anvena to scramble the plate of crystal crow eggs. And Sandora is the only one in the family who has this kind of tooth and appetite to consume this strangest delicacy in the world......

After bringing the food to the hostess, Anvena hurriedly wiped her hands and continued with her most recent routine.

She opened the window, and a crow flew into the living room as if it had been waiting outside for a long time, and pecked Avena twice in the face, and then the crow stood on a small table near the window and flapped its wings and nodded to everyone in the living room in turn, and couldn't help but make a strange cry similar to a crow's call, but with a faint ethereal echo in the sound. It's a greeting to us.

The crow was slightly smaller than a normal crow, but it was almost an adult crow, its feathers glowing a deep blue-purple with a metallic texture around the edges, and a deep glow of energy hidden in the crow's blue-black eyes. If you look into its eyes for a moment, you may notice a very subtle electric glow dancing inside, and when this magical bird flapped its wings in response, I noticed that all the metal objects in the living room were floating with a dull gray sheen, as if in response to some kind of call...... It seems that the seal he has placed on this little bird is still incomplete, except for the energy control. Does it have the talent to have an effect on metal objects?

That's right, the crow that flew in was the future god of crows, and it was only five days since it came out of the institute. But it has grown to such a size that it has even caught up with its parents, and it seems that this growth rate will not stop until it reaches full adulthood, that is, it grows to the height of a person. And with its rapid growth, the bird has increasingly taken on an unusual appearance, with steely feathers and eyes that sparkle with energy. And that deep, ethereal voice that had become an otherworldly creature before it could gain true divine powers.

Anvena now had to start thinking ahead of time about whether or not to let the crow leave her parents to live. It seems that in two or three days, the old crow's nest in the yard tree will not be able to contain this strange bird that is growing wildly......

"Okay, I've learned to say hello," Avena touched the crow's head affectionately, and then condensed a holy light with her hands, covering it over the crow's head, "This can temporarily lift the seal given to you by the master, but don't mess around when training." ”

Anvina has decided to take care of the mutant raven herself, and one of the goals she has given herself is to communicate with the crow every morning so that the latter can learn how to control her strength as soon as possible. Although she is only a little maid with the lowest combat effectiveness in the family, she also has her own strengths. Once a ghost, she was transformed into a creature of light by the power of Alayya, and now she is even a half-angel, and this huge transformation is difficult to get used to, and Avena is now quite adept at using her light: she has an experience in adapting to unfamiliar bodies and unfamiliar abilities that no one else can replicate, and this experience is quite important for a crow who suddenly becomes a god - after all, the little crow's parents can't teach it anything but nesting and catching mice.

Normally, if it is a human baby, it will not have the ability to reason within three steps until it is about three years old, but this strange bird obviously has an animal-like development pattern in this regard: it develops rapidly during its fledgling period, and within a few days it has been able to meet many people in the family, and has established a relationship of trust with Anvina, who is now able to guide the little crow through the two simplest skills, "Release the Shadow Arrow" and "Arcane Gaze", and the Shadow Arrow is naturally the black plasma that the little crow spits out of its mouth, The arcane gaze had been trained by chance three days earlier: the little crow could radiate arcane energy from its own eyes, and the base of its eyes formed two focused crystal-like structures, through which the free energy in its body could radiate. It's another mutation that can't be explained. Now its arcane gaze is very unskilled, and the rays emitted by its two eyes are basically flying randomly within the cone in front of it, but fortunately it is still small, and this ultra-small magic release does not do much damage at all: the most powerful shadow arrow of the little crow is only a small pit on the table, and the power of the plasma is actually about the same as the flame of a match.

As Avena trained the little crow to focus her arcane gaze on a single point, I suddenly remembered something: "Avena, did you name it?" ”

"Name?" Anvina paused for a moment, "Well, not yet, I didn't think of this." ”

As soon as she heard this, her eyes lit up, and she jumped up: "Medivan, Medivan, it's called Medivan!" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and Anvena thought about it seriously: "It's not very good, the little crow is a girl." ”

"Huh? Or a female bird? Qianqian was surprised, and then opened his information terminal and projected a line of subtitles in mid-air: "Then call it Mai Diwen!" ”

Lilina jumped up from behind the sofa in an instant: "Isn't this different! ”

"It's okay, Medivan has been dead for several years, and he can still pursue the copyright!" Qianqian waved his hand disappreciatively, "Ah Jun Ah Jun, is this name okay?" Madiwen! ”

I looked at this girl with a sad face: "Is it possible that its name will be subtitled in the future?" ”

"What's the matter," shallow thinking is difficult to be pulled by others, "In the future, it will be the god of crows, God, and its influence will be much greater than Medivan's, and then people will naturally only know the name Mediwen, who is Medivan?" Who knows. ”

I listened to the big head next to me: "...... You...... You'd better subtitle when you tell me this,—— see me, what do you want me to do! ”

As soon as my voice fell, Mai Diwen screamed, "Quack! ”

Is this unlucky bird complaining about me!?