I don't know if our deep-diving plan was a complete success this time - in fact, we have already achieved our original goal, to conduct a deep dive, test the performance of the deep-diving boat, collect data from the deep area of the abyss to build the next more powerful deep-diving boat, obtain more than two valid databases, and finally safely withdraw from the test site - these goals have been accomplished, but the situation is that we have lost a well-equipped test universe.

This loss is not unbearable, and it does not affect the benefits of the entire deep diving plan, but the thought that this is the Fallen Apostle making trouble makes us feel like we are in the throat, and Sandora is especially angry, she has sent three times the force to guard every abyssal gate used for scientific research in the empire to prevent the Fallen Apostle from suddenly emerging from these gates, but there is no other way: the empire does not yet have the ability to form a fleet that can fight in the abyssal realm.

After getting rid of the abyssal power that might have been contaminated with my body (it made me feel like I had just walked around from a severely plagued area), we headed to the Shadow City Headquarters, where we were all already waiting. In the officer's lounge, I saw Qianqian, who was lying lazily and softly on the sofa humming, she had no consciousness of the imperial mother, in such a serious military place, in front of several guards at the door, openly playing with a doll, the doll resisted very fiercely, in order to prevent Qianqian from continuing to put strange little clothes on her, the feathers that had fluttered all over the ground: Well, the doll is a mercury lamp.

"Ahh Ah Jun ...... Eh......"

Seeing a few of us coming in, Qianqian's eyes immediately lit up, one second he was lazily lying on the sofa, and the next second he jumped up and rushed into my arms. It's a pity that as soon as she got up, she swayed and fell to the side unsteadily. As soon as the mercury lamp got rid of the poisonous claws, he was subconsciously grabbed by the shallow ankle before he could fly far. Falling to the ground together, the little puppet was shocked. The wings on his back flapped desperately, trying to fly, and he blushed and shouted at me for help: "Help...... Help me...... It's so heavy...... Take care of your wife! ”

I hurriedly stepped forward to help up the shallow, by the way to save the little lamp, the puppet girl sat on my shoulder in shock, and after a beating, she flew into my sister's arms and glared at us angrily, and smiled apologetically: "Aha, it looks like the legs are still a little soft......"

Always energetic. It's like eating twenty pounds of stimulants on chicken blood, and now she looks tired, even pale, I can feel that she almost didn't use her own strength when she leaned on her arms, and she was simply paralyzed on herself-well, where did this girl get the strength to toss the mercury lamp just now? Is bullying a girl a skill that doesn't cost anything?

"Do you have a sense of proportion?" I carefully helped the girl in my arms to lie down on the couch, and the latter simply rested on her lap and squinted her eyes. There is no way to blame, "You didn't get hurt, did you?" ”

I'm very worried, what Qianqian did today can almost be said to be unprecedented, to single-handedly suppress an abyss gate that has gone out of control, this kind of thing even high-level true gods have to weigh whether they can get out alive. Even though her shallow special abilities make her competent enough for such an almost impossible task. She also has to take a lot of pressure and risk. The Abyssal Gate didn't hurt her when it collapsed, did it?

"It's okay," Qianqian completely ignored the gaze of the people around him, and arched back and forth in his lover's arms comfortably, not even bothering to open his eyes, "Ah Jun, have you forgotten?" I am the master of time, and no matter how fast the Abyssal Gate erupts, it is not as fast as the smallest unit of time, and for me it is just a series of static continuous images, and I can always find the right time to retreat. I'm just a bit mentally drained, that thing is so destructive, time can be polluted by it - I have to keep creating new time vortices to make the Abyss Gate jump between two points in time, aha, it's interesting, this is my new trick, it's called exhausting you don't pay for your life -3000? By getting two time points, I can make a goal repeat between two time points, and I can choose to keep the goal or not keep the changes that occur with each repetition, as if ab repeated...... Phew, this is a method forced out when the door is pressed...... Somewhat sleepy...... I'll sleep first......"

As he spoke, the shallow voice had gradually subdued, and eventually, it was replaced by a slight snoring.

I was overwhelmed by this girl who jumped around talking and doing things, so I could only raise my head awkwardly and smile at the people around me, but Bing Teis nodded thoughtfully: "The concubine found one thing, when she was with you, she never considered the surrounding environment, her world must not be big, at most two and a half meters around you." "What's going on with this precise data!

"That's probably it," my sister smiled softly and poked my arm, "Maybe for Asa, Ah Jun is almost her world." When she was a child, she would be thrown into our family to take care of every once in a while, and she grew up with Ah Jun, and after a long time, she would form a habit, and her true nature was revealed when I was around Ah Jun and me......"

"Ahem, let's talk about the Abyss Gate," I scratched my hair a little embarrassed, feeling that my sister was embarrassed to bring up these things, "and the Fallen Apostles." They are under our testing ground, which needs to be analyzed. ”

Sandora glanced at her enviously and muttered, "You can change the subject." Then he became serious, "Now I guess that those ships are not a special case, the engineering team saw a total of three ships of the Fallen Apostles under the Abyss Gate, that is obviously a formation, including an armed warship, an auxiliary communication ship, and a spaceship for scientific investigations, of which the scientific research ship is unmanned, and the other two ships I don't know if the situation is the same." At the same time, we don't know if there are other ways to combine this kind of team. It seems that the mission of these three ships should be scientific research - this is my judgment, in the vast majority of cases, if there is a unit in a team that is not combat-ready and is dedicated to scientific research. Then the positioning of this team must be scientific research ......"

"For what?" Lin Xue didn't react at once, and asked casually, before Sandora could speak, Xiaoxue, who was sitting next to Lin Xue's shoulder, shouted: "Eh." Mom, what do you think, I heard that the president went out with two guards. Who has ever heard of the ...... of the guards going out with them and carrying the two presidents: "This girl speaks sharply, quite in the style of her mother."

Shandora nodded: "That's right, we don't have a research ship in a military squad that drags its feet - of course sometimes we bring a field engineer." This is not the case. ”

Immediately I remembered that amazing beard, and I felt that he should be included in the military unit......

"If this is a research team, then they are obviously much more sophisticated than us: the Fallen Apostles already have the ability to create a variety of abyssal environment adaptation ships, and control them perfectly: the engineering team previously reported that one of the ships they destroyed was carrying a large number of high-powered antenna arrays, and that ship was supposed to be used to communicate with the mainland in the abyss, and it might even be the prototype of some kind of fleet communication hub. The Fallen Apostles might assemble the Abyss Fleet, which is a very bad conjecture. Also, we should all keep one thing in mind. The abyss is figured out - the abyss is seen as a closed and dark spherical shell, the orderly world realm is located on the surface of the spherical shell, the gate of the abyss is the accidental appearance of holes in the spherical shell, as long as the skills of precise positioning and remote communication in the spherical shell are mastered, the Fallen Apostles have the ability to suddenly rush out of any hole and attack any world realm where they have the coordinates, and this kind of surprise cannot be stopped halfway, even if we know their plan- There is currently no technique that can prevent the Abyssal Gate from opening. ”

"Isn't there a technique to take the initiative to open the door of the abyss?" My sister said suddenly. So the atmosphere sank.

Sandora was dignified: "It would be terrible if the Fallen Apostle really mastered this technique...... They will truly become like the Abyss, free to open the gates of any world, to destroy, to plunder...... I don't want to see that bad. ”

"Please allow your subordinates to share their opinions. This technique of theirs should be very immature now," came the voice of Sivis from the door, she was still the same neat uniform of a senior officer, always shrewd and capable, "maybe not even as good as the new empire now." Before we could ask about this astonishing judgment, she had already taken the initiative to explain: "According to the report of the engineering team, the three enemy ships that appeared opposite the Abyss Gate were inferior in size and performance to the Abyss work ships built by the Empire, and only the level of light assault ships. The most obvious feature is that they need to hand over the communication of the spaceship team to a special antenna platform, a small spacecraft without any offensive and defensive capabilities, carrying dozens of sets of high-power antenna towers to ensure the connection between the other two small ships and the base, isn't this design quite clumsy? In the abyssal environment, the cooperation between the ships is very difficult, the distance increases by one point, the abyss disturbance is increased several times, just like sailing in a storm, the small ship may capsize at any time, including the communication array such an important unit may also be easily destroyed, the best choice should be to create a warship that can resist a strong storm, and store communications, weapons and all kinds of auxiliary facilities in a highly secure environment. This is not a simple megashipism, but common sense that should be possessed when resisting storms. ”

"So, the Fallen Apostles couldn't build a larger-sized ship of the Abyss, do you mean that?" Sandora looked Sives in the eye, "Indeed, your analysis makes sense. I'm used to thinking about the worst, and it seems that this time I overthought it. ”

"The necessary vigilance is still indispensable," Sivis said solemnly, "Your subordinates have set up heavy troops near all Abyssal Gates in the territory according to your orders, and at the same time, the Death Garden System has also stepped up its monitoring efforts to warn of newly generated Abyss Gates in the territory at any time. Another reason why his subordinates made these judgments was that there was news from the research institute, and Chief Tavir preliminarily judged that the sample of the enemy ship brought back by His Majesty had a technical bottleneck, and there seemed to be no sign of breaking through this bottleneck on the side of the Fallen Apostle......"

Me: "...... Isn't she too efficient? ”

"You have to understand the enthusiasm of scientists." Civis held back for a long time, and then said, "Two hours is enough for Tavel to unload anything within a radius of one kilometer." ”

At this time, everyone should have breathed a sigh of relief. The fallen apostle did not rise as suddenly as Sandora expected, which undoubtedly reassured everyone. However, Sandora's concerns still need to be taken seriously: as a seasoned strategist, it is her habit to treat any problem with the worst possible expectations, and Tavir discovers that the Fallen Apostle is trapped by a technical bottleneck, which does not mean that the technical bottleneck will last forever. One day the Fallen Apostles will make a breakthrough, and at that time, we may actually face a force cruising in the Abyssal Realm. A terrifying legion that will rush out of the Abyss Gate at any moment to attack the realm of reality.

"We should focus more on the dive plan and its side projects," Sandora said with a frown. "At least I don't want the next time a fallen apostle breaks into our testing ground and we don't know anything about it. At the very least, it is necessary to be able to grasp the situation inside each Abyss Gate in the territory in real time. This task is entrusted to the research center, and now we have almost no technology in this area, and I hope to see a solution soon, even if it is an idea. ”

"Your will." Civis immediately saluted, and then retreated.

"It seems that on the Empire's side and the Fallen Apostles' side, the technology tree in the Abyss Realm has taken two very different paths," my sister said thoughtfully. "I just don't know whose path is more right. Now it seems that the progress of the Fallen Apostles is a bit aggressive, their abyssal ship must be diving up and down on their own soil, but they can cruise all the way to the Imperial territory, even if they are cruising in the shallow area, this is also quite a test of technical strength. However, our deep-diving ships and abyssal engineering ships do not have such a long endurance, but they are better in other aspects, and the volume can be designed to be larger. And the shield capacity seems to be a bit higher? ”

My sister is not an expert in this area, and at this time she just casually said her thoughts. There really is no one who knows how the abyss technology of the Fallen Apostles of the Fallen Dao will develop, but as individuals who have been corrupted by the Abyss, they are undoubtedly more blessed than the Empire in this regard, at least the kind of technology that can sneak all the way from the Fallen Apostles' territory to the territory of the Empire is very fearful.

I guess they've been able to dive in the abyss for so long. Most of it was its special protective technique, which was the effect of the abyssal fog that shrouded the spaceship. This layer of fog is obviously lower than the "three-skinned face shield" used by the Imperial deep-sea ship, and it itself does not conflict with the abyssal environment, which can be said to fundamentally eliminate the possibility of being attacked by those fog vortices in the abyss, and at the same time, the hull itself can be fused with the abyss environment, which also greatly reduces the consumption of the spaceship when propelling - well, this is my guess, the theoretical basis is that "undisciplined guys are easier to integrate into the group in Shadow City, and the uncle wearing sunglasses moves faster at Erli Bridge by one"......

The Fallen Apostles' use of the Abyssal Mists to provide abyssal resistance to their ships was a wonderful practice, but it also seemed to have serious drawbacks: those ships didn't seem to be very protective against other forms of attacks, or the Fallen Apostles didn't have any protection against them. The makeshift bombs assembled by the bearded man blew up both ships and turned one man on his back. At the same time, due to being fully integrated into the abyssal environment, once the abyss ship of the Fallen Apostle is breached by the shield, it will immediately collapse completely, and will first be half-killed by his own abyssal fog. We didn't expect that a brick that Bing Tis was going to break through the ship's power pack would directly smash the entire ship.

So whether this technique is valuable to us or not can only wait for Tavel's analysis report.

The bearded man who judged decisively in this incident and solved a potential crisis (although it turned out to be non-existent) was later credited, and I think he is a talent, especially in military technology; The bearded man himself admitted that he was more interested in studying bombs and cannons than studying the abyss theory, so I suggested to Tavel that this guy lead a new ordnance research group, and the research direction was all kinds of weapons that can still be used in the abyssal environment - this project does not sound difficult, because it is not difficult to destroy the target in the abyssal environment, as evidenced by the bricks of Bingdis, but in fact, this is also a subject that needs to be tackled: in the abyssal environment, all acts of destruction become uncertain, It is true that the weapon will inevitably achieve a destructive effect, but this is completely uncontrolled, and a conventional attack is likely to be amplified by the abyss environment more than ten times, if it falls on the enemy's head, it is fine, but it is more likely that it will fall on your own head - fire a shot, and it is likely that you yourself will be blown off in half first. Don't assume that you can rest easy with all kinds of shields against the abyss, as it turns out that no shield is so reliable in an environment that doesn't play by common sense at all. This is evidenced by the sudden loss of two escape towers by engineering ships under normal circumstances. Closer examination later revealed that the Ship's escape towers were not attacked by the Fallen Apostles when they disintegrated, but were destroyed by the Ship when it threw out a set of deceptive beacons. The process of throwing the lure beacon requires the destruction of two sets of one-time locking gates on the engineering ship, which is believed to be magnified by the abyss, resulting in the destruction of the engineering ship's escape tower.

It is a mystery to explain how the Abyss could still affect the escape tower of the engineering ship despite being shielded, and even cause structural damage to the latter. We can be sure that the engineering ship's shield system is effective, and it can operate normally in the abyssal environment, which cannot be faked, but it definitely has unknown vulnerabilities. Tavel has organized experts to re-examine the blueprints of the abyssal barrier device, comparing these blueprints with the prototype of the deep diving ship, hoping to find the place that we have overlooked, which may be another task with a lot of work, Tavel gave up his vacation - a few days ago, I also agreed with Sandora to let Tavel and the main scientific researchers rest for a few days after the completion of the first phase of the deep diving plan, but the follow-up projects one after another, the progress of the Fallen Apostles in the abyss field made the people press closer to each other, Once again, it seems that this promise has been disappointed.

Tavel herself doesn't care, she loves to work, and she enjoys the joy of working tirelessly to solve difficult problems and reaping the rewards, but I always feel a little uncomfortable.

I can only hope that the fallen apostles will stop a little bit and stop blocking us all the time......

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