Sandora is a fierce man—at least when it comes to imperial affairs. After deciding to invoke the Death Garden system to help the Exiles reconnect with the Fifth Fleet, she had already informed Artemis Jr. via the Psychic Connection, which had just completed a routine maintenance and was now ready for mission with all components turned on.

Of course, there is no problem on the exile's side, since the last communication received from the Fifth Fleet in the early hours of the morning, all their communication equipment has been running at full power, and there is no need for preparation.

The only thing that needs to be prepared is to build a temporary conversion device, so that the communication protocol of the exile fleet can be rewritten into a data pattern that can be recognized by the Garden of the Dead system, the data patterns used by the two are too different, the multi-linear random distribution data protocol of Toberu Technology seems really strange to us, it is necessary to translate the two data to each other in real time without a mapping database, which requires a lot of computation, so Sandora decided to install a Xiling host in the Garden of the Dead and the planet Kerudaq to use as an auxiliary calculation. The Garden of the Dead was quickly ready: there were more than two hosts on standby at any one time in the system, and ours called Bubbles over - it was safer for her to take charge of the more difficult end herself.

There is a communication array on the Kairuda Buster, and one of its data ports is right in this "parliament building", which saves us a lot of trouble. According to the council, the large communication arrays laid on the surface of the planet were directly dismantled and modified by engineers from the original communication arrays on the fleeing spacecraft, which is quite old. It's a bit of a problem to run - after all, what they make isn't quite as good as what the Empire makes. There is no way to use these old devices, as they simply can't build new arrays for the time being. Don't think that a communication array is as simple as an antenna, the communication technology that can transmit signals stably across the void is very complicated, especially the large array used to keep in touch with the Fifth Fleet, which is far more difficult to manufacture than the current exiles can afford. They can build colonies, build space transportation networks for space navigation within the universe, build starports and various space docks. But they couldn't build a large-scale trans-void communication device, and all of their basic industries associated with it were lost, although the good news was that the drawings and materials were there. The bad news is that they need to rebuild these basic industries starting with the molecular cracker-transfer machine used for mining, and they are slow to rebuild their base industries due to the lack of the Xiling Empire's rebellious host technology. Well. These are all off-topic.

The second floor of the parliament building (I don't know how to distinguish between the top and bottom left and right and the current floor in this strange building, it is as intricate as an insect nest, or the "parliament" told us, I only learned that the road is on the second floor) is where the data terminal is located, and it is a large computer room full of strange equipment. It may sound strange to have this kind of thing in a government office building, but the council tells us why: she's a massive consciousness aggregate in her own right, with a lot of information processing power, and she was able to do a lot of data processing as the central host for a time during the fleet's exile. Now that the exiles' new homes have just been established, and the facilities are incomplete, she has personally taken on the responsibility of unifying the entire galaxy's data network, so the council building itself is the interface she uses to connect with this data network, and of course there will be such a computer room here.

Sandora's assessment of the "council" is therefore a copycat version of the Hiling host. Although there is no engineering function and occult calculus function. But in terms of pure computing power, I'm afraid it's not much worse than a bubble.

The central computer room is very spacious, and since most of the data deduction is done by the council itself, there are not many terminals for personnel to manually control in this computer room, it only exists as an interface connecting the "council" and the information network, so it appears more empty. In the ellipsoidal chamber full of Toberu Zerg style, there are dozens of gray-black data machines along the metal walls. The modems were more than a man tall, with sleek and rounded shells, no buttons or panels or anything like that, only a few green symbols that glided quickly across the surface to indicate that they were in motion, and the modems looked like several ellipsoidal geometries of different sizes and shapes fused together, which is Toberu's technocratic style: they like to make their device shells as sleek as their own insect carapaces. In the center of the computer room, there is a large equipment with a ...... shape It's quite abstract.

If I had to describe it, several balls or ellipsoids were piled up on the ground in a haphazard manner, connected by beams of light, and each sphere was rapidly refreshed with green symbols and data, and because of this strange appearance, I almost thought that these balls had fallen from the ceiling at first sight......

Bubbles sat on top of the largest of them, the outer shell of which had been opened, revealing the interior of the glowing dark green light below, Bubbles resting her right hand in the window, her eyes constantly flowing with a rapidly refreshing point of light: she had successfully established a connection to the data network of the exiles, and was now learning how the system combined information and downloading the root dictionary, and it was obvious that she was bored with the work, and muttered again: "I said, why don't you finish the grid sooner?" ”

Bubbles said to the "Council", who was standing next to us, and at first I thought that her image couldn't leave that kind of hall, but I didn't expect that the Zerg of Tobeiru and other Zerg would even study the technique of similar quality projection, and the "Council", a disembodied soul creature, can use this technique to move like a normal person, and even have physical contact with the outside world. However, the "quality projection" developed by the Toberu people still has a flaw, that is, it cannot leave a fixed projection generator, and the council itself does not have the ability to multi-shadow clones, otherwise Tavel must have a lot in common with the latter.

The grid connection mentioned by Bubbles is, of course, to mount the Exile fleet to the Imperial network, and the work has already begun. But it hasn't been done yet, and Bubble has a lot of resentment about it - especially now, because it is not connected to the grid, she needs to use the most primitive method to learn a set of algorithms for the data network that she thinks is relatively simple and backward, as if people who are used to independent Internet access with 100 megabit optical fiber suddenly experience a 512K dial-up Internet access. The "council" could only shrug back its complaints about the bubble and continue to wait for the data synchronization to complete. This process took more than ten minutes, and with the computing efficiency of the bubble, it took more than ten minutes to learn the algorithm of Toberus-style data structure. It can be seen that although the latter's skills in this area are not as good as those of the Empire, they are indeed quite high-end.

"There is no compatible slot, and the crystal interface is not supported. It is not compatible with the No. 6 protocol, and it is necessary to use people's own energy ...... Even a temporary adapter had to be designed and processed on site...... "Bubble jumped off the modem, lowered his head and opened his hand. Several rapidly changing rays of light flickered in her hand, and gradually took on the appearance of some kind of small device, while she was still muttering in her mouth, "If it weren't for the child's father's mouth, who would want to take this kind of work, the working environment is too bad...... At least give me a makeshift slot......"

"She's talking a lot of nonsense," Sandora muttered to me, tilting her head slightly, "but she understands: Bubbles isn't used to working without a console slot, and she doesn't feel safe." ”

I nodded in agreement. Due to the completely different data interface used by Toberu Technology, and there was also a problem with the energy supply module here in the parliament building. The slots of the conventional Xiling host are not usable here - not that they can't be built, but even if you put a host slot in this room, it will not produce any functions, and the role of the conventional slots: additional energy supply, power amplification. Enhance stability, make a cache for input and output data, not a single one is needed here, and at the end of the day, Bubble still has to use her own makeshift adapter to connect directly to the Toberu made modem, so we simply let Bubble connect directly to the keypad here and use her own energy to work. As a result, Bubbles complained about it.

Ultimately. Bubble made a set of small devices on the spot, it is composed of two parts, one part is a palm-sized square box, the shell has a bit of a crystal texture, she stuffed this thing directly into the reading window of the Tobeiru modem, the end of the crystal square box in contact with the modem immediately emitted a red light, and actively adapted to the latter's connection mode; The other part looks like an awl, one end is sharp and slender, and the other end has a bulging handle like a handle, Bubble picked up this awl and shook it twice, and stuck it on the top of his head casually, making a "poof" sound.

Me: "......" I have a big, isn't this scene a little strange just now?!

"Kid her dad? Why are you so strange in your eyes? Bubbles looked at me strangely, and then seemed to feel that the awl on the top of her head was uncomfortable, and pulled it off with a "poof", and inserted it back at a different angle, "Oh, what do you think about this?" I just designed the amplifier, because it was too troublesome to change the components in my body, and it was only for temporary use, so I made an external part, don't you think it looks good? ”

Me: "......" Okay, in the end I didn't say anything, and tried to keep my composure at the "child mother" who had just added a curious "child's mother" - although I had seen her plug some strange cables into her body to download things, but the way this external antenna was installed ...... I still don't comment.

"The connection has been established," after half a minute, a blue light flashed in Bubbles' eyes - two blue lights, and then the green symbols on the surface of all the data machines in the entire computer room were quickly refreshed, and after a blur, a large number of entries identified with Xiling characters were inserted, and the low humming sound became clearer and clearer from low to high, and Bubbles tapped the awl on his head, with a happy look on his face, "Ah, I didn't expect these devices to be quite durable, I thought that with such a high power operation, they would have to burn at least a third or something." ”

By the way, you actually had such a goal in mind from the beginning?! Don't say it in front of people!

The "council" had a subtle look on its face, but in the end it didn't say anything, just waiting for the bubble to inform the system of the current progress. All went smoothly, Bubble successfully connected to the Toberu communication array and all related information networks, and by transcoding, she was able to transfer data from these systems through the Imperial network to another Hiling host in Avalon, who would end up processing the data and enter it into the Garden of the Dead system. The Garden of the Dead only assumes the role of a transceiver antenna during the whole process, and a cross-system communication module is established. Soon, Bubble informs us that everything is working as normal, and that the Garden of the Dead is sending the most powerful broadcast signal ever to the Void Quadrant that sent the Fifth Fleet's distress signal that day, and the broadcast content was submitted to us by the "Council" with only one sentence: "This is the Fourth Fleet, information has been received." Please reply immediately. ”

That's the only thing we can do right away at the moment. The Combined Fleet's communications began to broadcast to the deepest depths of the Void with a super-high intensity they had never imagined before, using techniques that were not only unattainable by Toberu Technology, but were even the highest level that the New Empire could achieve. When the expected range and information stabilization level of the first broadcast were displayed on the data machine, the "council" expressed a very strong sense of surprise and gratitude to us. It's the first time I've received such fervent gratitude from the mind-aggregating creature in front of me—even more than when we handed over this universe to the Exile Fleet. The previous hunch was correct, if the Fifth Fleet could be successfully saved. Perhaps we will directly reverse the Fourth Fleet's estranged attitude towards the Empire.

Of course, a parallel conundrum is to get the Fifth Fleet to let its guard down against us as well.

"The rest is left to luck," Bubbles adjusted her adapter and came to us with an awl on her head, "The broadcast may not get an answer anytime soon, but as long as the Fifth Fleet is alive and has a working communications array, they will answer sooner or later." The Garden of the Dead has turned up the reception sensitivity to the maximum, and I hope that the Fifth Fleet's communication strength will not be lower than the threshold......"

Bubbles suddenly patted her head and added, "I wish they had replied sooner." Now my head is full of nonsense, the garden of the dead is too sensitive, and all the information is uploaded to me. ”

"No way, who made you the host." I shrugged and patted the ...... on the bubble head Forehead. Awl. This thing is too glaring.

"If all goes well, I will be able to make this matter public to the citizens as the case may be, once I have established contact with the Fifth Fleet again," the Council explained to us on the way back to the hall on the ground floor, "and for the time being, only some of the senior officials and the 'Council' know about your actions. Please forgive us for our caution. ”

Everyone understands this, and I can see that the "council" is trying to bridge the gap between the new empire and the exiles, and she knows that this incident is an opportunity, so it is important to ensure that everything goes smoothly and that it is important to ensure that the news is not leaked until the situation is completely under control: her main concern is that if the public knows about the Fifth Fleet and the Empire's involvement in contacting the latter, the liaison with the Fifth Fleet will not come to fruition. It is very likely that a new divide will arise between the new empire and the exiled people.

"We'll inform all sites on the Empire's borders that the outposts are ready to draw a large force at any time, and if possible, we'll send legions to support the Fifth Fleet - it should be in time," Sandora said.

The "Council" looked worried: "The Fifth Fleet may think that you are enemies: they know nothing about the establishment of the new empire, just like we did at the beginning. ”

"So it's up to you to try, after the communication is restored, you have to find a way to convince the commander of the Fifth Fleet as soon as possible, I think you should be familiar with each other, and you can trust each other." Sandora looked at the translucent face of the "council" and said in an unquestionable tone.

Through the Imperial Spirit Network, Sandora and I were able to quickly complete everything we could do so far: order the new Empire's Third Legion, which has the fastest operational capabilities, put it into combat readiness, enhance the observation of the Void at all border posts, increase the priority of all intelligence in the Garden of the Dead system during this period, and prepare a lunch box with braised eggs for Bubbles...... Okay,The last one was angrily reprimanded by the party.,Actually, I just want to treat this girl.,After all, in a few days from today.,She's going to be a Lori with an awl on her head......

The "Council" is also starting to make her preparations, such as how to compress the information that needs to be delivered into the smallest possible data packet - after establishing contact with the Fifth Fleet, the channel will definitely not be stable, and we don't know how long the channel can communicate with them, so the "Council" will now screen and combine several data packets from simple to complex, and send the most important information to the Fifth Fleet. The expected way to do this is to send a minimum packet as soon as communication is restored, which includes a set of navigation signals (which allows the Fifth Fleet to know which Void Quadrant is safe), the identification code of the Fourth Fleet for the year, and the passcode for the borders of the New Empire, which is not included due to the large amount of bandwidth required to explain the situation in the New Empire. In this way, even if our contact with the Fifth Fleet only lasts for a moment, the other side will at least be able to retreat to our side. As for what to do after they encounter the Imperial outpost - it is believed that by that time the two sides have established a stable connection, and the "council" can explain everything clearly.

And if the communication can be stable for a while, it will be even better, we will try to send a few larger packets first, and then try to talk to the other party directly.

But until then, it's really just a matter of luck as Bubbles said. (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. )