It's a letter, but it's not that simple, there is a lot of rather cluttered information in the database, and a rough catalog shows that it contains scientific research projects, logbooks, video materials, and messages and many other information, and all of this information is sealed in an encrypted file, and the signatory of the file is Harlan? Croix? Levalette.

We look at each other, and sometimes in the face of such dramatic things, even if we are used to it, we can't think of what kind of expression to use to face it, this and Sandora? Kelvi? The long name of Jurasis, which is quite classical aristocratic, has often appeared in the documents of the headquarters lately: mostly about the military analysis of the fallen apostles, Haran? Croix? Levalette refers to the fallen emperor who has recently fought fiercely with the emperor many times in a row and has caused us heavy casualties, His Majesty Harlan. ，

Green Star turned out to be rescued by him tens of thousands of years ago, and it was his general, Zadom, who sent Green Star on a journey of escape at the last moment, tens of thousands of years have passed like an arrow, and history has taken a bend but linked the two again from another direction: Zadom, the former imperial general who was the queen of the Green Star Hall in person and let the tree elves escape, is coming to destroy this planet.

I don't know what kind of mood the two of them are in now, will their frenzied minds that have been controlled still have a sad feeling?

"Something went wrong with the data?"

The Great Patriarch couldn't help but be extremely worried when she saw us staring at each other with strange faces, and her greatest concern was whether these precious materials had been damaged: the Dryads had spent tens of thousands of years escorting these legacies from the territory of the old empire to the territory of the new empire, and if the data did go wrong, it would be a huge blow to them.

"No, the information is fine, we thought of something else."

Sandora replied lightly, shaking her head at me slightly: Don't tell them just yet, the dryads aren't ready for such a blow, that's what I read from Sandora's eyes.

"Scientific research projects. There are only directories, no substance such as results, not scientific and technical information," Sandora began to read the materials in the order of the catalog, placing the letters left by Harlan at the end of the list, so that she could study them without distraction for a moment, "probably to tell us what the last scene of the old empire's plans was like before it went bankrupt completely." Logbook. It's the log of the Green Star, and there's also a list of the original routes, and it seems that the planet has deviated a lot from its course. Video...... These will come later. The last thing is these messages. ”

Sandora connected the message left by Harlan on the holographic projection, and the poorly working holographic device shook a few times before the picture stabilized, a tall and burly figure. A middle-aged man with thick brown hair appeared on the screen in a majestic imperial ** dress, he looked ahead, holding an Imperial Command Knife with a floating ghostly flame in his hand, this outfit was familiar to several people - it was a full outfit that the head of the empire would only wear on formal occasions.

"Whoever has access to and can read this information greets you and hopes that you will keep it forever until it can be useful." The middle-aged man spoke with a calm face, "I'm Harlan?" Croix? Levalette, leader of the Hiling Empire, hopes that those who have access to this information will still know this glorious and glorious name.

You have access to information intact that these exiles have managed to escape the Circle of Destruction, and that their identification devices have confirmed that you have access to spectral powers, or have a legacy relationship to the Empire, which I personally hope is the latter.

Able to reach exiles and pass through the Exiled Starship's identification system. Then your level of civilization should be high enough. But it's highly likely that you still won't understand what I'm going to say, and it doesn't matter. This is just a message.

The Empire of Hiling is facing a crisis of destruction, a crisis that we have caused ourselves, and its root and immediate cause is the wrong direction of the study of the Void and the uncontrollable outbreak of the Abyss, and I would like to give only a word of advice to this: whether you have been exposed to these concepts or not, please keep one thing in mind - restraint, in any case, do not think that you really have everything under control, the Void, is more uncontrollable than you think.

If you have come into contact with the Abyss, I don't know what you would call it, perhaps plague, disaster, or whatever, but the following phenomena can be basically confirmed: their host Primal Realm is in a state of inexplicable two-dimensional planes that cling to anywhere, including the surface of stars, after which these things will spread rapidly, with initial abyssal infections causing contacts to become emotionally manic, equipment malfunctioning, frequent accidents, and later abyssal infections that will cause physical constants to be disorderedThe exponential escalation of catastrophe until space itself collapses, a swift and irreversible process, and if you have ever come into contact with such a thing and survived it, I can now tell you its name: the Abyss.

Please record the following and save it until you reach a civilization that understands it - before we started all those crazy research projects, we received anomalous signals from the bottom of the abyss, yes, we went deep into the Abyssal Gate, which was a regular scientific expedition to the Abyssal Phenomenon, scientists dropped a new type of unmanned deep-diving ship, which advanced to a position that no one had ever reached before in the Abyssal Gate, and the deep-diving ship was destroyed by the Abyss and successfully returned the recording device to the main material plane, A regular, significant signal appears in the recording device.

These signals are not sent into the Abyss from any source in the main matter plane, and we have finally confirmed that this information comes from the bottom of the abyss, and whatever is there is there, it is trying to make contact with the main matter plane.

These signals are confusing and unsettling, as the Abyss has never been of such a nature, and even those beings with the ability to think have never produced similar logical or rational behavior, challenging our long-standing view of the worldly realm, and leading the Empire to initiate a massive amount of advanced research. We are sure of one thing: the only way to know what is at the bottom of the abyss is to go and find out. We built primitive dive ships and various probes in the hope of getting in touch with the sounds of the bottom of the abyss again, but everything went slowly, and eventually, we decided to use the power of the Void to ......."

After that, there is a history that we already know, in fact, at that time, the Empire had already launched the plan and began to study the knowledge of the void on a large scale, and the information that scientists accidentally obtained from the bottom of the abyss caused the entire plan to be stimulated. The incident mentioned by Harlan was not the cause of the plan. But it was the fuse that went out of control, the significance of the "abyss" to the empire is unprecedentedly huge, yes, eighty percent of the existence of the entire Xiling Empire is to fight against the abyss, and now they see the opportunity to crack the secret of this ultimate enemy, so they immediately get excited. The projects that had been suspended due to excessive risk were restarted, and the actions of the Apostles of Xiling, inspired by hatred and fighting spirit, were terrifying, that is, during the same period. Chief scientist Occam used the forbidden technology of the plan to create the first and last shaped deep-diving ship, this starship based on the original deep-diving ship, which took a hundred years to research and build, is the most advanced deep-diving equipment in the old empire, and it was once close to a certain "tipping point" that scientists calculated, which is believed to be the farthest distance that can communicate directly with the bottom of the abyss, although the deep-diving ship ultimately failed to cross the tipping point. But it managed to send out a communication in the deepest places: it was the strongest communication that could have been carried out in the heyday of the old empire's technology, and under normal circumstances, it would have been enough to broadcast to thousands of worlds, but in the depths of the abyss, no one knew how far these signals could travel.

For a long time afterward, the scientists of the Old Empire waited at each of the Abyssal Gates, expecting to get feedback from the bottom of the Abyss again, and to get in touch with the mysterious signal source, in the meantime. The Old Empire accomplished countless seemingly brilliant feats, then shelved them when they found them unusable, they created the Red Moon Cube, built a Spectral Starship to preserve the Cube, tried to control the direction of the Void's evolution, tried to use it like a Spectral Spirit, and lost the dive ship in an inexplicable encounter - for which Viska is responsible, but there is no way to hold it accountable. Because shortly after that. Disaster struck.

The "letter" left by Harlan contains not only his own audiovisual information, but also a series of video clips and various graphic tables. It seems that he tried his best to condense everything in the empire in this short ten minutes when he left this information, and only after the end of the last video did his image appear in front of us again: "Time is running out, I hope that the civilization that has obtained this information can properly preserve it and spread it as much as possible, preferably to the realm of the Protoss, if you have the ability to talk to them." Now that all of our networks and external interfaces have been heavily polluted by the Abyss, and the Empire's territory has become a circle of destruction infected with the poison, any act of external communication in this situation may lead to the spread of the Abyss, and even endanger the gods, the only hope is that these border planets that have not yet been infected are about to set off now. There are thousands of backups of this material, and I hope that at least one in a thousand of them will escape the disaster.

Harlan? Croix? Levalette, the end. ”

The message ended, leaving only a messy blue-and-white line on the holographic projection.

Sandora was silent for a moment, then turned her head and asked Tavel about the quality projection, "Tavel, have you finished downloading these materials?" ”

"There's not a lot of information after it's saved," Tavel replied quietly, "it's just a message." ”

"I think this message is more valuable than a bunch of scientific and technical materials. What about the Dryads? ”

"Someone has woken up, but their memories are stuck thousands to tens of thousands of years ago - depending on the date they slumbered, and now these newly awakened elves are very disturbed, well, the commotion is obvious, it really doesn't look like the vassal races of the old empire. The subordinates are gathering the awakened dryads to prepare to send them to their home planet first, and Lord Gaia has activated the two ecological domes, which should allow them to recover faster. And then I'm afraid I'll have to take time to figure them out. ”

"Sister, you can go over and help," I touched my sister, "those Imperial soldiers are not this material. ”

My sister agreed, and rubbed my hair before leaving, looking spoiled, which made people helpless. Lying next to me, he put his head on my arm, looked around and looked at me with big eyes, and then spoke: "Ah Jun, I'm in a bad mood." ”

"So the timeline is pretty much clear," said Sandora, turning off the projection equipment, leaning back in her chair and looking up at the sky, "It's a new discovery." We would never have imagined it before...... Before the appearance of the deep-diving ship, someone received an active communication request from inside, and then it started the runaway era of the imperial plan, the abyss...... What exactly is there. ”

I rubbed the corners of my forehead and connected the events in chronological order, finally forming a clear line: at the height of the Empire, the Apostle of Hiling began a plan to study the Void, the beginning. The plan was bold but manageable, and the scientists kept the necessary sanity, and after that, a new probe that routinely probed the Abyssal Gate returned, bringing back a text message from the bottom of the Abyss, and then again. Inspired by this, the scientists and rulers of the empire suddenly accelerated the process of planning, and all the projects began to develop in an extreme direction, black technology began to be allowed, the Red Moon Cube was built, and then Occam built a deep dive ship to try to establish contact with the signal source at the bottom of the abyss, and there must have been many similar tests at the same time. Later, Occam's scientific army was attacked by Visk's rebels, and the dive ship was destroyed, and it seems that the empire was never able to build a second dive ship after that, and then the catastrophe happened.

The empire remained silent for many 10,000 years, until one day in 1990, a snotty bear child heard a voice at the mouth of the alley, and the wheel of fate continued to move forward - and fell into a ditch without hesitation.

A dozen years later, a new empire was founded.

"One thing suddenly occurred to me now – more than a decade ago. I was once in the abyss. Well, a phenomenon that seems to be an abyss. I slowly tapped my temples, recalling my childhood memories in the walls of the Temple of Life, "At that time I heard a voice, we always thought it was a message from Occam's deep-diving ship, which echoed in the abyss for many thousands of years, and suddenly emerged from some abyssal rift in the earth, and now I think there is a suspicion in it. ”

Sandora nodded, she already had something in mind: "Based on your recollections and the logs we got from the dive boat, those two sentences are actually different, and what you heard is a different version. ”

"So it's not the voice of the dive ship, it's the response of something at the bottom of the abyss after receiving a communication from the dive ship: it's answering us."

"It's a pity that it's tens of thousands of years late." Lin Xue's tone was quite emotional.

"Now it's time for them to hear back again," Sandora suddenly smiled strangely, "what the hell is at the bottom of the abyss—we thought it was just receiving the broadcast from the dive ship at first, and then amplifying it and feeding it back, but now it's almost the opposite, they're the ones who send the message first, and the Empire is the one responding." ”

"Na, did anyone think of another thing," Shallow wandered out of the world for a few minutes, and then suddenly came back to her senses, and something extraordinary seemed to appear in her magical head, "Ji Luhua appeared normally before the old empire received the information from the abyss for the first time, and it was only after the probe brought back that message that the whole thing got out of control, I think, could it be that Ji Luhua was already affected by the abyss at that time...... It was with the help of that information that the abyss was hidden in that message, and it has been lurking since then, slowly influencing Ji Lu and those scientists, and in the last test, the void directly decayed into a super abyss, maybe it was the seeds hidden in this information that finally broke out of the ground after they finally grew. ”

When I said this, I didn't know if it was an illusion, but I always felt that her tone was so gloomy.

One thing she is credible is that the abyss may really be hidden in a piece of information, which can be saved by the probe's database, and then pollute the imperial scientists of the year when others read the database, after all, it can pollute everything that is known, and no one is 100% immune to the abyss under the void.

"This can't be," Sandora shook her head, "Do you know how many security barriers there will be in the hinterland of the Dao Empire?" If it had been hidden in that message, it would have been wiped out the moment the probe's data core was recovered. And it's still lurking in the mental veins of so many scientists for a long time: it's even more impossible. ”

"But it came from the bottom of the abyss," shallow reminded, "and no one ever came near it, and who knows if the abyss there would be very cunning and disguise itself as an ambassador of peace or something." ”

We suddenly felt hairy, shallow girl, usually her head is constantly galloping on the off-topic road, occasionally thinking about normal problems, she can hit the key point so magically, if she guessed correctly, then the empire was destroyed by a text message?

"Well, Your Majesty, I'm afraid my subordinates must have something to report now," Tavir's mass projection suddenly interjected, her body was processing the database far away, and this mass projection was left here to report to us, "We just found a piece of information from the database, the one they received from the bottom of the abyss back then, and...... It's the original. ”

Suddenly, the atmosphere around me was even more hairy.

"Now," Shallow raised his hand weakly, "now it's in our hands." ”