The super-intense broadcasting and listening to the Void has been going on for a day, and no reply has been received from the Fifth Fleet yet, but due to the fact that the Garden of the Dead system has turned up its power to an unprecedented level, we have accidentally discovered a small wave of spies of the Fallen Apostles in the border area of the Empire, and Pandora and Viska rushed over to satisfy their desire to fight for more than two months. According to the information that the One Meter Two Sisters found from the wreckage of those enemy ships, and the report of the spy unit deployed on the border of the Fallen Apostles, the enemy has indeed been a little suspicious recently: according to my previous plan, we have broken the Sixth Fleet into zero, and we have frequently appeared in the border area of the Fallen Apostles, although we have not carried out a substantial attack on the enemy, but it seems to have done enough to make an outpost for the large army. As a result, the Fallen Apostles have greatly increased their border vigilance, and several worlds have been put under complete lockdown—presumably where the enemy is studying their occult techniques. At the same time, they have also increased the frequency of espionage activities on the border side of the Empire, apparently to find out what is going on on our side and whether the occult knowledge has also appeared in the territory of the new Empire. However, due to early preparation, the enemy's spy forces were basically unable to scan the situation in the empire, and even if we got a little bit of information, it was a false information that we deliberately released. On the battlefield in this regard, everything is going according to plan – at least so far.

It's just that I don't know when the fallen apostles of the Dao will realize that they have been fooled, and at that time they will probably launch a large-scale attack at all costs, and hopefully Bellavira's Spellcaster Legion will come in handy before then.

Put aside the things of the fallen apostles for now. What we are most concerned about now is the situation of the Fifth Fleet. With no new information coming in, it is now possible to analyze only the only information at hand, that is, the "clearest" video that the Fourth Fleet has received.

After the restoration of Xiling scientists with special means and the maximum fuzzy deduction carried out by Xiling's host, we finally saw a little extra thing from these dozens of seconds of video. It is now safe to assume that there is no image of a specific person sending a distress signal in the video - in this case, the voice for help is just a voiceover. The video footage looks like a chaotic battlefield and doesn't quite look like a space battle. Sandora felt that hidden in the blurred shadows was the bombardment of the planet's surface. The video, of course, is the perspective of the Fifth Fleet adopted. That is, it is the Fifth Fleet that is being bombed. The appearance of planetary surfaces suggests that the Fifth Fleet may have found a temporary home in the universe a few years ago—or that the fleet could not survive in the void. Forced to fall into some universe, and its crew moved from an ecologically depleted spaceship to the planet's surface. Either way, they're in a terrible situation right now. When the planet is bombed by the space fleet. Basically, the death of the planet has been pronounced, and the ground-based anti-aircraft guns will never turn the tide of the battle, they can only delay for a limited time, or temporarily give the enemy a certain deterrent, especially when the defenders are at a disadvantage, and planetary bombardment often means that the battle has come to an end. Therefore, Sandora judged that by the time this distress signal reached the Fourth Fleet, the planet in the video must have been lost.

According to the content of the distress message, the Fifth Fleet had already begun to evacuate en masse when its planetary home was bombed, and it is likely that it could be delayed for a while. That's good news.

After watching the dozens of seconds of video that had been processed so many times that the clarity could no longer be improved, that Sandora had seen it for everyone in the family (except for a bunch of doll heads that could only make a mess) said her own conjecture about the attacker:

"I think the Fifth Fleet is probably confronted by a servant army left over from the old Empire."

"Why?" I have a vague guess about this, but not as sure as Sandora. And I don't know what kind of clues made me feel like this, so I asked casually.

"First of all, they mentioned the Imperial emblem, indicating that they saw something on the battlefield with the Imperial emblem, definitely referring to the enemy," Sandora spread her hands. Explain one by one, "But they also mentioned that the enemy is unidentified - the Exile fleet has been hunted down by the Fallen Apostles for many years, and they are extremely familiar with Imperial warships, so if they are facing a real Imperial warship, they will definitely not say that they are unidentified, so the attacker should be a third-party force with the Imperial emblem." All I can think of is the Servant Army. According to the information we have now, the Fallen Apostles have not cultivated their own vassal race at all - in fact, since they are now in the Abyss camp and it is impossible to find servants from ordinary races, there is no servant army on the Fallen Apostles' side. To sum up, the attack on the Fifth Fleet should be a legacy of the old imperial era...... Dependents. ”

"What about the reason for the attack?" My sister tapped her forehead with a confused expression, "There's no reason." The Fallen Apostles hunted down the exiles because they were polluted by the abyss and cut down people on sight, but the servant army of the old empire should have no possibility of transforming into a fallen legion, and ordinary races could not withstand the damage caused by the transformation of the abyss. Therefore, the servant army of the old empire should not attack the Fifth Legion because it is polluted by the abyss. In addition, there is no way to explain why the two will meet, the void is so big, and the Fifth Legion has fled so far, and the two still meet, which is too far-fetched to explain by coincidence. ”

My sister's confusion is very reasonable, we have long discussed whether after the fall of the old empire, whether those servant armies back then also have the possibility of transforming into the abyss camp like the fallen apostles, and then came to the conclusion that it is absolutely impossible. The Apostles of Xiling will be transformed because they have strong enough individuals and special racial talents, the primordial energy that has spread to individual soldiers gives the Fallen Apostles a chance to survive the destruction stage of the abyssal pollution, and the energy reactor established in the other space can give them enough energy to live to convert the abyss in their bodies into their own use, and ordinary races obviously do not have this kind of strength. Of course, a very small number of them may be transformed. But the number must be too small to form the size of a legion like the Fallen Apostles. Therefore, it is impossible for the army of fallen servants to exist.

Therefore, no one knows what kind of servant army from the old imperial era will attack the Fifth Legion - of course, the most incredible thing about the whole incident is that the Fifth Legion has run to such a remote place, and this kind of thing will happen......

"I'm a little more curious about how that distress signal was delivered than for two groups of people to fight." Sandora sat in a high-backed chair by the window, enjoying her tea time, as she said with a deep face. "The Fifth Fleet's current location is in the depths of the Void that even the Empire has not been able to explore, and even if it is the Death Garden System, it remains to be seen whether it can broadcast information to that location. The Fifth Fleet sent a distress signal - how did they do it? Ultra-long-distance inter-world communication in the void, and ensuring instant delivery of information without a relay station, is an absolutely cutting-edge technique. It took the Empire thousands of years to perfect and popularize this technique, and the Fifth and Fourth Fleets did not have the ability to do so when they lost contact hundreds of years ago, so they could not have made such a big technological leap. Not to mention...... The situation of the Fifth Fleet should be worse than that of the Fourth Fleet, and it seems that they do not have the conditions to develop such a new technique with peace of mind. ”

"Phew, I just came back from the Divine Realm, and I've asked for you," Bingtis's voice rang out, and she sat across from Sandora, the female rascal holding the teapot and pouring it into her mouth, unlike the latter's queenly elegance of afternoon tea. And the black tea is eaten like a baked cake with shredded pickles--the goddess temperament on her body is gone, "The Void Node closest to the Fourth Fleet has also detected vague information fluctuations, it should be the distress signal you have at hand, but something is not normal-the garrison officer of the Void Node said that when they detected those fluctuations, the thing had decayed to the point where it was completely irregular." And it's almost as chaotic as the clutter that formed after the destruction of the worldly realm. It's impossible to recompose this kind of signal into something meaningful, let alone turn it into a small movie of tens of seconds......"

"Hey...... Would you at least pay a little attention to your appearance when drinking tea? Your pair of black tea is an insult......" Sandora watched Bing Tis break the baked cake and brew it into a large tea bowl, the corners of her forehead suddenly burst out, for the elegant Queen Her Majesty, Bing Tis's loss of friends is simply the dark side of her life.

Sister Bing casually pointed behind Shandora: "Okay, look at the samovar behind you." Where are you elegant...... I've just taken a trip from the Divine Realm, and I haven't eaten lunch yet. ”

Sandora rolled her eyes, speechless, completely helpless against the female rascal's style.

My sister thought about it alone for a while, and said her opinion: "Anyway, this distress signal itself is very problematic, isn't it? Obviously, it has decayed to the point where it is completely impossible to distinguish, but in the universe where the Fourth Fleet is located has suddenly become stronger again, will it be ...... Is it a trap? ”

As soon as my sister's voice fell, the living room suddenly fell silent, only the sound of Bing Tis eating baked cakes creaked, and then almost everyone turned their heads to look in the direction of Xiaoxue (her mother is not there): "Hurry up and see!" ”

"There's no need, the distress signal is fine," Xiaoxue was studying the elementary school textbooks that Little Bubbles brought from school, and she didn't raise her head at the moment, "I saw that something happened to the Fifth Fleet, and the distress signal must be true." Eh, Dad, you said that the academy has put the photo of EOP-03 in the picture literacy since the first grade of elementary school, isn't it a bit cruel? I remember when I was a kid in elementary school at the Imperial College, and I read pictures of two half-naked men......"

"Poof-" My attention was instantly cut off by Xiaoxue's words, "First grade of elementary school? Look at the picture and read two half-naked men on it?! Who made up the textbook of this NM, why would that kind of thing appear for Lang?! ”

"Brother Haier, Dad, why are your thoughts so impure......"

I thought about it for a while, and decided to continue to study the matter of the Fifth Fleet, Xiaoxue, this kid is too toothy, and every sentence is enough for me to have asthma for half a year.

"My gut tells me that this matter needs attention," Sandora finally couldn't stand Bingdis's violent behavior and pushed her giant teapot to me, "I mean the problem that distress signals may be discontinuous as they travel through the void. It has had unexplained fluctuations in intensity, and the teleportation 'distance' was higher than the theoretical value, and these anomalies should be examined by the expert team. The void is the foundation of all things. It's the slightest change, and we all need to keep an eye on it. ”

After saying that, Sandora suddenly smiled thoughtfully: "Perhaps we are about to discover another void 'phenomenon' that we have never noticed before, the anomalous amplification of communication between two quadrants with a huge gap. If this phenomenon is real and controllable, perhaps we can suddenly expand the Empire's horizons to places that even the Star Protoss have not observed. Really looking forward to what will be there......"

Sandora fell into her delusional state as she spoke...... Well, well, shouldn't say it's delusional. It should be the Queen's vision of the future from the perspective of a leader. But it seems to me that this is almost delusional - how far away it must be, let's not talk about the fallen apostles now. Not even the Fifth Fleet has been done yet......

"Child, her father! Hurry up, I've got an answer here! ”

Say what's coming, right now. Suddenly there was an emergency call from the bubble in the spiritual connection, and after a day and a night of listening, the super-large amplifier antenna that had just been assembled finally received the signal from the Fifth Fleet!

The portal to the Exile World has been open for a long time since yesterday, so it didn't take long for us to be on the planet of Kerudak again, this time with the addition of Sandora and her sister, and even the Asa and the Protoss Five followed, claiming to be there to help - though I really don't know what else they could do to help besides being very good at eating and making trouble.

The hall on the first floor of the Parliament Building was very different from the last time we had visited, it was now crowded with high-ranking officials of the Fourth Fleet, and the strange creatures of all races almost looked like they were having an exposition, and in the center of the hall some invisibly ineffective Toberu equipment had been temporarily installed. It could be the terminal of a communication device. Two Toberu scientists were nervously debugging the control panels that emitted green light, and around the device, there were several holographic projections floating in mid-air, and the images on the projections were still cluttered, but according to expert analysis. These jumble images are indeed from the Fifth Fleet.

A lori with an awl on her head bouncing around the Tobeiru experts, looking more expert than the experts: "Hey! Don't see clutter in the six-way band? That's the redundant band, just filter it out...... Why is the picture of the third unit dark? No, it's dead again! How many years have your communications arrays not been maintained...... I asked the people in the computer room upstairs to check the adapter interface, how do I feel that there is a noise in my head...... Ah, there's nothing to do, it's not a problem with the computer room. It's me who has a bit of a poor contact here. Okay, the signal on the main road has stabilized, and the Death Garden is synchronizing this channel and maintaining the current rhythm, I'm optimistic about you! Child, her father, you are here! ”

"What's the awl on her head?" Bingtis's face stiffened, and he pointed to the strange ornament on the bubble head.

"Antenna." I explained succinctly, and when I saw that the "parliament" was not far away, leading a group of high-ranking officials to walk quickly, I greeted him, "Have you eaten......?" No, I said what's going on now? ”

The "council" didn't hear what I said in the first half of the sentence, but the second half of the sentence did, nodded and said: "Thirty minutes ago, the device suddenly reacted, and it detected the data header that was suspected to be the encrypted ciphertext of the Combined Fleet back then, this ...... Shiling host, right? She said about herself and her own ...... My daughter has captured a signal source, and we are still tracking this signal source, and if we can track it steadily, we will probably be able to establish a connection. ”

"So I can't talk right now," I nodded, beckoning Bubbles over, "How's your progress going over there?" ”

"It's still tracking, the signal source is very offset, and the Death Garden can only increase the listening range to ensure that the target is not lost, but then the accuracy is very problematic," Bubbles said, turning the awl on his head slightly, "Boss, you also know that everything in the void relies on information representation to maintain its own order, and the Fifth Fleet is now on the run, they are running from one quadrant to another, and the information representation of the fleet is of course changing all the time, Every time the Death Garden sends a feedback signal, it will be doped with a layer of encrypted 'shell', and I have to crack this layer of 'shell' before I can make a call to the other party, and then the target has moved to another place, and the information representation outside their fleet has been refreshed, so the call from this side will be blocked......"

“…… Say something I can understand. ”

"They can hear the Fifth Fleet here, but they can't hear us—eh, there's not enough bandwidth at this critical moment," Bubbles said, stamping her foot suddenly, then pulling another awl out of her pocket and sticking it in his head with a "poof...... Luckily, it was much better to be prepared. ”

Everyone: "......"

I've figured out the situation of the Fifth Fleet, but they don't know that someone is trying to talk to them, and the signal it sends out can't be actively paired with the receiving antenna of the Dead Garden, so for the whole system, they are only sending it in one direction. Due to the distance, even the Departed Garden system can only make one call at a time to the Fifth Fleet's signal source, and the latter changes its information representation from moment to moment, and the infiltration message written one second will be blocked by the newly formed information representation the next. This kind of communication dilemma will not appear in the world, and there is no need to worry about the scope that the Imperial Network can cover, and it can be avoided if the two sides have a unified and pre-agreed message transformation rules, but now, due to the combination of crossing too many quadrants, the power limit of the Death Garden, the lack of unified and coordinated message formats between the two sides, and the system delay, etc., it has been completely exposed. (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. )