Xiling Empire Chapter 1445: Deep diving progress

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I propose to go shopping with Shadow City with Shandora not for shopping, but to look at the development of several major projects: the mass production and installation of the executioner-level spaceship, the progress of the deep dive plan, The reverse engineering of the ship and the progress of the Seventh Legion. These projects are the main tasks of the new empire. I have gone out for a few days to say whether it is long or short, I think there should be some new progress in these things. appeared . Of course, another reason is that you can go out with Shandora for a long time: I have n’t been alone with her for a long time. Although the noisy family is very happy, I have to say that the creature of bear children is really The destroyer of husband and wife's private life ...

The blueprint of the executioner-level spaceship has been dispatched to the major starship factories. One-to-one supervision and accelerated production by Xiling Host. The first batch of spaceship manufactured has been sent to the 7th Legion ) Outside the six legions and the Royal Fleet. In this way, the number of new warships that each legion can get is of course not much, but these spaceships are just to let the Commander of each legion familiarize with their performance and prepare for the development of new tactical tactics with this new warship in the future. Naturally, it will naturally be given priority to the three important units of the Royal Fleet and the First and Sixth Legions.

I am most concerned about the deep diving plan. When I set off, I just caught up with the second-generation deep-sea diving ship trial. I did n’t see it myself. It ’s a big pity. I have heard about the trial from Shandora. The process was quite smooth, and the two dives that followed immediately exceeded the target, so as soon as I came out of the headquarters, Shandora and I ran to research center to find Tavel.

It is worth mentioning that the reception of me and Shandora's at the headquarters is Tavel except for Sieves: the latter appeared as a technical consultant and chief researcher of the new warship, and was in the deep diving project center of Research Institute , Receiving myself and Shandora's is still Tavel, this time she is the technical consultant of the deep diving project and the chief R & D personnel of the deep diving ship. I estimate that when I go to the reverse engineering laboratory with Shandora, I will see Tavel. At that time, her identity was the director of the Reverse Engineering Project of the King's Lander ... this matter can not be studied deeply, otherwise too many slots are easy to choke on. Is there no upper limit for the Tavel workaholic?

The deep dive project center occupies a whole floor in Research Institute and is divided into several departments, including the technical group of deep diving ships, the research and development and production group of various deep diving equipment, the abyssal research group, the summary and analysis of deep diving information There are a lot of groups that I can understand and do not understand, such as the center, the unified office, etc. The reason why the so many division is needed is because the deep dive plan itself is a very wide-ranging thing, and it needs the most advanced energy supply of the empire. , The most advanced shielding technology, the most advanced communication array, sensitive sensors that can work normally in an abyssal environment without being infected, and even require technical support from Fallen Apostles's abyss science and technology, these things are combined into a deep submersible ship In the end, the data collected will be analyzed by another group of experts who specialize in researching the abyss. Such a plan spans a large number of highly sophisticated fields, and requires a team of experts in all fields to cooperate with other teams 100%. This is really not an easy task: I am glad that I have a schizophrenia as an initiative The chief scientist of the skill, Tavel is the team leader and office director of all the above project teams ...

Shandora and I went straight to the Tonghe office in the center of the deep dive project. When we pushed the door in, we found that there were two people in it: an uncle with a serious face, this is Harlan, and the other is gray-haired but spirited The unyielding old man-Ancestor, the ancestor.

The two of didn't expect are also there. It seems that they are discussing matters related to deep diving: Ances is also one of the staff of the deep diving project and is also present. When I thought of myself and Shandora listening to the Tavel report on the new spaceship at the headquarters ten minutes ago, this glasses lady also had a meeting with the two people here at at the same time and commanded work in another dozen departments. I couldn't help but sigh. : Schizophrenia is really a useful ability. Now that the Tavel has been completed in all aspects, it is almost impossible to fall in love with yourself.

"Ye, busy," I said hello to the people in the house as usual (of course you have to say that I was not doing the right thing), and finally the sight fell on Tavel, "Well, I haven't seen it again in ten minutes See you now. "

Harlan nodded to me and Shandora with a smile, Tavel stood up with Ances to salute us: it stands to reason that the ancestors and the descendants would look very strange, and at the beginning Shandora also refused to accept the ancestors Tribute, but now Ances has officially returned to his post as "Soldier", and the father himself also hopes to act in accordance with the standard imperial authority system, so he will salute the new empire ruler-now even Shandora Acceptable, after all, for Xiling Apostle, the authority system is a priority over private affairs.

"The working condition of the No. 2 deep submersible ship seems to be quite good?" Shandora and I were seated opposite Tavel. I asked the question I was most concerned about, "Is there any new findings in it?"

"Deeper than the last dive, but because the" space concept "in the pure abyss environment is ambiguous, we have not yet an accurate measurement method to calculate how far the deep dive ship traveled, so temporarily can do nothing about it An accurate unit to describe exactly where the dive went, "Tavel shook his head slightly regretfully," The new findings are indeed there, but they are all within the scope of the previous estimate: as the dive level continues to deepen, the deep dive ship The pressure will increase, and the chaotic factors in the abyss will accelerate the destruction of the shield of the deep diving ship. The same is true of the most extreme dive. It seems that we are still far from the critical point detected by the deep diving ship in the Old Empire era. , Not to mention the unusually calm area of ​​the abyss. In addition, we also found a not-so-good situation ... "

I have expected the situation mentioned above for Tavel. Now she specifically mentions that there is a "not so good situation" that makes people suddenly nervous. I frowned: "What's going on?"

"We found that the abyss environment has two eccentric characteristics," uneven "and" discontinuous ", and so far it is impossible to explain or avoid these situations," Harlan glanced at Tavel and turned to explain to me and Shandora, " Abyss Apostles is more familiar with the things behind that gate, so I have recently been involved in this project. I saw the dangerous situation with my own eyes during the last deep dive: the deep dive boat is getting more and more pressure with the dive Large, this increasing trend is stable at first, but after the dive reaches a certain threshold, the curve returned by the device starts to drift, suddenly high and low, and even appeared breaks, just like this — "

Harlan said, presenting a Hologram projection in front of me and Shandora, aside from those complicated forms and constantly refreshing data, the most noticeable thing on this screen is a declining curve.

"The curve represents the shield margin of the deep submersible ship. The shield of the deep submarine ship will be constantly eroded in the abyss environment. Each time the shield is refreshed, its residual stability and splendid strength are the shield margin. , The higher the shield margin is, the safer the signify spaceship is. When the deep submersible ship does not move at a fixed position, its shield margin will also become a fixed value, and as the "depth" of the dive increases, the shield Of course, the margin will continue to decline, which forms a curve, "Harlan pointed to the chart to explain to me and Shandora (of course it is more likely to be specifically explained to me)," There are three horizontal lines, representing three There are several kinds of thresholds. The signify shield margin above the first threshold is very safe. The spaceship ’s own energy cycle will generate sufficient self-sustainment to ensure that it can stay in the abyss environment for any length of time. The amount of light is dangerous. spaceship needs to use most of the energy to repair the shield, but it can still perform the task smoothly. It exceeds the second critical value signify. Dangerous. The refresh of the spaceship shield must reach the limit to ensure safety. The surplus of the shield is almost only the fully loaded 10%, which is equivalent to that the shield may be extinguished at any time. In this case, the deep submersible ship can only perform a short time task and must immediately float, otherwise the system will be overloaded. Third The critical value signify spaceship is about to be finished-the shield refresh cannot catch up with the pollution speed, the balance falls below zero, and each new shield that is refreshed will have an abyss reaction, so this value will even turn into a negative number. Under the circumstances, the structure of the deep submersible vessel has begun to be polluted, and there is no possibility of returning to the ship. It can only continue to perform the mission for a short period of time before it completely collapses. In the last mission, the graph was normal when it was above the first threshold. During the period between the second and third thresholds ... you see, the jitter looks like a line chart, and even rises continuously. "

I looked at the significant graph, which steadily declined from the highest point to the first red Warning line with a very steady amplitude, and also stabilized a long distance after crossing the first Warning line However, after a certain moment, the smooth curve suddenly jittered up and down irregularly, and when it approached the second critical point, it was already shaking similarly to late Parkinson's.

"There is a discontinuous zone in the deeper part of the abyss, which changes from time to time and is unevenly distributed. We did not mention this in the Old Empire data we found," Tavel shook his head. "If the abyss is regarded as a deep sea divided into many layers And each layer has a different concentration, then the boundary between these layers is not fixed. They not only drift at any time, but even suddenly flip: pollution suddenly decreases, then suddenly increases, and then suddenly decreases, This formed the tremendous jitter on the graph. "

Shandora immediately realized the danger of this situation: "in other words, after diving to a certain extent, it is very likely that the deep dive boat will" stumble "into a desperate situation?"

Tavel nodded solemnly: "That's it. After the deep-dive vessel reaches its design limit 'depth', the situation will become extremely dangerous. Although the theoretically can work at that depth, the abyss may drift at any time. This kind of Drift is unpredictable, our equipment is likely to be caught in the vortex of destruction before the reaction, and the chance of trying to escape is basically zero. theoretically is like this. "

This is the first time that a deep dive has never been encountered, and it is also a huge challenge. The actual working depth of this signify deep dive vessel must be far less than its design strength: otherwise this vessel will have Fully possible. I looked at the graph. The most jittery part of it was almost graffiti. It was frightening to watch: "Is there a limit to this fluctuation range?"

"Basically, it will not exceed 5% of the full value of the shield," Tavel exhaled. "But it does not rule out that there are more unstable discontinuities in the deeper, and we know too little about the deep abyss. In addition, the Old Empire data also lacks records in this regard ... "

I took a look at the Harlan that was meditating next to it, and suddenly remembered one thing: the first generation of deep diving ship was designed by Occam, and Harlan was Occam ’s old owner, why did Harlan not know this? Does the continuum exist?

"I really don't know," after hearing my question, Harlan said, "I'm also wondering what's going on ... I also participated in the deep diving program of Old Empire, although I never asked technically Details, but at least I have read the reports. No one has ever mentioned any discontinuous bands. Such a significant situation cannot be concealed or reported once it appears. "

Shandora rubbed his eyebrows and thought about it: "Then there are only two explanations: First, the discontinuous zone is not a common phenomenon, and we still do n’t know what kind of structure the 'space' inside the abyss is. , So it is very likely that the deep-submersible ship we made just broke into a dangerous area; second, the discontinuous zone is not a long-term phenomenon. There may not be such a thing during the Old Empire period. It only appeared in the abyss after the establishment of the new empire. . If the second hypothesis holds, then our understanding of the abyss will probably be subverted ... "

"Abyss is also evolving?" Harlan glanced at Shandora.

"At least it's not 'dead'," Shandora seemed to inadvertently touch her right arm: there is the place where she sealed her Abyss power, "We always thought that the door of the abyss was only one look, but now But I know that the door to the abyss that destroys the hometown of World is different from all the doors to the abyss we know today. We have always felt that there is nothing in the abyss, but now we find that its bottom layer tends to be calm ... these are challenging Common sense. So I do n’t mind my common sense being subverted again: the abyss is likely to be constantly evolving. It grows, changes, and the surface seems to be unchanged forever, but the internal should have already ushered in a certain cycle. "

I made the Shandora creepy, but I have to admit that this possibility exists, and I at the same time also remembered the scenes observed in the first deep diving test: there are strange "clouds" in the abyss "The structure also has a place where pollution is highly concentrated. Now it seems that it is also an" unevenness ", although it is not worth mentioning compared to the" discontinuous zone "observed today, but that kind of unevenness was also at the time. It has made us suspect that some kind of "change" is taking place inside the abyss ...

Perhaps as Shandora said, the abyss is not "dead", it is constantly changing, and it may be about to usher in a certain cycle.

"For the time being, observe the situation of the discontinuous zone at any time, and grasp its rules as much as possible, and this can only be done before further research on the abyss," Shandora gently tapped on the table, then looked at Tavel, "Hurry up and build the No. 3 deep submersible ship. If the ship now" falls "and falls to the bottom of the abyss, at least we still have a spare at hand."

Tavel nodded, then raised his finger to Arthurs: "your majesty, there is one more thing ..."

You listen to this statement, your majesty "men"-apart from Tavel and Anthers, the rest are all Emperor, which is probably only achieved by a magical regime like Xiling Empire.

"What's the matter with your ancestors?" I looked up at Ances, and the word Tavel almost scared me down: "The ancestor hoped to carry out a manned deep dive with the next batch of inspection teams. "

I came down from the cold sweat at that time, grabbed Ances's arm and swayed hard: "Master, this is not the same as what we said at the beginning. Oh!, do n’t we say it is good, just watch the excitement outside?"

"I'm not on a whim," Anthers patiently waited for me to finish before smirking. "I know we are a little stubborn and cause you a lot of trouble, but this time there is a reason."

"Why?" I could n’t help looking at Tavel, "What ’s going on?"

"Let me explain," Harlan suddenly interjected, "First of all, you know that the once polluted Apostle(s) has a higher resistance to the abyss, like us who once worked as Fallen Apostles, can Keep awake for a long time in the abyss environment with high concentration. Although Fallen Apostles is not completely immune to the destructive power of the abyss, compared with ordinary creatures, our resistance is already high to the level of semi-immunity. So the first batch in the plan The manned deep diving members are all of us who have been converted back. "

I am nodded, I know this. The No. 2 deep diving ship manufactured by Tavel already has the conditions for manned navigation. Although it is not perfect, it is more than enough to perform short-term missions. Therefore, we naturally prepared a deep diving team to prepare to start manning after all the tests have been completed. test. Initially, the candidate members of this deep diving team were ordinary psychic technicians, but Harlan offered to replace this part with those high-level Fallen Apostles (former Fallen Apostles) brought by him. The reason is very simple: Fallen Apostles ’s resistance to the abyss The **** is high, even if the spaceship fails or the internal purification mechanism is leaked, their chance of survival is very high.

Did the ancestors participate in the manned trial because of "resistance"?

Seeing the expression Harlan on my face, I knew what I was guessing. He simply nodded: "Resistance, we accidentally found that the resistance of the ancestors to the abyss even exceeded Abyss Apostles, and the concentration in the abyss was less than two. In the case of standard units, they can even directly touch the source of pollution without any protective equipment: usually this level of pollution is already fatal to mortals. "

I and Shandora were dumbfounded.