Star Empire

"Ah, this is a welcome meeting with little information. The whole process is just a group of unfamiliar people getting together and then listening to a group of unfamiliar people talking. Is this process really unnecessary? Why not hurry up and let us match the system allocation Where is your residence, ah. Let’s try this campus-wide teleportation. Oh, I’ll go!”

There was no problem with the transmission, and there was no danger. With a flash of golden light, I stood firmly in the public space of the pre-allocated "dormitory" - the anti-overlap algorithm worked well, but for both parties, a face that was almost close to my own suddenly appeared in front of me. In a relaxed state, it will still cause some impact.

"Are you okay?" Kriz quickly took a step back.

".It's okay, it's okay." With the slight swing of his fingers, the information interactive display screen that had been tilted due to accidental factors quickly returned to its original position.

"Then, from now on, we are roommates. 16-3-1-lhjl1864343, please take good care of me."

"16-3-1-xs4028, Davox Kryze, please take care of me."

"xs4028, your soul identification code is very kind." lhjl1864343 nodded, "Your private room is over there. And this part is the common area shared by the four of us. You can tidy up your room according to your preference first. House, and then fix all the new student registration systems, and then we can just wait for the school system to send out new notifications."

"Okay, thank you."

"Strange, what's his number? lh186434? No, ljl14343? No, lhjl1864343? It should be like this. By the way, what does he look like?"

While packing his things, Kriz hit himself hard on the head. He found that the memory that should have been clear and clear became a little blurry in such a short period of time.

The not lengthy number seems to have become slippery - I can't grasp it, and every time I grab it, a few always seem to fall out from the gaps in my memory. And in my own impression, the gentle and delicate face of the person who I had just met and who was almost cheek to cheek with me seemed to have disappeared in a short period of time.

"How could this happen? Kriz couldn't help but frown. Is this why he said that my "soul identification code is friendly"? In the eyes of others, my soul identification code and I will not be in this situation? This Is it an accidental phenomenon or a common phenomenon? The previous stage of education. Wait, did they say their names? Did the teachers say their names and soul identification codes? It seems a bit vague or not? Wait a moment, confirm one first A more basic question – do they have a face?!”

The more deliberately I recall, the more details seem to be missing, and the content I recall becomes increasingly indescribable. This increasingly obvious deviation and the huge sense of rupture brought about by the deviation brought a sense of fear to Kriz - what on earth were the things he had seen before? !

"Basic protection memes, information emergency preservation memes, inoculation malicious use passive counterattack memes, emergency self-locking memes. Wait, is it because they are taking effect?" There are some contents in Kriz's increasingly fierce thinking storm. Awakened, they were "pulled" by Kriz's power and appeared in front of Kriz.

"If you look at the effect of these memes this way, it should be said that it at least makes sense. Not being remembered can indeed have a protective effect, but this kind of protective effect. Does it need to be effective for people around you like this at this time? .Isn’t that right? I have also implanted these protective memes? If I understand the meaning of “kindness” correctly, then my soul identification code and appearance will not reflect such properties? That means my protective memes have failed. It’s still—hiss, it’s so hot!”

Before he had time to think deeply, a burning feeling from the depths of his soul stopped his progress in thinking. The feeling was like touching the fence surrounding the border, and the fence issued a warning to retreat. generally.

"Permission level." Kriz quickly found the source of the heat that burned him—the 3-1 code in his soul number. That number represented his current authority level.

"Is it related to permissions? Oh, that's the part that can't be seen. Sometimes I feel really itchy." Kriz gritted his teeth and finally decided to continue cleaning up his "new home". A complete room is a space that appears as a cube, but this space looks much larger from the inside than from the outside. This large enough space can be further shaped according to the user's habits and preferences.

Soon, the other two people staying in the same room, 16-3-1-isha354588 and 16-3-1-qxzp96349, also appeared here.

". Speaking of which, in my impression, of all the people I have seen so far - except for the adaptation period in the primary education stage, I have never seen a body shape that can be interpreted as "strong" and "burly". "And other words."

"Whether it's a male or a female. Speaking of which, is there really any difference in the so-called "gender"? I'm afraid it's just a difference in some details of appearance and body shape. The essence should be the same? Otherwise, having a female body The characteristic qxzp96349 should not live with us like this." When everyone arrived, the four people who were about to become roommates held a brief roommate acquaintance meeting so that they could remember each other. Many questions and items of information flowed through Kriz's eyes as they shook hands one by one.

"If you really think that these are issues worthy of further study, they seem to be a bit exaggerated. After all, if there is no need to break the formed habits and fixed patterns, then it is completely normal for them to stay. After all, body shape and appearance... like this It doesn’t affect anything, they can all be set according to their own wishes, and there is no harm in unifying the initial settings.”

"But if you don't know the detailed reasons why it is like this, and you don't delve into it, you will always feel that this is a small trap. Should I further control my abilities and curiosity? That's it. I’m afraid it will be very tiring if you go down there.”

…

"At the beginning of the semester, our mission was to go around. First we were in the school, and then before we were done - we just walked around the school facade, we took a spaceship to go on a long trip, and we had to go so far. It seemed like it was so far away. Something that was done deliberately..."

"I don't think that's the case. We just looked at a lot of places, right?"

In the ships that look like giant transparent blades, the freshmen who have just entered school are dividing into small temporary groups based on their social circles and exchanging discoveries and opinions with each other.

"The school is too wide. In many cases, without short-distance jumps and teleportation, it would take hundreds of years to reach the destination on your own legs. However, there don't seem to be many places that actually need people. The scale of the buildings that need people It's not big, much smaller than the school buildings we used before. Do you have the feeling that the place where people live has been "diluted"? The scope that we need to live in is still within the scope of these buildings A small part of it. What are those parts used for?"

"Most of them seem to be redundant parts or other infrastructure. I noticed some of the annotations. Among them are "building shield", "interfloor shield", "spare shield" and "channel" "Shield" and other equipment placement points and power supply points."

"There are so many types of shields. Why are there so many types? If they are all activated, wouldn't the internal environment of the building be cut into many small pieces? Will one piece end up being about the same size as we are now?" Get up, I remember that the passages in the teaching buildings we used originally still had a proportional conversion system, but it’s gone here?”

"Maybe it's because of the adoption of a new algorithm, or we can no longer use that function."

"I think that thing is quite useful. It's probably impossible to say that I won't use it."

"Where are you talking about? Weren't we talking about redundancy and shields before?"

"Hi, Redundant. With that said, I wonder if you have noticed those covered bridges that are impossible to cross by simply walking - those huge bridges that connect different functional parks. There are at least a dozen of them. Ways of passage! And many ways of passage may no longer be used at all! Do you know that some of the passages left in those covered bridges seem to be really intended to allow us to walk the entire distance with our legs!!"

"Are you talking about the method, or the actual result?"

"Of course there are some acceleration measures in the method, otherwise the timeliness would have been gone long ago. I just don't understand why these methods have to stay? When these methods are needed, wouldn't that mean that Are other methods no longer available?"

"I don't know if you have noticed - all the places we have come into contact with, whether it is the previous ports, the places where we lived, the schools, and the places where these buildings are located, it can be said that all places are not worthy of the title. There are gloomy and dark corners above. Interfaces and interfaces for communicating with the Empire's network can be called out from all places, and all places are lit up by sufficient light. And I also asked our teacher if there are any other hidden objects buried deep in those building materials. With information receivers and information sensors covering all corners of the entire empire, if this phenomenon is widespread, then the entire empire can be said to have no dead ends. Think about it, how big a project is this?"

"Indeed, this will be a very huge project." When chatter came from the surroundings, Kriz fell into silence.

Everyone who has just obtained Level 3-1 permissions has no ability or reason to check all the design and production drawings of the empire. This is not to belittle - no matter how detailed their observations are, they can only be regarded as superficial. But he is different. At least for now, the empire's authority system does not block his own narrative ability to observe the empire's creations. Therefore, you can see more and deeper things.

Under the ubiquitous lights, under the ubiquitous information sensor monitoring, there are more things - the huge crystal mesh systems that power them are wrapped in thick armor. These crystal meshes The scale was so huge yet orderly, which made Kryz think of something else. It was the large-scale fleet he had seen before, and the large-scale fleet imitated, which could penetrate the world and time and space. The large-scale star network structure of the structure. I don't know why, but they are so different from each other but they seem to be stacked on top of each other at this moment.

These fine tube networks. They are not all lit up, and the active flow of information seems to choose different tubes every once in a while. However, this switching time is very short, which makes all the pipes appear to be bright. But in fact, what proportion of the total pipe network is really in use at the same time? It seems to be less than one ten thousandth. And relying on my understanding of the empire's creations, I'm afraid that up to three sets of redundancy should be enough for them to be used until the moment they are no longer needed.

And the materials responsible for protecting these pipe networks, those armors, are also commendable. Not to mention strong, those armors, they seem to have some specific "vulnerable aspects". Once these specific vulnerability points are activated, armor plates, no matter how thick and bulky they appear to be, will quickly crack and disintegrate. And what is needed to activate these vulnerabilities seems to be the desire and request for escape of the life and existence of the empire? It seems that if these armors hinder the escape of Imperial life, they may automatically disintegrate? But what if you are exploited?

As Kriz's thinking focus shifted, a series of changes occurred in what he could see - the thick armor plates seemed to be layered, and these layers were not materials, but stories, revelations. The story of why armor plates are made the way they are.

Some of these stories had meaning that Kriz could barely understand, while others were so complicated that Kriz couldn't understand them. But even if the content is incomprehensible, they can still bring shock and emotion to the hearts of those who read them. The thick armor plates and the internal structure of the armor plates are like a thick book. This book records the various traces left by countless events over hundreds of millions of years on these ubiquitous materials.

"Alas." Kriz shook his head and looked out the window.

The transparent protective panel did not hinder the transmission of the information that Kriz wanted to receive, and everything outside the window came into Kriz's eyes.

There are many bright entities outside the window, some of which are stationary in his field of vision. They are the garrison warships that he provides security for his student observation group. And some are slowly retreating - they should be the celestial bodies in this world.

"I saw it, I saw it!"

"Where? Where?!"

"Look, it's the one in the center that's shining!"

“So bright”

"That's not right, those mere entities are reaching over!"

The sudden change in the surroundings interrupted Kriz's daze. When he refocused his attention, he also saw the unusual celestial body. The celestial body is not spherical. The boundary curve of the spherical surface is convex, while its boundary curve is concave. This change makes it look like it is made of two curved cones buckled together. .

Like most of the empire's creations, most of its surface is smooth, and at the poles and equator of the celestial body, there are regular crystal arrays with countless golden threads floating on the surface of these crystal arrays. These threads are beating, one end of them is connected to these crystals, and the other end extends infinitely, deep into the depths of the world.

"Attention, the first stop in the viewing process has been arrived, and the viewing fleet has entered the world loop, which is the best viewing position."

"The World Circuit Base is a facility used by the Empire to manage a single world. It is also the most basic stage of the three-stage management involving the overall structure of the world in the Empire's management system. The World Circuit Base is maintained by receiving and controlling the Heart of the World. The normal functioning of the world. On this basis, the Empire employs a variety of additional means to enhance this process and ensure security."

"Multiple additional methods?" Kriz focused his attention on these words. And these few words were like an introduction, opening up a long list of equipment for Kriz.

"Representation overlay system, coordinate masker, world barrier starter. What are they?" Facing the sudden surge of stories, Kriz felt dizzy, and he stopped flipping through the long entries. and ordered them to disperse. In the process, the stimulation brought by the influx of huge amounts of information caused him to ignore a series of relatively weak changes - his authority number was about to issue an alarm several times, but in the end, the alarm did not actually appear.

"xs4028, are you okay? Are you okay?" Someone nearby patted Kriz on the shoulder, "You seem to be a little abnormal."

"Ah, I'm fine. I just thought of some things I've seen. I'll be fine."

"Okay, if you have any questions, tell us in time - Huh?!"

Before these words could be finished, a powerful force suddenly came from the seats, fixing everyone tightly to their seats in an instant.

"What's going on?!" Scattered exclamations came from all over the spacecraft. The freshmen tried to figure out the situation, but they soon discovered that their bodies and limbs had been tied up in various ways by seat belts, which were far more exaggerated than the five-point seat belts they usually used.

"Attention, a skyquake has been detected. All empires, please pay attention to safety. Attention, a skyquake has been detected, all empires, please pay attention to safety. The impact of the skyquake will arrive in five seconds after the standard timer. Everyone who has not taken safety measures is requested The empire exists to seize the time to avoid danger." The freshmen here felt that their bodies seemed to have been cast into the spacecraft, and when they merged with the spacecraft and the seats under them, a series of warnings began to erupt from their hearts. Sounded from deep.

"Protective measures were taken earlier than the warning? This can't be caused, right? It shouldn't be all like this, otherwise in the second half." Kriz looked out the window, and he was surprised to find that even his seat had a shield popping up. Wrapped in itself. At least at that moment, the spacecraft he was riding on had five different levels of shields popping up.

As his sight continued to extend, he soon discovered that all the ships in the garrison had also deployed their shields, and outside these relatively obvious bubbles, farther away from him, there was a layer of ten The dim, larger bubble seemed to envelop the entire fleet.

"Skyquake? What could that be-" Such a violent reaction aroused Kriz's curiosity, but before Kriz could expand on his questions and abilities, five seconds had passed by him. .

In an instant, countless waves of light filled everyone's vision. At this moment, the whole world seemed to have turned into an ocean with tumbling waves, and the sparkling light replaced the sun hanging high in the sky, lighting up everything.