Star Empire

"The crank and the engine are indeed a good pair, but why should I really observe them at this time? Why can they attract my attention?"

I was finally able to calm down, but there were still many problems surrounding me.

"I'm getting more and more confused. What is the significance of the things I just saw? In other words, what's worth paying attention to about them? Is it related to the propeller in this ship? Wait. In a story Do all the details have to be practical and meaningful? For example, I am giving a very ferocious expression to the deep space where no one is looking. They may indeed exist, but will their presence or absence definitely affect the story itself? Running?"

"A story. How should each part of it be thought of? If these stories are reasonable and logical, then does it have its own logic, or does the reader insert his or her own thoughts into the scattered events contained in the story and then pull them out? The corresponding "logic"? What is the relationship between who comes first and who comes last?"

".Wait, 'story'? What is 'story'? Why should I care about this? Storytelling capabilities. What do they mean? Are they related?"

"Why do I feel like our roommate is a little weird?" On the way back, he looked at Kriz, who was staring at the window frame, frowning and saying nothing, but his "roommates" who had just met each other gathered together and expressed their feelings to each other. Thinking of his own hidden worries.

"He talks very little, and it seems like he is very worried and tired. At the same time, have you noticed that he seems to be very sharp when asking questions. It's like he can see deeper no matter what?"

"Actually, when I first met him, I had a good impression of him. How can I put it, probably because the process of getting to know him was easy and comfortable."

"If we want to completely remember each other's names or identification codes, the relationship between various protective memes is often not very comfortable, but he xs4028, Davox Kryze, these keywords seem to We are not affected by this information. We can easily remember him. But the effect of these memes is like transferring to the process of getting to know and communicate with him in person."

".I don't think there is any need to think so. If you talk to him directly, he is very easy to communicate with. There is no need to label him like this just because of this."

".You said, of course, this is just my subjective guess. Let's just say here - the shielding is turned on, right? Do you think there is such a possibility that this "Kriz" Classmate, were you persuaded to come back from the brink of deregistration?"

"The problem is deeper than ours, and he is worried and unwilling to take the initiative to communicate. It is not impossible, but such speculation is somewhat malicious to Kriz himself. After all, this involves giving up on himself. The idea of ​​life”

"Then, let's not take it too seriously on the surface. If we need to communicate with him on a daily basis, just do as we should. In private, let's pay more attention and report anything abnormal to the school and the Empire Network in a timely manner?"

"Just do it."

The small conversation between the three people ended quickly. However, even if the privacy was set, and even if the three of them had tried their best to control the impact of this conversation to the minimum they thought, every word in it was still "seen" by Kriz without any deviation—— His own eyes could see through several layers of crystal energy shields even if he didn't mean to do so, and this conversation didn't even have a similar mask, so how could it keep it "secret" from Kryz?

However, the content of this conversation was different from what Kriz subconsciously thought of - at first, Kriz thought they would slander and attack him behind his back, saying that he was an unsociable weirdo who always wanted to go. He was a mean, spiteful person who attacked others, and then he wondered whether they would come to the conclusion of ignoring him or isolating him. As for the conclusion that they would help him, Kriz found that he seemed to have to think more. After a while, I filtered through several more possibilities before this one took my turn.

"Just... why am I like this?! Am I not positive enough? Can't I see others from a good perspective?"

This question seems a bit serious, and it seems a bit unreasonable - but, who should I ask now? Who can I ask? The support and help from the empire, from the huge whole that he still can't understand, seems to have come to a standstill, but Kryz can feel that more and more eyes are staring at him, and there seem to be more and more people around him. Many "undercurrents" are slowly surging. They come to oneself and flow around oneself constantly.

I did not read any aggression or malice from these implicit changes, but these surging undercurrents no longer approached me, but waited quietly beside me, as if waiting for something.

The surrounding environment seemed to start to move away from him, and he stood alone outside this picture called reality. Everything that should have happened around him seemed to have nothing to do with him at this moment.

It seems that I am undergoing some kind of weird cyclical movement - one moment I sink into the paper, completely and absolutely immersed in reality, and the next moment I seem to jump out of it again, looking down like a bystander, still wanting to see the world. Paper that wraps itself.

In a state of confusion, I got off the spacecraft. I didn't know what the report looked like, let alone how I handed it in. In my impression, there seemed to be several concerned faces saying something around me, but I couldn't hear clearly what they or they said?

There is an email here. It seems to have been sent to me a long time ago. What's in it? What I said here is that many departments in the empire are paying close attention to me. They have determined some of my characteristics and will inform me of the relevant content after a simplified version of the report can be issued. I also reminded me that the observation data shows that recently, "My" life form may be entering some kind of strong activity period or critical period, and instability may occur.

".If you need help, you can always send a request to the school system or the Empire Network. Finally, please be careful not to be hostile to any existence around you or attack them. Such thoughts or actions may lead to accidents."

"Sent from the Temporary Research Department of the Star Empire. Wait, when was this message sent? What time is it today? What have I done? Where are the roommates around me?"

It wasn't until he read these sentences that Kriz was surprised to find that he had left the viewing fleet a long time ago. At this moment, he was sitting in his dormitory. There seemed to be some screens floating around him. He briefly browsed them. The content is roughly about the follow-up applications and related project registrations that new students need to make after admission. These seem to have been handled very appropriately. And there are some scattered small devices around me, which seem to be portable recorders and physical identity keys.

"lhjl1864343, where are you now? When is it now? What have I experienced?"

"xs4028? I'm really surprised that you took the initiative to contact us." In Kriz's mind, he heard the somewhat surprised responses from his roommates, "We just finished drawing the lottery for the military training project, and we are currently hanging out and discussing these projects. Go back immediately?"

"Ah, that's not necessary. I just want to ask about the situation first. When is it? In terms of viewing time?"

"It has been a week. As for your specific situation, you have been in a daze since getting off the boat and ignored us. The feedback we received after reporting these things was that we usually pay more attention to your status, but the school did not let us do too much. There are many things. During this period of time, we have probably helped you with your applications, so you don’t have to worry about those aspects, there are no problems anymore. "

"What did I do this week?" Kriz lowered his head and hit his head hard, "What did you just say?! Military training? Draw a project?"

"Ah, yes, there are many training processes at this stage of advanced education. Military training is an indispensable link in every training process. The military training link in our current training process closely follows the training process. As for the drawing of projects, if you have seen the total project list, you will know that if we test our current practices, we will not be able to complete one round in tens of thousands of years. However, the time given in the military training session is not long, so You can only draw projects.”

"It seems that I really missed a lot of things. Ah, I didn't go?!"

"Don't worry, the lottery is done on a dormitory basis, otherwise we would have to carry you here anyway."

"Ah, thank you then. What did we draw?"

"Well, there are three stages of guiding long-range weapons to attack complex targets in complex environments, visiting imperial warships and learning some control contents, surveying and mapping a certain world, battlefield sandbox exercises, field training on identifying and eliminating hidden anomalies, and finally Submit a course design. The design content is a type of armored fighting vehicle. This type of armored fighting vehicle must be able to fight in various "urban environments" in the empire, and the combat targets are "large entities". You can look back on this for yourself Mission statement, I can’t explain it in just a few words.”

"Okay, thank you."

".Mission book? This needs to be confirmed using this entity identity key before further accessing the school system. Personal interface, educational system, course design and course tasks. Ah, here it is." After hanging up with the roommates, Crizzi logged into his school network account and began to try to let himself, who had been disconnected for at least a week, regain the "normal" life track of the classmates around him.

"According to the description in the mission book, what is the imaginary enemy that this "armored fighting vehicle" needs to face???" The mission book was well presented in front of him, but the more he looked at it, the more Kriz, who had just come back to his senses, felt The more questions he has on his face. My ability once again came into play, but the imaginary scenario I sketched was

"This "armored fighting vehicle" must have omnidirectional combat capabilities. All its firepower can be fired in every direction, and it must have a main firepower output of the level required in the mission statement, and its passability must be very Well, you have to be able to pass through the complicated city ruins??"

"What is said here is... the empire has many types of cities, and they can form more types of ruins. All types of urban ruins must be able to overcome... It must have a detachable self-protective armor structure, and the navigation system must be accurate to microns. , and it needs to be able to autonomously navigate across galaxies??? The imaginary target it has to face is a very large monster, which may have a tentacle-like grabbing structure, and a single monster will have many such tentacles. This Once contact is established, grabbers are difficult to break free and may spread – contamination?!”

"Monsters have external defenses that are tough and can withstand extraordinary power attacks. Their attack power is very high, and they may appear accompanied by some kind of large-scale disaster. They themselves are very likely to have the ability to travel autonomously across space, and they do not rule out the possibility of cross-world transfer. What kind of imaginary enemy is this?!"

His brows have been wrinkled again and again, but it doesn't seem to be too exaggerated. There are many kinds of stories in the void, and there are many outrageous possibilities. If you really want to say that such a scenario is "completely impossible to happen", it is not very unlikely. possible.

"It's just...what are the causes and consequences that lead to such a scene?!"

"In addition...bring all the required materials and equipment by yourself...bring it by yourself? You need to download the corresponding information from the Internet, but what about the materials needed to make them? Do you also need to make them yourself?"

"Wait a minute, 16-3-1-xs4028 crystal energy storage connection module... what is this?!"