Star Empire

".what happened?"

The dazed consciousness gradually broke away from the boundless chaos, and a set of sensors and scanners began to come online, summarizing and analyzing all the stimuli fed back to him from the outside world, and finally fitting them into the most intuitive feeling.

The body aches and is cold, the soul is dull and numb.

The surroundings seemed to be dark. In my impression, no matter what happened, the surrounding environment should be bright and brightly lit. It should not be so dark at any time. What's going on? Wait! !

Some scattered pictures floated up from the depths of his consciousness. They danced, and gradually connected from irregular and random movements into a rough straight line. From time to time, some pictures were interspersed in the straight line, and the scattered pictures gradually became coherent. Those scattered pictures gradually became coherent. It's my own memory, and my own memory shows that before all this happened.

The ship was shaking violently, like a lonely leaf caught in a whirlpool and storm. Overload alarms popped up one after another, and the safety restraint device that fixed him lost its function. His body was tossed up and down like a pinball between the inner walls of the cabin.

During this violent shaking, he began to gradually lose consciousness. Before he passed out completely, darkness came from around him, and the lights in the cabin that should have been always bright began to quickly go out.

"Oops! The power pack of the spacecraft!" oyiof79846 came back to his senses in shock - the lights in the cabin went out, which means that the power system of the ship has almost completely stopped, and if this situation has really happened, the spacecraft is currently This is so damaged.

Void erosion will kill the entire ship and everyone on board!

oyiof79846 is preparing to restart the ship's multi-variable power system. Before the ship was hit, that system was in the best condition and most likely to survive the impact. However,

When he noticed the current time, he was stunned - the independent clock system in his body had undergone new changes, and the field describing the current time had become completely garbled. And I remember very clearly that before all this happened, there should be a few fields that were not completely garbled!

"Star Empire [Expedition Chronicle] 2 ■■8 ■9■ 13■■■■ years. Yes, the fields that recorded the time before were not completely confused. The ship has been in this state for more than a thousand years?"

As a veteran among veterans, oyiof79846 clearly knows the performance of his body. Even if he is completely comatose, even if he has completely lost his energy supply, his body will still have some low-energy-consuming low-level functions to maintain operation, and These underlying functions that help you re-understand the world as soon as possible after regaining consciousness can be maintained for a long time.

The clock system is one such low-level function - whether it is accurate is another matter, the important thing is that it is running.

This means that his coma has lasted for a period of time, and during his coma, the ship may have been in such a state of almost no power!

Thinking of this, the movements of oyiof79846's hands became less urgent.

If void erosion has already occurred, then the ship will not be able to survive in the void for a year before it will be completely eroded and assimilated, leaving no ruins or debris behind. And since I can stand here properly, it means that the extreme situation I expected has not happened yet!

After checking the two comrades beside him and confirming their current status, oyiof79846 tightened the handle in his hand. Compared to how it looked at the beginning, there are already many flaws and minor damages on the tremolo handle.

"Man, please add more oil. Whether we can see the light again depends on you." oyiof79846 inserted the crank handle into the hole on the wall behind his seat, and then began to gradually apply force on it.

As the force he exerted continued to increase, a "squeaking" sound began to come from the hollow. oyiof79846 could feel that more small cracks and distortions began to appear on the handle he was holding tightly. The key in his hand is against a force that could break him to pieces.

"Hold on a little longer, please!" While pushing the rocker with all his strength, oyiof79846 felt that his body was approaching its limit. Even with the maximum strength he could exert, he could not control the multiple variables in the wall. If the gear set begins to turn for the first time, then the hope of restarting the ship will become even slimmer.

"Huh?" The stoker, who was trying to restart the ship, suddenly felt a slight shake in the handle he was holding tightly. This shake soon expanded into a continuous rotation, and the power he needed to provide began to decrease rapidly, and a series of low sounds The roar came from behind the wall - the multi-variable power system was successfully activated!

In a place oyiof79846 cannot see yet, in the stern part of the ship, there used to be eight huge coaxial anti-propeller propellers. Now, four of the eight propellers have been completely destroyed, and all the blades of two propellers have been broken off. One propeller, which still had a total of three blades, shook hard several times before finally stopping.

The last one, which was relatively well preserved, fully absorbed the energy provided by the gear set. The huge propeller with a blade length of more than millions of kilometers began to run again, and the variable storm evolved from the vortex of time and space began to wrap around the propeller. , energy began to flow, and gradually filled the meridians that remained open in this ancient ship.

"Thank you, old man -" oyiof79846 saw that the lights in the ship, which had been extinguished for an unknown period of time, began to light up again. As the stoker, he felt lucky and comforted from the bottom of his heart, and just when he was about to take the light with him When the starter key was pulled out after an unknown amount of time, the key broke and fell into scattered pieces on the ground.

"." oyiof79846 blinked, and after a long silence, he sighed, unable to say anything.

"So, the current situation is that after we completed the last virtual point jump, the ship shook violently, many equipment were damaged and offline, and everyone fell into a coma due to the vibration, and we are currently unable to determine whether we How long have you been unconscious? Is this the current situation?"

"Yes, supervisor, our ship is currently docked in a certain world, so when the ship's power system unexpectedly stalled, we were not eroded by the void. I have checked the equipment usage log, and the last strange stone When an accident occurs on the ship, the system automatically loads the missile into it and releases it in the name of assisting the ship in emergency evacuation. This world barrier should have appeared because of this."

"Currently, the only power source that can be used by the entire ship is a multi-variable engine. At the same time, most of the equipment on the ship has been damaged." The three supervisors and the nine ship operators looked at each other. They wanted to They can find some way to break through each other, but so far, it seems that it is difficult to find any new breakthroughs.

"There is no point in repairing the ship anymore." gudjd1317, one of the supervisors, said seriously. "The information loss caused by the virtual point jump occurs at every level. It is much more difficult to repair such damage than to rebuild another ship like this. Ship. We alone cannot do this now. But if the ship remains in such a state, then we can only wait here until the end of the world."

"Has the cause of the violent vibration of the spacecraft been determined?"

"Not yet. The voyage log is currently being repaired. We don't know whether the contents recorded in the voyage log can be restored. Our three stokers have surveyed the entire ship as much as possible, although the ship did have some new damage. , but these new damages are all "classic normal damages" that may occur when jumping from a virtual point. The ship has no new signs of being invaded or hit."

"That's strange. There has never been a similar phenomenon before." gudjd1317's expression changed slightly, but he finally shook his head.

"Supervisor, is there anything new?"

"No, not yet. So in short, before we embrace the void and say goodbye to the world of order, we should try our best to investigate this matter clearly."

"clear."

"yes."

"The constants in this world are very strange."

"How to say?"

"Look at these -" the equipment operator hdjh3246 pointed to the beating model in front of him and explained to the people surrounding him:

"We have just calibrated and recorded relevant data before the jump. The final virtual point jump process should be stable. That is to say, the environmental constants inside the world we are currently in and some attribute readings of the world barrier should be the same as before. The data conforms to a certain linear relationship, but in fact, these two sets of data cannot be effectively fitted by any linear relationship we know. The latest set of data, that is, the parameters of the world we are currently in are very It’s weird, it’s like it suddenly crossed something.”

"Suddenly crossing over. Is there anything in the surrounding void that can suddenly cross over and bring about huge changes?"

"Better results require more data to support, and our voyage log has not been restored yet, so there are no better results yet. As for the "obstacles" that can be overcome in the void and produce clear and huge changes. First Assuming it is an obstacle, the only ones we know so far are the Void Quadrant or the Void Sub-Quadrant."

"Wait a minute, there's news - fqfih4653 has repaired part of the flight log!" With that said, hdjh3246 immediately synchronized the data.

When people saw the records in the voyage log, they were stunned by the violent distortion and oscillation of the curve used to fit the data.

"Will it be the Void Quadrant or the Void Sub-Quadrant?"

"The possibility is very low." The three pilots looked at each other and gave an answer that was close to negative.

"The boundaries of the Void Quadrant or Void Sub-Quadrant will indeed isolate the transmission of information, but at least so far, we have no impression that there will be violent vibrations when crossing the sub-quadrant, and the voyage log will leave such messy data. And The most important thing is that the data in the current voyage log can show that we have been sailing in the same quadrant. If we cross the void quadrant, the voyage log will be disconnected."

"It should not have crossed the quadrant. We are still in the quadrant where we started." fqfih4653's figure appeared in the crowd, holding a few small boxes that did not look very eye-catching:

"The Quadrant Clock is still running, but it's just running very slowly. This shows that we have not crossed the Void Quadrant. The core of the Quadrant Clock is a primitive but stable small mathematical rate device. Its normal operation means that we have not left the Quadrant. If we cross a quadrant or a sub-quadrant, it should be at a standstill."

"Then, what caused such a serious vibration on our ship?" Seeing that the problem had returned to the original starting point, everyone fell into deep thought.

"Severe vibrations cannot be fitted. The data recorded in the voyage log indicate that the ship experienced a high degree of disturbance."

"The disturbance comes from the outside world and appears suddenly, and the data swings back and forth indicating that the disturbance from the outside world is also in a state of fluctuation."

"Cold, empty, weak" gudjd1317's brows relaxed and then furrowed again and again.

"I think I may have the answer."

"What?" The moment gudjd1317 spoke, the other eleven eyes were all aimed at him.

"What we are facing is the boundary between the stellar wind field blown by the blazing sun of the void and the original void environment."