Chapter 1169: Dark abyss

Chapter 1169: Dark abyss

Dream plane.

Although it has been hit hard in the "world collision" long and long ago, it has become another vassal of the universe. The dream is still a vast and boundless world in the face of most mortal civilizations. It has a deep and profound universe. Empty, with countless ancient galaxy and new stars, there are countless dark spaces buried in the deepest space that have never been seen before.

In the center of the universe, the ancient nebula has almost been transformed into waste heat. The galaxy of the sun is now only a large block of dead shadows and ash remnants, the light is disappearing, and here is an extremely precious thing: one by one into the star In this deep darkness, there are a few radiances, and each cluster of sparks is a fortress fortress. These stars, which are barely collected and lit up in the nebula's exhaust gas, are extremely rare, and are separated by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of light years. Their candlelight cannot illuminate the film and is gradually forgotten. Into the dead space of the universe, can not nourish any life, at least conventional life.

Without life, there is no mind to operate, no thought activity, and the evil forces in the cage have no possibility of escape.

Then the cage was silent for thousands of years, and the time passed by in silence.

But there is no life at all.

The "night watchmen" who watched the cages in the dark lived here. They set up a fortress around a cluster of fires, monitoring the dark abyss in the deepest part of the dead space, listening to even the most subtle ones around them. A little bit of sound.

Silence is like death. This is the normal state of this cage. In the cold and dead universe, not only does it have no sound, but even the tremor of the starlight is strictly controlled. There is no mortal race here, and the sound between the souls is naturally impossible. Everything was done to stop the repressive force from breaking the blockade. But even so, the vigils have their own way of communication.

These ancient creatures have mastered the protection of their inner shackles and received the blessings of the gods. When they communicate through the resonance between the stars, the evil forces that are suppressed in the depths of the cage are powerless.

A lonely star at the boundary of the dark abyss is slightly brighter, emitting a series of super-light-speed information that is incomprehensible to ordinary species. This piece of information quickly spreads throughout the star area and immediately triggers nearby The reply of the star.

"S-26, control your frequency, don't talk unnecessary."

"S-26 reply, not an unnecessary conversation, has been shielded by the mind, this tremor is safe."

“What did you find?” A message from the middle of the dark abyss was inserted.

"The founding star has been extinguished for more than one hundred time units. According to the agreement, it is now time to report."

“What changes can be made to the outside world?” The signal source in the middle of the dark abyss continues to be questioned.

“A quiet, very quiet, initially estimated that more than 90% of the life lights have been extinguished, and a small part of the deep space is quiet as in the critical point.”

The stars have been silent for a while, and may be only a few seconds or a few days. In the critical point of the dark abyss, the passage of time has become very strange, and the vigils have not even adapted to record things through time. For them, the passage of time is the progression of one event after another, in two events. Time is meaningless in the long silence between the two.

If it weren't for the record of how long the war had passed, the vigils had long abandoned the concept of "time."

After a few silences, the border monitoring station s-26 suddenly sent another message: "w-17, I heard loud noises from the deep space, what went wrong?"

In the middle of the dark abyss, the signal came: "It is trying to break through the outer wall."

A new signal came from a star a few million light years away: "More and more frequent."

"There is still no news about the ark and the fire that the goddess of creation has left. The guardians she created have not returned to normal signs. It seems that the pollution that was leaked out was more serious than expected," W-17 is abnormally After talking for a long time, "We must be prepared, and the situation will probably continue to deteriorate."

"The situation will continue to deteriorate," s-26 agreed. "We must cherish the use of manpower and not do things that are not suitable for us. In a hundred time units, we have lost a lot of guards."

"But the necessary patrols should continue," W-17 said. "The universe is still changing. Something we don't know is happening and spreading. s-26, remember those you have discovered. What?"

"Yes, I am impressed with them. The speed of expansion is surprising, and it is highly disciplined and even more disciplined than we are. Now they have spread to thousands of galaxies, and the rate of expansion has increased dramatically with the spread. I am afraid that one day they will cover the entire universe."

“How much do we know about them?” another source from the middle of the dark abyss asks, “How do they make themselves?”

“Incomprehensible ways, those things seem to be able to reproduce themselves without material resources, whether in the barren or fertile areas, the rate of expansion never slows. I have observed that in a substance without any celestial bodies Thousands of things suddenly appeared in the vacuum zone almost out of thin air."

"What are their purposes? Are they harmful?"

"It is impossible to see that they seem to be highly intelligent lives, but lack the purpose of intelligent life. They are only constantly expanding, and they set up a large number of incomprehensible lairs and outposts in the universe, but in the process They don't attack anyone, they don't occupy any planet, they land on the planet. They seem to be more keen to stay in space. So I can't judge whether those things are harmful, only to make sure they are threatening." The message was just finished, and another outpost at the border responded: “There is additional intelligence. I have observed that they have a considerable amount of force. In some accidents, they can easily destroy the wandering that threatens their nest. Celestial bodies, and the proportion of these armed individuals in their entire group is rising rapidly. Perhaps the expansion of those things has reached a certain critical point, and now they are gradually turning into a military mode." -26 also said again: "Supplement Intelligence, observed that their direction of expansion has changed, and is shifting from no purpose expansion to targeted expansion They seem to be moving in the vanguard come here. "

The new supplemental information silences all the night watchers. After a brief silence, the w-17 sends a message: "Their patterns of behavior are changing, and I think they should increase their monitoring."

“Maybe take a more proactive response?” asked a border post. “For example, meet.”

“This should be an action taken without any other law, s-77,” W-17 said. “We want to ensure the stability of the internal defense line. Once ‘it’ breaks through the wall, the damage will far exceed any disaster.”

"Agree. Agree. Agree."

In the silent dark abyss cage, the resonating conversation between the stars gradually calmed down. This piece of the star area that has not been observed by anyone and never been touched has once again resumed death, as if it was here, now, and in the future. There is any life in general.

In the silence, the last whispering low-pitched sound suddenly broke the silence: "W-17, what is the situation at the deepest critical point?"

"There is no reason at all in the critical point. 'It' completely occupied its own cell, there is only endless screams and jealousy, but the last outpost is still sending back news, n-66 is leading Other outposts block the cell."

"...w-17, my brother, do you still remember the idyllic era of peace and harmony in this universe?"

"...s-26, my brother, I am like you, I have forgotten."

"For the sake of forgetting."

"For the sake of forgetting."

The conversation of the vigils is over, they return to silence and continue to wait for the “time” that has almost lost meaning to enter the next node worth discussing.

In the far-reaching distance from this eternal prison, in another cosmic sky, a new drone nest is gradually starting, deep in the nest, like a biological tissue-like alloy frame, red and blue The color of the light began to pulsate like a breath.

A constantly changing face emerges from the surface of the nest, and the cluster consciousness of the drone group looks at the dark and deep universe. In that darkness, everything is not normally silent.

The deep space of the universe is indeed silent, but to this extent, some are not in line with common sense.

After a moment of thinking and calculation, the cluster consciousness issued a series of new production expansion plans.

It has only one mission: expansion, continued expansion, the depths and ends of the ever-expanding universe! (To be continued.)