Chapter 1588 Running to Destiny

In the vast space, an orange-yellow star is burning fiercely like an eternal flame furnace. The boundless sea of ​​fire undulates on the surface of the scorching sun, and an astonishing stream of flames gushes out from the sea of ​​fire, forming a spectacular pillar of fire in the vast space. , and fell back to the star body under the huge gravitational force of the star, a powerful jet of high-energy particles and boundless magic power continued to breed from this flame, and spewed wantonly into the endless deep space in all directions.

And at the edge of the heat wave of this blazing star, several dust-like aircraft are struggling to maintain their own flight paths.

These spacecraft have a triangular body, and a huge heat shield is additionally installed on the shell facing the stars. This golden heat shield withstands the scorching of the stars at close range. Although it has been specially designed, the edges of the Some connecting structures still faintly show traces of distortion and gasification, and under the protection of the thermal energy shield, these triangular aircraft are making the boosters work at full capacity to maintain their posture, while using multiple sensors to watch the tens of kilometers away. space.

Tens of kilometers away from the flying formation, there is a dazzling golden stream of flames rushing towards the sea of ​​flames on the surface of the stars.

If the golden flame was placed on the surface of the earth, its volume would probably be comparable to that of a castle, but compared to the huge size of the star, it was as small as a speck of dust. The shape of the flame flow has begun to gradually distort and tear, and debris and ring-shaped halos are constantly shooting out around it, as if it will disintegrate in the next second, but even so, it is still flying with an indomitable momentum, Pounce on the burning celestial body with terrifying power.

The flight formation monitoring the golden flame flow tens of kilometers away flashed light signals. Suddenly, all the lights on the surface of one of the aircraft were extinguished, and a large hole was torn open in the heat shield in front of it. The terrifying heat instantly It penetrated the body of the aircraft, and instantly evaporated its fragile internal structure. Its engine nozzles flickered a few times, and finally lost all power, and was accelerated and fell into the sea of ​​flames under the gravitational capture of the stars—— Before the flame stream really got close to the edge of the sea of ​​flames, it had already turned into ashes spreading in space.

"The No. 3 tracking unit is damaged, and it has been confirmed that it has fallen into a star. The remaining tracking units have taken over the mission... Currently, the remaining tracking units: five... Corrected, the No. 6 tracking unit is damaged, and the current remaining tracking units: four."

As another aircraft was destroyed by the blazing power of the star, the remaining four aircraft simply adjusted their formation and continued to rely on the crumbling thermal shield to resist the heat wave. They sent a relay communication satellite in the distant space A simple mission report, and then continued to carry out the mission of tracking the golden flame.

In the command hall of the giant tree of Sorin, one of Bertila's avatars was standing quietly on the command seat, watching the holographic projection projected from the terminal of the magic net - what was shown on the screen was something that the world had never seen before. The magnificent and terrifying spectacle is the burning stars in space, the remains of alien gods flying towards the stars, and the unmanned probes struggling to maintain the queue in the heat wave and gravitational trap.

The atmosphere in the entire hall seemed a bit tense and depressing. Even though the world's most wise scholars and cutting-edge experts gathered here, they were all deeply shocked by the pictures that came from far away.

These pictures were collected by the Omega detector in the distance, and then sent to the Voyager satellite by the superluminal signal projection system. After obtaining the authorization of His Majesty Gawain Cecil, the satellite signal was forwarded to the sky station, and finally passed through the front The sky-surface communication link that was built not long ago was transmitted to Sorin's command center. After such complicated layers of forwarding and compatibility, it finally came to Beltira.

The entire command center seemed unusually quiet, only the muffled sounds of various equipment running and occasional coughing from someone.

The picture from the distant space is silent, which further highlights the silence in the hall. It was not until an operator's report suddenly came from one of the command seats that the silence was broken: "Omega is on time, Forty-five minutes to impact."

Bertila stared at the picture on the holographic projection, and she saw that the golden flame was gradually moving away from the picture transmitted by the unmanned detector in the distance. It is difficult to distinguish, even after Omega's picture processing and filter enhancement, the people in the hall can only see a vague pale golden silhouette.

"Omega has sent a message that the tracking unit he sent out has reached the limit position," Gawain's voice suddenly came from a nearby communicator, "then we can only 'watch' that piece of debris fall into the flames. "

Bertila nodded, and then looked at another communication device. The light representing the smooth flow of the superluminal channel flickered slightly on the base of the magic net terminal. The Noi people were waiting for Luo from four light years away. News from Lun.

She stretched out her hand and pressed the send button: "The stellar approach probe sent back a message that the impact will happen on time. Please get ready to synchronize the data with Nuoyi."

After a while, the communication device buzzed, and the reply from the Nuoyi people was quickly translated into the common language of Loren by the starbreaker and the calculation array: "Noi received it, the data synchronization is ready, and the follow-up process will follow the last time synchronization. The data is automated."

Bertila breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but her nerves were still tense, because no matter whether it was Nuoyi who was four light-years away, or "O" who was hundreds of millions of kilometers away, they were far away from the world she was familiar with. "Scale", she can't perceive, can't witness, and can't control these things that happen in a remote place, but can only expect everything to go well, which makes her quite uncomfortable.

In such a state of nervous tension, the communication from Nuoyi rang again, and she saw a message from the "witch" Nova: "Is everything ok over there? Our place... now The atmosphere is tense."

"The atmosphere here is also very tense." For some reason, when she saw the message from Nova, Bertila's tense nerves suddenly relaxed a little, and there was even a little smile on her expressionless face "But at least this time we're close."

"...When we found out about ten days ago that you had an autonomous fleet stationed near the stars, we were all taken aback. This was far beyond your previous self-reports, so much so that my grandfather even suspected that you were making up news to comfort us," Nova seemed to be using conversation to dissipate his stress, or just wanted to kill the tough minutes as soon as possible," and after knowing the impending 'impact', many people stayed up all night Can't sleep."

"This is also amazing news for us," Bertila said slowly, "Whether it is the contact of the 'Omega fleet' or the collision, it is actually beyond our expectations."

"...Fate is made up of accidents one after another," the words from the "witch" appeared on the communication interface, and then the signal fell silent for a while, and a new message came over, "Ms. Bertila, I have found the star in your galaxy."

Bertila was taken aback, and she quickly remembered what the "witch" said before, remembering that the other party was looking for the stars in the galaxy where Loren was located in the night sky, she smiled, and sent a response to the other side of the star sea : "Is it bright?"

"Very bright," along with the humming sound of the machine, the text on the communication interface gradually emerged, "From my point of view, it is one of the brightest stars in the night sky..."

Bertila quietly watched the text that appeared on the communication screen, she knew that in a short while, the star named "Ao" would become brighter than it is now, and its brilliance would last for several seconds , but for people living on the planet Noi, it will take four years for them to see these few seconds of twinkling in the night sky with their naked eyes.

But for the magic tide observation device, the "flickering" of stars is a phenomenon that can be observed immediately, because in a sense, the magic tide observation device itself is actually a primitive superluminal observation system, it can even It is regarded as the basis of FTL communication technology-although in fact there is still a huge span between the two technologies.

In the hall, the operator's report suddenly sounded: "Omega's time is correct, there are still fifteen minutes before the impact."

This time, the time synchronization report seems to be a button that has crossed the critical point. Many seats in the command hall have obviously become more tense, and the operators are all focused on the equipment readings in front of them, ready to receive the synchronization from Nuoyi at any time. data, while Beltira quickly turned her gaze to another magic net terminal next to the command seat, and she saw the face of Mirmina appearing in the holographic projection, behind which was the surge in the observer's secret room. The magical flow of light, and countless, running terminal devices.

"The magic tide observation device is ready." In the observer's secret room, Mirmina said calmly, and her mind has spread and diffused into the entire observation system through the ubiquitous magic power at this moment. She can feel Seeing the surging dark blue magic power oscillating and rushing in countless runes, orbits and force fields, you can feel the sensor array on the plain standing proudly in the wind, and you can feel the power coming from the computing center and energy site of the Ancestor Peak. The brisk buzzing is waiting for that crucial task in the best condition, while countless engineering personnel, emergency response teams, and redundancy teams are waiting around each key facility, as if waiting for fate.

But Mirmina is very clear that the existence of these "emergency teams" is actually more similar to a psychological comfort, because the real opportunities left to the world are less than ten seconds. Any link failure will lead to a complete loss, and there will be no chance of "emergency response".

What people can do is to do everything possible to prepare before today's action, to ensure that the state of the magic tide observation device is at its peak, and this has been done in the past ten days-but mortals are such a strange species , even if you know that there is nothing to do, you have to check the only chips in your hand again and again, just to let yourself take the next step of your destiny with peace of mind...

"Omega is on time, five minutes before impact."

Now, everything that should be done has been done, and the due responsibilities have been fulfilled. The streamer from four light-years away resolutely fell to the strange star in a distant foreign land. For all beings on the planet Loren It is said that all they can do is to open their eyes wide to witness the morning light brought by the nameless alien god to the two civilizations.

"Omega is on time, one minute before impact."

The deep sound began to resound throughout the Ancestral Plain, and all the sensor towers started to run under the injection of surging energy. The computing center and control nodes on the Ancestral Peak precisely adjusted each sensor according to the preset program. At the focus of the scan, huge amounts of data began to flow under Mirmina's gaze.

The "eye" of the planet Loren opened, and at the same time, Noy, who was four light years away, also activated their observation device and began to scan the direction of the demon tide.

The principle of magic tide observation is that two planets four light-years apart scan a specific starry sky at the same time. By observing multiple stars at the same time, the two planets will respectively obtain data α and data β related to the magic tide. The two data scanned at the same time will be combined into the secret key to activate the barrier. The problem Loren encountered is that the data he obtained is not a definite β, but a suspected β and a suspected γ exist at the same time, and cannot be distinguished This leads to the secret key obtained by the combination of Noy and Loren with both α-β and α-γ solutions, and no one knows which of them is correct.

But now, these two figures superimposed like nightmarish shadows are about to become clear.

In the vast universe, several detectors that are on the verge of disintegration are resisting the pull of the stars with the maximum engine output, and while struggling to maintain themselves, they are watching the stream of flames like dust falling into the sea of ​​flames.

On the surface of a rocky planet near "Au", a walking probe climbed up to the huge boulder on the plain. A giant sun is much smaller than the sun.

Deep in the Omega Steel Fortress, the Omega Mind, which was designing an alien ecosystem, also temporarily suspended more than half of its threads, paying attention to the data sent back by the distant probes.

Four light-years across, three planets, all eyes on the same flash.

Then, the flash appeared.

"Tracking unit reports that impact has occurred."

A small stone fell into the boundless lake of fire, and the ripples it caused were extremely small on an astronomical scale, but these small ripples were enough to cross the accuracy threshold of the magic tide observation device, and enough to convey to mortals the crucial the secret key.

In the peak of the ancestors, in the depths of the observer's secret room, Milmina felt the roar of the feedback from the sensor array, and the data transmitted from the computing center were clearly presented in her "eyes". The two superimposed data It still exists in the system, but in the next second, she noticed an extremely obvious fluctuation in strength from one of the data.

It was as if the strange Ability God gently plucked the string of fate, conveying the last greeting of parting to her: friend, the way is here.

Mirmina took a breath, and said softly as if talking to herself: "Thank you."

A voice came from the communicator next to it: "Observer, please report the results."

"The observer received it, the secret key has been confirmed, and the synchronization data has been sent to the Sorin Command Center and the Empire's Magic Technology Department—we succeeded."