Star Empire

"...Death Tide... So Zhai Cahir, are you sure that the bizarre changes that our living individuals are currently experiencing on various arks are related to the Death Tide?" Speaking of the possibility of the Death Tide, Wei Wei Srifan's expression instantly became serious.

"Before and after his problem, I had a strange feeling. Although personal intuition is not very rigorous in judging whether something will happen, when I was still in the Order Universe, I was contaminated by the death wave. The diffuse plug-in was injured, and since then my sense of the death tide has become very keen. Here, I trust my personal intuition more. And, of all the things we have seen so far, only death Only something like Chao can cause such weird information destruction and bypass all existing security detections."

After a slight pause, Zhai Cahir sighed, "The most intuitive way to determine the death tide is that the black and red two-dimensional patterns that will continue to spread do not appear. Both crystal energy and arcane magic can purify the death tide. This We have already verified that the large number of twisted inscribed gold patterns found in several passages connecting the second bridge of the flagship are consistent in shape with the black and red patterns of the dead tide that we have captured."

"It is certain that after the entire ship has experienced several times of crystal energy light irradiation, the remaining death tide pollution should have been cleaned up, at least it should be rendered harmless... But this is also a category that cannot be determined."

"Now, although a certain number of abnormal phenomena have appeared, the most intuitive phenomenon of the death wave has not appeared, and all the tests have not reported abnormal data. In this case, I can only say first, "It is highly suspected to be related to Death Tide related” and that’s it.”

"The Death Tide deserves to be remembered forever and treated as an eternal enemy." Weisrifan looked at the crystal cracks above his head that were shining with the pulsation of golden energy with an expressionless face. "The destructive power of the Death Tide is very powerful. It is extremely diffusive and has many forms. Due to emotions and reasons, we must find a way to figure out what it is, and then find a way to clean it up!"

"Of course, we need to be able to survive first. Soldier, take good care of the "patient" and support him with a life support system if his vital signs deteriorate further. Let's go back. There is nothing more happening here that we have the ability to interfere with. That's it." Weisruifan sighed, and the human body among the four pieces of protective equipment instantly turned into a stream of light and left the cabin.

"How's it going? Have you found out the exact cause?"

"No, Vidoville, at present we have only reached an ambiguous conclusion: these events are more likely to be related to the death wave, but we cannot be sure." The Queen slowly sat down in her seat and tapped her fingers constantly. Looking at the table, "We can only hope that things will not be too beyond our control..."

"Your Majesty! I am Calust. Several monitors in the power cabin have experienced abnormalities! The specific situation: one person suffered from multiple bleeding all over the body, two people suffered from severe hair loss, one person was blind, and five people were suspected of mental abnormality——"

"Okay, we get it!" Weisruifan turned off the communication a little impatiently, "What can I say? I'm really afraid of what I'm afraid of!"

"I'm going to see what the actual situation is." As soon as Vidoville stood up, he was pulled hard by the girl next to him, "It's useless for you to go, we are not medical experts, what can you do? Moreover, our medical information has not been updated for quite some time. According to the old information, the crystal energy fused into the soul is still a foreign matter! What are you messing with in this matter!? Are you capable of handling it?! "

"Lil... do you need a checkup?" Looking at the girl beside him who was becoming increasingly unstable, Vidoville gently pressed his hand on the girl's back: "Your mood and psychological changes are very drastic."

"Huh-huh-, oh... I'm sorry everyone, I lost my composure."

"Actually, when it comes to gaffes, I've done it before. It's better to say that the current situation is already pushing us to the limit of carbon-based organisms." Vidoville gently stroked the girl's long hair and back, This allowed her to regain her composure faster: "There are more and more inexplicable things... We need to be more vigilant, and at the same time we ourselves should not have too intense disputes and differences..."

"Your Majesty, some members of Ark No. 15 have experienced abnormalities, including five people with sudden limb deformation, three people with original lung failure in the corresponding area, and ten people with physical failure. The logical identification level of all symptoms is zero, and the original harm theoretical value is zero..."

"Flagship, this is Ark No. 3. Seventeen people on our ship are suffering from high-intensity mental disorders. Three of them are suspected of psychogenic blindness. The corresponding range of lesions is seriously inconsistent with the existing body structure and function. Please..."

"Your Majesty Victorville, Albeck reports to you that the Seventeenth Ark..."

"You all just want to listen. Anyway, our civilization no longer needs any secrets."

Vidoville lightly swiped his left hand into the air, and a blowout-like early warning message spread densely above the entire hall. The holographic windows were refreshed layer by layer. A window was just created and would be occupied by a new window. Towards the end, in every window, there is detailed information about a person who has an abnormality and the circumstances of his appearance.

"The old rule is to solve the problem in two lines." Seeing Weisrifan who had regained his composure, Vidoville breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "Zhai Cahir, Ikarim, you can go with us. At the scene, we need to analyze how we should face it..."

"Then Cavenriel and Isendel, you have done specific research on soul and life before, especially in terms of crystal energy. This is very important. During this period, you are responsible for demonstrating our life. What needs to be done to truly upgrade the form, whether our soul supports this change, and what the possible new body will look like, the more specific the better, and it is best to come up with a more feasible pre-plan."

No one responded. Vidoville looked around and extinguished the holographic window array that was still refreshing. Then, all the figures surrounding the conference table disappeared.

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"There is no problem with the soul, and there is no irreversible situation such as disintegration. These conditions all occur on the surface level of the body."

"Isolation and delineation measures are not required, or... can be carried out to delay the possible spread of corruption, but their effect is probably better than nothing. Preliminary confirmation is that self-evolution does not have a corresponding phenomenon, and the infection route is the existing imperial network, the same as the death tide The impacts caused by the spread, as well as the many phenomena and pathways of the death tide spread itself are highly consistent."

After checking several people who were still conscious but could only lie dead on the floor of the power cabin, Zhai Cahill came to a preliminary conclusion, "It can basically be presumed that it was caused by the death wave. Whatever we define Neither conventional damage nor superconceptual damage can cause such trauma to a living body, including all memes and cognitive damage methods, which are impossible to produce such changeable and weird damage. We have never performed high-intensity jumps again. And the paradoxical impact caused by high-intensity jumps can be completely solved through calculation."

"But...it has been more than twenty years since the last death wave invaded the fleet and network. We have all seen the destructive power of the death wave. If it still remains in any part of the ship's hull, then we cannot be completely eliminated. Even if we haven't purified every corner, the death tide shouldn't take so long to show up, right?" Facing the AI ​​that still reported that everything was normal on the ship, Victorville couldn't help but have doubts.

"Your Majesty, I only said it was related to the death tide, but I didn't say that it was directly exposed to the black and red patterns of the death tide."

Zhai Cahir stood up and said, "In ancient times, there was a type of disease in our civilization. Their existence was related to the nuclear radiation produced by the fission of heavy nuclear elements. If a person absorbed a certain dose in a short period of time, A certain dose of strong radiation here can be defined as "enough to cause fatal harm to living organisms but not enough to kill them immediately."

"In this state, those who have been exposed to strong nuclear radiation will not die immediately on the spot, but from the moment the exposure ends, the countdown to death has begun at an extremely high speed, and a considerable number of cells in their bodies have The genetic material will be twisted into a mess. The division and proliferation of cells will be destroyed, and new cells will not be generated or even if they are barely generated, they will have almost no physiological activity."

"Subsequently, old cells will begin to die in batches, eventually leading to the disintegration of the living body. However, this final process does not appear immediately, and related symptoms may appear within a very short period of time after exposure to radiation; some It may gradually intensify over time; it is even possible that a stable situation will continue until a long time later, when the damage reaches some "threshold", the damage will become apparent. Now it seems that their situation is similar to this. Quite similar.”

"To say that there are similarities...there are indeed similarities, but during this period of time, what is counteracting the damage caused by the death tide?" Vidoville glanced at the row of "lying bodies" of different shapes on the ground a few more times. Corpse", "Even with your arcane energy, it can only achieve a certain degree of neutralizing effect on the death tide, right?"

"The crystal energy in their bodies has not escaped, and there is no problem with their souls. So...the possible source of the death wave's effect, since it does not come from obvious real-life phenomena...then maybe it comes from some things that are difficult for us now. Understanding, but the way to exist stably in a world of information…”

"With a mechanical sound of "click", Ikarim also stepped forward. Because in a previous ultra-high-intensity jump, in order to eliminate all redundant mechanisms of the spacecraft, Ikarim forcibly released He lost his "information reference anchor point" and suffered a certain degree of "conceptual disability" in his body. Since then, a set of exoskeletons as prosthetic limbs have been bound to him.

"My previous research direction was to find the "hidden laws" that would allow our technology to achieve another breakthrough. I had been listening when Zhai Cahir was checking the condition of the fallen soldier just now.

The counterintuitive information separation that just occurred in the soldier is the best proof of my research theory. In many cases, what we think are exactly the same existence or attributes. If we want to put it another way, then this There will be an additional set of mapping relationships. These theoretically added mapping relationships come from different presentation forms of the original object's own information or from different observation methods of external observers.

In short, when these inherent mappings that are originally stable enough to even completely cancel out such differences are destroyed, then it is possible that in one viewing perspective, the information disappears, but the original object remains stable overall, or It's the exact opposite situation. "

"Of course, as for why what is cut off is the inherent mapping of the performance of the contact information body, I don't know why. The death tide is beyond our current understanding. We still don't know the specific mechanism of the damage it causes. But such damage is equivalent to the spontaneous generation of errors in the information body."

"In short, the death wave is highly suspected, but I am not sure where these factors that may still be affecting us come from now."

"Well... I roughly understand these situations." Vidoville touched his chin, thinking about the current situation.

"Based on the current situation, for these abnormal people, the information that makes up their bodies has been continuously missing and spilled. During this process, due to the participation of the death wave, these information fragmentations have occurred that are beyond the normal situation. But for the whole life, their souls are not damaged, only the container carrying the soul is damaged, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Icarim nodded, "The current abnormal situation is indeed limited to the physical level, but if this situation continues for a long time, even the soul with the crystal energy bonus will gradually disperse and disintegrate."

"We are not spiritual creatures. At least according to the current level and scope of understanding we have reached, it is difficult for the soul without a "container" to maintain stability independently for a long time. Especially now, the souls of these individuals are still combined with the body that is gradually collapsing. Together, if this continues, the damaged body will soon affect the soul in turn, and the interaction between them can be said to be quite powerful."

"If this is the case, then we can be sure that the next focus of our work is to figure out how to preserve the souls in these damaged bodies intact..." Vidoville shook his head slightly, "I hope the problem now is It really doesn’t spread to the soul.”