Chapter 868： Mysterious signal

Upon hearing Gao Wen's question, Beltila nodded: "Yes, as I said in the report-and I have not yet understood the source of those regular signals."

Gao Wen frowned slightly.

What he and Bertila discuss is something that happened a while ago-about a week ago, the magic net in the Sorin area completed the regional network, and the eastern part of the "line connection" was originally relying on relay towers The grid distribution of energy and information was successfully achieved among several major cities in the plain. As a regional hub, Solinburg, the largest magic obelisk here also completed a mode conversion on the same day, becoming the general manager of this area. Hub, the incident itself went very smoothly, but then some confusing "phenomenon" occurred.

On the third day of the completion of the network, Beltila began to successively detect from the crystal array located at the top of the Sorin tree some regular signals of unknown origin that are not part of the magic net itself.

Because the Obelisk of the Magic Energy in the Sorin area is built on top of the canopy of the Sorin giant tree, and many of its ancillary facilities are built on the structure of the giant tree itself, Beltila's "human" is equivalent to a living demon net. Hub, after realizing this, Gao Wen's technicians and Beltila reached a cooperation, the latter began to learn and get used to the manipulation skills of the magic device, and monitor whether there is a signal module in the magic obelisk Abnormality is one of her daily tasks.

——By the way, the Sorin Hub is currently the only Monet Hub in the empire that can maintain its own. Gao Wen hopes to build more, but at present it seems that Bertila ’s cutting transplanting technology will have a breakthrough. Nowhere in the future, so similar ideas can only be ideas ...

After a short thought, Gao Wen looked up: "Is the technician still unable to interpret the content of those signals?"

"There is no progress in cracking, that is a signal we have never touched," Beltila shook his head. "It is composed of a series of very short tremors and unknown meaning echoes, which is completely different from the 'neural simulation' we currently use. "Pulse" and "mental stream" modes. But one thing seems certain ... "

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Which point?"

"That wasn't natural interference, definitely not," said Beltilla, resolutely. "Although we suspected at first that it had something to do with the ubiquitous magic field disturbances in nature, the technicians later collected all the magic around the Sorin area. The readings from the monitoring tower did not correspond to the signals I monitored. And we sent the signal samples to Master Carmel of the Imperial City, who thought that some of the 'tremor' in them showed a complex combination, much like It is the result of manual intervention. "

"... that is to say, the technicians think that the signals received by the Sorin Junction are artificial," Gao Wen said gropingly, "but ... who will send those signals? Our magic The internet communication system is a new thing, and no second country on this continent has it ... "

"If it's really artificial, then a complete set of technology is necessary to send similar signals. At present, it is really impossible for several human kingdoms, but ..." Beltila said slowly in thought, and the vines in full bloom were on her. Creeping behind him, a low, rustling sound came out, "I remember you said a word-there is more than one powerful civilization in this world, and today's humans do not have the upper hand over them.

"Sirens, dragons, and even the elves in the south of the continent, their skills are not low-maybe we just happened to capture their broadcast signal?"

"The elves can rule out that we now have technical exchanges with the Silver Empire. The two countries have established a signal relay translation system through the Sentinel Tower. There are signal samples on Carmel's side, and there is no problem of" unrecognizable "." Gao Wen said in a deep voice, "As for the dragon and the sea monster ... it is indeed possible.

"It's just that our communication with these two races is still very limited, especially the Dragon race, which is almost a strange relationship. It may be a little hasty to confirm the signal samples rashly.

"It's Siren's side ... you can try to ask. There is also technical cooperation between the Cecil Empire and Siren."

Beltila lowered his head: "It's up to you."

Gao Wen nodded, but sighed softly in his heart.

There are too many unknowns in this world, and the unknowns are often dangerous. Until now, the technical department is still trying to crack the secrets of the magic. Today, with the gradual development of the magic net, What "unrecognizable regular signals" appear is really disturbing.

Who is transmitting these signals? Siren? Dragon? Or an ancient civilization hiding out of human sight? Even the depths of Gondor wasteland, even the gods of unknown status ... every thrilling conjecture is even possible.

Gao Wen shook his head, and then suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of which, there was a report from the North Front before. During the test of the magic net near Dongdong Fortress, the technicians had listened to a very strange" xiao " Called 'echo throughout the magic net system ... I wonder if the two things are related.'

"I've heard it," Bertila nodded. "Several hubs will share information. I've heard of things happening in the north. I don't rule out that they are related, but the difference between the two incidents is also obvious. ——A short and messy howling was monitored on the side of Dongdongbao. According to the post-mortem information, the thing was very confusing and could not even be called a “signal”, while what was monitored on the side of Solingborg was clear and clear. There are many, even traces of manual debugging. So although these two things can't help but associate them, I suggest that they be treated as isolated incidents, at least not rashly merge. "

Gao Wen nodded slightly.

Despite falling into the Dark Sect, Beltila is still a technical person. When talking about related topics, her thinking is clear and clear, and communication is much easier.

After a brief pause, Beltila added: "But ... if these two things are really related, I have a guess."

Gao Wen glanced at each other: "Just say."

"If, I mean, if the signals monitored by Lei Dongbao and Solingborg are from the same source, then the signal from the North Front was most likely an unsuccessful attempt-without completing the debugging and adapting to the magic net. , So it turned into a weird howl, and when the Solingborg hub was started, this signal was debugged clearly ... "

"Do not rule out this possibility ..." Gao Wen said while thinking, "In short, I will order all the hub towers in the country to pay attention to monitoring these mysterious signals. Maybe we can capture more. The extra sample may help us. Uncover the secrets behind these signals. As for your side ... The Solin giant tree is the first hub to capture clear signals. We are not sure whether this is related to the environment of the Solin area or the particularity of the Solin hub itself, so you Pay extra attention, and I will ask the Office of Government to send you a few more experts on magic net communications. "

"So much the better."

After talking about these things, the two fell into a short period of silence at the same time, and then Gao Wen broke the silence on his own initiative: "It has been half a year ago-are you still adapting to your new identity and new life?"

"It's better than I thought," Beltila seemed to laugh, "I thought it would be boring to be a plant, but the endless new things that you brought me did have a lot to do. See The gradual recovery of this land is something that can bring a great sense of accomplishment ... and there are magic net radio and magic shadow dramas to watch. "

"As long as you are willing to continue doing this as a law-abiding empire citizen, there will only be more incredible things in the future. This is a rapidly changing era."

"I keep looking forward," Bertila nodded, then suddenly raised her head, looking not far away. "Ah, the guest is here."

Gao Wen turned his head and saw Selina Gell's figure suddenly appearing in the air.

He nodded to the dream maiden, "Is everything done on your side?"

"The real world things Yuri and Semler can do, and there are Naritir and Duvalt in the network to handle the follow-up," said Selina, without hesitation. "As for me ... I just want to talk to Magnum That stupid guy keeps a little distance. "

"What did he do again?"

"He and Norris had a great talk, and then whimsically wanted to pull me up and set up a club consisting of" Internet Minds "-it was a stupid idea."

Gao Wen laughed abruptly: "But I think this idea is good-after all, you and Magnum and Norris are in a similar state now, and we will add more" Internet citizens "in the future. Magnum's suggestion may be It's a way for these 'cyber citizens' to re-establish social organizations in a new capacity, and I think you can even take Megall ... "

"He named the club‘ Yin Rong Wan Zai, ’” Selina said lightly. “After figuring out what the phrase meant, I decided to keep my distance from him.”

Gao Wen felt a little guilty.

He realized that the sacred rumors of Emperor Govin Cecil, which had been secretly sorted out by Amber, had begun to spread-and his previous searches and seizures had apparently failed to take effect.

"... The name is indeed open to question," Gao Wen's expression became as indifferent as Beltila. "So what about Norris? What's his idea?"

"He's not interested--that's a respectable person, he just cares about the grain-producing areas of the Holy Spirit Plain and when he can return to work," Selina shook her head, "so I didn't want to understand How can a respectable person have a common topic with Magnum ... "

"... Maybe it's just courtesy," Gao Wen said in a low voice, and then remained silent for a while. "Sorry, ladies, I want to be out of touch-I have something to talk to my Minister of Intelligence."

Beltila greeted him slightly: "Please help yourself."

Gao Wen left, and in the quiet flowering field under the giant tree of Solin, only Bertila surrounded by flowers and vines and Selena holding a lantern stood silently.

After a moment of silence, Beltila looked to the former Archbishop of the Sleeper: "I never thought we would meet again in this situation."

"I heard about your" new state ", and frankly, the actual situation is more incredible than I thought," said Selina. "I reminded you earlier that your biochemical technology has great hidden dangers ..."

Beltila smiled slightly: "What about your soul path?"

"... It's true."

They were silent again.

They stood quietly under the tree, as if they had been slowly settling down for seven hundred years. Only a few minutes later, Selina quietly broke the silence: "It has been seven hundred years ..."

"At that time we were all human," Beltila said calmly. "Then we became less and less human."

"... You have been taking root in this land for a while, tell me what you think-is 'He' trustworthy?"

A thunderous sound came from the crown of Thorin's giant tree, like a wave.

"That body contains a non-human soul, but in my eyes, this non-human soul is making everyone on this land live more like a person-maybe we can't help it Determine what an extraterritorial guest like 'He' thinks specifically, but at least his actions so far ... are better than we have ever done. "

"Yeah ... he would even grant citizenship to a plant."

"And 'ghosts' like you."

"..."