Chapter 1348： Initial shock

everything is over.

Philip stood in a secret bunker room under the base of the advancement base. His eyes fell on the platform in the center of the room for a long time. The center of the platform was sunken, and its edges were engraved with many complex and sophisticated runes. At this moment, the rune array was gradually extinguishing. , A large number of nerve cords like roots and vines are slowly receding from the platform, returning to the holes at the edge of the room, and in the recessed area in the center of the platform, there is only one group that has completely lost its shape. Biomass remains, and a little thin liquid.

In the past few hours, the remains of biomass have been constantly undergoing extremely fierce alienation and transformation, showing all kinds of terrifying forms, even those who fought on the battlefield like Philip recalled what they had seen before. When the scene arrives, he still can't help his scalp numb, but in any case, this terrible process has finally ended at this moment. No matter what kind of soul was trapped in this group of flesh and blood, his affiliation with this world has been wiped out.

The rustle of plant roots squirming suddenly came from not far away. Philip followed the sound and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a group of bright green vines coming in from a hole in the corner of the room. In the process of squirming, it quickly changed into a human-like silhouette, and finally became the avatar of Bertila. This avatar nodded slightly to Philip, and then set his eyes on the center of the platform.

"It's all over," a slightly hoarse female voice sounded in this underground room. "Bertlem and his followers have left this world. I have unearthed a lot of useful information from their memories. ."

"Fortunately, in terms of intelligence, we have been at a disadvantage for a long time, and now we are finally making progress," Philip nodded slightly, and then hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but continue, "You seem to be very worried, Ms. Bertila."

"...I just remembered too many things in the past," Bertila was silent for a moment, and said with a trace of emotion, "Bertlaim was once a respectable scholar, and his followers...those who are now our Half of the people called'Dark Priests' were the close comrades of Brother Gao Wen, priests and spiritual leaders in the Northern Frontier Army. Before rushing into the wasteland, all of us made a solemn oath... It was a very special time, a very special period. We all seemed to have aspirations and were generous..."

"I heard your Majesty mention this," Philip said with a slight nod. "Not only the Society of the End of All Things, but also the Order of the Eternal Sleeper and the Son of the Storm, which had fallen into darkness seven hundred years ago. A glorious history, but no matter how glorious the history is, it is an indisputable fact that they will eventually fall into the dark. A passion may not be exchanged for glory. The farther they go on the wrong path, the more they deviate from justice."

"...The route is wrong, I understand," Bertila seemed to smile wryly, but the stiff face of the incarnation made her expression change almost imperceptible. "Just like Brother Gao Wen said, there is no correct concept to guide and A set of scientific and reasonable methods and tools, it is difficult to truly realize the original intention by acting only with blood and heroism, and even often makes things go against the original goal... For a long time, in fact, I have only a little understanding of these words. , But seeing Bertram look like now, I think I have understood what he meant... It's a pity that none of us have a second choice."

"But at least we can correct this mistake," Philip said with a serious expression. "There are many dark priests like Bertlem. We have to stop them before they cause disaster."

"Yes... we have to stop them," Bertila repeated Philip's words softly, "otherwise it would really be a catastrophe... a catastrophe that no one can escape..."

…

In the deep encryption space of the neural network, a dim light suddenly lit up in the darkness, and then the boundless white flowers quickly covered the entire land in the dim light. As the dim light gradually changed into a brilliant sky light, the first few days of this In seconds, there is only a sea of ​​white flowers in the void space, and in the center of the white flowers and fine grass swaying in the wind, round tables and high chairs with lavender patterns appear one by one, and one figure after another also appears on the round table. around.

This includes Gawain, Veronica, and Hetty, as well as Bertila who created this space, as well as Carmel who is at the site of the "Gate" project and Milmi who is experimenting on the border of the wasteland. Na, Amone, who returned from the south not long ago, and even Enya mortals who rarely appeared in the spiritual network recently used their true faces, and the gods used "network images" similar to humans. These The figures gathered around the round table, and a vital meeting was about to begin.

Gao Wen looked up at the figures sitting around the round table, his eyes finally fell on Bertila and nodded slightly, then he coughed slightly to break the silence: "Ah, good, everyone is here, first of all. Thank you all for coming.

"As you can see, here is a new security space in the neural network. It is constructed by Bertila using the nodes of the Thorin giant tree, and the periphery is carried out by the three-layer security protocol woven by Naritil and Duvalt. The main network is isolated. At the same time, in the real world, we have also set up anti-divine barriers for all the connection endpoints of the Thorin Giant Tree. Its protection level exceeds the previous origin laboratory. Here we can discuss the highest security authority and hazard level. Questions, the gods present can also speak freely."

"Oh! You guys finally got this thing out," Enya, with her long blonde hair hanging down like a waterfall and wearing a white dress, showed a faint smile. She looked at the people present with a thoughtful expression on her face. Looks, "It seems that what can be discussed here is nothing ordinary... Gao Wen, what do you want to talk about when you gather us together?"

"Bertila and Milmina joined forces to capture an entire group of dark priests operating on the northern battlefield, including a high-ranking priest of the patriarch level," Gawain said straightforwardly. "Now we have A batch of key information directly points to the final conspiracy of the Sentinels and the Dark Master Borken, and some of the information points to the Demon Tide and the Divine Disaster. I think you should all listen to it."

As soon as his words fell, everyone on the scene immediately showed attention and solemnity. Even Enya, who has experienced 1.8 million years and was once the **** of dragon gods, instantly became serious and her eyes Falling on Milmina and Bertila: "What is the specific situation? The sentinel's plan is actually related to the Divine Disaster and the Demon Tide?"

"Let me speak," Bertila stood up. In fact, she was also a little nervous at this moment. After all, this was the first time she spoke with these "theocratic council special advisers", even if she was the old one. The dark patriarch and the current "Master Thorin" are also inevitable psychological pressure, but fortunately the nerves of the vegetative are tough, and the expression on her face is still very calm. "I learned from the memories of Bertram and his followers. The information was unearthed in it, first of all about the function of those rune stones..."

Bertila's voice sounded in this vast "garden", she confided in the information she knew, without missing a little detail, and the mortals and gods present listened attentively, without missing a word and a half. sentence.

Until her voice fell, the scene remained silent. Perhaps the amount of information in this intelligence was too huge, or there were too many problems behind the intelligence that needed to be considered. For a time, no one spoke at the scene, and everyone kept it. With a thoughtful expression, Gao Wen, who had finally learned about the information in advance, raised his head from thinking. He tapped his fingertips on the table and broke the silence: "Before discussing those rune stones, I want to pay attention first. Here... the knowledge about the'Magic Tide' mentioned in the information."

His gaze turned to Milmina, who is the most authoritative in the field of magic and magic on the scene: "Bertlem mentioned a new knowledge related to the magic wave mechanism. He mentioned a constant reverberation and irregularity in the universe. The'magic shock' that sweeps through all the stars is called the'initial form of all things in the world' and the'reference band' of magic, and this shock will interact with the celestial body when it sweeps through the celestial body, making the'virtual celestial body' Optical changes occur, which blurs the boundary between material and non-material in the'real celestial body', and affects the cognition of intelligent creatures on the celestial body, thereby inducing the'dislocation of the observer effect in the macro world'...

"The description in the second half of this paragraph is mutually corroborating our current research and understanding of the magic wave, especially the explanation of the'observer's perspective shift', and..."

"And there is a vague connection with the'Unified Fluctuation Conjecture'," Milmina said without waiting for Gao Wen to finish speaking, "The'concussion' he mentioned is something we have never noticed before, but he The “blurring of the boundary between material and non-material” mentioned is an area we are currently studying. From the analysis of the unified wave model, I think the reliability of this information is extremely high. At least I don’t think one is stuck in the wasteland. The dark priests of 1989 can compile a set of theories so'just right'."

"There should be no doubt about the authenticity of the intelligence. The'method' used by Bertila to obtain information is trustworthy," Gao Wen nodded slightly. "This knowledge about the magic tide is not the research results of the dark priests themselves, but should be It comes from their special "advisor", which is... sentry."

"The knowledge of the sentinel is the knowledge of the sailor," Heidi said suddenly, "Considering the huge difference between civilization levels, their understanding of the magic wave must be closer to the'real' than ours."

"A'shock' that sweeps all the stars from time to time..." Milmina showed a thoughtful expression, "In fact, when it comes to this, I thought of some of my recent work on the'Unified Wave Model' Guess...or hypothesis."

"Assumptions about the unified volatility model?" Gawain's heart moved. In fact, some faint thoughts were floating in his heart, but he could not form a complete concept for a while. At this time, he realized that the "master of all laws" might have With a train of thought similar to himself, he immediately pricked his ears, "Let's talk and listen."

"Unified Wave Model... We try to describe the universe in which we live in the form of'everything is wave'. Whether it is physical celestial bodies or non-physical magical powers, thoughts, and spirits, we all think that it is a variety of different The "phenomenon" formed by waves of frequency and wavelength in the process of independent existence and interactive oscillation is precisely because the bottom layer of everything has the nature of "wave", which leads to the blurring of the boundary between virtual and real in the universe and the possibility of mutual transformation, leading to If the trend of thought can produce physical gods, and magic can interfere with the realms of reality and reality, this is the basis of our theory. If we extend it, we will have an obvious conclusion:

"The universe we live in should, as a whole, be a'wave superposition' with a larger scale, a more complex structure, and a more chaotic transformation method, or in other words, an astonishing and constantly oscillating'field'.

"This field contains all the'waves' that are'everything in the world', and the superimposed state of chaos presented by itself is maintained at a proper equilibrium stage. This equilibrium stage allows intelligent individuals like us to thrive and thrive in it. Of course, due to the limited level of observation and cognition, we cannot observe the appearance of the entire universe's "field", nor can we calculate whether it will be so balanced forever, just like a bug that can only survive one day and cannot imagine that night will fall. What looks like this is not something we can focus on right now, what I want to say is, where was the initial'shock' in this field..."

"The initial... shock?" Amone, who was sitting next to Milmina and participating in the meeting in the image of an old elven man, frowned, and subconsciously said as he tried to keep up with the rhythm of the topic, "You mean...?"

"The first ripple at the beginning of the universe, the first wave born in this world of'everything is wave', considering the special nature and mode of action of magic in our universe, it is also very likely to be The first'magical glow' of our world," Milmina said with a calm and serious expression, "If we regard this universe as a pond, then this pond has a time node, before the time node, It has only calm water, without any fluctuations, and without everything in the world. Naturally, it does not have all the truths and knowledge we know today. Regarding this stage before the time node, I call it the "unrecognizable era".

"And when a certain time node arrived...I don't know what happened to this node, but ripples appeared on the calm water surface, the initial wave appeared, and matter and magic were born from the original chaotic and uniform'field'. With their respective forms and attributes, there is also the world as we know it today. The subsequent stage may be called the'cognizable era'.

"The'initial shock' I mentioned is the first wave in our universe when that point of time arrives... and the layers of ripples it brings."

When Milmina said this, she stopped temporarily. She gave everyone present some time to think, and then she turned her eyes on Gawain.

"In these days of perfecting the unified volatility model, I have become more and more aware that this model needs a'foundation'. If this foundation is not filled, it will seem to be a loophole, making our model unable to explain where it came from. So I have been thinking about it all this time.

"If our universe has a ‘starting point’, then it must have a ‘first ripple’, that is, there will be an initial...‘oscillation’."