Darkness is Coming

   "Tianhuan tribe?"

  Yu Qian sat in the dark seat and fell into contemplation. Now he is at a high altitude, and the seat made of black mist that can adjust the temperature is obviously more comfortable than the cold metal.

"I remember, when I just took out the rune bracelet, Liu Yuanzhou found a professor of semiotics to form a rune research team?" Yu Qian touched the empty wine gourd, and said while recalling, "They seem to have made it out. A rune dagger? Did the professor mention that rune technology might have some connection to the circle?"

   "You are talking about Dai Xin, Professor Dai." Yang Xiaoqian nodded, "He did put forward this conjecture, but he also said it himself, it may just be a coincidence."

   "Well..." Yu Qian frowned, "How is the research work? I don't seem to have seen anything new recently."

   "A batch of rune swords and rune knives have been made, which are indeed not new things." Yang Xiaoqian briefly introduced the current situation of the rune research team.

   After leaving Yuanjiang, Professor Dai and his team did not stop the research on the rune bracelet, but continued to develop the rune utensils with the funding and support of the state. The central government's attitude towards new technologies is very clear: as long as the state has the ability to support research, then there is no need to care about short-term returns, but to take a long-term perspective and look to the future, even if it is ten, twenty years or even longer, even if it is hundreds of millions , more than one billion research funding, are acceptable.

   As a result, Professor Dai has a laboratory dedicated to the rune research team, more capable assistants and a complete set of high-precision instruments and equipment, and also hired many senior semiotics scholars to join the team to participate in the new rune equipment research and development project.

   It is said that with the support of the central government, Professor Dai should have been proud and smooth sailing, but in fact, Professor Dai is anxious and restless.

Because in the months after the preparatory stage, the research team has not made satisfactory new progress. Although new weapons such as rune knives and rune swords have been made, they are essentially old wine in new bottles, and Professor Dai cooperated with the military. The research and development project of the new rune firearms also had to be temporarily put on hold due to various problems.

  After all, it was not necessary to conduct academic research in semiotics major. It was the first time that Professor Dai was doing experimental research under the attention of high-level national officials.

   After talking about the difficulties faced by the Rune Team, Yang Xiaoqian asked, "You suddenly asked about this, did the name 'Tianhuan' remind you of the circle?"

"Yes." Yu Qian nodded, "The ring is also a circle. The origin of the name may be related to the circle. It should not be a coincidence. I think the 'Tianhuan tribe' in Tan Zong's mouth is probably a powerful tribe that has mastered rune technology. .I remember you said before that in my world, it is unlikely that someone will be able to discover a new knowledge system and research rune technology in more than 100 years, so you guess it is very likely that the real source of rune technology is Not Earth Two, but the world on the other side of the space rift."

"In that world, there was a civilization based on rune technology that spent tens of thousands of years studying runes. Then, someone brought rune technology to Earth 2 through the space crack opened by the magic tide. Just like Tan Zong came here."

   "Is it possible that this legendary Tianhuan tribe is the birthplace of the rune civilization you guessed? Or maybe it is the inheritor?"

   Yang Xiaoqian's squinted eyes opened slightly and looked at Yu Qian in surprise.

In the past, among the two of them, Yang Xiaoqian was the one who was responsible for analyzing intelligence and other mental tasks. At first, Yang Xiaoqian had to formulate words and simplify them as much as possible so that Yu Qian could understand what he said. After the world taught him new knowledge, Yu Qian's understanding and thinking level skyrocketed, and now he can think independently and change roles to analyze intelligence, and he does a good job.

  Although this is not the first time Yu Qian has shown a smart side, Yang Xiaoqian is still surprised, and he is not used to it.

   "Well, there is a possibility." Yang Xiaoqian nodded slightly.

   "Then, I have three questions." Yu Qian glanced at Yang Xiaoqian with a little slyness in his eyes, which made Yang Xiaoqian feel even more uncomfortable, "You shouldn't be able to answer."

"you say."

Yu Qian closed his eyes, he should be sorting out his thoughts, then suddenly opened his eyes, and said quickly: "The first question, from the corpse crisis in the Wanli period to the emergence of the magic tide, there is an interval of nearly two hundred years, assuming that there is a rune civilization in the One or some people came to Earth No. 2 through the space rift created by the magic tide, how could they specialize in researching rune bracelets that use zombies and mutant brain cores?"

"Two hundred years! Who would preserve brain nuclei that have no function? What's more, with the cognitive level of that era, if they found a brain nucleus after burning a zombie, they would only regard it as an ominous thing? Maybe some perverts Those who are curious will make brain nuclei into accessories, but who would deliberately collect a large number of brain nuclei?"

"If there are not a lot of brain nuclei, why would a visitor from another world who traveled to Earth 2 make a rune bracelet that uses brain nuclei to provide energy? The rune bracelet that uses the brain core as the energy supply device, but there is no stable supply of the brain core. It is unlikely that the rune bracelet will be passed down stably in a world with backward communication, separatism, and wars everywhere, right? ?"

"Second question, according to your guess, the rune civilization accelerated its development in the next two hundred years, and developed a new type of rune technology that can function without an energy device, but Tan Zong obviously came from an ignorant and backward man. Primitive tribe, even so, he can have a silver ring of acceleration, which makes no sense at all?"

"The third question is that Tan Zong's world revolves around a star, which happens to have another satellite. From his description, it is exactly the sun and moon we know, plus Tan Zong's adaptation to the environment after coming to this world. The process is very short, we can basically assume that he is from another earth, right? I will number it as the fourth earth according to your numbering method and the time of discovery. Then, does the fourth earth take thousands of years to Developed a mature rune technology system? Where did they come from? Is it because this earth didn't take the test and didn't need to answer the questions, or did they have good luck and never encountered any problems?"

   Yang Xiaoqian felt more uncomfortable in his heart, and looked at Yu Qian even more surprised. He thought about it for a few minutes, and finally shook his head helplessly.

   "Well, you're right, I can't answer any of these three questions."