Sword of Daybreaker

The low buzzing sound of the ventilation system and the heat dissipation device reverberated in the computer room. The ancient lighting device dissipated the darkness of the ground. One after another neatly arranged storage lattices stood in the center of the room like a line of bookshelves, with dim light in the middle of the room. Flowing between metal and crystal, there was a pleasant tremor from time to time. Ophelia's gaze swept across these hundreds of years of storage lattices, as if watching the history frozen in crystal.

This is the shallow underground area of ​​the Deep Blue Well. It is directly above the subway network of the old imperial capital, and below is the first layer of composite armor of the underground fortress.

Many years ago, this place was part of the Deep Blue Well control center. These storage lattices are used to record the daily complex data of the Gondor Energy Center. It is extremely complicated to rely on an energy center to transmit magic power to countless cities and towns across the country. A huge project, the existence of the Deep Blue Well supported the Gondor Empire, and also locked the Gondor Empire. People could not break away from the dependence on the "well" and could not transform this natural planetary power source. After it has developed to a certain level, it can continue to refine the existing system, and carry out infinite subdivision and adjustment of the limited magic pulse flow. The result is this extremely large underground control center, as well as the recording and computing center that runs around the clock. .

In fact, the underground fortress occupied by Ophelia was once only part of this control system.

Seven hundred years ago, that big explosion destroyed everything in the Gondor Empire. The uncontrollable magic power surging from the Deep Blue Well burned all the towns and villages along the way, and left an "abnormality" on the ground that could not be dissipated for centuries. "Magic resonance field", and the control center located deep underground has the magical shelter of the Deep Blue Well itself, so it was not directly destroyed by the explosion, but even so, the continuously sinking pollution and the distortions that spread underground along the subway network still invade In the shallow area, Ophelia Norton had to abandon most of the facilities in the shallow area and flee to a deeper level. This storage center... is one of the facilities that was forced to abandon.

Now that the pollution has subsided, the Ophelia Matrix, who inherited the legacy of Ophelia Norton, is leading her Ironman Corps to retake these abandoned ancient areas. In the process, she found some..."surprises".

More than a dozen iron soldiers are sitting neatly on the floor not far away. They look like they are falling asleep, and their spine stretches out a series of alloy "chains" somewhat similar to "nerve thorns". These chains are connected. Looking at the maintenance ports buried on the floor, there was a shimmering light near the ports, which showed that these iron man soldiers were using their mental cores to perform high-speed data operations.

"This storage center is offline from the main system. I can't directly connect to it underground, so I brought a team of soldiers to deal with it personally." Ophelia took back his eyes from the soldiers who were in a "sleeping" state. Turning his head to look at another iron man warrior standing not far away. One eye of this iron man warrior has been "opened", and a shimmering crystal is quietly running in the groove of his skull, recording the room. Circumstances in the middle and Ophelia’s voice, “I’m still not sure if it is a trace left by the Demon Tide, but it’s very likely.”

She gently flicked a storage lattice next to her with her finger. The magic metal that acts as encapsulation and conduction outside the lattice made a pleasant whisper. The "touch" returned by the iron man's body was very subtle, different from flesh and blood. However, she has a strange "real" feeling. Although it has only been less than half a month, she is now accustomed to this special "carrier".

Unlike the carriers that came from "occupation", this is the true "self", the complete "self".

Gawain’s voice came from the iron man soldier acting as a communicator: "...According to the unified wave model and our conjecture of the universe’s “origin shock”, the essence of the magic wave should be some kind of “wave” that periodically oscillates throughout the universe. …You mean, this'fluctuation' can be recorded?"

"If the great eruption of the Deep Blue Well really resisted a magic wave, then the magic wave must be something that can react with magic and leave a'trace' in the material world," Ophelia nodded. "I have also carefully studied the unified wave model. For this reason, I also specifically asked Ms. Milmina to ask a lot of questions... She once told me that the boundary between matter and energy is blurred, and the boundary between the entity and the intangible body can be used at any time. Change, only the "wave" itself is the unchanging foundation of this world. If everything is wave, then the wave can also be everything in the world."

She paused, and her voice became a little low: "Of course it can be recorded... It has had such a fierce ‘interaction’ with the most powerful force on our planet, how can it leave no trace?"

The Big Bang of the Deep Blue Well 700 years ago was not itself a magic wave. Although the world has always misunderstood in this regard, the latest intelligence shows that the big bang may just exist to resist the real magic wave. Actively created "defense means", and the essence of the magic wave should actually be some kind of "observer effect out of control" that spreads across the entire planet and occurs at the macro level.

In this world, the basic essence of everything is "waves", and all matter and energy are "representations" presented by fluctuations under conditions of different frequencies and different wavelengths. Therefore, the material world in people's eyes seems stable, but in reality It just happens to be based on a balance point that can be formed, and magic power runs through this boundary like a bridge. Mages can use magic to reshape matter, and they can also pull things from the material world into the "magic realm." Under the action of the "bridge" of magic, the power of the observer has been magnified to an incredible level in this world, and even the process of the birth of the gods in the trend of thought... In fact, it can be regarded as an orderly, The macroscopic "observer effect".

On this basis, the loss of control of the large-scale observer effect has become a disaster that only falls on the heads of intelligent creatures. Individuals who can act as observers are affected by the demonic wave, and their "world in the eyes" undergoes extreme distortion and mutation. Eventually, the individual was destroyed and swallowed by his own out-of-control observer effect. If there is a third-party eye at this time, you will see that the sentient beings in the magic wave are swallowed by some invisible "weird" one after another, or with the look The missing enemy fought frantically to death, or the sudden horrible collapse or dissolution of itself occurred. This...is the real magic wave.

As long as there is no technical means to resist this "out of control of the observer effect", no matter how powerful an individual is and how powerful a protection is, they can only usher in destruction in the face of the demonic wave, without the ability to resist.

After knowing the true face of the horror of the Demon Tide, Gawain certainly hopes to know what exactly caused this horrible phenomenon, and according to the latest research results of Milmina, it may be nothing more than a horrible "catastrophe". The "monsoon" that continues to blow across the universe is a wave that "vibrated" at the beginning of the world's birth.

It is similar to the background radiation of the universe, but it is far more deadly and terrifying than the "background radiation" known by Gao Wen. It is the first tremor at the beginning of the birth of this universe. In a sense, it can even be regarded as the universe's. The "Creator", this origin shock has shaped the world today, determined the order of all things, and planned the scale of time and space. However, the Creator never rests. This fluctuation is still reverberating in the depths of the stars and is fragile to the mind. As far as the intelligent creatures are concerned... it has become the ultimate doomsday.

The buzzing sound of the equipment reverberated in the room. Ophelia looked at the ancient equipment in front of her, but her memory seemed to go back to the afternoon seven hundred years ago. It was left to her by the real Ophelia Norton in history. I remember that on that day, the Deep Blue Well destroyed the Gondor civilization in a shocking explosion, but the huge control center located under the Deep Blue Well was not immediately paralyzed, although the staff in the shallow area were killed and injured in an instant. But the countless automatic systems here faithfully performed their tasks without manual control.

At that moment of extreme chaos, thousands of sensors tried their best to send data back to the central system before they were burned. Each backup line continued to work until it was completely down, even until Ophelia Norton was in After confirming that only oneself survived and chose to abandon the shallow area and order the remaining iron soldiers to move to the lower level, for several months, some equipment in this area continued to operate without supervision. , They left a lot of... bizarre information.

Some of it can be confirmed to be the energy interference generated by the Deep Blue Well itself, and some are the help signals automatically received by the disaster occurrence system, and the rest... is the mysterious and unknown source of magic fluctuation readings.

The Ophelia Matrix believes that it is the "shadow" of the magic wave in the world, and it is the only "note" in the world that can be used to describe the magic wave. In a sense, it is even stored. The magic wave itself.

"The magic wave should also be a kind of magic shock. It is of course the'origin' of the universe, but the origin of the universe may not be as mysterious and inaccessible as we think," Ophelia said slowly, "It just has Special frequency, special wavelength, which causes it to be located in a'area' that mortals cannot touch and perceive, but just like the'effect' produced by magic, as long as the effect of the magic wave can act on us, then it can be Something to study."

"Magic effect..." Gawain's voice sounded in the room, "I have used this phrase before."

"Yes, from another point of view, the magic wave is really like a kind of magic imposed on each of us. Its caster is the world itself, and what we have to do is to cast it again in the'world'. "I found an effective way to counter this magic before," Ophelia nodded slightly, "Storing and recording is the first step in analyzing magic. Fortunately, we finally found a foothold in this regard."

"So what about the second step?" Gawain's voice came. "Our ultimate goal is not just to understand it. We have to find a way to fight it."

"...I will try to restore a small range of'magic tides' in a laboratory environment," Ophelia said slowly, "If Ms. Milmina's wave theory is really correct, then we should be able to properly According to my deduction, it will appear as a “field” imprisoned within a specific range. Inside this “field”, the observation and cognition of intelligent creatures Distortion will occur."

The voice on the other side of the communication fell silent for a while. The astonishing idea that Ophelia had put forward obviously caused Gawain to fall into contemplation. After nearly half a minute of silence, his voice finally sounded again: "This may be the history The most shocking and dangerous'experiment', I want to know the consequences of it getting out of control."

"In fact, its dangerousness is not as great as you think. It's not that I have so clever safety measures to ensure that the experiment is not out of control, but because of our technical level... I am afraid that it is not enough to trigger the kind you imagined. Disaster," Ophelia said, "I will try to use the magic of the Deep Blue Well to create a "shock" that simulates the magic tide, and with our current use efficiency of magic and the load level of the laboratory, I am afraid we can create The largest "shock" of the People's Republic of China could not cover a room, and it lasted less than a few seconds.

"To create a truly lethal'magic tide', the energy required will be an astronomical figure. This is simply not what a'lower civilization' like us can do on a planet. , Our technical level is not even qualified to use the magic wave to kill...

"Of course, I also understand your concerns about the experiment itself, so I will set the experiment site in the deepest part of the earth. There are only my calculation matrix and the iron soldier. Once there is a problem, all the intelligent creatures here, including myself, can instantly "Turn off", as long as the "observer" disappears, there will naturally be no "observer effect out of control", which will minimize the chain reaction caused by the unexpected intervention of the "observer"."

Obviously, the Ophelia Matrix had carefully considered this matter many times before putting forward his own bold idea.

But even so, Gawain's attitude is still very cautious, and he has another question.

"I have another question, even if you successfully use the magic power of the Deep Blue Well to'simulate' the fluctuations of the magic wave, how should we study and test it? The existence of the magic wave itself is a fatal threat to intelligent creatures. , We cannot have any way to'observe' what happens in that force field, and even the act of observing it may cause the operator's instant death. Have you considered this issue?"

"...I must admit that I have no good solution yet," Ophelia said in a low tone, "This plan is still in its infancy, and it is still unknown whether the parameters of the magic wave can really be separated from the storage array. , And whether the magic power of the Deep Blue Well can really be used to achieve the energy level that produces the'Originary Oscillation' is another problem. As for how to test and analyze after the oscillation field is generated... Sorry, I still need some time."

The communication was quiet again, but this time, Ophelia did not wait long.

She heard Gawain’s steady and reliable voice in her ears: “Then let’s take it step by step, Ophelia, start with the first step and separate those ‘parameters’.”

(Recommend a book, titled "I am the man behind the strange story", a story with urban weirdness as the starting point. Although it is a newcomer and new work, there are some immature places at the beginning, but it feels that as long as it can be stabilized, The future can be expected.)