Sword of Daybreaker

The main hub of Solin should be the most special one among all the main web masters of the empire-not only because its crystal array is built on the top of the tree, but also because the "living hub carrier" of Bertilla uses the giant tree of Sorin The unique biological characteristics made a bold transformation of the entire hub. She let the original cold steel and crystal cleverly merge into the structure of the giant tree, and the crown of this giant tree reflects her everywhere. design".

Margarita was led by Beltira to the area where the crystal array was located. Those metal devices that supported the crystal array were deeply planted in giant trees. A large number of wooden structures and vine-like "pipes" stacked from layer to layer. Extends from the branches of the branch and merges with the base of the crystal array. Accompanied by a clattering sound, Margarita saw a "ground" near the base open, and the leaves, which appeared to be neat and dense, shuddered and flicked back to the sides, revealing a slanting downward The ladder seems to lead to a deep place.

Despite being wrapped in layers of leaves and branches, this channel is not dim. A large number of glowing flowers and fine vines hang down from the "walls" on both sides of the channel, illuminating the location like lights. The "small world" in the canopy.

"Here is my 'research room'. I built it in my body so that it's more convenient to use," Bertila said to Margarita, and took the lead in walking forward. "Please come with me- —Note that at the foot, this step is a little steep, and I ’m recently thinking about how to grow this part again. ”

"It's really ... clever," Margarita kept up with each other's "footsteps" and took several technicians and accompanying soldiers into this "secret space" that belongs exclusively to Bertila. She looked at the leaves on both sides with surprise. The glowing plants on the walls and the cleverly grown steps and corridors couldn't help but sigh, "I didn't expect you to have such creativity, Ms. Bertilla."

"... In fact, I almost forgot that I still have this kind of creativity," Bertila's footsteps seemed to pause a little, and then he continued to walk forward, "Curiosity, creativity, learning new things, observing this world ... I have discarded a lot of things, but recently I am trying to get them back. "

During the talk, they had already walked the slightly steep stairs and entered a rather wide space.

This is a roughly ellipsoidal "world in a tree", Margarita swears that even in her most imaginative dream, she has never seen such a weird but wonderful scene-

Sturdy wooden shells and supporting columns prop up the place. Numerous green leaves and rattan walls make up the walls, floor and roof of this ellipsoidal space, countless luminous plants-including flowers and hanging mycelium- -Provide lighting to make it look like a brightly lit plant cave. And in this "hole ***", Margarita saw many things that are difficult for humans to understand. There were light and dark vines distributed along the ground, and some were hanging on the wall of nearby leaves. Like a bag, there are some wooden, stacked platforms, and the most striking is the center of the whole space ... some structure.

It was a huge sac that hung down from the ceiling. About dozens of vines and tubular tissues of varying thickness extended from the top of the sac. The entire sac resembled a brown-red bag, which seemed to be filled with some kind of emission. With the passage of time, some thin "membrane" on the capsule still pulsates slightly, and there are things like blood vessels changing in light and dark.

It is a bit disturbing, but with a certain mysterious appeal. It obviously has some connection with the biochemical technology of the end of the world, but it does not have the **** crazy feeling.

"I haven't let anyone else come here," Bertila said to Margarita. "As you can see, this is a place built according to my" survival mode ", and the things here are only available to me. Right By the way, should n’t I be considered a “violation”? I did n’t take up any public resources, just do some research work here-I am also a druid after all. ”

"Um ... I don't think this is a violation," Margarita thought for a long time before organizing the language. "Strictly speaking ... this is your own" physical structure adjustment ", and I don't think there is any way to stipulate it in the laws of the Empire. How should you grow ... "

With that said, this imperial female general seemed to feel that the current topic was a little too brain-burning, so she quickly waved her hand before the topic became more bizarre: "We will not discuss this anymore-Ms. Bertilla, you just mentioned that you are from the signal Analyzed the clue, is this related to this "secret base"? "

"Oh, of course, because the clue is what I researched here." Bertila nodded and led the crowd to a bud in the ellipsoidal space, and as Margarita and others approached, This one-foot tall bud suddenly unfolded on its own, and the originally curled green leaves stretched out, revealing its pure white inner wall.

"What is this?" Margarita frowned and asked curiously.

"It's just a little trick that can be used to present the picture-for me, it is more convenient to directly control the plants than the magic net crystals," Bertila said casually. "This is just irrelevant details, I want to give you It's ... this. "

As she spoke, she communicated the plant structure in front of her. Margarita looked at it curiously, and then she was amazed to see that dark green marks suddenly appeared on the inner wall of the pure white leaf.

"Since the last time I received strange signals, I have been thinking about the meaning of those signals-scholars have used many methods to crack it, including passwords, code words, converted into sound, into the" alphabet "... I also used many methods, but all failed. The short tremors did n’t seem to have any logic. They did n’t correspond to some kind of codebook, and there was no number rule. After converting to sound, there was only noise ... So in the end, I suddenly took the risk The idea came out: Maybe these tremors don't involve passwords? Maybe they are some ... simpler things? "

Bertila recounted the various attempts he had made while adjusting the lines emerging from the blade, drawing more details in front of Margarita's eyes.

"... I used a very simple method that no one tried: draw the tremor directly. You see, when the strong tremor appears, a dot is left-just like the ink dot, it is very small Small; then weak tremor or blank noise, then leave it blank. If the duration of a tremor is regarded as a 'grid', then how many 'grid' blanks are left as long as the weak tremor and white noise last ... …

"Then here, this is very important. It took me a long time to figure out how to deal with the changes here-in the signal we received, a very short and very sharp waveform appeared every other segment, I started I thought it also represented some kind of 'line', but in the end I learned that it means ... to change a line.

"Similarly, we have also received several other very short and sharp waveforms, each of which has its own meaning, used to locate the subsequent" dot "at a specific relative position in the previous section of content ..."

On the blades, there are more and more marks imprinted by magic. According to the idea of ​​Bertila, the mysterious signal "monitored" by the Sorin Hub is quickly transformed into a pattern composed of dots and blanks. At this time, Margarita is almost certain-Bertilla's thinking is correct!

Because the dots are not arranged randomly, their arrangement is showing neat and regular shapes!

"What's this?" Finally, a technician standing behind Margarita couldn't help but speak. The middle-aged man in the short gown of the Magi Technician stared at the "round" presented on the blade. "Click the picture" and cried out in amazement, "This ..."

"A square, the squares formed by connecting the dots into lines, are very ... regular, and the number of dots on each side is exactly the same." Said Bertila, and the dark green pattern imprinted on the leaf between her words It is still extending.

Those striking dots have been connected into a square shape, but obviously this is not all-there are still new dots popping up in the blank area beside the square, and they are obviously arranged in lines and combined into patterns !

Margarita and the entourage all stared at it all, speculating on what it would eventually look like, but after a few seconds, it suddenly stopped.

Those subsequent dots only formed a short line segment, and then stopped abruptly.

"What about the follow-up?" Margarita couldn't help raising her head and asked, "Why is it gone?"

"The signal was interrupted later," Bertilla opened his hand. "I have recorded so much. You know, the efficiency of using these tremors to record graphics is very very low. We may have to record continuously for a long time without interruption. The signal can describe this thing completely-but the signal I received was only ten minutes.

"... Damn ..." Margarita couldn't help whispering a little lady's words, and then revealed a thoughtful look, "So the essence of these signals ..."

"It should be a picture, what we see is probably only a part of it-it is still unknown how large it is, and its meaning and the sender are completely mysterious," Bertila opened his hand very humanely, shaking Shaking his head, "I even suspect that this is a drawing, of course, this is just a guess-after all, there are too few parts to see."

"All in all, now we can basically be sure that this thing cannot be some kind of 'natural phenomenon'," Margarita took a deep breath. "No matter who is doing this kind of thing, in short, there is a certain existence that has been uninterrupted. Send us a picture-it may not be sent to us deliberately, but an indiscriminate broadcast, just caught by our crystal array. In any case, this matter must be reported to the Imperial Capital immediately. "

"Of course," Bertila nodded. "This thing is very unusual. Think about the network whistle that happened not long ago ... There are more and more disturbing things in this world."

"Um ... speaking of, when did you discover these laws?" Margarita suddenly looked at Beltira with a curious look on her face.

"Just a few hours ago," Bertie pulled his lips, suspecting a smile. "Luck took up most of the ideas-the thoughts I thought did not conform to the normal rules of password cracking. I can only say that it made me lucky. Hit the ground. "

"That's still a remarkable achievement," Margarita praised sincerely, and then couldn't help turning her head, her eyes fell on the bladder in the center of this ellipsoidal space, "Actually I wanted to ask just now, what is this thing for ...?

There are a lot of strange things in this ellipsoidal space, but most of them are at least in line with the characteristics of common things such as vines, flowers, branches and leaves. The only thing hanging in the center of the space is the strange and mysterious It's hard to ignore. Margarita was attracted by her as soon as she came in, but she didn't want to ask about the official business. At this time, after the business was over, she couldn't help but speak.

In front of him, the former dean of all things dying ... what is being studied in her "private research room"?

Hearing Margarita ’s inquiry, Bertilla ’s face did n’t look strange (mainly planted faces were not easy to make expressions), but her tone brought a hint of pride: “That ’s I have optimized and supplemented myself. This time I was able to successfully crack the clues in the signal, but also thanks to the aid of this thing. If you want to see it, I can open the bag outside, but the things inside are not for ordinary people. Words may have some visual impact ... you must be mentally prepared. "

Margarita suddenly smiled and said quite confidently: "Of course-we are all specially trained and will not be overwhelmed by any situation. You can open it to satisfy our curiosity. Heart it. "

Bertila nodded and waved it gently. The bladder in the middle of the "room" suddenly heard a wriggling and rustling sound, and then the surface of the layer of maroon bladder appeared. Many neatly arranged cracks, the entire package structure blooms like petals, revealing the transparent oval inner shell inside, the translucent nutrient solution in the inner shell, and the huge and large soaked in nutrient solution Amazing biological tissue.

That turned out to be a brain! A "synthetic brain" that is nearly one person tall and soaked in nutrient solution!

Margarita, a specially trained imperial officer, opened her eyes when she saw the thing, and immediately felt the hair on her body slightly raised: "This ... what is this !?"

"I created a brain for myself-try to imitate the human brain, of course, there is a problem with the size ... I didn't want to make it so big at first." Bertila said with no change in expression, as if it was just a trivial matter The little things are average.

Margarita felt that her thoughts could no longer keep up with the vegetative in front of her. When she asked questions, her head was dizzy: "How do you think of creating a brain for yourself?"

Bertila thought hard this time, and patiently explained to each other: "After becoming a plant, I found that my way of thinking is also moving closer to the direction of the plant every day. In recent times, I have even been like a real tree. Standing here, I do n’t want to do anything except basking in the sun and shaking the leaves in the wind ... I am worried about this situation, so I created a brain for myself to help myself stabilize my recognition as a "person" I know, as for the improvement of logical thinking ability and association ability brought by this brain ... in fact, it is a windfall. "

Margarita's wide-eyed eyes finally recovered slowly. She looked strangely at the former dean of all things in front of her, and suddenly felt that it was still too much effort to communicate with a plant ...