Three-stream detection simulator

"There are seven primal energies in our world."

Zatanna said,

"They form the core of the multiverse and are the source of many superhero powers."

"For example, the Flash in Central City possesses the 'Speed ​​Force'. This is a special energy field based on speed and movement that can push space and time forward quickly."

"Lanterns, they have an 'emotional spectrum'. The red lantern ring represents anger, yellow represents fear, green represents will, and blue represents hope..."

"'Life force' is the power of the universe given to us by nature. You can see it in the ocean and soil, and you can also find it in grasslands and mountain tops. It is everywhere."

"The fourth energy originates from the gods - the 'realm of the gods' that gives the world magic. Imagine distant Asgard and Olympus, as well as the legendary heaven and hell, these mysterious powers from the fifth dimension It became a singularity in the universe.”

"There is a power above the 'realm of the gods' that governs the laws of all things in the world. We call it the 'superdimensional structure'. It ensures that our universe is within a basic framework."

"The sixth energy is the collective subconscious. You've seen it, detective." Zatanna said to Hercule intently, "In the mental world, those islands are the source of power for telepaths."

"The last energy is 'loyalty', which you can also understand as faith. Our pursuit of goodness, justice, hope and love constitute the essence of this power."

Zatanna's explanation ends here.

After hearing this, Hercule raised his hand and made a gesture about to express his opinion: "Wait a minute, since the island in the mental world is one of the seven powers, what is the 'sea'? Doesn't each power have its own power?" The corresponding reaction force?”

"You touched on the key point." Zatanna looked around the room vigilantly to make sure no one was listening before continuing, "Many spellcasters have more or less heard of the seven powers that make up the core of the universe, but Only a few people have heard of the seven forbidden powers that are opposite to them. As far as I know, the black sun Umbrax you see in the mental world is the visible version of the "emotional spectrum" corresponding to the "invisible spectrum". entity."

Hercule thought for a long time.

When he was thinking, his movements were very small, like a slightly pale but handsome sculpture. Zatanna felt that she could hear the sound of gears turning rapidly inside the shell.

After five or six minutes, the detective nodded to her, tapped his fingers twice, leaned forward and asked, "What about the 'sea'?"

Zatanna spread her hands: "You have to understand that there are very, very few records about this part of the information. I tried my best to check it, but the results were not satisfactory. I have a photo here, do you want to see it?"

Hercule thought she would show him an ancient book with mysterious runes or a stone tablet engraved with ancient texts. As a result, the female mage took out her mobile phone, swiped it twice and handed it over: "Look, this was taken by a friend I met when I was a magician."

"……magician?"

"Hey, didn't I tell you? I am a stage magician in Las Vegas. I will be touring the United States in the next two days, and Hawaii is the first stop." Zatanna raised her arm, showing off her tuxedo, Fishnet stockings, white suit and white gloves, he raised his lips and said, "Why else would I be dressed like this?"

Hercule was stunned for two seconds and slapped the railing in frustration: "Damn it! I was wrong. Magic blinded me. I'm sorry, but I hate magic."

Zatanna couldn't stop laughing: "Oh my gosh, I couldn't be the only one whose profession you didn't guess right away, right? What did you think?"

Hercule concealed his annoyance at his mistake with a deadpan expression: "Please forgive me, I regard all your special costumes and movements as necessary for casting spells. After all, you have no intention of covering up at all."

It's because Zatanna is a real mage, but behaves like a complete magician, that Hercule didn't think in this direction at all!

"I even considered that modern magicians might have evolved from real mages, but I didn't expect that the truth was the other way around."

"I think this can be regarded as one of my bragging rights." Zatanna was overjoyed and asked, "Where's John, what do you think he does?"

Hercule was never willing to fall down in the same place for the second time. After hearing this, he thought about it carefully and then said with certainty: "He definitely participated in a rock band. But I'm not sure about his position in the band. That should be It happened many years ago... Well, let me guess, the lead singer? He seems not interested in mainstream instruments. I think with his personality, he shouldn't be a bass player."

"Amazing! That's exactly right!" Zatanna clapped. "Well, don't be depressed, detective." She comforted him in turn, "You just saved several innocent people from a place as scary as hell. You are a little tired when you are tired. Mistakes are normal. Now take a look at the photo my friend sent me. What can you tell?"

Hercule bowed his head.

In Zatanna's mobile phone album is a recently saved photo. The background of the image was extremely dark, and the focus was an ancient book filled with magical symbols as he imagined. There are a few scattered strokes of handwriting on the pages, which have been basically painted over. Only a few traces are left at the end of a certain sentence, allowing the viewer to identify the Latin letters in it.

Hercule happened to know a little Latin.

He recognized the word at the end of the sentence as, 'apple'.

Zatanna asked again after a while: "What did you see?"

Hercules did not answer.

"Detective?" Zatanna called him with a questioning look, "Is there something wrong with the photo?"

"Oh! No." Hercules suddenly woke up, "Let me ask, where did your friend take this photo?"

"The Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican."

"The Lynx Eye National Academy of Sciences?" Hercules asked, "The one that once had Galileo as the dean?"

Zatanna nodded: "That's right. One of their non-secular research taboos is the Sea of ​​​​Subconsciousness. This book is said to be a sealed data collected by the Academy of Sciences with great effort. And my friend works part-time - a thief. In case you report her to the police, I have to say that she has retired now. It was because of my request that she sneaked into the Vatican. . "

"Even if I want to report it, I don't have any connections in the police station. Maybe the police would rather take me away." Hercule said honestly, "I can only wish that she and I will always be on the right path."

Then he enlarged the photo with two fingers, pointed to the word on it and said: "You should know that this Latin word means apple."

"Yes, I think this should refer to the real name of the "sea" corresponding to the "collective subconscious" in the seven forces. But I don't know what the word before the apple is. "

"-'Black'." Hercule said, "If nothing unexpected happens, its full name is 'Black Apple'."

'Sea', the name in the records is Black Apple.

As he spoke, he seemed to see the dark ocean with no end in sight under the sky with dark clouds.

In human cognition, isn't sea water a kind of clean energy?

The refined sea of ​​the mind is inexhaustible, condensing the endless negative subconsciousness of mankind, turning into a viscous black liquid, flowing through the metal heart, just like industrial blood flowing through the body it powers, and finally bursting out a huge energy that tears the space, just like the beast hidden in the human heart roaring at this barbaric, desolate and cruel world.

And because it is the essence of the ocean of the mind, people call it the core of the black apple.

The problem is.

Hercule said to himself.

As Zatanna said, the seven positive forces are the core of the multiverse.

It means that the reaction forces opposite to them are unknown and should not exist.

After all, if the positive forces constitute the positive universe in people's cognition, then what about the negative forces? They can't just lie there, right?

What have they created? What have they destroyed?

In any case, the "black apple" in Hercule's hand really became the forbidden fruit in the mouth of God in the Garden of Eden, and it is a sin to just understand it in depth. Then who would have thought of touching, studying, and using it? Who opened the box containing this "evil"? Who handed the Mechanical Heart to him?

——As the user of the Mechanical Heart, what position should he take now? What consequences will he face?

"(Mechanical Heart) That's my technology."

Iron Man's voice echoed in Hercule's ears.

Although he didn't say it to him in person, he could imagine Tony's shocked expression at the time.

Science and truth are innocent. Hercule thought. It all depends on how the user uses it.

And Stark's technology does not mean that the creator is Tony Stark himself. Maybe he has collaborators, maybe his descendants, or even his artificial intelligence butler...

He thought again: SHIELD and Batman may have anticipated the danger of the Mechanical Heart, but they still underestimated it. It is not just a small nuclear weapon, it represents the Pandora's box on the back of the world.

Further inferring, the golden hourglass awarded by the system may not be that simple. Since the seven positive forces of the universe include the "speed force", the hourglass points to stillness and death. Could it be the reaction force of the speed force?

So far, Hercule has mastered two of the seven keys mentioned by the members of the Yuwen Church.

Zatanna quietly left at some point, and Hercule sat alone on the balcony until the sun set, silently thinking about these mysteries.

He later concluded that: Although I have dangerous power, I think I have not taken the wrong path, and there are good people around me.

Since I have no regrets, I will do my best and wait for fate. There is nothing to worry about.

He is actually more worried about another thing, which is much more terrifying to him than the original power of the universe and the mastermind behind the scenes.

——In a blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed since Mr. Oliver Putnam began to announce that he would produce a supernatural crime radio program with Hercule Hugo as the male protagonist.

On this day, a dangerous email was sent to the mailbox that Hercule had just registered in order to receive some normal, paid and non-life-saving commissions.

"Dear Hercule,

I finished the script some time ago, but I couldn't contact you. A government official told me that you were very busy recently. In order not to delay the progress of the project, I took the initiative to complete the follow-up work. The show is about to be broadcast, and I have decided to raise money to buy two advertising spaces in the newspaper, just in case. Do you have any preferences or recommendations? (I mean, you are not an extreme vegetarian, you are not racist, you don't participate in environmentalist rallies, you don't plan to register Twitter to point fingers, and you don't have any special opinions on the Afghan war?)

Best wishes,

Oliver Putnam"

Hercule, who originally wanted to rest in Hawaii for a few days and enjoy the sun and beach with Tony, jumped up and bought a ticket to fly back to New York on the same day!

However, the game system, which is not too big a deal to watch the excitement, actually issued a side mission for this purpose:

[Side mission: First-class fugitive simulator

Mission description: As Captain Hugo, please find the way to New York under the surveillance and siege of FBI agents.

Mission reward: +100 reputation in Hawaii, +500 reputation in SHIELD, +200 reputation in Sky Eye Society, +500 reputation in total for other government agencies, interview invitation from Metropolis Planet Daily x1】

Hercule:…

Why is there a continuation of the FBI plot! !