Chapter 1348 The initial shock
it's all over.
Philip stood in a secret bunker room located underground at the forward base, and his eyes fell for a long time on the platform in the center of the room. The edge was engraved with many complex and sophisticated runes. At this moment, the rune array was gradually extinguishing, and a large number of root vines-like nerve cables were slowly retreating from the platform and returning to the holes at the edge of the room. In the depression area in the center of the platform, there was only a mass of biomass debris that had completely lost its shape, as well as some thin liquid.
In the past few hours, the biomass remains have been undergoing extremely fierce alienation and transformation, presenting various terrifying forms. Even those who fought on the battlefield like Philip would still be unable to help but their scalp tingling when recalling the scenes they had seen before. However, this terrible process finally ended at this moment. No matter what kind of soul was once trapped in this flesh and blood, his relationship with this world has been wiped out.
The rustling sound of plant roots waving suddenly came from not far away. Philip looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a bright green vine drilling in from a hole in the corner of the room, and quickly changed into a human-like outline during the squirming process, and eventually became the incarnation of Belltila. The incarnation nodded slightly to Philip, and then set his eyes on the center of the platform.
"It's all over," the slightly husky female voice rang in the underground room. "Bertrame and his followers have all left the world, and I have dug a lot of useful intelligence from their memories."
"That's good that in terms of intelligence, we have been at a disadvantage for a long time, and now we have finally made progress," Philip nodded slightly, then hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help but speak, "You seem to be very worried, Ms. Belltila."
"...I just remembered too many things from the past," Belltila said with a hint of emotion. "Bertrame was once a respectable scholar, and his followers... Half of those who are now called the "Dark Priest" were once close comrades to Brother Gao Wen, and priests and spiritual leaders in the Northern Development Army. Before rushing into the wasteland, we all made solemn oath... It was a very special era, a very special period, and we all seemed to have ambitions and generous..."
"I heard from Your Majesty that this matter has been mentioned," Philip said, "not only does everything die, but also the sects of the Eternal Sleeper and the Storm Son, who fell into darkness seven hundred years ago, have had brilliant history. However, no matter how brilliant the history is, it is an indisputable fact that they eventually fell into darkness. A passion may not necessarily bring glory. The further they go on the wrong path, the more they will deviate from justice."
"...The route is wrong, I understand," Belltila seemed to smile bitterly, but her expression changed almost impossible to detect. "Just as Brother Gao Wen said, without a correct concept guidance and a scientific and reasonable set of methods and tools, it is difficult to truly realize the original intention by acting alone with passion and heroism, and it is often contrary to the original goal... For a long time, I actually only had a slight understanding of his words, but seeing what Bertleme looks like now, I think I have understood what he means... It's a pity that none of us have a chance to make a second choice."
"But at least we can correct this mistake," Philip said with a serious expression. "There are many dark priests like Bertleme, and we will stop them before they cause a disaster."
"Yes...we must stop them," Belltila repeated Philip's words softly, "otherwise it would be a big disaster... a big disaster that no one can escape..."
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In the deep encrypted space of the neural network, a hazy light suddenly lit up in the darkness. Then endless white flowers quickly covered the entire earth in the glimmer. As the glimmer gradually changed into brilliant sky light, a sea of white flowers appeared in this space where there was only a void in the first few seconds. In the center of the white flowers and fine grass swaying in the wind, round tables with lilac patterns and high-backed chairs appeared one by one, and figures after another appeared around the round table.
These include Gao Wen, Veronica and Heti, Belltila who created this space, Kamier who was far away at the "Gate" project site, Milmina, who was conducting experiments on the wasteland border, Amoen who had just returned from the south not long ago, and even Eunya mortals who rarely appeared in the spiritual network recently used their true appearance, while the gods used "network images" similar to humans. These figures gathered at the round table, and a crucial meeting was about to begin.
Gao Wen looked up at the figure sitting around the round table, and his eyes finally fell on Belltila and nodded slightly. Then he coughed twice and broke the silence: "Cough, very good, everyone is here, first of all, thank you for your arrival.
"As you can see, this is a new security space in the neural network. It is built by Belltila using the nodes of the Solin Tree. The outer edge is isolated by the three-layer security protocol woven by Naretiel and Duvalt. At the same time, in the real world, we also set up anti-divine barriers for all connection endpoints of the Solin Tree. Its protection level exceeds that of the previous Laboratory of Origin. We can discuss the issue of the highest security authority and hazard level here, and the gods present can also speak freely."
"Oh! You finally got this thing out," Enya, who was wearing a long white dress, smiled. She looked at the people present, with a thoughtful look on her face, "It seems that nothing can be discussed here... Gao Wen, what are you going to talk about when you call us all together?"
"Beltira and Milmina teamed up to capture a whole group of dark priests operating on the battlefield on the Northern Front, including a high-level priest at the level of the priest," Gao Wen said straight to the point. "Now we have obtained a batch of key intelligence, pointing directly to the final conspiracy between the Sentinel and the Dark Grand Priest Bolken, and some of the intelligence points to the Demon Tide and the God Disaster. I think you all should listen."
As soon as he said this, everyone at the scene immediately showed attention and solemnity. Even Enya, who had been the god of the dragon clan for 1.8 million years, suddenly had a serious expression, and her eyes fell on Milmina and Belltila: "What's the specific situation? The Sentinel's plan is actually related to the divine disaster and the demon tide?"
"I'll say," Belltila stood up. In fact, she was also a little nervous at the moment. This was the first time she had gathered with these "special consultants of the Theocracy Council" to speak. Even as the former Dark Catholic Patriarch and the current "Sorin Master", psychological pressure was inevitable. Fortunately, the vegetative nerves were tenacious, and the expression on her face was still very calm. "I dug out information from the memories of Bethlem and his followers, first of all, about the role of those runes..."
Belltila's voice sounded in this vast "garden". She told the information she knew without missing any details. The mortals and gods present listened in a slant, and did not miss a word or a half.
Until her speech fell, the scene remained silent. Perhaps the amount of information in this information was too huge, or perhaps there were too many problems behind the information to be thoughtful. For a moment, no one spoke at the scene, and everyone maintained a thoughtful expression. In the end, Gao Wen, who had learned about the information in advance, was the first to raise his head from his thoughts. He tapped the table with his fingertips and broke the silence: "Before discussing those rune stones, I want to pay attention to...the knowledge about the 'demon tide' mentioned in the information."
His eyes turned to Milmina, who is the most authoritative in the field of magic and magic: "Bertleme mentioned a brand new knowledge related to the mechanism of magic waves. He mentioned a "magic oscillation" that constantly echoed in the universe and swept through all stars from time to time, and called it the "first form of all things in the world" and the "base band" of magic. This oscillation will interact with it when sweeping over the celestial bodies, causing optical changes to the "virtual celestial bodies", blurring the material and immaterial boundaries of the "real celestial bodies", and affecting the cognition of intelligent creatures on the celestial bodies, and thus inducing the "observer effect is dislocation in the macroscopic world".
"The description in the second half is somewhat mutually verified with our current research and understanding of the magic wave, especially the explanation of 'observer's perspective shift', and..."
"And there is a vague connection with the 'unified wave conjecture'," Milmina said without waiting for Gao Wen to finish speaking. "The 'oscillation' he mentioned is something we have never noticed before, but the 'fuzzy boundary between matter and intangible' he mentioned is the field 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 a dark priest trapped in the wasteland can compile a set of theories so 'just'."
"The authenticity of the information should not be doubted. The... way of obtaining information is trustworthy," Gao Wen nodded slightly. "This knowledge about the Demon Tide is not the research results of the dark priests themselves, but should come from their special 'advisors', that is... sentinels."
"The knowledge of the sentinel is the knowledge of the setter," Hetty suddenly said, "because of the huge differences between the levels of civilization, their understanding of the magic wave must be closer to the 'real' than ours."
"Will a 'oscillation' sweep across all the stars from time to time..." Milmina showed a thoughtful expression. "Actually, when it comes to this, I think of some of my recent guesses about the 'unified wave model'... or assumptions."
"Assumptions about the unified wave model?" Gao Wen's heart moved. In fact, there were some vague thoughts in his heart that were floating, but he could not form a complete concept for a while. At this time, he realized that the "Master of All Laws" in front of him might have a similar idea to him, so he immediately pricked up his ears and said, "Let me tell me."
"Unified wave model... We try to describe the universe we are in in the form of "everything is wave". Whether it is the physical celestial bodies and all things, or non-entity magic, thoughts, and spirits. We all believe that it is a "phenomenon" formed by waves of different frequencies. Waves of wavelengths are independent and interactive oscillating. It is precisely because the bottom of all things have the nature of "waves" that leads to the blurring of the boundaries of virtual and real in the universe and the possibility of mutual transformation, which leads to the thoughts that can produce physical gods, and magic can interfere with the virtual and real worlds. This is the basis of our theory. If we extend it, we will have an obvious conclusion:
"The universe we live in should be a larger scale, more complex structure, and more chaotic transformation method, or an amazingly 'field' with constant shocking scale.
"This field accommodates all the 'fluctuations' that are 'all things in the world'. The chaotic superposition state presented by itself is maintained at a perfect equilibrium stage, which allows us, such wise individuals, to reproduce and survive. Of course, due to the limitations of observation and cognitive levels, we cannot observe the appearance of the 'field' of the entire universe, nor can we calculate whether it will be so balanced forever, just like a little bug who can only survive in the daytime can't imagine what the night will be like. This is not something we can pay attention to now. What I want to say is where the initial 'oscillation' in this field... is."
"The initial... shock?" Amoen, who sat next to Milmina and participated in the meeting as an old elf, frowned, and tried to keep up with the rhythm of the topic while subconsciously speaking, "You mean...?"
"The first ripple at the beginning of the birth of the universe, the first wave born in this field world where "everything is wave", considering the special nature and mode of action of magic in our universe, it is very likely that it is the original 'magic glow' of our world," Milmina said with a quiet and serious expression. "If we regard this universe as a pond, then this pond has a time node. Before the time node, it only has a calm water surface, no fluctuation, no things in the world, and naturally there is no all the truth and knowledge we know now. Regarding this stage before the time node, I call it the "unrecognizable era".
"When a certain time node arrives... I don't know what happened to this node, but ripples appeared on the calm water surface, and the initial fluctuations appeared. Matter and magic were born from the originally chaotic and uniform 'field', with their own forms and attributes, and thus the world we know now. The subsequent stage may be called the cognizable epoch.
"The 'initial oscillation' I mentioned is the first wave that occurs in our universe... and the layers of ripples it brings when that time comes."
Milmina said this and paused for a while. She gave everyone present some time to think, and then she looked at Gao Wen.
“In the days of improving the unified wave model, I have become more and more aware that this model needs a ‘foundation’. If this foundation is not filled, it will seem like a loophole, making our model unable to explain the ‘where’ problem. So I have been thinking about this for a while.
Chapter completed!