"Sure enough, SERN is developing time travel technology..."
Faced with this reality that couldn't be clearer, even Makise Kurisu finally had to admit it.
After a brief moment of depression, Okabe Rintaro suddenly burst into laughter and said loudly:
"The conclusion is clear. As long as we create a perfect time machine before SERN, we can completely leave SERN behind! By then, we will have the power to transform this world and prevent the emergence of Despair Township. Hahahahaha!"
Faced with Okabe Rintaro's remarks, Makise Kurisu seemed very helpless.
Similarly, the audience who watched all this also felt the same helplessness.
…
"Isn't this too reckless, Okabe Rintaro? When faced with something like this, wouldn't you normally seek help from the government? What if something goes wrong if you invent a time machine yourself?"
"Yes, the enemy is a world-class organization. God knows how many methods they have. It's too scary."
"But this is a time machine. To be honest, no matter who gets this kind of thing, it may lead to the emergence of Despairville. After all, human desires are always the most terrifying!"
"So, the best way is to prevent this kind of thing from happening from the root, and prevent any force from having the ability to interfere with time. Or simply publish the information to the whole world, so that all organizations and forces can master the time machine, thus forming a deterrent chain."
"But unfortunately, neither of these can be achieved by an ordinary person like Okabe Rintaro."
"The most reasonable way I can think of is to directly destroy all the information I have about the time machine, and then announce the intelligence of the SERN organization to the world, making the SERN organization the world's public enemy. In this way, even if SERN will not be destroyed, all research will be forced to move from the surface to the underground, and even be monitored by many countries."
"Well, I also think this method is better, but no matter what, Okabe Ryotaro is a chuunibyou after all. His decision is related to his psychology. In a sense, he may not have gotten rid of the human desire to own a time machine."
“It is an indisputable fact that all human disputes arise from desire.”
"… "
The audience expressed their feelings one after another, and anyone who understood the development of the plot had various criticisms of Okabe Rintaro's actions.
After all, individual strength is weak. Facing a world-class organization, if you want to rely on individual strength to fight against it, there will definitely be no good results.
Of course, considering that this was in some sense a requirement of the plot, they did not discuss it any further.
In contrast, there is still a large part of the audience who didn't understand it at all. Up to now, they only roughly understand that there is such a thing as a time machine, and that the protagonists plan to build it.
…
Compared with ordinary audiences, King Hubbard, Wilhelm and many other knights were more serious in their criticism of Okabe Rintaro. After all, they were well aware of the consequences of the protagonist's behavior.
"No, Okabe Ryutaro still doesn't realize what he has done or what he is about to do next. He is not prepared at all."
General Wilhelm nodded in response to King Hubbard's sigh:
"If you want to save the world, the prerequisite is that you must not destroy the existing world, or have the ability to build a new world. Otherwise, the so-called saving the world is nothing more than destroying the world."
"That's right. It can be said that although Okabe Rintaro created the time machine to stop SERN's conspiracy, the time machine itself is the biggest contradiction. It will completely destroy all the frameworks established by the old world, and make the whole world usher in an inevitable evolution. But evolution itself is not only beautiful, but also has more disasters. When Okabe Rintaro created the time machine, whether he wanted to or not, he became the culprit of destroying the world, because as the promoter of this evolution, he only saw its beautiful side, but was not ready to face the disaster."
King Hubbard's words thus defined Okabe Rintaro's behavior.
After all, as a king, he had experienced too many similar things. This empire, which had been established for nearly a thousand years, had also experienced countless riots of varying sizes caused by various reforms.
Many policies that seem to be formulated for a better future ultimately lead to even deeper corruption and decay after their implementation.
Many systems established to prevent decline ultimately caused the empire to fall into deeper decline.
This is true even for policies, let alone a technology that can directly change the times.
The birth of the time machine is bound to bring about a bloody storm, but the helmsman at the helm of this storm is just a young man as green as a blank slate.
All of this in itself can be said to be a huge tragedy.
…
Compared with the judgments made by ordinary people and rulers based on their own perspectives, the magicians at this moment did not care about the possible situation that Okabe Rintaro might encounter due to his actions.
After all, as researchers themselves, their mentality is similar to that of Okabe Ryotaro. Rather than considering the future, they are more concerned with the concept of the time machine itself and have endless curiosity about the mystery of time.
SERN's experimental records aroused a lot of interest among magicians, causing them to make various discussions.
"Why do all the bodies of the experimenters turn into gelatin? Was it the same with the banana before? Is this an inevitable phenomenon caused by some kind of time travel?"
"Regarding this point, we should also consider the preparation of the experiment. There are four steps in the SERN experiment, right? The first step is some kind of large energy collider, which creates a hole in space through the collision of huge energies. Perhaps the time machine is to force objects to pass through this hole to complete time travel, but because the hole is too small, any object will become distorted after experiencing crazy squeezing!"
"I see. This step is very similar to teleportation magic in a certain sense."
"Yes, teleportation magic relies on a large amount of energy gathered in a magic circle, and through the mutual transmission of magic power inside the magic circle, it distorts the balance of the real dimension in an instant and creates a hole in the world connecting two different places."
"Generally speaking, the destructive power of this unstable space state is also quite huge. In order to use teleportation magic, a large amount of magic power must be released to stabilize the space. This is why the threshold for releasing teleportation magic is frighteningly high. After all, such a huge amount of magic power can only be maintained by a magician at least at the level of a great magician."
"According to the movie, after completing the first step, the second step is a strange prop called a levitation machine. As long as these two props are used, time travel can be completed?"
"Well, it's probably just a setting."
"Whether it's a setting or not, it's very attractive anyway."
"If the setting in the movie is really feasible, doesn't that mean that space teleportation magic is a prerequisite for time magic? As long as we solve another mystery, we can achieve time travel?"
"this… "
Although the discussion among the magicians became more and more heated, when it came to practice, most of them consciously kept silent.
After all, regardless of whether time magic can be created, whether the Mage's Tower can allow the emergence of time magic is a big question.
After all, interfering with time means distorting history, and if this behavior is not restrained, the impact will be staggering and immeasurable.
Similarly, none of the lecturers on the platform spoke at this moment, including the great magicians who were capable of performing teleportation magic.
On this issue, even the most experienced wizards don't know what attitude to show and can only keep silent in the end.
…
At the top of the Mage's Tower, the great sages also fell silent at this moment.
After a long while, Dean Hohenheim sighed and said:
"It is our duty as magicians to explore the essence of magic. The issue of public order and morality is not something we should consider. If anyone wants to do research in this area in the future, just go ahead and do it. The only thing you need to do is to report your research results in the lecture hall. You are absolutely not allowed to conduct research privately. Otherwise, the crime will be the same as conducting undead research privately!"
"Um."
Many great sages nodded in response to Dean Hohenheim's speech. No one thought there was anything wrong with the heavy punishment that was the same as the undead research. Some even thought it was a little too light.
After all, although the mystery of time is fascinating, if this research were to be realized, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Chapter 191: The grand charm of science fiction works!
Chapter 191
In the movie, Okabe Rintaro took action immediately after he decided to build a time machine.
The first thing he had to do was to recreate his previous time-travel experiment using an oven and send an email to the past.
The only problem was that several previous attempts to replicate the experiment had failed, with only the earliest banana experiment and an experiment involving sending an email to the past succeeding.
This means that the Future Technology Institute has not yet mastered the ability to stably manipulate time travel.
To this end, the institute first called the emails sent to the past "D-mail", and then Okabe Ryutaro also put forward his own hypothesis for the experiment.
"The experiment has been failing. I think it's because we overlooked the simplest and most decisive condition - the time of occurrence!"
"The first D-mail occurred between 12 and 13 o'clock, and the second one occurred around 18 o'clock. This means that if we conduct the experiment in these two time periods, we may be able to reproduce the success!"
“It’s worth a try!”
Although Okabe Rintaro's guess was too simple, everyone still began to try the experiment.
Soon, as the experimental preparations were completed, the oven began to release amazing energy again.
After a while, the bananas put into the oven disappeared again, leaving only a piece of green banana on the table.
Therefore, Okabe Rintaro's hypothesis can almost be said to have been confirmed.
"Although the conditions were simpler than I thought, it actually worked..."
So, everyone immediately started to study the laws of time machine operation. After about half a day of experiments, Makise Kurisu finally summed up the general laws of time travel, that is, how to control the approximate time of arrival, and the maximum number of texts that can be sent is only 36 letters.
After that, everyone discussed the matter of the time machine again and then left.
During his break, Okabe Rintaro suddenly received an email from Kiryu Moeka, who had been looking for an old computer. When she learned that Okabe Rintaro had obtained the IBN5100, she immediately came to look for it.
Afterwards, Kiryu Moeka wanted to borrow the IBN5100, but was ruthlessly rejected by Okabe Rintaro.
For this reason, when she pestered him again, she accidentally learned about D-mail and the time machine from Okabe Ryutaro.
So, Kiryu Moeka immediately sent a strange email, asking Okabe Rintaro if he was FB.
In response to this strange question, Okabe Ryutaro thought that the girl was also a chuunibyou like himself, so he invited her to join the research institute without further ado.
By accident, Kiryu Moeka became the fifth member of the research institute.
Afterwards, everyone started the experiment again, including Kiryu Moeka, and everyone began to think about what to do with this D-mail. After all, changing the past and reshaping the future, such things are exciting to think about.
In the end, Okabe Rintaro decided to use this ability to buy lottery tickets and become rich overnight.
Although it was too vulgar, no one stopped him and let him conduct the experiment.
“Crack!”
In an instant, as the text message was sent, an indescribable feeling of illusion came over Okabe Rintaro.
Then, the screen went dark and a long string of numbers began to rotate rapidly, finally stopping at 0.571015.
…
Seeing the scene on the screen, all the audience felt a tightness in their hearts.
Whether ordinary people or magicians, at this moment, they can't help but want to know whether Okabe Rintaro really succeeded in changing the past.
"Just one email changed the past? Not really, right?"
"Speaking of which, if my past self suddenly received a strange email, would I really believe it?"
"After the world line moves, what will people's memories become?"
"If you can't remember the actions that changed the world, wouldn't it be a waste of effort?"
"Isn't this thing called lottery just a group bet? A lot of people bet on the same thing, the winner takes all, the dealer takes all, it's exactly the same..."
"… "
Various sounds were heard, and people did not pause for a moment. They all stared at the scene on the screen nervously, wanting to see the result of this D-mail.
…
When Okabe Rintaro regained consciousness, he was still standing in the laboratory and the people around him had not changed.
Suddenly, just when Okabe Rintaro thought that the experiment had failed and the world had not changed at all, Makise Kurisu beside him suddenly said:
"What's wrong with you? Okabe, weren't we just discussing what to send back to the past?"
"What did you say? Didn't we just conduct an experiment?"
"No, we are still just discussing it and haven't even started sending emails yet."
"How could it be..."
Faced with this fact that was completely different from his memory, Okabe Ryutaro opened the email immediately and successfully found the email that was sent to his mobile phone a week ago.
At the same time, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the room, and Liu Huazi walked in from outside, panting and saying:
"Mr. Kyouma, I'm sorry!"
As soon as Ryukako came over, she bowed and handed over a lottery ticket, then added:
"I'm sorry, you asked me to buy this lottery ticket, saying that I might win the prize, but I got the number wrong..."
"this… "
Seeing what was happening before her eyes, before anyone else could come to their senses, Makise Kurisu couldn't help but mutter:
"Okabe, could it be that you have used the telephone oven..."
"… "
Okabe Rintaro was stunned on the spot, with cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.
…
The explosive scenes in the movie made all the audience exclaim in surprise.
At this moment, even those who did not watch the plot carefully could not help but realize what kind of incredible ability the protagonist possessed.
Being able to arbitrarily change past facts and adjust the current world line, this god-like ability made all the audience excited, but also made them feel an inexplicable fear.