On the night when the accident happened at the mine in the small town of Shambala, there was sudden movement in the Garden of Eden.
In a room, the girl Pandora, who had been sleeping on the bed for a long time, suddenly frowned, as if she had a nightmare, and couldn't help but turn over... then turned over again, and then turned over again, and then turned over again...
The bed was big, but it couldn't hold Pandora. She turned over again and again, and finally fell off the bed with a "bang".
Pandora, who fell to the ground, finally stopped turning over, sniffed, curled up, and fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long it took, but with a "squeak", the door opened and Richard walked in.
Seeing Pandora sleeping on the ground, Richard shook his head, carried Pandora back to the bed, took a few glances to make sure that Pandora showed no signs of turning over and falling again, and then turned and left.
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Richard was not aware of the accident that occurred at the mine in the small town of Shambhala. In other words, the impact of the accident did not spread to Jialan City.
So, in the next half month, he was busy with various research projects in an orderly manner according to his own plan.
More than half a month later, on a day approaching the cold month of November, he was rarely busy, but was waiting for someone to arrive in the living room of Blue Lake Manor.
The person who came was none other than Joseph from the Truth Society.
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At noon.
In the reception room of Blue Lake Manor, the butler Jia Lie respectfully served two cups of hot tea and then quickly left.
In the main seat of the living room, Richard took a sip of tea, looked at Joseph who was sitting in the guest seat, and said bluntly: "Wizard Joseph, I'm very curious why you came to my place. I received your message a few days ago. I'm just guessing about the upcoming news. Could it be that the truth has some mission to send me? Or does it require me to provide some special magic pattern skills? Or, what I gave you before about obtaining those undead souls? Is there a problem with the information about wizard’s spellcasting materials?”
After listening to Richard's words, Joseph shook his head and said without saying anything: "Wizard Richard, you are overthinking it. The reason why I came here is not what you think. For the Truth Society, there are currently no tasks required. You take action. You have already provided enough services with magic pattern skills, and it is hard to increase the amount for you. We are still studying the clues you provided before, and we have not found any problems."
"Then what's going on?" Richard asked seriously.
"Actually, I'm just passing by to visit you and bring you something." Joseph said, "The main purpose of my visit this time is to deal with a matter in the west of Jialan City. You don't need to know the specific content. It’s boring anyway, and it has nothing to do with you.”
"That's it?" Richard spread his hands, "Then what did you bring me?"
"This is it." Joseph reached into his arms, took out a fist-sized crystal ball, and explained, "This is a spell prop used for communication in the organization. It is relatively precious, but considering that you are in Jialan City, It was inconvenient to contact us, so we finally decided to give you one.
If anything happens to you or Wizard Vicky, you can use this crystal ball to communicate with us and pass on information. Then we will have someone to contact you and understand it.
Let me tell you first, don’t underestimate this crystal ball. It is completely different from an ordinary communication crystal ball. Ordinary communication crystal balls are made using prophecy spells. They are rare in quantity and easily damaged. There are great restrictions on their use. Information transmission is often one-way, and true communication cannot be achieved.
The crystal ball given to you is made of the unique magic pattern spell in our organization. You can basically use it anywhere in the world. The communication is also two-way and can quickly transmit key information. "
"So powerful?!" After listening to Joseph's words, Richard raised his eyebrows, became interested, and asked, "What's the specific method of using it?"
"How to use it? I really need to explain this to you carefully, because the operation of the crystal ball is relatively complicated to prevent unrelated people from getting it and abusing it." Joseph said, then holding the crystal ball and talking about it, "The correct way to operate the crystal ball , divided into three parts: the first part is startup, the second part is transmitting information, and the third part is shutdown.
First of all, the first part is activated. You have to use twelve streams of mana to inject them in order, which are...
Then there is the second part of transmitting information. You have to control the injection of different mana flows, activate different magic patterns in the crystal ball, and emit different set messages. For example, if you send the first type of message, it is danger, the second type of message is safety, and the third type of message...
Finally, the third part is closed. After each use, the crystal ball must be closed. You have to use the mana flow... "
After a while, Joseph finished speaking, paused for a while to give Richard time to consume, then looked at Richard and asked: "How is it, Wizard Richard, are you a little shocked? Do you think this crystal ball is The design is extremely exquisite? Although I am not proficient in magic patterns, I know that this crystal ball is an advanced creation of magic pattern technology. A magic pattern master like you should be able to better understand how powerful this crystal ball is."
"I do understand." Richard nodded and did not deny it, but his expression did not show too much surprise. Instead, he was frowning and thinking.
After thinking for a moment, Richard looked up at Joseph and asked seriously: "Wizard Joseph, is this all the use of this crystal ball?"
"if not?"
"Well, according to what you said, the function of this crystal ball can only transmit some vague information, right? Both parties with the crystal ball can indeed communicate, but before communication, which signal corresponds to that kind of thing must be predicted in advance. Just set it up.
In this way, if things develop normally, there will naturally be no problems with communication. However, once things develop beyond expectations, communication becomes difficult to explain. "
"But that's enough, isn't it?" Joseph didn't think there was anything wrong. "The crystal ball can send more than a dozen types of information. These information already cover most communication situations. Long-distance communication is basically sufficient. If the situation If an accident does occur, it will be difficult to solve the problem through communication, so just send someone to support directly."
"..." After listening to Joseph's words, Richard was silent for a while, then looked at Joseph and said, "Then have you ever thought about using this crystal ball to directly send clear text messages?"
"Text message?" Joseph was stunned. "How is this possible? The crystal ball cannot transmit images."
"The crystal ball may not be able to transmit pictures, but text information may not be transmitted using pictures." Richard looked at Joseph and said, "You said that the crystal ball can send more than ten types of information, so what are the regulations for these dozen types of information? How about a certain character? By combining the characters in a specific way, it becomes text. By adding specified delimiters in the middle, it becomes a sentence with clear meaning.
If there are too many characters to distinguish and send them all, we can even compile the characters into two different symbols. For example '·' and '—'. '·——' represents 1, '··——' represents 2..."
Richard spoke for a long time, giving many examples and providing Joseph with a practical communication plan.
Listening to these words, Joseph went from being curious at first, to politely concealed suspicion, to undisguised suspicion, to touched thinking, and finally to complete conviction of shock.
His mouth opened slightly.
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