Busy, constantly busy.
In the blink of an eye, three days passed.
Three days later, Eden Machining Sector, Research Laboratory.
Richard stood in front of the operating table, with a tired look on his face, but his eyes were sharp, staring at the five crystal balls placed on the operating table.
Those were five crystal balls made by him personally. Compared with the ones given by Joseph, they were extremely rough. First of all, it was more than a circle bigger in size, like the head of an ugly baby. Secondly, the layout of the magic patterns on it is very confusing, as if it has been pieced together casually.
But Richard looked at the five crystal balls without any disdain. Instead, he solemnly stretched out his hand and pressed it on the leftmost crystal ball.
After injecting mana in a specific order, three colors of "red, yellow and blue" light quickly appeared inside the crystal ball on the left, which lasted for two seconds and then slowly dissipated.
And at the moment when the internal brilliance of the crystal ball on the left disappeared, the other four crystal balls on the right buzzed, and the radiance appeared inside. They were three types of "red, yellow and blue" - exactly the same. They lasted for two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds and twenty seconds respectively before dissipating one after another.
Success!
After Richard saw the phenomenon, his eyebrows rose, and then his whole body relaxed.
Yes, it worked!
After three days of almost sleepless efforts, his research finally achieved the breakthrough he expected, and he initially cracked the communication crystal ball of the Truth Society.
In other words: He now knows the simple principles of communication crystal balls and can use these principles to do some interesting things.
Very interesting thing!
Thinking of this, Richard smiled. He walked towards the table on the side, took out a brand new blank scroll, held a quill, and wrote while thinking, summarizing this research project.
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"Shashasha..."
“Through a series of experiments, it is now basically confirmed that the Truth Communication Crystal Ball relies on a special energy wave to transmit information.
The mechanism is that mana is input as energy, and through specific magic spells, the energy is converted into energy waves, stored with certain information, and then emitted.
The energy waves emitted are extremely penetrating and can pass through many obstacles and reach the receiving crystal ball. After receiving it, the crystal ball will decrypt and express the signals contained in the energy waves. "
As he wrote this, Richard stopped writing for a moment and thought of some doubts.
For example, the issue of the effective range of energy wave transmission.
He conducted experiments in the research room, almost face-to-face communication, and naturally there was no problem in transmitting and receiving energy waves, but it was different in the outside world.
The intensity of the energy waves emitted by the crystal ball is limited. During the one-to-one propagation process, due to scattering and absorption by the medium, the farther the distance, the worse the communication quality will be.
According to the information he got from Joseph, the crystal ball not only supports one-to-one communication, but also supports one-to-many and many-to-many complex communication.
This is definitely not something that can be solved by just relying on the terminal’s communication crystal ball. At the very least, it requires a signal transmission and processing center that serves as a hub.
In addition, according to what Joseph said, there is no barrier to contact from any corner of the world. It is not easy to do this.
In a sense, this is already on par with technology on Earth.
How is it done on Earth? This is achieved through dense signal transmitting stations on the ground and numerous communication satellites in outer space, forming a huge communication network.
There are no satellites in this world, so how can we solve this problem
Richard thought.
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't get the answer, so I had to give up temporarily and study it slowly later.
"Shashasha..."
Richard continued writing.
"The results of the seventh and eighth experiments show that the information transmitted by the crystal ball can be intercepted..."
Yes, crystal ball information can be intercepted.
In a sense, the crystal ball is like a radio station on the earth, able to intercept the energy waves it transmits and obtain the transmitted information.
Of course, to really do this, you must know the frequency of the energy wave emitted by the other party in advance, as well as the precise time of emission.
Then again, once successfully intercepted, according to the current communication level of the Truth Society, the intercepted information is almost equivalent to plain text, and there is no need to decrypt it at all.
This is naturally of no use at the moment, because he is in the Truth Society and can easily get the information he wants. But if you fall out with the Truth Society in the future, you can use this method to give the Truth Society a big surprise.
Thinking of this, Richard narrowed his eyes subconsciously, then returned to normal, and continued writing with the quill pen.
"Shashasha..."
"Through the tenth and eleventh experiments, it can be concluded that the energy waves transmitted by the crystal ball can be interfered by high-energy reactions.
Under normal circumstances, crystal ball transmissions have no effect. However, once a high-energy field appears around, the signal transmitted by the crystal ball will be distorted with a high probability, and the transmission distance will also be significantly reduced. When the strength of the nearby high-energy field exceeds a certain value (Appendix 1), the energy waves transmitted by the crystal ball will be unable to take effect and will be blocked.
If the energy field value continues to increase and reaches a peak value (Appendix 2) in a very short time, unstable fluctuations will occur, and the fluctuation amplitude will exceed half of the peak value. The surrounding large-area energy wave transmission environment will be seriously damaged. In a short period of time, Communication is completely unavailable for a while.
At the same time, during this process, if the communication crystal ball within the range is in working condition, it will also be severely damaged. The consequences include but are not limited to cracks, magic patterns melting, and partial shattering... "
After writing a long paragraph, Richard read it out of habit, suddenly raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but murmured: "This seems a bit like an electromagnetic pulse."
Yes, it's a bit like an electromagnetic pulse.
Electromagnetic pulse, abbreviated as EMP, is a special physical phenomenon. Electromagnetic radiation generally produced by explosions, lightning, sunspots, conduit effects or electrical sparks, or alternating electromagnetic fields that produce dramatic changes in photoelectrons due to Compton scattering or photon scattering, acting on electronic materials and blasting equipment or surrounding media.
The effective time of electromagnetic pulse generally does not exceed one second, and in just one second, any unprotected electrical appliances and anything connected to wires, such as power systems, electronic equipment, microchips, etc., will be affected by electromagnetic The impact of pulses may cause irreversible and irreparable damage.
In addition, electromagnetic pulses can cause drastic changes in the charge density of the atmosphere, causing severe interference in various bands below UHF, leading to complete interruption of communications for a period of time.
For example, if a large enough electromagnetic pulse occurs in the center of a city, mobile phones, computers, digital products, electronic instruments, etc. in the entire city will be burned instantly. There was a power outage across the city, cars ran off the road because of damage to their electronic systems, factories exploded because they could not control their reactions, victims went crazy because they were unable to communicate with the outside world, and the entire city reached the edge of collapse.
This is electromagnetic pulse, this is EMP.