The dial of a pocket watch is a concentric circle composed of seven overlapping circles.
A piece of turquoise is inlaid in the middle of the first circle, and the next six circles surround the central gemstone, forming six equally spaced circles. The inside of each circle is engraved with densely packed scales and letters, twelve o'clock Each position has a delicate small pointer.
If you observe carefully, you will find that the shape and pattern of each pointer are different. There is also a gemstone the size of half a grain of rice inlaid on the top of the pointer, and the types and colors of the gemstones are different.
This pocket watch is obviously old, and the brass on the dial is inevitably worn and rusted, and even the scales and letters drawn on it have become very blurred.
Ji Thrush had better eyesight than Mo Tiangen and the Fan family siblings, so he was also the fastest to distinguish those slender cursive letters on the dial.
"Above these concentric circles, each circle of letters is a word."
Classmate Xiaoniao narrowed his eyes and carefully identified each word:
"From the outside to the inside, they are power, time, space, control, soul... and, truth?"
"The guest officer has really good eyesight!"
Yao Wanguan immediately applauded the venue and flapped his wings.
"Each circle here represents the tendency of an SCP item."
Then, the whalebill began to explain the function of this A-level collection called "Energy Meter".
"Actually, no matter how strange the SCP objects are, their essence is a collection of various energy tendencies."
As he spoke, he tapped the dial with the feathers on the tips of his wings:
"Generally speaking, according to the abilities of various SCP items, their energy can be divided into six types: power, time, space, control, soul, and truth."
"Oh shit."
Mo Tiangen couldn't help complaining:
"If it weren't for some subtle differences, I would have thought you were copying the setting of Infinity Stones from "Avengers"!"
The whalebill's wings bent behind its back involuntarily.
He was deeply impressed by this muscular man who had killed him by 20% at a bargain price. Now that he interrupted him, new and old hatreds surged in his heart, and he almost had the urge to beat him up.
Profiteer Yao recited "The customer is God" three times in his heart, trying to put on a smile.
"Actually, your understanding is not wrong."
Yao Wanguan continued to explain:
"For example, the first round of 'power', such as monsters, demons, giants and other types with superior combat power, or creatures in groups, and those items with powerful expansion capabilities are all listed here."
"Uh-huh."
Everyone nodded to show that they understood.
"For example, when you get close to a huge monster, the pointer on the 'power' ring on this pocket watch will deflect. The closer you are to the target, the more obvious the rotation of the pointer will be."
"I see!"
Ji Thrush, Mo Tiangen, Fan Hemian, and Fan Luming said together, and Ren Jianmo also nodded slightly.
According to Yao Wanguan's explanation, the remaining five rings also have their own corresponding SCP items.
The pointer of the "time" ring will respond to creatures or objects that have the ability to manipulate time.
For example, the very famous microwave oven that can pass time quickly in the SCP item list, and the undead old man who didn't know how long he lived.
The "space" ring corresponds to those items that can manipulate space.
They are usually random doors or teleportation arrays that can be seen everywhere in fantasy novels, and some never-ending space. Or those SCP items that can cause spatial disorder or expansion in a certain area, such as the mustard grains that can hold the entire Mount Meru in Indian mythology, are in this category.
The "control" part, as the name suggests, refers to those SCP items that can affect or manipulate the senses, perception, spirit, consciousness and memory of other creatures.
Such as magic sound, hypnosis, brain control, brainwashing, etc., are all covered.
The "soul" ring sounds very mysterious, but it is generally divided into two categories.
The first type is those SCP items that are invisible to the naked eye but can detect abnormal energy, such as a house called "haunted"; the second type is those AIs with unexplainable intelligence and thinking ability, or Inorganic objects capable of information interaction with humans, such as the "omniscient diary" - just write a question on a blank page, and the answer to the question will automatically appear on the next page.
Yao Wanguan explained the first five items very slickly, but when it came to the item "truth", he was at a loss for words.
"Tsk, how should I put it..."
He scratched his huge beak with his wings, and seemed to be trying to find a more appropriate explanation:
"SCP items that can move the pointer of the 'truth' ring are very rare, but once used, they often cause major accidents that affect the fate of the 'world'."
Yao Wanguan's big furry face was wrinkled, and his pair of small eyes narrowed into two inverted triangles. After thinking hard for a while, he finally remembered a specific example.
"When you read the materials, you should all have an impression of 'Prophet Pictorial'?"
Everyone nodded.
That's a rather distinctive SCP item, too.
The so-called "Prophet Pictorial" refers to an abnormal phenomenon that occurred in a certain town.
In that small town, at irregular intervals, a news report that looked like pure nonsense without any factual basis would be published in a certain mainstream media publication.
And as long as this news is published, whether it is murder, arson, group violence, cult activities or even natural disasters, and no matter how absurd and absurd the content described, it will definitely become a fact at some point in the future.
After the SCP Foundation noticed such anomalies, it made many attempts to stop those things from happening.
It's just that they tried countless ways, such as closing the place where the incident happened in advance, or simply trying to directly kill the culprit who caused the incident, but in the end they all failed due to force majeure, and every time they would cause a large number of casualties on their own side.
In the end the SCP Foundation surrendered.
They compromised with the "Prophet Pictorial", a phenomenon that cannot be explained by common sense, and stopped trying in vain to stop the "prophecy" from happening. Instead, they tried to rescue the victims as soon as possible after the accident happened, so as to reduce its damage. harm.
"So, you're saying that an SCP item like 'The Illustrated Prophet' is a 'truth' type?"
Fan Luming said:
"In other words, it represents some irreversible force that can directly affect reality, right?"
Yao Wanguan flapped his wings vigorously and applauded the witty Doctor Xiaolu frantically, "That's right, that's it!"
He paused, and added the last characteristic of this collection.
"Of course, the properties of most SCP items are not so detailed."
Then the shoebill gave a very simple and easy-to-understand example:
"Take the participant who obtained this collection, for example, when his target was a disembodied female phantom, and this phantom has the ability to make people who approach him feel involuntarily frightened and shuddering-this means that That is, she has two attributes of 'soul' and 'control' at the same time."
Prof Yao said, and tapped the two pointers inlaid with obsidian and amethyst:
"Later, the participant discovered that the pointers on the 'soul' and 'control' rings were deflected. Of course, the pointer deflection of the 'soul' ring was more obvious."
Everyone understood, and looked at each other, and they all saw the astonishment in each other's eyes.
Indeed, this collection is really useful to them.
This pocket watch can not only warn them of unknown SCP items in advance, but also let them know the nature of the item in advance through the deflection of the pointer on each ring. It is like traveling at home and killing people in the SCP-like "world" A must-have tool for setting fire.
Fan Hemian thought of another question, "What is the effective range of this pocket watch?"
"Well, that's not easy to say."
Yao Wanguan replied:
"Because it provides instructions by detecting the energy of SCP items. If it's just a prank-level gadget and the energy is too weak, you may have to walk into the containment room of that thing to detect it."
Speaking of this, he deliberately made a turning point.
"However, if it is a 'big guy' that can affect an entire area or even cause a world-class disaster, then the energy will be stronger. It is estimated that the detection distance can be calculated in 'kilometers'."
Fan Hemian nodded, expressing that he had no other problems.
So Yao Wanguan rubbed his wings, twitched his facial muscles, and put on a flattering smile, "So, are you going to buy it?"
Generally speaking, the owner of the seller acts as a customer service person and explains a product so clearly from function to use that buyers will feel sorry if they just ask whether they want to buy it or not.
But the problem is, this profiteer from Yao is especially good at watching dishes. Seeing that Ji Thrush and others seemed very excited, he immediately opened his mouth and quoted a high price of 120,000 points.
"Wait, this is just an A-level collectible!"
Mo Tiangen immediately shouted, "Last month, our altar 'Millennium Drunk' was also an A-level collectible, right? You only sold 12,000 points, and after deducting the commission, you only gave us 8,200! Now this pocket watch It doubled ten times, how dare you!?"
Yao Wanguan snorted lightly.
He thought to himself, it's a seller's market now, you poor little ones who are about to face the SCP 'world', you are still waiting for my help!
"Because the function of this collection is much rarer than a high-grade sleeping pill that can only be used three times."
The shoebill thought for a while, then added earnestly:
"And, when you come back from the SCP-like 'world', can you sell it again!"
Of course, he didn't say a word.
—The premise is, if you can come back.