With a soft sound, the door of the underground testing ground opened, and an old man in a dirty white coat walked out of the elevator with a swagger carrying a bunch of things wrapped in a black dustproof cloth.
"Mr. Newton..."
"Dean!"
"Sir!"
The representatives stood up and walked up one after another, but saw that he just waved his hands boredly and said impatiently: "Okay, I guess you can't wait any longer. Since your touting skills are really not very good, I have nothing to say. I want to tell you that this demonstration will officially begin.”
The representatives retreated to their seats in embarrassment, only to see Newton swaggering to the center of the demonstration venue carrying the bunch of things.
He smashed the black dustproof cloth in his hand on the ground, raised his head and said loudly:
"What I'm demonstrating this time is an urgent commission sent by the Royal Orchestra half a month ago. I created a sealing device specifically for the task. I named it 'Mary'. If you don't like it, just think of one yourself. Call her by a more prestigious name."
Just as he was speaking, through the slowly opening gate on the ceiling, a huge iron cage was slowly lowered with iron locks. In the iron cage, criss-crossing shackles tightly restrained the huge black figure.
The human-like thing was bound by iron shackles and chains, and was covered with pale bone barbs. In addition, it had dark, oily, shaggy hair. The hair exuded a stench, as if it had not been washed for a long time. Take a bath.
That thing looks more like a gorilla than a human being... It's just that an orangutan is so huge, so big that it makes people stand dozens of meters away. When you look at it, you can't help but feel chills on your back. .
It stared at so many living creatures and struggled wildly. The iron cage made a whining sound and almost collapsed under the strange force.
"Mature ape ghost?"
Almost all the representatives subconsciously moved a little behind Andre, the deputy leader of the Royal Orchestra: Everyone knows that Newton is a lunatic, and lunacy will definitely cause trouble. And he has definitely caused a lot of trouble so far.
So, if something goes wrong, that's the safest place.
"The introduction is over, then, let's start?" Newton looked at their pale expressions, and there was undisguised mockery in his eyes: "This is also for the sake of your hearts."
"Forgive me, Mr. Newton."
Andre suddenly spoke: "Excuse me, where is the work you call 'Mary'?"
"Well, isn't it?"
Newton kicked the bunch of things under the dustproof cloth beside him and said, "Mr. Andre, your eyesight is not good? Come to me another day and I will help you get a pair of glasses for free."
Andre frowned, narrowed his eyes, distinguished carefully, and asked after a long time: "I'm sorry, I didn't feel any ether fluctuations. I can sense the things you brought, they are just ordinary steel instruments, there is no Any note or movement.”
"Well, it's like this. Recently, the aunt of the alchemist collective who is responsible for performing the alchemy process for us came here. She has irregular menstruation and it is too troublesome, so I made a difficult decision."
Newton took care of himself and unbuttoned the black dustproof cloth: "I gave them half a year's leave to let them have a good rest. Now one of them has gone to the beach in Burgundy to bask in the sun, right? Oh. , by the way, I got all the money without spending any budget. Since everyone is on vacation, I have no choice but to find another way to solve the problem by myself... Therefore, no alchemy is used in the whole process. - This thing is A work of pure mechanical engineering.”
His words stunned everyone.
While everyone was in shock, he took off his dustproof steps and revealed the steel creations in the darkness - they were like long cones used as fixed targets and markers during geological surveys
The slender and heavy long cone is about one meter in length. The tip of the long cone is sharp and the angle is so sharp that it hurts people's eye membranes.
The six long cones do not need to be bound with anything, and the gaps fit together as if they were born that way.
Those things looked like throwing guns used to kill people, and there was no doubt about their lethality, but no matter how you looked at them... they didn't look like things that would appear in the hands of a musician.
"What kind of weapon is this?"
Someone was stunned.
"This is not a weapon."
Newton weighed the long cone in his hand with a mysterious smile: "This is a musical instrument, friends."
There was silence among the crowd, as if they did not understand the common language, they looked at each other, and even when they exchanged glances, they could only exchange blank expressions to confusion. Finally, the youngest among them stood up and said under the pressure of his eyes: "But Professor Newton, this is not an alchemical weapon..."
"Who said that music cannot be released without alchemical weapons?"
Newton picked up the long awl and stabbed it suddenly on the ground. The long awl penetrated the ground with ease and was extremely sharp. "As I said before, people who come here don't need to bring brains. It's useless anyway. Just listen to me. Now, listen..."
He glanced sideways at the young man with a complicated expression:
“—I say it’s a musical instrument, then it’s a musical instrument.”
At the front, musician Andre frowned slightly but did not speak. Newton looked at the crowd that had returned to silence, chuckled, and thrust the gun-like thing in his hand around the iron cage into the ground.
collapse! collapse! collapse!
The three long cones were perfectly embedded in an invisible ring, forming an equilateral triangle with each other, surrounding the ape ghost in the iron cage.
He groped for a long time in his pocket and found half a twisted cigarette. After groping for another long time, he looked impatient: "Charle, where did you die? Come and give me some fire!"
Charles curled his lips in the distance, rubbed his hands, flew over with a ray of fire, and lit the cigarette accurately. Newton took two long puffs, puffing out green smoke happily and popping the cigarette butt behind him.
Bang!
Flames suddenly burst out from the iron cage, and the iron cage that had been doused with fuel was ignited. Under the burning flames, the weak ape ghost became furious and struggled hard. The originally precarious iron cage screamed.
In a series of sharp sounds, the iron shackles were twisted into weird shapes and fell apart. The chains snapped and pieces of iron flew out, splashing on the ground, causing sparks to rub and breaking the stone slabs.
With a roar, the burning iron cage completely fell apart. In the raging flames, the furious demon completely lost its shackles. With a sharp roar, the flames turned into candles in the wind amid the wild tremors.
"Newton, are you crazy!" someone in the crowd screamed.
Newton looked at him with a sneer, his back turned to the burning demon, his expression mocking. The ape ghost was furious, unscrewed the lock on his body, and rushed forward with a roar. It also remembers this old gangster who peed next to his cage when he was too lazy to find a toilet!
In an instant, everyone turned pale. Andre, who was as calm as a rock, was also stunned for a moment. He moved his fingers slightly, about to trigger the heart sound and release the music, but the movement stopped abruptly.
Because there is an electric light that lights up out of thin air!
The moment it crossed the invisible boundary, the three pierced into the stone slab, and the long cone forming an invisible ring suddenly shook, and the sound of friction springs came from the long cone.
In an instant, the long cone pierced into the stone slab suddenly lifted up and popped out of thin air, revealing the fine gears and reeds hidden inside. They are so densely hidden in the slender handle, spinning so fast that it becomes dazzling in an instant.
The crystals filled in it were vibrated, causing electric light. The electric light flowed through sixteen links in an instant following the guidance revealed. Until the end, hundreds of reeds vibrated at the same time, rippled the air, and made sounds one after another.
Those tiny sounds intertwined together, but turned into singing like a girl. The ethereal and childish singing voice spread to all directions.
In just an instant, invisible walls rose from the ground and turned into a cage stronger than gold and iron.
The furious ape demon hit the wall, the three long cones buzzed, and the electric lights were connected in series with each other, making the invisible resistance more and more obvious.
It's like a miracle.
But compared to this, those guests who came to participate were more concerned about another damn thing!
"Chant?"
The officer of the second department turned pale and almost jumped up from his chair. He pointed at the long cone with a trembling finger: "It, it, it... that thing is singing!"
Andre stared at the three long cones in astonishment, listening to the ethereal sound that was thick in the air. So pure and beautiful, but with terrifying precision that humans can never achieve, without any mistakes, terrifying stability!
"Mary?"
He muttered to himself, finally understanding what it meant.
Because the ethereal female voice sang softly: "Mary had a little lamb, and it was all white. No matter where Mary went, it would always run with her... The little lamb loved Mary, and Mary loved the little lamb... "
— "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
So simple, like a children's song. Even after listening to it once, you can get the general idea - this is a temporary play by an unknown musician in the past, simple but widely circulated.
Apprentices from most sects will learn this melody before getting started. All "intervals" use the simplest and most common relationships, just like exercises in textbooks. The basics are almost completely unnecessary.
All the notes make up the melody, and there is only one "fence" effect: to herd the sheep and prevent the lambs of Mary from getting lost...
But now, this song, which is sung among people and almost forgotten, has been recorded into the machine, split into thousands of different sounds, and then combined again, turning into a song calling for the ether. .
Ether responded to the call and achieved the effect...
It is not led by any musician, nor has it undergone any alchemical transformation. There is no input of any notes, and it cannot interact with the ether.
It actually... worked? !
And what’s even weirder is that the fence has no defensive power at all. It is the foundation of the foundation, the entry-level entry. A powerful shackles rune is more effective than it comes!
So what the hell is this thing that has the power to imprison mad apes and ghosts in it...
Andre's mind was spinning, and he pressed his fingers faintly, carefully detecting every fluctuation, until finally, he felt as if he was struck by thunder:
"homology?"
Those three mechanical dead objects are actually in sync!
The musicians united with each other and the method of releasing symphony actually appeared on the mechanical dead? !
"That's right, in sync."
Newton chuckled softly, pulled out another "Mary", and stared at its faintly trembling blade: "The same alloy formula and casting method, the same structure and assembly method. Each one consumes a specialized machine. Lathes are used to build it, ensuring that there is no observable error between them. The result is an extremely enhanced 'resonance' effect - hehe, in the final analysis it is just a more complex 'resonance' effect. As long as you find the special nodes, Then, like this..."
"—The effect is doubled!"
Bang!
The long cone in his hand suddenly entered the ground, and "Mary" popped out again for a strange moment, the machine spring trembled, and the light female voice merged into the indistinguishable trio.
Just when the four singing voices merged with each other and became one, the electric light bursting from the four long cones had stung people's eyes. In the "fence", the frantically struggling ape demon froze, and involuntarily jumped back.
The strength of the barrier doubled instantly, and there was not much room left for it to struggle.
Bang!
The fifth long cone penetrated, and the effect of resonance and synchronization burst out again, doubling again! In an instant, the entire boundary demarcated by the long cone was filled with invisible power.
As if being thrown into the deep sea, in an instant, the huge ape ghost shrank into a ball, its whole body creaking. It seemed to feel something, making a cry-like sound, struggling hard, but struggling.
Outside the barrier, Newton raised the last long cone high and stabbed it downwards with a wild laugh.
collapse! ! !
There was a loud noise, and crazy power burst out. His body was bounced away by the rebound, and he rolled on the ground in a mess. A group of people hurriedly tried to help him up, but he was kicked away suddenly.
Even though his nosebleed was caused by the shock, his eyes were still feverishly staring at the six long cones. In the electric light that resonates with each other in series, the six long cones nailed to the nodes have been burned red by the frantic power, releasing terrifying power.
The stone slab could not withstand the multiplied power again and fell apart, leaving a frantic six-pointed star on the ground!
And in the "fence" after three doublings, the ape demon was already screaming desperately, but the sound seemed to come through layers of walls, indescribably dull and ethereal.
Violent pressure surrounded it from all sides, as if it was caught between iron walls, and the sound of broken bones sounded one after another... It is collapsing! Collapse inwards!
Everyone looked at the center of the six-pointed star with numbness, at the frantic demon suspended in mid-air that was constantly shrinking and collapsing. It had become bloody and bloody, turning into a ball of rapidly rotating flesh.
Until the end, I was completely overwhelmed!
Charles's eyes shone and he asked in a low voice: "Do you want to tell the kitchen: Meatballs will definitely be very chewy if you do this in the future!"
Newton was stunned, and then slapped his bald forehead: "Damn it, why didn't I think of that!"
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