to the future...
This is a brand new term, one that has never been heard elsewhere.
It is said that almost every day in Cecil, there are such new words "emerging" from various fields. They are used to describe the ever-changing magic technology and to describe the changing order of Cecil. The proud Citizens of Cecil took pride in mastering and using these new vocabulary, and it even became a kind of label behavior that many people used to flaunt "decency".
Yuri was quite puzzled by this when listening to people chatting, but now looking at the impressive facility in front of him, with the scene that Gawain described in his mind, he suddenly understood a little bit.
It is truly a great creation that anyone should be able to show off with pride - even blind pride.
What made the Archbishops of the Eternal Sleeper at the scene a little ironic was that the technical foundation of this creation originated from the Eternal Sleeper Order—for hundreds of years, they have held this technology that can change the times, but they have never Thinking like Gawain Cecil, they carefully hid the technology and buried it deep underground along with their "great plan". They regarded this technology as a "forbidden weapon" to challenge the gods , and "forbidden weapons"... are naturally rare, secret, and precious, and must be isolated from "ordinary people".
Gawain looked at the silent archbishops and knew what they were thinking.
Their courage to challenge the gods is certainly commendable, but the idea of individual heroism to save the world alone limits their direction. Just like almost all extraordinary people of this era, they never thought about and never believed in the collective Power - Naturally, they don't understand what a state machine is, let alone what a civil war is.
"We've spent centuries going around in circles, burying ourselves in the ground until we've smothered our heads," Magnum muttered (at a volume audible throughout the venue), "Hundreds of years..."
"These hundreds of years have not been in vain," Gao Wen shook his head. "It is you who laid the technological foundation. No one can deny that. The creation of a technology is the most difficult part. Fortunately, you have completed it."
"I have a question," Wendy, who hadn't spoken yet, suddenly broke the silence, "Your Majesty, according to your plan, you plan to cover the entire empire with a similar computing center, and then let ordinary people use the ' Is the immersion chamber's device connected to the network?"
Gawain nodded: "Of course."
"Would ordinary people be willing to do this? Contribute their own brain computing power... Although it may be just redundant computing power, people who have doubts must account for the majority. Connected together, most people have very little access to magic in their lifetimes... ”
"I'm glad to see that a priest of the Eternal Sleeper is now starting to think about things from the perspective of ordinary people, but I want to correct you a little first—in Cecil, it's not as difficult for 'ordinary people' to get in touch with magic," Gao said. Wen interrupted Wendy, "Secondly, after the initial misgivings, the general public will soon start to welcome this thing, and we may even have to take some measures to limit the public's use of the immersion chamber to prevent It affects the production order of the real economy."
While talking, Gao Wen waved to people not far away. Yuri and the others were full of doubts because of Gao Wen's words, and were about to ask questions, when they heard a pleasant voice with a metallic tremolo from nearby, " "Gone with the wind" came over: "Come here - Your Majesty! I just finished calibrating the power ridge in the west area!"
As the voice fell, a huge silver-white metal ball with a wonderful smiling face on its surface floated in front of Gao Wen quickly, and there were stunned faces reflected on the shiny surface. Subconsciously exclaimed: "My ancestors... what is this?!"
Before Gao Wen could open his mouth, Nicholas Danzong had already turned his face (the ball) and flew in front of Magnum, and there was a curious metallic trill from the silver-white metal ball: "Ah, bearings and gears! What is this? thing?"
While talking, he quickly circled the Magnum twice, and the latter's flickering psychological projection suddenly seemed to fade into thin air, and even Selena, who was not far away, was affected. Nicholas Eggman marveled as he flew: "Weird, immaterial, intertwined energy bodies, mixed with subtle magnetic fields that can interfere with carbon-based biological nerve signals, seem to have no fixed form, but constantly calibrate their own range and energy through energy interaction. Features... kind of like Carmel, but a lot more blurry... ah, levers and pistons! The thing even has an emotional response!!"
Magnum's eyes were almost rounded, and while trying to avoid the invisible magic field around Nicholas Eggman, he shouted: "What is this terrible sphere talking about!"
"Nicholas, this is a guest." Gawain finally came to his senses at this time, and hurriedly stopped the strange behavior of the iron ball star. After calling the other party back, he couldn't help but asked curiously, "Do you see that in your eyes?" Did you arrive at an energy body without a fixed form?"
"Correct me, this ball is not seeing with 'eyes', but a kind of... well, it can be used as eyes, which is easy to understand," Nicholas Egg replied casually, "As for the energy body... Strictly speaking, I It feels like some kind of 'field' intertwined, and I know it's easy to confuse the two concepts, but they're just not the same...”
Gawain quickly understood what happened just now, and realized that he had overlooked some key points: Although Nicholas Egg was always an intelligent creature that could communicate normally with humans, and had emotions that humans could understand, he still It is an "alien life form" with a very strange life form. When faced with certain things that human beings are accustomed to, what he observes is likely to be completely different!
This time is the most obvious example—Magnum and Selena have become spirit bodies living in the psychic network. They can appear in front of ordinary people, relying entirely on "psychological projections" and disturbing the observers. The five senses are used to create the illusion that he "exists here", but Nicholas Egg...he doesn't have a nervous system, at least not like a human being.
He can still perceive the existence of Magnum and Selena, but what he "sees" is a large intertwined, turbulent but orderly "field"...
This is a very important phenomenon, and maybe it can be used in the field of research in the future, such as... further analysis of magic
Gawain shook his head slightly, and temporarily put aside the sudden research idea in his heart. He briefly introduced the eternal sleepers at the scene, and then pointed to Nicholas and said to Yuri and others: "This is the great craftsman of the empire. , Nicholas, you will often deal with this master craftsman in the future."
"If you are not familiar enough, please call me by my full name, Saint Nicholas Eggman," the silver-white metal ball fluttered twice in mid-air, and said in a reserved and proud tone, "And in terms of qualifications, you Some respect for me, too—a master craftsman is a great job."
Magnum looked at the metal ball in front of him with lingering fear—he sighed in his heart that this land ruled by wanderers from outside the territory was indeed full of terrible and weird things, but at least he didn't say what he thought directly.
After observing for two seconds, he decided to say hello to the other party, which may help to narrow the relationship between the two parties and reduce some unnecessary dangers in the process of "working together" in the future: "Nice to meet you, Nicholas Mr. Egg... sir, uh, or ma'am? Sorry, are you a boy or a girl?"
Gawain immediately took a deep look at Magnum.
And Yuri once again failed to stop his old partner from speaking freely.
In fact, he didn't want to stop him that much, including others—the archbishops had a subtle tacit understanding on this point.
We have worked together for many years, and we know each other's temperament and personality well. Many times, they are actually happy to see Magnum take the initiative to speak. This loud and straightforward former God of War priest can always say what everyone wants to say but can't speak directly. Speaking out, this is the case in any occasion. In this way, only Magnum himself is the one who offends others, while others can enjoy the information obtained after Magnum speaks.
There is no doubt that this is a good thing.
"You should call me 'Sir'!" Nicholas Egg's buzzing voice suddenly became high, and Magnum offended someone again—maybe offended the ball, and the others got the answer smoothly, "Damn it , don't you have eyes, this ball has such distinct sexual characteristics... "
This time, even Gao Wen fell into silence.
He felt that this topic would be too weird to continue.
"Stop for a while—then you have plenty of time to develop your relationship," he said in a deep voice, instantly quieting everyone present, "Let's get back to business. Nicholas, which room is available now?"
"Available room? The computing facilities on the second floor can be used, and the third floor still needs to be adjusted."
Gao Wen nodded (things are finally back on track): "Take us to the second floor, prepare a set of immersion chambers, and activate the No. 2 demonstration sample."
"Hold on."
Nicholas said something briefly, and then stepped back a little bit. It directly activated a nearby device with an invisible magnetic field. Accompanied by a very slight buzzing sound, Yuri and the others saw a half-moon-shaped The lifting platform descends from near the mental hub.
Gao Wen walked towards the platform first, followed by others.
This pyramid facility has not been completely completed, and many areas inside are still undergoing final finishing, but some rooms have been delivered, and the equipment has been put into operation for debugging. Under the leadership of Mr. Nicholas Egg, a group of people entered the facility The second floor, and passed through a not very long corridor, finally, they came to a clean and brightly lit room that had been tidied up.
An alloy column stands in the center of the spacious room, and more than a dozen silver-white immersion cabin devices are neatly arranged around the column. There are rune drag chains and devices that look like artificial nerve cords to connect those immersion cabins to the center of the room. The cylinders were connected, and on that cylinder, Yuri and the others once again felt the magic fluctuation similar to the mental hub in the hall.
As Gao Wen said, every thought connection device in this facility is connected to the huge pillar in the center of the hall.
Gawain came to an immersion cabin whose hatch had been opened, turned his head to look at the archbishops, and smiled: "Anyone want to try Cecil's 'Mind Network'?"
The archbishops looked at each other, and after they exchanged glances, it was Wendy who stood up first.
"Ladies first," the beautiful lady smiled and walked to the immersion chamber, "and I've been interested in Cecil's 'magic technique' since a long time ago. How should I use it? Lie in it ? Do you need to prepare any spells or incantations?"
"You can just lie down in it. This is for ordinary people. Naturally, you don't need any spells or incantations," Gao Wen said casually. "The experience time is only ten minutes, so you won't feel tired."
Wendy nodded, and lay down in the immersion cabin with the help of Amber. Then, under the watchful eyes of the other archbishops, the immersion cabin closed with a slight crackling sound from the hatch, and the rune drag chain connected to the device And the many runes on the base of the immersion cabin light up one by one instantly.
Magnum watched this scene with wide eyes, and couldn't help muttering while caring about the development of the matter: "At least in terms of comfort, this thing is much better than ours..."
"You don't have to think about this kind of problem now," Yuri glanced at him, "unless you can get back into your body."
Magnum clasped his hands in front of his chest: "What if! What if!"
Except for the two of them, almost everyone at the scene didn't say a word, they just waited intently for Wendy to finish this "experience", and they didn't wait too long.
Ten minutes later, the cover of the immersion chamber was gently opened.
Wendy sat up from the inside with a trace of bewilderment after being disconnected from the Internet, and her compatriots from the church immediately surrounded her. However, facing the curious archbishops, her first reaction was to look at Gao Wen: "I Can I watch it for a while longer? The plot has just begun..."
Yuri couldn't help being curious: "What did you see inside?"
"It's an immersive theater," Gao Wen said before Wendy could speak, "However, because it's something in the testing stage, I can only reproduce some relatively short clips at present——Wendy, what you saw has already That's all, but don't worry, it will be perfected soon, and there will be more things in it that are more attractive than immersive theater in the future."
Having said that, he smiled slightly: "Now, do you think ordinary people would be willing to lie here and contribute computing power?"
"Let me make sure first," Wendy said, "this device and the things it presents do not require the caster to maintain it? It is not like the city of dreams that needs to absorb the user's mental power at all times, nor does it need to be maintained by the caster. Will there be hidden dangers of mental pollution?"
Gao Wen nodded: "Of course."
"Then I don't have any doubts—" Wendy said quickly, "If I were an ordinary person, I would be willing to pay for it!"