"This is the gravitational junction of six black holes. If you leave the safe area one step, you will be pulled to a certain black hole in the concave space." Cororin said solemnly: "Follow me, Opal. "
He took Opal into the spaceship, and the moment he passed through the metal door, Opal almost thought he had come to a strange planet.
It was pouring rain everywhere, and the sky was overcast. After opening the door, there was actually a vast, self-contained world.
The door slowly closed, and Opal looked back and found that this was the garden of an old castle.
Looking up, there is a cloudy sky above. Is this a simulated ecological space
"This is an ancient ruin."
The anklet disintegrated again to form a metal umbrella. Coroline held the handle of the umbrella and poked it lightly in the air. The umbrella opened, covering him and Opal under the umbrella's protection.
They walked through the garden. The rain in the sky seemed to never stop. The gray gravel road was moist and smelled of soil. From time to time, Opal turned his head to look around and said, "Is it the restored ancient ruins?"
"No." Cororin said, "It's a completely copied ancient earth relic."
As they walked into the depths of the garden, the terrain got higher and higher, and two people, one big and one small, wearing black royal robes climbed to the high place and stood on the steep cliff, and under the cliff was a turbulent bay.
In the rain stood a wet black wooden sign with strange words written on it.
"Helgoland Island," Cororin translated to Opal.
Opal didn't know what this meant, and the sight he saw was so incredible that he even forgot that he was in an ivory tower.
Cororin took him down the cliff to a lighthouse.
In front of the lighthouse there was a night watchman, an old woman in a cape, who said, "Coroline?"
Coroline bowed politely and said, "I've come to ask the professors with a few questions."
The old woman looked at Opal in distrust, Opal wanted to radiate out her thoughts to read her thoughts, but was intercepted by Cororin first.
"Come in." The old woman turned sideways and let out the small door of the lighthouse, with a line written on the door: Heisenberg has been here.
"I promise I won't linger at the ivory tower for too long this time," said Cororin.
The old woman grunted angrily, knocked on the door with her cane, and the lighthouse turned on.
Opal was full of doubts, but he couldn't open his mouth. After entering the lighthouse, it was pitch black. Coroline put away his umbrella and stared at Opal after his pupils adapted to the darkness.
Opal: [This is the ivory tower?]
Coroline: [To be exact, it's part of an ivory tower.]
Opal: [Who are we looking for?]
Coroline: [Follow me.]
Coroline walked to the center of the lighthouse, and a beam of pure white light fell.
Cororin raised his head, his thick black eyebrows and handsome profile were bathed in light, and the electronically synthesized voice: "Department classification retrieval."
Coroline: "Replicant technology and chipmaking."
Opal: "?"
Electronic synthesis channel: "Lab No. 33."
Opal: "!!"
A circle of masonry against the wall of the lighthouse disintegrated automatically, revealing a spiral staircase. Cororin led Opal down the stairs, and a female voice sounded beside them: "Cororin?"
Opal was startled, and when he turned to look, he saw that a drifting blue holographic projection outlined the face of a young woman, as they floated down the stairs, like a lithe ghost.
Cororin said: "This is my disciple Opal."
The holographic projection woman bowed, shot two rays of light from her eyes, and scanned Opal's pupils. Opal was seen with hair for a while, and she subconsciously wanted to hide behind Cororin. Cororin said: "This is the central computer system of the ivory tower. Her name is Eve."
The woman said, "Identity entry completed."
Opal said: "You... hello."
"What's the matter?" said Eve, who was flickering with blue light. "How's Adam's memory being?"
"Adam's memory body... is already dead." Cororin walked down the stairs and talked with Eve calmly, like an old friend he hadn't seen in a long time: "Or... He's nirvana, I think it's okay to say that."
Eve's figure flickered slightly, and Opal seemed to sense some kind of mood swing in her. Eve said again, "It's been a long time since you and Rector came here. Do you want Adam to come?"
Cororin pondered for a while, and then said: "No... No, I'm a little afraid of Adam. It's very strange. After all, it's not the real him. By the way, this time I brought my new apprentice."
"I don't think Adam will necessarily like this heir." Eve said with a smile.
"He has no right to choose." Coroline said: "Nolan gave me this mission at the beginning. I searched for a long time to find the true fire phoenix, and now there is still half of it unfinished."
"Humanity always inherits a mission." Eve said: "Metabolism."
She floated to a door on the spiral staircase, the small door opened, and there was an endless leap of blue light, and Opal walked in with Coroline, her eyes were blinded until they got used to the light. , let out a startled cry.
Coroline smiled, and Eve said, "It's exactly the same as when you first entered the ivory tower."
Coroline hummed, let go of Opal's hand, and walked to the center of the hall.
This is a world made up of lattices. The outer wall of spherical crystals wraps a small foothold in the center. All around are dense, honeycomb-like hexagonal lattices. go, intertwined with each other.
"There is another outsider." The voice sounded directly in the hall.
"Who is this time? Rickett again?"
"You disturb our research."
"Occasionally it's good to have visitors come to see, teacher, don't be so irritable all the time."
"Professor Felstor, when are you going to give me the genetic sample?"
"Ah, Penny, you'd better stop what you're doing and see what that kid's holding."
Dozens of blue soul lights floated out of the lattice and floated towards the center of the platform.
Opal stepped back in fear, looked around, and found that each lattice was a blue container filled with liquid, which was - the sea of time!
The sea of time is soaked in one human brain after another.
Opal seemed to be in a nightmare and said, "This… is, what is this?!"
Cororin: [Don't get excited, this is the research room of the ivory tower.]
The projection rustled, and a blue ghost crossed the platform, flew to another container, and disappeared.
"Professors, would you like to hear the news from the Knights of the Stars?" Eve stretched out her hand and gracefully swept across the front, and the conversation in the hall became quiet for a while.
Cororin said: "I have brought a piece of news about the Replicant Legion, a product left over from the Dark Ages. Proving Ground 2 was activated by someone else after Rektor ended the resonance technology."
The electric current rustled, and Cororin said: "In order to maintain the stability of the goldfish tank universe, I need to find out about this matter, and now enter the information to everyone."
Eve said, "A mind adapter for you."
A light screen was unfolded on the platform. Cororin pressed his hands on the light screen, and the surroundings suddenly darkened, only the light on the screen reflected his face.
A pattern first appeared on the light screen, which was the panorama of the planet in the experimental field, and then the entire light pattern quickly left the screen, flew into the air, was fixed, and sent information to all the brains soaked in the crystal lattice through the transcriber. .
Then there was the huge pit, in which lay the corpses, metal skeletons, and brain chips of countless Cororin clones.
One after another light map flew out, slowly revolving around the entire hall.
Opal understood, he walked to Cororin's side, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the light screen.
A photo of a living Raymond was extracted from his thinking activities, and then the past with Raymond flew into the air and entered the ring screen group picture.
Cororin completed the whole process, took a step back, and the hall was silent.
He asked, "Is this the order of the ivory tower?"
After a long silence, a device outside all the crystals lit up at the same time, followed by hundreds of millions of information light symbols flying around, carrying a large amount of content to transmit information between different brain soaking containers, and finally. All the lights dimmed at the same time.
One of the tens of thousands of lattices lit up, and the young voice said: "This is not the ivory tower's inspiration, but the ivory tower discovered the existence of this experimental field earlier than you, because there are loopholes in Heinris' resonance technology, when When we discovered this loophole, the dark ages were over and it was impossible to fix it in time."
"This vulnerability caused at least one replicant to escape the Resonant Destruction Wave."
Opal saw where the sound came from, the blue-lit crystal lattice, a gray brain floating and sinking in the solution.
Another lattice lit up, and a female voice said, "The No. 2 test site was discovered by Eve, and I didn't expect one to be missed."
"What does that mean?" Cololin said.
"Generally speaking," an old voice explained: "Richter didn't get rid of all the replicants in the Dark Ages, this replicator we call the escaper, it is the security lock selected by the replicator army. , its appearance and genes are specially designed to distinguish it from other replicas, and it mixes with humans. If the replicator group is destroyed, this escapee will carry the technology about gene replication and the chip itself to establish a A new clone empire."
"It found the Ivory Tower 2 laboratory and established a laboratory there."
Cororin frowned and said, "But it's impossible for the Resonant Destruction Wave to miss any clone."
"Possibly," said an immature little girl's voice. "The first trial plan itself has fatal omissions."
Cororin said: "How did this escapee escape?! Where can it hide?"
The immature little girl's voice said, "Hide in the past, the future, or a higher dimensional space."
Cororin was silent for a moment, and the little girl said in a voice: "When everything is over, when you return to the world of goldfish bowls, you will be safe and sound. Do you understand? Cororin."
"So where might it be hiding?" Cororin said.
All the lattices lit up again in an instant, exchanging information rapidly.
The young man's voice said: "The most likely guess is that the escapee hid in Logan's Wheel of Time."
Opal instantly heard his father's name.
"What the heck is going on here?" Cololin said.
"No comment." The little girl said in a voice: "There is a lack of analysis conditions, Coroline, I think you know the identity of the escapee best. Who did you and Recht reveal the final resonance plan to? Except for Who else knows the location of Proving Ground 2, you and Lecter?"
Coroline looked indifferent and did not answer.
"Kelley." Cororin said, "At that time, I asked him to send mercenaries to help quell the attack of the clone army on the ACU headquarters... Kelley is actually one of the clones. I never imagined that, The chip... Now it looks like his chip is hidden in the core of the brain."
After a brief silence, Corollin said: "No wonder Kyle went missing for a while before the trial battle. How did he enter the wheel of time?"
"Perhaps the people on the Wheel of Time can answer you. But if the assumption is true, then the Wheel of Time must have crashed in five-dimensional space, or be massacred by the escapees." The young man's voice interjected.
"Yes." Several voices answered unevenly.
Opal suddenly asked, "Why did this escapee make... hundreds of Cororins?"
Several lattices lighted up at the same time, and a voice said: "The motivation is to use the strong body to make a new container to achieve the conditions of immortality."
As Opal struggled to understand the many intricacies of information, Coroline murmured: "Yes, he showed interest in the power of my beliefs, as for immortality... I did discuss this with him, and he wanted to establish A new immortal empire? No wonder, but how to achieve this condition?"
"Through their necklaces," said the old voice. "Now to show you."
Cororin stepped forward and put the necklace on the console. Tens of thousands of red lights were cast from all directions. The scene was spectacular, as if countless straight lines were connected to the necklace pendant in the center of the console.
The red light gathered, and the necklace glowed with an extremely magnificent luster in an instant. Its blue light even suppressed the luster of all the solutions of the sea of time. Opal stared at the light, and for a moment his soul seemed to be dragged into the boundless. Endless, vast sea of light.
The blue light suddenly stopped, and the opal woke up from the shock. One of the old women's voices said: "This is a magic blue fluorite core mixed with molybdenum elements and processed by a series of complex processes. Magic blue fluorite has The absorption and transfusion effect of consciousness waves is like a memory storage, the only difference is that the mother memory in the storage can replicate the child memory infinitely, thereby creating multiple identical human souls. Molybdenum can effectively cover it side effects.”
Opal: "!!!"
Opal understood this sentence almost instantly.
He remembered what he had discussed with Raymond on Silent Star a long time ago, as well as the projection information on the star map.
At this moment, his thinking is directly connected with Coroline - the reproduction of the phantom people needs to be passed on beside the phantom blue fluorite, and every newborn can directly inherit all the knowledge of the father's body. That is to say, when the phantoms face imminent death, they will return to the mother stone, extract their knowledge about themselves, breed new individuals, and then wait for the phantom blue fluorite to instill the information stored in it. into the consciousness of the newborn.
The old woman's voice was flat and rigid: "To sum up, the fluorite core can store all the memories of a replicator and transmit it to the next body after it dies, so as to achieve the continuity of the inheritance of ideas, which eliminates the need for The possibility of accidental death only needs to be transmitted through consciousness waves, and even if the body dies, the residual consciousness can be absorbed by the new body."
"What's the problem?" said the young man's voice.
Coroline shook his head slightly blankly.
"I think you have been able to confirm the identity of the escapee." The little girl's voice said bluntly: "He entered the Wheel of Time to avoid the resonant wave, and returned to this place after the trial campaign ended. in the universe."
Opal suddenly noticed something unreasonable.
[They are lying. ] Opal speaks directly in Cororin's mind with the power of faith.
Cororin's consciousness was very messy, but he still woke up from the shock and regained his calm in the shortest possible time.
Coroline: [How did you find out?]
Opal: [Intuition.]
Cororin: [Yes, I also don't believe that Kyle Ray has this ability, but they didn't lie, the difference is that they withheld some details from me... There must be more questions about the No. 2 experimental site itself. ] "Adam became suspicious soon after, and through his and Eve's tracking, he found that he used your genes to create a new replica body, we sent the spaceship, and saw that all the semi-finished products have been destroyed, and the escapees have fallen. Unknown, so we don't know what happened on the wheel of time." "But that doesn't matter anymore, the wheel of time hasn't come back for too long, maybe it has sunk in five-dimensional space, so the ivory tower has no future, you humans. Neither."
Cororin said: "This is the omission of the Church of the Stars. Everything is due to our fault."
"That's not important, it's over." The little girl's voice said: "Go back, don't come back again, from today onwards the door of the ivory tower will be closed forever, whether it's for new scholars or star knights."
"Goodbye," Coroline said. "Director Petunia."
The door opened again, and when Opal left, he couldn't help but turn his head to take a look. Tens of thousands of brains were quietly immersed in the sea of time.
"Cololin." A man's voice sank.
Coroline and Opal stopped at the same time.
"Adam, long time no see." Coroline bowed politely, and the red holographic humanoid silhouette lit up beside them, like the ghost of a naked man.
"The Ivory Tower is considering re-establishing relations with the Holy See, and we have to form an alliance with Pope Drummond to face the problems in the near future," Adam said. ."
Cororin pondered for a moment, and then said: "The Pope has not made a clear statement. I think this matter is difficult. What is this?"
Coroline picked up a small part handed over by the little robot.
"It's a quantum time regulator, an advanced small intelligent robot part on the wheel of time," Adam said. "I remember you had one too. I guess someone took this down and wanted to install it in a laboratory. on the instrument."
Coroline said: "Yes... The little robot you gave me is missing this part. It will be fast and slow every day, and it will be crazy every day... What is the omen here? Maybe I can fix it, but I don't think it can prove it. what."
Coroline put away the part and gave Adam a strange look on his face.
Adam said: "I think the No. 2 experimental site may not be the experimental site where Heinris turned on the resonance."
Coroline murmured: "I think so too, maybe you should call it the No. 2.5 experimental field, or the -2 experimental field..."
Adam said, "Good luck, Coroline, bye."