Sword of Dawn

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In Gao Wen's mind, a standard middle-aged greasy male online scam persona was instantly created, and it was also the type of loli voice with a voice changer on, so his whole mind was instantly clear, and he looked at the "little girl" There was no fluctuation in my heart at the time: "Patty?"

"Ah, uncle still remembers me!" The little girl showed a very happy expression, jumping around Gao Wen, "Uncle, are you here again?!"

The corner of Gao Wen's mouth trembled, and he finally admitted one thing in his heart: the real body behind this little girl is probably not a middle-aged greasy male cultist. After all, the mind network is a fully immersive virtual reality, even if a cultist like this The metamorphosis index of a creature is five plus signs higher than that of normal people, and it is quite difficult to jump up and down to this level, even an upright leader like Soldering can't do it...

Maybe it's a middle-aged greasy female cyber scammer who is too young...

"Uncle, what are you thinking?" Patty's voice came again, "Uncle, do you like to wander off?"

Gao Wen lowered his head and glanced at the little girl who was not even in his belly, and found that this guy really couldn't calm down for a second, so he couldn't help frowning: "Why are you always jumping around?"

"Because I like it!" Patty said with a matter-of-fact look, then wrinkled her nose, "But I can't do it when I get home..."

"To the house?" Gawain felt that he heard a very interesting word, but before he could ask, a soft female voice came from the side: "Patty, are you bothering strangers?"

Gawain raised his head and saw a woman wearing a veil and a long skirt standing not far away, looking at Patty with a slight frown.

Patty immediately jumped over happily: "Ah! Sister Serena!"

Gawain watched the little girl throw herself into the arms of the veiled woman, who subdued the little girl with ease, and looked up: "I'm sorry, this child is not wary of strangers."

"Uncle is very nice!" Patty said with her head raised.

Serena bent down and pressed Patty's hair: "Then talk to uncle next time, Patty——you should go to rest."

The expression on the little girl's face suddenly became depressed: "But I still want to play for a while..."

"You've been playing for a long time," Serena shook her head in a gentle but firm manner, "You can't be willful, understand?"

Patty hesitated for a while, but nodded obediently: "...Oh."

Following this promise, Gawain saw the little girl's figure quickly fade in the air, and after just a few seconds, it turned into light particles that drifted with the wind: she left the mind network.

Serena straightened up and smiled politely at Gao Wen: "Sorry, I made you laugh."

"It's okay, I don't mind." Gao Wen shook his head, and at the same time made a quick judgment in his mind——

If it wasn't for the fact that the Eternal Sleepers played too high-end, or played a scene for themselves, then based on the interaction between Patty and Serena and the scene they saw last time... Could it be that the "little girl" is really a little girl?

a child?Will the eternal sleeper who can access the spiritual network at the age of eleven or twelve be a child?This is unrealistic even for a magic genius!

Or...the "family members" brought into the network by other eternal sleepers?

He has seen other children in this dream city, although there are very few, but there are indeed, are those children also in the same situation?

Do the Eternal Sleepers have technology that allows people without magical abilities to access the Internet? !

This last conjecture made Gawain's heart pound. If it is true... then the technical value of the spiritual network of the Eternal Sleeper will far exceed his previous imagination!

Thoughts were running fast in his mind, but he didn't show it. Instead, he pretended not to care and casually mentioned: "It seems that children are rarely seen here."

"After all, there are very few eligible cases," Serena smiled lightly, "We can't expose it yet."

The implication is that screening conditions are required...cannot be exposed, so this is a test project with exposure risk?

Gao Wen casually chatted with the other party on this topic, but he did not get any valuable information. After realizing that it might look suspicious to continue, he changed the subject calmly: "I saw The news that Project No. [-] is soliciting computing power..."

"It's because of the computing power gap in the time iteration experiment," Serena nodded. Those who can come to this area are the middle and high-level people among the eternal sleepers, and those who can stay for a long time are at least at the level of the middle-level nightmare bishop. It is not surprising to say a few words on the No. [-] project, "It is very difficult to adjust the flow of time at the deepest level through the acceleration of thinking, and the No. [-] sandbox that has been running for the longest time has only lasted for a few hundred years-we need more A lot of computing power."

"Sandbox" - Gao Wen's heart moved, he heard a very interesting word.

This is a vocabulary that does not belong to the contemporary lingua franca, but is a combination of two words in the ancient lingua franca of Gondor. Because of its simple and straightforward meaning, Gao Wen can understand it directly, but after understanding this word, But only greater doubts arose in his heart.

However, he couldn't ask directly, because according to Serena's attitude, the Eternal Sleeper standing in this area should know a lot of truth about Project Zero.

And he asked enough questions.

Picking out one person to ask a question is likely to arouse suspicion, so Gao Wen decisively ended the topic. He has already collected a lot of information and vocabulary. Find ways to cultivate and cultivate the "chess piece" you just found.

After transitioning with some small talk, he nodded to Serena: "It took up a lot of your time, I should leave."

Serena smiled slightly: "It was a pleasure chatting with you."

Then the veiled lady said goodbye to Gao Wen, turned around and walked to the other side of the road.

The moment she turned around, Gawain's eyes suddenly froze:

At this moment, this woman looks like Selina Geerfen 700 years ago!

Chapter 0303 The Technique of the Cultists

Gawain didn't take any unnecessary actions, just stood there quietly, watching the woman named "Selina" go into the distance, and then looked back a few seconds later, leaving the place as if nothing had happened.

That's Selena Galfen, almost without a doubt!

Although wearing a veil, in Gawain Cecil's memory, Selina Geerfen also appeared several times wearing a veil, so from the first time he saw "Selena" in the mind network "Selina" had a vague sense of familiarity, but it was someone else's memory after all, and there are also subtle differences between "Selina" and Selina Gerfen today, mainly because of the change in voice It was very big, so he never took this feeling to heart, until just now, when the other party turned and left, a certain picture in his mind overlapped with the person in front of him, and he made a judgment almost instantly:

The person in front of me is the Priestess of the Dream Church 700 years ago, Selina Geerfen.

she alive?Lived for 700 years?And now he is a senior member of the sect of the Eternal Sleeper?

Gao Wen walked quietly on the way back to the Crystal Plaza, his thoughts gradually calmed down.

Whether that was Selina Gelfen or not, his plans couldn't be affected.

In the vicissitudes of the seven centuries, everything has changed. The Church of the God of Dreams has become a crazy and paranoid sect of the Eternal Sleepers. The gentle and kind priestess in the past has now become the leader of a cult organization. She has her own reasons, maybe Selina Geer has her own plan, but now is not the time to investigate the truth.

You can't reveal your identity, especially in front of Serena.

After making a decision in his mind, Gao Wen stopped, let go of the connection with the spiritual network, and allowed his spirit to sink into nothingness.

Opening her eyes, Hu Po was staring at herself straightly again, her face was placed less than half a meter in front of her.

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "I said, are you really not afraid that one day I will be really startled by you, subconsciously jump and slap you on the wall?"

Amber was obviously not worried at all: "Blow it, you can, you don't even have a sword in your hand, and you can chop a ghost."

"With your limited combat power, which is better than a goose, I can shoot you on the wall with an eggplant!" Gawain pulled the half-elf's head aside, then got up and stretched, "Run , Go and call Jenny and Kamel... Forget it, I'll go there by myself, there's not everything in the study."

Amber immediately rubbed up excitedly: "Hey? Did you realize something again in your dream? Or did you see the little girl?"

Gawain's footsteps stopped in mid-air, and he turned his head to look at Amber expressionlessly: "I really saw the little girl—and I also met a beautiful big girl."

Amber was stunned for a moment, then jumped up immediately: "I said that your biography is a documentary literature, but you still don't admit it, and you beat me on the head!"

Rune Research Institute, Jenny and Kamel are discussing the complex interference problem in magic circles above the middle level. They seem to be very surprised by Gawain's visit-this time is usually when Gawain is dealing with official business or studying mechanical blueprints When I was here, I rarely saw him coming here.

And he didn't bring amber with him - the half-elf guard usually wandered around Gawain's side, rarely missing him.

"She is too noisy. I asked her to find a place to play by herself, so as not to run to the research institute to make trouble." Gawain explained the reason why Amber was not around, then came to the desk, and directly picked up a stack of draft paper. I took out one of them, picked up the dip pen next to it, and began to paint with it.

Jenny and Kamel approached curiously, and they found that what Gawain was painting was not a new type of mechanical design, but a rune array that had never been seen before. Optimized, traditional magic circle, it has cumbersome and complicated rune expressions, a large number of magic lines are interspersed between the repeated rune structures, and what surprised Kamel most is that he also saw elements that do not belong to the elements between those runes. The words of the language, those symbols are not so much elemental runes, but more like some kind of transformed religious sacred symbols...

"What is this?" Jenny didn't know much about the "Shenwen symbols" used by the clergy. She just felt that the magic circle in front of her was quite weird, and there were many unreasonable structures, as if it was pieced together. "You Designed... some kind of magic circle?"

Gawain raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him seriously: "No, it's not mine, it's the technology of the Eternal Sleeper."

Jenny exclaimed: "Eternal Sleeper?!"

Kamel suddenly lit up: "Is it the cult organization that you mentioned to me last time, which was degenerated from the Church of the God of Dreams?"

"That's right, this is their brain wave amplification and transmission array. Originally, it also had a matching 'artificial nerve cord' technology that can connect human neurons to external equipment, but this part of it has no clue yet , all I found was this magic circle."

Jenny was shocked when she heard this, and she showed an unimaginable expression: "My lord...how did you get this?"

"I have devoured the soul of an eternal sleeper, have you forgotten?" Gawain said the explanation he had already thought up, "I got his memory, and this part of memory has been digested by me all the time. This rune array is The results of the latest research."

Of course, this is not the real answer. The real answer is that he found these reliable materials from the mind of the old mage Daniel.

The Eternal Sleeper relies on "dream magic" to connect to the network. Just like any supernatural power, dream magic also requires the talent of the user. Not everyone's magic and spiritual power can be as strong as Gawain or Nightmare Bishop. They can also connect to the network without relying on external force, so they have auxiliary connection technology. From Daniel, Gawain obtained some information about this auxiliary technology.

Neuronal links, artificial nerve cords, brain wave amplification and transmission, these things are the key to this technology.

Daniel is a powerful mage, and he has reached a high level. It is reasonable to say that he does not need to rely on this kind of external force, but there is a "compatibility" issue involved here. The traditional magic system is not consistent, and the "magic talent" and "spiritual talent" of human beings are often unbalanced, especially those who have been deeply involved in the traditional magic path. Their spiritual structure and brain working methods have been deeply influenced by magic. The influence of power, so the efficiency will be greatly reduced when using "divine magic", so Daniel had to use the auxiliary link to allow himself to access the network of the eternal sleeper.

He got this part of the technical information from the Eternal Sleeper, and now, these things are in Gao Wen's hands.

"The technology of the cultists..." After knowing the origin of these runes, Jenny seemed a little hesitant, "Are you going to study their power?"

"Technology itself is neither good nor bad, it depends on the people who use it," Gao Wen said lightly, "700 years ago, these powers had saved countless desperate souls and inspired countless warriors who had lost their fighting spirit—it wasn't The power has gone bad, and the only ones who can fall are humans."

Kamel deeply agreed with Gawain's opinion: "I know what the Church of the God of Dreams used to be like. They have been the most gentle and tolerant of all sects since a long time ago. Everyone has dreams, whether kings or farmers, nobles As a slave, dreams will comfort everyone equally. This is the meaning of dreams, and it is also the code of conduct for all believers of the dream god. I really can't imagine that such a group of people would degenerate into 'Eternal Sleepers'..."

The ancient magister shook his head: "I still can't believe this."

Unlike others, Kamel was a person who had participated in the "rebellion" project and knew the truth about the fall of the God of Nature. Therefore, Gawain also vaguely mentioned to him the "strange situation" of other gods. From this, he guessed the reasons for the degeneration of several dark sects, and he could only sigh.

Jenny's thinking is not rigid, she agrees with Gao Wen's statement, and when she sees those runes, she loses her temper: "Do you want me to complete the simplification and reconstruction of these rune groups?"

"Simplification and reconstruction are the ultimate goals, but we must first find a way to understand its working mechanism and understand the function of each part of the rune, otherwise there will be no way to talk about reconstruction," Gao Wen said, "In this regard, you You can ask Pittman for help. The process of transforming dream spells into dream spells is similar to that of druid magic spells, and the rules of rune changes between the two should also have something in common. In addition, Kamel, you Might be able to help too?"

"Of course, the old 'disobedience' project itself was a study of the power of God, and the 'inverted array' currently used in the alchemy factory is one of our achievements back then." Kamel's voice sounded full of confidence, "God The magic runes were given a lot of mysterious explanations and confusing halos by those priest believers. In fact, it was just to keep their gods aloof. They really had to be included in the logic system. Text makes no difference."

Gao Wen nodded in satisfaction: "Very good. The key point is to understand how their 'transmission' technology is realized, and whether the 'content' of this transmission can be imported and exported through a medium other than neurons. If I If you are right, the research in this area is likely to promote your research progress on the magic field at the same time."

As soon as the words were spoken, Gao Wen and Jenny felt their eyes light up at the same time, very bright.

The arcane sparks on Kamel's body were shining: "That's right, it's in this direction... the spread of the magic field! You reminded me that they are probably from the same field! There are also communication spells... these things should be all In the same field!"

The ancient magister fell into excitement, which was an unavoidable moment of excitement for any researcher—the joy that the subject was about to make a breakthrough stimulated him.

He and Jenny have been studying the magic field for a long time, and those changing interference curves and oscillating magic haunt him day and night, although Gawain used the concept of field and wave to point him in a direction, and there are new mathematics tools to help him parse the vast amounts of data he observed in his experiments, but one problem still stood in his way:

Can the "wave" of magic be precisely controlled?Can it carry information?Are applications other than energy delivery possible?

Is there a connection between the communication spell, which has long been a "technical black box", and the fluctuation of magic power?

The magic circle of the communication spell is no stranger to Kamel. Even without the help of tools, he can draw one accurately. However, a single magic circle is not comparable, and the single evidence is the most difficult to analyze. Even for him, until The simplification and reconstruction of the communication circle has not been completed yet - because it is impossible to understand the function of each part of the runes in that complex circle, so naturally it is impossible to divide and reconstruct it. If the rune logic formula is used to simplify without dividing the rune functions, the entire magic circle will become disorganized and even unable to operate.

But now, he has a sample that can be compared and analyzed.

The mind transmission technology of the Eternal Sleeper is essentially another communication spell.

Two different samples of communication spells are in front of you, which may be the key to uncovering the technical black box...

Chapter 0304 Elf Monitoring Station

The "technical black box" in the magic field is the problem that bothers Jenny and Kamel the most.

Jenny's runic logic is a powerful tool when optimizing and reconstructing traditional magic circles. Based on mathematical laws, it can simplify a magic circle from a purely computational level, eliminate unnecessary interference knots, and strengthen the magic circle. The effective power of the magic circle, or reduce the operation requirements of the magic circle, and in this process, the operator does not need to have the talent to feel the magic power, but the rune logic is also limited-to reconstruct a magic circle, you must first understand the magic circle In other words, it is first necessary to determine the functions of the different rune areas in the circle, determine which runes are in an interference area, and which runes must be retained to operate independently.

Subsequent optimization and reconstruction can only be carried out after such an effective division of the magic circle.

Under this premise, the "technical black box" has naturally become a roadblock.

The emergence of the technology black box is related to the origin of magic. When the first mortal pioneer cast the first spell by imitating the original magic lines on the surface of ancient warcraft and natural minerals, the technology black box was born. For thousands of years, countless Spellcasters study those complex and ancient symbols and patterns, and a lot of magic has been analyzed during this process, becoming "full-analysis spells", but nearly half of the magic is still maintained in a black box state.

Almost all black-box magics are vague and complicated. They maintain the most primitive spell structure. Both the spell model and the rune array remain unanalyzed. Several functional areas, who can be divided from whom, and who remains independent from whom, in this case, directly applying the formula, may be able to arrange the runes one by one on the mathematical level, but the magic circle The structure itself was completely destroyed in the process.

Simple low-level magic circles don’t need to worry about this problem, because low-level magic circles often have very few functional areas, or even only one complete functional area (such as the “unit” of the honeycomb magic net), but from the middle level up, the magic circle’s The functional area (or "rune field", to use the term Jenny invented) has become more and more complex, and the technical black box phenomenon has become more and more.

Kamel and Jenny are working on solving this problem. They try to summarize the basic elemental language, basic spell models, and basic rune units to summarize a set of effective "dismantling" methods for most magic circles. This work has been done before, but it failed because of lack of correct research ideas and mathematical tools. However, Kamel and Jenny are very confident, and they have made some preliminary progress.

Gao Wen believed in their abilities, and also believed that with the more mature technology samples from the Eternal Sleepers, they would be able to find a breakthrough to crack the black box of communication spell technology, whether it was the research on the magic field or the actual situation of the territory. In terms of development, it will be of great help...

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Within the territory of the Typhon Empire, in the valley on the northwest border.

This valley is a special place for the Typhon people. In fact, for the four major kingdoms of mankind, each country has one or two similar "special places". These places are located within the territory of the human kingdom. However, in terms of administrative division, they are the territories of the distant Silver Empire. They occupy a large area of ​​ancient mountains and small towns, but they all have one thing in common, that is, the residents are almost all silver elves.

They are the location of the "monitoring stations" established by the Silver Empire.

During the demonic disaster 700 years ago, the magnificent wall led by the elves finally curbed the spread of the disaster, and sealed the terrible chaotic mana and the army of crazy monsters in the central area of ​​the mainland. They can master it by themselves, and the sentinel towers they built must also be controlled by elven spells. Therefore, in order to monitor the magnificent wall barrier, the elves set up multiple monitoring stations around the entire barrier—considering that humans have established four kingdoms. Obviously, these monitoring stations can only be located within the territory of the human kingdom.

The seal of the Gondor wasteland is a matter of the survival of the family and the country. The human kingdom has no choice but to accept this situation—even if they are the proud remnants of Gondor, after the outbreak of the demon tide and the collapse of the empire, no matter how proud they are, they must Give way to reason.

Fortunately, the relationship between elves and humans has always been good, and elves are a race that keeps their promises. These "permanent colonies" located in the human country can live in peace with the outside world. After 700 years, the elves at the monitoring station have been in harmony with the outside world. Human beings have formed a good tacit understanding, which has been maintained to this day.

Solderin and the elf druid who called himself "Berna" were walking together on the road leading to the depths of the valley. In front of his sight, the elegant spiers and the glow of magic in the style of the Silver Empire had already come into his sight. .

Soldering raised his head, looked at the tall tower located in the deepest part of the valley, and exhaled slightly.

That tower is the core building of the monitoring station. It is a "communication tower" used for data connection and exchange with the Sentinel Tower. Given enough conditions, it could transmit signals hundreds of kilometers away—enough to connect to the Sentinel Tower on the opposite side of the valley.

Soldering glanced back. On the other side of the valley, he could clearly see a gloomy dividing line in the sky: that was the direction of the wasteland of Gondor.

The role of the monitoring station is to monitor the wasteland and determine the situation of the Great Wall, but just think about it, it is impossible for the monitoring personnel to go under the Sentinel Tower to build a permanent monitoring facility—although the Great Wall Most of the Chaos Mana is blocked, but the deadly radiation seeping out of the barrier every year is still enough to seriously damage the health of the monitoring personnel, so all monitoring stations are monitored remotely: a communication tower is set up at a safe distance, through Signal transmission to understand the situation of the Sentinel Tower in real time, this is the safest and most secure solution.

Of course, if there is something wrong with any of the sentinel towers, the nearest monitoring station still needs to send people to deal with it on the spot—each station always has engineering teams to deal with such crises, although these engineering teams may There won't be a single chance at a real mission for centuries, but the elves never let up in this regard.

After all, they live long.

Berna walked briskly beside Solderin, looking quite happy: this elf girl seemed very happy to see more compatriots.