Darkness is Coming Chapter 184

   After half a year, the simple style in Liu Yuanzhou's office is the same as before, the only change is that the disposable paper cup for making tea has become a ceramic lid cup.

   When Geng Zhiping walked in with Dai Xin and his assistant, Liu Yuanzhou just put down the stationery in his hand and pointed to the seat in front of him.

"sit."

  Dai Xin didn't sit. He took the briefcase from his assistant, walked to Liu Yuanzhou's desk without touching his feet, and shouted excitedly, "There is a new discovery, a major discovery!"

   "Well, please say it." Liu Yuanzhou's expression was calm, as pale as boiling water for tea, without the slightest surprise.

Geng Zhiping is not surprised by such an abnormal reaction. Since three months ago, Liu Yuanzhou's behavior has become more and more difficult to understand, and there is one thing that Geng Zhiping has noticed: Liu Yuanzhou's face has gradually turned into a rigid mask. , his expression changed less and less, so few that Geng Zhiping could hardly remember the last time he saw Liu Yuanzhou smiling or frowning.

Dai Xin was in a state of extreme excitement at this time, and Liu Yuanzhou's bland response did not let his excitement dissipate. The idea at the beginning was completely wrong. I was too deeply influenced by my previous experience and failed to think out of the box, which led to the rigidity of our research ideas and slow progress.”

   While Dai Xin was saying these few words, Liu Yuanzhou put the large stack of papers in his hand and switched quickly. When Dai Xin finished the last word, Liu Yuanzhou put down the documents he had already browsed. Others may think this is just a pretense and glance at it hastily, but Geng Zhiping is very clear that Liu Yuanzhou really read it all verbatim.

   "Please make the point."

  Dai Xin was stunned for a while, and finally realized that Liu Yuanzhou in front of him didn't seem to be the same as before.

   "Professor Dai, please don't get distracted and focus on the point."

"Oh, yes, good." Dai Xin quickly restrained his eyes and mood, and explained his research results to Liu Yuanzhou in concise and straightforward language, "We have always mistakenly thought that this kind of rune is related to some content of classical mythology. It matches, trying to find the corresponding target in the text symbol system that existed in the past history, and then analyze its working principle. But this is the wrong direction. Until three months ago, the Rune Bracelet was sent from the Far Rescue Society. We only really determined that this kind of rune has never appeared in the history of human beings, ahem, strictly speaking, it has never appeared in the history of human beings on Earth that we know.”

"In this case, we no longer focus on tracing the source, and instead try new means of utilization. There are a total of thirty-seven characters that appear on each rune bracelet, and they are all recorded here. Repeated scrutiny, rearrangement and combination, and minor modifications, after thousands of experiments, two things were finally determined.”

"First, this rune is likely to be a complete writing system, and the thirty-seven characters engraved on the rune bracelet should be only a small part of it. Second, these characters are rearranged and combined through a specific sequence. , can produce some special functions." Dai Xin said this, and took out a bright dagger from his briefcase.

This move made Geng Zhiping put his hand on the gun holster hanging on his waist subconsciously, but then he thought that Dai Xin was just a scholar with no strength, and there was no possibility of hurting Liu Yuanzhou, so he spread his fingers slightly. , without undoing the holster and drawing the gun.

   "Look, this is the only successful product in our thousands of experiments." Dai Xin turned the dagger upside down, holding the handle towards Liu Yuanzhou, "Rune weapon!"

   Rune weapons? Geng Zhiping's heart beat a little faster. He originally thought that these so-called experts were just bullshitting scumbags. He didn't expect to be slapped in the face on the spot, but Geng Zhiping was still suspicious. Even the Saviors failed to make rune weapons, can these people?

   Liu Yuanzhou took the dagger, glanced at it, nodded, and motioned for Dai Xin to continue. Dai Xin then continued to explain: "In countless experiments, we have found a phenomenon that the rune bracelet must be in a ring shape to exert its magical effect, and the characters on it cannot be damaged, otherwise the rune bracelet will be damaged. fail."

"The latter is easy to understand. Assuming that this is a precise machine, any detail, even if only a screw or a wheel is damaged, may cause damage to the machine. But the former gives us an inspiration. Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign , The circle has a mysterious symbol, the Taiji map in our country, the small universe model drawn by the medieval alchemist, etc. are all composed of the conceptual image of the circle, perhaps the unknown function of the rune bracelet is based on this mysterious concept."

"So we made 925 silver into the shapes of bowls, sticks, balls, etc., and then scattered these characters and runes, rearranged them and carved them on it, and installed brain nuclei for testing." Dai Xin smiled helplessly, " This stupid method is purely by chance. Thirty-seven characters are randomly arranged, and the number of possible combinations is an astronomical number. We can make this dagger. We can only say that our luck is too good to believe. Either there are a lot of possibilities for such runes to combine effectively with each other, or both."

   "What do you mean?" Geng Zhiping couldn't hold back his question. At first he could keep up with the rhythm, but the more Dai Xin said, the more confused he became.

Dai Xin gave Geng Zhiping a friendly look and said, "For example, suppose there are one million possible combinations, but of course the real number is much higher than this number, and there is only one effective combination that can work, then It's a small chance that we can try it out in a thousand experiments. But what if there is not only one effective combination that works, but half a million, or even 800,000? Then we It is not surprising to be able to try it out, and this also shows that this is a huge system of unknown technology. Conservatively speaking, this is an epoch-making discovery, and radically speaking, it confirms the existence of extraterrestrial civilization, which will create a new A new era that no one dared to imagine."

   Geng Zhiping swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "What you said is too mysterious, it's just a few ghosts drawing talismans, how can it be like science."

"Captain Geng." Dai Xin said with a serious expression, "This is not a ghost painting, we can't understand that it does not mean that it is a magical thing that violates our scientific system. Two thousand years ago, it was said that it could fly into the sky and fly to the moon. Building a city in the sky in the sky is magic, but now we call it airplanes, aerospace rockets, and space stations. A thousand years ago, it was said that it could transmit voices over a thousand miles and open the eyes of the sky. TVs, telescopes. Even if we don't talk about that far away, just talk about how many things that used to exist only in people's imaginations and science fiction works have been invented in the past 100 years, and how many so-called magic, supernatural and fantasy have become reality?”

"What we can't understand is not necessarily not reality. The rune bracelet neither violates the mathematical laws and physical laws of our cognition, nor does it violate the present, objective, and actual observation elements. Why can't it be a kind of Technology that understands categories?"

"Maybe one day, when we can truly understand this technology, we will be able to use our language and knowledge to explain its working principle. But until then, we can only imitate it for the time being." Dai Xin coughed and turned to Liu Yuanzhou. Apologizing, "Sorry, I've gone too far, please look at this dagger."

Chapter end