Chapter 1331 Searching for the Unknown God

Hearing Mirmina's words, Gao Wen suddenly had an indescribable strange feeling in his heart, but after thinking about it, there was not a single typo in what the other party said, so he could only hold his head. The cold sweat continued to maintain that look of unchanging expression, and at the same time focused on the "experimental field" opened up in the Shadow Realm in front of him.

"By the way, the experimental facilities you have set up here look quite... impressive," Gao Wen casually commented, looking at the neatly arranged platforms and a large number of magical devices in automatic operation, "I heard before that You're building something in the Garden of Disobedience, but I didn't expect you to make these so quickly..."

"This can be regarded as one of my...'dreams' for many years," Mier Mina seemed to let out a self-deprecating snort, "Sounds strange, right? A god who should respond to the wishes of mortals, but he has had it for many years. The unattainable wish - a laboratory to investigate truths and mysteries, to satisfy my curiosity, something I have wanted but could not do for thousands of years."

"...The driving force of magic and mystery is essentially the exploration of the unknown and the mastery of the laws of nature. The goddess of magic created by magicians may be the most curious and exploratory god in the world... However, from another On the one hand, the gods in annoying people's minds should be omniscient and omnipotent. As the master of mysteries, you can't have things you don't know, and you can't take steps into the unknown..." Gawain sighed softly, shaking his hair, "If it wasn't Get out of trouble in time, I'm afraid you are the most likely to go crazy and out of control among all the gods."

Mirmina seemed to smile. Although her face was covered by the smoky "tulle", a bright and gentle smile still emerged from the corners of her eyes. She did not answer Gawain's exclamation. He just turned his head and glanced at the huge golden oak tree in the center of the courtyard and the giant white deer who was chatting softly with the two flowers on his head under the oak tree. , I remembered my wish over the years, and I felt that I should also do something, instead of doing nothing every day, and really be a 'retired god'.

"But then again... I really didn't expect the council to approve my building application so quickly. I thought it would be a very sensitive issue-after all, this is not gardening, my laboratory It's still dangerous."

"You and Amorn are not prisoners held here, and of course the council is not the jailer guarding you—in my opinion, you are just like us, struggling beings in this world," Gawain shook with a smile Shaking his head, "And to be honest, you are the god of the past after all, and this is your wish for thousands of years. Even if the council doesn't 'approve' your 'application', will you really give up?"

"Yes." Mirmina said flatly but without hesitation.

This answer finally made Gao Wen's eyes widen: "...Are you serious?"

"Seriously," said Mirmina very calmly, "I promised you to become a member of the Council as a mortal,

Also signed a contract with the council under the name of 'Mir Mina'. Although I am no longer bound by the laws of the gods, I still do not intend to break the oath—in the opinion of Amoen and I, if we want to completely leave the altar, the most important thing we should do is not to be superior to mortals things. "

Gawain couldn't help but took a deep look at the huge lady in front of him, but he didn't say anything, he just looked away after a few seconds, and looked at the experimental platforms that were shaped by Mirmina himself. ——He saw the "sample" he was looking for.

It was a captured aberration, placed in the center of a large platform, surrounded by an array of runes with an extremely complex structure, bound in a layer of translucent magic force field, and several shimmering, A translucent pillar completely condensed by arcane light floated at a height of two to three meters above the platform, and an illusory chain stretched out from the top of the beam of light, and a second blockade was criss-crossed around the magic force field.

For a deformed monster of the level of miscellaneous soldiers, these blockades imposed by the goddess of magic are really top-notch treatment, so that Gao Wen couldn't help being stunned when he saw those powerful blocking spells, and blurted out the words in his mind: "Just to imprison a monster at the level of a miscellaneous soldier, why are you doing this... Is this aberration against the rules of heaven?"

"What do you mean by the rules of heaven?" Mirmina was taken aback by the strange phrases that Gawain popped up, but anyway, she also stayed here for a while, and now how many pairs of "Emperor Gawain Cecil popped up occasionally "I got used to the sarcasm", so I quickly ignored this doubt, and explained casually, "These seals are not just to prevent the aberrant from escaping—in fact, even without any additional sealing means, this monster can't escape." Get out of my platform. The barriers and seals you see are primarily there to maintain the...environment."

"Maintain the environment?" Gawain was stunned for a moment, and then he finally noticed the lavender "mist" floating in the translucent magic force field, and the dark flakes like frozen light between the runes on the surface of the experimental platform. Structure, "Wait, this is... you simulated the environment in the wasteland of Gondor?!"

"It's not difficult. The 'pollution' of the wasteland of Gondor is essentially the result of the interaction between the out-of-control dark blue magic and the elements that erode the material world. It is easy for me to create a similar 'pollution'. The real difficulty It's about how to make this polluted environment sufficiently 'precise' and 'stable'," Mirmina nodded, and explained in a rather relaxed tone, "The... mutant you caught on the front line is in a very unstable state. , after breaking away from the group, it has been constantly weakening and deteriorating, until I put it into this simulated environment, and its material structure became a little more stable..."

Listening to Mirmina's explanation next to him, Gawain was thinking while setting his eyes on the "sample" in the center of the layers of seals—that terrifying creature that looked like a little giant compared to ordinary humans was going on at this moment. With a hunched body, it stayed in the center of the force field with its limbs on the ground. The dirty black-red "mud" flowed on its body surface, and its face without facial features fluctuated in the magic environment. However, the whispering sound obviously has nothing to do with intelligence, it sounds chaotic and disgusting, it is just the "noise" released by the chaotic creature in front of him in instinct.

But apart from making these "noises", the deformed body in the force field did not do anything else. Even though Gawain and Amber had already moved to the edge of the platform, the monster just stayed in place with a motionless posture.

"It doesn't look the same as the aberration I dealt with last time." Amber couldn't help recalling her experience of dealing with aberrations in her mind, "The one I met last time was more irritable than this one. rushed up..."

"If Amorn and I weren't here, it would be just as violent," said Mirmina's voice, "It's very interesting, this deformed creature doesn't have any intelligence, but it can still feel fear, and it has no sense of terror. The perception of certain auras is sharp and precise—it fears the power of me and Amorn. Of course, it might be different if it is the mutants with controllers on the battlefield, but this one in front of me... it acts on instinct .”

"Fear..." Gawain muttered softly, pressing his hand on the translucent magic barrier, "Perhaps for this kind of creature, fear is not an emotion, but just an instinct..."

A soft twilight approached at this moment, and Veronica, who was holding a platinum scepter, came to Gawain's side. The ancient leader of the rebels watched the monster quietly, and said softly: "I have been fighting for so many years. Dealing with these things... deep in the wasteland, they're everywhere, but lately they've all been called elsewhere..."

"...I remember that the generation of aberrations can be traced back to the 'God's Abomination' project in the Rebellion Project," Amber subconsciously glanced at the saint princess, "The Rebels extracted the original 'divine blood' from Amorn ’, and then combined with human cells to form the ‘sinister factor’, you originally hoped to survive the demon tide by transforming human beings into ‘sinister’, but after the demonic tide, the gods mutated out of control and turned into mutants... hiss , in a sense, these aberrations are actually 'Gondorians', don't you feel weird looking at it?"

Amber's words sounded a bit unpleasant, but Veronica knew this half-elf well, she knew that this guy would not have any malicious intentions, so she just shook her head: "...No, this is not a citizen of the empire, this is just a citizen from the empire. The flesh and blood shells grown from the corpses of the citizens, the plan of "Abomination" failed, we should accept this failure... As for the current "abnormalities", I am more concerned about their fundamental weakness and the essence of existence .”

"Yes, the essence of existence, I'm also curious about this," Mirmina nodded, "This kind of creature will start to decline and deteriorate after being out of the environment, and it will even disappear out of thin air, but when they gather to a certain extent, they will disappear again." Cause the environment to 'wastelandize', create an energy environment similar to the wasteland of Gondor around it, and then grow out of thin air... In my opinion, this is completely beyond what the 'abomination' you mentioned may have Nature, even...it's not quite like a 'creature' living in the material world, don't you think so?"

Myrmina's words made Gawain and Veronica instantly wake up from their emotions about the ancient rebellious plan and the "Godly Abomination" project, and turned their attention to this very important, but unrecognized project for hundreds of years. On the "abnormal phenomena" that people can study and understand.

The "deterioration" and "intensification" of aberrations, and their weird properties of "growing out of thin air".

"...After the second pioneering, human countries still held the hope of counterattacking the wasteland and regaining their hometown. At that time, our scholars did a lot of research on these monsters, and successfully captured and controlled this kind of 'living sample' for a short time. '," Gao Wen said while recalling, "Our experimental conditions were limited back then, and scholars could only test the characteristics of these monsters in very rough ways. Most of these tests were fruitless, but scholars still gradually formed a The consensus is that there seems to be some kind of 'unity', or some kind of 'connection' between the aberrations and the wasteland of Gondor..."

"Aberrations are the extension of the wasteland of Gondor, the cells of the land polluted by mana. These monsters wander outside the magnificent wall, like the 'blood of the wasteland' flowing in the civilized country," Veronica said. Said, "I am aware of these studies and the corresponding conclusions. I have done as much research as possible in the wasteland center over the years, but the progress has stopped here... Maybe our understanding of this world is still limited, or it may be Because we haven't found a suitable observation method, we can't explain how these monsters 'grow out of thin air'..."

Amber looked at Gawain, then at Veronica, lowered her head to ponder for a moment, and interjected, "Not to mention, there seems to be a problem with their 'growth out of thin air' itself, if these monsters can really Infinitely grown in the soil environment, wouldn't the wasteland of Gondor have been filled with distortions after so many years? We would have been washed away if the magnificent wall collapsed - but now it seems that they are not so 'infinite' Endless', if the main force is hurt, it will still have to retreat temporarily, and if a battle line is cut, it will still be tight..."

"That's right, that's the truth," Gao Wen nodded, and rarely agreed with Amber directly, "Although aberrations have always been described by bards and playwrights as 'endless', if they really If it can continue to proliferate in the wasteland environment, then the mortal country has long been unable to stop this war. The real fact is that the wasteland is still a large area of ​​open space, although there are many aberrations wandering in it. , nor to an infinite extent, it still takes time for those dark priests to summon the army.

"So there is either an upper limit to the 'growth out of thin air' of the mutant, or... that is not the real 'proliferation', but some kind of..."

Gawain paused in the middle of his speech, carefully considering more accurate words, but Veronica at the side said what he wanted to say for him: "Maybe it's some kind of 'teleportation', or maybe it's just a high-speed 'Rebirth'."

"You mean, after the land outside the Great Wall was polluted, the aberrations that 'appeared' out of thin air from the polluted breath were actually 'transported' from the depths of the wasteland?" Amber's eyes widened when she heard this. , "Do they have space teleportation technology?"

"That's not called technology, maybe it's just a kind of innate power, which belongs to the talent of 'God'," Gawain corrected Amber, "and 'teleportation' is just a hypothesis, after all, we have never seen aberrations come from In the process of teleporting from one place to another, the various detection and sensing devices on the battlefield did not detect large-scale energy transfer or manifestation traces."

Gao Wen and the others were discussing the possible reasons behind the various strange characteristics of the aberrations. At first, Mirmina was just listening quietly and lost in thought. After a while, she suddenly said: "Do you want to hear my opinion? ?”

"Of course," Veronica nodded immediately, "The opinion from the 'Source of All Laws'—of course it is worth referring to."

"... These days, I have been paying attention to the information about the wasteland of Gondor. I want to get the data collected by the frontline troops near the wasteland. I have got a lot of contaminated material samples. Now there is a living Aberrants, through research on them, I began to suspect one thing..." Mirmina said, her eyes fell on Gao Wen, "Do you still remember the 'unified wave conjecture' we discussed together?"

"Of course," Gawain nodded immediately, "but what does this have to do with the wasteland?"

"The essence of everything in the world is fluctuations, and the boundary between matter and non-matter presents variability. On a certain microscopic interval or 'threshold', the 'entity wave field' where the matter is and the 'virtual wave domain' where the non-material There is a possibility of mutual transformation and even complete fusion of body wave domains..." Mirmina said slowly, and the conjecture she threw made Gawain's eyes widen gradually, "So is there such a possibility—— A big explosion in the Deep Blue Well turned the entire Gondor wasteland into a macroscopic 'chaotic wave domain', and the aberrations have the characteristics of switching between solid and incorporeal, and they have always been on the edge of the real world Wandering, this may explain some phenomena..."