Chapter 1990: U-Transcendence Event (Eighty-One).

His speculation was very rigorous. First, the organizer said that it was possible to curse, but did not say how to curse. The biggest problem was how to choose people.

Now the teams have never met each other. When you don't know who the other party is, how can you choose the target to curse? There must be a machine to operate it, right?

Secondly, after getting a totem pole fragment, there is no place to show the number. There must be a place to retrieve the fragments you have, right?

Batman himself is a very rigorous and scientific person. His thinking is very rational. He instinctively dislikes all chaotic things and prefers to make more orderly assumptions.

The rules given by the organizer are too vague. In Batman's view, it is equivalent to saying nothing. Batman understands all this as the need to explore by himself, so after finding clues, he will naturally think that this is the complement of the rules.

Batman obviously didn't expect that there is really such a broad-minded person like Schiller in the world.

Schiller speculated the same thing as Batman, but he did not choose to build a nuclear bomb first, but planned to forge a launch silo.

In other words, Schiller himself is the kind of person who prefers to watch others shove nuclear bombs into fake launch silos rather than obtain nuclear bombs, in short, a mental patient.

This city is not big, and the contestants who are not restricted in power are very fast. After a while, Bruce found another magic circle.

This time, the magic circle was painted on the wall, and it was more complex and huge. The paint was slightly dry but not completely dry.

Bruce immediately took out the totem pole fragments he obtained. His comparison speed was about the same as Batman, but his thinking was completely different from Batman.

Bruce has knowledge of mysticism.

He immediately used the steel pipe in his hand to write and draw on the sand of the ruins next to him. After a while, he paused, walked back to the magic circle and took a look, showing a thoughtful expression.

There is no doubt that the text and pattern above are meaningful. It should be a variant of modern text, and this ancient text usually represents various symbols of mystical significance.

Bruce initially deduced that the first layer of text in the outer circle should be some kind of prayer, which echoes the inner layer of text and the largest text symbol in the middle, or provides some power for it.

Then the text in the middle is likely to be the key to the magic circle, and its meaning is likely related to the way the totem pole works.

Just as Bruce thought of this, a flash of light appeared behind him. Bruce turned back suddenly and saw a figure turning from transparent to substantial.

It was a young man with black hair and green eyes, wearing a gorgeous prince's robe, holding a shining staff, and the gem of the staff still had an unextinguished magical light.

"The thick fog here weakens my spells, but as you can see, I am a wizard. You can call me Loki."

"Loki?" Bruce narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he recognized the style of the pattern on Loki's robe at a glance. He said, "Norse God?"

"Prince of Asgard."

"You are not the same as described in the mythology book."

"It sounds like you are very knowledgeable about mythology." Loki smiled at Bruce and said, "You have seen this magic circle, what do you think?"

"Why should I tell you." Bruce crossed his arms and said, "Loki is called the god of fraud in Norse mythology. Who knows if this is your true face?"

Loki bowed his head again He smiled, gently stroked the staff in his hand and said: "I don't have any real face, or I have thousands of faces, but it doesn't matter, I can give you what you want."

"Do you know what I want?"

"You are cracking this magic circle." Loki turned his head and looked at the huge magic circle on the wall and said: "And I happen to be a wizard."

"But you are not a wizard in this universe." Bruce stepped forward and stared at Loki and said: "All the knowledge you have is not worth showing off here, because it is completely two systems."

"But there is always a commonality. You also use this to get information, don't you?" Loki lowered his eyes and looked at the pattern Bruce drew on the sand.

Bruce sighed in his heart. He really didn't expect that there would be a wizard who could be invisible among the contestants, and he kept following him, otherwise he would not write down his thinking process.

"It's a little offensive, friend, but I just found you and started following you about a minute ago." Loki took out his totem pole fragment and tossed it in his hand and said, "Give me a piece of the fragment and I'll tell you my guess, how about that?"

"Don't treat me like a fool."

"Well, it seems that you are a smart man." Loki tapped the upper part of the staff with his finger and said, "The location of the next totem pole fragment will not be revealed so quickly, but maybe we can join forces to rob others."

Loki looked at Bruce and said, "Your image is very suitable for bait. You attract their attention, and I will attack them from behind."

"Are you a hunter?"

"Of course, as you know, I am the god of fraud, and sneak attacks are my specialty."

"Sorry, me too, but if you want to cooperate, I can temporarily disguise myself as your priest."

"That's what I meant." Loki nodded and said, "Because of my appearance, most people will mistake me for a priest, so I need a bait that looks more innocent."

"Why not yourself?"

"I've said it before, I'm good at ambushing in the dark, invisibility is a very useful skill, isn't it?"

Bruce stared at his face for a while, and Loki met his gaze fearlessly. After more than ten seconds, Bruce nodded gently and said, "The deal is done, tell me what you think."

"To show my sincerity, I will tell you the most useful information first." Loki turned around and stared at the words in the center of the huge magic circle and said, "Look there, You should have noticed it, that's the key, I can tell you that this text means 'curse'."

"How do you know?"

"You are right, my universe, your universe and the universe we are in now have different magic systems, but you should know that there are many different magic systems in my universe."

"The text patterns, spellcasting methods and magic effects they use are all different, but do you know what they have in common?"

Bruce paused for a while and said: "...Energy."

Loki looked at Bruce with a little surprise and said: "Your magic attainments are deeper than I thought. You don't look as young as you look. Are you a god? Or other immortal species?"

"I guess so."

Loki didn't care about this slightly After a perfunctory answer, he put his eyes back on the magic circle and said, "Energy is the root of science and magic. The principle of magic circle is similar to that of scientific machines."

"Some magic circles are for work, some are for conduction, some are for storage, and some are for output. They can also be combined into a large magic circle to perform some more complex operations, like vehicles and spacecraft."

Bruce was a little surprised. He stared at Loki and said, "Do the gods talk about science?"

"It's because humans have a narrow understanding of science." Loki said with a little deepness, "You think it's not scientific to create energy out of thin air, but that's just another level of science. There are fixed principles that can be reproduced and can be used reasonably. Whether it's called magic or something else, it's different from what you understand. The science is the same. "

Loki's hand flashed again, and a ball of energy appeared in his hand. He said: "This is called divine power. The gods are born to collect similar energy from the universe and use it, but in the eyes of the gods in Asgard, this is also completely scientific, just like humans have five fingers to grasp. "

"Let's get back to the topic." Loki sighed, staring at the rune and said: "Unlike the gradual simplification and miniaturization of human technology development, the development of the magic world is usually from simple to complex. "

"This is essentially because the races that need to use magic technology want to collect as much energy as possible and as efficiently as possible in the universe, and the more energy collection parts integrated in the magic array, the more complex the magic array is, and the more things can be done, which is a manifestation of the development of magic technology. "

"And the reason why it is not possible to use the same size of equipment to output more power like the development of science and technology is because the power that each rune and pattern can output is not determined by humans. It is determined by gods, or the regular creatures of the corresponding type of energy. "Bruce nodded involuntarily. He had a deep understanding of this. After all, he had been practicing runes in heaven for several months. The meaning of each rune and the energy it could provide were determined by angels and had nothing to do with humans. "Then, if the church wants to gain more power, it will have to use more runes. The more it develops, the more ways to combine runes will be found, and the magic circle will naturally become more and more complicated. " "This pattern is obviously like this. It integrates many energy collection parts, and through the transmission of another part, all gathered on the most central text. " Loki looked down at the fragments of the totem in his hand and said, "There are so many parts for collecting energy, and where does the energy come from?" Bruce also took a look at the fragments in his hand. As long as he was not blind, he could see that the totem pole fragments and the magic circle used the same text and pattern. But the paint was not even dry yet. "This is another ironclad evidence. " Loki smiled and said, "Don't forget that it is because we came here that there is such a rule, so this certainly cannot be a product left over from ancient times. "

Then he turned his head and looked at the street in the distance and said: "I guess this totem pole and this magic circle are the relics of an ancient civilization that has been forgotten by this civilization. I am afraid we will see more such clues in the city. "

"Does this have anything to do with the thick fog?" Bruce walked to Loki's side, turned his head and looked at him and said: "Don't tell me you didn't expect that the key to winning the game may be the danger in the thick fog. "

"I also made this guess, but there are too few clues now." Loki used his thumb to feel the fragments of the totem pole and said, "But at least we know now that if we gather all the fragments, we have to take them to this magic circle. The magic circle can extract the energy from the totem fragments and infuse it into the designated contestants."

"Will that kill him?"

"I'm afraid so." Loki also looked back at Bruce and said, "But don't tell me you haven't thought that this energy might be used for something else."

The two looked at each other and saw the ambition and desire in each other's eyes. Playing games according to the rules has never been their choice. Breaking the routine and holding the initiative in their own hands is the right choice.

The two who have determined the direction of exploration turned around without hesitation, and if you look up slowly along the magic circle, you can see that Schiller, standing on the roof of the building, looked at the backs of Loki and Bruce who turned and left, and smiled.

The theater exploded.

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