Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 707

[Chapter 689 The message in Alice’s eyes]

took the paper tape copied from the “Luminous Object Research Station” and recorded this “weird signal”, and found the original record of the Brilliant Star. Duncan stared at them and studied them for a few minutes, and quickly came to a conclusion –

he couldn’t understand this thing…

Analyzing conclusions from a bunch of abstract signals should be the work of real experts and scholars. , and apparently even real scholars are now at a loss to understand these signals.

“They just look like ‘tremors’ of random intensity,” Morris said, standing in front of the light, spreading a long strip of paper on the table, trying to find the pattern of curve jumps, while frowning. He thought, “It is possible to convert the amplitude of each tremor into different numbers or ‘breakpoints’ of different lengths, but this is like some kind of cipher text… If there is no corresponding ‘codebook’, it is impossible to Understand the meaning of these tremors.”

“Since first receiving these signals, scholars have tried to convert these signals into various forms,” Lucretia said from the side, “including sound ——After converting these tremors into electrical signals and inputting them directly into the playback device, it sounded like some kind of continuous, low whimpering or ‘whispering’, but it actually didn’t mean anything. We also tried to convert it into But there is no progress in this direction yet.”

Duncan was listening and suddenly said: “This will be the ‘internal signal’ used by the ‘luminous geometry’ to ‘communicate’ with other structures of Vision 001. “

I don’t rule out this possibility,” Lucretia nodded. “There is a high-sensitivity backup recording device at the research station. Not long ago, that thing also received a weak signal from the direction of the main structure of Anomaly 001. Signal, we have reason to believe that the ‘luminous geometry’ currently staying offshore of Qingfeng Port still maintains contact with the main structure of Vision 001…

“Both signals are related to the extinguishing of the sun,” Morris also said while thinking, “The first time it appeared after the sun went out, and the second time it appeared before the sun went out, and the content of the signal was the same. It felt to me… very much like some kind of ‘warning’…”

Duncan didn’t speak, just came. Go to the window and look out thoughtfully.

The city is shrouded in a layer of weird, staggered “twilight”.

The sun in the sky has gone out, but some kind of “suppressive” power of Vision 001 seems to It is still in effect, so the Creation of the World did not appear due to this early “night”. There was only darkness left in the sky at this moment, but at the same time, there was a pale golden “sunshine” coming from the coast, passing through the heights and lows of the city. The scattered buildings formed magnificent and strange light strips over the block. The gas lamps in the streets and alleys were lit in advance, but there were no pedestrians on the streets. Only occasionally patrolling teams of guards and steam walkers could be seen passing quickly. At the intersection, the empty road is illuminated with lights, full of vigilance and vigilance.

The city is very quiet, and a depressing and tense atmosphere permeates the darkness, so that any movement from outside can arouse people’s sensitive nerves.

A slight rubbing sound came from the side. Alice curiously picked up the paper strips piled on the table and looked at them upside down – of course she couldn’t understand.

Shirley and Agou were lying on the other side. In front of the window, the two heads looked out the window together, and Nina stood behind them, muttering something.

“The situation from Plande and Hanshuang is relatively stable. The last experience allowed people to recover quickly. Order has been restored, but the uneasiness caused by the second extinction of the sun has also spread in the city,” Duncan said suddenly, “and apart from them, the connections between other city-states have been interrupted…just like before. “

The only difference from last time is that this time there are four church ships docked next to Qingfeng Port,” Fanna said from the side. “This time they were affected by the ‘luminous geometry’ and stayed there after the sun went out.” On this side, order has been restored on various church ships. His Majesty Lu En seems to have activated some observation and research facilities on the Academy Ark to collect data on environmental changes in the real world after the sun goes out…” “I

hope he can “Something has been discovered,” Duncan sighed, “but to be honest, I don’t have any hope – Vision 001 has been hanging over this world for ten thousand years. I am afraid that only the ancient kingdom of Crete or the legendary Only after completing the ‘Third Long Night’ did the Holy Lord Netherworld know what that thing was…”

Before he could finish his words, Alice’s voice suddenly came from the side: “Captain, Captain! Captain help! Tangled! “

Duncan turned around and saw that Alice’s head and arms had been entangled in a pile of paper tapes – this idiot was blinking and looking here innocently in the middle of the pile of paper tapes, not daring to move. He stood there motionless, as if he was afraid of accidentally breaking the fragile paper ribbons.

“…How did you do it? ! “Duncan stared at this scene with his mouth open, and walked over to rescue Alice from the restraints with both anger and amusement, “Can this be entangled? “

“I do not know either! “Alice said confidently, “I just wanted to see how long this note was, but I couldn’t pull it to the end. By the time I realized it, it was already entangled…”

Duncan sighed: “Don’t mess with them. , these paper tapes are useful. “

Oh…” Alice agreed with some frustration, watching Duncan put the “notes” back into the box like a cat that had been taken away from the yarn ball, but soon she seemed to have forgotten this. With a little regret, the expression on his face became happy again, and he smiled and walked next to Duncan, “By the way, Captain, what is the ‘Observer Effect Anchor’? “

Duncan, who was putting the large ball of paper into the box, stopped instantly.

The whole living room suddenly became quiet.

This idiot just said a string of words that she could never “create” by herself!

Two words After a second of silence, Duncan slowly turned his head, his eyes becoming extremely serious: “What did you just…say? “

Alice was startled, thinking she had messed up something again: “Observe… the observer effect anchor… did I say the wrong thing?” “Why did you mention

this suddenly?” Duncan dropped it With the paper tape in hand, he came to Alice in two steps. After noticing the nervousness on the doll’s face, he slowed down his tone and said, “Don’t be afraid, you didn’t do anything wrong, but you just mentioned a very…no Ordinary vocabulary.”

Alice stared wide-eyed, relaxed a little under Duncan’s gaze, then looked left and right, as if observing something that others could not see, and said casually: “Observer effect anchor failure , fault code E-C6-305, ‘Star Crown’ is damaged, the main system is restarting, the restart time is unknown…”

Lucretia, who was not far away, finally reacted. She came to Alice in an instant and raised her finger to point. Those recording tapes on the table: “You can tell from these tapes?! Is this what they record?”

“No,” Alice shook her head innocently, “I didn’t know there was such a mess on these tapes What does the curve mean, but there are reminders of the failure of the observer effect anchor everywhere… Huh? Can’t you see it?”

The puppet seemed to finally realize something, looking at the people around it with a surprised look, This surprise and surprise… was like the first time she knew that “ordinary people” couldn’t see those threads floating around.

Duncan stared at the doll, and he gradually realized something. He slowly raised his head and looked at the “sunlight” in the sky outside the window that was blocked by buildings and attenuated a lot.

These “sunlights” come from the huge luminous geometry on the sea – after being blocked by the buildings in the city and attenuated by distance, they already appear very weak here.

But the information carried in the spectrum does not disappear because of this degree of attenuation – it permeates the air and pervades the entire city.

To Alice, they were everywhere.

“So, you can directly see the signal released by the ‘luminous geometry’,” Duncan retracted his gaze from the window and fell on Alice, “What…are they like?” “

I can’t tell. ,” Alice scratched her hair, “And I don’t know if this is considered ‘seeing’… I just felt that there was something in the light, and then their meaning appeared directly in my mind – oh, Although the goat head said that I have no brain…”

Morris also walked over. He looked at the doll blankly: “Then why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“You didn’t even ask!” Alice said. This time he became more confident, “And I thought you could all see it!”

Everyone in the living room couldn’t help but look at each other.

Obviously everyone thinks of those “threads” in Alice’s eyes – that’s what Miss Doll thought “everyone could see” last time.

But Duncan thought of more.

He thought of the little puffin with black feathers that Rune had brought to the fairgrounds—he thought of the crazy bird.

He also thought of the painting that Alice had written, and of the “lines” she insisted on adding to every person in the painting.

Alice seemed a little uneasy – after she felt confident, she seemed to realize that she was different from others. She thought it was something she had done wrong. She couldn’t help but leaned closer to Duncan and shrank her neck: “I… I didn’t know at first…”

“Different observers see different worlds, and for Alice… the world has looked different from ours from the beginning. She takes this for granted and doesn’t understand it at all. Thinking of taking the initiative to confirm with everyone what the world looks like in everyone’s eyes,” Duncan suddenly broke the silence. He turned his head and gently pressed Alice’s hair, “Don’t be nervous, you did nothing wrong, and you Very well – Alice, you have done a great job, you have seen information that we cannot see…”

He gently stroked the doll’s hair, letting her slowly relax, while his eyes looked across the window, as if Penetrating through the rows of buildings in the city, I saw the sun still standing on the sea.

Anomaly 001 – Observer Effect Anchor.

(End of chapter)