Chapter 273 Light Curtain

"Loss of contact?"

Mikael's first reaction was - how is it possible?

Apparently Mei and Kevin sent messages to report that they were safe early this morning...

Of course, this unbelievability is not just perceptually unbelievable, but also the conclusion of rational analysis——

There are only two groups that may be unfavorable to Mei. One is the local city hall in Rhine, and the other is the Tenth Herrscher.

If it was the former, first of all, Mikael didn't think that group of people would be so impulsive. Even if there were individuals from the Tenth Herrscher mixed in to stir up trouble and make them act hostile, Qianjie and Kevin were not vegetarians.

Not to mention the security team transferred from the headquarters and the joint guard team sent by the European branch.

In contrast, the latter is more likely, and Mikael raised similar concerns even before May insisted on going to Rhineland.

He even suspected that Mei regarded this trip to the Rhine as a play that was supposed to be on the P-21, but this was obviously wrong. Last night, Mikael also saw Velvet doing the final operation test of the blank key. Woolen cloth.

Not to mention, in order to prevent the Tenth Herrscher from attacking when he shouldn't attack, Mei and Mikael deduced for a long time, and finally chose Qianjie as the reason for secretly guarding.

That's right, the reason why Sakura was not asked to carry out this task was not entirely to give her a holiday, but also because Sakura could always lurk and disguise herself well, and it was difficult for Qianjie not to reveal chicken feet, so she It can give the Tenth Herrscher a sense that there is no opportunity to take advantage of them, thereby erasing their plan to attack.

But Mikael soon wanted to slap himself twice - starting from the fifth Herrscher, while the Herrscher's own emotions became more and more abundant, his behavior no longer followed the standard principles of absolute rationality, and occasionally committed crimes. Isn't that what two idiots should do?

"I understand. Give me the coordinates and I will immediately go to support you. Other fusion warriors will gather at the Second God's Key and stand by."

——This is an arrangement that has been planned for a long time.

But before Mikael could say the word "I", his sleeve was pulled by Himihu, so he quickly stopped the car, took a deep breath for half a breath to calm down as quickly as possible, and then asked in a calm voice road:

"Loss of contact? What's the specific situation?"

It is undeniable that he has been a little anxious and impatient during this period, which is not good, especially for a Lychee Herrscher.

"Dr. Mei is not the only one who has lost contact. To be precise, it was not Dr. Mei who lost contact in the first place."

Prometheus's first answer almost made Mikael fall down.

But unfortunately, the mobile terminal only transmitted Prometheus's voice, and Mikael's expression could not be seen at all.

Otherwise, she would probably have to separate part of her consciousness and start thinking - what did I say wrong and why did Mikael show this expression.

"At 15:22 headquarters time, the European branch's communication with Dr. Mei was cut off. To be precise, the communication is still intact, but the person behind the communication did not respond no matter how he called."

"So Mei took Kevin and Qianjie to conduct reconnaissance on her own, and told you to notify me immediately if she also loses contact?"

"Yes."

Mikael touched his chin. Apart from the Herrscher, Mikael could not imagine any other possibility to attack the Fire Chasing Moth branch and resolve the battle in an instant.

"Is there no Honkai abnormality detected?"

But therein lies the problem.

If the Tenth Herrscher caused the above situation, then they must invest a large number of individuals. Although the Honkai energy reaction of each individual is very weak, but together, and with a little use of their abilities, the Honkai energy reaction can reach a magnitude of It will definitely exceed the 1000HW red line.

"The instrument did not detect Herrscher-level Honkai energy reaction, otherwise the alarm would have sounded long ago. I checked the operation records of the instrument and found that the European branch had a moment of nearly 900HW of Honkai energy within ten minutes before losing contact. reaction.

"But considering that Dr. Mei was on the phone with people in the branch at that time, and there was no sound of fighting, Dr. Mei and I initially judged this matter as: It was probably a Honkai energy reactor in the European branch. A leak occurred, so that the entire branch staff was quietly converted into dead soldiers. "

Mikael bit his lip and thought. This was of course a very correct inference at the time. If he wanted to make an entire branch of nearly 100,000 people die in an instant without taking any vigilance, Mikael could only think of two things. possibility.

The first is Mei's previous inference - excessive Honkai energy radiation. However, although excessive Honkai energy radiation can explain the problems in the European branch, it cannot explain the instant loss of contact between Kevin, Qianjie and Dr. Mei.

That may be the second possibility: the other party has extraordinary mental abilities and can control the minds of 100,000 ordinary people in an instant.

And there are only three people in the whole world who can do this -

Aponia, Mikael, and the Eighth Herrscher sealed in the deepest place by Aponia.

Regardless of the first two, the Herrscher of Knowledge's body has perished after the core was taken out, while her consciousness and the core have been preserved separately. The core has even been made into the Key of God, and the consciousness has been suppressed by Aponia. There is the possibility of causing trouble.

And how can the Tenth Herrscher trap Kevin with only the small amount of conscious power that the Tenth Herrscher has?

This was something that even the genuine Eighth Herrscher couldn't do, and it was even more impossible for the Tenth Herrscher to do it with only a small part of his power.

Well... it's not impossible. After all, in the original history, before Kevin became a fusion warrior, he killed the Sixth Herrscher with an automatic rifle, and Yimer, who only mastered a small part of the Sixth Herrscher's power, But he was killed dozens of times without dying.

But assuming the attacker is the Tenth Herrscher, the problem returns to the original contradiction——

Why is there no Honkai reaction?

Mikael leaned lightly on the railing of the stands and stared at his toes.

What power can, in an instant, not to mention defeat, at least restrain Kevin and Qianjie to a great extent...

"Wait a moment!"

His sudden low voice startled Himihu. He gripped Prometheus's mobile terminal tightly and asked word by word, almost through gritted teeth:

"Prometheus, have you checked that there are no other abnormal energy reactions in the Western Europe branch at the corresponding time?"

"?"

Prometheus seemed to be down for a short while, and he began to inspect the database outside the Fire Chasing Moth headquarters——

After all, the Fire Chaser Moth is an organization established to fight Honkai. High-radiation energy such as Honkai energy itself is easier to monitor, but conventional energy is more difficult to monitor and there is no need for it.

However, the coalition government originally had two sets of conventional energy monitoring equipment, one in Mu Continent and one in Greenwich. The former has become a world bubble along with Mu Continent, and the latter is very close to Western Europe. Now Prometheus It should be to check the records of Greenwich.

But while he was searching, he also reminded Mikael:

"I don't think this kind of search is necessary. Conventional energy, no matter what form it takes, must have extremely high visibility, so it cannot be done quietly... Well, it's actually really There are abnormal energy fluctuations.”

"Gulu..."

Mikael's throat rolled:

"Converting it, what is the Honkai energy of the same magnitude?"

"One... about 12,500 watts... Wait a minute, I received the latest satellite picture. A huge golden light curtain appeared where the Western Europe branch was originally. Its diameter is expanding... Its diameter has exceeded fifty kilometers... …Mikael?”

As if feeling the silence of the man holding her, Prometheus shouted one more time.

"Okay No. 17, we...are already here."

"Huh?"

Mikael finally turned on the projection function of the mobile terminal, and only then did Prometheus see that they were standing on the only undulating hill in an endless plain, and above the originally dark horizon, a translucent The golden light completely replaced the gray sky.

Mikael was a little cautious, so the end point of the phase shuttle was a bit far away from the Western European branch. Even so, the distance between him and the light curtain was less than five kilometers.

Moreover, the light curtain in the bowl is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This...what is this?"

Since cleaning up the data of the emotional module, this is the first time Prometheus has seriously expressed doubts.

She was unable to analyze the light curtain in front of her from the current scientific perspective, and if the initiator of all this was Honkai, then why didn't there be a high-value Honkai energy reaction?

However, there was one point worth noting that she had just told Mikael——

The energy conversion results show that the regular energy fluctuations emitted by this light curtain are completely consistent with the current Honkai energy intensity that a Herrscher should exert at its full strength.

"It seems to be correct..."

Mikael laughed twice.

"Before, I always thought to myself that the Honkai Impact is coming faster and faster now. Maybe one day two Honkai Impacts will happen at the same time, and I won't be surprised... Hey, isn't this coming?"

Mikael only felt that he was somewhat crow-mouthed.

But if he knew that Mei had had this thought more than once, then this might be called God's will.

"Collapse?"

Prometheus didn't know how Mikael determined that this energy came from Honkai, but she was present at the exchange between Dr. Mei and Mikael. Although she had not witnessed the fateful script with her own eyes, she was not unaware of it. its existence.

In other words, since Mikael has determined that this is a collapse, it is probably not wrong.

"Should we immediately issue an alarm for the eleventh collapse?"

The mobile terminal is just a carrier for No. 17. She can quickly switch back to the main terminal at the Fire Chasing Moth headquarters in the form of electromagnetic waves, issue a collapse alarm, and then switch back again. The whole process does not even take a second.

But she did not act on her own. As an artificial intelligence, she kept in mind that her duty was to assist, not make decisions for humans.

At the moment when Dr. Mei's situation is unclear, among the judgments of Prometheus, the one who can best make decisions on behalf of human individuals is undoubtedly Mikael.

Although Mikael is not technically human.

"Um."

Mikael responded softly at first, and No. 17 tacitly agreed not to do it right away, because according to the model analysis she established of Mikael's habits, there was more than a 90% chance that he would do it after a meal. More specific instructions will be given later.

"In this way, after the alarm is issued, except for Sakura, Velvet, Hen and Blanca who will stay at the Fire Chaser headquarters and Hua on standby, the rest of the normally organized fusion warriors will be led by Ellie in two batches and pass through the Second God Use the key to quickly teleport to a safe location closer to here, and then rush to meet up - tell Wei Wei that we must not use our current coordinate point as the teleportation coordinate."

"clear."

The projection of Prometheus was stuck for one frame. If you didn't look carefully, you would think that nothing happened, but she had already conveyed the eleventh collapse alarm and Mikael's order just now.

Then, she quietly waited for Mikael's next order.

"More than two thousand new fusion warriors who have not yet entered the establishment were immediately taken on transport planes. The headquarters also planned their own routes and delivered them to a safe location nearby, and then quickly came to rendezvous."

"Um...um...is there anything else?"

This time, Prometheus seems to be taking more time.

This anomaly did not escape Mikael's observation. He used the power of thunder to simulate the movement of electromagnetic waves. It happened that No. 17 also looked over with wide eyes, and then a semi-artificial intelligence and an artificial intelligence said in unison:

"I see!"

"Excessive conventional energy distorts the transmission of electromagnetic waves, so losing contact does not necessarily mean death. It may just be that the electromagnetic waves cannot be transmitted. But judging from the fact that you were not interfered for the first time, the intensity of the interference... In short, 伱Continue to send our location to Dr. Mei’s communication, hoping this will guide them out.”

"Is Dr. Mei really okay?"

Prometheus No. 17 spoke words of concern in an indifferent tone unique to artificial intelligence.

"certainly……"

Mikael narrowed his eyes, and then muttered in a very low voice like he was hiding his ears and stealing the bell:

"So, this is also the positive thing about fatalism that Aponya once said - nothing will happen to Mei, Kevin, and Qianjie. This is destined."

But whether this fate has changed beyond recognition, whether it has already escaped the scope of restraint, Mikael does not know.

However, people will always use more positive possibilities to numb themselves, convincing themselves that there must be better results waiting for them in the future.

"Are there any other orders?"

"The last one..."

Seeing the light curtain coming towards him like a tide, Mikael retreated five kilometers from his heart, and then gave the last order:

"No. 17, you should have the design drawings of the Moonlight Throne in your database, right?"

"Not really."

The projection of No. 17 shook his head like a human.

"All information, documents, and files are backed up in No. 0, but you have permission to read them. If necessary, I can pull out the drawings now."

Before even getting a response from Mikael, Prometheus No. 17 had already projected the blueprint of the Moonlight Throne engine.

Mikael glanced quickly, turned his head away, and continued to stare at the light screen in front of him and said:

"Well, there's no need to be so urgent. Does Velvet have the authority to read this document?"

"Not yet, because Dr. Mei thinks that the design of the Moonlight Throne is not perfect yet. If it is handed over to Velvet now..."

"Then now she has this authority."

"ha?"

"Send that drawing to Velvet immediately. How long will it take for all the fusion warriors to be in place?"

No. 17 tilted his head and calculated silently for a second, then immediately gave the answer:

"It's expected to take about two hours and thirteen minutes."

"Then tell Velvet that I need her to draw me a cannon that can convert massive Honkai energy into conventional energy beams and launch it out in two hours based on this energy conversion engine."

Prometheus immediately complied, but this did not mean that she did not have doubts in her heart:

"According to the four laws of thermodynamics, the flow of energy in a medium must be accompanied by losses. If you want to use the Moonlight Throne to convert your own Honkai Energy into an energy beam, and then emit it in an attempt to break this light curtain, why not How about attacking directly with Honkai energy?"

"...This question is actually very simple. If you want to know, I can demonstrate it to you."

Mikael spread his hands, and a spear of sub-space struck his ear and shot out, but it broke into light particles the moment it touched the light curtain.

"Did the Archon Spear disappear directly? Or did it decompose?"

The voice of No. 17's machine repeated his doubts, while Mikael held his chin and narrowed his eyes——

The matter was more complicated than the Spear of Sky being decomposed by the light screen. Correspondingly, Mikael felt that part of the power of Sky that he had simulated was missing.

Although it is an extremely small, extremely small loss, and Mikael's power is reproduced by the power of the First Herrscher, it is a pity that this loss is still irreversible.

The reason is also very simple, because essentially, the part of his missing power is not his reappeared empty power, but his own rational power.

"Is this really so? The so-called constraint is actually just a human definition of it, but its real principle is not constraint, but 'recycling'?"

Mikael thought quietly.

"Kiana's power was irreversibly damaged after touching the restraint barrier. Although Mei later restored her power, how was that done?

"But in short, according to Jiwotou, this lack of power is irreversible, which means that the true face of the so-called restraint power is to recycle the touched Honkai energy into imaginary numbers.

"Precisely because it is recycled rather than restricted, that part of the power will not be awarded again with imaginary numbers, and naturally it is irreversible."

Therefore, if they did not face the Eleventh Herrscher directly, it might be safer, because the Tenth Herrscher would also be unable to exert his power in this light curtain...

Moreover, according to Mikael's intuition as a Herrscher, if he rashly enters this light curtain, it is likely that not only the power will be dissipated, but even his entire individual...

will be annihilated.

After all, compared to the half-human, half-Honkai beast fusion warrior, the Herrscher is a Honkai beast.

Of course, of course, all of the above are just guesses.

This is just a guess about the questioner's thoughts on the question stem of "constraint".

And Mikael has long been accustomed to answering questions without understanding the stem of the question and the intention of the questioner.

What's more, he holds the answer sheet with multiple correct solutions.

But the question is...

Is it really necessary to solve the problem as soon as possible?