old dream

Chapter 266 Modern Coordinates

Frank still doesn't understand why he got into such a situation.

With the gun against his forehead, he tremblingly wrote the coordinates on the paper. It was a long series of numbers separated by commas from time to time.

I thought it was just an ordinary stalking, but the lazy superior explained the matter in just a few words. "The background of the target is pure." It means that if the follow-up is discovered, it may as well carry out the assassination on the spot, so as to save the follow-up verbosity.

The beginning was indeed as smooth as usual, until a few minutes ago they were still playing with the newly arrived chick, but everything suddenly took a turn for the worse, and it turned out that the newcomer who was pinched in the palm of his hand was a man-eating monster.

But in a blink of an eye, Frank found himself at the end of his rope.

He looked at his own handwriting in a daze, as if he was watching another person write.The format of the "coordinates" was a series of numbers divided into nine segments. He wrote very slowly, as if he was waiting for a turning point.Like waking up from this nightmare.But it wasn't until the gunman took the paper away that Frank realized what he had lost forever, a sudden emptiness that seemed to slowly overflow from the black pit where the corpse was buried.

If the coordinates are mastered by others, they must take the initiative to report and resign, otherwise they will be punished as espionage once discovered by the department.It sounds a little inhuman, but everyone privately believes that they would rather commit suicide than hand over the coordinates to outsiders, otherwise, they may encounter a more miserable situation than death.

Frank also laughed at those cowards who had their coordinates taken away, and having seen their fate, he thought he would face the gun like a hero.But the truth is, he did nothing.

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Colin used the method provided by the old Fang Giovanni to measure his own coordinates. It consists of four numbers: wind, fire, water, and soil. It is a rather classical way of description: wind four six one, fire five Three, water [-], soil [-].This coordinate has always been inscribed on the ritual site of Vajra Art. It may not be precise enough, but it does work.

Ke Lin has always felt that the "wind, fire, water and soil" here may be like "A, B, C, D", which has no meaning in itself, but just like the xyz axis to distinguish the first, second and fourth dimensions of this coordinate.Therefore, in the description of this system, the imaginary world is a four-dimensional space composed of the four directions of wind, fire, water, and earth.

But the coordinates provided by the middle-aged man have nine dimensions.

1324, 234, 5, 753434467, 892, 3456...

In this writing format, cumbersome expressions and symbols such as "wind, fire, water, soil" and "gas, liquid, and solid" in the previous classical coordinates have been abandoned, and everything has been reduced to simple numbers.It shows that modern mysterious technology is no longer limited to those simple classical philosophies, and is beginning to be closer to pure mathematics.

In the description of this system, the imaginary world is a coordinate system with nine dimensions, a nine-dimensional space that is difficult for ordinary people to imagine but can be expressed mathematically.

The four-dimensional coordinates of "wind, fire, water, and soil" in the past may be approximate values ​​after sine-cosine dimensionality reduction projection.

Just like the starry sky is actually three-dimensional, but what people look up to see is a two-dimensional projected night.Although this projection is not exact, it can still roughly indicate the position of a star.

The accuracy of nine-dimensional coordinates will of course be much higher than that of four-dimensional coordinates, and today's technology has advanced.

But Colin couldn't help frowning.

At this time, an embarrassing scene appeared. He, who has always been accustomed to using classical methods, was not familiar with this new coordinate format.

Of course, it is impossible to ask the middle-aged man in front of him for help. If the other party finds out that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, he still does not know what will happen.

But Ke Lin had to verify the authenticity of this coordinate here.

Of course, it is not allowed to write directly into the ceremony. If used indiscriminately, the coordinates may express a completely different meaning from the original intention.It's like treating the x-axis as the y-axis, or treating the longitude of a location as the altitude.

But no matter what kind of "coordinate" format, the essence is to abstract real things into symbols.

Some people use images as symbols and sounds as symbols, but the closer the time is to modern times, the more they tend to use numbers as symbols.After all, symbols are arbitrary, and what is meaningful is never the symbols themselves, but the relationship between symbols.It doesn't matter whether a person's name is "Colin" or "123", what matters is its relationship to other symbols such as "Lenz", "Heine", "Gillian".Compared with unrelated images and sounds, orderly and operable numbers are obviously easier to express this relationship.

"Coordinates" express these inexhaustible relationships as relative orientations in a cosmic coordinate system.A symbol system that is more precise than natural language, although it may require hundreds, thousands, or even more digits to represent a coordinate than a short language vocabulary.

"Text still needs to be interpreted through a dictionary, but the interpretation of coordinates has been expressed in its relative position. Maybe this is not accurate... But we understand a coordinate, as long as we get its relative position with another known coordinate gone."

These are Ji Lian's original words. It is impossible for any occult textbooks to impart knowledge in such a language. This is her own understanding, but after several years of force-feeding, Ke Lin's thinking has begun to approach her. .

Ke Lin was thoughtful, imagining how Ji Lian would think and act if she was here.Every time he encountered such a problem, he would subconsciously think of Ji Lian, but for a while after that, Ke Lin might only be able to rely on himself.

He handcuffed the already exhausted middle-aged man to the railing of the vehicle, and then re-entered the compartment.The heavy-duty FM ritual there is still in operation.Frequency suppression is being carried out within a range of two hundred square meters nearby.

Colin checked the sealed ceremonial position, and the coordinates were etched on pages of paper-thin copper plates, all in nine-segment style.Activated mercury and charcoal from several plants were concocted into witchcraft ink, which filled the recessed circuits.Its delicacy is different from any ceremony Colin has seen before. Although he has seen more dense and gorgeous ones in the hands of Ji Lian and the underground wizard, the heavy-duty frequency modulation ceremony in front of him is full of a standardized and reasonable beauty.

He tried to understand the meaning of those coordinates in the ritual, examining it component by component.Here is a statement, the coordinates of several physical media in the ceremony are: ... (several rows of nine-segment numbers), from here, the connection between all things in the real world and the symbolic network of symbols is completed... and then read on , he easily found the frequency tuning result of the ceremony, a frequency similar to Sindhili, almost no witchcraft can take effect here.That is the background sound he is currently in.

This frequency is also written as a nine-segment number, and by comparing it with the coordinates of the middle-aged person, the relative position between them can be obtained.

So far, Ke Lin has a firm grasp of the position of the middle-aged man in the imaginary world.

(End of this chapter)