Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 618 The Cat Butcher and the Engineer

There has been a discussion, or at least a great discussion, among those who study this question: Do the roads in the woods have the same end?If different, which one is the correct endpoint?Is this a meaningful trip?Or forever in the woods?

It is believed that there is treasure at the end of the road in the woods.the end of the sea.The end of the desert.The end of the rainbow.In short, there is only one secret place, and the treasure is buried in the only place.This is an axiom that people firmly believe in.Unique Treasure and Unique Location coincide with each other.

Now from deep in the woods the treasure hunters set out along different paths.That should be two paths that never meet.Not opposite, no tricks of spatial structure.Two completely parallel roads extend far away on their own.It can be asserted that only one of them will find the treasure, or none of them.This meets the expectation of uniqueness.

If you can't find treasure either way, it's a very bad situation.Because that's the surest way to go right now.People have followed these two paths for a long time, and put a lot of energy into testing and summarizing experience.If these two paths fail, everything will have to start all over again.It must take a lot of time and money to find a third and better way, or the treasure hunters will all be trapped in the woods before finding a new way.

It is best not to need to find a third way.

However, it was found that that may not be the most worrying.There are always countermeasures for risks that can be predicted, but those that are not predicted-those situations that are considered impossible to occur are more failures than total failures that people can think of.That is, both roads have found treasures.

Is that the same treasure?Yes.Treasure is unique.Didn't the roads cross?Yes, the whole process of building was closely monitored by treasure hunters.Finding the same treasure on different paths means that the consistency of the entire system may just be an illusion.

But if there is no consistency—and even the most intelligent and professional researchers can only hopelessly ask—what else can we discuss?Is there anything that can be "proved" besides "believing"?

Or, the "path" itself is an illusion.

A rickety path is now being held by Yale Liga.Its common name is "Aether Blocker", which is composed of a primordium sold on the black market and a portable expression device designed by the White Tower.It looks a bit like the Wishing Box made by Neverland, but it's not that bulky, and its functions are quite different.It is only about the size of a palm, like a mini toolbox with a black plastic shell, equipped with thirteen reminder lights and two buttons (confirm and cancel), just enough for Yale Liga to fit into the waist bag without using any space Fold the device.

She bought it on the black market near the "Purple Arrow" stargate with Lombard's help.Given its price and distribution method, it is inevitably a bit shoddy, and as we all know, although the "ether shield" is more suitable for the White Tower mage, it is not as reliable as the "spiritual field shield" in protecting mechanical equipment.One of the tiny electronic eyes that Yale Liga installed on her back has been damaged.Now she can't keep checking what's going on behind her while running, although she may not see anything - they seem to run into the out-of-control area of ​​​​the wishing machine.

A band of liquid light was passing back from their position.This band of light is brilliant and thin, like the long and sparse dust tail of a comet, which is the embodiment of the etheric primordial, probably taken from the lunar land where the Camarilla now resides.It always emerges from the soles of their feet, like a shallow river running down to their ankles, but it prevents them from falling into the expanding and contracting microscopic world at the bottom.Yale Liga knew that those things were all around them, and that outside the effective range of the ether shield, the space no longer maintained a stable normality.Far and near are meaningless, only inside and outside, unless they can "express" a path.It is a pity that the machine in her hand does not have such a function, so it obviously cannot be freely traded in the black market of the Shenguang Realm.Compilers and converters are on the prohibited trading list, and they have to be adjusted for specific types of wishing machines.No civilization or individual with a wishing machine is willing to see others talking freely with the wishing machine, and it is very tolerant to allow strays to exit the environment safely.

The device in her hand was made for that.Through the "Star Road" of the White Tower, they are temporarily isolated from the wishing machine environment.A tiny bubble in the deep sea, a miniature tunnel for water insects.It is meant to allow safe exit for those who stray into the Etheric Wave or the Higher Belt: take a step or two in some uncharted area and find the stars not blinking, or all turned upside down and inside out, and that's when It's time to pull out the machine, press a button, and run away.

It's not a device designed to get deep into the environment and control the core.Allerica knew this, of course, and while the idea of ​​owning a wishing machine was somewhat fascinating, it wasn't something she particularly wanted.Basically everything she wants can be obtained in other ways.If not, it just means that some kind of concern makes her not really want it that much.Life needs a little sense of anticipation, and being the target of a higher-level wishing machine is not an interesting thing. No one would pay attention to what she and Lombard did in the grass in the abandoned land of the Divine Light Realm.

But they couldn't turn around and run away.The only ready-made passage that has been expressed has been blocked, and it is the pinnacle of luck to find room 3050.Little Luna was used to strangers coming and going, and thought everyone was her friend.She and Qiaoqiao Tianyi hit it off right away, but unfortunately they couldn't understand the language—not completely.Some vocabulary is very similar, and the pronunciation of the name will not be mistaken, but other places seem specious.The translator needed to be adjusted and installed, so instead of putting a probe blatantly into Lunla's head, they gestured to her to confirm house zero.three fingers.three.two fingers.two.a finger.one.no fingers.zero.The concept of numbers really applies everywhere.Based on consistency.Maybe for now.

So they set foot on the road to House Zero.So far, all was going well, until they were halfway down the road when other passers-by happened to join them.At that time, Yale Liga's reverse electronic eye was not damaged.She saw branch-like shadows behind her—and ran forward at once.She had already suffered from the Mighty Eye from a Killer Meow, and the Killer Lizardhead was significantly worse.She still doesn't know what kind of magic eye it is, whether it can't look at each other or can't be seen.All in all, it's time to spread your legs and run wild.

Fortunately, they were already very close to the end of the road at that time, and the other party might not have noticed these fellow travelers at all.They ran out in one breath, and they might encounter two residents on the way, or the guards arranged by the Wishing Machine, and they didn't have time to take a closer look.Qiaoqiao Tianyi shouted and gave a few warnings, and then they all hid in the depths of the only building.If you want to avoid being seen by the monster, there is really no other choice.

"That must be a natural disaster!" Qiaoqiao Tianyi said while running.On "Path of Stars," her voice becomes ethereal and distant, coming from every direction at once.Yale Liga was thinking about what she meant by natural disaster, which might be some kind of slang term from the Dreamland Confederation.There must have been many troubles in the long history of the country of horses.

The three indicator lights of the jammer light up red.Allerica noticed.She ventured a glance behind her, and saw the thousand-layer ring of fire rising and spreading in the void, and every angle of the sixteenth-order cylinder was engraved with inscriptions, showing both the inner and outer structures.Across both sides of the figure, clusters of white towers floating in the void are faintly visible on the tip of Stardust's tail.This is something that people generally think they can encounter by chance on the "Road of Stars". It is said that it is the symbolic image of the Secret League and the Tower of Silver Light, but it may simply be the expression of the original foundation of "Road of Stars".She glanced to make sure the lizard head was not behind her.

That's not really foolproof, after all, she's on the inside, and there's no such thing as remoteness in the outside environment.Lizardhead could show up to them at any moment, assuming he also has a shield-like approach.Was he headed towards House Zero from the start?If he was coming in to find someone, he was supposed to have a way.

She slowed down.The white light of the jammer is blinking.The other two followed her and slowed down.

"What's wrong?" Qiaoqiao Tianyi asked.She glanced back at the lamp in Yale Liga's hand, and made an annoyed voice: "Critical?"

"We've got too few primordiums," Yareriga said.

Boddy remained silent, only his eyes showed that he was still observing the situation.

"We can't go deeper." Qiaoqiao Tianyi kicked the light path under his feet, "'Road of Stars' may disappear at any time."

Before they came down, they never considered that there would be a wishing machine here.Yale Liga thought to herself that at most they were planning to guard against the High Spiritual Field area, perhaps the border area of ​​the Moon Realm.For places where the ether is rich but stable, the shield without compilation functions can also work well.But it's different now. The environment of the wishing machine is too demanding for the one in her hand, just like turning a clock into a radiator.

But they can't quit either.The dangerous creature might still be stuck outside.Stay where you are?The risks are also the same.

"What should I do?" Qiaoqiao Tianyi asked.

At this time, a light at the bottom of the jammer lit up.It was silver and easily confused with a critical warning signal, but it was the farthest button from the usual indicator light, so Yareriga spotted it right away.With a little surprise, she recalled the meaning of the light: Received a comms signal.She told Qiaoqiao Tianyi about this, and then pressed the confirmation button.

Paper began to spit out from the output slot behind the shield.A kind of white stationery often used by the White Tower mages, it is said that it has a mandatory effect on the signers of the document.Yareriga pulled out the long roll of paper and saw a portrait painted on the topmost position.

"It's that brat!" Qiaoqiao Tianyi shouted.But she quickly took another look suspiciously.

"Oh, wait a minute," she said. "I've never seen that kid make such a face. Is he smiling?"

The portraits on the roll paper were indeed smiling at them, as if hiding an ulterior secret.Guess how I did it?he seemed to be asking.How do I communicate successfully in the Wish Machine environment?
Allerica begins to realize who the avatar actually is.She continued to look down, but there was no explanatory text behind it, but a series of ether compiler instructions common to the Alliance.She studied it uncertainly for a while, and Qiaoqiao Tianyi also poked her head over to look at it.They all felt a bit embarrassed about deciphering this string of instructions. After all, wishing machine engineering is a highly specialized and complex subject.Qiaoqiao Tianyi bent down the tips of his wings, and nodded to the first two rows of numbers under the head portrait.

"What do you think this is?" she asked.

Allerica thought carefully for a while.She couldn't think of any other possibility.

"Relative coordinates," she said, "something is very close to us."

　Today's is a bit long, I can't cut it, sorry for the lateness.

　　How about some monthly pass?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)