Chapter 1005 The Tiring Key

(It’s the beginning of the month, so it’s time to ask for monthly tickets. What on earth did I do yesterday... Can I ask for monthly tickets and various tickets, as well as subscriptions and recommendations?)

The timeline connects the two events together, and no one thought that these two events would be causally connected before. We can't help but sigh at how dramatic life sometimes is: our first face-to-face contact with the fallen apostle, and finally After going in a big circle, it was actually connected to their deepest secret.

The Salvation War three years ago was initially caused by the invasion of Azeroth by Bellavera, Occam, and Savi. At that time, the power of the fallen apostles had just spread to the present without anyone noticing. In the territory of the New Empire (of course the New Empire's sphere of influence had not yet extended to Azeroth at that time), Bellavera was still a fallen apostle leader. She led an army to invade the world of Azeroth, trying to find the world there. However, they were unlucky to encounter the Protoss expeditionary force. Although the protoss troops with a serious numerical disadvantage were completely wiped out after a fierce battle, Bellavilla and the others only had a few defeated soldiers left. Under normal circumstances, one's own troops suffered heavy losses, and the follow-up troops of the Protoss might have already heard the news. No matter how they thought, they should give up the mission at this time. However, at that time, they were still continuing their mission, risking being intercepted by the Protoss reinforcements. In Azeroth, I really didn’t understand why at first. Bellavilla herself was also very confused: If you just need to find the Heart of the World, there is one in every world, and they don’t seem to be looking for one in particular. Only the Heart of the World can do it. You can evacuate Azeroth, which is no longer safe.

Now the truth is revealed: they are looking for more than just the Heart of the World there. There was also a more important task: destroying the Green Star. At that time, the fallen apostles' intelligence was wrong, and they mistakenly believed that the planet in front of them was the Green Star.

They are out to destroy the planet Azeroth.

From a three-dimensional perspective, the planet Azeroth is really similar to the Green Star. It is of considerable size, has active internal energy, and may be on a very likely "route": According to Lin Xue, Green Star has the ability to sail across the world in its full period. It is an ark for escape, After wandering in various worlds after the collapse of the old empire, the information possessed by the fallen apostles may indicate that the Green Star will pass by certain specific universes, and after arriving in that world, they discovered Azeroth at the expected coordinates. And confused everything: There was a large whirlpool in Azeroth. The fallen apostles who were stunned by the gods at that time regarded it as the ocean phenomenon caused by the great rift in the Green Star. This was the biggest own goal in history, but it almost caused the entire Azeroth to suffer disaster.

However, I am afraid that Bellavilla herself did not know about this whole incident. She is already in the same camp as us. Moreover, there is Sylvia who is not very smart and sells out her teammates every day. Basically, Sandora and I have asked about all the secrets Belavira knows, but there is only one memory like "destroying the Green Star". , which shows that she was calculated from the beginning. Savi is a warrior who is respected by Sandora, even though he is on the wrong side. But he wasn't a cunning guy (a cunning guy couldn't be thrown out to take the lead), so there was probably only one person who knew the truth at that time: Occam, the cunning former chief scientist of the empire.

I lament that things in the world are unpredictable. The once united and glorious Xiling Apostles finally turned into a cunning, insidious and despicable group full of internal struggles and intrigues. Bella Vera still maintained a basic conscience after the fall, causing her to be often ostracized by others. Even with the status of emperor, Occam dared to plot against her as a subordinate. From several previous conversations, I found out that Bellavilla didn’t know much about the internal secrets of the fallen apostle. Part of the reason for this was that her memory was damaged after being reborn as Sylvia. One reason may be that she has always been excluded by the larger group. The Fallen Apostles are a pure interest group that can easily use anyone as a tool: as long as that person has the value of becoming a tool and can be controlled.

Huesca was used as a tool by the fallen apostle in a completely confused state. If Bellavera's situation is better, I'm afraid it's just a tool with higher value.

And isn’t the entire group of fallen apostles just tools? Eighty percent of their members don't even know what the "great cause" they are striving for is, so they are dying in vain. The only one who ultimately controls everything is the mysterious "adult".

"Occam died early," the eldest lady sighed leisurely (of course in the spiritual connection, there is only an extremely thin atmosphere on the surface of the green star, not even enough to transmit sound), and then finally looked together with the surroundings He stopped in front of the "rock" wall without any difference, "In fact, he almost found the Green Star. His calculations were not wrong. In some branches of history that will no longer happen, the Green Star should indeed appear in wow." The world is even located in the same solar system as the planet Azeroth. On that route, the mages of Dalaran will see a green crescent moon protruding from the rift in the void in the arcane vision, and then Behind them were the fallen apostle battleships that were chasing after them in groups. It was exciting, but a minor accident caused the Green Star's cross-world engine to malfunction, and the restart failed. In the end, it fell into a world that was completely outside the route. It fell on us. Well, here it is, the rock wall is hardened."

As she spoke, she took out the black cube that had been treasured for three years and gestured on the rock wall: "This cube is a replica of the navigation key. I don't know how the original key ended up in Occam. In his hand, he made a large number of copies of keys. This kind of navigation key can activate a certain access authority. Maybe they wanted to dig out some secrets from here before destroying the Green Star, so they prepared this thing. But they did not I knew how to use the keys, so I had to let the cannon fodder carry these keys around the world, hoping that the Green Star could actively sense the existence of the keys. Well, that's probably it. I had to hold the keys to go back to some things, but back then The demons who have come into contact with this key are just some small bosses, and there are too few things that can be separated from the limited historical line."

"Do you know how to use this key?"

I asked curiously. In the end, Lin Xue threw the square lump over casually: "I don't know, please, it has been tens of thousands of years since the first navigation key was made, and the one we have is just a copy. The information is very connected. weak."

Well, it seems that even a prophet cannot know everything. Whether she is peeking into the future or looking back into the past, she must at least know what it is, and there must be an information connection as a key line. The key is a key line, as long as However, this black bump is just a copy of the navigation key, and the information it can contact is up to the moment Occam copies these keys. What is further ahead, even if Lin Xue is at full power, can only be seen roughly.

But she told us a lot. Now as long as we find out how to use this key, everything will be fine.

I fiddled with the black square that Lin Xue threw over. I have played with this thing several times before. It looks unattractive, and the surface feels a bit rough to the touch, as if it is an unpainted or unpolished iron billet. It is heavy in my hand. It is claimed to be a key, but there are no grooves or protrusions visible. It is just a square metal bump. Some patterns of unknown meaning can be seen on the dark surface. Unfortunately, these patterns look more like decoration than functionality. The only thing that arouses people's curiosity is that there are several small holes of different sizes on one side of it. There are several long narrow slits on the other side. This completely obscures the function of the key.

Tried to use a small amount of energy to stimulate, but no response. She pressed it back and forth, and her hand hurt. Qianqian used it to hit the wall twice, but the wall did not open a passage. Sandora took a bite of the black lump, frowning to express that the taste was not good - scared I was covered in cold sweat.

Tavel held the black lump in his hand, scanned it for a few minutes with his special ability, and shook his head at us: "It is empty inside, and the shell has no structure. It is directly cast from a single component."

The current situation is that we found the door and held the key in our hands, but we did not find the keyhole, and theoretically no one knows whether the key needs to be inserted into the keyhole to be used. Everyone is very depressed, well, it can be described as more than just depressed. After all, what is one step away from them is the ultimate secret related to the rise and fall of the empire, but what stands in front of them is just a method that is not much better than Dingdang. Damn, this makes people grit their teeth hard enough. It’s basically the same as having just opened a house with your girlfriend and being broken into by more than 1,400 men wearing red hoops, and the leader is your future father-in-law...

You see, I am so anxious that I can no longer speak.

Lilina picked at the black bump and touched it here and there with a serious look on her face. Then she grabbed my sleeve, raised her head and asked, "Boss, what are these little holes for?"

I noticed those small holes just now, but Tavel said that this so-called key only has a single-component porcelain shell and a hollow cavity. There is neither a bunch of gears nor a bunch of wires behind these small holes, so there is only Neng shook his head: "Maybe the devil used a needle to poke it out when he had nothing to do..."

Lilina rolled her eyes at me and blew a few breaths into the row of small holes on the edge of the black bump. Of course, no sound came out, but her eyes suddenly lit up and she shouted loudly: "Tavel, Tavel, air! Give it to me. An air environment!”

Tavel seemed to understand something, but he was stunned for a moment before showing a look of understanding, and then ordered his assistant to open a small laboratory nearby. The laboratory was filled with an air environment equivalent to the earth's standard atmospheric pressure. We ran into the experiment excitedly In the room, Lilina put the black lump to her mouth this time and blew it gently, and a sharp sound suddenly came out.

She seemed to be in high spirits, and she changed a few more holes and blew out several different tones. Qian Qian was also aroused, and she gestured to press several long and narrow slits on the other edge of the square, and as she followed His fingers moved over these narrow slits, and the sound coming from the square began to change in a rounded way.

Although since the player is Lilina, the combination of these tones is like hell.

"This is a musical instrument. Boss, I'm good at it!" Lilina said happily, with a look on her face asking for praise. I did not disappoint her and touched the head of this scheming lolita affectionately: "I got it. , let someone else do it next time, it’s so unpleasant.”

Lilina flattened her mouth and said: "..." Then she ran away and howled. But no one cares about her, this girl is pretending, I don’t know what she really looks like when she cries?

Sure enough, it didn't take a few seconds. Seeing that no one came to pat and comfort her, Lilina moved back in frustration: "Then what?"

"Tavel, how long does it take to add atmospheric pressure to the big crack?" I asked the glasses lady beside me.

"We could add an atmosphere to the entire planet," Tavel shrugged. "The best thing is this. The Green Star should have had an atmosphere. Simulating the same environment can improve the success rate. It will take about thirty minutes at the fastest. We can send all the recent groups of planet transformation engineering ships over. There is no ecological environment on the Green Star except for the scientific research base, so it is not afraid of storms, and filling the atmosphere with the planet does not require a mothership to land, so it should not cause an alarm on the Green Star."

Attach an atmosphere to a planet in thirty minutes. This may be difficult for ordinary people to understand, but as long as there are enough engineering ships and suitable equipment, it is not difficult, of course. This "inflation" process was a bit thrilling. Ten minutes later, an unprecedentedly strong storm broke out over the Green Star. Because the initial atmospheric drainage process was omitted, the atmosphere was quickly transferred to the Green Star's gravitational capture range within a few seconds. Rushing without restraint. A hurricane was formed that spread across the globe, and its intensity was probably strong enough to overturn entire cities. However, the hurricane was quickly suppressed, and the ravens used the power of magic to restrain the global air flow. Then we began to slowly channel them and we walked out of the laboratory. I found that I could breathe in the same way as on earth.

"Is this door opened with sound?" I asked strangely after returning to the rock wall. "It doesn't seem very clever, especially since this key is actually a whistle."

"It sounds like a very primitive key," Sandora shook her head, "But you have to know that if you want to save a piece of information, sometimes the simpler the structure, the more reliable it is. They made the key into a simple structure. The whistle may be to prevent overly complex and sophisticated keys from being damaged over time. Whether this simple structure can produce reliable results depends on the idea."

"And it's not just the sound that opens the door," Tavel fiddled with his detection equipment. "When the key is blown, it produces a complex set of vibrations. There is a resonance relationship between its shell and the nearby rock wall. , sound is just the medium that transmits this resonance relationship. When the key vibrates at a high frequency, every two of its waves will correspond to a wave trough on the rock wall. As the frequency decreases, the corresponding ratio between the wave crests and troughs will follow a line. Parabolic change…”

"Ahem, say something I can understand." I scratched my hair awkwardly.

Tavel shrugged: "In other words, this simple key actually works quite complicated, based on the resonance relationship between each tone it produces and the surrounding rock walls, as well as the density of the green material on the surface of the green star, and the key itself The natural frequency of this set of 'locks' contains ten to the seventeenth power of password combinations. If all frequency combinations are used... this will be a piece of music that is at least thirty minutes long, and the beat is frighteningly fast. .”

Lilina burst into tears: she had just volunteered to use her musical skills to crack the door.

"Fortunately, we can use mathematical models to simulate the closest key." Tavel glanced at Lilina, who was howling. "My subordinates have found the resonance rules. Since the key is for intelligent creatures, this set of resonance rules It must follow a certain 'rhythm', my subordinate has completed the calculation, and there is only one way to combine it."

In order to calculate the accurate resonance sequence, Tavel specially used a Xiling host. With the powerful computing performance of the host, we got the key in less than half a minute. What is gratifying is that the key The "error tolerance rate" is quite high, which means that each syllable only needs to be roughly accurate to cause resonance. It seems that the designers at the time have fully considered this situation: the person responsible for opening the door in the future may be a tone-deaf person, and you will always You can't make it impossible for people to open the door because of this...

What people didn't expect was that the person responsible for playing this music was Sandora - she volunteered.

For the Xiling apostles, music is not a difficult thing. They only need to download each operation step into the core of their thinking, and they can perfectly reproduce the sound of any musician, and the "music score" cracked by the Xiling host can also Only the same Xiling Apostle can read it directly. Even if we see this score, it is impossible to play it without training.

But one thing that needs to be made clear is that although it is easy for any Xiling apostle to reproduce the sound of a musician, for most of them, it is probably more difficult to understand the "art" behind it. …

After a little preparation, Sandora stood in front of the crystal rock wall, closed her eyes slightly, and began to play the special "key".

When the clear and sweet sound reverberated, we all couldn't help but quiet down, not only to prevent it from affecting the effect of the keys, but more importantly, this piece of music - it really has the power to resonate with the heart.

Cheerful, melodious, melodious, urgent...the different tones switch rapidly, but each change is unexpectedly harmonious and unobtrusive. The unattractive black squares seem to contain incredible magic, even if it is just a group The constant repetition of simple syllables can also calm people down.

Perhaps this piece of music is not just a set of keys to open the door, but what is it telling?

I couldn't help but guess this, and then my eyes fell on Sandora who was playing this piece of music.

The blond girl, the battlefield princess, the eternal emperor, the leader of the race, all these heavy auras are gradually dissipating. When she closes her eyes slightly and immerses herself in the music, she is as quiet as an elf bathing in the morning sun. She stood in front of the rock wall, knocking on the ancient door with the sound of a flute thousands of years ago. At this moment, I was a little overwhelmed by this girl I had been with day and night.

gorgeous.

Then Lilina said the strongest sentence: "It will take a full thirty minutes..."

I:"……"

I want to beat her up, okay? (To be continued)