"Tell me carefully." He said quickly.
...
After a while, a soldier quickly walked into the hall and presented a seal resembling a sapphire texture.
"According to you, this is the so-called'secret seal'? When the palace was about to break, the old queen used this thing to control the guards and palace men around him in battle?"
The Governor of Xizhou, or the Emperor of the New Dynasty, looked at this exquisite seal.
A circle smaller than Yuxi.
The shape is square and simple, with intricate light gold lines on the surface, but it is bleak at the moment.
"Yes." The new chief scientist of the empire sighed with emotion and said:
"This is the most important 001 research project of the Academy of Sciences in recent years. Except for a few people, it is highly confidential."
"The project has been carried out in secret for hundreds of years. At first, it was because we accidentally observed a strange phenomenon between heaven and earth, which we called the'spiritual tide'.
That is, every once in a while, some kind of abnormal energy disturbance occurs between heaven and earth..."
"To be precise, it should be some kind of interference. The research institute has studied and guessed that there is an energy in nature that we cannot currently observe.
Every once in a while, this mysterious energy will, for some reason, rise and fall like a tide... thus causing interference to the rest of the observable energy. "
"For this reason, the Scientific Research Institute has set up several observation stations on the high mountains to observe the'spiritual tide' for decades. Through calculations, we found that there is no regularity except for the first two intervals.
Later, every time between two spiritual tides, there is a phenomenon of decreasing function.
Although there are errors, the regular curve does exist.
Each time it appears, it will last for about three days.
Of course, some errors may also be caused by early observation methods and backward technology.
In short, we have determined the cycle of the spiritual wave, and guessed that it is very likely to involve the nature of the world. "
"Unfortunately, although technology has been advancing, we still can't observe that mysterious energy.
Until one time, a scientific research team sent by Kyoto accidentally discovered a strange ore in the southern foothills. The vegetation around the ore was exceptionally lush and strange. "
"The location of the ore is exactly the direction of the ebb tide of the spiritual tide."
"We suspect that this ore may have accidentally absorbed mysterious energy under the long-term energy washout, so a special project team was established to study it...
At that time, its project number was not 001..."
Having said this, the chief scientist looked with emotion and continued:
"Since then, the research institute began to conduct research on this unknown energy based on ore...Because of the inability to observe, the research progress was extremely slow.
Fortunately, through constant exploration, we found that this piece of jade can indeed absorb mysterious energy automatically.
Moreover, it seems to contain some extraordinary power...
Give it some stimulation, it can actually affect the human spirit..."
"...The person who masters it can use this thing to magnify the inner thoughts and forcibly interfere with the thoughts of humans within a certain range, just like...hypnosis! Yes, hypnosis!"
"After realizing this, the Scientific Research Institute immediately reported it to Xian...Old King.
This became a top secret experiment, number 001.
We tried to decipher this hypnotic power from it, but unfortunately we lacked substantial progress.
Some people speculate that this may involve the realm of gods..."
"Later, I had to cast it into a'secret seal' and kept it in the imperial palace under the control of the old king. Later, the old king died and the secret seal fell into the hands of the queen. What happened after that... you know. ."
The voice fell off.
After hearing this story, Governor Xizhou's eyes changed.
He squeezed the secret seal a little nervously, and immediately stared at the chief scientist with a low voice:
"So you mean that the person in charge of the secret seal can hypnotize others?"
"...Yes, but there are many restrictions such as distance and number of people. If the target brain is more active, the effect of hypnosis will also be reduced."
Under the pressure of the governor, the chief scholar bowed his head, swallowed hard, and added:
"Furthermore, every use will consume the energy inside the Secret Seal, so it can only be placed and waited for it to slowly recover... Before, the queen used it once.
Therefore, it is now bleak, unable to stimulate in a short time. "
After saying this, there was a long silence in the hall.
The atmosphere is abnormally depressed.
I don't know how long it took, the chief scholar finally tried to raise his head, then, shaking his whole body, he found that the new emperor was staring at him.
"His Majesty?"
"Tell me, this thing... how to use it!"
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[In the summer of the world's evolution of 741,049, the Governor of Daxizhou was crowned, and the country of Chi was changed to the new dynasty. He was the first emperor of the new dynasty. In the same year, many laws were issued to appease the people and end the war. Recuperate
On the running log, click, click, and words appear.
At the same time, Lin Tuo also discovered that the ether concentration on the virtual panel had also changed from a red downward arrow to an orange horizontal bar again. After a few minutes, it returned to a green upward.
"Sure enough, when the civil war is over and society re-enters the era of peace, the ether will recover."
By the sand table, Lin Tuo's nervousness suddenly eased.
As for the change of Chi State to a new dynasty... it is not surprising.
In fact, in his opinion, Chi Guo had been aging as early as two hundred years ago, but Lin Tuo "goed down to earth" and continued his life with scientific force.
Seeing the sandpan continent continue to develop, Lin Tuo also relaxed, turned his head to hold the computer, put on the headphones, and played a game.
Well, during this period of time, in addition to practicing and doing things, he is more busy than going to work. It is also necessary to take a day off occasionally to relax and entertain.
Not long after, only the sound of keyboard and mouse clicks in the room.
And Lin Tuo, who was concentrating on playing games, naturally didn't know that his movement of collecting ether last night would have been observed by humans in the sand table.
It was even harder to imagine that his behavior of setting an alarm clock to wake up at regular intervals would be carefully recorded by the scientists in the sand table, summarizing it as a "spiritual cycle."
...
The sand table is still changing rapidly.
In a blink of an eye, the new emperor has been on the throne for one year.
In the past year, the new emperor has embarked on some reforms, but the main direction is to weaken local force and strengthen centralization.
Obviously, as a local usurper, he cannot allow the second himself to appear.
Regarding people's livelihood, it has drastically eliminated many of the ills accumulated during the Chi Guo period, severely killed a wave of corruption, rectified the officialdom, and gradually replaced the original administrative system with officials from the "small government" in Xizhou.
And through a series of methods and decrees, it has fully demonstrated its excellent ability to govern the country... The whole society quickly stabilized, and re-advanced to the electrical age at a faster speed.
At the time of the transition of the times, new things appeared every day. In just one year, people have adapted to the rule of the new dynasty.
Because of the merits of presenting the "Secret Seal", the chief scientist has been going smoothly this year. No matter how the officialdom changes, he has not been affected in any way.
He led several major inventions and made him a celebrity beside the new emperor. For a while, the spring breeze was proud.
Until another cold winter, he was summoned to enter the palace again and came to the conference room called Yushufang.
"His Majesty."
Stepping into the door, he saw that there was only the emperor in the conference room. He was now facing the doorway and facing a map on the wall, as if in a trance.
"Ah, you are here, sit down." Hearing the call, the emperor came back to his senses and said with a smile.
"I wonder if your majesty summons ministers to come, what instructions do you have?" the chief scholar asked.
"Calling you, there is indeed a major event," the emperor said without going around the circle, straight to the topic, "I am going to set up a new laboratory in Daxizhou.
Do a major research, lack a person in charge, I don't know if you are willing to accept it. "
"Daxizhou? New laboratory? Research?" The chief scholar was surprised and couldn't help asking, "What is it?"
"Border." The emperor turned around again, looked at the empire map on the wall, and slowly uttered a word.
"boundary?"
Hearing this word, the chief scholar looked awkward.
In the empire, the term border has a special reference, and its full name is "world border".
That is, outside the continent, the end of the endless sea, the most edge of this world.
To be more accurate, it is the magnificent, invisible "majestic wall".
It's just that people outside the sandbox can clearly see the whole sandbox. For the empires inside the sandbox, their perception of the world is based on the sandbox environment.
Even based on scientific calculations, only the results simulated by the sandbox can be obtained.
Many years ago.
Because of the backward navigation technology, the people of Chi Guo had no idea what the world was like at that time.
The fleet sent out will also encounter mysterious wind and waves after leaving the mainland and sailing into the depths of the "Endless Sea" and cannot move forward.
It was not until the start of the Industrial Revolution and the advancement of navigation technology that people finally broke through the dangerous sea and came to the end of the world.
Found that huge wall.
And named it "boundary".
Countless scholars have tried to break their heads, and they can't figure out the material composition of the "boundary", let alone what lies outside the boundary.
Even many scholars believe that there is no such thing as an "external" boundary.
Others believe that beyond the "boundary" is the realm of gods.
More than two hundred years ago, the saint who taught the world lived there.
Therefore, it has also become the ultimate and most mysterious thing in the imperial science field.
Sandbox people see the "boundary" just like the earth people see the "universe".
"Yes," the emperor said, pointing to the map in the conference room, "I wonder if you have this feeling, the world we live in... is very small.
When I was in Daxizhou, I liked to go to the astronomical station to watch the stars at night. The mountains over there were very high and closer to the starry sky. This feeling was particularly strong.
Especially after I took control of this country.
My chest is often stuffy and I feel out of breath.
According to your scientific community, human beings started out of recklessness and conquered nature, and then they have their current appearance. I have often thought recently that when humans conquered nature, I also conquered this country, then...
what's next? What are we going to conquer? "
"What to conquer?"
The chief scientist asked subconsciously.
The emperor turned his head and stared at him, his eyes full of pressure:
"Border. I want to conquer it, no matter what the price!"
