Ronan didn't expect that the atmosphere in the venue would be so sensitive that he would suddenly become the focus of everyone - then again, this is a matter of course, after all, he is the focus and core of all the recent problems in the world.
Now, he is quite dissatisfied with this situation.
Fortunately, I acted as the host of the auction not long ago, so I still have a little bit of habit left, so I raised my hand and greeted everyone in a seemingly familiar tone:
"Sorry, I'm late for something..."
The official host, Abner, showed his function at this time, smiled, and chose a not-so-neutral title: "Everyone knows the reason for Professor Luo's late arrival. It is indeed force majeure..."
"Who said that? Isn't this a fight?" One guy, Pili Yangqiu, said something, as if he was targeting Abner, and it was a bit irritating to Ronan. In short, it was a tone that made both parties unhappy.
"Shaucedo, you are an old man." The blood demon next to him promptly reminded him, "With the title of deputy secretary-general of the federation, he is actually closer to the capital side."
"I know, I've always been neither yin nor yang." Ronan also knew that this fashion expert had always been at odds with His Majesty the Emperor Wu, and the last appraisal meeting did not have any good effect.
Ronan only cared about recognizing people and didn't care about anything else. Abner just pretended not to hear and signaled to the secretary-general behind him to come forward:
"Roman?"
Romanus said nothing and showed no expression. He just sent the draft of the meeting minutes to Ronan through the conference system.
Ronan raised his head and looked at this extraordinary person whose name sounded a bit like his. Romanus, he had heard of it before. One of the newly promoted extraordinary species in recent years, he is said to be a shrewd and low-key guy. Now it seems that it is indeed low-key.
"You guys talk about your business and I'll take a look." This was not a polite statement. Ronan still needed to adapt to the new environment.
Before tonight, he definitely wouldn't have been treated like this. When he entered the venue, he would probably be greeted with questions. Now, he voluntarily withdraws from the focus area, as if to give people face.
What Ronan has to do now is indeed related to face: he needs to distinguish the faces and basic information of these extraordinary species standing at the top of the world in the venue.
To be honest, there were hundreds of people in such a high-level meeting, including those present as observers. For Ronan, who was not good at interpersonal communication, it was really difficult to remember so many faces clearly.
"You need a "Deck" at this time." The guy from Blood Demon passed over an electronic document, but it was a classic replica version of the extraordinary poker deck he claimed to launch. Well, it included Gong Qi, Jin Tong's version.
He looked through it and found that the directory index above was quite complete. After a short search, he knew that Romanus was the 2 of spades, a more comprehensive or more dominant extraordinary species, and Saucedo was the 3 of clubs. Typical spiritual side.
The blood demon not only gave information, but also took on the important task of explaining: "Basically, the middle circle where we sit on the round table is arranged according to the 'Sixteen Strongest People' of the extraordinary species. Of course, some people are basically It will not happen on such occasions, and it is natural for increases and decreases to occur.”
As Blood Demon said, there are two standards for the "Sixteen Strongest": one includes all A-color cards and character cards, and the other is a slightly relaxed standard that also includes 10 even-numbered goalkeepers. Number plate.
Regardless of the standard, in this type of highest-level meeting, these 16 to 20 people are at the core of the roundtable. The seats for the rest of the people waiting were more casual. In addition, it was a virtual venue and everyone was not elementary school students coming to class, so the order was even more confusing.
Under the blood demon's thoughtful explanation, Ronan immediately gave up the delusion of identifying everyone, and just checked the deck of cards to check the people in the core circle - no matter whether it was 20 people or 16 people, they were not all present.
Ronan counted and found that there were only 18 seats in the inner circle, but there were only 13 people arriving so far, including him. Among them, those from the Ability User Association account for a considerable part:
Abner, who currently seems to be incompetent as the President of the General Conference and the convener and moderator of meetings, is the King of Spades;
Vice-president Malen, who had a brief encounter with him, is a strong physical player, Jack of Hearts;
Constance Daler, spiritual side of mysticism, master of enchantment, Queen of Clubs;
Well, President Ouyang doesn’t count, this is the Jack of Spades.
Ronan waved over there, Ouyang Chen adjusted his glasses and responded with a smile.
His Majesty Emperor Wu was behind President Ouyang this time, still looking down at his book and paying no attention to him.
The remaining ones that Ronan was more familiar with were the blood demon and the black lion. One of these two is a 10 of hearts, and the other is a 10 of diamonds. They are both goalkeepers. The Black Lion was a little further away and waved to Ronan.
Ronan was not very familiar with the remaining people, but even with his poor knowledge, he had known their names for a long time. Of course there are two secret cult leaders inside:
A fair first offering, the Ace of Spades.
Speaking of which, this is not the first time Ronan has interacted with this person. When he was wiping out the main force of the Justice Order branch at the Frost River Reality Flagship Store, he had contact with this person from a distance. Of course, at that time, as a The main combatants are President Ouyang and His Majesty Emperor Wu.
But who would have thought that this powerful man who dominates the most powerful secret sect would actually be a seemingly gentle and amiable woman?
There is no direction in the virtual venue, and if the direction in front of the host Abner is true north, the location of the fair first sacrifice is due west, which is slightly diagonal to Ronan. At this time, the line of sight is also projected, as if for observation. Ronan's expression changed, he was very focused and...interested.
The Lord of Secret Contract, Ace of Hearts.
This old gentleman looks to be quite old. His hair is snow-white, which should be very hard, standing tenaciously. He also has a white beard around his mouth, which is neatly groomed. He looks strong and refreshing. He had been flipping through the materials, his eyes were lowered, his face was calm, and he couldn't see anything else. The only thing that is more eye-catching are a few dark lines on his face, which seem to be tattoos that have faded in color, but they feel messy and have no pattern.
As for why Ronan could see so clearly, in addition to the restoration of the virtual venue itself, it was also because this old gentleman was on the other side of Ronan. Together with the blood demon, sandwich him in the middle. Even though the diameter of the central round table is huge and the distance between them is relatively wide, Ronan still feels weird when he thinks about the cooperation intention proposed by the blood demon before and rejected by him.
The Lord of the Secret Contract went through the materials on his own, which gave Ronan a buffer and room to think.
He is also an old man. The one at the round table who is comparable in age to or even older than the Secret Contract Lord is probably the dead witch. This is the Jack of Plum Blossoms. He seems to be one step lower than his nominal junior Constance, but he is quite a dangerous person. The top of her head was almost half bald, she had very few hairs, and even a few eyebrows. The look she stared at was very unfriendly.
Furthermore, Mou Zhengye and Mou Dong, in a sense, the most powerful capitalist in the world, the King of Hearts, have never interacted with each other, but they are barely acquaintances.
There are two others whom I have never met before.
One is the No. 2 figure of the Justice Order, the chief priest Lanier, the King of Clubs. Legend has it that powerful supernatural beings who are best at entering dreams can steal people's souls while they sleep.
The other one is the strongman who nominally belongs to the "Eye of the Secret Contract", Apollyon, the Messenger of Hell, whose position on the deck is the J of Diamonds. This was a white man who looked very young, around thirty years old at most, but his eyes were bloodshot, so gloomy and cold that it made people tremble in their hearts.
I heard that this person is by no means a fuel-efficient person. He is usually unruly and unruly. He always listens to the instructions but not the propaganda. I don’t know why he came to the meeting today.
As for those who did not come, Ronan turned over the cards and determined that they either belonged to the Star Alliance Committee or the military and had public power, including Lieutenant General Joseph, who was the mainstay of the Air and Space Force, and Lieutenant General Joseph, who had been in Ancheng for many years. Anton Sheng, the retired high-ranking official of the Star Alliance Committee Bai Hao, may or may not come; or they are the strong men in the wilderness who will almost never attend the meeting, including the clown Rabbi, the Northern tyrant Steel Rust, oh, and Poseidon. .
As for the true God and the Pope, they are not here today, so that is another matter.
When Ronan looked at these people, these people also looked at him. That's not all that was sizing up Ronan. No matter what Ronan just said, he was still the focus of the audience. The previously heated discussion did not really come back to life because of his suggestion of "everyone continue".
Returning to the silent venue, it was difficult to stir up the waves. There was no other direction except to proceed formally.
Only then did Ronan have time to look at the agenda. The first two items on the agenda, namely the two matters related to Gong Qi: finding the murderer and filling the power vacuum after his death, were all solved. The following is the third item - the secret A seemingly academic project proposed by Lord Qi.
His eyes turned to the side, where the Secret Contract Lord was still flipping through the documents in his hand, calm, focused and serious.
Abner began to move forward: "Then now is the third agenda item. Please let the Lord of Secret Contract report the latest observation and research results in the abyss area. The data inside corresponds to the particularity of extraordinary power and is highly professional. It is extremely precious. The relevant documents have been sent to everyone before the meeting...are you ready to read them again?"
Abner also showed extra respect, even though the two were almost the same age.
Lord Secret Contract shook his head slightly: "No need to read it, those who are interested will read it, those who are not interested will not read it, and they will not understand it even if they read it... Professor Luo, have you read it?"
Ronan didn't expect that the first exchange between Lord Secret Contract and him would be like this. He blinked and said, "I looked at it a little bit, but I didn't look very carefully. Well, as you said, I really don't understand much.
"For example?" Mi
Lord Qi asked.
"..."
Ronan glanced at the blood demon and wondered if it was because he refused to cooperate with this group of people and was then embarrassed in person.
Of course, this is just a thought. Ronan is not lying. Under the strong recommendation of the Blood Demon, he did take the time to read the draft of the Secret Contract Lord's proposal. He was very interested in the continuous changes in the Abyss Zone described in it, as well as the Some digitized expressions have memories.
It is precisely because it is too data-based that it is difficult for him, and probably most people, to have an intuitive impression.
Ronan laughed: "Actually, I would rather have an intuitive diagram, or a clear conclusion, or a guess... At present, I have the impression that there is a concept called 'trend line', is it called this? See In the end, I don’t quite understand what the actual meaning it corresponds to.”
"Corresponding to the relationship between the distortion process of the earth's biosphere and the change of a special 'radiation amount' in the abyssal zone. Because of the complexity of the abyssal zone, it is difficult to accurately quantify. We can only comprehensively consider the relevant elements and observe its rough Trend dynamics.”
Ronan actually understood this rather awkward statement. Just as he was pondering over the meaning, Lord Secret Contract continued to explain:
"This concept originates from a hypothesis: It is assumed that the chaotic energy turbulence in the abyss area, or a certain element in it, is the main factor causing the era of distortion, and it is still acting now. The direction of observational research is to Find this element and analyze it qualitatively and quantitatively.”
Ronan frowned: "This assumption seems..."
"The observational results did not prove this hypothesis, but we did find a subtle correlation between the changes in the intensity and properties of the energy turbulence in the deep region and the current distortion process.
"The 'radiation amount' in the abyss zone increases, and the distortion infection rate of the earth's biosphere also increases, which is manifested as an upward trend line; the 'radiation amount' in the abyss zone decreases, and the distortion infection rate also begins to decrease, which is manifested as a downward trend line. There is Obvious positive correlation.
"It's just that we are not sure which is the 'cause' and which is the 'effect' - especially if we believe in the logic that 'exhaust emissions caused by human and livestock breathing will cause global warming', it is even more difficult to distinguish. The cause and effect is in place.”
The Lord of the Secret Contract spoke in an unhurried manner and took care of the priorities very appropriately, making it easy for people to understand the key points of his words.
Ronan immediately knew that this old gentleman was more inclined to believe that the changes in the abyss were the cause and the distortion was the effect. It's just out of rigor, but it's not stated explicitly.
What was a good agenda inexplicably turned into a separate communication between the Lord of the Secret Contract and Ronan, but the people present could still accept this model - any situation that could facilitate their observation and examination of Ronan was acceptable.
Not to mention, the words also touch on two extremely explosive topics: "Abyss Zone" and "Distortion".
Ronan's interest was also aroused: "Let's not talk about the abyssal area observation, how can the distortion process of the earth's biosphere... be quantified?"
"Of course it's the number and spread of aberration infected people." The blood demon spoke up from the other side, revealing his position immediately.
"Do you have data on the number?"
"Is the statistical data basically reliable?" was answered by Blood Demon, but he himself was not too sure. After all, the current research on distortion was not in-depth enough, and traditional statistical techniques and sample selection may not be consistent with reality.
Ronan did not pursue him fiercely, and mathematics was not his strong point. He simply asked questions - judging from the appearance of the Secret Contract Lord, he did not really want to teach him or the other extraordinary species present. Statistical analysis course.
Everyone is very realistic. As Ronan said before, we just want to hear the conclusion, even conjectures are fine.
"So, the performance of the 'trend line' is..." Ronan was suspected of knowingly asking.
"Continue to rise." Lord Secret Contract raised his cheek, his gaze starting from Ronan's face and scanning the entire round table and even the venue. "The data in this material only ends on December 31, 2096. In fact, starting from the beginning of this year, , the trend line has completely entered the exponential growth mode, behaving more and more like an out-of-control virus. It should be said that the scope and number of infections are out of control."
"Is there any clear evidence?" Abner asked with a frown.
The Lord of the Secret Contract did not respond. But on the other side of him, the young white man who had been sitting quietly, "Hell Messenger" Apollyon, raised his hand casually:
"here."
"Mr. Apollyon?" Abner frowned even more.
Apollyon raised his face, his eyeballs were like red-hot coals, radiating a heart-stopping heat, but his words were cold to the bone:
"In view of the fact that the measurable infection rate among citizens has exceeded 10%, which is beyond the controllable range. From now on, Harbin City will abandon all aberrant infection control measures to save medical and survival resources and deal with subsequent events... That's it."
