Every energy pool, no matter what the basic principle of its construction, is nothing more than communicating with other planes, or hiding some kind of great power, and then slowly extracting it, releasing a large and chaotic eight kinds of powers. Then connect the magic array through the energy channel, and after the transformation of the magic array, it becomes an orderly and quantitative arrangement of power, thus producing the corresponding effect.
As long as the instantaneous consumption of energy does not drain the energy pool and destroy its balance, the energy pool can restore its upper limit of the total amount bound to the main plane over time. This is why each energy pool can theoretically operate semi-permanently.
As long as the energy pool is constructed, it will leave a mark on the main world, perhaps a complex series of power codes, or a meaningless arrangement of words. Magicians can use this mark to transmit some simple messages. This kind of transmission of information is real-time, but it is also very expensive.
If there are not other tower owners who have energy pools, and they know the mark of the target tower, communication between magicians is usually based on letters. The only exception is the association responsible for managing magicians and magic towers. They often use this method of message transmission, on the one hand for timeliness, and on the other hand to highlight the importance of the message.
What does it sound like? Once I know a certain IP, I go to his message board and leave a message. This was Lin's first thought when he heard about this feature.
In fact, the more than ten years of studying and researching magic have been spent learning how to use spiritual power or other media as a guide to arrange and combine the eight powers to perform magic. Putting aside the factors of mental power and medium, arranging and combining the parts is almost the same as writing a computer program on Earth.
The difference is that the basic elements of the earth's computer software are two-bit 0s and 1s, but after coming to the Lost World, it is based on eight powers, which means that the starting point is eight bits. Lin had a deep understanding of this during his years of studying magic; when he came to the Magic Tower and saw this huge circuit board, he was almost convinced of its feasibility.
In the following days, Lin mainly drew star maps at night, because stars can only be observed at night. During the day, in addition to spending time guiding the magic process of the two apprentices, he focused on the computerized programming of the magic tower.
When I want to computerize the magic tower, I don’t want to make a game, relive the old dream of Super Mario, or the pleasure of mowing the grass in Dynasty Warriors. You should know that Lin's work at night involves drawing star maps, which inevitably involves doing astrophysical calculations.
The amount of calculation is so huge and complicated that if there is no computer assistance and one person calculates by hand, the dream of returning home will be like a bubble, gorgeous and untouchable. If the computerization of the Magic Tower can be realized to the extent that I imagined, then maybe, just maybe, there is a slight possibility of returning to Earth.
But all these beautiful dreams must first deal with the next trouble, the inspector team from the Magician Association.
A five-person combat team composed of at least one great magician is responsible for investigating illegal activities or evidence of crimes committed by magicians. He has the power to arrest and suspend magicians, and he can kill them on the spot if they are dissatisfied. It can be said that he is the policeman and judge among magicians.
The legal trials in the Lost World cannot be called primitive. Various legal provisions and culpability are quite clear, but the evidence collection is still unsatisfactory. And this team of inspectors should be the village's last resort. Lin thought to himself, and at the same time deduced the general plan of the other party.
In view of the fact that there are not many magicians who are good at prophecy-type spells, or summoning a dead soul that can explain everything clearly enough, and the cost is quite high, these methods cannot become routine means.
To establish a crime, there is no doubt that both human and physical evidence is required. When the whole village testified in unison, the magician who was the owner of the tower entered the village and massacred the villagers, and the physical evidence was dozens of corpses hanging outside the tower.
Judging from the situation in the Lost World, Lin's crime and punishment are almost certain. All that's left is to ask the person involved if he has any excuses, then strip him of his status as the tower owner and bring him back to the association's court for trial. Or solve it on the spot and take the head back to pay the order.
If the person involved is wrongly accused and is willing to pay the price to hire a magician who can predict types or summon souls to prove his innocence, then the group of people who falsely accused him will in turn be retaliated by the prosecutor, who will use the false accusations to prove his innocence. crime. However, it is obvious that the magician who used to be the master of the Great Sage's Tower did not have such financial resources, and Lin does not have that kind of financial resources now.
However, Lin did not just sit back and wait for death, because the requirements of the inspectors were only to provide strong enough evidence, and not necessarily to use any method to achieve this goal. So for a young man from the 21st century who has traveled from Earth, he has quite a lot of means, and he has already been prepared. Who knows that his biological father is a lawyer? He must know how to protect himself without taking advantage of legal loopholes.
While waiting, on a quiet programming afternoon, Halumi, who was supposed to be practicing magic in the research room, hurried into the core room and said: "Teacher, teacher, the guest is here."
Simply flip the trackball on the right side of the console, and the mirror of the energy pool changes to the perspective outside the tower. No one was seen, but there were two smokes from fireworks in the sky not far away. The first was red, white and blue smoke, and the second was yellow smoke.
Some groups with special status will use this method to inform others of their arrival. The first three-color smoke represents the district branch of the Magicians Association to which Lin belongs; the second smoke represents the identity of the inspector. So it was obvious who was coming.
After saving and closing the half-written program, Lin told the apprentice beside him: "Go and notify Kaya, and we will go to the first floor to greet the guests."
The open door of the magic tower soon welcomed five magicians. Three of them had two golden threads embroidered on their robes, describing their status as great magicians. Everyone who enters the door is without exception, and their whole bodies are glowing with various magical auras, which means that everyone has applied all the defensive methods and auxiliary magic they can use to themselves. Weapons are also placed at hand and can be taken out at any time. One of them did not carry a staff or sword. Instead, his ten fingers were surrounded by mist of different colors.
This group of magicians who are good at fighting know the meaning of walking into a magic tower controlled by others. Naturally, he would not be unprepared and naively think that just by relying on the reputation of the inspector, he could scare a magician who could become the tower master into tears. If there really was a fight, it was foreseeable that their side would lose a few men, but they were also confident that they would be able to kill the tower owner here.
However, the three masters and apprentices standing on the first floor to greet them dispelled the inspectors' doubts, because this represented goodwill from the master of the magic tower.
For them, breaking through numerous traps to reach the third floor, and then killing the magician who casts almost infinite spells with his back to the energy pool, and killing a magician within sight are two completely different things. Being willing to reveal your true identity means that the other party has no intention of fighting.
But the inspectors still did not relax their vigilance. The leader, a great magician with tendon flesh, said: "Your Excellency, I believe that the previous message has informed me of our intention. Please cooperate with me."
"Of course, my lords, please follow me to the core room. I will show you the images as evidence."
Seeing that the five inspectors all nodded in approval, Lin said: "Please." He took the lead in leading the two apprentices up the stairs.
Arriving at the core room on the third floor, Lin walked directly to the console and started operating. He didn't care at all about the inspectors standing behind him in a faint encirclement formation. It is not unheard of for the tower owner to kill the intruder in one fell swoop after relaxing his guard. So Lin didn't care whether the other party was rude or not. He just explained what he was going to do to avoid misunderstandings.
The two apprentices stepped aside and waited. In front of a group of formal magicians and great magicians, they were not even qualified to speak. Lin, on the other hand, skillfully operated the results of the past few days of programming. The small screen of light and shadow that appeared in front of the console was simultaneously displayed on the mirror energy pool.
Making its debut in front of outsiders, the first web browser in the Lost World was opened. Although there are only function buttons and a URL bar at the top, the content at the bottom is blank, there is no search engine page, and there is no homepage of any portal website.
In fact, in just over ten days, Lin completed the communication protocol and established the domain name server and web server. Lin felt that he had performed exceptionally well. The remaining time is just to build another forum website. Speaking of which, the characters in the Lost World are Pinyin characters, which makes it much easier to restore the software and programs that were mainly created by Westerners on Earth. Many concepts can be applied directly without having to think about how to convert them.
After entering short text in the address bar, the page immediately imports the only completed website. The title is the big word 'forum', and the functions in the upper right corner are four simple ones: registration, login, search, and description. There are two discussion areas below, namely 'Tower of the Great Sage' and 'Miscellaneous'.
Directly touch the light screen in front of the console with your finger to enter the 'Miscellaneous' discussion area, and then click on the only discussion thread: 'The whole story of the villagers' attack on the Tower of the Great Sage', which contains two video files. The film is divided into a nine-square grid, eight scenes are inside the Tower of the Great Sage, and one is outside the gate facing the tower.
The first video is the first wave of three village representatives, starting from entering the Tower of the Great Sage, to speaking evil words in the core room, and then being killed. The second video shows the villagers walking out of the forest at night holding torches, and being locked on the first floor of the magic tower. They are paralyzed by an electric shock until the poisonous mist fills the air. What followed was a long stretch until early morning, when Lin stepped in to clear the air and finish off the kill. The whole process is accompanied by audio, but there are no subtitles.
