"The world view of alchemy roughly divides the existence of all things in the universe into three phases: the death phase, which is attributed to silence and ceases to function, the earth and water in the four elements, and their derivatives, all belong to this phase, while the violent changes of fire and wind, which are difficult to deform, belong to the active phase, and the organic combination of the death phase and the active phase forms the third phase, the life phase. ”

In response to my inquiry, Mitch and Carl began to explain the secrets of alchemy they had studied: "Whether it is the Alchemist Guild of a thousand years ago or the European Research Institute now, the study of alchemy has only one common goal, that is, to sort out and balance the static silence of the death phase and the chaos and disorder of the active state, so as to create an orderly and controllable life phase!"

After a bit of nonsense, Carl continued: "From this point of view, you can think of the alchemy puppet as a simple artificial life, it can move, it can communicate, and to a certain extent, it has biological instincts that conform to its own material attributes, and the control of alchemy puppets is based on these instincts of the biological state of the alchemy. ”

"Specifically, there are three ways to control your own alchemy, the first is to use the alchemy puppet's own stress response, and engrave in the alchemy array in advance how the alchemy puppet should respond when the external conditions change. ”

"Just like at the beginning, these puppets transformed into flames to fight back after being attacked, and then transformed again to hunt you down when you dived into the water, all of which were pre-carved alchemy formations in response to changes in the external environment, driving the alchemy puppets to respond, you can understand him as the established procedures carried out by the alchemy puppets. It is necessary to be prepared in advance to react. ”

"The second is to directly put the alchemy puppet under the control of the external alchemy array. As with the control of the puppet with a wire, the alchemy golem can be precisely manipulated. It is the most common alchemy puppet operation method we use, but there must be a condition to implement this operation, that is, it must ensure that the alchemy puppet is under the control of the alchemy array in real time, the general method is to carve the alchemy array inside the giant puppet that can accommodate people to form an operation room, or depict a super large alchemy array, and then let the puppet run operations inside the alchemy array. ”

Speaking of this, Carl himself shook his head and said: "Although this method of operating the puppet is direct and effective, it is not operable in the current situation, and the operation room cannot be built inside the elemental puppet. I've never heard of a family that can build a giant alchemy array that spans several kilometers and envelops the entire surface of the sea without being noticed. ”

"Then why are you talking so much!?" I said frantically.

"Now let you know more about the setting of our worldview here, and you won't have to explain it in the future!" Shi Tieling said slowly: "Besides, you are in a hurry? ”

I was immediately speechless, but to be honest, the current situation is really not in a hurry, the black dog kid did stalk the alchemy puppet to death without temper, so I also cleaned up my anxiety a little, and continued to patiently listen to Carl's fat man give me popular science knowledge.

"The third way. It is through information injection to correct and guide the behavior of the alchemy puppet," Karl was a little embarrassed by my urging, and quickly quickened his tone and said: "That is, to portray an alchemy array with simple information and functions." Like patching the program, directly inject the miniature alchemy array into the alchemy puppet and fuse it with its own alchemy array and function, according to my observations. This puppet is most likely using this method for guided manipulation. ”

"How, then?" I asked as I finally became interested.

"There are many ways to do this. Just design a safe and stable delivery channel, even if it is a distance apart. It is also possible to manipulate the puppet externally by controlling the operation of the alchemy array. Karl replied, "For example, I can build small clockwork robots that can move, and let them carry miniature alchemy arrays into the cores of other clockwork machines, as long as the mechanical structure of the two is combined, the alchemy array can be fused." ”

"Does the carrier of the miniature alchemy array also have to be an alchemy puppet?" Xie Erdong asked me with interest, this grandson is full of curiosity and inquisitive spirit for anything strange.

"That's not necessarily," Karl shook his head: "But it must be a tangible solid that can carry the alchemy array runes in order to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the alchemy array before it takes effect, and it is also for this reason that the operation mode of information introduction cannot be too far away from the puppet, the longer the distance and the longer the transportation time, the more easily the integrity and accuracy of the alchemy array will be affected, and a little deviation may lead to the instantaneous collapse of the alchemy array." ”

"Then what if the alchemy array is engraved on the bullet?" Wang Xiaohan asked thoughtfully: "As long as you use a high-performance silenced sniper rifle, even if you are two or three kilometers apart, you can accurately send the miniature alchemy array as a supplement into the puppet's body." ”

Mitch replied: "That's not feasible, the wear and tear of the bullet in the chamber and the high temperature during the firing process will have a great impact on the alchemy array, even if the alchemy array is engraved on the inside of the bullet, it is inevitable...... However, I like your way of thinking, making bold inferential assumptions based on reason, but limited by the asymmetry of the information we know, and there is a slight deviation......"

"Hey, I'll tell you, if you have time to praise people, you might as well help me think about where your colleague is hiding, this big guy is produced by your research institute, you should always know who made it, and who is directing and manipulating it now, right?" I interrupted Mickey with disdain, knowing that people are young and wealthy big bosses who love science, they shoot so hard, it seems that the European Institute is also short of research funds!

It turned out that the people on the plane were all boastful and talkative, and what they just said was so lively, and they all stopped cooking when they turned to business, and the two locals, Mickey and Carl, thought hard for a long time, and could only spread their hands at me and said: "This, we usually do our own research, and we haven't paid much attention to the progress of other people's research......"

"However, no matter who he is, the manipulation of the alchemy puppet is inseparable from the three methods I mentioned!" Carl hurriedly proved that he was not a waste snack that could not be helped: "You have a good view above, and if you observe the anomalies of the surrounding environment by yourself, you will definitely be able to find clues and clues!"

“…… Speaking of which, don't you let me rely on myself? )