Act 499. Interpret the text
Once the plan was made to explore the Great Hollow in depth, it became busy aboard the Dawn Treader.
First, the mages set up a series of observation posts on the seabed around the Great Hollow, which were equipped with barriers to suppress the tides of high concentrations of mana, allowing them to observe the Great Hollow up close and continuously.
But as before, unless there is a probe that penetrates deep into the cordon inside the Great Cavity, there will be no anomalies in the detection data here.
In parallel with the observations, archaeological research based on the images of the probes is also being carried out.
Although the Great Hollow itself did not show any signs of age, there were special patterns on the strange base, and upon careful discernment, the mages found that these patterns were more like some kind of unknown writing.
These words do not intersect with any existing or ever existed scripts, and not even Lord Praggs could decipher their meaning.
The pedestal is filled with mystical texts with a strong religious and belief connotation, and it is speculated that it is at least a product of the gods, and only in that era would people have built such buildings.
Unfortunately, Lord Alberton's probe was not equipped with a device to date the material, and even if it did, it did not have enough time to date the enemy without a trace, so it was not possible to date the isotope decay period proposed by Reiner, so it could only be inferred from the image data.
Before embarking on a field exploration, the mages had to make sure that nothing went wrong, otherwise it would cause serious damage, and as a result, the exploration was intense and hectic, but it was also slow.
Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, autumn is getting stronger, even the sunny Baltic half-plane has become a little cool, the sea breeze is blowing, the flags on the deck are fluttering, in the room, Reiner has just finished writing a perfect paper on his quantum theory, raised his head, and moved his neck slightly.
Phyllis was sitting on the bed, her hands tapping quickly on the virtual keyboard, typing the words in her head into the magic tablet.
The Baltic Half Plane does not radiate to the Internet of the main plane, so Phyllis has been disconnected, and her serialization has naturally been interrupted, but Phyllis explained in the chapter before leaving that she is going out to collect materials and will pause the update for a period of time, so it is not a goodbye.
These days, Phyllis, who was idle in the room, began to continue to write follow-up updates, but there was no place to publish them, so they accumulated more and more.
"So...... There's actually a lot of magic superimposed in the big hole, but because of that amount of phenomenon, it looks empty? ”
When she had finished writing a chapter, Phyllis stretched out, and when she saw Reiner's solemn face, she asked, wanting to take a moment of relief from his mental predicament.
"It's quantum theory."
Reiner turned his head and looked at this sister who was still wearing a cool nightdress, and did not care about walking under her skirt at all.
"To put it simply, it's like notes on a musical score that are distributed on different staffs, and when they are not playing, they have no effect, but observing this behavior is equivalent to pressing the keys and playing all the notes at the same time, and there will be a huge sound."
Reiner came up with a statement that Phyllis might understand, but he didn't actually expect Phyllis to figure out what the wave function was all about.
"No wonder, when I saw the big hollow before, I thought it was very crowded."
Phyllis nodded as if she didn't understand, and muttered to herself.
"This phenomenon may be caused by inadvertent observations, after all, theoretically speaking, there is indeed a surplus of magic power inside the Great Void, but we cannot observe these magic forces that only present a probability distribution."
Reiner stretched out his hand, the magic in the big hole was so special that it could even cause the macroscopic object to collapse, which was beyond his current understanding.
Especially after the invisible monster appeared before, this doubt became stronger and stronger.
"This description always feels a bit similar to the secret connection within the Chaos Serpent."
Phyllis said that the members of the Chaos Serpent all have a certain degree of sensitivity, and this is due to the fact that they have all been inherited from the relics of the ancient magic empire, and Reiner believes that this is because these relics may have been made by one person or in the same place, so the magic they carry has the same resonance.
"Do you have any sense of what's in here?"
Out of an abundance of caution, Reiner also showed Phyllis what Lord Alberton's probe had captured at the bottom of the Great Hollow, especially the strangely shaped base and distorted space, but Phyllis didn't recognize these things, and she couldn't feel the traces of the Chaos Serpent's influence.
"No, the feeling I feel here is completely different from the Chaos Snake, most of the things that the Chaos Snake has affected have some kind of crazy meaning in it, but these text symbols, this building, itself does not have such an atmosphere, it is better to say, this building gives people a sense of rationality."
Phyllis said as she reminisced.
"Rationality?"
The first time Reiner heard Phyllis mention such a description, the high-ranking mages agreed that the building and the text were full of religion and belief, and that it was a primitive building, but they did not expect that in Phyllis's opinion, it was another form of reason.
"Yes, if you look at those words, although the way of writing is not square, but there is a certain sense of symmetry, if you read each text with random pronunciation, there will be an inexplicable sense of melody, I don't believe you try."
Phyllis stood up and made her way to Reiner's table, where she leaned forward and pressed her chest against the table in a seductive arc.
She gestured to the copied text on Reiner's desk.
"Random pronunciation?"
Reiner frowned slightly, then picked up the piece of paper, marked it according to the rhythm, and read it silently in his mind.
He was surprised to find that even though they weren't the original pronunciations, the words did have a certain sense of rhythm.
Then, Reiner was stunned as if struck by a bolt of lightning.
Because he remembered a language that had almost disappeared, and it had the same qualities.
Serafino Poetry!