Predator Chapter 52 - Magic and Runes

"What...... Surveillance?!"

When these two words came out of Huan Lingyu's mouth, Song Xiaocheng was almost in disbelief.

"What do you mean? Who is spying on you?" asked as several speculations flashed through Song Xiaocheng's mind, "Could it be Hiratsuka? It won't be ...... Those people found you, right?"

No matter how Song Xiaocheng guessed, Huan Lingyu only frowned slightly, his eyes were wide open, and the blood-red shimmer shrouded his face, and it was difficult to see any expression.

"Song Xiaocheng, I may have really messed up this time. ”

When Huan Lingyu said this, Song Xiaocheng almost laughed. Over the years, Huan Lingyu has messed up a lot. For example, it was obviously a perfect skipping class to go to an Internet café, but Huan Shao was nervous enough to answer the call from the head teacher in a noisy Internet café; For example, when Song Xiaocheng secretly bought the latest gold collector's edition game package behind Lin Yu's back, Huan Lingyu actually shouted out this incident in front of Lin Yu; Another example is that Song Xiaocheng beat the opponent on the opposite line like a grandson in the grudge father-son game, but Huan Lingyu insisted on going it alone and lost the whole game as much as he could.

When they were in school, the two were once recognized as the two smartest students in three sessions, but when these two smart people were paired together, they could turn into a headwind no matter how good the wind was.

Cleverness is not just about success, it's about how to avoid it. And if measured by such standards, Huan Lingyu and Song Xiaocheng are definitely the best.

But Huan Lingyu can take the initiative to carry the black pot and admit that he did mess up something, which is really rare. However, this also proves that what the boiled boiled said is true from another aspect: it seems that the state of affairs is indeed very important, very important, very important.

"What's wrong? What's going on?"

Huan Lingyu, who was squatting in front of the door, simply slipped out and sat on the ground. A few strands of broken hair floated on the forehead, but they couldn't hide the melancholy and fatigue contained in the eyes of the pair of blurry and wandering peach blossoms.

"The information you sent. Do you know what those things are about?"

"Uh...... Great runes?" Song Xiaocheng also sat cross-legged on the ground, facing Huan Lingyu.

"Do you know what a great rune is, then?"

"What? I don't know, I was about to ask you this. ”

"You...... Have you read any books?" asked Huan Lingyu with some annoyance.

"......Oh, oh, the dictionary? No, I just saw that it mentioned Igni. ”

Huan Lingyu shook his head with his hand on his forehead, looking very depressed. After a long time, he spoke again.

"The Igni in your hand is a seal. The Dharma Seal, on the other hand, is a type of rune. In our world, the mainstream scientific academic community believes that there is no such thing as magic or runes. But I've been exposed to these since I was a child. ”

"Huh......?

Huan Lingyu had been exposed to magic and runes since he was a child, although he was a little surprised, but Song Xiaocheng quickly accepted this statement, and even felt that many things that had puzzled him in the past had answers because of this.

"yes. My grandfather used to have a notebook. Very old, very, very old book. The kind that is worn with cotton thread and turned from left to right. I once caught a glimpse when I was very young, and I was forbidden to enter my grandfather's bedroom because of it. But I sneaked in and looked through the contents. The only thing I know for sure is that the notebook didn't belong to my grandfather, but somehow got into his hands through some channel.

"Do you know what's written on it? the theoretical possibility of a mortal making a star with his bare hands, how to get to the moon by gazing into a mirror, how to keep a man alive while perfectly removing his spinal cord with a steel drill and a sharp knife, and so on...... I peeked at the notebook before graduating from elementary school, so I couldn't understand it. It wasn't until the last few years that I re-read that notebook.

"That's why I was able to recognize Igni in the palm of your hand that day, and managed to wedge the part of it in a small and inconspicuous book, which I hope you will study carefully. However, it seems that you don't.

"The so-called rune is actually a kind of thing that compresses the energy manipulation technology in the plane dimensional space. In a certain world—don't ask me what world I am, Ai Xing, Terra, the Demon Realm, how do I know the best-of-the-- the people there have far more than we can comprehend in terms of energy manipulation. In our opinion, the way they manipulate energy is like magic, just through their brains, just through their powerful mental power, they can directly interfere with the temperature, weight, and even composition of objective matter. This is what we usually hear about things like fire magic or frost magic, as well as featherfall, flight, and transfiguration. It's just that these magic factions are all extremely precise and uncontrollable mental power manipulation processes, which are compressed and appended, and defined in fixed words, gestures, patterns, and even mental thought processes, becoming a fixed pattern.

"It's like Igni, it's a rune that holds magic in place on a figure. It was a simple temperature flow rune. It has two simple modes, endothermic and exothermic. When it radiates heat, it creates an effect similar to fire magic, and when it absorbs heat, it creates an effect of ice magic. ”

Song Xiaocheng listened a little distracted, and felt as if Huan Lingyu was saying a lot of things that he had never heard of but had long been well aware of, but he vaguely felt that something was not quite right.

"A rudimentary rune like Igni exists in a very large amount in that world, like a child's toy. This includes Sentus, which is translated as 'Centluth' in that outdated notebook, which is a runic form of animate that involves infusing or extracting energy from a target, thereby directly granting or taking life from the target. As you can see, that's how zombies come about. ”

Now Song Xiaocheng finally noticed the loophole:

"But Zeng...... Someone told me that the origin of Igni and zombies is the power of pure energy and the power of activation, respectively! And the formation of zombies is due to the imperfect application process of the power of activation, and the final form of the real power of activation is to completely resurrect the dead into a living person. ”

"What?" Huan Lingyu's face flashed with a look of disbelief, but it quickly disappeared, "Who told you that?"

"Uh......" Song Xiaocheng felt as if he had slipped out for a while, and he was a little unsure whether to talk about the things that had been wrong everywhere.

"You're right. In other words, the person who told you about this theory is not wrong in his guess. It's just that the realm of this interpretation is still not high enough.

"The Igni effect is just a process of pure energy sucking and releasing it, and the person who created the zombie - whoever he is - if it is true that the creation of the zombie was not his intention, as you say, then he is clearly only aware of one of the tens of millions of possible effects of the activated rune, but he is not aware that he is using the Sendus rune himself. ”

Song Xiaocheng squinted his eyes and thought for a while, thinking that it seemed to make sense according to what he said, and there seemed to be no poisonous point in the setting.

"But...... Great Runes?"

"Oh, yes. Great Runes. Huan Lingyu also seemed to have just discovered that he was a little far away from the main line, "In my grandfather's notebook, there was never any mention of this 'great rune'. But these ...... you gave me It's so messy that it hasn't been archived by a normal IQ person at all, but it's all about the research and recording of this 'great rune'.

"In short, this so-called 'Great Rune' is believed to be an extremely powerful person in the realm of spiritual energy, wedged a part of his own power on our planet in some form, like a magical rune. There are even several sources that believe that it was the so-called 'sage' who created our world, and that the existence of the 'Great Rune' is like a world stone, stabilizing the rules of this world.

"But in the end, some old sources first very clearly and comprehensively discuss the errors of this 'creation theory' - the so-called 'great runes' should have entered our planet about two or three hundred years ago, and there were no records of 'great runes' in the world before that. The reason for this is also very convincing: the appearance of this rune has brought about some very inconspicuous but extremely influential changes to our planet - the development of human technology, the quiet change of energy rules, the drastic changes in geology and climate, and even the falsification of historical events. In contrast, the monsters that appear everywhere—vampires, werewolves, zombies, mutants—are all considered inconspicuous by-products of the 'Great Runic Phenomenon', and are hastily declared 'rumors' or 'superstitions' and covered up.

"Naturally, the most powerful countries in the world at that time noticed a certain change in the world, and each country secretly studied such paranormal phenomena. As the research process progressed, the research progress of all parties reached a bottleneck, and the ancient research archive came to an abrupt end.

"But in what is apparently the most recent and recent research record, which, while extremely messy and illogical, offers a number of very bold conjectures and highly feasible experimental ideas, the research records suggest that the existence of such great runes is most likely accompanied by an extremely large amount of energy. Not to mention crossing the boundaries of life and death, or breaking a little bit of the rules of energy in our cognition, or even the possibility of distorting or tearing the space and hiding into another plane!"

Huan Lingyu said in a mysterious and mysterious tone, but Song Xiaocheng just listened to him with half-squinted eyes and stunned.

"Oh......" After a long time, seeing that Huan Lingyu didn't speak, Song Xiaocheng gave a response, "So, what did you mess up?"

"I ...... Alas, according to these sources, there is a great rune in it, most likely hidden in an alien plane very close to our world, so I ...... I'll just ......"

Huan Lingyu said, suddenly stopped, and seemed to be a little speechless.

"What do you do?"

"I tried to open a rift to the Otherworld!"