In the room next to the Hall of the Star-Swallowing Engine, Helen is chattering to Harley and Barry about her experiences in the Zombie Universe.

Barry was fascinated, but Hallie was a little bored, because Helen's guardians were there, so they strictly followed the rule that minors were not allowed to drink alcohol, not only were they not allowed to drink, but they were not allowed to appear on the same occasion as alcoholic beverages, so everyone else was in the hall, and only three children were driven into the room.

Hallie was bored with orange juice until she heard Helen talk about the ghost theory, she thought for a moment and said, "Since the physical rules of our two universes are so similar, then they may also be common in this regard, do you remember the principle of summoning array that the teacher talked about when we were in Kama Taj class?" ”

Helen thought for a moment and then nodded and said, "I understand the summoning array as a search engine, which can distinguish different filter entries according to the different types of runes, and mages can choose the filter conditions under the entries at will. ”

"Wait until all the conditions have been selected before activating the circle, and summons that meet these screening criteria will receive a specific signal, and they can choose whether to respond to the summons or not."

"Of course, in order to enhance the success rate of summoning, mages will put corresponding sacrifices according to their own screening items, and feel the breath of their favorite sacrifices through the magic circle, and the summoning target will be more likely to respond to the summoning."

Harley stretched out a finger and said, "So can the ghost radio wave theory also be understood as the summoning radio wave theory?" ”

Harley took a piece of white paper and a pen from the side, and sketched on them as she said, "The summoning circle is equivalent to a radio wave transmission device that can be modulated, and the mage's act of modifying the runes is equivalent to adjusting the frequency, and the radio waves that adjust the frequency can only be received by certain lifeforms." ”

"And the magically treated sacrifice is actually imitating the radio waves of the other party's food or favorite items, so that the other party mistakenly thinks that there is food here, so they follow the radio waves to find it."

Barry and Helen both nodded, thinking that what Harley said made sense, but Helen said with some confusion: "Then why did I summon Dr. Schiller without using the formal summoning circle, adjusting the frequency, or even handling the sacrifices?" ”

Helen then explained to them in detail the process of her summoning Schiller, and Harley thought for a moment and speculated, "I think it may have something to do with the nature of the summoned life." ”

"When human beings have physical bodies, they can't feel the changes in the magnetic field at all, and their sensitivity to some virtual electromagnetic signals is also zero, but after becoming a ghost, they are more affected by the magnetic field, and they can also feel the subtle changes in the magnetic field, perhaps because of this, they can keenly receive some radio signals pointing to him."

At this moment, Helen's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Since the mages can use the magic circle to spread signals into the universe, can the summoned only passively wait?" ”

"What do you mean......"

"If we can receive the summoning signals of all the mages, can we also pretend to be summons to respond to the summons?"

The more Helen spoke, the more she felt that her speculation was valid, and she said, "Part of the energy that the mages input into the summoning circle is used to diffuse the loss of signals, and the rest is actually the cost of traveling the summons through time and space. ”

"If we can search for these kinds of signals and respond to the call, wouldn't we be able to travel to the universe without spending money?"

Harley frowned and objected, she said, "Not every mage has the ability to spread their summoning array signals beyond the universe. ”

"And what if we could also receive a summoning signal from within the universe?" Helen touched her chin and said, "Even if the travel expenses they provide are insufficient, we can make up for it ourselves, it's better to save more effort than trying to find a way to teleport over by ourselves, right?" ”

Harley's eyes rolled, and she immediately gave a thumbs up to look at Helen and said, "The plan is feasible, and the practice begins." ”

In an instant, they jumped out of their chairs almost synchronously and pulled Barry to the opposite lab.

Grey Mist has moved almost the entire Stark Corporation's lab, so now there is everything on the Star-Swallowing Engine, and Helen and Harley are planning to build a search-and-summon device.

It may sound difficult to receive different summoning signals in each universe, but Helen had swallowed a lot of Time Authority's machines, and the Time Authority's management scope is the multiverse, and the scope of their equipment terminal retrieval and recording is within different monolithic universes.

So in fact, Helen and Hallie only need to modify this kind of equipment and turn it into a device for receiving summoning signals in a single universe, which is not difficult for Helen, who often observes Stark's experiments.

Everyone in the hall didn't notice that this group of little ghosts was tinkering in the laboratory, Stark stared at the navigation route on the instrument, and said with a solemn face: "Something is wrong, the mass of the universe at the final destination is rapidly decreasing, I'm afraid it will completely collapse in less than half an hour, is it a trap set by the other party?" ”

Schiller shook his head and said, "If the other party has dealt with us in the future, they should know that our technological level is far beyond the average human level, and there is no point in setting up such a trap that can be detected in advance." ”

"It can't happen that we are so unlucky to catch up with the life of a universe that has come to an end, right?" Nick said, standing behind Stark.

Since taking charge of the Time Authority, Nick has seen too many reports of the destruction of the universe, a natural phenomenon that is constantly happening in the universe, not some man-made disaster, but if it really happens, he can only consider himself unlucky.

Stark thought for a moment and said, "I don't think this is a simple natural phenomenon, we can use the old way to travel back in time to the time when the structure of the universe was still stable, and see why this universe was destroyed." ”

Just as the Star-Swallowing Engine's Jump Time function was about to be activated, Helen and Harley's summoning receiver was revamped.

The device was not large, Helen deliberately designed it in the shape of a suitcase to make it easy to carry, Harley crossed her arms and looked at the suitcase on the table, thought for a moment and said, "So how are we going to test whether this thing works well?" ”

"Of course, it's to find a universe, open it, and see if you can receive a signal, and if you can transmit it perfectly after receiving the signal."

Suddenly, the Star-Swallowing Engine trembled, and both Harley and Helen were shaken and slammed into the test table, and Helen, who had regained her feet, rubbed her forehead, and said, "It seems that the Time Jump function of the Star-Swallowing Engine has been activated, which means that we have arrived in a new universe." ”

Harley glanced up at the window, and after seeing the unfamiliar starry sky, she nodded and said, "It looks like a new place, but it's no different from other universes, do you want to try it?" ”

"Isn't that a little dangerous?" Barry scratched his head and said, "Although I also feel a little bored here, what if the person on the other side teleports to a strange place in response to the summoning array?" ”

"You are stupid, the mages must be in trouble and need help when they go to such great lengths to summon the array, they are asking us, besides, weren't you practicing running before? If you really can't beat us, just take us away. ”

"But I'm not very skilled yet." Barry was a little embarrassed and said, "And I don't know if this ability can be used in a strange universe." ”

"It's okay, don't you still have me?" Helen patted her chest and said, "I'm strong now, even if I can't beat you, I have a way to protect you." ”

Barry nodded reluctantly, and Harley immediately rubbed her hands, opened the suitcase, and pressed a button on it.

There was a steady sound of "Dididi" coming from the box, and judging from the screen that was open in the upper part of the box, the instrument was retrieving the signal.

Suddenly, the instrument let out a sharp chirp, and a wave crest suddenly appeared in the image of a straight line on the screen, Helen immediately leaned in, widened her eyes and said, "Oh my God, someone has sent an extremely strong summoning signal, and the energy level is very high, right in this universe, I think we can try to respond!" ”

"So what are you waiting for?" Harley jumped twice in excitement and said, "Hurry up, I can't wait to be a summoning beast!" ”

Helen stood in front of the instrument and operated it a few times, took a deep breath and said, "It seems that the opposite side is summoning an evil god, and there is already something that has responded to the call, no, I have to grab the position...... Hold on. ”

Helen crackled in front of the instrument, and then a magic projection suddenly popped up on the box, Helen closed her eyes and adjusted the brain waves, and then stretched out a hand to put her hand on the magic light cluster.

After the light floated for a moment, it suddenly became extremely bright, and Helen grabbed the handle of the box, pulled the other two men, and shouted, "It's done, hold on to me, let's teleport!" ”

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

The moment the door was pushed open, everyone saw only the three children disappearing, and Stark slapped it on the head.

The teleportation process was a little rough, and Helen, Hallie, and Barry almost passed out as if they had been thrown dry in a washing machine, and fell to the ground with a thud in mid-air.

Helen, who had the best physical fitness, staggered up from the ground, clutched her throat and retched twice, and opened her eyes a little dazedly to look at the dark room.

Hallie was lying on the ground retching, but luckily she hadn't eaten anything, she couldn't even vomit sour water, and Barry coughed hard. Stand up straight with a dizzy head.

After two seconds of staring at a figure kneeling across from him, both men shouted at the same time.

Kneeling on the futon across from him was a pale figure, and when the initial dizziness wore off, Helen realized that it was Stephen Strange.

Strange's face was tired and dazed, and there was a lingering confusion, and he glanced at Helen's face, and then at the reactor in Helen's chest, and the confusion was even heavier.

Helen looked left and right and saw that this did not look like the meditation room of Kama Taj Supreme Mage, but she still bowed to Strange as a disciple of Kama Taj and said, "Sorry, Supreme Mage, we are tourists from another parallel universe, and we just wanted to test our newly invented machine, not intentionally to disturb your summoning, but are you okay?" ”

Helen asks this question because Strange looks so bad at the moment, he is thin and pale, his eyeballs are deeply sunken in his sockets, his dark circles are very heavy, his lips are chapped and bleeding, and his beard is unshaven.

When Helen was a student at Kama Taj School of Magic, she knew how much Strange was concerned about her appearance, that he had a habit of cleanliness, and that he paid special attention to his image, and Helen sometimes even suspected that he could even count how much stubble he had on his face, because no one had ever seen the Supreme Mage grow a crooked beard.

Helen's concern was very pure, and there was only a faint curiosity in her clear eyes.

Looking at the three immature faces in front of him, and feeling the human vitality coming from them, Strange's hand hidden behind his back shook slightly.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes in some pain, but the glow of magic that had burst out between his mouth and nose eventually dissipated.

(End of chapter)