His speculation is very rigorous, first of all, the organizer said that it could be cursed, but it didn't say how to curse, and the biggest problem was how to choose people.

Now that several squads have never met each other, you have to have a machine to operate how to choose the target of your curse when you don't even know who the other party is, right?

Secondly, after getting a totem pole fragment, there is no place to display the number, there must be a place to retrieve the fragments you have, right?

Batman himself is a very rigorous and scientific person, his thinking is very rational, instinctively averse to all chaotic things, and prefer to make more orderly assumptions.

The rules given by the organizers are too vague, and in Batman's opinion, it is equivalent to saying nothing, and Batman understands all this as the need to explore it himself, so after discovering and groping for clues, he will naturally feel that this is a complement to the rules.

Batman obviously didn't expect that there really was such a broad-minded person as Schiller in this world.

Schiller deduced the same thing as Batman, but instead of building a nuclear bomb first, he planned to fake the silos.

In other words, Schiller himself is the kind of person who prefers to watch others shove nuclear bombs into fake silos rather than acquire them, referred to as mentally ill.

The city was already small, and the contestants who were not limited in strength were very fast, and it didn't take long for Bruce to discover another magic circle.

This time the circle was painted on the wall, and it was more complex and massive, and the paint was slightly dry but not completely dry.

Bruce immediately took out the totem pole fragment he obtained, and he compared it at about the same speed as Batman, but his thinking was completely different from Batman's.

Bruce has knowledge of the occult.

He immediately used the steel pipe in his hand to write and draw on the sand of the ruins next to him, and after a while, he paused, walked back to the circle and took a look, showing a thoughtful expression.

There is no doubt that the words and patterns above are meaningful, and should be some kind of variation of modern script, and this ancient script often represents various symbols of occult meaning.

Bruce preliminarily deduced that the first layer of text in the outer circle should be some kind of prayer, echoed by the inner text and the largest text symbol in the middle, or provide some power to it.

Then the text in the middle is likely to be the key to the circle, and the meaning it represents is likely to be related to the way the totem pole works.

As soon as Bruce thought of this, a light flashed behind him, and Bruce suddenly turned back to see a figure change from transparent to substantial.

It was a black-haired, green-eyed young man, dressed in a magnificent princely robe, holding a shining staff with an unextinguished magical light on its jewels.

"The fog here weakens my spells, but apparently as you can see, I'm a mage, and you can call me Loki."

"Loki?" Bruce narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he recognized the style of the pattern on Loki's robes at a glance, and he said, "Norse gods? ”

"Prince of Asgard."

"You're not what you depict in the myth books."

"Sounds like you're very researched into mythology." Loki smiled at Bruce and said, "Do you see this circle, do you have any opinions?" ”

"Why am I telling you?" Bruce crossed his arms and said, "Loki is known as the god of deception in Norse mythology, who knows if this is your true face?" ”

Loki looked down and laughed again, he gently stroked the staff in his hand and said, "I don't have any real faces, or I have a million faces, but it doesn't matter, I can give you what you want." ”

"You know what I want?"

"You're cracking this circle." Loki turned his head to look at the huge circle on the wall and said, "And I happen to be a mage. ”

"But you're not a mage of this universe." Bruce stepped forward and stared at Loki and said, "All the knowledge you have is not worth selling here, because it's a two-system thing. ”

"But there's always something in common, and that's what you use to get information, aren't you?" Loki lowered his eyes to the pattern Bruce had drawn on the sand.

Bruce sighed in his heart, he really didn't expect that there would be invisible mages among the participants, and they would have been following him, otherwise he would not have written down his thought process.

"Slightly offended, friend, but I only found you out about a minute ago and started stalking you." Loki took out a fragment of his totem pole and tossed it in his hand and said, "Give me a fragment, and I'll tell you my speculation, how?" ”

"Don't treat me like a Kaizizai."

"Well, it looks like you're a smart guy." Loki tapped his finger on the upper body of the staff and said, "The location of the next totem pole fragment won't be revealed so quickly, but we might be able to join forces and grab the others." ”

Loki looked at Bruce and said, "Your image is perfect as bait, you attract their attention, I'll give them a look from behind." ”

"You're a hunter?"

"Of course, as you know, I'm the god of deception, and sneak attacks are my forte."

"I'm sorry, so am I, but if you wish to cooperate, I can temporarily disguise myself as your priest."

"That's exactly what I mean." Loki nodded and said, "Because of my image, the vast majority of people will treat me as a sacrifice, so I need a bait that looks more innocent." ”

"Why not yourself?"

"As I said, I'm good at ambushing in the shadows, and stealth is a great skill, isn't it?"

Bruce stared at his face for a while, and Loki met his gaze fearlessly, and after more than ten seconds, Bruce nodded lightly and said, "The deal is done, tell me what you think." ”

"To show my sincerity, I'll start by telling you the most useful information." Loki turned to stare at the text in the center of the huge circle and said, "Look there, you should have noticed, that's the key, I can tell you that this text means 'incantation'." ”

"How do you know?"

"You're right, my universe, your universe and the cosmic magic system we are in now are different, but you must know that there are many different magic systems in my universe."

"The text patterns, spellcasting methods, and magic effects they use are all different, but do you know what they have in common?"

Bruce paused for a moment and then said, "...... Energy. ”

Loki looked at Bruce with a little surprise and said, "Your magical attainments are deeper than I thought, it looks like you are not as young as you look, are you a Protoss?" Or some other immortal? ”

"Sort of."

Loki didn't care about this slightly perfunctory answer, he put his gaze back on the magic circle and said, "Energy is the root of science and magic, and the principle of magic circle is similar to that of the machine on the scientific side. ”

"Some circles are for work, some are for conduction, some are for storage, some are for output, and they can also be combined into a large circle to carry out some more complex operations, like vehicles and spaceships."

Bruce was a little surprised, he stared at Loki and said, "The Protoss also talks about science? ”

"It's that human beings have a narrow understanding of science." Loki said in a deep voice: "You don't think it's scientific to conjure energy out of thin air, but it's actually just another level of science, there are fixed principles that can be reproduced, and can be used rationally, whether it's called magic or something else, it's the same science as you understand it." ”

Loki's hand flashed again, and a cloud of energy appeared in his hand, and he said, "This is called divine power, and the Protoss can inherently collect similar energy from the universe and use it, but in the eyes of the Protoss of Asgard, this is also completely scientific, just like humans have five fingers to grasp." ”

"Back to business." Loki sighed, stared at the rune, and said, "Unlike the gradual simplification and miniaturization of human technology, the development of the wizarding world usually goes from simple to complex. ”

"This is essentially because the races that need to utilize magic technology want to collect as much energy in the universe as possible and as efficiently as possible, and the more energy harvesting parts integrated in the circle, the more complex the circle will be, and the more things can be done, which is a manifestation of the development of magic technology."

"And the reason why we can't use a device of the same size to output more power like the development of science and technology is because the power that each rune and pattern can output is not something that humans can determine, and it is the gods that determine them, or the regular creatures of the corresponding type of energy."

Bruce nodded involuntarily, he knew this, after all, he had been cultivating runes in heaven for many months, and the meaning of each rune and the energy it could provide were determined by angels, and had nothing to do with humans.

"In this way, if the church wants to gain more power, it will have to use more runes, and the more it develops, the more rune combinations can be found without making mistakes, and the magic circle will naturally become more and more complicated."

"This pattern is clearly just that, it integrates many parts of energy harvesting, and through the transmission of another part, it all converges on the most central text."

Loki looked down at the totem fragment in his hand again and said, "So many parts of the energy that are used to collect energy, and where does the energy come from?" ”

Bruce also glanced at the fragments in his hand, and as long as he was not blind, he could tell that the totem pole fragments were the same words and patterns used on the circle.

But the paint hasn't even dried yet.

"This is another piece of ironclad evidence." Loki smiled and said, "Don't forget that we are here to have this kind of rule, so of course this can't be a product of ancient times." ”

Then he turned his head to look at the street in the distance and said, "I suspect that this totem pole and this circle are the remains of an ancient civilization that has been forgotten by this civilization, and I'm afraid we will see more clues like this in the city." ”

"Does this have anything to do with the fog?" Bruce walked to Loki's side, turned to look at him and said, "Don't tell me you didn't think you won't think that the key to victory in the game is probably the danger in the fog." ”

"I'm making this speculation, too, but there are too few clues right now." Loki fumbled with the fragments of the totem pole with his thumb and said, "But at least we know now that if we collect all the fragments, we will have to bring them to this circle, so that the circle can extract the energy from the totem fragments and infuse them into the designated contestants." ”

"Will that kill him?"

"I'm afraid so." Loki looked back at Bruce and said, "But don't tell me you didn't think about it, this energy might be used for something else." ”

The two looked at each other and saw the ambition and desire in each other's eyes, it was never their choice to play the game according to the rules, breaking through the routine and holding the initiative in their own hands.

The two of them, who had already determined the direction of exploration, turned around without hesitation, and if they slowly looked up along the circle, they could see that Schiller, who was standing on the roof of the building, looked at the backs of Loki and Bruce who turned away, and showed a smile.

The pan is fried in the screening room.

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