As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 310 Follow-up
"May the crows bless you."

After Zheng Li finished speaking, he raised the staff in his hand and waved lightly into the sky. The crows took off one after another and left according to the route they came from.

Everyone here, from this year's Nobel Prize winners to the judges and the audience, have not yet realized what happened.

Only a trace of coldness left in their hands told them that this was not a dream, but a reality.

When Zheng Li left the podium, the audience below realized that there was much warmer applause than when Zheng Li delivered his acceptance speech before.

Like knocking off the roof of the Stockholm Concert Hall.

We must know that the sound effect and sound insulation effect of the concert hall are very good.

Even so, the security personnel outside could clearly hear the applause inside.

"Have you arranged this session?" King Gustav of Sweden turned sideways and asked.

Standing next to him was Thomas Perlman, general secretary of the Nobel Committee.

Each subdivision award has a secretary general for that field, and Perlman is the general secretary.

Today is dedicated to the awards.

Perlman replied with a similar voice: "I have responded to the Europa Academy of Sciences.

Tell me if you can get some magic elements out.

Because Dr. White is the only award-winning mage since Archmage Merlin.

What I was thinking at the time was whether the feat of Archmage Merlin could be replicated to a certain extent. "

"I just didn't expect Master White's magic to be so, so ingenious."

Over the past few years, the substantive status of the Nobel Prize in the world has declined, and its sanctity and authority are not as good as before.

Therefore, Perlman and the Nobel committee behind it hope to use some special methods to divert the attention of the masses who eat melons from the award itself.

Sometimes the way to cover up a hot event is to uncover a bigger hot event.

Public opinion is an art, and some people can achieve their goals quietly at the level of public opinion.

However, some people's means of manipulating public opinion are too obvious, which may be counterproductive.

Because Sweden is also an important constituent country of the Europa League, and has thrown away its title of permanent neutral country in the past few years.

After throwing away the face of neutral countries, Sweden's importance to the Europa League has further increased.

Therefore, the Europa Academy of Sciences does not mind meeting the requirements put forward by Sweden.

It's just that they didn't expect Zheng Li to make such a big fight.

It's like saying it was just a drill, and then you turned into a real fight.

"Dr. White is really extraordinary."

"However, there is still a gap between Dr. White and Merlin.

The crow's blessing was not as obvious as Merlin's.

My body just feels slightly relieved.

After Merlin's blessing magic ended last time."

Before Gustav finished speaking, Perman made a silent gesture with his fingers, and then pointed to Zheng Li.

The underlying meaning is that the other party is right in front, even if you feel that Dr. White's magic is not as good as Zheng Li's, don't say it in front of others.

Such status comes from the so-called "nobility" inherited by blood, and the superficial etiquette cannot conceal the inner self-centeredness.

However, after Perlman's reminder, Gustav quickly realized what was wrong with him, and immediately quieted down.

Zheng Li, who was not far in front of them, suddenly turned around and smiled at the two of them.

"Damn it, you've caused trouble again." Perlman felt bad.

Gustav also felt a pang of regret.

Gustav served as King of Sweden for more than 50 years.

For example, in the early days of his tenure as King of Sweden, Gustav often held sex at a nightclub in Stockholm owned by ex-gangster Mille Markovich.

Gustav would also ask his secret police to make sure he left no evidence of his involvement.

In the past 50 years, there have been many related rumors about Gustav.

Gustav also realized that something was wrong.

Only then did he recall the information he had read about mages:
"Mages have perception abilities that ordinary people can't imagine."

When Gustav subconsciously wanted to smile back to show his friendliness, Zheng Li had already turned around.

Gustav, who was worried about gains and losses, was left behind.

But Zheng Li wouldn't do anything to Gustav, it wasn't a verbal offense.

As a lawful mage, he will not punish the opponent for verbal inappropriateness.

Just like the last time Merlin appeared, when Zheng Li was performing magic, the number of viewers of the live broadcast of the Nobel Prize Ceremony began to soar.

After Zheng Li summoned a large number of crows, the number of viewers reached its peak.

Especially the crows followed his instructions, quietly standing on the hands of each guest and pecking lightly.

"too crazy!"

"Ohhhhhhh!"

"XD The winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is actually a magician!"

"Real name envy, why didn't I attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony last time? This is a differential treatment!"

"So Alan White is a mage? The reason why he knows the soul so well is because he is a mage?"

"It seems that there is indeed a special relationship between souls and magic"

Netizens from all over the world on Youtube are talking about it.

About [-] kilometers away from Sweden, the news quickly reached the Vatican.

"Did Alan White have a religion?"

"It has not been heard that he had any definite beliefs.

According to our internal understanding of the mages of the Europa League, Alan White is the descendant of Higgs.

After Higgs' death, the Devil Brain was passed on to Alan White.

At the same time, what Alan White showed was a complete obsession with scientific research.

With regard to faith, there is no overt inclination. "

"Then there is a high probability that he is a non-believers, can you make him believe in religion?

If he is willing, the Holy See is willing to give the greatest degree of support.

Be it materially or financially.

In addition, there are some magic-related resources that we can also provide to him. "

"You can try to get in touch.

But when it comes to material pursuits at this level, the Europa League will fully satisfy him.

The chips we can take out are a bit small, and I think it is doubtful whether we can impress the opponent. "

"Arrange someone to get in touch first, he doesn't need to have true faith, but he has to show the loyalty of faith in public.

It just needs to be done and we can live with it. "

After the advent of magic, the speed of change in the world is accelerating.

The speed of change in various fields is far faster than before.

The same is true in the realm of faith.

Because of the emergence of magic, the Vatican was directly impacted.

The bigwigs of the Europa League are becoming less and less religious.

Merlin is out.

Many believers who were originally Catholic have turned to Protestantism.

Zheng Li's actions in Stockholm made the Vatican keenly aware of this rare opportunity.

If you can control crows, you can control pigeons. It is easy to create a sacred effect through light and shadow effects and obedient white doves in the sky during the ceremony.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the Vatican as a gathering of masters in architecture and fine arts.

These all belong to the category of aesthetics.

Definitely able to create first-class brainwashing.

"The magic Allen used in Stockholm is not on our list.

This should be his own original magic.

In addition, is it possible for him to have other identities.

Could Allen be Merlin?Or is it a substitute for other mages walking in the world? "

"There is a possibility that we can have Alan come to Brussels and explain.

Is there any need to hold a meeting of all mages.

The name on the surface is the exchange and discussion about new magic.

Originally, we have always had a tradition of studying, researching, and discussing the newly researched magic in our internal space. "

"I think it can, and no matter who is behind Allen, we can't interfere.

At most, try it out directly or indirectly. "

"Let Kate, who is next to Allen, pay more attention to Allen, and remember to hide when sending the news back."

Kate has multiple identities, and she is also an observer at CERN arranged by the Europa League.

Saying spies is a bit too much, CERN is also an organization under the jurisdiction of the Europa League.

And in order to avoid being discovered, when Kate delivered the observation report to Brussels, she always used paper documents to go through a special delivery channel.

"Alan, wonderful magic, we mainly want to know how you do it?"

"Yes, because after all it involves the control of multi-point animals.

It's easy to make them do the same movements, but it's not so easy to make them stand in a designated position in an orderly manner. "

"The most difficult point is still the distance. You must know that the crows gather from a range of ten kilometers around.

There were about fifty spectators who received the blessing of the crows. "

Zheng Li signaled everyone to be quiet:

"The most difficult part of this magic is to determine the three-dimensional space coordinates of each person's palm.

First, you need to establish a coordinate system for the space at that time, and then determine the origin and the X, Y, and Z axes.

Then determine the three-dimensional coordinates of each person's palm.

This is the hardest point.

The follow-up is to attract crows with fluctuations of a specific frequency, which is easy to do.

After gathering the crows, guide them to fly to a fixed position and perform specified actions.

I will write a detailed document description later, you can take a look.

However, the construction of three-dimensional coordinates depends on everyone's computing power and observation ability.

However, it does not affect the attraction of crows to confuse the line of sight. "

"If so, I think this magic can be extended to other birds and even animals and plants.

Can we use magic to communicate with some intelligent life with souls? "

"This is feasible, but we need to find the communication channel of the other party, but we can only understand the meaning expressed by the other party's emotions.

And unable to understand the real meaning of the other party. "

In fact, this research direction has been mentioned before.

However, because of direct communication with animals, it is not good for the forces behind the mages.

What are the direct benefits of communicating with monkeys?It cannot help resolve any substantive issues at hand.

Therefore this research direction was shelved.

Mage is an extremely precious resource and cannot be consumed in such a place.

"White, how did you locate it so accurately?"

"Because I'm more sensitive to these things, whether it's calculation ability or memory, after being strengthened by the magic brain, I can easily do this."

After everyone has discussed Zheng Li's ideas, they plan to read the spellcasting instructions written by Zheng Li before proceeding to the next round of discussions.

The next round of discussions is scheduled for two days later.

During this period, Zheng Li was dragged by Wiles and Pierre to drink together.

The two of them played a game of magic competition, and they had to have a witness.

"Haha you lost, drink!"

The wine in the special vessel is not the favorite wine of the French, but the elderflower liqueur of choice.

This is a French brewed from 100% pure wild elderflower.

Actually Pierre would have liked brandy or wine, but Wiles could not help himself to elderflower liqueur.

The alcohol content of this wine is 20%, and it is sweeter than ordinary dessert wine.

(I speculate that Wiles likes to drink this, since elderflower liqueur is the only alcohol included in their drink packages at the Andrew Wiles Building in Oxford.)
Zheng Li sat quietly at the side, watching them come and go for a drink.

Sweet wine is easier to get drunk than red wine.

In fact, this kind of game is very unfavorable to the side that loses first. If you lose, your spellcasting ability will not be improved because you are drunk.

On the contrary, concentration will be reduced due to drunkenness, making it impossible to accurately tilt the vessel in the direction of the other party.

"Sigh, the pressure has been too much recently, and the higher-ups are still arguing about cooperating with American or Huaguo.

Always want to grab all the benefits.

Cooperate with American, afraid that the other party will conceal and deceive, and selectively reveal the truth to us.

Cooperating with Huaguo questioned the strength of the other party.

The chaos in London is still out of control.

Downing Street's warnings have had no effect.

The people below do not believe that being caught for a crime will have serious consequences.

The underground magic fighting is getting more and more rampant.

Would love to be able to go back to Brussels and do some research quietly.

During this period of time, I felt that I was about to become Sherlock Holmes.

Or it would be nice to be able to go back to Cambridge. "

As he drank more and more, Wiles gradually let go.

He was very dissatisfied with No. [-] Downing Street.

Even if there is a replacement, in his opinion, it is just a change of soup but not medicine.

Pierre is much more sober than Wiles, and he didn't drink much today:

"London's mistake was talking too early and talking too much.

When Boris was still on stage, he warned those who wanted to use magic to achieve illegal purposes that you would pay the price you deserved.

As a result, even the murderer who organized London's flexible killings did not get the punishment he deserved.

This caused Boris' deterrence to fail.

Deterrence failure has a price.

London will therefore have to pay a higher cost to quell it all. "

Failed deterrence results in higher costs for both parties.

Deterrence is an effective means of safeguarding one's own interests and avoiding escalation of conflicts. It requires both strength and determination.

In a sense, the latter is more important than the former.

If you don't have the determination, don't deter easily. Empty words will only lead to more aggressive temptations from the opponent, and you will eventually have to give in or stop the opponent's cross-border behavior at a higher cost.

Although Pierre is a mathematician, he knows this truth because he has experienced too much because of his age.

He went on to say: "If you want to solve the problem now, you have to rely on some unexpected means."

(End of this chapter)