Planetary Museum

What Yevgeny mentioned was naturally the Nine Heavens Illusion that Wu Xiaoqing encountered at the Nine Heavens Gate before.

The operation mode and principle of the Nine Heavens Illusion, the search and rescue team has explained clearly before, the three-dimensional projections inside are naturally artificially produced and played images.

This is easy to understand.

But if it's just an illusion, it doesn't really trap a person.

The essence of illusion is nothing but image information, and three-dimensional images are nothing more than optical illusions in the air, and there is no entity in itself.

When the other party is not alert, this simple illusion may still form visual deception, but once this deception is realized by the other party, the essence of the illusion is actually nothing more than information masking.

The so-called Sanwei illusion is essentially the same as using a strong flashlight to illuminate the enemy's eyes. In some specific environments, such as a purely dark space, a bright flashlight may be more effective.

What can really make this illusion work is when the Nine Heavens Illusion appears, that layer cuts off the film material between the "horizon" of the illusion and the real world.

Wu Xiaoqing and Yan Xiu had traveled through this thin film material many times, but they didn't pay attention to it at that time—they paid more attention to the information in the hallucination world.Looking back now, in fact, this kind of thin film material is the thing with the highest technical content in this Nine Heavens Magic Mirror.

In Wu Xiaoqing's glasses, there are still recorded video materials when he saw the Nine Heavens Illusion. Through slow motion playback, it is easy to see clearly that those huge illusions themselves appeared the moment the Nine Heavens Illusion started to work. But when they first appeared, the background was normal, and the islands in the background could be clearly seen through the phantom.

But after only a few seconds, those pictures disappeared.

What covers these pictures is a kind of highly elastic material that gradually expands from the periphery of the entire "vision horizon". The invisible spherical surface is normal, gradually spreading and infiltrating.

But everyone knows that the Ascension Realm itself is a gravity-free world, and the area where the Nine Heavens Illusion is located, that is, the outer area of ​​the Nine Heavens Gate, does not have any spherical transparent objects.

So these diffusions, as well as the spherical spreading process, should be properties of the material itself.

From their initial behavior, the material seems to be more like a liquid, but if you zoom in on some parts and look closely at the expanded surface of these materials, you will find that it is actually closer to the solid performance.

When a liquid spreads, it usually spreads naturally from a thicker place to a thinner place due to the effect of gravity—and in a gravity-free environment, because there is no gap caused by gravity, basically only in the liquid tension Under the action of forming large and small water polo.

But in the picture recorded by Wu Xiaoqing, the appearance of those substances when they diffused is clearly like a solid material-it is force from the thin part in the front, and then the thick part in the rear is pulled by this force and then becomes thinner- ——The whole process seems to be a liquid expansion, but in fact, it is more like a solid form of activity—like a bundle of folded bed sheets being grabbed by a corner, and then pulled and shaken away.

The speed of the entire expansion is almost like an explosion, and within a few seconds, a range of more than ten kilometers is completely covered.

In addition to the scene when the membrane material appears, there is also the scene when the membrane material is penetrated—that is, the situation when Wu Xiaoqing left the Nine Heavens Illusion.

From Wu Xiaoqing's point of view, the virtual world dominated by the black background suddenly disappeared, and they left that hallucinatory world immediately.But when they turned their heads to look at the illusion world they had just escaped from, they found that everything inside was still as usual—all the illusions they could see before had disappeared, and only those who stayed inside could still see clearly.

Yevgeny put forward a guess about this - the film material itself does not have any invisible function, but they themselves are some kind of image generating device, which can be understood as a kind of flexible screen.

The so-called invisibility is not a tall twisted light, but a very simple optical simulation.

Just like many TV commercials do, if the content of the picture displayed on a screen is perfectly integrated with the background behind the screen, and the screen itself is not noticed-then this kind of screen is the most ideal invisible material.

And this kind of membrane material is likely to be double-layered. What is played on the outside is the influence of the surrounding environment, so that itself and the environment can be completely integrated without arousing anyone's suspicion. On the inner layer, the picture played is completely different. Instead - like a solid black background.This background color can cut off the spatial connection between the people inside and the outside to the greatest extent—just like watching western pictures in ancient times, a layer of cloth should be covered over the audience's head to keep the interior as light as possible.

Movie theaters are similarly designed.

And this kind of film material is a thing specially made for the optical isolation mechanism of movie theaters.

Everyone has known before that all the magic tools in the Ascension Realm are actually just some electrical appliances that are routinely used in the original civilization. The black iron shield is just an electromagnet, and the spirit stone is just a battery...

According to this inference, the original function of the so-called Nine Heavens Magic Mirror is very likely to be an advanced version of the home theater, a true [-]D version of the projector.

And this kind of membrane material, to the original civilization that made these devices, is likely to be just a common material that the earth people used when they invented the picture card.

But this material has inadvertently—no, it should, Yevgeny almost certainly, intentionally—covered one of the biggest problems in this civilization.

In other words, when Wu Xiaoqing looked back after leaving the Nine Heavens Illusion, and when the short-haired guest saw the huge empty space, they didn't see anything on the surface, but in fact, they "didn't see anything" In itself, it is a certain illusion created by this film for him.

Theoretically, this kind of membrane material may appear in any corner of this planet without being discovered...

Furthermore, if this kind of thing is flying around the world, placing corpses everywhere to ensure that no one will find it, then they must have found a lot of things.

In other words, the entire operation of the search and rescue team is likely to be watched by these invisible observers throughout the process.

It’s just that these observers are not hostile to Wu Xiaoqing—they are not hostile to the world itself.They just do their own things according to a certain fixed behavioral logic, for example, release some kind of mechanical insects to corrode and process the corpses, collect the dna information of the corpses, for example, recreate the created, brand new "human body" Dropped into the environment...

Yevgeny's conjecture stunned everyone present.

Although this explanation is bizarre, it is very consistent with the existence of this civilization - because this civilization itself is a civilization that has been raised in captivity.They themselves do not have real technology and resources, and everything they have, the current planet is just a cage made for them by the advanced civilization that kept them in captivity, but this cage is several times larger than the earth That's all.

Such a large cage naturally needs corresponding "breeding tools". These invisible existences that automatically dispose of corpses, understood from the perspective of people on earth, are nothing more than running water, automatic feeding machines, artificial fountains and other facilities in the zoo.

For the flying people in the Ascension Realm, the existence of these facilities is not much different from invisibility.

——Even if the feeding equipment is placed in front of the animals in the zoo, they will not know and understand the principle.

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Even if people become smarter, what changes is only some parts of the brain structure, and the cerebellum still does not make any progress.Wu Xiaoqing is still clumsy about controlling Feijian, but fortunately they already have a group of captives from Qianyangmen, and now they are Wu Xiaoqing's driver, and the one who uses Feijian to take him to perform tasks is from Qianyangmen a disciple.

Wu Xiaoqing had carried the flying sword controlled by Yan Xiu before, but Yan Xiu's level... Now they all know that Jiutianmen can be regarded as one of the weakest sects in the entire Ascension Realm. Compared with the noble breed of swans like Qianyangmen, whether it is the experience of using Feijian or the way of using it, it is inferior, isn't it? A star and a half.

This difference, to Wu Xiaoqing, is like the difference between taking someone else's electric car and taking someone else's Formula 1 sports car...

The moment the flying sword took off, Wu Xiaoqing almost felt that his waist tied to the flying sword was about to be torn off, and the oncoming wind followed... Even though Wu Xiaoqing deliberately wore a motorcycle helmet, he still felt terrified.

At this speed, maybe during their flight, as long as they accidentally bump into a small stone, the stone will penetrate Wu Xiaoqing's helmet like a bullet, and take off his skull by the way...

But a master is a master. After flying all the way, Wu Xiaoqing found that he did not encounter a single object during the entire flight—this was the same as when he was being carried by Yan Xiu, the helmet was full of constant sand and gravel impacts. , but it is much better.

Of course, there are also shortcomings. There are more necessary evasive actions along the way, and various sharp turns at large angles... Fortunately, here is a gravity-free environment, no matter how you turn, there will be no problems. If this is really on the ground Driving, even if you give this Qianyangmen disciple a tank, you can still drive the track so that it flicks out...

The efficiency brought by such a high speed is that Wu Xiaoqing only took a little more than half a day to arrive after the short-haired passenger had traveled for nearly four or five days. When he finally arrived at the destination, Wu Xiaoqing was already panicked. It’s not that he took motion sickness medicine in advance, and he almost vomited on the spot—vomiting in a zero-gravity environment is a dangerous action that is life-threatening to the vomiter himself.

In stark contrast, the disciple who brought him seemed to be a little bit unfulfilled—there were seven people who came on this trip, and he was responsible for leading Wu Xiaoqing, and he was the slowest one among the seven.

There is no way, Wu Xiaoqing's physical fitness is too bad.

The short-haired guest has been waiting on the island for a long time. After seeing Wu Xiaoqing's arrival, he immediately came to report on his work - in fact, there is nothing to report, what should be said and what should be read. Wu Xiaoqing and the others have communicated through remote video before Well, Wu Xiaoqing came in person, the biggest role is just to bring the perspective of the search and rescue team - it needs to see more clearly and more comprehensively, and at the same time, it also needs Wu Xiaoqing to execute more complicated instructions.

For example, this one: "Let's cut up the whole island first."

"The whole island? Cut it apart?" The short-haired guest almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, just use the Qianyang finger," Wu Xiaoqing pointed to the magic weapon in his hand and said, "You do it yourself."

"But this..." The short-haired guest looked at the huge island that almost covered the world in his eyes, then at the short stick in his hand, and then at the dim and irrelevant Void Transformation Stone. Without this confidence, "Can the aura in this Void Transformation Stone... be able to?"

"Of course it's not enough," Wu Xiaoqing said, "so I'll bring you a new one," Wu Xiaoqing said, and took out a brand new Void Transformation Stone that exudes dazzling blue light from his backpack. I brought two pieces, which must be enough for you."