Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 288 The Story of My Life (Part )

The divination hadn't even begun and we had already achieved a great result.

By signing all known contracts and personally verifying their effects, Victoria successfully proved that the "adaptive theory" applies not only to a few column systems, but also to the contracts of all column systems currently existing in Debso Tower. From this, we can boldly speculate that the "adaptive theory" is likely to be a theory that is universally true for all contracts of all column systems.

If we were in the Biblvosaica Islands now, this discovery alone would be enough to publish several heavyweight papers, and maybe there would be a chance to jump into the academic committee.

I told Victoria that I would definitely bring this result to the Islands to announce it at the next round table meeting.

Victoria replied nonchalantly: "Whatever you want, what I'm more concerned about right now is: why the adaptive theory is a universal theory that applies to all contracts. There must be some deep-seated reason in this."

This is another illusory question. I can only say to Victoria, please help me solve the problem in front of me first, and then study yours.

After some simple preparations, we started a new divination.

The divination went very smoothly. Victoria successfully avoided the damage she had to bear as "material". I didn't ask much about the specific method. Each great witch has her own secret. I was more concerned about the results of the divination.

This time, the prophecy we got was only two words:
【Summer Night】

Despite a brief moment of consternation, Victoria and I agreed that something went wrong in some aspect of the divination. After all, this time we changed the material from the contract to the person who signed the contract.

After a series of technical optimizations, we started divination again.

This time it’s finally no longer just two words:
[If the source of the power of the contract is described as a "group", then the fortune teller is one of the group elements]

The results of the divination still pointed to me, but in addition, they also mentioned some concepts that I had never been exposed to.

In order to obtain more information, we continue to fine-tune various aspects of divination and conduct repeated experiments.

Every adjustment can yield some new predictions. After summarizing and analyzing these predictions, we finally have a relatively complete conclusion.

To put it simply, divination believes that the power of the contract comes from an existence that is neither an individual nor a group. I am a part of this existence. Besides me, there are similar people in other times and spaces. , and the collection of everyone, including me, constitutes such an existence.

This is a great result from an academic perspective, but to me it has almost no practical significance. Because divination cannot tell who exactly people like me are, what characteristics they have, where they are, whether they are dead or still alive, and there is not even a clear answer to the number of these people.

"If we follow the divination theory, then we cannot rule out such an extreme possibility." I complained to Victoria: "I am a witch, you are also a witch, and everyone is a witch. Therefore, everyone in this world, including the past, Everyone who exists now and in the future can be regarded as 'people like me', and the collection of all people is of course our race. Therefore, the race of witches is the source of the power of the witch contract - does this sound like a correct sentence? nonsense?"

"Not entirely..." Victoria really started to think about this possibility, but soon she gave up: "So, what are you going to do next?"

"Let's do this for now." I spread my hands, "I have no direction at the moment. This kind of thing can't be rushed. It is said that some scholars in the archipelago can work on a topic for dozens or even hundreds of years. When I have inspiration, I will come to you. of."

Victoria smiled and seemed to be in a good mood for some reason.

"Goodbye then," I said.

"Don't go to the Ether Sea for a drink? It's just a celebration of today's results."

"No, Dong Zhou asked me to accompany her in the afternoon."

"..."

……

Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. I have not given up thinking about the source of contract power, but I have never found a breakthrough. Therefore, I can only focus my extra energy on other research.

For example, recently, I have been very interested in the achievements left by the traveling witch.

It was a girl named "Lillian", or rather, many girls.

She has only one consciousness but hundreds of bodies. If the current body dies, she only needs to take out the cup and put a new body in it to be "resurrected".

Because of this characteristic, the black masks in the security department use Lillian as a killer. I can only say that this is a waste of natural resources.

So I rescued her and kept her with me as a pet so that I could study her and the "node" contract on her body.

I just don’t know why, but Dong Zhou was a little unhappy, but after two days of gambling, she started talking to me as if nothing was wrong... and she seemed to be more attached to me than before.

In October 437, when I was reading the brief submitted by "Venture Capital One", a message caught my attention.

Someone was looking for venture capital, and their project was a possible way to capture the power of the roots of the contract. Venture capital projects and the papers in the nest tower have one thing in common, that is, 99% of them are failures or even scammers, but there is indeed 1% that is a real treasure.

While I was telling myself not to have high expectations, I also ordered the "Venture Capital Department" to immediately send the most reliable investment consultant to contact the other party. At the same time, this investment consultant needs to report the progress directly to me every day.

After a period of due diligence that was not too long, I had a general understanding of the situation of the other party’s project.

——I didn’t expect the surprise to come so suddenly.

There really are others out there exploring the source of the Pact's power, and it's in Debso Tower. More importantly, their approach is a completely different approach that complements my research.

Under my instruction, the "Venture Capital Department" quickly signed a venture capital agreement with the other party and completed the first round of capital injection that day. Almost all the terms of the agreement are the most favorable, and the only requirement is that they need to build the laboratory as quickly as possible and start the experiments they envisioned.

In the blink of an eye, five months later, they conducted the first summoning experiment as planned, but the results failed to fully meet expectations. I am not disappointed by this, but rather a little happy, because this proves that my guess is correct - the other party's theoretical framework is missing a part, just like my "divination theory" is missing their part.

I decided to meet them and tell them where they needed to improve.

Sure enough, after adopting my well-intentioned "suggestions", the experiment made breakthrough progress. Although a small accident occurred during the period, one of the founders of the project died unexpectedly, but fortunately another one named "Mosha" is still alive. Although she seemed a little frustrated by the death of her companion, she quickly cheered up and got back to work after my persuasion.

Those brain-like things were summoned one after another, and Victoria and I used them to perfect our divination. As more and more "heads" join the divination, the information we obtain becomes more and more comprehensive. When the number of "heads" reaches exactly 144, we finally fully understand what kind of existence the contract power comes from.

Finally, this great research has only one final step left to succeed: confirm it.

To do this, we still have a lot of preparation work to do. This included building an unprecedentedly large facility to activate those "heads", but it was just a matter of Moir and time, and I had neither. But there is another question that needs serious consideration:
According to the information we know, if the experiment succeeds, I will probably be forced into that existing set at the moment of success, because I am originally one of the elements of this set, and this may very well lead to My sense of self and even my memory were completely erased——

Simply put, I would probably die while the experiment was successful.

Faced with this question, I hesitated for ten long seconds.

Ten seconds later, I decided to continue the experiment and informed Victoria of my decision.

After hearing this, Victoria looked at me with complicated eyes: "What about winter day?"

"I will arrange everything so that she can successfully inherit all my shares and the position of city lord. Of course, I need you to continue to support her on the board of directors, just like you have always supported me - you will, right?"

Victoria didn't say anything, just nodded, and asked: "What about you? Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Remember our last divination a few years ago?" I said. "At that time, I thought that maybe I would need to spend my whole life looking for the source of the contract power."

"But I am lucky. After only a few years, I am standing on the doorstep of success. You know as well as I do what a great research this is! As long as I can prove the existence of 'His', I am willing to do anything. Even if it costs my life - we've been friends for so many years, you know I'm not lying, this is what I really think, right?"

I thought Victoria would definitely give a positive answer, but things were not what I thought.

I only saw her head lowered and her whole body trembling slightly. When she looked at me again, her eyes had become angry and sad:
"You are a person who really only thinks about your research."

As she spoke, she waved her palm.

Snapped!
It wasn't until the burning pain shot up from my cheek that I realized that I had been slapped by Victoria.

I looked at her doubtfully. I had never seen her so excited, but through her tearful eyes, I seemed to see the past between us. Those pictures flashed quickly in front of my eyes, and then, I Suddenly I realized——

Why was Victoria the first to stand up for me after my mother died...

Why on the eve of those directors planning a coup, Victoria was willing to risk her life to find out information...

Why is Victoria willing to be used as material for divination experiments...

Why does she look so happy every time I ask her for help...

Why...she just wanted to slap me...

I was so focused on finding the source of the power of the contract that I never thought about the source of these things until now.

As Victoria said, since I was born I have been indifferent to everything else.

All I could think about was my research.

(End of this chapter)