Chapter 593: So thats how it is (please vote for this huge chapter)
The day is setting in the west, and the sky is approaching dusk.
Hai Xi had already left. He Ao was holding the wooden box and sitting in the sunshine at the door. Waves of cheers seemed to come from the distance.
And his eyes always fell on the wooden box in his hand.
When the last mark was put down, the purple light flashing on the wooden box formed a complete magic circle.
He Ao let go of his hand, and the blood on his fingertips slowly solidified.
The C-level's powerful recovery ability allowed him to encounter situations where the wound healed halfway through the painting several times, forcing him to cut his finger open again.
And as his fingers left, the purple light on the wooden box seemed to solidify on the surface.
Immediately afterwards, the light slowly dimmed, and then slowly lit up again, flickering like breathing.
Every time it flickers, the overall brilliance dims.
He Ao's eyes focused on the dense and complicated array.
The magic circle on this wooden box was originally an incomplete magic circle. Its purpose was to continue to maintain the operation of the magic circle and to 'deceive' the power gathered in the wooden box, making these powers think that the ritual was still running. To stabilize these powers and not to riot.
, but the original magic circle was very ineffective and would collapse as long as it was left out of the ritual environment for a few hours.
Later, in the old house of Jace's parents, He Ao used the knowledge inherited from Jace's father and combined with his own understanding of the magic circle to partially improve the magic circle, turning it into a magic circle that could be used with the help of the magic circle in the wooden box.
Energy, stable operation of the array.
Of course, the function of the improved magic circle is still to 'deceive'.
It's just that after He Ao's improvement, this magic circle is more stable, the wooden box can seal energy for a longer time, and it can also allow He Ao to open a gap to release part of the energy under certain circumstances, and then close the wooden box, instead of the original
Likewise, as long as the wooden box is opened, the magic circle outside will be immediately destroyed by the rioting energy.
At that time, He Ao did not use the knowledge left by Jace's father to directly perfect the magic circle on the wooden box.
One reason is because the knowledge left by Jace's father is pure knowledge, non-directional, and simply knowledge that can push the structure of the magic circle to complete the ritual.
And this complete ritual itself points to that unknown secret existence. In the past time, the people sacrificed in the ceremony were also 'synchronized' by that secret existence.
If you directly perfect the magic circle, it is equivalent to directly helping that secret being to perfect the ritual.
He Ao didn't know how the hidden existence wanted to use the energy in this wooden box. Although the wooden box was in his hands, for the sake of safety, he still couldn't follow the other person's ideas. If he was not careful, he would marry the other person.
Clothes.
Another reason is that when He Ao was perfecting the magic circle, there were everywhere around him the 'tentacles' arranged by mysterious people, belonging to that secret existence. If he painted them rashly, it would probably make Jess's father spend all his efforts to preserve them.
The knowledge was leaked to the mysterious person.
With the support of these two situations, he simply improved the magic circle at that time.
In fact, He Ao had always had a guess in his mind. At that time, he left the mental hospital and arrived at Jess's parents' house too smoothly. After defeating the tentacles of the mysterious man, it stands to reason that the mysterious man should have known that he had returned home, but
But he did not take any action in the process.
Although this can be explained by lack of manpower, there can also be another explanation. The mysterious man wants to use him to perfect the magic circle on the wooden box.
Therefore, He Ao has always been very careful about the handling of wooden boxes.
In fact, theoretically speaking, if the mysterious man is really facing Jace, this strategy is very likely to succeed.
Because even if Jace learned all the knowledge about the magic circle, he would not be able to master this knowledge in a short period of time, so he would not be able to modify the magic circle.
So he had only two choices, either give up the wooden box, or improve the magic circle on the wooden box.
Abandoning the wooden box will cause the energy inside to leak and cause disaster. It is absolutely impossible for the good old Jace to leave the wooden box alone, so Jace actually has only one choice.
Even if Jace knows that the mysterious man may be using him, after he obtains the knowledge to supplement the magic circle, there is a high probability that he will use this knowledge to stabilize the energy in the wooden box, and the mysterious man's purpose will be achieved.
Many times before, the mysterious man had manipulated Jace like this, making Jace like a puppet and had to follow his ideas.
It's a pity that this time, he faced He Ao,
Jess's originally uncontrollable madness was now controllable by He Ao.
On this basis, He Ao can use this crazy state to directly pry into the 'truth' of the magic circle, and master the knowledge of the magic circle in a short time, so that he has the ability to freely modify the magic circle.
Of course, simply being able to modify the magic circle is not enough. You also need enough occult knowledge to know how to modify the magic circle to resolve this situation.
As it happens, He Ao has some occult knowledge.
While carrying the wooden box for more than a day, he had been thinking about how to modify the magic circle.
Holding the wooden box in his arms, He Ao walked out of the door and walked to the corridor.
This was a building on the edge of the Zarot area. He looked around and could see a huge open square in the distance.
The square is not small and can accommodate thousands of people to move freely, but at the moment it is occupied by densely packed figures swarming like ants.
They were like clouds on the ground, covering the entire square.
Mountain-like cheers echoed under the sky, and even He Ao, who was so far away, could hear the shouts that seemed like the background of the world.
It was getting dark, and Desanke had been giving a speech all day, but there was still a steady stream of people coming along the street in the distance.
Ned's campaign ads were still playing on the screens of the surrounding buildings, but these bright screens were so dim under the sunlight.
As soon as there were a little more people, Hexi went to protect Desanke.
At noon, Desank encountered a black gun in the crowd. If Hexi hadn't pulled him away in time, the bullet would have passed through his temple and blown his head to pieces.
But after that black shot, Desanke did not hide in a safe place, his figure still stood on the most conspicuous podium.
Shortly after that, Christos, at the invitation of the Wetland municipal government, went to the Eilanthe Palace where the mayor of Wetland lived, and left the venue.
Judging from the messages Heich sent to Ho, the Wetterland municipal government has actually come to see Christos many times, but he has never left.
Until that time with a black gun.
The Wetland people staying in the square at this moment are no longer for Christos of Dawn City, but for Desank of Wetland.
He Ao withdrew his gaze from the square and stared at the wooden box in his hand.
The light on the wooden box has become extremely dim.
This is the energy in the wooden box being transformed into the final product by the stable magic circle.
At this moment, the magic circle on the wooden box is completely different from the original one, and even from the magic circle conceived by Jace's father.
He Ao retained most of Jace's father's ideas, deconstructed the core ideas of Jace's father to stabilize and perfect the magic circle, and then nested another thing on this basis,
He turned back and looked at the wall of the room. On the entire wall, strange and extremely complex lines were painted with extremely light handwriting. These lines together formed a huge magic circle.
The control circle engraved on the Velora.
This is the magic circle used to control extraordinary items drawn by the angel who tried to descend to the main world. Later, this magic circle was modified by He Ao, and the direction of the magic circle was changed from that angel to 'K'
, thus gaining control of the Velora.
However, He Ao actually didn't quite understand how this magic circle worked and what its principles were, so he used Jace's crazy state to study the magic circle carefully.
Although in a state of madness, He Ao was much slower at comprehending knowledge that had no basis and was not related to the genetic potion ritual, the speed was much faster than He Ao's own exploration.
Soon, He Ao roughly figured out the core principle of this magic circle.
Then he discovered a problem. This magic circle must be engraved on extraordinary objects to be effective, and the energy in the wooden box has no entity.
At this time, he thought of the magic circle created by Jace's father, which could engrave information into the tentacles through the energy emitted.
He kneaded the two magic circles together to form a new magic circle structure, and then nested it on the periphery of the wooden box's original magic circle.
In this way, when the energy in those wooden boxes is converted into the final product through the magic circle, the control magic circle pointing to 'K' will also be carved into the product.
And He Ao also gained an unexpected benefit, that is, because the control circle is completely integrated into the final product, unless the final product is completely damaged, the control circle will always exist.
The only flaw of this array is that it is a bit too complicated and consumes a lot of blood. He Ao drank several large bowls of the medicinal soup prepared by Haixi to barely support the amount of blood bleeding.
Of course, He Ao did not use all his own blood. On his way back from the wilderness, he hunted several C-level beasts and took their core blood as the material for the magic circle.
However, the core part of the control circle that points to 'k' is best drawn with the blood of He Ao. It can have a certain ritual effect and increase the probability of successful drawing of the circle.
At this moment, as the light on the wooden box gradually dimmed, He Ao could feel that the violent and disorderly atmosphere escaping from the wooden box was stabilizing, which meant that the contents of the wooden box were stabilizing.
"Hey, hey, Uncle Jess, can you hear me?"
While He Ao was staring at the dimming of the wooden box, a communication connected to his earphones, coming from Vianna.
"I can hear it, you say."
He Ao put away the wooden box, turned around and walked into the house, placing his hand on the wall where he had carved the control circle.
In fact, this array is not complete. There are only some key structures that he drew for easy reference.
He put his hand on the wall and wiped it lightly. As some dust fell to the ground, the wall he wiped became smooth again.
"Uncle Jess, didn't you tell me this morning that you wanted me to check whether the Trison Group had renamed the Phoenix System and used it elsewhere?"
Vianna on the phone said excitedly, "Guess what I found?"
When he just returned to the city this morning, He Ao sent a message to Vianna and asked her to investigate this.
If the Phoenix system is really unprofitable, then its existence will increase the costs and revenue of Tellison Group and reduce the profit margin of the entire group. This will have a huge impact on the stock price, and the consortium is unlikely to allow it.
This kind of thing happens.
"Is Tellison Group using the Phoenix System to make money?"
He Ao said with a smile.
"Yes!!!"
Vianna said quickly, "Didn't I ask you to help me find a lot of papers about the Phoenix system?
"I read these papers carefully and found that the core part of this system is actually data processing and information analysis and proofreading. It determines the authenticity of the information through a complex comparison and accounting process, and determines the authenticity of the voting user's information and identity compliance at the software level.
It also ensures that it will not be interfered by external software or operating systems of different communication devices, causing deviations in the information transmission process.
"The voting system is just a superficial part of it. In fact, the Phoenix system does information collection and processing. Then I looked for all the business-side services sold by Tellison Group and found that Tellison Group has
A large number of business-side services for data collection and processing.
"The prices of these services vary, ranging from a monthly fee of 100 federal coins to a monthly fee of 10,000 federal coins.
"However, most of these services support three-day free or low-cost experience for new users, so I opened a small account to pretend to be new users and purchased some of these services at different levels, and then used algorithms to measure the accuracy of these services, and compared them with the ones I found.
Some experimental data of the Phoenix system are included in the paper for comparison.
"Then I discovered that the data feedback results of those projects with monthly service fees of more than 1,000 federal coins were highly similar to the experimental data of the Phoenix system. I have reason to suspect that these service projects are using a weakened version of the Phoenix system."
"It's also possible that they are using the Phoenix system,"
While erasing the magic circle on the wall, He Ao continued, "It's just that the Tellison Group has given different permissions to different commercial projects through software algorithms. In this way, they don't need to develop another weakening system, nor do they need to
Additional servers need to be configured to maintain security barriers.
"After all, the actual usage time of the Phoenix system is only the one or two days after each election is started, and the frequency of use is not high. In this way, costs can be greatly saved and resources can be optimized."
"It's possible," Vianna responded, "But if that's the case, why do they claim that the Phoenix system is specially developed for the federation and is only used for federal and local elections? They themselves are also using this system
Sell it for money."
"If they don't promote it like this, how can they get the federal central government and municipalities to provide high user fees?"
He Ao smiled and said, "The federal government and municipal governments help them cover their costs, so all they make are profits."
"Like something they can do."
There was a sigh from Vianna, and then she paused and asked again, "Uncle Jess, is there anything else you need me to do?"
"Um,"
He Ao walked into the bathroom and washed his hands while thinking, "If these services of Tellison Group are really connected to the Phoenix system, then the samples we can refer to are not only the voting results of those elections."
He paused and said, "Vianna, I still need to take a closer look and collect some things to study. I will trouble you again when I need you as a technical expert."
"Okay," Vianna said with a smile, "I have sent the research report to your email just now. Uncle Jess, if you have any questions, you can contact me at any time. I'm going to eat. Bye."
"Bye-Bye."
He Ao put the wooden box on the table and hung up the phone.
Then he clicked on the research report sent by Vianna in his mailbox. This report was not formal and was written very briefly, but it included a large amount of Vianna's complete test data, as well as what Vianna had investigated, Tellison had
Various commercial services that may use the Phoenix system.
He Ao thought for a moment and clicked on the earphone, "Eve, help me collect all the information about the business services provided by Tellison Group mentioned in this email."
"OK."
Eve's voice sounded softly.
The Phoenix system is not necessarily without problems. Over the years, as long as the data is large enough, some flaws will always be exposed.
Of course, there is a high probability that these defects will be repaired by Tellison Group soon.
He Ao lowered his head and looked at the wooden box on the table.
The sky has gradually dimmed, and the light on the wooden box has finally disappeared.
The energy hidden in the wooden box is about to be transformed.
He Ao stroked the wooden box.
The thing contained in this wooden box was what the mysterious man tried to make for the first time. After the production failed due to the resistance of Jace's father, the mysterious man turned to trying to make genetic medicine.
This is the first choice of the mysterious person, pretending to be the original goal of the mysterious person.
He Ao put his hand on the lid of the wooden box, waiting for the light to finally extinguish.
During this period, he drank the last bowl of recovery potion sent by Haixi to maintain his body in a better state.
When the bright moon appeared behind the shining tall buildings, the light on the wooden box finally dimmed completely and fell into the silent night.
And with this moment of dim light.
In the dark sky, there seemed to be some invisible shadow emerging.
The cold and cool wind blew across He Ao's cheeks.
He Ao activated his super memory and raised his head.
A huge, chaotic and illusory shadow covered the entire sky, and diffuse purple mist spread from all directions.
The chaotic thoughts that penetrated deep into the soul once again sounded in the depths of He Ao's mind.
Fine blood seeped out along his skin, covering his whole body with a dull red color.
A terrifying consciousness surged in the illusory shadow, becoming clearer and clearer, as if a sleeping person was trying to wake up from the endless chaos, and the purple mist in the sky rushed crazily towards the wooden box in front of He Ao.
The silent wooden box vibrated violently like a buzzing sound.
He Ao stared at the bizarre scene, the corners of his mouth cracked, and bright red blood seeped out from between his gums, covering his white teeth.
He stared at the terrifying and illusory shadow, at the purple mist that swallowed everything, and opened his mouth,
"roll!"
The humming wooden box stopped for a moment, and the purple mist that rushed towards the wooden box seemed to have been expelled in some way and dispersed in all directions.
Buzz——
The terrifying explosion echoed in He Ao's mind.
The thoughts that were eroding the depths of his soul seemed to have been deprived of something important, and the angry will was as blazing as a flame, tearing at He Ao's soul with desperate ferocity.
Two lines of bloody tears overflowed from the corners of He Ao's eyes.
But his body still didn't move back at all, and he stared ahead.
A huge illusory tentacle separated from the shadow in the sky and stretched towards He Ao.
It was like a giant angry hand pinching He Ao's neck.
But the giant hand did not touch He Ao's body in the end, and the terrifying consciousness that tried to wake up from its deep sleep failed to wake up from its deep sleep in the end.
The endless chaos overwhelmed everything, covering the violent consciousness, forcing it to return to sleep, and the huge illusory shadow also dissipated under the stars.
Just like how Ho 'saw' it for the first time in the mental hospital.
Heao watched the shadow dissipate and watched the light of the stars fill the room again.
He lowered his head and stared at the wooden box in front of him. The final doubt was finally revealed at this moment.
"I see."
He turned off his super memory, leaned forward, leaned on the edge of the table, and slowly opened the wooden box in front of him.
What caught his sight was the empty interior of the wooden box.
The mysterious man appears in the next chapter, and this copy should only be available in the next two days.
