In the room next to the Galactus Engine Hall, Helen was chattering to Harley and Barry about her experience in the zombie universe.
Barry was listening fascinated, but Harley felt a little bored. Because Helen's guardians were all there, they strictly followed the regulations that minors are not allowed to drink. Not only were they not allowed to drink, they were not allowed to appear on the same occasion as alcoholic beverages.
So everyone else was busy in the hall, and only three children were driven into the room.
Harley was bored while drinking orange juice. It wasn't until she heard Helen talk about the ghost theory that she became interested. After thinking about it, she said: "Since the physical rules of our two universes are so similar, they may also have something in common in this regard. You
Do you still remember the principle of the summoning array that the teacher talked about when we were in class at Karma Taj?"
Helen thought for a while and then nodded and said: "I understand the summoning array as a search engine. Different filter entries can be distinguished according to the types of runes. Mages can choose the filter conditions under the entries at will."
"Wait until all conditions are selected before activating the magic circle. Summons that meet these filtering conditions will receive specific signals, and they can choose whether to respond to the summons."
"Of course, in order to enhance the success rate of the summons, the mages will put the corresponding sacrifices according to their own filtering conditions. If they feel the breath of the favorite sacrifices through the magic circle, the summoned target will be more likely to respond to the summons."
Harley stretched out a finger and said, "So can the ghost wave theory also be understood as the summoning wave theory?"
Harry took a piece of white paper and a pen from the side, sketched on it and said: "The summoning circle is equivalent to a radio wave transmission device that can adjust the frequency. The behavior of mages modifying the runes is equivalent to adjusting the frequency, adjusting
Radio waves with good frequencies can only be received by certain beings."
"The sacrifices processed by magic are actually imitating the radio waves of the other party's food or favorite items, making the other party mistakenly think that there is food here, and then follow the radio waves to find it."
Both Barry and Helen nodded, feeling that what Harley said made sense, but Helen said a little doubtfully: "Then why did I neither use a formal summoning circle, nor adjust the frequency, nor even process the sacrifices?"
If you pass, you can summon Dr. Schiller?"
Then Helen explained to them the process of summoning Schiller in detail. After hearing this, Harley thought about it and speculated: "I think this may have something to do with the nature of the life being summoned."
"When humans have a physical body, they cannot feel changes in the magnetic field at all, and their susceptibility to certain virtual electromagnetic signals is zero. But after becoming a ghost, they are more affected by the magnetic field and can also feel subtle changes in the magnetic field.
, perhaps because of this, he can keenly receive certain radio signals directed at him."
At this moment, Helen's eyes suddenly lit up and she said: "Since the mages can use the magic circle to spread signals into the universe, can the summoned one just wait passively?"
"you mean……"
"If we can receive the summoning signals from all the mages, can we also pretend to be summoned objects and respond to the summons?"
The more Helen talked, the more she felt that her speculation was feasible. She said: "Part of the energy input by the mages into the summoning circle is used to spread the loss of the signal, and the remaining part is actually the travel expenses for the summoned object to travel through time and space.
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"If we can search for such signals and respond to the call, wouldn't it be possible to travel to various universes without spending any travel expenses?"
Harley frowned and raised an objection. She said, "Not every mage has the ability to spread the signal of his summoning array to the outside of the universe."
"Then what if we can also receive summoning signals from within the universe?" Helen touched her chin and said, "Even if the travel expenses they provide are insufficient, we can make up for it ourselves. It will be much less laborious than trying to teleport by ourselves, right?
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Harry rolled his eyes, immediately raised a thumbs up and looked at Helen and said: "The plan is feasible, let's start the practice."
In an instant, they jumped off the chairs almost simultaneously, dragging Barry with them to the opposite laboratory.
Gray Mist has almost moved the complete laboratory of the Stark Group, so now it has all the equipment on the Galactus engine, and Helen and Harley plan to create a device to search for summoning signals.
It sounds difficult to receive different summoning signals in various universes, but Helen swallowed a lot of machines from the Time Administration. The management scope of the Time Administration is the multiverse, and the scope of their equipment terminal retrieval and recording is exactly the same.
are within different single universes.
So in fact, Helen and Harley only need to modify this type of equipment and turn it into a device used to receive summoning signals within a single universe. This is not difficult for Helen, who often observes Stark's experiments.
No one in the hall noticed that these little devils were tinkering in the laboratory. Stark stared at the navigation route on the instrument and said solemnly: "Something is wrong. The mass of the universe at the final destination is changing rapidly.
If it decreases, it may completely collapse in less than half an hour. Is it a trap set by the other party?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "If the other party has dealings with us in the future, they should know that our technological level is far beyond the average level of mankind. There is no point in setting up such a trap that can be detected in advance."
"It can't happen that we are so unlucky that the life of a universe comes to an end, right?" Nick said, standing behind Stark.
Since managing the Time Bureau, Nick has seen too many reports of universe destruction. This is a natural phenomenon that is constantly happening in the universe, not a man-made disaster. But if it happens by chance, he can only admit that he is unlucky.
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Stark thought for a while and said: "I think this is not a purely natural phenomenon. We can use the old method to travel back through time to a time when the structure of the universe was still stable to see why the universe was destroyed."
Just when the time-jumping function of the Galactus Engine was about to be activated, Helen and Harley's summoning signal receiving devices were also modified.
This device is not big. Helen specially designed it in the shape of a suitcase to make it easier to carry. Harley crossed her arms and looked at the suitcase placed on the table. After thinking for a while, she said, "Then what are we going to do?"
Is it useful to test this thing?"
"Of course, find a universe, open it, and see if you can receive the signal, and see if the signal can be transmitted perfectly after receiving it."
Suddenly, the Galactus engine trembled, and both Harley and Helen were knocked against the experimental table. Helen stood up again and rubbed her forehead, and then said: "It seems that the time jump function of the Galactus engine has been activated.
, which means we have arrived in a new universe."
Harley raised her head and glanced out the window. After seeing the unfamiliar starry sky, she nodded and said, "It looks like a new place, but it's no different from other universes. Do you want to try it?"
"Isn't this a bit dangerous?" Barry scratched his head and said, "Although I also feel a little bored here, but if you respond to the summoning array and teleport to a strange place, what if the people on the other side have bad intentions?"
"You're stupid. The mages who put so much effort into making the summoning array must be in trouble and need help. They are asking for help from us. Besides, weren't you practicing running before? If you really can't defeat it, just take us with you.
Just run."
"But I'm not very skilled yet." Barry said with some embarrassment, "And I don't know if this ability can be used in a strange universe."
"It doesn't matter, don't you still have me?" Helen patted her chest and said, "I'm stronger now. Even if I can't defeat you, I can still protect you."
Barry nodded reluctantly, and Harley immediately rubbed her hands, opened the suitcase, and pressed a button on it.
There was a steady sound of "didi beep" coming from the box. Judging from the open screen on the upper part of the box, the instrument was retrieving signals.
Suddenly, the instrument made a sharp chirp, and a crest suddenly appeared in the straight line image on the screen. Helen immediately moved forward, widened her eyes and said: "Oh my God, someone sent a very strong summoning signal, and the energy level
Very high, in this universe, I think we can try to respond!"
"Then what are you waiting for?" Harley jumped twice excitedly and said, "Hurry up, I can't wait to be a summoned beast!"
Helen stood in front of the instrument and operated it for a few times, then took a deep breath and said: "The opposite side seems to be summoning the evil god. Something has already responded to the summons. No, I have to seize the position...wait a moment."
Helen clicked in front of the instrument, and then a magic projection suddenly popped up on the box. Helen closed her eyes and adjusted her brain waves, then stretched out a hand and placed it on the magic light group.
After the light floated for a while, it suddenly became extremely bright. Helen grabbed the handle of the box, pulled the other two people with her, and shouted: "It's successful, hold on to me, let's teleport!"
"Whoa!"
"boom!"
The moment the door was pushed open, everyone only saw the disappearing figures of the three children, and Stark slapped them on the forehead.
The transfer process was a little rough. Helen, Harley and Barry seemed to have been put in a washing machine and spun dry. After falling from mid-air to the ground with a snap, they almost fainted.
Helen, who was in the best physical condition, got up from the ground unsteadily, held her throat and retched twice, opened her eyes in confusion, and looked at the dark room.
Harley lay on the ground and kept retching. Fortunately, she hadn't eaten anything and couldn't even vomit out the acidic water. Barry coughed hard and stood upright dizzy.
After looking at each other for two seconds with a figure sitting opposite, both sides shouted at the same time.
Kneeling on the futon opposite was a pale figure. When the initial dizziness disappeared, Helen discovered that it was Stephen Strange.
Strange's expression was tired and confused, as well as lingering confusion. He glanced at Helen's face, and then at the reactor on Helen's chest, and his confusion became even more serious.
Helen looked around and found that this place did not look like the Zen room of Supreme Master Karma Taj, but she still made a disciple salute to Strange and said: "Sorry, Supreme Master, we are another one."
The tourists from the parallel universe originally just wanted to test our newly invented machine, and did not mean to disturb your summons, but are you okay?"
Helen asked this question because Strange's condition looked so bad at the moment. He was thin and pale, his eyeballs were deeply sunken in his eye sockets, his eyes were extremely dark circles, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and his beard was unkempt.
When Helen was studying at Karma Taj Magic Academy, she knew how much Strange paid attention to his appearance. He had mysophobia and paid special attention to his own image. Helen sometimes even suspected that he didn't even know how many stubbles he had on his face.
The number is clear, because no one has ever seen the Supreme Master trim his beard.
Helen's concern was very pure, and there was only a hint of curiosity in her clear eyes.
Looking at the three young faces in front of him and feeling the human vitality coming from them, Strange's hand hidden behind his back shook slightly.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes in pain, but the magic light that had burst out from between his mouth and nose eventually dissipated.