Maria Bell's room on the highest floor of the IBC building. Although Ling came to visit unexpectedly, Maria Bell still made her some black tea.
"...a memory that suddenly appeared in my mind?"
Maria Bell pondered for a moment about Ling coming here to ask her something.
"That's not true. If even Ling feels it, it seems I'm not the only one."
"Isn't there any actual evidence?"
"There is no physical proof. But it is not without influence..."
Putting down the tea cup, Maria Bell took Ling to the studio on the third basement floor of IBC.
After taking down a thick stack of bound construction drawings from the display shelf, he spread them out on the table.
"This is...the design of "Orchid Tower"?"
"Yes. The part that makes me confused is here. Although I wrote the content myself, the strange thing is that the construction of some theoretical foundations is not my style. A certain idea suddenly appeared in my mind,
Then I recorded it, which is usually called inspiration. Originally, I didn’t think about it, but since the phenomenon of causal obstruction has appeared in that child, I can’t be too careful.”
Maria Bell summoned the magic tool and completed the one-time magic circle in just a few minutes. As the runes flowed through the runes, the lines and characters merged bit by bit into the white quartz placed at the nine o'clock position of the magic circle.
Crystallizing.
Ling was also watching while Maria Bell was drawing the magic circle. Although she could not use magic power, her alchemy skills were not bad at all. However, the spell in front of her still surprised her.
"What are the functions of these symbols...signal recognition and analog-to-digital conversion? This is probably a topic that the information processing department at Lehmann's Epstein Foundation headquarters is still studying."
"As expected of Ling, I can understand it in no time. However, there are many difficulties that have not yet been overcome when it comes to 'data reading' purely relying on force engineering. I used magic to strengthen the shortcomings, but in the end it is just a trick.
How to use it. That’s what the so-called magic engineering is all about.”
"It has opened my eyes. My application development capabilities are indeed incomparable to yours."
Whether it is Tio or Maria Bell, they can always think of some clever ways to turn theories into products. This kind of "inventor" talent is exactly what Ling lacks.
"You've already built that kind of machine... It's not convincing at all from someone who can turn graphite into diamond."
Maria Bell didn't believe Ling's statement at all, and only regarded it as her humble words. But in fact, Ling just copied the practices on Earth and improved them into Samlian at best.
She had no intention of treating herself as the original inventor of the polycrystalline wheel that could also be realized in mainland China.
The magic circle version of the scanner, based on the paper version of the design drawing, is making a copy of the data version. When the magic circle started to slowly generate data crystals, Maria Bell opened the guidance communication and contacted the first floor of IBC
The front desk and the terminal room located on the fifth basement floor of the IBC.
"I am Acting President Maria Bell. Next, I need to apply for computing power in the terminal room. How much redundant computing power is currently available?"
"Excluding the part currently used for digital transactions and counting all the spare parts, there is still 77% available. How much do you need, Miss?"
"Transfer 75% of the computing power to my workshop."
"OK, just a second."
As a basic benefit for IBC residents, each company that stays has a certain amount of computing power. You can apply for the use of the computing power of the supercomputer in the terminal room for free. You only need to physically connect your personal power terminal to the terminal room and submit
You can handle your own projects by calculating the request. However, this high-end usage is too avant-garde. In fact, except for the engineers working in the terminal room and enterprises such as Epstein Branch, Leinfort Branch, and Urnu Branch,
Most people don't know what this is for.
After waiting for a few minutes, the computing power approval came down.
After Maria Bell stuffed the data crystal into the guidance terminal, she entered certain parameters and used a word processing program she wrote to calculate it.
After the equipment was connected, in the blink of an eye, massive data appeared on the monitor screen, scrolling crazily. In the corner of the screen, a virtual scale representing the degree of computing power usage began to climb, reaching a peak in an instant.
The data that kept refreshing like a waterfall made Ling doubt whether Maria Bell could really see the content clearly.
"Of course it can't be seen clearly, but as long as there is no alarm, the operation is started according to the predetermined program. I am just confirming this."
As if she guessed what she was thinking, Maria Bell answered matter-of-factly.
Ling was quietly waiting for the calculation results. After about thirteen minutes, the calculation was completed, and the digital copy was reprinted into a paper version after adding notes.
Opening version 2.0 of the "Orchid Tower" design drawing, Ling found that the original pure black lines were marked with different inks into three distinct colors.
"It seems that my guess has been verified. This part is consistent with my grammar, but the other two colored parts belong to two different people. The design of the Orchid Tower was not by me alone, but by three people
A masterpiece done together.”
"This is……"
Looking at the guidance and spiritual power transformation room mentioned in the design drawing, Ling felt inexplicably familiar.
"As the new third doctor, we are called dr.m, dr.r, dr.k."
Mariabel bit her fingers and began to struggle.
"what are you saying?"
"It's a scene that appeared in my dreams before. I can't remember the specific details, but I can remember some fragments. Whether it's the third doctor or the fourth general."
"Is this a precognitive dream?"
"No...I don't believe that."
"Bell, you are obviously a magician but you don't believe in precognition?"
"Yes. In my opinion, there is no determined future at all. Even some pictures that look like the future may be the 'past'...ah!"
"What?"
"It's what is often said in fantasy stories, 'going back to the past'. I'm making a hypothesis, if the protagonist
What happened in 2010? But to his soul, the twenty years later that he himself experienced was actually the 'past' rather than the future. This is what I'm talking about. The memory that I clearly exist but can't recall.
.Now, speaking of which, I just remembered something. Ling, have you ever heard of the term Annihilation Angel?"
When Maria Bell said that word in a puzzled tone, Ling was shocked and speechless.
"……source……"
"The Alchemist of the Root, I thought it was a bit strange at first. Are those people in the dream really calling me?"
"...Hmm...how did you know...did you remember it?"
"No, it's still far from what I remembered. Now I can be sure that the veil or shackles are not only on your body, but also on mine. The two of us must have forgotten something important when we came back."
Maria Bell took a long breath.
"'Go back in time', are you so sure?"
"I'm not sure, I'm probably only 30 to 40 percent sure. I just plan to think in this direction before finding a better explanation. Going back to the example I gave you just now, if I go back to 20 years ago
The protagonist
If we have gone back in time, then maybe all humans in the world have experienced it, and everyone just can't remember it. Ah, I'm a little confused when I say that."
Maria Bell rubbed her temples, thinking about these problems made her a little dizzy.
"It doesn't matter, I understand what you mean."
In fact, Ling has experience. Although she regarded those as precognitive dreams when she first woke up six years ago, maybe they were not dreams at all.
"It seems that we can only know the truth after the child wakes up, right? The worst case scenario is that even the child doesn't know anything. Then the problem will be unsolved."
"That child. I see, if Dr. M is you and Dr. R is me, then Dr. K is that child. Wait a minute, if we all 'go back to the past', even more than once
By the time, even that kid had a PhD, so how old are we actually?"
"Huh?"
Maria Bell looked at Ling with an expression like "What are you talking about?"
"Ahem. Pretend I didn't say it. Back to the discussion just now. Regarding 'turning back time', if Project Bi-Ling succeeds, can it really do that kind of thing?"
Ling immediately changed the topic and talked about the greatest possibility.
"have no idea."
Maria Bell frowned, but still answered.
"Don't you even know?"
"Well, the millennium long-cherished wish of our Kurois family is just the reappearance of the power of the illusory treasure. Even if we are lucky enough to gain the power to control the power of space and time during the upgrade process, it is still an accessory. To what extent can I achieve it?
I have no idea at all. And in my opinion, even if it is the real treasure of time in the hands of Qiyao Church, its scope of power is to accelerate time, slow down time, and freeze time. It is impossible to achieve this with the treasure alone.
Isn’t it an exaggeration to say that the whole world can turn back time? Of course, the possibility is not impossible, but I have no clue at all.”
"So I can only answer that I don't know..."
"However... the origin of the design drawing of "Orchid Tower" is weird. Although I used to think that I was able to design it after getting 'inspiration', but now it seems that is not the case. Maybe it is a time capsule."
"Just knowing this helps a lot. At least I'm not as confused as before."
Ling thanked Maria Bell and planned to return to Rozenberk's workshop.
"I see, is this the eternal reincarnation..."
"Why?"
Just as Ling was about to turn around, she heard another word from her blond double-helix friend that made her extremely concerned.
"What's wrong?"
"You just said..."
"Ah, what did I just say?"
Seeing the confused look on Maria Bell's face, Ling knew that she was not pretending. She was talking to herself unconsciously and sometimes uttered words that she could not understand.
"If Bell discovers anything new, remember to contact me."
"Yeah, no problem."
After saying goodbye to Maria Bell and leaving ibc, Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Although the alliance leader and Ken Parella probably knew the inside story, Ling didn't intend to ask. What was in front of her was such a great puzzle, just like the Goldbach conjecture.
It's the same temptation for mathematicians. It's not her style to go straight to find the answer without trying to solve it.
"Orpheus's Final Plan" seemed to be much more complicated and interesting than she originally thought.