Outside the nightmare, Shi Sanxiang and Husky surrounded Annan.
Isaac was busy near the dashboard, checking something.
"...Strange, why can't I contact you?"
Shi Sanxiang murmured: "An Nan clearly reacted just now...it didn't seem like he couldn't hear it."
"He should have heard it, but he didn't hear it clearly."
Isaac took a deep breath, frowning as he kept moving his hands: "I probably understand. This is not Bernardino's nightmare... but a dream within a dream.
"Have you noticed? Annan's actions and mentality are missing part of the logic - he lacks 'restraint' and 'vigilance', and now he seems to be in a dream.
"In other words... the content of this nightmare is a replay of 'Bernardino's dream'."
"A dream within a dream?"
Hearing this, Husky suddenly became energetic: "We also played a copy of a dream within a dream!"
After they came to this world, the first large-scale nightmare they participated in was the "Nightmare: Gemini" they entered in the Cinder Barrens.
It is a nightmare that has been carefully compiled to achieve the effect of a "dream within a dream". Its purpose is to hide the true purification method of the nightmare, thereby achieving an infinite loop.
"A tragedy that repeats itself endlessly..."
Shi Sanxiang also murmured.
Isaac shook his head: "Although I don't know which one you are talking about, it should have nothing to do with that. Because this nightmare has not been programmed with content, it is in its original form... which means that its logic will
It’s simpler and more abstract.”
"Do we need to drag His Majesty Annan out first?"
Shisanxiang raised a more urgent inquiry: "He seems to be unable to hear our voices... This means that our ritual cannot reach him."
"It's not necessary."
Isaac shook his head: "What is currently malfunctioning is only the part that delivers information and treats Annan.
"Since Mr. Hugo's purification treatment of this nightmare is still effective. It is still not fatal, and there is no need to make such a drastic reaction for the time being... After all, being forcibly dragged out of a nightmare is not a good thing.
experience.
"It's like the feeling of drowning in a dream and then waking up."
He said casually, as if he had finally found something.
At about the height of his calf, you can vaguely see a thin line sunken down. It's like a patch, affixed to this place... However, you can't see the slot to remove it at all.
I saw Isaac reaching out and touching it lightly, performing some kind of reverse transformation.
The edge that originally sealed the "metal patch" immediately melted and turned into some kind of colloid. A small piece of the shell automatically popped out.
Isaac stretched out his hand and pulled it off.
From this square gap, which is only about the size of an adult's palm, one can vaguely see the densely packed ritual wires inside. They are like integrated circuits on a chip, and they are vaguely shining with light.
"It should be here..."
Isaac murmured lowly and pulled out several boards with many lines connected to them.
It was about the size of a tablet computer and not very thick. But Shisanxiang glanced at it from behind and could probably guess what it was for.
There are at least sixteen interfaces and eight different sets of marks on it. By pressing and lifting different keys, different combinations can be created, which can push the internal mechanical parts to change to different gears through pure mechanical effects.
, into different types of shapes.
When such "transformable bricks" are stacked up to form a plane, it becomes a programmable ritual that can dynamically respond to changes.
"……What's this?"
Shi Sanxiang asked with some novelty.
When he looked at it, it looked like a chip magnified many times.
Then Isaac’s current actions can be said to be a kind of photolithography machine behavior...
"This is a movable self-executing ritual logic circuit board, commonly known as the 16-8 base board. Because it has sixteen interfaces and eight movable switches. It can be connected to 12-series, 16-series, and 20-series boards."
Isaac was thinking, adjusting the logic on the board, and explaining at the same time: "Sooner or later you have to learn this."
"Can it perform rituals automatically?"
"There are many rituals that can be performed automatically... The key to it is that it is movable. So it cannot be too small. You can understand it as the button I press makes the eight lines that cross it on all sides move according to the
Different ways to combine links.
"When it is reconnected to the collective, the logical expression will be different. From this, some simple rituals can be constructed...such as 'adding a 'bloody' quality to the horns placed here, or'
Its location is considered to be somewhere'."
Isaac was multitasking, sitting on the ground and starting live programming, and at the same time he began to explain to Shisanxiang what it was.
But in fact Shisanxiang understood this thing faster than he imagined.
——To put it simply, it is movable type printing.
Because if the ritual requires rough modifications, continuing would mean redoing it. Positions that are not so critical and may change at any time due to different needs can be replaced with this kind of board.
The ritual itself can be understood as a specific effect that can be directly achieved by using certain characteristic curse materials on a specific rune or magic circle in a specific procedure.
This process does not necessarily require human involvement.
But it has another constraint, which is that it must be executed manually.
If you want to use one ritual to interfere with another ritual, it is very difficult to do so. Because the attributes and concepts of the ritual itself will also affect the specific effects of other rituals.
Just like a certain solvent dissolved in alcohol, when you want to react with another solution, you must also consider the possibility of alcohol reacting with this solution.
And ritual is not just a single thing like "alcohol".
Each ritual has very complex attributes... For example, the first ritual [Tongue in the Mirror] that Annan saw in the second week has the characteristics of "knowing the crime in advance as a curse material, but also for
In addition to "the soul of a silent person", there are also characteristics such as "mirror", "lock and key", "protector", "reflection", "home", "circulation" and so on.
It can participate in another ritual as a "lock and key" element, but its "mirror", "reflection" and other characteristics may destroy that ritual and deflect it in another direction.
And if this ritual does not lead to any results, then it will not just report an error when compiling - it will explode directly.
But if between the two rituals, an additional link... is added as a conceptual filter, the situation will be different.
Add a sub-ritual to the ritual. When different effects occur, you can press different "buttons". Then let these buttons change the basis of another ritual through purely mechanical means.
Its real meaning is to bypass the constraint that "a ritual cannot be nested within another ritual".
This kind of technology requires a long period of study, thinking and practice to master... You can tell at a glance that it is definitely not the style of Zedi Black Tower.
"Is this what the wizards of the Jade Tower need to learn?"
Shisanxiang asked subconsciously.
Isaac's voice suddenly rose an octave: "This is a compulsory course! It must be tested every year!
"Just because you don't take the exam doesn't mean you don't have to study - if you don't know how to use the substrate, what should you do if the ritual in your base is broken? Send a message to the teacher. Oh, teacher, my ritual is broken. Can you come over and adjust it?"
He soon realized that this was not his student.
So Isaac sighed and added: "When I get back, I will get you some books, as well as my research notes from my apprenticeship, and give you a copy."
"Yes."*2
Shisanxiang and Husky immediately responded in unison.
"You have to learn this."
Isaac said earnestly: "It's really useful. If you don't know how to do this, if you put one of the materials in the wrong position for a large ceremony, it will take you who knows how many days to adjust. With this, you only need to change the parameters.
I can’t press the switch a few times.”
"Yes..."*2
Husky glared at Shisanxiang complainingly.
After he reminded me like this, I had more books to read and more homework to do.
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