Chapter 499 God’s Rules

After returning to Cecil City, Gawain immediately found Kamel who was tinkering with a small arcane focuser in the Institute of Magical Technology, and he also found Nicholas Egg who was studying gearboxes in the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. , three people (strictly speaking, a satellite spirit, an LED spirit, and an iron planet man) gathered in the cutting-edge laboratory built by Rebecca to study the crystal that remained after Fran Béran's death.

The crystal is still glowing slightly. Even though it has been left for several days, it still emits a slight amount of heat. When you put the crystal to your ear, you can still hear it faintly. Some vague sounds seemed to be some kind of resonance, or they seemed to be murmurs full of pain.

Kamael raised the crystal into the air with his plastic hand, carefully observed its shape under the light, and from time to time used a small beam of arcane fire to stimulate the surface of the crystal and sense its transmission. The energy reading comes out.

Gawain paid attention to Kamel's work and asked curiously: "How is it? Can you see any clues?"

"The shape is indeed very close to the early gods. The crystal growth on the product of evil failure...the energy response is slightly different, perhaps due to the interference of the power of the holy light..." Kamel placed the crystal on the experimental table in front of him and began to detect its subtleties with a crystal resonator. Structure, "In short, I have to observe more carefully before I can draw a conclusion - the collection process is too rough, and the internal magic balance has been seriously damaged."

Gowen was a little embarrassed: "This collection process... Maybe it's a bit rough."

Kamail asked casually: "How did you collect it?"

"It was blown up by a howitzer..." Gawain coughed dryly." Ahem, strictly speaking, this is all that's left after the explosion..."

Camel's movements suddenly froze in mid-air, and the Nicholas Egg floating aside exclaimed: "Oh my god - —"

"The situation is special. It is a battle. The enemy will not stay where he is and wait for others to dig crystals from him." Gawain waved his hand and looked at the Iron Ball star, "You were also there back then. Having come into contact with the gods, do you think this crystal is the same as the ones on those experimental subjects back then?”

“I was mainly involved in research back then and didn’t have much contact with the details of the project,” Nicholas Dan shook his body. , said in a rather serious tone, but then he added, "But if you don't mind losing part of the sample... I can conduct a destructive analysis on it."

Gao Wen He looked at the crystal sample fixed in the center of the crystal resonator - it was slightly smaller than a palm, the edges were ragged, and it was cracked in some places: "How many samples do you need?"

"One small Just make it as big as a fingernail."

Gawain looked at Kamel again: "Will cutting this sample affect its stability?"

"You all use howitzers. Why are you asking me this after it explodes?"

Gao Wen: "...Then just cut it into a piece.”

The texture of the crystal is not very hard. The assistant in the laboratory quickly completed the cutting, and then the small sample that was cut was sent to Nicholas Egg. Under Gawain’s curious eyes While watching, the iron star first carefully touched the sample with his chubby body, and then it was directly sucked onto him and quickly absorbed into his body.

Not to mention high. Even Kamel was shocked: "You... ate it? ! "

"Just analyzing the ingredients - of course it can be considered as eating," a buzzing sound came from Nicholas's egg. "When I was first studied, I tried to understand the environment I was in. I tried to contact the surroundings. Most of the substances I have encountered have also been tried by crystal fragments from the gods by chance. I can tell the slight differences in the subtle composition of these things..."

The Iron Ball Star took this Everything was taken for granted, and Gawain could only sigh in his heart - the world is so big that it is full of wonders. This was probably the most hard-core "try" he had ever seen in his two lifetimes combined...

And just when he began to worry about whether Nicholas Egg's habit of picking up and eating random things would spoil his stomach, the Iron Ball star finally spoke: "This thing... it seems to be the product of divine evil. At least the ingredients are exactly the same. ”

The remaining crystals of Fran Béran are indeed the evil growths - did Bishop Luan really activate the evil genetic factors in his body?

Although he had some inference in his mind, Gawain couldn't help but be a little surprised after the evidence was confirmed, but he quickly controlled his surprise and looked at Kamel: "The stable genetic factor was used Is it possible for a descendant of Gondor to become an out-of-control abomination under the right conditions? "

Although Kamel had no expression, his whole body was already yellow, and his tone became extremely serious: "Theoretically impossible! Although we did fuse the divine cells of the giant deer Amorn with human cells by rewriting genetic factors, the loss of control of divine evil is not entirely due to a problem with the genetic factors, but because of the precipitation of divinity. And out of control - those crystals grown from flesh and blood are actually generated after the 'divine' power that cannot be controlled by humans is separated, and this part of the divinity is because our technical level was not enough at the beginning and we could not combine the genetic factors. Thoroughly filtering the divinities caused them to contaminate the experimental subjects. Later, we improved the filtration technology, completely removed the divinity power that humans could not control, and made a stable injection, which ensured that the inoculated person could survive stably. In other words, as long as they are descendants of humans who have survived, the genetic factors that their ancestors have been inoculated must be 'clean', and as long as there is no divinity lurking in their bodies, it is impossible for mortal bodies to produce any divinity on their own. Power..."

Camel's explanation was full of technical terms that were too difficult for people of this era, but Gawain easily understood what the other party meant - the reason why the gods are so evilThe reason why the physical body collapses and crystals grow is because there is uncontrollable divinity in the body. As long as the descendants of Gondor have not collapsed and survived, there must be no such "divine pollution" in the body, and with the physique of a mortal, It is impossible to produce this kind of divine contamination on its own - even if it is inoculated with the genetic factors of the giant deer Amorn.

So...why does Frank B. Braun appear in a "polluted" state? Who polluted him? In other words...where did the "divine nature" that polluted him come from? !

When he thought of the possibility behind this, Gawain's expression couldn't help but become serious.

“We have no way of knowing what exactly happened in the prayer room of Louanne Cathedral when the White Knights rushed into the church area, but one thing is without doubt: Fran Béran was there Over a period of time, he was contaminated by divine contamination from an unknown source. The divine evil factor in his body was activated, and he himself became a monster made of collapsed flesh and crystal." Kamel analyzed seriously, " Considering that he is a fanatical believer of the God of Holy Light, and considering what he might do in the prayer room, there may be only one answer..."

"The God of Holy Light casts a beam towards the south. "..." Gawain took over Kamel's words, "And this one directly twisted Fran Béran into a monster."

Nicholas Dan: "...Oh my god. "

However, despite such a shocking conjecture, Gawain was still full of puzzlement: "If it was really the God of Holy Light who briefly descended on Luan...how could he sit back and watch the cathedral being destroyed? Breaking through? How could the power it descended not be able to withstand a small group of white knights who had just completed their training? Even if Wright and Amber were present at the time...it was impossible for them to compete with God, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"The power of gods is far superior to that of mortals, but they rarely directly help or harm any mortal. Individuals, they will only strictly follow certain rules, and send down power through prayer rituals, blessings, and revelations, or send down very vague wills for mortals to figure out. When a mortal individual directly violates specific ritual rules, He will They will impose divine punishment, but on the other hand, believers or unbelievers who are hostile to gods will not be punished by gods even if they never live according to the teachings... This may indicate that it is extremely difficult for gods to directly interfere with our world. ——Even if they are as powerful as them, they must follow certain strict rules to act..."

Listening to Kamel's description, Gawain couldn't help but look thoughtful: "Listen, It looks like some kind of automatic answering logic machine..."

"To be honest, in the Spark Era, many scholars who studied theology also had this kind of speculation," Kamel's color gradually changed. Returned to the calm and wise QianBlue, he recalled while responding to Gawain's conjecture, "There are even a group of radical scholars who believe that the essence of gods is an automatic system of unknown origin. They operate automatically like answering machines and manage huge divine energy. , and will allocate energy according to the needs of mortals... just like the artificial intelligence array responsible for distributing magic power around the Deep Blue Reaction Tower."

Gowen did not expect that there would be a group of scholars in this world. Putting forward such a radical hypothesis, although considering the height of civilization of the Gondor Empire in the past, it is not unimaginable for scholars to conduct such extreme research, but he is still very curious about such a group of people who dare to study the nature of gods in a world where gods exist. What will be the outcome for those people - after all, according to Kamel's tone, those people do not seem to be members of the "Rebellion" project: "The ideas of these scholars are quite interesting - where did their research go?"< /p>

"The funds were not approved for the second year, so I switched to selling aquatic products..." Kamel sighed, "Originally, I thought they would be selected into the disobedience plan..."

Gawain: "???"

Fortunately, Kamel was not too immersed in memories. He quickly returned to the topic: "This kind of radical research is very important in today's era. It is unimaginable, but the people of Gondor in the Age of Spark were proud and fearless. Their over-developed magic technology and sufficient resources gave scholars the opportunity to do such deviant things - if it were not for this foundation, 'disobedience' It is impossible for the plan to be established, but it is precisely because of participating in the Disobedience Project that I can be sure that the gods are not as simple as the so-called 'automatic response mechanism'."

Gowen thought about it for a moment and knew it. What Kamel meant: "Is it because you saw the giant deer Amorn with your own eyes?"

"Yes, the giant deer Amorn, a real, flesh-and-blood god, although he has fallen , but based on the analysis of the remains, we believe that he is intelligent, that he can think and act independently, so we are more inclined to think that gods are highly intelligent and at the same time strictly follow certain 'rules' to act. Existence...perhaps it is their 'racial characteristic' to strictly follow the rules."

After Gao Wen listened to Kamel's story quietly, he took a deep breath and looked at the experimental table. On the piece of "Godly Crystal".

After a long time, he broke the silence: "In other words, according to the 'rules' strictly observed by the God of Holy Light, even civilians attacking the cathedral are not considered real 'blasphemy'?"

"That's all we can guess."

It doesn't look like there will be any more progress.

Although Gawain really wanted to understand the nature of the gods and their laws of action and restrictions, the fact was before him: he did not have enough ways to fully understand this aspect. secret.

The only thing that can be determined now is that the God of Holy Light may have "contacted" Fran Béran and the Cathedral of Luan at some moment.Church, but in the end He did not pay attention to what happened in this land.

"Research in this area can only be put aside for now," Gawain breathed out, "I will let Luan Cathedral carefully explore the clues and pay attention to the 'divine will'."