Chapter 752 Nerve Thorns

As a military person who doesn’t know much about cutting-edge magic technology and doesn’t plan to become a researcher, Byron has only walked into the Magic Technology Research Institute a handful of times - the last time he came to this place was also for The pea thing.

Wandou is a mute girl, which means deep regret and regret to Byron, who has been her adoptive father for several years.

The poor child was once a mute slave of a big businessman. His tongue was cut out and he was unable to speak. Moreover, because the tongue had been cut off for too long, conventional druid spells could no longer do anything, even if it was blocked. The Cecil Empire became the Cecil Empire. Even though Byron changed from a country knight to the leader of the empire's army, there was nothing he could do about it.

In the blink of an eye, the little mute had grown into a graceful girl, and an unexpected turning point also appeared at this time -

The child dug out from the Solin area The legacy of the death of all things gave Byron hope of curing the peas.

Those incredibly cutting-edge biochemical technologies can be used to create terrifying monsters, or they can be used to heal unfortunate mortals.

After obtaining the consent of Peas, Byron made his adopted daughter the first clinical tester of Pittman’s Druid Laboratory. The initial stage of the treatment went well, and the severed tongue regeneration only required It took less than half a day, but unexpected difficulties were encountered in getting Wandou to speak again.

Today, the middle-aged knight once again came to the Magic Technology Research Institute to seek new solutions.

Pitman, who was stooped and with white hair and beard, walked in front, leading Byron deeper into the Institute of Magical Technology.

After a period of development and improvement, this large facility built by Rebecca Cecil has now become the most advanced research facility in the empire, and it also has many new departments and departments. Department branch, in addition to the regular magic, mechanical, mathematics and physics research laboratories, in the past year, two research laboratories under the name of Rune Research Institute and a Drew under the name of Pittman were also established here. Yi Research Center——

Just as Gawain originally planned, the Institute of Magical Technology is no longer a simple research facility. It has become a "greenhouse" for cultivating new technologies, providing services for various industries. Such emerging technologies or potential teams provide services in terms of venues, equipment, personnel, etc.

After passing through a gate on the third floor, Byron and Pittman entered the area of ​​the Druid Research Center. The walls here were decorated with flowers, vines and leaves, and there was a magic device at the entrance. Then a holographic image was quietly projected, with a badge surrounded by flowers and vines floating on the image.

This emblem is the imperial druid mark.

There were many technicians wearing short robes with green stripes on a white background walking in the corridor. They all saluted Pittman respectfully - although they had seen this scene when they came here last time. Byron couldn't help but glance at the little old man next to him: "To be honest, I'm quite surprised to see that a shameless guy like you is respected by so many scholars.. "

"You are the only one who talks a lot of nonsense," Pittman glanced sideways at Byron, "I saw the soldiers on the road saluting you. What did I say? "

Byron curled his lips and said nothing. He just followed Pittman through the corridor and came to a laboratory that seemed to have high standards.

"Put on your coat. Go in and stand on that platform." Pitman stood at the gate in front of the entrance of the laboratory and pointed to a small round platform inside the gate. "Wait for me after you go in. "

"What is this? Byron was stunned for a moment, "Why didn't this step happen in the last lab?" "

Pittman stared; "Nonsense, this time the laboratory's biochemical isolation level is level III, and the last time was only level II - just understand that the things here are more valuable than elsewhere. ”

Byron said oh. Although he is usually careless, he also knows the importance of rigor and order in research facilities, so he won’t say more.

In Pittman’s Under the guidance, he completed the steps of dressing and disinfecting unskilledly, then walked through the gate and entered this seemingly special laboratory.

The first thing that caught his eye after entering was. A rather spacious room, with several large experimental tables neatly arranged on both sides of the room, and a large number of technicians wearing short robes were busy between the experimental tables - all of them had flower vines on their robes Surrounded by Druid emblems, but in fact Byron knew very well that according to the old rules, only a small part of them were real "Druids", and the rest were at best "apprentices" in the extraordinary field. , even ordinary people who do not have extraordinary skills at all.

But after the development of magic technology, and after many druid spells were also classified into the system of runic logic, within the empire. The definition of "Druid" is no longer so rigid.

Byron glanced across the room and suddenly noticed a striking and special figure here.

It was full of mystery. The brilliance of magic shines, and Master Kamel is wearing a rune armor plate.

He turned his head slightly and asked Pitman who had just entered the laboratory: "Why is Master Kamel here? "

"He is involved in this project," Pitman said casually, stepping forward, "Just follow and take a look, and don't touch anything here. "

Byron shrugged and followed indifferently.

Pitman looked old, but his steps were fast. He soon came to Kamel and asked: " Is the morning test over? How is the situation? "

"The neural response efficiency has exceeded 70%, and it should still need a lot of adjustments," Kamel said while pointing to the nearest experimental bench. "Take a look, it's Is there anything wrong with artificial neuron states? "

Pitman turned and walked towards the experimental table, while Byron stretched his neck and glanced curiously in that direction.

He saw a strange-looking thing lying quietly. On a sloping countertop, bright lights illuminateThat thing has every detail.

It is a "ribbon" made of metal parts, less than one meter long. One end of it has a palm-sized diamond-shaped structure made of several metal plates, and the other end is It branches out some thin, dark red ends, and its belt-like main body shows a ring-like structure, with fine metal protrusions. This weird structure...

Byron Ninja I can't help but think of the human spine, or something that can stick to the spine.

He got closer and saw that there was still a faint red surge between the metal links. After looking carefully, he recognized that it was a fibrous substance that looked like some kind of flesh and blood tissue.

Those "flesh and blood" just grew between the metals, maintaining their own activity in some incomprehensible way.

"What is this?" Byron blinked and asked curiously, "Why does it look a bit like the artificial nerve cord in the immersion chamber?"

" This is an artificial nerve cord, but it is not used on the immersion chamber." Pittman was carefully observing the nerve terminals extending from the end of the "metal spine" and responded without raising his head, "It can be regarded as a branch application of the artificial nerve cord. ...I temporarily named it 'nerve thorn'."

Byron continued to ask: "What is it used for?"

"Essentially, it is still a nerve connection. The device is used to connect the human brain with external magical equipment, but in addition to the most basic connection function..." Pitman finally raised his head and pointed at the dark red fiber structure at the end of the artificial nerve cord. "It can also be used to break the boundary between ordinary people and extraordinary people, truly break it."

Byron frowned slightly, with a serious expression: "...can you speak common language?"

Pittman couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "Read a book occasionally, otherwise you won't even be able to understand Wandou's textbooks when she enters Imperial College."

Another Kamel on one side floated over, and after greeting Byron, he said with a buzzing vibrato: "His Majesty once pointed out that the current magic technology has shortcomings, that is, all extraordinary powers are achieved through machinery. People control the rune triggers to achieve the preset spell effects in the machine. This method of implementation has natural limitations.

"Magic machines can only be used to perform tasks that do not require 'mental power'. Simple spells that maintain guidance, such as fireballs, ice cones, arcane missiles, etc. Once a spell requires the mental guidance of the caster, such as illusions, dream spells, or larger-scale ritual spells, then the magic machine is powerless. . "

Byron laughed, nodded and said: "I understand this. ”

Extraordinary people all have this common sense. Spells can be divided into two categories in terms of control methods. One is the “formation and realization category”. After completing the construction of the spell model, you only need to activate it. The complete spell The effect can be released, such as fireball, ice arrow, etc., and the other type is "mental power guidance type".Spells are usually continuous and require continuous mental control by the caster during the release process. Once interrupted, the spell will dissipate immediately.

Obviously, the current magic machine can only realize the former kind of spell, and the latter... due to the limitations of the maintenance method, it is destined to be unable to get rid of the "controller" of the transcendent.

This is obviously inconsistent with the concept of magic technology "returning the extraordinary to mortals", and it actually limits the development of magic technology.

In fact, in the current technology development process, this limitation has already begun to appear - the virtual interface that the immersion cabin needs to present after connecting to the human brain, part of the parameters of the Magic Network broadcast system" "Writing", these processes cannot be controlled by simple rune triggers and require the participation of the operator's mental power. Currently, they still completely rely on real mages to operate.

This is also one of the reasons why the production of immersion chambers has been unable to increase - each immersion chamber requires a long time to be debugged by a formal mage. How many mages are there in the research institute to do this kind of thing?

Byron vaguely guessed the function of this so-called "nerve thorn": "So...this thing allows ordinary people to use their mental power to control those guidance spells?"

Let ordinary people feel the magic! !

Byron's eyes widened. It took him a few seconds to realize what the strange thing in front of him meant.

The dividing line of magic talent is the ability to sense magic. The first threshold for ordinary people to enter the extraordinary realm is also the ability to sense magic.

Only by sensing the existence of magic power, can it be possible to control it, use it, and achieve extraordinary things - but this special talent is only possessed by a very small number of talented people.

“We have been tinkering with this thing for a whole year, and we have always been stuck on the problem of ‘artificial neurons cannot survive in small devices for a long time’. Until recently, the technology of the All-Death Society helped us make up for it. "This link," Kamel said hummingly, "we succeeded in creating a neural thorn that can work for a long time-although it is still a long way from being perfected."

Pitman also said. He straightened his waist slightly, with a proud expression on his face: "As long as this thing succeeds, it will be truly 'everyone is extraordinary'."

Byron couldn't help but be infected by the atmosphere of the scene. , a little excited, but soon he remembered the purpose of his visit today: "...but what does this have to do with peas?"

Pittman looked at him: "As a superficial person An early technological product, Neural Thorn is still far from achieving the goal of 'everyone is extraordinary', but before that, it may be used to achieve something simpler than casting spells - this thing can be directly connected to the human brain. If given It is connected to a "gadget" that makes a sound. Perhaps, it can 'speak' for the pea."

Byron was silent for a moment and only asked: "Are there risks?"

"Yes, there are risks in any experiment. The main risk is brain damage," Kamel said very Said directly, "We will set up enough safety locks and release spells to protect the mind and brain for peas in advance, which can minimize the risk."

"...I want to go back and solicit peas My own opinion."

"Of course, that's as it should be."

(Oh my god!!!)