In Cecil, priests may not necessarily know the Holy Light, and nuns may not necessarily know how to heal. Rogues usually use two-handed swords and power sap. Even the most beautiful person from the elves may be bald in nature—— To sum up, it is normal for a "singer" not to be able to sing.
But Gawain stood there and thought for a long time, and still felt that there was something wrong with this matter...
But it is wrong, anyway, the style of things in this land is also different. There are few normal ones - he has seen all the cyberpunk dragon kingdoms. At this moment, Gawain's compatibility with the issue of painting style is unprecedentedly high.
It doesn’t matter whether the painting style is right or not, it just works.
He looked at the young tester in the center of the test site. The latter was currently connecting the rune boards and testing magic terminals with the help of several technicians. Another technician came to the nearby Next to a safe deposit box, a spine-like device that shimmered with silver-white metal was carefully taken out from the box - a neural thorn. < /p>
Wendy nodded and glanced at Gawain, who hummed: "Then let's start the test... Let me see your results so far."
"Start Connect the neural thorns," Wendy immediately turned to the assistants, "Prepare the neural signal amplifier and helmet!"
The technicians began to work, and Gawain saw the technician holding the neural thorns coming to the venue! In the center, the "artificial spine" that shone with silver-white metallic luster was carefully attached to the contact point on the back of the tester's neck. Another technician came over with a strange-looking helmet, which was made of several layers of metal sheets. It was stacked, and the most peculiar thing was that it even completely covered the eyes. Then others started to activate various testing equipment and safety devices around it.
They had obviously done this more than once, and within just a few minutes, they were ready for the test.
The technicians left the center of the field, leaving only the young tester standing there, with the nerve thorns on the back of his head hanging quietly behind his back, and the strange-shaped helmet covering him. His eyes and skull, and there was some kind of soft material on the back of the helmet that was closely connected to the connection end of the nerve thorns - he was waiting for further instructions, and during this period, Wendy explained to Gawain the functions of these equipment. : "We have specially designed a kind of neural thorn, which is more sensitive than conventional models, allowing psychic singers to keenly sense abnormal mental pollution, but it also causes a certain mental burden, so ordinary people need to be trained to bear it. The pressure brought by this extra sense...
"The psychic singer's suit has a series of resonance substrates, which can be used to release specific high-frequency or low-frequency magic vibrations under the control of neural thorns. , the effect of 'Song of the Deep Sea' will passspread out in this way. To enhance its effect even further, we also designed a set of three neural signal amplifiers - the amplifiers are not active yet, you will see them later.
"...The helmet is equipped with a large number of neural contacts, which are used to further enhance the connection efficiency between the psychic singer and the suit, and also have a certain protective effect..."
Gawain listened silently, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Why are there armor pieces on the helmet to cover the eyes?"
"...In order to prevent insanity," Wendy said seriously Said, "During the test, we found that the psychic singer's perception will not only be greatly enhanced, but also produce various 'supersensory phenomena' that are different from humans, which involves a very complex nerve-soul interaction process. Judging from the results, this kind of super-perception has mutated the vision of psychic singers. They will see many... things they shouldn't see, and these things are likely to bypass mental protection and penetrate their Sanity barrier.
“After all, although psychic singers are soldiers fighting against mental pollution, they are still mortals. Once their protection is broken down, they are not much stronger than ordinary people.
“So we designed this visual suppression device—those armor sheets not only physically block the user’s vision, but also temporarily block the brain’s response to the disease through the neural contacts built into the helmet. The processing of visual signals can prevent mental pollution caused by visual pollution to the greatest extent. This is much more effective than 'closing your eyes'."
Hetty on the side couldn't help but interjected: " Then their vision..."
"Don't worry," Wendy laughed, "Although the eyes are blocked, the psychic singer can actually 'see'."< /p>
As she spoke, she raised her hand and waved to the young man in the center of the testing field. The latter immediately raised his head and waved in response - as if his vision was not affected at all.
“Yes, I can ‘see’ it,” the young tester said with a smile. His nervousness seemed to have been completely relieved, “and it’s clearer than what I can see with my eyes.”
Gawain was suddenly curious: "What does the world look like in your eyes?"
"This... is difficult to describe. I can see everything in all directions at the same time, including my back and The ground beneath your feet," the young tester thought for a moment, then said seriously, "This is direct perception, and all information will be directly presented in the mind. However, almost all the things I see have no color, only various degrees of gray. , this will take some time to get used to."
"The only 'color' that the psychic singer can see in this situation is the 'color' of mental pollution," Wendy explained beside her. , "This is the conclusion reached by Naratir's help in conducting simulation tests - but the actual effect has to be tested in actual combat. After all, Naritil no longer has real 'pollution'. The power of the gods she simulated and How much difference there is between divinities in the real world is uncertain”
Gawain nodded understandingly, and then breathed out softly: "I understand, can we move on to the next step now?"
Wendy immediately raised her head and looked at the test in the center of the field. Member: "Mr. Akers, are you ready?"
The young man known as Akers raised his hand and made a ready gesture: "You can start at any time."
"Then activate your suit - start by activating the three neural signal amplifiers stored in the room," Wendy nodded and said, "Others are ready to start recording monitoring data and are ready to provide magic at any time Counter!"
After Wendy finished speaking, the tester in the center of the field had already started to move - he moved a certain joint on the magic terminal, and then a stream of water suddenly flowed on the surface of the suit. With a halo of magic power, and accompanied by a gradually increasing magic reaction, his whole body seemed to have lost the restraints of gravity and began to slowly float in the center of the field!
After floating for a few seconds, he waved his hand outside the field.
On a table in the corner of the laboratory, three diamond-shaped metal devices about the length of a forearm immediately flew up. They went straight past the staff on site and came behind the tester. Along with the movements of the tester's hands, these metal devices unfolded their respective mechanical structures, blooming like some kind of flowers with rigid lines, and fine golden sparks jumped and flickered between those "leaves", making crackling sounds. sound. Then they began to fly up and down around the tester, like some kind of flexible creature.
This scene made Gawain open his eyes in surprise, and then he immediately understood: this was the function of the nerve thorns.
This is exactly what he had envisioned a long time ago, the last step for ordinary people to break through extraordinary limitations, the last step for ordinary people to truly "release" spells - without the help of buttons and settings. The spell model is directly controlled by the user's thinking and spiritual power, allowing ordinary humans to truly perceive and control the final step of magic!
Now, this link has been realized.
"Very good, the tester's condition is stable, the output of each device is normal...the nerve thorn feedback signal is clear and stable, and the brain wave readings are normal..." Yuri, who was monitoring the data next to him, directly used his mental power to sense the scene. The magic power fluctuated while saying, "Now let us increase the load, Mr. Akers, please try to activate the psychic echo, and let us see the effect of the Song of the Deep Sea."
The tester point floating in mid-air He nodded, then raised his arm slightly and clenched his fist. A burst of low-frequency noise-like sound immediately came from the three neural signal amplifiers floating behind him, and this noise only lasted for a short period of time before it was too loud for the human ear to receive. frequency - it sounded like it had disappeared, but Gawain was certain that the "Song of the Deep Sea" had started running and was covering the entire room, because he keenly felt the magic ripples in the air, and a The slightly uplifting and sobering power is slowly seeping into everyone's heart.
"This looks good?" He couldn't help but said to Wendy next to him, "But I heard that there is a problem with the stability of the prototype soldier?"
"Yes, stability There is a problem, what you are seeing now is only the minimum load, which can barely resist unconscious and undirected mental pollution, but as the load increases, the prototype soldier will soon lose control of the neural thorns..."
< p>While speaking, the test project has progressed to the next stage. After collecting enough data, Yuri motioned to the testers on the field to increase the intensity of the psychic echo. Gawain clearly felt that a more powerful force appeared in the room. With the magic power, he even had the illusion that his skin was slightly itchy - but this only lasted for a few seconds.With a burst of high-frequency noise, the suit on the tester suddenly flickered, and the nerve thorns that had floated into the air with the person were instantly extinguished. The young man seemed to be trying hard to regain his control over the magic power. Control, but without the assistance of the neural thorns, he could only buffer in mid-air for a moment before falling back to the ground.
Fortunately, the height he floated was only a little, and the drop of more than ten centimeters did not cause any damage. He just staggered for a moment before standing still, and then took off his helmet in frustration.
"I lost control," he said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I tried my best to maintain energy balance, but it seems that part of the magic is beyond my perception..."
< p> "You have done a good job, Mr. Akers, this is a technical problem at this stage, which we need to solve next," Wendy sighed softly, "Go and rest first, the next test Until tomorrow.""Okay, Ms. Wendy."
Gawain watched all this and waited until the tester left before looking at Wendy with a slight frown. : "What is the reason?"
"Controlling magic power is easy for senior extraordinary people, but it is a completely different concept for ordinary people," Wendy sighed, "Even if the nerve thorns make They have the 'physical basis' to perceive and control magic, and their minds, their thinking habits, and their neurological reactions also require a long process of adaptation and adjustment to master this matter."
"... ...In other words, it is not enough for ordinary people to be able to perceive and control magic. Their nervous systems...can't understand this thing?"
Wendy nodded: "It's like giving it to someone suddenly. An extra set of limbs was installed, and this set of limbs was many times more complex than his original limbs - it would take a very long time for the nervous system to figure out how to control these extra 'organs', and the human mind itself would also It takes a long time to adapt. Of course, effective training methods may greatly shorten this adaptation process, but it will take time to summarize the training method itself. At least we don’t have a clue yet - I know how to educate extraordinary people, but no one does. Know how to teach an ordinary person who has never used magic to cast spells."
Hetty Weiwei.Frowning: "...I'm afraid we don't have that much time."
"...Are there any 'special talents' who can quickly adapt to the thorny nerves without training?" Gawain couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, senior supernatural beings, such as mages and knights, they can use the psychic singer's suit to release the 'Song of the Deep Sea' without any training," Wendy shrugged, " But this has lost its meaning. The original purpose of Neural Thorn was to allow ordinary people to master magic power, but now ordinary people are being shut out."
"Indeed, this is somewhat ironic..." Gao Wen reluctantly agreed with Wendy's statement, "But if there is really no other way, we can only let a group of mages receive temporary training to become psychic singers - we are in urgent need of these special soldiers."
< p>"I understand what you mean, I will formulate a plan," Wendy sighed, and then she seemed to think of something, "But...I suddenly thought of something."Gawain and Hetty said in unison: "What did you think of?"
"We don't know how to let ordinary people master magic skills quickly, but Typhon... they have already researched in the field of mass production of extraordinary beings. "For many years," Wendy said while thinking, "Of course, their mass-produced extraordinary people need to be selected from an early age and trained for a long time to take shape, but this is based on becoming a formal mage and possessing frontal combat effectiveness. Putting aside this point is not Talking about it, they have mature catalytic agent technology that can be used to reconstruct the human nervous system, special magic rituals that can enhance the magic perception of low-talented people, and mature rapid training methods and magic stimulation technology that can make first-time contacts People with magical powers quickly master skills...
"If we just want ordinary people to be 'familiar' with magic and let ordinary people's nervous systems be able to 'adapt' to magic, then these technologies may be useful to us will be useful. ”
Wendy’s words made Gawain and Hetty think deeply at the same time.