Chapter 631 Hand-cranked calculator and ether formula
Under the moonlight, the little angel in the fountain is spraying water like a shower. After more than a year of renovation, the originally dilapidated Mechanical Palace now looks much more lush.
The autumn wind blew the moonlight and rolled over everyone's shoulders. Several whistling thrushes were hiding in the branches and emitting sharp and long calls.
Surrounded by military police and maids, the few people who got to know each other slowly walked on the stone road.
To be honest, this was Meliaty's first time entering this mechanical palace.
She looked around curiously, marveling at the aqueducts and small water-driven devices. In particular, a small water-driven clock attracted her attention.
The precise gears meshed with each other, and the iron wires under the impact of water kept pulling and colliding with the steel nails on the fir scroll, making the clock make a crisp clanging sound like playing a piano.
However, after experiencing the novelty, Meliati returned her attention to Horn, Jeanne and Shilov who were leading the way.
At this time, Catherine deliberately fell a few steps behind and began to play with Meliati.
"I thought it was Old Al, but I didn't expect it to be a lycanthrope. This is the first time I've seen this lycanthrope as a scholar."
"Hmph."
"It seems that Jeanne has a very good relationship with this Shilov."
"Ah."
"Do you feel that the relationship between Mr. Shilov and Horn is too close?"
"Really?"
"...Are you listening to me?"
Meliaty raised her head and glanced at her, then suddenly slowed down her pace, lowered her head and lowered her voice: "Something's not right, she has no voice."
"Isn't it normal that you can't hear the voices of witches? Isn't it difficult for you to hear the voices of those old witches?" Catherine asked in confusion.
Meliati narrowed her eyes and shook her head: "You don't understand, it's not that I can't hear my heart, but that she doesn't have a voice."
Catherine was stunned and even stopped. She stood there for four or five seconds before quickly chasing after her: "No voice? Are you sure? Is she wearing some alchemy item?"
Catherine and Meliati studied under Juanno together, and both of them were witches, so they were quite familiar with each other.
She is equally familiar with Meliati's witch spells, and her thoughts are shared by every intelligent creature.
The voice of the heart is not a person's inner thoughts, but a voice similar to a closed mouth speaking in the head.
But no matter what, a person's voice may be empty, but it cannot be absent.
"Unless it's a consecrated level of magic, I can't think of any alchemical item that can block my mind reading." Meliaty frowned, "But judging from the alchemy of the Aether Spire, I'm not sure."< br>
"Should you tell Horn?"
"No, I'm suspected of provoking a relationship. Please wait a minute."
With doubts, a few people walked out of the neatly constructed green wall of shrubs. Through the newly built tree-lined avenue, they could see the tall spire in the center of the Mechanical Palace Square.
"Ah, you're just in time, it's about to start." Looking at the clock at the door, Shilov took the lead in stopping the wheelchair.
Apparently Shilov was not confident enough about Meliati and was not ready to let her enter her ether tower.
With enough people in hand, many processes would not need to be operated by Shilov. Besides, Horn was still here, and she didn't want to expose the fact that his head would be sucked away by the astral realm.
Meliyati didn't have any objections. After all, it was the first time they met. If it were her, she would not allow others to enter such a key place.
Stepping on the yellow grass with leaf tips, Meliyati slowly walked to the Aether Tower and gently stroked the strange black material. The well-informed Catherine also looked up and down at the towering spire.
Judging from her knowledge and identity as a mixed-blood El, this minaret is most likely an early building from the ancient El Empire, and it is an important building.
On the contrary, the palace outside is not so much used to live in people as it is used to protect the spire.
"Actually, I have always wanted to know, since the Star Cast Gear is so useful, why not build more ether towers or hold more ether rituals?" Catherine walked to Shilov's side and asked, "Is this possible? Did you say that? ”
Holding a small bone comb, Shilov scratched the tip of his tail: "Of course, this question must be divided into two parts, because calculating the etheric ritual and calculating the weak points of the star realm are two sets of methods, but both require complicated astrological calculations.
It is not difficult to build a new etheric spire. What is difficult is to discover the weak points between the astral world and the real world and the time and location of the etheric circulation passing through the weak points.
This required a series of complicated astrological calculations, and from what I understand, it took decades to find the minaret and find the rules of the ritual. ”
"However, this ether spire and palace were built hundreds of thousands of years ago at the latest. Did the Aiel people at that time know about ether?"
"This minaret was inherited from my mother. It was there when I was born. Perhaps it was modified from the ancient Aier building." Shilov reached out and touched this minaret that she was extremely familiar with.
"What about ether? Isn't this a new alchemy in recent decades?" Catherine continued to ask.
"I don't know, but I have a vague guess that astral weaknesses have a clear mathematical signature in astrology.
Relying on the 'black box' instruments from the Ancient Ael period, they could occasionally calculate that this very distinctive place was regarded as the closest to the starry sky, so they probably built a high tower here.
In many ancient El books, this kind of place is called the ‘place where the stars return’. ”
Jeanne frowned and looked at Horn, who looked bored next to her. She seemed to have heard this sentence somewhere.
"If the ancient Ael could figure out the location easily, why not now?"
"Because the Ancient Ael people only calculated the two-dimensional plane, not the three-dimensional plane." Shilov raised his head and looked at the dark clouds and bright moon above his head. "Some of the places where the stars return are hundreds of meters high, and there is no way to guide them." Not enough.”
Listening to the conversation between Shilov and Catherine, Horn also sighed.
He knew much more than Catherine and the others. According to the records in the Jade Notes, since there was no universal formula, only black box instruments that were summarized, one could only try one by one calculations to try one's luck.
Even this etheric tower was found only after decades of luck.
And the influencing factors are not only location, the ether circulation also has different properties. For example, the ether circulation on Qiumu Island is quite mild.
Although there is no record of the ether circulation in other places in "Jade Notes", since the ether circulation on Qiumu Island can be judged, it means that there must be more than one place.
For these tedious calculations, Horn had a new idea, which was a hand-cranked calculator.
To put it bluntly, the drum is equipped with gears. When the number on one position is carried, the next gear is triggered, and then the up and down rotation of the handle is used to perform calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
This kind of hand-cranked calculator was once popular in the scientific community in the 19th century. The verification of Laplace's "Celestial Mechanics" was calculated by countless astronomers using hand-cranked calculators.
Logically speaking, with the current precision of star casting gear lathes, there is no big casting problem. The problem is that Horn only knows the shape and principle, but does not know the structure and design.
Thinking in his mind, Horn raised his head, looked at the white light emitting from the top of the tower, and couldn't help but sigh.
Shilov had too many things to do. She had even roughly figured out the ideas, but she just didn't have time to complete them.
The watchmakers on Qiumu Island simply couldn't keep up with Shilov's ideas, and it was difficult to independently complete the too advanced design of the hand-cranked calculator.
Alas, where could he find such a mechanical genius?
(End of chapter)