Chapter 311

Murphy smiled, "If a person cannot believe in himself, how can he let others believe in him."

After speaking, he looked at the Empress, "Speaking of which, is this the 'condition' you thought of? Just accompanying you for a walk here?"

"In fact, I would rather go to the UK. I have never been there. Since I was born, I have never left the land of the Soviet Union, and most of the time I have had to stay in Arkaim. You said before that the scenery there is very good, and I still want to see it, but... unfortunately, it seems difficult for both you and me to have such leisure."

Sophia looked a bit worried.

She had grown up a bit since Murphy first saw her. Her face had shed some childishness and had a bit more softness, making her look even more beautiful.

However, along with that bit of greenness, some of the lightness and vitality belonging to a young girl also left. The Sophia in front of her seemed to be carrying many heavy burdens on her shoulders, and even her smile looked a bit tired.

This is perhaps the price of growth.

Murphy thought for a while, took a black feather from behind, and handed it to the Empress, "Speaking of which, I have never given you any gift. I will give this feather to you."

The Empress looked at him in surprise, "This is truly a gift lighter than a feather. When you proposed before, at least you gave me a piece of gold that claimed to have an extraordinary origin. Now are you even reluctant to give a piece of gold?"

Murphy was a bit embarrassed.

That so-called "extraordinary origin" was something he made up casually. He didn't expect her to remember it and still seem to be brooding over it.

"Ahem, this is not an ordinary feather. It can let you come to my side at any time." Murphy explained.

He can now easily teleport through crows, and others can also follow him through his crows. This feather is actually a lightning crow.

Sophia raised her head, her eyes blinking as she looked at him, "To your side at any time?"

"Uh..." Murphy suddenly realized that this sentence was a bit ambiguous, "I mean, if you want to go to the UK for a tour, you can go through it at any time, and I can welcome you at any time."

Sophia looked at him for a long time, until he began to suspect that the thing he gave was too casual, before the Empress nodded gently, "Thank you for your gift, Mr. Darkholm, I will cherish it."

"Hmm." Murphy breathed a sigh of relief, "Then okay, if there is nothing else, I will go first. There are still some things to deal with at the National Laboratory."

"Please go ahead."

Murphy disappeared with a flash of lightning.

Sophia stood in place for a while longer before taking out the feather. She stroked the short black feather and discovered for the first time that crow feathers were so beautiful.

Let the craftsmen make it into a brooch?

She thought.

This way she could carry it with her all the time.

……

The advantages of Murphy choosing the Soviet Union are now fully manifested.

After half a year of cleaning and rectification, the hindering factors have been cleared up. Compared to the UK, which is still left and right in the encirclement of the Western world, Murphy's actions in the Soviet Union are now much more comfortable.

Not only are various projects of the Umbrella Corporation all green lights, but Murphy's long-cherished National Laboratory plan has also begun to get on the right track, even larger in scale than he originally envisioned.

Under the powerful propaganda offensive, the Soviet Union unified its understanding of the necessity of the National Laboratory. Supported by the government, and with major companies like Umbrella paying money and technology, the "Soviet National High-Tech City" plan was officially approved.

The Soviet Union specially established a project engineering department for this purpose and demarcated an area of 30,000 hectares in the suburbs of Moscow, intending to build a technology city from scratch.

This is an upgraded version of Murphy's "National Laboratory Plan." In addition to the National Laboratory, the technology city has planned both ends of technology research and development: teaching and industry.

In terms of research talent, several top universities in the Soviet Union took the lead, and almost all key universities in the Soviet Union would set up campuses in the technology city, combined with enterprise industrial parks supported by technology companies like Umbrella, in the hope of forming an innovation consortium led by the state, united by universities, and integrating production and research.

Although the technology city also has various basic scientific research and cutting-edge technology projects, the most important part is centered on the thing "Void Particle."

The project engineering department selected hundreds of top scientists in various fields and showed them the existence of magic.

Almost all scientists couldn't wait to devote themselves to the research of this unprecedented thing.

Soon, even before the laboratory started construction, they produced the first batch of research results.

Among them, the most important result is named: "The Observer Effect of Magic."

The Observer Effect, in summary, refers to: Magic has a self-concealing effect; it will try its best not to be discovered by "people who do not know the true existence of magic."

The researchers designed an experiment, letting several researchers who had not yet come into contact with the secret of magic's existence perform precise measurements of the conductivity of a certain material in an environment of magic fluctuations.

Subsequently, they informed them of the fact of magic's existence and let them perform conductivity tests on this type of material again under the same conditions.

After comparing the two sets of experiments, the researchers found that in the case of not knowing the secret of magic's existence, the conductivity measurement data of the material was almost consistent with that in a non-magic environment, which is to say, the interference effect of magic on electricity was extremely weak.

And once they knew of the existence of magic, the measurement data became extremely unstable, the measurement error significantly exceeded the reasonable range, that is, the magic interference effect became significant.

The Observer Effect of magic explains why, in the eyes of most wizards, Muggles are stupidly turning a blind eye to the magic around them.

It also explains why, even though the magic interference effect is so obvious and common, it has never been discovered in the basic scientific research of Muggles.

You know, human scientists have done a lot of research and experiments to verify the consistency of physical laws. If magic only appeared, it would lead to the occurrence of some phenomena, then for so many years, it should have been discovered at the microscopic level long ago.

Haldane's initial explanation for this phenomenon was: Magic actually works through physical laws, that is, magic is built on top of physical reality.

From the perspective of basic physics, whether there is magic or not is consistent.

But now, the Observer Effect shows that, in addition to this, magic actually picks people.

It shows the weird characteristic of "knowing means existing, not knowing means not existing."

That is to say, even without magic like "Muggle-Repelling Charm," Muggles are naturally more difficult to perceive magic.

There is not yet a sufficiently authoritative theory to explain this phenomenon, but it has already been confirmed by multiple different experiments.

The existence of the Observer Effect also made Murphy begin to look at the "International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy" from a brand-new angle.

He has now begun to doubt the purpose of the Secrecy Act.

Is the Secrecy Act ultimately to hide the wizarding world and avoid conflicts caused by being discovered by Muggles, or is it simply to hide magic itself and reduce the scope of magic's effect?

If it is the latter, what is this ultimately for?

This question cannot be understood just by thinking about it.

Murphy intends to ask the "International Confederation of Wizards." They are the formulators of the Secrecy Act and may have more understanding of this.

It just so happens that they requested an inquiry into the British Ministry of Magic's implementation of the Secrecy Act and are preparing to send an investigation team over in the near future.

This is already the sixth time. The previous five times were declined by Crouch and the others for various reasons. This time, the Confederation's wording was extremely severe, looking like they would directly convict if refused again.

Murphy, based on the principle of dragging it out if possible, greeted Crouch.

"Let them come."

(End of chapter)