Chapter 1827

In the room next to the Star-Eater Engine hall, Helen was chattering to Harley and Barry about her experience in the zombie universe.

Barry was fascinated, but Harley felt a bit bored; because Helen's guardians were all there, they strictly followed the rule that minors were not allowed to drink alcohol, not only were they not allowed to drink, but they weren't allowed to appear in the same occasion as alcoholic beverages, so everyone else was having fun in the hall, and only the three children were driven to the room.

Harley held her orange juice, bored, until she heard Helen talk about ghost theory, and then she became interested; she thought for a while and said, "Since the physical rules of our two universes are so similar, then they might be common in this aspect; do you remember the summoning array principle the teacher taught us when we were taking classes at Kamar-Taj?"

Helen thought for a while and nodded, saying, "I understand the summoning array as a search engine; different types of runes can distinguish different screening entries; mages can arbitrarily choose screening conditions under the entries."

"After all conditions are selected, start the magic array; the summoned objects that meet these screening conditions will receive specific signals; they can choose whether to respond to the summoning."

"Of course, in order to strengthen the success rate of the summoning, mages will put corresponding sacrifices according to their own screening conditions; by feeling the breath of the sacrifices they like through the magic array, the summoning target will have a greater possibility of responding to the summoning."

Harley held up a finger and said, "Then can ghost wave theory also be understood as summoning wave theory?"

Harley took a piece of white paper and a pen from the side, and while sketching on it, said, "The summoning magic array is equivalent to a frequency-adjustable wave transmission device; the mage's behavior of modifying runes is equivalent to adjusting the frequency; the waves with adjusted frequency can only be received by certain life forms."

"And the sacrifices processed by magic are actually imitating the waves of the other party's food or favorite items, letting the other party mistakenly think there is food here, and thus finding their way over along the waves."

Barry and Helen both nodded, feeling that what Harley said made a lot of sense, but Helen was a bit puzzled and said, "Then why did I neither use a proper summoning magic array, nor adjust the frequency, and didn't even process the sacrifices, and could summon Dr. Schiller over?"

Then Helen explained the process of her summoning Schiller to them in detail; Harley listened and thought for a moment, then speculated, "I think this might have something to do with the nature of the summoned life."

"When humans possess a physical body, they are completely unable to feel changes in the magnetic field; their sensitivity to certain virtual electromagnetic signals is also zero, but after becoming ghosts, they are more affected by the magnetic field and can also feel subtle changes in the magnetic field; perhaps because of this, they can keenly receive certain wave signals pointing to them."

Just then Helen's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Since mages can use magic arrays to spread signals into the universe, can the summoned objects only wait passively?"

"You mean..."

"If we can receive all the summoning signals of mages, can we also pretend to be summoned objects and respond to the summoning?"

Helen felt her speculation was feasible the more she talked, and she said, "The energy mages input into the summoning magic array, part of it is the loss used for spreading signals, and the rest is actually the travel expenses for the summoned objects to travel through time and space."

"If we can search for such signals and respond to the summoning, wouldn't we be able to travel to various universes without spending travel expenses?"

Harley frowned and raised an objection, saying, "Not every mage has the ability to spread their summoning array signals outside the universe, right?"

"Then what if we can also receive summoning signals within the universe?" Helen touched her chin and said, "Even if the travel expenses they provide are insufficient, we can supplement them ourselves; it's still much more effortless than trying to teleport over ourselves, right?"

Harley's eyes turned, immediately gave Helen a thumbs up, and said, "The plan is feasible, practice begins."

Instantly, they almost jumped off their chairs synchronously, pulled Barry, and came to the lab opposite.

Gray Mist had almost moved the complete Stark Group lab over, so now there was all kinds of equipment on the Star-Eater Engine, and Helen and Harley planned to manufacture a device that searches for summoning signals.

Receiving different summoning signals in various universes sounded difficult, but Helen had swallowed quite a few Time Variance Authority machines; the management scope of the Time Variance Authority was the multiverse, and the terminal retrieval and records of their equipment were exactly within different single universes.

So actually Helen and Harley only needed to modify this type of equipment to become a device used to receive summoning signals within a single universe; this was not difficult for Helen, who often observed Stark's experiments.

Everyone in the hall didn't notice that this group of little devils was banging and clanging in the lab; Stark stared at the navigation route on the instrument and said with a heavy expression, "Something's not right; the mass of the final destination universe is decreasing rapidly; I'm afraid it will collapse completely in less than half an hour; is it a trap set by the other party?"

Schiller shook his head and said, "If the other party has dealt with us in the future, they should know that our technological level far exceeds the human average; there is no point in setting such traps that can be detected in advance."

"It can't be that we are so unlucky that we happened to catch up with a universe's life coming to an end, right?" Nick stood behind Stark and said.

Since managing the Time Variance Authority, Nick had seen too many reports of universe destruction; this was a natural phenomenon constantly happening in the universe, not any man-made disaster, but if it really happened to be encountered, he could only admit he was unlucky.

Stark thought for a moment and said, "I don't think this is a simple natural phenomenon; we can use the old method, travel through time back to when the universe structure was still stable, and go see why this universe is destroyed."

Just as the function of the Star-Eater Engine's time jump was about to be activated, Helen and Harley's summoning signal receiving device was also modified.

This device was not big; Helen specially designed it into the shape of a briefcase for easy carrying; Harley hugged her arms and looked at the briefcase placed on the table, thought for a while, and said, "Then how do we test if this thing works?"

"Of course, find a universe, open it, and see if it can receive signals, and if it can teleport perfectly after receiving signals."

Suddenly, the Star-Eater Engine trembled; Harley and Helen were both bumped into the lab bench; Helen, who stood up again, rubbed her forehead and said, "It seems the Star-Eater Engine's time jump function has been activated, which means we have arrived in a new universe."

Harley looked up at the window, saw the strange starry sky, and nodded, saying, "Looks like a new place, but it's no different from other universes; want to try?"

"Will this be a bit dangerous?" Barry scratched his head and said, "Although I also feel a bit stuffy here, responding to a summoning array and teleporting to a strange place, what if the people on the other side are ill-intentioned?"

"You're stupid; mages going through so much trouble to set up a summoning array must have encountered trouble and need help; it's them who have something to ask of us; besides, didn't you practice running before? If you really can't beat them, just run with us."

"But I'm not very proficient yet." Barry said somewhat embarrassedly, "And I don't know if this ability can be used in a strange universe."

"It doesn't matter, don't I have me?" Helen patted her chest and said, "I'm very strong now; even if I can't beat them, I have a way to protect you."

Barry nodded reluctantly; Harley immediately rubbed her hands, opened the briefcase, and pressed a button on it.

The box made a steady "beep beep beep" sound; looking at the screen opened on the upper part of the box, the instrument was retrieving signals.

Suddenly, the instrument made a sharp screech; a peak suddenly appeared on the straight-line image on the screen; Helen immediately leaned over, opened her eyes wide, and said, "My god, someone has issued an extremely strong summoning signal, and the energy level is very high; it's in this universe; I think we can try to respond!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Harley jumped on the spot a few times excitedly and said, "Hurry up, I can't wait to be a summoned beast!"

Helen stood in front of the instrument and operated a few times, took a deep breath, and said, "The other side seems to be summoning an evil god, and something has already responded to the summoning; no, I have to grab the position... wait a moment."

Helen operated on the instrument for a while, then suddenly a magic projection popped up on the box; Helen closed her eyes to adjust her brain waves, then reached out a hand and placed it on the magic light group.

The light flickered for a moment, then suddenly became extremely bright; Helen grabbed the handle of the box, pulled the other two, and shouted, "Success, hold on tight, we're teleporting!"

"Swoosh!"

"Boom!"

The moment the door was pushed open, everyone only saw the figures of the three children disappearing; Stark slapped his forehead with a palm.

The teleportation process was slightly rough; Helen, Harley, and Barry were like being spun dry in a washing machine; after falling from mid-air to the ground with a "pop," they were almost unconscious.

Helen, who had the best physical fitness, climbed up from the ground unsteadily, retched twice while holding her throat, and opened her eyes blankly, looking at the dark room.

Harley lay on the ground retching constantly; fortunately, she hadn't eaten anything, and couldn't even spit out acid water; Barry coughed constantly, standing straight with a dizzy head.

After staring at a figure kneeling on the opposite side for two seconds, both sides shouted at the same time.

Kneeling on the cushion opposite was a pale figure; when the initial dizziness disappeared, Helen found that it was Stephen Strange.

Strange's face was exhausted, carrying confusion, and that lingering bewilderment; he glanced at Helen's face, then at the reactor on Helen's chest, and his confusion grew heavier.

Helen looked left and right, finding that this place didn't look like the Zen room of the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj, but still performed a disciple's salute to Strange, saying, "Sorry, Sorcerer Supreme, we are tourists from another parallel universe; originally we just wanted to test our newly invented machine, not intentionally disturbing your summoning; however, are you okay?"

Helen would ask this question because Strange's state looked too terrible at this moment; the whole person was thin and pale, his eyeballs deeply sunken in his eye sockets, his dark circles were particularly heavy, and his lips were cracked and bleeding, with stubble.

Helen knew how much Strange cared about his appearance when she was studying at the Kamar-Taj Magic Academy; he had mysophobia and paid extra attention to his image; Helen even sometimes suspected that he knew exactly how many stubbles were on his face, because no one had ever seen the Sorcerer Supreme trim his beard crookedly.

Helen's concern was very pure, and the clear eyes also only had faint curiosity.

Looking at the three young faces in front of him, feeling the vitality belonging to humans coming from them, the hand Strange hid behind his back trembled slightly.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes painfully, but the magic light that had already burst out from his mouth and nose finally dissipated.