Chapter 1955

His reasoning is very rigorous. First, the organizer said that one can curse to death, but didn't say how to curse to death. The biggest problem lies in how to choose people.

Now several small teams have never met each other. In the case that you don't know who the other party is at all, how to choose the target you want to curse to death? There must be a machine to operate it, right?

Secondly, after getting a totem pole fragment, there is no place to show the quantity. There must be a place to check the fragments you possess, right?

Batman himself is a very rigorous and scientific person. His thinking is very rational, instinctively repulsing all chaotic things, and more willing to make relatively orderly assumptions.

The rules given by the organizer are too vague. In Batman's view, it is equivalent to saying nothing. And Batman understands all this as needing his own exploration, so after finding clues, he will naturally feel that this is a completion of the rules.

Batman obviously didn't expect that there really is someone with such broad thinking as Schiller in this world.

Schiller deduced the same things as Batman, but he didn't choose to build a nuclear bomb first, but planned to forge a launch silo.

Or rather, Schiller himself is the kind of person who prefers to watch others stuff nuclear bombs into fake launch silos rather than get a nuclear bomb, referred to as a mental patient.

This city is not big, and the participants who are not restricted by power are very fast. After a while, Bruce discovered another magic circle.

This time this magic circle was drawn on the wall, and it was more complex and huge. The paint was slightly dry but not completely dry.

Bruce took out the totem pole fragment he obtained for the first time. His comparison speed was about the same as Batman's, but his thinking was completely different from Batman's.

Bruce has occult knowledge.

He immediately wrote and drew on the sandy ground of the ruins nearby with the steel pipe in his hand. After a while, he paused, walked back to the magic circle and took a look, and showed a thoughtful expression.

Undoubtedly, the characters and patterns above have meaning, and should be a variant of modern characters, and these ancient characters usually represent various symbols of occult significance.

Bruce initially deduced that the first layer of characters on the outer circle should be some kind of prayer, which echoes through the inner characters and the largest text symbol in the middle, or provides some power for this.

Then this text in the middle is likely the key to the magic circle. It represents the meaning that is likely related to the way the totem pole exerts its effect.

Bruce just thought of this when a light flashed behind him. Bruce turned back suddenly and saw a figure changing from transparent to substantial.

That was a black-haired green-eyed young man, wearing a gorgeous prince's robe, holding a shining staff, and there was still unextinguished magic light on the gems of the staff.

"The thick fog here has a weakening effect on my magic, but obviously as you can see, I am a mage. You can call me Loki."

"Loki?" Bruce narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he recognized the style of the patterns on Loki's robe at a glance, and said, "Norse god?"

"Prince of Asgard."

"You don't look quite the same as depicted in mythology books."

"Sounds like you have studied mythology very well," Loki showed a smile at Bruce and said, "You see this magic circle, do you have any opinions?"

"Why should I tell you," Bruce hugged his arms and said, "Loki is known as the God of Mischief in Norse mythology. Who knows if this is your true face?"

Loki laughed and lowered his head again. He gently stroked the staff in his hand and said, "I don't have any true face, or I have thousands of faces, but this is not important. I can give you what you want."

"Do you know what I want?"

"You are cracking this magic circle," Loki turned to look at the huge magic circle on the wall and said, "And I happen to be a mage."

"But you are not a mage of this universe," Bruce stepped forward and stared at Loki and said, "All the knowledge you possess is not worth showing off here, because it is completely two systems of things."

"But there are always commonalities. You are also using this to get information, aren't you?" Loki lowered his eyelids and looked at the pattern Bruce drew on the sandy ground.

Bruce sighed in his heart. He really didn't expect that there would be a mage who could turn invisible among the participating members, and had been following behind him, otherwise he wouldn't have written down his thinking process.

"Slightly offensive, friend, but I probably discovered you and started following you about a minute ago," Loki took out his totem pole fragment and tossed it in his hand, saying, "Give me a fragment, and I'll tell you my speculation, how about it?"

"Don't treat me like a sucker."

"Fine, it seems you are a smart person," Loki gently tapped the upper body of the staff with his finger and said, "The location of the next totem pole fragment will not be displayed so quickly, but perhaps we can unite to snatch others'."

Loki sized up Bruce and said, "Your image is very suitable to be a bait. You attract their attention, and I will give them a hit from behind."

"Are you a hunter?"

"Of course, as you know, I am the God of Mischief. Sneak attack is my specialty."

"Sorry, I am too, but if you hope to cooperate, I can temporarily disguise myself as your priest."

"I have exactly this intention," Loki nodded and said, "Because of my image, most people will take me as a priest, so I need a bait that looks more innocent."

"Why not yourself?"

"I already said, I am good at ambushing in the dark to sneak attack. Invisibility is a very useful skill, isn't it?"

Bruce stared at his face for a while, and Loki also met his gaze fearlessly. After more than ten seconds, Bruce nodded lightly and said, "Transaction reached. Tell me your opinion."

"To show my sincerity, I will tell you the most useful information first," Loki turned around and stared at the text in the very center of the huge magic circle and said, "Look there, you should have noticed it already. That is the key. I can tell you that the meaning of this text is 'Curse'."

"How do you know?"

"You are right. My universe, your universe, and the magic system of the universe we are in now are different, but you have to know that there are many different magic systems in my universe too."

"The characters, patterns, spellcasting methods, and magic effects they use are all different, but do you know what they have in common?"

Bruce paused for a while and said, "... Energy."

Loki looked at Bruce with slight surprise and said, "Your magic attainments are deeper than I imagined. It seems you are not as young as your appearance. Are you a god race? Or other long-lived species?"

"Consider it so."

Loki didn't care about this slightly perfunctory answer. He put his gaze back on the magic circle and said, "Energy is the root of science and magic. The principle of magic circles is similar to machines on the scientific side."

"Some magic circles are for doing work, some are for conduction, some are for storage, some are for output, and they can also be combined into a large magic circle to perform some more complex operations, just like vehicles and spaceships."

Bruce felt a bit surprised. He stared at Loki and said, "God race also talks about science?"

"It's humans' understanding of science that is too narrow," Loki said slightly deeply, "You feel that creating energy out of thin air is not scientific, but that is actually just another level of science. There are fixed principles that can be reproduced and can be reasonably utilized. No matter if it's called magic or something else, it's the same as the science you understand."

Loki's hand flashed again, and a ball of energy appeared in his hand. He said, "This is called divine power. The god race can naturally collect similar energy from the universe and use it, but in the eyes of the god race of Asgard, this is also completely scientific, just like humans have five fingers to grasp."

"Back to the topic," Loki sighed and stared at that rune and said, "Unlike the gradual simplification and miniaturization in human technological development, the development of the magic world is usually from simple to complex."

"This is essentially because the races that need to use magic technology all hope to collect energy in the universe as much and as efficiently as possible, and the more energy collection parts integrated in the magic circle, the more complex the magic circle, and the more things it can do, which is the manifestation of the development of magic technology."

"And the reason why it cannot output greater power with equipment of the same size like scientific technological development is because the power that each rune and pattern can output is not decided by humans. What decides them is God, or the rule creatures corresponding to the type of energy."

Bruce couldn't help but nod. He had a deep understanding of this. After all, he had spent several months in Heaven repairing runes. The meaning of each rune and the energy it could provide were decided by angels, and had nothing to do with humans.

"In this way, if the church wants to obtain more power, it has to use more runes, and the more it develops, the more rune combinations it can find that do not go wrong, and the magic circle will naturally become more and more complex."

"This pattern is obviously like this. It integrates many energy collection parts, and through another part of transmission, all gathers to the text in the very center."

Loki looked down at the totem pole fragment in his hand again and said, "So many parts used to collect energy, and where does the energy come from?"

Bruce also looked at the fragment in his hand. As long as one is not blind, one can see that the totem pole fragment and the magic circle use the same characters and patterns.

But this paint hasn't even dried yet.

"This is another ironclad proof," Loki smiled and said, "Don't forget that it's because we came here that there are such rules, so of course this cannot be a relic left over from ancient times."

Then he turned to look at the street in the distance and said, "I speculate that this totem pole and this magic circle are both relics of an ancient civilization that has been forgotten by this civilization. I'm afraid we will see more such clues in the city."

"Will this be related to the thick fog?" Bruce walked to Loki's side, turned to look at him and said, "Don't tell me you didn't think of it. The key to winning the game is likely the danger in the thick fog."

"I also make this speculation, but now there are too few clues," Loki felt the totem pole fragment with his thumb and said, "But at least we know now that if we collect the fragments, we have to bring them here to this magic circle, and the magic circle can extract the energy from the totem fragments and inject it into the designated participant."

"Will that kill him?"

"I'm afraid so," Loki also looked back at Bruce and said, "But don't tell me you haven't thought that this energy might be used to do other things."

The two looked at each other and saw ambition and desire in each other's eyes. Playing the game according to the rules was never their choice. Breaking the routine and holding the initiative in their own hands was.

The two who had determined the direction of exploration turned around without hesitation. And if one looked slowly upward along the magic circle, one could see Schiller standing on the roof of the building, looking at the backs of Loki and Bruce who turned and left, showing a smile.

The screening room exploded.