Chapter 694: Renewed Contact of Momentum and Fortune

Xijing, underground Resonance Station.

Zhao Lao Nian was adjusting the final set of resonant copper tubes.

These copper tubes were arranged in a specific geometric sequence, connected to the central Momentum Activator.

"Frequency calibration complete, redundancy filter array activated."

He shouted into the speaking tube.

The sound traveled through the copper tubes to the control room next door.

Inside the control room, on the stone platform before Zhang Cheng, a special 'paper' was laid.

The paper surface was smooth, its material mixed with momentum-sensitive powder.

A pen connected to a complex mechanism hovered above the paper surface.

The input end of the mechanism was connected to that multi-layer crystal adjuster.

Chen Wen stood before the adjuster.

In his hand he held not a scroll, but a stack of punched metal sheets.

The position, size, and combination of the holes on the sheets constituted the encoding of the information to be sent this time.

Each metal sheet represented one information unit.

"Yuneng Pollution Indications" unit.

"Infected Organism Behavior" unit.

"Jurchen-Yuneng Correlation Observation" unit.

"Historical Manipulation Model Deduction" unit.

And finally the "Comprehensive Threat Early Warning" unit.

He needed to send this encoded information out via momentum fluctuations.

It was not transmitting images or thoughts.

But rather similar to beacon fires, lighthouses, or more precisely—a kind of long-distance cipher telegraph based on momentum pulses.

The receiver needed to possess the corresponding codebook and perceptual ability to decode it.

Zhu Yue obviously had no codebook.

But Chen Wen believed that, given the other party's 'special' nature and acuity, if they could capture this regular, structured pulse fluctuation, they might be able to reverse-parse some key information from it.

"Prepare to load the first unit."

Chen Wen inserted the metal sheet representing the 'Yuneng Pollution Indications' unit into the top slot of the adjuster.

Click—

The mechanical latch closed.

His finger pressed on the guidance energy pattern along the adjuster's edge.

A strand of pure National Fortune was drawn in.

Hum—

The crystal sheets began to rotate.

The hole sequence on the metal sheet, via mechanical transmission, was converted into a specific modulation pattern for momentum fluctuations—the combination of pulse length, interval, and strength.

This modulation is extremely subtle, consuming little total National Fortune, yet demanding extremely high control precision.

Chen Wen focused intently.

Next-door room.

Zhang Cheng saw the suspended pen begin to move.

On the momentum-sensitive paper, it drew a series of undulating peak-and-trough lines, with tiny auxiliary symbols representing specific meanings synchronously engraved beside the lines.

This was the ground-monitored simulated record of the signal about to be sent out.

"The first unit's signal is stable, its structure clear."

Zhang Cheng confirmed.

"Send."

Chen Wen gave the order.

The emission array of the underground Resonance Station focused this precisely modulated momentum pulse wave into a beam, shooting it toward the light curtain fissure.

As the pulse beam penetrated the barrier, it encountered interference from Yuneng markings.

Some pulses became distorted and attenuated.

But the core structure remained intact.

After passing through the fissure, the pulse beam spread and weakened in the vast 'Script World'.

Like a specific beam of light, it shone toward the Huai Xi direction.

Chen Wen did not pause.

He sequentially swapped the metal sheets, loading the second, third, fourth, and fifth units.

Each loading, modulation, and emission required intense focus.

His forehead once again beaded with fine sweat.

Five sets of momentum pulse sequences, each differently modulated, were emitted in rapid succession.

The information they carried, if correctly received and interpreted, could be pieced together into a clear picture of the enemy's methods, current threats, and future crises.

Huai Xi, beside the coal pit.

Zhu Yue was attempting to make a crude compass from a few magnets and copper wires, to more accurately position and map.

Just as he was adjusting the angle of the copper wire.

The hairs on his arm stood up without any warning.

Not cold.

It is an extremely weak, with a specific rhythm… electromagnetic induction?

He paused his action.

He immediately put down what he was holding, closed his eyes, and eliminated visual interference.

He focused all his attention on the skin, and even deeper nerve endings.

He faintly felt that several threads of extremely weak, with a special rhythm "undulation" brushed past in the air.

Not a sound.

Nor wind.

More like… the afterglow of some kind of energy radiation.

The undulation is weak, intermittent, and decays quickly.

He struggled to memorize the "rhythm" of these undulations—length, interval, weak intensity changes.

The first set of undulations passed.

The interval was very short.

The second set of undulations arrived, the rhythm pattern clearly different.

Then came the third, fourth, and fifth sets.

Each set of undulations lasted a short time, patterns varied, but seemed related.

Zhu Yue suddenly opened his eyes.

This is not a natural phenomenon!

This is a regular signal!

He immediately grabbed bark, using charcoal pencil to record swiftly.

He had no advanced instruments to record waveforms.

He could only rely on his extraordinary memory and perception, using lines and points of varying length, supplemented by his own defined strength symbols, to as much as possible restore the rhythm features of those several sets of undulations.

After drawing the five sets of symbols.

He stared at these crude records.

His brows furrowed tightly.

This looks like some kind of code.

Or... encoded information.

"Pulse coding..."

He muttered to himself.

As someone from the information age, he has a concept of this communication method.

The key is the codebook.

He has no codebook.

But since the other party chose to send, would they perhaps use a relatively "universal" or "easy to associate" encoding logic?

He tried to associate the first set of undulations with the known characteristics of "Yuneng" he knows.

Yuneng: gloomy, corrosive, polluting.

The first set of undulations he recorded: an initial segment of a long strong pulse, followed by several short weak pulses, then another undulating segment…

Long strong pulse, representing "danger" or "warning"?

Short weak pulses, representing "multiple manifestations" or "continuous existence"?

He began trying to "decipher".

Combining the Yuneng pollution he encountered in the coal pit, the abnormalities described by old soldiers, and the vague warnings he previously received.

He took this known information as a "reference dictionary", to apply to the possible meanings of those five pulse sequences.

This is a difficult logical puzzle game.

No standard answer.

Entirely reliant on speculation and association.

But Zhu Yue's thinking speed is extremely fast, association ability extremely strong.

Time passed bit by bit.

On the bark before him, filled with various speculations, association words, and question marks.

Finally.

At the darkest moment before dawn.

He stopped his pen.

Looking at the "possible meaning" he deduced.

First set: warning-energy pollution-multiple environmental and biological manifestations.

Second set: biological aberration-behavior change-increased aggression.

Third set: specific geographic direction (north)-tribal integration-abnormal strength increase.

Fourth set: manipulation pattern synthesis-guidance/suppression-target: control historical nodes.

Fifth set: comprehensive assessment-threat level high-target (tiger)-southward intention-urgency.

Although details are blurry, although much information is missing.

But the core framework surprisingly matches his previous inferences, and also supplements key "biological aberration details" and "manipulation pattern synthesis".

More importantly, the "urgency" conveyed by the fifth set of information is unprecedentedly strong.

"This is not an ordinary warning..."

Zhu Yue spoke softly.

"This is... a battle situation report."

He stood up, gazing toward the northeast, as if he could see that "Yin Energy Ferocious Tiger" being swiftly armed, baring its teeth and readying its claws.

He also looked eastward, at that invisible wall.

"The code, I've roughly deciphered it."

"Thanks."

He spoke to the air.

Then he turned and walked toward the camp.

His steps were faster and more urgent than before.

He knew what he needed.

A more detailed technical summary on how to detect, resist, and even counter the Yin Energy and its hidden manipulators.

Or at least, a way to obtain that knowledge.

He needed to respond.

He needed to tell the other side: signal received, intelligence deciphered, urgent need for further technical support.

But how to respond?

Use the same pulse encoding?

He glanced at his crude "record" and gave a bitter smile.

He couldn't even steadily generate such a weak energy pulse.

Perhaps…

His gaze fell on the black ore in the coal pit.

He also looked at the rough "marker stones" around him.

A bold, rough response plan formed in his mind.

Although primitive.

Although it might not be receivable by the other side at all.

But this is all he can do now.

He took a deep breath.

"Then let's give it a try."

"In my way."