Mysteries: Arcana Wars

As Scott pressed the button, six robotic arms exerted force at the same time, and the thick new glass completely crushed the thin and brittle old glass, sealing the void smoke and dust in a new container again.

This unknown substance is extremely "corrosive". It will devour everything that comes into contact with it at a certain slow speed and exhibit diffusion properties similar to smoke.

And it is precisely because its rate of diffusion and swallowing is relatively slow that the Steam Church has the opportunity to contain and utilize it.

Due to the corrosiveness of the void smoke, the glass container that seals it will be slowly corroded, and the gradually thinning glass may be broken due to the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the glass. Therefore, timely replacement of the void smoke container is the top priority of the pump spark.

A small bottle was placed against the seam of the glass container, trying to collect some of the scattered smoke. But the entire container was replaced very quickly, and before the smoke could escape the control area, the new container had already been sealed.

This time, I was unable to collect and separate the small sample of the void smoke.

The control and use of void smoke has always been Scott's top priority.

On the one hand, although the smoke from nothingness seems to react slowly now, if it is released directly into the air, it will churn violently. The more things it touches, the faster it devours and spreads. On the other hand, this smoke needs to constantly devour other beings to maintain its own existence, but it often cannot obtain the mass that can maintain its existence in a free state - Scott once speculated that it might be able to devour spirituality, but this cannot be confirmed because no spiritual object can exist within the range of the pump spark...

This resulted in that, in previous attempts to release the void smoke, a small portion of it was immediately released like ordinary smoke, taking away small instruments and lowering the indoor air pressure, while tumbling and disappearing in the air...

Therefore, the Pump Spark still has not found a way to make more efficient use of the Void Smoke. It is very unstable, extremely difficult to control, and difficult to separate. Once it is out of control, it cannot be recovered again. The high-density glass container that currently seals it is also specially made. The glass as thick as a palm is enough to keep the smoke full until the next container is replaced.

Scott once thought that this slow speed was a characteristic of the Void Dust. But when he saw the black dust swallowing up the red light like a storm, the crazy black cloud and the crazy speed left Scott with an extremely shocking impression. The existence that seemed to drag everything into nothingness was worthy of being called [Void Dust], and the ball in the hands of the Pump Spark was like a bottle of black.

He suddenly wondered if the rate at which the nothingness of the smoke and dust trapped in the pump's sparks was swallowed, disappeared, and spread was a little... just right?

It's like... just enough to maintain this existence...

Then a horrifying guess arose in his mind.

Could the docile smoke and dust on my hand at this moment be the product of intentional adjustment?

Then what kind of great existence would be able to drive this kind of matter...

This conjecture was too shocking, so he did not report it to Bonova. In fact, Scott always felt that he had no knowledge of Void Dust at all, and even the name was given to him by Bonova.

"Today was a failure."

Bonois, who was standing behind him, watched the whole process quietly.

"Yeah, today we failed as usual. It seems this idea is not feasible." Scott shook the empty glass bottle. "Anyway, we haven't succeeded in the past three hundred years."

"Have you ever succeeded?" Bonois asked again, staring at Scott.

"You're asking even though you already know the answer. Of course not!" Scott shrugged. "You were there every time I changed the container, and you saw that every time I tried to collect soot samples, I failed."

"You are wrong. I was not present to supervise the 78 experiments of Void Smoke and Dust."

"What difference does it make whether you're there or not? It's a failure anyway."

Scott packed his things and turned to leave.

"It seems that we should not be too optimistic about the reopening of the 'Divine Punishment' project."

When Pump Spark was first established, the biggest reason why the "Divine Punishment" plan went bankrupt was that Pump Spark could not make further use of the void smoke.

Bonova did not make any further comments. After handing the data of the Abraham Outpost Space Station to Scott, he turned and left.

The Outpost Space Station is a space station operated by the Abraham family. It undertakes many functions such as technical experiments, satellite maintenance, environmental monitoring, waste recycling, etc. What makes it different from other space stations is that it is located at the outermost edge of the human star surface safety zone, so it is named [Outpost].

So far, no life that has crossed the outpost's orbit has returned safe and sound. According to the agreement, all rovers that cross the outpost's orbit, including satellites and manned capsules, are considered threatening space junk, and any communication and supply are cut off, and they are classified as "untouchable objects."

In some roaming missions, the technology company will clearly state in the mission guide that "anything that crosses the line will be destroyed."

Therefore, every accident occurring at the outpost deserves sufficient attention.

The tractor went out of control before because the Rupert navigation satellite owned by the Abraham Group was suspected to be contaminated. After the incident, although the Abraham family agreed to test every satellite of the Rupert navigation system after negotiations, they still sent astronauts to check several related satellites in time. It was at the end of this mission that the outpost suffered a powerful extraordinary disaster and all astronauts died.

The hard drive in Scott's hand recorded all the communication records between the outpost mothership and the operational engineering cabin on the day of the incident.

In the church, the starry sky is always synonymous with danger.

In the fifth era of the bright red moon, the starry sky was considered by the church to be an absolute forbidden zone that could not be explored or reached. In the sixth era of the bright moon, with the development of technology and the purification of the moon, people explored a limited safe zone on the surface of the starry sky and within the outposts, and eventually wove a dense modern satellite network in this area.

At the same time, due to the unstable state of the surface of the sky, it is difficult for the surface base to make timely adjustments or inspections on the affected satellites, so surface space stations and "astronauts" appeared to monitor satellites on the surface of the sky. A small number of astronauts, in conjunction with ground bases, can play a good supervisory role in the current modern satellite network.

The environment within the safe zone on the surface of the starry sky is still unstable. A large number of small-scale extraordinary accidents and physical phenomena will cause satellite errors, which will indeed interfere with the normal operation of the satellite. In rare cases, they will bring some extraordinary events to surface users and even cause strange deaths.

But this side effect seems insignificant compared to the huge social leap brought about by satellite technology.

Roaming technology is like a magic box to the Sixth Epoch. When humans first experienced this sweet convenience, they became completely dependent on it. It has been more than three hundred years since the first astronaut Alexander Abraham landed on the surface of the starry sky. Before that, unstable artificial satellites had already begun to provide crude services to the surface.

Today, human society is heavily dependent on satellite technology, whether it is for communication, positioning or weather. Even as extraordinary events such as "starry sky sequelae" linked to satellite signals gradually emerge, and even as extremists protest that "satellites bring disasters" and "signals bring curses", people have never thought of giving up artificial satellites and roaming technology, and major consortiums and countries have stepped up their efforts to develop them.

After seeing beauty and light, no one wants to go back to darkness.

No one wants to set human civilization back hundreds of years and return to the dark electrical age or even the steam age because of a few hundred unclear accidental deaths every year.

Scott, cigarette in hand, listened to the recording over and over again in Pump Sparks' office.

Since he was sent here, it means that something happened that even Abraham found difficult to deal with.

He listened to the file repeatedly and called up two names in his mind.

Fulce Wall and Audrey Carroll.

These two outsiders strayed into this extraordinary disaster through the radio. From the recording of the program that day, it can be seen that this extraordinary disaster also had an impact on these two innocent people, especially Fors Wall who called to consult the program.

Judging from the information currently provided, Abraham has sent people to secretly protect the two men.

Scott played the recording clips about Fors over and over again. He always felt that something sounded wrong and even suspected that Abraham had deliberately covered up something before.

But the Abraham family certainly didn't expect that "cyber ghost" Kewuwa was an extraordinary item working for Scott.

After a week of pretending to patrol the surface, Scott exchanged two hard drives for the recording of the day's "Morning Tea Room" program from the cyber gossip queen Kowawu - as a sealed object, exchanging hardware is its "rule"; as an electronic bitch, saving any fun it encounters is its lifelong pursuit.

Even in the radio recording of Kowawu, the conversations between the two were unclear and a lot of information was lost, but there were still some differences from the documents provided - it was obvious that the part about the radio program in the document delivered by Abraham had been processed in advance.

Abraham did not want the Steam Church to delve into the radio recording.

The auxiliary effect from the glasses [Mirror of Clarity] and the blessing of the extraordinary characteristics are ineffective here. Scott frowned. He could only rely on the extraordinary person's sublimated hearing physics to distinguish those vague sounds.

...Locked...Important...Curious...Beacon...

Scott slammed the pause button.

He finally realized what was wrong!

Fors Wall was "connected" to the outpost's communications system!