768 Douglas Decision (1/2)

Babel, in the Atomic Universe.

A cluster of dazzling light flew out of the space-time gate. Like a water ball rippling, it instantly lit up the magic circle, and the complicated lines and patterns in the air were now shimmering.

Meanwhile, the gate no longer looked gray and pale. Instead, it was now covered with a layer of dreamlike gloss.

The layer of light, which was like rubber, then protruded all of a sudden. A vague figure walked out. As the figure was becoming more and more clear, it turned out to be Lucien.

As soon as Lucien stepped out of the gate, its gloss was instantly taken off, and the gate collapsed to the ground into ashes. One by one, the shining lines in the air had also broken and became a pile of trash.

At this time, Lucien finally realized that Natasha was not the only one standing in the hall waiting for his return. The president was also waiting. Douglas looked quite anxious, which was rare for him, but not in a bad way. The anxiety was from his eagerness to find the answer.

However, Lucien was not surprised by Douglas' presence at all. After what he just did, it would have been more perplexing if the president had not been here.

As for Natasha, her waiting was out of her care for Lucien and her own curiosity.

”How did you find it?” asked Douglas straightforwardly.

Natasha opened her mouth, but she did not want to cut Douglas off. She also had lots of questions to ask, like how far the sun was and how it existed. Compared to Douglas, she had plenty of chances to ask.

Lucien smiled, as it was so rare to see Douglas being so solicitous that he had forgotten the most immediate thing that he should have done after reaching top legendary. It looked just like a Fernando was living within him.

”A second, please,” Lucien said calmly.

A starry sky then unfolded behind Lucien, where a huge fireball was burning. The stars surrounding the big fireball formed the many mysterious patterns, while behind the fireball, there was a cluster of deepest darkness.

Against the sky, there were protons and neutrons forming into atomic nuclei. From time to time, they would drift, and sometimes, they would collapse. Together with the electrons, they formed elements. In the different sections where the elements gathered, there were different beautiful wonders, like the extremely cold liquid and crystals.

Light was flowing among the charged matters, and it was divided into portions, which reflected the nature of electromagnetic force, and it joined the ”wind power” in the illusionary space harmoniously.

The edges of the entire world bent slightly, and beyond the edges, it seemed that there was something else that was connected to them, which enabled the changes in the cognitive world to affect the material world.

Seeing that, Douglas realized what he had forgotten, and he was a bit amused by himself. How could he forget this? After reaching the top legendary level, one should reflect the changes in his or her cognitive world to one's own demiplane as soon as possible to make the demiplane resemble the dimension better.

As soon as Lucien unfolded his cognitive world, Babel tower started shaking fiercely, and the shaking was from the planet it was on.

The stars in the dark cosmos in the dimension suddenly burst out splendid light and became very real. And the star, which resembled the sun, was now on fire, and the intimidating and extreme temperature was also close to that of the real sun.

When the projection of Lucien's cognitive world disappeared, Douglas finally asked, ”How did you do this…?”

Lucien answered briefly, ”Since it seems that our planet was insulated by something like a 'fog', the deepest part of the Boundless Ocean would go around and around. When we fly out of the atmosphere, we lose the observation of the planet at some point until we enter the universe. After that, we have to consider two things. One, does light also bend when casting through the atmosphere? Second, are other planets also being 'trapped'?

”… So I combined the data obtained from the deepest part of the Boundless Ocean and an idea I once had, and thus revised the calculation of the coordinate of the sun. In the end, I finally found it…” said Lucien after a short pause.

”Long time ago, we did think of the possibility that the atmosphere might have changed the transmission of light and considered it a possible reason why we could not find the planets. However, after so many years, we still haven't got a full idea about the secrets of the Boundless Ocean and the 'fog',” said Douglas.

The previous generations of arcanists were no fools. What Lucien just said had already been put forward years ago. However, they all failed to find the problems among the data and records. If it had been as easy as Lucien's narration, those arcanists would have found the sun a dozen hundred years ago!

Therefore, the key question Douglas had to ask was how Lucien managed to find the problem in the data and figured out the accurate coordinate.

Lucien's right hand climbed onto his chin and rubbed it. He responded with some hesitation, ”I can't be very clear right now. I think the 'fog' and the abnormality of the Boundless Ocean should both have something to do with the unusual abnormality in the space.”

Seeing Lucien's unconscious movement, Natasha knew that Lucien was not hiding anything. Instead, his mind was indeed filled with questions.