769 The Birth of a Custom (1/2)

The square near the Rose Boulevard was jam-packed with people after the lights were on.

It was the habit of many citizens of Rentato to take a walk to the nearest square after dinner and wait for ”Arcana Voice”. However, after the promotion of offering a magic radio with enough subscriptions, it was no longer as crowded as before. But of course, the people here were not few at all in terms of absolute number.

”Hello, everyone. This is FM 592.6M, 'Arcana Voice'. I am your old friend, Nightingale. Thank you for listening to our program…” As the sweet voice that sounded like their family member came out of the trumpet, all the audience focused their attention and stopped talking with their partners. Also, after the live stream last time, they were already able to picture Ms. Nightingale's look with her voice.

After many programs, ”Magic Room”, a session that people couldn't quite follow but were very interested in, started.

”Dear audience, I'll teach you how to resist the shallow hypnotization spells… Zi. Zi. Zi…” Before the magnetic male voice finished his sentence, shrilling noises came out of the loudspeaker. Then, the noises were replaced by messy sounds of electricity. However, everything was back to normal soon, except that the low, magnetic male voice went back to Nightingale's sweet but exciting voice.

”Dear audience, dear audience, this is 'Arcana Voice'. Now, I would like to announce a piece of breaking news…”

”What's going on?” The audience looked at each other in bewilderment. They had experienced signal interruptions before, but it had never been restored so quickly, and even the program had been changed!

Breaking news?

That was something that they had never been through. Therefore, they could barely realize what was going on.

In the noble villas, the civil houses, and the schools, the members of the audience who were listening to ”Arcana Voice” looked similar. They had no idea what had happened that called for a piece of breaking news.

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Inside the Atom Institution, after Layria, who brought the students up above, told Heidi and Annick about the unusual phenomenon of two suns in the sky, they decided to return to the ground by paying the cost themselves so that they could know what had happened as soon as possible.

It was both because of their curiosity and because they hoped to brace for the worst situations as quickly as possible. After all, if they stayed in space, they probably couldn't return if anything happened on the ground. After the energy ran out, they would become floating corpses in space. For similar reasons, most of the researchers who were unmarried did not leave the Allyn magic tower.

”Heidi, you've discovered a new particle?” The discussion about the two suns had been going on for a whole afternoon and a dinner. So, Layria couldn't help but change the subject, asking about Heidi's discovery.

Looking at her friends' sparkling eyes, Heidi smiled in satisfaction. ”After repetitive confirmation, it's a new particle that is different from any known particles. Its mass is about two hundred times that of electrons, and it is very fast.”

”A new particle? Does the number of fundamental particles not agree with the principle of simplicity?” Many arcanists believed in the philosophy that the more fundamental, the more simplistic, just like the amazing ”symmetry” that existed everywhere. Rock took off his black top hat and asked in confusion.

”We can only respect the experiment results for now. Maybe, fundamental principles are not fundamental?” Heidi spoke while she looked at the clock on the wall of the laboratory. She exclaimed, ”It's the time for Arcana Voice!”

She seemed to prefer Arcana Voice to News of the World.

Rock said with mixed feelings, ”Possibly. Right, did you receive feedback from the truth of the world after the discovery of the new particle?”

”Very abundant feedback.” Having always been straightforward, Heidi replied with a brilliant smile.

”Hehe. Heidi, haven't you been complaining that you never won the prizes like the Holm Crown Prize? The discovery of the new particle will probably fulfill your wish.” Katrina was happy for her friend.

Heidi shook her head and said, not too expectantly, ”I don't think the discovery of a new particle deserves any, unless it's a very important one, like what Ms. Hathaway predicted, or if the particle is discovered through a new approach. I'd better wait for the breakthrough in artificial intelligence.”

”Is it not the particle that Ms. Hathaway predicted?” Both Annick and Katrina were surprised. From the properties measured so far, the new particle was quite similar to the meson that Ms. Hathaway predicted.

Heidi sniffed. ”We can only know the result by testing if it participates in the strong interaction. For now, we can only assume that it is not.”

She was certainly not entirely unaffected after her friends won the highest prizes in different fields, but it did not stop her from making the rational choice. She was more and more confident about the future of artificial intelligence, and she believed that she would win a certain highest prize, and maybe even an Evans Prize in Arcana, for that.

In the middle of their discussion, weird noises came out of the magic radio and caught their attention.

”Dear audience, dear audience, this is 'Arcana Voice'. Now, I would like to announce a piece of breaking news…”

Heidi and her friends immediately became solemn after Nightingale's voice came out. The only thing that deserved such interruption could be the special phenomenon of two suns during the day!