Shadow of the Beautiful World

Putting on a silver-white quantum suit, Merlin sat in a quantum periscope like a small submarine.

He looked curiously at the complicated control panel of this instrument. In a space the size of a car cab, there were nearly a hundred buttons and switches densely packed.

The quantum tunnel will start in 10 seconds, please get ready.

Howard Stark's serious voice sounded in the completely isolated tunnel area.

The front of the periscope is only 10 meters, and the lights of the Quantum Tunnel, which looks like a quadrilateral awl, are turned on row by row, illuminating the small closed area ahead.

Several navigation lights inside the layer-coupled tunnels flickered, as if a plane had entered the runway and was about to take off.

When the transparent hatch was slowly closing, Merlin, holding the helmet in his hand, suddenly said to Old Pym with a serious expression beside him:

You call this process 'diving'? It's like sinking into the sea?

When you were sleeping with the female robot next to you, didn't she take the time to explain the diving process of this theory to you?

After the transformation of old Pim's true feelings at that moment, he returned to his previous indifferent personality.

He had an expression on his face that one couldn't help but want to beat him up. While turning on several switches deftly, he looked at the data on the periscope console.

He said:

Or you seem to know everything, but you don't understand?

She explained, and I really didn't understand much.

Merlin was not angry either, he said frankly:

I'm not interested in these high-tech gadgets. If it weren't for the existence of magic that goes deep into the quantum world, I wouldn't sit here and take risks with an old man destined to go to hell.

Then think of it as diving into the sea.

Dr. Pym's movements stopped, he looked at Merlin, and said with a hint of disgust:

It's very troublesome to explain this question to an ignorant person like you. Fasten your seat belts, put on your helmet, and we're leaving.

You said that entering the quantum world will cause great oppression to the spirit. I want to experience it.

Merlin, without his helmet on, said:

You have your experiment, and I have mine, let's start, don't worry about me.

Old Pym didn't try to persuade him any more, he put his finger on the silver push rod, and under the vibration of the periscope engine, the hourglass with dark red Pym particles, which was placed above the operating table, started to operate.

A white periscope moves forward along the tunnel.

The starting speed was very fast. In Merlin's perception, a special force field spread around the instrument, causing the entire periscope to shrink rapidly.

It was an indescribable experience.

The magical Pym particles are rapidly reducing the distance between atoms, shrinking it as a whole without destroying the structure of the instrument.

And the bodies of the two drivers sitting in it are also shrinking synchronously.

Merlin could feel the atoms in his body being compressed, and this process of compression was accompanied by pain. Basically, as the heavenly father, he could also feel the severe pain coming from every part of his body.

It was as if there were a pair of invisible hands rubbing plasticine, continuously compressing his whole body.

Physical pain is secondary, and mental stress is more real.

Lord Raven can feel that even the magic power in his body is being compressed, and the soul carried by the body is also being reshaped.

It's as if the liquid soul is also changing with the change of the body.

Enduring the migraine-like experience, he looked outside the periscope. In the high-speed changing flash, this submarine-like instrument was shrinking every second.

The 10-meter-long tunnel in front of him has not changed. Compared with the two, the tunnel that seemed narrow before is becoming more and more empty in front of Merlin's eyes.

He looked back.

At this time, the distance from the entrance of the Quantum Tunnel is only about 5 meters, but compared to the extent that the periscope has shrunk to the size of a finger, it seems that this instrument has already traveled hundreds of meters.

At this moment, the concept of size becomes vague and weird. In the state of rapidly shrinking body, the whole world begins to take on another appearance.

“What an amazing experience”

Lord Raven couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The old Pym beside the Maharaja has been observing Merlin's changes. Once the Maharaja reacts strongly, he will help him put on the helmet of the quantum suit as soon as possible.

As the inventor of Pym particles, he knows very well that if Pym particles are used without a battle suit system, the power acting on the atomic level will bring terrible pain to the human body.

The simultaneous stress on both physical and mental levels will destroy the mental system of a normal human being in an instant.

Even if they survived by luck, they will suffer from terrible sequelae.

But Merlin's expression was very natural, he could bear that kind of pressure and looked relaxed.

What a monster!

Old Pym complained in his heart.

As a result, at the same moment, Lord Raven's voice sounded in the periscope cabin, and he said calmly:

You slander me in your heart, and I can hear it. Every time you scold me, you will suffer more pain after going to hell. Remind me again, hell is under my control.

Well?

Old Pym's expression changed under the black helmet, he coughed a few times, and then reminded loudly:

Atomic state in 2 seconds, you'd better wear a helmet.

It's okay, continue.

Raven shook his hand, he sat in the periscope that was about to shrink to the atomic state, he stared at the light that was starting to blur in front of him.

When he was about to break through the boundary between the normal world and the microscopic world, he could feel that an invisible wall was ahead.

It is like a water surface shining with waves, separating the two worlds.

This is the barrier of the world dimension, which is presented in front of Lord Raven in an extremely rare manner, and it is different from all the dimensional barriers he has seen before.

Crash ready!

As he approached the barrier, Old Pym's tone became serious.

In the next second, the white periscope hit the invisible barrier, like a falling object passing through the water surface, hitting a wave on the water surface, and then entering the underwater world.

At this moment, the shrinking speed of the Pym particles suddenly accelerated hundreds of times.

Merlin's pressure also increased in vain, and the shining light spots of the power of vanity enveloped the Maharaja's body, relieving his pressure.

The periscope has shrunk down to the size of an atom. After entering the microscopic world, the world before Merlin's eyes has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

The light still shone behind them, like light from the surface of a star.

The world in front of him was pitch black, and there were some radiant particles dancing in the darkness. This scene made Maharaja unexpectedly think of the stars, the stars in the deep space.

so similar.

Those radiant light clusters are like the sea of ​​stars in the deep sky, and the shrinking periscope is like an aircraft traveling in the sea of ​​stars.

Right in front of the periscope is a particle shining with a strange luster. There are fine electric arcs entangled on the surface of the particle. Its shape is still changing, and it is constantly enlarged in front of Merlin's eyes.

It's like a planet with its own life, swallowing nutrients, expanding and shrinking.

The truth of science is interoperable, and those who study the mysteries of the universe will never miss the investigation of the microcosm.

Old Pim probably saw the pensive expression on Lord Raven's face. In this world of only two people, he suddenly said:

Because the smallest is the largest, in the microscopic world, the activities of these particles will reveal the mystery of the universe for us.

Indeed, it's like a deep space of stars.

Merlin lifted his finger, and the vanity light shining on the fingertips and the magic power all had a strange transformation.

The continuous light becomes a jumping magical element in this world.

It's like electric arcs appearing one second before and disappearing the next second, and it's like the original gorgeous picture has been reduced to an infinite magnification and entered pixelation.

The magic activity is no longer continuous.

It's like a group of mosaics that can't be seen clearly.

Maharaja said:

Even the magic power is affected, it's amazing.

I'm basically sure now!

Looking at the ever-enlarging jumping particles in front of me, looking at the white voids emerging from the surface of the particles, the entangled structure like fibers, and the ever-enlarging details.

Merlin said to old Pym beside him:

Magic power also exists in the quantum world, but it is a world that all magicians have never explored. This trip is quite right. Maybe I can try to experience and master that unknown power.

whispering sound.

As the shrinking periscope continued to merge into the surface of the particle, Old Pym snorted disdainfully, and said:

I hate you pragmatists the most. You are constantly pursuing power. When you see something new, you want to conquer and use it, but you ignore the more essential truth. Knowledge! Knowledge is the source of power.

You don't even know the basics of quantum mechanics, so I'm just curious, how do you master the more obscure power?

You don't have to worry about that.

Maharaja Shi Shiran waved his hand, he stroked the Book of Raven on his waist, and said:

Technology is just one way to understand the truth. I take another path to the truth. I have my own method.

As soon as Merlin finished speaking, the periscope fell into the beating particles, just like the previous method of entering the microscopic world from the real world, the periscope kept shrinking at a speed a hundred times faster than before.

It went subatomic, and then smaller, smaller.

After shrinking enough to enter the nucleus, a new world suddenly appeared in front of Merlin and old Pym.

A stiller world.

Go to the second stage of Quantum Sea.

There are no particles in the darkness, replaced by strange things like rotating glass.

They exist in a very orderly manner in the dark background, carrying out indescribable activities over and over again.

The faint light continuously peels off from the center, spreads out in a reversed posture, and then suddenly gathers, like a beating heart, and like a mechanically active engine.

The world inside the atom, which reminds me of the first law of thermodynamics. Everything in the universe is neither created nor destroyed.

Look, Merlin, this is the truth that makes up all energy movements.

It was also the first time for Old Pim to see such a scene.

At this moment, looking at the indescribably magnificent things in front of him, he said in a daze:

It represents transfer.

All the things you see, every ounce of energy that makes them will not be wasted. After they collapse, they will become part of other things.

Maybe it's fish swimming in the abyss, maybe it's microbes, even the 'magic power' in your body that I can't understand will burn in a supernova explosion among the stars after tens of billions of years.

In the dead darkness, the periscope moved towards the constantly moving light, and old Pym's hoarse voice reached Merlin's ears.

He seemed to be sighing, but also seemed to be describing a certain truth in his eyes.

He said:

And every particle that now makes up our bodies was once part of something else, cumulonimbus clouds, solar storms, lunar halos, even those behemoths in the universe beyond our comprehension.

Thousands of beautiful creatures, just like us fear death, all the heat dissipates and collapses

Old Pym uttered philosophy extended from science. He touched his wrinkled fingers and said:

But our death always gives life to other things

Death will make new life, we will be part of something else, it will be a new journey, although it has nothing to do with us.

I hope it will be a happy new life

Old Pym sighed suddenly, and he remained silent.

Raven Lord beside him rubbed his forehead with his fingers, relieving the increasingly heavy pressure, he said:

I don't understand it, but I can probably understand it.

Using the teachings of ancient druids to explain, it is probably a cycle

All secrets, all truths, our existence itself, are cycles. And you and I are just part of this great cycle, I am with it and we are it.

Narrow view of the world!

Old Pym snorted disdainfully, and said:

The universe will eventually return to heat death. The so-called cycle is just an illusion that you magicians use to deceive yourself.

But the next cosmic epoch will be born in the big bang after the heat death, and the cycle of life and death will be extremely real at that moment.

Merlin also responded disdainfully:

Don't ask me how I know, I just know, Pym

I don't know anything about science, I'm not as ignorant as you think, so if you despise me like you're talking to a gorilla, I'll beat you up!

In the quarrel that finally broke out between the two, the second stage leading to the Quantum Sea was finally completed.

They fell into the world of quarks, they went beyond the boundaries of science and into the unknown.

After the periscope fell into the original halo, a new world appeared in front of Pym and Merlin.

Light.

Light once again burst out in the most microcosmic darkness, even the bright Merlin couldn't open his eyes.

It is a colorful and dazzling world.

A living, incomparably living world!

Quantum Sea

Merlin stared blankly at the colorful new world in front of him, a weird magic power different from reality appeared in his perception, in that indescribable perception.

He clasped his hands and said softly:

Ava

Brother is here.

Beside him, Old Pym also clasped his fingers, and he said in a voice that only he and Lord Raven could hear:

Jennifer

I'm here to pick you up!