After a long talk with Lin Ran all night, Feng Qi was arranged to live in the room next to Lin Ran.

In the next few days, Feng Qi had a general understanding of the Hupo Research Institute's sub-base.

This is one of the many sub-bases of Hupo Research Institute in Xingcheng. It ranks eighth in the authority level and is also called Hupo No. 8 Base, which is mainly responsible for the research of magic.

This base is now managed by the deputy director of the magic group.

Lin Ran is the leader of the magic group 2 of this base. He has a magic research team of 38 people under him and also has three laboratories belonging to his group in this base.

Although he has no real power, Lin Ran's status in the base is unquestionable.

Through Lin Ran's narration, Feng Qi quickly understood the general situation of this sub-base.

Since he had just joined Hupo Research Institute and was still in the internship period, he did not participate in any test experiments of skills and magic in the past few days.

During this period, Lin Ran submitted a letter of recommendation to the Scarlet Executives.

He hoped that he could join the magic research group.

But the reply from the Scarlet Executives surprised Feng Qi and Lin Ran.

The response from the top management of Scarlet was that they hoped Lin Ran would tap into his talent in magic research and try to conduct research in magic.

The top management of Tiger Soul seemed to be intent on transferring capable talents to the magic department.

This behavior coincided with Feng Qi's guess.

He felt that it was very likely that the domain forces behind the scenes were controlling the Tiger Soul Research Institute and letting human geniuses study the magic they needed for free.

Next, they decided to investigate this aspect.

On this day, Feng Qi followed Lin Ran to the No. 3 magic laboratory as usual.

The magic laboratory was completely different from the scientific research laboratory of Scarlet Research Institute.

The venue of each laboratory was the size of a basketball court.

The furnishings inside were very complicated. The walls were covered with red and yellow talismans used to block the overflow of spiritual energy, and the floor underfoot was also made of special magic-forbidden stones produced by the domain field.

The layout here was designed to minimize the power of magic.

The process of studying magic is full of instability, and explosions are more likely to occur.

Sometimes unstable magic can also cause the caster to be backfired by spiritual energy.

Therefore, the first thing to ensure in the experimental test site is the personal safety of the magic researcher and limit the power of the magic.

Only the magic that has passed the preliminary test in the laboratory can be taken to the outside world for subsequent testing and updating.

In addition to various forbidden decorations, there are many instruments in the laboratory.

For example, the aura detector and the spiritual energy detector.

These two machines can detect the purity and quality of the aura of the magic released in the room, and better assist in the improvement and research of the magic.

In addition, there are magic trajectory recorders, magic fluctuation value detectors, and data correction instruments.

Among them, what attracted Feng Qi's attention was the metal nutrition warehouse placed in the corner of the laboratory, which refracted the black luster under the light.

After asking Lin Ran, he learned that this instrument is the latest scientific research product of the Scarlet Research Institute, the "virtual experimental warehouse".

The function is to simulate the real environment to simulate the release of magic, and the internal virtual system can also record the details of the release of magic in real time.

But in Lin Ran's words, the simulation effect of this virtual game warehouse is not ideal and is rarely used.

After listening to Lin Ran's explanation, Feng Qi was very surprised.

The technology of virtual future had been initially perfected long before he crossed over.

And Scarlet Research Institute has conducted many virtual reality simulation experiments, and the effect is unexpectedly good.

For this reason, Scarlet Research Institute has connected with Future Research Institute, and is ready to build a virtual game warehouse super factory outside Star City after obtaining relevant technology, and produce high-end virtual game warehouses on an assembly line to lay out the future.

But from Lin Ran's explanation.

After so many years, virtual technology has not only not made progress, but has regressed.

But after thinking about it carefully, he figured out the reason.

Obviously, the virtual technology released by Scarlet Research Institute is a castrated version.

The complete version must not be released to the public.

Doing so can test the promotion effect of virtual technology while covering up a series of virtual technology research carried out by Scarlet Research Institute.

After all, actions such as building a super factory will definitely attract the attention of external forces.

But as long as all parties believe that virtual technology will not pose a threat, this research can continue.

Everything is for safety considerations.

This semi-finished high-end virtual warehouse is obviously a smokescreen released by Scarlet Research Institute.

Entering the laboratory, he and Lin Ran came to the data control console and called up the magic test video from a few days ago to watch.

At this moment, a dialogue request popped up on a screen in front of the console.

Feng Qi saw this and immediately connected the video call.

A man in a base security uniform suddenly appeared on the screen, and he said at this time:

"Team Leader Lin, here is your express package."

Lin Ran, who was sitting next to Feng Qi, heard it and nodded immediately:

"Send it to the laboratory."

After hanging up the video call and waiting for a long time, the security staff carrying the express box came to Laboratory No. 3.

He put the express box down, said hello and turned away.

Feng Qi picked up the express box at this time, and saw that the sender column was filled with "Scarlet Research Institute".

"Memory Clearing Potion?" Lin Ran, who was standing aside, asked curiously.

"Well, it shouldn't be wrong."

After removing the packaging outside the express box, they saw a black metal box in front of them.

At the top of the metal box, there is also a fingerprint unlocking button.

Feng Qi is not unfamiliar with this.

This type of metal box is used when the Scarlet Research Institute transports special items.

The box must be opened in a specific way, such as fingerprint, iris recognition, blood recognition, etc.

If you try to break the box violently with non-specific means, the inside of the box will enter a self-destruct state, and the highly acidic substances extracted from the domain creatures will destroy everything inside.

Feng Qi then extended his index finger and pressed it on the fingerprint detection area.

"Click!"

With a crisp metal collision sound, a metal cylinder slowly rose from the center of the metal box, and the cold air rose.

When the ice mist dissipated, what appeared in front of them was a glass container the size of a Coke bottle.

It was filled with purple translucent liquid, and countless small black dots could be seen suspended in the liquid, which was really weird.

Under the glass container, there was also an instruction manual.

After picking up the instruction manual and checking it, he handed it to Lin Ran:

"There are 500 milliliters of memory clearing liquid in the glass container. According to 20 hours of memory per milliliter, this bottle of volume can eliminate all your memories within a year."

After listening to Feng Qi's explanation, Lin Ran, who had never been exposed to biotechnology, was curious and then opened the instruction manual to check it out.

"You look first, I'll put the box away."

As he said that, Feng Qi stood up and pressed the metal cylinder containing the "memory clearing liquid" back into the box.

"Click!"

The metal hit sounded, and the box locked automatically.

At the same time, the three lights on it turned green, and it entered the refrigerated storage mode.

Picking up the metal box, he walked straight out of the laboratory and came to his room, then stuffed the metal box under the bed.

With this memory clearing potion, he no longer had to worry about the content of his communication with Lin Ran being known by the Lord of the Mist.

But to be on the safe side, he decided to let Lin Ran try the effect of the potion tonight.

After the treatment, he returned to the laboratory again.

At this time, Lin Ran was still looking through the manual, and seemed to be very interested in this technology.

He came to the control panel and sat down.

Just as he was about to speak, his mobile phone vibrated.

After taking out the mobile phone from his pocket, it showed "Wang Yi".

Realizing that this was a call from the Lord of the Mist, Feng Qi immediately gave Lin Ran a look, and Lin Ran nodded in understanding.

After the call was connected, the voice of the Lord of Mist came from the other end of the phone:

"Is it convenient for Fang to talk?"

"There's no one around me, go ahead."

"I have made progress in my research on the miracle bracelet, come back when you are free."

Hearing this, he was stunned.

The miracle bracelet was the first miracle item he and the Lord of Mist got in this timeline.

But unlike the bloodstone.

The miracle bracelet will not create derivatives in real time, and it cannot be activated and used without a specific method.

It is just guessed from the way the humanoid leader uses it that it may be related to the power of summoning ancestors.

So far, they have not been able to study how to use the miracle bracelet.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Lord of Mist has always focused on the bloodstone and has not paid too much attention to the miracle bracelet.

He didn't expect that the Lord of Mist had cracked the mystery of the miracle bracelet just a few days after he left.

Thinking of this, he immediately said:

"I understand. I'll take a leave tonight and come back."

"Okay, I'll wait for you at the old place."

After hanging up the phone, he turned to look at Lin Ran:

"Team leader, I need a leave tonight."

"Brother Qi, is it the call from the Lord of Mist? What happened?"

"Remember I told you about the miracle items?"

"Remember, especially the bloodstone you described, which simply violates the law of conservation of energy and can continuously create pure blood stones without reducing mass."

"And the little black you described, the characteristic of almost ignoring all damage is really outrageous."

Feng Qi nodded at this time:

"This time the Lord of Mist should have mastered the use of the miracle bracelet. I have to go back to find out the details. This is a relatively important intelligence, which may be of great help to another."

"Understood, your leave request has been approved by the team leader." Lin Ran smiled and nodded.

...

After lunch in the evening, Feng Qi changed into casual clothes and left the Hupo branch base.

He took a taxi along the way and went straight to a hotel in the northern district of Xingcheng.

After he and the Lord of Mist came to Star City, they stayed in this hotel waiting for an opportunity to contact the Tiger Soul Research Institute.

A moment later, he came to the door of the Lord of Mist's room.

After pressing the button at the door, the door was opened soon.

Following the Lord of Mist into the room, he sat down on the sofa beside him, and then looked up at the Lord of Mist.

The Lord of Mist did not speak, but raised his right hand at this time.

Blood mist began to spurt out from his palm, and finally turned into a blood ball.

When the blood ball dispersed, a bracelet made of green streamers floated above his palm.

"I already understand the effect of the miracle bracelet. Its use is related to faith."

"What do you mean? Explain it in detail."

Faced with the inquiry, a smile appeared on the face of the Lord of Mist, and then he asked:

"Do you believe that there are gods in this world?"

"No, in my eyes, the pillar gods you mentioned are just high-dimensional life, not omnipotent gods. Even if there are gods, I don't believe they will protect mortals."

Believers always say that gods appear at certain times, and even say that there are eyes and noses, such as glowing statues, gods appearing in dreams, and so on.

But he never believes it.

Since there are gods who save people from suffering, why didn't they appear when the domain invaded?

Why didn't they come out to save people from suffering when human cities were plagued by domain creatures, and countless creatures were brutally killed and displaced?

Why does the omniscient and omnipotent god who saves people from suffering always not appear at critical moments?

But he always appears mysteriously when it is not important.

In the end, it was the soldiers on the front line who dispersed the domain field and fought bloody battles.

They built the Great Wall with their flesh and blood, went to the battle to die one after another, guarded the last line of defense of mankind, and built the current five major cities.

He does not exclude humans from believing in gods.

Even if the gods are illusory, they are the spiritual sustenance of a few people in this era, bringing them expectations for the future and letting them live in hope.

But for him, gods are just decorations enshrined in temples.

In his eyes, the pioneers who fought bloody battles to protect human civilization are the true gods.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the Lord of Mist:

"Old Mist, why are you suddenly talking to me about gods? Is this related to the miracle bracelet?"

"Yes." The Lord of Mist nodded immediately, and then continued:

"I was bored these days, so I wanted to learn more about the structure of human society, so I wandered around the north of the city, and ended up visiting a temple. At this time, I found that the miracle bracelet actually reacted..."

Listening to the Lord of Mist's story, Feng Qi gradually understood the situation.

According to the Lord of Mist's description, when he entered the temple, he found that the miracle bracelet actually reacted to the statues that were worshiped.

He was very puzzled about this.

So he started an investigation.

As a result, he found a strange thing. He found that the miracle bracelet seemed to be able to absorb some energy from those statues.

This energy is completely different from spiritual energy, extremely difficult to perceive, and does not radiate energy fluctuations outward.

So he started to study this energy.

For this reason, he also looked through the human mythology collection on the Internet.

It turns out that this form of energy is recorded in myths and is called "faith".

This is a pure spiritual power.

In the description of myths, this power is a tribute to the "gods" and can be eaten by the gods.

The Lord of the Mist sneered at human gods.

He felt that if humans were really blessed by gods, they would not be in such an embarrassing situation now.

But "faith" is a kind of energy that can be explained from a scientific point of view.

It is a special energy that is gathered by pure spiritual power, and this special form of spiritual energy body cannot be used in the normal way of absorbing energy.

From this perspective, the Lord of the Mist started to study the miracle bracelet.

After many attempts, he finally understood how to use the miracle bracelet.

The function of the miracle bracelet is actually to use the power of faith to bless yourself.

The method of use is actually not difficult.

First, you need to build a statue for yourself, and then place a wisp of your consciousness and pure blood in the statue.

As long as this statue is worshipped by believers, it can absorb the power of faith of the worshipers.

The function of the green bracelet is to summon the power of faith to yourself regardless of the distance, greatly enhancing your various abilities.

The shadow behind the humanoid leader that we met on the Black Zetsu Island was actually its "body of faith".

After listening to the explanation of the Lord of Mist, Feng Qi suddenly understood.

When the shadow appeared behind the humanoid leader, its tribesmen knelt down to worship. At that time, they guessed that this might be the power of summoning ancestors, and this was worshiping ancestors.

Now it seems that this is obviously not the case.

In fact, the humanoid leader made himself a god in the tribe, absorbing the power of the tribesmen's faith to strengthen himself.

After understanding the effect, he was a little surprised

that the ability of the miracle bracelet seemed to him to be incomparable to other miracle items, and the effect was really a bit useless.

At this time, the Lord of Mist continued:

"By the way, I also found something strange during the testing phase. When I tried to worship my own idol, I found that my spiritual consciousness had a secondary connection with my body, and I could even transmit power to myself through the idol."

"What does secondary connection with the body mean?"

"It means that I use the miracle bracelet to transmit power to the idol, and the idol then uses the power of the miracle bracelet to transmit this part of power to me. The miracle bracelet uses the idol as a transit station and can transmit power and ability to believers who have established a spiritual connection with the idol."

"This is somewhat similar to the way of borrowing divine power in human mythology."

After listening to the Lord of Mist's explanation, Feng Qi suddenly understood.

After listening to the Lord of Mist's explanation, he learned that the miracle bracelet has only four functions.

1. Ignore the distance and absorb the power of believers' faith in oneself.

2. Ignore the distance and establish a spiritual connection with believers.

3. Ignore the distance and transmit your own power to believers.

4. Ignore the distance and manipulate the power of faith that has been obtained to bless oneself.

At this time, he suddenly thought of something.

Believe in yourself?

If he established a faith connection with his other self, would he be able to gain the power of his other self regardless of distance and space?

With the characteristics of miracle items, he felt that it might be possible.

After all, the characteristics of miracle items are beyond common sense.

There is no miracle item whose effect can be explained by theory.

Thinking of this, his heart was filled with ripples.

Blood source, purple soul, telekinesis... If he could borrow the power of another him, every sacrifice line in the future would be smoother, and maybe even the narration could be borrowed for use.

But these ideas were just his guesses.

Whether the miracle bracelet can cross space, time, and distance to obtain the power of another him is completely unknown.

He on this timeline obviously couldn't prove whether this guess is feasible.

If he wants to try to test it, he must let another him have the miracle bracelet.

Then build a statue so that he can establish a spiritual connection with his statue in the way of a "believer".

Then the other him can use the miracle bracelet as a transit station to transfer power to himself.

Thinking of this, his eyes looking at the miracle bracelet changed.

Just as he was thinking about how to get the miracle bracelet, he saw the Lord of the Mist grab the miracle bracelet and throw it to him:

"I have researched the function of this thing for you. You can decide how to use it in the future."

"I recommend that you develop believers, and then use the power of the believers' faith to make yourself stronger. Occasionally, you can also lend some power to believers to make them more determined in your faith."

"Give this thing to me?"

Feng Qi was stunned when he saw the miracle bracelet in his hand.

"You and I each have one. I said that in the future, what I have will definitely be yours."

As he said this, a bright smile appeared on the face of the Lord of the Mist.