Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 612 The Giant Faraday Cage

The Faraday cage is a protective shielding device invented by physicist Michael Faraday; simply put, it is a metal cage.

These metal cages are not difficult to make, but that's only true for smaller sizes.

Manufacturing such a massive Faraday cage is actually quite complicated; the distribution of the reinforcing steel bars must be planned in advance during the concrete pouring process.

The main function of the Faraday cage is to prevent electromagnetic interference, and it is generally only used in experiments with very high-end precision equipment. Castells' research progress is still far behind.

Why go to the trouble of building such a massive Faraday cage here?

"My lord, you've arrived!"

As soon as he entered the testing ground and the gate behind him closed, Hughes saw Richard, who was also full of excitement, coming to greet him.

"I can't believe it actually worked today! I just got here from the hospital and received this good news shortly after!"

"Don't get excited, let me start from the beginning, no need to rush," Hughes said with a smile, following Richard towards a huge metal device in front of him. "I remember you mentioned last time that you encountered some strange interference during your electrical experiment, right?"

"Yes! I followed your method to cut the magnetic field lines with a coil, but no matter how I controlled the rotation speed and other variables, the generated current kept fluctuating!"

"This fluctuation will seriously affect our research."

"I remember that these fluctuations can be recorded and analyzed?"

“Yes, and it’s not difficult to analyze, but,” Richard’s face showed a hint of fear, “but the analysis results are completely incomprehensible, and they come with a lot of pollution. One of our researchers went insane after just one look at it. That’s the incident I reported to you last time.”

“Meeve, I know her.” Hughes nodded heavily. He had been following this matter for a long time and had also participated in the investigation.

She was a native of Castel, graduated from the advanced class with outstanding grades, and was exceptionally admitted to the research institute. She had a bright future ahead of her, but who knew that she would fall here.

This was Castells' first person to go mad because of his research.
Neither Richard nor the other researchers could have predicted this accident.

It's important to know that Maeve is not a superhuman, but an ordinary person.

Ordinary people have an advantage that is difficult for extraordinary people to match when conducting research: they have a higher resistance to pollution.

Pollution is a rather peculiar thing; the more you know about it, the easier it is to be contaminated, which is known as the cognitive barrier.

Ordinary people's understanding of pollution is limited to knowing its various characteristics, while extraordinary people are bound to come into contact with the sea of ​​ignorance, in which knowledge floats. Knowledge and pollution are two sides of the same coin.

Therefore, superhumans who have personally come into contact with pollution have a much weaker resistance to it than ordinary people, and their cognitive barriers to it have basically disappeared.

In Castells, however, the situation is different.

For some reason, Hughes's resistance to pollution seemed to affect the area around him. From Castells to Blood Harbor and then to the outside world, people's resistance to pollution gradually weakened.

In other words, the Castel people were less susceptible to pollution and erosion.

Given so many conditions, it was actually a relatively low-risk thing for Castells' mortal researchers to come into contact with the contamination. No one expected that Maeve would go crazy the moment she saw the information on the paper.

How is she?

"She's still the same as before, she's completely lost her mind. We have to restrain her. She's still in the hospital, and there's no treatment available at the moment."

Hughes sighed.

Scientific research is always accompanied by accidents and sacrifices, but I never expected it to happen so quickly. "What happened to that note with the information?"

"Only the wreckage remained, it seemed to be charred, and the contents on it were unrecognizable. From then on, analyzing the information in the current became a strictly prohibited matter."

"Even so, research on electric current has stalled. The strange fluctuations in electric current, even without analysis, will slowly pollute and erode anyone who gets close to the current and studies it. Moreover, there is a certain probability that it will lead to cognitive interference, which can be said to be extremely dangerous."

"I've heard of evil spirits residing in electric currents before, but I never imagined it would be this dangerous. I should have gone to check it out first."

Hughes possesses a golden throne and the ability to purify pollution. His physical body may be damaged, but he has never encountered anything that could affect his soul.

Even if the evil god himself came to talk to him, it's hard to say who would go crazy first.

"Please don't say such things again. We would never risk losing you under any circumstances, my lord. You are far too important to Castel."

Richard's expression turned serious.

Indeed, if something happens to Hughes, aside from everything else, those secret societies that openly or secretly worship him as a god will probably go crazy on the spot, and it's hard to say whether the whole of Castel will fall into turmoil or even split up. Hughes is now the soul of Castel.

Even the most powerful and influential figures have to take a backseat.

Hughes waved his hand: "Let's not talk about that now. Was it resolved later?"

"Solved! Your method has proven to be quite effective!"

At this, Richard visibly became excited, looking at Hughes with admiration: "How did you come up with this? It's amazing! This 'Faraday cage' can actually isolate evil things in the electric current!"

Because of the evil elements present in electric currents, people in this world are almost unable to study them.

Even if they set up a test site at great cost, they could not obtain data that was not disturbed. People in this world might even think that electric current is supposed to be unstable, simply because they have never seen it without interference.

If they don't even realize they're being interfered with, how can they possibly develop a Faraday cage to shield against interference?

Richard looked at Hughes, feeling an indescribable shock and awe. How had his lord discovered this?

He didn't even dare to think about it too deeply.

Hughes realized that building a Faraday cage was actually quite simple.

After hearing about Maeve's situation, I realized something was wrong.

Such strange fluctuations in the current were definitely not normal. Any engineer on Earth has basic knowledge of magnetism and electricity, so he immediately suspected that there was some kind of interference.

Considering the idea that "evil things exist in electric current," he had a bold conjecture.

Perhaps the evil that exists is not in the electricity, but in the air of this world.

For example, electromagnetic waves.

Hughes suspected that there were electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency in the air that would affect the magnetic field, and further cause changes in the current induced in the magnetic field.

Although he didn't know in what form the evil god of this world existed, if it involved shielding electromagnetic waves, Hughes had a definitive answer:

Faraday cage.

(End of this chapter)