From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 221 Volcano

First of all, the thick smoke environment on the crater greatly affects the trolls' naked-eye observation ability;

Secondly, monsters in the magma rarely get out of the molten lake, which seriously slows down the execution efficiency of this exploration activity.

So up to this point, although the entire team has been here for a while, the results obtained are really limited.

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On a certain mountain pass in the active volcano group, two trolls were partnering with each other to perform a mission.

The mission requirement on the summit is for them to record the number and size of lava monsters in this magma lake.

The two of them took turns to rest and work, and kept writing and drawing carefully with pen and paper, but in the end they had nothing to show off, and they couldn't even tell how many monsters they wrote down.

Finally, one of the trolls began to change his mind. He closed his eyes and tried to distinguish them purely by listening.

Although I don't know if he really thinks this method will work, or if he just wants to be lazy.

But it doesn't matter, because this troll really thought of something.

The environment filled with volcanic smoke seemed to sharpen his hearing;

Some weird feelings came intermittently from the crater in front of me, and even from other craters hundreds of meters away.

"I have the same feeling. A large part of the infrasound signal seems to come from five hundred kilometers away, and the number of monsters in it is different every time. It's like taking turns to take a vacation? What if those signals are really

's word for monster."

Although they had thought that there might be many monsters in a volcano, the trolls had never thought before that there could be so many.

Therefore, they did not go directly to the scene to help, but submitted it to the parliament for discussion, making this issue officially enter the eyes of all witch doctors.

And these are basically sound sources that he cannot distinguish.

Based on the few pieces of sample data that the exploration team had barely decomposed, the support team compared and searched in the "snowflake screen", trying to distinguish all similar sound sources of the same type.

"Hush, wait a minute."

Of course, for these species, it is enough to just remember one racial area value. There is no need or energy to memorize special individuals separately.

Feeling interesting, Nesta began to try to give them a body shape in meditation, putting a layer of skin on the sound signals from where they originated;

Soon, Azshara, Fang, Big Fang, Cui Wenli, Drow and other trolls appeared in his meditation, and made various actions under the control of Nesta.

Therefore, the word ‘suspected’ is always used in the report to provide an accurate description.

After all, trolls have evolved into a visual species, and no matter how keen their hearing is, especially in such extremely deep and far-reaching situations, they cannot give them the sense of security that their 'vision' can bring.

Haha, how is it possible?

After all, neither party is a stubborn person. With nothing to do, the support team and the exploration team just looked for trouble and tried to move a few steps in this direction.

Ten kilometers, one hundred kilometers, five hundred kilometers, one thousand kilometers, unknown distance.

The ultra-low frequency signals that come from far away are all ultra-low frequency signals that fall outside the band to a certain extent, because those that do not meet this standard have been dissipated in the atmosphere on this long road;

As the distance gets closer, various infrasound signals become more and more complex, and the signals of various wave bands are mixed together and become "hairballs", making it almost impossible to distinguish.

But how should I put it? He always felt that certain qualities in the lake and even in the surrounding background sound brought a very familiar sense of trajectory. Just like the heartbeat of a living thing?

However, since you can’t do it yourself, let’s give it to someone above to try.

The news was transferred from one level to the next after repeated attempts, and was finally sent to Drow at the headquarters.

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The target, first of all, is the phenomenon of infrasound wave generation on the troll.

To this end, Nesta first created a closed space with six walls wrapped by low-pressure multi-layered walls to minimize the background noise in the experimental environment;

After arriving, the support team started working immediately, analyzing the acoustic signals that the exploration team could not analyze in detail.

At this point, the two trolls fell into a period of silence, and the only sound that belonged to them at the scene was the rustling sound of the special steel and wood pen tip scratching on the paper.

Of course, Azshara is the most agile among them, while the rest are a bit stiff, with a mechanical feel no matter how she frowns or smiles.

Or perhaps, there is also the roar of meteorites hitting the ground and the rushing of atmospheric turbulence high in the sky.

'But I only know a limited number of them, which is really a pity. In the future, I must experience all these phenomena.'

Looking through the report formed into a document chart, several witch doctors who got the news immediately seemed to think that this was something worth paying attention to.

After memorizing these many information samples, Nesta climbed to the top of the mother tree, found a wind chime meditation room here and got into it.

At this time, the infrasound environment that the team faced was like a snowflake screen on TV, with signals in countless frequency bands mixed in. They interfered with each other, forming an extremely complex background.

For example, they belong to each other, to the executives of the ruling government, to the top military officials, to the elf girls, to the talented young men in the Central School, and to the technical elites in the tribe.

By memorizing their infrasound bands, the four witch doctors can locate these special trolls within a range of at least two to three thousand kilometers;

Although this kind of positioning will be delayed due to the speed of sound, it is still much better than having nowhere to look when the situation is imminent.

Now, he only needs to find a quiet room in the mother tree, and he can make a more detailed distinction between the infrasound response inside the volcano based on the samples.

In addition, there are many "suspected life reactions" that suddenly appear in a fixed period of time, and then disappear again after a certain period of time, and so on;

But at the same time, there is another part of "suspected life" that always exists in the crater and some of the "surface" areas that can be explored.

Moreover, after having the team's specific sample data as a reference, with the ability he now possesses, he does not have to travel all the way to the volcanoes to make effective adjustments;

On the paper, in addition to a few relatively clear line segments, there are also many zigzag line segments that only start or end abruptly in the first half of the drawing.

"Please report it. This is beyond our capabilities. We can only let the witch doctors take action personally."

In the North, or other creatures in other areas, do they emit infrasound?

This kind of "emitting" does not refer to actively applying infrasound like speaking or using magic abilities;

And further below the earth's crust is a 'subcrust solid layer' whose depth cannot be determined even by witch doctors.

At the same time, this report also gave him another inspiration.

Based on the beating rhythm of infrasound, the team guessed it to be a 'life reaction', but what exactly is the life reaction in infrasound?

Is it the activity of the volcanic monster? Or is it the movement of the internal organs, if they have any?

Then, Nesta thought further, will our bodies emit infrasound?

Comparing the differences in the acoustic environment in the two scenes. After repeated experiments, he finally found the unique wave frequency;

At least, through the investigation of the witch doctors, it has been basically determined that beneath the sedimentary layer of the Black Forest Plain, there is a double-layered crustal structure with a thickness of about 120 kilometers.

With this involuntary emotion in his heart, Nesta began to refuse to read the sound signals one by one, and in turn stripped those waste signals that could not be used because there were no samples from the spiritual world;

In the end, only the signals from the compatriots who had just been recorded were left.

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Mother Tree Venue.

Time passed by, and when Nesta came back to his senses, he found that he had almost completely reproduced the overlooking view of the entire old and new city in the meditation space.

"That's good."

As for the right to privacy, let’s not say that the Republic’s awareness of private rights has not yet reached that point. Even if society progresses in the future, the protection of special trolls will continue;

If conditions permit, we will even change to a method that can achieve real-time positioning.

After that, they collected infrasound samples from existing living animals in the department;

Moreover, it seems that this is not the whole problem

"What's going on? The top of the mountain plus the base of the mountains below looks like it's only about three thousand meters long. Why does it sound like a bottomless pit?"

However, just the remaining part of the semaphore is already an extremely dense cluster.

Not long after, the professional infrasound analysis team under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Communications rushed to the southern exploration frontline on moose;

There, they first met the Director of Southern Exploration who was temporarily stationed here. After a brief exchange, the two parties headed towards the volcano group.

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If normal sound sounds like a beautiful rhythm connected in a line;

After having this idea, he temporarily put aside his plan to explore the volcano monster and decided to study this aspect first.

If it turns out that his conjecture is true, then future exploration of the four directions may not be so strenuous.

At least, he, Azshara and other three advanced people can use the distant infrasound signals to give relatively accurate instructions and tell the other trolls even if they are sitting in the headquarters or going to the northern or northeastern fortress.

We should move in that direction.

The team believes that the lava organisms previously observed may not be populations living in 'shallow' volcanic craters, or even in the base below;

Perhaps, the 'full liquid geological layer' located further down and extending to unknown places should be their real home base?

Of course, this would first require the exploration team to capture some living aliens so that they could have initial sample data.

However, the report submitted by the analysis team after visiting the volcano group changed this view to some extent;

Under the judgment of the support team of the Ministry of Communications, the matter returned to the ruling government again and was sent to several witch doctors in a roundabout way.

This nonsense speculation was not taken seriously at first, because if it came true, it would mean that there would be at least hundreds of monsters in the crater underfoot.

Nesta also participated in this meeting. At this time, he was in a trance with the report submitted by the communications team.

One of the drawings is a simulation of the terrain in the area, on which is drawn the hypothesis of the environment below the volcano that the analysis team deduced based on the acoustic feedback.

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After reading this pile of reports, Nesta became more interested in that volcano;

Of course, in fact, the team has not yet determined whether these are 'life reactions'. They just think it is possible based on their own knowledge.

After that, the wall was opened, a troll was brought in, and the wall was sealed and closed again to isolate the disturbance from external sound sources.

But Nesta didn't try to make any distinction at this time. He just quietly listened to these "balls of wool" and fell into fantasy.

Ah, the depth of this volcanic lake is unknown, and the number of creatures within it is unknown;

Including moose, all levels of wind and waves, black saber-toothed beasts, mountain giant bears, etc., none of them escaped the 'venomous hands' of the four advanced witch doctors.

In their observations, there was an extremely deep, fully liquid geological layer beneath the crater that exceeded the depth of the earth's crust.

I just wanted to find them first

"Do you think this could be the sound of a heartbeat?"

There are about five hundred trolls that I judge to be elites with great potential. Except for the densely packed group of witch doctors on the mother tree, the rest are distributed in various areas of the headquarters.

But this feeling was relatively vague. He wasn't sure whether he was 'listening' or not. Even if he leaned over and pressed his ears tightly against the rock wall of the mountain pass to listen carefully, what he received was still unclear.

It's just perception.

As a result, everyone found that after moving and comparing, it seemed that the guess was becoming more and more true.

He knew that some of these messages might come from the eruption of a distant volcano, and some might be the groaning of tectonic plates pushing together;

In the past, the troll infrasound was mixed with natural background sounds and did not attract his attention;

But starting from today, Nesta can classify and identify such signals.

The appearance of the world below the surface of this world seems to be roughly the same as that of the earth in previous lives;

After that, first record the acoustic environment displayed in this space when there is only one troll;

In the following months of analysis, calculation and re-acceptance, the two teams worked together to calibrate no less than a hundred approximate bands for the volcanic crater in front of them.

After they tried and succeeded, the four advanced witch doctors took action together and began to perform 'infrasound recognition and memory' on the most important group of trolls in the country.

After a long while, the troll with his eyes closed stopped writing, opened his eyes, looked at the polyline he had recorded in front of him, and fell into thought.

"What are you doing? Is there a signal?"

After that, Nesta began to restore the environment where they should exist now by relying on his memory. The mother tree, the executive office building, the military camp, and even the street and other exterior scenes also appeared as background panels.

After a while, under the strange gaze of his partner, he took out the paper from his arms, as well as a new type of 'composite dip-free pen' that can store dye at the end, and started drawing with the pen based on instinct.

It can be concluded from this that although it is unknown whether it originates from the internal organs, the existence of the troll itself does have the ability to emit infrasound, and this infrasound frequency band is roughly within the identification range represented by -8.

'this'

However, he found a little sense of familiarity, which was not enough. It seemed to be somewhat similar to the feeling he had when receiving infrasound signals?

The explorer, who had received popular science and knew the concept of "identifiable frequency band", tried to open the corresponding totem on his body, trying to see if there were any traces of the culprit that caused his discomfort from the infrasound signal.

After that, the first thing he did was to give the sample spectrum to Azshara, Fang, and Rough Fang, three advanced witch doctors who could also do this;

They are either entangled with each other, or mixed with the natural background. In short, they cannot be clearly distinguished based on their own ears and analytical abilities.

In the quiet room, he started from the normal frequency band, went down one order of magnitude, and continued to expand his sound reception ability;

It seems that looking at the undulating polylines under the brush strokes, they feel that they are like a record sheet of transmission signals, so my companion asked with some confusion.

At this time, everyone actually does not know what these sounds are, and they are not even sure whether there is any connection between them;

The witch doctors did not express surprise at this point, but thought it should be related to stress.

But the next report made them suspicious;

It is the kind of situation where low-frequency infrasound is emitted unconsciously due to the movement of the organs or other reasons without the person's knowledge.

They were mixed in between the wind and the rolling sounds of magma, and were received by both ears with a slight rhythm, which then gave him a vague feeling of discomfort.

She looked at the analysis application in her hand and the problems recorded on it, and had no choice but to make a request for support from the Ministry of Communications.

After subsequently replacing the other compatriots, the special oscillating infrasound signal that was different but still had great similarities was observed again.

Trying to focus his 'sight' on a specific area, he gradually lowered his sight from a high altitude like in previous games, and at the same time tried to 'high-definition' the area.

As the resolution became higher and higher, he gradually became able to clearly see the pattern of stone slabs in a certain courtyard at a close distance, and could clearly 'see' the top of the mother tree from a distance, as well as the meditation room where he was currently located;

Almost everything in the entire headquarters city that he had seen or known appeared in Nesta's mind in a very clear manner.

Only then did Nesta finally notice the exertion, her spirit fell into exhaustion, and she desperately wanted to sleep.

After having such a feeling, he immediately dismissed the 'playground' in the meditation space, lay down in the room, and found a good lying position to fall asleep.

There was a lot going on at school and I came back late...I was tired and in a bad state. It was so difficult to write this chapter.

(End of chapter)