Meet the principal

The demiplane of Baltica.

Above the big hollow.

Lord Rumia Calvados took a deep look at the large hole within the wall, her eyes full of worry.

"It's already been an hour past the original scheduled time. Do you really not need to worry?"

Wilder Regens asked on the side. Originally, the Abyss Submarine should have returned, but at this moment, the calm and large hollow was still deep, but no aerospace craft appeared from it.

"I'm sure Herman will be fine."

Lord Calvados responded that at least she had not sensed any signs of danger from her husband, which meant that the Abyssal Submarine had not been torn apart by monsters.

As for why they stayed in the big hole for so long, Lord Calvados guessed that they might have discovered something strange that delayed their time.

"Observations of the large void have remained normal, and it appears as if nothing has happened."

At this time, Broly Augustine, who flew over from the observatory, straightened his hair around his ears and said.

"We tried to check the instrument that may have received the signal returned by Lord Alberton's detector. There is still no trace of data, but there is one thing that I think is a bit suspicious."

He paused, and then passed the paper document in his hand to the hands of several mages.

"I later thought that I could check the magic reserve of the device. If a large amount of data has been received and displayed, the magic power consumed by displaying it will inevitably increase. We seemed to have ignored this before."

Lord Calvados did not rush to a conclusion, but looked at the document in his hand.

The detailed records above show that on the night when Reiner recorded the strange scene, the detection signal receiving equipment had indeed used magic power several times higher than the normal standby state. However, these magic powers did not leave traces on the usage records, so At the time of inspection, the equipment was still in its previous condition.

In other words, this instrument suddenly received a large amount of data at night and displayed it according to its original function. But after a moment, all the data disappeared, and even the recording turned on turned into nothingness, leaving only the lost magic power. , I don’t know where to go.

"In other words, everything Reiner saw that night was real, but why?"

Regens frowned,

Read the records again and again, trying to find the answer.

"Quantum phenomena."

Augustine suddenly spoke, causing the surrounding mages to look over.

"Since the big void has the magic power of quantum state superposition, will the signal be affected when it passes through that quantum sea?"

He asked that this was a question that no one present had ever considered. Even after Reiner proposed quantum theory, they had not seriously studied this conclusion.

"Since Mr. Braggs's cat is a macroscopic object, the entire system is determined by microscopic things and thus becomes a microscopic system that can have quantum effects. Then, is it possible that other things can produce similar situations?"

But Augustin did not stop thinking, he said.

"We assume that the data received by this instrument is actually quantized data. Simply put, this is a display screen in a superposition of two states of receiving and not receiving. At this time, the detector, signal, and display screen Together they form a system, or we can expand it, and the feedback given by the detector and the space it detects is also part of this system."

Augustine's words made Lord Calvados raise his eyebrows and glance at the observation equipment in the distance.

"You mean, the detector itself is already a quantized thing? Even if the detector is not quantized, the core of its detection equipment may already be in a similar state?"

Lord Calvados asked back. She thought about it carefully, and a somewhat horrifying picture appeared in her mind.

The light that burst out when Lord Ebdon's detector came into contact with the Netherworld Gate was actually the light released when matter was converted into a quantum state. After that, the quantum state detector explored without anyone knowing The space inside the Netherworld Gate and returns according to the original setting.

At this time, although the collapse state of the detector was destruction, because there were no observers, the detector maintained normal operation. At this time, the detector left the Netherworld Gate in accordance with Lord Alberton's prior design. And the signal was sent immediately.

This signal passed through the large void, passed through the quantum sea, and was projected into the receiving device, displaying the data.

But this data was observed by Reiner.

As a result, the entire system collapsed. Whether it was the data on the display screen, the signals echoing in the quantum sea, or even the detector at the bottom of the large hole, they all turned into a collapsed state and returned to nothingness.

All this happened because Reiner "opened" the box and observed the conditions inside!

The tide of thought echoed in the minds of the mages, stirring up flying waves. Soon, these tides converged and resonated, forming a monstrous tsunami, rushing towards the offshore shore.

"Wait a minute, if you say so, the body of the invisible monster..."

Regens seemed to be struck by lightning, and a series of clues were separated and reorganized in his mind.

The missing Captain Paul on the Storm Rose, the hand-painted monster, and the claw marks in the corridor.

The invisible monster has the characteristic of penetrating the magic barrier, making it unable to be captured.

The undulating quantum sea in the great void, the Nether Gate bursting with dazzling light.

The collapse of the wave function and Mr. Braggs’ superimposed cat of life and death.

"That's a quantized monster!"

Regens shouted, and then denied his guess.

"No, no, no, if it is really a quantized creature, it is a macroscopic quantum phenomenon. Moreover, it should be the same as the detector. Its own collapse state is a state of destruction, and it is impossible to attack other things... "

"Wait, maybe we overlooked a problem."

Lord Calvados said.

"If it is really observation that causes the collapse, then in addition to us, the invisible monster has an observer."

"who is it?"

Regans looked at Lord Calvados in confusion.

"It's itself."

Lord Calvados said solemnly, since similar phenomena have never been discussed in previous quantum theory, it is assumed that objects in a quantum state do not constitute observers, but if the invisible monster is really a quantum creature , then it must be able to observe itself.

"It is capable of self-observation to maintain its presence in the macroscopic world!"