Chapter 291 Chaos in Chang'an
A small tributary of Dragon Vein is overloaded.
The dragon vein is a huge energy source that runs through all the land of the Tang Dynasty. It is the energy source of the cardinals in all realms. It is also responsible for supplying energy to all institutions in Chang'an.
If a small tributary is overloaded, Chang'an will experience a strange scene that has not been seen in a century.
That's...a blackout.
In a neighborhood in Chang'an, on the street where the Sansheng Ancient Mirror was located, there was a sudden flicker.
Then, the lights on the street suddenly went out.
Road signs on the ground, automated navigation, and all kinds of common public magic weapons, including houses, furniture, traffic lights, roadside billboards, etc., all suddenly went out.
This can be said to be a once-in-a-century scene in Chang'an.
In just an instant, a street that was seven or eight miles away was completely extinguished.
However, the scope of the impact of overloading on the Dragon Vein tributaries is not limited to this.
Soon, people in this area found that their terminals had no signal.
Because the cardinals from all realms have also stopped in this area!
Alarm bells ringing!
Immediately afterwards, the blackout area began to spread!
One street, two streets, three streets!
The blackout begins to spread! This time, power outages began not only on streets but also on an area basis.
In less than five minutes, the blackout area has expanded to a radius of 246 miles. Within this area, all public magic weapons have stopped, and the cardinals of all realms have become ineffective!
What a mess!
The roads in Chang'an are densely packed like a circle of thread, and the traffic rules are extremely complicated. There are countless one-way streets, not to mention the specific routes specified in the air.
Therefore, whether it is an aircraft or a vehicle, it relies heavily on cardinals and terminals from various realms to guide the way. The automatic navigation system is an indispensable part of the people of Chang'an.
But at this moment, everything stopped!
Vehicles collided with each other, aircraft lost their guidance, car accidents, plane crashes, and aircraft continued to hit those magnificent buildings.
Originally, these buildings had automatic defense mechanisms, which would bounce things away when they collided, ensuring that both sides were safe. But now they all have no energy, and all public magic weapons have failed!
Except for a small number of personal magic weapons, Chang'an is in chaos in this area!
About six minutes later, officials from the Municipal Department and the Emergency Department had received a large number of notifications and distress signals and responded quickly.
Ten minutes after the blackout occurred, the cardinals of all realms suddenly forced a restart! A huge force penetrated the space and descended on this chaotic area.
However, this area was not energized. Instead, the function of the official rescue personnel's terminal was opened and maintained.
Immediately afterwards, countless figures were seen rising up in the inner city.
Like raindrops, in an instant, more than a thousand seventh-grade reserve teams were activated and rushed towards the blackout area quickly!
They were assigned a special road by the cardinals from all realms, and the traffic in the sky was temporarily stopped to allow them to rush on their way.
There are people everywhere, and people have their own places. Countless seventh-grade powerhouses crossed out, and their four notes fell like timely rain, falling into the stopped area of Chang'an in a very short period of time.
Then, there are the gods.
But I saw that countless low-level gods and even the great gods in charge of Chang'an were all moving!
Those who were able among the residents also began to help themselves.
Chang'an was originally not allowed to use magical powers at will. If you want to use it, you need official permission.
But now, a large number of permissions have been issued at the same time, and the cardinals of all realms have forced a restart, giving priority to the terminal startup here.
An aircraft just hit a high-rise building here. Although it has lost its power, it is still a magic weapon. The aircraft rubbed hard against the wall. The family above looked horrified and kept shouting.
At this time, he saw a golden shadow falling. He used his magical power to quickly stabilize the aircraft and let it fall slowly.
"Thank you, Road God! Thank you, Road God!" The family above quickly thanked the golden shadow and felt a little relieved.
The Road God, the god responsible for the streets, also participated in the rescue at this time.
"Don't move around after landing. It's very dangerous here now. I have to rescue other people. Say goodbye." The road god struggled to slowly place the aircraft on the ground, and then rushed to the next one without stopping.
He is just a ninth-grade god with limited abilities.
The other eighth and seventh grades are even faster.
But I saw a water god emerge from the river, manipulate the water vapor, turn into water columns, and cooperate with the people of the emergency department to quickly put out the fire caused by the explosion.
Looking at the sky again, several seventh-grade monks were cooperating to set up a large formation. They rolled out the whirlwind formation in the blink of an eye. However, they saw that those who fell from the sky were blown up by the wind under their feet. Although the aircraft fell, their lives were saved. .
Looking at the other side, two seventh-grade people joined forces, one marked them, and the other followed the marks and used the moving method he was good at to catch all the people to him.
A radius of more than 200 miles is already a considerable distance. Considering Chang'an's population density, millions of people may have been affected by the disaster.
But the current rescue efforts have kept casualties in the triple digits, with only a few hundred people dying or being injured because of delayed rescue efforts.
At the beginning of life, everyone is selfish and has his own interests. If there is public benefit in the world, nothing can be done to promote it. If there is public harm, no one can eliminate it. Therefore, the world is harmed. Humanity governs all things. Everyone is not selfish and public affairs are public. If public harm is eliminated, private interests will be fulfilled and private harm will be eliminated.
Since the beginning of this world, people have been selfish, and no one has done things that are beneficial to everyone in society, and no one has solved things that are harmful to everyone, so the world has become worse and worse.
A simple prisoner's dilemma has become an unsolvable problem. It has been magnified to the entire society. How many things are done for small private gains at the expense of public interests? There are not a few who push the fate of a country to death for their own selfish interests.
As long as humanity is allowed to reshape the world, then as long as everyone is selfless, everyone's selfish interests will be fulfilled.
As for the existence of 'non-humans', that is not within the scope of humane considerations. Those things are just resources.
Humanity does not consider the thoughts of pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep. What they pursue is a harmonious world for all people with a public mind.
Now, this is how all this manifests itself in the outside world.
Moreover, in addition to these grassroots rescue personnel, more senior personnel have gone deep into the underground of Chang'an.
The directors of the Municipal Department and the Emergency Department, two officials with a lower rank than the fifth rank, have taken the lead in diving underground to explore the root cause of the fluctuations in the dragon veins and the suspension of cardinals in all realms.
While walking underground in Chang'an, the municipal director said: "This matter is strange. The tributaries of the Dragon Vein can supply two third-grade magic weapons. It cannot be overloaded. There is definitely an external force. How can something be so powerful that so many noble officials can't see it? Infiltrate into the tributary without noticing?"
"I'm afraid there is a traitor in Chang'an, and his status is not low. Just because of such a trivial matter, such a high-ranking traitor was exposed. I'm afraid there is something unknown in it." The emergency department director said.
They had discussed it many times on the road, and they all felt that something was wrong with this matter.
If you want to overload the tributaries of the Dragon Vein, you must have several third-grade magic weapons exerting their full power to achieve this.
A person who can control several third-grade magic weapons will not be low-grade himself, and he will naturally not be in a low-ranking position in the Tang Dynasty.
This kind of traitor was exposed just for this little chaos?
Not worth it.
Although the riot this time is very big, it is very likely that a second-grade official will personally intervene. Moreover, this is the first large-scale turmoil since the reconstruction of Chang'an. It will definitely be broadcast to the whole country and used as a model to punish.
The two of them probably wore their black gauze hats all the way down, and they were just doing their last duty when they came down to check.
But, the big one refers to the big symbolic meaning.
If you really want to say how much damage was caused, it was really not much. Hundreds of seventh-grade soldiers were mobilized, some magic weapons below seventh-grade were lost, some building cornices were damaged, and the casualties were only a few hundred.
The biggest loss is not even these, but that the cardinals of the worlds forced a restart here and restored the communication of all terminals without the power of the dragon vein. The cost of this matter was greater than all the losses mentioned before. .
How could anyone do such a thing?
The two of them had questions, communicating and exploring at the same time.
However, they soon discovered something useful.
After some investigation, they found the source of all the fluctuations beneath the city.
"It is the Sansheng Ancient Mirror that extracts the tributaries of the Dragon Vein, and it is still continuing." The Municipal Director frowned.
The Three Lives Ancient Mirror is just an ordinary third-grade magic weapon. It is usually activated once a month to help people observe weaknesses. How could it overload the tributaries of the Dragon Vein?
"Three Lives Ancient Mirror? Wait, let me adjust the information." The Emergency Department Director said immediately.
The Emergency Department has access to some secret documents at critical moments, and it is obviously very critical now.
The documents and information about the Sansheng Ancient Mirror were quickly called up and then read carefully by him.
"The Three Lives Ancient Mirror has just been applied for use by people from Taixue for exams. The last time it was used was twenty-five days ago. Ranger General Zhang Nesi used it to observe his own weaknesses. The last time it was used was three days ago. Months ago." The emergency department director immediately said to the municipal director beside him.
It's very common to use it for imperial exams. It's nothing special. Magic weapons are meant to be used. What should you do if you don't need to leave them aside? Giving birth?
Taixue will apply for a bunch of available and unavailable exams for every major exam to arrange suitable exam rooms for students to ensure that everyone can display their true strength.
"What now? Are the exams still going on? How is the student doing?" the Municipal Secretary asked immediately.
"I don't know, but the root cause has been found. Let's go up and have a look to see if we can interrupt the passage and force the Sansheng Ancient Mirror to stop." said the emergency department director.
The two of them said and quickly rushed up.
They did not dare to cut off the energy directly, for fear that something might happen to the Sansheng Ancient Mirror.
After all, it is a third-grade magic weapon. Although it did not give birth to spiritual intelligence for some reasons, it is still just a tool. But even if it is just a tool, if something goes wrong with this thing, it will be a mass-destructive level and must be guarded against.
Then, they chased all the way up and came to the temple.
The people in the temple had already evacuated. This was the first place where the Dragon Vein was overloaded, and the fastest accident happened. The practitioners inside had already evacuated everyone.
There was only an old monk standing outside the door, waiting anxiously.
It only took the two directors less than ten seconds to rush from the underground to the door of the house where the Sansheng Ancient Mirror was placed. They happened to see an old monk standing at the door of the courtyard, sweating anxiously, as if waiting for something.
"Monk, what's going on here? Why don't you go to avoid the disaster?" The emergency department director immediately stepped forward and asked.
When the old monk saw someone finally coming, he breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "Someone has arrived! There are still two people in this room. The poor monk really didn't dare to leave, so he stayed here waiting for the rescuers to come. Woolen cloth!"
The Municipal Secretary immediately said: "Don't be anxious. Speak slowly. What happened? Tell us in detail?"
As they spoke, both of them noticed it.
The door of the room where the Sansheng Ancient Mirror was placed seemed to be suppressed by something strange.
A special force twisted into a ball, mixing Yujian and Zhouguang together, sealing this room firmly!
This blocking power seemed to be extremely strong, but it did not leak out, so they could not tell the grade clearly.
When the old monk saw this, he quickly told everything.
It turned out that just ten minutes after Li Qi went in to take the exam, suddenly the universe here stagnated, and soon even Zhou Guang was crushed into a ball!
After that, the old monk wanted to report it, but as soon as he took out the terminal, the surrounding dragon veins were directly overloaded, and the terminal signal was directly interrupted. Then there was a series of power outages and the inability of public magic weapons, and chaos occurred frequently.
He organized the tourists in the temple to leave and take refuge quickly, but when he thought that there was still an imperial student and examiner in the room who had not come out, he did not dare to leave, so he stood guard at the door, waiting for someone to come to rescue him.
After listening to the old monk's description, the two department chiefs looked at each other, then quickly reported the matter, and asked the old monk to leave and evacuate the people around him.
Soon, they were the only two people left in the courtyard.
There is no need for the two fifth-grade people to talk or communicate with each other. They each use their magical powers!
First seal off a five-mile radius and no one is allowed to enter!
Then set up restrictions and lock everything from the inside out, not allowing anything to pass through, not even the wind can blow in.
Then, the two of them made protective preparations, sacrificed their magic weapons to protect their lives, and then carefully touched the chaotic forces that had condensed into a ball and blocked the outside world.
As soon as they made contact, they discovered that this thing seemed to prevent everything from getting closer!
After further research, the two of them were suddenly horrified!
The director of the emergency department exclaimed: "This... this is at least a third-grade power. It can't be handled by the two of us! Call for support!"
This chaotic force seems to be the origin of the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!
This thing is out of control, but it is still absorbing power from the outside world. It seems to be frantically trying to break through some limit, but it has never been able to do it. It can only continue to cycle, even to overload.
This shows that this third-grade magic weapon is going to explode!
We have to call the ministers to deal with it quickly!