Chapter 291 Chaos in Chang'an
A small tributary of the 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 of all realms and is also responsible for supplying energy to all institutions in Chang'an.
When a small tributary is overloaded, Chang'an will have a strange scene that has not been seen in a century.
That is... power outage.
In a block of Chang'an, on the street where the Sansheng Ancient Mirror is located, it suddenly flickered.
Then, the lights on the street suddenly went out.
Road signs on the surface, automated navigation, all kinds of common public magic weapons, including houses, furniture, traffic lights, roadside billboards, etc., suddenly all went out.
This can be said to be a scene that Chang'an has not seen in a century.
In just a moment, a street seven or eight miles away was completely extinguished.
However, the scope of the overload of the dragon vein tributary is not just this little bit.
Soon, people in this area found that their terminals had no signal.
Because the cardinals of all realms also stopped in this place!
Alarm bells rang!
Then, the area of power outage began to spread!
One street, two streets, three streets!
The blackout began to spread! This time it was not just the streets, but also the areas.
In less than five minutes, the blackout area had expanded to a radius of 246 miles. During this period, all public magic weapons were shut down, and the cardinals of all realms were invalid!
Chaos!
The roads in Chang'an were densely packed like a ball of thread. Various traffic rules were extremely complicated, and there were countless one-way streets, not to mention the specific routes stipulated in the air.
So whether it was an aircraft or a vehicle, it relied heavily on the cardinals of all realms and terminals for guidance. The automatic navigation system was an indispensable part of the people of Chang'an.
But at this moment, everything stopped!
Vehicles collided with each other, aircraft lost guidance, car accidents, crashes, and aircraft kept crashing into those magnificent buildings.
Originally, these buildings had automatic defense mechanisms, which would bounce away the objects that hit them when they collided, ensuring that both sides were safe, but now they all had no energy, and all public magic weapons were invalid!
Except for a few private magic weapons, Chang'an was in chaos in this area!
About six minutes later, the six departments of the Municipal Administration and Emergency Department had received a large number of notifications and distress signals, and responded quickly.
In the tenth minute after the blackout, the cardinals of all realms suddenly restarted forcibly! A huge force penetrated the space and descended on this chaotic area.
However, this area was not powered on, but the terminal function of the official rescue personnel was opened and maintained.
Then, countless figures rose in the inner city.
Like dense raindrops, in an instant, more than a thousand seventh-grade reserve troops started and rushed to the blackout area at a rapid speed!
They were divided into a special road by the cardinals of all realms, and the traffic in the sky was temporarily stopped to let them hurry.
There were people everywhere, and everyone had their own place. Countless seventh-grade strongmen crossed out, scattered like timely rain, and fell into the area where Chang'an was shut down in a very short time.
Then, it was the gods.
However, countless grassroots gods, and even the great gods in charge of the Chang'an area, have all started to move!
The residents who are capable have all started to help themselves.
Originally, it was not allowed to use magic in Chang'an at will. If you want to use it, you need official permission.
Now, a large number of permits have been issued at the same time, and the cardinals of all realms have been forced to restart, giving priority to the terminal startup here.
Just now, a flying machine hit the high-rise building hard. Although it has lost its power, it is a magic weapon after all. The flying machine rubbed against the wall hard, and the family above was terrified and kept shouting.
At this time, a golden shadow fell down, exerted magical powers, quickly stabilized the flying machine, and let it fall slowly.
"Thank you, God of Road! Thank you, God of Road!" The family above hurriedly thanked the golden shadow, and felt relieved.
The God of Road is the god in charge of the streets, and he also participated in the rescue at this time.
"Don't move after you land. It's very dangerous here. I have to rescue others. Goodbye." The road god slowly placed the aircraft on the ground with great effort, and then rushed to the next one without stopping.
He was just a ninth-grade god with limited ability.
Other eighth-grade and seventh-grade gods were even faster.
However, a water god emerged from the river, manipulated the water vapor, turned it into a water column, and cooperated with the people of the Emergency Department to quickly put out the fire caused by the explosion.
Looking up at the sky, several seventh-grade monks were cooperating to arrange the formation. In the blink of an eye, the whirlwind formation was spread out, but 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 monks joined forces, one marked, and the other used the method of moving that he was good at following the mark to catch all the people to his side.
More than 200 miles in radius is already a considerable distance. With the dense population of Chang'an, I am afraid that millions of people will be affected.
But the current rescue efforts have kept casualties in the three digits, with only a few hundred people dying or being injured due to untimely rescue.
At the beginning of life, everyone is selfish and everyone seeks their own interests; there are public benefits in the world but no one promotes them, and there are public harms but no one eliminates them, so the world is harmed. Humanity governs all things, everyone is not selfish, public affairs are promoted by the public, and public harms are eliminated by the public, then private interests are satisfied and private harms are 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 people 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 ministers 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 likely that a second-grade official will personally intervene. Moreover, this is the first large-scale turmoil since Chang'an was rebuilt, and 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 about 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 free 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 veins were overloaded, and the fastest to cause trouble. 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.
The old monk saw that someone finally came, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Finally someone has come! There are still two people in this room who have not come out. I really dare not leave them, so I am waiting here for the rescuers to come!"
The director of the municipal department immediately said: "Don't worry, tell us slowly, what happened, tell us in detail?"
While talking, both of them noticed.
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 the universe and the cosmic light together, and tightly sealed this room!
This blocking force seems to be extremely strong, but it did not overflow, so they could not tell the grade.
The old monk saw this and hurriedly told the whole story.
It turned out that ten minutes after Li Qi entered the exam, suddenly, the universe here stagnated, and soon even the cosmic light was pressed into a ball!
After that, the old monk wanted to report, but as soon as he took out the terminal, the dragon veins around him were directly overloaded, the terminal signal was directly interrupted, and then there was a series of power outages and public magic weapons were disabled, and chaos occurred frequently.
He organized the tourists in the temple to leave quickly for refuge, but thinking that there was still a student and examiner from the Imperial College in the room who had not come out, he did not dare to leave, so he stood at the door and waited for people to come to rescue.
After listening to the old monk's description, the two directors looked at each other, and then quickly reported the matter, and asked the old monk to leave and evacuate the people around.
Soon, there were only two of them left in the courtyard.
The two fifth-grade, no need to say more, no need to communicate more, each of them performed magical powers!
First block the five-mile radius, no one is allowed to enter!
Then set up a ban, lock everything from the inside out, and do not allow anything to pass, not even the wind can blow in.
Then, the two of them made protective preparations, used their own magic weapons to protect their lives, and then carefully touched the chaotic forces that condensed into a ball and blocked the outside world.
As soon as they touched it, they found that this thing seemed to prevent everything from approaching!
After studying it again, the two of them were horrified!
The director of the emergency department exclaimed: "This... This is at least the power of the third grade, you two can't handle it! Call for support!"
This ball of chaotic power seems to be the source of the Three Lives Ancient Mirror!
This thing is out of control, but it is still constantly absorbing the power of the outside world. It seems to be madly trying to break through some restrictions, but it can't do it. It can only keep circulating, and even overload.
This means that this third-grade magic weapon is going to explode!
We must quickly call the ministers to deal with it!