In the square near the Rose Avenue in Renstadt, the lights were on, and the crowd was bustling.
It was the habit of many citizens of Renstadt. After dinner, they would walk to the nearest square and wait for "Arcana Voice" to begin. However, as the activities of buying newspapers and delivering magic radios deepened, the place was no longer as crowded as before. Of course, there were still a lot of people in terms of absolute number.
"Hello, everyone. This is Hotz on FM 592.6M. This is' Arcana Voice '. I am your old friend, Nightingale. Thank you for listening to our program at this moment …" As the sweet voice that sounded as familiar as their own family came out of the loudspeaker, all the listeners focused their attention and stopped talking and laughing with their companions. Also, after the last live broadcast, they were already able to restore Miss Nightingale's appearance based on her voice.
After one program after another, it seemed that it was the "magic lecture" that everybody was interested in but did not quite understand.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I will now explain to you how to guard against superficial hypnotic spells … Bzzt bzzt bzzt …" Before the magnetic male voice could finish his sentence, an ear-piercing sound came from the loudspeaker. Then, the sound disappeared and was replaced by the noisy sound of electric current. However, everything quickly returned to normal, except for the magnetic male voice, which once again reverted to Nightingale's sweet and moving but trembling voice, "Nightingale, I'm sorry.
"Dear listeners, dear listeners, this is' Arcana Voice '. Now, we have a piece of news …"
"What's going on?" The listeners looked at each other in bewilderment. They had experienced temporary signal interruptions before, but they had never seen such a fast recovery and a change of program!
A piece of news?
It was something that they had never experienced before. So, they were unable to react for a moment.
In the villas of the nobles, in the houses of the civilians, and in the schools, the listeners who were listening to "Arcana Voice" all had similar expressions. They did not understand what was going on and why such a weird way of breaking the news was happening.
… …
Inside the Atom Institution, because Layria, who led the students to teleport, told Heidi, Annick and the rest of them about the anomaly of two suns in the sky, they decided to pay the teleportation fee themselves and return to the ground in advance, hoping to know what was going on as soon as possible.
It was both out of curiosity and the hope that they could be prepared for the worst situations as soon as possible. After all, if they stayed in space, they might not be able to return if something happened on the ground. When the energy ran out, they would end up as floating corpses in space. For similar reasons, the members who were not married did not leave the Allyn magic tower but applied to use the laboratory at night.
"Heidi, did you discover a new particle?" They had discussed the anomaly of the two suns for the whole afternoon and dinner time, so Layria changed the topic and asked Heidi about her discovery.
Seeing the curious eyes of Layria, Alfalia and other friends, Heidi smiled in satisfaction. "After multiple confirmations, it is a new particle that is different from the particles that have been discovered. Its mass is about two hundred times that of an electron, and its speed is very high."
"A new particle? Is it possible that the number of fundamental particles does not conform to the principle of 'simplicity'?" The more fundamental something was, the simpler it was. It was a philosophy that many arcanists believed in, just like the miraculous symmetry that existed everywhere. Therefore, Rock took off his black top hat and said in confusion, "It's not that simple, but it's not that simple.
"We can only respect the experiment results for now. What if the fundamental particles are not fundamental?" Heidi said, imitating Lucien's famous saying, "Vacuum is not empty". Then, she looked at the clock on the wall of the laboratory and exclaimed, "'Arcana Voice' has begun!"
She seemed to prefer "Arcana Voice" to "News of the World".
Rock said with mixed feelings, "It's possible. Right, did the discovery of the new particle bring you any feedback from the 'real world'? "
"It was very rewarding." Heidi replied with a brilliant smile, never one to be secretive.
"Hehe. Heidi, haven't you been complaining that you never won the Holm Crown prize and other awards? The discovery of the new particle should be able to fulfill your wish. "Katrina was happy for her friend.
Heidi shook her head and said without much expectation, "I don't think I can win the new particle unless it's a very important one, such as the one that Ms. Hathaway predicted, or a new particle is discovered through a 'new method'. I'd better wait for the breakthrough of artificial intelligence dutifully."
"Is it not the one that Ms. Hathaway predicted?" Annick, Katrina and the rest of them were rather surprised. Judging from the properties tested so far, the new particle was very similar to the meson that Ms. Hathaway predicted.
Heidi sniffed. "We can't know for sure until we test whether or not it participates in the strong interaction. For now, we can only assume that it's not."
How could she not have any desire after watching her companions win the highest prizes in different fields? However, it did not stop her from making a rational judgment for now, because she was more and more confident about the future of artificial intelligence. She believed that she would win a certain highest prize, or even the Evans Prize in Arcana, because of this.
In the middle of their discussion, they suddenly heard buzzes from the magic radio, which attracted their attention.
"Dear listeners, dear listeners, this is' Arcana Voice '. Now, we have a piece of news …"
After Nightingale's voice echoed, Heidi and the rest of them immediately became solemn. If there was anything that was worth such an interruption, it would obviously be the strange situation where two suns appeared in the daytime!
For a moment, the Atom Institution was unusually quiet. The only thing that could be heard was the sweet voice from the magic radio.
"According to the announcement just issued by the Highest Council of Congress, at 11: 37 a.m. in Renstadt time today, Mr. Lucien Evans, 'Atom Controller', a grand arcanist, legendary sorcerer, and member of the Highest Council, discovered a sun in the standard universal coordinates, confirming the existence of planets. Unprecedented feedback from the 'real world' was raised, resulting in the anomaly of two suns in the sky."
"Dear listeners who have witnessed this anomaly, please do not panic. This is not the end of the world. On the contrary, this marks the most solid step that we intelligent creatures have taken in the exploration of the universe. We will no longer be troubled by the existence of planets."
"Although Mr. Evans must've made a lot of gains himself, it is far less significant than the significance of his discovery for all the intelligent creatures and the significance of planets for all the arcanists. This is a small step for Mr. Evans, but it is a huge step for all the intelligent creatures. It is a monument for our exploration of the world and the universe …"
The news was full of praises, but Heidi and the rest of them did not feel that it was exaggerated at all. Even if it were not their teacher who discovered it, they would've sincerely congratulated any other legendary sorcerer. They would've been so excited that they would've trembled. Those who did not study arcana deeply and did not read the history of the Congress of Magic would never understand how important and significant the discovery was for the arcanists.
"We've finally discovered the sun. It's been hiding for a long time …" Alfalia suddenly remarked with mixed feelings. It had been so long that some arcanists suspected that this was not a real world and that it was a 'laboratory' of a certain powerful god.
Heidi, Annick and the rest of them subconsciously looked out of the window. The night outside was as dark as ink, and only the light of the street lamps was reflected from below. However, in their eyes, the darkness was gone, and the bright light illuminated the whole world.
The 'profound darkness' that had covered magic since the ancient Magic Empire was driven away by the 'sun' at this moment!
Heidi stood up in excitement, as if she were going to do something, but she stopped in the end because of concerns.
"Heidi, what do you want to do?" Holding back her shivering, Layria asked curiously.
Heidi raised her arms. "I want to cheer. I want to shoot a fireball at the sky. The explosion will be the horn of our victory!"
"I want to, too." Sprint, who had always been disobedient, obviously liked the idea, but Allyn had strict regulations.
Annick, who was calmer, looked at Heidi and the rest of them and suddenly had an idea. If Allyn did not have so many regulations, perhaps fireballs would've been shot to the sky, and the sky would've been filled with bursts of explosions. When sorcerers were excited, they often expressed their joy in all kinds of violent ways, and what they were best at was undoubtedly magic.
"What a splendid scene it would be …"
… …
In the square, in the villas, in the buildings, and in the school, all the listeners were stunned as' Nightingale 'was broadcasted.
Because the sorcerers had never found a planet and could not prove the correctness of their celestial body motion system and gravity theory, the Church had been attacking them. Some claimed that it was their blasphemy that made the Lord cover the sky so that they could not see the truth of the world, and some mocked that their arcana studies were ungrounded buildings that could collapse at any moment. Those who followed the Congress of Magic and worshiped arcana were idiots who could not tell the difference.
Although arcana had been proved to be correct step by step and won the support of most people in the four countries of the strait, making them curious and awed about arcana, the people who grew up listening to the Church's theories would always have reservations in their hearts as long as the stars in the sky were not found.
After the South Church was expelled, the people who acknowledged the rule of the Congress of Magic began to be as desperate as the arcanists to find a planet and prove that it was not the Lord's punishment and that their betrayal was not blasphemy.
Right now, the good news hit their hearts out of the blue, making them feel that they were in a dream.
"Hooray!"
A shout broke the silence. A gentlemanly man excitedly took off his black top hat and threw it into the sky, as if it was not enough to vent the excitement in his heart.
As the silence was broken, cheers burst out like a tsunami. Influenced by the gentleman at the beginning, the people took off their hats and threw them to the sky too.
Wearing hats was a trend in Rentato. So, the sky was full of hats. Some were black top hats, some were round hats, some were soft hats, some were wide-brimmed hats with beautiful ribbons and tassels, some were light hats inlaid with feathers and flowers, and some were hazy hats with veils …
"Hooray!"
Looking at the hats that were thrown up and hearing the cheers, a reporter from 'Renstadt Weekly' subconsciously wrote, "Perhaps, after today, there will be a new custom in the kingdom: throwing hats as a form of celebration."
All kinds of hats fell like rain.
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