The red moon returns

Chapter 537 Search Engine
"In May of the Fourth Era 438, the New World Lorenthal Federation, known in history as the Lorenthal Great Infection, was introduced to Middle-earth in August of the same year, and to the Ancient Continent at the end of the year. In December 5, the evil god Black Goat Shub-Nicholas vomited out the Miracle Light that was swallowed by it. After many sacrifices failed, it was obtained by the suffering believer Gina Blyden. In February 8, Gina Blyden used the Miracle Light in Crafford, the capital of the Lorenthal Federation, for 438 days, and finally dispelled the plague. As of the day of dispelling, the number of deaths caused by the plague in the three continents reached 12."

"Year 697 of the Fourth Epoch..."

As Shubow narrated haltingly, information about the miracle light unfolded before the four people bit by bit.

It is not very detailed, most of them are like the first one, with only simple time, place and task, cause, process and result, without more detailed explanation.

But even so, Lynch still got a lot of information from just a few words, and gained a deeper understanding of the light of miracles and even the knowledge of the wonders of the entire world.

In fact, the most rare objects collected by various forces are the fourth level of destruction. Advent-level rare objects rarely appear in the world, and are usually hidden in some special environment like the Gate of Reality and Illusion or the Light of Miracles. For example, the first time the Light of Miracles appeared, it was borrowed from the Mother Goddess Black Goat. The second time it was hidden by an evil god named Faceless. The third time it came from an evil god with an elephant head. They collected these rare objects for various reasons and only transferred them to the world when necessary.

But even so, in the nearly three thousand years of history of the two eras, the Light of Miracles has appeared many times, and the number of times it has been used is even greater, but most of them are insignificant minor events, such as the plague that wiped out only one village or town, which is not worth mentioning in historical records. Just like the Milt siblings used it to treat cattle plague, not to mention that no one knew about it, even if most people knew about it, they would probably not bother to record it in history, after all, it is a bit embarrassing to use an advent-level wonder for such a thing.

The six usage records that were finally recorded were all accompanied by global occult plagues. For example, the fourth record, in 1511 of the Fourth Era, was a horrific disaster known as the Black Death, which directly triggered the great disaster at the end of the Fourth Era.

Only a plague of this magnitude, linked to the light of miracles, is worthy of being included in the precious library of the Suffering Church. Because it is directly related to the Suffering Church, where there is a plague, there are suffering believers.

Only the second record was made too early, the coverage of the Church of Suffering was limited, and the plague outbreak area was beyond Fiona's sphere of influence. The use of the Light of Miracle was dominated by people outside the Church of Suffering, and it was at that time that many problems with the Light of Miracle were exposed.

The holder at that time performed countless human sacrifices and burned thousands of people to death, but the plague was still not under control, causing the disease to spread to the entire world. Finally, someone discovered a treatment method and the whole world was freed from the ravages of the plague. Before that, the country that sacrificed human lives to the Light of Miracle had already perished, and there were only a few survivors. The world, which had just recovered from the great disaster at the end of the era for hundreds of years, was hit hard again, with the death toll reaching millions.

"So, all successful cases are related to the Church of Suffering. Can we consider this to be a necessary condition? Also, why are there no specific methods of the ritual mentioned in any of the records? Ms. Bibliography, can you find the reason?"

Lynch couldn't help but join the inquiry, but there was no response from the other side of the wall, and it was Ms. Nightingale who stopped him.

"You're asking the wrong question. As a bibliologist, you are not allowed to make your own judgments and analyses, let alone make choices."

Then he asked the wall:
"Is there any information in these six records that mentions the specific method of the ceremony?"

"No."

"Is there any information regarding the nature of this phenomenon?"

"No."

Lynch understood. It seemed that this was similar to database search. It was necessary to screen by keywords or key conditions, and questions that involved subjective judgment could not be answered.

But it doesn't matter, the search engine is ready, it's just that people in your era don't know how to use it. But this doesn't bother me who comes from another world. In our era, if you don't know how to use the search engine, you can only be a pathetic beggar.

Lynch touched the pipe but was too embarrassed to light it. He paced around the small room with it in his mouth. Diana and Natalie knew his abilities too well and looked at him with anticipation in their eyes.

"It just so happens that every record avoids the detailed method, which is most likely intentional. But it doesn't matter. As long as something really happened, it will definitely leave traces. The Internet... No, history has memories. It's not that easy to hide. Ms. Bibliography, now put aside the keywords about the light of miracles just now, and also put aside the limitations of the book itself. Gather all the information you have, and then use multiple conditions to filter from all the known information in a compound way. Is that okay?"

"I haven't tried it, but..." The voice inside actually showed obvious uncertainty. After hesitating for a while, he said, "It should... work."

"what?"

Even Nightingale was surprised. For thousands of years, no one had ever used such an alternative method. They had always searched one book at a time, just like reading a book. They had never thought of cutting all the contents of the book into fragmented information and then searching one by one. Is it really feasible?
Lynch was unaware of Ms. Nightingale's surprise, and he paced around and muttered to himself:

"Putting aside the limitations of the Miracle Light, we first need to know what happened during that period. As long as we know the specific events that happened, we may be able to infer what caused the Miracle Light to take effect. So the first search condition is time, the time when the five plagues were successfully fought... No, the first search condition is the year when the Miracle Light appeared in the five records. Is that okay, Ms. Bibliography?"

"can."

"Then use the occult plague... well, forget it. Just use the plague as the second condition, and then use the words Lord of Suffering, Church of Suffering, and Sister of Suffering as the third search condition. How much content can be found?"

"There are about a thousand mysterious documents involved, and you requested more than seven thousand pieces of information. Do you want to check them one by one?"

"Then I'm too free, no." Lynch muttered, holding his pipe in his mouth, "Next is the location. I remember that the first time the Miracle Light was used, it was at the outbreak site, and the second time was also. It was not mentioned in the subsequent times, but it was not emphasized that the use site was not the outbreak site..."

"The fourth time was also used," said Ms. Nightingale. "I remember this one was also used at the outbreak site."

"Very good. We can tentatively use it in the outbreak area. Then use each outbreak area as the fourth query condition and further filter from the previous information."

"One hundred and twenty mysterious files remain, involving one thousand six hundred pieces of information"

Really? The three ladies were all nervous. They had realized that this method might really work and could find the key information from the vast amount of information in the library's mind as quickly as possible. If they could find more critical conditions, maybe it would really work...

No one dared to speak, fearing that he would interrupt Lin Qi's train of thought. Everyone watched this guy holding his pipe with a calm look, and said slowly:

"There is another problem in the seven messages just now. The information read from the memories of the strange object only mentioned offering beauty, but did not say what beauty is, nor how to offer it. However, the only record that did not involve the Sisters of Suffering clearly stated that the country burned thousands of people to death for the purpose of sacrifice. Why did they use fire right from the start, and why did they keep doing it? Is burning people the only way to offer sacrifices?"

Lynch asked the three ladies around him, and they all shook their heads to deny it. In fact, burning was not a common method of sacrifice. Such a violent method was usually used to purify unclean things.

"There must be a deep reason for the abnormality. The only explanation I can think of is that it refers to the first example. There was a gap of more than 300 years between the first two times. Although it is a long time, some legends have not been lost or distorted. Therefore, the first successful activation of the strange object may have involved flames or even self-immolation. Then the fifth key condition appears, fire."

"There are eighteen mysterious documents involved, and one hundred and sixteen pieces of information involved. Do you want to check them one by one?"

More than a hundred, that's already within the acceptable range! The three ladies almost blurted out the word "want".

How did this kid come up with this idea? The old woman stared at Lin Qi in a trance. He was simply a genius. Could he have really received divine inspiration?

Lynch did not inquire directly, but instead showed a confident smile, because he remembered a word that appeared repeatedly in the deep reading memories.

"The sixth keyword is purification."

"There are three mysterious documents and nine pieces of information involved. Do you want to check them one by one?"

"want."

Hearing the word "yes", the three ladies subconsciously let out a long sigh, and then they felt tired, as if they had just fought a battle with someone.

(End of this chapter)