Rebecca got up and lit the magic crystal lamps. Under the warm glow suddenly cast by the artificial lights, the room, which had just fallen into night, brightened once more. In that light, Gawain quietly stared at the documents on the table without speaking for a long time.
"...This is only a hypothesis," Jenny suddenly broke the silence after a long while. "The sun is the greatest source of interference... This direction is simply too inconceivable, and we understand 'virtual celestial bodies' far less than we understand the planet beneath our feet..."
"Yes, only a hypothesis. At present, there is no evidence proving that the observation device's erroneous results were caused by external interference, much less evidence that the interference came from the sun," Gawain said, slowly shaking his head. "But this hypothesis fully explains the anomalies we have encountered so far. It can even explain why none of the Noi people's contingency plans have worked."
Rebecca looked at Jenny, then at Gawain. After holding it in for quite a while, she finally could not help asking, "But... if the interference really comes from the sun, what do we do?"
Gawain fell into thought. Of course, he had been considering how to solve this problem from the very beginning, but no matter how he thought about it, this was an unsolvable deadlock: if the interference truly came from the sun, then the entire planet Loren lay within this "interference zone." Even across a considerable area surrounding the sun, the observation device would be unable to escape the limitless power radiating from it!
This was not a situation that could be dealt with by some ridiculous notion like "turning it on at night"—what caused the interference was clearly not "sunlight," but the magic power released by the sun. The observation device