The screen flickered for about ten seconds before Turing spoke in a mechanical voice. "Positioning has begun. Shall I display a map of this Wonderland?"
Laplace nodded. "Display it."
The next second, an aerial map of a forest appeared on the little television's screen.
The map showed a rectangular stretch of terrain. A scale was marked in the upper-left corner of the screen; by that measure, the area was roughly forty kilometers from north to south and twenty kilometers from east to west, for a total of about eight hundred square kilometers.
Seen from above, the view was like the Eye of God looking down into the forests of a Box Garden.
The forest was far from flat. Its terrain rose and fell, with different landforms and vegetation. There was even a small snow-covered valley and, opposite it, a scorched volcanic region.
Ordinarily, a map this small could hardly contain such starkly opposed landscapes of ice and fire. Yet this Box Garden map did...
"These unusual landforms are not natural," Turing said. "According to the device's readings, high-energy reactions can be detected at their centers. Barring anything unexpected, each of these areas is home to a corresponding high-energy creature."
"Take that volcano, for example. It may be home to a fire elemental or a powerful fire-type monster. Its energy has altered the surrounding terrain..."
"There are currently over three thousand high-energy reaction points of various sizes scattered across the map."
As he spoke, dense clusters of red dots appeared on the aerial map.
According to Turing, each red dot marked a high-energy reaction point.
If every point contained a monster, that meant there were at least three thousand monsters.
Of course, that was only a guess.
Under normal circumstances, a high-energy reaction point was unlikely to contain just one monster.