Chapter Five
"I just can't figure out what's wrong, if there was a supernatural entity nearby then it would register on the meters but we're getting nothing." Ray was sitting on a tree stump staring off into space as Egon stopped working on his PKE meter.
"Egon, what if these monsters that the townsfolk have been seeing aren't supernatual related?" Egon glanced up as this fact registered.
"Then it wouldn't register on the meters because the meters are only calibrated to register supernatual energy."
"In the past we've modified the meters to pick up the biorythmic signatures to locate missing team members, isn't it possible to modify the meters to pick up inhuman readings, while also compensating background readings from wildlife?"
"It's possible, that way anything that isn't human and not a regular animal would be picked up in the meter's range. But it would take me at least an hour to recalibrate the meters and the range of the meter wouldn't be as far if it was registering spiritual energy." Officer Spencer who up to this point lost track of the conversation decided to get a better grasp of the situation.
"Spiritual energy? modifiying the meters? I'm sorry but this is too complex for me."
"Sorry, Egon being a physicist means that he can use wording that's understandable to him, but can easily confuse a normal person. You see this blue machine?" Officer Spencer nodded as Ray held up a PKE meter.
"Normally this device would register PKE or Psychic Kinetic Energy given off by ghosts. However we've been able to change it's settings so that instead of reading spiritual energy, it can register living energy." So far Officer Spencer was understanding the lecture.
"However this would be useless if we want to find something that's inhuman but alive. So we can program the meter to search for inhuman readings and we can make this easier by screening out the normal inhuman readings casued by the wildlife."
"So you'll then be able to locate and find anything that doesn't match normal patterns of energy?"
"Yes, in theory. However Egon is going to try change the settings on the meters so we can detect the creatures. But we'll need a cleaner environment."
"We could go back to the Police Department, we've got a meeting room which has been given over to other uses in the past."
"Excellent, that should do nicely. Ray, you'd better radio Winston and Peter let them know the plan."
"Ray to Winston.....Ray to Winston....Winston do you read me, over?"
"What's wrong?" Officer Spencer had a expression of concern on his face.
"I don't know, it's possible their radio is dead or that there's something in this valley that's disrupting the signal. Either way we can't radio them here."
"And this means that as long as we're up in these woods, they won't be able to radio us if there's a problem." The three of them packed up the equipment and started to make their journey back down into Raccoon City.
"I just can't figure out what's wrong, if there was a supernatural entity nearby then it would register on the meters but we're getting nothing." Ray was sitting on a tree stump staring off into space as Egon stopped working on his PKE meter.
"Egon, what if these monsters that the townsfolk have been seeing aren't supernatual related?" Egon glanced up as this fact registered.
"Then it wouldn't register on the meters because the meters are only calibrated to register supernatual energy."
"In the past we've modified the meters to pick up the biorythmic signatures to locate missing team members, isn't it possible to modify the meters to pick up inhuman readings, while also compensating background readings from wildlife?"
"It's possible, that way anything that isn't human and not a regular animal would be picked up in the meter's range. But it would take me at least an hour to recalibrate the meters and the range of the meter wouldn't be as far if it was registering spiritual energy." Officer Spencer who up to this point lost track of the conversation decided to get a better grasp of the situation.
"Spiritual energy? modifiying the meters? I'm sorry but this is too complex for me."
"Sorry, Egon being a physicist means that he can use wording that's understandable to him, but can easily confuse a normal person. You see this blue machine?" Officer Spencer nodded as Ray held up a PKE meter.
"Normally this device would register PKE or Psychic Kinetic Energy given off by ghosts. However we've been able to change it's settings so that instead of reading spiritual energy, it can register living energy." So far Officer Spencer was understanding the lecture.
"However this would be useless if we want to find something that's inhuman but alive. So we can program the meter to search for inhuman readings and we can make this easier by screening out the normal inhuman readings casued by the wildlife."
"So you'll then be able to locate and find anything that doesn't match normal patterns of energy?"
"Yes, in theory. However Egon is going to try change the settings on the meters so we can detect the creatures. But we'll need a cleaner environment."
"We could go back to the Police Department, we've got a meeting room which has been given over to other uses in the past."
"Excellent, that should do nicely. Ray, you'd better radio Winston and Peter let them know the plan."
"Ray to Winston.....Ray to Winston....Winston do you read me, over?"
"What's wrong?" Officer Spencer had a expression of concern on his face.
"I don't know, it's possible their radio is dead or that there's something in this valley that's disrupting the signal. Either way we can't radio them here."
"And this means that as long as we're up in these woods, they won't be able to radio us if there's a problem." The three of them packed up the equipment and started to make their journey back down into Raccoon City.