Act XXIV. Wriggling stones

As a normal adolescent boy, Bai Ge is certainly not without some strange delusions.

But he was very restrained, knowing that it was just instinct.

And at this moment, the soft hair of the bamboo frost rubbed against his cheeks slightly, coupled with the girl's unique aura, which made Bai Ge, who had a keen sense, understand more things.

That's peace of mind.

Bamboo Frost is like a small animal, snuggling on Bai Ge's shoulder, and in terms of touch, it looks like a cat.

It seems that only at this time will the bamboo frost fall really put your mind at ease.

Bai Ge was silent.

Bamboo Frost also lost his family and suffered great trauma, and came here step by step.

For her, perhaps the only person worthy of her full trust is Bai Ge.

Although the journey has been going on for several days, the two have never had the opportunity to sit down and communicate, which is really not right.

"Bai Ge, tell me about the things you encountered during your journey."

Bamboo Frost said in a soft voice.

"I'm interested in the book-eating monster in the Tower of the Library of Alexandria."

“?”

Bai Ge felt that the word "danger" might have appeared in his head now.

"Don't get me wrong, I know she's not a real human, and Bai Ge won't do anything weird, right?"

“...... Truly. ”

I don't know if it's an illusion, Bai Ge felt that some sharp claws seemed to have retracted from the side of his neck just now.

"That guy...... Actually, it's just a little kid......"

Bai Ge said as he recalled.

From monster books, to serial murders, from alchemy dolls to large libraries, I told everything I had experienced in the past few months seriously.

It was only at this time that Bai Ge felt a little emotional, obviously he was still living an unpretentious campus life a year ago, but now he was already walking in the wasteland, dealing with natural disasters and abyss relics.

Man, it's unpredictable, and I don't know it.

When he came back to his senses with a self-deprecating smile, Bai Ge found that Zhu Shuang Xue no longer knew when he fell asleep.

Her even, warm breath swept across Bai Ge's face, like a sleeping cat, leaning on her master's arms.

The teacup is placed on one side and the tea is already cold.

Bai Ge didn't move his body, he only raised his right hand, casually "stole" a blanket from the trunk, and spread it on Zhu Shuangluo's body.

It seems that the night will never end, and Bai Ge has only one wish.

...

...

"Hah-"

Wilbur yawned, he had slept soundly last night, but the days of running around could not be dissipated by just a good night's sleep.

However, the speed of the car is not fast, on the one hand, it has just left the Keres supply station? On the other hand, they are looking for stones that may have anomalies.

Luckily, the crushed ice belt is extensive? Less than twenty minutes after leaving the depot? Then they saw the kind of stone with a smooth surface.

Whew-

Rear? The other contestants who followed roared past, and Bai Ge also saw the conscientious courier brother, and these contestants looked at Bai Ge with a little curiosity? I guess I don't know why they stopped in such a place.

Bai Ge and Bamboo Frost came to the stone.

"How? Did you find anything? ”

Bai Ge asked sideways.

Bamboo Frost touched the stone lightly and leaned over, as if listening to something.

The Beast archetype possesses extraordinary sentient abilities? At this point? Bamboo frost is using its own ability? Binding pheromones? Searching for the rock.

“...... There have been no signs of contact with other foreign objects in the last three months? The trajectory of its movement is also towards the west? Two months have passed since the first move, and it has moved less than four meters. ”

After carefully inspecting it, Zhu Shuang said.

"Two months."

Bai Ge's [Assassin Vision] examined this stone carefully, could he see? This stone is like the one from the night before? Got a hard case? A slightly softer internal? There are no special features.

“...... No, wait. ”

Bai Ge combined [White Rainbow Through the Sun] and looked at the stone again.

At this time? Only then did Bai Ge discover the abnormality of this stone.

In the middle of the stones, where there should be no difference, there are different red dots one by one.

These are the flaws and weaknesses of the stone.

It's not surprising that stones have weaknesses, but they make up strange structures that resemble the internal organs of living things.

By the way, Bai Ge chose liberal arts.

He didn't really study biology.

However, he still understands the basics.

"Wilbur, bring me the bills."

Bai Ge said, making Wilbur, who was watching the excitement on the sidelines, stunned, and tore off a piece of paper from the end of his notebook for a long time, and handed it to Bai Ge along with a ballpoint pen.

Taking the pen and paper, Bai Ge quickly drew a diagram of the internal structure of the stone he had seen.

“...... This is, cell? ”

Zhushuang became a real scholar, even if he hadn't been to school for more than half a year, he still recognized the things painted by Bai Ge for the first time.

Yes.

If the outer shell of the stone in front of you is used as a cell membrane or cell wall structure, then the parts of it are very similar to the cells of living organisms.

The smallest things in the cytoplasm are mitochondria and centrosomes, and the nucleus is located in the middle of the stone.

Ordinary stones do not have such a complex and clear structure.

There is no doubt that this is a mutation caused by the relics of the abyss.

"But...... Why? ”

Bai Ge couldn't figure it out again, these stones had been standing on the wasteland for a long time, if it was said that the ants had been polluted and accelerated their evolution, then these stones, had they also evolved?

He looked at the bamboo frost.

At this time, it is more reliable to be a top student.

Zhu Shuangxue and Bai Ge thought of the same thing, but she thought more far-reaching.

“...... I understand. ”

Zhu Shuang gently bit his lower lip and said softly.

"These stones are the result of 'evolution'."

"Wait, what are you talking about, what does the stone evolve into?"

Wilbur was the most out of the situation, and he looked at the smooth surface of the stone, not quite understanding the meaning between the two men's words.

"Since the power of that abyss relic is evolution and mutation, it can allow ants to evolve into a civilization in just over a hundred days, then naturally it can also make the stone have life."

Zhu Shuangjiang gently put his hand on the stone and said with a sigh.

"In the research of the old times, there is a theory that at the bottom of the sea, well, the real seabed, all kinds of combustible gases continue to release energy in the sparse pore structure, and finally the organic matter is synthesized by chance, and finally the cell structure is formed, and there is the birth of life, so in a sense, life may really really jump out of the stone."

"Oh......"

Wilbur bowed, looking like he didn't understand anything, but he still pretended to understand better.

He flipped through his notebook and casually traced the appearance of the stone while listening to the words of the bamboo frost.

"In this case, under the extraordinary power of the Abyss Relic, it is possible that these stones have also gained the power of evolution and become life...... Maybe not organic life like the old days, but new, uh, inorganic life? ”

Bamboo Frost said uncertainly.

"These stones have become the most primitive cells, and this belt of broken ice has become the sea that gave birth to the first life of stones."

"Wait...... In this case, the movement of these stones is actually a simple cell movement? ”

Bai Ge glanced at the stones again.

"It's possible, perhaps, just like the Eris civilization's concept of time is not the same as ours, and the concept of time of these stone lives is not the same as ours."

For the ants of the Eris civilization, one hundred and twenty days is like the history of human beings for thousands of years, and they have evolved countless iterations in their short lives.

And for these stone beings, perhaps a human day is just a moment for them.

They didn't even perceive the presence of humans, who had left scratches on their bodies, and for these stone lifeforms, it might have been nothing more than a momentary friction and collision.

"The time in the cognition of these stone life is not the same as the time of our human cognition, if the Eris civilization is an accelerated civilization, then the civilization of these stone life is a slowed civilization."

Zhu Shuang nodded and said.

"According to the current level of evolution, it will take at least hundreds of years for these stone lives to come together, tens of thousands of years to form the structure of community cells, hundreds of millions of years before the first bacteria can appear, and when the first life leaves this 'sea' and land, I am afraid it will be tens of billions of years later."

In the study of the old era, it took 3.5 billion years for life on this planet to go from primitive organic matter to thriving human civilization, and in the brief Great Collapse, everything was destroyed in just one hundred years.

If these stone lives follow the path of development of human civilization again, it may take tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of years, before they can truly be called civilization.

The dawn of dawn shone on these stones, and the bamboo frost saw the image of primitive life struggling and crawling on the steaming rocks of the seabed billions of years ago.

Perhaps, after the real demise of human civilization, these stone lives will rely on their long lives to become the masters of this planet and evolve slowly.

Or, in the distant past, the life on this planet is now the real "stone life", and the existence of the Eris civilization with a faster concept of time is the real master here, and after they are extinct, those remaining cells gradually aggregate and become real life.

It's something that makes people feel lonely just thinking about it.

"In that case, the existence of these things must be reported."

Bai Ge was silent for a long time before he said this.

Although these stone lives have not had any effect on humans for the time being, they are the product of the intervention of the abyssal relics, and it is not okay to ignore them.

"Well, and you have to inform the supply station as well, if these stones continue to move, they may pass through the supply station and cause some danger."

Bamboo frost lowers the jaw.

Bai Ge quickly took out his mobile phone, took a picture and sent all these things to the [Panda Council], and got a response after a while.

[Lao Tzu's No. 1 Cutie in the World]: I will find someone to investigate this matter, according to the severity of the situation, it may be possible to destroy all other stones while retaining a certain number of individuals, no problem.

Bai Ge was stunned, and before he could type, he saw that the other party had replied again.

[Lao Tzu's World's Cutest]: However, this kind of creation that appears under the influence of the Abyss Relic may lose its activity when the Abyss Relic is contained.

[Goo-goo]: Definitely.

Hakuga, who had witnessed the end of the Eris civilization, was well aware of the effects of the transcendent power of the fully activated Abyss Relic.

Even, after he saw Kluwa's words, he still had some divergent thoughts, maybe the entire planet was a large abyss relic, and it was by this extraordinary power that human civilization could survive on this earth.

[In doing it, doing it]: ...... I suspect that by the time I was walking through the wasteland, such pollution had spread across the land, and hopefully nothing had gone wrong......

The big guy seemed to be a little depressed.

[Red Kite]: According to the observatory's observations, the mutual attraction of historical fragments has been extremely obvious, and at present, the appearance of transcendent creatures and activated abyssal relics has been observed in some areas around the Pan-Western Sea and the Holy Alliance, and it is expected that in a maximum of two months, unpredictable monsters will appear in this area.

[Doing it, doing it]: Why do you say that, I feel like I can't last that time.

[No one knows faith better than me]: It's okay, if you really can't support it, I can listen to your confession before you die.

[Doing it, doing it]: Is this all you have to say!?

[Do Not Disturb in the Abyss]: Anyway, there is a final plan, and it's a big deal that even you will wash the floor together.

[Doing it, doing it]: Wait, are you already going to join me by default?

[No. 1 in the world]: I think so.

[Doing it, doing it]: What do you think is okay???

Looking at the gags of this group of people, Bai Ge suddenly felt that the matter might not be so serious.

[Lao Tzu's world's first cute]: Greenwich, a similar situation has also been observed, and the other ...... Newcomer, you'd better be careful, there is an abyss relic that has just been excavated from the abyss here, and it may have escaped from our operators, and according to the speed, it may have entered the area of the Oort Field, so you better be careful.

[Goo Goo Goo]: Received, thank you for the reminder.

Bai Ge looked at the information sent by Kluwa, because the abyss relic had just been excavated and had not yet been tested, he knew very little information, only that the appearance was the appearance of a pocket watch, and the personality was probably between the fourth and fifth orders, and the range of influence was very large, but the danger level was not high, and it was a rare abyss relic.

The tentative name given by MI5 is "Animal World".