There is no one better suited to be Emily's examiner than Carmel - a psychic creature of energy trapped in a fortress of disobedience for thousands of years, Carmel has nothing to do in the last few hundred years of his captivity, he has touched every brick, every beam, every ravine, and studied every mystery and detail of his body, the ancient master of the arcane once said:

"As a researcher, I have a wealth of experience both in studying and being studied."

Emily's situation is not exactly the same as his, but at least the essence of "energy beings" is still common, and based on his own research, Carmel knows how to start when facing another energy being.

After some tentative negotiations, Carmel first confirmed Emily's current state of consciousness: "She has sound thinking skills, but her perception and feedback methods are a little confused, which should be caused by the sudden change of life form, so she is now acting a little ...... It's not like ordinary people. ”

Gawain nodded, looking at Emily who was floating around the amber - the little girl seemed to be curious about every stranger in front of her, she was in contact with everyone on the scene with the mentality of "researching new things", but in the process, she did not have much effective communication with others, she seemed to be immersed in her own mental world, and only accepted the limited interference of the real material world, which made her action pattern somewhat strange.

According to Carmel, when a human suddenly transforms into an energy being, the world in his eyes will be "overlapping" and "illusory" for a short period of time, as if observing a flame through a curtain of layers, and the transformer's own mind will also change in the process to match this physical mutation, which is not permanent, and Emily is clearly in the middle of this change now - the only thing to be happy about is that the little girl seems to have adapted well.

"Does she still have her memories?" Wright, who was next to him, couldn't help but ask curiously, "I mean...... Is she still Emily? ”

"Basically, they will be kept, just like me, but it's hard to say what she does with these memories, depending on her mental reinvention later on," Kamel said, "but no matter what, she's still her, and she's able to keep herself—and that's the biggest difference between energy beings like us and the undead." ”

As he spoke, Kamel sighed slightly: "This kid must have a very special Holy Light Affinity talent...... This talent should be enough to reflect in her lifetime. ”

"She used to say she saw a ...... of light around me," a glimmer flashed in Wright's eyes, and he suddenly remembered the forgotten details of that night, "I thought she had mistaken the light of the campfire for something else......"

"She may be seeing the holy lights surging around you—those lights that never leave you, but you can't perceive them, so that they scatter in all directions," Gawain guessed, "and I remember you saying that Emily's adopters said the child was 'not in his right mind'?" ”

Wrett nodded, "Yes, they say Emily has had weird thoughts since she was a child, and she often hallucinates, and sometimes scares adults." ”

Pittman sighed: "Although this kind of thing has not happened to a gifted poor girl, compared with those rich children who can receive a good education and develop healthily from an early age, this kind of thing often only exists in the imagination of the poor...... It can only be said that all this is simply too coincidental. ”

"No, I don't think it's a coincidence," Wright shook his head suddenly, he looked at Emily with some kind of inexplicable glint in his eyes, "I think it's a guide from the Light...... It was to guide me, a foolish person, that the Light arranged for me to meet Emily. ”

Emily heard Wright's voice, she grinned, fell lightly behind Wright, grabbed the latter's shoulder with her hand, and slowly crouched there like a light veil, and then she didn't know what she was thinking about when she tilted her head, and suddenly waved her arm at Carmel, and her whole body glowed warmly bright.

Kamel was stunned for a moment, then let out a soft chuckle and raised his arms, and the whole person responded with a pleasant light blue glow.

Amber was stunned for a while, and after a while, she couldn't help but poke Gawain's arm: "Hey, can you understand what they are doing?" ”

How could Gawain understand the communication pattern of the two luminescent creatures, he could only analyze it randomly: "...... Maybe they can resonate and communicate after being transformed into an energy body? ”

At this time, Kamal floated over: "I don't know what she means, I'll flash it twice." ”

Gawain Amber: "......"

Kamal looked at Gawain and Amber's bewildered looks, and suddenly felt a little at a loss: "No, Amber, you forget it, didn't you tease children when you were young, lord?" ”

Gawain: "......"

This makes him answer - he has a memory of amusing children, but who can turn such a big turn in such a situation!

"I want to know how I can take care of her," Wright said, worried about another thing, "I've never had that experience." ”

When Pitman heard this, he immediately leaned in, and smiled with a smile on his face: "Then you are looking for me, even if you are looking for the right person, I also took care of children with others back then......"

Gawain didn't wait for the little old man to finish speaking before he interrupted loudly: "Wright, you think clearly—it's Amber ...... that Pitman brought out back then."

Amber was still following Pittman's hippie smile a second ago, and this second she glared: "What's wrong with me?" What's wrong with me?! ”

"Don't mess with it, Emily is just a child," Gawain glanced at Pitman and Amber with an imposing glare, glaring back at the shame of the old and young territory, and then looked at Kamal, "Or do you say - Emily is no longer a normal human child, what does she need to grow and develop?" ”

Kamel nodded, and said to Wright, "Just let this child live with you for the time being, as far as I can see, she is already self-sustaining, but she needs a small amount of light from you to supplement it, and she doesn't need to drink or eat in addition to energy." In addition, she needs to have proper contact with other people, which will help her regain her full mind as quickly as possible and reduce her insecurity. Finally, you need to observe her state at all times, and when her energy body is unstable and suddenly extremely restless, you need to use your own light power to soothe her, or check if there is too strong energy sources around her. If you come across a situation that you can't solve, come to me. ”

Wright carefully wrote down the precautions of each item, and only after he had memorized them all did he raise his head, exhale softly, and turned his face to look at Emily, who was still lying on his shoulder: "Don't worry, I will definitely protect you this time." ”

Gawain also smiled, he slowly stepped forward and stretched out a hand to the little girl: "Child, welcome to Cecil. ”

……

After leaving the church, Gawain did not return to the Lord's Palace, but took Amber with him to the White Water River.

It's getting to the height of summer, but Ansu, as a northern country, has always had a cool climate, especially beside the Baishui River, even in the middle of summer, there is often a cool breeze blowing, Gawain stood on a high cement platform on the bank of the river, while blowing the cool breeze, while looking at the direction of the mechanical bridge.

On the opposite side of the bridge, the farmland in the North Shore Development Area is flooded with wheat waves, and you can vaguely see pipes running from the river to the shore on the farther river, which Gawain knows is where the pumping pumps in the North Bank Development Area are located.

As various magic machines were built, advanced mechanical pumps have long since replaced the Territory's earliest waterwheel devices, but to this day, there is still a waterwheel in operation in the western part of the South Bank, which commemorates the difficult days of the Pioneer Territory's early days.

"Why don't you come home and come and see the wheat?" Although Amber honestly did her duty as a guard and followed Gawain to the river, her mouth was not idle at all, and after standing by for a while, she couldn't help but mutter.

"It helps me think." Gawain said casually.

The figure of Emily came to his mind.

Whether Emily is now "resurrected from the dead", Gawain couldn't figure out for a while, whether this matter was the guidance of the Holy Light or pure coincidence, he was not interested, he just couldn't help but feel a little confused after seeing Emily's spirit form, so he just wanted to find a place to think quietly.

Soul, entity, spirit (or energy body)...... Where is the line in between?

If you count from the beginning of the satellite era, Gawain may have been in this world for millions of years, and if you count from the beginning of the coffin, he has also been active in this world for more than a year, but he still can't completely let go of the thinking shackles of the previous life, and the strangeness of this world—or "unreasonableness" still haunts him from time to time.

Once a human, Kamel became a mana creature after receiving the energy infusion of the giant deer Amon, and 90% of her body was composed of so-called "arcane energy", and Emily, who was once a human, survived independently after being affected by Wright's holy light, and became a spirit creature, and her whole body was formed by the holy light, and what made up their bodies was "energy".

Can energy be tangible and qualitative? Can energy be seen and touched? Can the boundaries between energy and matter be so blurred?

The concept of the previous life tells Gawain that energy is invisible and intangible, it exists, but human beings can only confirm its existence through the various phenomena produced by energy, and it can be transformed into matter and interchange, but that is an extremely difficult process, but in this world, everything is completely different.

In the realm of magic, the boundaries of the physical world are so blurred...... How did those incredible changes come about?

Gawain's gaze fell on the waves of wheat in the distance—those waves of wheat, those flowing waters, those soils, those things that really existed, could they also suddenly transform into form without following E=mc2?

The foundation of this world...... How is it constituted?

In his thoughts, Gawain suddenly thought of the Demon Tide, the substances that transformed into form in the Demon Tide, and the magical environment in which the heavens and the earth changed after the Demon Tide.

Magic Tide ...... Is it the moment when the boundaries between energy and matter are most blurred?

He didn't know how to explain the confusion and thinking in his mind with the native creatures of this world, even a top scholar like Carmel probably couldn't understand what the other worldview in his mind was, but he did find a little clue in the difficult friction between the two worldworlds—that little bit of clues that might involve the nature of this world, and he instinctively felt that the changes that happened to Carmel and Emily couldn't simply be "all this is magical" Such a sentence to cover the past, behind these changes...... Maybe it hides the most essential secret of this world.

Amber stood beside her, looking at Gawain's pensive appearance, she keenly felt that Gawain was getting agitated on some almost horn-sharp question, she didn't know what that question was, but she still spoke, "Emily is alive, all in all, it's all a good thing, right?" ”

Gawain was stunned for a moment when he woke up from the difficult questions that he couldn't get answers to at the moment, then laughed and looked at Amber: "It's rare that you can say something clear. yes, that's always a good thing anyway. ”

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