Chapter Twenty-Seven: Strange Crystals
After the meal, the Hao brothers and sisters finished cleaning up the pots and pans, and several people gathered at the small table again with Mazha.
Lilith used the information of the Protoss to exchange two conditions from Hao Shen, the first condition has now been completed: the universe where Hao Shen is located has been determined to belong to the pan-universe after the observation of the system and Lilith, and Lilith has regained her freedom. And the second condition, sending Lilith to the universe she wants to go to, is more troublesome, because unlike the first condition, Hao Shen and the system must first obtain some information about that universe before they can locate that universe.
Of course, Lilith had the information of the target universe, and under the gaze of Hao Shen's family, Lilith opened a spatial crack, and then took out a spherical transparent spar that emitted a shimmering light from it.
Hao Shen carefully observed the spar, which was a regular polyhedron with thousands of delicate facets, a bit like a diamond or a crystal in appearance, but it was quite large, like a basketball. It floated under Lilith's control, emitting some kind of pale green glow.
No, it wasn't light, and if you looked closely, you could see that the green light was not coming from the crystal, but from the surface of the hedron: on the surface of the crystal, a faint, barely perceptible green flame was burning silently.
"It's so beautiful!" Hao Xiaomei covered her small mouth, her eyes glowed and she looked at the spar, and she had the urge to go up and touch it. But under the stares of Hao Shen and Lilith, he could only stick out his tongue and retract his hand.
"Don't touch it, it's dangerous!" Lilith solemnly warned, "This stone has evil forces entwined with it, which is deadly to mortals. ”
"Evil power ......" Hao Shen looked at this strange spar in amazement, and after observing it for a while, he frowned slightly: I don't know why, this spar gave him a serious sense of disobedience, it was an indescribable feeling, just like this spar...... It seems that it should not exist in this world.
"I'll take a look." The system felt the same way, it simply released a scanning light, scanning the hedron inside and out, but after a while, a hesitant voice came out: "This stone...... Hiss...... No, how do I feel ......"
"What did you find?" Hao Shen turned his head to look at the system.
"It's a stone with confusing properties...... No, it's not even a stone! The system stared at the hedron Lilith had taken out, not looking back, his scanning light sweeping over the stone from time to time, and constantly changing colors, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a legal mess." Lilith, this stone must not have been what it is before, right? ”
"Yes, it was originally a weapon...... Lilith opened the spatial crack again, and summoned several probes the size of mineral water bottles, and as they operated, the probes shot out rays of light, converging into an image of a sword punishment in the air: it was a long sword of about one meter, the cold light was shining, and the hilt of the sword was inlaid with red gems, which looked gorgeous. When I got it, it was sharp enough to pierce the armor plates of a battleship, but since it was burned by that flame, its form has gradually changed......"
The shadow of the sword slowly ignited a green flame, and in the midst of the flames, the cold light of the sword gradually faded away, becoming as soft as noodles, and soon lost the shape of the sword, turning into something like mud, and finally the back burned to ashes—but it was not over, the green flames above the ashes continued to burn, and the ashes kept making new changes, and those changes were very exaggerated: it became a big tree, then a mushroom, then a cat, a hat, a cloud, A stone changes faster and faster, and in the process, the green flame also weakens, and eventually, those strange things shrink together with the green flame, becoming a transparent crystal.
Hao Shen looked stupid on the side, his eyes kept turning between the spar and the image, and finally when the two images were one, he stared blankly at the spar, and only spit out a sentence for a long time: "That layer of green flames is burning the sword's ...... Information? ”
"Information? Well, interesting statement, maybe that's the answer. Lilith's eyes were indifferent, "I only know that the cause of this situation is the green flame, but I don't know the exact principle, I also asked the Protoss, and the Protoss told me that it is a realm that no ordinary person can set foot in." You...... Know? ”
"Ah, that's not something mere mortals should understand. By the way, Lilith, you can just call me Hao Shen. Hao Shen turned his head and looked at the system, he was good at bargaining, but if you want to explain scientifically, the system is the most suitable. What is happening is a very complex phenomenon that is difficult to explain in words. system, you explain. ”
"Ahem, it's very simple, it's not the sword that that is burning with that green flame, it's the information carried by the substance that makes up that sword, well, it can also be said to be history, or existence!" The system cleared its throat and organized the language. "You know, every object is not born with it, and even the largest living thing develops from a fertilized egg, and the same goes for objects. The appearance of every object, whatever it is, is driven by a large amount of information...... It may be too general to say that the information is different, if you change it to a simpler word, it should be cause and effect! ”
Take the sword, first of all, it is a sword, there is no doubt about it, but the concept of the sword is actually a subjective concept, it is given by man, placed in nature, it is a piece of high-purity iron, compared to other pieces of iron, it is only a little stranger in shape, and it has experienced a little ups and downs: it was born in the forge of a certain forger, it has been forged thousands of times, and under it is the flame of the best carbon fire, but before that it is actually a piece of ore of some kind of relatively good quality, which has been dug out of the ground by the miner. It is a product of the planet and is a member of the matter of the universe.
It had its own experience, and therefore carried a wealth of information wrapped in the process: the forge may have been many years old, and how many divine soldiers have left traces in it, and there may be something like a soft whip in it. The charcoal that burned it may have been the high-quality coke fired by a large tree, and the hammer that struck it was wrapped with a rope made of precious animal hair, but now it seems more likely to be a fake of cat hair, and so on......
When the Excalibur is released, this information does not disappear, but becomes a fragment of information, a part of the information level that makes up the long sword—but in that green flame, the information carried by the long sword is burned one by one, layer by layer.
From the level of information, the embodiment of matter is determined by information, when the long sword as a 'sword' information is burned, then it naturally loses the form of the sword, and what determines its new form is the next layer of information it carries - those incomplete information will make this 'sword' deform, and briefly appear as described in information, a tree, a soft whip, a cat...... The green flames burned layer by layer, so the shape of the sword kept changing.
Until finally, when there is nothing left to burn, the messy information finally collapses to produce a new image.
It's this transparent spar in front of you.