Soul of Burning Steel

In the beginning, things were not so easy to understand. Fiction.

The elf analyst works quietly at his desk. He wears a long full-coverage headset with elf characteristics and listens to the various reverberations about the void in the database. This profession requires sensitive perception and excellent skills. Hearing is perfect for elves. Most of the analysts are elves, and their patience from a long life is also very qualified.

The database of the Chenguang void exploration ship is not large, because it was urgently recalled shortly after its journey began. The elf analyst estimates that it only takes about four or five days to complete the task. At that time, he can do it. Get an incentive bonus. This bonus will be sent separately after analyzing the database of a void exploration ship, so he likes this kind of mission with little data.

"Speaking of which, plus my savings, I already have a lot of money. Where do I spend it... Mother has enough jewelry, or should I buy some new clothes for Jenny? Hmm... Father a gift A small submarine, he has been talking about this a few days ago, he wants to go to the deep sea to see fish in another world."

Although many thoughts about the future flashed in his mind, the moment he started working, the elf analyst immediately calmed down and concentrated on his work. To listen to the echoes of the void, all you need is full-body concentration, which is a very energy-consuming technical job, so the salary is not low, even if it is to be worthy of his salary, he will seriously perform his responsibilities.

Time has passed. After a few hours, the analyst has eliminated most of the worthless clutter, and the remaining fragments that cannot be analyzed temporarily will be confirmed several times in subsequent work to analyze their value. This is the key point. .

Because, if the information in the clutter is really valuable, then the Void Exploration Department does not mind giving another bonus. This is also the motivation to urge most analysts to work hard.

"Almost to the limit."

However, after working for such a long time, I really need to take a break. I feel a little tired and I can’t continue to concentrate. When listening to the voice of the void, the analyst muttered to himself: "After listening to this paragraph, I will go. Pour a cup of coffee."

The last part of the void echo is a clutter that sounds meaningless, without any tone or beauty, but this clutter is unexpectedly non-piercing, and most of it is distorted by the turbulence of time and space like a howling. Compared with the sharp noise, it is very gentle.

"Sure enough, there is no value."

Although this mild clutter surprised the analyst with its peculiarities, after listening carefully for a few times, he found that this thing really had no value. It was not a shock wave of temporal and spatial turbulence caused by abnormal conditions in some worlds. It was not the echo caused by the action of the Void Behemoth, but the ordinary noise of the void.

Leaving the matter behind, the analyst went to pour himself a cup of coffee, ate some cakes, rested for a while, and then went on to work for the day. After working overtime, he had an extra salary available, so he took the initiative to work overtime until the evening. At nine o'clock, after finishing twelve hours of work in a day, he returned to sleep in the accommodation area of ​​Jetrum Void Base.

In the darkness of the artificial night in the lodging area, the analyst who was lying on the bed was dreaming, frowned in his sleep, and then suddenly awakened.

"Just... my dream..."

He felt that there seemed to be a lot of things in his mind, some ghosts of strange creatures, but he didn't remember anything... This weird feeling gave the elf analyst a weird sense of danger, but because it was really Too sleepy, so he lay back and continued to sleep.

In the second half of the night on the first day, he did not wake up. In his dream, something was sprouting and taking root, and something had been changed forever, but the people who were changed did not know.

The next morning, the elf analyst came to the work area on time. After greeting a few acquaintances and colleagues, he continued to sit in his seat and resumed his work yesterday.

However, just as he continued to listen to the echoes in the void, for some reason, the analyst found out inexplicably that he could actually rely on instinct to directly distinguish which information contained in which echoes.

"This... is the sound of the nearby medium-sized world! It moves with dozens of small worlds in the same star field, causing its reverberation to become complex and chaotic, turning into a clutter-like noise!"

"And this! It should be the fluctuation of the interaction energy between a certain high-energy small world and the big magic wave! Oh my God, it is a high-energy small world, this is enough for me to get a bonus!

"Yes, and this, I can also understand what this means... This should be the aftermath of a void war hundreds of years ago. Both sides of the battle are very strong..."

The surprised analyst discovered that he could actually analyze the strength of both sides in the past by just listening: "Both sides have broken through the limit and reached the level of the mature body...Hey, what does it mean to break through the limit and the mature body? "

Although it’s a little strange why his adjectives become weird, the analyst classifies them into the category of'too shocked to speak,' and he doesn't care too much, because what matters most to him now is to make these special ones. The discovery of value is all reported to the superior, and then after verifying that his information is correct in the future, he will receive his own bonus.

Even with the recent martial law, there is no way to pay bonuses in real time, but his loan amount will be much larger, maybe a few more years of deposit... you can buy a fixed property in the Void Base!

While maintaining this sense of excitement and continuing to work until close to the end of get off work, the analyst can't wait to gather this information and submit it to the headquarters of the Void Exploration Department.

"It seems that my talents that have been silent for many years have been unearthed."

With this kind of joy that is almost a pie in the sky, the elf analyst lay down on the bed happily and slowly fell asleep, but before he truly lost consciousness, his mouth was still smiling: "So this is a genius. Does it feel like? It’s awesome..."

On the night of the second day, there was no dream and it ended. In the dim darkness, something began to spread, envelop, and affect the reality of the matter from the emptiness of thinking.

The next day, it was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon at Mycroft UTC. After lunch, the elf analyst suddenly felt a little sick. He didn't know whether it was a stomachache or a stomachache. In short, he went to the toilet several times, but there was no diarrhea. , There are no other symptoms, just keep retching. Since he submitted a large amount of information and analysis that proved to be indeed valuable yesterday, the head of the analysis department also came to pay special attention to it, and even took him to the medical center for a comprehensive gap.

"There is no problem...that is, you have to eat well."

A dwarf doctor jumped from a chair, used magic to levitate in the air, and prescribed a medicine list for him. The close relative of the dwarf, who had gray hair and was two times smaller than the dwarf, said in a rather disapproving tone: " Look, undernourishment, long-term irregular eating, coupled with your quirky eating culture, if you don't pay attention, it will cause sudden gastrointestinal cramps."

"Here are some of the military's high-energy nutrients. You can't eat too much, but if you take a little when you get sick, the nutrients and slime colloid can effectively relieve pain and repair the gastric mucosa. If you want a radical cure, you need to correct your eating habits. , Eat more animal protein."

"Yes Yes……"

I want to say, ‘my diet is very healthy! 'This is a rebuttal, but because it is true that the stomach hurts and the body is very weak, the analyst has no strength to refute... Anyway, if it does not work, it is a big deal to change to another doctor to see the situation. After the doctor has issued a certificate, the analyst Then continue to return to work and continue their own work.

At night, the analyst felt that his stomach and intestines began to cramp and caused severe pain, and he had already received the military's high-energy nutrients. He immediately took out a small bottle of something that looked like a can and opened it directly. , Pour the luminescent colloid into the mouth. I can feel that the nutrient made of slime colloid, the main ingredient, squirts in the esophagus like alive, enters the stomach pouch, and begins to soothe the rebellious organs... Just as the doctor said, the pain is temporarily relieved. , The lingering analyst put down the nutrient in his hand and exhaled.

"What is this weird disease... But it's a bit weird to say, but is my strength a little bit stronger?"

Looking at the deformed cans, the analyst frowned slightly. He remembered the solidity of the military cans. Even a professional martial artist would need to spend some time to open it without tools. He was in a hurry. It's a bit weird to be able to unscrew the bottom directly.

With an uneasy state of mind, he turned off the light to upload and began to fall asleep.

On the night of the third day, the dream was blurred, and the elf analyst felt that he had become a monster with a weird shape, swimming in the ocean and devouring all the creatures in front of him. He felt very quick and comfortable, and there was nothing more interesting than this. Thing up.

After waking up, the elf analyst got up to wash, and the moment he looked up and brushed his teeth and looked in the mirror, he was shocked.

"Who is this?!"

I don’t know if it’s an illusion. The analyst felt that his face seemed to have changed, but when he took a closer look, he compared the selfie with his parents in the mental terminal, but there was no change. He had green hair and blue pupils, a straight nose, and a face. Junsu, in short, is still as handsome.

But I don't know why. Faced with this pretty face, which is clearly his own, the analyst unexpectedly has no sympathy. Instead, he feels that he is looking at a stranger.

When going to the work place, the analyst also feels that other people passing by, even his acquaintances, colleagues and friends look at him with strange eyes, but if they look at each other, they find that the other party just greets him normally.

Vaguely, the abnormally good hearing made the analyst hear the passing colleague muttering to himself.

"Strange, Neuppel wasn't so energetic before, right?"

"Yeah, it seems like a different person. Although he used to be handsome, but he feels that kind of normal... Today he feels a little different."

"Oh, the blood of the elves is good. Changing the style is very eye-catching. I don't know how the blood optimization researched by Moldavia is. If we humans are all handsome men and beautiful women..."

...

The discussion quickly changed topics, and there was still a bit of self-doubt in his heart, but the elven analyst named Neuppel, because of the secret envy of others, dispelled most of the doubts in his heart.

"It's not a bad thing anyway." He thought so in his heart, and he even had a sense of national pride: "Speaking of which, I remember that I have a distant cousin, Constantine or something, who seems to have joined Moldavia's bloodline transformation. The research team, I remember being an alchemist from a certain elite team in the External Exploration Department...I don’t know how that guy is doing."

Today's work is also very smooth, and the current elven analysts can even hear the origin behind it directly from the noise of the void. Even the department head was shocked after learning about it.

"Good boy, you know, those pastoralists who have lived with the Void Giant for more than a thousand years have many professionals who don't have this ability!"

In the supervisor’s office, watching the analyst analyze the correct answers to several difficult tests in person, the elf supervisor patted his younger generation on the shoulder and exhorted with satisfaction: "Your talent is outstanding. Working here is really great. Some have buried you. After a few days, you go to the headquarters and go to the headquarters and pass the test. If you really have the relevant talents, you may be able to board the'Dreadnought Void Battleship' and become an army of the glorious expeditionary army. Listeners, direct the direction for our army!"

In this way, I also have the credit for the recommendation. You and I will get a promotion and salary increase just around the corner.

"I will work hard!"

Although I can listen to the reverberations of the world, I still can't hear the subtext, but it doesn't affect the analysts overjoyed the listeners. Compared with the analysts who analyze the data in the rear, they are not at the same level! The former is to enjoy the "Elite, Advanced and Extraordinary Welfare", and the treatment is equivalent to the superior technical work of the advanced and extremely strong, and it is difficult to find one among tens of thousands of people, while the latter is just a basic and extraordinary ration, but the bonus system is very generous ordinary technology It's just the type of work.

Encouraged by his boss, as well as looking forward to the future, today's analysts fell asleep hopefully after taking a pot of high-energy nutrients again.

"Speaking of which, the nutrient is almost finished."

The moment before he fell asleep, he thought a little uneasy: "The doctor said that a little bit is enough, and I have one can at a time... Isn't it a bit abnormal in this case?"

Thinking like this, he fell asleep.

On the night of the fourth day, fantasy and mystery. For some reason, the elf analyst saw in his dream his life from birth to adulthood, from childishness to maturity. When he was young, he saw the throbbing in the sky. When he was a teenager, he saw first love. The information of the time, as an adult, swore to become a master, and to persevere in the determination to fight for it... Everything is gathered together in a precise lens and turned into a star.

The analyst knows instinctively that this is the life of a man named "Neuper", which is his essence. These memories and information are the real him. If he loses these, even if he is the same, he is another person.

The stars flickered and illuminate the dark dreams, making the analyst watching all this feel inexplicably relieved.

Then, at the moment when the dream is about to end.

Pure white silk thread began to appear, wrapping the star in layers... just like that.

It turned into a huge ‘cocoon’.

The next day, working hours.

"Strange, what about the Neuper?"

"I don't know... Seems to ask for leave?"

"I was called to the past by the leader yesterday, so I started to slack off today... shouldn't he? He is not this kind of person."

"Maybe it's really uncomfortable, you know. He went to the doctor a few days ago. Maybe it's a side effect of the awakening of extraordinary talent?"

"Who knows."

Colleagues’ discussions ended here. After all, it’s just a day off without coming. It’s not a big deal. Everyone has inconveniences. As colleagues who have worked in the same unit for more than a year, there is no competition among them. Relationship, there is no private enmity, naturally it will not be too malicious.

And Jetrum Void base, accommodation area, Neuper's room.

On the bed of the original analyst, there was no longer the original green-haired and blue-eyed elf at this time, only a ‘cocoon’ made up of countless silk threads with a delicate and soft surface.

The ‘cocoon’ is oscillating, but it is not the struggle of the things in it, but the natural movement that emits subtle sound waves. This sound wave is extremely subtle, and it is gentle like a clutter quietly passing in the void, without any characteristics, and without any signs. However, if you listen carefully and listen to the feelings in it, you will find that this sound wave is like a whisper, a cry, or even... a joyful praise.

[There is such a strange question]

Can sound change matter?

of course can. Sound waves are originally a kind of vibration transmitted in various media. Too strong sound waves are enough to shatter glass walls and cause damage to the human body. The subtle sound waves can also be subtly and anxious, making sensitive creatures feel that they are not.

So, can sound contain information?

of course can. Human language relies on special sound waves of different frequencies to convey different information. In fact, the information that sound waves can convey is unexpectedly rich. It is only that humans can send out, listen to and use sound waves with less frequency, which leads humans to think that sound waves are a low-level language, but in fact, sound waves can only be regarded as a communication environment at best. General, if you change to other waves, the situation is much better.

No, the real meaning of this question is that fluctuation itself can be used as a carrier. Even if the person who hears it cannot understand it, it can still be like an image, conveying some information that can be understood by any life without explanation ?

The answer is of course.

Special sound waves. No, it is a special wave, in essence, enough to change everything. Containing the ripples of extraordinary power, at the moment of contact with the human body, it can impose its own information on it, transform the qualified flesh and blood on the material level, and directly instill some long-prepared knowledge.

How can I say that in the face of these special waves, ordinary life has no power to resist, like shattered glass, disturbed eardrums, and emotions that are subtly changed. Gradually, little by little, they are echoed by them. Corroded, transformed, and then became a completely different form from before.

It can even be said that it is enough to make the old creature ‘dead’ and the new life ‘birth’ such a fantastic thing.

On the sixth day, early in the morning.

‘Elf Analyst Neuper’ wakes up from his body.

It calmly lowered its head, looked at the shriveled skin that originally wrapped it and the cocoon silk that had begun to degrade naturally, and then revealed an intriguing smile.

[There is such a philosophical question. 】

The parts on a ship are gradually replaced until the original parts of the ship have become brand new parts, and the old ones are completely replaced. Is the ship still the original ship?

An object without self-consciousness does not matter whether it is or not, but if a wise and conscious life encounters such a thing, what will happen to his self-recognition?

If there is such a powerful super biological juvenile, born in an ordinary intelligent life body, it absorbs all the memory, consciousness and soul of the original owner, and engraves it on its own memory, as if it were its own. , Store backups carefully.

Then, based on it, completely simulate, and reproduce the original owner's thinking mode...No, you can't say that. Because a few days ago, this super-living larva has already invaded the original owner’s brain along the nervous system, thinking with the original owner, and then replacing every cell in the original owner bit by bit. But even so, the original owner It was still'thinking' on its own, the super juvenile life did not interfere in any way, it just became a part of the original owner.

Then it became him, and he became it.

Storage and copy, record restoration, calculation test, optimization and sublimation. This is the mission of the limit. The ultimate life will hold everything originally, including but not limited to the original blood, memory, preferences, personality, and thinking mode. In a sense, it is the original person~www.novelmtl.com ~Because memory is the main body, the super larva only becomes a part of the original owner, and then assimilated with the original owner.

But is this true?

"Although I died, I was reborn."

The elf once dressed elegantly for itself. It felt that endless hunger was making its stomach cramps, but the pain that made it feel extra uncomfortable not long ago has now become an impulse with joy. Feeling this impulse, then raised his hand, squeezed a fist, and extremely powerful and extraordinary power was surging between flesh and blood.

Bare his teeth, Xtreme Creature Neupere smiled relaxedly: "The death of a newborn."

"I love this feeling."

Star Pendant 848, on April 8th, the mature extreme creature appeared at the Jetrum Void Base, killing 370,000 people and fleeing. Dozens of civilized ambassadors to Jetrum were among them, and the Third Expeditionary Army The squadron suffered a surprise attack and most of it sank. In the world of Jetrum, the Ten Thousand Worlds Star Gate was temporarily closed, and the Mycroft World Mother World and all colonies entered a state of full military control.

Huanyu was shocked.