Soul of Burning Steel

Charlier united with the First Farmer's World, and the World Tree, which wrapped the continent under its own rhizome, shook its branches and leaves, causing the murlocs who were experimenting in the laboratory on its branches to interrupt their work.

But the murloc did not complain about this. The high priest Godard raised his head blankly. He walked out of the laboratory quickly, and then looked up to the top of the empty world: "Galanoord, have you heard that?! "

"I heard it."

In the huge world tree, there was a light voice of spirits, but there was a dignified tone in the tone: "This voice is very strange and weird... Although I seem to understand what I said, it is undoubtedly very important. ."

"But it's not as important as the job at hand."

Godard frowned and thought about it for a while on the branch. He said: "You continue the experiment, I will contact Eagle and the others... Damn, Joshua is not there, and the secret work of the Seven Gods seems to have reached a critical moment—perhaps We need to ask the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Site's will to dominate. Although it doesn't know much, it is at least richer than us."

Just when the Murloc High Priest was about to start contacting other legendary powerhouses, the natural teacher gave him an unexpected good news: "Wait, Godard."

"My experiment may be successful, wait for me to determine the last step."

Hearing that, the murloc high priest was taken aback for a moment, and then he was surprised and delighted: "Really successful!?"

"Have you developed a vaccine for extreme viruses?"

The giant tree did not answer, only a green halo enveloped Godard, he did not resist, and the next moment, the high priest came to a hall entirely made of emerald green, half wood and half crystal material.

It is the center of the world tree.

The force of nature is a derivative energy between magic and life energy, so it is related to everything in the world, and nothing—even man-made—can not involve the force of nature.

This is its advantage as well as its disadvantage. In a barren and lifeless world, even if the magic power is abundant, the force of nature will not be born. Similarly, in a world where there are many lives but no magic, the force of nature will wither, in other words , Its essence is the magical power with the characteristics of life energy, or the life energy with the characteristics of magical power, it can be said to be the earliest, similar to the supernatural power aggregate of divine energy and emotional power.

And in the heart of this huge world tree, the majestic life energy and magic are constantly surging up and down, flowing along the crystal lines on the inner wall, Godard, guided by a dark green light formed by the force of nature, came to an unusually wide Inside the compartment.

Entering the compartment, the originally peaceful and peaceful atmosphere suddenly changed. Godard raised his head. He saw the bones of countless creatures piled up in the corner of the compartment, sealed by the force of nature crystals and sealed. The high priest knows that these are the biological bones swallowed by the extreme virus, and they are experimental individuals created by the natural teacher. Looking at this number, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of beasts and beasts have been consumed in the past few days. The experimental materials ahead are even more. It is uncountable. After all, the worthless experimental bodies will be decomposed again and recycled as materials for the next experiment.

And in the center of the compartment, in a space completely enveloped by transparent crystals, a super-large bacteria ecosystem is multiplying, and bacteria of various colors are mixed with extraordinary powers in this miniature space of 1.5 kilometers in diameter. Creeping growth.

"According to my research, any creature with a complexity greater than that of sponges and jellyfish is extremely vulnerable to extreme viruses. It has certain conditions and selectivity. The more complex the structure, the more favored by them."

Noting the look in the eyes of the Murloc High Priest, the World Tree—that is, Galanod’s body now makes a sound, explaining: “In other words, if I want to observe the erosion process of the Extreme Virus carefully, I must use the sponge jellyfish. Species, and creatures that are simpler in structure than sponge jellyfish...There are not many such creatures. Sponge is already the lowest multicellular animal, and jellyfish are a little more advanced than it."

"So you choose a variety of microorganisms and fungi? Yes, after all, the ancestors of sponges are fungi, and only they want to be simpler..."

Godard nodded thoughtfully. He is also an expert in related fields: "So you succeeded?"

"perhaps."

The natural tutor’s voice cannot be denied, the force of nature condenses into an arrow, guiding Godard to look towards the colony ecosystem: “The limit virus is not incapable of eroding fungi and various microorganisms. In fact, its structure is probably even bigger than the virus we know. To be smaller, the smallest one is even ten nanometers, and the largest one is no more than fifty nanometers. In front of them, viruses are also objects that can be'sublimated'—I just destroyed some of the super viruses that were initially limited. , It can infect any intelligent life using spiritual power in the field of thinking through psychic energy, and gradually transform their thinking mode into the extreme creatures we are familiar with."

"As for these bacteria and fungi, they haven't reached the limit of living creatures, but you see, they have begun to control extraordinary forces through the situation of the colony, similar to the magic circuit and rune structure... It is really a terrible force. ."

"However, because of the transformation of these colonies by Extreme Virus, I found a loophole in it."

"What loophole?" Godard asked hurriedly. After all, it's about Mycroft and Murloc. Even if he is a cold-blooded creature (literally), he has to think about his race: "Don't sell it. "

"It's very simple."

The nature tutor simply replied: "The limit virus is a selfish and very'smart' virus. It will ensure that its host succeeds as much as possible, and then assimilate with the host to become a limit creature, but due to limited energy, As long as it discovers that the host may fail to sublimate, it will take away all the energy of the host—that is, eroding the host into the dead bones in the corner—and then self-replicate and spread."

"But as long as it does not necessarily fail, then Extreme Virus will never allow its own kind to increase. It is very selfish. If it can succeed on its own, it will never generate a second one."

"Combined with the previous point that the limit is keen to erode advanced organisms with complex structures, I can draw one element: the limit virus pursues the limit of its own success. If it can, then the more powerful and complex the limit is, the more complex it is. it is good."

Having said that, Godard already understood a little bit, and the nature teacher said with a smile: "So, based on this factor, through many experiments, I found that when the limit virus parasitizes on sponges, jellyfish and other low-level multicellular organisms, the erosion rate It will become very slow... This is a good explanation, because even if the sponge jellyfish is successfully limited, it is not much stronger. Perhaps only the demonized sea has the value of erosion, compared to these weak The biological waste of their own opportunities and possibilities, Xtreme Virus will not hesitate to choose to dormant and delay the process of erosion.

"That's why!" Following the natural teacher's thinking, the Murloc High Priest hammered his palm, and said excitedly: "As long as the limit virus feels that there is an illusion, as long as..."

"Yes, as long as the limit virus has the illusion that it is not human, but a large sponge, large jellyfish, large fungal bacteria, and various single-celled organisms, then even if it is infected, it will not I will do it immediately, but after 8 to 14 days, I will try to find the next host."

With a hint of intriguing smile in the nature teacher’s voice, she whispered: "In short, as long as it feels that you are a waste, it will not erode you, but will retain energy and wait for the next encounter to be worthwhile. Chance to erode the goal."

—As long as you become a waste, no one can use you.

Hearing this, the murloc high priest could be considered to have completely understood the train of thought of nature.

Yes, the extreme virus is an extraordinary biochemical creation that is far more advanced than today’s Mykrov civilization, and even a heritage of the creation of an extreme life form. It is actually a completely impossible task to create a vaccine from the ground up, at least Galanold can't do it for the time being.

But on the other hand, the use of the extreme virus is too advanced and too smart, but you can use this to make a fuss... As long as you create an extraordinary medicine that allows the person who drinks it to have the biological essence of a sponge jelly, then the extreme virus is Would be too lazy to erode these lower creatures and instead try other targets.

Is it difficult? It's too simple. In an extraordinary world, even dragons can become humanoids, even humans can become neutron stars and even the world, disguised as a jellyfish fungus, not too simple for the legendary powerhouse.

In this case, the extreme virus transfer, of course, will give birth to some strange things like extreme cows, extreme grass, extreme tree vines, extreme overlord flowers, but at least humans are safe—and that’s enough. If the virus does not transfer, then There is also an incubation period of about eight days. As long as the Seven Gods and a few legendary powerhouses purify the crowd at intervals, there is no fear of a virus outbreak.

It’s really bad luck. The natural anti-magic and anti-change spells cause the medicine to not work, or the virus strikes early...There is no way, the situation is critical now, and Galanod can only guarantee the safety of most people. Rather than ensuring that all mankind is unharmed.

"Can you ensure success?"

However, as soon as the excitement passed, anxiety grew. Godard walked a few times in the compartment, and his brows wrinkled again: "For example, Extreme Virus discovered that its host was just pretending to be a sponge..."

"One hundred percent. As long as the ultimate creature is indeed an extraordinary creation of the ultimate life body, as long as it is so advanced, then it will certainly not risk wasting energy to detect that what it eats is advanced animals disguised as sponges and fungi. , Or real fungus and sponge."

The natural teacher's tone is very conclusive: "After all, it is too small, no matter how advanced the way it carries energy, it can't be corroded multiple times. It must kill with one hit, so it gives us a chance to make tricks."

"I succeeded."

"...Can't be better." The Murloc High Priest took a deep breath, and he immediately picked up the communication array in his hand. Godard couldn't wait to share the good news with other legendary powerhouses.

Eagle was the first to know the news. After listening to Godard's general explanation, he quickly realized that this is an extremely simple and feasible preventive measure.

"Now, right now, right now."

He said so, and then took out the communication circle, ready to notify the others: "Let Galanold write the formula of the disguise potion-and then we write it into the exchange beams of Joshua."

"Thank God, Radcliffe has finally helped a lot out of the battle... Without the exchange of light beams, the time to set up the production line alone will probably kill tens of millions more people-if it is Multi-Star, I am afraid. It’s in the hundreds of billions."

Thinking of this, the old pope hesitated for a while, then shook his head, and said decisively: "—Also inform other civilizations and tell them this method. Ha, this method is not difficult, I think it should be more than us to discover, just treat it as A good favor."

"After all... this multiverse, the remaining civilization can no longer be destroyed. If the voice just now said the truth, then I am afraid this is the last chance."

—If this last opportunity is reached, all civilizations cannot work together to share resources with each other and face the biggest and most terrifying threat... Then, this selfish plague will sever hope and make doomed destruction and destruction. The end is here.

"This is my responsibility, the responsibility of a wise life."

Pope Eagle didn’t think he was brilliant. He knew that he was just talented, lucky, inherited enough, and conditions for growth, and his wits could not become the “heir of the Holy Light”. Or the'pope of ten thousand realms and ten thousand races', he can only be the pope of Mrs. Mike Luo, a strong, kind, and good person who likes to watch the sunrise.

However, no one has ever said that Mrs. Mike Rowe, the Pope of Mrs. Mike Rowe cannot be concerned about the multiverse-no race can say that, saying that it can be independent of the world.

Because in the face of the disasters that swept across the heavens and all realms, all wisdom minds are a whole, not an independent island, and under the light of flame, order will inevitably last forever.

He believes so firmly, that's why he has come to this day.

And this is exactly the opposite of the limit virus, the road called civilization.

"We are the final, the last, and since then, there is no future or hope."

The sound resounding through the multiverse, echoing in the confused time and space, all the strong, all the enlightened have already understood, this is indeed the last moment, the road to the'source' is about to be cut off, and the initial fire will be soon After that, the future will completely lose contact with the multiverse. Since then, everything will usher in a doomed end, turning into black ashes that can no longer burn after the flame is extinguished.

and so.

—I must succeed.

-We must succeed.

—As long as I can succeed

—As long as there is a future, it’s good.

-It must be me, it can only be me. If it is not me, then the multiverse is meaningless, whether it is annihilation or extinction, it has no meaning.

—It is my best. I hope it is me, but if it can't be me, at least, I hope that I and my successors can have the possibility of the future.

The beast that yearns for'tomorrow' and the civilization that yearns for'tomorrow'.

There is an obvious and incomparable dividing line between the two. This boundary is like an abyss, the abyss called the "Falls of Tomorrow", which divides two kinds of thoughts, two behavior patterns, and two underlying logics, ruling the multiverse. s future.

Even if there are some individuals who cannot distinguish the difference between the two, at least as a whole, even if they tend to destroy all foreign races and the racial cleanliness civilization of all non-self, at least they are also civilizations, a collective composed of countless people—absolutely. Most civilizations are understandable.

But it is only the vast majority.

The royal court of Amos, the dome of the royal court, the void firmament composed of stars.

The huge luminous nebula, because of the cry of the distant beast, fell into deep thought.

Until a fleet of void battleships galloped from a distance, interrupting his contemplation.