Soul of Searing Steel

Chapter 982: Emerge spontaneously

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[It is not powerful at the beginning, but it can produce mutations and evolve by consuming various resources and energy.

A single one is actually very weak no matter how it evolves. Even if it mutates into an extremely powerful individual, it is not a long-term solution for the population itself, so they always gather in groups.

They don't just rely on their own strength, they are good at using the host's flesh and blood and everything of the host to contribute to their own survival.

Silently, one host was destroyed, and they went to the next host, repeating the reincarnation again and again]

Regarding the Plague God, Eagle's thoughts are not surprising.

After all, after encountering the crisis of the evil god of weakness and the evil god of death, and obtaining a lot of information about fighting the evil god and the opponent from the unified information database and the information of the knowledge receiver, today's Mycroft civilization has already The evil god does not have the inexplicable fear he had in the past.

The biggest fear in the world is the unknown.

After the fog brought by the unknown is eliminated, even the evil god is only an extremely powerful enemy of chaos, not an invincible totem - not to mention that the evil god of plague was not considered 'strong' in his past performance. At most, it's almost the same as the Weakened Evil God.

As for the strength of the weakened evil god, if it is at the same level as when it was just revived, it can be directly eliminated with the power of the current Mycrov Joint Expedition Fleet. Not to mention Eagle, even the natural teacher believes that if he does a good job Prepare and be evenly matched with the opponent. If it were recorded that the complete form required nine glorious legends to join forces to deal with it, it would just be a few more legends shoulder to shoulder, and it wouldn't take much effort.

Therefore, it is normal for Eagle not to believe that the evil god of plague may not be stronger than the evil god of weakness.

"Actually not necessarily."

In response to Eagle's rather firm answer, Barnier shook his head. He was not refuting the old pope's remarks, but gave an example: "Maybe it's not the evil god of chaos... Super-time and space information disturbance, this kind of Ability is not exclusive to evil gods—you see.”

After finishing speaking, Barnier raised his hand. This legendary mage specializes in runes, is good at creating elemental life, and transforms his own body into a condensed body of rune fortress. Six mainstream elements and a certain concentration of magic power emerged in his hand. , ether light mist, you can still see that there is a certain amount of life energy and soul mixed in it, as well as various oxygen, nitrogen... many elements come together to form a condensation of extraordinary power... or in other words, a mass of ordinary Unsurprisingly standard 'air'.

In most living worlds, the atmosphere composed of extraordinary power and ordinary elements—the atmosphere created by Barnier is such an ordinary thing.

"I simulated the concentration of extraordinary powers in many worlds in the current void. In theory, the extraordinary powers are the most stable and will not cause conflicts or changes. But look."

As he spoke, Barnier's palm moved slightly, and an almost undetectable energy ripple swept across, affecting this standard mass of air.

Then, something amazing happened - as this energy fluctuation that was difficult for even the legendary powerhouse to detect affected an insignificant element in the air, a wonderful chain reaction began to occur: first, various Different elements began to gather and condense with each other, forming the most basic "self-replicating element condensation" of elemental life, and then further produced larger element particles, element crystals, element clusters... and then, the most basic , like a mist, the simplest elemental life.

"Hey~ Yeah~"

After being born, this mist-like elemental life instinctively let out a burst of cheers, and then chased its own tail in a circle on the fingertips of Barnier. Witnessing this scene, most of the legendary powerhouses frowned. Wrinkled, seems to understand something.

"Chain reaction - As we all know, I am a master at creating elemental life. My research on elemental life may be deeper than the goblins' research on themselves." (The goblin queens booed at this time) "Sometimes, The seemingly stable environment is actually not very stable, and the influence of powerful existence will effectively transform the entire world."

"Let me see, Joshua is not here, right?" After saying this, Barnier scanned the surroundings vigilantly, and after confirming that the warrior did not leave an avatar behind, he relaxed and continued: "Okay, I will To use an analogy with Marshal Radcliffe who is not present - Steel Elemental and Silver Goblin are the children and dependents of Marshal Radcliffe." (The Goblin Queens shouted that they are our new compatriots) "The latter is more The prototype first appeared in the world of Kallis that he influenced, and the world in his body multiplied in large numbers, and if his power was not suppressed, it would transform all the surrounding existence into some kind of special life."

As he spoke, the elemental life in Barnier's hand changed slightly, and its internal elemental structure began to become complicated. From a 'simple elemental life' that could be compared to multi-celled organisms, it suddenly evolved into a complex one that was comparable to dinosaurs and mammoths. The 'intermediate elemental life' of living things is only one step away from the advanced elemental life that is comparable to intelligent life such as humans.

"You see, I only exerted a negligible influence. This influence is very similar to the way the extreme virus appears - I don't need to take the initiative to create an elemental life by myself, I only need to emit an extremely insignificant influence to me. A little bit of power can make the world itself produce what I want for me. Of course, the difference may be a little big, but the principle is the same."

This point of view immediately triggered thinking and discussion among the legends, and Barnier was not surprised and continued: "Natural teacher, can't you also activate the plants around them and allow them to temporarily give birth to spiritual wisdom? Your Pope Holy light, can't it also purify all evil spirits inadvertently? Nostradamus, haven't you noticed that your teleportation spell is much faster than ours? We who have reached the legendary realm actually all have similar Nature affects the essence of the world. However, there are relatively few individuals who can create life by relying solely on essence."

Barnier was talking eloquently, and it could be seen that as an old mage who often created armies of elemental life out of thin air and used all means to outnumber enemies, he knew this very well. The reason for the emergence of extreme viruses out of thin air may be a bit confusing to others. It's strange, but for him, it is at best a means of advancement.

Therefore, he made a conclusion: "The spontaneous emergence of this virus may not be caused by the evil god. After all, we did not sense any chaos-related aura. It may come from an extremely powerful transcendent... But this kind of Extraordinary beings who wantonly spread plagues are no different from evil gods, and if we want to prevent this virus, it is useless to rely on martial law. What we need is to interfere with this kind of 'wave' that can induce the emergence of the virus."

"Of course, before that, let's fully recall the exploration team - the multi-dimensional galaxy is no longer safe. This may be one of the signs of the 'evil god invasion'."

At the same time, on the other side of time and space.

—The world of stars.

Joshua, who was conducting low-level information exchange with the Triple Curtain, exchanging experiences and related data on the use of various extraordinary powers, suddenly temporarily interrupted the exchange with the Triple Curtain, raised his head, and looked into the dark vacuum among the stars.

"There is something... I feel that there is an existence outside the world that is exerting influence on this world!"

In the dark void, the silver world was rapidly deforming. Joshua unfolded his fighting form. He stared at the other end of the void with a serious face, because even he could not accurately sense the subtle force that was sweeping across the galaxy. Fluctuation - that fluctuation is like the spontaneous surge of elementary particles in the vacuum. It is a part of natural phenomena. If his perception is not limited to one world, I am afraid that even he would not be able to discover it.

However, the thickness of the world barrier in the world of stars is actually hundreds of millions of times greater than that in the ordinary world. Even Joshua could only vaguely perceive that the outside world seemed to be very quiet, and there were no major changes.

"Triple Curtain, do you know what is going on outside the world of stars?" Joshua turned his head and said to the triple curtain who was also on guard. His tone was wary: "Is it possible that the evil god has sneaked into the world of stars? But you didn’t notice it?”

The huge psionic mechanical aggregate shone brightly.

[Answer: We don’t know. The world barrier of the star world is indestructible as long as the internal existence does not actively communicate with the outside world. The world of stars existed as the last bastion of the founder from the beginning. Even the evil god would never be able to sneak into it without our knowledge]

[Distress: Psionic energy is the power that can communicate with all things. Psionic civilization can naturally respond to special individuals in the distant place. We did not prevent the first psionic civilization from summoning the evil god's family members to this world, which resulted in great bitter consequences. …We are powerless to stop civilization…seeking death]

Now that the triple curtain was certain that no evil god had infiltrated, Joshua didn't say much. He believed in the other party, but if that was the case, he would have to think about the source of the new enemy.

But Joshua was not clueless. The moment he started thinking, the warrior had already walked around the world of stars, Mycroft civilization, multiple civilizations in multiple galaxies, and even the bloody battle galaxies, and was given to Clay by himself. Le and Elma's crisis management system are aware of the possible weirdness and chaos behind this.

"Extreme virus—if it was caused by the evil god of plague... is it so strong?"

For the first time, Joshua had the same thought as Old Pope Eagle, that is, the evil god of plague they knew did not seem to be so powerful.

However, unlike Eagle, Joshua knows that behind the plague mother beast in the world of stars is a special super life form called the 'Extreme Sublimation Virus', which is the existence that is recognized by the world of stars as the evil god of plague - if it is If it is the case, it is not surprising to create extreme viruses, it may even be taken for granted.

"And there is also a plague in the world of stars... More than a dozen star fields have fallen!"

Joshua quickly discovered this through the interaction of the 'Rings of the Four Gods', which were closely connected to the psychic network and linked to most of the psykers in the star world.

Because the extreme virus is so transmissible and lethal, as long as an entire planet or entire colony loses contact on such a large scale somewhere, and there is no soul returning to the psychic network, it can basically be determined that it is the extreme Caused by viruses. And because there were almost no survivors, it led to the illusion that the matter was not serious!

In this regard, even Joshua can't do anything for you. The extreme virus burns flesh, blood and soul, and his resurrection method cannot be restored out of thin air.

Strictly speaking, it's not impossible.

With Joshua's current strength, he can create a phenomenon similar to time reversal by retracing the material changes in the area, and then resurrect people who have been burned into nothingness - which is probably equivalent to a small-scale version of Fatrolvi's time reversal. , As long as the triple curtain can provide information, he can certainly do this.

But that cost is too great. Although it sounds cold-blooded, when faced with the threat of evil gods and unknown sources of plague, such a move is not worth the gain.

The living are more important.

In the previous low-level information exchanges between Joshua and Triple Curtain, they had already determined the details of the next 'Great Counteroffensive' and determined the tone of the next war. In this way, when the Guardians of the Galaxy passed the 'Fourth Battle' With the Ring of God and the newly born emotional ability users taking advantage, Joshua can take the relevant experimental data on the power of emotion and return to the multi-dimensional galaxy to prepare for the invasion of evil gods in more than ten years, and to prepare for the advancement of sages. .

But now, due to the sudden appearance of the Extreme Virus, not only the counterattack plan has to be postponed, but Joshua and the Triple Curtain have to allocate additional forces to prevent the spread of the plague - and the recent behavior of the Chaos Familia is also very strange, and they seem to be preparing something. With the big move, the situation that was originally good has now reversed.

"Forget it, I don't want to think so much."

Rather than complaining, it is better to try to solve the problem first.

Joshua gave up thinking about meaningless things. He calmed down and began to quietly feel all the information in the vacuum, trying to find the source of the plague.

The four-armed giant spread out its four arms as if embracing the vacuum. Layers of silver waves overflowed from the giant's body, layer upon layer, spreading toward the vacuum.

The large void of the galaxy where the triple curtain is located does not have any interference from the energy emitted by extra stars, and there are no traces caused by civilizational activities to affect perception.

In this environment, when the ultimate transcendent begins to listen to the world, all seemingly close connections are dissected and dissociated.

He could hear the flickering of elementary particles and sense the rotation of electrons around atoms. He could see that in the most basic existence of matter, there is the support of all extraordinary forces. Gravity dances with the ether, restricting the movement of all matter, and magic is independent. Due to electromagnetism, it can condense unconventional substances out of thin air and create phenomena that should not exist... Joshua can sense that life energy is a force that exists in everything in the universe, and it is not an energy unique to life. , but only life can follow its own will and use it to transform other things and the energy of other lives.

All living things, even everything that has no form and seems to be nothing, are invisible to Joshua.

So he heard it—heard the faint signal that was hidden in the sea of particles churning in the vacuum, echoing like a ghost.

-In the universe, among the stars, the seemingly empty vacuum is actually a churning sea of particle energy. It is just because it is too calm compared to the macroscopic world, so it seems like it has no waves. General.

However, around stars and on planets, the surge of energy and changes in matter are very violent.

The corona is churning, the solar wind is blowing, the magnetic field is moving, volcanic eruptions and heat flows caused by geological changes... In every material-rich area in the universe, billions of possibilities appear all the time.

Among them, there will be exactly one part whose energy changes and material changes will cause 'coincidences' - for example, inorganic matter becomes organic matter, the condensation of energy crystals causes chaos, and they suddenly change from inanimate things to something. Something that can replicate itself and reproduce.

That is, the primitive cells and even the beginning of life.

And this is the origin of the extreme virus.

Joshua listened to the entire world of stars. He relied on repairing the beam of light and relying on the spiritual network that could be affected by the power of emotion to listen to the sound of material changes in various parts of the world of stars. Infinite large-scale information was reflected in the warrior's world as a unit. The calculations of the thinking unit were processed quickly, so Joshua could hear the discordant sounds appearing under the seemingly normal coincidence of the birth of life.

The fluctuations emitted by a powerful existence affected all the opportunities for "possible birth of life", turning the possibilities of primitive cells and primitive life into prototypes of extreme viruses!

In other words, after being affected by the extremely weak fluctuations that swept across the star world, wherever life may appear on the affected planets, and phenomena similar to viruses and other structures may appear, all of them will actually produce the primitive form of extreme viruses. form!

In other words, the extreme virus does not need to be transmitted at all - because it emerges spontaneously from various phenomena in the world!

The primordial soup around the high-temperature smoke column at the bottom of the sea, the illusion of high-concentration elements struck by thunder and lightning, and the crystallization area where magic power gathers. These are areas where life may be born. Extreme viruses may spontaneously emerge! Not to mention the biological laboratories of some civilizations, the bacteria and fungi produced by the mildew of materials in nature have mutated. The more densely populated the place, the more likely it is that extreme viruses will be born!

"Possibility of interference?"

Opening his eyes, Joshua looked solemn. In this regard, he couldn't help but think of a powerful enemy he had encountered a long time ago, the most powerful man in the world of Hyboria, the time mover 'Fat Lolvi'!

His unique skill is to manipulate the possibilities in the world of Hyboria to create any future he wants. In the battle at that time, let alone controlling the possibility of the birth of the virus, Fatlolvi could even directly pass through Influence the possibility, achieve quantum evasion, and avoid any of his attacks without injury!

However, although they are similar, they are not exactly the same... If Fatrolvi is the 'controlling possibility', then the emergence of the extreme virus is at best an 'induction'. The ultimate virus that emerges spontaneously may not be complete, and its survival time is definitely not as short as that of a complete virus. Even its lethality is not very high. Therefore, in some worlds, there may even be individuals who did not die in the extreme plague. .

"Indeed, it's more like some kind of rudimentary, incomplete memeticization..." Muttering to himself, Joshua couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Today's situation is getting more and more difficult. Although the source of the plague has been found, a bigger question has also arisen: Where did the fluctuation that gave birth to the extreme virus come from

Even Joshua could not confirm this. He could only guess that the source of this fluctuation might come from outside the world of stars.

"Triple Curtain."

After thinking for a while, Joshua finally made up his mind. The giant god looked back at the psychic machinery orbiting the black hole on one side. He said in a calm tone: "Is there any way for you to temporarily send me - no, send my incarnation to the world of stars?" Take a look at the situation outside?"

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