At first, things weren't that easy to understand.
The elf analyst works quietly at his desk. He wears long, full-coverage headphones with elf characteristics and listens to the various echoes of the void in the database. The profession of an analyst requires sensitive perception and extremely excellent skills. Excellent hearing is perfect for elves. Most of the analysts are elves, and their patience honed by their long lifespan is also very suitable for them.
The database of the Dawn Void Exploration Ship is not large, because it was urgently recalled not long after its journey began. The elf analyst estimated that he would only need four or five days to complete the task. At that time, he could Get an incentive bonus. This bonus will be sent separately every time the database of a void exploration ship is analyzed, so he likes this kind of task with not much data.
"Speaking of which, this money plus my savings is quite a lot. Where should I spend it... Mother's jewelry is enough, or should I buy some new clothes for Jenny? Hmm... Give father a small boat Submarine, he has been talking about this a few days ago and wants to go to the deep sea world to see fish from other worlds."
Although many thoughts about the future flashed through his mind, the moment he started working, the elf analyst immediately calmed down and concentrated on his work. Listening to the echoes of the void requires full concentration. It 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 fulfill his responsibilities seriously.
Time passes. After a few hours, the analyst has eliminated most of the worthless clutter. The remaining fragments that cannot be analyzed temporarily will be confirmed several times and analyzed for their value in subsequent work. This is the key point. .
Because, if the information in the clutter is really valuable, then the Void Exploration Department does not mind giving out another bonus. This is also the motivation that urges most analysts to work persistently and seriously.
"It's almost reached its limit."
However, after working for such a long time, he really needed to take a break. He felt a little tired and began to be unable to concentrate. While listening to the sound of the void, the analyst said to himself: "After listening to this paragraph, I will go Pour me a cup of coffee.”
The last echo in the void is a meaningless clutter, without any tone or beauty. However, this clutter is surprisingly not harsh, and most of the clutter is distorted by the turbulence of time and space, like a wail. Compared with the sharp noise, it seems very mild.
"Sure enough, it's of little value."
Although this mild clutter made the analyst a little surprised by its special nature, after listening carefully several times, he found that this thing was indeed of little value. It was neither a shock wave of space-time turbulence that occurs when some worlds encounter abnormal conditions. It's not the echo caused by the actions of the giant beast in the void, it's just the ordinary background noise of the void.
Putting this matter behind him, the analyst went to pour himself a cup of coffee, ate some pastries, rested for a while, and then continued his work for the day. Since he had extra salary for overtime work, he took the initiative to work overtime until the evening. At nine o'clock, after completing a twelve-hour day's work, he returned to the accommodation area of Jetrum Void Base to sleep.
In the darkness of the artificial night in the accommodation area, the analyst who was lying on the bed and dreaming frowned in his sleep, and then woke up suddenly.
"Just now... my dream..."
He felt that there seemed to be a lot of things in his mind, some shadows of strange creatures, but he couldn't remember anything... This weird feeling gave the elf analyst a weird sense of danger, but because it was too He was sleepy, so he lay back down and continued to sleep.
In the second half of the night on the first day, he did not wake up. In the dream, something was sprouting and taking root. Something had been changed forever, but the person who had been changed did not know it.
The next morning, the elf analyst arrived at the work area on time. After greeting several acquaintances and colleagues, he continued to sit in his seat and continued yesterday's work.
However, as he continued to listen to the echoes in the void, for some reason, the analyst found that he could rely on instinct to directly distinguish which echoes contained which information.
"This... is the sound of the nearby medium-sized world! It moves together with dozens of small worlds in the same star field, causing its echo to become complicated and chaotic, turning into a noise similar to clutter!"
"And this! It should be the fluctuation of the interactive energy between a certain high-energy small world and the big demonic tide! Oh my God, it's a high-energy small world. This is enough for me to get a bonus!"
"Yes, there is 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 astonished analyst discovered that he could actually analyze the strength of both parties in the past battle just by listening: "Both sides have broken through the limit and reached the level of mature bodies... Hey, what does breaking through the limits and mature bodies mean?"
Although he was a little surprised why his adjectives became weird, the analyst classified them into the category of "too shocked to speak", so he didn't care too much, because his most important thing now is to use these special words. All value discoveries are reported to superiors, and when it is proven that their information is correct in the future, they will receive their share of the bonus.
Even with the recent martial law, the bonus cannot be paid out immediately, but his loan limit will be much larger. Maybe with a few more years of deposit... he 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 the day, the analyst couldn't wait to summarize this information and submit it to the Void Exploration Department headquarters.
"It seems that my talent that has been dormant for many years has been discovered."
With this almost pie-in-the-sky joy, the elf analyst lay happily on the bed and slowly fell into a deep sleep. Just before he truly lost consciousness, there was still a smile on his lips: "So this is a genius. Does it feel like that? It’s great..."
The night of the second day ended without any dreams. In the hazy darkness, something began to spread, wrap up, and affect the material reality from the nihilistic thoughts.
The next day, around 1 pm UTC in Mycroft, the elf analyst suddenly felt a little uncomfortable after lunch. He didn’t know if it was a stomach ache or not. In short, he went to the toilet several times, but there was no diarrhea. , and there were no other symptoms, just constant retching. Since he handed over a lot of information and analysis that proved to be valuable yesterday, the head of the analysis department also came over to pay attention and even took him to the medical center for a comprehensive examination.
"It's not a problem...it's just that you have to eat well."
A dwarf doctor jumped down from his chair, used magic to levitate in mid-air, and prescribed a medicine list for him. Although his hair was gray, this close relative of the dwarf, who was two times smaller than the dwarf, said in a rather disapproving tone: " Look, malnutrition, long-term irregular diet, and your weird food culture will lead to sudden gastrointestinal cramps if you are not careful."
"Here are some high-energy nutrients from the military. You can't eat too much, but you can eat a little when you are sick. The nutrients and slime colloid can effectively relieve pain and repair the gastric mucosa. If you want to cure it, you need to change your eating habits. , consume more animal protein.”
"Yes Yes… "
Although I want to say, 'My diet is very healthy! ' This is a rebuttal, but since the stomach is indeed very painful and the body is very weak, the analyst does not have the strength to refute... Anyway, if it doesn't work, at worst, another doctor will take a look at the situation. After the doctor writes a certificate, the analyst will Go back to work and continue your work.
At night, the analyst felt that his intestines and stomach began to spasm out of his control, causing severe pain. Having already received the military's high-energy nutritional supplement, he immediately took out a small bottle of something that looked like a can and opened it directly. , pour the luminous colloid into your mouth. It can be felt that the nutritional supplement, whose main ingredient is slime colloid, wriggles in the esophagus as if alive, enters the stomach bag, and begins to soothe the rebellious organs... Just as the doctor said, the pain is temporarily relieved, The frightened analyst put down the nutritional supplement in his hand and exhaled.
"What kind of strange disease is this... However, it sounds a bit weird, but has my strength become a little stronger?"
Looking at the can that had been pinched and deformed, the analyst frowned slightly. He remembered how strong this kind of military can was. Even a professional martial arts professional would need some effort to open it without using tools. He was in a hurry. It's a bit weird that it can be unscrewed directly.
With an uneasy mind, he turned off the light, uploaded, and began to fall asleep.
On the night of the third day, the elf analyst felt like he had turned into a strange giant beast, swimming in the ocean and devouring all the creatures in front of him. He felt very happy and comfortable. Nothing could be more interesting than this. thing.
After waking up, the elf analyst got up and took a shower. When he raised his head to brush his teeth and looked in the mirror, he was immediately startled.
"Who is this?!"
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the analyst felt that his face seemed to have changed - but after taking a closer look and comparing the selfie in the mental terminal with the photo with his parents, there was no change. He had green hair, blue eyes, and a straight nose. He has a handsome face. All in all, he is still handsome.
But for some reason, facing this face that was clearly his own and quite good-looking, the analyst unexpectedly had no empathy. Instead, he felt like he was looking at a stranger.
Going to the workplace, the analyst also felt that other people passing by, even his acquaintances, colleagues, and friends looked at him strangely, but if he looked at each other, he found that the other person was just greeting him normally.
Vaguely, the analyst's unusually good hearing allowed him to hear a passing colleague whispering to himself.
"It's strange, Neuper wasn't so energetic before, was he?"
"Yeah, it's like he's a different person. Although he was quite handsome before, he just felt normal... But today he feels a little different."
"Oh, the bloodline of elves is good. Just change the style and it will be very eye-catching. I don't know how the bloodline optimization studied in Moldavia is. If we humans are also handsome men and beautiful women..."
…
The discussion quickly changed topics, and while there was still some self-doubt in his heart, the elf analyst named Neupel dispelled most of his doubts because of the secret envy of others.
"It's not a bad thing anyway." He thought in his heart, and even felt a bit of national pride: "Speaking of which, I remember that I have a distant cousin, Constantine, who seems to have joined the Moldavia blood transformation The research team, I remember, is still an alchemist in an elite team of the Department of External Exploration... I don’t know how that guy is doing lately.”
Today's work also went very smoothly. The current elf analysts can even directly hear the origin behind the noise in the void. Even the department head was shocked when he learned about this.
"Good boy, you have to know that there are many professionals among those Shepherds who have lived with the giant beasts of the void for more than a thousand years who do not have this ability!"
In the supervisor's office, watching the analyst analyze the correct answers to several difficult tests in person, the supervisor, who is also an elf, patted his junior on the shoulder and encouraged him gratifiedly: "You are extremely talented. Working here is really great." It's a bit buried for you - in this way, in a few days, you can go to the headquarters to work around your qualifications and pass the test. If you really have the relevant talents, you might be able to board the 'Dreadnought-class Void Battleship' and become a member of the Glorious Expeditionary Force. Those who follow the army and listen will directly guide our army in the direction!"
-In this way, I also have the credit for the introduction. Promotions and salary increases for you and me are just around the corner.
"I will definitely work hard!"
Although he can listen to the echoes of the world, he still cannot hear the subtext, but this does not affect the analyst's overjoyment - the listeners who follow the army are not at the same level as the analysts who analyze the data behind the scenes! The former enjoys the 'Elite Advanced Extraordinary Benefits', and the salary is equivalent to the upper-level technical work of high-level extremely powerful people. It is difficult to find one among tens of millions of people, while the latter only enjoys the basic extraordinary allotment, but is an ordinary technician with a very generous bonus system. Just a type of work.
Encouraged by his boss and looking forward to the future, today's analyst took another can of high-energy nutritional supplements and fell asleep with hope.
"Speaking of which, I'm almost out of nutritional supplements."
The moment before falling asleep, he thought uneasily: "The doctor said a little is enough, but I take one can at a time... Isn't this a bit abnormal?"
Thinking like this, he fell into sleep.
On the night of the fourth day, it was strange and mysterious. For some reason, the elf analyst saw his own life in his dream - from birth to adulthood, from childishness to maturity. When he was young, he saw the throbbing in the sky, and when he was a boy, he saw the throbbing in his heart. The message of first love, the determination to become a master after adulthood, and the determination to persevere in striving for it... Everything is put together through a meticulous lens, turned into a star.
Analysts knew instinctively that this was the life of the man named 'Neupel', and that was his essence. These memories and information are the real him. Without these, even if the body is the same, he is another person.
The stars twinkled brightly, illuminating the dark dreamland, making the analyst watching all this feel inexplicably at ease.
Then, at the moment when the dream is about to end.
Pure white threads began to appear, wrapping the star layer by layer... That's it.
It turned into a huge 'cocoon'.
The next day, during working hours.
"Strange, where are the Neuper people?"
"I don't know...it seems like you're on leave?"
"I was just called over by the leader yesterday, are you starting to slack off today... shouldn't be right? He is not that kind of person."
"Maybe it's really uncomfortable - as you know, he went to see a doctor a few days ago. Maybe it's a side effect of awakening his extraordinary talent?"
"Who knows."
The discussion among colleagues ended here. After all, it was just a day of leave and no one came. It was not a big deal. Everyone had inconveniences. As colleagues who have worked in the same unit for more than a year, there was no competition among us. There is no personal grudge between them, so naturally they won’t make too malicious speculations.
And Jetrum's void base, accommodation area, and Neuper's room.
On the analyst's bed, there was no longer the original elf with green hair and blue eyes, only a 'cocoon' with a delicate and soft surface made of countless silk threads.
The 'cocoon' is vibrating, but it is not a struggle of things in it, but a natural movement, which in turn emits subtle sound waves. This sound wave was extremely subtle and gentle, just like clutter passing quietly through the void, without any characteristics or signs. However, if you listen carefully and listen to the emotions inside, you will find that this sound wave is like a low cry, a cry, or even... a joyful praise.
[There is such a strange question]
Can sound change matter
-sure. Sound waves are originally vibrations transmitted in various media. Too strong sound waves can shatter glass walls and cause damage to the human body. Subtle sound waves can also be subtle and disturbing, making sensitive creatures feel uncomfortable.
So, can sound contain information
-sure. Human language relies on special sound waves of different frequencies to convey different messages. In fact, the information that sound waves can convey is unexpectedly rich, but the frequency of sound waves that humans can emit, listen to and use is less, which leads humans to think that sound waves are a low-level language. But in fact, sound waves can only be regarded as an insufficient communication environment at best. Universal, if it were replaced by other waves, the situation would be much better.
No, no, the real meaning of this question is that the fluctuation itself can be used as a carrier. Even if the person who hears it cannot understand it, can it 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's just a special wave, essentially, enough to change everything. The ripples containing extraordinary power can apply their own information to the human body the moment they come into contact with it, transform the qualified flesh and blood on the material level, and directly instill some knowledge that has been prepared long ago.
How can I say that in the face of these special waves, ordinary life is simply unable to resist, just like the shattered glass, the disturbed eardrums, and the subtly changed emotions, gradually, bit by bit, being echoed by them It is eroded, transformed, and then becomes another completely different form from before.
It is even said that it is enough to achieve such a fantastic thing as letting old creatures 'die' and new life be 'born'.
Day six, early morning.
'Elven Analyst Neupel' wakes up from his own body.
It lowered its head calmly, looked at the shriveled skin that originally wrapped it and the cocoon silk that had begun to naturally degrade, and then showed an intriguing smile.
[There is such a philosophical question.]
Parts on a ship are gradually replaced until all the parts of the original ship have become brand new parts and the old ones have been completely replaced. So is the ship still the original ship
It doesn't matter whether an object has no self-awareness or not, but if an intelligent and conscious life encounters this kind of thing, what will happen to its self-awareness
Suppose there is such a powerful super biological larvae, born in an ordinary intelligent life body. It absorbs all the memories, consciousness and soul of the original owner, and engraves them on its own memory, as if it is 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 larvae of super life had invaded the original owner's brain along the nervous system, thought with the original owner, and then replaced every cell in the original owner's body bit by bit - but even so, The original owner was still 'thinking' on his own, and the super life larvae did not interfere in any way. It just became a part of the original owner.
Then it became him and he became it.
Storage copy, record restoration, calculation test, optimization and sublimation. This is the ultimate mission. An extreme life will retain everything that was originally there, including but not limited to the original bloodline, memory, preferences, personality, and thinking patterns. In a sense, it is the original person, because memory is the identity. , the super life larvae just became 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 itself gracefully. It felt that the endless hunger was causing its stomach to spasm, but the pain that made it feel particularly uncomfortable not long ago had now turned into an impulse with joy. Feeling this impulse, he raised his hand and made a fist. Incomparably powerful extraordinary power was surging between his flesh and blood.
Baring his teeth, Extreme Creature Noipel smiled easily and said: "Death of Rebirth."
"I love this feeling."
Starfall 848, April 8, mature extreme creatures appeared in the Jetrum void base, killing 370,000 people and then escaping. Dozens of civilization ambassadors to Jetrum were among them, including the Third Expeditionary Force. The squadron encountered a surprise attack and most of it sank. In Jetrum's world, the Star Gate of All Realms was temporarily closed, and the Mycroft world's mother world and all colonies entered a state of comprehensive martial law.
The whole world was shocked.
Yesterday’s update, 6200, the second chapter is still being written, it’s very long
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