It was a blue ball about the size of a fist.
After hitting Benjamin's forehead, it also bounced up and landed on the edge, ding-ding-dong-dong and jumping several times. It was only at this moment that it gradually subsided and stopped rolling.
After thinking about it, Benjamin walked over and picked it up.
"Did this thing... fly out of the crack?" he asked, frowning.
"Well, that's it." The system finally returned to normal and said, "After the explosion occurred on the other side of the crack, not long after, the blue bead flew out of the crack. In all likelihood, it was exploded by the red crystal. from."
Exploded
Benjamin couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.
He looked at the bead carefully - it was light in weight, cold to the touch, and hard to the touch. In terms of color, it is not pure blue, but divided into two layers. The inner layer is the same blue as the pure blue world, and the outer layer is a fairly clear transparent layer.
Judging from the color of the inner layer, there is a high probability that this is something from that pure blue world. Since it's something from that world, it shouldn't be simple either.
How to use it
Benjamin used his damaged mental power to feel it, but he could only feel the water vapor coming to his face and a faint breath of life. He felt that this thing should be mainly composed of water element, but it was different from the water element crystal. There was something else, and the internal structure was also very special.
"My mental strength is not very good right now, and I can't feel anything good." Suddenly, Benjamin said to the system, "Can't you detect elemental fluctuations? Come and test it to see what this thing does."
"It's really troublesome... I'll give it a try." The system seemed reluctant, but still agreed.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the system finished speaking, within two seconds, the blue inner layer of the ball suddenly lit up, just like a dim light bulb suddenly turned on.
this…
Not only that, Benjamin suddenly felt a lightness in his hand. The entire bead seemed to have lost its weight, and the hard and transparent outer layer also became soft. Then, as if affected by an inexplicable buoyancy force, the ball slowly floated on its own.
It rose to about the same height as Benjamin's head and then stopped rising. However, like other magic characters, it is not fixed in position once it is suspended. It is like a small bubble in the water, floating gently as the water element in the space comes and goes.
It feels like... it has life.
"Hey, what's going on?" Benjamin asked the system quickly.
"I... I don't know either." The system replied in a panic.
After hearing this, Benjamin was stunned.
It's not because of the content of the system's answer, but because the system's humane mechanical sound is actually coming from this floating ball at this moment.
Every time the system speaks, its sound direction is erratic, so it sounds unusually flat. But this time, the sound came directly from the ball, and it was so real that Benjamin was a little uncomfortable hearing it.
what's the situation
After coming back to his senses, he stretched out his hand and curiously touched the transparent and elastic outer layer of the bead.
"You... did you go in?"
"I, I don't know." The voice of the system also sounded very anxious, almost crying, "I just started to detect this bead, and I don't know what happened, but it was sucked in. Now all my mental units They are all trapped inside and can’t get out.”
Hearing this, Benjamin looked surprised as if he had discovered a new world.
"Interesting..."
He used his mental power to feel the ball again, but the result he got was completely different from last time. The feeling of water element has completely disappeared, and now the ball is filled with vitality, as if an embryo is being gestated.
embryo…
Thinking of this, Benjamin suddenly felt that the shape of this round bead was actually very similar to a fish egg.
"So, you didn't go in, are you going to give birth?"
After hearing this, the system was silent for a while and said in a reluctant voice: "It seems so. I don't know why, but I feel like... breathing."
Benjamin couldn't help but marveled.
In fact, since he started learning magic, he has often been curious about the existence of the system. Is it a pure consciousness? But if it is just a conscious body, how does it have those strange functions
And now, it has actually entered this strange ball from the pure blue world, and integrated with it, possessing an existence similar to physical life
"Will you be hatched?" Benjamin couldn't help but ask.
"It feels... like it is."
"What will you turn into? A fish? Or a tadpole? A jellyfish? A squid?"
"I have no idea… "
"When will you be hatched?"
"I also want to know."
“…”
After asking a lot of questions, Benjamin's curiosity was not satisfied at all.
He still had too many answers he wanted to know about this strange "fish egg". Unfortunately, the system seems to be quite confused. It doesn't know anything, and seems confused and afraid of its current situation. Therefore, Benjamin could not ask anything.
such a pity…
The thing that was blown up from the pure blue world should be something very powerful, but now, it has been defeated by the system.
However, for him, there are still benefits. At least the system now has a physical entity, and if it tries to be mean in the future, Benjamin can just beat it.
After thinking about it, he said: "So, if I throw this thing into the crack now, I will never have to hear your voice again?"
“…”
Benjamin could clearly see that after he finished speaking these words, the floating "fish eggs" trembled in an extremely human way.
"Brother, I was wrong." The voice of the system came from it.
Benjamin nodded with satisfaction.
From this point of view, this ball is not only useful - it brings peace to the world, which is worth it.
Just like that, after kicking the ball a few times like a ball, Benjamin felt physically and mentally comfortable. Then, he left the space of consciousness contentedly and returned to the cave of reality.
However, as soon as he returned to reality, he discovered something was wrong again.
—The cave hall in front of him seemed to have changed. It was different from before he entered the consciousness space.
Benjamin couldn't help but frown.
You know, there is a time difference between the space of consciousness and reality. Even though he had been in the conscious space for so long, in reality, he had not even been there for a minute. But less than a minute later, he discovered that the weak fluorescence coming from above suddenly flickered strangely.
He looked up and saw that on the rock wall above, large areas of dense moss began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a deflated balloon, and the fluorescence that barely illuminated the cave hall was gradually weakening.
what happened
Benjamin suddenly thought of the red crystal he threw into the crack. Is it possible that these fluorescent mosses are affected by red crystals? As soon as the red crystals disappeared, they immediately began to wither
Unfortunately, no one can answer these questions.
Before Benjamin could do anything, soon all the moss withered and the remaining light disappeared. He was plunged into darkness.
At the same time, a wave of dizziness came over him. He felt a little baffled, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. Fortunately, the dizziness subsided quickly. However, when he opened his eyes again, he was stunned again.
The cave hall in front of me changed again.
It was no longer just darkness, but a faint light came from the entrance of the cave in front, allowing people to barely see the surrounding environment. But the incredible thing about this is that when Benjamin explored the surroundings before, there was no such a hole in front, let alone any light coming from the hole in front.
How could he not be surprised when an extra hole appeared out of thin air.
organ? Or a deception
Benjamin looked back again. The entrance to the cave when he came was still there, but the clinging moss was gone. Nothing else had changed.
It's weird...
However, this is not the weirdest thing.
The strangest thing was that when Benjamin turned around, he accidentally discovered a shriveled corpse on the ground on the left.