"How long does it take for the ancestor's soul to completely dissipate?" Seeing that the resurrection process is about to start, I asked this key question.
"Not sure," Tavel replied frankly, "Because no soul reaction has been detected so far, even if the ancestor's soul is still there, it is still in an unmeasurable state-the subordinates have no way to make any inferences about something that cannot be measured. However, if according to the most ideal situation, the soul of the ancestors is at an unfathomable critical point, we have at most twenty-four hours."
Twenty-four hours... In this short day, all feasible resurrection methods must be tried. If it fails, then even if the ancestor's body is resurrected afterwards, it will be meaningless: this is really an urgent matter. thing.
Sandora and Tavel have already told me all the problems they have encountered and may encounter in the resurrection plan. I see that they are ready to start, and I can't help but ask: "Then what, how can I help? busy?"
I think it must be meaningful for Sandora to call herself over in such a hurry, but Sandora thought for a while: "No—I just want you to come and watch. Regardless of whether the first test is successful or not, this is history Sex scene, you have to be a witness..."
I:"… "
"Of course there is another point. If you are by my side, I will feel more at ease."
I just exhaled.
Of course, it is impossible to take out all the remains of the ancestors in the first experiment, and only one of them was used for resurrection, so that even if it fails, we still have a chance to try next time. Of course, if possible, everyone hopes to succeed the first time. After all, after knowing all the troubles that may be encountered in the resurrection process, I feel that if the first attempt fails, no matter how many times thereafter, there is no chance of finding another feasible solution. .
"The equipment group is ready, and each group checks the project sections they are responsible for in turn," Tavel quickly operated on the crystal panel next to the test bench, while giving instructions to her peripheral assistants. At the same time, one of her A large group of quality projections also began to sequentially activate a large number of equipment in the laboratory that I could not see the use of, "We are pressed for time, and I require that every step be seamlessly connected."
Sandora dragged me back a few steps: Now this is the domain of experts, and laymen cannot interfere with the work of experts.
From this position, I can also see the situation of the entire laboratory. I can see that a large number of nearby recording and analysis equipment have been online, and the complex holographic screens are flickering, appearing above those equipment one by one, showing the details of the devices used for resurrection. status and monitoring of the remains of the ancestors. Images floating in mid-air also appeared above the platform where the remains of the ancestors were parked. They were body scan images of the remains of the ancestors, as well as tissue activity and monitoring of the soul: the latter is now a straight line without any ups and downs.
Tavel's calm, almost mechanical voice was the only human voice in the tense and busy laboratory: "The material reconstruction equipment is online, the disaster response team is on standby, and the body reconstruction is ready... the laboratory host, how about the energy system?"
"The main engine reports... The energy system has been tested, twelve groups of backup energy sources are available, and the seamless switching simulation of all redundant systems is successful. This laboratory can guarantee the supply of energy to the core equipment or switch to the backup system under any circumstances."
I felt Sandora squeeze my hand, and then heard her soft whisper from the spiritual connection: "The normal resurrection process is to locate the soul of the target first, and then start to reconstruct the body, and if necessary, the body It can even be discarded and replaced with new ones, but this time, we can only follow the opposite process: first resurrect the body, and then we can only resign ourselves to fate whether this body has a soul... "
I also squeezed Sandora's hand to reassure her: "I don't understand these things, but I think it will be successful."
At this time, Tavel had completed all the preparatory work. She finally checked the working condition of the test platform, and then ordered to activate the ring light tube above the room... Well, the scientific name is "Information Evolution Restart Device". Restart all the information to break the material stagnation of the hometown - we still don't know how this stagnation came about, but Tavel already knows how it disappeared, and that's enough.
I didn't feel anything when the device was activated, I just heard a very low hum echoing in the laboratory, maybe I felt a little bit? As if the time I experienced had some kind of section or lost a second? Anyway, it was only a matter of a moment, and then the resurrection process began, and everyone in the laboratory seemed to start from a still picture and start to run quickly in an instant.
A vertical light curtain rose from under the test platform, slowly swept across the remains of the ancestors from head to toe, and then swept in the opposite direction. The monitoring image above the platform showed the damage to the body. The body of the ancestor's remains was intact, and there was no fatal injury. What caused his death was the ultra-low temperature and huge amount of radiation brought about by the failure of the hibernation chamber. Therefore, most of the cells of this remains had "internal injuries." Those cells are different from any kind of organisms on the earth. They look a bit like crystals, and the genetic material inside them is a bright line running through the crystals: normal cells are like this, and they are killed by ultra-low temperature and huge amounts of radiation. Cells show signs of rupture or deterioration. Eighty percent of the cells in the body died at the same time, resulting in the instant death of this ancestor, but the remains were preserved vividly.
Tavel began to repair those damaged biological tissues. From the microscopic level, she rebuilt the body molecule by molecule. She completely used the original substances of the body to complete the repair process to prevent any foreign substances from affecting the process. destabilizing effects. At the same time, a ring of light appeared above the platform, and I felt some kind of energy field covering the remains of the ancestors.
"It's something that prevents the soul from escaping," Sandora explained. "Even though the soul of the ancestors cannot be detected, this device can still take effect. If the soul of the ancestors is really still there, this device can reach the target body. When you can 'run' the soul, recode the soul and suppress it on the target. You know, to the body, the soul is like executable code. Software cannot exist without hardware. This aura is used to camouflage form a body so that the soul cannot escape its sphere of influence."
"But it doesn't stop the soul from weakening, does it?" I asked curiously.
Sandora nodded with a regretful expression: "That's true. You can use a fence to prevent the sheep from running out of the sheepfold, but you can't prevent them from slowly dying of old age in the fence..."
Sandora already knows how to use such a vivid metaphor.
There is a tense atmosphere in the laboratory. Repairing the remains of the ancestors is actually the link with the lowest technical content. With Xiling technology, the difficulty of repairing anything on the material level is almost negligible. The real difficulty is to make this The body "comes back to life" again. Life is a wonderful thing. Scientists on the earth have been arguing about the topic of "what is life" for many years, and they have not yet reached a conclusion. From a purely "scientific" point of view, the so-called life is nothing but the transformation process of a bunch of organic matter. After being dismantled without emotion, life is finally attributed to physics and chemistry, and can be regarded as a bunch of continuously transforming macromolecules—this concept By extension, extending the scope of life to inorganic substances and spiritual creatures is nothing more than more complicated chemical or physical changes.
If we only follow this standard, then we can count the ancestor's body as "living" by restarting the series of physical and chemical reactions. However, what Sandora wants is not such a simple result.
To bring the ancestors back to life, we need more than to make that body start a series of orderly physical changes, not just make it open its eyes under the stimulation of hormones and bioelectric currents - that is no different from Frankenstein .
After the ancestor's remains were repaired, the project entered the next link, and Tavel began to try to restore the "vitality" of the body.
On various monitoring screens, I can see that the body is already functioning: he is breathing, his body is flowing, and the internal organs that were repaired just a minute ago are beating vigorously. That body is different from human beings. The body with a somewhat weird structure seems to me to be "vigorous", and I even saw the fingers of the "remains" on the test stand slightly twitch from a few meters away.
However, he never opened his eyes, did not respond to various external stimuli imposed by Tavel, and even did not respond to direct spiritual stimuli, just like a blank machine, roaring, but lifeless.
"Which step went wrong?" Sandora stepped forward and asked in a low voice, Tavel frowned: "The repair on the material level has been completed, but the body of the ancestor refused to 'come alive'. I can't detect it Any vitality, and no mental fluctuations. In theory."
I looked at the ancestor in the crystal coffin, this body is breathing smoothly, every cell of it is working, but it has no vitality - this is not the same as a vegetative person, who still has spiritual power, and this body...
If I have to say it, it is now a group of tens of kilograms of silicon-sulfur compounds (the main component of the ancestor's body) that are undergoing an orderly chemical reaction, and there is no essential difference from the reactants in any chemical tank.
It's like a computer that doesn't even have an OS system installed. The hard disk is humming, the processor is steaming, and the case is busy, but the screen is only dark, and there is no cursor.
Sandora put her hands on the crystal coffin, and her power spread out cautiously. I knew that she was using the powerful power of the spirit snatcher to call out the souls of the ancestors. After a while, Sandora's expression changed slightly, as if bringing A little joy, but more confusion: "I can feel that something like a soul is slowly recovering. The soul of the ancestors seems to be preserved in this body along with the frozen state, but this soul cannot 'Activate' the body, something must be missing..."
"Lacking the key elements of life force, activating the body, coupling the soul, and distinguishing the living things from the reactants in the chemical tank, Ding Dong calls it life power—although no one except Ding Dong has actually touched that kind of power, "I felt my brain light up like never before. Of course, this has something to do with my usual playing with Ding Dong all day long. "Tavier, what do you think?"
"It shouldn't be." Tavel shook his head in confusion. "Under normal circumstances, vitality will naturally be generated after the body is repaired..." She was interrupted by Sandora in the middle of her words: "Now is not a normal situation. Composition The ancient material of the ancestor's remains has been frozen for trillions of years, and these materials may have undergone changes that we don't know about. Ah Jun, is Ding Dong in your pocket?"
I reached out to touch my pocket, only to remember that when I went out today, Little Things was busy watching TV, so I didn't take her with me. At this time, she should be playing with Qianqian at home or being played by Qianqian.
"Call her here, I'm really confused, this kind of project will definitely use her power." Sandora slapped her forehead and said, in fact, it's not because she didn't think about it before, mainly because Ding Dong was at home as a rice bug It's been too long, not many people remember the little things...
"Oh, this is... oh wait, Tavel, you try this first." I was about to lift my legs to go back, when I suddenly remembered that I still had some "weird" things on my body, so I quickly touched it, Sandor La looked at me suspiciously until I took out a flat metal box from my close-fitting pocket. The metal box was as big as a cigarette box. When I opened it, there was three-quarters of green powder inside, and the powder was faintly fluorescent. , the texture seems to be between the virtual and the real, and the charming luster is slightly changing.
"This is..." Sandora took the metal box carefully, dipped her fingers into a little green fluorescent powder and put it in her mouth to taste - she must taste something rare, "It has a little sweet taste , but unlike any substance I've seen, what is this?"
"When Dingdang flies around, the wings occasionally sprinkle some small green light particles," I pointed to the small box of powder, "This is what fell from Dingdang's body, I call it Dingdangslag..."
Sandora was dumbfounded for a moment, and after a long time, she silently looked at the box of green light powder that was almost full, and then looked up at me: "Ah Jun, how much free time do you usually have?"
Me: "... I was curious at the beginning, I wanted to see what the powder was sprinkled on Ding Dong's body. In the beginning, the light powder would not last long and would disappear, but then I found out that the container made of starstone can store them It's been a long time, just collecting... "
Halfway through the explanation I stopped, because it didn't solve the question of how idle I was - I was idle!
But there is another important reason for me to collect these light powders, that is, I accidentally discovered that these light particles dropped from Dingdang's wings can cure coughs when soaked in water...
"Well, at least now they are really useful," Sandora handed the box of green powder to Tavel with a strange expression, "put this thing into the crystal container, according to the power of Ding Dong, they should It can automatically activate life forms that are in a state of decline."
I reminded from the side: "Save it up, Dingdang's output is limited, throwing her in a centrifuge for a day won't make much."
Tavel's expression is very weird, Sandora's expression is very weird, I think I should also have a weird expression, but after all, the resurrection process can continue-after all, we only have 24 hours at most, if this attempt fails, then we still have to Hurry up and find a way to try something else. But I don't know if it's intuition or something at work, I think there should be no problem this time.
Sandora felt the weak reaction of the ancestor's soul just now, and the latter has recovered to the extent that it can be perceived, which shows that the ancestor's "spirit" is intact, and Tavier has repaired the ancestor's body before that, the "spirit" and " "Flesh" is there, both of them just lack enough life force to "activate" it. I'm sure there's nothing more alive than what's on Ding Dong, these powders will definitely do the trick - anyway, if it doesn't work I'll go and catch Ding Dong, the little things have been rice bugs for long enough.
There was an almost imperceptible green fluorescence in the crystal coffin, and Tavel blew a small amount of life dust into the container. She used a small amount and handled it very carefully—not entirely because she followed my advice and "used sparingly" ", mainly worried that the too powerful life force would destroy the mortal body of the ancestors. The power of Ding Dong is not a pleasant thing for mortals. If it is not diluted and directly contacted, anything dropped on the little thing will be enough to burn a mortal to ashes.
Tavel tried his best to control the dosage within the tolerance of the mortal body, and then we anxiously waited for the result.
The little bit of green powder began to dissipate slowly after leaving the special star gold stone box, and the green light in the crystal coffin dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The dust is not a physical substance, but a mixture of energy released from Dingdang's body and some kind of "extraordinary concept". I have calculated that if they are not stored in the starstone container, it will take about thirty years for them to leave Dingdang's body. It took minutes to evaporate until there was nothing left—the powder in the crystal coffin dissipated significantly faster.
This shows that they are working on the remains of the ancestors, thus speeding up their own consumption.
"There is a reaction!" Sandora was the first to notice the situation. She has been paying attention to the "startup process" of the spirits of the ancestors and the flesh, and now she feels that this body is gradually changing from a pile of silently reacting chemical substances Turning into real life, "the spirit of the ancestors is awakening, I can feel it gradually taking shape from the vague state..."
I also feel that the body in front of me has changed. Although I don't have Sandora's perception ability, but... Just like you feel different when looking at a chemical tank and looking at a person, when the tens of kilograms of substances in front of you are transferred from a pile You also feel the subtle changes when a non-living reactant becomes a living entity—
This should be the "life force" that Ding Dong often talks about, I think so.
The body in the crystal coffin sighed for a moment, then opened its eyes. RS