Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 838, November 9, Mycroft World North Standard, 7:29 p.m.

At the other end of the space-time rift, inside the multidimensional magic circle.

"Verification permission passed."

When the ethereal voice of the guarding God of Life sounded, Priest, who had somehow come here behind Joshua and Eagle, couldn't help taking a deep breath.

After passing through layer after layer of distorted time and space and checking the checkpoints so many that one wonders whether he has passed the "endless maze", he finally came to the main core part of this huge multidimensional magic circle, named " The Garden of Silence is a fully enclosed man-made alien space.

And the black mist matrix is ​​sealed at the core of this man-made space.

The Court of Annihilation is not the last layer of protection. In addition to the 36-story twisted space wall and 108 energy node levels, there are many strange means added to it, such as pure two Dimensional dimensional shields, psionic subspace distortion matrices and hundreds of gates all over the seal, neutron star colliders and hypergravity converters that are enough to blast ordinary planets—Priest is very clear, because those giant cannons To put it bluntly, it is a part of his mentor's body.

The black mist mother body is so dangerous, it is the same in battle, and the seal is the same. No one can be sure whether this intelligent entity that has been traveling in the galaxy since ancient times will have any hidden cards. All the gods and legends are doing their best. , to add bricks and tiles to this seal, and finally solidify the entire multidimensional magic circle into an ultimate prison, which is enough to imprison the stars and the world. Even if the black mist matrix is ​​destroyed in the future, this prison will still not be destroyed. It already has The power of self-healing, self-absorbing.

Priest saw his mentor and the old Pope stretch out their right hands at the same time, bright silver and golden lights flashed, and most of the defense facilities opened their doors to them, and the core defense system - the nine gods A small area of ​​the 'God's Realm Suppressing Stand' has also become transparent, allowing the three of them to freely enter and watch.

Priest swallowed his saliva. He had no idea how he, who was only planning to travel on planet No. 1, would come here, to the most secret and important seal of the entire Mycroft civilization, but now the young man He didn't even dare to ask, for he was afraid that his voice would mess up something, so he could only walk hurriedly, following the pace of Joshua and Eagle, and came to the transparent place.

And in the shroud of endless energy radiance, in the center of the transparent part of the seal is an incomparably huge gray-white world, which is trapped in endless darkness, like an eyeball that cannot be closed.

The dead and silent Alpha Sanctuary is here, it is wrapped in the body of the black mist matrix, until today.

Today, the purpose of the two legends coming here is to strip it from the black mist matrix.

The seal is extremely humane, it is completely inward, and will not destroy everything in it indiscriminately, so Priest can walk alive on the grid-shaped floor made of pure energy, but his journey is almost over. Yes, because he saw that his mentor and the old Pope stepped into the transparent space and directly entered the inside of the seal.

And at this moment, through the transparent seal, one could see the originally silent black mist matrix inside the seal suddenly erupt, extending out countless huge tentacles, and quickly drew towards the two of them!

But not to mention that it has been half a year since the mother body of the black mist was suppressed by multiple seals. Even in its heyday, such an attack would never have caused the slightest damage to the two legends——Joshua and the old Pope only joined hands , it easily shattered countless tentacles, causing large swathes of black waves to collapse, turning into iron-gray necrotic particles.

Soon after, they arrived at the gray-white outer layer of the world, before the world of Alpha Sanctuary.

"Let me do it."

Joshua was in the seal, so he didn't feel much pressure, because the target of the seal was not him, and he formed his own world in his body, which was very resistant to various restrictions and fields: "My Much more experience.”

"give it to you."

Eagle nodded, and he was also not very suppressed, because his glorious domain itself was actually the same existence as the suppression of the gods' domain.

Joshua stretched out his hand and pressed it on the materialized world barrier. He exerted a little force, and under the control of extremely delicate skills, the huge energy and kinetic energy turned into overlapping space-time vibrations. In just a moment, the surface of the world The barrier opened a gray hole.

The soldier entered first, and then he turned his head, motioning for the old Pope to follow, and just after the two of them went deep into Alpha Sanctuary, the gray inconspicuous time-space gap was closed in a burst of time-space distortion just like a human being healed a wound.

"Why do you ask the gods to separate the Alpha Sanctuary world from the black mist matrix?"

Walking inside the world barrier, in an absolutely secret environment, Igor asked in a doubtful tone while walking side by side with Joshua: "Let the black mist matrix be buried with the world it guards, it has already been extinguished. , The black mist has guarded it for so many years, even if it is death, it will not be separated, at least in the end, let them end together."

Although it will be said to be hypocritical, this is what Igor can think of, the last kindness to the black mist.

Joshua didn't reply right away. After a long time, when the two of them were about to reach the end of the world barrier and formally entered the interior of the Alpha Sanctuary world, they whispered: "Because it didn't go out."

"It's still alive."

After speaking, the light was shining, and the two passed through the extremely thick world barriers, and finally arrived at the interior of the world of Alpha Sanctuary.

A red continent - Ocean World.

Dim energy The sun hangs high in the sky, steaming water vapor permeates every part of the atmosphere of the sky, the smoke mixed with dust turns into a thick gray barrier, covering the sky above the whole world, it seems to be a thick quilt, covering all The heat is trapped in it.

The high temperature over hundreds of degrees mixed with water vapor scorched every inch of the land on the continent, everything was scorched earth and gravel without any appearance, sometimes it was dry, sometimes it was wet, maybe it would be covered by water in hundreds of years A cloud of steam shrouded it, and perhaps not even a single water molecule could be seen for hundreds of years.

On this land, there is no possibility of any life. Even extreme thermophiles and acidophiles cannot survive in this changeable and complex world.

And Joshua and Igor just landed on a black sand beach near the sea. They stepped on the hot gravel and watched the boiling water vapor form high-heat tornadoes in front of them, at the edge and depth of the sea. Raging, they seem to support the giant pillars of the sea and the sky, constantly exchanging the clouds with the materials in the ocean.

"...You mean, there is life in this kind of world?"

Igor stared at it for a long time before slowly saying: "Is it still alive?"

And when the old Pope spoke, he could see that a black wave suddenly appeared in the crimson sea, and the dark red like rust gushed out from the depths of the seabed, and a large amount came from the bottom of the sea, and even the material fragments deep in the crust. The debris is accompanied by the diffusion of a large amount of fine minerals, and the high-heat submarine jets and volcanic eruptions ignite a large amount of silt and biological corpses that have been deposited for countless years, and then send them into the shallow sea on the surface of the ocean.

Countless fragmented minerals even turned the ocean red, and the pungent iron smell followed the nasal cavity to perceive and react, stimulating the artificial ganglion that was simulated by the light-energy creature Eagle.

The old pope raised his head and looked into the distance silently. He could see that in the distance of the vast and incomparably red sea, there were countless bubbles and huge waves churning, and the turbid air pockets were accompanied by immeasurable water vapor clouds towards the deepest part of the sky. The top spreads, and from a distance, it seems that a huge cloud giant is slowly getting up, and the surface temperature of this giant exceeds 270 degrees.

"This is hell."

Eagle said so.

"But it's a living hell."

Joshua replied: "Including the origin of you and me, any life must go through hell."

Joshua bent down. He half-kneeled on the shoreline and took a handful of seawater with his own hands. He stared at the thick and complex composition of seawater in his hand, and then put it back into the ocean. The soldier stood up, and his serious old pope said: " Not here, but at the bottom of the sea."

As he spoke, he stepped into the sea. Joshua's figure quickly sank into the turbid water, while Igor was slightly taken aback, then shook his head, and followed him into it.

It was another long time of silent progress, and after an unknown amount of time passed, the two of them were already in the deepest part of the pitch-black, filthy, almost semi-condensed ocean.

Large and small deep-sea high-heat vents are rapidly spewing heat from the depths of the earth. A large number of minerals with inorganic macromolecular structures mixed with seawater are sprayed out, forming large continuous high-heat deep-sea layers. The temperature of the jet flow ranges from 300 to At 1600 baidu, the elements and ether are extremely active here, and even a slight element-ether cross-discharge phenomenon can be seen around the vent.

Joshua swept across the large expanse of seabed thermal vents, and the pitch-black water could not block his sight at all. After a few seconds, the warrior identified his target. He pointed casually and said to Igor, "Look."

"There is 'life'."

Following Joshua's guidance suspiciously, the old Pope looked at the ordinary thermal layer of the seabed. It was a simple pocket-like layer of water surrounded by rocks. The primordial hot soup is boiling, and Eagle can see that, in the sediment of this hot soup, there is a puddle of simple organic matter—or muddy water.

The simplest small organic molecules are constantly rolling under the impact of the heat flow. They are struck and stimulated by the elemental lightning, and finally aggregate with other small organic molecules to form larger organic molecules. They can be seen, and there are already self-dividing and self-strengthening ones. Linear macromolecules such as ribonucleic acid appear.

"You said, that is life?"

Igor originally wanted to laugh. He thought it was Joshua's incomprehensible sense of humor, but he couldn't. He turned his head to look at the soldier, and asked word by word, "Is it?"

"This kind of thing is not so much life as it is the simplest machine - even the structure of the wardrobe is more complicated than it!"

And Joshua still didn't answer right away. After a while, he replied lightly: "Life is a machine."

"You, me." He raised his index finger, pointed at himself, and then at Eagle, and said calmly, "When you and I were still flesh and blood, there were countless machines in our bodies."

"They supply each other, absorb energy, and store it in the chemical bonds of the microstructure. They use ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid as raw materials, as a database for recording information, they divide and multiply, and carry out metabolism. They eat, exercise, and maintain their own energy. Exist, and use various reactions in your body to manufacture all the molecular-level building blocks you need."

"Its name is cell, the most primitive 'machine'. And in the primitive soup in front of your eyes, there is a miracle of converting inorganic matter into organic matter, and small molecules aggregate into large molecules - called life miracle."

Joshua turned his head, instead of looking at Igor, but staring at the ball of primordial soup, he said in a low voice, "I never thought that the mother body of black mist could do this."

"You mean, these lives..."

The old pope keenly noticed Joshua's self-talk. Although he didn't understand some special terms, but with his wisdom and micro-level observation ability, he could naturally understand the temporary words. He immediately asked: " What did the black mist matrix do?"

"I can see the replay of the power of steel and the memory of this world."

Joshua did not directly answer the old Pope's question. He pondered for a while, and then slowly said: "The fact is just as you think, the Alpha Sanctuary has actually been destroyed a long time ago—along with the survivors of the last Sanctuary civilization. Together. But the black mist did not intend to give up, it tried again and again to reshape the world and create the bodies of the people in the sanctuary."

"But it can't create a soul. Of course, a pure body can indeed move, but as a higher civilization, the shelter people are born with souls, and the souls are even part of their genetic organs. Without their souls, their bodies can even Unable to activate, without the precipitation of time and wisdom, the soul cannot be generated by pure material movement, so the black mist will never be able to revive the sanctuary people."

"so?"

Eagle had no heart for a long time, but he felt that his heart was beating crazily.

"So." Joshua replied earnestly: "The black mist matrix restores everything to the original—it rebuilds a brand new Alpha shelter, and then starts from the original source, patiently waiting for life to emerge from this primitive ocean. born."

"It will take millions of years to catalyze life from the macromolecular structure little by little, and influence it into the shelter people it wants. It will take millions of years to catalyze a life from scratch. A complete ecosystem, a biological chain!"

"In order to shorten this time, the black mist hunts the ancient dragon in an attempt to seize the power of creation, and its purpose is to control the evolution process of the entire world and create a brand new sanctuary civilization!"

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