Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 1031: The Fall of Fantasy (Part )

After hearing what he said, Zhou Yu didn't know what to say.

"...What will happen to this disease in the end?"

"I don't know." Li Li said, "As we know, analgesia is not a fatal disease. Patients often fall into danger due to self-harm or unawareness of injuries. Even if my cold and hot protein receptors lose their original function, as long as I remain cautious enough about the ambient temperature, it will not pose a threat to my life. In extreme cases, this can even be an advantage. However, all women with this disease chose to jump off the building and die after a period of time. Whether this is the result of worsening of the disease, I have not yet concluded."

"Do you think illness led to their suicide?"

"I didn't say that, Mr. Zhou Yu. Correlation is not the same as causation. It is certainly possible. For example, this strange disease will deteriorate into some kind of mental illness in the later stage, prompting the patient to have a strong suicidal impulse. But this still cannot explain a question: Why did they all jump off the building? They didn't know each other, and very few of them had committed suicide before, but the method was to cut their wrists. What reason was there for them to commit suicide collectively in this way? Did this disease cause them to have the illusion of flying or diving? This is a possibility derived from causal inference."

"Are there any other possibilities?"

"And the source of the disease."

Li Li's smile was a little bitter and self-deprecating. She said, "To this day I still don't know how I got the disease, Mr. Zhou Yu. I tried my best to investigate the family background and whereabouts of each deceased person. The former is very difficult because they are all outsiders without exception. The latter investigation also yielded nothing. They are distributed in various areas of the city. Some are students and those who work at home. Their living radius is very small, and there is almost no place they have been to together. I also used some illegal means to check their network access records. For at least six months, they have not logged into any suspicious website together or purchased any common items. After I investigated their interpersonal relationships, I found that their close friends, especially female friends of the same age, did not have any symptoms of infection with the disease. It does not seem to be an infectious disease between people, or it only spreads to a specific group of people - although I have not found any other common points among the deceased except gender and age group."

She concluded: "I don't believe it's congenital, but I can't find any source or route of transmission. I can only guess that it's a very specific pathogen that's beyond our normal thinking. If this pathogen can change the protein structure in adults, it may also directly cause the suicidal impulse to go to high places after a period of time."

Zhou Yu frowned and thought for a while. He couldn't think of anything that could cause this effect.

"…Hypnosis?"

"I can't say that this possibility is absolutely ruled out. But hypnosis is always overused in people's imagination. The suggestion and control of the mind requires the cooperation of the environment. Being able to issue a suicide order that lasts for several months after leaving the environment is far beyond the level of hypnosis we know so far. No, although we have seen too many things beyond common sense, I don't think this matter is related to hypnosis."

“I can’t think of anything else.”

"I couldn't imagine it in the past," Li Li said, "until I met Ms. Zhou Yu. Please look at your own right hand, you have that kind of thing on your body."

Zhou Yu raised his right hand, the crystallized flesh still tightly wrapped in the glove. He looked at Li Li in confusion.

"I know these look like two different things. One is the sight magic that creates the crystal hand, and the other is the abnormal protein structure. But from a microscopic perspective, they are similar. First of all, I want to ask, Mr. Zhou Yu, do you know what substance you are making?" Zhou Yu shook his head. Although it is called "crystal", it is just a superficial judgment based on appearance and texture. In addition, Hongye is also called "crystal ancestor" and "crystal child", which further deepens this judgment. But if you have to say it seriously, it can only be regarded as some unknown substance that looks like crystal. It is originally a product of supernatural power, even if it is glass or "magic crystal stone" and other messy things.

Li Li looked at his right hand with interest.

"We usually call substances that conform to a specific structure crystals. When solid microscopic particles are arranged in a three-dimensional periodic pattern in space, they often have self-regulation and anisotropy, which makes their appearance regular and beautiful. This may easily remind us of crystals, but in fact, adaptive crystals are only a small category of crystals, and their properties are not enough to represent the entire huge family. Strictly speaking, 'crystals' are not specific substances, but just an arrangement structure of microscopic particles. They can be divided into seven crystal systems and three crystal families."

Li Li suddenly reached into her coat. Zhou Yu almost thought she was going to take out a pen and paper to talk, but she just took out a small glass bottle from her inner pocket.

"When Madam Zhou Yu first demonstrated her strange power to me, she sacrificed this little unfortunate tourist. I have always carried it with me in memory of this unfortunate victim."

There is a snail placed in the glass bottle. Due to the small size of the bottle, it is trapped in the limited space and cannot even turn around.

Despite this, it still stretched its neck, frozen in a posture as if it was trying to move forward. From the outer shell to the soft tissue inside, its body was pure white and transparent, as if it was carved out of jade.

Zhou Yu stared at the snail in a daze. Although its appearance was completely different from the "crystal" that occupied his right hand, the tiny and beautiful specimen gave him an extremely strong sense of familiarity.

Li Li suddenly threw the bottle over. Zhou Yu was distracted and didn't react immediately. He quickly reached out to catch the glass bottle, almost letting it roll onto the hard ground.

"Let's get straight to the conclusion." Li Li continued as if he didn't see him in a flustered state, "Ms. Zhou Yu can change the basic structure of matter through visual contact. This change is directional and qualitative - I personally prefer to call it - anti-entropy. She will re-arrange the old constituent particles of the matter and transform it into a single crystal. I need to emphasize this point, Mr. Zhou Yu, because there are countless polycrystalline materials in nature, but large-volume single crystals are rare. She usually turns matter into single crystals of the trigonal or tetragonal system, and in rare cases, the hexalattice system will appear. Also One thing is that the type of crystals she creates is usually related to the structure of the original substance. For example, when the substance is mainly composed of metal, she is more likely to create metal crystals, and in living things, it often becomes molecular crystals. But this is not an absolute rule, but more due to her own wishes. Due to the complexity and time-consuming nature of microscopic research, I have never been able to determine whether she added additional ingredients to the substance during the transformation process. However, according to what she said, if there is someone with the same bloodline as her and a longer lifespan, they can even create a living thing with a crystal structure from nothingness. I tentatively believe that this is a manifestation of adding additional substances. "

Zhou Yu just nodded mechanically. He kept listening only because it seemed to be related to Zhou Yu, but when the speech was over, he felt as if he hadn't heard anything.

Li Li sighed.

"Let's describe this in another way." She said quickly, "Mr. Zhou Yu, now your eyes can turn amorphous matter into crystals. From a practical point of view, you can have countless diamonds and wealth, and you can produce a large number of industrially scarce and difficult to prepare single crystal metals. However, a more dangerous potential than these two is that under certain circumstances, you can crystallize the soul."

(End of this chapter)