From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"what happened?"

Seeing that Elisa had stopped, Lu Jin became wary. To prevent her from being affected by the divine seal, he gathered his Qi and asked her aloud.

"Should we really open it? Commander Isaac and his fallen comrades went through so much to trap those monsters in the mine; what if they haven't turned into mummies yet—"

Even though Jiang Liu and his group possess combat power beyond that of ordinary people, capable of dealing with the zombie variant, the Divine Seal itself is too bizarre. Sealing off the Lalaiye and isolating it from the outside universe to create its own space is the safest course of action.

If these six people are affected by the divine seal, they will be directly transformed into necromancy...

Elisa couldn't imagine the consequences.

"rest assured."

Jiang Liu patted the two men on the shoulders, stabilizing their innate Qi, which had been disrupted by the electromagnetic signals.

Their restless minds and bodies calmed down at this moment, and they unconsciously developed a sense of trust in Jiang Liu.

Taking a deep breath, Elisa and Vincent exchanged a glance, opened the mine compartment, and were greeted by a dense, spiderweb-like structure.

"It's a corrupt organization!"

Vincent was startled and immediately put on the hoods with Elisa. He explained to everyone, "This is a structure made up of fragmented pieces of flesh. We first saw the decaying body in the upper deck - medical work pod - morgue."

The putrefied creatures are not lethal; walking on them feels sticky. But I speculate that once you step on them, they will send signals to other necromancy variants.

Furthermore, the decaying matter absorbs free oxygen from the air and metabolizes into a harmful gas that can cause hallucinations.

Elisa added, "The putrefied creatures here are probably formed by the aggregation of necromancy imprisoned here, presumably to maintain their vitality. And judging from the size of this putrefied creature, it almost covers the entire mine cabin... If there are any necromancy survivors, their numbers should not exceed twenty."

But everyone's attention was focused on the harmful gases released by the decaying body.

It was a scarlet, smoky substance—

Scarlet pigment!

“It can be confirmed that the existence of the Divine Seal is related to the Mana ecosystem,” Mark stated his assessment.

Jiang Liu, however, recalled the information he obtained when he confronted Mana's will in the subspace and realized that the primordial divine seal was very likely a "pebble" that Mana's will had cast into the "past" by manipulating the spacetime of the universe.

"Mark, can you analyze the information contained in these scarlet pigments?"

Bai Yuekui asked Mark.

Scarlet pigment itself does not contain information, but after it enters the human body, it can affect the body's life essence and cause hallucinations. The content of what people who go crazy because of scarlet pigment is generally the same, such as "everything is just a shell", "a greater disaster is about to come", and "reincarnation has been broken".

That is, scarlet pigments use human life essence to influence the nervous system in order to express messages.

During intense combat, Mark, who possesses the body of a Devouring Beast, will also metabolize scarlet pigment in the cracks of his skin. After mastering the circulation of Qi, he absorbs the scarlet pigment released by the Spine Worm and uses his physical body to express it, thereby understanding the high-dimensional information contained within it.

Mark took a breath, inhaling the scarlet pigment produced by the decaying body through his mouth and nose. He frowned and said, "It's not quite the same as the scarlet pigment of the spinal worm. It didn't use my body to express any specific content that can be defined by human logic. But if I had to describe my feelings, I would only say two words: survival."

"Perhaps for the Divine Seal, turning corpses into zombified corpses is for survival; influencing the living and causing people to kill each other is also for survival."

Jiang Liu seemed to be deep in thought, “Sacrificing individual will, leaving only collective cells, and then forming an existence similar to the hive consciousness.”

"Strange."

Zhang Zhiwei wondered, "Since the Divine Seal is a product of Mana, why would someone go to such great lengths to first create the Earth Vines and then combine them with the genes of plants, animals, and humans on Earth to create the Devouring Beasts, instead of directly using the Divine Seal to influence humanity?"

“Brother Zhang, your idea is a bit scary, but it is indeed a point of doubt. If Mana’s will is actively controlled, she should be able to plunder human life essence more quickly, so why doesn’t she do that?” Lu Jin also had doubts.

“Brother Jiang said before that Mana follows the path of life essence, only taking will, and her view on the physical body is summed up in one word: shell, that is, she doesn’t care about the physical body at all.” Red Girl thought of a possibility, that is, Mana’s will does not care about the genes at the physical level, so the Primal God Seal is very likely a tool that can be used and discarded, and she doesn’t care about it at all.

Jiang Liu slightly agreed with this conjecture. After all, the Primal Divine Seal was most likely a mark that Mana's will projected into the "past" of the spacetime wave, its sole purpose being to allow genes related to the Mana civilization to appear in Earth's past, nothing more—

"Another possibility is that the red divine seal created by humans is different from Mana's original divine seal, resulting in subtle differences in function."

Jiang Liu looked at Bai Yuekui and said, "You said before that the researchers in Jerera could not analyze the other unknown elements in the original divine seal and could not create them. So in the process of reverse copying the divine seal, they directly used the only element that can be detected by humans, bismuth, to replace it."

"That's true."

Bai Yuekui nodded, suddenly realizing that humanity's process of reverse-copying the divine seal not only harmed humanity itself, but also ravaged another advanced intelligent civilization in the universe.

"However, it is certain that Mana's will abandoned the physical body on the material level, leaving only the will to exist forever."

Jiang Liu added, "The Primal Divine Seal is very likely the earliest tool He used to transform the organic matter of the earth."

"That's possible."

After all, the decaying matter in this mine did look somewhat like vines, but it lacked spores. This might be because when humans replicated the original divine seal, they replaced the unknown elements with bismuth, causing a slight change in the electromagnetic signals it emitted. This resulted in the dead person's body cells entering a state of "independent autonomy" while instinctively "banding together for warmth."

"What...what are you talking about?"

Elisa and Vincent struggled to comprehend so much information at once.

"The existence of the Divine Seal is very likely related to the mastermind behind the disaster that caused the outbreak on Earth. We are just brainstorming about this."

Jiang Liu explained.

Upon hearing this...

Alyssa and Vincent exchanged glances but didn't ask any further questions. After all, that's how people in scientific research are; when they hear a nod of agreement, they gather together to discuss all sorts of different ideas that are hard for ordinary people to understand.

Therefore, the two focused on leading the way, passing through rooms that contained minerals collected from the planet Ta-Frantis, and finally the group arrived at the room where the red divine seal was kept.

Unlike the other storage rooms, which were filled with flesh and bones, this one was quite clean, except for the writhing flesh crawling on the walls. The most striking feature was naturally the tall, red divine seal placed in the center…

Chapter 1272 The Manifestation of the Dao's Information

The divine seal was angular and had a double helix structure. As if sensing the arrival of a living person, red light spread from bottom to top, giving people a sense of déjà vu, similar to a heartbeat.

Its height is 81 meters, resembling a uniquely shaped building, and its surface is covered with ancient and strange patterns, similar to an extremely abstract symbol, as if it contains the mysteries of the universe.

After carefully counting, the girl in red discovered that the divine seal had exactly twenty-four segments, and couldn't help but ask, "Could it correspond to the twenty-four vertebrae of the human spine?"

Jiang Liu's first reaction was the same, but then he remembered that this thing was the embodiment of a complete gene, so he rejected the idea and said, "It should correspond to the number of chromosomes of the organism. The cells of the Devouring Beast and the Mana Flower both have twenty-four pairs of chromosomes."

"Does this mean that the Devouring Beasts are more advanced than humans?" Vincent asked curiously. "Humans only have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes."

"The number of chromosomes is not related to the level of life. Otherwise, the most advanced organisms would be ferns of the family Pteridophyta, which have 1,260 to 1,440 chromosomes."

Jiang Liu denied this, and then gave an example: "And chimpanzees, our close relatives, also have 24 pairs of chromosomes. Can we say that they are more advanced than humans?"

Vincent was speechless.

"What should we do with this?"

Zhang Zhiwei, holding the flamethrower, got down to business, "How about we just melt it all down?"

“No, since the Divine Seal is related to the Mana ecosystem, melting it directly would be too wasteful.” Bai Yuekui immediately rejected the suggestion.

Even though the original divine seal has been destroyed, this divine seal is made using bismuth metal, but it can still produce a similar effect to the original.

worthy of study.

"Indeed, the only lesson people can learn from history is that they don't learn from history," Jiang Liu said with a hint of sarcasm.

However, Bai Yuekui was determined, believing that trying the unknown was also a manifestation of human courage, especially since they now had some understanding of the corpse variant.

and--

"This spaceship is affected by an invisible darkness. If we destroy it directly, what mechanism will it trigger, and how will we get out?"

Although Jiang Liu understood that Bai Yuekui did not want to rashly destroy something that could potentially be used to deal with the Mana ecosystem, he had to admit that directly attacking this divine seal might actually cause a series of chain reactions in the darkness of this place.

"You want to destroy the divine seal?"

Vincent shook his head and said helplessly, "It's impossible. Although the material of the Divine Seal is bismuth, its melting point is not high, only about 300 degrees Celsius."

However, according to previous researchers, once the casting is complete, grinding it into powder is useless, because the atomic structure of each particle has undergone specific changes...

Only an energy explosion of nuclear magnitude can destroy the atomic structure, rendering it unable to emit the corresponding electromagnetic signals.

no doubt.

The situation of the Divine Seal and the Corpse Transformation is almost identical; they are both individuals and collectives, with each atomic structure containing all the information.

If the corpse variant is a collection of numerous cells at the cellular level, then this divine seal is a polymer of countless atoms at the atomic level.

Jiang Liu had encountered what is called an atomic-level aura—the combined human created by fusing the Potara earrings was at the atomic level in terms of aura.

That is, to make the movement of the atomic nucleus and electrons within a single atom exhibit corresponding patterns.

simply put.

In a normal atom, electrons do not have a fixed orbit around the nucleus like planets orbiting the sun, but rather their probability of appearing varies within a certain region.

This is the concept of the so-called "electronic cloud".

For atoms to form a single gaseous structure, the atomic nucleus must be used as a reference, and electrons must move in specific orbits.

In this way, an atomic-level atmosphere can be achieved, and each atom contains complete information.

Even Jiang Liu, nowadays, can only use the primordial energy that has been fused with the light of the mind to unleash "Huiyuan," directly annihilating and regenerating a designated object.

While it can be said that it involves the atomic realm, there is still a long way to go before it can be said that it has completely mastered the atomic-level atmosphere.

and so--

The researchers in the old world of Jerejak in this timeline had absolutely no way to modify the trajectory of electrons in the atomic realm. The ability to replicate the Divine Seal was probably mainly due to the peculiar patterns on the surface of the Divine Seal. It could actively adjust the frequency of atomic nuclei and the trajectory of electrons in the atomic realm by using the omnipresent magnetic fields and radiation, thereby creating an atomic-level atmosphere.

When atoms with a certain energy level aggregate to a certain number, the energy levels instinctively begin to connect with each other. All atomic nuclei and electrons move in rhythm according to specific laws of motion, naturally releasing specific electromagnetic signals. This interferes with human will and affects unconscious organic cells, causing them to mutate.

"An atom-level atmospheric force?"

Lu Jin also recalled the characteristic of the Potara earrings: combination! But strictly speaking, combination can also be considered a special kind of fusion!

This may not be much different from the function of the Divine Seal in essence.

"Potala?"

Bai Yuekui was puzzled.

Jiang Liu gave Hong Guniang a look, and the latter took out a pair of earrings with yellow beads from her storage ring and handed them to Bai Yuekui. In the world of "Xiao Yu's Adventures", Jiang Liu had made quite a few Potara earrings with the help of the weather bureau that week, just in case.

After receiving the Potara Earrings and learning their function from Jiang Liu, Bai Yuekui was astonished. He couldn't believe that these small earrings could merge two different humans into one and significantly enhance their strength. The only drawback was:

If neither of the two fused beings is a Supreme Kai, then the fusion will only last for one hour.

"Perhaps, the atmospheric conditions at the atomic level are all similar—fusion."

Jiang Liu gazed at the divine seal, lost in thought. "All things return to one, this is called the Dao... Before the birth of the Mana Will, the Mana civilization's understanding of cosmic information far exceeded our imagination. The information contained in this divine seal is roughly the information of the origin of the universe."

That is the Way!

"road?"