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Hearing Baili Qing's suddenly serious tone, the researcher in heavy protective clothing suddenly became nervous, and Yu Sheng could even see the sweat beads on the tip of his nose through the transparent mask.
"From what we can see so far," a muffled voice came from the researcher under the protective suit, "but not all substances will be affected. We have only confirmed that one type of rock will undergo this strange transformation near the mother crystal."
Baili Qing still had a tense expression on her face: "... In other words, it will spread in this way? Does the 'secondary crystal' generated by assimilation also have this property?"
"It seems that there is no need to worry at the moment," the researcher finally relaxed a little when he said this, "The 'secondary crystals' generated by assimilation do not show similar assimilation effects. At least so far, we have only observed this phenomenon around the mother crystal, so this should not become a 'chain reaction' that gradually engulfs the entire world."
The tense expression on Baili Qing's face finally relaxed a little - Yu Sheng felt that he was quite powerful, he could now even judge the micro-expressions on this iron-faced man.
"Then how big is the impact range of this crystal?" Yu Sheng asked casually.
When the researcher heard Yu Sheng speak, he hesitated for a moment, and then turned his gaze to Baili Qing with a questioning look.
"Just tell me, no need to look at me," Baili Qing said, "He is Yu Sheng, and this is Irene. They have the same access to information about the Dark Angels as I do."
"Ah, ah, okay!" The researcher obviously knew some inside information. When he heard the word "Yu Sheng", his eyes changed. With a little spirit, he quickly said, "We haven't measured the exact range yet. We are only roughly sure that it will not exceed 20 meters. It is a spherical area centered on the mother crystal."
"Then the range is not large," Irene muttered, "How should I put it, it's a bit like a... 'honest child'? I mean compared to other dark angels."
Baili Qing nodded slightly and then asked, "Besides that? What else did you find?"
"There is some kind of resonance between the mother crystal and the secondary crystal. We have observed that they emit a slow vibration alternately within a range of about 100 meters, but we cannot know whether this 'resonance' has any 'meaning' for the time being - it may just be a natural phenomenon, or there may be some 'life activity' that we cannot understand.
"In addition, we also observed complex changes in the crystal structure within the secondary crystal. It rearranges its lattice approximately every seconds, which we call 'reorganization.' This reorganization does not change its physical characteristics on the surface, such as hardness, light transmittance and color, but internally, it is equivalent to the secondary crystal becoming a new individual every seconds - but there is no such change inside the mother crystal, and the structure of the mother crystal has always been very stable.
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"These are our main findings at this stage. Further testing plans are still being carefully evaluated. Considering the preciousness of the sample, we have to avoid damaging the mother crystal, so any testing methods that may cause physical damage cannot be used lightly."
"Yes, it is necessary to be cautious." Baili Qing nodded gently, acknowledging the other party's cautious attitude. "This is the first time in history that humans have collected the remains of a fallen angel. We must be careful."
Yu Shengze had been staring at the crystal on the stage since the beginning, and his eyes gradually became eager to try. The little puppet on his shoulder was the first to notice the change in his eyes: "Hey, what do you want to do?"
"Ahem," Yu Sheng coughed dryly, then turned his head to look at the researcher, "How many 'mother crystals' are there now?"
"The recovery team sent four of them here," the researcher said casually. "Any questions?"
"...Can I touch this?" Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed at the round table. "But I'm afraid you'll damage it, so I'm asking in advance. After all, you just said that this is quite precious."
The researcher's expression froze for a moment, and he turned to look at Baili Qing - he didn't dare to agree to this casually.
As a result, Baili Qing's expression was also a little dull.
Yu Sheng scratched his hair: "If you don't allow it, forget it."
Baili Qing took a deep breath, and for a moment she didn't know how many rounds of struggle she had in her mind before she finally said with a stern face, "I guess you definitely don't mean the 'touch' that ordinary people say, right?"
Yu Sheng was also a little embarrassed: "If possible, I would also like to smear some blood on it or something."
The faces of several researchers around him began to sweat instantly. Yu Sheng even suspected that if Baili Qing had not been present, these people would have either pounced on him or beaten him away.
But after weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Baili Qing nodded.
"You can try it," she said seriously, "but... be careful."
"I must emphasize that this is not in the normal laboratory procedure," a researcher muttered in the back, "Putting your hand on it will violate seven or eight regulations..."
Yu Sheng pretended not to hear. Under the nervous and anxious gaze of the people around him (including Baili Qing), he took a step forward and placed his hand on the "mother crystal".
Cold and quiet, like a bottomless calm pool, it did not respond to any touch of life.
The “talking to the dead” phenomenon did not occur—to be honest, Yu Sheng felt a little lost at this moment.
Ankaela is really gone.
Then he calmed himself down, took out a knife from his pocket, and cut his hand - no cut. He cut it again, still no cut.
The atmosphere seemed a bit awkward, and Yu Sheng couldn't help but curl his lips: "Well, I've used it to cut my hands quite a lot recently, and it seems to be a bit blunt."
"That's not just blunt, it's even serrated!" Irene stared, "How thick-skinned are you now?"
Yu Sheng said nothing, but just kept cutting with the knife. It took him a long time to finally make a wound on himself. Then he grimaced and squeezed out blood while moving towards the mother crystal.
Everyone around was stunned. The shock caused by this scene even exceeded their worries about the crystal. One researcher was still muttering: "What a ruthless person...did he saw it open by force?"
"It's not ordinary for someone to be able to fight against the Dark Angel," another researcher muttered, "I was originally thinking of looking for a painless blood collection device..."
Yu Sheng was bleeding, and when he heard this, he turned his head and his eyes popped out: "Why didn't you tell me you had this thing earlier! Are you just going to leave it there and watch me saw it off?!"
"Don't even think about it," Irene poked his head, "Even if there was a blood collection device, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to penetrate your skin right now."
As he spoke, drops of bright red blood had already fallen onto the mother crystal.
Everyone's eyes instantly fell on the drop of blood.
Lian Yusheng himself became nervous and watched his blood slowly flow down the surface of the crystal.
Then, the blood was silently absorbed by the crystal.
"Did you feel anything?" Irene asked immediately.
"...I don't feel anything," Yu Sheng frowned, but then added, "But this is normal. The blood connection often takes a long time to take effect, especially for those inanimate objects or those with strange life forms. You can imagine that the blood I smeared on the frame for you took so long to take effect..."
"Yes, yes..." The little puppet nodded blankly, but then reacted, "No! Who are you calling evil?"
The researchers nearby were all shocked when they saw the blood being absorbed. After a moment, one of them whispered, "Absorbed?!"
Then the surroundings became lively, and each researcher was like taking stimulants: "New abnormal phenomenon! It can absorb blood!" "Equipment, equipment! Turn on the comprehensive analyzer, quickly..." "Adjust the data! Platform data!"
Yu Sheng was startled by the noisy noises of the researchers, and then he looked around awkwardly: "Well, this is not the characteristic of the crystal, it's my characteristic. My blood is a little special..."
As soon as these words came out, the surroundings fell silent, and then several eyes turned to focus on him.
Yu Sheng: “…”
It was the first time he had encountered such a look.
But he understood quickly.
"You take care of it," he turned to look at Baili Qing, "it seems like these people are planning to cut me up."
Baili Qing also felt a little embarrassed. She coughed twice and didn't say anything. The researchers quickly shifted their gaze away.
But Yu Sheng was 100% sure that these people only shifted their gazes, and their attention was not diverted at all...
But he didn't care. As a researcher, it was normal to be curious.
Then he poked the puppet on his shoulder: "Do you want to try it too?"
Irene looked confused: "What should I try?"
"Those threads of yours. You have used them to touch many things in Ankaela's dreams before. You have also established a connection with Ankaela. Why don't you try it and see if the crystal reacts to you?"
Irene felt that Yu Sheng's idea of coming up with something at random was unreasonable, but his suggestion of "giving it a try" was as attractive as ever.
"Then I'll try it," the little doll rubbed his hands and adjusted his sitting position on Yu Sheng's shoulders. "If it doesn't work, it's not my problem..."
As she spoke, she tightened her face and became serious, and then, under Yu Sheng's expectant gaze, she stretched out her right hand towards the "mother crystal".
Strands of pitch-black "spider silk" spread out from her fingertips and cautiously reached out to the crystal.
The strange and cold aura caused the two researchers standing closest to them to involuntarily take half a step back.
Then, when the silk threads were still more than ten centimeters away from the crystal, Yu Sheng heard a clear buzzing sound.
The black thread seemed to have hit a vibrating barrier, and instantly bounced off and broke into pieces.
"Oh shit!"
Even Irene herself was shocked and fell directly from Yu Sheng's shoulder.
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Hearing Baili Qing's suddenly serious tone, the researcher in heavy protective clothing suddenly became nervous, and Yu Sheng could even see the sweat beads on the tip of his nose through the transparent mask.
"From what we can see so far," a muffled voice came from the researcher under the protective suit, "but not all substances will be affected. We have only confirmed that one type of rock will undergo this strange transformation near the mother crystal."
Baili Qing still had a tense expression on her face: "... In other words, it will spread in this way? Does the 'secondary crystal' generated by assimilation also have this property?"
"It seems that there is no need to worry at the moment," the researcher finally relaxed a little when he said this, "The 'secondary crystals' generated by assimilation do not show similar assimilation effects. At least so far, we have only observed this phenomenon around the mother crystal, so this should not become a 'chain reaction' that gradually engulfs the entire world."
The tense expression on Baili Qing's face finally relaxed a little - Yu Sheng felt that he was quite powerful, he could now even judge the micro-expressions on this iron-faced man.
"Then how big is the impact range of this crystal?" Yu Sheng asked casually.
When the researcher heard Yu Sheng speak, he hesitated for a moment, and then turned his gaze to Baili Qing with a questioning look.
"Just tell me, no need to look at me," Baili Qing said, "He is Yu Sheng, and this is Irene. They have the same access to information about the Dark Angels as I do."
"Ah, ah, okay!" The researcher obviously knew some inside information. When he heard the word "Yu Sheng", his eyes changed. With a little spirit, he quickly said, "We haven't measured the exact range yet. We are only roughly sure that it will not exceed 20 meters. It is a spherical area centered on the mother crystal."
"Then the range is not large," Irene muttered, "How should I put it, it's a bit like a... 'honest child'? I mean compared to other dark angels."
Baili Qing nodded slightly and then asked, "Besides that? What else did you find?"
"There is some kind of resonance between the mother crystal and the secondary crystal. We have observed that they emit a slow vibration alternately within a range of about 100 meters, but we cannot know whether this 'resonance' has any 'meaning' for the time being - it may just be a natural phenomenon, or there may be some 'life activity' that we cannot understand.
"In addition, we also observed complex changes in the crystal structure within the secondary crystal. It rearranges its lattice approximately every seconds, which we call 'reorganization.' This reorganization does not change its physical characteristics on the surface, such as hardness, light transmittance and color, but internally, it is equivalent to the secondary crystal becoming a new individual every seconds - but there is no such change inside the mother crystal, and the structure of the mother crystal has always been very stable.
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"These are our main findings at this stage. Further testing plans are still being carefully evaluated. Considering the preciousness of the sample, we have to avoid damaging the mother crystal, so any testing methods that may cause physical damage cannot be used lightly."
"Yes, it is necessary to be cautious." Baili Qing nodded gently, acknowledging the other party's cautious attitude. "This is the first time in history that humans have collected the remains of a fallen angel. We must be careful."
Yu Shengze had been staring at the crystal on the stage since the beginning, and his eyes gradually became eager to try. The little puppet on his shoulder was the first to notice the change in his eyes: "Hey, what do you want to do?"
"Ahem," Yu Sheng coughed dryly, then turned his head to look at the researcher, "How many 'mother crystals' are there now?"
"The recovery team sent four of them here," the researcher said casually. "Any questions?"
"...Can I touch this?" Yu Sheng raised his hand and pointed at the round table. "But I'm afraid you'll damage it, so I'm asking in advance. After all, you just said that this is quite precious."
The researcher's expression froze for a moment, and he turned to look at Baili Qing - he didn't dare to agree to this casually.
As a result, Baili Qing's expression was also a little dull.
Yu Sheng scratched his hair: "If you don't allow it, forget it."
Baili Qing took a deep breath, and for a moment she didn't know how many rounds of struggle she had in her mind before she finally said with a stern face, "I guess you definitely don't mean the 'touch' that ordinary people say, right?"
Yu Sheng was also a little embarrassed: "If possible, I would also like to smear some blood on it or something."
The faces of several researchers around him began to sweat instantly. Yu Sheng even suspected that if Baili Qing had not been present, these people would have either pounced on him or beaten him away.
But after weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Baili Qing nodded.
"You can try it," she said seriously, "but... be careful."
"I must emphasize that this is not in the normal laboratory procedure," a researcher muttered in the back, "Putting your hand on it will violate seven or eight regulations..."
Yu Sheng pretended not to hear. Under the nervous and anxious gaze of the people around him (including Baili Qing), he took a step forward and placed his hand on the "mother crystal".
Cold and quiet, like a bottomless calm pool, it did not respond to any touch of life.
The “talking to the dead” phenomenon did not occur—to be honest, Yu Sheng felt a little lost at this moment.
Ankaela is really gone.
Then he calmed himself down, took out a knife from his pocket, and cut his hand - no cut. He cut it again, still no cut.
The atmosphere seemed a bit awkward, and Yu Sheng couldn't help but curl his lips: "Well, I've used it to cut my hands quite a lot recently, and it seems to be a bit blunt."
"That's not just blunt, it's even serrated!" Irene stared, "How thick-skinned are you now?"
Yu Sheng said nothing, but just kept cutting with the knife. It took him a long time to finally make a wound on himself. Then he grimaced and squeezed out blood while moving towards the mother crystal.
Everyone around was stunned. The shock caused by this scene even exceeded their worries about the crystal. One researcher was still muttering: "What a ruthless person...did he saw it open by force?"
"It's not ordinary for someone to be able to fight against the Dark Angel," another researcher muttered, "I was originally thinking of looking for a painless blood collection device..."
Yu Sheng was bleeding, and when he heard this, he turned his head and his eyes popped out: "Why didn't you tell me you had this thing earlier! Are you just going to leave it there and watch me saw it off?!"
"Don't even think about it," Irene poked his head, "Even if there was a blood collection device, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to penetrate your skin right now."
As he spoke, drops of bright red blood had already fallen onto the mother crystal.
Everyone's eyes instantly fell on the drop of blood.
Lian Yusheng himself became nervous and watched his blood slowly flow down the surface of the crystal.
Then, the blood was silently absorbed by the crystal.
"Did you feel anything?" Irene asked immediately.
"...I don't feel anything," Yu Sheng frowned, but then added, "But this is normal. The blood connection often takes a long time to take effect, especially for those inanimate objects or those with strange life forms. You can imagine that the blood I smeared on the frame for you took so long to take effect..."
"Yes, yes..." The little puppet nodded blankly, but then reacted, "No! Who are you calling evil?"
The researchers nearby were all shocked when they saw the blood being absorbed. After a moment, one of them whispered, "Absorbed?!"
Then the surroundings became lively, and each researcher was like taking stimulants: "New abnormal phenomenon! It can absorb blood!" "Equipment, equipment! Turn on the comprehensive analyzer, quickly..." "Adjust the data! Platform data!"
Yu Sheng was startled by the noisy noises of the researchers, and then he looked around awkwardly: "Well, this is not the characteristic of the crystal, it's my characteristic. My blood is a little special..."
As soon as these words came out, the surroundings fell silent, and then several eyes turned to focus on him.
Yu Sheng: “…”
It was the first time he had encountered such a look.
But he understood quickly.
"You take care of it," he turned to look at Baili Qing, "it seems like these people are planning to cut me up."
Baili Qing also felt a little embarrassed. She coughed twice and didn't say anything. The researchers quickly shifted their gaze away.
But Yu Sheng was 100% sure that these people only shifted their gazes, and their attention was not diverted at all...
But he didn't care. As a researcher, it was normal to be curious.
Then he poked the puppet on his shoulder: "Do you want to try it too?"
Irene looked confused: "What should I try?"
"Those threads of yours. You have used them to touch many things in Ankaela's dreams before. You have also established a connection with Ankaela. Why don't you try it and see if the crystal reacts to you?"
Irene felt that Yu Sheng's idea of coming up with something at random was unreasonable, but his suggestion of "giving it a try" was as attractive as ever.
"Then I'll try it," the little doll rubbed his hands and adjusted his sitting position on Yu Sheng's shoulders. "If it doesn't work, it's not my problem..."
As she spoke, she tightened her face and became serious, and then, under Yu Sheng's expectant gaze, she stretched out her right hand towards the "mother crystal".
Strands of pitch-black "spider silk" spread out from her fingertips and cautiously reached out to the crystal.
The strange and cold aura caused the two researchers standing closest to them to involuntarily take half a step back.
Then, when the silk threads were still more than ten centimeters away from the crystal, Yu Sheng heard a clear buzzing sound.
The black thread seemed to have hit a vibrating barrier, and instantly bounced off and broke into pieces.
"Oh shit!"
Even Irene herself was shocked and fell directly from Yu Sheng's shoulder.
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