Indescribable cyberpunk - #629 - Chapter 615 What do you think?

“How much do you know?”

Zhu Jue didn’t feel much disappointed because of the second half of the great race’s words. He sat cross-legged on the ground, a little too calm.

Now that he was facing a terrifying existence like Gadamon, Zhu Jue no longer expected to have a perfect plan. He just wanted to make more preparations to deal with the next bad situation.

“The ancients obviously didn’t know Mi.G.’s method of controlling Gadamon, so they prepared to use their own methods to try to control Gadamon. The deal we reached when we met for the second time allowed the great race to obtain the crystal, and part of its functions have been cracked. Complete, through this crystal, I can understand part of the ancient one’s intentions.”

The deal mentioned by the great race is naturally the deal Zhu Jue made with it in order to liberate his soul when he was in Dawn City. To a certain extent, this can be regarded as Zhu Jue’s earlier decision that created the conditions for today.

“After activation, the Ancient Crystal can fuse with any existence, absorb, store energy and release it instantly. For normal living beings, the Crystal can provide great auxiliary gains, but for special creations such as Shogoths, the Ancient Crystal can have another effect.”

“It’s a bit like a battery. It charges, supplies energy and can adjust the power. What effect can it have on Gadamon?”

This is something similar to the Ancient One’s crystal that Zhu Jue can think of in a short time.

“To be precise, the Ancient Crystal is an all-powerful ‘battery’. It can provide electrical energy when it appears inside a mechanical device. It can provide energy for the actions of a living thing when it appears in the body. The premise is that its energy must be filled, and it can charge The method is also very simple. It absorbs all the energy that can be absorbed. In the mechanical device, it absorbs electrical energy. In the living body, it absorbs life energy. On the premise that it is not fully charged, it will absorb all the energy that can be absorbed. Even the souls of living things.”

During this period of time, the great race conducted many experiments around the Ancient Crystal, and the results proved that the abilities contained in this exquisite and beautiful crystal were by no means as beautiful as imagined.

When it is activated but not fully charged, it is a crazy omnivorous beast. Everything that comes close will become food to fill its hungry belly!

However, when it is fully charged, it will become what the great race calls an extremely powerful “all-purpose” battery that can be applied wherever it is needed.

“Through various tests, it is known that activated crystals are integrated into everything, and the Shoggoths are no exception. The ancients integrated the uncharged crystals into the bodies of the Shoggoths, and used a certain technology to make the two react. A symbiosis effect is achieved until the Shoggoths become accustomed to the existence of the crystal and regard it as a part of themselves. The ancient one then takes out the crystal. The Shoggoths who originally had no weaknesses have now used the crystal as a storage and transfer device for their own energy. , this becomes its Achilles’ heel.”

The expressive ability of the great race that has been traveling in the human world for who knows how many years is naturally not comparable to that of the ancients. A few words gave Zhu Jue a general idea of ​​crystals.

The Shoggoths created by the hands of the ancients have an amorphous body that can be divided countless times. Normally, they cannot be simply killed. However, after the crystal is implanted and activated, the crystal will actively absorb the surrounding substances. All energy, including the special energy that allows the Shoggoths to survive and divide wantonly.

When the energy of the crystal is full, the ancients will take out the crystal in some way. Since the Shoggoth has already formed a symbiotic state with the crystal to a certain extent, the crystal is equivalent to its energy storage and transfer device. Even if it is You can still use it remotely without any abnormality after taking it away.

However, the ancient ones who regained the crystal can be said to have taken hold of the life gate of the Shoggoth. Once they think that the Shoggoth is out of control, they only need to use a device to extract the energy in the crystal or destroy it more directly. , the Shoggoths will immediately collapse completely due to the loss of a large amount of energy for survival in a short period of time!

“The ancient one wants to copy this method on Gadamon?”

The words left by the ancients are constantly repeated in the mind. First absorb the energy in the crystal of the ancients, then bring the empty crystal into Gadamon, rely on it to absorb the core energy of Gadamon, and finally take it out. This is the great race. The plan to control the Shoggoths he said was a replica, but with a different target.

“Yes, the ancients have never seen the real Gadamon, but they must have conducted research after obtaining the Gadamon child body from you. Since they are willing to take out the crystal for you to try, it means that they should have done this. According to the experiment, the crystal can swallow Gadamon’s energy. After all, it is only a creation of Mi. Go, not an unspeakable thing that exists in ancient times. As a created thing, even if it is its origin. This is why I think you may succeed. The main reason.”

“If I remember correctly, you just said that the probability of success is extremely low. Rather than the reasons for success, I want to know why I will fail.”

Only by knowing the factors that may lead to failure can Zhu Jue make every effort to avoid them.

“All I can tell you is speculation based on the available facts about the factors that contributed to the failed outcome.”

“First, your soul is different from the vast majority of human beings in this era. In addition, the influence of Gadamon’s daughter potion has enabled you to successfully obtain a part of Gadamon’s power. This has helped you successfully approach and integrate into Gadamon. Conditions have been created, but entering Gadamon’s body means that there will no longer be any barrier between you and it. Your soul will face it head-on. Perhaps the energy in the crystal can protect you from erosion in a short period of time, but when the energy At that moment, you won’t be able to hold on for even a second. This is an established fact and will not change according to your will!”

The arm was raised at a right angle, a fist was made, and the index finger was straight up. Even if the thinking time was extremely short, the great race still found the flaws in the plan with its extraordinary wisdom.

As the great race said, with Zhu Jue’s current strength, there is no difference between the soul’s behavior of facing Gadamon and death.

No, the ending may be more despairing than death.

“Second, assuming that the first step is successful and the crystal successfully absorbs Gadamon’s energy, under this premise, since the crystal merges with you, this means that huge spiritual energy will appear in your body. Through the conversion of the crystal, you You may be able to control them to a certain extent, but you can’t stop them from transforming your body, just like you can’t resist the influence of Gadamon now, you should understand what this means.”

He raised his middle finger and made a “V” gesture, but unfortunately it didn’t mean victory.

The implication of the great race’s words was clear to Zhu Jue.

Now he may have benefited a lot from Gadamon’s influence, but this is a balance that was barely achieved with the help of the ancient ones.

If he fully accepted Gadamon’s transformation, Zhu Jue could not imagine what he would look like at that time!

“Third, assuming you succeed in the above two steps, then you must face the most important part of the plan, how to take the crystal out of Gadamon and destroy it!”

The third finger was raised. This time the great race did not give any explanation or description, because even it could not speculate on the situation Zhu Jue might face after passing the first two levels, or it thought that Zhu Jue It’s simply impossible to get to this point.

Human beings are too fragile

“Tsk, for the few questions you mentioned, I’m afraid I can only make some mental preparations. In this case, the chance of being ‘cold’ this trip is very high.”

After listening to the three difficulties raised by the great race, Zhu Jue smacked his lips and fell into silence. It would be great if there were only these three difficulties.

Suddenly he turned around and looked through the crack in the door at the night rain outside. There were still some sparks of soot in the uncovered incense burner, but they were soaked by the cold rain and no more smoke rose up.

The noisy sound of rain was actually filled with a sense of deathly silence at this moment.

“I should have known better that I wouldn’t have asked you. Before, I was so focused on killing Gadamon that I didn’t care much about it. Now after your analysis, I know that I can’t do anything and can only gamble with a small chance of success. Instead, I It makes me feel uncomfortable. It’s so damn hypocritical!”

“Are you afraid of death?”

The great race looked at Zhu Jue. To it, this emotion represented weakness and cowardice and was meaningless. –

“Who wants to die if they can live? Hey, you just said that I could control Gadamon’s power through the crystal in the second stage. To what extent do you think I can control it?”

Halfway through his words, Zhu Jue stroked the stubble on his chin, as if thinking of something, he changed his question.

“It depends on your ability. It is impossible for you to use the power of Gadamon to complete the third stage, because the energy comes from Gadamon. It will not and cannot hurt itself. You may be able to use Gadamon’s power to complete the third stage. It was mobilized under the premise of falling into chaos, but if you want to destroy the crystal, you must take it out of Gadamon’s body and rely on external force.”

“No, no, no, you misunderstood. I was thinking, if I can enter the second stage, regardless of whether I can complete the third stage, since I can control part of Gadamon’s power, besides carrying the crystal Apart from things like hurting it, like leaving Gadamon, can Shi use this power to do whatever he wants?”

“.”

This time it was the great race’s turn to be silent. It found that it seemed to be unable to understand the way of thinking of the person in front of it, but it finally replied,

“This is indeed the case in the illusion created by Gadamon and the deep world.”

“Ha! This is interesting!”

Zhu Jue, who was still frowning before, seemed to have discovered something interesting. His eyes suddenly glowed with an inexplicable light, and he said with a sullen smile.

“what you up to?”

For the first time, it doubted the idea of ​​​​this human being.

“You want to know?”

Zhu Jue turned to look at the great race and raised his hand to wave. The latter knew the meaning of this action and hesitated a little. Finally, he took a few steps forward and bent down to stand in front of Zhu Jue.

“Come any closer, it’s too far.”

Continuing to wave, the great race crouched down and approached with their ears tilted. Zhu Jue narrowed his eyes and whispered in a malicious tone,

“you guess?”