Sword and Magic and Taxi

Four corpses and a piece of iron were all that was left inside the lead-encrusted stone. Dig out everything underneath and find out what's going on in the whole mine.

Zhao Mai also agreed with the old man's idea, and the most suitable person for this job was of course Z-worm. Zhao Mai's latest Chimera spaceship flagship is called Black Emperor. Black naturally refers to its color, which also means Dark Earth, and Huang is the abbreviation of Dragon Emperor. It had already flown over the mine, remaining invisible and slowly lowering its altitude.

The invisible pipe was lowered from the invisible spacecraft and inserted into the entrance of the mine. Then the Z-worms log in from the pipe and enter the work site silently. The ability to be invisible and silent against ordinary people had no effect on the old man. He watched with interest for a while, expressing surprise and admiration for the actions of the workers. When he saw the complete alien guards, he was truly amazed. .

The black streamlined body and smooth surface can imitate the surrounding environment at any time and act as camouflage. The special sound-absorbing structure allows them to always remain quiet, and can break the sound barrier anytime and anywhere to unleash their full explosive power.

The dragon-transformed skin and Tarrasque's minions mean that they will never suffer in melee combat. Combined with movement methods such as flashing, flying, escaping, and gasification, the aliens now have more terrifying assassin methods. There are also corrosive liquid sprays at close range and high-heat rays at long distances. These methods allow the current Z-worm aliens to adapt to more complex combat situations.

One of them was nothing, but after a while, six of them disembarked from the spacecraft and went to stand guard around them in camouflage mode. So many ferocious creatures made the old man frown. Judging from his current observations, Zhao Mai does not control the most creatures, only more. The general rule of the multiverse is that the more powerful the creature, the slower it reproduces and the smaller the number, but this restriction seems to have lost its effect here with Zhao Mai. It seems that as long as Zhao Mai thinks about it, it will be easy to mass produce this kind of alien.

Fortunately, Zhao Mai has always been very restrained, taking the harmonious coexistence of multiple species as the highest ideological guideline, and has never initiated a species war. But what about the future? The old man clasped his hands behind his back and began to think. For a long time, the competition among the Transcendents has been mainly concentrated in the ideological field, mostly a battle of ideas, which sometimes evolved into a battle of strength. But there may be a new form in the future: the existential struggle. If the detached people only have ideas but no civilized society to practice their thoughts, and the entire universe is filled with Zhao Mai's bugs... then the detached people will stagnate. Then what's the point of existence?

The old man is a little worried, but he will not equate worries with threats, let alone deal with them as reality. He looked at Zhao Mai, who was sitting quietly next to the lead stone shell, holding the piece of iron in his hand, turning over and over without knowing what he was looking at.

Everything is strange, but the strangest thing is this piece of iron. Zhao Mai was sure that he had seen it squirming like a living organism and floating in the center of the stone. The world wave bursts out with the force of nature, the realm of the Kingdom of God, and the will of life, which can even make the dead regrow muscles and organs. It will not kill any living thing at all, let alone turn the living thing into iron.

Material alchemy can transform one substance into another substance, but it is too difficult to transform complex life forms into the same substance from a physical perspective, and to transform so many various compounds into iron from a microscopic level. ! Besides, if you want to cover up any clues, wouldn't it be faster and safer to burn it directly into ashes? Why go to the trouble of turning it into iron?

Wait, Zhao Mai found that he had overlooked a question. No matter how it turns into iron, this process occurs within the scope of the world wave. Only by obeying its own rules can the ability have an effect - any ability that does not obey the rules will become ineffective. In other words, this piece of iron was not transformed, but its ability failed and returned to a certain initial state. In other words, this piece of iron should be the original state of the wriggling creature after it was stripped of its abilities, not the corpse it evolved into.

But even Colossus was not made from a piece of iron!

Old man, are there any creatures born from iron?

The old man was pacing slowly, but suddenly stopped. He walked to Zhao Mai in three steps and two steps at a time, took the piece of iron with both hands and looked at it carefully. Looking at his appearance, Zhao Mai must have thought of something, so he waited patiently.

The iron block kept changing its shape in the old man's hands, stretching, shortening, twisting, and breaking. Iron is still iron, questions are still questions. After a while, the old man said: No one has ever seen a creature made of iron, excluding artificial mechanical life. However, I once heard a rumor in the Ring Alliance. It was a long time ago. It happened a long time ago, and my green cow was still alive at that time.

Appreciate further details.

The credibility of that rumor is very low. It tells the story of a mage who was not very good at studying. The mage went through all kinds of hardships to catch his enemy, so he cursed him to suffer forever. But the mage knows that his life is limited, and in After dying, his curse will gradually lose its power, and it will no longer be able to achieve the effect of eternal life. So he turns his enemies into iron. This final material after the universe loses its heat and vitality will always be iron, with no possibility of change. .The enemy is as alive as iron, and pain and injury will always be with him.

Why iron?

Uh... the old man scratched his head and said: In my point of view, Tao is a process of change and circulation, and there is no ultimate substance. However, in the discipline of physics, lighter atoms fuse and become heavier atoms. , this is the principle of stars and the most obvious source of energy in the universe. This process will terminate when it reaches iron, because if the iron element fuses, it needs to absorb energy rather than release it, so this reaction is impossible. In addition Elements with higher atomic numbers decayed, so everyone ended up becoming iron.

But that statement is flawed. After hearing this, Dad Zhao adjusted his reading glasses and said.

Of course, of course, there is indeed a problem. Even if black holes are not considered, from a physical point of view, iron is not the final product - but the mage didn't know it at the time. He chose a complicated way to deal with the enemy , which resulted in extremely complicated results. The last sentence of the rumor was: So he created Nekus.

Nexus? The monster that devours the dead universe? The end of all things?

Oh, Zhao Mai, I don't think that everything will really end, it will just change from one state to another. Of course, there are good and bad differences between states, and I will never accept the state of Naikos. But... ...This is just a rumor, more like a story compiled backwards based on the name of Nexus' Terminator of All Things. The old man shook his head: Since you asked, I will tell you, no matter how ridiculous it is. There is no need to hide it. Now I am more concerned about why this thing was placed on the earth, when it was placed here, and who did it. And, are there more!

How to find this? I can't cover the entire earth with world waves.

I can use Tai Chi to scan the entire earth. The old man said: But this requires a meeting of transcendent people to vote. Zhao Mai, are you ready for your first vote?