"Little Carl, would you mind telling me the definition of spiritual beings first?"
The vice-principal scratched his messy hair. To be honest, last night he dragged Uesugi with him to drink vodka and admire his collection. However, the next morning, he was forcibly pulled out of bed by his dear son. The reason was that the equipment department needed it.
Master Flamel's attainments in the field of alchemy were used to coordinate the experiments.
"This is our newly invented vocabulary. It is perfectly fine to say that human exploration in the spiritual field has been at a standstill in recent decades, let alone the discovery of spiritual creatures." Deputy Minister Karl said proudly, "You can understand it as fantasy.
Lich in the novel.”
"Lich?" the vice-principal pondered, "that kind of fantasy creature that uses black magic to transform itself into an undead creature, stores its soul in a phylactery, and will not die even if its body is destroyed?
Damn, this sounds so similar to dragons, I think there's nothing wrong with replacing the phylacteries with eggs."
He looked at Deputy Minister Karl in surprise, "Is this author also a mixed race?"
Deputy Minister Karl frowned and nodded slowly: "It's very possible."
Lu Mingfei: "..."
Do you dare to go further on this topic?
"So black magic corresponds to alchemy?" The vice-principal took a breath and said solemnly, "Damn, those American agents guessed it right. We have really been studying black magic!"
Deputy Minister Karl comforted: "It's okay, we are not planning to open the door to another world."
Lu Mingfei seemed to see two bullfrogs chasing each other among the lotus leaves.
"So little Carl," the vice-principal said slowly, "on what basis do you base your judgment on spiritual creatures? If the spirit is strong enough to reach a certain threshold, can it still survive without the body?"
"We believe that pure-blood dragons can completely live without the body, and their mental power is enough to pry the material world." Deputy Minister Karl said seriously.
"You mean, using your spirit to influence the outside world? But we can all do this. The most intuitive thing is the spirit of speech."
"Mr. Vice Principal, do you know about Warlock?"
The vice-principal was stunned and muttered: "I'm not interested in fantasy novels."
"This is not a novel, it's a game setting." Deputy Minister Karl shrugged. "In a certain version of the game, warlocks are considered to have dragon blood. The reason is that dragons have strong magical talents, and warlocks' power comes from within.
By nature, you can often release magic without learning, and you don’t even know how it works.”
"There is another thing called the Magic Network. The gods created the Magic Network and became a bridge between spellcasters and magic. All magic is closely connected to the Magic Network, but the conditions for casting different spells are different. These conditions have long been set.
It’s settled. To cast advanced magic, you need to reach a certain level or pay a certain price.”
"Wherever the magic network is damaged or blocked, the effect of magic will become unpredictable and may disappear completely."
"The god who controls the Magic Network is the GM of the game. If you are unhappy, he will directly kick you offline, causing you to lose the ability to connect to the Magic Network."
The deputy minister raised his hand to interrupt Deputy Minister Karl's eloquence. He said thoughtfully: "I probably understand what you mean. You mean that hybrids are warlocks and speech spirits are magic.
We seem to influence the outside world with our words and spirits, but this is not proof that the spirit can pry the material world. It is just that our blood is born with the key to open the door. Behind the door is the door to another world. Without this key, we
You cannot use mental power to interfere with the material world, such as bending a spoon."
Deputy Minister Karl nodded and said: "Longwen is the key. The spiritual resonance of the mixed race is actually connected to the magic network."
"Clear and easy to understand." The vice-principal paused, "Continue talking about your spiritual creature."
"That's it." Deputy Minister Karl said in surprise, his face full of "Didn't you listen just now?"
"What the hell did you say?"
"Just by living without the body, pure spiritual power can affect the operation of the material world."
Deputy Minister Karl picked his ears and looked at the vice principal as if he was wondering whether the old guy was deaf or forgetful.
"No more?" the vice-principal was shocked, "How dare you define a completely new species based on this discovery and inference?"
Deputy Minister Karl rolled his eyes, raised his head and pointed his nostrils at him, as if he was completely disdainful to argue with a heretic like him.
The vice-principal began to roll up his sleeves and stood up angrily, as if he wanted to take action. Lu Mingfei, who was watching on the side, was full of surprise. He did not expect that a boring and boring academic discussion would suddenly feature a fist-fighting action movie.
Unfortunately, he didn't know who kicked him violently, as if to remind him to control the situation. He had to pretend to hold the deputy principal's clothes with two fingers, and advised, "Vice principal, please bear with it, don't talk to the equipment department."
A lunatic cares about it."
Unexpectedly, the vice-principal was unusually generous today.
He cursed and sat down again, his face full of "It's only me who gives you face, otherwise it won't be easy for anyone to come today!"
Lu Mingfei began to think about who kicked him just now.
After this battle, Deputy Minister Karl suddenly seemed to realize that the old guy in front of him was not his son, so he cleared his throat and said softly:
"We all know that the Philosopher's Stone is highly poisonous to the dragons, but we can't explain why. But what if the dragons are spiritual creatures? They do need the body. A strong body can become the best carrier of the spirit and exert its full potential.
Stronger power, but the physical body is not fatal to them, the attack on the spiritual level may be the most deadly!"
"From this perspective, the effectiveness of the Philosopher's Stone can be well explained."
Although I wanted to sneer at it, this statement did make sense, and the vice principal frowned.
Deputy Minister Karl continued: "Second point, if dragons are spiritual creatures, then what significance does dragon blood have to the dragons? We are stuck at this point, because spiritual creatures do not need blood, and the body is just a vehicle.
, the school director gave us an explanation on this point."
Lu Mingfei nodded and said: "The so-called nobility of bloodline is something that only mixed-bloods and dragons that have degraded after the third generation have to consider. All races above the third generation are pure bloods. But pure bloods also have superiority and inferiority. This gap is reflected in the spirit.
, or in other words, the personality of the soul.”
"We accept this statement." Deputy Minister Karl said seriously: "The genes of the dragons are very strange. As a species of the fourth domain, their blood can assimilate creatures from the other three domains, from animals to plants. This ability comes from
Due to the power and invasiveness of their genes, no species' genes can compete with them, which is why hybrids will lose control when they break through the critical blood limit."
"Mixed breeds rely on the key in the dragon's blood to cast the word spirit, just like a warlock's ability comes from his inner nature, then what if the Philosopher's Stone targets the key hidden in the dragon's blood?"
"These are our two temporary inferences about the reason why the Philosopher's Stone can poison dragons - spirit, or dragon blood, and these two do not conflict. When a spiritual creature loses its body, it is equivalent to dying once."
Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows and said: "I can understand it as a 'special effect bullet' for the spirit, but you also think that as a crystallization of pure spiritual elements, it can be effective against the dragon's blood and kill the dragon clan? What is this speculation based on?"
"
Deputy Minister Karl smiled and said: "Strictly speaking, the second type is actually our main research direction now."
"The first type cannot be tested, and there is nothing to experiment with. It is just like the 'special effect bullets' you mentioned, bullets specifically targeting spiritual creatures. And the second type..."
Deputy Minister Karl stood up and showed a strange smile.
"You two, please come with me. This is our ultimate goal today."
"We all believe that this discovery is the best proof of the real existence of the world."
Lu Mingfei and the vice principal looked at each other, stood up, and followed Vice Minister Karl to the depths of the equipment department laboratory.
Deputy Minister Karl, who was walking in front, said slowly:
“Two of you, have you ever thought that the world we live in is actually false? Just like the famous ‘brain in a vat’, how do you ensure that you live in the real world?
Einstein once had a theory that the earth's gravity is so strong that it causes space-time to curve. We are enclosed in the curved space-time and travel back and forth repeatedly. And our understanding of everything is often limited by our own
Cognition, this can easily create a closed loop, eventually evolving into 'what we think we see is real', just like..."
"Yan Ling."
Karl pushed open the deepest door, as if opening the door to the truth.
At that moment, the dazzling fire swept out from behind the door, engulfed the figure of Deputy Minister Karl, and attacked them in a mighty manner.
The vice principal jumped up like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on and hid behind Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei just stared blankly at the fire that engulfed him.
At that moment he felt a familiar scent.
In the end, he did nothing but raised his head and closed his eyes. It felt as if a breeze was blowing across his face and nothing happened.
"What is this, a virtual image?" The vice-principal looked at the fire that swallowed him in shock, but had no heat or texture.
What seemed to engulf them was just a shadow, not real fire.
Lu Mingfei opened his eyes and snapped his fingers. For a moment, scalding heat hit his face. The fire that was just light and shadow instantly turned into blood-colored tongues of flame and rushed out of the equipment department, spurting out from the well in front of the Hall of Heroes.
.
The vice-principal stared blankly at the bloody flames that passed around them. If it weren't for the scalding heat that could still be felt even one meter away, he couldn't believe that the fire that he thought was a virtual image suddenly turned into a real tongue of flame.
Vice Minister Karl squinted at Lu Mingfei's movements and gestured behind him.
The fire that spewed out from behind the door gradually subsided.
"Are you...that meteorite?" Lu Mingfei said softly, "It seems that I made a mistake. What did you find from it?"
Deputy Minister Karl, who was standing in front of the door, turned sideways and said with a smile: "The reality of the world."
Lu Mingfei raised his feet without hesitation, walked past him, and stepped into the world inside the door.
At that moment, countless colors of light bloomed in front of his retina, and finally merged into one, and a white light fell from the top of his head.
The meteorite was slowly rotating above their heads, breaking away from the gravity that could bend space and time in Einstein's eyes. Four colors of light alternately flashed around it.
"We originally thought that the magnetic field emitted by the meteorite would put the surrounding elements into a state of sleep, thereby creating the same effect as the [Commandment], but later we found that we were wrong."
"The elements were not forced to sleep. They may have just returned to their original posture, or they may have simply disappeared."
"This discovery begins with that little story about the Nibelungs."
"Alchemy believes that elements exist in everything in the world. Just like in the Nibelung, everything is dead. The fire is cold and blue. That is because the fire element has been killed, and water cannot flow or float.
to pick up anything, because the water element was also killed."
"Then according to this theory, after the elements fall asleep, the same, or at least similar, situation should occur."
"But around the meteorite, we can still generate warm orange flames, water can still flow, and the soil can still breed seeds."
"So who is wrong? The alchemist? No, maybe it's the world, or the elements themselves are wrong."
"From another perspective, in a world where everything dies, there are a lot of spiritual elements, and all four major elements are dead. Why are the spiritual elements so special?"
"Maybe because it's the source of everything."
"Perhaps the four elements of wind, fire, earth and water do not exist at all in this world. From beginning to end, there is only the fifth element - spirit."
Lu Mingfei looked up in silence at the meteorite above his head, which was interpreting the birth and death of light and shadow of the four-color elements.
Where did this meteorite come from, which distant and unfamiliar galaxy did it come from, and what supported it from crossing an infinite distance that could be measured in light years to reach this planet?
He suddenly remembered that not long ago in his hometown, he and Eriki secretly ran to the sea of clouds and looked up at the starry sky so close at hand.
The comet, like an upside-down badminton, passed through the dark and cold universe. When it passed the sun with its flames erupting, its surface vaporized due to heat. The comet that fell into sleep during the long journey has since entered the active stage of life.
.
Are you traveling for thousands of years just to feel the warmth of that moment?
Seeing that he was silent, Deputy Minister Karl continued:
"Director Lu, the Equipment Department received a letter some time ago. The person who wrote the letter called himself 'Ouroboros', the magic snake that represents cycle and restart in alchemy. She wrote something about it in the letter
A lot of information about this meteorite and the reason why our experiments can be carried out so smoothly and quickly are all thanks to this letter."
"At the end of the letter, she asked us to bring you two sentences."
Speaking of this, Deputy Minister Karl took a deep breath and whispered:
"The truth and falsehood of the world are always only in the Creator's thoughts."
"If you don't dare to be the Creator, then please move your position."