Chapter 425: The Fuzzy Boundaries of the Material World
There's no one better to be Emily's Inspector than Carmel - as an energy-spirited creature trapped in a fortress of disobedience for millennia, Carmel has nothing to do for the last few hundred years of her entrapment. , he touched every brick, beam, and ravine in the fortress of disobedience, and also studied every mystery and detail of his body. This ancient master of arcane art once said a sentence:
"As a researcher, I have a wealth of experience both researching and being researched."
Emily's situation is not exactly the same as his, but at least the essence of "energy creature" is still common. According to the results of his own research, Carmel knows how to start when facing another energy creature.
After some tentative negotiation, Carmel first confirmed Emily's current state of consciousness: "Her thinking ability is sound, but her perception and feedback methods are a bit confusing. This should be a dislocation caused by the sudden change of life form, So now she's acting a little...unlike ordinary people."
Gawain nodded and looked at Emily who was floating around Amber—the little girl seemed to be curious about every stranger in front of her. However, during this process, she did not have much effective communication with others. She seemed to be immersed in her own spiritual world and only accepted limited interference from the real material world, which made her action pattern somewhat strange.
According to Carmel, when a human being suddenly transforms into an energy body creature, the world in his eyes will be "overlapping" and "illusory" in a short period of time, as if observing a group of people through layers of curtains Unpredictable as flames, and the Transformer's own mind will also change in the process to match this physical mutation, this dislocation is not permanent, and Emily is now clearly in the middle of this change. ——The only thing to be happy about is that the little girl seems to be adapting well.
"Does she still have her own memory?" Wright next to him couldn't help but ask curiously, "I mean... is she still Emily?"
"It's basically preserved, just like me, but it's hard to say how she treats those memories, it depends on her later mental reshaping," Kammel said, "but she's still her anyway. , being able to keep ourselves—that’s the biggest difference between energy creatures like us and the undead.”
As he spoke, Carmel sighed slightly: "This child must have a very special talent for affinity with the Holy Light... This talent should be enough to reflect before her death."
"She once said she saw a circle of light beside me..." Wright's eyes flashed a ray of light, and he suddenly remembered the forgotten details of that night, "I thought she was mistaken for the fire of the campfire for something else. thing……"
"What she saw might be the holy lights surging around you - those holy lights never left you, it's just that you couldn't perceive them, so they could only wander," Gawain guessed, "and I remember you still Said that Emily's adopter said the child was 'out of his mind'?"
Light nodded: "Yes, they said that Emily had weird ideas since she was a child, and often had hallucinations, and sometimes scared adults."
Pittman sighed with emotion: "It's not that this kind of thing has never happened to a gifted poor girl, but compared with those wealthy children who have received a good education since childhood and can still develop healthily, this kind of thing often only exists. In the imagination of the poor... it can only be said that all this is simply too coincidental."
"No, I don't think it's a coincidence," Wright shook his head suddenly.
He looked at Emily, with an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes, "I think this is the guidance of the Holy Light... It was to guide me, a stupid person, that the Holy Light arranged for me and Emily to meet."
Emily heard Wright's voice, she giggled, landed lightly behind Wright, grabbed the latter's shoulder with her hand, and slowly lay there like a veil, and then tilted her head. After thinking about something, she suddenly waved her arms to Carmel, and her whole body emitted a warm and bright light.
Carmel froze for a moment, then laughed softly, raised his arms, and responded with a pleasant light blue glow.
Amber stared at it for a while, and after a while he couldn't help poking at Gawain's arm: "Hey, can you understand what they are doing?"
How could Gawain understand the communication mode between the two luminous creatures, he could only analyze it randomly: "...Maybe they can resonate and communicate after being transformed into energy bodies?"
At this time, Carmel floated over: "I don't know what she means, so I just dodge twice."
Gawain ≈ap; Amber: "..."
Carmel looked at Gawain and Amber's confused faces, and suddenly felt a little helpless: "No, Amber, forget it, Lord, didn't you tease your children when you were young?"
Gao Wen: "..."
This made him how to answer - he has a memory of amusing children, but who can turn such a big corner under such circumstances!
"I want to know how I'm going to take care of her," Wright said, worrying about another. "I've never had any experience with that."
When Pittman heard this, he immediately leaned forward with a smile on his face: "Then you are looking for the right person. I also brought children with people back then..."
Before the little old man could finish speaking, Gawain interrupted loudly: "Wright, think about it clearly -- what Pittman brought out was Amber..."
Amber was still following Pittman's hippie smile a second ago, and then his eyes widened: "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?!"
"Don't make any trouble, Emily is just a child," Gawain gave Pittman and Amber an imposing look, glared back at the shame of the old and young, and then looked at Carmel, " Or say it - Emily is no longer a normal human child, what does she need to grow and develop?"
Carmel nodded and said to Wright: "Just let this child live by your side temporarily. According to my observation, she can already maintain herself, but she still needs a small amount of holy light from you as a supplement, and in addition to energy, She also doesn't need to drink and eat. In addition, she needs to be in proper contact with other people, which will help her restore her whole mind as soon as possible, and also reduce her anxiety. Finally, you need to observe her state at any time. When the energy body is unstable and suddenly extremely restless, you should use your own holy light power to appease her, or check whether there is an excessively strong energy source interfering around. If you encounter a situation that cannot be solved, come to me. "
Wright took note of these precautions carefully, and after he remembered them all, he raised his head, exhaled softly, and turned his face to look at Emily, who was still lying on his shoulders: "You Don't worry, I will definitely protect you this time."
Gawain also smiled. He slowly stepped forward and extended a hand to the little girl: "Child, welcome to Cecil."
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After leaving the church, Gawain did not return to the lord's mansion, but brought Amber to the side of the White Water River.
The time is approaching the midsummer, but Ansu, a northern country, has always had a cool climate, especially by the Baishui River. Even at noon in summer, there is often a cool breeze blowing. On the concrete platform, the cool wind blows while looking at the direction of the mechanical bridge.
A huge mechanical bridge connects the two banks of the Baishui River. On the opposite side of the mechanical bridge, layers of wheat waves are rising from the farmland in the development area on the north bank. It can be vaguely seen that there are pipelines extending from the river to the bank on the farther bank. Wen knew that that was where the water pump of the North Shore Development Area was located.
With the manufacture of various magical machinery, advanced mechanical pumps have long replaced the earliest waterwheel devices in the territory, but today, there is still a waterwheel running in the western area of the South Bank, which is for It was left to commemorate the earliest difficult days of the pioneers.
"Aren't you going to go home and come to see the wheat?" Although Amber honestly performed her duty as a guard and followed Gawain to the river, her mouth was not at all idle, and she stood beside her for a while. , she couldn't help muttering.
"It helps me think." Gawain said casually.
Emily's figure appeared in his mind.
Whether Emily is now "resurrected from the dead", Gawain couldn't understand for a while, whether this was the guidance of the Holy Light or just a coincidence, he was not interested, he was just seeing Emily's spirit. After the body shape, I couldn't help but have some confusion, so I just wanted to find a place to think quietly.
Soul, entity, spirit body (or energy body)... Where is the line in between?
If counting from the satellite era, Gawain may have been in this world for a million years. If counting from the time when he opened the coffin, he has also been active in this world for more than a year, but he still cannot completely abandon it. The shackles of thinking in his previous life, the strangeness of this world - or the "unreasonable" aspects still haunt him from time to time.
Carmel, who was once a human, became a mana creature after receiving the energy infusion of the giant deer Ammon. Ninety percent of her body is composed of so-called "arcane energy". Emily, who was once a human, After being influenced by Wright's holy light, the soul survived independently and became a spiritual creature. The whole body is formed by holy light, and what constitutes their body is "energy".
Can energy be of shape and quality? Can energy be seen and touched? Can the boundaries between energy and matter be so blurred?
The concept of the previous life told Gawain that energy is invisible and intangible. It exists, but human beings can only confirm its existence through various phenomena produced by energy. It can be transformed into matter, but that is extremely difficult. process, but in this world, everything is completely different.
In the realm of magic, the boundaries of the material world are so blurred... How did those incredible changes come about?
Gawain's eyes fell on the wheat waves in the distance - those wheat waves, those flowing water, those soils, those things that actually exist, can also suddenly change shape without having to follow e=2?
The foundation of this world...how is it made?
While thinking about it, Gawain suddenly thought of the magic tide, the substances that transform in the magic tide, and the magical environment where the world and the earth change after the magic tide.
The magic tide...is it the moment when the boundaries between energy and matter are at their most blurred?
He didn't know how to explain the confusion and thinking in his mind to the native creatures in this world. Even a top scholar like Kamel might not be able to understand the other worldview in his mind. However, He did find a little clue in the difficult friction between the two worldviews-so a little clue that might be related to the nature of the world, he instinctively felt that the changes that happened to Carmel and Emily could not be Simply cover it with the phrase "all this is because of magic", behind these changes... maybe there is the most essential secret of this world hidden.
Amber stood beside her, looking at Gawain's brooding appearance, she keenly felt that Gawain was getting restless on a problem that was close to a horn, she didn't know what the problem was, but she still said: "Amy Li is alive, all in all, this is a good thing, right?"
Gawain woke up from those difficult problems that were impossible to answer at the moment, he was stunned for a moment, then laughed and looked at Amber: "It's rare that you can say a clear word. Yeah, it's always a good thing anyway. ."