Devouring Evolution Begins with Hedgehogs

The crystal-clear essence of life in the middle is undoubtedly the Polaris high in the sky!Once seen once, its dazzling light can no longer be erased from view!

This dodecahedron as big as a goose egg, in the eyes of Liu Ergou at this moment, is the whole world in the future.

"Sylvie, is that emerald green gemstone the essence of life? Why is it so big?" Just to be on the safe side, Liu Ergou confirmed it to Sylvie.

In less than a second, Sylvie gave an affirmative answer, and Liu Ergou's heart hanging in his throat was put back into his stomach smoothly, and he let out a long breath.

And according to the scanning results of the hall, the system quickly calculated an astonishing conclusion!

With the scale of the equipment here, in its heyday, the base could at most produce a super-large life essence with a diameter of several meters and a structure complex enough to be an icosahedron!
Only with Liu Ergou's authority, it is not enough to get this information at present.

However, even the essence of life in front of him is enough to make Liu Ergou's heart flutter.

"That's right! This special light and this unique crystal form. This... this is the essence of life!" Doris took out a monocle-like alchemy tool, looked at it tremblingly for a while, and finally Make sure this is the essence of life!

However, this piece of life essence is really too big!

The essence stones sold on the black market are usually only the size of a fingernail, and are often in the shape of a regular tetrahedron, and there are always prices but no market.

And such an essence stone, through the hands of a master-level alchemist, can at least make a dozen life potions!

Each bottle of this kind of potion is enough to restore about three years of life, or heal any damage that doesn't hurt the brain!

As for the larger regular hexahedron, it is no longer a fetish within her status.

Such a piece of life essence is often only used as the core of legendary weapons or legion-level magic circles!
So, looking at this goose egg-sized core with twelve faces, De Lisi is like the most devout believer, as if she witnessed the kingdom of God from the sky descending in front of her, she moved towards it without realizing it. Stretched out his hand.

"Miss!" Fortunately, Tufaen was still awake and dragged De Lisi back.

And under this tugging, a corner of De Lisi's clothes was lifted up, and it happened to rub against the shield, which was inconspicuous compared to the essence of life.

"laugh"

With an undetectable soft sound, the corner of the clothes instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke in front of the eyes of the three of them!
If it weren't for Tufaen's sharp eyesight and quick hands, in the best result, De Lisi would lose an arm!
Under the double stimulation of joy and horror, De Lisi only felt that the strength in her whole body was almost drained, and she slumped on Tufaen, and it took a long time to recover.

And Liu Ergou and Tufaen also broke out in a cold sweat instantly!
This ruin has been abandoned for a long time, and various equipment that has stopped due to lack of energy can be seen everywhere along the way.The three of them preconceived that as long as they got past the puppet guards, there would be no danger in front of them.

However, they ignored that since even basic functions such as ventilation and cleaning are maintained by backup energy, how could the most core essence of life be completely unprotected?

But in front of the three of them, this shield, which was so vicious just now that it was almost ready to eat, now seemed as if nothing had happened, as quiet as a thin piece of paper that was harmless to humans and animals.

It seems that if you want to obtain the treasure of this secret store, you must first defeat this silent dragon.

It's strange, looking around the shield, Liu Ergou was stunned to see where the energy source of this thing is.

Whether it's the facilities around the base or the weird instruments in this hall, it's not difficult for Liu Ergou to find several pipelines of different sizes.

And these pipelines all lead to somewhere in the wall or underground, obviously connected to the energy transmission network throughout the base.

As for the alchemy machines in the inner ring, they all have the function of directly absorbing energy from the magic field all over the inner ring.At this moment, since the magic circle in the inner ring has not been activated, these alchemy machines have lost their functions one by one.

However, before Liu Ergou's eyes, this small stone platform seemed to be created out of nothing, and a shield was born out of thin air to protect the stone platform and the essence of life!

What's even more amazing is that Liu Ergou suddenly discovered that this stone platform is suspended in the air!

And that shield actually formed a spherical shell, protecting the stone platform and the essence of life in all directions.

For a while, Liu Ergou couldn't think about it.

On the other hand, unlike Liu Ergou's idea of ​​trying to crack the shield in principle, Doris began to test the strength of the shield.

From the drawers of the desk, to the forks in the cafeteria, to the instruments in the hall, Doris found a lot of messy things, trying to find a way to pass through the shield.

She even asked Tufaen to go to the square and come back with a few big stones; if it wasn't for a puppet guard patrolling the square, Doris would even have the heart to test the wreckage.

It's a pity that all materials, including stones, can't resist the erosion of the shield, so naturally they can't get out the essence of life inside.

During the test, the shield showed no signs of weakening, not even a spark.So the garbage pile around De Lisi is rapidly decreasing, and on the other side of her, a smaller waste pile is also rapidly growing.

However, after experimenting with many materials, Doris made a discovery.

Dragging Liu Ergou, who was still thinking hard, to the waste pile, De Lisi picked up a melted alloy plate and handed it to Liu Ergou.

"Look at this place," De Lisi pointed to one end of the alloy plate and said to Liu Ergou. "Did you find out that this alloy plate was not actually 'melted'?"

"Ah?" Liu Ergou scratched his head inexplicably, looking over and over at the board in his hand.

In his opinion, whether it is the tear-shaped trace at one end of the board or the scattered slag, isn't it proof of melting?

"No, look carefully." Seeing that Liu Ergou was puzzled, De Lisi didn't say any more, but just turned the alloy plate around and stretched the intact side towards the shield.

Like many times before, the alloy plate only persisted for less than a second, and immediately flowed down like a molten candle.

De Lisi quickly took back the alloy plate that was melted again, threw it to Liu Ergou and said, "Look carefully, especially the 'melted' piece."

Liu Ergou subconsciously caught the alloy plate that De Lisi threw over, and then suddenly thought, this metal plate that has just melted must be like a soldering iron!
Throwing the alloy plate out, Liu Ergou yelled while rubbing his hands in a hurry: "tm, you want to burn me to death. Huh?"

The imagined pain did not appear, and my hands were intact.

Liu Ergou carefully picked up the board he threw out, but the place where he started was icy cold!
cold?What's going on?

Seeing Liu Ergou flustered and foolish, De Lisi rolled her eyes involuntarily.

"If it's really hot, I can play with it for a long time before I give it to you? Please use your brain, okay?" This lord is sometimes smart and decisive, but sometimes he is really cute and naive.

"Hey, you go on, you go on." Liu Ergou scratched his head embarrassingly, and laughed a few times.

Pointing to the "melted" end of the metal plate, De Lisi continued to explain: "Not only is there no temperature, but you can see that there is no deformation at all at the joint between the 'melted' place and the normal place."

"Could it be that this metal has special properties and won't deform under high temperature?" Liu Ergou asked De Lisi after thinking about it.

"It's not." De Lisi immediately denied Liu Ergou's conjecture.

Turning her head, De Lisi told Tufaen: "You pull two more beetle leaves for me, the bigger one."

Tufaen immediately mobilized his fighting spirit, and with all his strength, unscrewed two armor leaves from the collar of his close-fitting soft armor.

The nail leaves are forged from refined iron, and each piece is as big as half a hand.

Delise dragged a slightly larger metal plate next to it, and a fire-attributed triangular circle was engraved on the board, which was obviously made by Delise just now.

A magic crystal was inserted into the magic circle, and the magic circle started working immediately, forming a suspended fireball above.

Doris rummaged through the trash again, found two dinner forks, and stuck a nail leaf between them into the fireball.

The temperature of the magic flame was quite high, and it didn't take long for the nail leaves to turn from red to hot, and the edges began to melt.

Seeing that the nail leaf began to melt, Doris immediately turned off the magic circle.He casually summoned a gust of breeze to cool the beetle leaf, and then picked up another bean leaf.

Without any accidents, as soon as Jiaye approached the shield, he immediately let out a "chi" sound, and the part that touched the shield immediately turned into a puddle of molten iron.

Seeing this, De Lisi immediately moved the nail leaves away from the shield, and the molten iron immediately condensed into tears on the surface of the nail leaves.

Handing the two nail leaves to Liu Ergou, De Lisi pointed to the melting places of the two nail leaves respectively, motioning him to observe carefully.

What are you doing?Is this girl planning to change her career to become a blacksmith?
He took the armor leaf suspiciously, Liu Ergou looked at it, and immediately saw the clue!
"Look, the piece that was burnt with fire not only melted at the edge, but also had obvious deformation in the unmelted part."

Indeed, under the effect of high temperature, the scorched nail leaf has been obviously distorted, and its color has also turned black obviously.

"Look at this again." Doris pointed to the nail leaf that touched the shield again, "Except for the part that touches the shield, this nail leaf has no deformation at all!"

Not only did it not deform, even the color did not change, as if the nail leaf had never touched the shield at all, but some molten iron that came from nowhere just happened to solidify on it!

Coupled with the abnormal temperature, Liu Ergou also figured out the joints here.

"This shield does not rely on high temperature, but has other principles?"

"That's right." Doris nodded, then picked up the half-destroyed nail leaf and placed it very close to the shield, only a few millimeters away from the shield!

And the nail leaf, which was crumbling at the touch of a finger just now, is indifferent now, and has not changed at all!

Seeing that Liu Ergou understood what she meant, De Lisi said again: "I just observed carefully and found that these things were not destroyed by the high temperature ablation of the shield as we thought."

"On the contrary, this shield has no temperature at all!"

"Look at this again," Doris said, picking up a stone, which was exactly what Tufaen brought back from the outside.

Put the stone on the shield, and there was another "chick", and the small half of the stone was destroyed immediately.

However, unlike the previous few times, after the contact this time, there were no traces on the remaining stone, and the cross section was as neat as if it had been cut by a knife.

And on the floor directly below the stone, a pinch of dust appeared.

Liu Ergou stretched out his hand and twirled a little, it felt like ashes in an incense burner, very delicate.

Seeing Liu Ergou's thoughtful expression, De Lisi said slowly: "This effect is very similar to a sixth-level magic: dissociation. It's just that dissociation is usually not so powerful. , I mean, the speed and extent of the dissociation is much slower."

"Tell me about this dissociation technique in detail." Liu Ergou vaguely had some thoughts.

"Dissociation, as the name suggests, is to dissociate matter into its basic elements."

"Uh, then what?" Unexpectedly, De Lisi only said one sentence and then there was no more to say, Liu Ergou was taken aback.

"It's gone?"

"No more? Is this the end?"

"Then what else do you want to hear? Dissociation is the principle. Use magic to activate the basic elements of the composition, and then decompose it. It's over. There is nothing complicated."

De Lisi spread her hands, not understanding Liu Ergou's question.

"Ah, this? I understand that stones dissociate into earth elements, but why didn't this nail leaf dissociate into gold elements?" Liu Ergou pointed to the two melted metal plates and asked in puzzlement.

"Gold element? Where is there any gold element?" But I didn't expect that when I uttered these words, not only Doris was puzzled, but even Tufaen looked at him like an idiot. Liu Ergou.

Seeing that Liu Ergou did not seem to understand these common senses, De Lisi was patient and began to teach Liu Ergou lessons.

"Earth, fire, water, wind, and light, these are the five basic elements that make up the main material world. Everything in the main material world is composed of these five basic elements

And in other realms, such as the Shadow Realm where the Shadow Demon resides, it is said that these five elements do not exist there, but only one 'dark' element.

However, mainstream scholars generally believe that the so-called 'dark' elements are actually extremely inert light elements.It's just that other elements other than the light element, no matter how inert they are, there will never be such an extreme reversal of 'light' and 'dark', so this is just a guess.

Regardless of this pair, the 'activation' and 'inertization' of an element, that is, the degree of activity of an element, is an important attribute of an element.

Depending on the degree of activation, the properties of the elements will also change, and accordingly the properties of the constituent substances will also be affected.

For example, the element of water, when it is extremely inert, will turn into ice.The so-called metal is actually a very inert earth element, and there is no gold element.

It's just that the earth element is very inert in most cases, so the substances composed of the earth element are mostly heavy things such as rocks or metals.

Converting magic power into different elements will produce magic power of different attributes; and mixing magic power of different attributes will produce new magic power attributes.

For example, mixing fire attribute and light attribute magic power, the resulting magic power is called thunder attribute magic power.

As for the magic formation, it is just reproducing the process of the original magic power-element-attribute magic power in the form of a formation. "

"Using magical power to impact tangible matter, activate the elements that make it up, and then break it down into loose elements. This is the so-called dissociation technique."