Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 625: The End of the World Caused by a Shuttlecock
“This thing is really hard to do.”

When the flame was about to go out completely, Zheng Shu intercepted a little fire and placed it on his fingers, using his own energy as fuel to let it burn quietly.

The more Zheng Shu observed, the more he was amazed. The flame looked ordinary. Apart from its appearance which looked like a sticky, flaming liquid, there was nothing special about it.

But only when you actually come into contact with this ball of fire can you discover that this thing is really troublesome!
The first is that once you are contaminated by this flame, you cannot get rid of it no matter what method you use. Compared with this, difficult-to-get-away flames such as gasoline incendiary bombs or white phosphorus bombs are simply child's play.

Unless you decisively remove the burned part and the entire body, you can only wait for the flames to completely burn the infected individual.

The second thing is the extremely high temperature. Although it looks like it is only slightly redder than ordinary flames, the temperature is frighteningly high.

At least, even with Zheng Shu's current defense, he could still feel a clear burning pain after coming into contact with the fire.

Finally, there is the most difficult to deal with property: everything can burn.

Zheng Shu studied it a bit and found that the function of this thing was actually very simple, which was to decompose the matter it came into contact with at the particle level and release high-energy radiation.

The appearance of flames is merely the remnant of high-energy radiation, and in essence it is a mass of particle-level robots that can replicate themselves.

After coming into contact with matter, they will decompose and reassemble the particles of matter, thereby continuously expanding their own group.

Because the number of particles contained in this particle robot is extremely small, except for a small number of elements with smaller particle numbers than them, most of the matter it comes into contact with can be decomposed to obtain energy.

And because these particle robots are too small in size and have already involved changes in the quantum field, they can absorb any type of energy.

This naturally includes special types of energy such as mental power or sealing techniques.

After the analysis was completed, Zheng Shu also understood a little.

The particle-level decomposition and high-energy radiation produced in this process, no wonder even I felt a burning sensation after coming into contact with it.

Of course, this flame is not without its drawbacks.

First of all, the biggest flaw is that the "burning" speed is too slow.

Compared with the rapid redox reaction represented by a normal flame, this "flame" also has particle changes in the process of "burning" matter, but it is actually more like a physical change.

Because it is essentially creating new particle robots, the speed is much slower.

It seemed like the fire on Feimto's body had been burning for a long time, but when Zheng Shu put out the fire on his body, he only had some minor skin injuries.

Although the severity of this injury is enough to make a normal person stay in the ICU for a period of time, for Fimto, who is proficient in biotechnology, this situation of completely shattered skin is not even considered an injury.

In addition to this shortcoming, the other biggest weakness of this flame is "instability".

When the physical scale is small to a certain extent, it will go deep into the quantum realm, and at that time, the dividing line between energy and matter will become blurred.

So under normal circumstances, particle-level machines should be something difficult to accomplish.

Even if you finally complete one by consuming a lot of resources and time, it is impossible to increase your own value at will.

So from a technological perspective, particle-level machines are quite "impractical" and "expensive".

Zheng Shu was not quite sure what special technique Fimto used to create such a particle machine, but what was certain was that these things themselves had a very short "lifespan" and were very unstable.

Therefore, the relevant processing method is also very simple. In addition to using the mysterious counter-magic array to cut off the internal magic formula of the particle robot like Zheng Shu did, you can also use the "isolation" method to stop it from doing work.

If there is no large amount of matter to replenish and create new particle robots, these things will automatically die out before long.

Just like the fire in Zheng Shu's hand.

When Zheng Shu wrapped it with a ball of energy, although the flames were constantly burning energy, with the passage of time, the particle robots inside were constantly dying.

Eventually the flame will get smaller and smaller until it goes out.

"Well, under normal circumstances, you can use force field techniques to separate it from matter. In this way, even if you do nothing, the flames will automatically go out."

Seeing that the fire wrapped in energy on his fingertips was about to be completely extinguished, Zheng Shu summoned a ball of instant noodles from it and used it as a replica material.

Then he used energy and magic to create a magnetic field restraint device to firmly control the flames, and then stuffed it into his personal space, waiting to study it slowly later when he had time.

On the other side, Fimto's skin had healed in a very short time, but the android maid behind him was in a more miserable state.

The two maids must have been protecting Femto before this, so they suffered the burning for a longer time.

Not only the skin on the body, but also the limbs had varying degrees of defects.

Zheng Shu could even see the half-burned but still beating internal organs through the completely devoured skin and bones.

Fortunately, for the two artificial maids who were created to assist in the experiment, this degree of damage is still within an acceptable range.

"Even Ode and Eve were seriously injured. It seems that there is a big flaw in your experiment this time. What are you doing?" Zheng Shu was a little confused.

Femto is a researcher after all, so his two android maids can not only assist in the experiments but also serve as bodyguards. Their actual combat capability is stronger than his.

Moreover, the flames just now came out after he opened the castle and fought, which means that something happened in Fimto's house.

The only thing Zheng Shu could think of was what caused Feimto's expression to change drastically and he left in a hurry alone.

"Ahem... there were some minor accidents, but overall it was quite successful. I managed to cultivate something new!"

Hearing Zheng Shu's question, Feimto suddenly smiled smugly.

"What the hell?!" Zheng Shu raised his eyebrows and suddenly heard the sound of the castle next to him collapsing.

Click click click...

Looking at the cracks on the castle wall and the flames pouring out of the cracks, Zheng Shu took a few steps back calmly.

Are you kidding? Judging from the situation when the door was opened just now, the castle must be filled with a large amount of flames. When the castle's outer defenses can no longer hold, it will inevitably erupt again.

"I say, is the thing you cultivated this time a creature that can continuously spit out this kind of flame?"

Feimuto scoffed at Zheng Shu's question:

"How is that possible? Are you looking down on me?!"

"That's good, which means that this flame was not released by the creature you cultivated this time?" Zheng Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

"No! What I mean is, if that guy can only release Hellfire, then I don't need to spend so much energy to cultivate it!" Fimto expressed his anger again.

"!!!"

Zheng Shu couldn't help but cover his face:

"You mean I underestimated you?! Forget it, you said that the fire just now was called Hellfire? That's quite descriptive. What else can that thing in the castle do besides releasing fire?"

"Of course, that is the synthetic humanoid annihilation weapon that I worked so hard to create: 'Kicking Shuttlecock Will Never Be a Man'! As long as it keeps moving, its body will naturally release a large amount of hellfire!" Fimto looked very proud.

"I won't complain about your name which is full of complaints..." Zheng Shu pinched his nose and felt a headache. "You haven't told me what else this thing can do besides releasing hellfire. And you suddenly created such a thing. Did someone offend you?"

"As for what this thing can do, its name already says it all. I'm a pragmatist!" Feimto was very dissatisfied with Zheng Shu's perfunctory attitude.

Looking at Feimuto's serious expression, Zheng Shu suddenly had a bad feeling:

"You just said this thing is called a synthetic humanoid annihilation weapon... What?"

"Kicking shuttlecock will definitely not make you look MAN!" Feimto helped Zheng Shu finish the rest of the sentence.

"So... don't tell me that this damn thing can only kick shuttlecock non-stop besides releasing the hellfire!" Zheng Shu felt his temples begin to throb.

"No! You still don't understand!"

Feimuto corrected himself again, seeming to care very much about his work:
"The function of my work is not to release the hellfire at all. The hellfire is just the power it releases naturally in the process of survival! It has only one function: to never drop the shuttlecock when kicking it!"

"What the hell is that function?!" Zheng Shu couldn't hold back his complaints anymore.

"And since it's just a shuttlecock kicking thing, why add the ability to release hellfire when it's active?!"

"Oh! You don't understand this. Although I can create pure creatures without any intelligence, if I want to create real life with self-awareness and soul that can evolve continuously, then I must pay attention to many details.

Among them, 'desire' is the emotion necessary for an organism to become truly alive!"

Once the topic starts to get to the point of his own skills, Fimto becomes quite talkative.

"No matter what desire it is, even the most basic desire for survival is necessary, but once a life is too strong, biological instinct will make it unconsciously ignore this.

In this case, if you want to create desire, you have to make it have some kind of flaw..."

"So, what's the flaw in this thing you made this time?"

Zheng Shu had a bad feeling in his heart. Based on this guy's weird personality, this so-called defect was likely to be very bad.

"Of course it's the flaw of 'if the shuttlecock you kick hits the ground, you'll die'!" Fimto laughed proudly, "In this way, I have created a creature that will never drop its shuttlecock to the ground!"

"So you still haven't explained why this thing releases hellfire when kicking shuttlecock!!"

"Ah, that, I don't know either. I just used a little effort to create the most perfect creature, and then accidentally made something like this." Fimto spread his hands.

"are you crazy!!!"

Zheng Shu couldn't bear it any longer, so he grabbed Feimto's neck with both hands and shook him hard.

"It's just a puppet kicking shuttlecock. Is it necessary to use all your strength?!"

"That won't do. This thing is half of my body. It was made to make up for my inability to kick shuttlecock. Of course I can't just do it casually!"

Zheng Shu was stunned when he heard this, and his hand movements slowed down involuntarily.

Because he also recalled that he had made a shuttlecock specifically for Fimto in order to tease him.

According to this simple moral concept, it does not seem to be moral to mock someone's physical defects so blatantly.

So, now it was Zheng Shu's turn to be embarrassed.

"Ahem...Okay, this reason is not unacceptable."

Click, click, click...

Fortunately, at this awkward moment, the sound of shattering coming from the castle again gave Zheng Shu a topic to change the subject.

"This doesn't sound good. I don't think it can last much longer."

"That's why I said that something went wrong with the experiment. I overstrengthened this thing when I was cultivating it, and the speed at which it released the hellfire was much faster than I had initially expected, so all the safety measures I prepared at the beginning were ineffective."

Fimto straightened his burnt and tattered dress and looked at the castle that was about to collapse, his tone full of regret.

"Wait! Did you just say something outrageous? All safety measures are ineffective? What should we do if these flames break out?" Zheng Shu couldn't help but widen his eyes.

These flames were quite tricky things even for him to handle. If even a little bit of them leaked outside accidentally, it would definitely cause a big trouble.

"Don't worry, even if these flames break through the castle's inner space defense, there is still the dark space I created outside. It will definitely not affect the outside world before the space is burned through." Feimto seemed confident.

"That's good..." Zheng Shu was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly realized something was wrong. "Wait, your space can be burned through?!"

"Yes, when you fought with Alykira, you fought so hard that you broke through the space, didn't you?
This space cannot withstand too high an energy shock. Once it exceeds the upper limit, it will release the internal power to the outside world to maintain stability. This is my masterpiece!" Feimto said proudly.

"Now is not the time to be complacent! If something like this accidentally leaks out, even a small amount will be enough to destroy a world! If that hellfire engulfs your castle, will it exceed the limit of the space's endurance?!" Zheng Shu screamed like a groundhog.

Femto corrected him seriously again: "It's not that one world will be destroyed, but that both worlds will be destroyed! The more the hellfire there is, the more stable it is. It can work stably even under the rules of the human world."

"Wouldn't that be even more troublesome?!"

“Calm down, calm down. How could I not take any protective measures? According to my calculations, even if the hellfire devours all the matter in the castle, it will not be able to gain enough power to break through the dark space.” Fimto seemed calm and confident at this moment.

Hearing his words, Zheng Shu reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

As a result, before he could finish his words, the ceiling of the castle was suddenly burned through, a huge column of flame gushed out, and the entire dark space suddenly became turbulent.

Looking at the dark space that instantly became unstable under the jet of flames, Zheng Shu looked at Feimto expressionlessly: "Are you sure it can't break through this space?"

"It doesn't make sense. Why is it so powerful?" Feimuto seemed very confused.

After thinking carefully, he clapped his hands as if he had suddenly realized something: "So that's it, I forgot to count the pile of game cards and discs I just collected a few days ago!"

"How much have you collected? The power has exceeded the limit!" Zheng Shu felt like his head was hurting because of this guy.

"Ahahaha, this is really going to be difficult to deal with." Feimto laughed awkwardly.

"Stop laughing, find a way to deal with it quickly! Otherwise, two worlds will be destroyed because of a shuttlecock!!!"

"But..." Femto scratched his head embarrassedly, "The biotechnology that I am good at is perfectly restrained by this thing."

"Why would anyone go to such lengths to create something that would restrain themselves!!!"

Zheng Shu's expression collapsed at this moment.

(End of this chapter)