"How long will it take for the ancestor's soul to completely dissipate?" Seeing that the resurrection process was about to begin, I asked this crucial question.
"I'm not sure," Tawil answered honestly. "Because we haven't detected any soul reaction, even if the ancestor's soul is still there, it's in an unpredictable state. I can't make any inferences about something that can't be measured. However, according to the most ideal situation, where the ancestor's soul is at an unpredictable critical point, we have at most 24 hours. "
Twenty-four hours … In this short one day, we had to try every possible resurrection method. If we couldn't succeed, then it would be meaningless even if we resurrected the ancestor's body. This was really an urgent matter.
Sandora and Tawil had already told me about the problems that we had encountered and might encounter during the resurrection plan. Seeing that they were ready to start, I couldn't help but ask, "So, what can I do to help?"
I felt that there must be a reason why Sandora called me over in such a hurry. But Sandora thought for a while and said, "Nothing. I just want you to come over and watch. No matter if the first experiment is successful or not, this is a historical moment. You have to be a witness … "
I was speechless.
"Of course, there's one more thing. If you're beside me, I'll feel more at ease."
I let out a breath.
Of course, it was impossible to use all the ancestor's remains for the first experiment. The resurrection would only be one of them. That way, even if we failed, we would still have a chance to try again. Of course, if possible, everyone would want to succeed on the first try. After all, after knowing that the resurrection process might encounter all kinds of troubles, I felt that if the first attempt failed, there wouldn't be much chance of finding another feasible solution no matter how many times we tried.
"The equipment is ready. Each team, check the project you're in charge of." Tawil quickly operated on the crystal panel next to the experiment table while giving instructions to her assistants. At the same time, her large group of mass projections started to activate the equipment in the lab that I couldn't see the use of. "We are pressed for time. I want every step to be seamless."
Sandora pulled me back a few steps. This was now the domain of the experts. Outsiders shouldn't interfere with the work of the experts.
From this position, I could see the entire lab. I could see that a large number of recording and analysis equipment were online. Complex holograms flickered and appeared above the equipment one by one, showing the status of the resurrection equipment and the monitoring of the ancestor's remains. The platform where the ancestor's remains were placed also had a floating image. It was a body scan of the ancestor's remains, as well as tissue activity and monitoring of the soul. The latter was a straight line with no fluctuations.
Tarver's calm, almost mechanical voice was the only human voice in the busy laboratory. "Material reconstruction equipment online. Disaster response team on standby. Body reconstruction ready … Lab mainframe, how's the energy system?"
Body reconstruction ready. But this time, we can only follow the opposite process. First, we resurrect the body. Then, we can switch to the backup system. "" Host computer.
I can feel Sandora squeezing my hand. Then, I heard her whisper through the mental link. "The normal resurrection process is to locate the target's soul first. Then, we start to reconstruct the body. If necessary, the body can even be discarded and replaced with a new one. But this time, we can only follow the opposite process. First, we resurrect the body. Then, we can only leave it to fate whether the body has a soul or not."
I squeezed Sandora's hand to reassure her. "I don't know much about these things, but I think it will work."
At this time, Tawil had finished all the preparatory work. She checked the working condition of the platform and then ordered the ring-shaped light tube to be activated. Well, the scientific name was "Information Evolution Restart Device." This device would break the stagnant state of matter in my hometown by rebooting all the information within its range. We still didn't know how the stagnant state came about, but Tawil already knew how it disappeared. That was enough.
When the device was activated, I didn't feel anything. I only heard a very low buzzing sound echoing in the lab. Maybe I felt something? As if I had lost a second or something in the time I experienced? Anyway, it was just a matter of a moment. Then, the resurrection process began. Everyone in the lab seemed to have been activated from a still image and instantly started working.
A vertical light screen rose from the bottom of the platform and slowly scanned the ancestor's remains from head to toe. Then, it swept in the opposite direction. The monitoring image above the platform showed the damage to the body. The body of the ancestor's remains was intact and there were no fatal injuries. What caused his death was the ultra-low temperature and a huge amount of radiation caused by the hibernation pod's malfunction. Therefore, most of the cells in the remains had internal injuries. The cells were different from any living creature on Earth. They looked a bit like crystals, and the genetic material inside was a bright line that ran through the crystals. This was the case for normal cells, but the cells killed by the ultra-low temperature and a huge amount of radiation showed signs of rupture or deterioration. Eighty percent of the cells in the body died at the same time, causing the ancestor to die instantly. But the body was preserved vividly.
Tawil began to repair the damaged biological tissues. From the microscopic level, she rebuilt the body molecule by molecule. She used the original material of the body to complete the repair process to prevent any external substances from affecting the process. At the same time, a ring-shaped light appeared above the platform. I felt some kind of energy field shrouding the ancestor's remains.
"That's to prevent the soul from escaping," Sandora explained. "Although we can't detect the ancestor's soul, this device still works. If the ancestor's soul is still there, this device can re-encode the soul and suppress it on the target's body when the target's body reaches the point where it can 'operate' the soul. You know, to the body, the soul is something like an executable code. Software can't exist without hardware. The function of this ring is to disguise the body so that the soul can't leave its range. "
"But it can't stop the soul from weakening, right?" I asked curiously.
Sandora nodded with a regretful expression. "That's true. You can use the fence to stop the sheep from running out of the pen, but you can't stop them from dying of old age inside the fence …"
Sandora had learned to use such a vivid metaphor.
The atmosphere in the laboratory was tense. Repairing the ancestor's remains was actually the least technical step. With Schilling's technology, the difficulty of repairing anything on the material level was almost negligible. The real difficulty was to "revive" the body. Life was a wonderful thing. Scientists on Earth had been arguing about "what is life" for many years, but there was no conclusion. From a pure "scientific" point of view, the so-called life was nothing more than the transformation process of a bunch of organic matter. After being dissected without emotion, life ultimately belonged to physics and chemistry, and could be seen as a bunch of macromolecules that were constantly changing. This concept extended to the category of inanimate objects and psionic creatures, which were just more complicated chemical or physical changes.
If we were to only follow this standard, then we could make the ancestor's body start a series of physical and chemical reactions again, and it could be considered as the latter's "revival". However, what Sandora wanted wasn't such a simple result.
In order to resurrect the ancestor, we need more than a series of orderly material changes in the body, and not as simple as making it open its eyes under the stimulation of hormones and bioelectricity. That is no different from Frankenstein.
After the ancestor's remains were repaired, the project entered the next step. Tawil began to try to restore the "vitality" of the body.
On various surveillance screens, I could see that the body had begun to move. He was breathing, body fluids began to flow, and the internal organs that had just been repaired a minute ago were beating vigorously. The body was different from a human's, and its internal structure was somewhat strange, but it was already "full of vitality" in my eyes. I even saw the fingers of the "remains" on the test bench a few meters away twitch slightly.
However, the eyes never opened, and there was no response to the various external stimuli that Tawil exerted, not even to the direct stimulation of the mind. Like a blank machine, roaring, but lifeless.
"What's wrong with the step?" Sandora took two steps forward and asked in a low voice. Tawil frowned and said, "The repair on the physical level has been completed, but the ancestor's body refuses to 'revive'. I can't detect any vitality, and there are no spiritual fluctuations. Theoretically, yes. "
I looked at the ancestor in the crystal coffin. The body was breathing steadily, and every cell in it was working, but it had no vitality. This was different from the vegetative person. The vegetative person still had spiritual power, but this body …
If I had to describe it, it was now a mass of dozens of kilograms of silicon-sulfur compounds (the main component of the ancestor's body) that were undergoing an orderly chemical reaction. It was essentially no different from the reactants in any chemical tank.
It was like a computer that didn't even have an operating system installed. The hard disk was buzzing, and the processor was steaming. The computer was busy, but the screen was dark, and there wasn't even a cursor.
Sandora placed her hand on the crystal coffin, and her power spread out carefully. I knew that she was using the powerful power of a Soul Snatcher to summon the ancestor's soul. After a while, Sandora's expression changed slightly. There seemed to be a little joy, but more confusion. "I can feel that something similar to a soul is slowly reviving. The ancestor's soul seems to be in this body, preserved along with the stagnant state. However, this soul can't 'activate' the body. It must be missing something …"
"It's missing the vital force that activates the body, couples the soul, and differentiates the living beings from the reactants in the chemical tank. Jingle called it the vital force, although no one except Jingle has actually touched that power." I felt like my brain had never been so bright before. Of course, it had something to do with the fact that I was always fooling around with Jingle. "Tawil, what do you think?"
"It shouldn't be," Tawil shook his head in confusion. "Under normal circumstances, the body will naturally produce vitality after it is repaired …" Sandora interrupted her halfway. "This isn't a normal situation. The ancient materials that make up the ancestor's remains have been stagnant for trillions of years. These materials might have undergone changes that we don't know about. Ah Jun, is Jingle in your pocket? "
I reached into my pocket and remembered that the little thing was busy watching TV when I left the house today, so I didn't bring her along. She should be at home playing with Shallow Shallow or being played by Shallow Shallow.
"Call her over. I'm so silly. We can definitely use her power in this kind of project." Sandora patted her head. Actually, it wasn't her fault for not thinking about it before. It was mainly because Jingle had been a leech at home for too long. There weren't many people who remembered the little thing's abilities …
"Oh, that's … Hey, wait a minute. Tawil, try this first." Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly remembered that I was carrying something 'strange' with me. So, I quickly searched my body. Sandora looked at me suspiciously until I took out a flat metal box from my inner pocket. The metal box was about the size of a cigarette box. After I opened it, I saw three-quarters of a green powder inside. The powder was glowing faintly. The texture seemed to be in between reality and illusion, and it was faintly changing with an enchanting luster.
"This is …" Sandora carefully took the metal box. She dipped her finger into the green powder and tasted it. She definitely had to try anything rare. "It's a little sweet, but it doesn't taste like anything I've seen before. What is this?"
"Don't Jingle's wings occasionally sprinkle some green light particles when she flies?" I pointed at the small box of powder. "This is what falls from Jingle's body. I call it Jingle Dust …"
Sandora was stunned. After a long time, she silently looked at the green powder that almost filled the box. Then, she raised her head and looked at me. "Ah Jun, how free are you usually?"
I replied, "… I was just curious at the beginning. I wanted to see what it was that fell from Jingle's body. At first, the light powder wouldn't last long before disappearing. But later, I found out that it could be stored for a long time using starry gold stone. So, I collected it …"
I could not go on in the middle of my explanation, for it did not answer the question of how idle I was--that I was!
However, there was another important reason why I collected the light powder. It was because I accidentally found out that the light particles that fell from Jingle's wings could be used to treat coughs.
"Alright, at least they are useful now." Sandora had a strange expression as she handed the box of green powder to Tawil. "Put this into the crystal container. Based on Jingle's power, it should be able to automatically revive a dying life form."
I reminded her from the side, "Use it sparingly. Jingle's production is limited. She wouldn't be able to produce much even if she was thrown into a centrifuge for a day."
Tarver's expression was very strange. Shadora's expression was also very strange. I felt that my own expression was probably also very strange. But at the very least, we could continue the revival process. After all, we only had twenty-four hours at most. If this attempt also failed, we would have to quickly think of another method. However, I wasn't sure if it was my intuition or something else, but I felt that there shouldn't be any problems this time.
Sandora had felt a weak reaction from the ancestor's soul. The latter had already recovered to the extent that she could sense it. This meant that the ancestor's "soul" was fine. Tawil had already repaired the ancestor's body before that. The "soul" and "body" were both present. They just lacked enough life energy to "activate" them. I believed that there wouldn't be anything that had more life energy than Jingle's body. This powder would definitely work. Anyway, if it didn't work, I would capture Jingle. The little one had been a rice worm for long enough.
An almost undetectable green fluorescence appeared in the crystal coffin. Tawil blew a small amount of the life powder into the container. She used very little and was very careful with it. It wasn't entirely because she listened to my suggestion to "use sparingly." The main reason was that she was worried that the overly powerful life energy would destroy the ancestor's mortal body. Jingle's power wasn't something that could be easily absorbed by a mortal. If she didn't dilute it and come into direct contact with it, anything from her body would be enough to burn a mortal to ashes.
Tawil did her best to control the amount of life powder that a mortal's body could withstand. Then, we anxiously waited for the results.
The green powder slowly dissipated after leaving the special stargold container. The green light in the crystal coffin dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The powder wasn't a physical substance. It was a product of the energy that Jingle's body emitted and some kind of "supernatural concept." I calculated that if the stargold container wasn't used to store the powder, it would take about thirty minutes for it to evaporate completely after leaving Jingle's body. The powder in the crystal coffin dissipated at a much faster rate.
This meant that the powder was affecting the ancestor's remains and was consuming itself faster.
"There's a reaction!" The first one to notice it was Sandora. She had been paying attention to the ancestor's spirit and the body's "activation process." Now, she could feel that the body was gradually changing from a pile of silently reacting chemicals to a real life form. "The ancestor's soul is awakening. I can feel it gradually solidifying from a blurry state …"
I also felt that the body in front of me was changing. Although I didn't have Sandora's senses, it was like looking at a chemical tank and looking at a person. When the dozens of kilograms of substance in front of me turned from a pile of inanimate substances to a living body, you would also feel a subtle change.
'This should be the' life force 'that Dingdang often talks about,' I thought.
The body in the crystal coffin twitched and then opened its eyes.
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