Chapter 429: Derivative Star

Looking at the message sent by Baili Qing, Yu Sheng was slightly startled, and then immediately raised his head and looked around.

Class IV cognitive remodeling… planetary-scale reality reconstruction…

"Fuck, this is going to be fun..."

Yu Sheng muttered something, and then without hesitation, he dialed Baili Qing's number while his phone still had a signal.

The person on the other end seemed to have been waiting for his news. The call was connected almost instantly. Yu Sheng didn't waste any words. When he heard the "hello" from the other end, he got straight to the point: "Shuji reality has been reconstructed."

"...As expected, but still the worst case scenario," Baili Qing's voice remained steady, as if she always had an aura that could calm everyone down. "But judging from the fact that the signal is still connected, the reality reconstruction on that planet should not be completely 'closed' yet, and the process of the 'derivative star' not being completed yet."

"Tell me what's going on first," Yu Sheng said quickly. In the corner of his eye, the cold wind and rain once again rolled into the hall through the roof, but it seemed to pass by from another dimension without interacting with anything in the hall. Several colorful human figures with poor signal suddenly appeared in the rain, walking and talking through the curtain wall next to the front desk, "I need all the information about the 'derivative star'."

"I have already passed on the information the Secret Service has. I will try to be brief about some additional information," Baili Qing said calmly and quickly. "I just received the sample sent from Garrison-3 and listened to the report of the recovery team. Now it is basically certain that the dark angel parasitizing inside the Silence is the 'derivative body', and the parasitic stage should be between the late eclosion and the ascending body. Due to external stimulation, it is very likely that He will complete the eclosion ahead of time and forcibly 'ascend' from the star body. This process will be completed within a few days...

"Regarding the Derivative Star, he may be one of the oldest known dark angels. We even suspect that he may have appeared in our real universe before the advent of the first angel, the 'Tree Angel' - but there is currently a lack of evidence in this regard...

"Compared to other dark angels, the Derivative Star Body has many special features, the most important of which are two points. First, its activities seem to have a strong 'purpose', which is to constantly look for new planets to 'parasitize'. Second, it has a set of changes that seem to be a 'life cycle'...

"At the beginning of the parasitism, He will teleport to the sky above the target planet in the form of a meteorite, and then perform a simple and crude orbital descent - this stage is called the 'fruiting body'; "After landing on the target planet, the derived star body will quickly drill into the ground and transform into a crystalline structure that can expand rapidly inside the planet - this stage is called the 'latent period'. We don't know how long this process will last, but what is certain is that His expansion inside the planet will accelerate geometrically in the latent period; "After the latent period, the derived star body will begin to prepare for the next 'transfer'. He will 'eat' everything that can be used on the planet, including the planetary veins, and... high-energy minerals. At this stage, He does not It does not expand again, but reorganizes a new 'core' in the nest it has built. We call this stage 'epiphysation'; "The duration of the epiphysation period is also unknown. After this stage is over, the 'essence' part of the derived star body will shrink into a new core and break out of the planet's interior and fly into the universe. This 'ascension' process is extremely fast, and the part that leaves the star body is called the 'ascending body'; "The ascending body has the ability to move faster than the speed of light, and may even be able to 'teleport' through the subspace or other unknown means. Its core will go dormant during this process, and when it arrives above the new target planet, the ascending body will enter the 'fruiting entity' state again and begin a new round of parasitism..."

Ailin lay on Yu Sheng's shoulder, listening to Baili Qing's voice coming from her phone. Suddenly, she muttered, "To put it simply, it's a cycle of eating, sleeping, and running."

Yu Sheng's mouth trembled: "...It seems that your understanding is OK."

Then he immediately thought of another thing.

"With such a large-scale activity in the real world, no one can discover Him?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next," Baili Qing said quickly, "The most bizarre and dangerous thing about the 'Star-Evolving Body' is not its 'parasitism', but its 'cognitive reshaping' that is powerful enough to cover reality within a certain range.

“From the moment the ‘latent period’ begins, the Derivative Body will release a wide range of cognitive interference. Within the interference range, ordinary people will not be able to detect the existence of the Derivative Body, including all the ‘abnormalities’ it creates. People will live next to the crystals spread by the Derivative Body, and even build homes and cities above it after the Derivative Body has completely drilled into the ground.

"In history, various forces have discovered the parasitism of stellar bodies. Usually, they observed the anomalies of various parameters of the planet through detectors from a very far distance, but as long as they observed it closely, the investigators would conclude that 'everything is normal'. Scholars from various forces spent a long time, devoted a lot of effort, and even relied on luck to confirm the existence of the 'stellar body' and roughly summarized its 'periodic changes', but so far no one has successfully 'caught' it during the latent period and the emergence period... This is the first time for you."

Suddenly, a burst of muffled thunder rolled through the sky, and a strange howl seemed to be heard from afar in the wind and rain. Yu Sheng raised his head to glance at the entrance of the hall, and saw that the streets outside seemed to have lost gravity and were detached from the ground. Various buildings were floating in the air in pieces, and new roads were "growing" from between the nearby buildings, winding and connecting between several buildings.

Yu Sheng came to the entrance of the hall, and while carefully paying attention to the changes outside, he spoke quickly: "Now it seems that... there seems to be a problem with the 'cognitive barrier' created by Him. The world before our eyes has gone crazy and is constantly becoming more chaotic."

Baili Qing said solemnly: "What you saw should be the fault of the 'boundary' of the cognitive barrier - the false reality and the real reality are squeezing and deforming each other, and all observations have lost their accuracy in this process. What you saw is neither the real Mo City nor a complete illusion. This should also lead to the instability of the 'depth' of your surroundings, and if my judgment is correct, this situation will continue to deteriorate.

"The cognitive interference of the Derivative Body has a very dangerous characteristic, that is, it will show a 'superimposed resonance' as the degree of influence on the surrounding intelligent creatures deepens... In short, every mind affected by the Derivative Body will become part of the cognitive barrier, and the 'hallucinations' they produce under the influence of the Derivative Body will further enhance the degree of reality reconstruction.

"This is another important reason why the parasitism of the Derivative Star Body is difficult to detect. The deeper the parasitism, the more people will think that everything around them is normal. This 'belief' will even directly change the 'truth' of the real world. When you enter the late stage of metamorphosis, even if you have 'real vision', you will not see anything abnormal when you enter a planet parasitized by a Derivative Star Body, because..."

Baili Qing's voice suddenly became intermittent, as if the "depth" of Yu Sheng's surroundings had changed again. Before the signal was completely cut off, a vague sentence came out from the phone -

"You...are in a dream created by everyone on the planet..."

A noise was heard, Baili Qing's voice disappeared, and the depth change and communication interruption prompt popped up on the mobile phone screen again.

Irene and Hu Li looked at each other.

Luna tilted her head this way.

Yu Sheng looked at his cell phone which had no signal, thought silently for two seconds, then casually put the phone in his pocket and raised his hand to open a small door on the side.

Opposite the door was Baili Qing's desk - she was sighing and putting her cell phone on the desk.

Yu Sheng leaned half of his body out of the door and laid on the table in front of Baili Qing: "I didn't hear what you said in the last sentence."

Baili Qingteng stood up from the chair at once.

It was the first time that Yu Sheng knew that this cold and aloof female director could actually jump up and even grimace because of hitting her legs on the table.

Then the two looked at each other for two seconds.

Yu Sheng was a little embarrassed. Baili Qing's expression was complicated - three points of embarrassment, two points of anger but not being able to speak, and five points of doubt and surprise. The remaining ninety points didn't know what they meant. Anyway, according to the usual performance of this expressionless sister, she might have used up all the expressions in her life in these two seconds.

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After a moment of silence, Yu Sheng apologetically discussed with the other party: "...How about I go back and open it again?"

"Need not."

Baili Qing sat back in her chair and said with a straight face while rubbing her legs under the table calmly.

Then after a second, she added, "I said that you are in a dream created by everyone on the planet. Hundreds of millions of people on the planet Shuji are using their 'cognition' to help the star-evolving body complete its final eclosion. You'd better find a way to interrupt this process before the ascending body of that thing matures."

"Uh, okay."

Yu Sheng nodded and pulled his body back.

Just as he was about to close the door, Baili Qing suddenly raised his head and looked at him seriously.

"Don't underestimate the enemy, although you...be careful anyway."

Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, looked up at Mo Cheng who was already crazy outside the hall, and turned his head silently.

"Don't worry, I won't underestimate the enemy. I'm getting really scared seeing the noise outside."

Baili Qing seemed to smile? Or maybe it was the pain in her leg that caused her eyes to twitch again? Yu Sheng didn't see clearly.

He closed the door, took a deep breath, and walked towards the absurd nightmare outside the hall.

(End of this chapter)