"Wait a moment!"
Lian Shuiyin widened her eyes and raised her hand to catch a book that fell from the strange-shaped object.
"No way—"
She gently turned the pages and held the book against her face.
The fragrance of book pages and ink enters my nostrils and refreshes my heart.
More importantly, she was very familiar with the smell.
Without a doubt, it was the smell of the books she had read countless times.
“Exactly the same…”
She picked up the paper with her fingertips. "The texture and the smell are unmistakable—they are those books from the library!"
She looked up and asked, "Master, how did I do this? Is it a restoration technique?"
"Rather than restoration technology, it's more like regeneration technology—no, perhaps it should be called rebirth technology..."
He pondered for a moment, as if looking for the right adjective -
"Ah, to put it in a more understandable way—it's actually [Book Cloning]. The previous parts were all burned, that's for sure—but, something with the same composition can be directly copied using this device—"
He ran his fingers over what looked like a combination printer and tablet, showing them the screen—
There was a list of books on it like an e-book. He just tapped it with his finger and a book popped out from the device.
"What on earth is the principle behind this?!" The firefighter was stunned.
He had long heard that the six major families had some demonic qualities, but he had never imagined that they could even do such a thing—
"Anything tangible will be destroyed. Therefore, compared to tangible objects, modern cloud-based objects are, in a sense, relatively safer. However, even though cloud technology is a recent invention, it cannot be denied that even before its invention, there were people with extraordinary imaginations who imagined similar things. If that person had used the power at their disposal to create something similar, they would have undoubtedly hidden it away as a treasure back then."
"No, it's a rare treasure even in modern times." Lian Shuiyin couldn't help but ask: "Is it a simple magic? Or -?"
"Actually, it's not just a simple technique. Initially, it incorporated some nascent concepts similar to modern technology. However, the power at that time was limited. So, while this preservation method may have appeared hundreds of years ago, or even more, it was only fully perfected in the last few decades—"
He gently shook the body of the instrument -
"The instrument contains data deconstructed from the copy of the book..."
“…”
Most people around looked at each other in confusion.
"I see. I understand." Chu Moyin nodded as if understanding. "Although the old saying goes 'a broken mirror cannot be mended,' that's because it's broken in both the macroscopic and microscopic senses. If there were a technology that could completely regenerate the broken parts, then mending the broken mirror would also be possible. If we deconstruct life into its smallest units, and combine all the elements of the smallest units into the form of macroscopic objects, theoretically we can get exactly the same result."
She raised her finger and pointed at the books on the ruins, as well as the pile of newly copied books on the ground.
"In fact, the original copy is long gone. It has been broken down into its smallest units by instruments. Then, using the data and necessary materials, it is possible to produce an identical book—even the age, state of preservation, and the smell it emits can be produced—"
Chu Moyin snapped his fingers: "That's why it's called [Book Cloning]."
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