Chapter 255 Ankaela Crystal
The black thread was bounced back by the invisible "barrier" and broke. Irene screamed and fell off Yu Sheng's shoulder. Fortunately, Yu Sheng was quick-witted and he reflexively raised his leg and kicked the doll back when it was halfway down...
How should I put it? At least she didn't fall directly to the ground - she fell to the ground after being kicked by Yu Sheng...
Irene's scolding was really harsh.
Yu Sheng hurriedly pulled up the raging puppet. He didn't know how many times he was bitten, but there were a lot of teeth marks on his hands. But seeing that this guy could still curse and bite people with such vigor, he knew that Irene should be fine, and he was somewhat relieved.
Then, seeing that Irene had finally calmed down a little, he quickly asked, "Are you okay? What happened just now?"
"Who should I ask if you ask me?" Irene stared with scarlet eyes, "This is the first time I've encountered such a situation! Suddenly, I was bounced back by something..."
At this point, she bared her teeth in indignation again, then raised her head and explained to Baili Qing who was standing next to her with a stern face: "My silk thread is intangible, and has never been blocked by anything... At least, as far as I can remember, nothing can block it..."
Baili Qing looked at Irene with a subtle expression, as if she was thinking of something else, but she nodded gently: "I know that the 'silk thread' of the puppet... is one of the blessings bestowed by the ancient holy spirit Alice. I have never heard of anything that can block it."
As she spoke, her eyes fell on the "mother crystal" on the round table again.
Now the crystal has calmed down again, as if the clear buzzing just now was just an illusion.
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but frowned slightly and thought. After a moment, he thought of something and finally broke the silence: "Erin, test the 'Secondary Crystal' again."
Irene didn't understand, but seeing the serious expression on Yu Sheng's face, she immediately suppressed the urge to babble and nodded slowly.
After making full preparations, Irene once again summoned her black threads and tried to use them to touch the "secondary crystal" that was only the size of a finger.
After a moment, the puppet's thread was once again blocked by the invisible barrier - although there was not as violent recoil as when it touched the mother crystal before, the thread still seemed to encounter some invisible solid force field when it approached the secondary crystal, and was trapped in the air and could not get any closer.
Originally, Yu Sheng just wanted to "give it a try" on a whim, but now a new property of these crystals has suddenly been revealed. The researchers on site immediately began to quickly record the observed phenomena and confirm the various data recorded by various equipment around during the test. One of the researchers said casually while recording: "This seems to be some kind of protective effect. The mother crystal and the secondary crystal transformed from the mother crystal have this property. But then again, what exactly is it protecting against?"
He raised his head and looked curiously at the puppet on Yu Sheng's shoulder through the thick protective mask.
"We have previously tested the regenerative 'secondary crystals' using lasers and physical shocks, but we have not observed similar phenomena. Even threats that are strong enough to shatter the crystals did not trigger their 'defense'. Madam Puppet, may I ask what the properties of your 'thread' are? As far as I know, the puppets in Alice's House have many different 'puppet threads'. Some are good at controlling objects remotely, some are good at creating illusions, and some can interfere with the soul... Which kind of thread is yours?"
The researcher was exceptionally polite, and Irene immediately became happy. She poked Yu Sheng's head vigorously and said, "Hey, hey, hey, listen, people call me 'Ms. Doll'! I'm much more polite than you!"
"Yes, yes, I heard it," Yu Sheng pulled the doll's claws helplessly, "They were asking you questions."
"Oh, yes, cough," Irene quickly coughed dryly, turned her head and said seriously, "My silk thread is very powerful. It can connect consciousness, guide dreams, create traps, and control opponents. You know Grandma Wolf, right? It's so big that it can withstand a few cruise missiles head-on without falling. I can control it for several minutes!"
The researcher listened in a daze, as if it was the first time he had heard of such a complex power of puppet silk: "So many abilities?"
"Yes," Irene said proudly, and stretched out her hand to fiddle with the air a few times. The black silk threads intertwined and danced at her fingertips. "I can also play with flower strings. It's so fun. I can do dozens of tricks..."
For someone who was dealing with the hostel gang for the first time, it was obviously very difficult to follow such a rapid train of thought in such a short period of time. The researcher in front of him obviously took several seconds to catch up with the flow. After repeatedly switching his mindset between "this is a time to analyze seriously" and "this puppet may not be in a good brain", he finally came back to his senses and analyzed with a serious face: "According to the tests we have done before, the physical force can be temporarily ruled out. As for the rest... let's assume that the crystal has a protective reaction against the 'mental' force."
Irene didn't actually understand anything, but she nodded anyway: "Yes, really?"
"Then we have an idea for the next test," the researcher smiled. "Sometimes, all you need for research is an idea like this... Thank you very much for your help, ma'am."
Irene (poking Yu Sheng’s head): “Hey, he called me Madam!”
Yu Sheng: “…”
He no longer wanted to deal with this puppet.
After that, there were some highly professional exchanges - the head of the laboratory reported to Baili Qing many test results of the "samples" and some subsequent research plans, as well as the current protection status of the laboratory. Yu Sheng didn't understand, but he didn't want to interrupt casually or appear to be incompetent. This place was an "important area" and he didn't dare to touch anything for fear of breaking anything. It was so awkward.
At this moment, he couldn't help but envy Hu Li who was still eating happily in the cafeteria - how happy that girl must be now...
Just as he was distracted, he heard the communication report next to him seemed to have finally come to an end. The head of the laboratory asked at the end: "Director, do you think it is necessary to give these crystals a name? Now we still create files for them according to the sample numbers, but this special one..."
"Just call it Ankaela Crystal," Yu Sheng said casually, "Those small ones are secondary Ankaela Crystals - if there are smaller ones or even artificial ones in the future, we can call them Youth Version of Ankaela Crystal."
Laboratory Director: “…”
"Then let's do as he says." Baili Qing just glanced at Yu Sheng silently, then nodded to the person in charge, "It stands to reason that he should have the right to name it."
“…Okay, I understand.”
…
After coming out of the shelter, Yu Sheng let out a long sigh of relief.
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After staying in that huge cubic "container" for a long time, people can't help but feel a sense of "oppression" piling up in their hearts. Even though the surrounding environment is basically brightly lit, clean and spacious, this feeling will continue to accumulate.
He didn't feel it much when he was inside just now, but now that he walked out, the feeling was particularly obvious.
Baili Qing didn't seem surprised by Sheng's reaction.
"It's normal," she said. "Everyone who enters the 'Container' for the first time will feel this way. Even some trained Secret Service agents will be affected. The 'Container' itself is one of the 'suppression conditions' for containing many dangerous items. It is not designed to be comfortable. That's why people who work in a containment facility of this level must be carefully selected. It's not enough to be well-trained. They must also be able to withstand the 'environmental contamination' in the container and maintain mental stability for a long time in such an atmosphere. This requires some talent."
"I don't think I've been affected mentally, I just don't like the...atmosphere there," Yu Sheng waved his hand and changed the subject, "By the way, is there still no clue about the angel fragment that was 'lost' before?"
"No," Baili Qing shook her head and said, "But it is basically certain that it was not taken away by people in the boundary city, nor did it enter the boundary city. It is very likely hidden somewhere in the 'suburbs', or worse... it may have been moved outside the boundary monument in some secret way."
When she said this, her eyes were obviously solemn.
"As much as I hate to admit it, the hope of recovering it is slim. The impact point of the fragment is near the most remote settlement at the edge of the border. Recently, there has been a temporal turbulence moving around the suburbs with the wind in the wilderness. The turbulence has seriously interfered with the monitoring facilities we set up outside the city. The personnel stationed in the settlement can't always monitor the situation outside the settlement wall. It can be said that all kinds of unfavorable conditions have come together."
Yu Sheng heard another unfamiliar term: "...temporal turbulence? What is that?"
"It's a kind of chaotic phenomenon that occasionally occurs in the outer edge of the border," Baili Qing explained casually. "You should know that the wilderness outside the city is not as stable as the inner city, and time turbulence is the specific manifestation of this chaos. The time in the area disturbed by turbulence will randomly speed up and slow down, and the communication between the disturbed area and the outside world will also be seriously disturbed or even impossible. It usually appears as a sudden gust of wind. You will be swept into the wind and feel that you have been in the airflow for a few seconds or a few days, and then the wind suddenly disappears. If you are lucky, you have only lost contact with the real world for a short while. If you are unlucky, your missing report may be about to expire."
She paused for a moment, then continued, "Fortunately, time turbulence does not endanger life. In fact, it can even 'save' your life. People in time turbulence will not age, starve, or die. According to the information we have so far, people in turbulence are actually in a state of 'material stagnation', and only consciousness can experience the passage of time. But no matter what, this phenomenon still brings us nothing but trouble, just like this time."
Yu Sheng listened very carefully, absorbing the knowledge that was quite new to him, and then sighed again in his heart -
What else can I say? The border area is truly a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery.
(End of this chapter)
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