No one is more suitable to serve as Emily's examiner than Kamel - as an energy spirit creature trapped in the disobedient fortress for thousands of years, Kamel was helpless in the last few hundred years of his imprisonment. With something to do, he touched every brick, every beam, and every ravine in the Fortress of Disobedience, and also studied every mystery and detail of his body. This ancient arcane master once said:
“As a researcher, I have extensive experience in both researching and being researched.”
Emily’s situation is not exactly the same as his, but at least “energy The essence of "creature" is still common. Based on his own research results, Kamel knows how to proceed when facing another energy creature.
After some tentative negotiations, Kamel first confirmed Emily’s current mental state: “Her thinking ability is sound, but her perception and feedback methods are somewhat chaotic. This should be life. The sudden change in form caused a dislocation, so now she behaves a little... unlike ordinary people."
Gawain nodded and looked at Emily, the little girl, who was floating around Amber. She seemed to be curious about every stranger in front of her, and she was in contact with everyone on the scene with the mentality of "researching new things." However, in the process, she did not have much effective communication with others. She seemed to be immersed in In her own spiritual world, she only accepts limited interference from the real material world, which makes her behavior somewhat weird.
According to Kamel, when a human suddenly transforms into an energy creature, the world in his eyes will be "overlapping" and "illusory" for a short period of time, as if separated by layers of The folded curtain is used to observe an elusive flame, and the transformer's own mind will also change in the process to match this physical mutation. This dislocation is not permanent, and Emily is now obviously In the middle stage of this change - the only thing to be happy about is that the little girl seems to be adapting well.
"Does she still retain her memory?" Wright next to him couldn't help but asked curiously, "I mean...is she still Emily?"
"Basically, they will be preserved, just like me, but the way she treats these memories is hard to say. It depends on her later mental reshaping," Kamel said, "But no matter what, she is still her , being able to preserve oneself - this is also the biggest difference between energy creatures like us and the undead."
As he spoke, Kamel felt a little emotional: "This child must have a very special saint. The talent of light affinity... This talent should have been enough to manifest during her lifetime."
"She once said that she saw a circle of light around me..." A gleam of light flashed in Wright's eyes. , he suddenly remembered the forgotten details of that night, "I thought she mistook the light of the bonfire for something else..."
"What she saw may be the light surging around you. Holy light - those holy lights never leave you, but you can't perceive it, so that they can only wander around," Gawain guessed, "And I remember you also said that the person who adopted Emily said that the child's brain was not normal? "
Wright nodded: "Yes, they said that Emily has had weird ideas since she was a child, and often has hallucinations, and sometimes scares adults. ”
Pitman was filled with emotion: “Although this kind of thing has not never happened to a poor girl with a lot of talent, compared with those wealthy children who have been able to receive a good education since childhood and can still develop healthily. , this kind of thing often only exists in the imagination of poor people... I can only say that all this is a coincidence. "
"No, I don't think this is a coincidence," Wright suddenly shook his head. He looked at Emily, with some inexplicable light shining in his eyes, "I think this is the Holy Light. Guidance... It was to guide me, a dull person, that the Holy Light arranged for me and Emily to meet. ”
Emily heard Wright’s voice, she laughed happily, landed lightly behind Wright, grabbed the latter’s shoulders with her hands, and slowly lay there like a piece of gauze. , then she tilted her head and didn’t know what she was thinking, and suddenly waved her arms to Kamel, her whole body glowing warmly.
Kamel was stunned for a moment, and then. He also chuckled softly, raised his arms, and his whole body glowed happily in light blue in response.
Amber stared at him for a while, then couldn't help but poke Gawain's cheek. Arm: "Hey, can you understand what they are doing? "
How could Gawain understand the communication mode of the two luminous creatures? He could only analyze it randomly: "...Maybe they can resonate and communicate after being transformed into energy bodies? "
At this time, Kamel floated over: "I don't know what she means, so I just followed her twice. "
Gawain & Amber: "..."
Kammel looked at the confused faces of Gawain and Amber, and suddenly felt a little at a loss himself: "No, forget it Amber, Lord, didn't you tease children when you were young? "
Gawain: "..."
How should he answer this? It is true that he has the memory of teasing children, but who can turn around in this situation? Here comes the big one!
“I want to know how I can take care of her,” Wright said, worrying about another thing. “I have never had any experience in this area. "
When Pitman heard this, he immediately came up to him with a smile on his face: "Then you have found the right person by looking for me. I also raised children with others in the past..."
Gawain interrupted the little old man loudly before he could finish his words: "Wright, please think clearly - what Pitman brought out back then was amber..."
A second before the amber Still following Pitman's playful smile, his eyes widened in this second: "What's wrong with me? Is there anything wrong with me? ! "
"Don't make trouble, Emily is just a child," Gawain glanced at Pitman and Amber with an imposing look., stared back at the territorial shame of this young and old man, and then looked at Kamel, "Let me tell you - Emily can no longer be regarded as a normal human child. What does her growth and development need?" < /p>
Kamael nodded and said to Wright: "Just let this child live with you for the time being. According to my observation, she can already sustain herself, but she still needs a small amount of holy light from you as a supplement. In addition to energy, she does not need to drink or eat. In addition, she needs to have appropriate contact with other people, which will help her to rebuild her complete mind as soon as possible and reduce her uneasiness. Finally, you must observe her at all times. When her energy body is unstable and she is suddenly extremely restless, you should use your own power of holy light to comfort her, or check if there is any interference from an overly strong energy source around her if you encounter a situation that cannot be solved. , just come to me."
Wright carefully wrote down these precautions. After he remembered them all, he raised his head, exhaled softly, and looked sideways. Looking at Emily who was still lying on his shoulder: "Don't worry, I will protect you this time."
Gawain also smiled, he slowly walked forward and said to the little boy The girl stretched out a hand: "Child, welcome to Cecil."
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After leaving the church, Gawain did not return to the Lord's Mansion, but took Amber came to the Baishui River together.
It is already midsummer, but as a northern country, Ansu has always had a cool climate, especially next to the Baishui River. There is always a cool breeze blowing even at noon in summer. Gaowen Station On a high concrete platform by the river bank, while enjoying the cool breeze, I looked towards the direction of the mechanical bridge.
A huge mechanical bridge connects both sides of the Baishui River. Opposite the mechanical bridge, waves of wheat are rising in the farmland in the development area on the north bank. You can vaguely see pipelines coming from the river on the farther bank. It stretches all the way to the shore, and Gawain knows that that is where the water pump of the North Shore Development Zone is located.
With the creation of various magical machines, advanced mechanical pumps have long replaced the earliest waterwheel devices in the territory, but to this day, there is still a waterwheel in the west of the south bank. The area is running, which is left to commemorate the earliest difficult days of the pioneering territory.
"Why don't you go home and come to look at the wheat?" Although Amber faithfully fulfilled her duty as a guard and followed Gawain to the river, her mouth could not be idle at all. After standing there for a while, she couldn't help but mutter.
"This helps me think." Gawain said casually.
The image of Emily appeared in his mind.
Whether Emily is now "resurrected from the dead", Gawain can't figure out for a while, whether this matter is guided by the Holy Light or a pure coincidence, he is not interested either, he is just After seeing Emily's spiritual form, I couldn't help but feel a little confused, so I just wanted to find a place to think quietly.
Soul, entity, spirit body (or energy body)...where is the boundary between this?
If you count from the satellite era, it may have been a million years since Gawain came to this world. If you count from the time when the coffin was unveiled, he has been active in this world for more than a year. , however, he still cannot completely put aside the constraints of thinking in his previous life. The weirdness - or "irrationality" of this world still bothers him from time to time.
Kamael, who was once a human, became a mana creature after receiving the energy infusion from the giant deer Amorn. Ninety percent of his body was composed of so-called "arcane energy". As a human, Emily's soul survived independently after being affected by Wright's Holy Light, and became a spiritual creature. Her whole body was formed by Holy Light, and their bodies were all composed of "energy."
Can energy have shape and quality? Can energy be seen and touched? Can the boundaries between energy and matter be so blurred?
The concept of the previous life told Gawain that energy is invisible and intangible. It exists, but humans can only confirm its existence through various phenomena produced by energy. It can transform into each other with matter. , but that is an extremely difficult process, but in this world, everything is completely different.
In the field of magic, the boundaries of the material world are so blurred... How did those incredible changes occur?
Gawain's eyes fell on the wheat waves in the distance - those wheat waves, those flowing water, those soils, those real things, can they suddenly change form without having to follow E=mc2?
How is the foundation of this world... formed?
While thinking, Gawain suddenly thought of the demonic tide, the substances that transformed in the demonic tide, and the magical environment in which everything changed after the demonic tide.
The magic tide...is it the moment when the boundaries between energy and matter are most blurred?
He doesn’t know how to explain the confusion and thinking in his mind to the native creatures of this world. Even a top scholar like Kamel may not be able to understand the other thing in his mind. What is the worldview? However, he did find a little clue in the difficult friction between the two worldviews - a little clue that may involve the nature of this world. He instinctively felt that what happened between Kamel and The changes in Emily's body cannot be covered up by simply saying "all this is because of magic". Behind these changes...maybe the most essential secrets of the world are hidden.
Amber stood nearby, looking at Gawain's lost in thought. She keenly sensed that Gawain was getting anxious about a very thorny issue. She didn't know what that issue was, but He still said: "Emily is alive. All in all, this is a good thing, right?"
Gawain woke up from the difficult problems that were impossible to answer at the moment. He was stunned for a moment, and then smiled He stood up and looked at Amber: "It's rare that you can say something clearly.talk. Yeah, that's always a good thing anyway. ”