After listening to his words, Zhou Yu didn't know what to say.
"...What will happen to this disease in the end?"
"I don't know." Li Li said, "As we know, painlessness is not a fatal disease. Patients are often in danger due to self-inflicted injuries or unawareness of injuries. And even though my cold and hot protein receptors have lost their original functions , as long as I am cautious enough about the ambient temperature, it will not pose a life threat to me, and in extreme cases it can even be an advantage. However, all women who suffered from this disease chose to jump off the building after a period of time Death, whether this is the result of deterioration of the condition, I cannot yet draw a conclusion.”
"Do you think illness caused their suicide?"
"I didn't say that, Mr. Zhou Yu. Correlation cannot be equated with causation. It is indeed possible. For example, this strange disease will deteriorate into some kind of mental illness in the later stage, prompting the patient to have a strong urge to commit suicide. But this still cannot explain a question: Why did they all jump off the building? They did not know each other, and very few of them had committed suicide before, but the method was to cut their wrists. What reason is there for them to collectively commit suicide in this way? Is this disease causing Did they have the illusion of flying or diving? This is possible based on causal inference."
"Are there any other possibilities?"
"There is also a source of disease."
There was a bit of bitter self-mockery in Li Li's smile, and she said: "To this day, I still don't know how I got the disease, Mr. Zhou Yu. I try my best to investigate the family background and whereabouts of each deceased person. The former It is very difficult, because without exception they are all outsiders. And the latter's investigation results have found nothing. They are distributed in various areas of the city, some are students and people working at home, and their living radius is very narrow, and there is almost no one place. They arrived together. I also used some illegal means to check their network access records. They have not logged into any website of a suspicious nature or purchased any common items for at least six months. In my relationship with them, After conducting an investigation, I found that none of their close friends, especially their female friends of the same age, had any symptoms of the disease. It does not seem to be an infectious disease between people, or it may only be specific to people with the disease. Specific groups of people spread - although I haven't found anything else the deceased had in common other than gender and age group."
She concluded: "I don't believe that this disease is congenital, but I can't find any source or route of transmission. I can only guess that this is an extremely special source of disease that is beyond our conventional thinking. If this The same pathogen can change the protein structure in the adult body, and it may also directly cause the exposed person to have a suicidal urge to go to high places after a period of time."
Zhou Yu frowned and thought for a while. He couldn't think of anything that could produce this effect.
"...Hypnosis?"
"I can't say that this possibility is absolutely ruled out. However, hypnosis is always overused in people's imagination. Psychological suggestion and control require the cooperation of the environment. It can issue suicide instructions that last for several months after leaving the environment. , this is far beyond the level of hypnosis we currently know. No, although we have seen too many things that are beyond common sense, I don’t think this matter has anything to do with hypnosis.”
"I can't think of anything else."
"I couldn't imagine it in the past," Li Li said, "until I met Ms. Zhou Yu. Please look at your right hand, you have that kind of thing on your body."
Zhou Yu raised his right hand, and the crystallized flesh and blood was still tightly wrapped in the glove. He looked at Li Li with some confusion.
"I know this seems like two different things. One is the sight magic that creates crystal hands, and the other is abnormal protein structure. But from a microscopic perspective, they are similar. First of all, I want to ask, Zhou Yu Sir, do you know what substance you are making?"
Zhou Yu shook his head. Although it is called "crystal", it is just a superficial judgment based on appearance and texture. In addition, Hongye is also called "Jingzu" and "Jingzi", which further deepens this judgment. But if you have to take it seriously, it can only be regarded as some kind of unknown substance that looks like crystal. It is originally a product of supernatural power, even if it is a messy thing like glass or "magic crystal", it is not impossible.
Li Li looked at his right hand with interest.
"We usually refer to substances that conform to a specific structure as crystals. When the microscopic particles of a solid are regularly arranged in a three-dimensional period in space, it often has self-example and anisotropy, which makes its appearance regular and beautiful. This may It is easy for us to think of crystals, but in fact, adaptive crystals are only a very small type of crystals, and their properties are not enough to represent the entire huge family. Strictly speaking, 'crystal' is not a specific substance, but a kind of microscopic particle. Sorting structure, it can be divided into seven crystal systems and three crystal families."
Li Li suddenly put his hand into his coat. Zhou Yu almost thought she was going to take out a pen and paper and talk all the time, but in the end she just took out a small glass bottle from her inner pocket.
"When Ms. Zhou Yu first showed me her strange ability. She sacrificed this little unlucky tourist. In memory of this unfortunate victim, I always keep it with me."
Placed in a glass bottle is a snail. Due to the narrow body of the bottle, it was trapped in a limited space and could not even turn around.
Despite this, it stretched its neck and froze in a posture as if it was struggling to move forward. From the outer shell to the soft body inside, its body is white and transparent, as if it were carved from jade.
Zhou Yu looked at the snail blankly. Although its appearance was completely different from the "crystal" occupying his right hand, the tiny and beautiful specimen gave him an extremely strong sense of familiarity.
Li Li suddenly threw the bottle over. Because he was distracted, Zhou Yu did not react immediately. He quickly reached out to catch the glass bottle, almost letting it fall to the hard ground.
"Let's go straight to the conclusion." Li Li continued as if he didn't see the confused man, "Ms. Zhou Yu can change the basic structure of matter through visual contact. This kind of change is directional and qualitative - I personally prefer I like to call it - anti-entropic. She will reorder the old constituent particles of matter and transform it into a single crystal. I need to emphasize this point, Mr. Zhou Yu, because there are many polycrystals naturally occurring in nature. It is endless, but large-volume single crystals are rare. She usually changes the material into a single crystal of the trigonal or tetragonal crystal system, and in rare cases a six-lattice crystal system will appear. Another point is, Usually the type of crystals she makes is related to the structure of the original material. For example, when the material is mainly composed of metals, it is easier for her to make metal crystals, while in living things they often become molecular crystals. But this is not an absolute rule, but more Mostly due to her own wishes. Due to the complexity and time-consuming microscopic research, I have never been able to determine whether she added additional ingredients to the substance during the transformation process. However, according to her own words, if there are people with the same bloodline as hers, And those with longer lifespans can even create living creatures with crystal structures from nothingness. I tentatively think this is a manifestation of adding extra matter.”
Zhou Yu just nodded mechanically. The reason why he kept listening was simply because it seemed to be related to Zhou Yu, but when the speech ended. He felt again as if he hadn't heard anything.
Li Li sighed.
"Let's describe this in another way." She said quickly, "Mr. Zhou Yu, now your eyes can turn amorphous into crystalline. From a practical point of view, you can have countless diamonds. and wealth, you can create large amounts of single-crystal metals that are scarce in industry and difficult to prepare. However, the potential that is more dangerous than these two is that under certain circumstances, you can crystallize the soul."
