In the beginning, things weren't so easy to understand.

The elven analyst works quietly at his desk, wearing long, full-coverage headphones with elven characteristics, listening to the echoes of the void in the database - the profession of an analyst requires sensitive perception and excellent hearing, which is perfect for elves, most analysts are elves, and their patience honed by their long lives is very suitable.

The Dawnlight's Void Exploration Ship didn't have a large database, as it was urgently recalled shortly after its journey began, and the Elven Analyst estimated that it would only take him about four or five days to complete the mission, and at that time, he could get an incentive bonus. This bonus is sent out separately after analyzing the database of a Void Exploration Ship, so he likes this kind of task with a lot of data.

"Speaking of which, this money plus my savings is already quite a lot, where are I going to spend it...... Mother's jewellery is enough, or do you want to buy Jenny some new clothes? Well...... Give my father a small submarine, he has been talking about this a few days ago, he wants to go to the deep sea world to see the fish of another world. ”

Although many thoughts about the future flashed through his mind, the moment he started his work, the elf analyst immediately calmed down and concentrated on his work. Listening to the echo of the void, what is needed is to concentrate wholeheartedly, and it is a very energy-consuming technical job, so the salary is not low, even if it is to be worthy of his own salary, he will seriously fulfill his responsibilities.

Time passes, and after a few hours, the analyst has already eliminated most of the worthless clutter, and the remaining fragments that cannot be analyzed for the time being will be repeated several times in the subsequent work, and the value of the analysis is the point.

Because, if the information in the clutter is really valuable, then the Void Exploration Department does not mind another bonus, which is also the motivation to urge the vast majority of analysts to work persistently and seriously.

"It's almost the limit."

However, after working for so long and indeed needing a break, I felt a little tired, and my mind began to be unable to continue to concentrate, and when I listened to the voice of the void, the analyst said to myself: "After listening to this paragraph, I will go and pour a cup of coffee." ”

The last void echo was a meaningless clutter, devoid of tone and beauty, but it was surprisingly not harsh, and was very mild compared to most of the shrill wails distorted by the turbulence of time and space.

"Sure enough, it's worthless."

Although this gentle clutter surprised the analyst a little bit about its peculiarity, after listening carefully to it a few times, he found that this thing really had no value, neither the shock wave of space-time turbulence caused by some worlds encountering abnormal conditions, nor the echo caused by the actions of the Void Behemoth, or the ordinary void background noise.

Putting this behind him, the analyst went to pour himself a cup of coffee, ate some pastries, rested for a while, and then continued with the day's work, and since he was paid extra for overtime, he volunteered to work overtime until nine o'clock in the evening, completing a twelve-hour day, and then returning to sleep in the lodging quarters of Jetrum's Void Base.

In the darkness of the artificial night in the lodging area, the analyst, who was dreaming in bed, frowned in his sleep, and then woke up violently.

"Just now...... My dream ......"

He felt as if there were a lot of things in his mind, some phantom of a strange creature, but he couldn't remember anything...... This strange feeling gave the elven analyst a strange sense of danger, but because he was so sleepy, he still lay back and continued to sleep.

In the second half of the night of the first day, he did not wake up, and in the dream, something was sprouting and taking root, and something had been changed forever, but the person who had been changed did not know.

The next morning, the elf analyst arrived at the work area on time, and after greeting a few acquaintances and colleagues, he continued to sit in his place and began to resume his work yesterday.

However, as he continued to listen to the echoes in the void, for some reason, the analyst inexplicably discovered that he could directly distinguish which echoes contained which information by instinct.

"This ...... It is the voice of the medium-sized world that is approaching! It moves with dozens of small worlds in the same star field, causing its reverberations to become complex and chaotic, turning into a clutter-like noise! ”

"And this! It should be a fluctuation of the energy of some high-level small world and the Great Demon Tide! Oh my God, it's a small high-energy world, and that's enough for me to get a bonus! ”

"Yes, and that, I can see what that means...... This should be the aftermath of a Void War hundreds of years ago, with both sides of the battle strong......"

The stunned analyst found that he could analyze the strength of both sides of the battle in the past just by listening: "Both sides have broken through the limits and reached the level of mature bodies...... Hey, what does it mean to break through the limits and mature bodies? ”

Although he wondered why his adjectives became strange, the analyst didn't care too much about them when they were classified into the category of 'too shocked and unscrupulous', because the most important thing for him now was to report all these special and valuable discoveries to his superiors, and then get his own share of the bonus after verifying that his information was correct in the future.

Even if the recent martial law does not allow the bonus to be paid out in real time, his borrowing limit will be much larger, maybe a few more years of deposits...... You can buy a fixed property in the Void Base!

Maintaining this excitement and continuing to work until the end of the day, the analyst eagerly compiled the information and handed it over to the Void Exploration Department headquarters.

"It seems that my talent that has been dormant for many years has been excavated."

With this joy that was almost pie-in-the-sky, the elven analyst lay on the bed and slowly fell into a deep sleep, and just before he really lost consciousness, there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth: "So this is what genius feels like?" Awesome......

On the night of the second day, dreamless ended, and in the hazy darkness, something began to spread, wrapping, from the nihilistic mind, affecting the substance of reality.

The next day, about one o'clock in the afternoon of McCroft UTC, the elf analyst who had finished lunch suddenly felt a little unwell, and he didn't know if it was a stomach ache or a stomach ache, in short, he went to the toilet several times, but there was no diarrhea, no other symptoms, just constant retching. Since he handed over a large amount of information and analysis that proved to be really valuable yesterday, the head of the analysis department also came to take care of him, and even took him to the medical center for a comprehensive crack.

"No problem...... You have to eat well. ”

A dwarf physician jumped out of his chair, suspended in mid-air using magic, and prescribed a medicine order for him, and the dwarven close relative, who had gray hair and shrunk twice the size of the dwarf, said in a rather disapproving tone: "Look, malnutrition, long-term irregular diet, coupled with your elves' strange food culture, if you don't pay attention, it will lead to sudden gastrointestinal cramps. ”

"Here are some high-energy nutrients for the military, you can't eat more, but you can eat a little at the time of illness, the nutrients and slime colloids in them can effectively relieve pain and repair the gastric mucosa. If you want to cure it, you need to correct your eating habits and consume more animal protein. ”

"Yes, yes......"

I want to say, 'I'm eating a healthy diet!' This is a rebuttal, but because it is true that the stomach hurts and the body is very weak, the analyst has little strength to refute...... Anyway, if it doesn't work, it's a big deal to change the doctor to see the situation, and after the doctor issues a certificate, the analyst continues to go back to work and continue his work.

At night, the analyst felt as if his stomach was beginning to cramp beyond his control, bringing severe pain, and he immediately took out a small bottle of what looked like a can, opened it, and poured the luminous gum into his mouth. You can feel that the nutrients made of slime colloid, the main material, are wriggling in the esophagus as if they were alive, entering the stomach pouch, and beginning to pacify the rebellious organs...... As the doctor said, the pain was temporarily relieved, and the apprehensive analyst put down the nutrients in his hand and exhaled.

"What kind of strange disease is this...... It's a bit weird, though, but has my strength gotten a little bigger? ”

Looking at the can that had been pinched and deformed, the analyst frowned slightly, he remembered the sturdiness of this kind of military can, even if a professional martial arts professional wants to open it without the help of tools, it takes some effort, and it is indeed a bit strange that he can unscrew it directly in a hurry.

With a nervous state of mind, he turned off the light and began to sleep.

On the night of the third day, the elven analyst felt like he had become a strange-looking beast, swimming in the ocean, devouring everything in front of him, and he felt very happy and comfortable, and there was nothing more interesting than this.

After waking up, the elf analyst got up to wash, and when he looked up to brush his teeth and look in the mirror, he was startled.

"Who is this?!"

I don't know if it's an illusion, the analyst feels as if his face has changed - but if he looks closely, he compares the selfie in the mental terminal with the photo with his parents, but there is no change, green hair and blue eyes, a straight nose, a handsome face, all in all, still the same handsome.

But I don't know why, in the face of this face that is obviously himself and looks quite good, the analyst unexpectedly has no empathy, but feels like he is looking at a stranger.

When the analyst goes to the workplace, he also feels that other people passing by, and even his acquaintances, colleagues and friends are looking at him with strange eyes, but if he looks at each other, he finds that the other party is just greeting him normally.

Faintly, his hearing became so good that the analyst could hear a passing colleague whispering to himself.

"It's strange that Neupel wasn't so energetic before, was he?"

"Yes, it seems like a different person, although he used to be quite handsome, but it feels like that kind of normal ...... Today feels a little different. ”

"Alas, the bloodline of the elves is good, and it is very eye-catching to change the style at will, and I don't know how the bloodline optimization studied in Moldavia is, if we humans are also handsome men and beautiful women......"

……

The discussion quickly changed topics, and there was still a little self-doubt in his heart, but the elf analyst named Neupel dispelled most of the doubts in his heart because of the secret envy of others.

"It's not a bad thing anyway." He thought so in his heart, and even felt a little national pride: "Speaking of which, I remember that I have a distant cousin, Konstantin or something, who seems to have joined the bloodline transformation research group in Moldavia, and I remember that he was still an alchemist of an elite team in the Ministry of External Exploration...... I don't know how that guy is doing lately. ”

Today's work is also going well, and the current elf analyst can even directly hear the origin behind it from the void background, which even the department head is shocked when he knows about it.

"Good boy, you must know that those star herders who have coexisted with the Void Behemoth for more than a thousand years have many professionals who don't have this ability!"

In the director's office, watching the analyst analyze the correct answers to several difficult tests in person, the director, who was also an elf, patted his junior on the shoulder, and encouraged with satisfaction: "Your talent is outstanding, working here is really a bit buried in you - in this way, in a few days, you go to the headquarters to get the qualifications of the gangsters, pass the test, if you really have relevant talents, then maybe you can board the 'Dreadnought-class Void Battleship', become a listener of the Glorious Expeditionary Force, and directly guide the direction of our army!" ”

- In this way, I also have the credit for the introduction, and you and I will be promoted and raised, just around the corner.

"I'll do my best!"

Although I can listen to the echoes of the world, I still can't hear the subtext, but it doesn't affect the overjoyed analyst - the military listener, compared to the analyst who does data analysis in the rear, is not at the same level at all! The former is to enjoy the 'elite and high transcendent benefits', the treatment is equivalent to the superior technical work of the high-level and extremely strong, and it is difficult to find one among tens of millions of people, while the latter only enjoys the basic superordinary's rationing, and it is just an ordinary technical job with a very generous bonus system.

With the encouragement of his boss and the expectation for the future, today's analyst fell asleep hopefully after eating a can of high-energy nutrients again.

"Speaking of which, I'm running out of nutrients."

A moment before falling asleep, he thought with some uneasiness: "The doctor said that eating a little is enough, and I have one can at a time...... Isn't that a bit abnormal? ”

Thinking so, he fell asleep.

On the night of the fourth day, the elven analyst saw his whole life in a dream for some reason—from birth to adulthood, from naivety to maturity, when he was young, he saw the throbbing of his heart in the sky, when he was young, he saw the message of his first love, and when he became an adult, he vowed to become a human being and persevere in his determination to fight for it...... Everything is gathered together in a small shot and turned into a star.

The analyst instinctively knows that this is the life of the man named 'Neuper', which is his essence. These memories and information are the real him, and if he loses these, even if he has the same body, it is a different person.

The stars shimmered, illuminating the dark dreams, inexplicably reassuring to the analysts watching them all.

Then, at the moment when the dream was about to end.

Pure white threads began to appear, wrapping the star in layers...... That's it.

It turned into a huge 'cocoon'.

The next day, working hours.

"Strange, what about the Neupels?"

"I don't know...... Seems to have taken a leave of absence? ”

"I was called by the leader yesterday, and I started to slack off today...... Shouldn't it? He's not that kind of person. ”

"Maybe it's really uncomfortable – you know, he went to the doctor the other day. Maybe it's a side effect of the awakening of extraordinary talents? ”

"Who knows."

The discussion of colleagues ended here, after all, it was just a day off and did not come, it was not a big deal, everyone had inconvenient times, as colleagues who have worked in the same unit for more than a year, there is no competition between everyone, and there is no personal enmity, so it is natural not to speculate too maliciously.

And Jetrum Void Base, accommodation area, Neupel room.

On the original analyst's bed, there was no green-haired and blue-eyed elf at this time, only a 'cocoon' with a delicate and soft surface composed of countless silk threads.

The 'cocoon' is vibrating, but it is not the things in it that are struggling, but the natural movement, which in turn emits subtle sound waves. The sound wave was incomparably subtle, gentle like a clutter that passed quietly in the void, without any features or signs. However, if you listen quietly and listen to the emotions in it, you will find that this sound wave is like a whisper, a cry, or even a ...... Praise with joy.

[There is such a strange question]

Can sound change matter?

- Absolutely. Sound waves are a kind of vibration transmitted in various media, too strong enough to shatter glass walls, causing damage to the human body, subtle sound waves can also imperceptibly make people anxious, so that sensitive creatures feel that they are not.

So, can sound be informative?

- Absolutely. Human language relies on sound waves of different frequencies to convey different information. In fact, the information that sound waves can transmit is unexpectedly abundant, but the frequency of sound waves that humans can emit, listen to and use is less, so human beings think that sound waves are a low-level language, but in fact, sound waves can only be regarded as a communication environment that is not universal at most, and the situation is much better if it is replaced by other waves.

No, no, the real meaning of this question is that the fluctuation itself can be used as a carrier, even if the person who hears it cannot understand it, but it can also convey some information that can be understood by any living being without explanation, just like an image?

– The answer is yes, of course.

Special sound waves. No, it's just a special wave that, in essence, is enough to change everything. The ripples containing extraordinary powers, the moment they come into contact with the human body, they can exert their own contained information on it, transform the flesh and blood that meet the requirements on the material level, and directly instill some knowledge that has been prepared for a long time.

In other words, in the face of these special waves, ordinary life is powerless to resist at all, just like the shattered glass, the disturbed eardrum, and the subtly changed emotions, gradually, little by little, by its echoes, eroded, transformed, and then become another completely different form from before.

It is even enough to achieve such a fantastic thing as making the old creatures 'die' and the new ones 'born'.

Sixth day, early morning.

'Elven Analyst Neupel' awoke from his corpse.

It lowered its head calmly, looked at the shriveled skin and the cocoons that had begun to degrade naturally, and then smiled intriguingly.

[There is such a philosophical question. 】

If the parts on a ship are gradually replaced until the parts of the original ship become completely new parts, and the old ones are completely replaced, then the ship is still the original ship?

It doesn't matter if an object has no self-consciousness or not, but if an intelligent and conscious being encounters such a thing, what will happen to his self-perception?

Suppose there is such a powerful super creature hatchling, born in an ordinary intelligent life body, it absorbs all the memories, consciousness and soul of the original owner, and engraves it on its own memory, as if it is its own, carefully stored and backed up.

Then, based on it, a complete simulation reproduces the original owner's thinking pattern...... No, you can't say that. Because a few days ago, this super life hatchling had already invaded the original owner's brain along the nervous system, thinking with the original owner, and then replacing every cell in the original owner's body little by little - but even so, the original owner was still 'thinking' by itself, and the super life baby did not interfere in any way, it just became a part of the original owner.

Then, it became him, and he became it.

Storage and copying, record restoration, calculation and testing, optimization and sublimation. This is the mission of the limit. The extreme life will hold everything that it originally has, including but not limited to the original bloodline, memory, preferences, personality, and thinking patterns, in a sense, that is the original person, because memory is the body, and the super life baby just became a part of the original owner, and then assimilated with the original owner.

But is it true?

"I am dead, but I am reborn."

Once the elf dressed itself gracefully, it felt that the endless hunger was making its stomach cramp, but the pain that had made it feel extra uncomfortable not long ago had now become an impulse with pleasure, and it felt it, and then raised its hand, clenched its fist, and the power of the unsurpassed power surged between flesh and blood.

Baring his teeth, the extreme creature Neupel smiled lightly: "The death of the newborn." ”

"I love it."

Starfall 848, on April 8, the mature extreme creature appeared in the Jetram Void Base, causing 370,000 deaths and then escaping, dozens of civilizations in Jetrum ambassadors were also among them, the Third Expeditionary Force detachment was raided, most of it sank, in the Jetrum world, the Star Gate of the Ten Thousand Worlds was temporarily closed, and the mother world of the McCrove world and all colonies entered a state of full military control.

The universe was shocked.