Chapter 303 Corundum (Part 2)
Although the samples studied are small, the scientists of the Alliance have summarized the possible prerequisites for awakening one's own barrier based on the limited samples.
At present, in theory, there are several basic requirements for opening your own barrier.
First, have independent thoughts and personality, and possess high intelligence.
Second, have enough abnormality.
Third, have sufficient inspiration and imagination, and a mind of self-examination and self-acceptance to freely indulge instincts.
Only when the above three standards are met can humans open their own barrier.
The Alliance believes that this standard is not limited to humans, and other creatures should also meet these basic conditions when creating barriers.
Most of the weirdos lack imagination and intellectual personality. The so-called intellectual personality here does not simply refer to the ability to think about problems and the ability to look at things, but an ability to think abstractly, an ability to make one's own spirit independent of the external universe.
If we use a more popular description, it is the ability to fantasize.
Take the example of a murderer.
What does a murderer desire most?
Suppose that what this murderer desires most is that no one is watching when he kills, and that the prey escapes into a dead end with nowhere to escape.
Then, as long as the murderer can completely regard his imagination as reality and knows why he wants this scene to happen, he will have the mental conditions to open the barrier.
Finally, as long as this killer is abnormal enough, he may be able to create his own barrier and gain the ability to trap a target in reality into the barrier he constructed, "Dead End".
According to this logic, the step of fantasizing is the easiest, and the difficult part is to treat the fantasy as reality.
All men dream of having a harem, and all women dream of having a man who loves them wholeheartedly, but few people take this fantasy seriously from the bottom of their hearts. Generally, those who can do this are lunatics in a mental hospital.
The reason why no patient in a mental hospital can open his own barrier is because they cannot meet the third condition - the ability to self-examine.
This kind of self-examination is not simply self-reflection, but to realize the reasons for one's own fantasy and the contradiction between this fantasy and the real world, so as to understand why this fantasy cannot be realized.
This kind of rationality is contradictory to the absolute sensibility before, which is why no patient in the mental hospital can awaken their own barrier.
In short, if the third basic condition is not present, then it is estimated that there will be a large number of mentally ill patients in the mental hospitals of this world who can open their own barriers.
The three basic conditions for opening one's own barrier are extremely difficult to achieve. This is not possible for humans with their explosive imaginations, and it is even more difficult for freaks who generally lack inspiration and imagination to achieve this.
So Liu Lingshan was very curious about why this stone in front of him, which looked completely unrelated to humans, could build its own barrier.
“Heh, since you can actually split my body in half, I will admit your strength… But, human, your adventure ends here, and your arrogance will perish here!”
The majestic voice echoed in the empty crystal cave, and the echoes overlapped, making it impossible to find the source of the sound.
Liu Lingshan sneered and thought to himself that it was strange that he was killed instantly just now, so why did he still have the confidence to speak so harshly now?
“I lived on this earth hundreds of thousands of years ago, and when I existed, there were no humans like you.
All creatures on earth are receiving gifts from nature and giving back to nature at the same time. Only you, only you humans, are taking without limit, only knowing how to take without knowing how to be grateful!
You humans are like parasites, living on every living thing on Earth..."
Just as Lin De was about to attack, Liu Lingshan grabbed his wrist.
"Wait, let's listen to what he says, it's quite interesting." Liu Lingshan said.
Linde shook his head, thinking that this old woman had a really bad taste.
Liu Lingshan listened carefully to Gangyu's bold words, pondering this strange inner thought and worldview in his heart.
She thinks this thing called corundum is very strange. For example, the human virus theory it is talking about now is obviously told from a human perspective. Environmental destruction will pose a threat to humans, but it will not pose a threat to the earth.
Billions of years ago, the Earth had experienced many mass extinction events. If there was a culprit for these mass extinction events, then the dinosaurs or other rulers of the Earth must have committed greater sins than humans.
Liu Lingshan was curious about where the idea of corundum came from. If it was really a mineral, it would be impossible to think about it from a human perspective.
“Crack!”
Not far away, a crack appeared on a huge crystal ore, and then the crystal shattered. Amid the explosion, intact corundum slowly walked out of the ore, and its size was much larger than before.
Liu Lingshan held the knife behind his waist and fired an invisible slash, creating a straight crack in the middle of Corundum's body.
But this time, the body of the corundum did not crack completely. From the split part, tiny crystals precipitated and stuck to each other, filling the gap.
"Why do you put the sword back into the scabbard after you draw it? Don't you need a second sword afterwards?" Lin De looked at Liu Lingshan in confusion.
Liu Lingshan laughed heartily: "Hahaha! Because this is very handsome!"
"You are already hundreds of years old, can you please stop being so childish?"
"Humans are not creatures whose minds grow with age... Besides, I roughly understand the effect of this strange barrier."
Liu Lingshan opened his collar, and there was a straight crystal attached to his skin.
These crystals shattered and fell off because of Liu Lingshan's action, but the skin to which they were previously attached remained intact.
"I told you not to attack casually. You see, the effect of its barrier needs to be triggered by an attack. I think it should be something that when attacked, certain parts of the enemy's body will randomly turn into crystals." Liu Lingshan said with a smile.
"...Don't underestimate me. I'm not afraid of this kind of physical attack." Linde said dissatisfiedly.
This is why he doesn't want to go on missions with Liu Lingshan, because if he goes on missions with Liu Lingshan, he will not get any respect at all, and will also receive some meaningless and unrealistic ridicule.
What's even more annoying is that he can't refute these teasings. Once he shows anger or other dissatisfaction, the old woman will bring up the past in a very disgusting tone, recalling all the stupid things he did as a child... and recalling them in a nostalgic tone.
"What?! Why are you okay?!"
Corundum said in shock that although it didn't make any strange sounds, it spoke very emotionally.
"It's almost done."
Liu Lingshan stretched out his hand, and a crack appeared on his palm. Crystals were continuously squeezed out from the crack without a drop of blood on them.
The last crystal stone squeezed out from the wound. Liu Lingshan wiped a drop of blood from the surface of his palm, raised his head, and looked at the corundum with a playful look.
The corundum suddenly rushed towards Liu Lingshan. Liu Lingshan reached out and grasped the knife behind him. Seven parallel sword energies shot out, cutting the corundum into eight neat pieces.
At the same time, traces of crystallization appeared all over Liu Lingshan's body. Beautiful colorful crystals grew on her forehead, eyes, and back of her hands.
But these crystals did not stay on her body for too long. As Liu Lingshan moved her limbs and bent her joints, these crystals that were supposed to grow on her body fell off like dead skin.
Continuous sword energy swept across Corundum's body, and in the blink of an eye, Corundum's body was completely shattered into rubble.
Cracks appeared in the scene of the crystal cave, the skylight above the cave entrance gradually dimmed, and the black fog belonging to the black fog space reappeared before his eyes.
The corundum barrier was broken...it was chopped into pieces by Liu Lingshan with his sword.
Liu Lingshan shook his clothes and jumped on the spot, and all the broken crystals stuck in his clothes were shaken out.
"This black fog is a bit special. It actually gave rise to human thinking in this stone. Moreover, the creatures in the black fog seem to have acquired the ability to devour other creatures and mutate and evolve themselves. This reminds me of Collapse Jade."
"Broken Jade? What is the effect of this containment object?"
"Ah, nothing, forget it. It was an anime I watched a long time ago." Liu Lingshan waved his hand and said casually.
Her eyes fell on the road not far away, where a large area of shattered crystals were scattered. In the center was a small black crystal, which was particularly eye-catching among those dazzling gems.
She walked to Corundum's shattered body, bent over to pick up the chaos fragment, played with it for a while, and threw it to Lind.
"Here you go."
Lind took the Chaos Fragment and put it in his pocket. After a moment of silence, he said, "Luckily, we are the ones who encountered it. If someone encountered it without his own barrier and without the same physique as you and me, he would definitely die."
"Not necessarily. If the abnormality exceeds this weirdness, then this weird barrier will be ineffective against that person."
Hearing this, Lind frowned: "Didn't it just break through your supernatural armor?"
"Tsk, you are so stupid. I didn't even use the Tyrant Body. I'm really curious about how you got the title of S-level Specialist. Are all the people in the four major alliances blind? Or are they all too young?"
“…”
Linde took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and changed the subject: "Let's complete this task as soon as possible. These monsters in the black fog are too dangerous."
"Don't be too anxious. Haven't you noticed? The more powerful the monster is, the more likely it is to hide in the depths of the black fog. According to previous intelligence, the stone-level monster just now has never left the black fog, at least it has never been encountered outside." Liu Lingshan said.
Lind glanced at her and retorted, "It is also possible that once they go out, no one will survive wherever they go, and they will become part of the black fog."
Liu Lingshan was stunned.
Lind was right. She had missed this point and this possibility still existed.
"As expected, the older you get, the smarter your brain becomes... Let's speed up and complete this mission quickly."
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