Soul of Burning Steel

[In the beginning, its symptoms were almost nonexistent.

In a place that no one expected, something suddenly appeared, it began to replicate itself, and gradually spread towards the outside world.

From simple to complex, from mild to aggressive, from harmless to lethal.

This thing spreads, spreads, and reproduces in increasingly refined and ingenious ways. They erode everything in the world, and everything is for the continuation of itself]

Extreme virus.

It was the first time that Mrs. Micro noticed this abnormal plague. It was mainly a part of the adventurer team, and in the information returned by a small number of shepherds wandering in the multi-dimensional galaxy, some void civilizations had opened an abnormal closed country policy, and some Indigenous civilizations that are not void civilizations also experienced extremely weird mass extinctions.

That happened a few months after Joshua left.

After the conference of exchanges with many void civilizations, the Mycroft civilization temporarily stopped its external expansion because of the population of the core ethnic group. It was no longer conquering new colonies and opening up new territories, but the actions of exploration and adventure did not did not stop.

Many members who originally belonged to the expeditionary reconnaissance team, with the support of the government, have been transferred to a team of void adventurers to explore the endless multi-dimensional galaxy, and there are also many explorers who want to see far away The wider world is also embarking on a journey to a distant place.

Not to mention the family of shepherds who were originally wandering stars. Under the official acquiescence of Mycroft, most of the shepherds have been split into several parts, and some of them have gained a considerable degree of freedom, and can once again do whatever they want. Graze among the stars without being confined to one place.

Starting from the stargate space-time hubs of the Mycroft civilization distributed in various parts of the multi-dimensional galaxy, the traces of the adventurers have appeared quite far away—after all, they did not set off in the last few months, but in Mike. When the Rove civilization launched its foreign conquest, it had already set off a year or two ago. Through the dense transmission network of various civilizations, as well as the fully upgraded void engine and transition system, even the adventurer team with the worst hardware can have With the speed of crossing half a galaxy in one or two years.

And the most luxuriously equipped official exploration team is even enough to directly cross an almost infinite distance in a short period of time with the support of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Field, and carry out random teleportation at the coordinates set inside the galaxy.

It was these exploration teams that communicated most frequently with the coalition government that discovered the anomalies in the other world and reminded the high-level members of the Mycroft civilization that the plague was not far away from them.

"This is... the Kargan Galaxy... We found in the indigenous civilization on its edge... the wreckage of the extreme virus close to what Marshal Radcliffe mentioned..."

"Yes... half of the planet's population is dead, and beasts and bacteria are not spared... it has become a dead place. If there are still some intelligent life living in deserts and polar regions, I am afraid that the entire planet will become a lifeless Jedi..."

"Extreme virus has disappeared, it appeared for a short time...but there is another kind of superbug that seems to have evolved and is still raging...we have sent the information of the bacteria sample back to the integrated database...that is not natural Evolution can occur..."

"...Infected will become a near-immortal zombie...Rely on devouring organic matter to maintain mobility...The strength is about silver...Extremely dangerous...Maximum alert!"

Because communication across the galaxy will have great delay and distortion, even with the assistance of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, a certain degree of lag and loss of information is inevitable. However, this team of adventurers who were exploring the Gargan Galaxy sent back unexpectedly complete and precious information, that is, the fact that the 'Extreme Virus' had indeed spread from the Bloody Battle Galaxy.

When Kleil, who was acting together with Erma, encountered the extreme virus for the first time in the bloody battle in the galaxy, when Joshua also relayed the information to the Mycroft Civilization Headquarters, not many people cared about it—after all, the victims of the disaster It is the Royal Court of Amos and the Thakur Annihilation Order as enemies. No matter what crisis or disaster these two xenophobic natural disaster civilizations encounter, other civilizations will only laugh and watch.

What's more, there is a very long distance between the bloody war galaxy and the nearest galaxy, the Mycroft colony, and it will not be too late to take precautions when the plague area is close. After all, it is just a mere plague. What about affecting the homeland of distant civilizations? Most people think so.

What is more puzzling is that the adventurer team discovered details about the extreme virus.

First of all, the virus has extremely high infectivity and lethality, and its vitality is extremely tenacious, and it can survive in the void—but on the planet where its wreckage was found, not only the extreme virus is completely extinct, but even some intelligent life is still in the desert Remote areas such as ice fields and ice fields are still alive, and a super bacteria that has been obviously strengthened by the limit virus, but far inferior to it, has replaced its original position, killing the remaining intelligent life.

This is very contradictory, but it can be explained: the lifespan of the limit virus activation is so short, so it suddenly disappears before it has time to kill all life on a planet. And the second point of doubt can only show that the extreme virus does not only infect complex organisms, even bacteria cannot escape its hands.

This news is just the beginning, and soon, one after another, information about the great plague will flood in from all corners of the multi-dimensional galaxy.

Kagan Galaxy, Duya Galaxy, Mosuo Galaxy, Isinco Galaxy... A series of different galaxies all appeared almost simultaneously with the same terrifying extraordinary virus, and the source of this virus has no trace to be traced It is impossible to talk about it. In the same galaxy, at the same time, the difference between two civilizations that are also infected with the extreme virus may be as far as half a galaxy.

This is something that doesn't make sense at all.

Many adventure teams didn't know how to explain this, and they also felt panic in their hearts - if this plague could infect the distant world of Mycroft out of thin air, would they become sinners of civilization? With this in mind, for a period of time, many adventure teams were not sending messages to the headquarters of the coalition government.

Until that day, an adventure team accidentally discovered the possible truth behind the virus.

"No source of infection!"

Across time and space, through the blessing of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, the two worlds are connected by the mighty force. The hoarse voice of the captain of an adventurer team reveals a deep sense of incomprehension and confusion. This adventurer who wrapped himself in a biochemical suit Those who really don't know how to explain the phenomenon they discovered: "This plague... this virus emerged from the air out of thin air!"

"When we came to this world, the plague hadn't appeared yet. With the help of the Seven Gods, we happened to observe the emergence of the extreme virus and infect the world-class scene!"

"It...it's like a natural coincidence—yes, it's a coincidence! The rudiment of this virus just happened to be born in an empty place. It appeared in the forest and infected the local trees, and this The embryonic form evolved rapidly in accordance with the local environment, and then it became an extremely terrifying virus that can consume a person's flesh and blood, and even the soul cannot escape!"

"We have escaped from this world, but the observation array left behind can observe that this plague is still raging on the continent, even the ocean is no exception... It appeared out of thin air, and it has no source at all!"

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Mycroft Civilization, Jetrum Starfield, Stargate Void Base Meeting House.

In the solemn hall, an old voice was calmly repeating an observation record.

"...First of all, erode the flesh and blood, and start a rapid evolution by consuming the energy stored in the host body inside the living body-at this step, more than 99% of the hosts will cause life due to insufficient energy reserves and excessive evolution. The essence collapses and dies, and their flesh and soul will be consumed by the energy of virus evolution. However, there is still a chance of success. According to calculations, if they are prepared to deal with it, an ordinary person with a lot of energy infusion has There is a one-in-a-billion possibility that the evolution will be successful, reaching the sky in one step and reaching the extreme level."

"Similarly, the Silver and Gold ranks have a one-in-three-billionth and a one-billionth possibility of breaking through to the ultimate high-level, that is, after breaking through the limit of life, they can still get a boost and touch the legendary Threshold... And if it is the ultimate level and is well prepared, then the possibility of him surviving the evolution of the virus will increase to one in a million! After the evolution, he, or it, may be able to rely on the power of the virus, A special kind of legend has been achieved, but even if it survives, the thinking mode of this virus super life form will be transformed, and it will become a new life that is completely different from the original, but has the same memory."

"The death of the newborn, I am going to call the process of extreme virus catalysis. Even if it survives the extreme evolution like a newborn, the original life has died, and the only survivors are monsters with the memory of the original owner."

"This is the Extreme Virus... Everyone, what do you think of the discoveries made by Haig's team and many other exploration teams in the alien galaxy?"

Igor, Barbarossa, Barnier, William, the natural tutor and other legendary powerhouses gathered together, either arriving in their own bodies, or using avatar projections to discuss how to deal with this inexplicable and strange plague.

"Although it's weird, only this method of infection can explain why this plague can simultaneously infect completely different civilizations at both ends of the galaxy."

The person who asked the question was naturally the host of the meeting, Pope Igor of the Seven Gods, and the person who answered the question was Barbarossa, the Chief of the White Tower of Guantian, who has been studying the knowledge of magic power brought by the knowledge taker and the essence of extraordinary power. . The extremely clever mage raised his head and said calmly: "In fact, they have already been infected a long time ago, and the emergence of the virus is just a manifestation of the 'plague'."

"In other words, we do have to be cautious. At least we can't let those exploration teams who discovered the extreme virus return to the headquarters immediately... Although they are a bit ruthless, they are very dangerous now and need to be carefully observed."

The legendary powerhouses of Mycroft will not give up their compatriots easily. This kind of ethos is mainly the good habits brought by Igor, Joshua and others. , nor can we expressly give up. In this regard, the teacher of nature nodded solemnly: "I will send some avatars to go to the distant plague land to explore its essential principles. If a vaccine or a specific medicine can be produced, then this crisis can be dealt with."

Viruses and bacteria, the only ones who have studied them in detail are the legendary powerhouses like nature tutors and murloc high priests who specialize in the way of life. Besides, maybe Barnier, who can control microscopic runes , the mage who created elemental life may have studied its structure, while the murloc high priest Godard's profession is more inclined to evolution, hybridization and life transformation, creating things that do not exist in the natural ecosystem, such as creating blood that tastes like Fish with red wine, trees and vines that can produce milk, etc., creating a new virus may be his forte, but it may still be a bit unprofessional to analyze its essence in detail.

The professional scope of the natural tutor is all the existences contained in all the natural ecological circles. Although the limit virus is weird, it does not exceed this scope.

"Everyone, don't you think that the situation this time is unexpectedly similar to the last time the 'Cthulhu of Death' awakened?"

And when the legendary powerhouses on the scene took part of the missions from each other, and were about to send their clones or projections to various galaxies to assist the local adventurer teams and obtain as much information as possible about the extreme virus, they remained silent. Nostradamus frowned, and raised a conjecture: "That time, the entire galaxy was stirred up by the chaos of the evil god of death, and a collective civilization self-destruction phenomenon appeared-that also appeared out of thin air, and spread out of thin air... ...just like this time, the plague that appeared out of nowhere!"

"Is it possible that this plague is actually a 'chaotic information disturbance' created by a powerful evil god? And these seemingly invisible viruses are a kind of its family?"

——It wasn't the plague, but the invasion of the Chaos Familia?

This conjecture was not surprising, and it was even surprisingly reasonable, so everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and the Legends felt a sense of crisis when they swept away their relaxed state.

"The power of the evil plague god?"

Igor was the main body arriving at this time, and the old pope stroked the armrest of the chair in the meeting room, his expression thoughtful, but he shook his head: "No, the church has been guarding the place where the evil god of the plague has been sealed. Maybe the other party has indeed developed something like an extreme virus, but its power..."

Recalling the breath of the evil god of death that made the world's galaxies tremble before he awakened, and corresponding to this super plague that spanned more than a dozen known galaxies and spread to an incredible scale, Igor felt a little unacceptable: " It's not that strong at all. To be honest, from what I know now, the power of the evil plague god can't even surpass the combined efforts of everyone present. I... and Eidriel can suppress it stably. "

This sentence is actually modest - the old Pope originally wanted to say that he alone was enough, but after thinking about it, since it was just an inference, he added the name of another legend.

After all, I haven't fought before, so let me respect it verbally.

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