After marveling at the wonders of deep creatures, Craft turned his attention back to black salt as a measurement standard.
Under a high-magnification lens, the nearest small grains of black salt seem to, maybe, probably, maybe start to melt, which makes its corners slightly rounded.
The visual difference is far less obvious than the intuitive change. It's like you first feel something has changed, and then carefully observe and discover the subtle changes in the outline, which are so small that it is difficult to distinguish them from the errors caused by staring for a long time.
If scaled up, a deep being as big as a creeping creature would have to complete a complete set of biological Transformers transformations in the room to make the small bottle of black salt next door tend to melt. The musician with the most sensitive ears
, and you can’t tell the difference just by shaking the bottle.
Kraft retreated to his chair in the corner of the room, waited five seconds for the hourglass to turn over, and observed it again.
Perhaps the melting was terminated because there was no further transformation of the sample, or perhaps it never started.
If you want to rely on the changes of black salt to show the weaker deep-seated effects, you may have to use a high-power microscope. As for finding someone to stare at the black salt under the microscope all day long, you know that there is no safety at all.
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The water temperature in the sink is gradually dropping, from being able to soak bread to a temperature suitable for brushing teeth.
The specimen was as keenly aware of the changes in the environment as ever, and used a relatively sharp bone to cut open the egg-like cuticle on the surface, squeeze it out from the inside like a shell, and reversely wrap the cuticle inside.
The gray cutin was torn into pieces and crushed into small pieces suspended in the translucent body, which were swallowed and dissolved by some new vesicle-like structures.
It appears to have been digested rather than directly transformed into other tissues.
This is very reasonable, Kraft thought. The cuticle on the body surface is made of dead cells. Even deep-seated organisms cannot perform the miracle of resurrecting the dead. They can only decompose and recycle proteins. It seems a bit scientific, but it is not fundamentally correct.
science.
He once again observed the "suspected melting" of black salt under the lens, proving that what he saw before was not an illusion.
At the same time, something touched him on another level, like an insect passing through the body, twitching the hairs. It was feedback from the spiritual senses, and it was the same as the feeling that was considered a warning before every encounter.
But very slight.
"Interesting." This is the first time to truly observe deep biological activities up close.
Compared with the past, the difference between encountering brown bears in the wild and watching Siberian giant hamster babies through explosion-proof glass in the zoo is almost the same. The experience of the former is like a violent storm, while the experience of the latter is like small ripples in a water glass.
Although it is very weak, you can still detect the spiritual touch that occurs when the sample changes.
When it is not so intense and threatening, you can feel this "touch" carefully. It is as if you put your finger into the water, and the water strider hits the liquid surface, causing ripples to pass through the skin.
"Interesting." This kind of touching does not seem to be completely irregular, but is related to the activity of the sample.
Kraft hesitated for a while, but driven by curiosity, he connected his spiritual senses and caught the tail of the "touch".
It comes from the core of the sample, a small piece of stone named "Moon Skeleton". It releases something that was once considered a premonition of danger - that is, the feeling of being touched on the spiritual senses every time there is a battle.
Facts have proved that it is either a premonition that transcends time, or something real, a "field" or "fluctuation" generated by deep-seated organisms.
The spiritual senses can access it, which may mean that it is something similar in nature to the spiritual senses. The feedback feels like the airflow that passes through the palm of the hand when caressed by thought, a rippling airflow.
If you want to find an analogy, Kraft thinks it is more like a "bacteria", but more erratic, an "unformed bacterium". At least he can really use his mental senses to tear the bacterium into hyphae, but he can't.
Really grab this thing.
A primitive, elementary, unformed spiritual body, like a self-replicating macromolecular organic substance that is almost considered real life, but its levels are stuck in the middle.
The waves originating from the core are transmitted through it, forming a three-dimensional and possibly higher "wave".
With the completion of the complex transformation, the "wave" also subsided. In a state without fluctuations, it is almost impossible to feel the original spiritual body. It may only be when they aggregate into a huge individual - like the one in the royal tomb.
This will create a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Let's do it again." Kraft emptied the sink and threw the pot to Coop. "Boil the pot of water. I want to see it again."
Frankly speaking, it is hard to say whether the operation of the alien soul can pass the ethics of experimental animals. But there is not even a human ethics committee here, and he has not thought about whether this thing should pass the ethics of animals or the ethics of using human tissue samples.
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So the subject was put into the steaming water tank again.
The professor's interest has shifted from the clueless development of observation devices to biological research.
This time he observed the fluctuations throughout the entire process, which were dizzyingly complex and accompanied by various delicate and complicated organizational changes.
Complex, but not chaotic. Kraft could feel the patterns and even one-to-one correspondences among them, just like a pond on a rainy day. The ripples created by each raindrop are superimposed to form intertwined complex fluctuations.
"Can you feel it?" The professor fished out the bottle and handed it to Coop, "that kind of fluctuation."
The assistant tried hard to hold the bottle with his trembling hands for a few seconds, shook his head firmly and handed it back: "I just feel a little itchy."
He felt that he might have made a mistake by agreeing to be an assistant. In order to get more salary every month, he came here to pour water on the bottled fear, and he had to endure an employer who was in a different situation than usual.
"It's such a shame," Kraft said. There is always something missing about a discovery that cannot be shared with others.
Taking a deep breath, the secret satisfaction filled a certain corner like fresh air pouring into the lungs, and then flowed away like exhalation - he had absorbed the freshness and developed new curiosity.
Perhaps the sample relies on this fluctuation signal to input instructions to manipulate tissue transformation.
There are too many transformations that can be carried out simultaneously, and the complex fluctuations are intertwined and entangled, turning into a ball of wool without a thread, which is impossible to analyze.
It is similar to the problems that biology encounters when it comes to the genetic level. The genetic code is right in front of us, but if we have to figure out what each section is for and what kind of bugs will cause what kind of disease, it will be life-threatening.
It would be great if the high-intensity expression of one of the functions could be induced in a targeted manner.
"I want to do it again..." Kraft rubbed his stiff palms, eager to make progress.
But the flowing hourglass reminded him that the time he spent in his mental senses was increasing by the second. Too much repetition was a huge waste, and experiments needed to be planned better.
I have already tried physical stimulation such as temperature. I should try it from another angle. Maybe I can gain something new.
Looking at the samples that were still experiencing rhythmic contractions, an idea that I had thought about for a long time came up: Since it is a human homologous tissue, can drugs that work on humans work on this thing?
"Coop, help me get some of the digitalis and belladonna, no...I mean purple bellflower and devil's cherry, from the box."
