bioinnovel Chapter 433 Color
Chapter 433 Color
On the morning of the eleventh day after the confused pattern completed its self-temperature adjustment, when Su Fan was squatting on the city wall eating breakfast, a new pattern appeared in the seven-layered new color pattern on the palm of his left hand.
The texture is located on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, right next to the side with the perplexing texture.
The new pattern is similar in shape to the perplexing pattern—both are extremely thin and short compressed sound wave ripples.
However, the new pattern's undulations and direction differ from the confused pattern; the ripples curve at a gentler angle, have a slower rhythm, and convey a different underlying emotional resonance.
Su Fan turned his hand over and examined it for a long time before he could discern new emotional content from the extremely thin layer of emotional flow beneath the lines.
That was—fear.
On the same morning that Su Fan noticed the new patterns, Xu reported the results of his perception.
His voice was a little deeper than when he had reported the confusing patterns.
"The third node was initially pieced together late last night."
The pulse length released after splicing is shorter than that of the second node, but the content density is higher.
The ancient life form in the scene retreated the moment it saw the golden light appear.
It took a step back.
The backward movement took up only a very short time in the reverberation pulse, but the emotional aftertaste sealed in that frame was extremely strong.
When the core of the old domain received the pulse, the surface halo flow rate increased briefly for a moment.
That emotion corresponds to fear in ancient languages.
The first reaction of the ancient life form upon seeing the unfamiliar light was to retreat.
Su Fan swallowed the steamed bun, placed his left palm up on his knee, and quietly sensed the lingering fear flowing beneath the new pattern.
The temperature of emotions is slightly lower than that of the lines of confusion, and they flow faster.
With each heartbeat, the lingering emotion within the lines of fear moves forward a longer distance than the lines of confusion.
The direction of movement was also along the lines, moving from one end to the other—like the old life form maintaining its backward momentum even after it dissipated.
It is retreating.
It has been retreating all along.
But the direction of retreat was not away from the golden light.
It took a step back and then stopped.
After retreating, it stood still and did not move, its gaze still fixed on the direction where the golden light had appeared.
After the initial fear subsided, it did not turn and flee; instead, it stopped and continued to gaze at the golden light.
"In the reverberating pulse released by the third node, there was a very thin layer of emotional aftertaste following the fear."
Xu squatted at the edge of the crack, his right hand pressed against his chest, sensing for a very long time. When he pulled it out, his fingertips glowed with a layer of transparent light that was darker than before.
"That lingering emotional resonance lingers at the tail end of the pulse, right next to the end of fear."
The lingering feeling was much less intense than the fear, so much so that it was almost easily missed if one didn't listen carefully.
It is different from the surprise of the first node and the confusion of the second node.
It was a state of extreme stillness—like someone who, after experiencing fear, discovers that the golden light poses no threat, and then stops watching it, simply watching, doing nothing.
Su Fan stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, walked to the White Rock Terrace, and squatted at the edge of the crack.
When he put his finger into the halo on the surface of the seed, he could perceive through that halo the faint aftereffect of the following emotions attached to the bottom of the newly formed fear pattern on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
The lingering warmth was slightly warmer than the fear itself.
After rising, the temperature was almost the same as that of the confused patterns.
It was as if the old-realm life form's body temperature had risen on its own after confirming that the light posed no threat.
"Will the emotional reactions released by those twelve nodes be arranged in some kind of order?" Su Fan asked, pulling his finger back.
Xu shook his head.
No fixed arrangement order has been detected so far.
There is no temporal regularity between the fear at the third node and the surprise at the first node, and the confusion at the second node.
The timing of their release depends on the speed at which their respective reverberation fragments are repaired, and the repair speed is affected by minor fluctuations in the operating state of the old domain core itself.
The repair progress of each node is independent.
The sequence might be surprise, confusion, and fear.
It's also possible that the next moment will unleash completely different emotions.
After the old domain core embedded the golden data in those twelve nodes, it did not specify the order in which they were released.
They were simply repaired and then released.
The order is random.
Su Fan squatted at the edge of the crack, quietly looking at the two new lines beneath the halo on the seed's surface—confusion and fear.
Two lines are arranged side by side on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, separated by an extremely thin layer.
The thickness of the gaps will be filled with new textures in the future.
The two lines glowed steadily at different temperatures. The temperature of confusion was half a degree higher than that of fear, and the lingering emotional resonance at the bottom of fear rose back to the same level as confusion.
Two lines formed the first sequence of emotional responses from the old domain life forms on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
The sequence begins with a confirmation signal particle, followed by confusion and fear.
Ten more questions to go.
Su Fan stood up and walked towards the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
When he sat down at the edge of the battlement, he placed his left hand on the brick.
Inside that city brick, in addition to the equivalent sample of the confusion texture, there is now an equivalent sample of the fear texture.
The two samples are arranged side by side in the law network inside the brick, with the spacing exactly the same as the spacing in the halo on the seed surface.
After absorbing the second sample, the surface temperature of the brick rose by an extremely small amount.
The temperature rise was exactly the same as the temperature rise of the fear line on his palm.
He sat quietly, squatting by the edge of the battlements.
The wind blew in from the top of the city wall.
Among the seven layers of new colors on his palm, the two lines on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer each glowed continuously at different temperatures.
The temperature of confusion is slightly higher, while the temperature of fear is slightly lower, but there is a layer of residual warmth rising from the bottom.
The distance between the two lines is so short that it is not noticeable unless you look closely.
But they exist independently.
Each line is the first reaction left by an ancient life form that has dissipated countless eons upon seeing an unfamiliar golden light.
They have disappeared for an extremely long time, so much so that there is no complete record of their existence even inside the core of the old domain.
Only the last frame of the image and the lingering emotions sealed within these fragmented echoes remain.
Those lingering impressions are repaired, pieced together, released, captured, and etched into the outer surface of the transparent memory layer to form permanent patterns.
Those emotions were preserved forever after countless cycles of dissipation.
In the form of patterns.
In the form of temperature.
In the form of a continuously flowing emotional aftertaste.
It exists simultaneously in six places: on the surface of the seed, at the very bottom of the core of the old domain, within the law structure of the five people, and inside the city bricks facing the back of Su Fan's head.
"When will the fourth line appear?" A Dou walked up from the base of the city wall and squatted down to ask.
The sound of the ruins came from the direction of the crack, penetrating the white rock layer and the golden pattern network of the city wall, and landing precisely on the edge of the crenellation.
"Based on the current repair speed, the fourth node will be completed in about half a month."
The fifth and sixth intervals will be shorter.
The repair speed is continuously improving itself.
Each new pattern generated will have an additional law-catalyzing effect on the repair process of the remaining nodes.
The catalytic effect accumulates as the number of ridges increases.
After the first three patterns are completed, the remaining nine patterns will appear much faster than the first three.
By the time the twelfth line is formed, the interval between the eleventh and twelfth lines may be shortened to only a few days.
Su Fan pulled his left hand off the city brick and placed it on his knee.
He looked at the two lines on his palm that were quietly shining amidst the seven layers of new colors.
The new color itself was also constantly adjusting its hue at an extremely slow pace—after the temperature of the confused pattern rose by half a degree, the entire seven-layered light became slightly warmer than before, and after the fear pattern was injected, the warm light fell back to a very slight level.
Each time a new texture is injected, the hue of the new color is subtly adjusted.
Once all twelve patterns are in place, the new color will become a complex hue that incorporates the primal emotional responses of the twelve ancient life forms.
That hue had never appeared in the history before the existence of primordial law-based life forms.
It is a completely new color formed by the superposition of twelve different responses of the old life forms to the light of the primordial world in their last moments before dissipating.
That color is still growing.
On the ninth day after the fear lines stabilized, the fourth line appeared on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
The gap in the space right next to the fear lines is filled with the width of the new lines.
The fourth line is different from the first three. The undulations of the ripples are steeper and faster, and the intervals of the rhythmic pattern are shorter than those of the fear line.
Su Fan held the steamed bun in his mouth, turned it over and looked at his palm for a long time, discerning the content sealed by the fourth line in that extremely thin layer of emotion—silence.
It's not a silence born of emotional deprivation, but a complete and conscious choice not to respond.
That lingering emotional resonance was neither hot nor cold, neither accelerating nor slowing down; it was simply a continuous, stable blank flow beneath the surface of the texture.
When Xu reported the results this time, his voice was softer than the previous three times.
"The repair speed of the reverberation fragments at the fourth node was three days faster than expected."
The pulse it released after completing the splicing late last night was extremely short, lasting less than the duration of one heartbeat.
The ancient life form in the scene did not make any move after seeing the golden light.
It neither turned its head to the side, nor moved backward, nor forward.
It simply stood there, looking in the direction the light appeared, and then its consciousness began to dissipate.
It maintained that posture throughout the process of dissipating.
It did not produce any analyzable emotional fluctuations at the last minute.
The only thing sealed within its echoing fragments is stillness.
A complete, conscious choice to remain still.
Su Fan swallowed the steamed bun, placed his left palm up on his knee, and quietly sensed the blank space flowing beneath the silent lines.
That blank space was different from the surprise, confusion, and fear that flowed in the previous three lines.
It is not an emotion.
It's something more fundamental than emotions.
It was as if that ancient life form chose to do nothing in its last moments before dissipating.
It felt neither curiosity nor wariness towards the golden light, nor any desire to escape from it.
It simply lived, then vanished, and remained still throughout the process of vanishing.
That stillness was perfectly preserved in the fragments of the echo.
After being sealed away for countless lifetimes, it was repaired, released, and captured, becoming the fourth pattern on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
The content flowing within that pattern is a complete form that does nothing.
"Silence is also a form of response."
Xu squatted at the edge of the crack and pulled out his right hand. The transparent glow on his fingertips became more even after the fourth line was generated.
Its choice not to respond to this matter is itself a clear choice.
Not all beings from the Old Realm will produce a recognizable emotional response after seeing an unfamiliar light.
Some life forms are in a very deep state of existence in their last moments before they dissipate.
There are no emotions, no actions, and no thoughts in that state.
Pure observation only.
Once the light appears, stop there and observe until it dissipates.
Observation itself is the final expression of that living being.
Su Fan stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked to the White Rock Terrace.
As he crouched at the edge of the crack and reached his hand into the halo on the seed's surface, he could feel the four lines arranged on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
Surprise, confusion, fear, silence.
The combined width of the four lines occupies a portion of the area on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
The spacing between the four lines has been fixed in their respective positions.
They each glowed steadily at different temperatures: surprise was the warmest, confusion was slightly lower but had a rising warmth, fear was the lowest but had a rising warmth at the bottom, and silence was at the same temperature as confusion.
Four different temperatures are distributed on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, as if four different ancient life forms continue to exist with their own temperatures after they have dissipated.
He turned and walked towards the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
When he squatted down by the crenellation, he placed his left hand on the city brick.
The network of laws inside that city brick now contains an equivalent sample of a silent texture.
Four samples were arranged side by side inside the brick—confusion, fear, and silence.
Eight more pills to go.
The temperature on the surface of the city bricks did not rise further after absorbing the silent sample.
The temperature of the silent sample is exactly the same as the temperature of the brick itself, and there is no temperature difference.
That sample did not create any lawful convection within the brick.
It chooses to remain still.
Just like the choice made by the life forms of the Old Realm in their last moments before dissipating.
It chose to stay there and do nothing.
"The fourth pattern is being generated faster than expected."
A Dou squatted at the foot of the city wall, took the grass stem out of his mouth, and looked up at Su Fan.
"Will the remaining eight be even faster?"
The sound of the void came from the direction of the crack, a little farther than before but still clear.
"After the fourth texture is generated, the repair speed of the remaining nodes is accelerated on the basis of the original catalytic effect."
The acceleration comes from the inherent law characteristics of the Silent Pattern itself—the existence of silence itself does not generate any law fluctuations, but it absorbs excess fluctuation interference from the surrounding law environment.
After absorbing the interference, the repair process of the remaining nodes can run in a more stable law environment, thus improving the running efficiency by about 20%.
The interval between the eighth and twelfth stages may be shortened to just one day or even less.
Su Fan withdrew his left hand from the city bricks.
He looked at the four lines quietly shining among the seven layers of new colors on his palm.
The new color itself is also constantly being fine-tuned – after the silent texture was injected, the entire seven-layered light became more stable than before.
The extremely subtle flickering caused by the temperature fluctuations due to confusion and fear had disappeared.
The static nature of the silent pattern acts like a stabilizer, smoothing out the fluctuations in the laws governing the new color.
The brightness of that light no longer fluctuates to the naked eye; it simply shines steadily.
It was brighter and more evenly lit than any other day.
Liang's rhythm and heartbeat were perfectly synchronized, but the way they synchronized changed from passively following to actively being in sync.
In that new color, four lines each glowed with a different temperature—surprise, confusion, fear, and silence.
Four lines are arranged side by side on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, like four ancient life forms standing in a row, each maintaining the posture of their last moment before dissipating.
One turned its head to look at the light, one stared directly at the light, one took a step back and stopped, and one stood still and did nothing.
Four different postures were compressed into four fine lines and etched into the surface of the transparent memory layer.
The temperature difference causes each texture to show subtle color variations in the seven layers of new colors.
Su Fan squatted quietly by the edge of the stack.
The wind blew in from the city wall.
The four old emotional lines in the new color on his palm continued to shine with a steady light.
The four lines found their permanent place in the interface between the primordial wilderness and the old realm.
Their very existence is proof that they once lived.
He looked down at his palm for a long time.
The remaining eight lines will appear gradually in the future.
On the morning of the fifth day after the fourth line stabilized, Su Fan squatted on the city wall eating breakfast when two lines appeared on his left palm at the same time.
Two lines appeared side by side on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, right next to the silent lines, with an extremely short interval, so short that it was almost as if the same line had been split in two.
He turned his palm over and examined it carefully in the morning light for a long time before he could distinguish that they were two separate lines.
Each of the two lines carries a very thin layer of lingering emotion flowing beneath the surface.
The pattern on the left seals in acceptance.
The pattern on the right seals in what is being released.
"The fifth and sixth nodes were completed almost simultaneously last night."
The sound of the void came from the direction of the void fissure, a little faster than usual.
"The repair progress of the reverberation fragments at both nodes was accelerated to completion on the same day under the catalytic effect of the stabilization of the silent texture."
In the pulse released by the fifth node, the old domain life form did not retreat or stop after seeing the golden light; it took half a step towards the direction of the golden light.
It wasn't that I actively walked towards the light; rather, the moment I saw the light, I leaned forward slightly by half a step.
The lingering emotion sealed within the forward-leaning movement is acceptance.
In its final moments before dissipating, it shifted its center of gravity slightly toward the direction of the golden light.
In the pulse of the sixth node, the old domain life form disappeared from its spot after seeing the golden light.
It didn't disappear; it simply moved—it moved laterally a very short distance.
The direction of movement was neither toward nor away from the light; it moved laterally.
As it was moved away, it released a very thin layer of emotional aftertaste, the content of which was release.
It shifted its position from its original coordinates, as if it chose to relinquish space the instant the golden light appeared.
Su Fan put down the steamed bun, placed his left palm up on his knee, and quietly sensed the flow of emotions beneath the two new lines.
The lingering emotions flowing through the lines of acceptance are warmer than fear and confusion, their temperature approaching that of surprise.
The temperature of the lingering emotions flowing within the release pattern is slightly lower than that of acceptance, but the lower temperature is very even.
Two lines are arranged side by side next to the line of silence, together with the preceding lines of surprise, confusion, fear, and silence, forming a sequence of six lines.
The six lines occupy a larger area on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer, and the spacing between them has been reduced to an extremely small degree.
Six different temperatures were distributed on that surface—surprise was the warmest, acceptance was slightly warmer, confusion and silence were equal, fear was the lowest but had a rebound from the bottom, and the temperature of release was between fear and confusion.
He stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, walked to the White Rock Terrace, and squatted at the edge of the crack.
When you reach out and touch the halo on the surface of the seed, you can feel that the arrangement of the six lines on the outer surface of the transparent memory layer has formed the first complete emotional sequence fragment.
The segment begins with surprise, progresses through confusion, fear, silence, acceptance, and release, and ends with a sense of release.
The combined width of the six lines covers part of the outer surface of the transparent memory layer.
Each pattern glows steadily at its own fixed temperature level.
"Once the fifth and sixth nodes are completed, the repair speed of the remaining six nodes will be further accelerated."
With the stabilizing effect of the silent pattern combined with the additional catalytic effect of the two new patterns, the most recent of the remaining six nodes is expected to be completed in about four days.
The speed will increase gradually afterward.
Su Fan turned around and walked back to the city wall, squatting down by the crenellations.
When he placed his left hand on the city brick, two new samples appeared in the network of laws inside the city brick.
Acceptance and release.
Six samples are arranged side by side in the textured layer inside the city brick—surprise, confusion, fear, silence, acceptance, and release.
The temperature on the surface of the city bricks rose slightly after absorbing and receiving the sample, and then dropped a little after absorbing and releasing the sample.
The final temperature after the adjustment was half a degree higher than before.
The emotional reactions of the six ancient beings were arranged in a row within the city bricks.
They came from fragments of echoes from different ancient life forms, were sealed in the same city brick, and are arranged side by side as equivalent samples.
Su Fan squatted quietly by the edge of the stack.
Within the seven layers of new color on the palm, six lines each glowed with a different temperature.
The new color became slightly deeper after the two lines of texture were injected and released.
The shades aren't much deeper, but you can feel that the color saturation has increased.
The complex hue created by the six ancient emotional patterns overlapping is closer to a complete spectrum than when there were only four patterns.
There are still six lines to go.
But it's already halfway done.
He looked down at the new color in his palm that was constantly being subtly adjusted, quietly waiting for the remaining six lines to appear one after another in the days to come.