20: Chapter 20 The World Freezes, the Power of Time Stop!?

[Archiving Complete]

[004 Crystal Disaster]

[Document Level: High Risk]

[The core is a hexagonal cubic ice block, about 1 meter high. Any object that comes into contact with the Crystal Disaster core or the cold air it radiates will crystallize in an extremely short time. The conversion time varies depending on the object, taking no more than one hour at most.]

[The crystallization affects both the interior and surface of the object, and none can escape. The infected will experience extreme cold agony. Once the crystallization is complete, the object will chink and shatter into countless infectious fragments in an extremely short time...]

[Traits: Infection, Extreme Cold]

[Flaw: Ineffective against glass materials]

[...]

On the editor in Su Xiu's hand, the document fluttered without wind, and as the ice crystals spread, a large amount of text gradually appeared.

The originally vague descriptions also gradually became concrete.

The blank fourth page turned into a unique ice blue, transformed by the Crystal Disaster into its own shape.

Reaching out to touch it, one could still feel a faint chill.

It was as if it were a page carved from ice crystals.

[Status: Archived]

"Did it succeed~"

Su Xiu's tone was lingering and deep, with a trace of relieved joy on his face.

The written sequence anomalies he produced through the editor—successful compilation was only the first step, equivalent to modeling the ideas in his mind, bringing them from virtuality to reality, and from fantasy into reality.

As for deployment, it was placing these compiled sequence anomalies into the real world to collide.

Practice is the only standard to test truth!

Like the 003 Taotie Cat, after a brief descent, it triggered self-phagocytosis, and self-devouring led to collapse. It was a thorough failure, and the editor's document didn't include it at all.

It directly degenerated into a discarded draft and a waste document.

It could only be used as a material carrier for subsequent writing.

As for the second version of the Seed of Taotie, which was the semi-organism residing within Zhao Jinlong, although it was still growing, it barely maintained stability, and its future was promising.

In the editor's document, a corresponding blank was left, to give feedback after the final result appeared.

It belonged to the category of pending growth or experimental subjects.

As for the 004 Crystal Disaster before him, it was definitely the official version. With extraordinary strength and stable power, it was recognized by the editor, included in the document, and possessed its own exclusive place.

And when the written sequence anomaly was archived,

the true harvest also naturally emerged.

Just as Su Xiu's fingertips touched the ice crystal page,

[Ding——]

[New Archive Discovered]

[Extracting corresponding ability from the current document]

[Ability Acquired: Extreme Cold Freezing]

[Evocation ability: You are the messenger of winter, possessing the power to freely manipulate cold currents, able to guide the arrival of extreme cold, freeze everything touched by the cold air, and detonate it at will.]

[Note: When absolute zero arrives, the world will fall into eternal silence, energy exchange will stop, and all things will stagnate.]

[...]

"Just the extreme cold trait?"

Su Xiu blinked, looking at the text on the editor, his gaze flickering slightly.

What was extracted from [004 Crystal Disaster] was not its most terrifying infection trait, but the relatively inconspicuous extreme cold trait.

However, he could hardly be called disappointed.

No matter what, Extreme Cold Freezing, which manipulated frost, was still better than the previous two harvests.

The Mechanical Mastery given by [001 Mechanical Snail] gave him a very high understanding of mechanical products, but it was limited to machinery and did not include IT technologies like the Internet.

[002 Chaos Salamander] was even more screwing; it only gave a physical enhancement, greatly boosting his physical fitness and giving him decent resilience.

But at most it was at the level of a street hero, similar to Spider-Man's on-paper stats, which was a far cry from Homelander.

The feedback from [004 Crystal Disaster] this time was much more awesome.

Manipulate cold air, condense frost.

It directly elevated the power level to a Xuanhuan style. Of course Su Xiu wouldn't be unsatisfied.

Moreover, the ability extracted this time seemed to be more than just pure ice element manipulation.

It was more like control over cold air, or rather, control over temperature.

Su Xiu's gaze fell on the last line of text in the document, deep thought in his eyes.

Absolute zero?

Eternal silence of the world?

If he remembered correctly,

the movement of matter should be related to thermal energy, right? The greater the kinetic energy of the particles, the higher the temperature of the matter.

Conversely, when the temperature drops infinitely and reaches absolute zero,

the kinetic energy of the particles will also approach zero. From an external manifestation, it is a state of near stillness.

In other words...

"Its essence is time stop?!"

Su Xiu's expression froze slightly, with a trace of surprise in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, this ability that seemed to manipulate ice was essentially rule-based and could be related to time.

When he became strong enough,

he could even use this ability to directly stop time for the entire world and freeze time.

"Not bad!"

Even with Su Xiu's standards, he couldn't help but nod slightly.

After playing around with it for a bit and finding that his current strength could only materialize the time stop of absolute zero into a very small range, he waved his hand to disperse the surrounding water stains and stopped further exploration.

Rather than tossing these around, it was better to find a way to enhance his spiritual power.

The motivation of cold air was related to spiritual strength. After a while, he had already begun to feel mentally exhausted.

He shook his head and forcefully cheered up.

Now was not the time to slack off and rest.

There were still things waiting for him to be busy with!

Su Xiu rolled up the document, temporarily retrieved the editor, and also put 004 Crystal Disaster into the corresponding small space within the document.

Fortunately, every archived page came with its own corresponding space used to store related content.

Otherwise, a one-meter-high ice block would really be hard for Su Xiu to handle on his person.

After all, this thing had extremely strong infectivity.

It could be called a ticking time bomb, and it could blow up and flip over at any time.

Just as he put the things away,

the adjacent 002 also walked over.

"Master"

"These are the materials collected this time."

002 opened its stomach pouch and took out the things from the writhing flesh.

The spoils of war were far from as dazzling as last time.

It could even be said to be pitifully few.

Because of the infection trait of 004 Crystal Disaster, the invading creatures basically all fell victim, and after being frozen into ice blocks, they cracked and shattered into countless ice crystal fragments.

Under this terrifying power, it was almost impossible for anything to be left behind.

Even the phosphorus fire in 002's hand

was snatched from the jaws of danger and barely saved at the last moment.

[Soul Fire · Defective]

[Transcendent Oddity]

[The Skeleton King's soul fire retains her memories of a thousand years and a large record of undead-side Arcane Arts. However, due to the death of the main body, the flame is defective and the memories are in a damaged state.]

[Flame entity, possessing a decent high temperature, the flame will cause additional damage to soul-side beings]

[...]

A pale white flame leaped in 002's hand. Relying on the replacement of writhing flesh, she was able to withstand the high temperature emitted from the flame. Although it looked somewhat listless due to the Skeleton King's death,

it still did not affect the power of this flame.

Simply in terms of energy level, it was even more powerful than the cold whale tail bone obtained previously.

Su Xiu rubbing his hands together.

He couldn't wait to carry out the next round of writing.