Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 794: 749 BUG
Although I'm not very familiar with the habits of sheep, herbivores in nature are often highly vigilant, ready to flee at the slightest disturbance, and they cannot ignore unfamiliar factors in their environment.
But this little white sheep was silly, perhaps because I am its creator. After I called out, it stumbled towards me, and halfway through, it couldn't maintain its balance, bumping into Zhu Shi's calf.
Zhu Shi glanced down at the little white sheep, then turned to me, astonished: "I can't sense any mana... and it's not under any external control. But it has flesh and soul, it's alive... Senior Brother Zhuang, can you now even create life?"
"It seems that way?" I said.
The little white sheep innocently bleated: "Woof?"
"You created it yourself, and you're not sure?" Zhu Shi was shocked, "By the way, why is it a sheep? And why does the sheep bark like a dog, is this how sheep sound!?"
"I kind of forgot how sheep sound when I was creating it," I said.
"It's baa! Baa!" Zhu Shi cried out, sounding like someone from Guangdong.
Jian Feixian seemed unable to hold back anymore, and with a flash from afar, he came to us, then lowered his head to carefully observe the little white sheep, his gaze seemingly turning into X-ray vision, dissecting the sheep inside out.
The little white sheep seemed frightened by Jian Feixian's piercing gaze, hiding fearfully behind Zhu Shi's legs.
After a few seconds, Jian Feixian said with a confused expression, "This sheep... it grew wrong."
"What do you mean by 'grew wrong'?" Zhu Shi asked curiously.
"From a biological standpoint, there are many unreasonable parts of this sheep. The general skeletal structure and major blood vessels are barely correct, but the details are all messed up, the muscle distribution is chaotic, and especially the internal organ systems have significant problems. For instance, sheep, as ruminant animals, should have four stomach chambers, but it has only one like a human. The secretion system and nervous system are completely botched, and there's simply no reproductive system."
It's quite contradictory to hear the word "biology" coming from a person like Jian Feixian, who looks and feels like a character from a Xianxia story, and he even analyzes it thoroughly, "Logically, such an animal shouldn't even be able to move, let alone survive.
"It should see, hear nothing, and die quickly of severe internal bleeding after birth. It wouldn't feel pain because pain is also a neural function, which Zhuang Cheng evidently didn't design. However..."
He thought for a moment, then extended his finger to the little white sheep. Impermanence's ability to ignore spatial distance took effect, his finger piercing space to poke the little white sheep's soft torso. The sheep felt a bit of pain and fright, trying to run away. Zhu Shi quickly picked it up.
Jian Feixian's analysis was correct. After all, while I have basic biological knowledge, it's limited to that. I'm not a professional in the related field; the human physiological structure is one thing, but I've never closely observed the physiological structure of animals like cats and dogs. As for designing a sheep, I just suddenly thought of the fact that history's first cloned mammal was a sheep, a small homage.
It's undeniable that the creation is crude; even during the process, I didn't decide if it should be a sheep or a goat, just designing its appearance based on the stereotype of a "sheep". I didn't seriously consider whether it should be a ram or a ewe since I can't remember what sheep reproductive organs look like and just set it to be genderless.
As for the sound, it wasn't that I really forgot how sheep bleat, but suddenly Agent Kong's face popped into my mind, speaking of which, the weirdo looks like a goat... It's lucky I didn't make the sheep sound like Agent Kong. Then, being too lazy to search my memory for a sheep's bleat, I simply copied and pasted a dog's bark.
Originally, I didn't think I could really succeed. At worst, I could redesign. Worms are also life, and their structure is simple, so why challenge creating a sheep when I could create a worm? Yet somehow, I ended up creating it.
To say "I didn't expect it" might sound a bit pretentious; part of it was intentional. Still, having done this for the first time, I thought there would surely be a failure. The result was more successful than I imagined.
Zhu Shi looked at the struggling little white sheep in his arms and concluded: "So this sheep is an 'impossible being'... a demon sustained by anomalous power?"
"No, this sheep doesn't need any anomalous power to sustain it; like the cats and dogs we see every day, it's an animal that can naturally persist." Jian Feixian said.
Zhu Shi said, "But you just said it couldn't naturally exist..."
"Yes, by natural laws, it shouldn't exist. But it doesn't need any external force to maintain itself; it can survive independently in a natural environment." Jian Feixian said, "From the standard of whether it's unreasonable, defining it as an anomaly isn't out of the question. However, it is clearly different from common anomalous entities; it's a 'paradoxical life'."
Zhu Shi used "Buzhou Mountain" to observe the little white sheep, then twitched his mouth and asked me, "Senior Brother Zhuang, how did you do it..."
"Actually, I also feel that my design is somewhat unreasonable, so I thought, maybe I could stop letting reason get in the way of my business..." I said.
"What do you mean by 'stop letting reason get in the way'!?" Zhu Shi's mouth dropped open.
Meanwhile, Jian Feixian suddenly understood: "I see, is this the power after pushing the third door open..."
The Impermanence power after pushing the third door can wield mana in a worldview without mana and accomplish many other things that transcend the existing world order. Even the divine seal's power to modify the world background cannot completely cover it.
Natural laws, scientific principles, and even mathematical rules, those things considered the underlying rules of the universe by people, cannot completely bind characters like me or Shan Liangyi.
Characters like Jian Feixian and Fa Zheng, although they can do things that defy natural laws, achieving many miracles that trample on common sense, are essentially still in line with deeper order. To describe it, Impermanence is like a supreme emperor or a super powerful minister, despite laws stating that the son of heaven committing a crime is equal to being punished like a common person, those with overwhelming power have conditions to trample legal theory without facing consequences.
Although they defy apparent laws, they actually comply with certain potential rules of violence, lacking legality yet possessing rationality.
And the power of the third door can surpass even these matters and is truly an "extraordinary" power.
This little white sheep was created by me in a muddle-headed manner. I am not particularly skilled yet in the power that transcends the world, but as long as I improve my proficiency, I feel like I might even be able to create a rock I can't lift, and also lift it.
The little white sheep seemed to have given up struggling, obediently curled up in Zhu Shi's arms. I erased the little tree I had just created beside it, originally intending to erase the little white sheep too, but Zhu Shi stopped me.
"After all, it's a lively life, shouldn't it shouldn't just be wiped out like that?" She said, smiling and stroking the little white sheep.
"This is the Post-mortem World, and 'life' created here may not necessarily be brought to the Living World." I was also somewhat uncertain.
Today's Post-mortem World is mimicking the Doomsday reality world state, so I not only created the sheep's soul but also its body. However, whether this body would be recognized as a spiritual body of the Post-mortem World when brought to the Living World can only be known after actual testing.
One thing is certain, the little white sheep is indeed real life independent of me. Even if I'm gone, it can survive on its own.
"I suggest it's better to erase it," Jian Feixian suddenly said, "After all, it's a product that truly defies world logic, likely of the same kind with the self-contradictory human history we have now."
"With just one paradoxical life, it unlikely will result in a world-destroying outcome. Our world isn't that fragile; this kind of stuff is merely negligible little errors. But if such life reproduces in vast numbers like us humans and even has its own history, it might invite Doomsday phenomena."
"Zhuang Cheng, though I am not qualified to speak on such matters now, I still suggest you don't casually increase this kind of 'world errors'. Having one Doomsday existence already is troublesome enough; if we invite several Doomsdays, we might find ourselves truly beyond hope."
The power of the third door could potentially cause a world Doomsday... his reasoning is very likely.
Just like a large number of bugs could crash a computer program entirely, causing its system environment to collapse, unable to function; the power of the third door could achieve a similar phenomenon, causing widespread real-time space to fall into chain collapse. In fact, the Doomsday we are facing now was created by the accumulation of numerous malicious errors.
Zhu Shi's face turned grim. The little white sheep seemed to sense the danger and let out a nervous bark.
After thinking for a while, I said, "I know, but let's keep this sheep for now. Once back to the real world, I'll study the physiology of sheep, revising its erroneous physical structure to be reasonable. Perhaps that's a way to fix world errors?"
"I also need to know my new power better; this sheep can be my exercise. It doesn't even have a reproductive system made, so there's no need to worry about reproduction. After all, it doesn't even have a gender, nor is there any partner to mate with."
I said this mainly because Zhu Shi seemed to like this little white sheep. Since it far from affecting world safety, just find a reason to keep it. Of course, the explanation given is not a lie; this problem is reasonably suited for the current me. But halfway through, I thought of another possibility.
If I can fix the "bug" of the little white sheep, could I fix the existing other "bugs" too?