Chapter 569: The Big Dog and the Monoceros
Su Hao has confirmed that the information obtained from observing source beasts is more comprehensive than that obtained from observing the source artifact.
So he immediately thought of researching source beasts.
When he mentions studying source beasts, he is not talking about capturing source beasts to observe their body structure. Source beasts that have completed their transformation are not of much use to him.
What he truly needs is an ordinary creature that starts from scratch and transforms into a source beast.”
This would allow him to precisely discover what kind of mechanism causes matter to transform into a source.
However, it is not easy to observe the complete transformation process of an ordinary creature. The most challenging point lies in how to determine which creature will ultimately transform into a source beast.
In this world, various disasters occur across the globe every day, but before they happen, no one knows where the disaster will strike next.
The same goes for source beasts. With billions of creatures in the world, who can determine which creature will luckily transform into a source beast?
Su Hao’s understanding of this is: it’s a probability problem.
The most direct way to solve a probability problem is to increase the observational base. As long as the base is large enough and the probability of occurrence is not too low, it can be roughly considered an ‘inevitable event.’
Thus, Su Hao’s strategy is simple: fence off a large area of the ocean, record the consciousness information of various fish groups within this area into the pinball space, wait for one or several creatures to transform into source beasts, and then go back to review the transformation process of the source beast.
Although it sounds troublesome, for Su Hao who has been pondering for half a year without any results, having a feasible plan is already a good thing. He is willing to overcome any difficulties despite the challenges.
In just half a month, Su Hao created hundreds of array devices that could attract various fish groups, dispersed them into the sea, and laid out a newly developed ‘blood qi recording information boundary’ around the area. Its function is to automatically record the consciousness information of a fish when it crosses the boundary.
This significantly reduced Su Hao’s workload. He only needed to supply blood qi continuously to maintain the boundary’s existence.
Regarding blood qi, Su Hao had plenty of it. If necessary, he could replenish it multiple times. Eventually, he would be able to record information from enough fish groups.
The array devices used to attract fish groups worked effectively. Shortly after deployment, a large number of fish swarmed in, their information recorded by Su Hao and then dispersed far away.
This continuous recording process was highly efficient.
In just three days, Su Hao had recorded the consciousness information of countless fish, all stored in a ‘black box’.
However, it was not enough. The recorded fish groups did not meet Su Hao’s numerical requirements.
Consequently, Su Hao exhausted all his blood qi, replenished himself at the base, and continued to record information on fish groups in the ocean. This process continued repeatedly, until half a year later, none of the fish he recorded had transformed into source beasts, making it an extremely unlucky outcome.
“Fortunately, the big dog transformed into a source beast.”
The big dog transformed into a source beast?
This revelation left Su Hao dumbfounded. After months of hard work, he had recorded countless fish, yet none had transformed into source beasts. Unexpectedly, the big dog almost forgotten at home had transformed?”
“It was incomprehensible whether this stroke of luck was good or bad.”
Thankfully, Su Hao had already recorded the consciousness information of the big dog in the pinball space early on for easy monitoring of the dog and its living conditions.
Coincidences led Su Hao to obtain the first precious information about an ordinary animal transforming into a source beast.
Regardless, it was a good start. Su Hao had a premonition that if he continued recording, some fish groups would undoubtedly transform into source beasts, and the number of samples he acquired would increase.
Upon learning about the big dog’s transformation, Su Hao immediately brought it to the experimental base to assess its newfound abilities.
“Starting with its size, its overall appearance hadn’t changed much, but its body size increased every day. In a short while, it would likely grow to the size of an elephant.”
“Next was the classification. This big dog belonged to the rarest illusionary source beast category.”
The last thing is ability. It sticks its head out and shows its forehead. The target will involuntarily put its foot on its forehead.
Su Hao: “???”
Is there something wrong? What do I do without feet? Moreover, its head grows to the size of an elephant in the future. Who can use their foot to touch its forehead? Is it going to perform a horse stance on the spot?
…
Su Hao turned and entered the pinball space. From the moment the large dog was recorded in the pinball space until now, all information was retrieved: “Let me see, how an ordinary big dog transforms into a powerful source beast.”
After looking at it for ten days, fast forward, rewind, and carefully study the changes and differences before, during, and after the transformation, Su Hao finally caught a glimpse of it.
It was this glimpse that made Su Hao feel that spending half a year recording the fish school in the sea was worthwhile, and rewarded the big dog with a footboard.
“It’s the system!”
At this moment, Su Hao finally figured out the previous doubts, what exactly it was.
The source device is not something that can transform matter into a source on its own. What can transform matter into a source is a huge system. The source device and source beast he studied are just tiny ports in this huge system!
Just like a complete desktop computer, source devices and source beasts that can transform matter into a source are like monitors and speakers of a computer. These objects can display images and play music on the surface. However, by just studying the monitor and speakers, even if you perfectly replicate them, you cannot see the corresponding images or hear the wonderful music.
Because fundamentally, they are meaningless when existing alone. These components are just a small part of the computer ‘system’!
The source device and source beast are the same. When viewed alone, there is no way to know why they can transform matter into a source. Even if Su Hao restores them, there is no way to achieve a similar effect.
This discovery has pointed out the direction for Su Hao’s research and can be said that his research on sources is about to make rapid progress.
“Perhaps, the source device I previously simulated with runes is effective, but it has not been activated yet.”
With confirmation from both the pinball space and divine mind, coupled with Su Hao’s rigorous attitude in restoring the source device, although it may not be an exact replica, it can be close to it. Therefore, the source device Su Hao created has a high probability of being effective.
The reason why it had no effect, Su Hao speculated, was because he had not connected his self-made ‘source device’ to a particular massive system. It’s like not plugging in the monitor and VGA cable to the computer.
So how should it be connected?
“Since the train of thought is clear, there is no need to rush. Take it step by step. First, find the ‘interface’ location.”
Finding the interface is not an easy task. Su Hao has little understanding of the special biological structure of source beasts and cannot immediately identify the interface location. Therefore, the method is to obtain a sufficient number of samples, then lock the target through sample comparison.
And obtaining a large number of samples requires patiently waiting for the biological transformation into source beasts that he records.
Fast forward two or three years, slow down, seven or eight years is also fine. Su Hao is still young and can afford to wait.
After these days of intensive research, he felt a bit tired when he exited the pinball space. So he had Feng Cheng arrange for replenishing supplies for him, and after eating, he fell into a deep sleep.
He has almost been working intensively for these days. Even with his strong mental power, he was somewhat exhausted. Finally, now that there has been new progress, he can enjoy the pleasure of sleeping.
The next day, Su Hao woke up refreshed. After symbolically rewarding the big dog with a footboard, he teleported to the deep sea, setting up an array device and vigour barrier to attract schools of fish.
It was another day full of determination.
