Lu Yuan first pinched a small amount of Copper Powder from the toolbox and sprinkled it over the outside of the sample bottle.
The instant the Copper Powder touched the glass, nothing happened.
Separated by a layer of glass, the Copper Powder could not sense what was inside. Or rather, the aura released by the Crystal in its dormant state was weaker than the Copper Powder's detection threshold.
Lu Yuan wiped away the Copper Powder, put on his gloves, and carefully unscrewed the cap.
The instant the bottle opened, a chill spilled out, as though something exceedingly fine had brushed across his skin.
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Lu Yuan sprinkled a little more Copper Powder along the rim of the bottle.
This time, there was a reaction. The Copper Powder grew faintly warm, and its color darkened slightly, but it did not display the obvious burning rejection it showed when dealing with the Eerie.
It was somewhere between a reaction and no reaction at all.
"The concentration of pollution it gives off isn't that strong. So where's the danger?"
At the very least, he had no intention of touching the Crystal itself before figuring out what it was.
He turned the sample bottle so that the Crystal faced him.
Dark golden patterns wound across the gray-green Crystal.
The dark gold was the mark left by the Copper Pillar runes' scorching erosion, while the gray-green was the color of the Fungal Hyphae itself.
Two things from entirely different origins had been compressed by high heat into a space no larger than a thumb.
There might be quite a few things sealed inside.
He just did not know whether the things inside could be extracted.
Both times, the Gray-White Text had given the same answer: insufficient knowledge, unable to analyze.