Chapter 86: Master of Spiritual Network Cleaning
What meets the eye is extreme white, and the four walls are clean and dust-free. People were hurrying back and forth in the crisscrossing corridors. Occasionally, the sound of machinery could be heard through the door. When I sniffed, I could smell the lingering smell of disinfectant.
"Hello, Daylight. You seem to be in a good mood."
A muffled female voice came from under the mask. The slightly dirty white coat, although the dark circles under her eyes were still thick, could not hide her energetic eyes.
"Since yesterday, many people have come here under the pretext of passing by, but I ignored them. But you are different. I will tell you the current progress."
Across from him, the slender figure of a young man was leaning lazily against the wall, his eyebrows curved without being covered by a mask. His fingertips kept fiddling with the drawstrings beside his ears, and his whole temperament was visibly happy; even someone as slow-witted as Ke Yan could notice it.
"After a night of attempts, we successfully extracted trace amounts of black gas from the research subject's body. As for the black fog deeper inside, we haven't found a way to extract it yet." Without waiting for Bai Zhou's answer, Ke Yan spoke like a ruthless reporting machine.
"In order to prevent the research subject from self-destructing, we have forced him to sleep until now. However, even though the body is asleep, the concentration of black fog shown by the tools is constantly increasing. Therefore, we know that even if the body does not choose to self-destruct, the black fog will eventually break free and turn it into a pool of flesh and blood."
"Is that so?"
Bai Zhou chuckled, thinking of the black-robed man's ecstatic look at that time.
No wonder they are so eager to climb up, it seems that most cultists are one-timers?
"Yes." Ke Yan replied. Although her face was expressionless, her body language showed her eagerness to return to the laboratory. "The black fog is a collection of all evil thoughts. Even if you are close to it, you will be affected by the coldness, let alone lurking in the body. But it is unrealistic to let the research subject sleep all the time. We need a more effective method."
A cooperative research subject can save a lot of time, and they must obtain more information before he dies. But it is obvious that it is impossible for a cult follower who has been immersed in the cult for several years to open his mouth and speak obediently. I am afraid that he will explode into pieces the next second after waking up.
In this situation, only strong measures can be taken - that is, to let a psychic invade the research subject's brain and forcibly transform his thoughts, or erase all his thoughts about self-destruction.
Then a new problem arises: as a cultist who has been completely brainwashed, the research subject's belief in the faith in his heart is as solid as a rock, and his transformed body is also uncontrollable. Psychics are one in a million, so where should they find a suitable psychic?
They discussed this issue and brought in all the psychiatric staff still on standby at the government level to give it a try. But the result was disappointing. No one could successfully invade the brain of the research subject. An invisible barrier existed in the other party's brain, preventing anyone from getting close. The consequences of a rash attack were unpredictable.
Every profession has its own expertise, so it’s better to find other types of people with special abilities. Someone proposed this method, but the result was even more dismal. Because the depth of the energy of the research subject after transformation has reached a gap that is difficult for ordinary psychics to cross, there is no suitable person to try it.
The sighing researchers found their superiors and told them about the difficulties they encountered.
After a round of pressure transfer, the top executives thought about it and passed the ball to a missing young man, and told them about his abilities, so -
"Daylight, we were hoping you could help."
Ke Yan looked at the young man seriously, and even though the other person lowered his eyes, his gaze was fixed on those eyes.
“……” Silence for a few moments.
After a brief pause, Bai Zhou sighed and raised his eyes, helplessly meeting the woman's sincere gaze: "Okay, okay. I knew that you came to greet me in person, and you must have some ulterior motive."
"Thank you, Bai Zhou." Ke Yan smiled under the mask and jumped for joy. He had the utmost confidence in the young man's ability. "I believe you can do it. If you feel any discomfort during the journey, please stop immediately."
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The facilities in the laboratory give people a cold feeling.
On the central operating table, the research subject was tied tightly to it, his face still as pale as before he fell into a coma, as if he had died with his eyes open.
The laboratory was empty at this time. Ke Yanqing closed the door, took out a pair of gloves from the drawer and handed them to the young man.
Bai Zhou put it on slowly, and felt that his dark outfit was really eye-catching in this white space.
With a crisp "click" sound, the contracted edge of the glove hits the wrist, fitting perfectly, and it feels as if there is nothing at all when the fingertips move.
The young man walked slowly to the operating table, stood beside the subject, and looked down from above.
The blood on the subject's mouth was wiped off casually, and there were still some spots stuck on the skin. The hair covering his face was cut off with a knife, revealing his gloomy face completely. Having been in contact with the black fog for too long, even when he was asleep, the repulsive aura did not dissipate from him, and his eyes were filled with hostility.
"Who is he?" Bai Zhou tilted his head and asked.
"He was originally an ordinary person from a remote village." Ke Yan handed over the report on the table next to him. "He left the village two years ago and has not been heard from since. The villagers said he went to the city center to make a living, and other than that, they knew nothing about him. He did not show up until the Battle of Zhuolu. The resume he sent to the government was the same as what we found, except that in the column for superpowers, he filled in "acquired awakening."
The report was a thin page, with a one-inch photo of the man on the upper right. It was blurry, but his facial features could be clearly seen. Without the fringe covering half of his face, and without the lifeless temperament he has now, he was a young man with a simple smile.
Compared with the person lying on the operating table in front of him, they look like two different people.
A two-year gap? Daylight tapped the photo.
Then, the fingertips moved lightly and slowly stopped above the real person's forehead. The black fog corrodes the body of the research subject all the time. Now it has reached the late stage. Even at a distance, one can still feel the cold chill.
A sickening smell.
"Xiao Guang, are you ready?"
"Of course, I can't wait." The ball of light that is eager to try jumps in my mind, "This is an opportunity that has been delivered to my door, I must not miss it. Xiaoguang, I am no longer the same as before, I can't be easily manipulated by external forces!"
"Good, you have great ambition." Bai Zhou chuckled and gave the plug-in his greatest trust.
The paused fingertips moved down and actually touched the cold body temperature of the research subject. The young man closed his eyes and let the energy seep into his body, flowing to wherever it was directed like silk.
"Well, let's get started."
Consciousness seeps into another body along with the energy, the physical body is forgotten in the process and the spirit takes over.
The process of entering the research subject's brain was very smooth, like drifting with the water, without any hindrance.
It went incredibly smoothly.
Bai Ri opened his eyes thinking it would take some effort, but retracted the thought after seeing the scene in front of him.
As far as the eye can see, there are countless wriggling long black worms, entangled with each other, weaving a barrier with their sticky bodies, parasitic on the original spiritual web, holding on tightly. The faint black air exuded a chill, and the unpleasant pungent smell first entered the nose. Use mental attacks and physical attacks to attack the strange outsiders.
“…”
Bai Zhou subconsciously wanted to cover his nose, but when he raised his hand... he realized that he had no hands at all.
The scene before my eyes was like the end of the world for people with trypophobia and hell for those with a keen sense of smell. From the first sight it gave me a sense of foreboding that made my scalp tingle, as if the black bug was about to crawl through my eyes and into my nerves. The young man suddenly felt that he had transformed from a person with special abilities into a chief physician, and then from a chief physician into a sanitation worker.
You look so disgusting, is there something on your mind?
He couldn't help but worry about the cult's aesthetics.
“……”The light ball that was so excited at first also fell silent.
One man and one ball floated quietly in the consciousness of the research subject, and for a moment they lost the courage to move forward.
They did not end their silence until the tightly entangled black insects noticed the outsider and one of them crawled down from the tight flesh web, crawling towards them with dripping smelly mucus.
After trying again to sense the existence of the hand without success, Bai Zhou gave up and decided to close his eyes and wait for good news, becoming a safe energy converter.
"Xiao Guang, I'm just a converter. Calibration and transmission are not within my job scope. Please debug it yourself."
“No, open your eyes!” The light ball entrusted with the important task shouted, and the condensed energy contained the anger of being disgusted and the shock of the partner’s failure. “This is the spiritual network, you should spread your spirit out to fight, I will not allow anyone to slack off while I am working hard!”
Bai Zhou sighed and did as he was told, reluctantly approaching the inseparable web of flesh.
After spending a long time together, the two of them have already reached a level of tacit understanding. They can know each other's next move without verbal communication. Coupled with their shared aversion to external forces, their cooperation is even more comfortable.
The black insect that came out first was used as the test subject.
The energy from the world consciousness swept in along with the spread of the nerves. The two completely opposite forces collided violently, causing the shock wave to reach the flesh net at the back, making a tiny hole in it and revealing the spiritual net underneath that emitted a faint light.
It was caught off guard, and after a brief moment of disbelief, the densely swarming black insects wrapped around its body even tighter. It squirmed even faster, emitting a stronger stench of decay and black air as it attacked, leaving no stone unturned in influencing the enemy's emotions.
The light ball always pays attention to the consumption of heat value. Seeing that the opponent is difficult to deal with, it simply cuts the Gordian knot and increases the intensity of physical washing.
The more it fought, the more it felt something was wrong. It frowned and analyzed, "No, the opponent... is not a superpower. It is a purer power from an external force. How did the cult get this power?"
"These filth has been parasitic for too long, and the consciousness has been completely infected. Even if we remove them, we can't wake up the original person."
Energy flows through the nerves at a rapid speed, and pain arises in the brain. Bai Zhou frowned slightly, looking for the weak point in the flesh net.
"At least he can have a moment to breathe before he dies." The young man said softly, "Everything can still turn around."
"you're right."
The ball of light swayed up and down, making a nod gesture.
"This force is less powerful than me, so I don't need to put in too much effort. But after I clear it, the person who placed this chess piece might notice it."
"Ha, then we must break it." Bai Zhou raised his eyebrows and raised his lips nonchalantly, "Anyway, we have already provoked enough, and this one won't make us any less."
In that case, just come on more violently.
The mental power almost turned into substance, woven into an impenetrable net, covering the heavy and unknown flesh net, attacking the enemy's entire body as a weak point.
The heat value dropped steadily and transformed into pure energy, which quickly surged out wherever the young man went and hit the black insects hard at various positions. It was clearly extremely pure, but when it met with the opposing force, it exploded with a violent impact, burning all the filth.
The boundary between black and white gradually shifts.
Faint miserable screams could be heard one after another in the burning. The stench and stickiness were all swallowed up along with the black air. The black insects that once dominated the fate of others now became cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, and were burned to death in despair.
In a moment, the last fluctuations calmed down, and the breath that came in was completely new, no longer filled with the disgusting fishy smell, and the vitality that had been sealed for a long time began to beat.
The faint light below finally regained its life.
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