Chapter 333: Useless?

Chapter 333: Useless?

After spending a night asking Nightmare Butterfly and reading his notes intermittently, Thor got a rough idea of ​​Nightmare Butterfly's current situation.

Haywood's notes said that the eggs of each nightmare butterfly were not their children, but their new bodies. If nothing unexpected happened, the nightmare butterfly could be reborn by transferring its consciousness into its own eggs.

In this way, they can also inherit the memories of the past, which is the history in their mouths.

But this approach also seems to have problems.

Because Haywood had learned from the tower master that the process of nightmare butterflies transferring was also their most vulnerable moment.

It is said that some official wizards - here Haywood marked "at least second-level wizards" - would specifically monitor this process to capture nightmare butterflies.

Of course, the Nightmare Butterfly's dying explosion was also terrifying, and there were also high-level wizards who died from it.

At the same time, the notes recording the transfer of nightmare butterflies often also require the help of dreams. The stronger the spiritual body, the better the dreams.

This can greatly shorten their period of weakness.

"So Penny originally wanted to be reborn through my dream?"

"Yes, and she also observed you in order to draw strength from your history."

Thor: "...No wonder she admitted her mistake to me at that time."

His history involves traveling between worlds. It's not the kind of traveling from a big world to a small world. It's traveling between worlds with many different underlying rules.

Even he himself almost got trapped when he tried to observe his own history, so how could he have the energy to save others?

"Do you remember what you observed?"

The little butterfly fluttered its wings, "If I remember, the one who doesn't exist is me."

"All right."

Thor felt a little regretful. If he could take this opportunity to know what happened when he traveled through time, would he have a chance to understand whether any changes had occurred in his soul?

However, after experiencing an inexplicable crisis, Thor still didn't figure out whether he had experienced any special events during his travel.

The observer Penny only peeked a little bit, and as a result lost part of her own history and turned into a proud little butterfly.

"Why do I feel like I've turned into a bomb?" Thor shook his head. Exploring the mysteries of time travel was more dangerous than he had imagined.

"So I should still focus on removing the container's rejection of the soul in the resurrection experiment. I may not get any results by studying the peculiarities of my own soul. If I let Teacher Gorza take charge of the research in the end..."

Saul knows all too well what it means to be someone else's experiment. Hayden and Herman are living proof of this.

Life and death are not determined by humans, and neither is gender.

Thinking of this, Thor looked at the Nightmare Butterfly.

"Do you still have the ability to observe history?"

"No!" the little butterfly answered simply.

"What about the ability to change other people's memories?"

“No!”

Thor crossed his arms. If it were in the past, he naturally didn't want the Nightmare Butterfly to have the ability to change cognition.

But now that it has become a bookmark, Thor naturally hopes that his pet can be stronger.

But on the other hand, if the ability of the Nightmare Butterfly in front of him is still as strong as before, Thor might not be able to defeat it with his current strength.

He simply asked, "So what abilities do you have now?"

"I don't know!"

Thor sighed and was about to take the Nightmare Butterfly back, but the little butterfly seemed to sense his intention and suddenly flew up, saying pitifully, "Brother Thor, can you please not take me to that dark place?"

"Not going back? Can you stay out for a long time?"

"Why not? I was outside the whole time."

Thor pondered for a moment and realized that the nightmare butterfly was originally a special life form between the witch body and consciousness.

Perhaps her soul is different from that of the wizard apprentice and she can act independently outside.

Thinking of this, Thor agreed to Nightmare Butterfly's request, "Then you stay outside for now. If you feel anything unusual and want to go back, you can call me at any time."

"Thank you, Brother Thor, you are so nice!"

The nightmare butterfly circled in the air and then landed on Thor's cheek, its antennae gently touching his face.

Thor only felt a little cold.

"Nightmare Butterfly... Never mind. I'll just call you Penny from now on. Even though you've forgotten your history, you should still be her."

"Okay, I like the name Penny!" The Nightmare Butterfly, which had lost part of its history, had no resistance to the name and accepted it with pleasure.

"Penny, why can your consciousness exist independently from the body? A consciousness should be very fragile. Without a body, it is difficult to resist the pollution and alienation that may occur at any time."

"Because I have history. Knowing history can confirm my existence. The more history I know, the more solid my power will be. Even if I get hurt occasionally, I can find myself by looking back at history."

"But you have lost most of your memory now. Will this be dangerous?"

"Normally, I would, but I'm in a special situation now."

"You're saying that your connection to the diary protects you?"

"So that dark place is called a diary. What a strange name."

Sol didn't explain, and Penny didn't need to know about the diary.

In short, the way the Nightmare Butterfly survives as an independent consciousness is not suitable for wizards.

Saul temporarily stopped studying Penny. He put the notes back into the sealed lead box and returned to the experimental area to clean up the mess.

He had not yet discovered why Hermann suddenly behaved abnormally when he entered the female corpse.

That afternoon, when Hayden came to see Thor as usual, he found that the tall man following him was gone.

Before he could ask, he saw Hermann standing among the zombies with his eyes closed outside the second warehouse.

He suddenly showed a trace of panic, "Lord Thor, Heer..."

Thor followed Hayden's gaze and understood what was going on, but he only said calmly, "Something went wrong with the experiment."

Hayden suddenly felt a little panic in his heart. He followed Thor anxiously.

Hull's "death" made Hayden nervous. He didn't expect that Thor would consume an experimental subject so quickly.

Although Hayden took the risk of participating in the spirit infusion experiment, he was mentally prepared to be studied in various ways. Before coming to Thor, he also knew that he would be studied. After all, even normal wizard apprentices would become experimental subjects of their mentors, either voluntarily or forcibly.

But when he actually saw the experimental subjects being consumed, a huge fear still rose in his heart.

When Hayden walked to the experimental area at a much slower pace than usual, he was stunned by the instrument in front of him.

"Electric chair?"

In an instant, the time when he first became a test subject reappeared in Hayden's mind. The slow and insensitive feedback of the new body and the painful experiments day and night made him palpitate.

Hayden stood there, unable to take another step forward.

The imaginary electric current rushed through his body, and he thought that all the hairs on his body were standing on end, but in fact, only his eyelashes trembled slightly.

Hayden knew that he had no way to disobey Thor's orders. Even if he would die in the next second, he could only cooperate obediently.

But even though she knew it, her body just stood there honestly.

Thor walked over and turned on the inductance meter. He noticed Hayden's fear, so he explained the content of the experiment in advance and told him not to be so nervous.

"Today we are going to study the repulsion of the soul by the corpse. You will sit on it in a moment, and your consciousness will try to break free of the body. I will record the reactions of various parts of your body."

Thor adjusted his chair and looked back at Hayden.

Look, I won't shock you.

But Hayden still stood there stupidly, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Thor frowned, "What are you worried about?"

Hayden's trembling eyes moved from the inductor to Thor little by little. She opened her mouth, but could not speak.

However, just as Thor was about to forcefully order him to start the experiment, Hayden in front of him suddenly trembled all over.

The fear on her body receded like the tide, and when she looked up again, her eyes were filled with determination and a hint of madness.

"He doesn't dare, but I do, sir." Hayden's second personality slowly forced a stiff smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)

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