The red light in his eyes had disappeared, but he seemed to be trapped in a strange state from which he could not extricate himself. He sobbed and rubbed his heart, unable to die or wake up.
The two looked at this scene and felt confused.
"Is this the price for inducing [Depravity]?"
The ranger asked and Cheng Shi shook his head.
He didn't think so. He felt that the black-robed man's current state was more like he was trapped in a self-looping bug.
After all, he is a puppet!
A puppet made of flesh and blood!
Cheng Shi reached out carefully and took off the hood of the man in black robe. An ugly face covered with scars instantly jumped into view, making the two men frown.
The scars on the scalp are eye-catching, like the self-inflicted wounds of an ascetic.
"【decay】!?"
"No," Cheng Shi shook his head again, "It's obsession. A person who has been refined into a flesh and blood puppet cannot act 100% according to the action method designed in his life, because his flesh and blood carries obsession, and he will always make some actions outside the rules."
"Puppet? He's a puppet?"
The ranger looked at Cheng Shi in shock, as if wondering whether Cheng Shi was just talking nonsense.
In the battle just now, she did find that the black-robed man's behavior was somewhat decisive, but she didn't think at all that "he is not a human being"!
"Let me introduce you again, the creation alchemy enthusiast, Cheng Shi."
These words were not made up by Cheng Shi, but were what he read from Athos's creation alchemy notes.
Although turning yourself into a puppet seems cool, a series of unexpected "failures" will occur over time.
And obsession is one of them.
The puppets were originally humans, and humans all have obsessions, but in order to achieve a certain goal, they must abandon their obsessions, so they transformed themselves into puppets that only act according to the rules.
In the designed rules, all behaviors related to obsession are prohibited.
But as the puppet becomes old with the accumulation of time, the rules within its body begin to loosen, and its obsessions in life become increasingly uncontrollable due to the accumulation of time.
Therefore, at a certain opportunity, once it breaks through the designed rules and starts to satisfy its own obsession, the puppet is likely to fall into a cycle of self-confrontation and be unable to wake up.
This is what Athos wrote in his alchemy notebook, and it is his conjecture during his studies in the Tower of Matter.
Because at that time, he, or rather, the Department of Creation Alchemy at that time, had not yet found a way to turn themselves into puppets. Everything was their conception based on the "truth of creation."
Now, this assumption seems to be confirmed.
There was another note in Athos's notes. It was a footnote he wrote when he found a way to refine himself. He recorded how to get the puppet out of this state:
Set a "restart word".
Whenever the flesh and blood puppets hear the word "restart", the rules in their bodies will temporarily refresh their obsession, but this is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution.
The obsession will still accumulate, waiting for the next opportunity to come.
Thinking of this, a bold idea came to Cheng Shi's mind.
He leaned over and whispered into the black-robed man's ear.
The Ranger was startled by his action and saw his intention, so he quickly grabbed him and said in a deep voice:
"There's still a fierce battle ahead, so you have to think carefully, Cheng Shi."
Cheng Shi stared at the ranger with burning eyes and suddenly smiled.
"Ranger, if you were the guardian of a secret, and you couldn't tell how many people were coming to explore the secret, would you choose a suicidal attack just to eliminate the enemy in front of you?"
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