Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

After leaving the Spells Laboratory, Murphy came to the Mind Magic Research Group.

"Concerning the seeds of the soul, I believe Celica should have introduced some to you. You have also read Joasim's diary. What do you think?"

In front of Murphy were the two leaders of the Mind Magic Research Group, Funes Bachman and Omid Abbott.

After the last Yitzhak incident, Murphy approved the two people to establish this research team. In addition to them, there is currently an expert in cognitive psychology and neuromedicine.

I came to them, naturally, for the spiritual seeds.

Although he received the spiritual seed in the village, Murphy did not dare to use it at all.

This spell was so powerful that it even made Murphy feel a little scared.

If one person uses a spiritual seed, it doesn't matter if he turns the other person into a zombie or a ghost horse. But if he turns the roundworms and bacteria in his stomach into his followers, he will want to go into his stomach every day. What can I do if I try to help him solve his problems?

It's not enough for the magic to be usable. Murphy must at least confirm that the black box is basically safe and reliable.

He didn't want to be like Crabbe in the original work and die from a spell he couldn't control. That would be too embarrassing.

"Based only on your and Celica's descriptions and the records in the diary, we can't draw many conclusions." Omid Abbott said.

"However, your decision to destroy the village was correct. Before we can judge the interaction mechanism between this spell and the plague, it is a prudent and rational move to prevent it from spreading and causing possible large-scale damage."

"In addition, I have a conjecture about this spell." Funes said, "I think it may be able to affect a person's basic personality. The caster of the spell combines his knowledge, expectations, and wishes for the recipient. The concepts and motivations formed by the other party are forcibly imposed on the subject."

"According to psychoanalysis, this is a magical projective identification with the object. According to self psychology, this is transference of the self-object."

"To simply understand it, you can think of it as an enhanced version of emotional abuse, just like parents forcing their children to recognize that 'if you don't study well, you should be beaten', although the child's true emotional experience does not really agree with this. Logic, but once this knowledge is formed and internalized, it will become an obstacle that he cannot overcome."

"But I can't think of a good explanation for how this magic does it."

Murphy nodded, "Dr. Funes?"

Funes Bachman is a serious man with a slight bald head. He said at this moment: "I also agree with Omid's psychological explanation."

"This spell implants a very strong motivation or emotion in the subject. This motivation or emotion will continue to strengthen itself and take higher and higher priority in his cognitive model and behavioral logic until it can be integrated. All the thoughts of the subject have become the most important judgment criteria in the logic of their behavior."

"Therefore this person will ignore all contradictory facts and even take the initiative to destroy contradictory evidence."

"This is also seen in severe schizophrenia symptoms."

"From the perspective of brain science, I think this magic may have tampered with people's emotional brain or even primitive brain." Funes said.

"Unlike the complex telencephalon, which is better at rational cognition and analysis, our emotions are actually born in the more primitive brain. The emotional brain is the part related to the limbic system and can produce advanced emotions and emotions, such as joy, anger, sadness, etc. , and the primitive brain, that is, the brainstem, brain oblongata and other parts, can give birth to the most primitive fear and other instinctive emotions related to survival."

"The more primitive the brain, the stronger the driving force of feelings and emotions it generates. This is why it is difficult for people to control their emotions with reason and to overcome fear with logic."

"Judging from the performance of this spell, at least part of its mechanism of action is achieved by tampering with lower-level brain areas."

Murphy agrees with this statement. Joasim's diary clearly stated that when a contradictory mind seed is used again on a person who has already been used, it may directly cause the latter's brain to be messed up. Paste and become a madman.

This shows that part of this spell is indeed achieved by controlling the subject's brain.

But it should not only affect the brain. After all, Joachim has become a ghost, and the spell is still useful. Obviously, the other part of the spell should involve more magical aspects such as "soul".

Moreover, the effect of the spell can also be transmitted through germs, and can even be passed on genetically, which is very magical.

"I need you to study the mechanism of this spell. You can combine it with the Conjuration Pathway Team. They are better at theoretical research on spells. In addition, spells such as the Imperius Curse, Legilimency, and the Oblivion Curse can also be brought together. Analysis. Let’s start with animal experiments first, and I’ll ask Celica to cooperate with you.”

After arranging the research on the soul seed, Murphy gave up his mind. The only thing left was the transformation path research team. He didn't know if there was any new progress after Boris joined them.

Murphy arrives at the Laboratory of Magical Creatures.

Boris was undergoing a fluoroscopy and Murphy went to find Andrew Tuke without interrupting.

This guy was very excited when he saw Murphy, "Boss, we figured out what happened to vampires!"

"Oh?" Murphy was a little curious, "Tell me about it."

Andrew took out a picture and handed it to Murphy, "This is Boris's G-banded chromosome karyotype analysis report. Take a look. Is there anything different?"

Murphy took a look at the crooked "X"-shaped chromosomes on the picture, looked at them carefully for two seconds, and then said "Huh".

"Is this the Y chromosome?" Murphy asked, pointing to the last short, granular chromosome.

"No!" Andrew pointed to a small triangular-looking chromosome in front and said, "This is the Y chromosome. The one you see is in addition to the 22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes. Chromosomes that are not human.”

"You mean vampires have one more chromosome than humans? One, not a pair?"

"Yes, it is unpaired. This unpaired chromosome explains why it is difficult for vampires to have offspring." Andrew said, "It cannot undergo meiosis to form reproductive cells at all."

"This chromosome is not exactly identical to various chromosomes in several species of bats, but we did find the presence of some similar genes."

"Perhaps it is these genes that give Boris some bat-like characteristics."

"For example, we found that Boris' cells are similar to bats and have extremely strong DNA repair capabilities, and the telomere wear rate of their chromosomes is much lower than that of normal humans."

"We used aphrodisiac to accelerate the division of Boris cells and found that its maximum number of divisions is between 400 and 500 times, which is nearly ten times more than the limit of 50 times of human cell divisions! Five hundred cell divisions , if calculated based on the average human cell cycle of 2.4 years, it means a maximum lifespan of more than 1,200 years."

"...If according to this algorithm, the oldest vampire still alive might have been born before 800 AD. He might even have met Emperor Alfred the Great!"