Underworld 03 Corpse Soldier and Death Flower

"So, so, so and so," said Askar.

"Ah, so that's the case." Shenqian Hiroyuki nodded seriously.

"...Are you really not dissatisfied with my simple expression?" Aska cocked his mouth.

"How come, even if there is something you don't know, just turn forward..."

"Wow! Wow! Wow!"

"Don't yell suddenly, this is a library that needs to be kept quiet." Shenqian looked at the frivolous young man in front of him with some trouble.

"So, do you have any unique insights on this matter? Kamikaze Zero-style Mr. Kamimae." Aska put his hands on his sides of his thighs, deliberately sitting obediently like a primary school student.

Shen Qian turned his head and flipped through the list of new books for this month, marking the ones that were scheduled to be included.In the past, Aska would point at the book list and ask for some horror novels focusing on strange murder cases, or military novels with big scenes and big conspiracies.Sometimes Shenqian would agree to purchase, and sometimes he would say sorry: "This kind of book is too extreme, I think it is inappropriate."

Even in the pure and unchanging life of the underworld, it is necessary to collect some new knowledge of the yang world from the Internet and the library in your spare time.Human life is constantly evolving, and so is crime, and the way of thinking.For the executive responsible for making the trial, the matter of adjusting the judgment with the development of the times is very important.For general clerks, while getting new information, they can also learn how to deal with new dead souls, even if the other party doesn't stay here for too long.

"The gray body is the body of a corpse soldier. It is the unique color of a corpse soldier... The Pingzheng Office wants to distinguish them from ordinary civil servants." Shenqian began to say.

"But there are many bad seams on the corpse soldier's body, such as the neck, the joints of the hands and feet, but there are none in Maoli."

"That is a process of punishment. The Pingzheng Hall uses special knives to chop up the dead souls selected as corpse soldiers into pieces, and put them in a dark room to let the body decay, leaving the bones, and then regenerate the gray flesh , if those stitches are stitched together, they become those hard-working partners around us. They are like living in a military camp, and their daily work and actions are strictly controlled by the Justice Department. Unless there are special orders, they are generally small teams Move in small groups." Shenqian briefly explained the matter of the corpse soldiers, and then continued: "If my guess is correct, Maoli should be a doll made directly from some of the corpse soldiers' meat, which may use To the part of the principles of alchemy..."

After looking at Aska's bitter face before God, he smiled: "Let's skip it."

"It's really shameless, magic, alchemy, etc., thanks to which you and Jin can talk about it calmly." Aska muttered.But don't degenerate to the point where even magical girls appear. Since they can all transform, the special hero is more inspiring.

"It's true. It's just that Ming Dao doesn't really want to introduce those two systems. The popular ones here are "supernatural power" and "supernatural power". In fact, these two are enough. Or, like you Similarly, even if you don’t develop any special ability, can’t you live here well?”

To be precise, the Hall of Ten Kings is dominated by supernatural powers, while the City God's Mansion is dominated by people with supernatural powers.

"It's enough for me to have combat skills. Whether it's wires or spiders growing out of my head, I'm not sensitive here."

Hearing Aska's ridicule, Shenqian didn't react in particular, but just stretched out his left hand wearing a white glove, "When it comes to "spider", it may be clearer to use "this" to explain... about Mauri state."

From the gloved white fingertips, a few transparent threads emerged, tangled, entangled, and coagulated.From the original transparency, it turned into gray like the skin of a corpse soldier, and finally, it turned into a small doll with a head and hands and feet, like a slightly round gingerbread man.

"You are really suitable for handicrafts..." Aska teased.

"Then let's dress it again." Seriously, God used spider silk to make a cute sailor suit on the gingerbread man.It was the same as the first set of clothes that Aska bought for Mauri. "Next, make it move."

Place the puppet on the table before God.A red round-bellied spider jumped out from his fingertips, fell on the table, quickly climbed onto the puppet, and slid in just like that.

The puppet stands up with a swaying body, shakes its hands, lifts its feet alternately, walks, and even rolls over, with very flexible movements.

"Of course, this is operated by me. Ordinary artificial souls can't move freely even if they enter an empty body, because they "can't think". But what if there is already consciousness in the body? Artificial souls may Therefore, it will combine with the original consciousness and become a very powerful energy." The god looked at Aska, who was trying to put a ballpoint pen into the puppet's hand for it to hold.

Ah, fell down.

"That is to say, in fact, Maoli is not entirely made of artificial souls?" Aska asked.

"Although it is possible, I don't think Mr. Gao will ignore the matter of randomly putting the soul of a living body into the alchemy doll. Although the chief's usual actions are very casual, it is true that manipulating the living body at will The matter of the soul should not be within the scope of his permission. If we speculate from this point of view, what Maoli has is still a pure artificial soul... slightly changed."

"What does that mean?" Aska picked up one of the doll's hands, letting it hang in the air and struggling.

"You know there is such a thing as "organ transplantation" in medicine?"

"of course."

"In the past, we had to wait for a suitable donor, or even use animal organs for transplantation. But now there is also technology that can use the patient's own cells to grow a brand new organ. The principle of artificial soul is like this, because it uses To test the fluency of the turntable system, or use it on other high-risk equipment, you can’t take ordinary undead to take risks, even the sinful souls who have been sentenced to hell, so they can’t bear it. It is immoral for them to bear the suffering within the range, so the "Artificial Soul" as we know it was developed by the Chu Jiang Agency."

Shenqian smiled and rescued the struggling puppet from Aska's hand and continued: "In short, remove all thinking power, reduce activity, and try to isolate factors that may cause mutations. It is only used for experiments. Destroy it immediately. But... Since there are ways to do this, on the contrary, isn’t it also feasible to “not perform these routine treatments”? For the sake of convenience, the production of artificial souls does not need to be done by the technicians of Chujiang Hall Write the value from scratch, but take the direct "copy" by the real spirit body, and then remove the thinking power and some other things."

"...In other words, Mao Li's thinking ability may not be eliminated during the manufacturing process, and it is preserved like this..." Aska murmured.

"I think this inference is the best explanation for why Mr. Gao Xun didn't comment on this matter." Shenqian said.

"Then, can you deduce the reason why Bai Chuan wants to do this from the fact that Bai Chuan keeps stuffing new artificial souls into Maoli's body?" Aska continued to ask.

God stopped suddenly, tilting his head.After a while, he stretched out his fingers, and two spiders fell from the fingertips again, one blue and one white, and then drove them all into the little gray doll.

The little puppet began to shake in strange postures, as if its body was being pulled by forces from all directions, it ran to the right, slanted to the left again, and even fell on its back, wriggling like a caterpillar.

The little puppet is like Maoli's clone, Aska thought, would Maoli also convulse and roll like this, or feel severe pain when he didn't know it?

"I don't know. Because it was an unnecessary behavior, adding too many soul cores to the soul shell, if it wasn't for someone like me with an abnormally stable soul... that would be the fate."

Aska clicked his tongue.That's right, because Shenqian is a different kind, even if he exchanged the soul shell with Jin, he didn't think there was any serious problem, but Jin Huanyi was much more unlucky, not only because of the forced expulsion of part of the soul core, which led to mental disorders, but also because of no reason. He was imprisoned in the detention center for many years.

The current Maoli is a bit like the situation of Jin back then.

"First of all, the soul cores fight repeatedly in the same soul shell, which will lead to a decrease in learning ability, a sharp decrease in thinking ability, abnormal behavior, and fragmented language. Compared with the rational side, they will obey their desires first. Like a beast." Shenqian said. "Second, if you continue to let it go, you may explode yourself."

"How to save him?" Aska asked heavily.

"...Oh, I thought..." Suddenly, God showed a surprised expression, "You just came to ask me about artificial souls."

Aska didn't know why this question made God react so strongly, "You have no solution is

? ”

"Yes, I didn't, I just help you guess the possible situation." Shenqian said.

Aska continued to stare at the twitching little doll from the corner of his eye.Ajiujin is right, knowing the principle does not mean that the problem can be solved.

"But... isn't Mr. Ajiujin planning to make a move?" At this moment, a doubtful sentence appeared before the god.

"Wh-what?" Aska opened his mouth, looking in front of God.

"Uh, what I mean is..." Because of Aska's astonishment, God was at a loss, "Isn't "this aspect" Mr. Akutsu's specialty?" He pushed the pair of square glasses on his face in trouble , "After all, part of Jin's soul core was repaired by him. If his ability to change has evolved to the point where even the composition value of the soul core can be rewritten, copied or even repaired..."

He hooked his five fingers, and at this time three spiders of different colors jumped out from the gray doll together, crawled, bumped into each other, and shattered into pieces of insect corpses... Then, the parts that had become invisible Like Lego bricks, the spider fragments recombine into a slightly larger tricolor spider.

The tricolor spider re-drilled into the doll.The puppet returned to its original flexible movements, running and jumping on the table without hindrance.

"It may take a little longer, but there's no reason why it can't be done just to integrate multiple soul cores." Shenqian came to his conclusion.

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If you want to describe it in terms of Aska flow, it's like just stepped into the first adventure cave for less than 5 minutes. The average level of the brave man and his happy partners is three. A high-level boss character in the Mysterious Labyrinth after a full round.

Don't mention whether the opponent's blow will completely wipe out your own side. Before that, should you complain to the game company...

Although Ajiujin's face is expressionless now, his mind is indeed filled with these messy things.Because he didn't allow himself to think about why Aska wasn't by his side now.

"Sorry to bother you." The senior leader... no, Hibiki Shirakawa, the current head of the security department, is now nodding politely to Akutsu.It didn't take a few seconds to walk in from the door of the archives room.

Ajiujin was vigilant, his whole body was tense, his hands were pressing on the keyboard, the number of wires hanging behind his head increased, and they were inserted into the computer mainframe that could be touched in all directions as much as possible.

Mao Li didn't seem to have much reaction to Shirakawa's visit, just sat quietly on the chair, but Akutsu didn't know whether he had given up resisting or had other good strategies.

"Are you looking into my business? Mr. Ajitsu." Bai Chuan smiled.He has a pair of slender eyes, half-length hair with black and white variegated colors, and he looks radiant no matter his words, deeds and actions.Wearing a neat white shirt and white khaki pants, he looks no older than 30 years old. He is usually an honest young man who occasionally wants to make a bad impression.

Through the lens, Ajiujin looked at the other party's seemingly kind attitude coldly.

"A little while ago, Hatsue Hall helped me to make an insurance... It's actually a small program, as long as someone tries to search for me and Maoli from the "various databases" at the same time, a message will notify me." Bai Chuan put his hands on the edge of Ajiujin's table, and bent slightly, "This will bother me a little, so can you please stop investigating?"

"What will happen to Maoli?" Ajitsu said.

"Oh, I don't care about that kind of thing." Bai Chuan still maintained his demeanor and smile, but the words he uttered were extremely cold.

"If it's broken, won't you be bothered?" Ajiujin moved his finger and put it on the keyboard, but didn't type.

"It's okay to do another one at that time. It's not a difficult thing anyway... By the way, when did Akutsu-san become so sentimental? Was he influenced by that vulgar little hooligan? Don't... the original Gao Ridge Flower is about to be stained with muddy water, isn't it great to be able to maintain that clear personality from beginning to end?"

"No one can maintain the same appearance forever. Another explanation for stagnation is "no progress." Ajiujin said softly.

"...Oh, no. It turned out that I misunderstood. It turned out that only when I was with that little rascal did I become closer to human nature. Now the flower of Gaoling is still covered with thorns." Bai Chuan smiled obviously. He said, "That's good, do you want to choose a residue that is just an artificial soul, or that little rascal? It's a very simple choice. I will keep the one you choose, and I will take care of the rest. .”

This is not a negotiation, it is a luxurious threat.

Ajiujin also knows that this kind of question with the option set in advance seems to be freely verified by the answerer, but in fact the answer has been fixed long ago.

"I don't choose either." Ajiujin replied clearly.

"...This is a bit beyond my expectation. In my expectation, you will obediently let me take Maoli away... Please, this matter has nothing to do with Akutsu-san, and you were arrested for no reason Wouldn't it be a disadvantage to get involved?" Bai Chuan smiled wryly, turned his back, leaned against the table and sighed.

"Mao Li said, he hates that. That's all." Although Ajiujin's voice was soft, his tone was firm, "Do you want to continue to do something to a soul whose mind is constantly being destroyed into the state of a child?"

"It's just an artificial soul, you know that."

"Mao Li is getting closer and closer to the side of the true soul. This is a mutation given to him by Ming Dao. If you destroy him, you will be the same as the guilty soul who committed the crime of murder. It is something that cannot be forgiven."

"...So, it's you threatening me now? Mr. Akutsu. Bai Chuan looked up at the ceiling, and he didn't seem to waver.

"If you want to take Maoli away by force, I will send a complaint letter to the Zhuanlun Hall and ask the government unit there to investigate you. Based on the long-standing bad relationship between the Ten Kings Hall and the City God's Mansion, I think it will Handle this kind of internal whistleblowing very aggressively."

Hearing this, Bai Chuan shook his body and laughed, and suddenly said: "Have you seen detective movies? Usually, this kind of guy who thinks he is a messenger of justice and intends to report other people's evil deeds through normal channels will be the first One was killed. You wouldn’t be so ignorant of common sense... Ah, indeed, there is indeed such an item in your information: "Being out of touch with common sense."

"...I am a chain virus." Ajiujin said.

Bai Chuan turned his head and looked at the other party in doubt, as if he didn't understand what the other party wanted to express for a while.

"Usually, people who are involved with me will be contaminated with "unfortunate"." Ajiujin looked at his computer screen, as if a little sad.

What Nanami Yoshimitsu said to him is still firmly in my memory.The other party clearly stated that if they didn't meet themselves, they would be "happier".

"Yeah, you are like a beautiful curse, disrupting the lives of everyone around you, how does it feel to watch fools dancing wildly in hot iron slippers?" Bai Chuan still smiled, looking at Ajiujin from a height, "Okay, return my things to me, it only takes a few days... If, this time, if it is not damaged, I will send it back properly. Let me be more clear, my condition: if you don't let me If you take Maoli away peacefully, your little hooligan subordinates will immediately receive a notice to transfer him to the hell of the Ten Kings Hall, and I will definitely help him choose a suitable one. Ah, please don’t make complaints or anything. If I investigate over there, I can't guarantee that I can get out completely.

"Now, you also have a little... something to do with me." Ajiujin finally moved his finger.Just press one key.

In an instant, out of thin air, several silvery white electric currents slashed towards Bai Chuan's forehead.Although surprised, Bai Chuan also reacted immediately, and his body nimbly dodged a few feet behind.The electric current hit the floor, causing several rings of scorched black.

"Are you dancing in iron slippers too? Fool." Ajiujin stood up, and the wireless keyboard that had been placed on the table rolled over to his hand. Flash and flash.

"Hey, what, this!" Bai Chuan finally put away his smile, "Isn't this kind of ability written in the information? Could it be that it was specialized recently?"

"'Here' is my territory."

Under normal circumstances, Akutsu is not aggressive, but there are exceptions.The first time he discovered that he could block this place with the power of electrons was during the dispute with Aska.He was in a state of disarray, overwhelmed with anger and sadness, and just wanted to get the stuff out of him as much as he could.

Things he doesn't need.

But this time, he can clearly manipulate these.As long as he is in the file management room, as long as the thing he wants to exclude is in the same room with him, then this defensive attack can be activated.First use the electronic city wall to block the surrounding area, and then release the electric current to attack the target.

"Get out," he said.

So far, he is still unable to determine whether "this kind of self" really has the means to truly value someone, or to pay for someone without thinking about anything, but this time, he is weakly driven by something.

Very weak, very weak, like a feather caressing the palm of your hand, if you were the previous self, you might not even be able to feel this weak signal.You can live alone without anyone, and there is no inconvenience if you don’t contact anyone. This is heaven.

Also hell.

"Sure enough, it's still covered with mud, Mr. Akutsu." A voice of real regret.

I don't know when, Bai Chuan, who was driven to the door by the electric drive just now, is now behind Ajiujin, and he just reached out to grab it normally, and Ajiujin was dragged back by the whole person together with the wire behind his head.

"But I was really taken aback just now. This move is very powerful. I'm sorry for treating you as the same level as the little hooligan. You are much higher than him." Bai Chuan said, holding The strength of the wire is merciless, it is an act deliberately made to make the other party feel severe pain. "Agree to my terms?"

"I refuse." Ajiujin gritted his teeth.

Then, Bai Chuan tore off a wire, and Ajiujin's body trembled vigorously, but he didn't cry out.The wires were thrown on the ground, and the connectors that had just been pulled out were still stained with blood. It seemed that this was already a part of his body.

"Huh, why is this necessary?"

"...Let's proceed to the second negotiation." Ajiujin endured the pain, the wound on the back of his head was stabbed and hot, and blood flowed down to his neck.He took a deep breath, and until now, it was still within the expected range.He had never intended to win against a guy whose strength was far from his own.

Instead, Bai Chuan was stunned for a moment, "Oh? Did you make an offer? I'll just listen."

"I won't unify the artificial soul in Maoli's body, but you can't add new soul cores. Let Maoli continue like this, and we won't do anything." Ajiujin said slowly.

Bai Chuan was silent.Rather, if Ajiujin had the energy to look back at him now, he might notice that his face was turning blue.As if afraid of something.

"Can you even do that kind of thing? It's really...remarkable." Bai Chuanyan exclaimed insincerely.

"Although I don't know the reason, I know that if the soul core in Maoli's body is unified, something will trouble you very much. The requirements here are very low, as long as he doesn't collapse." Ajiujin threw out the trump card.

Originally, asking Aska to investigate Bai Chuan was just a cover, even if he knew the other party's information, it would not have any practical effect, the key point was "how to solve it".

He wanted to solve it "by himself".

Bai Chuan closed his eyes, and finally said: "Sorry, the negotiation broke down, so I have to make "you" and "your ability" disappear for a while."

After tearing down more wires, a faint whine seemed to be heard in his ears, he clenched his fist and punched the opponent in the abdomen.

He didn't like this kind of voice very much, and he wasn't interested in bullying the weak, it was just...just...