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Shell!
Li Yao immediately sweated hard as he recalled what Professor Mo Xuan said to him in the Spiriters' Realm.
"In the future civilization of mankind, the soul is the only thing. As for the so-called body, be it the fleshly body that focuses on spiritual energy, the body of a demon that focuses on genetic enhancement, or the battle puppets that are made of iron, they are all 'shells' that can be replaced and abandoned at will!"
"Do you not feel that 'vegetative patients' are the best natural targets for possession?" Long Yangjun looked at the distant horizon.
Long Yangjun stared at a corner far away. The 'vegetative person' who had just jumped out of the medical cabin did not run far away although it had escaped from them. Hiding in a corner far away, it shivered in fear and extended half of its head to peep at them. It was exactly like an animal that was acting on its instincts.
"Human beings who are still sane have their souls intact. Even the ordinary people who are too weak to fight have their souls deeply entangled with their brains. It is not easy to possess them," Long Yangjun said.
"Even the Cultivators in the Core Formation Stage or even in the Yuanying level have to go through a lot of trouble to possess a healthy ordinary person. The odds of failure are very high, and they may even be swallowed by the enemy instead. That is exactly the mysteries and dangers of the soul.
"But if it's someone who's weak and sickly, or even someone who's been greatly stimulated and whose soul is incomplete, the difficulty of possession will be greatly reduced. For example, when Qi Zhongdao went to the court a few days ago, the reason why the leader of the Jindan Stage wanted to possess an idiot was because of this reason.
"If they are vegetative patients, their souls will be gone, and their brains will be practically empty. They will be a better target for possession than idiots.
"Through the screening of astronomical medical expenses, the patients who are qualified to be admitted to this place were all high-level Cultivators with powerful bloodlines before they passed out. Some of them have long grown a 'second brain' at the end of their coccyx, namely Jin Dan. It is needless to say how sturdy their bodies are.
"Also, those vegetative patients have been sent here for years for treatment. Professor Mo Xuan and Lei Yuqin can totally modify their brains in secret and modify them into 'containers' that are more suitable for possession. Or to quote Professor Mo Xuan, battle shells!
"Therefore —"
Long Yangjun looked around. "None of the patients in the wards above were touched because they were all admin-type and research-type Cultivators. Their bodies were not strong enough to be modified into 'battle shells' in the first place. However, the bodies of the battle-type Cultivators who used to live here are all gone... The 'lifeless' gardeners that we saw outside must've been them.."
"Exactly."
Li Yao typed quickly on the few crystal processors that were not destroyed and mumbled, "They are all the craziest fighters. Many of them are even war heroes in the war against the Uranian Ring Sector. Otherwise, they wouldn't have broken their limits time and time again and trained themselves to the point where they were mentally deranged and turned into vegetative patients after their brains collapsed.
"Although they are in a coma, they have been receiving special treatment in this place for years. Through the stimulation of bioelectricity and the nutrition liquids of spiritual energy, their body functions are still maintained at a rather high level. They are indeed the best 'battle shells'!
"However, there is one problem. The so-called 'possession' is a one-to-one relationship, which means that a new soul is going to occupy their body. Judging from the capabilities that those people demonstrated just now, their souls are also very strong. Even if they are spectral Cultivators, they are all super spectral Cultivators above average. Is it possible that Lei Yuqin and Professor Mo Xuan recruited so many expert spectral Cultivators in secret without raising the suspicion of the relevant authorities?"
"I don't know about that."
Long Yangjun frowned harder and harder. "Compared to that problem, I feel that another problem is more urgent. By preliminary estimation, tens of thousands of vegetative patients received long-term treatment in Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital. Among them, there were at least two to three thousand battle-type Cultivators. Right now, most of them are gone, and we only encountered and killed dozens of them just now.
"Then, after subtracting dozens of them, where are the remaining two thousand or so 'battle shells'?"
Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other, both of them stung by each other's eyes that were as cold as ice.
With a bitter smile, Long Yangjun went on. "It seems that your professor is not a commander without an army. In the words of the Ancient Sages Sector, it is very likely that he has an 'army of ghosts' made of two to three thousand high-level battle-type Cultivators under his command."
Biting his lips hard, Li Yao did not say anything. He came to the debris of the mainframe crystal processor that they had just blown into a beehive and carefully identified the crystal wires and cables that were emitting sparks. He even grabbed the broken cables with both hands and extended his telepathic thoughts into the depths of the underground through the cables.
"There are still things below the ground. There are also super crystal processors that are more powerful and consume more spiritual energy. I can sense intense spiritual waves!"
Li Yao started running. "Follow me. This is a ward that is usually open to the family of the patients. It was only temporarily modified into such a state. The real secrets of Lei Yuqin and Professor Mo Xuan must be hidden deeper inside!"
The two of them rushed all the way down as fast as they could without wasting any time.
They passed quite a few large wards on their way. All the medical cabins inside were empty, but there was no sign that they had been broken into by violence.
It seemed that the 'battle shells' had been in an orderly and highly controlled state when they were 'awakened'. Then, they had been moved to an unknown place.
The two of them did not encounter much resistance on their way. Even a few secret tunnels and secret doors were discovered without any trouble. The gate of a secret lift was directly open, as if it had just been used. Messy paper, broken jade chips, and broken crystal processors were everywhere on the ground. It was a mess.
Such a messy and embarrassing scene made the two of them both happy and worried. They were happy that they would be able to attack the nest very soon, but they were worried that Professor Mo Xuan had probably left the place with an army of almost three thousand terrifying 'ghosts'.
That was why the defense of the place was so weak.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
The two of them reached the central area of Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital through the vertical channel of the lift.
Naturally, a lot of defense rune arrays had been established inside the channel, too. However, they were not worth mentioning at all under the joint resistance of two peak Yuanying Cultivators.
At the bottom of the channel, what appeared in front of the two of them was a super alloy gate that had been reinforced by almost a hundred thick rebars. Complicated defense rune arrays had been carved on the surface, too. Electric arcs were dancing around the gate, spluttering and emitting fatal blue brilliance. But it only took Li Yao another five minutes.
Five minutes later, the broken, twisted rebars were scattered all over the ground. All the defense rune arrays were lackluster. A shocking gap was left on the gate by the two Yuanying Cultivators.
Behind the gate was a laboratory that was soaked in deep blue brilliance.
Nobody was in the laboratory, but quite a few artificial bodies that had lost their souls were lying on the ground, like metal skeletons that had been deprived of their magical power.
Some of the artificial bodies were directly sitting in front of the crystal processors and the control panels. Their heads were connected to the large crystal processors through crystal wires. The light beams in front of them were still flashing spots and ripples, but their metal heads were all tilted to one side. It was obvious that the souls hiding inside the artificial bodies had either been completely obliterated or escaped in a certain way.
Li Yao had never seen such a weird laboratory before. Although he was wearing a thick Crystal Suit and a mustard-seed combat suit, he still felt that chilly air was invading his flesh, bones, and internal organs like invisible tentacles. He sensed the creepiness from the bottom of his heart.
Surrounded by so many artificial bodies, the main area of the laboratory was made of transparent glass plates that were hanging in midair. Every glass plate had been carved with something that looked like an enormous walnut.
They had left in a hurry. The patterns inside the glass plates were still wriggling, changing, and glittering nonstop.
It was not until Li Yao observed for a long time that he realized what the 'enormous walnuts' were exactly.
They were … the cross-section of a human brain.
Inside every transparent glass plate was a cross-section of the active area of a human brain. When hundreds of transparent glass plates were stacked, it was like a human brain had been precisely cut into hundreds of slices, or even thousands of slices, and only a few hundred of the typical slices were selected for study.
"This is a brain laboratory."
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao walked to the crystal processors that the other party did not have time to turn off in time and scanned them quickly. Then, he was more or less relieved. "These are not real slices of the brain but models that the experimenter built after scanning the brain layer by layer with a special mystic ray. The scanning level is at least on the molecular level …"
"Monster Li, come and take a look at this!"
Long Yangjun shouted.
When Li Yao went over to take a look, he saw that more than a hundred pairs of mechanical arms driven by spiritual energy were shivering quickly inside a few transparent cubes. Their tips were even thinner than hair, and certain soft materials of unknown materials were spurted out of the extremely thin, hollow needles. The materials interweaved and gradually outlined things that looked like walnuts.
They were brains.
Brains that were three times larger than the brains of normal people.
The 'brains' inside a few transparent cubes had just been sketched. The cerebral vessels and the cranial nerves had just constructed the most precise framework.
However, the 'brains' inside a few transparent cubes were close to completion. Emitting delicate colors, they gave the feeling that they were 'alive'.
"This — this is some sort of 3D printing magical equipment."
Li Yao tapped on the light beam of the crystal processor next to him quickly and retrieved the printed logs. He said, "The precision is so high that it can easily reach the molecular level or even the subtler fields."
"Therefore …" Long Yangjun was silent for a moment.
Glancing at the cross-section of the brain that was floating high in midair again, she asked, "They are duplicating a human brain here?"
"No. It's even crazier than that."
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