Chapter 114
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As the last bit of electric current disappeared in the darkness, Jack's intense movements also stopped. He sat in the middle of the machine, and the wires on his body broke off one after another. In the end, all that was left was a violent gasp.
The interruption of the power supply seemed to have placed an unexpected burden on Jack. However, his bionic eyes didn't dim because of the power cut. On the contrary, they became more and more dazzling as his emotions fluctuated.
While panting, Jack emphasized again, "You arrogant bastard! Damn it! Do you know what you've done?"
"I did something that made you very unhappy, and I plan to continue doing it."
This was what Luo Nan said, and this was what he did.
The Human-Faced Arachnid, who had just completed its mission, had already passed through the wall and returned to Luo Nan's side. Under Luo Nan's guidance, the Human-Faced Arachnid threw itself at Jack.
Luo Nan could now confirm that Jack's previous words weren't a lie: There really was a certain difference between soul bodies and Darksider life forms.
Jack was clearly able to lock onto the soul body, but he was completely unaware of the arrival of the Human-Faced Arachnid. This was despite the fact that half of the Human-Faced Arachnid's body was about to merge into his body.
But on the other hand, the Human-Faced Arachnid couldn't seem to find a place to eat Jack. Even though Jack was enraged to the point of madness, his special soul defense was still working. Right now, the Human-Faced Arachnid was at best a probing imaging device. Even if it could clearly probe the inner workings of Jack's brain, it wouldn't be able to create any interference … … It also lacked interest.
The Human-Faced Arachnid really had no interest in Jack at all. It wasn't because the low-level turbid flow of emotions was no longer part of its menu. It was because this thing simply couldn't be eaten!
It was like an excellent painter could paint a flower so lifelike that it would attract bees and butterflies, but he would never be able to pick the honey. This was the difference between a real object and a painting, the difference between reality and illusion!
From the Human-Faced Arachnid's perspective, Jack's emotions were a vivid yet false picture.
It could be seen that the structure and operation of Jack's brain, which had been partially modified, were shockingly concise and efficient. What kind of stimulation would trigger which cluster of neurons, what kind of 'neurotransmitters' would be produced, and what kind of conduction between neurons would be triggered, forming a continuous running assembly line.
At first glance, this was no different from a normal person's mental model.
But as a matter of fact, most of the emotions and psychological activities of human beings had complicated operating mechanisms. The coordinated activation of various brain regions was far from something that could be replaced by an ideal assembly line.
If one were to delve deeper into this, they would discover that Jack's seemingly efficient and concise operation mode was more of an encoding method.
The Human-Faced Arachnid's probing was extraordinarily deep. The Human-Faced Arachnid's tentacles had already spread to every nook and cranny of Jack's body without his knowledge. Because of this, it discovered a region that had been precisely modified in the depths of Jack's brain, probably at the location of the central mass that connected the left and right thalamus. There was an even smaller "core" embedded within it.
Almost all of Jack's nerve activities would be transmitted through the channels that had been set up in advance to exchange information with the nucleus. This "nucleus" would transmit the corresponding stimulation to the various nerve centers and then give feedback.
Without a doubt, this "core" played the role of a system integration. All kinds of "codes" were substituted into the formula to form the answer, and then transmitted out.
This was originally a natural function of the brain, but it had been replaced by the mechanical reaction of the 'nucleus'. This crucial step was the distinction between "real" and "fake".
Were all Altered Humans like this?
Luo Nan didn't have too much confidence in his own observations. He was still guessing at the role of the "nucleus". However, there was a situation that firmly grabbed his attention:
There was a thin thread coiled around this extremely secretive "nucleus" body … … No, it was the metal beetle!
That's right, this was the metal beetle that Yan Yongbo had tossed out of the car!
Luo Nan was incomparably certain because there was a small half of the beetle shape preserved at the end of the thin thread. He couldn't help but speculate that the metal beetle would completely disappear after a period of time. It would transform into the form of a thin thread.
What were the conditions for the transformation … … Luo Nan could more or less understand just by looking at the dark machine that had already stopped operating.
It was also this coiled thread that gave Luo Nan an extremely familiar feeling.
He used the Human-Faced Arachnid as a medium to unleash his soul clairvoyance. He discovered that the thread clearly flickered with flickering electricity.
And when he increased the precision of his senses a step further, he was certain that the thread had already split into countless even finer branches. Many of them had already exceeded the range of precision of his senses.
Luo Nan could only see that some of these branches had pierced into the interior of the 'nucleus'. Some of them had even seeped into the nerves and blood vessels. They had probably already spread throughout the entire brain, forming a tree-shaped structure with the 'nucleus' as the center.
This … this is … … the external neuron?
"What the fuck are you doing now!?"
Luo Nan's unbridled probing methods had probably set off some sort of alarm device. Jack was horrified and startled. His blood red robotic eyes locked rigidly onto the location of Luo Nan's soul body.
But compared to these things on the surface, the changes that had occurred within Jack's brain were what truly shook Luo Nan's mind.
It was that thin thread that had split into countless branches. The thin thread pierced into various parts of Jack's brain. It instantly trembled with tightly woven electrical fire.
The electrical fire didn't occur on the plane of reality. At least, it wasn't limited to just that.
This was because the Human-Faced Arachnid that was deep within felt a burning sensation that was enough to endanger its existence at this very moment. It didn't need Luo Nan's command to frantically retreat outwards.
Jack's mood template of rage had certainly been adjusted to the highest level. His entire body stood up, and it was also at this moment that his body clearly emitted a dark and deep glow of flames.
The glow of flames came from the inside out, forcibly blasting the Human-Faced Arachnid out of Jack's body. Moreover, the Human-Faced Arachnid's momentum didn't decrease in the slightest as it pounced towards Luo Nan's location.
The Human-Faced Arachnid let out a pained howl. The powerful attack on the mental plane instantly swept through the many floors of the DeShang Building. It was unknown how many people were innocently affected in this instant.
Luo Nan was already unable to care about these things. The instant the glow of flames erupted, he exhausted all of the strength of his soul to leap through the air.
Luo Nan was transported in a dizzying manner, but the distance he flew was far below Luo Nan's estimations … … He just flew out of the room. The entire distance didn't exceed 20 meters!
An incorporeal magnetic field formed around Jack's body when the glow of flames erupted. It warped the mental plane and even the space of reality.
It was as if Luo Nan's soul body had fallen into a bottomless deep sea. An astonishing pressure came from all directions.
This feeling was far too familiar. On the warship a few days ago, the burning wraith that He Yueyin had beheaded had suffered a similar technique. It had been locked onto, controlled, and then turned into ashes.
Luo Nan's mind truly trembled as if electricity had passed through it:
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