While Angor was admiring Greya's talent, the others had begun to study the thread.
Why did it stop struggling when it was on Angor's right hand?
Was there something wrong with Angor's right hand?
Everyone had the same question, but no one dared to ask.
They all knew that Angor's right hand was hiding a secret. Now that he had become a wizard, he could hide his right hand. However, when he was still an apprentice, other people already noticed it.
This might be Angor's secret, so no one knew if they should ask or where to start.
Sunders explained for Angor, "His right hand can release a nightmare aura continuously."
As for why, Sunders didn't say, and no one asked.
Sunders added, "Now, we should be able to confirm it. Even if the thread isn't a nightmare creature, it must be connected to the Nightmare Realm somehow. Otherwise, it wouldn't react to the nightmare aura. "
Sunders knew Angor's condition very well. Angor's right hand was the product of merging with the projected bloodline, and the biggest problem was the green pattern.
However, Angor had to actively activate the green pattern, which meant it was the nightmare aura that affected the thread.
Angor realized something. He was wearing gloves that blocked most of the nightmare aura, but some of it still leaked out. Perhaps, it was this aura that had caused the life thread to react.
"Let's try it and see if it's like what I said." Sunders reached out a hand. Space rippled, and a black jewel that looked like a black pearl appeared in his palm.
Dense nightmare aura was being released from the jewel.
It was a nightmare stone, a rare magical material from the Nightmare Realm, which was often used by Sunders when casting spells.
Sunders took the leaf from Angor, and the thread immediately began to struggle again, trying to get rid of the energy binding on the leaf.
However, when Sunders placed the nightmare stone near the leaf, the thread suddenly stopped moving.
Thick nightmare aura surrounded the thread, and its struggle became slower and slower. In the end, it stopped moving as if it had fallen asleep.
It was a simple experiment, but it was enough to prove that the lifeline could react to the nightmare aura. In other words, the nightmare aura could affect it.
When Rhine saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh. Actually, he had thought about using the Nightmare Realm's energy to test the line's reaction. In the end, he did not do it. It was not because he was weak. Nightmare stones were simply too rare. Of course, for someone like Sunders who often visited the Nightmare Realm, the stones were more than enough. However, for others, it was not so easy to get a nightmare stone.
"Since we've confirmed that the nightmare aura can affect life threads, what we should do now is to figure out how to use it."
Whether this effect was good or bad, and whether it could become the cornerstone to break through the live thread infection, was still unknown. But at the very least, this was the first time they saw a glimmer of hope after encountering a bottleneck in their research.
"Well, it's not hard to find out how the nightmare aura affects the lifeline."
Sanders turned around and looked at the rooms along the corridor. The prisoners inside were all crazy patients who had been affected by the live thread. They were actually the best test subjects.
Since the nightmare aura could affect the living wires, what would happen to the crazy patients who were controlled by the living wires? How would they react to the nightmare aura?
…
Inside a narrow room, a delicate woman in a hospital gown was sitting on the edge of the bed with her head lowered. She was gently caressing the red-eyed doll in her arms.
Her actions were the same and repeated over and over again.
It was only when she heard footsteps on the walkway that she jerked her head up.
Sunders peered through the iron bars and looked at the woman inside. "Let's start with her."
While speaking, Sunders reached out a hand and gently touched the bars.
The grid-like railings suddenly disappeared, and the door was completely opened at this moment!
When Sunders and the others entered, the woman holding the doll suddenly laughed eerily. She slowly stood up and walked toward Sunders while tiptoeing in a strange manner.
When she was two meters away from Sunders, she suddenly stopped and reached out a hand.
She did not say anything, but her action was obvious. It seemed she was inviting Sunders to take her hand.
Sunders did not move. But in the next second, a human-shaped illusion formed by a large number of illusion nodes appeared in front of him. The illusion did not even have a face.
The illusion gently held the woman's hand, and the woman immediately smiled. She gracefully turned around and began to dance with the illusion in the center of the room.
"What's going on? She's a dancer?" Greya did not understand what was going on.
Tree Spirit shook his head. "She used to be a tailor. She grew up in Windmill Town. She can't dance."
"Then she's —"
"She's acting as a dancer," Tree Spirit explained, "Or maybe it's her identity as an actor in a puppet show. Since she was infected, she became a dancer in an opera troupe and enjoyed all kinds of round dances.
Every time she saw someone, she would force them to dance with her. And then — "
"She would break their hands."
As soon as Tree Spirit finished speaking, the elegant dancer began to dance faster and faster. She kept spinning on the spot while the illusion's hands turned into fried dough twists.
"So that's the aggressiveness of an infected person?" Greya asked.
Tree Spirit nodded. "Yes, but that's only one of them. Every puppet has a different way of presenting itself, and this way of presenting itself will be in line with the role it plays. For example, Iwa you met today. He's acting as a vampire. That's why he likes to bite people's necks. "
"That sounds ridiculous. But this woman never knew how to dance. Where did she learn it from? "Greya still could not believe it.
"No one knows the answer to that question yet. Perhaps we can only find the answer after we cure her, "Tree Spirit said and looked at Sunders. For now, the only hope of curing these patients depended on Sunders' experiments.
Sunders knew what Tree Spirit was trying to do. After watching the ridiculous dance, he pointed at the air with a finger.
The illusionary figure from before immediately collapsed. Countless illusion nodes regrouped and formed a misty illusion, completely trapping the "dancer" in place.
Next, Sunders took out his nightmare stone.
He began to slowly inject nightmare energy into the illusion.
As he did so, the "dancer" in the illusion began to behave strangely.
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