"So you think my soul is weak, Wizard Ness?" The Eye of Authority slowly turned around and stared at Ness.
Ness couldn't see Angor's expression, so he couldn't tell whether Angor was being sarcastic or not.
Ness thought for a moment, then said, "Your soul has a very special property. It's even immune to most soul attacks. But, can you really control this special ability? "
Angor remained silent. The answer was clear.
Ness briefly explained Angor's special soul and did not say anything else. After all, it involved Angor and Phantom Island's secrets.
"Your soul has a lot of potential, and it may become one of your trump cards against your enemies in the future. But before that, what you need to do is to study it, protect it, and prevent it from being destroyed by people who are proficient in the soul when it is weak," Ness said, "And Soul Equipment may be able to protect your soul for a period of time.
Angor didn't say anything, but he already had an idea in mind.
"So, when we go to the showroom on the third floor, don't just focus on studying magic arrays. Pick one first," Kanter suggested.
Angor considered. "Soul Equipment … I need more research."
Angor didn't say yes directly, but his answer had already expressed his opinion. He didn't seem to care about Soul Equipment before, but now that he wanted to study it, it meant he was interested in it as well.
"Of course. I need to find out if there are any drawbacks. Otherwise, I won't transplant it so easily. It's related to your soul. "
They could see that Angor's request for Soul Equipment was changing. On their way, Ness and Kanter explained to Angor about some relatively simple transplantable organs that wouldn't enter Angor's internal circulation.
Along the way, they followed the direction of the mageweath and arrived in front of a pair of double doors.
"Are we going to make the control points clear this time? We don't need to go through the Death Corridor anymore?" Ness asked as he looked at the gate.
Angor shook his head. "The runes are pointing this way, but I don't think it's the end of the branch control."
Angor meant that the branch control might be somewhere else, but they didn't need to go through the corridor. Instead, they needed to use this room as a transfer point.
Ness nodded. He didn't push the door open right away. Instead, he looked at Reynolds. "Do you know what's inside?"
Reynolds seemed to recall something, and his expression was a little ugly. After a long time, he said, "Inside is … a medical center."
"Are there any traps?"
"No. Just open the door and go in," Reynolds said.
"There are no traps, and it's a medical center. What's wrong?" Ness didn't understand. He shook his head and pulled the door open.
After the door was pulled open, it gave off the same feeling as the showroom. A large amount of white frost filled the air.
The cold air entered their noses and made them feel a bit uncomfortable..
After a long while, the frost mist gradually dissipated. Everyone looked inside and were all stunned.
There were many people inside.
However, none of them were alive. They were dead people soaked in a pure cold liquid in nearly a hundred transparent glass cylinders.
These dead people floated in the cold liquid, all of them in the state they were in before they died. Some of them died as human beings, but most of them had their body parts mutated and turned into horrible monsters. Some were covered in green slime, some had tentacles all over their bodies, some had swollen stomachs and blood vessels, and so on. Their strange appearances alone would scare a normal person to death.
They all had one thing in common. They all had an X tattoo on the left side of their face, while the number on the right side was random. Some had hundreds, some had ten, and some had only one digit.
Reynolds was standing beside a corpse with a single digit on the right side of his face.
Her serial number was X7. She was in human form and looked mature and beautiful. At least, she fit Ness's taste. However, her lower body was completely cut off and disappeared.
"She's' Chi '. She and I were on a mission to clean up defectors. She died together with the defectors, and I … survived. She was brainwashed by the lab as well. But before she died, she seemed to have realized something. She told me that she envied me for having a name, and that many people agreed with my name. She also wished to have a name that people would agree with, even if it was only for a second.
"So, at the moment before she died, I gave her the name 'Xi'. The name means a flower that will wither before it blooms. "
Reynolds lowered his head, as if he was narrating or muttering, "It's also because of this that I'm very keen on naming my companions. For example, the 'Ya', 'Sickle', 'Ling', and the 'Ge' I mentioned earlier were all given to them by me based on their characteristics … "
Reynolds paused for a moment. Perhaps he wanted to say, "But they don't seem to agree."
There were very few subjects who awakened like 'Chi'. Maybe the others would awaken before they died, but what good would that do?
Everyone listened to Reynolds's narration. Although the story he told was not full of ups and downs, it was not as tragic as they had imagined. It was as plain as the story of a supporting character in a novel that could be brushed over with a single stroke. But it did help them understand something.
Why did Reynolds insist on removing the Sequence Mark of a soul? He was even willing to work with Nausica to steal the information from the lab.
It was because he wanted to find himself.
"Himself" wasn't just a name. It was an idealistic "me".
Only when he found "himself" could he truly let go of his past and embark on the path to the future. He would seek the freedom he longed for.
To him, this was more important than anything else. It was even more important than his life.
Everyone had their own stories in this world. Even the minor characters in the great era had their own pasts. This was Reynolds' story. They might not be able to empathize with Reynolds, but at least they began to understand his beliefs.
Reynolds' story made everyone fall into silence.
It wasn't until a cracking sound was heard that everyone came back to their senses.
When Reynolds raised his head, he noticed that Nessie, Kanter, and even the skeleton knight were nowhere to be seen.
He looked closer and saw Ness moving quickly around a group of glass pillars. Kanter was standing in the distance, doing something unknown.
Several seconds later, Ness stood in front of a glass pillar.
Reynolds thought for a moment and walked over.
"Sir, what happened?" Reynolds asked politely.
Ness pointed at the person floating in the glass pillar and asked, "Who is he?"
Reynolds looked up and saw a man with half of his body charred. At first glance, he looked similar to the other glass pillars around him, but upon closer inspection, he realized that the number sequence on this man's face was different from the others.
Everyone else had an X on their left face and a number on their right. But this man had a 2 on his left face and a 3 on his right.
"Serial number 23! How can it be him?! "Reynolds exclaimed." Why is he here? Isn't he a doctor in the lab? Why did he die here? "
"Dead?" Ness sneered. "He's not dead yet."
As soon as Ness finished speaking, the man in front of him suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Ness with his murky brown eyes.
"This pillar blocked out the aura. We didn't notice it earlier because we thought everyone here was dead. But this guy made some noise earlier. Otherwise, we wouldn't have noticed him. "
Nessie's words made Reynolds realize that the "click" sound just now was caused by No. 23?
"Wah, wah, wah, wah …" Number 23 opened his mouth. He seemed to want to laugh wildly to express his arrogance, but under the cold liquid in the glass tube, not only did his laughter turn into a gurgling sound, he even choked on it.
It took him a while to catch his breath.
He had learned his lesson this time. He stopped laughing, but his gloomy expression didn't disappear. "Number 1, I didn't expect you to be a traitor too … You should've been left here like the other goods. This is where you belong. "
Reynolds snorted. "You're the one in the cage now. This is where you belong, not me."
Number 23 stared at Reynolds with his gloomy eyes. "It won't be long. You'll come in too …"
Reynolds suddenly had a bad feeling when he heard Number 23's words. "What do you mean?"
Number 23 smiled wickedly. "What do I mean? You'll know soon enough … Kekekekeke … "
Reynolds looked at Ness worriedly, but Ness didn't say anything. He seemed to be waiting for something.
A few seconds later, Kanter walked over from afar.
Kanter didn't use the Spirit Bond to talk. Instead, he said directly, "He must've activated a switch to send a message to someone else."
The clicking sound was the sound of a switch being pressed.
Since he had been seen through, No.23 did not try to hide it anymore. He covered his throat that was hurting from coughing and said, "It doesn't matter even if you know. Soon, the Enforcers and the Hunters will be here. By then, you'll be finished. Huhuhuhu …"
"Is that so?" Ness sneered. "Unfortunately, your dream will soon be shattered. The enforcers should be your combatants. They've all gone to the nest. Looks like you don't know yet. That includes the three official wizards in your lab. Oh right, 03 didn't go, but he's already locked in the flame cage.
As for the hunters, those mechanical puppets can't even scratch our itches. What can they do to us? Of course, if you have enough authority, you might know where the first five hunters are. Unfortunately, they're in the sub-control nodes of the magic array. They won't show up unless they're triggered. "
Nessie's words stunned number 23. He didn't know if Nessie was telling the truth, but since Nessie was able to point out the hunting list of the top five, the possibility of it being true was quite high.
Number 23 glared at Ness with his cold eyes. He was a doctor and a researcher in the medical center. He didn't know much about the southern wizarding world, so he didn't know who Ness was. However, judging from Ness's calm demeanor and disrespectful words to 03, Number 23 knew that Ness wasn't weak. Maybe he was as strong as 03.
In other words, Ness might be an official wizard.
Number 23's face turned even uglier. It didn't matter if Ness was telling the truth or not. An official wizard breaking into the lab was no small matter.
"I don't care if you're telling the truth or not. But even if they're not here, you can't escape. The honorable, great, invincible being is still asleep. Once he knows you're a threat, he'll wake up and punish you with the power of God! "
Number 23 spoke normally at first, but now, he sounded like a lunatic, as if he was a fanatic of an evil god.
However, Kanter's words stopped him abruptly.
"The button is under your feet, isn't it?" Kanter asked. "It's connected to a block of runes. It will bypass all the glass columns and pass through the white metal door to the sub-control node. Then, through the feedback of the magic array, it will alert the others, right?"
Number 23 was stunned. "How do you know?"
Kanter smiled. "Of course … I know magic arrays. Oh, right. Your transmission has been cut off. "
Number 23 shook his head. "That's impossible!"
Kanter shrugged nonchalantly. "Nothing is impossible in this world. If you don't believe me, you can try stepping on the button under your feet. "
Number 23 hesitated for a second, but still pressed the button under his feet. Just as Kanter said, there was no response at all.
"Now you understand your situation. Alright, next, I'll ask and you'll answer. "
Number 23 wanted to refuse, but a sun and moon pattern appeared in Kanter's eyes. Number 23 stared at the pattern, his vision gradually became blurry, and he was about to be hypnotized.
However, just as No.23's mind gradually froze, he suddenly bit the tip of his tongue. As the blood on the tip of his tongue spread out in the cold liquid, it seemed to have activated some kind of switch. Suddenly, a tadpole-shaped pattern appeared between his eyebrows. After emitting a burst of red light, No.23 screamed and lowered his head.
Everyone: "… …"
Reynolds: "He seems to be dead."
Ness: "Not seems to be, he's definitely dead. That symbol just now, is the language of the Cazider world … … Forcefully breaking the hypnosis, but the price is death. "
Kanter looked at the dead number 23 and did not say anything. He only turned his head and looked at Reynolds. "The brainwashing of your laboratory is quite deep."
Number 23 was obviously very loyal to the laboratory. He was even willing to commit suicide, and was not willing to reveal any information.
This caused Kanter to have some doubts.
Since the brainwashing of the laboratory was so successful, could Reynolds really maintain his true self?
Of course, Kanter did not suspect Reynolds. At least from the current situation, Reynolds did not have too many suspicious points, and there were no signs of brainwashing.
Kanter was thinking about something else. Why didn't the laboratory brainwash Reynolds?
This was back to the previous problem. The two consecutive ambushes were targeted at Reynolds.
Reynolds, in the eyes of the laboratory's higher-ups, had a special status.
Ness also thought of this point, but he did not say it out loud. But in his heart, he had a thought. When he was negotiating with 03, Reynolds did not show his face from start to finish. If Reynolds appeared, perhaps No. 03 would use other methods to deal with him instead of passively hiding in the Mechanic's core.
However, whether it was good or bad for Reynolds to show his face, this was still unknown. But the current situation was at least under control.
While Ness was thinking, Kanter hurriedly walked out.
"We need to quickly find the sub-control node of the third floor, or else we won't be able to control it!" Kanter said quickly.
"Huh?" Ness did not know what to say.
"It's not that easy to stop the transmission of information. I did as Angor said and suppressed the speed of the transmission. But with my understanding of runes, the suppression will soon lose its effect. If we want to solve this problem, we need to find the sub-control node and go there to control the transmission! "
Ness's heart skipped a beat. He knew what Kanter meant. Once the information reached the ears of others, the consequences would be severe.
Maybe the items in the showroom would be blocked, and then his profits would be gone! Of course, this was not the most important thing. The people in the laboratory might cut off the outer corridor in order to catch the intruder. If that happened, the third floor would become an isolated island with no exit, and they would not be able to leave at all! Unless they could destroy the magic array, but it was not that easy to destroy such a large magic array.
There was only one way to find the sub-control node and stop the transmission of information.
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