Above The Sky (Yin Tianshen Yin) Chapter 558: The realm after death (1/3)
"What's the matter, Ian? Why did you attack suddenly?"
Aware of Ian's movements, Hua An flew out of the shop first.
She didn't sense any enemies around her, so she was puzzled by Ian's abrupt attack, but she was still ready to fight.
After all, Ian's power of observation is indeed beyond her comprehension. What if there is an enemy sneaking close?
"There are surveillance cameras over there."
Ian raised his hand and pointed to the area he just attacked: "Someone is constantly watching us."
Hua An took a serious look and nodded knowingly: "Sure enough, there is a bird's nest hidden under the eaves. I found it after you broke it."
"It seems that the bird inside may also be a kind of alchemy creature, a creature specially used for surveillance."
Ian also thinks so, and he added one point: just because of the mutation, all the birds are dead now, and only the nests in fixed locations are left to monitor. "
But now is not the time to talk about this, he continued to lower his head, looking at the 'brain-attached corpse' in his hands.
Frost Butterfly flew over curiously, followed by Hua An, and the two goblins stared curiously at the bug in Ian's hand.
"Huh."
Different from Frost Butterfly, who just felt a little familiar, Hua An and Mo Feng had read the book "Experiences and Records of the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea" written by Ian.
She could tell right away that the little bug in the young man's hand was exactly the 'brain-eating bug' he had emphatically described many times.
Of course, as a scholar, she can also see that the brain-eating worm in Ian's hands is not as vicious as described in his knowledge, let alone become a giant tapeworm that can eat human brains-this thing is only available now. The fingernail of a person's little finger grows into an adult, and at most it is the size of a person's palm, which is a real "brain attached".
"This is the attached brain, as I said, the biological auxiliary tool of the ancestors of the Sequoia natives, an artificially improved form of the brain-eating worm."
Ian was still thinking, and the Bird of Light suddenly appeared.
Mikael also carefully observed the bug, and then nodded slightly: [So, with the help of biotechnology, combined with psionic transformation... This kind of brain attachment, I remember in the report of Master Goser, Is there a 'psychic network'? 】
[No wonder Grand Duke Thorin will take a fancy to it]
"Yes."
Ian agreed so much, but in fact, he was thinking of a rather impolite thing.
——This person is really everywhere...how about when to leave?
Ian naturally knew that with Mikael by his side, at least he and the goblins would never have to worry about their safety.
However, according to Ian's careful observation along the way, the threatening creatures in the entire Avak Territory have basically appeared on the surface, and the threat that has not yet appeared, the future must be Mika El's opponent.
Not to mention, the other party is obviously about to leave himself and the others to confront the various powerhouses behind this incident.
——In other words, judging from the known information, the old Mikael is actually useless!
Even, because of Mikhail, the bird of light that is almost everywhere, Ian is often restrained and unable to exert his full strength.
"But it's not a big problem." Ian thought this way: "At that time, Mikael will definitely have to compete with the fourth-level power behind other forces, and it is basically impossible to have spare energy to continue to pay attention to me."
"And that's when I act."
Ian believes that this moment is not far away.
Then again.
"Andor...should be alive now?"
Ian still remembers the captain of the elven pirate, who was also the person who traced back in the "Retrospective Vision" for the first time.
He is a very cooperative elf who is good at answering questions and staying alive. Although he once fought against Ian and Isengard, he is a hired pirate after all, so there is no need to delve into this aspect.
Not to mention, the other party also helped Shasha. In this matter, Ian didn't intend to kill him.
But later, Andor was brought back to the imperial capital by Ethan, as a tainted witness for Patrick to conspire with pirates to murder him... Since then, Ian has no idea of his whereabouts.
"Ask Ethan at that time, after all, there is a channel about Canaan Moore, no one can know better than this group of elf pirates."
Ian got enough clues and memories from Ruixi's body.
The story of Miles Ruixi's mother and son and Aunt Lydia's family is just one of the countless tragic stories in Azure City.
The reason why their tragic experience was known to Ian was not because they were ordinary, but because of the extraordinaryness of 'Myers'.
Myers awakened his psychic power and survived to leave the Azure City, so Ian was given the opportunity to discover the details behind all this by "retrospective horizon".
—But.
What about those people who can't even see Ian's retrospective vision?
What about those people who never appear in the story, but just because of an unbearable day, they become corpses on the street, rotting blood?
Ian will never be troubled by what he cannot see, he will never torture himself because of the pain of others, and he does not think that he is the savior, so it is only natural to help others.
But Ian couldn't avoid his ability.
Many times, a prophet is one who can see.
And a prophet is one who can change.
In this case, maybe it should be changed.
Only in this way can he change the future he sees.
"Hua An."
On the way back to the camp, Ian suddenly asked Miss Goblin a question: "In the world of Terra... are there any legends about **** or Hades?"
The words Ian said do not actually exist in the common language of Terra, but are "invented words" that are a combination of the two phrases "land of the dead" and "land of the dead".
"Isn't that the virtual world?"
But Hua An thought for a while, but understood Ian's meaning: "Ah, I know, Ian, you also feel very sad, right? Yes, so many people died, if it was me, I would definitely die too. Let them all survive in another world—the same is said by the Hall of All Souls and the Resurrection Order, and this is exactly their goal."
Having said this, the goblin shook his head regretfully: "But in fact, the Void Realm is not that powerful, let alone the second energy level that has a 'soul' that can enter the Void Realm. Not eligible."
"Even if you enter the Void Realm, if it's not a goblin or a human like Ian who doesn't need a 'body' as an anchor, you will be gradually consumed by the Void Realm until it disappears."
"For the fourth and fifth energy levels, because the soul is too powerful and the energy environment required is too harsh, it is difficult to preserve it completely. Even if the psionic core can survive, the memory will definitely be lost. ——Some of the chosen ones inherited those pure psionic energy cores, so they were born with psionic abilities."
Goblin's research on psionic energy and soul is like human's research on their own body and medicine, which is very profound and methodical.
On the way, Hua An patiently taught Ian the relevant knowledge, and also wanted to comfort some teenagers who did not seem to be in a good state: "This is an ancient and difficult problem. The soul does not exist independently, but It needs mind and body to maintain, it is a part of the whole of "human being". Even the goblin, the pure spirit form, can only exist in the goblin town and the virtual world. If we want to survive in the material world for a long time, we must Has a body."
"However, time and the void will gradually assimilate us, making the goblin's mind more and more dull, and even become dull and corrupt, and finally return to the natural cycle... That's why there is a goblin reincarnation system."
"But human beings... After all, they are creatures dominated by matter. Your souls are born in the body and imprisoned in the body. If you come out of the body independently, the extra energy you want to exist for a long time is very huge."
"On the Continent of Terra, even in the Void, there is no such high-energy area. After all, after the disaster of the sky, the Void has become turbulent and terrifying, and can no longer be used as a shelter for the soul."
"So even a strong person at the fifth energy level, without the life-extending material of the fifth energy level, can't exist alone as a soul after the collapse of the body, and maintain his 'memory and reason' for too long .”
"...Thank you, Ms. Hua'an." Hearing this, Ian was silent for a while. Although Hua'an misunderstood what he meant, the various information mentioned later are also very important.
At this moment, because of what he saw along the way and the many psionic technologies he saw along the way, a strange guess sprouted in Ian's heart.
But this conjecture is too incredible, and there are still many key puzzles that have not been solved, so he is just a guess.
—Is it possible...just possible.
Whether it is an artificial soul, a brain core, or an army of phantoms... the ultimate goal of these technologies that integrate the forces of the School of the Intellect, Flameland, and Grand Duke Sorin... is not simply To 'kill' people.
How about treating 'death' as a 'beginning' instead?
This is a rather unthinkable conjecture, but as Hua An said, there is no high-energy area on the Terra continent where the soul can exist stably, so Ian didn't continue to think about it.
He just put this possibility in his heart, and then returned to the camp with the goblin ladies.
Ian brought back the location of the enemy and obtained the key to the Grand Duke's technology.
So, after a brief preparation, the patrol knight team set off.
March towards the underground waterway in the northern part of Azure City.