Psychics don't die from gunfire

"——The experimental site for this project is located in the southern district of Anning City, where there is a small mechanical processing factory."

In order to devote as much resources as possible to promoting the development of theories, concepts and technologies, the Academic Directorate has very few commercial facilities.

As Song Shi walked along, no matter it was a retail convenience store, bar, cafe, entertainment institution, or even a self-service vending machine, there was no sign of him.

If foreign tourists have such needs, they must go to designated areas in the city, where there are specially built corresponding service facilities.

So at this moment.

Song Shi and Ai Lu squatted in an alley, discussing in the open air in front of a data tablet.

"This 'Ideological Transformation' project has adopted a fully enclosed environment, isolating the outside world, and has lasted for fifteen days." Song Shi slid the tablet, and Lapis Lazuli was continuously delivering and integrating information: "Participants in the project There are thirty of them, all employees of that machinery processing factory.”

“Then, the project leader is Xu He, a third-level researcher and the [consensus] of the second ring.”

Thanks to the Academic Council's transparency in scientific research, this information is laid out openly and can be easily collected.

"Evolution of ideas, consensus."

When he heard these two words appearing at the same time, Ai Lu's expression became serious.

"—No, look here."

But the next second, Song Shi denied his idea and pointed to the tablet: "The purpose of this project is to explore the plasticity and transmutation of human thoughts under the influence of non-psionic energy."

".Not under the influence of spiritual energy?" Ai Lu was slightly startled.

"Don't think too much." Song Shi shook his head and said calmly: "Tonight, I will take you to sneak into the scene and take a look, and you will understand what is going on. I can't give you the exact information, but I can roughly guess it. content."

Ai Lu was silent for a moment, then asked solemnly: "But it has something to do with evil?"

"Then it depends on how you define 'evil'."

Song Shi put down his tablet: "Ai Lu, as early as the Eastern Continent Republic, you said that your next stop would be to go to the Learning Council to punish evil and evil. At that time, how much did you know about the Learning Council?"

Ai Lu thought for a moment and then spoke.

"The highest institution of the Academic Council is the 'Nine Houses', covering physics, mathematics, information technology, biology, and spiritual energy. Each house corresponds to a field. The 'Nine Houses' is not only the highest governing body of the Academic Council, but also the most Top research institutions.”

"The presiding officers of the Nine Academy are called 'Holy Sects', and the nine Holy Sects are the leaders of the Academic Council."

"The pursuit of technology here is so respected."

Ai Lu touched the corner of his clothes: "With this kind of atmosphere, it will definitely lead to tragedies under endless research. Just like the corporate alliance, I have seen many cases there, deceiving volunteers, using people on the spot as consumables, those are inhumane experiments and research.”

"I want to save them, I want to save them."

Ai Lu sat upright and looked straight at Song Shi.

"That's what I thought at that time."

The environment became quiet for a moment.

Until a few seconds later, Lapis Lazuli asked a question: "So, why don't you go to the Corporate Alliance?"

".The lives of people in the corporate alliance are not inferior to those in Donglu."

Ai Lu sat more upright and replied: "But I am too weak, the corporate alliance is too far away, the environment is unfamiliar, the Knowledge Council is closer, and I am more familiar with Donglu, so I have more room to play."

"I hope to hone my martial arts skills and accumulate experience in the Eastern Continent first, and then go there after I have achieved something."

"What you said is not wrong, but it is too scripted."

Song Shi still shook his head: "Well, 'knowledge and rationality', this is the concept of the Knowledge Council. You have never witnessed it with your own eyes, so your understanding of this concept is too shallow."

"Evil is evil." Ai Lu interrupted: "Any whitewash is meaningless."

"Yes, it should be so."

Song Shi praised: "My creed is not twisted by external things. It has nothing to do with the so-called right or wrong. It is just myself, and only myself."

"Let's go." He pressed the tablet against Lapis Lazuli, which was in the form of a bracelet, and stuffed it into the reserve space of the latter's cabin: "Go to the checkpoint first, and then sneak into the factory at night. The content of this [Thought Transmutation] experiment, huh , if it goes as I expected, the high probability is——"

"I want to ask a question." Ai Lu also stood up and said suddenly.

"you say."

"What is your purpose?"

There was genuine doubt in Ai Lu's pupils.

"Your Excellency Lapis Lazuli hopes to rescue the omnics trapped here. I want to clean up the evil deeds here." Ai Lu paused for a moment: "What about you? Are you just trying to help Your Excellency Lapis Lazuli?"

"How is that possible?"

Song Shi laughed.

"I came to the Knowledge Council, so I naturally have my own needs. But I can't explain it well now. Let's do this. After tonight, you will understand what I want."

"Ah, of course, helping you is one of them. Don't you think it's interesting?"

"I understand." Ai Lu nodded and said nothing more.

"But if you have to get to the bottom of it, my reason for coming here is actually very simple."

Song Shi nodded.

"--I think."

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8:12 p.m.

Anning City, Nancheng District.

——Tianshi Machinery Processing Factory.

This is the experimental site for the "Ideological Transformation Experiment Based on Plasticity Theory" project.

According to the project introduction, this was a fully enclosed experiment, but when Song Shi came here, there were no patrolling security guards with live ammunition around.

In fact, except for the central building of the factory, which still had lights on, the rest of the area was completely without power, dark and quiet.

No warning.

But this is normal.

The host of this project, "Xu He", as a dignified second-level [Consensus], has enough awareness to cover the entire factory and monitor everyone's movements in real time. There is no need for any security forces to cordon off the factory and ensure it is closed. environment.

One person is enough.

Then Song Shi, Lapis Lazuli, and Ai Lu climbed over the wall and broke into the machinery processing factory.

"——The essence of this warning network is to spread out consciousness to form a spider web. Any creature that touches this 'spider web' and has a strange aura will react abnormally and feed back to the psyker in real time."

Song Shi extinguished the flames and said casually: "So as long as you concentrate your spiritual energy to the extreme, burn your breath completely, and treat us as dead objects, this spider web will not be able to detect us."

"But the main reason is that Xu He's level is a bit inferior. The structure of the scattered consciousness spider web is too clean and straight, without any complexity, otherwise it would not be so easy to deceive him."

Lapis Lazuli has been turning on the optical concealment equipment, sniffing resolver and decibel adjuster. At the same time, he has quietly hacked into and taken over the entire intelligent control management network of the mechanical processing factory.

Now that they had avoided the "cobweb of consciousness", the three of them were simply strolling around the factory.

A few minutes later, they had arrived at the factory building with the light in the center.

The first time I approached the factory, there was a loud shouting, and then a sudden roar came from inside——

"—for gathering!"