The sun is high

After listening to the "report" of the Destiny Roots, Xiuge fell into deep thought.

After a moment, he asked: "You mean, these descendants of the Dark Abyss are not only aware of their own shortcomings, but they are using humans, elves and other races as examples and targets to change themselves?"

"I'm afraid humans should be given priority, Master."

Roots of Destiny said slowly: "After all, the residents of this city are mainly humans, and most of the memories devoured and absorbed by them come from humans."

Xiuge nodded slightly. This was indeed an important and interesting discovery. After all, according to his past understanding of the descendants of An Yuan, the behavioral logic of this incomplete creation should still be based on its own instinct.

However, now, as their intelligence continues to grow, the influence of that dangerous and deadly instinct seems to be continuously fading, or in other words, the proportion of instinct is being squeezed out by the information absorbed and learned. pressure.

This means that today's descendants of Dark Abyss will be able to better understand human intentions and more accurately grasp the intentions of the survivors in the city, but at the same time, they will also gradually lose something in the process. .

Just like the conclusion verified by the Destiny Roots in the night that just passed, as the descendants of the Dark Abyss continue to accept wisdom, knowledge and human habits, they gradually begin to abandon some of their original instincts and try to adjust own behavior.

Among them, the heirs gave up part of their magic perception and began to rely on vision and hearing, which is a typical phenomenon.

However, Xiuge is still unable to determine whether this change is caused by the spontaneous decisions of the descendants of An Yuan, or whether it is the inevitable result when they embrace the memories of other lives.

Thinking of this, Shuge suddenly recalled the unique individual he had inadvertently "created" during the experiments of Justina and others.

Until now, Shuge still doesn't know what to call it.

"Forget it, what are you thinking about now?"

Xiuge smiled mockingly to himself. He suddenly realized that this question seemed to have entered the so-called philosophical field, and he was still surrounded by the predatory circle of the descendants of the Dark Abyss. Instead of thinking about those complicated questions, it would be better to Think carefully about what method you should use to continue to gather these dangerous monsters near you.

So Xiuge moved his body a little, took out some dry food he had brought with him, and ate simply.

And in this short gap, the nearby descendants of An Yuan were aware of Xiuge's existence. As the message was transmitted within the group, a large number of black shadows began to gather towards Xiuge's position. They crawled upward along the damaged apartment building, and every crack and every pipe was their most convenient ladder and passage.

Shuge clapped his hands and shook off the dry bread crumbs remaining on his palms, and then the running rat appeared again.

After a full night's rest and the replenishment of a large amount of Dark Abyss power essence, Snicki's condition has basically returned to its original state. The moment it was summoned by Shuge, it was even busy yawning, looking like it had not slept enough. appearance.

Sensing the aura of the Earth Mother Goddess's family members, the nearby descendants of An Abyss immediately became even crazier, and their crawling speed began to increase. In just ten seconds, the building under Xiuge's feet had been covered by their bodies. Flooded, standing on the roof of the building, Xiuge could even feel the tremors caused by them crawling.

"It's time to set off and head towards the northern city wall..."

Xiuge turned over and rode on Snicki's back. Then he mobilized his magic power. With the stroke of his fingers, blazing magic flames were immediately generated quickly in the stable magic model. The dazzling light directly blocked the progress of the descendants of An Abyss. Passage, and the end of the flames spread directly along the wall of the building like a living fire snake, and exploded directly where the heirs were most densely packed.

The increase in magic power not only allows Xiuge to last longer in the battle, but also allows him to have magical control far beyond that of ordinary wizards. Although Xiuge has not systematically learned those river valley-level and lake-level magics, now, With the extremely rough magic stack, the power of these flames is already extremely impressive.

The rolling flames quickly created a passage among the children of the dark abyss, so the Running Rat immediately seized the opportunity. It quickly rushed out of the gap, and then jumped directly from the roof of the building.

Charron's Touch appeared next to Shuge, and they quickly climbed onto the surrounding building walls, forcibly slowing down the descent of Shuge and the Running Rat. After they successfully landed, they quickly dissipated in the air. into the air.

Another new round of breakthrough has begun.

And this was only the second day after the survivors from Iris Street and the Legal Committee Resident began to move.

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Law Commission Resident Laboratory.

Compared with other locations of survivors, the transfer here is destined to be carried out last. Now, all personnel involved in the experiment must advance the experiment process as soon as possible and complete all predetermined verification plans. Correspondingly, Xiuge, etc. People have also developed different strategies for different results.

Justina was sitting alone in the laboratory. In front of her was the unique offspring that Xiuge had accidentally "created" before.

In the transparent magic container, the dark shadow is constantly floating, but its shape has basically broken away from the chaotic blurry state of the descendants of the dark abyss, and has turned towards the outline of human beings. This is The result of that part of memory being reshaped.

Now, this humanoid figure created by Shuge and possessing a part of human cognition is clinging to the glass wall in front of it. It is carefully "looking at" the female scholar sitting not far away, and constantly Trying to make moves towards her to achieve communication between the two.

But Justina just looked at it quietly, motionless.

The female scholar's expression was a little gloomy.

As the leader of this series of verification experiments, she is not optimistic about the results of the experiments.

Just in the night that just passed, the results of the first two rounds of verification of these descendants of the Dark Abyss were obtained. With the unremitting efforts of the mages of the Legal Committee, they finally succeeded in shaping "certain" results for individual samples. However, when they tried to release these successfully modified samples into the descendant group that was also imprisoned, the results they obtained made Justina and others feel uneasy.

In the beginning, the experimental sample that was instilled with specific memories successfully returned to its own group, and it was not suspected by its peers. Those descendants of An Yuan who were captured by Shuge and imprisoned in specific ritual grounds only Thinking that the person who was thrown in was another "unlucky guy", they quickly came into contact and began to try to fuse with each other.

Up until this point, everything was normal.

However, when the fusion proceeds to a certain extent, violent reactions begin to occur.

Justina saw with her own eyes that the descendants of the Dark Abyss who had already accepted the experimental individuals suddenly surged.

They grew countless joints, claws and deadly mouthparts, and began to try to attack each other. Not long after, the experimental samples that had been put into the group and the part of the offspring individuals who were willing to "follow" it were killed by their own The ethnic group was forcibly divided.

Just like other prey and food, these similar species that were deemed harmful were quickly devoured by the descendants of An Abyss who followed primitive instincts.

And this phenomenon means that Justina's idea of ​​"using special individuals to continuously influence a large group of monsters" that she proposed before has failed.

The internal thinking structure of these descendants of the Dark Abyss is too special. Although they can realize the rapid sharing of memory, knowledge and other information, this does not mean that they are a piece of white paper that can be smeared on at will. This "paper" has been smeared Without enough malicious intent, people have no way to implant a clear message into their group through this method.

Even if it is successfully implanted, I am afraid it will be quickly identified.

And the final result is just like what was shown in that experiment - they will use the most drastic method to separate out those of the same kind that are obviously "problematic" and eliminate them.

Justina lowered her gaze, looked at her missing left arm, and said with a wry smile: "You are really better at this than all the countries and nations in Vann..."

After sighing, Justina placed her right hand on the magic book she carried with her.

There is a magic signal imprinted in advance.

Logically speaking, Justina now needs to immediately send a corresponding message to inform Shuge on the other side of Salem City of the failed verification, who is responsible for attracting the attention of the monster group, but Justina did not do so.

As a qualified magical biologist, she knew very well that the previous experiments had not actually failed completely.

Although the modified experimental samples were eventually killed by their own kind, the experiment still completed the verification of a considerable part of the assumptions.

"Within you, spirit and will can indeed influence each other..."

Justina murmured into the air: "Although our sample failed, it still 'influenced' and 'drawn in' quite a few of its kind before it was completely disposed of...and this means that as long as we act as The individual will and spirit of the 'seed' are strong enough, and the influence is strong enough, then..."

Justina bit her lip hard.

She remembered the third plan she proposed when she first talked with Shuge.

That was the plan that was immediately rejected by Xiuge after it was proposed.

So she took a pen and opened her magic book under the gaze of the special sample in the magic container. On a certain page, the calculation results she had made before were clearly written.

Justina had already checked these results many times before. In order to ensure that there were no problems with the results, she even artificially expanded the calculation margin to ensure that the final results were foolproof.

"The magical and spiritual strength of our failed experimental sample is less than one-twentieth of a normal stream-level mage. So if we can find more than twenty stream-level spellcasters, and even more Mages at the river valley level and lake level will definitely be able to exert sufficient influence on a group of a predetermined size."

Giustina calculated it again, then involuntarily she raised the pen to her mouth and bit the end of it hard.

"No, no... the time is too short and there is no way to complete a thorough verification... either give up or take risks."

The extremely anxious female scholar stood up.

The black human figure in the magic container was always paying attention to Justina. It tilted its head, and then pressed its palm against the glass wall of the container, curiously looking at the female scholar outside the cage.

Justina looked over, and the "eyes" of both parties collided.

She looked at the dark figure in the container and felt like she was looking in a mirror.

Finally, a meaningful smile appeared on Justina's face.

About an hour later, there was a knock on the closed laboratory door.

Soon, the door was opened, and the serious-faced Hermit Jean appeared at the door. He looked at the female scholar in front of him who had obviously not slept all night, but was inexplicably energetic, and frowned in confusion: "Zhu Master Stina, the scheduled magic signal does not seem to be sent, is there any change?"

Justina looked at the tall sword-wielding hermit in front of her with a normal expression. She nodded and said: "The verification is not a failure, so I took the time to make some additional attempts. Judging from the results, we should now It’s not a signal of failure.”

Jeant's face became lively: "Successful? This is different from the news I got before."

However, Justina shook her head: "No, it is not a complete success, but it is definitely much better than a pure failure conclusion... The sample we selected is too small and needs to be expanded, and the size of the population that is released needs to be Halved, after the first batch of groups are completely transformed through samples, the transformed monster groups can be released again as the second batch of samples, and so on."

Jeant did not express a clear opinion immediately. He nodded and said: "It sounds like a good discovery, but what about time? Is it enough time?"

"It's in time, but I need manpower."

Hearing these words, Genet suddenly glanced in the direction of the special sample in the laboratory. Seeing that the sample in the container seemed to be normal, he nodded: "I will arrange the personnel. Everything is needed." Yes, I guarantee it first, is there anything else you need besides that?"

"I want to take a look at the magic materials provided by the emergency committee. They should be useful."

"Okay, Master Justina, go to the warehouse and state your name. I have already given the order."