Siren Blade

Chapter 164 Undead

Lie Que took us to a suspicious underground research institute somewhere.

This place was set up on the outskirts of the capital. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary biotechnology research institute. After entering, it had to go through a lot of audits to be eligible to use the secret elevator to enter the underground part.Even if Lie Que revealed his identity, he couldn't enter directly. He had to wait for the auditor to confirm with the headquarters before he could let him go.However, it seems that Lie Que took us down smoothly because of prior arrangements.Soon we descended to a depth of more than 30 meters underground.

He led us into a white corridor, occasionally meeting warlocks dressed in white researchers.This too clean space makes one feel psychologically unable to relax, as if one has turned into a fish and accidentally swam into completely sterilized distilled water without any impurities, but cannot breathe the slightest oxygen.

"What is this place for research?" Jade Bird asked curiously.

"Is this..."

Lie Que seemed to be thinking about how to explain it to his students, but at this time, we had already walked to a room.The wall between the room and the corridor is transparent glass, so you can directly see the scene inside.

There was a person locked in the room. When we walked over, the person threw himself on the glass wall and slapped the wall irrationally.The eyes of the blue bird and I moved there immediately.Seeing this, we both froze.

This man, I don't know if it is appropriate to say that he is a "human", looks like a zombie in a horror movie.He was wearing a blue uniform that looked like a prison uniform. His exposed face, neck, and hands were all highly rotten. When he slapped the glass wall hard, fragments of body tissue splashed disgustingly.

I tried to scan the past with my awareness.From a physiological point of view, this person is already dead, his blood is basically dry, his heart is not beating at all, his brain tissue is already rotten, and even his muscle tissue is rotten to the point of falling off automatically. I don't know why he can still do this. "Live and kick".It's acceptable to say that this is a horror movie. The zombies in the movie don't need to consider so many scientific reasons, but the zombie in front of me is obviously realistic.

In addition, and even more incredible, I actually developed conflicting feelings that were diametrically opposed to rationality.The zombie seemed to be alive, though utterly dead, and was constantly uttering a signal of agony like the most horrific scream.

"This is what this underground research institute is researching." Lie Que said, "Those researchers call it 'undead'."

"What's the situation?" Blue Bird asked solemnly, "Is he cursed by a demon? I feel that he...he is alive, a living corpse...his soul is still in this corpse?"

It stands to reason that if a person's physical body dies, it will lose its binding force on the spiritual body.The spirit will go to the outside world.Regardless of whether it is unable to withstand the external environment and automatically disintegrates or is transformed into a ghost by luck, in short, the dead body can no longer serve as a shelter for the spirit body.The current situation obviously does not conform to this common sense.

"If it's just being cursed by the devil, that's fine. We can solve the powerful curse of the devil, but this guy is very different." Lie Que said pitifully, "As you can see, his spirit body is trapped in the In the corrupted body, he has lost his normal ability to think. However, he still has consciousness, and he can clearly feel the extreme pain from the body, and he cannot be freed from it every second. To say that this is a curse It could really be a curse, but it's something we've never been exposed to, something completely foreign. I prefer to call it 'pollution'."

"Extremely painful..." To be on the safe side, I asked first, "Is this person a criminal?"

"No, he's probably just an unlucky average guy," he said.

"Since this is the case, there should be no reason why he has to endure such pain." I said, "If the spirit body is trapped in the body, then as long as the body itself is destroyed, his spirit body can be freed from the pain." Are you freed?"

"Like the head?" Jade Bird guessed based on the opponent's zombie-like appearance.

"The undead are not zombies in horror movies. It's not enough to just start the head. If you want to destroy it, you'd better destroy the whole body. In addition, if you use ordinary physical attacks, even if you use ordinary physical attacks, it is impossible to smash their bodies into thousands of pieces." Stopping its activities, let alone liberating its spiritual body, will only increase the suffering of the undead. Only by destroying the body with spiritual power can the soul of the undead be liberated." He said.

"Then why didn't you do that?" Blue Bird frowned and looked at the undead man. "In the final analysis, what is 'pollution', why was he polluted, and why was he locked up here?"

"I'll tell you later, follow up first." Lie Que moved to another place.

We followed closely, but he suddenly asked without thinking, "Do you believe that there is a real immortal body in this world?"

"What is 'real'?" I was still thinking about the undead just now.

"For example, do you think you are immortal now?" he asked.

"As long as my head is not destroyed, I will not die now, but if I say I am immortal, it can only be regarded as half of it at most." I said.

"What about the you in the past?" He continued to ask, "The you in the past didn't even have the weakness of the head, and even the spirit body could be regenerated quickly after being destroyed. Is it truly immortal?"

"That depends on the definition of 'real'." I said, "Even if it was difficult to kill me in the past, I might die of starvation and thirst, or if my body was wiped out to the last cell If there is nothing left, do the same level of annihilation to the spirit body, then I must die too."

But Qingniao seems to have heard the implication of his teacher, "That is to say, this underground research institute is actually a place to study the 'true immortal body'?"

"That's right." Lie Kuo nodded.

"The Security Bureau actually develops immortality technology in this kind of place? And it's using ordinary people who are 'polluted'?" Blue Bird said unacceptably.

"If that's the case, I would have erased this research institute from the world." Lie Que said while leading us to another corridor.

There is also a room with glass walls here, and this time, what is locked in the room is no longer a living corpse, but a mass of distorted spiritual fluctuations, visually like a white translucent substance like a jellyfish. Constantly twisting and struggling.I recognized it right away, it was a spirit body, and just like the undead before, it was also in a state of extreme pain.

"This is also an undead. However, compared with ordinary undead, this undead has a higher level of pollution." Lie Que said, "For ordinary undead, you only need to liberate their spirit body, but in front of you Even the spirit body of undead people of this level is polluted, and it is impossible to kill them even with spiritual power, even if they are broken into pieces so small that they can hardly be observed, those pieces are still alive carrying full consciousness in an inexplicable form."

"The consciousness operating on this spirit body should be different from the consciousness operating on the biological brain during life?" Qingniao asked.

Lie Que shook his head, "'Pollution' can even imprison the consciousness that used to run on the biological brain and bind it with the spirit body. It is impossible to liberate yourself from the 'pollution' by relying on the death of the biological brain of."

"Isn't that a characteristic of 'appearance'?" Blue Bird was astonished.

I thought about it first, and then asked Lie Que: "An undead person with this pollution level will not die no matter if he destroys the physical body or the spiritual body. Except that he will not regenerate at a high speed, it seems to be similar to me in the past. You said before Take me here to see something very important to me, does that mean this?"

"No, that's not all." Lie Que said, "Also, the undead at this level of pollution are not absolutely immortal. There are scientists in the headquarters who can use the most advanced technology and equipment to extract the essence of the true spirit in the laboratory." power, and after testing, the power of the true spirit can destroy it."

"Since it can be eliminated, it shouldn't be considered a 'true immortal body'." I said, "In the final analysis, does such an immortal body really exist?"

"I know what you want to say. As long as there is life, there will be death, and if there is birth, there will be destruction. As the saying goes, where there is fabrication, there must be birth and death. There is no life in this world without the concept of death." , he added meaningfully, "From the perspective of common sense, this is the case."

"And next... I'm going to show you the existence that deviates from common sense." After speaking, he led us to move again.

We came to a new corridor, and then looked to the new room.But this time, we didn't see anything.The room opposite the glass wall was empty, devoid of corpses or spirits.

However, I still perceive the signal of extreme pain from the opposite side of the glass wall.There must be something screaming there day and night, even giving me hallucinations of swollen eardrums.

"This is 'stage three', which is the final stage of the undead." Suddenly, an old man dressed as a researcher appeared behind us.

"He is the director of this institute and the person with the highest authority here." Lie Que introduced.

"You can call me 'doctor'." The doctor looked at me and Qingniao, then focused his eyes on me again, "You are that devil Li Duo?"

"Hi." I replied.

"You should have seen the undead of stage one and stage two before. The undead of stage three are completely different from the first two. The undead of this stage cannot even be killed by the power of the true spirit, or in other words, the power of the true spirit The power can destroy its physical and spiritual body, but it still survives somehow, with a twisted form that cannot be explained by existing theories, like a never-ending reverberation." The doctor said, "We also have We have tried to create a miniature space with abnormal time flow and seal it inside to see if it will disintegrate naturally, but it has not experienced the slightest attenuation. After countless tests, we have come to the conclusion that this thing is at least Natural disintegration is impossible on known time scales."

"That is to say, immortality?" I shuddered, "in this form?"

"That's right. All the undead people in this research institute are actually stage three, and they all have literal immortality. However, their bodies will still decay and decay, and they will fall into a whirlpool of pain and despair. In such a distorted form, you can't die no matter what." He continued, "And the higher the 'pollution' stage of the undead, it means the deeper the 'pollution' goes into the essence. Stage [-] and stage [-] They are the pollution of the physical body and the spiritual body, which can be captured with awareness, but because of the transparent isolation wall of this special material, you were not aware of it before. The "pollution" of stage three is due to the deep Reaching a realm that not even existing theories can describe, and therefore not even perception can capture."

He added, "For example, now, I can't detect the smell of 'pollution' from your body, so you must be an undead in stage three."

"Wait a minute." I said immediately, "You say I'm undead? Or stage three?"

The doctor turned to look at Lie Que, "Have you not told him yet?"

"Not yet." The latter said with a gloomy face.

"Wait..." Qingniao panicked, "What's going on here?"

"All the undead here are victims of Bai Ju's experiment." Lie Que said in a deep voice, "Seven years ago, Bai Ju conducted an evil experiment centered on a sea monster in a small town on the outskirts of Shangshen City. All the residents of the town were transformed into the undead of stage one. Those undead were all dealt with and buried by the security bureau shortly after. Afterwards, the law-enforcing warlock troops at the headquarters who were in charge of tracking him found stage two and even stage three undead from the laboratory he set up in the wild."

"What, what does this have to do with Li Duo?" Qingniao asked.

"The source of 'pollution' is the sea monster." Lie Que said, "No matter how strong Li Duo's super-speed regeneration is, once he is dead, no regeneration will be effective. However, even if his body and Spiritual bodies can also be regenerated, isn't this the evidence of being polluted by sea monsters?"

"But the siren is dead, and her power has left Li Duo's body." Qingniao said hastily.

"When you walk on the ground, you will leave footprints. It will not be because you have left, and the footprints will follow. The 'pollution' is also a principle." The doctor said, "So far, we have The 'pollution' of the "pollution" has been exhausted, but nothing has been achieved, which is enough to show that it is definitely not something that will disappear casually."

"But..." Qingniao was still thinking, when suddenly, she froze.

She must have remembered something.Because I suddenly remembered.

In the past, I died with the old bones, and I threw myself into the lake before I died.Originally, I was supposed to die in the lake, but I survived because of the blue bird's help.

Past conversations exploded in my head like lightning.

——When I fished you out of the lake, your body had completely lost its vitality.

——However, my spiritual body has not separated from the physical body?

——Yes, you are in a bizarre state of suspended animation, as if your physical body has become a cage, and your spiritual body cannot be liberated from it...

I... am really undead?
(End of this chapter)