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Chapter 813 I can tell at a glance that you are not human! (7600, ask for a monthly pass!)
Ian didn't notice the danger of the 'Scarlet Garden' at first, after all, this place is too dangerous.

Although it sounds like 'you put this and this', in fact, he did distract more energy from the possible threats in the real world.

Just now, Ian was still searching, whether there were any lurking beasts within the range of his foreseeable vision, or a possible third-level beast king.

You know, the monsters of the third energy level are not inferior to human intelligence, and will the third energy level of the alien beast be the same?

If so, what kind of traps will they set?
But as a result, Ian found nothing... let alone a strange beast, not even a corpse.

Apart from the red light, the entire Scarlet Courtyard is very clean and tidy. It can even be said that it is as if a cleaner has been cleaning it for thousands of years.

Fascinated by this situation, Ian ignored the changes on the side of the virtual world.

Fortunately, there is Xiou.

"It can almost be said to be exactly the same... No wonder this Scarlet Garden has always been on red alert. Subspace fragments have already overlapped 95% of the material world. It's strange not to be on alert!"

The red-haired dragon girl with the potential of the dragon of the virtual world is frowning at the moment, but her expression is very similar to Ian's expression just now, her demeanor and temperament are all in line, she is completely a brother and sister: "Ian, this...how many people died here? How can people become like this?!"

Speaking of the latter part, Xiou raised his voice slightly, as if he had been taken away by the Academy of Gnosis, sunk into the maze of subspace and had to watch a lot of ghosts fighting, his PTSD began to attack.

"Whether a million people died overnight in the Avakland, or a million people with souls... plus there are many souls of the tragic dead in the laboratory, the two are mixed with each other, with the deliberate guidance of Grand Duke Sorin, so Only then will the virtual world overlap and the subspace labyrinth proliferate."

Ian stretched out his hand and patted Xiou on the shoulder, and Anfa also hugged Xiou, calming the dragon girl down a little.

Immediately afterwards, Ian looked around, and he continued to analyze: "As for here... well... many people died too? And for some reason, the spiritual quality here is very abundant... Well, the courtyard has basically overlapped with the Void Realm."

At this moment, the boy firmly said: "In this third floor, there is definitely an entrance to the 'subspace labyrinth'!"

"But the problem is not here - Anfa, did you Canaan Moore send an army here to explore and die?"

Asking in a deep voice, Ian has already noticed something is wrong.

"No, of course not!" Anfa replied solemnly to the weird question: "Except for small-scale exploration, no team in Canaan Moor has ever sent a team of more than ten people to enter the third floor! Even me, last time Come to the third floor, there are only three people!"

"understood."

In this regard, Ian let out a sigh of relief, and he said calmly: "Then, a wonderful thing happened."

"According to my observations, in the entire Scarlet Garden, the number of deaths in the past year, or the number of 'souls' that have dissipated here..."

"Over 500 million!"

Everyone froze in place.

Five... 500 million?

What a joke!
If you say 50 people... No, no, no, 50 is too exaggerated... If you say 5000 people, Anfa may still doubt whether the blood of the Ten Kings of Canaan Moor once sent a small army to fight here A local war.

This kind of thing has not happened before. In order to compete for valuable ruins and areas, the Blood of the Ten Kings will never hesitate to shed blood.

Back then, the 'turmoil in the Linhai Autonomous Region' was driven by the Blood of the Ten Kings, and it ended in a proxy war.In that small-scale civil war, the death toll was as high as 12, which was more than the number of deaths in the past 100 years of confrontation with the Heavenly Royal Court!
But... 500 million?

This has exceeded the limit of Anfa's imagination by an order of magnitude!
"Wow, Ian, you're not kidding, are you?"

Ethan is not the kind of person who would doubt Ian, if he said 500 million, it would be 500 million.And Anfa looked solemn, obviously thinking about something.

So in the end only Xiou bluffed and opened his eyes wide, and said in disbelief: "It's true that 500 million people will die, and that's true. The virtual environment here is abnormal—but where are the corpses? 500 million corpses are enough More than half of the entire Scarlet Garden has been paved!"

"Even if there were 500 million people living here and all of them died during the disaster, we should be able to see many corpses now!"

Shio is right.Even if 500 million people really died, the corpses could still pile up into a hill. The Scarlet Garden couldn't be so tidy.

But Ian did not answer Xiou's question directly, but continued to say amazingly: "These 500 million are just a foundation. In fact, according to the results of my observations, if it is a disaster that fell from the sky, 500 million people died here." People, the distortion of the void caused by their souls has long since ended, just like the Avakland finally returned to normal and the subspace maze was broken."

"Actually, what I'm talking about is the last year-there have been souls dissipating here, and there are still a lot of them. At least hundreds of thousands of souls disappear every month to support the distortion of this intensity of the virtual world."

Now, Ian completely confused the other three.

"Can……"

Isengard, who believed in Ian the most, couldn't help asking cautiously: "Where is the dead man?"

The white-haired boy looked at his friend, and said calmly: "I didn't say that people died. I just said that there are 500 million ordinary people's 'souls' disappearing here, and there are tens of thousands of people every month. It’s just the soul of the share.”

"The cursed land on the other side of Yanjiang doesn't kill tens of thousands of people every month, but the evil land where subspaces overlap still exists, doesn't it?"

"Call..."

As soon as Ian said this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Anfa also put his hand on his chest, looked around helplessly and said: "Ian, don't be scary next time... It seems that there is actually a There is a natural psionic field? Converting natural source matter into spiritual matter, and then continuously supplying the local subspace labyrinth... No wonder it can last for such a long time."

"first."

Ian's eyes flashed with silver-blue brilliance, and he continued to observe the situation in the entire Scarlet Courtyard, and said lightly: "This psychic energy field is man-made, and it should be that the civilization of the previous era required a large amount of 'spiritual matter' to carry out the virtual environment. Shaped by experiments. If there are no accidents, there should be a virtual machine god research institute here."

"Secondly, I didn't say that the souls dissipated here are all ignorant and unconscious spiritual substances transformed from the spiritual energy field... You can also feel something is wrong, isn't it that cool and terrifying feeling? It proves that there are actually quite a few intelligent souls that dissipate in this time and space, and then are absorbed by the subspace, distorting the surrounding virtual world!"

"In the end, people still died, and the corpses of tens of thousands of people are also quite a lot?"

Xiou worked hard to revive his brain, which is not difficult for the real dragon... So soon, the real dragon lady raised her head in shock and looked at Ian: "Wait... yeah , is just an intelligent soul, and does not necessarily need a corpse..."

"Yes, Xiou, you finally understand that you are indeed very talented in virtual realm souls."

Hearing this, Ian was quite relieved.Xiou is indeed not stupid, as long as she needs to, her brain moves very fast.

He raised his head, looked at the ceiling, and also looked in the direction of the second-floor twilight shelter: "I actually thought about your confusion at the beginning-I also found it strange, obviously observing hundreds of thousands of souls just recently Death during this period, and the magnitude of distortion in the entire virtual world requires millions of intelligent souls, so where are the corpses and the sacrificial field?"

"As long as it can explain the reality of the situation, then the most incredible answer is the answer..."

"Everyone, those intelligent souls have no bodies from the beginning."

Lowering his head, Ian and Isengarde looked at each other.

He only said one word, and the blond boy suddenly realized.

【echo】

"Do you remember?" Ian pointed to the top of his head, his expression calm: "Those beasts with special abilities and martial arts... Although I killed them very quickly, there is no doubt that they do have wisdom that does not belong to them." skills."

"This is obviously the ability of the pre-epoch civilization to bless them through mechanical transformation...With the transformed brain and chips, they can download knowledge into the body, use the instant body of the alien beast, and the body that has undergone arduous practice Confrontation by human sublimators—no matter what the result is, it is indeed difficult for ordinary human beings to fight against biological weapons like alien beasts."

"but."

Having said that, Ian raised a finger, and he said solemnly: "If there is such a pre-epoch civilization system...it does not use the body of a strange beast as a carrier to download information, but uses pure spiritual matter as a material Engraved."

"What it engraves is not martial arts skills, but some memories and thinking algorithms, some human thinking patterns... and some painful memories..."

"So, what happens to the ectoplasm?"

what will happen...

Leaving aside Isengard and Xiou, two people who understood this directly, Anfa, who was not sensitive to this aspect but also had an existential crisis of being obliterated by the memory of Tinder, immediately understood what Ian meant.

The elf girl with long emerald green hair took a deep breath: "This is an artificial soul... mass-produce a large number of high-quality sacrificial souls with wisdom and painful memories?!"

The more he talked, the more horrified Anfa looked at the center of the Scarlet Garden in astonishment: "The reason why there is such a large virtual distortion here is because the instruments of the civilization of the previous era have been using the psionic energy that can produce a large amount of psychic matter. The field artificially creates a soul with a lot of painful memories, so it can always maintain the existence of the subspace labyrinth?!"

Regarding Anfa's guess, Ian shook his head slightly: "To be precise, I don't think it is a soul, but a kind of 'Virtual Mechanism', a kind of soul program. It's just very weak, only the soul strength of ordinary people. "

"But otherwise, I think you're right."

"Whether it was done by the pre-epoch civilization or by the controller of the Xenomorph Research Institute later, he has a genius idea-using the method of creating a virtual machine god, using echoes, memory downloading, and a whole spiritual transformation field, create souls in batches to distort the virtual environment, and then create subspace mazes to store and cover up some things."

"Of course, he may also be doing some experiments, but in general, he has used everything he can."

At this point, Ian asked teasingly: "Anfa, where do you think the entrance to the subspace maze will be?"

And this question needs no answer.

Because Anfa thought of that place in an instant.

"abyss!"

The elf girl clenched her fists: "The abyss where I got the source quality chip - I said that something is wrong with that place, why the instrument data is so abnormal... But I can also see the void, I have a dragon soul, why can't I see the subspace? The door to the maze?"

Ian shook his head: "That is obviously an entrance to the subspace that needs to be tested for 'qualification'. Anfa, if you didn't go in personally, let your dragon soul touch the anchor point, and it will definitely not be triggered, opening the gate of the subspace maze."

"I think that having a certain dragon soul and jumping into the abyss is one of the conditions for entering the Naya Space Labyrinth."

Now that the goal has been determined, there is no need to say more.

Everyone moved towards the 'abyss'.

Regardless of whether Ian's guess is correct or not, he should act first.

The Scarlet Garden is actually not that big. The entire Institute of Alien Species actually presents an inverted pyramid structure. The first two-story shelter is the widest, and it can easily accommodate millions of people. It is a real doomsday shelter.

And the research area on the third floor is only equivalent to a large urban area, which is a bit narrow compared to the productivity of the pre-era civilization.

Anfa, who had already determined the route on the winding street, was a smooth road, and she led everyone forward at the fastest speed.

Along the way, they saw many well-preserved research institutes, namely the 'Dragon Robot Research Institute', 'Dragon Blood Chimera Research Institute', and 'The Third Biological Weapons Research Center of the Alien Research Institute'... Obviously, these places are all The pre-epoch civilization relied on the biological warfare research institute conducted by dragon blood.

There are indeed many strange beasts around these research institutes, including semi-mechanized tyrannosaurs that look like combat tyrannosaurs, huge dragon birds with metal wings, and even "dragon soldiers" with a part of human form.

It doesn't look like a dragon, but rather a knight covered in insect carapace. Only the key places have dragon scales and claws, which makes it look very powerful.

However, even in the ancient and stronger Terra world, these biological weapons using the civilization of the pre-epoch are absolutely impossible to surpass the "sublimator" that has been developed for more than 1000 years... because the sublimator is the most powerful weapon in the Terra world. Perfect and most powerful, the most powerful biological weapon that condenses the essence of pre-epoch civilization and many kinds of fire.

Without Ian's action, Anfa and Isengard completely eliminated the group of strange beasts in ten seconds. The process was so simple that it could be described as 'the sword is drawn, it's seconds'.

"It seems that a large number of alien beasts were mobilized to attack the exploration team before, which consumed the defensive alien beasts of the third layer reserve, and even the lair had no troops to defend."

Ian analyzed that this is actually normal. After all, this is the real world, and it is not a game to spawn monsters. In an instant, a large number of monsters poured out continuously—after defeating the initial army of alien beasts, they quickly There will be no alien beast attack on the scale before.

After defeating these strange beasts, everyone also searched inside the research institute. Somewhat disappointed but not unexpected, there was no such storage device as a chip inside the research institute.

Thinking about it, no matter if it is the dark gold giant dragon or the researchers of the pre-epoch civilization, after the skyfall disaster makes it impossible to carry out follow-up research, they will definitely not continue to store the research materials in the research institute, but move them to a safer area.

"I feel a little scary..."

Xiou stretched out his hand uneasily, touching the empty training chambers inside the laboratory, and the real dragon girl muttered to herself: "How far has the cooperation between the pre-epoch civilization and the real dragon reached? Why did the ancestors of our real dragons, those second first Three generations of true dragons will join hands with humans to sign such a contract to provide dragon blood as experimental materials?"

"I'm sorry, Ian, and Yisen, I don't blame you...but I'm a real dragon after all. I saw the blood of my family being abused by humans like this, and even made various biological weapons. I felt a little...strange a feeling of."

"Um……"

Compared to Isengard who waved his hand to show he didn't care, and even wanted to comfort Siou, Ian fell into deep thought.

He squinted his eyes, stared at Xio, and also at the training cabin next to him.

——The first generation of true dragons, the ancestor true dragons, are pure space battleships. They are the creators, that is, the tools and partners used by the star gods to transform the universe and observe the civilizations of the stars.

——The second-generation true dragon has some life characteristics, but in general, it is more like a super existence like a biological tool than a dragon or a living thing.

——The third generation of real dragons, the generation of the steel dragon, has the characteristics of life.The third generation of true dragons bred from the tinder is essentially the result of optimizing the biological information of the tinder to which they belong. The different shapes but the same extremely powerful posture have contracted the "true dragon" in the eyes of the people of Terra. image of.

Then, the fourth generation of true dragons, the generation of the king of the mountain... the true dragons even regained, or in other words, possessed the ability to reproduce naturally.

The fifth generation of true dragon Xiou is the result of their parents' birth.

It seems that each generation of true dragons is weaker than each other... But true dragons are also releasing their shackles from generation to generation... The lifespan of the first three generations of true dragons is only [-], and the fourth generation of true dragons seems to have this shackle too...

But what about Shio?

Ian has never heard Xiou complain that he slept in the lair for 100 years, consuming one-fifth of his life... Or maybe Xiou really doesn't care about this one-fifth of his life, or else...

"Is the process of the gradual biological transformation of true dragons really the research of the previous generations of true dragons?"

Opening his mouth suddenly, Ian's words immediately attracted the attention of Xiou and Anfa: "If you say, these cruel and meaningless research in your eyes... Maybe it was the contract between humans and real dragons in Terra back then. The foundation of human beings with dragon blood like you and me, and the foundation of real dragons that gradually become more like natural creatures?"

"This...could it be said that humans and real dragons were mutually beneficial and fused with each other back then..."

Hearing this, Xiou also thought of this possibility, and she couldn't help but widen her eyes: "Humans help our real dragons gradually become biological and get rid of the shackles—and the real dragons help humans develop the power of sublimation and integrate the blood power of monsters? ! "

"I see!"

And Isengard, who also has a certain amount of 'dragon blood', perhaps also some kind of man-made tool and biological blood, also figured this out, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Yeah... the foundation of sublimation may be built on dragon blood On top of that... only the blood of a real dragon can bring together many completely different monster organs, those incomparably powerful sublimation structures, without causing fatal conflicts!"

"Ian said before that the people of Terra are all descendants of dragon blood... and the fact that human beings can naturally practice true dragon blood proves this even more!"

"It's just a guess, but I think it's very likely." Ian said in a deep voice. When he was about to reach the place where the abyss was, he looked sideways to the right, and then raised his right hand: "But now, we have to put the Competitors settle."

"I don't know which man from the exploration team has been eavesdropping for so long, should he come out?"

After Ian finished speaking, a stern black light rushed out from the research institute at the side, like lightning, and rushed towards the white-haired boy's head.

But the closer to Ian, the slower the speed of the black light, and when the black light was within three meters of Ian's body, it had already stopped.

It was a pitch-black tentacles covered with hoarfrost, which resembled the tentacles of an octopus, but there were no suction cups on the tentacles, only a colorful black fluid like oil rolling and flowing.

Ian didn't even draw his sword, he just used two fingers to transform the sword, and the void cut towards the tentacles a few times, the black tentacles that could dash at supersonic speed shattered into pieces of black jelly-like matter, and then burst into pieces. Ice dust.

In the next moment, Isengard, who was looking unhappy, activated the flaming blood column, which penetrated the direction where the black tentacles attacked, and the black-red flame burned the metal rock, melting and evaporating all the substances in that area.

But this is obviously not enough, Xiou snorted coldly. Although her prosthetic body is weak, it can be used as a carrier to release the power of the real dragon dragon soul. Fire then floats in the center of the area Isengard hit earlier.

That is to say, under the pincer attack of the double flames of the material void, a figure appeared in the shattered psionic debris of the void barrier.

"Elger the Thinker?!"

And Anfa exclaimed: "The capital of learning, the chief of Qingyue Spire?"

"Why did you come here and attack us?"

The visitor was none other than the leader of the Exploration Team of the City of Knowledge, the genius psychic scholar known as the Thinker, Elger Qingyue.

However, unlike the silent and knowledgeable black-haired scholar in everyone's eyes, Elger, who appeared in front of everyone, had an extremely bewitching and inhuman aura.

Appearing from the void, a thin young man with jet-black waterfall long hair floated in the air expressionlessly.

He wears scholarly robes and has a very androgynous appearance.If it weren't for the fact that she knew her gender a long time ago, maybe everyone would think that this is a long-haired beauty.

But at this moment, the long black hair behind the beauty was dancing wildly without wind. The silk-like long hair was twisted together to form the "black tentacles" that attacked Ian before, and Elger's black eyes were flowing. There is an extremely abnormal purple radiance, a kind of breathtaking, mental control fluctuations that can't help but want to sink into it, emanating from it.

Of course, one of the people present is a prophet, two have dragon souls, and the last one, Isengard, has just awakened the blood of the sun god bird. The neural network of the phase state in his body has been shaped, and none of the four people will take ordinary mental attacks.

But even so, Elger in front of him still gave everyone a feeling of extreme danger.

"wrong."

After a short period of surprise, Anfa frowned. She clenched her chest, the 'chip camera' that was originally used to transmit images, but now it is used to determine whether her life is safe or not. She said in a deep voice: "Your You don't have a chip camera on your body, you're not Elger!"

"What kind of monster are you, why are you pretending to be him?!"

The young man with gold-rimmed single-frame glasses did not answer Anfa's question.No, it would be better to say that from the very beginning, Elger had no one else in his eyes.

At this moment, his eyes were firmly locked on Ian. The abnormal, but extremely hot eyes made the white-haired boy who is used to being watched by thousands of people and can chat and laugh happily with the fourth-level powerhouse a little bit. Not very comfortable.

Because this is the look of looking at the 'prey'.

【What exactly are you? 】

And at this moment, 'Elger', who has almost never spoken in front of people, spoke, and he said in a hoarse, but quite gentle and calm voice: [What are you... an inhuman body, an inhuman body Soul... What kind of monster are you?Why is there no trace of you in the virtual world, why are your fluctuations so different from those of this world? 】

[Are you a prophet?But the Prophet cannot be like this... There are two completely different shadows behind you...]

【What exactly are you? 】

"There are still a lot of questions?" Ian raised his eyebrows. He was really interested in this strange guy who secretly started tracking him and others halfway.

Regardless of whether this person is 'Elger' or not, his strength is unquestionable, and Ian has to make a move instead of stopping his probing attack by manipulating the source quality with his thoughts.

Isengard teamed up with Xiou, who has the third-level dragon soul, to force him out of the void... This strength is not inferior to that of Aina or Garr.

And the questions he asked were also very thought-provoking.

Of course, there is no need to say more about the non-human body. The body of the pioneer of steel is not a human being or a sublimator, but a new generation of super biological basic template that surpasses the sublimator. Ian even took his heart out, which is so strange The biological structure cannot indeed be called a human being, or a general sublimator.

The non-human soul is simpler - Ian is the creator of the meditation method who can carve his own soul. His soul structure is almost exactly the same as the calculation structure in the silver chip. Or maybe the star god is a little closer, that is indeed not a human soul.

As for the virtual realm and fluctuations... Ian thought at first that the other party could see his identity as a time traveler, but after thinking about it carefully, hey, he has been at the third energy level for so long, and his mind, light and body are perfect, and his strength is lower than his. How can such a person see his heart, light and body?And in the back, the two completely different shadows are probably referring to the link between the path of swarms and the path of spiritual disaster in the "Guiding Star" of the heart light body.

After understanding what the other party asked, Ian became interested in the other party - because being able to see this is enough to prove the extraordinaryness of 'Elger' in front of him.The other party's attainments in the Void Realm and Soul are probably not as good as even a Void Realm Dragon like Xiou.

Therefore, Ian decided to use the silver chip after earnestly using the predictive vision calculation.

——If you look at me, I will also look at you.

You say I'm not human, but I want to see what you are!
Silver light flickered.

Ian saw information that almost surpassed his imagination and shocked him.

[Thousand Star Beast Variant (Elger Qingyue)]

[Fallen Empire·Siyuan Hive Fire Seed Derivative (semi-independent leader individual)]

[Second energy level, larva, core, semi-independent intelligent creature, star devourer, spiritual awakening]

[This creature is a semi-independent intelligent life derived from the last fire seed sent by a developed but stagnant hive civilization before it was destroyed. Its primitive civilization is close to the final step of the 'teaching stage', but because it cannot accept the universe's Be true and choose to fall, and usher in the final destruction]

[The fire of this civilization is extremely dangerous and has a strong ability to devour and assimilate. Civilizations below the 'teaching stage' cannot resist its ability to swallow and assimilate, but it is also a fire seed, and its survival and survival should not be denied, so it imposes' Stasis ban']

[Body material...Semi-virtual creature...Converting to a virtual realm]

[Strength Level: Core]

[Contains source quality: 59527.4692 units of excellence]

[Reminder: This creature is a semi-independent intelligent individual, if it needs to be supervised, its core body needs to be banned]

[Hint: This creature is a member of the original hive, and can act in the virtual world and the material world, but because of this, its material body is equal to the soul itself]

[Warning: This creature is dangerous, if you need to deal with it, please apply for relevant tools]

【…】

The beast of a thousand stars? !
　Ian didn't know about the Beast of Thousand Stars, but Sister Reflecting Light did.

　
(End of this chapter)