life copy game

Chapter 566 Acting
In the sight of He Ao who briefly activated his super memory, the originally clear figures of these mental patients and nurses became blurred and turned into three-dimensional shadows.

The mysterious man is a very cautious person, he will basically keep a back hand when doing things, and try to be as firm as possible to all the details.

If it wasn't for He Ao's appearance, Jess would have died in that alley siege.

Even after He Ao appeared, there was basically no problem with his layout. The genetic potions and weapons equipped for the mercenary team that came to besiege He Ao, if they were fully prepared, could kill any ordinary C Class.

It is enough to deal with He Ao's strength shown in the alley siege.

It's just that he was facing He Ao.

During the calculations and counter-calculations of the two, He Ao showed one hole card after another that he didn't understand, causing his layout to be destroyed repeatedly.

But this does not mean that the mysterious man is less calculating.

In many cases, his designs are extremely rigorous.

For example, the setting in this mental hospital.

In this building, the fourth and fifth floors are the main body of the magic circle, and the sixth floor and above are the consultation rooms and the places where the 'mental patients' are stored.

The third floor is the instrument storage room.

What about the first and second floors?
There are maintenance places, ritual circles, and 'patients' cultivated as a price.

Theoretically, this magic circle can run all the time, and there seems to be no shortage of other elements.

But what if there is no 'patient' anymore?
These patients are the 'price' paid, the sacrifices sacrificed.

They are also the energy supply to maintain the operation of the entire magic circle. Once these patients disappear and the energy supply disappears, the entire magic circle will stop running.

One of the important reasons why the deception circle on the wooden box works is that there is really a continuously running ritual circle outside, and energy is constantly pouring in to maintain the operation of the circle on the box.

Theoretically speaking, once the outer magic circle stops operating and the deception circle can't support it, the power inside the box will lose control and spew out, destroying everything around it, and letting the mysterious person draw water from the bamboo basket in vain.

Of course, the person who designed this deception circle also took this into consideration, so he added some detailed structures to the deception circle. When the outer circle stopped operating, it could be maintained by 'stealing' the power stored in the wooden box. The magic circle runs.

Although this structure is ingeniously designed, it can continuously use the power in the box to maintain their own stability.

However, the power stored in the wooden box itself is full of madness and violent tendencies. During the operation, it will cause damage to the magic circle on the wooden box, and eventually completely destroy the structure of the magic circle.

According to He Ao's estimate, after losing the energy supplied by the big magic circle, the magic circle on the wooden box lasted for seven to eight hours at most.

This can cope with the short-term lack of energy supply of the wooden box, such as moving to another place.

However, due to certain investigations or sabotage, the entire magic circle suddenly lost a suitable 'patient' or 'sacrifice'.

After all, it takes time for patients to 'assimilate'. If all the original patients disappear, it will take time to immediately arrest new people and assimilate them.

During this time, the magic circle did not receive any energy input.

Therefore, the mysterious person also made arrangements for such unexpected situations that may arise, which is the role of the first and second floors.

The first and second floors of this building are connected together to form an entrance hall.

That is, the hall where He Ao entered the door. In this hall, the 'items' that the mysterious person used as a 'backup sacrifice' were 'stored'.

That is the patients and nurses in front of He Ao.

In fact, these people have long since died, and what remains here are only incomplete souls.

Judging from their mental state, they may have been directly killed after the assimilation was completed, and then their souls were bound in this hall.

It's like a reserve of 'food'.

You-Know-Who never takes the lives of these people as much as the cannibals do for food.

Most of the patients in this mental hospital are prisoners, or homeless and helpless wanderers.

They live in the corner of the city, no one cares about them, and no one cares.

The mysterious man captured the people in these corners and threw them into this seemingly brilliant, but actually bloody and cruel meat grinder, manipulating their lives and souls without any scruples.

It seems that he and these people are no longer a species.

In a sense, the mysterious man treats Jess and Jess's family in the same way. If it is useful, try to use it. If it is not useful or even cause danger, just kill it directly.

Just like treating 'livestock'.

Perhaps in that alley, in the ending without He Ao, Jess died, and his body and soul would be taken over as materials to support the operation of the magic circle.

Just like after livestock dies, the corpses are also reused.

However, although these souls in front of He Ao have been here all the time and are restrained by some kind of force, it seems that people whose souls are not strong enough and not inspired enough can't see them.

Like the front desk nurse.

At first He Ao thought she was ignoring these people, but when He Ao greeted the spirit who reminded him to 'go'.

She asked He Ao suspiciously why he stopped. At that time, He Ao had already realized that there might be something wrong.

But at that time, he didn't fully understand this point, so he didn't turn on the super memory to see these patients and nurses, and later the black silk front desk nurse mentioned that there were no nurses in the hospital.

But as soon as He Ao entered the door, the nurses in the hall walked around, and many of them seemed to be very idle.

At that time, He Ao knew that the nurses and patients in the hall had something special, but he didn't know until finally he saw the magic circle in the huge space on the third and fourth floors, and saw that there were related things in the magic circle depicted on the floor. When the structure of the soul is rigid.

He Ao can be completely sure that these people are all soul states.

To be precise, they are in the state of the junction of soul and entity, and they are some kind of alienated evil spirits created by mysterious people as food reserves.

He Ao didn't know how the mysterious man achieved this step, perhaps there was help from the hidden existence who was still sleeping behind it.

But he is very clear that the power to restrain these spirits should come from the magic circle above.

In this mental hospital, only the magic circle has a stable source of energy - through sacrifice.

So as long as the magic circle is destroyed, these spirit bodies can be free.

So He Ao judged that he and these spirits had common interests, and could get help from these spirits.

But the premise is that the thinking of these spirit bodies has not been completely assimilated, and there are still some self-emotions in their alienated and incomplete souls. Only in this way can they have judgment and cooperate with He Ao.

He Ao has a little confidence in this, because since the 'patient' who was sitting in front of the elevator was able to get rid of the assimilation of thoughts and remind him to leave, then other souls may still have some self-awareness.

But he is not completely confident.

He stared at these spirits, raised his wristband and glanced at the time. It had been 15 minutes since he entered the building.

If everything went as he expected, the FBI would arrive in at least fourteen minutes.

He turned his gaze back to the spirit bodies in front of him.

Without the help of these spirits, his plan would have been somewhat difficult to implement.

If it doesn't work, he can only try to use the super memory to spread the soul power, and see if he can forcibly awaken the self-awareness of these spirits.

An eerie silence spread in the hall, only the loud sound of the huge TV.

In the silence, a thin figure wearing a hospital gown with his head held up slowly stood up and walked towards He Ao.

He stared at He Ao with cloudy eyes.

He seemed to be waiting for He Ao's next words.

Immediately afterwards, the souls behind him approached He Ao one by one.

He Ao heaved a sigh of relief, he looked at the thin figure in the lead, this figure was the one who reminded him to leave quickly.

He seemed to have suffered some kind of severe torture during his lifetime. His neck was broken, and he could only hold his head up. His cheeks were also deformed, and he couldn't see the original appearance clearly.

Ho Ao stared at his face, trying to correct his cheeks to look normal in his mind.

Then he turned his gaze to these spirits, he knew that these spirits could understand him, "If you want to release these constraints, you can go to the ninth floor later, and you can go to the tenth floor..."

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Following the instructions, one by one, the spirit bodies slowly floated up, entered the elevator shaft, and floated upward along the elevator shaft.

And the one who stayed at the end was the soul who held his head up and expressed kindness to He Ao all the time.

He Ao stared at this skinny figure, compared with someone in Jess's memory, he said slowly, "You stay here, if someone wants to come in later, can you stop them for me?"

The soul watched as some kind of emotion seemed to flow through his cloudy eyes, he nodded slightly, and walked slowly towards the door.

He Ao watched his back go away, heaved a sigh of relief, then jumped directly into the elevator shaft, and quickly climbed up along the elevator shaft.

He first reached the sixth floor and opened all the closed doors.

Those completely assimilated people who should lose their minds in theory subconsciously walked out the moment the door opened.

And among these people, there were two superhumans who had become completely crazy because of their thinking assimilation. They wanted to attack He Ao, but they were split in half by He Ao with an axe.

After everyone left the room, several illusory souls appeared behind He Ao, and together with He Ao, they pulled and pushed these completely assimilated people into the elevator.

He Ao didn't stay here all the time. After sending the first wave of people to the elevator, he went straight up to the ninth floor along the fire steps. At this time, it was already No. 20 minutes before he entered the hospital.

"Ghost!!!"

The ninth floor was already in chaos, and those illusory souls shuttled through the rooms, opening those locked wards.

And those mental patients who were detained in the ward, whether real or fake, subconsciously rushed out of the ward.

The people here are ordinary people and cannot see those spirit bodies.

But He Ao let those spirits interfere with the outside world as much as possible, showing their own existence, such as shaking the bed, overturning the vase, and shaking the lamp.

In order to cooperate with the actions of these spirits, He Ao asked Eve to control the building's central air conditioner and change the mode to rapid cooling.

So the whole hospital reverberated with a chilly wind.

The corridors were filled with panicked people rushing for the elevators and fire escape stairs.

There are also some nurses who are on night shift to look after these 'patients', the number is very small.

These nurses do not necessarily know the real situation of this hospital, because they are actually the "livestock" of this hospital.

Little did they know that the job might lead them to death.

In the hall on the first floor, many souls are nurses.

The chaotic situation was brought under control by the arrival of Ho Ao.

After a series of killings, the fear emanating from the 'terrorist' on He Ao's body was already extremely strong. A powerful transcendent might not feel it, but to ordinary people, this fear was already similar to a tiger opening up on top of their heads. A huge mouth full of sticky saliva.

There are some patients who are directly frightened and stupid locally.

The rest of the people ran frantically to the place where they could leave this floor.

Seeing the situation developing in the direction he expected, He Ao heaved a sigh of relief.

After chasing these people away, He Ao went to the next floor, going up one floor in this way, and sowed the seeds of fear in the same way in the process.

During this process, he felt that his mastery of the 'terrorist' talent sequence was rapidly improving, and he could even specifically control which target to give, stronger or weaker fear.

Sure enough, the core of the terrorists' control is still 'giving fear'.

After the 'intimidation' drove away the patients on the thirteenth floor.

Howe glanced at the time.

Twenty-seven minutes had passed since he entered the hospital.

The thirteenth floor is the last occupied floor.

He leaned on the window facing the outside on the thirteenth floor and glanced out. A black and white vehicle with the emblem of the FBI was slowly parked in front of the dilapidated iron gate outside the hospital.

The FBI came two minutes earlier than he expected.

It should be on duty nearby and was sent directly.

Two agents in FBI uniforms got out of the car, pushed open the iron gate, and quickly walked towards the building.

At this time, He Ao had already withdrawn his gaze, jumped into the elevator shaft, and slid down to the hollow on the fourth and fifth floors again.

He crossed Alan Te's huge corpse and entered the space that shone with purple light again.

As the assimilated 'sacrifices' on the sixth floor were quickly transported away, the purple magic circle has become unstable.

He Ao walked to the end of the space and put his hand on the wooden box.

Loud sounds came from upstairs, it was the sound of people being driven out of the hospital by spirit bodies.

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"Ghost! There's a ghost!"

As soon as the two FBI agents came to the door, they saw a large group of patients and nurses running frantically from the door of the mental hospital and fleeing outward.

The two agents looked at each other, pulled out the pistols at their waists, pushed through the crowd and walked quickly, going against the flow of people to the elevator door.

And the moment they crossed the gate, the bright light in their field of vision suddenly turned blood red,
All kinds of twisted instruments of torture appeared continuously along the bloody wall.

Shadows spread out from under the instruments of torture.

The young FBI agent subconsciously raised his gun and was about to shoot, but was stopped by the older agent next to him, "Don't be impulsive, it's a hallucination, there are evil spirits in this building."

After finishing speaking, he took out a silver cross from his clothes, held a gun in one hand and the cross in the other, and slowly moved forward, "Follow me, be careful not to be scattered by the crowd."

The young agent nodded and followed the old agent.

Faint, hazy light spread from the cross, covering the old detective and the space around him, and those bloody shadows couldn't get close for a while.

"Strange, this evil spirit is not strong." The old detective frowned, and he looked at the people who ran out in a panic. "Are there other evil spirits?"

"There seem to be fewer people running out."

The young detective following behind him said with some doubts.

"Well," the old detective nodded, "These evil spirits seem to be deliberately driving away the people in this hospital."

He frowned, "What do these evil spirits want?"

The order he got from above was that there were powerful transcendent murderers mixed in this building, and there might be evil spirits mixed in to hurt people. He hoped that he would investigate.

But what he sees now seems to be different from the order.

He saw the evil spirit, but it didn't seem to hurt anyone.

The only one who was aggressive towards him was the evil spirit who entered the door to create hallucinations, but the other party only wanted to prevent them from entering, not to hurt them.

"Shall we go in and take a deeper look?"

The young detective at the back asked in a low voice, his qualifications are not deep, and this is the first time he has dealt with such a task with evil spirits.

If he and the old detective hadn't been working on another case nearby, and this case was very urgent, they would never have been called.

"Don't worry," the older detective didn't move forward, but held the cross to stop the young detective from taking a few steps back, and returned to the gate, "These evil spirits want to drive out the living, there must be someone The reason is that we are not strong enough, wait for the support from the back to come, and wait and see what happens."

It was during this process that the last few patients ran out of the hospital.

boom--

The roaring sound suddenly sounded above the lobby on the first floor.

The two FBI agents looked up at the same time, the young agent looked puzzled, while the old agent was taken aback, then immediately grabbed the young agent and rushed out, "Run, this The building is going to collapse."

The two rushed out of the door suddenly.

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He Ao, who was in the space on the third floor, looked at the wooden box in his hand, and the purple streamer was still flashing on it.

The ground trembled violently, and the magic circle in the entire space began to flicker violently.

With the removal of the core of the ceremony, the magic circle that could barely be maintained by inertia without the sacrifices could no longer be maintained.

In this building, the space on the fourth and fifth floors does not have any load-bearing pillars. In theory, it is impossible for this building to remain stable.

But because of the existence of this magic circle, by solidifying the walls, floors and ceilings, the building above was forcibly maintained.

But this can only be achieved when the wooden box exists and the magic circle is operating normally.

Once the wooden box was taken away, the magic circle collapsed, and there was no longer any strength to support the tall building above, then the building would naturally collapse.

This is the last insurance prepared by the mysterious man for the wooden box. If someone really enters this space but is not careful enough to take the wooden box rashly, the whole building will collapse and he will be buried here.

Of course, everyone in this hospital will also be buried with him.

The entire building collapsed very quickly, and the mysterious person probably made other arrangements on the structure of the building so that the building could bury the person who took the wooden box as quickly as possible.

But He Ao, who had been prepared for a long time, swung the ax directly and smashed it on the opposite wall.

The sharp ax cut off the still flashing purple lines on the wall, and directly smashed a big hole in the wall.

These purple patterns themselves still have a little strength, which will maintain the hardness of the surrounding walls, ensuring that when the building collapses, the walls will not be destroyed by those who take away the wooden box.

But this can't stop He Ao, he can almost be counted as one of the people in the world who understand the formation principle of this magic circle best.

In the state of madness just now, He Ao almost analyzed all the basic principles of these magic circles.

And unlike Jess's incomplete memory every time he went crazy, He Ao maintained his basic sanity in the mad state, and these memories remained after he returned to his sanity.

Although many of the truths that have been comprehended have become incomprehensible again, He Ao still has a lot of knowledge related to this magic circle.

Theoretically speaking, after the "epiphany" in a crazy state, He Ao's mastery of this magic circle should be second only to Jess' father who created this magic circle.

But Jace's father was long dead.

As the wall shattered, the dark night sky and the bright city under the night sky appeared in front of He Ao.

He Ao jumped down without hesitation.

This is the fourth floor, with a height of about ten meters, which is not too high for his physical fitness at the moment.

Accompanied by a roaring sound masked by the sound of the building collapsing, his figure hit the ground, creating a depression wrapped in spiderweb-like cracks on the concrete floor.

Immediately afterwards, he squatted down, relieved his strength, looked back at the half-collapsed building behind him, and sank into the darkness ahead.

At the same time, a shadow broke free from the shackles of the building, chased his back, and also disappeared into the night.

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The other side of the building.

"what sound?"

The old detective raised his head and looked at the huge tall building.

"This building has really collapsed, and there are strange noises everywhere."

The young detective behind scratched his head and looked at the rapidly collapsing building, "But this building collapsed too quickly, right? A building made of sand is stronger than this building."

"There are people behind the building."

The old detective said in a low voice.

"Is it that dangerous Transcendent, shall we go and see?"

Hearing this sentence, the young detective immediately became vigilant.

The old detective turned his head and looked at the people behind him who were still in shock and survived the catastrophe.

Had they not escaped, they would have been buried in this building forever.

A huge cloud of smoke sputtered from the collapsed building in front of him,

He shook his head, looked back at the young detective,

"No need to go, I seem to have heard wrong."

(End of this chapter)