Quadruple split

After a moment, Jiawen nodded and returned the magic crystal tablet in his hand to Merlin, indicating that he had finished reading.

"Oh, you saw it pretty quickly. How do you feel?"

Merlin casually threw the magic crystal tablet to the corner of the table and turned to look at Gawen, who had a normal expression: "Did you find anything?"

"I don't feel anything."

Jia Wen frowned, and after a brief silence, he hesitated and said: "If you find out...that is, [Sin-soaked Crystal] and [Sin-soaked Bullet] are the same thing. After being implanted or forcibly intervened in the other party's brain, various phenomena will appear. kind of reaction."

After a while, Merlin, who had not heard the rest of the story, asked Gawen in confusion: "Then what?"

"there is none left."

Jia Wen shrugged, spread his hands and said: "I just discovered that these examples have different performances, and there is basically no unity or reference."

"No unity and reference!?"

Merlin almost jumped up from his chair and stared at Gawen: "How is it possible that there is no unity and reference? Have you really carefully read through these experimental logs?"

Jia Wen nodded slightly and said helplessly: "Of course, although I didn't read every word, I read it very carefully. I didn't miss anything, including those additional remarks."

"Wait a minute, what does 'including those additional notes' mean? Where does this go?"

Merlin suddenly took the magic crystal tablet from the corner of the table and quickly swiped it a few times, calling up a document that was not only extremely small in font and extremely long, but also mixed with all kinds of weird formulas and terminology. He stood about two centimeters away from the tip of Gawen's nose and asked loudly: "Where are these appendices! Where are these most valuable directories that condense the essence of all experimental logs?!"

"Well……"

Gawen's eyes twitched, and he reacted for a long time before sighing helplessly, and said with a dry smile: "If I remember correctly, Master Merlin, each of the logs here is only about 500 words of text, but you The 'essence' that has been 'condensed' in my mouth, that is, the appendices, each article is at least 7,000 words long."

Merlin frowned and asked with confusion on his face: "So?"

"So... uh... so I didn't watch much..."

Gawen was speechless for two seconds, then scratched her cheek in a rare way, showing a "bad student expression" that she had never shown even when she was a student, and quickly added: "And I I can’t quite understand those things.”

Snapped!

"You can't even understand that kind of thing."

Merlin slapped himself on the forehead and looked at Jiawen with hatred: "Do you still want to graduate!?"

Jiawen, who didn't expect the topic to turn to this aspect at all, twitched her lips and said helplessly: "What about that? In fact, I have already started working."

"What's wrong with working? Don't you need to make progress if you work?!"

Merlin slammed the table angrily and said in a loud voice: "You are still young. How can a young person be so unwilling to make progress? You are not one of those rich second-generation people who have won at the starting line since they were born. You..."

"Then what..."

Jiawen, who had now clearly seen the truth and knew that Merlin had confused him with the students in his laboratory, interrupted the latter with a wry smile, and said with a serious face: "To be honest, I am just a child who was just born. The rich second generation wins at the starting line.”

Because the laboratory is not well-known and the threshold is not high, Mei Lin, who has rarely taught high-achieving students to the second generation of rich people, was stunned for a moment, and then said loudly: "Even if you are the second generation of rich people, you should have some Ambition, make progress all the time, and join a top 100 company or something in the future, don’t just find a job to dawdle!”

"I do work in a top 100 company..."

"Then you should work hard to be taken seriously!"

"I'm quite valued..."

"How much attention is paid to it?!"

"I received the news last week that the board of directors added a seat to me."

"Damn! Are you the boss's goddaughter?"

"She's my daughter."

"..."

Merlin finally had nothing to say. After a while, he stood on the chair angrily: "I don't have idle people in my laboratory!"

"Master Merlin, this is not your laboratory, but a black workshop located in an imperial capital in the southwest continent of the Innocence. I am not your student, but an employee of your investor."

Jia Wen helplessly looked at Merlin, who had been in a series of negative states such as a haggard look, thick bags under his eyes, and wandering vision, and said seriously: "You have been working too hard recently. If you ask me, why don't you go offline and sleep well?" Take a nap…”

Yes, Gawen knew very well that Merlin was not teasing her, nor did he suddenly become mentally retarded. In fact, the old man had been working too hard recently, which was why he looked so confused.

Although he was on par with Merlin in terms of status and worked very hard, Jiawen had to admit that in terms of work intensity alone, an old man who was three times her age had at least ten times the workload.

For example, we perform high-frequency maintenance on the bodies of Osiris and Arthur, monitor and record their status at all times, and continuously optimize and debug them.

For example, preparing a potion for Dora that allows her to quickly adapt to the boss's power, and a corresponding mass production plan.

For example, planning equipment routes for yourself and Silent Prayer, such as continuing to analyze the previously recovered remains of Tianzhu Mountain Agents, such as trial development of lightweight war tools and vehicles, such as developing poisons and deploying reagents, such as analyzing the indigenous creatures of the Innocence Continent composition, and learn the local mysticism and physics systems.

The research on [Sin-Infused Crystal] was actually just Merlin's whim, not even a topic.

For an ordinary researcher, I am afraid that just picking out any of the topics would be enough to make him go into seclusion in units of years, but Merlin has achieved the feat of taking care of all of them by himself, even though Osiris and Garros can occasionally They were trying to help, but in fact they had been of little help some time ago.

This old man who has the title of 'Academician' outside the game is a genuine genius, and he also has a martyr-like passion for pursuing the truth. What is even more terrifying is that on the basis of the above, at least in the realm of innocence, 'Merlin' has no bottom line.

He is one of the most important secrets of the Sin Lord camp. He is the only 'special employee' in Mo who is willing to wait patiently in front of the door for a long time and treats each other with courtesy every time they meet. He is also a devil who will do anything to achieve the truth.

In his values, there is no black and white of good and evil, no ethics and humanity, only the purest symbols.

Even Merlin himself is the purest person Gawen knows.

His role for this camp is irreplaceable, and as time goes by, the role Merlin can play will only become greater and greater, and there is absolutely no room for discounts.

In this case, although Innocence Company's game cabin had almost no side effects, it still placed a huge burden on Merlin, who had to forcefully turn 16 hours of scientific research practice into 36 hours a day.

It is true that the current development of the human brain is not complete, but incompleteness does not mean that as long as the body can bear it, the brain does not need to rest.

But Merlin hasn't given his brain a good rest for a long time. Although the scientific research tasks given to him by someone are not heavy, he can always find various topics to work on.

Finally, he was deceived after almost pushing himself to the limit during this period. He even couldn't distinguish between games and reality for a time, and regarded Gawen as a student in his laboratory.

Jia Wen, who didn't want the old man to have any problems, sharply pointed out this problem.

"If this continues, my body will collapse."

Jiawen looked at Merlin with a solemn expression and said seriously: "You are not young anymore, Master Merlin."

"I know my own body well and I don't need a little girl like you to worry about it."

Merlin waved his hand impatiently and said this. Seeing that Gawen wanted to say something else, he could only explain patiently: "I'm not kidding you. I know where my limits are and I also know the importance of maintaining health. , in fact, I’m planning to take a break after this project comes to an end.”

Gawen frowned slightly and asked softly: "How can this project come to an end? Also, what do you mean by taking a break?"

"A real break."

Merlin shrugged, took a big sip of the coffee Ji Xiaodao brought last time (packed in a thermos pot), smacked his lips, and said with a smile: "Except for a few projects that must be followed up, I will put it aside for a while. Go to the park during the day and watch old ladies dancing or something.”

"Watching the old lady dance..."

Jia Wen twitched the corner of her mouth, suppressed her curiosity, and changed the topic back to business: "Then this project..."

"Soon."

Merlin sat back on the chair, tugged on his white beard to stay awake, and then said seriously: "I was a little confused just now. Actually, I didn't come here to discuss the [Sin-soaked Crystal] thing, Miss Gawen. My son, but I hope you can do me a favor."

Thinking of the dilemma of being named and criticized for not reading all the reference materials, Jia Wen immediately shuddered, resisting the urge to refuse directly and asked: "What kind of favor is it...?"

"Let me first give you a brief summary of the characteristics of [Sin-Infused Crystal]."

Merlin took another sip of coffee and stated in a way that Gawen could understand: "First of all, although that thing is very simple to make, it is very difficult to apply in practice. According to my research, because of Mo Boy's power The level is too high, even stronger than the divine power mentioned by those magic sticks, so ordinary people cannot accept it at all. Even Farah Ossis and Arthur Bohe can only bear it because of the bodies I specially built for them. live."

Jia Wen nodded, indicating that he understood what he said.

"Then it involves a lot of theoretical content. You can't understand those things even if I explain them, so I only talk about the conclusions I drew by analyzing the experimental logs."

Merlin continued to tug on his beard and said in a deep voice: "In my opinion, the key to being able to withstand that power is not the strength, but the tolerance of the concept of 'sin'."

"How tolerant is the concept of 'sin'?"

Jia Wen blinked and subconsciously repeated the sentence, which was a question.

"That's right, to put it simply, only those who have a large enough structure and can control 'sin' can withstand the power of Little Mo. Do you still remember his skill called [Sin-Eating]?"

Merlin put down the thermos cup, casually took out a piece of information from the pile of information next to him and placed it on his lap. He lowered his eyes and said, "According to the principle he told me, the essence of that skill is to make people suffer their own sins... Well, you also It can be understood as being swallowed up by a dark side with a high content."

"Then what?"

Hearing this, Jiawen gradually became interested.

"Then there's the crux of the matter. The nature of [Sin-Soaked Crystal] is different from the filth in the hearts of those who were killed by [Sin Devour], but it is an existence that carries the power and characteristics of Mr. Mo, so if I didn't If you guess wrong, those who can withstand that kind of load may be induced to have the same power as Mr. Mo in a short period of time."

Merlin grinned, stroking his beard and said, "You should know how strong his power is, right? Well, it doesn't matter if you don't know. In short, I think only a very few people can withstand that thing, but it's probably not impossible."

Jia Wen nodded, and then began to draw inferences, asking softly: "For example, my talent of [Sin of Rebellion], and Silent Prayer's [Sin of Unintentional]?"

"As well as my [crime of madness], these are all things clearly written on the character panel. They were stamped by the weird system itself."

Merlin nodded and said calmly: "But I took it upon myself to exclude the little girl Silent Prayer. She is different from people like us. You should know this very well, right?"

"Of course, everyone knew she didn't fit in here."

Jia Wen shrugged and chuckled: "So I'm really curious about why the boss has the patience to keep her until now."

"This kind of curiosity is actually not necessary."

Merlin shook his head lazily, and then asked bluntly: "So you should know why I asked you to come here, right?"

"Could it be that……"

Jiawen touched her chin and hesitated: "Are you going to let me try that [Sin-Soaked Crystal]?"

"Of course not. This thing is too dangerous. If you don't do it right, you'll be dead."

Merlin shook his head without hesitation and said with a smile: "Although the cost of your role is not as high as that of the Silent Prayer girl, it is not low. It would be too wasteful to die casually, but I am different. ”

"you?!"

"I'm a scientific researcher, and I don't have much strength to begin with. As for those who specialize in alchemy, engineering, etc., I can upgrade them back by just picking up the levels. So it is the most cost-effective method for me to conduct experiments."

"Then what you mean by calling me here is..."

"Appropriate budget. If I rebuild the character, I can teleport back to Troon through the Mages Guild as soon as possible."

"You came in person?!"

"Practice brings true knowledge."

Chapter 1,424: End