Chapter 314: Memory of the Corpse
Saul gripped the puppet tightly in his hand, its red crystal eyes now completely black.
He felt other mental forces influencing him!
Saul immediately looked around.
"There can't be anyone else here. And from the moment I got the puppet to its eyes turning black, it was only a few minutes."
His expression grew more serious, "The change occurred in these few minutes."
His gaze swept over the experiment table, the candlelight, the horde of corpses, and finally... landed on Nick's body in front of him.
"Agu, were you staring at the puppet the whole time?"
Agu: [Apologies, Master, I was merely observing Nick's corpse when I accidentally discovered some unusual mental fluctuations on you. They were different from your previous fluctuations.]
"You were also carefully observing when I was probing the other corpses, right?"
Agu: [Yes, Master.]
"Then it can basically be determined that Nick is the one causing the changes in the puppet."
Saul withdrew his gaze and stared at Nick's corpse in front of him.
Nick died because of a failed advancement, and his body wasn't greatly damaged.
And when processing him, there were obviously few usable materials, so his appearance didn't change much.
Saul had the diary release the mark of the Soulless Flower, and the already faint mark indeed began to flicker at a certain frequency.
"The Maintainer can actually be a dead person."
Saul didn't immediately move away from the signal source; instead, he moved closer, "If I didn't have multiple means to detect the mental power being applied to me, who would be wary of a corpse standing in the warehouse?"
"Nick's body must have been tampered with. The method of maintaining the mark was used as a signal transmitter fixed inside the body.
The other party knows that the corpses in the morgue are generally not dissected a second time. Of course, this is not a secret to wizards above the third-level apprentice."
Saul originally thought that after discovering the Maintainer of the mark, he would be able to find traces of the enemy, but he didn't expect the other party to use an intermediary agent, and the real manipulator was still hiding behind the scenes.
Morton: [Master, I suggest you do not touch this corpse, otherwise the person manipulating the corpse may notice.]
Saul nodded, "But if the influence of the mark they applied to me is an action that will manifest in the near future, then my unaffected performance will also expose me."
Agu: [In that case, we'd better figure out the information contained within this mark.]
Saul sat on the edge of the stone coffin, looking at Nick's corpse, "Since they entrusted the ability of maintenance to a corpse, considering that the corpse cannot adapt to changes and the factors of external abnormal force field influences, the signal it releases should not be very complex.
Maybe we can try to decipher it."
Saul immediately had several consciousness bodies stand ready, he wanted to try to charge the mark to amplify its signal feedback, so as to capture abnormal mental fluctuations.
Xiaozao hurriedly handed him paper and pen, as well as some instruments for testing mental power.
The consciousness bodies naturally didn't need instruments and paper, they could only memorize the gaps themselves.
Next, Saul carefully transferred the mark from the diary to the tentacle, and then slowly brought the spiritual tentacle closer to Nick's corpse.
As the mark approached, the fluctuations different from Saul's own mental power gradually became obvious.
Saul ignored the others and first tried to summarize the rules within it. However, mental power fluctuations are not a language after all; the feeling it gave Saul was more like a code.
Without a codebook, it would be very difficult to crack.
He could only start with the emotions contained in the mental fluctuations, after all, mental power fluctuations are not just cold, emotionless codes.
But the same emotion may also mean different information, just like looking at the picture without looking at the text, the understanding of the content may be vastly different.
"Wait! Picture?"
Saul had a whim and actually thought of a straightforward way to analyze it.
He put down the paper and pen in his hand, leaned down, and carefully observed Nick's corpse.
"According to the records, Nick died after I left the Wizard Tower, but the body was actually just sent over, less than two days ago. Many people may have come into contact with Nick before this.
For example, Instructor Katz, who was responsible for the autopsy, as well as his assistant, and the people who transported the body in the middle, and even Kujin, who took over the warehouse work.
If during this period, Nick's body, like the horde of corpses, maintained its activity, wouldn't it also have the ability to automatically play back the scene, like the horde of corpses?"
It's just that, after all, a period of time has passed, and Saul is not sure whether this body can still "recall" such a distant scene.
But this doesn't prevent him from trying once.
Saul made a decision, paying attention to the diary within his spiritual body at the first moment.
"Very good, Diary Bro hasn't objected either."
Saul sat directly on the ground, ignoring the astonishment of several consciousness bodies, and operated his mental power, imitating his meditation method erosion diagram, walking counterclockwise.
Soon, he felt his body lighten, and when he looked down again, he saw that he had already walked out of his body.
This time, the astral projection was even easier than every time before. His secondarily modified body was like an intelligent system, extremely considerate in actively helping him escape from his body.
Saul raised his hands to his eyes, confirming that his projected spirit body was still in the shape of his previous life. His thoughts flowed in his mind, and the translucent body quickly deformed, and he once again became Saul's appearance.
He stood up, floated above Nick's corpse, feeling the faint attraction coming from below, without resisting that force, and naturally drilled into Nick's body.
Boom——
As if suddenly teleporting thousands of meters, the scene in front of him quickly flowed. Points turned into lines, and lines turned into distorted pictures.
Everything lost its original appearance.
Saul didn't panic, he tried to distinguish the distorted picture in front of him due to accelerated movement, striving to find meaningful people and things in this abstract deduction.
Finally, Saul's eyes looked in one direction, he felt that some features there were very familiar.
He even had a sense of intimacy.
"That's where I used to be in contact with for a long time!"
Saul and Nick didn't have much intersection in life. Among the places Nick had been to before and after his death, there were even fewer places that could make him feel familiar.
This is undoubtedly a breakthrough!
Saul focused his mind on that familiar scene. But because the picture was constantly twisting and rotating rapidly, it was still very difficult to find the real answer from that point of familiar features.
"The distortion of the picture is because it is moving rapidly for me. To see the picture above clearly, I need to maintain a relatively static state with it."
Simply put, it is very difficult to observe the scenes inside a fast-moving carriage while standing on the train platform, but it is easy to observe inside the carriage if you board the train.
Saul narrowed his eyes and once again vibrated his spiritual body. His gaze followed that point of the picture and quickly rotated.
Because it was actively accelerating the rotation, Saul's mental power burden was very large. If the diary hadn't already become his positioning device, supporting him in maintaining the clarity of his consciousness, Saul was afraid that he would not be able to attempt this.
Finally, Saul saw the scene in front of him clearly.
He saw a ceiling engraved with runes above his head, a workbench with various props placed on the side, and a conveyor belt covered with black leather underneath him.
Everything he saw was not limited to the corpse's eyes.
This was the feedback that the environment the corpse was in at the time gave to the body, and it also fed back to Saul's mind. Coupled with his familiarity with this place, the mutual complement of memories finally formed a clear picture.
This is the third morgue!
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