Chapter 318 Curious
Sol froze on the spot, not daring to move.
He felt no surprise at the unexpected windfall, only the chilling dread of boundless dark clouds looming overhead.
Before Sol could even react, he heard Gorsha chuckle softly again, his silver eyes narrowing into crescents.
“Don't be so nervous. Perhaps you'll be dead before that day comes, hmm?”
I'd rather choose to inherit your estate, thank you very much!
Sol didn't dare to actually complain, and could only lower his head even further.
“Let's get down to business. What did you discover?”
Sol took a deep breath and then continued his story: “After returning to the second warehouse, I placed the wooden doll on my body as you instructed, but when I went to inspect the corpse pile, the doll's eyes suddenly turned black.”
“Was there something wrong with the newly delivered corpses?” Gorsha guessed immediately.
“Yes, I carefully examined Nick's corpse and discovered a subtle psionic fluctuation emanating from his body. If it weren't for the fact that the wooden doll you gave me indeed changed, I might have mistakenly attributed it to slight fluctuations from the necromantic array within the sarcophagus.”
Gorsha leaned against the wall, not feeling too surprised. “Interesting. While we're guarding against lurking enemies, the real problem arises from the corpses appearing according to procedure right beside you.”
He looked down at his hand, where the pink bandage on one of his fingers seemed to loosen slightly, but before Sol could notice, it suddenly tightened again.
“If they're using corpses to send you subliminal messages, the command must be very simple.”
“I recorded the details of the psionic fluctuations. Master, do you think it's possible for us to deduce its meaning?”
Sol handed Gorsha the notebook he had been carrying close to his body, but the other party only glanced at it before returning it.
“Unfamiliar altered language, lacking understanding of the basic logic. Reverse deduction could lead to multiple possibilities, making it worthless,” Gorsha said. “However, I can investigate the people who handled the corpses. You don't need to worry about this matter; focus on the new experiment as soon as possible. I heard you applied for test subjects for the soul infusion experiment?”
“Yes,” Sol said quickly. “But I only asked them to be assistants, to help record some specific reactions.”
Gorsha waved his hand, “It doesn't matter. The soul infusion experiment is about to be discontinued anyway. It's been proven that even if someone who can't even advance to Level Two on their own receives a Level Two body, it's useless. Just use them as normal consumables.”
“Uh, I understand.”
The Tower Master was telling Sol not to consider the lives of the experimental subjects when conducting experiments.
The room fell silent for a moment, and Sol thought he was about to be sent out.
Unexpectedly, Gorsha sighed softly and began to talk about another matter, “Katz should have already told you about the specific experimental division and progress. I think the background of this experiment should be explained to you as well.”
Gorsha had considered telling Sol last time, but because his physical condition was unstable at the time, he didn't say much to Sol.
“The cause of the resurrection, of course, is that someone died. However, Yula's situation is different; she actively sought death.”
Actively sought death?
Courting death?
Sol's eyes widened, and then he suddenly thought of something, “Could it be the experiment of whether the soul can exist independently of the body?”
“That's right, it was for this hypothesis…”
Gorsha's thoughts gradually drifted to the past.
At that time, he took the initiative to seek a marriage alliance with the Kema Principality because he wanted to find someone to help him manage the territories that the other party had actively sent over.
He was a wizard, not a lord, and certainly not one of those good-for-nothings who had long lost hope of advancing and could only numb themselves with worldly power and enjoyment.
So who would bother to personally govern the territory? Of course, it was better to find a helper, and the best helper was naturally the current administrator of this territory.
So, Yula was only treated differently by Gorsha at the time because of her persistence in knowledge, and he ultimately chose her.
However, a few years after their marriage, Yula revealed her true personality, which was that, in addition to being stubborn, she was also particularly bold and dared to conduct any experiment.
Especially after Gorsha opened the material warehouse to her, some of her whimsical ideas had the possibility of becoming reality, so she began even more crazy experiments.
A wizard who majored in dark-attribute witchcraft was always particularly interested in corpses and souls, so Yula's experiments were mostly related to these.
Gorsha didn't think it was inappropriate; on the contrary, he felt that this was the quality that a wizard should have, and he admired Yula even more for it.
It's a pity that the story ultimately didn't develop towards the ending of a sweet romance novel.
One day, Gorsha returned home from an outing and saw his beloved wife with her head cut in half, as well as her extremely excited soul form, floating around in the air.
Can the soul exist independently of the body?
They had discussed this question long ago, and Gorsha had denied Yula's conjecture at the time. He didn't expect that this woman would actually use herself as an experimental subject to prove to Gorsha that her viewpoint was correct.
Gorsha asked Yula in confusion, since she could already stably separate her soul from her body, why did she have to kill her body and block all escape routes?
Yula said that experimental data that hadn't completely separated from the body was inaccurate.
Speaking of this, Gorsha shook his head with a sigh, “It was on that day that I completely recognized my wife's madness.”
Sol was also dumbfounded as he listened from across the room.
For the sake of an unverified conjecture, she even gave up her own life.
“After the soul leaves the body, the most important thing, of course, is to maintain the purity of the soul and not be contaminated,” Gorsha continued. “Yula wasn't completely unprepared; she prepared many temporary footholds for herself, which are the standing corpses you saw in the warehouse.”
“Before Yula officially killed herself, she had possessed each of them one by one to ensure that there were no problems, thinking that she was foolproof.”
However, things still took an unexpected turn. Even though she had been careful, not touching any polluting radiation, and resting in a body from time to time, Yula's soul still mutated.
The initial symptom was that Yula began to feel that she was no longer Yula herself.
Gorsha took over Yula's experiment, constantly removing the contamination from her soul, but the contamination repeatedly returned.
Gorsha immediately announced the suspension of the soul independence experiment.
He began to create a stable body for Yula.
However, this experiment was also not smooth. No matter what kind of body he created, even if he used Yula's flesh and blood to create an almost identical Yula, it could not permanently accommodate her soul.
After several failed possession experiments, something even more terrifying began to happen. Yula gradually forgot her past memories and insisted that she was just a copy experiment that Gorsha had created.
And she regarded the scene of Gorsha disposing of the copy Yula as proof of Gorsha killing her.
“It's very difficult to create a container that can permanently accept Yula's soul,” Gorsha sighed. “From that time on, I gathered a group of wizards and recruited a large number of apprentices to start the resurrection experiment from two aspects: purifying the soul and finding a suitable body.”
“But decades have passed, and we still haven't found a suitable container that can protect the soul from contamination like the original body.”
Speaking of this, Gorsha suddenly raised his head and stared straight at Sol.
“So, Sol, how exactly did you do it?”
Sol was shocked, his head buzzing.
Gorsha's body slowly leaned forward, his silver eyes almost bulging out of the bandages, “How exactly did you manage to live so well after taking over someone else's corpse, without any signs of loss of control or contamination?”
“I'm really, very curious.”
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