Chapter 322 Preliminary Testing
Sol admitted that there were many things that could shock him.
The truth of Mrs. Yura's death, the inheritance of the Wizard's Tower, the source of the initial pool of cursed blood…
But none of them could make him spit out water directly!
“Cough cough, Hayden, you, how could you choose to participate in the soul infusion experiment?”
Even now, Sol couldn't calm down.
147, no, it was Hayden who raised his head and looked up at Sol. Because he couldn't control his facial expressions well, he looked somewhat innocent.
“Sir, you once told me that apprentices below level three before the age of 30 are very likely to be contaminated and alienated in the short term, but I am already 28 years old. Even if you can help me, with my aptitude, it is impossible to reach level three before the age of 30.”
“So you risked signing up for the soul infusion experiment?”
“Yes, sir. This is the fastest way I can think of to reach level two, and with the strength of level two, I can help you with more experiments.”
Sol supported his forehead. He had always known that in the soul infusion experiment, the gender of the soul must be different from the body container. Therefore, when he saw the beautiful experimental subject, he didn't have any extra thoughts, just like looking at the corpse group in the warehouse.
But knowing that the soul inside came from an acquaintance still made him feel a little defensive.
“So you were just pretending to leave the tower early.”
“Yes.” Speaking of this, Hayden lowered his body again, his forehead touching the ground, “Besides Instructor Romm, only you know about this, sir. Please, sir…don’t tell anyone else.”
Sol nodded, then joked: “You have the courage to participate in the experiment, but not the courage to reveal your identity?”
Who knew Hayden would honestly say: “No, sir. In fact, even the courage to participate in the experiment wasn’t mine.”
“Oh? Is there anyone else helping you?”
“Actually…” Hayden straightened his back, raising his head so that Sol could clearly see his face.
Suddenly, a stiffer smile appeared on his stiff face, “Actually, it’s me, sir. I’m very sorry that I’m only formally meeting you now.”
Sol narrowed his eyes, looking at the person in front of him.
Although her appearance hadn't changed, her voice hadn't changed, and her expression hadn't changed much, her eyes were different.
Compared to the somewhat hesitant and timid eyes just now, these were bolder and more resolute.
“Who are you?”
“Actually, I am also Hayden, but I appeared later. According to academic terms, I am Hayden's second personality.”
Sol immediately narrowed his eyes and activated his meditation technique.
But in his eyes, experimental subject 147 was still the same as before, with no abnormalities.
It seemed that Hayden's spirit body was firmly locked in this container, waiting for the experiment later to observe whether Hayden's spirit body had any abnormalities.
“What manifestations does a split personality have on the soul? Is it expressed as one body with two souls, or one soul with two consciousnesses?”
“This…” The person in front of him obviously turned back into the cowardly Hayden. Her straight back slightly collapsed, “I haven’t studied my own soul. I’m afraid of uncontrollable changes in the middle.”
“That’s true.” If he didn't have the diary as a guarantee, Sol wouldn't dare to study his own soul casually.
Moreover, Sol's spirit body's plasticity and adaptability are indeed very strong. Perhaps this is the special characteristic that Instructor Gorsar mentioned.
And this special characteristic may come from the changes brought to him by the experience of transmigrating.
It's just that Sol still has no memory of the transmigrating experience.
Even if he tries hard to recall, he can only see a patch of darkness.
“Did the other personality appear later because of some accident?”
“Yes, when I was a child, an abnormal evil spirit tide occurred in the territory where my family was located. Only I survived. The second personality appeared at that time. It was he who helped me survive.”
“Are you sure it’s a second personality, not the spirit body of a second person?” Sol signaled Hayden to lie down on the experimental bed.
Hayden had obviously prepared himself mentally for cooperating with Sol's actions before coming, and climbed onto the experimental table without any hesitation.
Because the clothes for these experiments are specially made, there will be another opening on the back like the front, making it easy to check the special magic arrays on their backs.
Sol walked over and untied the clothes on Hayden's back—after entering the experimental state, he no longer paid attention to whether the person in front of him was male or female.
Anyway, they were all experimental products.
There was also a magic array drawn with golden runes on Hayden's back. This magic array was specially used to imprison and bind the souls of level one apprentices.
Now this soul faintly formed Hayden's appearance, but if no one reminded him, it would probably be difficult to recognize.
A wisp of gray light appeared on Sol's fingertips and touched the magic array.
Hayden's body didn't move at all, but the human face pattern formed by the magic array suddenly struggled.
Sol said indifferently: “No need to restrain yourself, I want to see your normal reaction.”
After speaking, he loosened the seal on Hayden's back again.
Once the seal was released, the magic array deformed even more severely! Finally, Hayden's skin began to bulge upwards, as if something was about to break through the flesh and blood and drill out.
Sol immediately narrowed his eyes, staring at the constantly deforming skin.
He saw a distorted gray translucent face, desperately trying to squeeze out, the pain and madness on his face were very obvious.
“Clearly he can talk to me calmly, why does the essence of the soul show such pain? Could it be that someone deliberately cut off the transmission of some painful emotions using the magic array? Is that why their emotions are restrained and their micro-expressions are lost, just like some female celebrities who have had failed plastic surgery?”
Sol didn't stop, continuing to put pressure on the magic array. As he moved, Hayden's spirit body also became more painful.
But at this moment, a groan came from the head of the bed.
Sol temporarily stopped putting pressure on the soul and leaned over to carefully observe the expression on Hayden's face.
“The more painful the soul, the more comfortable the container. The expressions of the two are completely opposite. This shows that the body itself has not changed in its rejection of the spirit body, and it completely relies on this magic array that binds the soul to connect the spirit body and the body.”
“What a crude method, no wonder there hasn't been any substantial progress for so many years. Can't Instructor Romm discover this problem? Is it that he is unwilling to improve, or is this already the method with the fewest side effects?”
Sol stopped torturing Hayden, and pressed one hand on the gray spirit body that was almost about to break through the skin.
The skin on his hand also became slightly transparent, and then he used force on his wrist, directly pressing the spirit body that was about to run out back into the body.
This preliminary test experiment ended here.
Sol let Hayden rest for a while and get up by himself, while he returned to the experiment table to record his findings.
“It is indeed a second personality, the essence of the soul has not mutated, but the consciousness has become pathological. However, I am not a psychiatrist either, unless I directly use soul fishing to seal Hayden's spirit body in the pages of the book… it's not impossible.”
As Sol wrote, he suddenly felt that Hayden's appearance seemed similar to the four consciousness entities in his diary.
He had previously looked through all the information on soul infusion and found that most of the experiments had a lifespan of less than three years. And those that had mutated and been contaminated were all the spirit bodies among them.
After those spirit bodies were contaminated, Instructor Romm would entrust Instructor Katz and others to help clean up the contamination, re-wash the container, and wait for the next level one apprentice who volunteered to participate in the soul infusion experiment.
Level one apprentices who have no hope of promotion choose to take a shortcut to become level two apprentices, but they still can't survive the fate of being contaminated.
It's like despair has never been far away.
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