Chapter 1190: Beltira's Clue

Latest website: Bard rarely sees this kind of hesitant look on Bertila's face. Whether it is in the dark sect period or the current empire period, the dark priestess in his impression is always tough and will not Hesitant, therefore, when he realized the strangeness in Bertila's attitude, he immediately became very curious.

He maintained this curiosity, did not ask, but got up and followed behind Bertila, he followed the former dark female teacher through the rest area and central area of ​​the laboratory, through the culture sacs, The connecting section of the biomass container and the biological vessel passed through a "leaf door" that he had never seen before, and finally reached the lower floor of the laboratory.

This was an area he had never seen before. In fact, he didn't even know that this laboratory had a "lower area". A more secret space is separated in the "private house". This space is obviously not connected with the traffic pipelines extending in all directions in the giant tree of Sorin, nor does it have any tunnels that can lead to the outside world. To get here, you can only go through the laboratory. The upper floors of the - obviously, no entry unless required.

The fiber partition layer slowly closed behind him, and the glowing plant vines gradually lit up along the wall. The space in front of Bud's eyes brightened. He saw an oval hall with no doors or windows in all directions, and blood vessels emitting dim red light. This kind of tissue was buried in the gaps between the ground and the surrounding walls, slowly flickering like breathing, and several pillar-like wooden structures grew out of the ground, connecting to the dome above. Around those "pillars", Bud saw When it came to the closed culture pods one by one, the shape of those culture pods was similar to the culture containers in the factory area.

"This is your...secret laboratory in the secret laboratory?" Bud looked curiously at Beltira beside him, and then subconsciously asked, "Has this place been reported?"

"Your Majesty knows this," Bertila glanced at Bard, "and only he knows. You understand that I have a certain degree of autonomy, and I am only responsible for certain matters to Your Majesty."

"Well, I do know that you are a 'special citizen' after all," Bud waved his hand, and then his eyes fell on the dormant pods, "What are these? You cultivated them in private Pets or agricultural by-products?”

Bertila didn't speak, just walked forward slowly, the vines squirmed and curled under her feet, supporting her body like a crowd, she came to one of the pods, reached out and gently touched the gelatinous shell of the capsule As it brushed past, the light green shell immediately shook, and then faded down without a sound. A transparent culture container appeared in front of Bud, and his eyes widened in surprise.

There are no weird "bioengineering products" in it, nor is it a biological matrix to be processed. In the thin biomass solution, floating quietly... is a slightly petite elf with pale golden long hair. A silver elf with long hair and who looks like he just came of age.

She was floating in the pale yellow biomass solution, her eyes were closed tightly as if she was in deep sleep, and a layer of cortical gelatinous protective layer tightly covered her slender torso. Inside the protective layer, external nutrient pipes and In the nerve monitoring node, several dark red life-supporting pipes extend from near her spine, connecting to the pump-like organ on the upper part of the container. With the circulation of internal gas and liquid, tiny air bubbles are constantly floating from her nose and mouth Come out and rise to the top of the container. There are various signs that this "cultured body" has completed the growth and development of the body itself, and has the independent work of the heart and lungs—however, she is still asleep, as if the last step has not been completed.

"This is..." Bud blinked. He was very confused at first. He had no idea what Bertila was doing in such a secret laboratory and cultivating an elf body in the secret laboratory, but soon he As if thinking of something, the expression on his face became thoughtful, and then complicated, "I seem to have some impression of her..."

"Do you still remember? Ah, that's right...you met her once, when she was still alive," Bertila said softly, her eyes always falling on the face of the sleeping silver elf, "Berna Qingfeng, a girl who is too naive, never imagined how dangerous the world outside her home is..."

Bard's expression was complicated, and his tone carried memories: "I remember that she was seriously injured near the Shadow Swamp, but somehow found the stronghold of the End of All Things Society to ask for help... the priests in the stronghold regarded her as an experiment sent to the door materials, but she thought she had found a doctor..."

Bertila still didn't look back from Berna Qingfeng's face: "This experimental material was sent to me, and I asked her what she wanted - she said she didn't want to travel anymore and wanted to go home, and I agreed She, gave her a dose of anesthesia."

"Ah, I was there at the time—you agreed to her, and then ate her to replenish your biomass reserves and genetic sample bank." Bud said slowly, then raised his eyes, with the feeling that he finally had something Ming Wu’s expression looked around the entire hall, at the cultivation pods growing around the pillars one after another, his expression finally could no longer maintain a calm expression, and a surprised and heavy expression appeared on his face: "I think I know what you're doing...you're doing something that's almost impossible to succeed...you're trying to resurrect everything you've swallowed..."

"It's not resurrection, at least not completely, Mr. Bard," Bertera interrupted, "Reviving the dead is a great feat in the field of miracles, and I don't have the ability to pull those souls that no longer exist from the world of death. Back——I'm just 'reverting', reversing what I did back then. In a sense, none of these people died, their genetic samples are completely recorded in my biological core, their souls Being 'contained' in the depths of my soul, theoretically, this process can be reversed. Of course, I used to be unable to do this, but now... my ability is just enough."

Bud was silent for a moment, then turned his head to look into Bertila's eyes: "What is this? Is it some kind of 'redemption'?"

Bertila smiled: "Your Majesty said that a sin is a sin, and a real sin cannot be redeemed. If I want to continue to take root in this land, all I have to do is to make meritorious service—scientific research is meritorious service, and infrastructure construction is Meritorious service, solving the food crisis in the Holy Spirit Plain is also a meritorious service. These things are not atonement, they are "paid for with merit", and everything else I do is just to give myself an explanation... What you see That's what I told myself.

"These are not for His Majesty, nor for those who survived the disaster in the cluster war, and I didn't intend to show them to you. I made them for myself...Of course, I'm all with 'them' After discussion, only those who intend to return to this world, I will start the 'restore' process for them."

The expression on Bud's face seemed to relax a bit, and then he asked curiously: "Then what step have you made now? If the situation is as you said, and the biological data and soul are both there, then this matter It's theoretically possible..."

"Berna Breeze in front of you is the first individual to start the restoration process. The previous stages have been smooth—she can actually wake up." Bertila finally showed a smile on her face, and she tapped lightly. The shell of the container in front of him, even a few nerve fibers in the container brightened up, and after a while, the young elf floating in the liquid really slowly opened his eyes!

Bud was taken aback, apparently he didn't expect that Bertila's "secret project" had progressed to the point where it could awaken the individual, and then he and Berna in the container eye-to-eye, and soon, they Then he found that the expression of the latter was very dull, and there was a trace of confusion and bewilderment in his eyes. After staring blankly at the outside of the container for nearly half a minute, the slender elf slowly raised a hand, as if trying to get in touch with the outside world. People greeted each other, but the process was still extremely dull and unresponsive.

Bard raised his hand to respond to Berna, and then looked at Bertila: "She doesn't seem...not sober...Can she hear us?"

"Yes, but her thinking efficiency is not high enough, so she may not be able to keep up with our normal communication rhythm," Bertila nodded, "Her current state is more like a half-dream and half-awake—her soul is not very good. Adapting to the new body, the regeneration of personality has also encountered a bottleneck, and..."

Bud frowned: "And?"

"And her body is still unable to leave the container. Once she leaves, her spirit will quickly wither and decline, and her nervous system will soon fall into a state of disorder and self-destruction. In short, the external environment is an important thing for her. deadly."

"You said just now that 'the previous stages were all smooth'—so you are now in an unsatisfactory stage?" Bud understood something, and then he seemed to suddenly realize something. The reason for coming here at the beginning, "Wait, is it only Berna?"

"You are very sharp, Mr. Bard," Bertera said with a slight nod, "yes, only Berna is like that—the reason is the elves' special neural structure and soul 'format'. Their nervous systems are too complex and sensitive, and they have There are many special structures used to perceive magic and spiritual power, and their souls are not as "stable" as humans and other races, and their souls are easier to connect with other realms outside the material world, which means Once their souls have left their bodies, or tried to enter a strange body, it will immediately trigger a very serious rejection..."

She paused here, and then continued: "The problems in these two aspects are very serious, and the internal mechanism is very complicated, whether it is the ancient classic druid spell or the current one I use, after the death of all things." The flesh and blood biochemical technology after improvement and strengthening cannot be perfectly solved."

Bud finally realized what Bertila meant by the "clue" before. He thought of the information disclosed internally by the Theocratic Council, and the part of it related to Sisters Fierna and Leierna, Eyes slowly widened: "So... it was impossible for Fierna or Leierna back then to use druid techniques to reshape their sisters' physical bodies, let alone control two bodies with one soul—unless they used It's not a technology known to mortals!"

Bertila nodded lightly, and said slowly: "Sisters Fierna and Reina are rebels from ancient times, and according to the information from the Theocracy Council, these rebellious sisters died a thousand years ago. There was a terrible accident... They were sucked into the realm of the kingdom of God. No one knows what they experienced there, and no one knows how they survived. People only know that one of their sisters survived Returned to the real world, and not long after, the one who returned alive out of some kind of "obsession", used the druid technology at that time to copy the body of his sister, and used one soul to control the two bodies, maintaining the existence of both sisters. Illusions of the world...

"It has to be said that this is a sad and touching story. The sacrifices of the rebels are worthy of all of us, but we have not been able to detect the abnormality behind this incident... It is no wonder, because even in the In the age of Gondor, human body cloning was an extremely cutting-edge and taboo thing, and even though disobedients often did things that were taboo, their main members and research directions at that time were limited to the race of humans—the elves never They have copied themselves, and have never carried out research in this area. They are not a deviant species, and they don't like others to do deviant things on themselves, which leads to..."

Bertila didn't finish speaking, and Bard took the initiative to take the second half of the sentence: "As a result, no one has ever discovered the fact that elves cannot use biochemical technology to reproduce and parasitize their souls—"Sister Fierna" deceived everyone."

"That's it."

"Then the next key is—why did they do this? How did they do it?" Bud had already begun to think quickly, his brows furrowed. "The rebels at that time thought that the copy that came back alive take over the body of one's own sister, and then use one soul to control two bodies to pretend that one's sister is still alive, but the fact is that this is technically impossible unless they are not using known technology... and rebels The organization already represented the pinnacle of technology in the mortal kingdoms back then, and the biochemical technology you use today is also at the same pinnacle, something even you can't do..."

He shook his head, curled his fingers and tapped his temples to forcefully calm down his agitated thoughts: "Leerna or Fierna created a body with a technology that no one knows, and their purpose for doing this Is it really just pretending that my sisters are still alive? I suddenly doubt this very much... If they used knowledge other than mortals, if they suffered some kind of death when they were sucked into the kingdom of God Pollution, then this matter will become terrifying."

"What's even more frightening is that this happened a thousand years ago," Bertila said suddenly, "for a whole thousand years after that, they were rebels and inheritors of ancient knowledge. The Archdruids are the patriarchs of the Church of the End of Everything. They are the planners and executors of many plans. Their words and deeds are indeed weird, but even if they are so weird, we still regard them as At least from the perspective of 'mortals' like myself... this is the scariest thing."

Bard's expression instantly became extremely ugly.