Chapter 372 Controllable Shadow Ghost Experiment Record

The light of the cannon penetrated the ground.

When the white light faded, Mu You looked down and saw a hole several meters wide on the ground. It was pitch black and bottomless.

Mu You raised the palm of the robot, and dense micro-mechanical spiders emerged from the sand spider nest on his back, jumped down along his arm, crawled into the cave, and explored quickly downward.

After a while, a sand spider had already found the entrance to the underground. Mu You nodded to Lin Xue, and the two jumped in one after another.

Following the route explored by the sand spider, after a long descent, the two finally saw the light in front.

Rushing out of the light, what came into view was an empty underground factory. The surrounding roads and walls were brightly lit, illuminating the entire factory.

Just as the two had just landed and had not yet stood firm, a figure suddenly fell from the sky and rushed towards them.

However, before the figure approached, a string of flames spurted out from the barrel of Mu You's raised right arm, and the floating bullets formed a line in the air, spinning the opponent back like a gyroscope, and knocked a big hole on the wall behind.

The floating machine gun did not cause any damage, so it did not cause any major damage to the opponent. The figure in the distance fell to the ground, revealing an old witch with wrinkled face and hunched body.

Mu You had never seen this person, but his appearance made him feel very familiar.

Yubaba, the first administrator of the Undead Society who appeared in the game text.

Mu You looked behind her, and sure enough, the shadow of a long-haired girl was connected behind the opponent.

Yubaba stared at Mu You and Lin Xue in the distance with a ferocious face, and a layer of black air gradually emerged from her body. The whole person quickly turned into a young long-haired woman, with scarlet eyes and all ten fingers turned into sharp claws.

The next second, the long-haired woman pounced on the two with her teeth and claws.

When Mu You first encountered Tangbaba in the game, he was killed instantly. It can be seen that the strength of this shadow ghost should be considered the strongest among the human-shaped shadow ghosts.

However, no matter how strong the opponent is, it is not a problem. He is not a game character now, but a real person standing here.

What's more, he has a shadow ball that specifically counters shadow creatures.

The long-haired woman rushed halfway, and her figure suddenly stopped, keeping the sprinting posture and stopped in place, as if she was petrified.

In the elongated shadow behind her, a ripple rippled, and then a black ball of fluff showed a pair of eyes from the ripples, secretly looking at the outside world.

In front of the shadow ghost, Mu You has raised the cannon again, the muzzle of the cannon is surging with white light, and the energy is gathering rapidly.

The long-haired woman felt the fatal threat from the muzzle, her figure trembled, and her face became more hideous, but she was bound by the shadow behind her, and she couldn't dodge at all, let alone escape, and could only watch the muzzle facing her getting brighter and brighter.

This time Mu You directly accumulated a minute of energy, and then it was activated.

"Boom!"

The surging energy beam submerged the woman and penetrated the building behind her, blasting a straight passage directly in the maze-like underground factory.

After the light, there was no woman's figure on the spot, only a group of wriggling shadow residues on the ground.

"Ahhh..."

The shadow ghost had just died here, and Yubaba was resurrected not far away in another direction, but she had restored the form of an old witch, and there was no shadow behind her.

The resurrected Yubaba screamed at this time, as if she was suffering from unspeakable pain. She fell to the ground, and her nails on both hands scratched blood marks on her face, but she was unaware of it.

Soon, Yubaba stopped screaming, her eyes rolled back and she fainted, and her vitality quickly drained away until she died.

After a few seconds, Yubaba was resurrected again in another direction, but this time she didn't even scream, her eyes rolled back, her body was motionless, and there was no life. She had just been resurrected for less than two seconds, and then she died again, and her body quickly disappeared...

"What's wrong with this person?" Lin Xue looked at this scene strangely.

"The shadow ghost is a collection of tyranny and negative emotions. If there is no other shadow to help take over the negative emotions of the person possessed by the shadow ghost after the shadow ghost is killed, then all the negative emotions accumulated by the shadow ghost during his lifetime can only be transferred to the host..." Mu You shook his head and said.

Lin Xue was stunned when she heard this, and soon understood.

It can be imagined that it is a huge collection of negative emotions that can turn a shadow into a shadow ghost. Living people can never withstand such an impact. After resurrection, they will immediately be shocked by negative emotions and brain death, and it will not end with one brain death, but again and again until they can no longer be resurrected.

The fact is just as she expected. Next, Yubaba began to repeat the process of resurrection and death again and again, and the interval between deaths became shorter and shorter. After dozens of times, even when resurrected, she no longer appeared until her lifespan was completely exhausted, and then she stopped and disappeared forever in this world.

The two sighed at this scene, without stopping, and continued to move forward along the passage blasted by the cannon.

A moment later, the two appeared in front of the west entrance of the underground factory.

This is the hiding place of the man behind the scenes before. If he comes back, he might hide here again.

Before the two of them could get close, a series of footsteps suddenly came from the darkness ahead.

Five figures walked out of the darkness step by step, each with a shadow ghost wrapped around them. They were the five managers in this factory, led by a little boy.

Mu You also recognized this shadow ghost. The shadow of the thin manager before was the image of this little boy.

Led by the little boy, the five shadow ghosts attacked the two fiercely.

Mu You waved his hand and threw out the shadow ball.

The shadow ball quickly flew in front of the little boy's shadow ghost. Before the little boy raised his hand, it suddenly became bigger, opened a huge mouth, and swallowed the little boy's shadow ghost directly. After chewing a few bites, it swallowed it, and then jumped behind another shadow ghost, controlling it so that it could not move.

Five shadow ghosts were eaten and controlled one by one, and the remaining three were still rushing towards Mu You and Lin Xue.

Mu You didn't waste any words on this, and directly took out the shadow ghost box and opened the lid.

When he just entered the underground factory before, he noticed that the shadow ghost in the box suddenly became extremely violent and banged the lid frantically to get out.

Obviously, this place has a deep connection with it.

The box shadow ghost is definitely the most powerful one Mu You has ever seen. There is no reason not to use such a strong fighting power. With the shadow ball on him, there is no need to worry that the box shadow ghost will be out of control after it comes out, so he released it directly.

Sure enough, as soon as the box shadow ghost appeared, the furious breath instantly shocked the whole audience.

The three shadow ghosts that were rushing in front of him trembled suddenly, subconsciously stopped, and were about to retreat.

Unfortunately, it was too late. The huge figure of the shadow ghost arrived in an instant, punched one by one, and smashed the two shadow ghosts into the ground, and began to beat them one by one. The one-on-two also beat the two shadow ghosts without any ability to fight back.

And the last shadow ghost who wanted to escape was also entangled by Mu You and Lin Xue.

Mu You directly switched to the fighting circuit and fought with the shadow ghost at close range. Although Lin Xue could not summon the phantom of the god of death now, the attributes and black magic alone were enough to cause great trouble to the shadow ghost. With the cooperation of the two, this shadow ghost had no chance to escape and was quickly killed on the spot by the two.

After the two of them killed the shadow ghosts and looked back, they saw that the remaining three shadow ghosts in the field had been torn to pieces by the furious box shadow ghost.

All five shadow ghosts died, and the five resurrected administrators had the same ending as Yubaba, being swallowed by a huge amount of negative emotions and dying repeatedly on the spot until their lifespans ran out.

"The shadows swallowed by the shadow god have been returned, but these people still don't have their own shadows. It seems that their shadows have not been fed to the shadow god." Mu You said.

If I guess correctly, the shadows of these people should be in the hands of the person behind the scenes. This is his means of controlling these administrators and preventing them from rebelling.

"Roar!"

After venting, the box shadow ghost was still not satisfied and had no intention of returning to the box. He quickly looked into the depths of the West District and broke into the darkness of the West District like a bulldozer.

"It seems to take us there."

Mu You and Lin Xue hurriedly followed.

After the huge body of the shadow ghost collided in the maze of the West District, it finally broke into an empty hall.

This is a hexagonal hall. A circular pool several meters deep was dug out on the ground. The pool was full of black poisonous insects.

As if sensing the approach of humans, the insects in the pool suddenly became excited and surged like waves.

"Roar!"

The shadow ghost roared again and jumped directly into the pool, launching a crazy attack on the poisonous insects on the ground. The poisonous insects quickly crawled all over the shadow ghost's body, but it was useless in the face of the shadow ghost that could not parasitize. Instead, every claw of the shadow ghost could easily kill a large number of insects.

"Uh..."

The two followed all the way and saw the picture of the shadow ghost slapping the insects crazily.

"It seems that it has a big grudge against these insects..." Lin Xue said.

Mu You also looked strange. He originally thought that the shadow ghost rushed in to take them to find the person behind the scenes, but he ended up running here to fight wits and courage with the insects...

This is not incomprehensible. The owners of these shadow ghosts were basically tortured by the poisonous insects here in their lifetime. It is certain that they have psychological shadows about this poison pool, and these negative emotions were finally transferred to the shadow ghosts.

Seeing the shadow ghost like a child with a strong sense of revenge, slaughtering insects crazily in the pool, Mu You suddenly remembered something and hurried to the other side of the poison pool.

In the corner of the poison pool on the other side, a golden silkworm pupa the size of a finger grew on the ground. The surrounding insects consciously stayed away and left a circular open space around the silkworm pupa.

Mu You jumped directly into the open space and carefully picked up the silkworm pupa.

This silkworm pupa has not hatched yet, so it cannot be contracted for the time being. Take it back and raise it first.

As soon as the silkworm pupa was in hand, the surrounding insects immediately avoided Mu You, and they fled away from him one by one.

Mu You ignored the bugs and looked up at the platform in front of the Gu Pool.

The man behind the scenes was hiding on the platform and seemed to have stayed there for a long time. Of course, after Shadow God escaped from control, there must be no one on it now.

Mu You jumped onto the platform, and there was indeed no one on the pitch-black platform.

Lin Xue also jumped over from behind and condensed a ball of light at the tip of the magic wand, illuminating the surroundings.

The platform was arranged like a study room. There was a bed in the deepest part of the study room. In front of the bed were desks, bookshelves and other furniture. However, all the furniture had been broken into pieces, and many were crushed into the ground. There were a lot of damaged papers, books and notes scattered on the ground, as if they had just been plowed by a monster.

Mu You walked to the center of the room, switched to vampire skin, and released the search spell. The search target was still "Louise".

After dozens of seconds, the search yielded results. Mu You followed the golden guide rune to find it, and finally pulled out a note from a book on the abandoned bookshelf.

[… Because of our similar personalities and habits, Sayaka and I get along better and better. She is like a little angel, always warming me with her smile. When I am with her, I can temporarily forget the troubles in front of me. I regard her as my only relative here. Her position in my heart even exceeds that of Mianmian… However, today, I learned a piece of news that almost made me collapse: I overheard the conversation of the administrators, or rather, they deliberately let me hear it - Sayaka and I are about to undergo the ‘final treatment’. We will be thrown into a place called ‘Between Shadows’, where we will suffer unimaginable torture. Grinding, that is a kind of mental torture that is ten times more painful than being thrown into the Gu pool. Both of us will bear this pain at the same time, but each person can actively choose to share some of the pain for the other. The more one of us bears, the less pain the other person needs to bear, but the pain will never stop until one of us dies... The administrator's words hinted at me that I should either die to protect Sayaka, or kill Sayaka and survive... Before the final treatment began, I had already fallen into a huge mental torture...

——8/8]

Sure enough, it was the last "Louise's diary fragment".

Mu You was stunned after reading it.

The diary actually mentioned "Shadow Room". From this meaning, Shadow Room can also pull ordinary people in, trap them in Shadow Room, and forcibly impose some kind of "torture". Shadow ghosts seem to be created in this way.

Of course, the Shadow Room he had seen before did not have this ability. It seems that it should be a new ability that can only be opened after the Shadow Ball is upgraded to a certain level.

"Mu You, look at this!"

Lin Xue suddenly came over, holding a stack of information booklets that she had just found from somewhere.

Mu You took it and looked at it.

The cover of the information read: "Controllable Shadow Ghost Experiment Record".

Mu You opened it and saw that on the first page were densely packed numbers, each number was followed by an '○' or '×', representing the success and failure of the experiment respectively. From the statistics column below, there were more than 2,500 numbers in total, of which only 57 were circled.

In other words, only 57 controllable shadow ghosts have been born so far?

Mu You turned directly to the last page.

After the first page, there are 57 more pages, which just correspond to the number of 57 controllable shadow ghosts.

Mu You checked from back to front and found that there were two photos on each page, recording the information of two people, one of whom was a child of a certain age, and the other was uncertain, with men, women, young and old of all ages.

Further down was the handwritten 'experimental results'.

The result of each page is that one person chooses to die after enduring all the pain in order to save the other person. This person will become an ordinary shadow ghost, and the person who is saved can indeed survive, but cannot be freed. Instead, after experiencing huge mental ups and downs, he will become a human-shaped shadow ghost with consciousness, that is, a controllable shadow ghost that can be grafted onto a person.

When Mu You turned to the fifteenth page, he finally saw two familiar names: Louise and Sayaka.

As for the experimental results below, Mu You had actually guessed it before reading it: Louise took the initiative to die to protect Sayaka and became an ordinary shadow ghost, and although Sayaka survived, she became a controllable shadow ghost, which was grafted onto someone else and became a combat tool for others.

"This is No. 15, then No. 14..."

Mu You hurriedly turned the page forward.

Sure enough, on the fourteenth page, one of the two photos made him very familiar, it was Ye Rumeng.

And the other person on this page was Mianmian.

In other words, the little girl and Mianmian were assigned to the same group in the experiment, and the so-called No. 14 actually refers to both of them at the same time.

Judging from the previous results, the two people who were assigned to the same group will eventually die and live, one will become an ordinary shadow ghost, and the other will become a controllable shadow ghost... What about the two of them?

Mu You continued to look down.

However, the experimental results column below was empty.

This is also the only table without results in all 57 pages of records.