Volume 19, Chapter 172: Ghost Tree’s Plan to Kill Two Eagles with One Stone
The neighbor of the Soul Tree is not a creature. This guy is simply an evil spirit, and it is a super evil spirit that is extremely evil to a certain extent. Following the general direction guidance given by the Soul Tree, I quickly met his neighbor, but the way he greeted me was very special. Can you imagine how you would react when you were walking alone in a dark forest and suddenly a half-rotted dead face appeared in front of you just a few centimeters away?
My reaction was exaggerated because I was scared. The moment that grimace appeared, my brain didn't even have time to react, so my body reflexively punched the opponent and sent him flying away. The unlucky evil ghost pounced on me again at a faster speed. It came over, but this time it was even more unlucky than last time despite being prepared. I pinched its throat directly, and no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't move at all.
In fact, there is no so-called vital point for ghosts that can be pinched. The reason why this guy can't struggle when his neck is pinched is because he still has the memory of his life. Because he was a human when he was alive, don't pinch his neck and instinctively think that you are being controlled. In fact, with its ghost system, there is no such thing. As long as he is willing, he can even give up part of his limbs to take it from me. Get out.
"Poor guy, it seems that you made the Soul Tree very unhappy?" After catching the evil spirit in front of me, I understood why the Soul Tree asked me to come here. Obviously this guy is not as interesting as Soul Tree said, and Soul Tree's only purpose of deceiving me was to help him solve a problem.
In fact, the souls that I saw devouring each other around the Soul Tree before were not gathered together voluntarily. They were all forcibly gathered together by the Soul Tree using its own abilities. Just like the tree of fire needs to absorb the fire element and the tree of nature needs to absorb the power of nature, the tree of soul is a plant that must rely on the soul to survive, so it forcibly gathers all the ghosts in the nearby area to that area and Force them to devour each other. Finally, when a soul has devoured enough souls and strengthened to a certain extent, the Soul Tree will capture this powerful soul to itself and then devour it. This is how the Soul Tree survives. .
After successfully catching this evil spirit, I asked Ling to help read this guy's memory. According to his memory, this guy was originally one of those poor souls that should not be swallowed. However, I don't know why he didn't lose his mind after devouring enough souls. Instead, he restored his memories of his life and turned into a ghost with human thinking.
Those previously unconscious souls would only instinctively devour each other to strengthen themselves, but when they devoured enough of their own kind, they would become more and more violent, and finally become completely irrational evil spirits. This evil spirit has no consciousness other than killing and devouring, so when the Tree of Souls needs to absorb them, these guys don't even know how to escape. Although they would also resist, the difference in strength was there, and those who escaped would only end up being devoured. However, the guy in front of him is an anomaly.
Because he has human thinking, he has one more ability than those evil spirits, and that is thinking. Although he thought of leaving when he first gained wisdom, but after discovering that devouring his own kind could strengthen himself, he regarded the open space as paradise. Originally, he planned to strengthen there to a certain strength before leaving, but after he lived carefree for a period of time, he suddenly discovered that a very strong similar person was attacked by the big tree in the center that he always thought was very ordinary. have eaten. After that, he discovered this kind of thing twice more. Finally, he realized that the tree was powerful and dangerous. After weighing the consequences of fighting with the opponent, he decisively chose to escape.
In the past, because those unconscious souls did not know how to escape even if they became powerful, the Tree of Souls did not waste any effort to install any isolation facilities to prevent ghosts from escaping. In fact, because he had been turning on the ability to attract ghosts, not only did no ghosts leave, , on the contrary, many ghosts passing nearby or newly appearing will gather here from time to time. Precisely because there were no escaping ghosts, the Tree of Souls had no interception facilities set up at all. As a result, this guy easily left the range.
Although the Soul Messenger is very strong, no matter how strong it is, it is just a tree, and the biggest problem with the tree is that it cannot move. The safest way to deal with an immovable man-eating tree is to stay away from it. The guy in front of him chose the most correct method. He ran out of the area and discovered that except for the ability to attract ghosts, none of the Soul Tree's abilities could extend beyond the open space. In other words, as long as he didn't enter that open space, the Soul Tree would be absolutely useless against him.
After escaping the danger zone, this guy began to plan to return to the human world. However, after wandering in the underworld for a while, he finally realized that the gap between the human world and hell was not something that a little person with no background could pass, so he began to walk down to earth. Want to make myself stronger. If you want to return to the human world, besides getting to know the big guys in the underworld, the easiest way is to gain powerful power.
For a ghost, the easiest way to strengthen is to devour other ghosts. At first this guy was just looking for ghosts to devour, but soon he couldn't hold on any longer. The various wild ghosts are not all weak, on the contrary, a large number of them are even more powerful than him. In this case, there are actually not many goals for him to choose from. Moreover, even if the soul is weaker than him, the opponent will not let him swallow it stupidly. Those souls will usually resist violently, and every time he can successfully devour the opponent, it will take several hours or even a day. This speed is undoubtedly quite slow, and the danger is very high. After all, a battle that lasts for several hours or even a day will inevitably attract the attention of many nearby creatures. You must know that this is a dangerous hell, not the human world. Even in the human world, there are fishermen waiting for the snipe and the clam to fight. In a place like hell, there are more such guys. Therefore, most of the time, this guy did not successfully devour his opponent, but was forced to escape early in the middle of the fight. At most two out of ten attacks can succeed, it depends on luck.
Such a low success rate coupled with unimaginable dangers forced this guy to think of other methods, and after thinking about it, he thought of the Soul Tree. The powerful temptation ability of the Soul Tree will automatically cause the souls in the surrounding area to gather around it, which provides the guy in front of him with more targets to choose from. And in the subsequent contact, he actually found that the souls who were influenced to gather here involuntarily were all in a state of confusion as if they were sleepwalking. This phenomenon makes his attack extremely simple, because these souls with almost no ability to react do not know how to resist, so even if there are souls stronger than him, let alone souls weaker than him, they can easily succeed.
Since discovering this phenomenon, this guy has lived around the Soul Tree, and then he used the Soul Tree as a bait, and he lurked near the bait to attack the prey that was attracted. But while his approach was a great thing for him, it wasn't the same for the Tree of Souls. His behavior directly caused the number of souls entering the Soul Tree's sphere of influence to plummet. This is equivalent to grabbing food from the Soul Tree's rice bowl. Do you think the Soul Tree can have a good impression of him?
After understanding the relationship between him and the Soul Tree, it is not difficult to understand why the Soul Tree tricked me into coming over to help him deal with this trouble. If there is a person waiting at your door every day, and he will take some of your salary away as soon as you come home, do you think it is possible for you to be polite to such a person? Before, it was because the Soul Tree couldn't move at all, so there was no way to kill this guy, but it's different now. My presence gives the Tree of Souls an additional option.
"Hey, are you really rude to me?" After taking the guy back to the Soul Tree, I threw him directly next to the Soul Tree. "If you want me to help you deal with this guy, just ask me. Why lie to me?"
"Although I wanted to take advantage of your ability, I didn't lie to you." Soul Tree said without feeling any guilt at all: "I told you before that this guy is very interesting, and I didn't lie to you. . I just didn’t tell you that I had a grudge against him. In fact, he is indeed a very interesting guy.”
"Looking at his dead face with more than half of it rotten, I don't think it's funny."
"He's so fun, that's why he's so fun." Soul Tree said, "Do you know what he looked like at first?"
I shook my head and said, "How do I know this? Why? Didn't he look like this before?"
"Of course not, because this guy was just a puppy before."
"Do you mean to mock him as a dog, or...?"
"No, that's the literal meaning. He was originally the soul of a puppy when he was attracted to me, but for some reason after devouring so many souls, he actually began to develop into a human form. In the end, even his own main consciousness became confused. 'Chaos' actually thinks that he is a human being."
After hearing what the Soul Tree said, I finally became a little interested in this guy on the ground. It's already a bit strange for a dog's soul to evolve into a human form, but the other party can completely copy a complete human memory, and he doesn't even notice it himself, and actually regards this copied consciousness as his own consciousness. This situation is really It's a little strange. It is said that the soul should have a very clear response to the concept of self. Just like a mother has a hard time mistaking her children, it is hard for every person or every living thing to distinguish his will from others. The absorbed will is confused, because once this happens, it means the disappearance of the self. This kind of devouring is more appropriate than saying being devoured. However, this guy's situation seems to be a little different.
If he only thought of himself as him because he absorbed the consciousness of a certain guy and had complete consciousness, then it would be easier to say. The key point is that his memory does not seem to be replaced, but fused. Although he thinks he is a human being, he still has memories of when he was a dog, but in his memory his dog identity was automatically replaced by a human image, and this is what I care about. .
What a terrifying ability it is to be able to use a piece of memory to perfectly replace the other person's memory, and make the other person believe that it is the truth? If we could isolate and reproduce this memory fusion process from this guy's accident, then we might even be able to modify some people's memories to a certain extent. Of course, in the game, even if this technology is developed, it can only be used on NPCs. After all, the player's will is protected by the system, and the system will not allow any group or individual to directly harm the player's consciousness in any way. However, even if this technology is separated and can only be used on NPCs, it will be an unimaginable technology. At least it will be much easier if we want to recruit a certain protoss to join us in the future. It's best to get the other party to join the team first. If the other party agrees, it's best. If he doesn't agree, use this technology to modify the other party's memory to make him think that he has agreed. In this case, the protoss team in our guild should be able to grow quickly.
Seeing that I finally understood the key, Soul Tree suddenly asked: "How is it? Is this guy interesting?"
I nodded helplessly and said: "It's indeed interesting, even if I didn't help you in vain this time." After talking about this guy, I said to the Soul Tree: "Okay, I have solved your trouble for you. Have you completed our mission?"
The Soul Tree directly handed the World Tree sapling back to me and said: "It's ready. Just give it to Mother Earth. Oh, by the way, according to the rules, I have to give you some reward. Let me think about what I have." I can give it to you." After shaking for a while, the Soul Tree suddenly stretched out a vine and rolled it towards me, and said at the same time: "It's you, little guy." I saw the vine shining with blue light. It passed through my body like an illusion and rolled out a white shadow from my body.
"Master?" The phantom was still a little panicked after being pulled out of my body. It was obviously the first time for him to encounter such a situation. If it hadn't been for the fact that the previous situation didn't seem threatening, it's estimated that the phantom would have launched an attack and started to counterattack.
Because I knew it was impossible for the Soul Tree to attack us, I immediately signaled Phantom to relax after he asked, and after he received the order, he immediately felt what the Soul Tree was doing to him. A bright blue halo suddenly appeared at the root of the vine that was wrapping him around him. Then the halo moved quickly along the vine toward the tip. After reaching the end of the vine, the light was directly injected into the phantom's body.
As the first aperture flashed, the second and third apertures began to appear and disappear one after another. Later, the apertures began to become more and more dense. They were all rapidly instilled into the body of the phantom, and the phantom also became more and more dense. It became brighter and brighter, and finally it changed from the original translucent state like a fog to a crystal-like image that exuded blue light.
"Is this...?"