Chapter 106 The Mystery of Gods and Ghosts

Chapter 106: The Mystery of Gods and Ghosts

"Hurry up and get out of here." I shouted to the Ring Knight standing at the door. I decided not to touch her for the time being due to such incomprehensible things.

Unfortunately, that thing didn't seem to want us to leave. She saw the Ring Knight running outside and immediately followed her. We almost ran out one by one, but the green female ghost also followed us, and what's even more depressing is that she can actually walk through walls.

I urged the Ring Knight who was running in front to run faster, but suddenly there was a scream in front of me, and the Ring Knight fell back again. The corridor in the actual area of ​​​​the base is only a little wide, so it is not very safe for the twenty-nine of us to squeeze into a pile.

"What happened before?" I asked unhappily.

"There are some here too!" the bell knight in front replied in panic.

"What?" I quickly squeezed past, but was shocked. Although the female ghost in the back is in a weird situation, she is still in human form, and she is a relatively beautiful woman. It is only because the color displayed on the eyepiece is green and her expression is dull and lifeless that she looks very scary. But compared to the one here, the one in the back is simply a harmless person. The guy in front is a male, and his appearance is completely unclear. Half of his face was completely missing, and a large number of turned-up pieces of flesh could be seen on the remaining half, and one eyeball was still hanging out. The guy's hands were in the same situation. The left hand was completely a skeletal claw, but the right hand was still a human hand. Looking down, he saw a big hole in his stomach, and a bunch of internal organs hanging out in a mess, dragged to the ground, and stretched out behind him to grow a long length.

"Oh my God! What are all these things?"

Ling said tremblingly: "No matter what it is, I don't want them to get closer."

Jingjing suddenly said: "Protective shield, we can make a protective shield. Try it and see if you can block it."

"You are such a genius!"

Vina and Chili turned to both sides at the same time, and each used magnetism to build a strong magnetic barrier in the channel. The two unknown creatures were still approaching us, and they hit the protective shield almost at the same time. Unlike the situation where we were bounced away after hitting the protective shield, a burst of blue electric sparks flashed where the two ghosts came into contact, and then each of us felt the screams of the two monsters. That wasn't actually a real sound, but a reaction caused by the two monsters' brainwave bursts. Just now, the obviously weak and almost non-fluctuating current induction of these two guys actually became so strong the moment they hit the protective shield.

The monster seemed to have been seriously injured by the protective shield. The ghost that looked like a rotting zombie actually began to fade away after screaming, and finally disappeared. We rotated the eyepiece continuously for many bands. But I can never see that guy again. Wei Na concentrated her attention and searched for the guy's mental fluctuations, but she couldn't find any trace. The female ghost on the other side obviously became much lighter after being hit by the protective shield, but she did not disappear, but her mental fluctuations became weaker.

"The protective shield has a strong damage effect on them." Wei Na made an instant judgment.

"I see." I directed Chili. "Put a magnetic barrier around her and take her to a high-energy physics lab. I want to know what this thing is."

There is nothing to be afraid of when she can be caught. Since the protective shield has caused such serious damage to her, it should be that she is afraid of us. The female ghost can obviously see the protective shield. Chili used a protective shield to surround her and then used the protective shield to directly threaten her to follow us, and successfully sent her to the high-energy physics experimental area. Researchers quickly created dozens of such cells based on the principles of our geomagnetic field. These cells did not have walls in the usual sense, and were only bounded by strong magnetic fields. Although this magnetic field cannot block bullets like a protective shield, trapping this female ghost is not a problem at all. As for why dozens of such cells were built. It's because we actually encountered dozens of these things on the way to the place where we sent the female ghost. There are things like this all over the base, literally everywhere. No one has ever discovered such a thing in the base before, and this is the first time we know about it. After learning that the multi-purpose eyepiece could observe them, the researchers in the base began a large-scale search of the entire base. Once found, we would arrest them. The result is that it makes us even more afraid.

After a search by the researchers, they found that there was no such thing in the entire base from the entrance to the ground floor. After arresting three to four thousand people, there were still some scattered ones. In the end, there wasn't even enough room to hold the cells, so we simply made a few large cells and put all the ghosts in them.

During the search, we found that the ghosts in the base were not only human, but also a large number of monkey or dog ghosts, and even the ghosts of mice. Of course, the experimental biochemical creature ghosts also exist, but they are mainly human. . Some of these ghosts look exactly like humans. There was land, but it looked like rotting zombies with their intestines hanging outside, and some turned into monsters that only appeared in nightmares. They were neither human nor ghost-like.

Through the process of catching up, we have summarized some common characteristics of these things. First of all, they cannot get close to strong currents and magnetic fields, otherwise they will be seriously injured, and as long as the damage reaches a certain level, they will disappear completely like the male ghost at the beginning. Secondly, these things can pass through walls, but their speed is severely reduced when passing through walls, and they cannot move as fast as they can in the air. In addition, they do not seem to be completely void. At least air currents and waving objects can destroy their integrity. However, it will recover slowly over time and has no practical value.

When all these guys in the base were captured and locked up in the magnetic field wall, a lot of researchers gathered here. Even people from unrelated departments came. The reason why everyone is so concerned about this matter is because these things are likely to overturn our existing knowledge system. We have received materialistic education since childhood, but the terms pointed to by these things in front of us are so unquestionable. These things themselves have no fixed physical characteristics, they cannot be 'touched' by hand and cannot be seen by eyes. It moves erratically, can pass through walls, and is aggressive. Taken together these characteristics. It is very similar to the ghosts in folklore, but ghosts should not exist in our knowledge system.

We were worrying there when a person suddenly squeezed over and pointed at a ghost behind the magnetic wall in surprise and shouted: "Luo Peng?" All the people on our side cheered and turned to look at that person.

"Do you know him?" I walked over and asked in surprise.

"Of course." The gray-haired old researcher said excitedly: "He was my former laboratory director."

"What? This..." I thought for a long time and didn't know what to call this thing. Although the supervisor felt like he was a ghost, he wasn't sure. "This unknown creature used to be from our base?"

The researcher nodded and said, "His name is Luo Peng, and he is from the Microbiology Research Department like me."

"Then what's your current position?" There are so many researchers in the base and it's impossible for me to know every one of them.

"I am now the director of the Microbiology Research Department."

"Then where did the Luo Peng you mentioned go?"

"At that time, we were studying a new type of cyanobacteria together, but a newbie knocked over the biological stripper cylinder. As a result, the cylinder valve hit the corner of the instrument, causing the stripper to leak. Luo Peng went up to use it himself in order to protect us. He screwed up the valve with his hands, but he himself was exposed to excessive stripping agent, which caused cell death in a large area of ​​his body. In the end, he could not be rescued."

Wei Na asked doubtfully: "Why does the cylinder open as soon as it hits it?"

The old research director said: "That was more than thirty years ago. At that time, shutter cylinders were still used and there was no electronic insurance."

I frowned but did not ask: "Does that mean this Luo Peng has been dead for more than thirty years?"

The old research director nodded. "It's been thirty-four years. I go to visit the grave every year."

Ling pointed at the ghost behind the magnetic wall: "Then what is this?"

The old research director shook his head: "That's why I'm so surprised. Luo Peng has been dead for more than thirty years, and I remember this very clearly. But this...! He is exactly the same as Luo Peng when he died. That... …Vice President, do you think this could be…?”

I knew what he meant even if he didn't say it, and so did everyone around me. Everyone is doubting that this is really the legendary ghost.

Xiaochun was smarter and shouted to the top of his head. "Sister Nuwa. Can you find information about this person?"

The projector in the room started instantly, and a three-dimensional image of a man was projected in front of us. There was a large amount of personnel information next to the image. Nuwa's voice rang out at the same time: "There is indeed this person in Luo Peng. His death records and work records are very detailed. From the three-dimensional image, it looks like the unknown object you captured is exactly the same person. But I can't understand why. A person who has been dead for more than thirty years can still appear in this form."

Huang Zhongdao, director of the High Energy Physics Research Department: "You can't just conclude that the likeness is his own soul! These things have no physical form. It should not be difficult to simulate the appearance of other people and animals. And there is a very strange You may not have noticed the problem.”

"What's the problem?"

"They all have clothes."

"So what?"

Huang Zhong said solemnly: "Even if people really have souls, and the souls will turn into ghosts and wander around after death, clothes are not part of the human body. Why do ghosts wear clothes?"

"this……!"

Don't tell me yet. This seemingly ordinary question really hits the point. Why are they all wearing clothes? Clothes should not be part of the body. Even if a person can become a ghost after death, they should still be naked!

Huang Zhong suddenly said: "No matter what these things are, let's see if they have attack power first."

"Yes." I immediately said to Nuwa: "Sister, can you help us send two experimental subjects quickly?"

"almost there."

A few minutes later, eight guards appeared in the experimental area with two death row prisoners. When they were brought in, the two men were looking around in panic. They should have been shot long ago, and they knew there must be a special reason for surviving until now. Suddenly seeing so many of us summoning them in such a strange room made these two people instinctively feel danger.

After the guard sent me there, I signed a document proving the land use and then left. One of the prisoners was locked up first by Scott and the others. The other one had his handcuffs and shackles removed.

I pointed to one of the magnetic field walls: "Go and stand there."

"What are you going to do with me?" the man asked nervously.

"Don't ask so many questions, just go over and stand." I emphasized my tone.

The prisoner hesitated before going in. We all had observation glasses, but the prisoner didn't. He couldn't see the ghosts. Naturally, I won't be afraid of them. As soon as he entered, the ghost inside began to approach him. In our observer, we can clearly see the ghost sticking to the man's side, then reaching out and punching the prisoner in the chest.

The prisoner couldn't see the ghost, he just thought it was weird that so many of us were staring at him with our weird glasses. However, he suddenly felt uncomfortable in the muscles of his chest. There is a cramping feeling. So he stretched out his hand and rubbed it twice, and then turned his shoulders again.

"Do you feel anything?" Huang Zhong asked suddenly.

"Feeling?" The prisoner looked around. "What does it feel like?"

"Your chest. The place you 'rubbed' just now."

"Here?" The prisoner was very confused, but he still answered our question. "I suddenly felt a muscle cramp just now, but I'm fine now. What's wrong?"

Huang Zhong ignored him and just said to us: "The attack power is basically zero. It seems to be completely harmless to the human body."

Wei Na said: "I don't think it's harmless, but the attack power is too weak."

Ling suddenly said: "I don't know if you feel it. It seems that what he just attacked was not this person's body, but his biomagnetic field."

I nodded and said, "In other words, this kind of thing can use its body to launch something similar to a mental attack."

Nuwa's voice suddenly answered: "The control signal of the human body uses bioelectricity. So if people really have a soul, it should appear in the form of a magnetic field or an electric field. In this way, these things might not be real It’s the human soul.”

Wei Na laughed: "Haha, the most advanced computer in the world actually said that there are ghosts in this world. It's really ironic."

Nuwa said slightly unhappy: "My emotional control module only accounts for less than one percent of the computing module, and my thoughts are absolutely objective. It's not my conjecture now, but the fact has emerged. What just happened The answer does contain speculation. However, the possibility of speculation is as high as 98%, which has exceeded the minimum standard for drawing accurate conclusions."

Huang Zhong took a notebook and recorded it while saying: "The situation just now should be considered an attack method. But the prisoner did not provoke him, so his initiative to attack should be due to his nature including aggression. If it just makes the muscles feel cramped, it shouldn't be a very serious injury. But look at the energy level reading."

I scanned the energy level reading in the upper right corner of the eyepiece and found that the number seemed to be getting larger. "He's absorbing energy?" I said in surprise.

"And the absorption speed is not low!" Huang Zhong pointed inside.

We found that the ghost began to attack the prisoner again. The prisoner stood there and would unconsciously rub and scratch here and there. It seemed to him that some parts of his body were uncomfortable from time to time, so he wanted to 'rub' it, but what we saw was that was not the case at all. Every time the ghost attacks a certain location in our eyepiece, he will immediately rub that location more and more frequently. Meanwhile, the ghost's energy level continues to increase. His translucent figure became increasingly clear, but nothing could be seen with the naked eye.

The prisoner felt it was strange that a group of us were always looking at him like this, so he couldn't help but scream. "What the hell are you doing? I'm not gay. Is there something wrong with so many of you staring at me?"

We didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, and we all continued to watch the ghosts attacking him. Nuwa suddenly said: "By the way, I heard that people often see ghosts on rainy nights, so I have a small inference. Do you want to try it?"

"What inference?"

"You'll understand when you look at it."

Under the command of Nuwa. An electrostatic discharge instrument was pushed into the space. Then the air conditioner in the room starts to increase the humidity in the air. We were then asked to put on insulated shoes and even the sight glasses were asked to be removed. Nuwa's voice said: "There is a lot of water vapor in the air on rainy days. The ground current in lightning will inevitably radiate outward through the water vapor, and the intensity of the current refracted by multiple layers of water vapor will inevitably decrease. In some cases The water environment is filled with a large number of active electrons, and then the oxygen will be ionized into negative ions. This will happen when the concentration of charged negative ions reaches a certain ratio. "

As Nuwa's last words ended, the electrostatic generator in the room suddenly started, and then the transparent and strong magnetic space that was originally used to imprison these ghosts suddenly lit up. Those magnetic walls are directly seen by our naked eyes as if they are real. Normally these are just magnetic fields and should not be seen by the naked eye. But now they light up. What’s even weirder is yet to come. As the lights in the laboratory gradually dimmed, all the ghosts who were originally locked in the magnetic walls suddenly appeared.

"Ah...!" The rather burly death row prisoner jumped out of the magnetic wall with a scream, his movements as fast as lightning. "Ghost...Ghost..." This guy was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Nuwa appeared again with an obviously playful voice. "Sure enough, I guessed it right."

"What's going on?" Vina asked.

"It's very simple." Nuwa replied: "These ghosts are the same thing as the magnetic field wall we use to seal them. They are semi-materials with energy properties, and their properties are similar to those that make up light. Photons have the dual characteristics of energy and matter at the same time. Because these things are semi-material. So they do not reflect or emit light, so we naturally cannot see them. But when the number of free electrons in the air increases, the electrons and their When energy bodies collide, electrons will shine. The light we see now is not actually the light reflected or emitted by themselves, but the flash emitted by the electrons that hit them. However, because the electrons are very dense, A luminous surface is formed, which just outlines their outlines. However, the light from the electron impact is relatively dim and cannot be seen when there is sufficient external light source."

A researcher said: "No wonder the legendary ghosts all appear in dark places. And they usually only appear on cloudy and rainy days. It turns out that they can only be seen in this environment."

Another researcher added: "There were many stories about ghosts in ancient times, but there are obviously fewer stories in modern times. This is probably because the lights in the city are too bright and you can't see them at all."

Nuwa said: "You two are only half right. From what we know, strong electromagnetic fields can destroy these ghosts. In modern society, high-voltage wires, radar waves emitted by radars, and electromagnetic radiation from microwave ovens ', strong electric fields near high-power unlimited broadcast stations, these things should be fatal to ghosts. So not only is the dark environment where they can be seen reduced, but the number of ghosts themselves should also drop significantly. Even caused by solar wind The strong magnetic interference is also very dangerous for them. Therefore, these ghosts cannot stay in the world forever. Otherwise, if so many people died, the world would have been crowded with ghosts. Another point is that not everyone seems to die after death. These ghosts will be formed, and their formation should also have specific environmental requirements. And I have deduced that highly concentrated thoughts at the time of death should be one of the important conditions for the formation of ghosts. That's why there is the term "wrongful souls", because those who died are Not willing to give in. The mind is more active during death. The intensity of the electric field is high, and it is easier to form ghosts. However, the legend is obviously processed. At least there should be no such thing as revenge for wronged souls. "

"how do you know?"

"If you want revenge, you must at least remember who the enemy is? These ghosts have been captured for so long. I observed that they seem to have only basic biological instincts, knowing how to avoid harm and obtain the resources necessary for survival, but they have no more advanced wisdom. Performance. As for attacking humans, it seems that it is purely to obtain the supplement of bioelectric field, not really because of any grudge against anyone. Moreover, even if they really have grudges, they don't remember it, and it is impossible to take revenge."

"makes sense."

The research on the formation principles and characteristics of these ghosts will not be completed for a while, but since there are no safety issues, I don't have to watch from the side. Huang Zhong took over the research project with full authority, and I brought the demon pets back online. The task of breaking the suppression of divine power has not yet been completed!

After going online, I reopened the scroll and read it carefully. The content on the scroll is very simple. There are only three things written under the title: task content tips, restriction requirements, and completion rewards.

The reward for completing the game is to get a magical gem, which can be embedded in any item. The person holding this item can gain the ability to lift the restriction on divine power, but the loss of this item will cause the restriction on divine power to be transferred at the same time. However, I have system rewards. As long as I don’t throw them away intentionally or trade them out, the items will not drop, so I don’t have to worry about this problem. The scroll also mentioned that there were some uncertain prizes during the mission, but there was no detailed explanation. It only said that there were some random prizes, but did not specify what they were.

There is only one restriction, that is, only one player can complete the task. Which means it doesn’t matter who finishes. But only one person can go. However, there is a supplementary reminder that summoned creatures owned by players performing tasks can participate, but other types of NPCs are not allowed to be hired to help.

The task content is to find the magical gem mentioned in the reward, but the task prompt is only one sentence. "Those who know the truth are frozen under the eternal dazzling capital."

This prompt is really vague and a bit exaggerated. Basically, there is not much difference between yes and no. My pets and I analyzed it for a long time and only roughly guessed that the mission prompt asked us to go to a place called the Eternal Brilliant Capital to find an insider. This person should know where the gem is or he knows the next clue. Anyway, we must find this person first. But problems have arisen. I have no idea where that royal capital is. So I don’t even know how to start this first step.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't remember where I had seen this royal capital, but the game system of "Zero" arranges tasks based on the player's experience, so the scroll said so. Then I must have encountered or heard of this place, otherwise the system would not give such a task. But no matter how hard I try, I can't remember when I have seen or heard of such a place. There is really no other way to mobilize everyone's strength. The bank's more than 100,000 members and tens of millions of NPCs should know about it.

I directly used the guild information release system to send a message for help, and then asked the NPC leaders of each department to come over and help me ask questions level by level. I can't believe that none of these people know where that damn city is.

Not to mention, the insider was actually found two hours later. And it's actually really red. I pulled Zhenhong and asked excitedly: "Where is that place?"

Zhenhong said hesitantly: "Actually, I haven't heard of this place, but I think there may be a place that is the city you are looking for."

"What place?"

Zhenhong didn't answer and asked instead: "Do you remember the last time we passed the Snowy Mountains when we came back from India?" (Appeared in Chapter 126 of Volume 9)

"Remember, what happened?"

"I fell under the ice, and then we discovered a city made of ice. Do you still remember it?"

As soon as Zhenhong said it, I immediately thought of it. "You mean that Chinese-style city with many ice sculpture monsters and made entirely of ice? I remember we didn't go in because we were in a hurry, right?"

"Yes, that's the place."

"How do you know that is the eternal splendid capital?"

"I'm not sure, but I think it's probably there. Your mission said that the insider was frozen in this city, so this city is most likely in a very cold place, and that person was frozen alone. The possibility of being sealed in a very cold room is not high. In addition, the eternally brilliant capital is probably not a name but an adjective. Eternity means a long time, and in my impression only the whole thing can be preserved for a long time if it is frozen. Come down. As for bright. It probably means that the city itself is very beautiful. The city we saw at that time was carved out of ice, so I think it fully meets the standard of bright. As for whether it is the royal capital, it is hard to say, after all, the prompt It’s too vague.”

"I didn't expect you to become smarter!" I said with a smile: "Okay. Anyway, there is no more useful news now, so I will go over there and take a look first. If there is new and more accurate news about the royal capital, , just ask Rose to contact me with the ring of love."

"OK."

Now that you know the destination, it's easier. I said hello to Rose and told her that I would not return to the guild during this time, and then used the teleportation ring to teleport directly to the city closest to the Himalayas, and then rode Night Shadow towards the frozen city.

to be honest. Although I have been to that city once. But now it seems that it is not much different from never having been there. The mountains above the snow line are like deserts, with no suitable surface reference at all. Those white peaks all look similar in length. I can't figure out where I found the ice cave last time, so I can only wander around within a general range. As a result, I didn't feel anything yet, so Yeying was unhappy for now.

"Master, do you know what we are looking for?"

"I know. We are looking for a big snow ditch, but they all look the same!"

"I'm afraid that's not the way for us to find it, right?"

"Do you have a better idea?"