After standing there for a few minutes, Joshua stopped thinking.
Are soul puppets breeding humans and extracting souls to create similar species? Or is there another race behind the puppets, herding the Hyborians like livestock? There are many possibilities, and Joshua can think of many, but such thinking is meaningless and cannot solve any problems.
You have to practice and look for clues.
The warrior slowly squatted down, and the huge soul puppet's joints made a slight buzzing sound. He squatted in front of a little boy who was breathing slowly but had no light in his eyes, as if he was dead flesh. Then he calmly stretched out a finger, silver The light began to condense on the tip of his finger, and finally formed a translucent 'blade of light'.
Most of Joshua's steel power is in his body outside the void, but his soul still stores a considerable part of the steel power through Siberia's steel fragments. At this time, Joshua was controlling the power that could derive life, turning it into a light blade, and seriously cutting towards the boy's head.
Pfft—the sound of flesh and blood being cut was so soft that even the wind could not penetrate it, but Joshua could hear it. He controlled the light blade between his fingers and seriously broke through the cortex, muscles, and skull. He turned his fingers, and the force of steel sliced open the skull. The thick vitality compressed the blood vessels and nerves to maintain the life of the boy whose skull was lifted.
The boy's exposed brain could already be seen. Joshua looked at it intently, and at the first glance, he saw something that he expected.
A light blue rune array that looks like a seal.
This seal-like rune array, as if it were a product label, was accurately placed on the surface of the boy's brain. It can be clearly seen that this rune array is absorbing some strange power from the boy's body all the time. , and then transformed into another kind of power that penetrates the opponent's body. Joshua stretched the light blade at his fingertips forward and touched the rune formation. He sensed a quite clear resistance, which seemed to be rejecting the intrusion of the power of steel.
"Can it still resist the modification of external energy?" Joshua nodded slightly: "It's quite delicate."
But the power of steel is an essential force that even the mother beast of the void cannot resist. No matter how exquisitely designed a small rune array is, it cannot resist Joshua's corrosive analysis. After a few seconds, the blood covering the surface of the boy's brain The rune formation path dissipated into nothingness. The boy's lifeless eyes blinked, and then he fainted completely. At the same time, Joshua frowned, and he closed the opponent's skull. As the life force surged, all the wounds the boy had been cut by him healed.
At this time, he also understood the function of the rune formation.
"Sealing 'imagination', 'association ability', 'self-thinking ability', 'deep conception ability'... A rune formation that completely seals 'wisdom' by directly modifying and stimulating the 'judgment' and 'choice' mechanisms in the brain. .”
Standing up, Joshua raised his head and looked around at the fallen children. He whispered to himself: "The 'thought stamp' that directly knocks down civilized intelligent life into fleshy crops - and also ensures the purity of the soul."
"The person who designed this is simply a genius. If there were no accidents and the ideological seal was not broken, then there would be no life in this world that could resist him."
How to resist? Without the ability to associate and think deeply, humans will become worse than beasts, and they will not even have memories.
Although he expressed appreciation, Joshua's tone was cold. He did not continue to look at the children at his feet - it was useless. Even if he removed the mental seals of all the children, what would happen? A group of guys who are all new-born babies in their thinking, let them gain freedom abruptly, it is the same as not gaining freedom.
Now, Joshua is going to the medical area mentioned by the unknown technician. He wants to know how the so-called soul core is stripped out and what the super unit is.
He wants to thoroughly understand what is going on in this world.
The medical area is very close. It is next to the maintenance area and diagonally opposite the unfinished skeleton building. It is a rectangular low building with a red pentagon logo on the front. Joshua came to the entrance of the medical area. Surprisingly, there were no soul puppets guarding the place. He didn't even see any other living beings or puppets inside.
"Transferred?" Joshua thought for a moment, and immediately understood what was going on - when he left the maintenance area and destroyed the four soul puppets, the command center of the soul puppets had probably discovered his existence, and what happened next , after he neatly destroyed the three puppets taking care of the children, the commanders understood that ordinary puppets would definitely collapse when faced with him. If they wanted to fight, they would have to be suppressed by a large army.
However, if a large-scale battle is indeed taking place in the breeding area at this time, then the soul puppet party should not have enough manpower to come back to suppress him now. Because of this, the commander simply evacuated other nearby souls Puppet and staff in order to reduce losses.
Very mechanical logical judgment. Joshua nodded. This sentence was a compliment. On the one hand, it saved him time to clean up the garbage, and on the other hand, they could also preserve their strength. Thinking of this, the warrior strode into the medical area. He tapped the ground and ceiling casually, and the power of steel shot out, paralyzing and eroding more than ten series of hidden energy traps.
Since there is no time on the front, it is also a very wise judgment to use traps to delay the move.
Entering the medical area, Joshua looked around the monotonously decorated hall. The hall is wide and clean. On the edge of the wall, there are glass cabinets filled with silver-white metal boxes. In the center of the hall, there are some scattered experimental tables, which are loaded with equipment that should be used. A robotic arm to prepare chemicals. At the end of the hall, there is a cold door made of steel, which should be the 'operating room' mentioned by the unknown technician.
Joshua's sensing device could detect a faint smell of blood and disinfectant. He didn't pay too much attention to it. The soldier strode towards the door of the operating room. The door was locked. When it sensed someone approaching, it A light curtain is projected, and it seems that some special soul wave must be released to unlock it, but how could Joshua have such a thing? Why would he need keys and secret words? Warriors never need them.
Therefore, Joshua clenched his right fist and pulled it back. Then, he swung a heavy punch cleanly, causing a sound of breaking through the air.
boom! boom! boom!
Rapid and violent roars sounded three times in succession. After three times, accompanied by the creaking sound of twisted steel, the extremely strong steel door slowly fell backwards, splashing a piece of tile debris. After stepping through the door, Joshua entered the operating room, where he could sense more blood smell and more souls.
It seemed that because it was not activated, there was no light source inside the operating room and it was very dim. However, the soldier's modified puppet's eyes had their own lighting function. He turned on the light and scanned the inside of the operating room. Qiao Xiu saw many things that he had expected.
corpse. Lots of bodies. A mutilated corpse with its brain ripped open and its soul stripped away.
In the center of the operating room were twelve operating tables arranged in threes and fours. On the operating tables, extremely bright blue magical light was flashing. Joshua could tell at a glance that this blue magical light could attract human beings. The soul left the body, and on both sides of the operating room, there were two transport tracks, with corpses piled on them. It can be seen that when the transport tracks are started, they will send the corpses of many children to the tracks like an assembly line. the other end.
Joshua couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he didn't find the suspected 'doctor' or 'soul puppet'. But soon, he discovered that there was something strange about the corpses - there was no need to create wounds to strip the soul out of the body, but the corpses were covered with them. There were wounds of different sizes, not even in the same location.
Some had their brains taken out, some had their hearts missing, some had their arms opened up and their arm bones removed, some had their eyes lost, and both ears and their inner ear cartilage were missing.
There was no pattern, and each corpse had wounds and missing body parts. After being puzzled for a moment, Joshua immediately realized it.
"Super unit..."
He murmured, then turned around and walked towards the medical hall. In the hall, Joshua walked to the nearest glass cabinet. He broke the door of the cabinet that also required a soul secret message, and then took out a silver-white metal box. Joshua used brute force to open the metal box that still required a password to open. Then look at what is placed in it.
It was a pair of eyes soaked in a glass jar, floating in a pale yellow liquid, shining with a strange purple magic light.
"As expected."
Joshua shook his head, and his tone was heavy: "The so-called super unit is this...a part of the organ that has extraordinary qualities."
This pair of magic eyes was swept by Joshua's steel power. He already knew the power it possessed - this was a pair of magic eyes that could directly modify human memory with its gaze. It could even directly control beasts and insects, allowing simple-minded people to The beast worships him as his master for the rest of his life.
Raising his head, the soldier looked at the silver boxes that were piled high on the four walls, ranging from a few to thousands. Joshua felt an inexplicable coldness spreading throughout the room.
There is no doubt that the soul is not the only thing that is nurtured by the soul puppet and the existence behind it. These children who are continuously sent from the breeding area possess another important resource that is worthy of anyone's effort to collect - extraordinary. organ.
Joshua's eyes scanned all the cabinets. With his unique perception, he could sense that what was packed in these boxes included leg tibias that could make a person as light as a swallow, and a strong heart that could give people endless physical strength. It even preserves a brain that can exert telekinesis, and a special organ that can spit out fire and ice.
These organs, as long as they are slightly transplanted, or simply used as props, can produce effects comparable to magic scrolls or permanent solidification spells. Joshua even saw an arm bone that allows the host to release powerful ray magic. This kind of ray magic is quite threatening even in Mycroft's world. It is difficult to use it without gold level. But here, as long as this arm bone is transplanted, the transplanted person is equivalent to one more person every day. A terrifying magic that can be used at least six times.
However, this is not the reason why Joshua pays so much attention to these things.
Lowering his head and staring at the magic eyes in front of him, Joshua seemed to be looking into the eyes that were preserved in the nutrient solution.
The next moment, he stretched out his hand, and silver light flickered in the center of the huge steel mechanical palm... At the same time, the light of the magic eye in the glass jar began to dim rapidly. After a while, an almost undetectable purple 'particle' appeared. This appeared in Joshua's palm.
Not only this magic eye, but as the silver light in Joshua's palm grew larger and brighter, all the metal boxes placed in the cabinets in the entire medical hall began to shake violently, as if It was like an earthquake at this time, and then, within a few breaths, the silver light in Joshua's palm was extremely bright. When it reached the top, a 'particle' floated out of all the metal boxes, and then rapidly Gathered in the palm of the warrior!
Thousands of particles of different colors turned into an amorphous nebula. They rotated in the palm of Joshua's hand, just like the nebula the warrior had collected when traveling through the void.
A nebula composed of steel particles.
"High concentration of 'super energy cells' detected, start loading process."
Suddenly, a slight electromagnetic wave came from the part of Joshua's body that originally belonged to the soul puppet. It seemed to be a preset program. At this moment, it was saying solemnly: "Looking for the super unit to connect. Port... Search failed. Searching for built-in super unit storage device... Search failed. This machine cannot load super unit."
Since the warrior completely modified his body, the so-called access ports and storage devices naturally disappeared, but Joshua did not need the authority of these steel particles, he only needed information.
And this preset notification program has already given him a lot of information.
"I see."
Nodding slightly, Joshua looked at the Steel Particle Nebula in his hand. He finally understood this series of rough human pastoral processes.
First of all, the main purpose of the soul puppet side is still to collect as many souls as possible, but the world of Siberia is a small world after all. Even if it encounters huge changes, it cannot become a high-demon world. Any ordinary person can have a soul. , the vast majority of human beings are almost worthless 'soulless people'.
In Joshua's inference, the ordinary Siberian soulless people in the breeding area are existences that only rely on their brains to think and only need their brains to think. Only those who have experienced technical work for many years, such as those who are similar to nameless mechanics. Existence, because of the tempering of various high-intensity mental work, the soul can be tempered day after day.
And those children who were selected from all over the breeding area and sent to the garden area to be raised were because they possessed steel particles... because of their authority, because of their natural extraordinary organs, they were naturally able to possess all kinds of extraordinary powers. , and soul.
As for the so-called source of superpowers, it really can’t be explained any better—the entire world of Siberia is in the center of the great whirlpool of the void. God knows how many worlds and how thick steel particles come from, carrying their own power through it. Even if 99% of this world only passes through it once and then leaves, there is still 1% that will be captured by mortals.
For these mortals, acquiring the power of 'superpowers' is equivalent to gradually developing a 'soul' that can use superpowers. But what they never expected was that this was actually not a good thing. Having a soul was equivalent to sending oneself to the pasture of death.
In Mycroft's world, those who are lucky enough to be possessed by steel particles and have authority can be said to have reached the sky in one step. From then on, they have the capital to embark on the extraordinary path, just like those young 'warlocks' who were accepted by the White Tower. But in the world of Hyboria, this kind of 'luck' is the real way to die. The souls of those lucky people will be stripped away, their abilities will be collected, and their flesh, blood, bones and skin will become the treasure of this huge ranch. In part, they cherish the incomparable resources of human flesh and fleshy crops.
Joshua silently put away the nebula formed by the steel particles in his hand... Each particle was equivalent to the death of a Siberian child who had superpowers, but had his soul and separation ability removed, and in his hands, There are nearly 10,000 particles, which means the death of nearly 10,000 Siberian people who were slaughtered as livestock just after reaching adulthood.
And this is just the super unit stored in this medical hall. He does not believe that there is only one such facility, and there are only so many cabinets for storage.
But the warrior's heart was unexpectedly calm at this time. He didn't even have much anger, because Joshua knew that in this situation, anger was useless and even harmful. When a person's heart becomes flustered, That time is when he is about to face failure.
Joshua had a vague guess in his mind: The reason why the world of Hyboria was able to change from a low-demon world to a medium-demon world in a thousand years may be related to the fact that it is located in the center of the void whirlpool and has withstood the erosion of countless steel particles... Even the fact that the Steel Python Siberia was kicked out of his body and the whole world became what it is today is inseparably related to the existence of the Void Vortex.
He has not forgotten the purpose of coming to this world.
However, just when Joshua was about to turn around and leave the medical area and go to other places in the garden area to take a look at the situation, suddenly, the ground shook violently, causing many cracks to even appear on the surface of the low and solid medical area. Then, violently, An explosion louder than thunder sounded from afar. It approached rapidly, setting off waves of violent sound waves in the air.
"what happened?"
The soldier was also quite surprised by this. He strode out of the door and looked towards the direction where the explosion came from, which was the east. Joshua saw that the eastern breeding area far away from the garden, which seemed to be the end of the experiment, was shining with colorful light, and a huge mushroom cloud was slowly rising from there, straight into the sky.
At this moment, the originally white dome light quickly turned red.
"Warning, warning: The enemy has broken through the fourth line of defense in the eastern breeding area, and the outer defense line has been completely defeated."
Accompanied by the sudden sound of the siren and the rapidly turning red warning lights, an emotionless, inorganic voice sounded throughout the garden area: "Guard puppets gather together and head to the eastern breeding area to join the battle!"
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