Chapter 314 – Memory of a corpse
Chapter 314 – Memories of a Corpse
Saul tightly gripped the puppet in his hand, its red crystal eyes now completely black.
It sensed that there were other spiritual forces affecting it!
Sol immediately looked around.
“There can’t be anyone else here. And it was only a few minutes from the time I got the puppet to the time its eyes turned black.” His expression grew more serious, “The change came in those few minutes.”
His eyes swept from the lab bench, the candle lamps, the corpses, and finally …… landed on Nick in front of him.
“Ku, are you keeping your eyes on the puppet?”
Agu: [I’m sorry master, I was just observing Nick’s corpse when I stumbled upon some abnormal spirit fluctuations on you. It wasn’t quite the same as your previous fluctuations].
“When I was just testing the other corpses, you were also observing carefully, right?”
Agu: [Yes master.]
“Then it’s basically certain that the one who caused the puppet to change is Nick.” Saul withdrew his gaze and stared at Nick’s corpse in front of him.
Nick had died because of a failed promotion, and his body hadn’t suffered much damage. And there was obviously less material available when it was disposed of, so his appearance didn’t change much.
Saul asked the diary to release the imprint of the Lost Soul Flower, and the imprint, which was already incredibly faint, really began to flash at a certain frequency.
“The Sustainer turned out to be able to be a dead man.” Saul didn’t immediately move away from the source of the signal, instead he moved up, “Who would have defended themselves against a corpse standing in the vault if I didn’t have multiple means of detecting the psychic power being exerted on me?”
“Nick’s body must have been tampered with. The method of maintenance was fixed inside the corpse as a signal transmitter. The other party knows that corpses in the vault don’t usually get dissected twice, but of course, that’s no secret to wizards of the third level of apprenticeship and above.”
Saul originally thought that he would be able to discover the enemy’s trail after discovering the sustainer of the seal, but he did not expect that the other party had come up with a handful of intermediary agents, and that the real manipulator was still hiding behind the curtain.
Morton: [Master, it is recommended that you do not move this corpse, or else it may be detected by the person who manipulated it].
Sol nodded, “But if the influence of the seal imposed on me by the other party is an action that will be revealed in the near future, then my performance without being affected in the slightest will also be exposed.”
Agu: [In that case, it would be best if we could figure out the information contained within this imprint.]
Saul sits on the edge of the sarcophagus and looks at Nick’s corpse, “Since the ability to maintain is given to a corpse, the signals it releases shouldn’t be very complicated considering the corpse’s inability to improvise and the factor of being affected by an abnormal external force field. Maybe we can try to decipher it.”
Saul immediately had a few of his conscious bodies stand by as he tried to energize that imprint to amplify its signal feedback in order to capture the anomalous psychosomatic fluctuations.
Algae hurriedly handed him a pen and paper, as well as some instruments to test his mental powers.
The consciousness bodies naturally couldn’t use the instruments and paper and pencil, so they could only memorize and analyze them on their own.
Next, Saul carefully transferred the imprint from next to the diary to the tentacle, and then brought the spirit body tentacle a little closer to Nick’s corpse.
As the imprint got closer, the fluctuation that was different from Saul’s own spiritual power gradually became obvious.
Saul didn’t care about the others, and tried to summarize the pattern of it himself first. However, spiritual power fluctuation was not a language after all, and it gave Saul a feeling more like a code.
If there was no code book, it was very difficult to crack it.
He could only start with the emotions contained in the mental fluctuations, after all, mental power fluctuations were not just cold and emotionless codes.
But the same emotion could also mean different information, just like looking at only the picture and not the words, the understanding of the content could be vastly different.
“Wait..! Picture?” Saul, in a flurry of thought, actually remembered a straightforward way of parsing it.
He put down the pen and paper in his hands and leaned down, scrutinizing Nick’s body.
“According to the records, Nick died after I left the Sorcerer’s Tower, but the body was actually just delivered here, less than two days ago. There are a number of people who may have come into contact with Nick before this. For example, Mentor Kaz, who was in charge of the autopsy, and his assistant, as well as the person who transported the body halfway through the process, and even Kukin, who took over the work of the storehouse. If Nick’s body maintained its activity during this period, just like the corpses, did it also have the ability to automatically replay the images, just like the corpses?” After all, it had been a while, so Saul wasn’t sure if this body could still “recall” images from that long ago.
But that didn’t stop him from trying.
Saul made the decision to pay attention to the diary in his mental body for the first time.
“Very well, the old diary brother didn’t object.”
Saul sat down directly on the ground, ignoring the surprise of several conscious bodies, and ran his spiritual power, mimicking the erosion diagram of his meditation, walking counterclockwise.
Soon, he felt a lightness in his body, and when he looked down again, he saw that he had walked out of his body.
This time’s out-of-body experience was even easier than every other time in the past. His secondly remodeled body was like an intelligent system that was incomparably attentive and took the initiative to help him get out of his body.
Saul raised his hands to his eyes, confirming that his out-of-body spirit body was still the same as it was in his previous life. Intentions flowed through his mind, and his translucent body quickly morphed, and he once again became Saul’s appearance.
He stood up and floated above Nick’s body, feeling the vague attraction coming from below, and without resisting the force, he went with the flow and burrowed into Nick’s body.
Boom–
It was as if he had suddenly moved thousands of meters in an instant, and the images in front of him flew by. Dots turned into lines, and lines turned into distorted images.
Everything lost its original appearance.
Saul didn’t panic as he struggled to distinguish the distorted images in front of him due to the accelerated motion, striving to find meaningful people and things in this abstract rendition.
Finally, Saul’s eyes looked to a spot where he felt some features were familiar.
There was even a sense of affinity.
“That’s the place I used to be in contact with for a long time!”
Saul and Nick’s lives had crossed paths infrequently, and even fewer of the places Nick had visited in life and death felt familiar to him.
This was certainly a breakthrough!
Saul let his mind focus on that familiar image. But because the image had been twisting and spinning rapidly, it was still very difficult to find the truest answer from that little familiar feature.
“The distortion of the image is because it is in rapid motion for me. To see the image above clearly, I need to remain relatively still with it.”
This simply means that it is very difficult to observe the scene inside a fast-moving carriage while standing on a train platform, but if you board the train station, observing from inside the carriage is a breeze.
Saul narrowed his eyes and shook his mental body once again. His line of sight followed the little bit of the image as it rapidly rotated.
Because it was actively accelerating the rotation, the burden on Saul’s mental energy was great. If the diary hadn’t become his locator and supported him in maintaining his consciousness, Saul feared that he wouldn’t even be able to make such an attempt.
Finally Saul could see the image in front of him.
He saw a ceiling engraved with runes above his head, a console with various props on his side, and a conveyor belt with black leather underneath him.
Everything he saw was not confined to the eyes of a corpse.
It was the feedback given to the body by the environment the corpse was in at the time, and the same was fed into Saul’s mind, and coupled with the fact that he was familiar with the place, the complementary memories eventually formed a clear picture.
This was the third corpse room!
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