Volume 19 Chapter 89 Amazing Ability

"Ah... Help..." The entangled researcher screamed desperately. He is a senior researcher, and his combat power is basically zero, so he obviously will not have the ability to react as well as combatants when facing danger. But he is quite lucky because I am standing next to him. The moment he was rolled up by the tentacles, the blade claw on my wrist had already slipped out, and then he flipped his wrist and waved it upwards, and with a snap, he passed through the tentacles.

The tentacles and luminous bodies could pass through the operating table at will, so I judged that it was a spirit rather than a strength. However, when the tentacles were just rolled up, I thought it had already materialized itself. After all, the researcher's body was strength, and non-entity tentacles would definitely not be able to roll him. But what surprised me was that my blade claws actually passed through the tentacle like I had touched nothing.

Although the first knife was swept, my reaction did not slow down at all. With my wrist flipped, the magic power instantly spread to the blade claws. The blade claw with a light purple-black light instantly passed through the tentacles again. This time the effect was like cutting butter with a red-hot steel knife, which instantly cut off all the tentacles that were entangled in the researcher. The researcher was caught by my other hand and threw them back. Ling reached out behind me and caught the researcher and put it on the ground. I continued to wave the blade claws and instantly cut the tentacles of the spirit body into pieces. After being cut off, the broken tentacles automatically dissipated into the air as if they were smoke before they fell to the ground.

"Retreat, this thing is very dangerous." I spoke out and stopped a few researchers who wanted to come over to see the situation, and then took a step back. Although the tentacles on the surface of the thing were cut off by me, they grew out quickly, but the length was obviously much shorter than before. It seemed that the energy of this thing was also limited and could not grow infinitely.

"President, this thing is so dangerous, how should we deal with it?"

"It's okay, this is not very dangerous for me." I said and looked at the researcher who had just been rescued next to me and said, "How are you? Can you check the energy attributes of this thing?"

Although the researcher's face was a little pale, he nodded and said, "No problem." As he said that, he walked behind the monitor and started the machine again. After using the new machine to sniff the soul body for a while, the researcher frowned and said, "President, it is certainly true that this thing is a spirit body, but its energy intensity is very unstable. When it is high, it can reach more than 10,000 standard units, and when it is low, it is only a few minutes. There is no rule at all. Moreover, I just searched the consciousness signal of this soul on the instrument and only read the signal of hunger. According to the conclusion of the machine analysis, this thing should be a type of artificial soul, and has a similar principle to the artificial soul loaded in our mobile angels. However, its functions seem to be incomplete, and some of the abilities are stronger than our artificial souls, but some basic abilities are not at all."

"You mean it's an incomplete soul?"

"It shouldn't be incomplete, but a congenital defect. It feels like... it's like I was suddenly taken off halfway through the production line, missing the subsequent process."

"Is there an incomplete defective product?" I thought for a while and said, "Carry out this place first, let's find another place to do some experiments to see how many special abilities this thing has."

A researcher in charge of soul research immediately suggested: "The dangerous spirit testing grounds on our side are very suitable for testing this thing. Why not just move it over?"

"Then go there."

Under my order, everyone quickly packed up their things and began to transfer their positions, while the magical component was dragged by Ling with magic power and transported to the test site.

This spirit test field is very different from the general weapon test field. It is not an open empty field, but a very huge room. This room is completely composed of transparent materials. It is equipped with multiple energy neutralization devices on the outside, which can release energy of opposite properties according to the characteristics of the spirit being tested. Although this barrier does not have active attack power, it can restrain energy creatures. Any energy creature trying to forcibly break through the barrier will be completely dissipated by the neutralizer, so this barrier is indestructible for energy bodies.

After putting that spirit body into the test area, we all retreated outside the test barrier, and only two early models of magic puppets were left in the experimental area.

Because someone must be responsible for the operation of the experiment, people must be kept in the experimental area, but because the things tested are often dangerous, it is not safe to keep the researchers inside. In order to ensure the safety of the researchers and to meet the experimental requirements, it is the best way to keep a few puppets inside. Of course, the new model of mobile angels was originally more suitable for experiments than puppets, but a defect in the mobile angels determined that they were not suitable for working here.

Compared with the early backward puppets, the performance of the current mobile angels has been greatly improved in all aspects. However, in order to make the mobile angels have super high intelligence, we installed artificial souls on the mobile angels. Although this improvement has given the mobile angels an intelligence level that the puppet cannot reach, it also makes the mobile angels gain the weakness of the soul. Because the early puppets had no souls at all, they were naturally completely immune to soul attacks. After all, they had no souls to allow the other party to attack. However, it was different after the mobile angels had souls. Although there were still some differences between artificial souls and natural souls, we specially set up

With a soul attack protection device, mobile angels will still be damaged by souls, but they are more resistant than ordinary creatures. However, no matter how you say mobile angels will always be affected by soul attacks, so it is not safe to use mobile angels in such places that specialize in dangerous spirits. In contrast, although the early puppets were a little stupid, they were not afraid of soul attacks at all, and they were more suitable for work here. As for the problem that the old puppets were not smart enough, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the researchers were just outside the experimental area, and they could just correct any problems on the spot. Although the honest puppets were stupid, they could still understand the basic commands.

After preparing the experimental equipment and the old-fashioned puppet and activate the protective barrier, we also entered the operating room one after another. From here, we can clearly see the entire situation in the experimental area. We can also directly orally command the puppet inside by using the sound transmission magic array installed here.

Seeing that the puppet inside was ready, the researcher around me began to direct after asking me: "Open soul energy monitoring."

The researcher next to him quickly activated the monitor here. Compared to the machine that just pushed to the temporary laboratory, the fixed equipment here has significantly more functions and has much better performance. Just looking at the crystal indicator lights on the screen, I think this thing is super complicated.

"The monitor starts normally." The researcher behind shouted.

The researcher next to me nodded when he heard this, and then said to the magic circle that spreads the sound: "No. 1, extract a blank soul and throw it next to the experimental target."

With the order of the researcher, a puppet marked with a number 1 in the experimental area quickly turned around and walked to a row of containers in the corner of the room. Then, he accurately grabbed a small bottle and turned and threw it on the strange soul carrier. With a bang, the crystal bottle fell on the bracket next to the carrier and turned into pieces. At the same time, a white soul fire also floated out.

The spirit body just now seemed a little dull after I cut off several tentacles. It seemed that the whole reaction was slowed down because of the exhaustion of energy, so we planned to feed it a little soul ability to slightly increase its activity.

As soon as the fire of the soul floated out, the spiritual body there suddenly started to move. More than a dozen tentacles were wrapped around the soul fire in an instant, and then they quickly pulled it into their body. Then the soul was instantly swallowed by the soul carrier at its core.

After eating the ball of soul, a sudden light flashed on the carrier, and the spirit body wrapped in the carrier immediately grew larger, and the tentacles on it also returned to their length before the injury, and the rhythm of the tentacles swing was obviously much faster than before.

"It seems that this thing does work on soul energy, but such a little soul energy seems to be unable to meet its needs." said an assistant researcher next to the researcher.

The researcher in charge here nodded and said to the sound transmission array: "No. 1, throw nine more soul fires to it."

When the puppet No. 1 heard the order, it immediately turned out nine bottles and threw them around the spirit body. Then the tentacles squirmed wildly and caught the bottles in the air and crushed them. As for the soul fire in it, it was pulled into its core carrier the moment the bottle burst.

After swallowing nine balls of soul fire in one breath, the spirit body became obviously excited. Not only did it increase in size and number of tentacles, but it also actively used its tentacles to tentatively explore in all directions, as if it wanted to find something.

Seeing that the spiritual body had already had considerable activity, the researcher in charge began to order the puppet to use various weapons to test the damage this thing is afraid of. For those dangerous souls, it is very important to first figure out what they are afraid of. In case of an accident later, you can at least clean them up if you know their weaknesses.

This step of testing is a routine test. The number one puppet tried all possible attack methods according to the pre-arranged steps without using subsequent commands. It turned out that this thing is not much different from that of ordinary souls in terms of basic attributes. It is not afraid of physical damage, and can be vain or materialized at will, but it is extremely enchanting for energy damage. Various spell damage has a very strong killing effect on it.

"It seems that the defense ability of this thing is not very good." I said looking at the test results.

The researcher in charge of the research said: "Naked souls are generally like this. Even individuals who can already achieve the physical soul of the ghosts in the undead are also afraid of energy attacks. This is a basic attribute, something that cannot be changed by improving strength. For example, the artificial soul used by the mobile angels in our guild is actually very fragile. The reason why mobile angels now have relatively strong soul attack resistance is because we have added a layer of protective magic array to the outside of the carrier of the artificial soul. The components outside the carrier are gone, and now it is equivalent to the naked soul state, so it is normal to be afraid of energy attacks."

I nodded and said, "Then you can test it and see what's going on with this thing. In the City of Chaos, this guy actually created something like a beam cannon by himself. He had no similar parts on him before! And this guy finally escaped with a teleportation device, and that thing was obviously not the function that the original parts on it should have."

"We have seen this on the battle record before, but it may take some time to figure it out. Now let's try its reaction to mechanical parts first." After the researcher finished speaking, he said to the No. 1 puppet: "Twist the experimental equipment to the spirit."

After receiving the order, the No. 1 puppet immediately took a metal part from the operating table next to it and threw it at the spirit body. I originally thought that the part would fall to the ground, but what surprised us was that the thing was caught by the spirit body in mid-air.

I can understand that this spirit body had caught those soul bottles before, after all, it contained the soul energy it likes to eat. But what is it doing to catch this mechanical part now? Can it still eat metal?

As soon as I thought of eating metal in my head, my expression suddenly changed. The puppet in the cave of the City of Chaos had gnawed the thigh of a mobile angel, and other parts on him were obviously impossible to have the function of self-healing the parts that devour other mobile angels. So how could it eat the thigh of a mobile angel at that time? The answer must be on this soul carrier. In other words, this thing might really be able to eat metal.

Although the result was not exactly the same as what I guessed, it was almost the same. After the guy caught the part, he put it on the carrier, and then we saw that the metal part quickly melted and decomposed like butter on a frying pan and turned into a ball of liquid metal with silver light.

After the liquefied metal completely turned into liquid, it seemed as if there was some force driving it. The liquid actually flowed down the shell of the carrier to it and all drilled into the gap between the carrier and the laboratory bench.

As all the liquid metal drilled into the gap below the carrier, we suddenly found that the carrier had moved, and the entire carrier suddenly rose. After it rose, we immediately discovered that six mechanical feet were growing under it, which looked like crab legs.

Seeing this change, the research supervisor next to me immediately said excitedly: "It seems that this is the secret of wound healing and evolutionary weapons."

I nodded when I heard the researcher's words. Although the mechanical leg has no technical content, since it can turn an irrelevant part into such a walking system that it urgently needs now, it is not incomprehensible to turn it into a weapon when resources are sufficient.

While we were talking about its secret of change, the researcher who was responsible for soul energy monitoring next to him suddenly said: "Supervisor, the energy value of the spirit body has dropped by more than 300 in the process of forming mechanical legs. It seems that it will consume soul energy when forming a new assembly."

"The principle of equivalent exchange is very versatile, and it is normal to consume some energy for manufacturing new parts. By the way, did it consume energy when it melted and decomposed that part before?"

"Yes. But the consumption is not large."

“How many are there?”

"It's only about thirty, probably one tenth of the mechanical legs."

I immediately asked when I heard the words of the two researchers: "Can I understand that this thing needs to consume ten times the energy to decompose it into a unit of mass of metal?"

"This is not necessarily the case. The detailed data requires repeated experiments to be determined, but judging from the current data, it is likely that this is the case."

"Then...huh? What is that thing doing?"

When I was about to ask the researcher to experiment a few more times, the carrier in the experimental area actually climbed forward with the support of six legs. However, this guy seemed to be unable to see the road at all because he had no eyes. As a result, he walked to the edge of the laboratory bench within two steps and flipped down from the air. However, because the carrier itself is metal, the hardness is extremely high. Although it fell off the laboratory bench, nothing happened. However, this guy's mechanical legs unfortunately turned over and turned into a six-legged state.

We all thought it would be stuck, but who knew that the guy seemed to understand that after kicking six legs upward for a while, he could not get over it at all, so it quickly stopped kicking, but instead made the six legs melt into a liquid state again and flow under the side that was now facing the ground. Soon it stretched out its six legs and stood up again, but the six legs changed directions.

"It seems that this thing can be decomposed and synthesized metal at will." The researcher in charge said, looking at the six legs that grew again.

I asked quickly: "Has the energy change just now been recorded? How is it consumed to decompose and synthesize parts?"

The researcher responsible for observing energy changes immediately said: "Like last time, the decomposition consumed more than 30, and the synthesis consumed more than 300."

“How much energy does it have now?”

"Its energy has always been unstable, and its current value fluctuates between more than 178,000 and 180,000."

"How much energy did it replenish after eating a soul fire? How much energy did the soul fire originally have?"

The researcher who was responsible for monitoring the energy changes replied: "The soul fire here is the standard soul energy used for testing. Each soul fire ball is 10,000 units of soul energy. Just now, it ate ten soul fire balls, but the soul energy has only increased by more than 80,000, and the absorption rate is about 83 to 84%.

"It's quite high conversion rate!" I said.
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