Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 295 Chapter 292 Undead Face and Pillar of Knowledge

"You need to find a state, and then determine a belief. You have to train to maintain the state for the belief and form a habit. As long as your belief does not fall, you can maintain the state, so as to control your expressions and outward movements. message sent."

The teacher of the fraud class gave suggestions and demonstrations.He can laugh before every sentence, keeping the volume above seventy decibels.He rearranged his facial muscles with a laughing expression and used the time to think, and once it became a habit, he had time to manage information and observe other people.

"People will call you Brother Haha." The teacher said with a smile: "This is a quick way, just for your reference. In fact, the opposite state of Brother Haha is more suitable for you, that is, always thinking with a sad face and always showing dissatisfaction. "

His words must be reasonable, but Zhuang Xuteng also has his own understanding.He believes that the best expression to cover up thoughts is not a frown, but a deadpan seriousness.As soon as this idea came up, Zhuang Xuteng thought of an old friend, he is definitely a master of expression control.

Zhuang Xuteng hadn't come to see Master Lich for a while, and this was mainly related to Boss Qian's departure.Originally promised to help Master Lich recreate his body, this matter could not be done without the help of Boss Qian and Baiqi Grocery Store.Now that Boss Qian is gone, and this matter is gone, Zhuang Xuteng always feels a little sorry for Master Lich.He has been hiding and not coming recently, but this matter must be told to him sooner or later.

72 The main hall of stone pillars is still surrounded by black mist, exuding an atmosphere of loneliness and terror.The Lich Master sat upright on the stone seat, maintaining a chin resting posture that had not moved for thousands of years, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.When Zhuang Xuteng appeared in the hall, its head shook slightly, as if it had been activated.In fact, Zhuang Xuteng didn't know, and the Lich Master wouldn't admit it, it was waiting for him not only anxiously, but also looking forward to it.

"It's been a while, almost a month..." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed. "Well... I have some bad news, I have to tell you. Let me keep the story short! Boss Qian is no longer in this world, and he can't help you rebuild your body."

The Lich Master didn't move at all for a few seconds, which is of course no different from its state most of the time.After a while, it slowly said: "If you don't have it, you don't have it, and he is not the only one. With him, you can save trouble, without him, you can continue to work hard. It's the same from the past to the present. Naike, how are you doing recently? "

"It's fine—except that my brother's death made me very sad—but I'm basically out. Sadness is useless, and finding ways to avenge him is what should be done. So now I start preparing tasks again, so that life and Continue the exercise." Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said, "How are you doing?"

"It's much better than before, I don't feel more and more stupid, I think this is an improvement..."

Zhuang Xuteng chuckled, and said, "Is it still possible to feel it? If you are so stupid that you don't feel stupid at all, wouldn't it be the same as how you feel now?"

"I can build a 37-story necromantic ritual circle with my consciousness. Using this as a measure, my state has been maintained."

"You used to be able to build..."

"43 floors. The theoretical upper limit is 45 floors, and the number of floors I need can't be lower than 32. I'm satisfied with keeping it at 37." Master Lich lowered his arms, sat up straight, stared at Zhuang Xuteng and said slowly: "You never The intelligence I sucked here seems to have reached the carrying limit of your brain. I thought your intelligence still had potential, but it seems I was wrong."

Zhuang Xuteng laughed even more happily, he knew that Master Lich was making fun of him, not mocking him. "I'm sorry to disappoint you. It's just that if you smoke too little, you think it's not enough, and if you smoke too much, you think it's too much. You are really difficult to serve. Especially when you have no expression when you speak, it is even more difficult to serve."

"Hmph. I don't have facial muscles and skin, and of course no expression."

"If I just met you, I would probably believe what you said. But I have seen you angry, and I have also seen you showing excitement, anticipation, and curiosity. By the way, there are supercomputers and dormant martial arts. Once, your mental activities are more complicated. Yes, you don’t have muscles and skin, but your eyes, movements, voice, especially the red light flashing in your eye sockets, they can all express your emotions for you.”

"You observe very carefully." The Lich Master said slowly: "It seems that I have leaked a lot of information inadvertently."

"Maybe you think I am very familiar, and some things have a strong impact on you, so there will be these emotional flows-but most of the time you are deliberately controlling it, which can only be discovered through comparison." Zhuang Xuteng then asked his own question: "Do you know how to control your expression?"

Master Lich stared at Zhuang Xuteng for a few seconds, and said, "I've been around for a long time because of this...it must be one of your tasks that needs this. I'm not a judge, nor a master of disguise, a necromancer There is only one way to absolutely control the expression, and that is to let the wraith lie on the face."

"Wraith possessed?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

"Yes, you can think of it with just a little reminder. This means that you have learned, but you haven't thought enough to integrate the knowledge. I taught you the method of ghost possession, and I also said that it will cause harm to the human body. That includes paralysis of the body. If you paralyze your facial muscles, you can't make any expressions."

"Uh... all the muscles are paralyzed, won't my expression collapse? Well... don't remind me, let me think about it, I seem to be about to catch it." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his face and said, "The paralyzed muscles are for Avoid sudden emotional changes in micro-expression. After the wraith possesses, it will control these muscles, and the wraith will only act when it hears the order. This means that the expression is controlled by specific instructions. You can make any expression you want."

Master Lich nodded slightly, and said: "There are advantages and disadvantages to this. The advantage is that the control is simple, and it is very difficult for necromancers to realize it. The disadvantage is that the comprehension and expression of wraiths are very poor. The expressions that come out are eerie, like dolls. The only expression they can do well is cold and serious."

"It makes sense. The main purpose of letting the wraith control the expression is to prevent the small reactions in the corners of the eyes, mouth, nose and other parts from revealing the inner thoughts. As long as this 'unconsciousness' can be prevented, it will be fine, and the rest of the time can still be normal."

"But it's not that simple." The Lich Master leaned forward and said, "The wraith is not a gust of wind, and it won't be beneficial to let it enter your body. You are alive, but the wraith is dead, and it will continue to cause Physical damage and mental stress. It's a lot like a shadow implant. Ultimately the best thing a necromancer can do is to be like me, immortalizing the spirit and letting the body die."

Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said, "At least for now, I don't want to become a lich at all."

"Of course you don't think so now. When I was young, I didn't want to become a lich as my ultimate goal. Lich, or necromancy is just a means, never and never will be the end. But if one day you If you want to take this step, go to the stone pillar over there to have a look. The method of becoming a lich is written on it."

"Pillar? The runes on it have been damaged, so you can't read them at all." Zhuang Xuteng glanced back, and then said, "Are you going to fix them?"

"They have always been good. The so-called damage is just a disguise and protective measure. If your knowledge and abilities cannot be understood, they are damaged historical relics in your eyes. Complicated spells are a burden on your brain. You first You have to go step by step to a certain level before you can understand the rune spells on the stone pillars."

Zhuang Xuteng suddenly became interested, and immediately turned and walked towards the stone pillar.He was also interested in the environment of the hall in the first few times, and he often observed the 72 stone pillars.At that time, the reliefs on the stone pillars were full of signs of destruction, and there were almost no complete lines, patterns and runes. Zhuang Xuteng only knew that the pillars were different, and they were all carriers of certain knowledge.He worried about whether the columns would collapse, not whether they could be restored.

"I've learned some necromancy, so I should be able to understand it a bit?" Zhuang Xuteng walked among the pillars, looking east and west, but there were still ruins and pillars in sight.

Master Lich raised his hand, pointed to the corner of the hall, and said, "Go over there and have a look. The pillar recorded on it is Wraith-type necromancy."

Following the direction of its finger, Zhuang Xuteng ran in small steps, and finally found something he could understand.In his eyes, the damage of the pillar itself contains information, and the damaged runes can be filled according to his knowledge.By superimposing the damaged information with the completed runes, Zhuang Xuteng slowly realized the meaning.

"This is the structure of the wraith: here is the magic circle for absorption, here is the storage and transformation, and here is the command. Yes, this part is the basis of the wraith's spell, and then it goes up..." Zhuang Xuteng raised his head and looked up at the tall In the middle of the pillar, he said: "There are some advanced usages there. I see that this side is deformation, and that side is autonomous action. Possession, possession is here... There seems to be something on it, but I can't understand it ,what is that?"

"Exchanging wraiths is a very powerful way of self-protection." Master Lich said: "Put your body into the space of wraiths, and then control the wraiths. This state cannot be maintained for a long time, depending on your mana, from a few From minutes to days. You become a wraith, and your body is hidden."

"Wow, then I can pass through the wall like the Wraith? Where do you want to go?"

Master Lich waved his hand and said, "It doesn't apply to you. This kind of transformation can only take effect on your original body, but you still have implants. If you want to do that forcibly, it's equivalent to peeling off the implants directly. Once the time limit for transformation is over, you can only return to your mutilated body, and there are serious internal injuries, so you probably won't be able to survive. The transformation of wraith spirits can't prolong your life, and its hedging ability doesn't work for you. That's why I didn't teach you Your stuff."

Zhuang Xuteng wiped his forehead and said, "It feels so dangerous, you are right not to teach me."

"Many spells look powerful and miraculous, but danger always accompanies them. The teacher of the spellcaster is not for control, but for protection. The 72 stone pillars record 72 series of spells, all of which are my personal knowledge. In the past, the most complete record of spells was 81 stone pillars, which were placed in the large library, but it was a collection of strengths from all families, highlighting a comprehensive one. From a personal point of view, my 72 stone pillars are ranked first."

"Wow...it's amazing." Zhuang Xuteng hurriedly complimented him, then finished watching and was about to return to the throne.His eyes swept over these stone pillars again, and suddenly felt that there was something strange there.

It's not because he can understand a pillar that he feels differently, it should be a more basic situation.He paused to observe the pillars carefully and intently, comparing them with his memory.At this time, he was stunned for a moment, his expression was full of confusion, and he asked, "Why are there more pillars?"

"Oh? Did you see it? I used a pillar to record my understanding of Shadow Followers and the so-called technology of this world, as well as the cross-world spell conversion methods you discovered and tested. New knowledge produces new pillars, and this It's normal."

Zhuang Xuteng quickly counted again and said, "How many pillars did you add? I counted 74."

"No, 73." Master Lich swept his eyes across the hall and said, "You counted wrong, 73."

"Where is the pillar of shadow knowledge, can you point it out to me? Oh, that one, yes, it is extra." Zhuang Xuteng turned his head, walked to the corner of the hall, chased after a stone pillar and said: "Then this one What's going on? It wasn't there before."

Master Lich stared at Zhuang Xuteng with flickering eyes, and then snorted forcefully. "Are you kidding me? There's no pillar where you're pointing. Oh, you're practicing facial expression, I get it..."

"No, no, there's a pillar here, I'm not fooling you." Zhuang Xuteng slapped the pillar a few times, kicked it again, and the reaction almost knocked him down. "Look, there is indeed something here!"

Master Lich paused for a moment, and finally began to pay attention to Zhuang Xuteng's movements.It stood up from the seat, floated down the steps like a kite, and then pushed away the thick black fog that kept rolling, and quickly flew to Zhuang Xuteng's side. "Here?" Master Lich stretched out his hand and moved forward according to Zhuang Xuteng's instructions.

"Sure enough, there is something, it's a pillar! Why can't I see it?" Master Lich put both hands on the pillar, stroking slowly and carefully, like a blind man feeling his lover's face with his heart.After a while, he became even more puzzled, and said, "What a smooth column, without relief, it's not right. Zhuang Xuteng, what can you see?"

"Some reliefs, convex and concave, can't you feel it?" Zhuang Xuteng watched intently, he gave a sigh, and then said: "It's a bit weird. These are not magic runes, they seem to be some words. They change and combine continuously, just Like a lot of articles."

"Anything?"

"Uh, I need special concentration to stabilize the text, wait a moment..." Zhuang Xuteng rubbed his eyes, looked hard, and then read: "This article is called "About Organization", and this article is called "Investigation is Problem Solving ", "Contradiction"... I feel a headache and my eyes are dizzy watching it, it may be like a pillar of magic, I can't understand it, so I can't understand it."

The Lich Master looked a little dazed, even at a loss.It muttered to itself: "How can there be pillars in my domain that I don't even know about?"

(End of this chapter)