List of strange talismans

Chapter 22 Redemption
Gu Xiuya found that his vision seemed to have undergone some kind of transformation due to this sarcoma.

As long as he consciously visualizes his mind while opening his eyes, he can see many things that he couldn't see before.

For example, the strange cloud in front of you.

Gu Xiuya saw countless smoke-like things floating into the sky.Most of them come from collapsed buildings in the distance, and a few rise from various corners of the city.

The strange cloud has a human face, but no limbs. It looks like an elongated cloud, with its mouth wide open showing an extremely distorted expression. It surrounds and condenses into a huge vortex, sinking into the sky.

Is this the soul of the dead?
Gu Xiuya saw that dark and terrifying figure again. He had already walked to the end of his sight. The terrifying head made of steel and iron almost completely covered the full moon, casting only a cold faintness.

Perhaps because there was no eye contact this time, the disaster did not happen again.

Gu Xiuya closed his eyes, countless profound and weird knowledge emerged in his memory.

They come from the ash liquor being analyzed.

Among them, there is something he most urgently wants to know.

——How to save a cat whose body is rotten and only the consciousness in the brain is left.

……

What is the criterion for defining whether a life is alive?
Is it the persistence of consciousness?

Or physical activity?
The knowledge that Gu Xiuya obtained from the gray liquid divides life into two bodies, spirit and soul. "Soul" refers to flesh and blood; "spirit" refers to wisdom and reason.

According to this theory, flesh and blood are one and spirit is another.They coexist in the body and influence each other when they are together, and they are independent when separated.

That is to say, the soul can exist independently without the body.The body can also survive the loss of the soul.

Of course, the premise is that certain special conditions are met.

This is similar to what is recorded in the teachings of the Baixing Kingdom National Sect and the Heavenly Father Sect: the Heavenly Father died in the four disasters, and was resurrected from the grave the next day. The body and soul were divided into two parts. God... no doubt has something in common.

Gu Xiuya is not a pious person who believes in Buddhism, and he didn't know much about it in his previous life.The relevant memories only stay in the three souls and seven souls, the birth and death of eight senses, etc. in fantasy novels.

So he naturally has no way of distinguishing whether this view is correct or not.

But it doesn't matter, the theory is not important to him, as long as the method can be used.

He went to the bathroom and turned on the light.

A week later, only the head of Tap Shui's body is still intact.The rest of the area festered until it began to swell, and yellow-green pus hung on the wall of the bathtub. Even if the exhaust fan was turned on for 24 hours, a faint rancid smell could still be smelled.

Gu Xiuya stood still for a moment, closed his eyes, and opened them again.

The eye in the skull twitched suddenly, and his consciousness was slightly distorted for a moment, and another kitten suddenly appeared in his sight.

It stood by the bathtub, with its back facing Gu Xiuya, with its head slightly lowered, staring blankly at the rotting body in the bathtub, its eyes dazed and helpless.

Gu Xiuya took a step forward.

"Meow?"

The kitten looked back, ran to Gu Xiuya's feet, sat down and stared at him.

Gu Xiuya also looked at it.

The kitten meowed, wanting to touch its owner, but when it just raised its front paw, it paused, and then put it down gently.

It suddenly remembered that since seven days ago, it has not been able to meet its owner.

The owner who accompanied it day and night in the past can't even hear its call, and can't see its existence.

It doesn't know what death is, but it knows that it can never meet again.

"Meow."

The little cat whimpered, lay down on the ground and looked up at the person in front of him, without blinking his eyes, as if he wanted to keep him in his memory forever.

Gu Xiuya suddenly remembered that sentence that he didn't know where he saw it.

——In a thousand kittens, only one will love its owner.

He let out a long breath, then closed his eyes, recalled the knowledge in the gray liquid, and connected the things in his body with his thoughts.

The body trembled violently at this moment, and at the next moment, the spine began to slowly rotate like a living thing.

A large piece of flesh and blood formed tuber-like knots one after another, and was pulled by the twisted spine to form a large python on the back.

The power from the ignorant boa constrictor was truly stimulated for the first time, and Gu Xiuya felt as if something surged out of his spine and swept his whole body.

This feeling was similar to the previous heat flow, but it was stronger, and even vaguely affected his consciousness, causing all kinds of evil and weird thoughts to flow in his heart, and his reason was almost chaotic.

Fortunately, he is no longer the ignorant boy he used to be. The tempering of various hallucinations has made his mind tougher than ordinary people, and he quickly suppressed his mixed emotions.

He raised his hand and touched the cat in front of him.

The boundary between spirit and flesh is broken by taboo knowledge at this moment.Gu Xiuya touched the fur of the tap water again.Except for the cold body temperature, it is as smooth as before.

The cat's back trembled suddenly, its hair stood on end, and it quickly turned to look at Gu Xiuya.

It stared blankly at each other for about half a minute before it realized what had happened. It stood up on its hind legs, meowing and meowing non-stop, and human-like surprises gushed out of its vertical pupils.

"...Silly cat."

There was a rare smile on Gu Xiuya's face, he carried the tap water into his arms, and rubbed it gently.

"I told you I'll save you."

All the dangers and sufferings he has endured in the past seven days have value at this moment.

One of the few sustenances in the strange world has not been taken away by death, and it will continue to stay with the owner, comforting the souls that are about to be lost.

This is a salvation of the soul, it is about tap water, and it is also about Gu Xiuya himself.

……

at the same time.

In Elton Hospital, which is less than five kilometers away from Gu Xiuya.

Surgeon Scarci is sitting in front of the computer and writing emails quickly.

His face looked haggard, as if he hadn't gotten enough rest for several days, but his spirit seemed extremely excited, as if he had endless energy to squander.

"I have exciting news for you, Professor."

"I found an undocumented microbe in the interstitial fluid of an extra-large Maine Coon cat."

"It's not a virus, it's not a bacterium, I suspected it was some kind of fungus, but it didn't have a nucleus."

"In fact, not only the nucleus, its structure is completely different from all known microorganisms, and it is extremely infective. Whether it is a virus, bacterium or fungus, as long as it comes into contact with it, it will be completely parasitic within seconds, Mutate into a new species beyond recognition."

"Unfortunately, this organism appears to be poorly adapted to the in vitro environment and is currently dying rapidly."

"And due to some reasons that are inconvenient to disclose to you, the Infectious Diseases Department of our hospital has recently stepped up inspections on the storage and management of hazardous chemical organisms. It is difficult for me to continue to store them in my private liquid nitrogen refrigerator. .”

"So I hope you can send someone to Elton as soon as possible, and keep it properly for scientific research."

(End of this chapter)