Tokyo underground city

Chapter 184 Injection

"30 days... I'm not sure whether I can survive until that time."

Lin Huai'en smiled bitterly. After a little extrapolation, he found that the first rescue team had been missing for about 15 days. Before the 45-day red card deadline came, the explorers of the Shangcheng Prefecture Association should start to try violent attacks. .

But on the other hand, Lin Huai'en also realized that Doctor Crow Face was a guide.

Through what Doctor Crow Face said, he learned at least the following information——

"The "abnormal body" in front of us is called "Dark Forest"."

"Before me, many people have tried to resist "Dark Forest" and were swallowed by it."

"And you are one of those people who resisted the "Dark Forest" but were never swallowed by the forest?"

The crow-faced doctor nodded, "My previous position was similar to that of your companion - my friend assimilated with the forest in order to resist the erosion of the forest. But I was alone, staying in the narrow gap between the forest and reality. , use all means to save your own life."

"Until one day, I suddenly realized that my body in reality had died. Even if I retained my consciousness in "Dark Forest", I could no longer go back."

The crow-faced doctor looked at Lin Huai'en with a sad look in his eyes: "From that moment on, I knew that I had become a 'spirit body', which is what you call a spiritual body."

"By the way, you living people, because you still have a physical body, even if you are destroyed by the split-head monster, your spiritual body will still have a chance to be resurrected - but if it happens too many times, your consciousness will become fragments and can never be restored. ”

Lin Huai'en knew that Doctor Crow Face was reminding him, so he nodded and hesitated for a moment.

However, just before he spoke, the crow-faced doctor raised his hand and looked at his pocket watch: "Oh, no, it's already this time, I should go."

It took a step back and distanced itself slightly: "In short, the delay was too long. If you need anything, you can tell me and I will try my best to satisfy you."

"In addition, I will tell you everything I know."

"But no matter what, please remember that I am just a helper. Don't expect me to provide you with too much help -"

"I will try my best to help you...but other than that, I can't help you with anything. Please remember this-"

"I am neither a prophet nor a hero, just a cowardly onlooker."

When the crow-faced doctor said this, he glanced meaningfully at Yuan Ximu in the corner, then bowed and walked into the darkness.

Lin Huai'en didn't even see it go out the door. It dissipated into the shadows inside the wooden house like black mist.

"It's gone?"

Lin Huai'en played with the syringe handed to him by the crow-faced doctor for a while, when the girl suddenly made a sound from behind.

Her voice was still a little unsteady, but you could feel the courage in her heart.

Lin Huaien subconsciously touched the blood on his back - the wound was not as deep as he felt, but closer to an accidental scratch.

It was probably due to Yuan Ximu's hesitation when pushing him away.

The girl subconsciously wanted to pierce him, but at the last moment, she chose to give up.

He knew what was abnormal about him just now, shook his head and sighed: "How do you know there is something there?"

"I heard your conversation with him after all."

Yuan Ximu suppressed her panic and said, "I can see a translucent shadow standing in front of you, but I can't hear what it is saying -"

"Are you okay? If you still feel like something is wrong, I can stay further away from you."

Yuan Ximu didn't apologize for stabbing him, and Lin Huai'en didn't think it was necessary.

After all, from Hara Yumu's perspective, what she did was right.

"No problem for now." Lin Huai'en raised his hand to Yuan Ximu: "Can you see what I have in my hand?"

Yuan Ximu stared for a while, then shook her head.

"Is this so..."

Lin Huai'en nodded. He thought for a while, then picked up the distillation device on the ground and carried it to the bonfire.

Seeing Lin Huai'en's actions, Yuan Ximu waited for a while, then hurriedly walked to the corner and stuffed the tuberose pendant thrown away by Lin Huai'en into Ziyuan's hand. Then he hesitated and stood about one meter away opposite the bonfire. place and squatted down.

"What are you doing?" she asked suddenly.

"Distillation [Alienation Crystal Ingot]." Lin Huai'en shook his head. In his opinion, Yuan Ximu's face and voice were far away from him. If he didn't pay attention, he would ignore her existence.

Looking at the amber liquid dripping down from the condenser tube, he inserted the syringe.

When he pulled out the syringe again, it was filled with amber [alienated pure water].

"What do you think I'm doing?"

Lin Huai'en stared at the [Alienated Pure Water] in his hand. He could feel that there were not many energy crystals in it, and it could only increase his level by almost one-tenth.

"It seems to me that you are manipulating the mist..."

Yuan Ximu hesitated for a moment and replied: "The mist formed in front of you, and the [alienation crystal ingots] melted, evaporated, and condensed, falling into the mist in front of you, and then you suspended them in the air through some method. .”

"...Where are my gestures?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while, then suddenly asked, gesturing to Yuan Ximu: "Is it this kind of 'striking' gesture, or is it a gesture of grasping something?"

Yuan Ximu was stunned for a moment, then she squinted her eyes and thought for a moment: "It seems to be holding something... like a spell caster..."

"...I understand." Lin Huaien nodded.

He realized that this was the projection of "consciousness" as the Crow-faced doctor said.

In Lin Huaien's understanding, he used a distiller to extract these [alienated crystal ingots].

But at the same time, he could also feel that this extraction process was not "distillation".

It’s just that he believes that the concept of “distillation” is more in line with his understanding and imagination of the extraction process.

In essence, the extraction process has nothing similar to that of a distiller except for the steps.

Likewise, this "projection of consciousness", placed on a syringe, he imagined as a needle.

But for Yuan Ximu, she didn't know "why" Lin Huai'en raised the [Water of Alienation].

Therefore, she only saw Lin Huai'en's action of "raising the alienated water" and understood it as "holding up".

In fact, she couldn't see Lin Huaien's arm.

Because two people are essentially spiritual bodies, and spiritual bodies have no fixed form.

Image, movement, appearance, and sound are essentially the "brain supplements" of others from each person's "personal consciousness."

Once he understands this, Lin Huai'en can abstract his "personal consciousness" into a "spiritual body" without any substance.

But this "detachment" from his own image will also cause him to be kicked out of the "Shadow Forest" and become a "ghost" floating "outside" of the spiritual world.

Almost as soon as he realized this, Lin Huai'en stopped withdrawing from himself.

And the sudden squeezing feeling on his body disappeared instantly. Yuan Ximu didn't even feel anything abnormal on his body.

"If the 'spiritual body' is imagined to be the 'spiritual body' mentioned by Doctor Crow Face, then the world where "Dark Forest" and I live should be called the 'spiritual world'..."

Lin Huaien nodded, secretly coming to a conclusion.

"Then, I'm going to inject [Alienated Pure Water] again."

Lin Huai'en looked at Yuan Ximu. Before that, he had explained to the girl the difference between distilled [alienated pure water] and ordinary [alienated plasma].

"...Please be careful."

Although Yuan Ximu was worried, she did not stop him.

Lin Huai'en took a deep breath and injected the amber [Alienated Pure Water] into his body.

He didn't care where the needle was inserted, because he knew very well that no matter where the [alienated pure water] was injected, it was essentially fused with an ethereal spiritual body.

And he could clearly feel that as a clear coolness was injected into his shoulders, a certain rich incense entered the lungs from his blood vessels, then flowed upstream and blended into his nasal cavity, stimulating him. olfactory nerve.

"call……"

He exhaled a breath of moisture in a daze and lowered his head.

This time, he did not enter a dream, but in a trance, he understood something.

"...Shadow...Anima...Animas...I see..."

Lin Huai'en rubbed his forehead and came back from his drowsiness.

First of all, this injection allowed him to understand some things about the spiritual world.

That is, the "crow-faced doctor" should have been a "lady" during his lifetime.

According to that part of the knowledge that flows into his consciousness, the "spiritual body" of living people is consistent with the "physical sex" in which they were born.

That is, men are men and women are women.

This is because when the physical body is still alive, the part of the "self" that comes from the body suppresses the part of the "pure spiritual body", allowing the spiritual body to appear as "spiritual homogeneity".

When the "self-nature" is stripped away, only the relatively abstract part of "personal consciousness" remains in the "spiritual body", that is, the "anima" and "animus".

To explain it in layman's terms, when a person dies, the part of the "spiritual body" that his body carries, that is, the "self-nature", will also dissipate. Only a part of the abstract existence that is relatively separated from the body is left, independent, and becomes the "spiritual body (soul) of the dead".

When the male's "self-nature" is extracted, then only the "female part", that is, the "animus (female soul)" is left in his spiritual body; in contrast, when a female living person's "self-nature" "Sex" is taken away, then only the "male part", that is, the "anima (male soul)" is left in his spiritual body.

The Crow-faced Doctor is obviously a male doctor, and "she" calls herself a "dead person", which shows that she is an "anima", which is the spiritual remnant of a female deceased.

"The human spirit is androgynous..."

"It's just a question of whether there are more female faces or more male faces..."

Lin Huai'en immediately realized the significance of this phenomenon, "Spiritual death means the 'dissolution of self-nature', and 'anima' and 'animus' are neither male nor female in nature, but they are just different from each other." The dissipated 'self' and the remaining spiritual body are more reflected in the 'opposite sex' -"

"In other words, when a person is a male, then in his spiritual world, the male part of his 'self' can be expressed at will. The release in the real world means the weakening of the spiritual world, and this weakened The spirit, when the body dies, will dissipate with the body; on the contrary, when he is alive, the part of his consciousness that is close to the 'female' in the spiritual world is suppressed and strengthened in the spiritual world, even if After the body dies and the 'self' dissipates, it still exists independently as the 'animus'."

"And 'gender repression' causes the human spirit to differentiate into 'anima' and 'animus' after death."

“Then ‘moral and desire repression’ will leave a large number of ‘shadows’ in the spiritual world after the death of human ‘self-nature’.”

"The "Shadow Forest" is a collection of a large number of 'shadows'. If you want to eliminate it, you must figure out what it is that produces so many 'shadows'..."

Lin Huai'en was thinking while continuously injecting [alienated pure water] into his body.

Yuan Ximu wanted to stop him, but after looking at his expression, she held back.

Lin Huai'en had injected all the [alienated pure water] into his body before ending this "upgrade".

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that after injecting a large amount of [Alienated Pure Water], his mental body became much "tougher". This "toughness" cannot be reflected by "upgrading" at all.

At least, by the last few injections, he no longer felt a sense of pleasure bursting out from the depths of his soul due to the mere intake of [alienated pure water].

"Next time... let me inject some too."

Yuan Ximu looked at Lin Huaien and said suddenly.

Lin Huai'en looked at her with some surprise: "Aren't you afraid of being swallowed up by "Shadow Forest"?"

"It will be a dead end anyway. I can't let you bear everything alone."

Yuan Ximu took a deep breath: "Rather than watching you from the side and feeling scared, it's better to stand with you. This will make me feel better."

"Let's talk about it then."

Lin Huai'en shook his head, not intending to let Yuan Ximu become like him.

He knew very well that he was getting further away from humans step by step, but Yuan Ximu didn't have to go to his level yet.

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