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Chapter 185 Ambush in the Forest

In addition to improving his explorer level, [Alienated Pure Water], Dr. Crow Face also made some tricks in his extraction technology.

First of all, [Alienation Crystal Ingot] is a spiritual pollutant from "Shadow Forest", so it has the inherent ability to transform the explorer's spiritual body into "Anima" or "Animas".

In other words, when an explorer unknowingly ingests a large amount of unextracted [alienation crystal ingots], he will change from a man to a woman, or from a woman to a man.

The degeneration of the spiritual body means that the "self-nature" of the explorers has undergone a huge change. Without the "protection of the physical body from the spiritual body", the explorers will be swallowed up by the "Dark Forest" without any resistance.

"But the extraction technology given to me by Doctor Crow Face can use these 'alienation' elements to adjust my mental body and make them more 'tough'."

Lin Huai'en explained to Yuan Ximu why he finally chose to inject a large amount of [Alienated Pure Water] in one breath.

"Human spiritual bodies are inherently gender-neutral. They are both androgynous and genderless."

“The existence of the physical body and ‘self-nature’ differentiates our ‘animas’ and ‘animas’ and gives them gender.”

"This allows our 'nature' to still have a part of its 'soul' remaining after the death of the physical body."

"But this kind of differentiation is a mistake in itself. It makes our spirit weak and incomplete. The function of injecting [alienated pure water] is to reverse this division and make 'anima' and The Anima returns to our Self."

“That is, letting our ‘shadow’ return to our ‘self-awareness’.”

Lin Huai'en explained to Yuan Ximu the vast amount of knowledge he had gained from the spiritual world.

Yuan Ximu still couldn't understand: "But in this case, if your physical body dies, won't even the 'anima' and 'animas' remain?"

However, Lin Huai'en smiled. His mental and physical perfection allowed him to easily answer Yuan Ximu's question:

"However, 'the soul is scattered after death' is the best state to describe the 'unity of man and nature'."

"On the contrary, it is the dying people who try not to die, so the 'souls' and 'shadows' remain, creating new disasters."

Lin Huai'en shook his head, and then continued: "Moreover, letting the 'Animas' return to the 'self-nature' itself also allows my 'self-nature' to possess some of the characteristics of the 'animus'."

"Now, as long as I want, I can break away from my 'shell' and act like a crow-faced doctor with a pure spiritual body."

"It's just that compared to a spiritual expert like him, my spiritual body is still very weak. What he can't do, I can't even do after I become a spiritual body."

"But even so, I gained new abilities."

Lin Huai'en opened his attribute panel and showed it to Yuan Ximu.

Things that couldn't be done without using the Wilderness Assistant were easily accomplished by him.

[Muscle strength (evaluation E): 2.58]

[Organ toughness (evaluation E-): 2.27]

[Nerve reflex (evaluation E-): 2.29]

[Thinking memory (evaluation D-): 3.05]

[Magic quality (evaluation F+): 1.8]

[Spiritual will (evaluation G+): 0.5]

Yuan Ximu looked at the sixth basic attribute that suddenly appeared at the end of Lin Huaien's attribute column, and gasped: "[Spiritual Will]?!"

Lin Huai'en nodded and closed the attribute panel: "The rules have been changed. Although I am not a crow-faced doctor, I have obtained the ticket for 'psionic power'."

"I can also use psychic attacks to destroy the enemy's mind and will."

"It can even distort the composition of magic power and bounce spells out of thin air - psykers are the natural enemies of magicians. You should have heard this saying."

Yuan Ximu was still a little unbelievable, but she subconsciously checked her skills and realized the terrifying nature of this information——

"Could it be that the way to become a 'psychic hacker' and a 'psychic user' that has been circulated in Wilderness House is to be trapped in the spiritual world by a spiritual "abnormal body"..."

"Not necessarily. You should just be able to return your 'anima' and 'animas' to your 'self-nature'."

Lin Huai'en shook his head: "But these methods should be very dangerous, so most ordinary explorers don't know this method -"

Hearing this, Yuan Ximu couldn't help but nodded: "I have heard that after reaching the 35th floor, a small number of explorers will activate the sixth attribute [Spiritual Will] and the seventh attribute [Charm of Empathy]... But I I really haven’t heard of it. In low-level dungeons, there are ways to unlock the sixth and seventh attributes.”

"Those psykers should have opened the sixth attribute. But the Earth Association should have allowed them to hide this secret - even the vast majority of explorers on Wilderness House only know about [spiritual will] and 'psionic ability' 'Relevant, but ignores the 'mental manipulation' ability of the 'psychic hackers', which should also have a certain relationship with [spiritual will]."

"After all, compared to 'psychics', 'psychic hackers' are much more low-key." Yuan Ximu sighed, shook her head and said, "Most explorers don't like such a low-key and forbearing fighting style."

"Well," Lin Huai'en nodded, "compared to the mental invasion of mental hackers, explorers still prefer the simple and crude mind bombing of 'psychics'."

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu briefly talked about their biggest gains from this upgrade.

Then looked at the properties panel.

After being promoted to level 26, in addition to unlocking the sixth attribute, he also gained 0.6 talent points.

Looking at the 0.6 talent value, he hesitated and added it to [Cursed Body].

This is not because he does not believe in [Spiritual Will], but because [Spiritual Will], as a basic attribute he has just obtained, has no skill support and no attribute strength.

Even if he added all the 2.4 talent points from levels 26 to 29 to [Spiritual Will], it would only be 2.9 points.

Then add a "spiritual" skill that can only be obtained at level 30, and I don't know what it is. This is all his trump card——

This is undoubtedly a very stupid behavior.

Both Mummy Swordsman and Katarina have said that he must lay a solid foundation within his existing growth framework.

Although the possibility of psychic energy is powerful, it is not suitable for him to invest at the moment.

"If the cursed body is upgraded to level 4.0 and the spirit is upgraded to level 2.5, we can still look forward to it."

Lin Huai'en looked at his cursed body that had been upgraded to level 2.6 and breathed a sigh of relief.

If "Dark Forest" had not been suppressed successfully this time, he would have died here, and he would not have slowed down the upgrade progress of the Cursed Body because he chose to upgrade [Spiritual Will].

In this way, he can control the losses within an acceptable range——

In other words, he is no longer the trainee explorer who knew nothing and only relied on his passion.

"Step by step, work steadily...one day, you will master all your abilities..."

At that time, even if he was not a white card, he was at least a high-ranking black card.

The best of explorers.

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Another reason why Lin Huai'en chose [Cursed Body] is that compared to the unknown psychic path, the abilities in his hands are enough to deal with most attacks from the "Dark Forest".

No matter how powerful your mental ability is, it will be of no use under the overwhelming "shadow" attack.

This was Lin Huaien's first feeling when he walked out of the prop cabin and looked northwest.

After injecting a large amount of alienated pure water, even without improving the sixth attribute, he could feel that his integration with the forest had become somewhat different.

The relationship between him and the forest became more "close", and many things that were blocked by his "personal consciousness" became clearer.

"What do you see?"

Lin Huai'en pointed to the road in front of him and asked Yuan Ximu.

However, the girl just pulled Ziyuan with a blank look on her face and stood behind him: "I can't see anything, I can only see a thick fog."

Lin Huaien nodded. This was the direction they came from, but it had become completely different.

If we say, the tree cave when they came was still an ordinary "dungeon".

So the road at this moment is completely like a town road.

"let's go."

Lin Huai'en vaguely felt that the way to approach "Dark Forest" was at the end of the road.

He held Yuan Ximu's hand and walked slowly on the forest path.

The thick fog in Yuan Ximu's eyes seemed to him to have extremely clear boundaries and images.

However, if possible, he would rather not see these boundaries and images.

A dead body hanging on a tree trunk was suddenly disembowelled, and a large amount of intestines and internal organs rolled out from its belly.

He felt Yuan Ximu suddenly squeeze his palm, and asked in a low voice: "What was that sound just now? I couldn't see anything."

“The sound of a bison farting.”

Lin Huaien said without hesitation.

"Are there any bison here?"

He heard the girl mutter something quietly, but he ignored her.

In addition to Yuan Ximu and Ziyuan, Coco who walked in front of him didn't know if he was affected by him. He could also see the forest world clearly and help him eliminate some weak monsters such as corpse dogs and zombies in advance. .

The group walked about one or two kilometers before reaching the end of the forest path.

This small town was in ruins. Except for a few surviving houses, they were all covered by forests. Trees grew out of the houses and broke through the roofs.

Apart from the houses, there were almost no people - except for a dozen villagers who were swaying like zombies.

These slow-moving zombies were not strong. Lin Huaien and Coco worked together to eliminate them with a little effort.

“It’s the night that counts.”

Lin Huai'en found a relatively closed and clean house as the place where he, Yuan Ximu and others would stay tonight.

It was only then that he seemed a little worried: "Without the protection of the golden flower field, we are likely to face countless attacks from split-headed monsters starting in the evening."

"Then why did you take us out of the safety of the cabin and into a place like this?"

Yuan Ximu finally couldn't help it, looked at Lin Huai'en and asked.

"'I can't help myself'... I say that, can you believe it?"

Lin Huai'en looked at Yuan Ximu, held the Gray Fury in his hand, and said quietly.

[What you don't realize will guide your life, and you call it destiny. 】

For some reason, Lin Huai'en suddenly remembered this sentence.

Perhaps the previous incident of "shadow" and "anima/animus" stimulated him too much.

But it was obvious that the theories about "shadows" and "souls" that he had previously known were not Jung's theories. He had not read Jung's theories, but happened to hear some fragments of them from Xu Qin.

But the communication in the spiritual world, through the paleness of these few words, poured "knowledge" into his "personal consciousness".

Similarly, the "dominance" of the spiritual world is also so specious.

When you are extremely sure of the "reality" you see in front of you, maybe the "reality" in front of you is an "illusion."

When you firmly believe in the "meaning" hidden behind the "truth", you don't know that this "meaning" is also artificially deconstructed and the "reins" that lead your destiny.

Lin Huai'en gently closed his eyes:

"It's really ridiculous. At first, I thought I was a chess player, and my relationship with Li Muen was the black king and the white king."

"However, Li Mu'en jumped out and told me that behind the seemingly arrogant and noble 'White King', there is a mastermind named 'Katerina'."

"Then when I faced Catalina, I realized that in the eyes of Yamaucheng, even existences like her and Ark Holdings are just pawns under control."

"Finally, when I finally felt that I had seen the truth of the world, I was told by "Dark Forest" and Doctor Crow Face that everything was illusion..."

"If there were no resurrection center or our country's rescue mechanism, I would have died——"

[All the reasons are that we believe that there is no "other" except the things we firmly believe in. 】

[The chess pieces cannot be seen on the chessboard except for other chess pieces. 】

[They do not believe that every move they make is based on the orders of the chess players. 】

[Every one of them believes that he is a chess player and must be a chess player. 】

[Therefore, if you follow your own "free" will, you will definitely be able to win through your own "free" will——]

[Because they don’t know any other way. 】

"This is the no-choice called 'freedom'."

Lin Huai'en murmured softly. He raised his head, looked at the anxious Yuan Ximu, and said his first order to her:

"Xi Mu, you can open the live broadcast room."