Chapter 2352: alive but dead

The twilight was dark, and the stench of cold wind was blowing, and there was a whimpering sound through the twisted and intertwined forest.

Occasionally, a faint blue fire flashed by, and the ethereal and pleasant singing, like the singing of a deep sea banshee, built a passage to the world of death.

The black castle stands deep in the woods.

The twisted and weird trees stopped here, as if there was something in front of them that they feared, and even these dead people who lingered in the darkness and never left were willing to surrender.

The window of the castle was lit with a dim light, and a figure could be faintly seen passing by, but it seemed to be empty.

The ethereal singing echoed, the clouds shattered, the pale blue moonlight fell, and the hollow armor guarded the castle gate like a statue. It seemed to have stood for countless years, and it will continue until eternity.

Inside the castle.

Different from the previous hustle and bustle, there is a slightly dull atmosphere in Jing Ya.

The reason is very simple, the owner of the castle has returned.

Although it did not appear, for the residents living in the castle, the invisible oppression always existed.

"The master has not appeared for several days, and Ruo Ye."

The deliberately lowered voices echoed in the dark hall, and any sound in the quiet environment was amplified countless times.

"It's normal, I just don't know how long it will take this time."

A voice responds.

Then the atmosphere fell into silence again, and only time passed by minute by minute.

After a long time, another voice sounded.

"By the way, do you remember the thing called Wangyou ale that the master brought before?"

It was like a reservoir full of water opened a channel, and the voices in response came one after another.

"of course I remember."

"I haven't tasted food in hundreds of years and almost forgot what it was like."

"It is said that there are other things in that tavern."

"The legend of Hearthstone, the master said this name."

"…"

Loud noises broke the silence of the night.

For them, this is indeed a question worth discussing. Perhaps in the near future, Hearthstone Tavern will have a large number of undead customers.

Unlike dwarves who need to work and rest, they can really immerse themselves in the game world without a moment's rest.

at the same time.

Deep underground in the castle.

The bright and soft radiance illuminates the whole room, and the magic power flows from the original spar pipe embedded in the wall, and the fireflies are flying, making bursts of pleasant sounds like wind chimes.

Many light curtains are suspended in various places, and the data information on them changes all the time, which is used to record the progress of the experimental process.

The clean and tidy ground is spotless, and there are many spaces on the walls that extend out. Behind the transparent reinforced crystal panel, various alchemy beings live inside, some of which are like a patchwork of two completely different creatures. Some are like a state of transition from the dead to the living...

The common hobby of the lich is the manipulation of life.

In front of the test bench on the side of the laboratory, Elizabeth and Ruoye stood there wearing pure white coats, their faces were covered by a transparent magic shield, and their hands were also fitted with white gloves, in order to reduce the risk as much as possible. The possible influence of irrelevant factors on the experiment.

Many sophisticated experimental instruments are placed around to test the experimental items.

"Plague resistance test data, level five, it is difficult for any negative energy to work, there is no feature of being transformed into an undead, and more detailed data cannot be probed."

While talking, Wakaba added another one to the light curtain that recorded countless information.

These days, she and Elizabeth have been doing experiments in the laboratory. The information on the light curtain is their experimental results. As for the experimental materials, they are now placed on the metal platform made of pure mithril in front of her. Roughly cut into many portions of various sizes.

It looks like some kind of plant root, but some areas have a textured state of muscle, and at the border of plant and animal features, there are energy crystals like the core of elemental creatures...

Not a monster, not an undead, not a plant, not an animal, not an elemental creature... According to Kolo's existing species classification norms, it is impossible to give a reasonable position.

Elizabeth brought the object from the ground in an attempt to study its true nature, but apparently she failed.

"Lord Elizabeth, is it... still alive?" Ruo Ye couldn't help asking.

In front of her is another light curtain, and through a series of expanding magic, the most nuanced structure of matter can be explored.

According to calculations, energy is being swallowed all the time, just like the breathing of a living being.

"Alive indeed, but dead."

Elizabeth gently touched a relatively large wooden-like structure, and through the perception at the soul level, there was a faint temperature transmission.

The soul is the essence of life.

When the soul dies, it is a complete death. The condition for the undead to survive in the world is the existence of the soul. Even the lowest-level undead still has the remains of soul fragments.

The creature she and the giant axe saw in the underground city of steel a few days ago had countless roots extending into the distance, most of which had lost their souls, and were just superficial husks.

According to Elizabeth's guess, it was more like her original soul could not support such a huge body, so she could only abandon it.

But these abandoned bodies still contain extremely terrifying vitality. Even if they lose their souls, they are still "alive", like unwilling "ghosts" lingering in the world of the living.

Just like what we see now.

Ruo Ye blinked, Elizabeth's words sounded contradictory, but it was not difficult for her to understand.

"What do you think is the reason for this?"

"The power of God is beyond the imagination of mortals. There is an essential difference in it. It is like the addition of countless zeros can never become one. Maybe this is the characteristic of its life, and maybe there will be new souls in the future. To be born, to manipulate this body that has not yet died."

Elizabeth retracted her palm, the blue soul fire in her eyes twitched slightly, and she was searching for information related to it in her mind.

"God..." Ruo Ye whispered softly.

"A weak soul can't control a gigantic body..." Elizabeth tapped the table with her fingers lightly, making a crisp sound, "Ruo Ye, what factors can cause a god's soul to weaken and even have to abandon his own body? To the extent that you can only sleep in the ground?"