"Okay, okay, I know." Joe scratched his cheek and muttered, "There's no need to eat anyway, so it's okay to leave him here."
"Speaking of which, how was your chat?" The blonde girl looked at the two people behind Qiao, "Is there anything interesting?"
"It's okay." Joe muttered vaguely, "They know a lot of things, but I'm not good at it. It's better to wait until the captain comes back and ask."
Lin nodded and brought the topic back to the bottle of medicine. Since there were not enough clues, it was not easy to find the source of the medicine. Yura promised to help everyone investigate, but with the current situation of Black Crow, even she herself
Don’t expect too much. Two imperial officials agreed to provide some assistance, mainly to investigate the sale and flow of related medicinal materials - but they mentioned that if the transporter is the imperial royal family or a powerful noble, it will be quite difficult to confirm the specific goods.
difficulty.
Yuffie turned her attention away from those conversations and secretly thought about the current situation of the Black Crow Knight. On the surface, this bottle of liquid could alleviate the other party's 'symptoms', but what caused this symptom was something else.
A potion, or some magical or physical means unknown to her?
As Elena said, the body will spontaneously excrete harmful substances, or it will be completely damaged due to excessive dosage of poison, which is death. To maintain the target in a long-term coma, most of them require regular and long-term medication, which is obviously related to the knight
The situation does not match.
Secret arts can do this. The most typical ones are naturally several kinds of spells that extract the soul of a creature from the body and imprison it in other objects. Most of them are considered evil, and occasionally they are used to seal the soul of a creature that is difficult to completely seal.
The demon or lich that was destroyed. If this Black Crow Knight encountered a similar situation——
She quickly cast a spell to read surface thoughts and used it to sense the knight's condition. Generally speaking, people with light sleep still have the ability to think, which is often reflected in the form of dreams; the shallow thinking of people in deep coma is mostly
It was nothingness. However, what she perceived was full of noise, which was difficult for her to understand, but it seemed to contain some kind of regular thinking - not like a sane human being at all.
She had a bold idea, so she raised her head and confirmed with the two members of the church team, "Elena, Joe, when you were fighting with them, did you feel anything... unusual?"
"There are simply too many!" Qiao curled his lips, "None of them look normal. Elena, don't you think so?"
Elena shook her head, "You can't say that, Joe. But... the unusual thing is probably their fighting method. As Chris said, it seems to be controlled by someone, although they advance and retreat.
It's orderly and perfectly coordinated, but...it doesn't feel like a normal person's behavior."
Sure enough, this made her guess more likely to be correct. Yuffie bit her lip and made up her mind, "I probably understand."
"Are you planning to do something dangerous again?" Lin put her hands on her shoulders with a clear look in her eyes, "At least tell us the cause and effect first."
Of course. She nodded and began to explain her conjecture.
"I have detected his surface consciousness. He does not feel like an independent human being to me, but part of a swarm consciousness like a bee - of course, each individual among them is much more advanced than insects." You.
Fei simply explained, "If I'm not wrong, the real effect of this potion is to strengthen and open the spirit of the drinker and integrate it into the collective consciousness."
"As for his current situation, it may be that he is too far away from the cluster and his consciousness cannot connect with the body. In other words, his soul is separated from the body. It may also be that his brain is not enough to carry the messy information from the cluster consciousness, so he uses coma to self-contain.
Protection." She said eloquently, completely ignoring that Qiao was confused. "After taking the potion, his spirit was strengthened again, and he regained a little consciousness, which made me aware of the fragments of thinking in his cluster."
She brushed her long hair back and whispered her plan, "If I drink this potion, I may be able to temporarily integrate into this collective consciousness. The target we want to find is likely to be at the source of this consciousness."
"What if you fail?" Lin looked at her worriedly, and then at the dull-looking Black Crow Knight, "Will you become like him?"
"I will try my best to ensure that I return safely." The pink girl smiled, "I still have some confidence in my mental strength. Besides, we don't have much time."
"How about you let me go with you?"
"Stop it." She flicked Lin's forehead, "There are not many potions left, and you are a dragon. The collective consciousness will spontaneously reject abnormal individuals. The only one who is most similar to those people is me, right?"
The blonde girl shook her head and gave up persuading her. She just hugged her tightly and said, "Then, I'll wait for you to come back."
She looked at the other person seriously, nodded, picked up the bottle, and poured the remaining liquid into her mouth.
An alluring sweetness spread in her mouth. Yuffie gathered her mind and slowly swallowed the liquid, trying to feel the changes in her own spirit.
She felt that her consciousness was suddenly no longer trapped in her original body, but was connected to somewhere in the distance through a mysterious line. There, a huge and mixed consciousness was slowly turning, waiting for her.
arrival.
So she left a shallow mark on her original body, and allowed her spirit and soul to be drawn to that unknown place.
She seemed to be flying through the boundless void. Time and space, direction and distance had no meaning in the pure spiritual network. Countless bizarre scenes passed by her eyes, leaving fleeting memories in her memory.
Afterimage. She heard many indescribable sounds, some of which were like gibbering, and some of which were low chanting, but none of the words were close to complete.
The speed of advancement gradually slowed down at some point. She felt that she had regained a little control over this soul's body, allowing it to freely turn, stop or move forward in the void. She saw a gray-white shadow.
He was wandering around aimlessly, so he approached it carefully.
"Who are you? Can you hear me?" She tried to embody this sentence in her mind, hoping that the other party would understand what she meant.
"Drokos... the horses are tied... the wounds are healed... bread and dung... wine... blood... the walls are falling."
The gray shadow gave her a chaotic response. Each fragment seemed to come from a different time and space, mixed with concrete memories, and conveyed to her mind. She sighed secretly and excluded these thoughts.
This soul's will power is not strong enough, so the spiritual network has instilled too much information that does not belong to him. Even if he can return to his body later, he will suffer from quite serious memory confusion. If the time is longer, he will even
You may lose yourself completely and become a living zombie.