Chapter 123: The Dark Warrior
The new ghost warrior system can directly turn people into ghost masters. This temptation is not small.
After the experience of being promoted to Blood Warrior last time, many people in the gathering place were eager to try it. They enthusiastically signed up for the experiment and became very excited.
The opportunity to gamble your life has come.
Either soar into the sky or die.
In the apocalyptic world, there is no shortage of gamblers with their heads in their belts.
Nowadays, as the gathering place is developing better and better, the population is also increasing rapidly. It can be said that it has suddenly emerged, becoming the third largest city in Luocheng after the Black God Group, Root Military, and the Church of the Redeemer. Four major forces.
Living in such a powerful sphere of influence is safe, but if you want to have a quality life, become a master, and have a certain status, you can only do so by becoming a superpower or a blood warrior. .
Now, if you want to become a Blood Warrior, you need to pay a lot of contribution points, which is not something that an ordinary person can accumulate in a short time.
They remembered that many people successfully developed superpowers and became blood warriors in the last experiment. The strength and status of both parties suddenly changed dramatically.
Zheng Yi's current experiment is to give all gamblers a chance to choose.
As for how to choose, he didn't care.
But once you gamble, you are gambling on your life. The winner takes all, and the loser disappears.
This is fair competition, choosing the best among the best depends on a certain amount of luck.
However, Zheng Yi knew very well that this experiment was not easy, even a little more difficult than the Blood Warrior.
Ordinary people's souls are not tough enough. Even if the demon seeds enter their bodies, they will fail because they cannot bear the pain of the Yin soldiers' ghosts and rune soul fusion, and their souls will collapse.
So this choice also has requirements.
It must be those who are born with strong spiritual power. Only with strong natural spiritual power means that the quality of the soul is higher and it is possible to withstand the implantation of magic seeds.
So Zheng Yi simply refined a small magic weapon called Yingling Mirror.
Only those with strong spiritual power will show their true outline when reflected in the mirror.
The Spirit Reflection Mirror, the lowest-level single-function tool-type magic weapon, is simple to refine for monks in the foundation-building stage and can even be mass-produced.
However, people in the apocalyptic world have no magic power, so the mirror is inlaid with spiritual stones, which can be used to measure other people's spiritual strength and soul strength.
Only when the spiritual power is confirmed to be strong enough, can one become an experimental subject implanted with demon seeds.
Those who were successfully transformed were named Ghost Warriors by Zheng Yi, which corresponded to the Blood Warriors, but they also had a more resounding name, Yin Soldiers, which was exactly in line with their actual situation.
Of course, even though the dangers and success rates were clearly stated in advance, it did not stop the volunteers’ enthusiasm.
Above the high stands, looking down, is a huge bulletproof glass.
Zheng Yi stood in the center of the stand, looking at a group of bare-chested experimenters wearing only a pair of shorts.
About a hundred or so.
This is the experimental subject who is born with strong mental power after careful selection in the entire gathering place.
There are more people queuing behind.
Everyone knew that this was a gamble, but the desire to become a ghost master was greater than the fear of death.
Everyone is thinking, since someone can succeed, why isn’t that person me?
Anyway, living in this world, if there is no power, the future will be very desperate, which prompts them to make a choice.
No one wants to be a waste, and becoming a ghost master is simply a more glorious thing than becoming a superpower. It is more mysterious, has a higher status, and has greater power.
“Are these the first batch of selected test subjects?”
Zheng Yi has now delegated all chores to the Supreme Management Committee, also known as the headquarters to the outside world, to select experimental subjects. Such things don't bother him at all.
He only wants the results and doesn’t care about the process.
"There are a total of one hundred and twenty-three people, all of whom are here. They have signed life and death certificates in advance. Whether they are life or death, the headquarters is not responsible."
"But there is still necessary care. , once every participant passes the test, meets the requirements, and participates in the experiment, a generous pension will be paid to their family and relatives. If there are no relatives or friends, it will be dealt with according to his wishes..."
The head of the Supreme Management Committee in charge of this experiment took the list of participants in his hand and reported to Zheng Yi.
There was no need for the person in charge to tell Zheng Yi the number of personnel. As he stood here, his powerful spiritual thoughts swept through everything.
Even the birthmarks on each person's body can be clearly sensed, not to mention the number of people.
"But after today's experiment, I wonder how many people are left?"
Zheng Yi seemed to sigh with emotion, but his eyes were cold.
For so many years of cultivating immortality, he has seen too many joys and sorrows in the world, and has long been tempered to have a heart of stone.
Everything is the path chosen by oneself, no matter success or failure, victory will bring glory and wealth, and change your destiny.
If you lose, you can only admit that you are unlucky, and you will bear all the consequences.
"In that case, let's start now."
Zheng Yi said to the side with an expressionless face.
After listening to Zheng Yi's order, the head of the laboratory of the Supreme Management Committee immediately nodded, waved to the staff next to him, and made a gesture to indicate that he could start.
After hearing the order, everyone stood in order and stood ready.
Especially those people below who participated in the experiment, they separated into many blocks and stood in place.
Zheng Yi closed and opened his eyes, surging blue light shot out from the depths of his pupils, and the large array arranged below immediately swept across, and the entire operation started.
Boom!
Everyone felt the ground shake, and then rays of light criss-crossed, forming more than a hundred independent translucent light masks, shrouding everyone in them.
This is an isolation formation that has been arranged long ago. It is driven by lower-grade spirit stones to prevent someone from mutating after merging with the demon species, or from the dark soldiers and ghosts who want to merge out of control and kill people. This is not only to protect themselves, Also to protect others.
“Just give these ghost-controlling seeds and let them swallow them all.”
Zheng Yi turned his right hand and took out a small cloth bag, which happened to contain a One hundred and twenty-three bloody seeds.
This is naturally the demon seed formed by Zheng Yi based on the blood lotus seeds and using the Dao Heart Seed Demon Refining Method to refine the Yin soldiers and fierce ghosts.
However, the name Demon Seed sounds evil, so to the outside world, it is collectively referred to as the Seed of Controlling Ghosts.
It is different from the fusion of parasitic bats. Parasitic bat eggs are biological forms and are mainly fused with the heart, so an opening must be made in the chest to fuse with blood.
As for the demon seeds refined by Zheng Yi, according to the characteristics of the blood lotus seeds, once they enter the body without being refined, after Zheng Yi activates the ancestral lotus in the body, the seeds will immediately take root and sprout and combine with flesh and blood.
The dark soldiers and ghosts inside the demon species will also begin to merge with the souls of the experimental subjects under the influence of the ghost refining method.
This process is similar to parasitism and two-way fusion, so this is why the experimenter's mental power is required to be naturally strong.
Zheng Yi is carefree about matters at the gathering place. As success rates increase, experiments of this scale will surely become the norm.
It is impossible for him to come every time, but for the first experiment, in order to obtain first-hand information and to deal with emergencies, he must personally supervise.
“Ah!”
“Ahhh!”
“It’s so painful, it seems like something is crawling in my flesh and blood...”
As the experiment began, demon seeds were swallowed into the mouths of the subjects participating in the experiment. The demon seeds entered the body and immediately took root and sprouted, taking root in the flesh and blood.
Many subjects who participated in the experiment had their faces changed drastically, and their faces were distorted, and many even huddled in the protective shield in pain.
When the surrounding researchers saw this scene, they all felt sour.
But Zheng Yi and the person in charge of the experiment remained expressionless as they watched the people below wailing in pain. People like them in high positions have hard hearts and are used to seeing all kinds of tragedies. It is difficult for them to be moved by ordinary human suffering.
After all, living in this apocalyptic hell world with no future in sight, what could be more painful and desperate than this?
The efficiency of the demon species' fusion with the human body was faster than Zheng Yi imagined, and it quickly passed the parasitic stage. Many experimental subjects' heads were raised, their eyes were wide open, covered with bloodshot eyes, and their eyebrows were high and bulging. Starting, some people's bodies even glowed faintly.
"The most critical stage is here!"
Zheng Yi's eyes narrowed and he stood up straight. He did not expect that he would reach the stage of soul fusion with Yinbing Ligui so soon.
Although he placed the ghost refining talisman in the demon seed and integrated it with the characteristics of the ghost master in this world, soul fusion is the most dangerous. Even immortal cultivators are extremely careful. If there is a slight mistake, the soul will be destroyed. The end of collapse.
This method is mainly to stimulate the special superpower potential of humans in this doomsday world, otherwise the success rate will be even lower.
Within the isolation mask, some people could no longer bear it, their faces instantly turned gray, and their eyes lost color.
The whole person seemed to have no bones, lying limp on the ground, motionless. Even if he didn't check his body, anyone who saw it would understand at the first moment that this person had lost his life forever. .
He died inexplicably and silently.
This is because the soul cannot withstand the invasion of demon species, cannot merge with the evil soldiers and ghosts, and directly collapses.
This method of death is not painful, because you lose consciousness instantly. It just looks very strange and makes the scalp of those who see it numb.
Zheng Yi looked elsewhere. One of them looked up to the sky and roared. His face was distorted and his temples were bulging. He was about to be unable to bear it. But at this moment, his The eyes seemed to have opened some kind of channel, blooming with a faint blue light.
Thick black mist emerged from his body and surrounded half of his body, making him look like a monster coming out of hell.
Although he was still in human form, an invisible pressure shrouded his whole body, making everyone around him feel a chill in their hearts.
Then in the stunned and shocked eyes of all the researchers, they saw the man suddenly straightening his legs, defying gravity, and slowly rising about three inches into the air.
Then more and more black mist poured out from the hole on the top of his head, and an invisible soul shock wave suddenly spread, but fortunately there was the translucent light mask protection, and the blow was hard Hitting the photomask produces violent ripples.
The man's face was shrouded in a layer of black magic mist. Half of his face was still humanoid, but the other half of his face was quickly distorted, like an evil ghost.
It is clear that the facial features have not changed, but they look unusually ferocious.
Behind him, a huge black shadow three to four meters long gradually appeared.
That is a ferocious demonic figure. Although it has two shoulders and a head, it has a humanoid outline, but its ferocious appearance, wearing gray armor and holding a soul-enchanting sickle, looks like it comes from hell. The evil god of death is a terrifying monster no matter how you look at it.
"Ah!"
The man was suspended about three inches above the ground. His eyes were cold at first, then gradually became confused, and finally suddenly regained consciousness, and then his whole body He fell from the air and sat on the ground.
"I succeeded, I succeeded!"
"I became a ghost master!"
But instead of panicking, he shouted in surprise.
He stood up directly and raised his arms excitedly. With the control of his mind, an invisible force spread along his arm bones and formed a series of strange gray patterns on the skin of his arms. , just like a very ancient gray tattoo.
He looked back at the huge demonic shadow behind him, and could feel that the two sides had a soul-level resonance at the same frequency, producing some kind of more subtle communication and influence.
As he moved, the demonic shadow also made the same movement.
The man stretched out his palm and grabbed it forward. The huge three to four-meter-long demonic figure behind him also stretched out his huge palm and grabbed it forward. The air exploded directly, forming a circle and moving towards the front. spreading ripples.
He looked at what he had done in amazement and ecstasy, and the researchers around him also looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.
“Why do you feel that the power of the experimenters in this period to control the dark soldiers and ghosts is more terrifying than the blood warriors?”
Zheng Yi stood at the top, watching everything. , nodded.
“The Yin soldiers, or ghost warriors, pay more attention to the transformation of the spiritual level, and have developed the ability to influence reality mentally. They are higher than the blood warriors from the starting point.”
“ Of course, this cannot be a unified measure of strength. The upper limits of both are good. The analogy between blood warriors and ghost warriors is a bit like the difference between physical training and Qi training. One is material and the other is spiritual. They reach the same goal through different paths. Which step to take depends on yourself and the resources behind you..."
"That's it."
With Zheng Yi's nod, the lucky man who succeeded in merging the demon species was immediately killed. The protective cover was opened and released from the inside. A dedicated person led him into the research room's passage for further observation and testing.
Of course, these are only a very small number of lucky ones, and more people did not survive the final fusion, and their souls collapsed one by one.
There are even people who have mutated and turned directly into mindless monsters, frantically trying to pass through the protective shield and attack the researchers outside.
Standing above, Zheng Yi's face was expressionless, and his eyes became colder.
He stretched out his palm and pressed it down. The rebellious mutated monster was immediately suppressed by a terrifying force, and then the entire human body broke and exploded, dyeing the entire shield blood red.
The experiment continues. Everyone's tolerance limit is different. Some people succeed and some fail.
It’s just that a very small number of people succeed, and the majority fail.
More people unconsciously turned pale and collapsed in the shield, completely losing their breath of life.
“Sure enough, it’s just a new method. Although it incorporates several secret techniques, the final effect is still unsatisfactory. Such a success rate requires one’s life.”
"This is not the result I want. We need to continue to improve, otherwise the ghost warrior system will never become the mainstream training system in the gathering place."
After participating in the entire experiment process, Zheng Yi thought in his mind and frowned. wrinkle.
At this time, the entire experiment also came to an end.
However, many experimental subjects have merged with demon species, but they are addicted to the powerful sense of power brought by the dark soldiers and ghosts. Their eyes are confused and chaotic, and they can never wake up.
Zheng Yi frowned, and a flying sword appeared in his hand. He stretched out a finger and flicked the sword body.
"Qiang!"
A harsh sword sound rang in everyone's ears, like a sonic boom from an airplane, tearing apart the eardrums.
Many people could not bear the pain and covered their ears with blood flowing from their ears, but they woke up instantly.
“It worked!”
“Thank God, I survived.”
“It was so scary just now, I thought I was dead!”
Those lucky ones who woke up were stunned one by one, looking at the Shura field-like scene in front of them, but they instantly noticed the changes in their bodies and were ecstatic for their success.
"Clean up your own place and bury the bodies of those who failed successfully."
"Those who successfully fused the demon species will undergo a second round of testing. Ten days later, I will need all the experimental data..."
Zheng Yi turned around and left, but his voice reached the ears of the person in charge of the experimental factory.
The other party nodded, and under his order, all the researchers began to take action.
The next step is the more crucial experimental analysis and data analysis.
Ten days later, Zheng Yi got the experimental reports of the first batch of experimenters.
The first batch of experiments included a total of 123 volunteers who received the demon seeds. In the end, less than 20 people successfully fused. This success rate remains at 10% to 10%. Between five, it is even far lower than the success rate of the first batch of transformed blood warriors.
However, this low success rate is understandable.
After all, blood warriors are transformed from the physical aspect, while demon cultivation is transformed from the mental aspect.
The soul is far more fragile than the body, and the two are not the same difficult thing.
After receiving the report, the first batch of Yin soldiers were successfully transformed. Zheng Yi was not in a hurry to transform the second batch. Although he had expected such a low success rate, he was still shocked.
What he wants is to gather in a gathering place to cultivate ghost warriors belonging to his own system, but this result cannot be achieved at the cost of human life, otherwise the number of people will decrease drastically, and the number of people in his territory will only become less and less. This is It is weakening its own power in disguised form.
(End of this chapter)