Chapter 139: Living Alchemy

How did it happen......

This is the only thought left after I withdrew my hand, a blank mind turned over and over, this is not normal, absolutely abnormal, generally a protagonist like me, after the first killing, White Lotus should be confused and emotionally entangled, but soon complete self-psychological construction, rekindle the fighting spirit and embark on the road of mass killing, as for Long Aotian diǎn'er, you should say that you are seeking your own death, and shout in your heart that this is really enjoyable, and you should also complete the psychological construction and embark on the road of mass killing...... In short, as the protagonist, before reaching the numbness of killing people like slaughtering dogs, the first memorable time experienced, the heart should always be turbulent, right, how did I get to me and only feel helpless and didn't know what to do? How can this self-motivate and self-affirm, so as to embark on the road to becoming a god?

"It seems that my psychological counseling in the Ninth People's Hospital still can't stop" My irritable and cranky thoughts can't complete the psychological construction of being the protagonist, and I can't reasonably transform into a mainstream protagonist who is loved and sought after by the majority of readers, and I can't become a mainstream protagonist...... This is a serious event related to the life of the family!

"He's not dead," McCourt instructed three of his men to turn the bear-like Gordon over, and after a closer examination, he came to a conclusion that made me breathe a sigh of relief.

"Then why doesn't he have a pulse?" I leaned in and touched Gordon's thick chest and asked, "And there is not even a heartbeat?"

"This ......" was unexpected, and all the people at the European Institute, including McCourt, had an unspeakable expression in their hearts, so I could only guess from their expressions: "Could it be that he ...... Cardiac arrest, need artificial respiration, don't you let me do it for him?"

"Uh...... No," McCourt finally explained, "The reason he doesn't have a pulse is because he can't be considered a fully living person in the strict sense of the word......"

"Oh, I said, the old man can be regarded as a tall and powerful iron-blooded tough guy with good facial features, although he is old, but the good thing of artificial respiration Mitch Carr must rush to ......" Because I was just frightened by myself becoming a murderer, I still have diǎn in my mind and have not turned a corner, and I still take people ∴ dǐng∴diǎn∴ Xiao ∴ in my heart and say, .∨.o↑s_(); It wasn't until I turned McCourt's words around my head three times that I came up with the question: "What do you mean?"

"What do you say," McCourt thought for a moment, then suddenly changed the subject and asked me, "How old do you think Gordon is?"

"Uh, seventy?" I thought back to Gordon's wrinkled face, with his gray beard, and I had to say that the old man was really not young.

"Actually, when I first joined the institute twenty years ago, he was like this when I met Gordon. Mitchell said.

"I went to the Statham family dinner with my parents for the first time when I was five or six years old, and I met Gordon at the same age. Carl added.

At this point, I could already hear something wrong: "Do you mean to say that he is well-maintained and hasn't aged for decades?"

"It's not that simple," McCourt continued: "I grew up at the Institute of European Studies since I was born, and my parents asked me to call Gordon Grandpa when I was a child, but now, in your Chinese words, I stand with him as an old brother." ”

"Immortal!" I took a closer look at McCourt, who was already an old gangster, and suddenly thought that Gordon's state of not changing for 180 years was not another ultimate goal of alchemy, in addition to chasing money-immortality?

As a result, the four of them shook their heads in unison: "If the Statham family has achieved immortality, why does their family head live normally, but let an old housekeeper live?"

"How do I know? I'm not from you!" I was driven mad by one rhetorical question after another: "Is it okay to just tell me the conclusion?"

The four of them looked at each other for a while, and finally McCourt spoke: "Although the Statham family has never admitted it, we can still determine from Gordon's situation that the Statham family has been carrying out some kind of alchemy on him, that is, ** alchemy......"

I still don't understand, "What's wrong with that? If human modification involves ethical issues, you shouldn't care...... Don't get me wrong, it's not that you're of bad character, I mean, aren't the black dogs in our institute also being transformed beyond recognition? I often don't know if I'm a mammal or not...... For us scientists who are at the forefront of the times, this is not a big deal. ”

McCourt shook his head sternly: "That's completely different, in alchemy, alchemy is a taboo among taboos! Because alchemy, in essence, is to give the characteristics of life to inanimate objects, and magically and metaphysically speaking, it is to give souls to dead things! But what if the object that is given a soul has a soul itself?"

Without waiting for me to complain any more, why did he use rhetorical questions again, the old man asked and answered himself: "The result of repeated superposition of vital signs is definitely not strengthening, but completely uncontrollable mutation! For example, the predecessors of the Alchemist Guild once wanted to use alchemy to inject the growth power of life into the body of a dying person to prolong their lifespan, but the result was not to restore the health of the dying person, but to create a living dead whose flesh still rots and withers like a corpse, but whose brain can still drive physical activity and exercise instincts!"

"This old man is a zombie!?" I screamed in horror, and the result was naturally ruthlessly despised by a group of scientists: "Obviously not, we have no way of knowing whether they created Gordon as a special case in an unexpected situation or a deliberate plan that was carefully designed, but there is one diǎn that the price paid must be extremely huge, so huge that the Statham family has mastered this technology for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and they dare or are unwilling to transform one of their ancestors into this immortal state......"

At this point, I understood why McCourt and others were so secretive about the old man's question, which was really ...... I'm ashamed to say it, morality and ethics can be nothing to scientists, but if you burn out your brain cells, you can only create a defective product, and you will leave the sequelae of life worse than death for the transformed, then it is not only a matter of character, but also shows that you are not capable......

Moreover, I can't help but think about the ins and outs from the perspective of human nature's pursuit of evil, and come to an obvious conclusion: although McCourt and others put all the on the Statham family, it is obvious that the entire research institute has allowed the Statham family to study forbidden arts, and ignored the joint and several responsibility of the old Gordon's life is worse than death, after all, for most geniuses, the dangerous and easily out of control forbidden field is more tempting, and they may not have planned to study with a critical eye how far the Statham family has gone on this road of no return one day in the future……

Quietly lowered his appraisal of the character of McCourt and the others, and continued to ask: "Then what are you going to do with the old man now?"

"Wake him up first, I still have some questions to ask ......" (To be continued.) )