Volume II, Chapter 136

Although Shi Leiyin is full of confidence in his doppelganger, reality is never willing to go in the direction he expected. The next few clones, although they also contained more energy than the previous one, they were not able to produce autonomous consciousness, even if one of the clones had reached thirty percent of their energy.

This result basically overturns Shi Leiyin's view of the conditions for the clone to produce autonomous consciousness, and it is obvious that in addition to energy and ontological similarity, there are other factors at play. But in line with the principle of not wasting energy, Shi Leiyin has recovered the energy of the death clone, and now it is completely impossible to analyze and find that factor, in fact, even if it is not recovered, that part of the factor may have been lost with the death of the clone.

Although he was hit by reality, as a former small employee of the company, Shi Leiyin's ability to resist blows is definitely outstanding. Quickly recovering from the blow of failed judgment, Shi Leiyin recycled the energy of the dead clone again, and then turned his attention to the remaining clones.

The clone with 30% energy is already the last of the ninety percent similarity clone, and the rest of the clones are all clones that only do not have the devouring and fusion ability of Shi Leiyin's body, and the rest are completely similar.

The first to be realized is still a doppelganger with only one percent of energy. In Shi Leiyin's previous speculation, this batch of clones should all be clones that can gain independent consciousness, but because of the previous facts, Shi Leiyin cannot guarantee what will happen to this batch of clones. Of course, the necessary security measures still have to be set up, and after the four tentacles faintly surrounded the clone from four directions, Shi Leiyin completely cut off the consciousness connection with the clone.

The breath of life did not disappear immediately, and Shi Leiyin knew that this time it must have been successful. And not only survived, but the doppelganger's body also squirmed a few times, as if it sensed the low temperature of the outside world, and then shrank its volume. This is obviously the natural reaction of a normal slime when faced with cold or heat. This reaction made Shi Leiyin very happy, and the consciousness of this doppelganger had obviously reached a certain level, and he was able to control the doppelganger's body to react.

However, when Slimin tries to reconnect with the clone through the hierarchy between the slimes, the clone suddenly dies. And the cause of death also made Shi Leiyin feel helpless, just like the previous clone, the cause of death of this clone is still cold, although the doppelganger's autonomous consciousness can make the clone react to the cold and try to resist. But it is clear that the consciousness of this doppelganger is also unable to control the elemental abilities in the body to be immune to the effects of cold on the body.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shi Leiyin suddenly controlled a clone to make the clone no longer use the ability of ice elemental immunity. Then, Shi Leiyin carefully observed the effect of the temperature in the tree hole on his clone. The temperature of the tree hole is still slightly higher than that outside, so although Jieliya and Zilt are not very cold-tolerant, and they still don't feel too cold, but the clone will freeze to death, which is a little strange for Shi Leiyin, you must know that you also have the genes of the snow slime in your body, and it is really not normal for the doppelganger to be frozen to death by this temperature in the tree hole under the condition of inheriting the snow slime gene.

Feeling that the doppelganger gradually began to freeze due to the low temperature, Shi Leiyin checked the reason why the clone was frozen over and over again, and finally found the problem. As a devouring fusion slime, Shi Leiyin's body will automatically copy and save the genes or magical structure of the phagocytosis after devouring the fused prey, and automatically select the most suitable part for him to use. In the case of other phagoagophagos, this process will directly modify its own body structure to obtain the best body composition using this gene or magical structure. Slimes, on the other hand, can quickly change their form because of their own structure, so they don't need to keep their structure changing in normal times, and only need to change their form when needed. After devouring the genes of the Snow Slime and the Ice Slime, Shrayin's body should have formed a cold-resistant layer like the Snow Slime on the surface of the body, or the body was directly transformed into a semi-ice structure like the Ice Slime. But the problem is that Shi Leiyin's body will automatically choose the most suitable ability to use, and the ice elemental ability that Shi Leiyin obtained when he passed through the cold wind canyon far exceeds the ability of the Snow Slime and the Ice Slime in resisting the cold, even if this ice elemental ability is not perfect, it is enough for Shi Leiyin's body to achieve hypothermia immunity. Therefore, in Shi Leiyin's body, the two slime genes with strong resistance to cold have not been activated at all, and they are still hidden in the body cell records that even Shi Leiyin doesn't know where, and using the ice elemental ability to immunize against low temperature is not something that ordinary slime consciousness can do. The clone that lost its immunity and ability to resist the cold was frozen to death by the temperature in the tree hole, which is reasonable.

Shi Leiyin, who found the problem, did not continue to let his doppelganger die, but because of the relationship that had been frozen, Shi Leiyin gave up letting this doppelganger continue to carry out the realization, but directly absorbed it back into his body. And after thinking about it for a while, Shi Leiyin directly recovered several other clones with energy below 20%, and the clones of this energy level, even if they obtained their own consciousness, they would not last long, so there was no need to test.

There were only three clones left, and Shi Leiyin set up the tentacle array and began the final test.

This time, it was very smooth, and the first doppelganger with 20% energy appeared autonomous, and at the same time, the doppelganger also began to resist the low temperature independently. Like most slimes when they encounter low temperatures, they first shrink, and when they are still unable to resist the low temperatures, this clone chooses to abandon part of their body. This is an act that Shi Leiyin had used before when he was in the Coldwind Canyon, abandoning the outermost body to isolate the effects of low temperatures on the interior and core. However, at that time, Shi Leiyin's clone encountered a single strong cold snap, and although the temperature was lower than now, it did not last. So it wasn't long before the doppelganger's signs of life dropped to a nadir.

The outer circle of the doppelganger's body has completely turned into an ice cube, it seems that in order to better resist the low temperature, the volume of the doppelganger has become a lot larger, and the ice ball formed is larger than the clone that froze to death before, but Shi Leiyin can clearly feel that the life breath of the doppelganger in the center of the ice hockey has not disappeared, although it is extremely weak, but it is still tenacious.