Volume II, Chapter 137

In order to test the life limit of the clone, Shi Leiyin waited for a full day after the clone's breath was extremely weak, until it was confirmed that the clone's breath was no longer changing, and then he decided to break the ice ball to observe the core of the clone. In order to avoid the complete death of the clone due to the puck breaking, Shi Leiyin chose to wrap the puck with his body first to isolate the influence of temperature, and then use his tentacles to drill an inward hole on the puck like a drill.

The ice ball formed by this doppelganger was a bit unexpected, the density of the ice layer was much higher than the density of the previous death clones after they were naturally frozen, and they were layered on top of each other, Shi Leiyin counted carefully, and it took less than half to break through the ice layer There were seventeen layers, and there was a little gap between each layer to contain air. Shi Leiyin, who has scientific knowledge from the earth, naturally knows that the air between the layers can greatly improve the thermal insulation effect, but the clone obviously does not have this kind of knowledge, and can do it by instinct, and the self-consciousness of this clone is already worth touching Shi Leiyin.

Carefully break through the ice, while paying attention to maintaining the internal temperature of the puckey, under the deliberate intention of Shi Leiyin, the air temperature between each layer of the puck has been slightly increased, although it will not cause the puck to melt, but it is enough to make the temperature inside the puck rise to the level that ordinary slimes can bear.

Shi Leiyin didn't think about using his consciousness to contact directly through the ice hockey, but first, he didn't understand the means of consciousness release, and he used to basically pass it through his eyes, and secondly, the ice hockey itself seems to have some effect of isolating the transmission of consciousness. After a few unsuccessful attempts, Shi Leiyin stopped trying to communicate through the puck, and it wouldn't take much time to penetrate the puck anyway.

When only the last layer of ice remained between Shi Leiyin's tentacles and the core of the clone, Shi Leiyin stopped. He found that the doppelganger's aura was a little weaker, although it was only a little bit, but compared to the already very weak clone aura, it was already a great change. Shi Leiyin, who felt this, immediately took action, and the tentacles changed from point to surface, instantly penetrating into the gap between the two layers of ice, wrapping the last layer of ice into his tentacles along with the core, and then mobilizing the small amount of fire element in his body to start warming inward.

The way Shrayin warms the puck is very peculiar, instead of directly heating the entire puckey, he drills tiny holes in the puck and blows the heated air in his body into the puck from these holes, which is where the core is located. This direction obviously had an effect, and under the warm air, the breath of the clone had risen significantly, just because the last part of the body might have been frozen before, although the life breath of the clone had risen, the body of the clone still looked extremely stiff.

After the life breath of the clone recovered, Shi Leiyin also stopped the continuous warming, and the entry of warm air and the drilling of more than a dozen fine holes, the last layer of ice was already a little unsupportable. And Shi Leiyin knew that if there was no layer of ice, once the doppelganger's body had a large area of direct contact with his own body, it was likely to be assimilated by his own body, and the final result would be that the doppelganger would be eaten by himself again. If you want to make contact with the consciousness of the doppelganger, you still need this layer of ice for the time being.

The contact with the doppelganger's consciousness was relatively smooth, and soon after the breath of life recovered, the doppelganger's body was also lifted from its stiff state. So Shi Leiyin directly made conscious contact. The results of the contact were both expected and unexpected. The doppelganger does have a complete autonomous consciousness, but this consciousness is a very low-level ordinary slime's, only has survival instincts, and does not have the thinking ability that high-level slimes have, if you want to divide it according to the level, this doppelganger has the same ninth-level strength body as Shi Leiyin, but it is definitely zero-order in terms of level, and it is no different from the blue low-level slimes that can be seen everywhere around the city. Under the conscious contact of Shi Leiyin, an obviously superior person, the consciousness of this doppelganger basically chose absolute obedience without thinking about resistance. This can be regarded as a special relationship between slimes, and low-level slimes will basically never disobey the orders of high-level slimes, even if the other party wants to absorb their own bodies as nutrients. It's just that the consciousness of this doppelganger was born for too short a time, and after birth, he had to rely on instinct to resist the cold, although Shi Leiyin gained the full strength to read all the memories and thoughts of this consciousness, but all he got was the natural reaction of the body's instinct to form the puck and ...... Countless thoughts of being so cold outside.

The exploration of consciousness failed, and Shi Leiyin had to put the goal back to the beginning, that is, to check whether the core of the clone had changed, with the assistance of the doppelganger's consciousness, Shi Leiyin did not need to make the clone only the core to check, directly through the consciousness of the clone, Shi Leiyin entered the body examination of the clone. It's a strange feeling, much like a doctor looking at a patient with an endoscope, but in addition to vision, there is also some sense of touch and hearing. Although the clone does not have much body left, the position of the core is different from the position when Shi Leiyin originally split the clone, which makes Shi Leiyin look forward to the change of the clone's core.

The core has indeed changed, but it's subtle. Through consciousness induction, Shi Leiyin knew with certainty that the core had definitely changed after the clone consciousness was generated, which was very different from the pseudo-core when he was split. But this change is not the transformation from a pseudo-core to a real core as Shi Leiyin hopes. With careful induction of the core, Shi Leiyin can also judge with certainty that the core is still a pseudo-core, although the core already has the function of carrying independent consciousness, but it still cannot replace the function of the real core. Judging from the performance of the core, Shi Leiyin can also roughly guess the ability of the new pseudo-core of the clone. It can carry consciousness and make consciousness grow on its own, but the body cannot use the core to evolve autonomously, nor can it divide and reproduce. In general, although this doppelganger has a sense of independence, it still has not gotten rid of the identity of the doppelganger and become a real independent individual.

However, for Shi Leiyin, such a doppelganger situation may not be a bad thing. In this case, if you can have a clone with a higher level of consciousness, then you can do several things at the same time in the real sense, instead of just using the clone as a security guarantee as it is now.