Mental and emotional contagion. ”

Looking at the dark shadow that had dissipated in the twilight, Clauwa said in a simple voice like a silver bell.

"In the real world, when you see other people's happiness, your heart will unconsciously relax and soothe, especially when the other party is still your acquaintance, this empathy will be stronger, which is the contagion of emotions."

She took two steps forward to the place where the black fog had dissipated, crouched down, sniffed it like a cat, and narrowed her crimson eyes.

"The death of a stranger does not have a deep feeling for human beings, but the death of relatives and friends can bring a deep touch, and the [personality mask] can enhance the ability to empathize, deceive the senses, and transmit emotions."

"For example, my 'laziness' can make the subject become lazy, slack, lose the will to fight, and even lose the will to live, in the world of consciousness, this effect is especially strong, of course, even in reality, 'laziness' is contagious."

Coluva explained proudly.

So, touching fish is also contagious?

Bai Ge thought for no reason.

Coluva is the ascender of the fate archetype, and the [Personality Mask] is obviously a thing in the spiritual realm, and the combination of the two may indeed have a violent chemical reaction, developing strange and multi-end application methods.

As for their own "madness"...... At present, it can only be triggered passively, and there is no way to actively spread out like Cruwa, but Bai Ge already has some ideas.

For example, attaching this trait to the [Picture Poor Dagger], as long as it is hurt by the blade, then it will infect "madness", disturb consciousness and so on.

"Okay, don't touch the fish, I've already tracked the traces of those guys, hehe, it's naïve to think that this withdrawal won't leave clues."

Coluva licked her lips.

She snapped her fingers, and Bai Ge suddenly woke up.

He saw Coluva take off his headphones, stand up, pat the hem of his skirt, and turn back to ask Bai Ge.

"Do you have time for the next day?"

"Yes, yes, what's wrong?"

After learning about these things, Bai Ge felt more and more that returning to Alexandria was also accompanied by great risks, and General Yegor probably couldn't be too trusted.

As for Curator Olufei who developed those alchemy dolls, Bai Ge thought that he was also very suspicious, after all, he was a bachelor of the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences and an expert in alchemy dolls, so it was difficult to say that Curator Olufei didn't know anything about it.

Therefore, Bai Ge called Coluva to let the big guy deal with this trouble, which involved the big problem of the Pan-Western Sea superstructure, and he was ready to wait for the arrival of March 1 to confront Bi Zhenyan, the criminal of the ABC serial murder case.

Of course, if she can get the wool of the big guy and let her deal with Bi Zhenyan together, then Bai Ge will also be very happy.

When the dust settles, Bai Ge will probably take the fragment of the Book of the Dead to find Raflanzer and exchange the [Traveler's Oath] with her, and then find a suitable historical fragment to advance to the fourth rank, and become an ascended person who owns the realm and can truly protect himself in this world.

"Accompany me to investigate, I feel that you can often encounter some strange things and find some clues that ordinary people can't find, so you may have more gains with you."

It's the instinct of the fate archetype, Kluwa added.

"Where to investigate?"

Bai Ge asked subconsciously.

"Do you need to ask?"

Coluva smiled playfully.

"The Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, of course."

...

...

Pan West Sea, Greenwich.

It has been said that Greenwich is made of huge gears and steam, and that's true.

In the middle of the city is a huge bell tower with four dials showing the same time.

In the old days, this was called "Universal Standard Time", that is, the standard of timekeeping in this world, which was enough to see the glory of Pan Xihai in the old times.

From the dial of the bell tower, you can see the large and small gears occlusing, but these huge creations work in the most precise way, providing people with a time accurate to the second, which is enough to witness the mastery of the craftsmen.

Outside of the bell tower, there are three of the city's most conspicuous buildings.

One is the Pan-Western Sea Council Chamber, which is in the shape of a white palace, where representatives of dozens of consortia from the entire Pan-Western Sea business community will discuss the future development plans of the Pan-Western Sea, and the main seat of the parliamentary round table belongs to the Speaker, the nominal supreme leader of the Pan-Western Sea, so to speak, this is the secular center of the Pan-Western Sea.

The second is the Greenwich Observatory with brick-red walls, which is shaped like a castle and has the headquarters of MI5, which is also responsible for the observation of the starry sky and the containment and disposal of abyssal relics, and is the extraordinary center of the Pan-Western Sea.

And the last one is the headquarters of the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, which is a classic Greenwich-shaped building, located in the western suburbs of the city, just from the outside, no one knows that this building houses almost the smartest head of the Pan-Western Sea, alchemy puppet technology, the latest abyss detection technology, the detection of the [night sky], the research and development of cutting-edge weapons, etc., the progress of these scientific research comes from the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, so to speak, this is the Pan-Western Sea Science Center.

In the early spring of Greenwich, the fog and climate make it humid and cold, and it is often rainy all year round, so it's no wonder that men here prefer long waterproof capes to loose coats.

At the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor Alfred Theeon, who was working alone in the laboratory, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes to relax his brain.

He looked out the window at the new greenery, listened to the chirping of the birds, and sighed.

The research project hit a bottleneck, and they found that if human consciousness was separated from the physical body, it would quickly dissipate, and even with the most advanced electronic technology, it would be impossible to do anything.

Originally, Professor Alfred Theon's idea was to allow humans to completely abandon their weak flesh and blood and obtain a powerful body that alchemy dolls could generally replace, so he developed Nala's prototype, which is an alchemy puppet that can convert stimuli from the outside world into electrical signals, and then conduct them to the brain through electrical signals to convert them into analog signals.

This uses technology from the school city, and the conversion efficiency has reached a practical level.

It is precisely because of this that Nala was able to undergo surgery after an unfortunate accident and survive in the body of an alchemy doll.

However, Nora's own brain and spinal cord are still in the body, which is incomplete for Professor Theon's research, and he wants to completely abandon the human brain and spinal cord.

But now, even a supercomputer, with a computing power far exceeding that of humans, cannot carry the will of that weak brain, which makes Professor Theon feel very desperate.

Could it be that human beings really have souls, and if they are separated from flesh and blood, spirits will cease to exist?

Professor Theon doesn't understand that it is possible to make an identical container by means of copying, but the real human body is not the same as the body of an alchemy puppet, and if this is confirmed, then Professor Theon's research can be said to be a complete failure, and there is no possibility of success from the beginning.

He was about to turn around and go back to work when Professor Theon noticed a string of numbers in the corner of his field of vision.

The number appears to be a time, changing with the rotation of the second hand.

“！”

This is...... Professor Theon's first reaction was that he had been attacked by the Ascenders, and that some of the Ascenders had used their abilities to affect his consciousness.

But in this Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, how could there be an attacker?

Professor Theon hurriedly tried to call the guards, but saw the door to the lab pushed open.

“...... Mr. Yasen? ”

Professor Theon was stunned when he saw the other party clearly.

Because what appeared in front of him was none other than Yasin Hercule, whose whereabouts are currently unknown and whose fate is unknown.

Dressed in a long black cloak, a top hat, and a wooden cane, the other party pushed the door in.

"You—How do you ......?"

Professor Theon was amazed for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"Long time no see, Professor Theon, is Nala okay?"

Bai Ge didn't look out of sight, only took off his hat, put his cane and long cloak to the side, drew a chair, and sat down in front of Professor Theon.

"Professor, I would like to ask you, do you know about the research of the Pan Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences on the consciousness of alchemy dolls?"

Bai Ge did not hide his intentions, but asked lightly.

"Alchemy puppet consciousness? No, I don't know......"

Professor Theon suddenly became wary and cramped.

"Mr. Yasen, it's great that you're still alive......"

He tried to change the subject.

"What do you know about brainstorming, Professor?"

Bai Ge didn't give up and continued to ask.

"No, I don't know...... Well, that's a research project that the Speaker is in charge of, and I don't have the right to intervene. ”

"The Speaker is in charge of ......"

Bai Ge caught his flaw and continued to ask.

"So, brainstorming is actually really a research project of the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences, and it was presided over by Speaker Randolph?"

"I don't know ...... this."

Professor Theon was a little puzzled as to why Arsene Hercule would ask so directly, and he was even more curious about how he couldn't seem to think clearly and said something he shouldn't have said.

"Mr. Yasen, I advise you not to get too involved in this matter......"

Halfway through Professor Theon's words of advice, he suddenly realized something.

“...... Wait, Mr. Yasen, this is a dream, right? ”

After saying this, Professor Theon saw that the expression on Bai Ge's face was a little stunned.

"I can't be alone in the lab, my lab is not like this, and there will definitely be other assistants...... Also, the code on this screen is too shoddy. ”

Professor Theon glanced at the clumsy code on the computer screen in front of him, and it was clear that it could not have been his handiwork.

"I can't tell you these things, it will get you involved in extremely dangerous things, and besides, there is no way you can stop it......"

He smiled wryly.

"Blocking what?"

Bai Ge asked.

"The Torrent ...... of the Times"

Professor Theon stood up suddenly, leaning back and falling backwards like a corpse.

The next moment, he was gone.

With Professor Theon's disappearance, the entire laboratory shook violently as if it had been hit by a powerful earthquake.

The windows shattered, the tables and chairs toppled over, and in the messy world, Bai Ge sighed and disappeared.

...

...

Professor Alfred Theon woke up from his dream only to find that it was in his room.

Cold sweat was on his forehead, and by the dim starlight, Professor Theon felt for his glasses and put them on.

“...... Why did Yassen Hercule know about the relationship between Brainstorm and the Academy of Natural Sciences? ”

Professor Theon really doesn't know much about brainstorming, only that this is a project personally led by His Excellency the Speaker, and it is related to human consciousness and the like, but what it has to do with alchemy dolls, he doesn't understand.

However, Professor Theon knows that a lot of the research of the Pan-Western Sea Academy of Natural Sciences is actually for the change of the times, and if it can be successful, then the impact on mankind may be no less than the change of the times after the Great Collapse.

That's one of the reasons why he continues to do research today.

"I need to contact someone from the Academy of Natural Sciences......"

Professor Theon didn't know how Bai Ge had come into his dreams, but since Arsene Hercule had become suspicious of the Academy of Natural Sciences' research, Professor Theon would definitely have to inform the person in charge.

In the early spring of Greenwich, the nights are slightly cold and damp, and you can see a large mist from the window, shrouding the dark forest, and showing quiet colors under the light of the stars.

No sooner had Professor Theon stepped out of the room than he saw his granddaughter, Nala.

Nora's current body is still an alchemy doll, but after some adjustments, it is more suitable for her, although she is the only successful product of the experiment, Professor Theon still abides by the agreement with Bai Ge, and does not let others do anything excessive to Nala, but directs the experiment to the second stage, but unfortunately it has been failing and it is difficult to move forward.

"Grandpa......"

The petite and cute Nala rubbed her eyes and held a rabbit doll in her hand.

"I had a dream just now, and I dreamed that Nala was taken to a far, far away place......"

The little girl's eyes were reddened and she hugged Professor Theon's thigh.

"It's fine, it's just a nightmare."

Professor Theon patted his granddaughter's head and soothed.

He coaxed Nala to bed and went back to sleep, and he dialed the person in charge and informed him of the information.

For this person in charge, even Professor Theon didn't know the real situation of the other party, and every time it was just an inorganic mechanical voice.

Putting down the phone, Professor Theon walked to his room, and instead of falling asleep immediately, he went to the computer to check his research materials and the parts related to brainstorming.

"The Study of Human Consciousness...... A study of the consciousness of alchemy dolls...... True soul ......"

Muttering this in a low voice, Professor Theon suddenly felt something in his heart and turned around.

I didn't know when, a man was already standing behind him, quietly watching all this.

That's Yassen Hercule!