Chapter 448: The Phantom Man's Case
The reason for this is that as time went on, researchers unexpectedly discovered that the physiological signs of the phantom man's body were getting smaller and smaller, and the unknown synthetics in his body were little by little rejected and repaired by the healthy tissues in his own body. A month ago, even his famous glowing blue eyes had finally regained his normal appearance.
The Phantom Man now appears to have fully recovered from his normal human appearance, and although the medical team has not yet announced his recovery, there is growing evidence that he has fully recovered normal human physiology and is no longer affected by the Reaper's indoctrination.
The same thing happened to others, and was confirmed by the results of tests of Reaper items conducted in parallel during the same period. Regardless of whether or not the creations of these Reapers had the ability to educate before they arrived, as long as they passed through the space-time gate, these objects seemed to be cut off from other Reapers' in the Mass Effect world, and they lost their ability to educate.
From this, they were able to determine that the Reaper's indoctrination was a continuous process of remote control, and that the victim needed to be exposed to the Reaper's indoctrination device in order for the Reaper to establish remote contact with the victim.
After that, the Reaper will continue to use this remote connection to influence the victim's brain, otherwise once the remote effect is cut off, the victim's body and mind will regain the upper hand and get rid of the influence of indoctrination.
Even with this remote contact, it usually takes between 1 and 5 years for the Reaper to educate a healthy average person, depending on the victim's exposure time, physique, and willpower level.
Their research shows: The more complex the mind, the more difficult it is to be educated by the Reaper, and the vice versa. If the victim has a complex mind and strong willpower, he can even rely on his own will to resist the influence of indoctrination for several years. It's like a phantom man!
Without any external support, he successfully resisted the Reaper's first attempt at indoctrination, and 28 years have passed since then, much longer than anyone else.
This is also why although Shen Chao caught the phantom man, he never wanted to kill him or let him go. A person with such perseverance must have many advantages in him that are worth learning from, even if he is an enemy.
In addition to this reason, there were some other factors that prevented Shen Chao from deciding what to do with the Phantom Man. As they learn more about indoctrination, much becomes clear. One of the most important is that you just need to leave the Mass Effect plane. Anyone can escape the reaper's indoctrination influence, regardless of whether the victim has been influenced by the reaper's indoctrination before!
This discovery can be regarded as a mixed blessing for Shen Chao's plan. On the one hand, he was glad that his "sanctuary" had such a "healing" function, so that he could not worry about the possible sabotage of the indoctrination agents. On the other hand. He was regretting the scale of the bunker plan he had developed.
Before the bunker plan was executed. He didn't know how effective his space-time gate would be for the reaper's scorching abilities. So at that time, he just wanted to recruit hundreds of thousands of people in the Mass Effect plane as a reserve of technicians, and then close the space-time gate, and wait until he had enough strength to counterattack before killing back.
But now. Without the threat of Reaper's indoctrination, their previous plan would have been petty. Shen Chao, who knew that he had the key to dealing with the Reaper, hoped to change his plans and obtain more personnel and materials from the Mass Effect plane. And the Phantom Man, who is the leader of Cybrus, may be able to help in this process!
For the purpose of introducing the research results of the response to indoctrination, Shen Chao took Sister Xue to visit the Phantom Man and the other people who were still quarantined. The people held here were once suspected or confirmed to be indoctrinated.
The Phantom Man was sitting quietly on the floor of his cell as usual at this time, and although his cell was only about 20 square meters in size, there was still some room for movement in addition to the bed and washing space, and the side of the cell door was huge enough to have dictionary-thick tempered glass.
Meditation is a method that phantom people learned many years ago to calm their minds and take care of their wellness. After being imprisoned for several months, he naturally knew the person who imprisoned him and where he was now. I can't talk about accepting my environment, but I'm barely adapting.
It wasn't that he hadn't tried to escape or convince the jailers to let him go, but since this was a key monitoring area, and most of the important personnel in the base were official members of the expedition, these attempts failed without suspense.
When the Phantom Man was first arrested, he always thought that Shen Chao would still need him, and would eventually reach some kind of agreement with him to let him go. But later, after learning the identity of Shen Chao's time traveler and getting an interview with Shen Chao, he no longer had this illusion, but stayed with peace of mind.
Because he knew that no matter how much he struggled, it was meaningless, even if he escaped from this prison, it was impossible for him to return to his mother's plane, it was better to live in peace, since he had only seen Shen Chao once when he was arrested, he was quite sure that Shen Chao had forgotten about him. But to his own surprise, he was not disappointed.
Because he doesn't remember the last time he lived such a "carefree" life, and although he doesn't have personal freedom now, he doesn't need to think about how to protect his fellow humans or fight against the reaper's indoctrination.
About 30 years ago, he lost his best friend and lover in a battle, and was nearly civilized. Since then, he and Aspire to become Phantom Man, determined to use his own qiē to clear the obstacles to the future development of humanity and fight against the threat of an alien person.
Now, freed from the threat of indoctrination and organizational responsibilities, he finally no longer has to bear these burdensome responsibilities. Just as he was thinking this, the iron door at the end of the corridor outside the cell was opened, and the footsteps of several people came from the corridor. The Phantom Man didn't pay much attention to it, and although the prison was small, it often carried out personnel transfers and security checks.
But this time it was different, the footsteps of these people actually stopped in their own compartments. This made him curious, the last time a crowd stayed in front of his cell door was when Shen Chao came to see him.
Thinking of this, he opened his eyes, and the sight before him was quite ridiculous. As he guessed, it was indeed Shen Chao who came to see him, but it was Shepard who was accompanying him! This surprised him.
If he had seen Shen Chao a month ago or even half a month ago, he would have used his eloquence to talk to the other party about the conditions, but the current phantom man was no longer in the mood. He was just getting used to the peaceful life here, and he didn't want to be disturbed by anyone at all.
"Lieutenant Colonel Shepard! I didn't expect to see you here......" The phantom man thought about it and stood up and greeted, of course, due to Shen Chao's previous turmoil, Sister Xue hadn't seen him yet, and she didn't know who it was, so she could only turn her head and ask Shen Chao.
"The one in front of you is the legendary Phantom Man, the founder and leader of Cerberus. He had a plan to cooperate with you to investigate the collectors......" Shen Chao briefly introduced the identity of the phantom man, and the phantom man in the cell did not refute his statement.
"Why is he being held here?" Sister Xue asked, she didn't expect that the handsome middle-aged man in front of her was actually the leader of a well-known human supremacist terrorist organization.
"Two reasons, one is that his agents were investigating the execution of the bunker plan before, and there was a possibility that my plan could be threatened. Second, and most importantly, he is a potential indoctrinator. And it's the person we can find who has been affected by indoctrination for the longest time, but don't worry, he is no longer affected by indoctrination now......" Shen Chao reviewed the phantom man's "illness" a little here.
As the most successful case of getting rid of the influence of education, the phantom man must be introduced to Sister Xue, otherwise he will not be able to make some specific requirements later. Of course, just because he didn't bring it up right away doesn't mean that the Phantom Man will keep it a secret for him. Although the news in prison is not good, he has not been in vain in the past few months.
"When are you going to test her for indoctrination?" Speaker. Anyone can be affected by indoctrination, and each person who is planned to be accepted by the bunker is to be examined accordingly. Isn't that what you said? The Phantom Man asked this crucial question before Shen Chao took Sister Xue away.
"We'll wait until she's ready, and as for you, stay here for now, and maybe consider releasing you when I'm free." Shen Chao responded, this was completely unexpected by the phantom man, and he thought that Shen Chao was going to lock himself up until he died.
"What do you mean, why should I be tested?" And why did he call you Speaker......" Sister Xue asked a little anxiously when she heard this. She found that she had followed Shen Chao for a while, and the problems not only did not decrease, but became more. There are more and more inexplicable titles on Shen Chao's head......
Shen Chao finally persuaded her to continue the subsequent visits, and after they left here, they visited many places, and Shen Chao also gave her a brief description of the history of the Legendary Plane in the past few years on the way, and in these stories and visits, Sister Xue finally understood that she was now from a parallel universe that was completely different from his.
After learning this, she, like everyone else, experienced a short psychological process of destroying all three views. But fortunately, because Shen Chao had foreshadowed her in advance, she didn't stay in a daze for too long, nor did she look hysterical after the shock, but her eyes when she looked at Shen Chao changed a lot. As if looking not at a person, but at a strange object. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the "Piscesc, Diving First" that voted for the previous chapter update and the "Valky, Silly King's Circle, Diving First" children's shoes for the reward, tonight is the first time I have achieved two changes after the holiday, which is worth celebrating. But I think that tomorrow some of you will still urge me to change, so I better go straight to sleep and take a little more energy. Okay, see you tomorrow