(60) Origins (Yuffie Steamiz, II)

"Alright, alright, I see. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Joe scratched his cheek and muttered, "I don't need to eat anyway, and it's okay to leave him here." ”

"Speaking of which, how did you talk?" The blonde girl looked at the two behind Joe, "Is there anything interesting?" ”

"It's okay." Joe muttered vaguely, "They know a lot of things, but I'm not good at this, so it's better to wait for the captain to come back and ask." ”

Lynn nodded, returning the conversation to the potion. It is not easy to find the source of the drug because there are not enough clues. Jura agrees to help the others with their investigation, but with the crow's current condition, even she doesn't expect much. The two Imperial officials agreed to provide a little assistance, mainly in investigating the sale and flow of medicinal herbs - though they mentioned that it would be difficult to identify the exact goods if the transporter was the Imperial Family or a powerful nobleman.

Yuffie turned her attention away from those conversations, thinking to herself about the current state of the Crow Knight. On the surface, this bottle of liquid can alleviate the other person's 'symptoms', but what caused the symptoms, is it another potion, or is it a spell or physical means that she doesn't know?

As Elena said, the body spontaneously excretes harmful substances, or it is completely damaged by the excessive dose of poison, that is, death. Keeping the target in a coma for a long time would most likely require regular and long-term medication, which was clearly inconsistent with the knight's situation.

Secret techniques can do this, the most typical of which is naturally several spells that extract the soul of a creature from its body and lock it into other objects. They are mostly considered evil, and are occasionally used to seal out demons or lichs that are difficult to completely destroy. If this crow knight had a similar situation,

She quickly cast a spell that reads superficial thoughts, using it to sense the knight's condition. Generally speaking, people who sleep lightly still have the ability to think, which is often manifested in the form of dreams; The shallow minds of people who are in a deep coma are mostly nothing. What she perceived, however, was a cacophony that was incomprehensible to her, but seemed to imply some kind of regular thinkingβ€”not at all like a sane human.

With a bold idea, she looked up and confirmed to the two members of the church team, "Elena, Joe, did you feel anything when you fought them...... Unusual place? ”

"It's a lot!" Joe pouted, "They don't look normal. Elena, you said yes, right? ”

Elena shook her head, "You can't say that, Joe. But...... If there is anything unusual, it is probably the way they fight. As Chris said, it seems to be controlled by someone, although the advance and retreat are orderly and the cooperation is perfect, but it is ...... It doesn't feel like a normal person's behavior. ”

Sure enough, in this way, she was a little more likely to guess correctly. Yuffie bit her lip and made up her mind, "I probably get it." ”

"What are you going to do again?" Lin put her hands on her shoulders with a look of understanding in her eyes, "At least tell us the cause and effect first." ”

Of course. She nodded, and began to explain her conjecture.

"I've probed his superficial consciousness. He didn't give me the impression that he was a separate human being, but that he was part of a bee-like swarm consciousness -- each of them, of course, was much more advanced than an insect. Yuffie explained simply, "If I'm not mistaken, the real effect of this potion is to strengthen and open the spirit of the drinker, to merge it into that cluster consciousness." ”

"As for his current condition, perhaps he is too far away from the cluster for his consciousness to connect with his body. In other words, the soul is out of the body. It may also be that his brain is not strong enough to carry the messy information from the cluster consciousness, so he uses a coma to protect himself. She uttered eloquently, completely ignoring Joe's confusion, "After taking the potion, his spirit was strengthened again, and he regained consciousness a little, allowing me to perceive the fragments of his mind in the cluster. ”

She brushed her long hair back and whispered her intentions, "If I drink this potion, I may be able to blend into this cluster consciousness for a while." The goal we are trying to find is probably at the source of this consciousness. ”

"What if you fail?" Lin looked at her worriedly, and then at the stunned Crow Knight, "Will it be like him?" ”

"I'll do my best to make sure I get back safely." The pink girl smiled, "I still have some confidence in the strength of the spirit. Besides, we don't have much time. ”

"How about letting me go with you?"

"Don't make a fuss." She flicked Lynn's forehead, "There's not much potion left, and you're a dragon." The group consciousness will spontaneously reject the abnormal individuals, and the only one who is most similar to those people is me, right? ”

The blonde girl shook her head, gave up continuing to persuade, and just hugged her tightly, "Then, I'll wait for you to come back." ”

She looked at the other earnestly, nodded, picked up the bottle, and poured the rest of the liquid into her mouth.

A tempting sweetness spread in her mouth, and Yuffie gathered her mind and slowly swallowed the liquid, trying to feel the change in her spirit.

She felt her consciousness suddenly no longer trapped in her original body, but connected to somewhere in the distance through a mysterious thread. There, a massive, mixed mass of consciousness slowly swirled, waiting for her arrival.

So she left a shallow mark in her original body, and let her spirit and soul be pulled to that unknown place.

It was as if she were speeding through the boundless void, with no meaning in time and space, direction and distance, in a purely spiritual network. Countless bizarre scenes passed her eyes, leaving fleeting afterimages in her memory. She heard many indescribable sounds, some like babbling, others muffled, but none of them came close to being complete.

Somehow the pace of progress slowed down, and she felt like she had regained a little control over the soul's 'body', allowing it to turn, stop, or move forward freely in the void. She saw a gray-white shadow drifting aimlessly, and cautiously approached it.

"Who are you that you can hear me?" She tried to make the sentence manifest in her mind, hoping that the other person would understand what she meant.

"Drokos...... The horse is bolted...... Wound healing ...... Bread & Cow Dung ...... Wine...... Blood...... The walls are collapsing."

The gray shadow gave her a disorganized response. Each fragment seems to come from a different time and space, mixed with concrete memories, conveyed to her mind. She sighed to herself, pushing these thoughts out of the way.

This soul is not strong enough to be strong, so it is infused with too much information that does not belong to him by the spiritual network. Even if he were able to return to his body later, he would suffer from a considerable amount of memory confusion. If it goes a little longer, he may even lose himself completely and become a living walking corpse.