After listening to the "report" of the Roots of Fate, Xiuge fell into deep thought.

After a moment, he asked, "You mean that these Descendants of the Abyss are not only aware of their own inadequacies, but that they are using other races such as humans and elves as models and targets to change themselves?" ”

"I'm afraid it's better to put humans first, master."

Root of Fate said slowly: "After all, the inhabitants of this city are mainly humans, and most of the memories that they devour and absorb come from humans. ”

Xiuge nodded slightly, this was indeed an important and interesting discovery, after all, according to his past understanding of the children of the Abyss, the behavioral logic of this mutilated creature should still be based on his own instinct.

Now, however, as their intelligence grows, the influence of that dangerous and deadly instinct seems to be fading, or rather, the instinct is being squeezed by the information that is absorbed and learned.

This means that the children of the Abyss will now be able to better understand humanity's intentions and be able to grasp the intentions of the survivors in the city more accurately, but they will also gradually lose something in the process.

Just as the Roots of Fate had concluded in the past night, as the Sons of the Abyss embraced wisdom, knowledge, and human habits, they gradually began to abandon some of their instincts and try to adjust their behavior.

Among them, the children abandon part of their magical perception and begin to rely on sight and hearing, which is a typical phenomenon.

However, Xiuge is still unsure whether this change is the result of the spontaneous choices of the children of the Abyss, or the inevitable result of their embrace of the memories of other lives.

Thinking of this, Shug suddenly recalled the unique individual he had inadvertently "created" in the experiments of Justina and others.

Until now, Shuge still didn't know exactly what to call it.

"Forget it, what do you want to do now?"

Hug smiled self-deprecatingly, and he suddenly realized that the question seemed to have entered the realm of so-called philosophy, and that he was still surrounded by the predatory encirclement of the children of the Abyss, and instead of thinking about the complex questions, he should seriously think about what should be done to keep these dangerous monsters in his vicinity.

So Xiuge moved his body slightly, took out some dry food that he had brought with him, and ate briefly.

And in this short gap, the nearby descendants of the abyss had already sensed Xiuge's existence, and with the transmission of information within the clan, a large number of black shadows began to gather towards Xiuge's location, and they continued to crawl up along the dilapidated apartment building, every crack and every pipe was their most convenient staircase and passage.

Xiug clapped his hands, shook off the dry bread crumbs that remained in his palms, and then the Rat Reared Reappeared.

After a full night's rest and a large amount of Abyssal Power Essence replenishment, Snicky's state has basically returned to its original state, and at the moment it was summoned by Xiuge, it was even busy yawning, looking like it hadn't slept enough.

Feeling the breath of the Earth Mother Goddess Clan, the nearby descendants of the Abyss immediately became more crazy, their crawling speed began to increase, in just a dozen seconds, the building under Xiuge's feet was already filled with their bodies, standing on the top of the building, Xiuge could even feel the tremor brought by their crawling.

"It's time to go, head in the direction of the northern wall......"

Xiug rolled over and rode on Snicky's back, and then he mobilized his magic power, and with the stroke of his fingers, the blazing magic flame was immediately generated in the solid magic model, and the dazzling light directly blocked the path of the children of the abyss, and the end of the flame spread directly along the wall of the building like a living fire snake, and exploded directly in the most dense position of the children.

The increase in mana not only allowed Xiuge to last longer in battle, but also gave him a magic control far beyond that of ordinary mages, although Xiuge had not systematically studied those valley-level and lake-level magic, but now, with the extremely rough mana stacking, the power of these flames was also extremely considerable.

The rolling flames quickly created a path through the children of the Abyss, and the Running Rat seized the opportunity to quickly burst out of the gap and then leap straight from the roof.

The Touches of Calon emerged from Shug's side, and they quickly climbed the walls of the buildings around them, forcibly slowing down the descent of Shuge and the Running Rat, and when they landed successfully, they quickly dissipated into the air again.

Another round of new breakouts has begun.

And this is only the second day that Iris Street and the survivors of the Law Council residency have begun to move.

……

Resident laboratories of the Legislative Commission.

Compared to other locations for the survivors, the transfer here was destined to be the last, and now, all the personnel involved in the experiment must advance the process of the experiment as soon as possible, and complete all the predetermined verification plans, and accordingly, Xiuge and the others have developed different strategies for different results.

Justina sat alone in the laboratory, and in front of her was the unique offspring that Xiuge had inadvertently "created" before.

In the transparent magic container, the pitch-black shadow was constantly floating, but its form had largely moved away from the chaotic blur of the children of the Abyss, and instead moved closer to the silhouette of a human, the result of the part of its reshaped memory.

Now, the humanoid created by Shug and possessed a part of human cognition is clinging to the glass wall in front of it, carefully "looking" at the female scholar sitting not far away, and constantly trying to make movements towards her in order to achieve communication between the two.

Justina, however, just watched it silently, motionless.

The female scholar's expression was a little gloomy.

As the leader of this series of verification experiments, she is not optimistic about the results of the experiments.

In the past night, the first two rounds of verification of these Abyss Descendants had already yielded results, and with the unremitting efforts of a group of Dharma Council mages, they finally succeeded in shaping the memories and cognitions of individual samples that were "beneficial to humans", but when they tried to release these successfully transformed samples into the same group of children who were also imprisoned, the results obtained made Justina and the others uneasy.

Initially, the test specimens instilled with certain memories managed to return to their own group, and they were not suspected by their kind, and the children of the Abyss who had been captured by Xiug and imprisoned in a certain ritual field only thought that they had been thrown in was another "unlucky bastard", so they quickly came into contact and began to try to merge with each other.

Until this point, everything was normal.

However, when the fusion has reached a certain point, a violent reaction begins to occur.

Justina saw with her own eyes that the group of Abyssal Descendants who had already accepted the experimental subjects suddenly surged.

They developed numerous arthropods, claws, and deadly mouthparts, and began to attempt to attack each other, and it was not long before the experimental specimens that had been put into the population and the offspring who were willing to "follow" it were forcibly separated by their own species.

Like other prey and food, these kinds, deemed harmful, were quickly devoured by the children of the Abyss, who pursued primitive instincts.

And this phenomenon means that Justina's previous idea of "using special individuals to continuously influence a large group of monsters" has failed.

The internal thinking structure of these children of the abyss is too special, although they can realize the rapid sharing of memory, knowledge and other information, but this does not mean that they are a blank paper that can be smeared at will, and in the case that enough malice has been smeared on this "paper", people have no way to implant clear information into their group through this means.

Even if it is successfully implanted, I am afraid that it will be quickly distinguished.

And the end result, as shown in that experiment, is that they will use the most drastic method to separate and eliminate those who are clearly "problematic".

Justina lowered her gaze, she looked at her missing left arm, and said with a wry smile: "You really have done a better job in this regard than all the countries and nations in Fan'en......

After feeling emotional, Justina pressed her right hand on the magic book she was carrying.

Inside, there are pre-stamped magic signals.

It stands to reason that now Justina needs to send out a corresponding message immediately, informing Xiuge on the other side of Salem City who is responsible for distracting the attention of the monster race, but Justina does not do so.

As a qualified magical biologist, she was well aware that the experiments she had conducted had not actually failed completely.

Although the modified test samples were eventually killed by their own kind, the experiment still completed a considerable part of the hypothesis.

"Within you, the spirit and the will are indeed mutually influential......"

Justina muttered into the air, "Even though our sample failed, it still "influenced" and "co-opted" a significant portion of its kind before it was completely disposed of...... And this means that as long as the individual will and spirit as the 'seed' are strong enough and influential enough, then ......"

Justina bit her lip hard.

She remembered the third option she had proposed the first time she spoke to Shuge.

That is, after it was proposed, it was immediately rejected by Xiuge.

So she grabbed a pen and opened her magic book under the watchful eye of the special specimen in the magic vessel, and on one of the pages of the book was written the results of the calculations she had made.

Giustina had already checked these results several times before, and in order to make sure that there were no problems, she even artificially expanded the margin of the calculations to ensure that the final result was foolproof.

"The magic and mental strength of our failed experimental specimen is less than one-twentieth of that of a normal stream-level mage, so if we can find more than twenty stream-level spellcasters, and even add valley-level and lake-level mages, then we will definitely be able to exert enough influence on a predetermined number of races."

Giustina counted again, and then she involuntarily raised the pen to her mouth and bit down its end.

"No, no...... The time is too short for a thorough verification to be done...... Give up or take the risk. ”

The female scholar, in extreme anxiety, stood up.

The black figure in the magic container kept an eye on Justina, tilting its head, then pressing its palm against the glass wall of the container, curiously looking at the female scholar outside the cage.

Giustina looked over, and the "eyes" of the two sides collided like this.

She looked at the pitch-black figure inside the container, and only felt like she was looking in a mirror.

Finally, a meaningful smile appeared on Justina's face.

About an hour later, there was a knock on the closed door of the laboratory.

Soon, the door was opened, and the serious face of the hermit Gene appeared at the gate, he looked at the female scholar in front of him, who had obviously not slept all night, but inexplicably looked radiant, and frowned suspiciously: "Master Giustina, it seems that the scheduled magic signal has not been sent, is there any change?" ”

Justina looked at the tall sword-wielding hermit in front of her as usual, she nodded, and said, "The verification is not a failure, so I took the time to make some additional attempts, and judging from the results, we should not be sending a failure signal now." ”

Jeant's face came alive: "Success? It's not quite the same as what I got before. ”

However, Justina shook her head: "No, it's not a complete success, but it's definitely much better than a pure failure...... We chose too few samples and needed to be expanded, and the size of the population that was put in the population needed to be halved, and after the first group was completely converted through the sample, the transformed monster population could be re-released as the second batch of samples, and so on. ”

Gene didn't immediately make a clear point, he nodded, "Sounds like a good discovery, but what about time?" Is it in time? ”

"It's in time, but I need manpower."

Hearing this, Gene suddenly glanced in the direction of the special sample in the laboratory, and saw that the sample in the container did not seem to be abnormal, so he nodded: "I will arrange the personnel, everything you need, I will give priority to guarantee, do you need anything else?" ”

"I'd like to see what the emergency committee has given us with magic materials that should be useful."

"Alright, Master Giustina, go to the warehouse and report your name, I've already told you."

(End of chapter)