Free Web NovelChapter 578: Chapter 160: Separation
Guo Fengyan looked at the ceiling and swiftly gouged out his eyeball. A piercing pain shot through him, and he couldn’t help but scream in agony.
The pain wasn’t just in his eye; it was in every part of his body.
"What? Why?"
He sat on the ground, staring at the eyeball in his hand, his body twitching uncontrollably.
There was no blood, nothing else, just a slick eyeball, with the pupil continually contracting, maintaining a vivid appearance.
When people are injured, they bleed, but he didn’t.
Guo Fengyan fell into a long silence. He seemed to realize something, and his expression twisted as if he wanted to cry but couldn’t.
At this moment.
In a dark, foul-smelling prison, a corpse leaned motionless against the wall, a line of fresh blood seeping from its tightly shut left eye.
A trail of bloody footprints marked the prison corridor, and around the corner, several prison guards lay on the ground, their chests pierced through.
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"What is the truth?"
Su Changxing fell into silence once again over this question.
He was able to discern the falsehoods faced by others, but he couldn’t determine what was true.
During his conversation with Guo Fengyan, he realized there was a high chance Guo Fengyan was already dead.
Not in the traditional sense of death. Instead, it was a separation of the body and spirit, with his soul alone thrown into a cycle.
Yet he himself didn’t notice this separation.
In his self-awareness, he still considered himself a complete human and wasn’t aware of his death.
For fragile humans, the separation of spirit and body signifies death, and complete death is inevitable.
Su Changxing had an idea of why the wizards placed Guo Fengyan’s soul into this cycle, likely using him as a kind of energy, or as a drive to generate energy.
It can be roughly understood as putting a hamster on a wheel to run and generate electricity.
Except that this form is more abstract and harder to comprehend.
Under normal circumstances, Guo Fengyan couldn’t escape this cycle; he would be worn down bit by bit in an endless loop, until he completely perished.
But the Doomsday Game’s phone connects with the soul, allowing him to communicate with them through the phone.
This might also be something the wizards never anticipated.
As for why Guo Fengyan could see Jin within the cycle, it was probably because he had just seen her before his spirit was stripped away, leaving such an impression but also coincidentally losing the memory of this excerpt.
The way Su Changxing offered to Guo Fengyan was to break his soul to escape the cycle, though he would face death.
Once a soul is extracted, it cannot be put back in.
Most likely only high-tier Extraordinary individuals could do this, or Extraordinary beings with special abilities.
This ability is soul-related but extremely rare, and at least up until now, Su Changxing hadn’t seen much of it.
...
Underneath the large and incomplete door.
A brown-haired wizard in a black robe and silver chains suddenly stood up, walked toward Richie, and said, "Great Wizard, has unit 11 stopped functioning?"
"Wasn’t unit 11 just put in? Why has it stopped working? Has something gone wrong?" Richie opened his eyes and questioned.
The black-robed wizard shook his head, saying, "I don’t know, it seems he developed self-awareness and escaped the cycle, something like this has never happened before."
Richie didn’t seem too concerned, saying, "It’s no big deal, just use a substitute, it won’t affect anything."
The black-robed wizard hesitated and said, "I just find it strange; normally, he shouldn’t be able to escape the cycle. Unit 11’s soul is very weak."
Spirits entering the cycle need not be strong, but they must be unique, with enough resilience. Not all souls can be put into the cycle.
If too weak, they’ll quickly extinguish; if too strong, they’ll escape the cycle.
Richie pondered slightly, saying, "Human souls in this world are somewhat unique; they seem to have some connections between each other!"
"I’ve sensed this connection but cannot observe it deeply; they seem to have a profound connection with this world."
The black-robed wizard looked surprised: "You mean, their souls are connected to this world."
Richie nodded and said, "That’s somewhat the meaning. The connection among the Extraordinary is even stronger, and they can indeed communicate with each other."
"He probably used this method to gain self-awareness and escape the cycle."
"But escaping the cycle is not that simple. Clean up unit 11’s body; I have other uses for it."
Wizards have many factions, some mainly focus on the research of the physical body - the Bloodline of Kui, and some mainly control elements - the Guiding System.
He was from the Bloodline of Kui but stepped into the Great Wizard in the Elemental Domain.
It’s very rare for a wizard to master things from two factions, each having vast and complex knowledge systems and numerous branches.
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Close to noon.
Su Changxing led part of Team One to a highway near Anxi Town to clear a large monster-infested nest.
After Anxi Town, almost every town had a number of survivors gathered, with various populations and little interaction between them, forming isolated cities.
Therefore, Su Changxing and his team planned to first open up important roads, hopefully connecting directly to Hedong County.
This was one purpose, and the other was to collect points.
Team One consisted of experienced warriors, whose combat power was not weak even if not considered Extraordinary.
They cooperated with various weapons, capable of taking down ordinary Tier Nine Extraordinary without issue.
Chang Yi looked at the map in his hand and said:
"Our reconnaissance team has been there before; the area is occupied by a large number of monsters, they all come from the same world and are of the same species, which should count as wolves."
"Due to the large number of these ’wolves,’ it seems other nearby monsters have been hunted to extinction. Their strength is probably between Tier Nine to Tier Eight, and it’s a pity our artillery isn’t here; otherwise, we could concentrate fire initially."
Zhou An listened, looking relaxed, and said, "Our team can handle this easily, no need to waste artillery shells, and it seems our artillery’s heavy firepower is dwindling."
Chang Yi reminded sternly, "Brother Zhou, those ’wolves’ are quite numerous, and even the soldiers on the wizard’s side suffered casualties here."
"However, they also didn’t deal with these ’wolves,’ seemingly wanting them as a barrier, as they only operate within their territory."
This is a notable characteristic of the fog monsters; they only operate within a fixed range and generally do not stray.
