Chapter 461 People are not rational at all times

Chapter 461 People are not rational at all times

Chapter 461 People are not rational at all times
"So, General, what exactly is a perfect ghost killer?"

Li Zhongren asked the question even though he knew the answer. With the help of his experience in sharing space, Li Zhongren's acting skills were perfect and he looked like a real young man from the lower class who was naive and inexperienced in the world.

It is normal not to know the detailed information of the perfect ghost killer.

"Well, this is about us humans resisting weirdness. The core is that we capture the weirdness, provide certain methods, seal it in our bodies, and then use their power to fight against the weirdness."

"However, the weirdness itself is evil and polluting. It is sealed in our bodies. Every time we use the power of the weirdness, it will pollute our bodies. Fortunately, humans have found a way to regularly remove this pollution. However, in the fight against the weirdness, if we are careless at all, we may be caught by the weirdness and counterattack."

"This is also the reason why we need to more strictly control those powerful exterminators, because once they lose control, the disaster they cause will be no less than that of the weird ones."

"As for a perfect exterminator, you are like me. You can use the power of the weirdness at will without worrying about being contaminated, because the core source, the weird self, is gone. The principle is very simple, but in reality no one can be sure whether a weirdness has really disappeared."

"I see."

Li Zhongren nodded.

"Then how do you know I'm human and not weird?"

"Well, this is a strange special ability sealed in my body. It is not universal."

"So, all your research on me is to find a way to become a perfect exterminator in the future?"

"We have this idea. Almost all megacities in this world have this idea. However, I don't have any expectations for it. Their research on you is more about developing your abilities. After all, if you don't die young, you will definitely be able to go further and become more powerful than me in the future."

"really?"

"Of course, but I also hope that you can keep your original intention and use your power to maintain this super city. Even though you and I both know that it has many bad and dark places, it is precisely because of this that you have to change it so that more ordinary people can benefit from you in the future."

"Yes, General!"

Li Zhongren stood up again and saluted Zhang Jianjun!

"Haha, okay, don't be so nervous, you are still young, those things will happen a long time in the future."

After saying that, Zhang Jianjun stood up, patted Li Zhongren on the shoulder gently, spoke a few words to the researchers beside him, and then left in a hurry.

In the afternoon, the toilet in the room where Li Zhongren lived was converted into a squat toilet.

The order from the general was perfectly executed at the first opportunity.

Then came various tests on Li Zhongren.

Blood was drawn, and various body fluids were extracted, including blood, body tissue, bone marrow, brain marrow, and even the blue liquid.
These were then sent to the laboratory for analysis.
"How is it, are you feeling unwell?"

"Fortunately."

Li Zhongren thought about it and shook his head.

"It was just a little scary when they were extracting the brain."

Li Zhongren said.

The process is to take a needle as thick as an acupuncture needle and insert it near his temple. At that moment, he could even feel the silver needle piercing his temple and into his brain. Fortunately, the needle is very thin, and the extraction process is monitored by some kind of CT-like instrument throughout, so it will not damage his brain tissue.

"Just this once. The general has already said that this will be the only time your body tissue will be extracted. From now on, no one can do this to you again unless there is an order signed by him personally."

"Thank you, General. Researcher Liu, what should I do next?"

"Develop your abilities with our assistance."

The researcher surnamed Liu smoothed his long hair with his fingers and then spoke in a tactful voice.

"And the so-called research is to compare the effects of your ability with those of ordinary ghost exterminators, hoping to find something special."

At this point, the female researcher sighed.

"Just like the general said, the formation of the perfect exterminator is a coincidence of nature, and it is a chaotic system. It is extremely difficult to find a solution. In fact, it is like quantum observation, a paradox."

"what?"

"A scientific theory, don't worry about it."

Seeing Li Zhongren's confused look, Liu Yueru waved her hands. Talking about quantum things to a low-level worker who had not received much education was like talking to a cow. She couldn't explain it because it would be considered as a pretentious behavior.

"Come, come with me."

"Oh."

Li Zhongren left the collection laboratory without asking any more questions and followed the tall and beautiful researcher all the way. He even took the electric four-wheeler inside.

Weird ability testing base.

This is the building at the front that is separate from all the others.

From the outside, it looks like a stadium.

Obviously, in places with this kind of testing capability, a certain level of isolation is necessary to prevent contamination incidents.

After that, there are various checks to verify identity.

Only then did Li Zhongren walk into the stadium-like building.

It was pretty much the same as imagined. The interior of the building had various laboratories on the outermost periphery and the testing area was the spherical plaza in the center. The surrounding walls were obviously specially reinforced, and there were door-like structures around the venue, as well as a transparent observation room at the top.

Liu Yueru was inside, guiding Li Zhongren through the microphone.

“Can you hear me?”

"can."

On the ground, Li Zhongren replied.

"Then, let the experiment begin."

"Attention all units"

"Prevent pollution field from being activated."

"Opening completed."

"The tranquil force field is activated..."

"Opening completed."

In the testing ground, Li Zhongren was using his abilities as required.

These abilities all come from the weirdness in his body.

That flesh and blood was weird.

He looked unfamiliar, but in fact, this was also his disguise.

Because this strange ability was completely designed by him.

Within the framework of the upper limit of one thousand merit points.

He designed the following abilities for the weirdness in his body. Ability 1: Weird Feast, kill and devour the core of the weirdness, which can restore one's own energy consumption and permanently improve one's own attributes.

This ability is to allow one's own abilities to grow. After all, for a ghost destroyer, your abilities are actually determined by the kind of ghost you integrate into your body. If you want to become stronger, you have to constantly change the sealed ghost, but every change actually involves risks.

For these perfect ghost killers, replacement is even more unrealistic.

Nature, with its growth potential, is the core.

Ability 2: Flesh and Blood Tentacles, can generate tentacle-like derivatives from the body. These derivatives have self-awareness and can also issue commands through the subject's consciousness to attack, destroy, and even control the enemy. The tentacles themselves are flesh-contaminated and can curb the enemy's abilities.

Just these two abilities.

Of course, Li Zhongren also wanted to design more, but he only had so much merit. In the future, if he had more merit, he could improve his abilities by arranging so-called adventures.
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"How about, what did you find?"

Inside the observation room.

The director of the experimental base was standing with his hands behind his back, looking at Li Zhongren who was controlling his flesh tentacles to attack the enemy.

“Amazing, very amazing.”

Liu Yueru took a deep breath and said with some envy.

"Let's not talk about his abilities for now. Just to say, he uses his abilities at almost no cost."

"According to our monitoring device, the target person, Li Zhongren, has maintained his SAN value at 99 throughout the seven-day ability test. This is only the theoretical upper limit of his sanity, and there has been no fluctuation."

"In other words, no matter what abilities a perfect ghost killer has, he is immune to all ghost pollution, which gives him an unparalleled advantage in many missions."

"It's a pity that this ability cannot be replicated."

Liu Yueru continued.

"The testing department also extracted a standard unit of Li Zhongren's blood and fused it with various known strange contaminations under our control. Unfortunately, the result was that his blood could not resist any form of contamination. In short, his current state is limited to himself. Any substance that leaves his body loses this ability."

"Not surprisingly."

The dean shrugged.

"If his blood is still effective without me, those perfect exterminators that once existed in other megacities won't even be able to grow. They will just become blood bottles, with their blood constantly being drawn. That will be the most perfect anti-pollution potion in the world."

"And what are his abilities?"

"So far, we only know that his ability is related to flesh and blood pollution, which is consistent with the Flesh and Blood Slaughterhouse. The tentacles he summoned, which were derived from his body, have their own nature and can even understand his commands."

"The abilities tested so far include sharpness, penetration, corrosion, blood and flesh contamination injection, and parasitism."

"parasitic?"

"Yes."

"This is the ability we discovered after we suggested that Li Zhongren cut off some of his tentacles. If the attacked D-level test subject still has tentacles in his body, the tentacles will automatically attack the other party's brain and control it."

"And the person being controlled will gain many abilities such as strengthening and regeneration in a short period of time. However, the energy consumption is extremely high. Once the ability is activated, it will quickly consume itself. But in the end, these parasitic tentacles will break out of the body and give birth to beings similar to summons, assisting Li Zhongren in combat, reconnaissance, and other means."

"Combat, reconnaissance, stealth, a compound talent."

After reaching this conclusion, the dean couldn't help but feel emotional.

"Now I don't know what his potential is."

Potential refers to the limit of a ghost killer's development of a single strange ability. The upper limit of this value is fixed, but not every ghost killer can develop the ability to the upper limit.

For other ghost killers, this ability indicator is useful, but not great, because they can replace the ghosts in their bodies.

But this is not the case for Li Zhongren.

In order to achieve the perfect balance of the Ghost Killer, he cannot replace the weirdness in his body.

Therefore, his potential is very important, which determines how far he can go in the future.

Of course, the development of potential does not happen overnight.

Even with a lab gang, it’s still a long process.

"Oh, by the way, record this, this is an order from the general, regarding Li Zhongren's potential report, set as level 10 confidential!"

"Yes, Dean!"

Level 10 secret is the highest level of secret in the institute.

Liu Yueru also understands this design.

After all, if Li Zhongren's potential is high enough, it means that he is bound to become a giant in the future.

In the post-apocalyptic human world, geniuses will not be stifled, because this is the foundation for maintaining rule. This is the underlying logic. Geniuses will be personally cultivated and allowed to join their own interest groups.

But this is normal.

Sometimes, it doesn't.

For example, the covetousness from other megacities.

For example, hatred.

In this post-apocalyptic era, resources are generally scarce. Megacities can sometimes cooperate with each other, but more often they are actually in a competitive relationship. So, it is actually a very normal thing to stifle the other side's genius and protect one's own genius.

As for hatred, that is even simpler.

People have reason, but they do not have it all the time. Envy, jealousy and hatred are the most fundamental things in human nature, which can only be suppressed but not eliminated. You cannot deny that at some point in time, there was a possibility that someone wanted to kill Li Zhongren because he was jealous of his talent.

This kind of thing could theoretically happen.

Therefore, at least until it is confirmed that Li Zhongren has sufficient ability to protect himself, it is necessary and essential to keep his identity confidential.

"After that, should we assign him a tactical team? Or should we let him hide his identity and join a normal team as an ordinary ghost exterminator?"

"The latter."

After a moment's silence, the dean spoke.

"Walls have ears. A small team has a high chance of leaking secrets. The reason why we are not afraid of leaks in this lab is that anyone who comes in will almost never leave. In the outside world where there is a lack of effective supervision, you cannot deny that a team member will sell out his teammates for profit."

"If that's the case, I have a suggestion."

"Survey a group of trustworthy exterminators and form a military aircraft team!"

"The team is formed temporarily, so we can use the excuse of hiding our cards because no one is familiar with each other. Anyway, the biggest difference between a perfect exterminator and an ordinary exterminator is that they can ignore pollution. We can disguise it with some special equipment to enhance it, so as to hide this feature."

"can."

After a long time, the dean nodded. Every ghost killer is an elite of mankind. It is not easy to deceive them for a long time, but this temporary team can perfectly avoid this risk. As for mutual cooperation, it is very simple. Everyone will undergo unified tactical training and it will not be difficult to get used to each other.

(End of this chapter)