This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 211 - Daughter of Sorrow
Chapter 211: Chapter 211 Daughter of Sorrow
Chapter 211: Chapter 211 Daughter of Sorrow
Not all subjects could withstand such a personality experience mentally, and many crumbled because of it, which was the main reason for the slow progress of the experiment.
But in the emails, the experimental team was always singing the praises of the government’s support for the project, providing a steady supply of prisoners for the research group to use.
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And they finally created the first stable individual at the beginning of 2004, a female death row inmate.
After nine months of personality infusion therapy, this female death row inmate turned into the true Daughter of Sorrow, constantly wailing and sobbing, with severe self-mutilating behavior and suicidal tendencies.
At this point, the experimental team relentlessly began the second phase of the experiment.
Now that they had a substrate, and the substrate itself was releasing strong pheromones, the next thing was to use these pheromones for division experiments.
Obviously, the initial concept of division was to use the pheromones released by the substrate to generate empathy in the surrounding people and transform them into units with the same goals and motivations as the individual, called assimilation in military terms.
The experimental team placed the Daughter of Sorrow, bound in a specialized capsule chamber, in the same room with three hundred other subjects. In less than two minutes, all the other subjects showed signs of assimilation; they began to harm themselves, and several even bit their tongues and committed suicide on the spot.
The experiment was a success. The pheromones released by the substrate quickly transformed the others. But the military did not look favorably on this achievement, considering such division not what they wanted and strongly advocating that the substrate itself should possess combat capabilities.
Although the results were rejected by the military, the experimental team was still very motivated. Empathy and pheromones could only affect other individuals—was it possible to create another self?
After some time of research, there was significant progress by the beginning of 2005, but at the same time, there was a difference of opinion within the group.
Pheromones as a single emotional message were unable to create new bodies, they could only replicate personalities. But with the help of an artifact found by the research institute from the Great Void, the problem of creating bodies could be easily solved!
The miraculous artifact with the code 04A1 was called the inexhaustible wax by the administrators, a wax sphere with a diameter of 300cm that would regenerate an equal amount of wax in a short time every time a piece was cut from it.
The inexhaustible and regenerating wax sphere, and the Daughter of Sorrow, who could produce powerful pheromones at all times, led the experimental team to attempt their boldest experiment in the middle of 2005.
They decided to merge the Daughter of Sorrow with the wax sphere.
But the problem was that the Daughter of Sorrow’s pheromones were constantly being transmitted, and the wax sphere could regenerate itself at all times. If the experiment was successful, the Daughter of Sorrow would replicate herself infinitely.
As a weapon, this was uncontrollable.
The military was not too satisfied with this research result either, but their concern was that the body made of wax was not strong enough. Plus, this concept still did not show the combat power of the original body.
So in the following months, team members began to tackle two issues.
First, they added a switch to this division process.
Self-replication could not be triggered passively; this was inconvenient for managers to control. In an email, Jiu Lin mentioned that a General named Ross wanted the experimental team to add something like a system to the Daughter of Sorrow.
Of course, that was impossible, but the team did need to design a condition for the Daughter of Sorrow’s division, allowing her to split once deployed in the Golden War Zone.
Secondly, they designed a combat-worthy body for the Daughter of Sorrow.
This was what the experimental team was most interested in. They brainstormed and fully indulged their wicked sense of humor, coming up with over a hundred prototype designs. According to Jiu Lin, “Some looked like a chicken woman, others like a superhero.”
But the military only cared about killing efficiency and deterrent power. They sent a weapons consultant to join the experimental team to help design the body of the Daughter of Sorrow.
Thus, appearance gave way to functionality. It had to fly, so it had wings. It had to be aggressive, so it had claws. Its injury surface had to be minimal, so the body and limbs became slender.
To verify the combat capabilities of this body, the experimental team carried out human deformation experiments on death row inmates in cooperation with the military, and the experiment unfolded in this hospital.
They created a form that could not divide, for combat assessment. And after the body design was finalized, Jiu Lin had already thought of a fear-based trigger condition for division based on empathy effect. That is fear.
The oldest human emotion is fear, the oldest fear is the fear of the unknown, and the most direct fear is the fear of monsters!
They found a way to prevent the Daughter of Sorrow from releasing her pheromones and thus not dividing until she felt fear from others.
At the same time, through subconscious implantation therapy, the design plan overwrote her memory of her own appearance.
When the Daughter of Sorrow combined with the wax sphere, the moment her flesh disappeared, her pheromones transmitted into the wax sphere.
At the same time, the wax sphere changed as well, transforming into the shape found in the memory’s design drafts.
Her waxen, fragile body was not indestructible, but her ability to endlessly split based on fear, along with the inherent limitless regeneration of the wax orbs, made her an excellent war machine.
Yet only now did the team members consider a problem they had never thought of before. How would these individual splits be recovered? Once the war ended, what would they do with the countless Daughters of Sorrow scattered everywhere?
However, before Jiu Lin’s team could begin their research, the Great Black Pillar appeared.
In September 2005, 70% of the world’s population turned to ash in what seemed like divine retribution from the heavens, and the world collapsed.
The facility that contained the Daughter of Sorrow lost control due to this sudden event, and she gained freedom, spreading fear among humanity.
At the same time, surviving researchers and scholars from various countries started investigating the ashification phenomenon and eventually discovered the connection between the Great Black Pillar and the ash, but it was too late. Everyone left had seen the Great Black Pillar, and it was only a matter of time before the global population turned to ash.
Chen Ke could guess what came next.
Jiu Lin must have started experimenting on the survivors in an attempt to heal herself, and the hospital still held the deformed products created during their human experiments.
Sam didn’t find anything of value on the desk, so he began to rummage through Jiu Lin’s body, looking to see if there was some kind of remote control that operated the elevator.
“What’s this?” Holding back his disgust, he pulled something that looked like a black rock from Jiu Lin’s coat.
Hearing this, Chen Ke looked over to see Sam holding a familiar-looking stone; he put down the laptop and walked over.
“Let me see,” Chen Ke said.
Sam looked up and tossed the stone to Chen Ke.
Chen Ke’s eyes lit up; it was an irregular, gray-brown, oval-shaped slab about as thick as a mobile phone, and it was carved with many strange characters, emitting a faint blue glow…
This… this…
This was a Skill Tome!
A strange impulse surged from the mark on his chest, and a pop-up appeared in Chen Ke’s vision:
[Skill Tome: Spiritual Power Crystal Gun]
[Inheritance: Fan Hede Black Ring Sect]
[Type: Magic]
[Requirements: Intelligence (Met)]
[Effect: Gather Spiritual Energy in the hand to form a spear and hurl it.]
[The fundamental attack magic used by the swordsmen of the Black Ring Sect; this basic attack gathers unattributed Spiritual Energy in the hand and throws it. For those unable to use Advanced Magic, would casting the Crystal Gun create some sort of illusion in that moment?]
The mark on his chest was spinning, and Chen Ke could feel it.
At the same time, the stone in his hand grew hot, the blue characters shone brightly, and then the stone began to vaporize, turning into a handful of black ash in Chen Ke’s palm.
“Wow! What did you do?!” exclaimed Sam, astonished by the scene.
“Acquired a Transcendent Skill…”
“Magic: Soul Crystal Gun”
“Inheritance: Fan Hede Black Ring Sect”
“Relevant information review (Knowledge source: Fan Hede Kingdom)”
“Minimum Consumption: 30 minutes”
“Effectiveness increased with life force investment”
As the information slowly faded, Chen Ke smiled slightly.
He looked at Sam, raised an eyebrow, and said, “Don’t know, you see, it turned to ash.”
