Chapter 681： Shadow Soul

Veronica/Ophelia's answer was so fast and direct that Gao Wen didn't react in the first two or three seconds, and then he realized that he had found the key clues of Amber's life. - An insider, standing in front of his own eyes.

“Why did you suddenly mention the Shadow Fortress?” Veronica noticed the change in the expression of the three people in front of him, and asked with some curiosity, “Where did you hear the name?”

Gao Wen did not answer the other person immediately, but immediately followed the question: "Don't say this first - since you know the Shadow Fortress, have you heard of a royal film guard named Surry Randolph?"

In theory, the "female princess" was not born in the active period of Surrey Randolph, but Gao Wen knew that the young appearance of Veronica was hidden by an ancient rebel soul, the rebel I have been living in the world through the parasitic way of the soul, and I have changed my body. I don’t know how many shells I have in the Ansu Kingdom decades ago. Even the task performed by Surrey Randolph was followed. She is related.

But Veronica shook her head: "I don't have an impression of this name."

Her expression is not like lying, but Gao Wen is also very difficult to see her true thoughts from the consistent expression of this ancient rebellious person. At this moment, she can only believe that she is telling the truth.

"Sari Randolph was a royal defender decades ago," Gao Wen said, deciding not to mention the identity of amber, but from the secret task many years ago, "We found it." Some of the information of the year found that the Royal Shadow Guard had been ordered to find an ancient ruined relic called the Shadow Fortress - now it seems that this fortress is part of the rebellious plan of the year?"

The amber next to it follows Gao Wen’s words: “Can you tell us more about this fortress? What is it studying? Why do you say it was abandoned?”

Veronica looked at Amber deeply, causing the latter to subconsciously feel a guilty conscience, and then began to say: "It is a wrong route - the route of escape and evasion. The Shadow Project attempts to completely change the essence of human life, By transforming into a kind of shadow creature, hiding into the shadow world to avoid the magic tide in the real world, and even avoiding the power of the gods, Shadow Fortress is the main research base of this project."

"Change the essence of human life? Transformed into a shadow creature to hide into the shadow world?" Gao Wen frowned, this answer is in line with some speculations he made after seeing the Surrey Randolph diary, the essence of the hiccup plan is actually " The human continuation plan, so the Shadow Fortress must have been established to allow humans to escape the disaster, but is the Shadow World really a world that can escape the magic tide?

Veronica nodded lightly: "The shadow world is ancient, and the shadow inhabitants are a group older than humans, more elves, than all the intelligent creatures known on the mainland. So after starting the hiccup plan, we are very Naturally, they have been noticed. All kinds of evidences show that all kinds of changes in the real world will change correspondingly in the shadow world with a certain mapping law. Therefore, after the magic wave in the real world, things in the shadow world will change accordingly. In the process, the shadow resident has never been affected...

"They have the qualities of a similar elemental creature that allows them to evade the influence of the magical tide and quickly adapt to the new environment and re-stabilize their form after a dramatic change in the magical environment.

“On the other hand, Shadow Power is the most mysterious and widely distributed force in the field of all elements and elements currently known. The Shadow World covers 100% of our real world, unlike other elemental areas. There are huge limitations. From the perspective of 'development potential', the shadow world is a safer choice than other elemental areas.

“Integrating these factors, the hiccups started the 'shadow project' in the early stages of the plan and built a subspace fortress in the space between the shadows. The fortress has no physical needs for the research environment. Entrance and exit, but through some specific space-time anchors and the physical world to maintain a connection."

As always promised, Veronica was very honest when it came to the plan of rebellion. She did not conceal the brief information about the Shadow Fortress and gave Gao Wen a general understanding of the ins and outs of the fortress. .

“What about the specifics?” Pittman, who had never spoken before, suddenly said, “How did you turn humans into shadow creatures?”

“The original method was simple and rude. In a way similar to 'elemental erosion', the shadow power was directly introduced into the human body in batches, and in this process, the physical structure of the human body was gradually changed. In this way, we created some possessions. A mutant of powerful shadow power, but the state of the mutant is extremely unstable. The human soul cannot fully control the power of the external shadows, and the body cannot withstand huge variations. The volunteers who were initially transformed will soon be unable to distinguish. The difference between the physical world and the shadow world, and gradually lost human self-recognition..."

Veronica shook her head as she spoke.

"After that we accumulated our experience and realized that it is not enough to simply introduce external forces and change the physical body. We also need the transformation of the soul level, and the adaptation of the experimental body to the shadow power from the embryonic stage. So we started the 'artificial People's plans."

Gao Wen clearly felt that when Veronica mentioned the words "artificial man plan", Amber's breathing paused for a while.

But he did not interrupt Veronica's story, but listened to the other party to continue to say -

“With the experience of biochemical technology accumulated by the 'Shenzhen' project, the Shadow Project team produced a number of synthetic embryos whose somatic cells were derived from the first failed mutants, but were deeply modified and stabilized, and we It also captures the same number of Shadow Residents. After combining their souls and human souls and recoding them, we created a synthetic soul that can simultaneously maintain humanity and control the power of shadows. After injecting it into the embryo, it forms the 'artificial person. '."

At this moment, Gao Wen finally couldn't help but say: "The soul of the artificial man is the shadow of the people?!"

“It’s a mixture of humans and shadows,” Veronica corrected. “Although this sounds incredible, the Shadow Residents have a soul structure similar to humans – in fact, they are almost a kind of 'spirit' Class creatures, except those shadow clouds that are driven by them and runecloths of unknown origin, the only remaining structure is the soul - and in the ancient Gangdang period, the empire holds a very advanced soul extraction and transformation technology. ""

Having said that, the ancient disobedient pointed to himself and smiled faintly: "You should be able to think that I am also a user of this technology."

Undoubtedly, "Ophelia Norton", which survived for more than a thousand years by the parasitic form of the soul, also accepted the transformation of the soul level.

However, at this moment, Gao Wen did not have the extra mind to pay attention to the details of these technical aspects. He only looked at the amber subconsciously.

She is not a half elf at all.

She is the "hybrid" of human and shadow inhabitants, the mixed level of the soul.

Amber also turned to look at Gao Wen. After a brief thought and silence, she turned to Veronica: "How many such 'embryos' were created in the past?"

“There were 125 successful survivors,” Veronica said. “This is the report I received that year.”

“Why was this project abandoned?” Gao Wen asked, “Is it a hidden danger?”

What he cares most about now is the reason for the abandonment of this project, because it directly relates to the existence of some hidden dangers of those "artificial human embryos" - although amber has grown healthily for decades, who can guarantee her Will there be no problem in one day in the future?

Veronica’s gaze swept between Gaowen and Amber. After a few seconds of recollection, she whispered: “If the artificial person survives, there is no hidden danger in itself, but the project itself has a problem.

“After the experimental process entered the embryo culture stage, the entire shadow fortress, even the subspace cracks in the experimental group, entered an unstable state. The energy flow in the fortress had an additional energy flow of unknown origin, and the mystery occurred frequently in the communication system. The short reverberation, the projection of the shadow resident in the building wandered in the building, and in the later period, even some rooms disappeared out of thin air, and some branches appeared in some corridors.

“At the same time as the fortress was abnormal, the core personnel of the project began to be troubled by frequent hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Many people reported hearing that the embryos still in the training chamber were talking and hearing the embryos using a hoarse noise. Talking to each other, but all the monitoring equipment did not find evidence in this regard, and when the project progressed to the time when the embryos gradually grew into larvae, these strange situations became more and more intense - the phenomenon of auditory hallucinations began to the central area. Outside the room spread, it is increasingly difficult for researchers to distinguish the real boundaries, and the entire Shadow Fortress begins to show a 'reality split' state.

“We tried a variety of extraordinary countermeasures and eventually failed. The risk assessment department judged that the experiment in the Shadow Fortress may have shaken the 'domain boundary' except the shadow world and the current world, in order to prevent the project from breaking through. The barrier, which attracted the attention of the gods, I had to order the end of the entire "shadow project", and the Shadow Fortress would be abandoned."

This is the end of the Shadow Fortress.

Pittman looked at Veronica's eyes and asked slowly: "After that? Those embryos are left in the fortress?"

"At the time, the embryos had grown into larvae, but they were all inactive, and I ordered them to be destroyed - before they opened their eyes," Veronica said. "The project is out of control, everything can't be left, let those It is better for the experimental bodies to disappear before they gain their self-will. It is better to let them face death after they are born."

Amber gently took a breath and whispered, "Is it all destroyed?"

"All of them were destroyed, at least in the report I received."

"But actually left one." Amber stared at Veronica, one word at a time.

Veronica raised her eyebrows slightly, but did not speak, just responding to Amber's gaze.

Amber pointed to himself and his tone was calm: "I am a man-made person on the 36th."

"Ah," Veronica said softly, but there was not much surprise. "Sure enough?"

Gao Wen looked at her: "What do you mean? You have long been..."

"No, I didn't recognize her before," Veronica shook her head. "But when you ask so many questions, how difficult is the truth to guess?"

As she spoke, she carefully looked at the amber for a long time, with a little sigh: "It turns out... after you grow up, it is like this."

Amber couldn't help but step forward: "You have nothing else to say?"

"A thousand things have surprised me for a thousand years, and what happened today finally made me feel surprised... I know that you don't want to hear this, but this is my most real idea now," Veronica calmly responded to Amber’s sight, but in her calm expression, she really couldn’t see much surprise and emotion. “I don’t know how you survived, maybe it’s the same as the shadow fortress at the time. The illusion is related, but your survival is a surprise for me - I am happy to see you standing here so healthy."

"Oh? Isn't it regret that I didn't destroy me that year?" Amber stared at Veronica. "Is this not a hidden danger for you?"

Veronica’s answer was very calm: “You have grown up so far, no longer a hidden danger.”

Gao Wen’s line of sight moved between Amber and Veronica. He thought that the next reaction of Amber would be fierce, but after a few seconds of silence, the other party just shook his head: “That’s the way it is. ""

Her figure gradually disappeared into the air, and a gradually distant voice floated gently: "I will go out and blow the hair first."