Quadruple split.

Chapter 2514 Dual Observation

Game time AM05:57

Onik City, Core Laboratory [Workshop Red], Basement 4, First Research Room

"Instructor, subject U-19 is showing abnormalities."

Wearing the glasses given by Osiris, Gaheres, who looked plain but still had a scholarly air, frowned and operated on the simple control console in front of him while reporting quickly, logically and clearly: "We are trying to use [Blocker UKIII] and [Blocker UKVI] for control according to the plan. The injection equipment is operating normally, the subject's vital signs are normal, the filing Uγ is online, the filing UΣ is online, start the injection--"

Merlin, who was recording at a workbench not far away, uttered a casual "hmm", and then continued to enter data on the magic crystal board in front of him at a dazzling speed. He didn't seem to care about today's key experiment that had been prepared for half a month and was currently in the process of phased results acceptance.

"The first batch of blocking agents has been injected. The subject's condition is being analyzed. The analysis failed. The detection equipment has reached the lower limit of the protection of the erosion characteristics of [U·Turquoise Star Stone]. Manual verification has begun."

Gahres took a deep breath, then took out a pitch-black bird-beak mask from under the console and put it on his nondescript face.

Perhaps in the eyes of many children, this mask invented by French doctor Charles de Lorme in 1619 looks grotesque and scary, making people want to keep their distance;

Perhaps in the eyes of many teenagers, this kind of thing, which is usually paired with a robe, glass lenses, and a wide-brimmed hat, and is full of mystery and decadent aesthetics, is very cool;

Perhaps in the eyes of relevant practitioners, this kind of medical protective gear is very advanced in concept. It not only reflects the medical protection awareness to a considerable extent, but also provides a reference for the subsequent infectious disease protection. In short, it is very admirable.

But for Gajeres, this is just a part of his job. As for the meaning behind the mask, he has no motivation or interest to think about it because he is not a man of romantic ideas.

In short, after putting on the mask as quickly as possible and tucking his hair into a wide-brimmed hat, Gahres confirmed that the panel was correct, then changed his white coat into a matching black robe, and quickly left through the side door of the laboratory holding his magic crystal board for recording.

One has to admit that, in this attire, although he is essentially just an apprentice who is trying hard to assist his mentor in completing his assignment, from a visual perspective, he is simply a gloomy, cold and lonely ghost.

……

【Dead Bird】

Category: Helmet

Quality: Excellent - Recyclable

Maker: Cloudy

Defense: Very poor

Attributes: Intelligence +5, physical energy consumption +15%

Enchantment: [Mini Thermostat], [Evil Resistance]

Features: air purification, sacred fragrance, refreshing

Equipment requirements: none

[Note 1: Made of silver, the hollow part is stuffed with cinnamon, fog, silk dust, sacred kerosene, white scented wax and rosemary.]

[Note 2: One of the work clothes sets customized by Master Merlin. Although the attributes are average, they are made to look very handsome.]

……

【Obituary】

Category: Cloak

Quality: Excellent - Recyclable

Maker: Cloudy

Defense: None

Attributes: Intelligence +5

Enchanting:

[Poison Ivy·Rock]: Increases earth damage by 11%, increases critical strike rate by 11%, reduces physical damage taken by 8%, and reduces elemental damage taken by 8%.

[Poison Ivy·Yan]: Negative energy damage caused increases by 11%, poison damage caused increases by 11%, 15% chance to recover health equal to 30% of the damage caused when causing negative energy/poison damage.

Traits:

[Calm Mind]: Increases mana recovery speed by 20% and increases mana limit by 3%.

【Constant temperature material】: Not affected by temperature in an environment of -30℃ to 50℃.

[Primary Purity]: Reduces the damage from negative energy, toxins, and curses by 10%, and increases the corresponding resistance by 5%

Equipment requirements: Alchemy mastery > level 35

[Note 1: Made from the scraps of Master Merlin's white coat, although the quality is only excellent, it is still a very practical and good thing for front-line scientific researchers.]

[Note 2: In fact, considering the size difference between the two pieces of clothing, Master Merlin's white coat is more likely to be altered from leftover fabrics.]

[Note 3: Note 2 was not written by me. — Cloudy day]

[Note 4: I know. - Merlin]

……

It can be seen that compared to the old man's [Merlin's White Coat] which is the only epic quality, these two pieces of special work clothes, although they are mass-produced goods, are probably only worn by Gahres, and their properties are much worse. However, even so, Yintian still proved himself by being able to meet Merlin's customization requirements in a short time.

In the final analysis, even with Gavin's full green light support in terms of materials, there are probably less than five players in the world who can mass-produce such work clothes. And having such skills and being able to serve as an armed maid for the lady... Only Yintian can do it.

It is no exaggeration to say that as an all-rounder with such attainments in the field of so-called 'secondary occupation', Yintian can completely rely on the popularity of the game [Boundary of Innocence] to directly join those first-tier clubs as a logistical core, and he has an independent budget and team, and he is the kind of powerful core who can make countless people run their legs off with just a shout. On the surface, this is far better than being a follower of Gavin inside and outside the game.

But that's not the case.

Although in the eyes of many people Yintian is indeed just Jiawen's follower, maid, assistant, secretary, maid and even servant, and even Yintian herself naturally thinks so, but whether in the [Realm of Innocence] or in reality, whether it is Yintian or Aqing, the status, resources, connections and even power they possess are far from comparable to those so-called logistical cores in the game clubs.

Here is a simple example. Suppose Yintian joined [Card Master] and was given the identity of the core supervisor of the logistics department of the [Realm of Innocence] branch, then her rank in the club would probably be two ranks lower than that of Shengguang Lao Wang, who is both an absolute main player and the head of the [Espionage and Sabotage] working group, and one rank lower than the head of the guild department (that is, the 'President of the Card Master Guild' in most games).

Under this premise, Aqing's income in reality is enough to carry out a dimensionality reduction attack on Wang. At the same time, she also has the influence to easily find someone to fabricate fake news, thereby ruining Wang's reputation and causing him to retire from the circle.

In the game, although the Holy Light King can mobilize most of the resources of the [Card Masters], Yintian can get the resources of more than ten [Card Masters] approved by just applying. If she is willing, she only needs to give an order, and the Holy Light King will turn from a living dead into a dead man and rebuild the character in no more than a week.

Well, if the Holy Light King also gave orders to find some organizations, whether they were from the white, black, or gray worlds, and told them to "bring that beautiful girl to your brother Wang" or "help your brother Wang kill that beautiful girl", then it is highly likely that Yuntian would be fine, but Gawen would not let the card guy get into big trouble.

All in all, whether in the [Bai Group] or the [Sin King Group], Aqing and Yintian are both very important characters. Even though her first impression on many people is that she is indeed a small person, and she likes to describe herself as "just a servant who does her job", but how could this person who can casually meet Garwen, Merlin, Jidao, Arthur and even the Sin King be really a small person?

By the way, in the current [Crime King Group], Gahres' administrative level is one level higher than Yintian.

... "Subject U-19 continues to lose control."

"[UKIII blocker] failed to produce an effect."

"Serious mutations have been observed in the target organism. Data is being recorded manually."

"[The UKVI blocker] has failed to have an effect."

"The target was detected to be in extreme pain, presumably due to a chain reaction caused by the [UKVI Blocker]."

"The target was observed to show strong intention to negotiate."

"According to the filing Uγ, the use of [UKSII blocker] is approved."

"Thought suppression successful, continue observation operations."

In the laboratory, Merlin, who had been working at his desk before, now stood with his hands behind his back, staring at Gahres, who was covered tightly with a robe, mask and wide-brimmed hat, and was concentrating on recording the condition of the subject on the screen.

Despite having equipment to protect him and the two talents of [Poisonous Blood], [Malignant Mutation] and [Benign Mutation], Gahres's observation behavior at this moment was still very dangerous. If he was not careful, he might die in the gas chamber.

Of course, for Gaheres, even if he died in the game, the worst that could happen was that he would create a new character, and then rush back here from his birthplace as soon as possible under the arrangement of Ms. Gawen, and continue to assist his mentor in finding the truth.

Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with this way of thinking. After all, Gahres has never been a strong man, and if he dies in the game, he is dead. However, the favorability he has gained from Merlin can be converted into his "future" in proportion, making the road ahead for this young man a smooth one.

But Merlin sensed a sense of disharmony in this 'reasonableness', so in order to verify his intuition, Merlin started a project called "Double Observation". On the surface, it was the final observation of the [Code-name UK] experiment with Gahres, but in fact, it was Merlin observing Gahres while he was observing [Code-name UK].

Because of this, Merlin knew from the beginning that today's experiment would not succeed. Not only that, he even knew which link in which stage would go wrong, and everything was done to observe Gahres' reaction.

The project progressed so smoothly that within a moment, Merlin lazily turned off the monitoring screen and started analyzing and comparing the results of several other sets of experiments, truly starting to work.

The results of the observation did not surprise the old man.

Whether it is He Lei or Gajerez, he is an interesting kid.

Just as Wen Qiu said, he is broken, broken in the present progressive tense.

On the surface, the young man seemed to be gradually losing something, and unfortunately, he had nothing to gain.

But this is not true.

As an old man who is knowledgeable, experienced and even well versed in human nature, Merlin finally captured the sense of incongruity that even Wen Qiu could not see.

Gajeres is broken, and the word broken is in the present continuous tense, that's correct.

But he actually didn't lose anything, neither his reason, nor his humanity, nor anything else that was worthless in Merlin's eyes. Gahres didn't lose anything.

However, he suppressed those things to the point where they were almost non-existent.

This repression has made Gahres seem to be missing some important qualities, or even the core elements that can maintain his identity as a "human being".

This is not the scariest thing.

At least in Merlin's opinion, this kind of repression is not terrible.

It is not scary when the person is suppressed to the point where he forgets what he is suppressing and has no memory of the act of suppression itself.

What is worrying is that if one day, some of the emotions that have been suppressed by this repression burst out...

So what is finally revealed are the characteristics of being born as a human being, or something that no one knows?

To be honest, Merlin wasn't interested in the answer.

But Gajeres was, after all, his only true 'apprentice'.

As for Zhou Min in the laboratory, and the senior brothers and sisters like Gaheres who have escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, although they all feel that they have benefited a lot over the years, for Mu Changchun, he has never taken the responsibility to teach those young people, both in the past and in the future.

But Gajerez is different.

In most cases, the bond between accomplices is stronger than that between master and apprentice. Although Merlin scorns this statement, he still inevitably cares about Gahres's condition. Although this "concern" is not pure and can even be said to be extremely utilitarian, judging from the results alone, the old man has indeed invested much more in Gahres than in other apprentices.

Now, Merlin has preliminarily completed his observations. As for the subsequent handling methods, he will naturally think about it when he has time.

At the same time, accompanied by a ethereal humming sound, the communicator in the third laboratory was automatically picked up, and soon the crisp voice of Yin Tian was heard from the other side -

"Master Merlin, the time has come. Miss asked me to come and ask you to go to the meeting."

"Don't go."

"I'm sorry, old man. The young lady said that this meeting is of a very high standard. Even the King of Sin himself will participate in it personally. And you are our core figure. It is reasonable for you to go there."

"Oh, forget it, for Mo's sake."

After simply shaking his head, Merlin stood up, accepted the invitation to attend the meeting, and then -

"By the way, take Gajeres with you."

Chapter 2505: The End