Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 523 continues the story, but it doesn't connect to her.
Everyone's eyes followed Hughes's hand, slowly moving above Nora.

Hughes hesitated for only a moment before gritting his teeth and pressing down on the slender severed neck.

then
"Uh, it seems like nothing happened?"

Hughes picked up his hand and pressed it down again. Apart from the slightly strange feel, it was not much different from ordinary flesh and blood.

He reached out and lifted Nora's head up, touched her neck, but there was no change.

"Any changes?"

"No," Nora replied expressionlessly.

Hughes tried many other methods, such as piecing Nora and Nora back together, or placing his hand in the cross-section, but nothing changed.

"Thinking about it carefully, it seems that all I possess is the ability to purify pollution, while Nora's problem isn't that she's encountered pollution."

Hughes turned to look at Monica, the little banshee who was rubbing her chin with six hands, her head practically steaming from deep thought.

"Wait, make another cut and let some blood in. I remember that blood seems to have a unique meaning in the Silent Sanctuary."

"How come I've never heard of this?" Nora rolled her eyes.

“What do you know about the Silent Sanctuary!” Monica said, hands on her hips, glaring at Nora. “Do you know that the Lord’s blood can control the pollution? And it’s strange that your neck is broken but you’re not bleeding!”

Hughes sighed and didn't argue. He looked around, borrowed a scalpel from Richard, gritted his teeth, and made a long cut on his hand.

Surprisingly, this scalpel is quite sharp, and it doesn't hurt much.

Blood flowed out, and the power of the symbiotic contract immediately sent a torrent of life force to it. Hughes quickly put his hand into Nora's neck—if he was too late, the symbiotic contract would have healed her.

The moment the blood touched flesh, both Nora and Hughes shuddered.

A strange feeling connected the three people and the two people.

Nora's eyes widened. She had never experienced such a magical feeling before. She felt as if she had suddenly gained many more organs, such as eyes, ears, hands, and feet.

Hughes, on the contrary, felt a strong sense of déjà vu. He had experienced this feeling of having extra senses before, the night he fainted after signing the symbiotic contract and woke up in the middle of the night to go into the sea for the first time.

He tried to "see" the deep sea using his senses other than sight, and that's the feeling he got.

"Could it be that I've signed a symbiotic contract with her? Wouldn't the Burialer and the symbiotic contract make me invincible?" Hughes thought to himself.

"What an amazing feeling. It's as if I've not only regained my body, but I've also gained many more senses," Nora exclaimed inwardly.

A strange mix of shock and amazement surged through Nora's body.

The three of them fell silent instantly.

"No... Nora?"

".I am here"

"Little Nora, wait, if we're talking about volume, what about Big Nora?"

A mixture of fear and surprise clearly arose in the hearts of Nora and Hughes.

"What...what is this?"

"Well, to be honest, this feeling is kind of familiar."

Nora turned her eyes with difficulty to look at Hughes.

"This is a lot like a telepathic connection! You know I can communicate with banshees telepathically, right?"

I've heard about it.

“That’s how I communicate with the banshees through our mental links. We solidify and define our thoughts into concrete statements, then send them out, and the other person receives them. That’s what’s called a mental link.” ‘So, we’ve achieved something like a mental link? Through your blood? That’s truly amazing.’

Nora's body seemed to agree.

“Well, the point where you and Nora are severed only has flesh, but no blood. Perhaps it’s not complete enough in terms of mysticism, so it can’t be successfully linked. But after you add my blood, we become a trinity. I mean, we become a complete entity.”

That means, if I leave you...

Hughes withdrew his hand, and Nora stared at him for a while, but no one gave him any feedback.

Hughes then used the knife to cut open the healed wound and stuffed it into Nora's neck.

"You see, you have to be in contact to connect."

'But what's the point of this connection? Can we whisper to each other? It doesn't give me back control of this body, even if I wanted to stand up.'

Big Nora suddenly stood up, startling everyone.

"What happened, my lord?" The surrounding banshees tensed up and pressed Nora back down.

"It's alright, it's alright. Nora is trying to control her body. Let her go." Hughes excitedly chased the banshee away, then spoke from his mind:

“Try again!”

【! 】

Nora was also excited, and she carefully sent out the commands:

Stand up, lift your left leg, take two steps forward, turn around, and kick Monica.

Nora meticulously followed the instructions.

Nora (Full Version) looked down at her fingers with ecstatic joy, flexed and extended them a few times, then turned to Hughes and spoke:
I did it.

She forgot that her neck was simply placed on the ground without any securing, and when she turned her head, her head fell off, rolled all the way to Monica's front, where Monica caught it with the tip of her tail, patted it a few times on the ground, and threw it back.

“It seems to have succeeded, but there are many limitations.” Hughes casually put Nora back on Nora, with one hand still stuck in Nora’s neck.

"First, you can only maintain control if I keep touching you. Second, just because you can control her doesn't mean the other Nora disappears, right, Big Nora?"

【√】

“And I always have a feeling.” Hughes rubbed his chin with his other hand.

"It seems that your control was achieved through me as an intermediary."

What does "transit" mean?

"That's what I mean."

Hughes lifted Nora's head with one hand and threw it to Monica, while his other hand remained on the severed neck. Nora, nestled in Monica's arms, looked at Hughes with some confusion.

The next moment, her eyes widened suddenly.

Nora slowly squatted down, then stood up again, took two steps forward, turned around, and kicked Monica.

All eyes turned to Nora.

"I... I didn't control her!" Nora exclaimed in disbelief.

After a moment, she suddenly realized what was happening and looked at Hughes in shock: "My body, wait, that's my body, why?"

Hughes shook his finger: "I'm sorry, strictly speaking, this is my body now, but I can rent it to you."

(End of this chapter)