Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

"What happened just now? It's not that you restricted me from leaving my seat before, but you directly controlled my actions!"

After teleporting Hill Lee and Dr. Booker away, Zhuang Xuteng questioned Master Lich.

A pink skull appeared, its empty eyes staring at Zhuang Xuteng. The Lich Master used silence to express his thoughts, and then used a calm voice to soothe Zhuang Xuteng's emotions. It said softly: "I don't know."

"You don't know? This is your palace and space, and the pillars are all covered with your spells. How could you not know?"

"I really don't know, because like you, I am experiencing the current situation for the first time. We are equally unfamiliar, ignorant, and even scared." Master Lich said: "It stands to reason that the two of us should be strictly separated. I I can’t control you, and you can’t interfere with me.”

"It was you who got into my body in the first place, but you didn't have the final say as to what effect it would have?"

"The world does not depend on my will. I didn't come to you to control you and get a body. You are always just a transition, a carrier for my continued existence in this world. There is no need for me to lie to you about this matter. , I’m too lazy to lie to you.”

Zhuang Xuteng frowned and asked, "Are you saying this to stabilize me and prevent me from doing extreme things like committing suicide or revealing to the company that I have a living shadow?"

"I do want to stabilize you, but this is not the ultimate goal. Well... I understand that you are full of doubts in your heart now, and I am the same, but I am more mature than you." Master Lich floated in front of Zhuang Xuteng and said: "You Have you found that you are smarter than before and your ability to adapt to changes has become stronger?”

"I have this feeling, maybe it's because I'm suitable for the mercenary profession..."

"Listen to your own voice, you are not confident at all." Master Lich said: "I found that part of my intelligence was transferred to you, or that you absorbed part of my mind. Do you believe you did not do it on purpose? But it did happen, and I don’t know what the future holds. There’s a good chance you’ll get really smart and I’ll be sucked dry by you and disappear.”

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head, then clenched his fist and hammered the armrest of the throne, and said: "You don't say this to make me feel sympathy, you just want me to think about it and calm down! But... with my original intelligence, I It’s impossible to understand what you mean so quickly! I have really become smarter, and it is very likely that I have absorbed your intelligence, and this is the most terrifying problem! I believe you will not deliberately give your intelligence to me.”

"Some things are beyond my expectation and control."

"Since it's unexpected, let's talk about the known facts." Zhuang Xuteng calmed down and said, "Tell me, what happened before you found me?"

The pink skull floated quietly in the air, and it took a while before he nodded. "I am a master of necromancy. The main content of my research is immortality. The main method is to create an acceptable state of suspended animation. Because of my success, I am very respected and sought after. I have my own castle and territory, and I have my own family and student. Of course, my family is at least ten generations later, because my success is hard to replicate."

"I have completed a stable existence in the form of a skeleton, and I have almost completely abandoned my physical body in the ghost state. However, I can completely cheat death and reach the stage of coexisting with the universe. It's just that a disaster has come to my world, no matter what The perfect method of immortality led to the death of everyone. Faced with the disaster, I only had time to protect my castle with magic."

"I overestimated my power. My spells only made death in the protected area slow and painful. In the end, I was still alone. Those who died had great resentment..." Master Lich looked at Zhuang Xuteng nodded slowly and said, "Yes, the soul of death becomes a shadow, just like the relationship between plants and coal, fish and shellfish and oil."

Zhuang Xuteng looked at his hands and shuddered: "We have been using corpses..."

"That's how it is. Every bit of flesh and blood in your body comes from the remnants of some other object, and you will eventually become a part of other objects. Unless you can transcend this universe, you will always be spinning in this cycle." Lich The master said: "When I couldn't find any other living people around the spell, I kept expanding the spell wall, pushing it outward, pushing, pushing, forming what you call the Wall of Sighs."

"Through the wall, I saw people from your world, which made me very happy. So I walked through the wall, but underestimated the protective effect of the spell barrier on me. My body was destroyed and I immediately changed from a lich state to a Ghost, and continued to transform into the shadow slave state. So I wrapped myself with the strongest shadow slave nearby to prevent further death and lose the ability to move. In the end, the shadow slave was discovered and collected by your people. "

"I saw that they were constantly absorbing the energy of the shadow followers, so I tried to find a way to escape from the cage. I was very weak at the time. Although every body nearby could accommodate me, you were undoubtedly the most suitable. It was like a pair of particularly comfortable Gloves." Master Lich finally said: "I just possessed you and gave some energy to help your body recover. I didn't want to use your gloves to replace my hands! But now I find that the gloves have grown on my hands. , getting tighter and tighter. I don’t know if it will replace my hand."

The Lich Master then fell into a long silence, leaving time for Zhuang Xuteng to digest the information.

After a moment, Zhuang Xuteng spoke. He said, "I am me and you are you. This is my most ideal result."

"Yes, I think so too." Master Lich said: "Considering your serious injuries that night, even if you were possessed by me in the end, you would have lived a long time longer. But on the other hand, if my intelligence If the knowledge and knowledge are absorbed by you, I will be completely at a loss."

"You can't say that." Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said, "You have made a profit by finding a good body to hide in and being able to survive."

"I shouldn't be using such a good body. The flip side of comfort is disaster, and that's what happens almost every time."

Zhuang Xuteng smiled slightly and said: "Don't sigh like this. Master Lich, if you find a body that is more suitable than mine, you can completely possess it and get out of danger, right? If you need someone with a zombie physique, I should It can be found for you.”

"It's not that simple. I need to cast a spell to possess you, and the surrounding environment does not support me to do that. Before I possessed you, I first had to consume the shadow follower I used to hide - according to you, it was a The top living shadow servant - with the help of its energy, I can temporarily create a spellcasting environment that is very close to my original world. Therefore, you not only have to find the right person, but also have the top living shadow servant to assist you. And you’re too poor.”

"In other words, we can only maintain the status quo for the time being?"

"Yes, there is nothing we can do for now."

"I don't think so." Zhuang Xuteng said: "Your intelligence was given to me, and my body became your container. I think this is a process of mutual exchange, and it is much like water flowing from high to low. If I can take the initiative to become smarter or catch up with you in terms of knowledge, can I slow down or even stop this flow?"

The Lich Master thought about it carefully and replied: "Your analogy is very interesting, but I am not sure that the principle of intelligence loss is like this. Well... although it is most likely a stupid way, I don't have a better way. . If you are willing to learn knowledge that is completely useless in your world, I can teach you. Through learning, your mind can indeed become more and more advanced. My students can do it, and people in both worlds, Structurally there is almost no difference.”

"Two brains are better than one. If I learn more, I might be able to help you come up with a solution, right?" Zhuang Xuteng then said: "I will also exercise more so that you can have a better A comfortable residence is a good thing, right? Even if it doesn't work in the end, at least I can relieve your boredom."

Master Lich nodded slowly, agreeing.

Groundless suspicion will lead to conspiracy theories, and the upper limit of conspiracy theories has to do with imagination and has no connection with the facts and efforts to solve the problem. The two people reached an agreement and no longer struggled with the unsolvable issue of who controls whom, thus avoiding mental internal friction. No matter how different two people may be about their ultimate destiny, it is wise to cooperate in areas where they can understand it before understanding it.

"Master Lich, how did that flashy person offend you before? I've never seen you get so angry. You're usually quite cold..."

It's like no matter which pot is left open, the Lich Master's anger was aroused by Zhuang Xuteng again, but this time Zhuang Xuteng was prepared and kept telling himself to be calm and to find out the source of the anger through careful analysis, so as to bring the witch to the bottom. The demon master found out his emotions and suppressed them, so this time he was not controlled.

"When I left the Wall of Sighs, my Lich body exploded and turned into countless fragments. After a long period of fusion and training, that body was not only extremely strong, but also very precious. It can be called a work of art. That guy from before, his shadow is the fragment of my body from the implant carrier: a finger bone."

"Are you angry because your body was used?" Zhuang Xuteng was stunned for a moment, and then he understood immediately. The question here is not "what is used", but "what is it used for". That guy implanted a finger bone of the Lich Master into his crotch, and then...

"You have every reason to be angry." Zhuang Xuteng nodded, then pointed at the corpse and said, "Do you want me to take out the fragments?"

"..." Master Lich thought for a while and finally said: "Okay. Thank you."

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