"Can you take me to find her?"
"I'm afraid that's not possible. You guys overestimate me. I'm just a small role. At best, I just help them do dirty work and run errands. How can I have access to those core contents and tasks?"
"Perhaps this is the reason why you have not been replaced. Since they promised you that they will help you extend your body, it means that you know a lot. Tell me. Maybe you should take a closer look at those who have obtained new bodies. Are they still the same people as before? I’m not talking about their appearance, I’m talking about their souls. Do you think they still have souls?”
Charles didn't speak. I knew he was still hesitating. After all, the conditions offered by the Rourda people were indeed very tempting. In today's environment, sobriety is a kind of torture. In the eyes of the general public, health, wealth, and rights are all important. , it seems that if you obtain these three things, you will no longer have any troubles in this world. Little did he know that he had already fallen into the trap of the Ruard people step by step, lost his soul, became a walking corpse, and became the tool of the Ruard people.
"For your sake and your mother's sake, you can come with me and I'll show you what's true."
If you want someone like Charles to spit out something real, you have to do something serious.
Charles' mother returned to the photo. He put the photo frame into his inner pocket, pressed it against his heartbeat, and then went out and drove.
"Where are you going?"
"Hospital."
The car drove very slowly, making a grating sound on the thick snow. The town was not big, and we stopped in front of the hospital after only passing three traffic lights.
"Go around to the back door of the inpatient department."
Charles turned the steering wheel without asking any questions, and sure enough, the ambulance that had just appeared at the ski resort was parked here.
I opened the door and got out of the car, with Charles following closely behind me. I walked into the fire stairs without pressing the elevator button.
"Why are we going down? There's a morgue down there."
"What you want to see is in the morgue."
He touched his vagina, where he kept his mother's photo, and followed me downstairs.
The tentacles on the heads of the Roulda people make their perception ability extremely sharp, so I secretly summoned a water barrier early to hide Charles and I's movements in the water barrier.
"Shhh."
Charles followed my example and tiptoed to a door. Through the gap in the glass that was not tight, the situation inside could be seen clearly.
On the cold metal operating table, there was a broken body. Next to it, two Ruardans disguised as earthlings were using a cylindrical instrument to collect something on the top of the body. It was a kind of light blue. Tiny colored particles were sucked into the instrument like a blue line.
"How is his memory cleansed?"
"Looking at the condition, he should have completely forgotten about himself after taking it out this time."
"Hahahahaha"
The two of them burst into obscene laughter.
Then they pushed the body into the freezer and were about to walk out the door. I grabbed Charles's clothes and ran out. He was so frightened by the scene just now that he allowed me to pull him and run out.
"What is that! What did they pull out!"
"The memory that belongs to that person."
"What do you mean?" Charles asked loudly as he ran, until he sat in the car, increased his power and left the road to the hospital. He parked the car on the side of the road and asked me seriously.
"What are they doing?"
"I think you should know the person lying on the table. This town is not big. Besides, you are all the few Earthlings in this town, so you should know more about that person than I do."
"Yes, he likes adventure and exciting sports very much. He suffered several serious injuries before and they were all cured. After he recovered, his condition was even better than before. He said that the people above him changed it for him. With some perfect organs, his physical condition including memory has improved a lot..."
"Any other reaction?"
"He seems to be more confused about what happened... To tell you the truth, I once investigated him and found out where he spent his childhood, but when I talked to him, he said he had never been to California. ..”
"Yes, once you accept their conditions, the memory will be gradually tampered with. You have to know that the reason why you are who you are now is a stack of countless past yous. Once the memory does not exist or is tampered with, you are still You?"
"So...they just used that little device to tamper with our memories?"
"No, that's the Soul Reaper."
Charles' lips were trembling and his hands were shaking...
"They need to dilute it several times to remove all the human emotions that they think are hindrances. After all your memories are washed away, you are just a body that they can use at their disposal, possibly making up for you. A new memory allows you to carry out other people's unfinished tasks, or you may directly use this body as a container for the Ruard people. Therefore, no matter what generous conditions they have proposed to you before, they are just bait. When you It’s no longer you. Think carefully about whether these conditions are still useful.”
"I don't understand... They already have such high-end technology. They can use artificial organs and artificial bodies as containers. Why do they have to use human bodies?"
"No matter how advanced the technology is, it has no soul. Even if the human body has diseases or defects, it is the masterpiece of the Creator. After the integration of the soul, it contains huge potential. It can be said that every cell, every muscle, every An organ actually has unlimited creativity. What the Rourda people need to do is to guide this creativity to their use."
At this moment, Charles' phone rang. His hands were shaking. When he saw the caller's name, his expression became even more panicked. He almost threw the phone out of the car window.
"They called me! Didn't they just find out that we have been to the hospital? What should we do now!"
I pressed his shoulders and injected a bit of the freezing power of the water element into him. He shuddered and became much more awake in an instant.
"Calm down and listen to what he says first."
Charles nodded, and I immediately disappeared and retreated to the back seat.
As soon as the call was connected, a big face was projected above the steering wheel. No wonder Charles was so scared. It turned out that the caller was one of the Rourda people who had just been in the autopsy room.
"Charlie! Where the hell are you right now? Come to the hospital right away. I have something for you to handle!"
"I...I'm outside now."
"Damn it, I told you before that we have a very important project during this extreme night period. Did you turn a deaf ear to my words?! Now! Immediately! Come to the hospital!"
Then the man hung up the phone.
"Let's go, act accordingly and see what they want you to do. In addition, you must help me find out something about Yugiri's whereabouts."
"Won't you come with me? I beg you, come with me... I don't know if I can..." Charles frowned again.
"Don't worry, I will follow you in the dark. They are not suspicious of you now. Just stay calm like you did before!"
