Chapter 487
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Chapter 487: Do You Want to Live Forever?
An Qingyu stood in the corner of the room, intently watching the mangled corpse, her fingertips deftly manipulating threads to stitch it together, piece by piece, into a complete body.
Jialan witnessed the tragic state of the body and silently turned her head away, unable to bear the sight.
This wasn’t because she felt disgusted, but because she cared too much about Jiang Er’s feelings. No girl would want others to see her body in such a state… let alone stare at it.
Jialan turned her head and found that Cao Yuan and Lin Qiye were still watching. She immediately snapped, “Turn your heads away!”
Only then did Lin Qiye and the others react, awkwardly turning their backs.
Jiang Er stared blankly at Jialan for a moment, gratitude flickering in her eyes, before her gaze fell on the handsome young man who was collecting her remains, her lips pressed together slightly…
He… really doesn’t feel disgusted?
If a normal person saw such a corpse, they would probably have run to the corner to vomit by now, right?
An Qingyu seemed to sense her gaze and slightly raised her head, offering a gentle smile.
“The ability to manifest a magnetic field shouldn’t be able to last indefinitely, right?” An Qingyu broke the awkward atmosphere, continuing to stitch the corpse as she spoke.
“Mm.” The distorted voice of the girl came from the television, “The reason I exist is that the magnetic field in my brain hasn’t disappeared yet. Once my brain completely rots, the manifestation of the Forbidden Ruins will cease…”
She didn’t say what would happen when it ceased, but they already had the answer in their hearts.
“After a person dies, doesn’t the brain die immediately?” Cao Yuan asked curiously.
An Qingyu, who was stitching the corpse, shook her head. “From a physiological perspective, the brain does die after a person dies, but the magnetic field doesn’t dissipate immediately. This is why many people say that a person doesn’t lose consciousness right away after death.
However, for ordinary people, they lack spiritual power, so the magnetic field dissipates quickly. Even if the magnetic field hasn’t dissipated, they can’t do anything in that state. But if it’s a human with a ‘Spiritual Field,’ it’s different.
The ‘Spiritual Field’ can control the magnetic field, suppressing the irreversible decay of the magnetic field, and even use spiritual power to amplify its own magnetic field, controlling it to manifest in another form… which is what we call a ghost.”
An Qingyu finished stitching the corpse and gently placed it in the coffin, continuing, “But the problem is, although the ‘Spiritual Field’ can maintain consciousness in the form of a magnetic field, it is still a type of Forbidden Ruins. The source of the Forbidden Ruins is in a hidden area of the brain, and as time passes, the brain will eventually rot. At that time, the ‘Spiritual Field’ will be forcibly terminated, and the consciousness existing in the form of a magnetic field will naturally dissipate.”
Lin Qiye frowned slightly. “So how long does that take?”
“For an ordinary person, it’s just a few days. But our brains are nourished by spiritual power, so the rotting process is much slower. From the current state, her brain… cough, she should be able to last for about three more days.”
“Three days…”
Lin Qiye turned to look at the ghostly girl in the white dress floating in mid-air, her expression complex.
She can only live for three more days…
Everyone felt a twinge of sadness in their hearts.
In terms of age, Jiang Er was the youngest among them, also the junior of Lin Qiye and the others. Having just joined the Night Watchers for a year, she died in such a manner, which was truly…
Jiang Er seemed to have been mentally prepared, but upon hearing that number, a faint sadness still flickered in her eyes.
Her gaze swept over everyone, sensing the heavy atmosphere. She pressed her lips together and then a smile appeared at the corners of her mouth.
“As long as I can wait for you to pass on the truth about the ambush of Team 008, my mission will be complete… Even if I disappear, I have no regrets.”
Her voice mingled with the crackling sound of electricity, sounding somewhat thin and mournful…
Seeing the atmosphere suddenly grow heavy, An Qingyu smiled wryly and shook her head. “What kind of expressions are you all making? What I just said is a natural situation…”
Everyone was taken aback.
An Qingyu turned to look into Jiang Er’s eyes, a gentle smile appearing on her calm face. “Do you want to live forever?”
……
Lingtang City.
Suburbs.
A black van stopped in front of a two-story villa, and Cao Yuan and Baili Pangpang carried a black coffin into the house.
An Qingyu chose a relatively spacious empty room, moved the furniture inside, and began to set up her experimental platform.
“Qingyu, can you really save her?” Lin Qiye asked in surprise as she walked up to An Qingyu.
“The problem she faces now is merely the loss of brain function,” An Qingyu replied with a smile. “As long as we preserve her brain, the Forbidden Ruins can continue to operate, and she naturally won’t disappear.
Preserving a corpse… I’m a professional at that.”
From the van, a white figure floated out from the roof. Jiang Er looked at the sunlight above her head, her eyes somewhat dazed.
This was the first time she had seen sunlight in over ten days…
She had almost forgotten what light looked like.
Without a body, no matter how much she stared at the sun, her eyes wouldn’t hurt. She floated in the air for a long time before slowly passing through the wall and entering the room where her body lay.
At this moment, her coffin had already been placed on the experimental platform.
“How long do you need?” Lin Qiye asked.
An Qingyu pondered for a moment. “Five hours.”
“Okay…” Lin Qiye nodded. “Then you help Jiang Er handle her body here, and we’ll go out to investigate leads.”
After saying that, Lin Qiye seemed to remember something. “Can you summon your rat tide?”
“It’s too far from Cangnan; I can’t summon it in a short time,” An Qingyu shook her head. “However, I can start to rearrange the ‘fish species’ from here, allowing them to spread on their own.”
“How long will it take to form a city-wide coverage?”
An Qingyu thought for a moment. “48 hours.”
“That fast?”
“When we were in the warehouse, I made some improvements to the ‘fish species’ on the side,” An Qingyu smiled.
“Alright, then you can start arranging the rat tide. If our investigation doesn’t go smoothly, we’ll have to resort to the net of heaven and earth,” Lin Qiye patted An Qingyu’s shoulder and turned to leave the room.
An Qingyu closed the door, turned on the laboratory lights, and took out some oddly shaped tools from the black box, arranging them beside her.
She donned a lab coat, and with a flick of her fingers, invisible threads lifted the lid of the black coffin, placing the body on the dissection table.
She turned her head to look at the white-dressed girl floating by the bookshelf, adjusted her glasses, and gently asked, “Are you ready?”
