Witch Special

The familiar feeling of confinement once again enveloped Kinos's whole body. This time, even his consciousness seemed to be immersed in a highly viscous liquid, becoming hazy and his reactions became very slow.

This guy had completed another transfer of consciousness and was at the stage where the integration of consciousness and body was at its worst. At this time, he was hit by a spell, and the effect was so great that even the inventor of the spell might not have imagined that his spell could be so powerful.

This is no longer just a raging fire. It is the magnesium rod burning violently in high-concentration oxygen, releasing a large amount of light and heat.

Lin Zhenxi hadn't expected that her petrification spell would actually have the effect of imprisoning the soul, and she was also very surprised. Isn't this petrification spell only effective on the body? How did it affect the soul as well, expanding the attack range?

Well, never mind. This wouldn't be a bad idea anyway. The man before her was a genius, eccentric scientist who had single-handedly created the "House of Evolution." Lin Zhenxi didn't think she could match his intelligence. If she were to communicate directly through questioning, she might be led astray by this brilliant fellow at any moment. Even though Lin Zhenxi came from another world and had a richer source of knowledge, she didn't dare underestimate these alien natives. Even if their lack of understanding of the multiverse limited their thinking, their logical thinking skills were still quite useful. Competing with these highly intelligent monsters with their brainpower was too risky.

Kinos's current state of reduced intelligence is just right for Lin Zhenxi to communicate with him.

But out of caution for her high-IQ target, Lin Zhenxi still chose not to communicate directly with Kinos's mind. She pulled out something from the space cube... a very ancient, heavy, and historical stone basin.

Don't be fooled by its unassuming appearance, even a bit silly, perhaps more suited to being displayed as an antique than practical. However, it's a powerful magical item, one of the most valuable treasures Lin Zhenxi has retrieved from the wizarding world. It's also the prototype for the next generation product Lin Zhenxi intends Baizhi to release. Its name is the "Pensieve."

Its effect is powerful, but also very simple and pure, which is to preserve memory and back up the soul.

Lin Zhenxi's recent research focuses on isolating the memory-preserving function of the Pensieve and inserting this newly extracted magical circuit into a crystal, creating a memory storage device. This device, along with an electronic control chip and a visual interface, can then completely extract memories that people fear forgetting and store them in the crystal. As long as the crystal is preserved, the memory will remain forever.

Lin Zhenxi's current invention could benefit countless people with poor or declining memories, as well as those whose flashes of inspiration urgently require storage. This new product appeals to a much wider audience than the previous sleep-aid pillow. The sleep-aid pillow merely helped Baizhi expand its market and, incidentally, earn Lin Zhenxi her first pot of gold in this world. Her true weapon for reaping the rewards of wealth is this memory storage crystal, a follow-up product.

As a prototype of the memory storage crystal, the Pensieve is undoubtedly even more powerful. It not only backs up the soul, but also allows it to exist independently and long-term within the Pensieve, much like a brain in a culture tank. Lin Zhenxi's Pensieve contains a mature backup of her own soul. She plans to channel Kinos's thoughts into the Pensieve, allowing the backup soul within the Pensieve to interact with Kinos. She then needs only to retrieve what she desires from the backup soul, without any direct contact with Kinos's genius soul.

After all, when it comes to issues involving erosion of the mind and pollution of the soul, one can never be too cautious.

The backup soul in the Pensieve was already there, even knowing it was a backup, and it got along quite well with Lin Zhenxi's original body. Lin Zhenxi relayed what she wanted to know to the backup soul in the Pensieve, and then she, in the Pensieve, patted her chest and promised to take care of such a small matter.

Now all we have to do is take in Kinos' soul.

In fact, the ominous feeling within Kinos grew stronger when he saw Lin Zhenxi magically pull out a stone basin, something he absolutely couldn't possibly carry. If the fact that they'd successfully blocked him twice could be explained by the fact that they'd prepared numerous clones, just like him, and had secretly infiltrated the base like a sieve, then this apparent feat, if it wasn't a trick the girl was trying to perform for him, now a captive, could only be explained by the fact that she possessed some ability he didn't know about, and that his confident technological prowess was completely useless against her.

Who is this person? She...

Kinos's thoughts stopped the moment Lin Zhenxi pointed the magic wand at him. Then, a milky white, translucent soul that appeared blurry from time to time as if the signal was interfered with floated out from Kinos's clone's body, floating in the air with a confused and dull expression.

Of course, in this world today, probably only Lin Zhenxi and Black Cat Yanyan can see the scene of Genos' soul leaving his body.

A disembodied soul is unaware of its separation from the body and may even completely lose all memory of the time spent there. A soul without the support of a physical body is like a tree without its trunk; no matter how lush its crown, it will inevitably collapse. Only those with high levels of inspiration can maintain a fluid mind even when separated from their bodies, but the concept of "inspiration" is clearly foreign to the people of this world. Thus, even though Kinos is a world-class genius, he was still forced into a disembodied state by Lin Zhenxi's "Soul Pull."

Obviously, the purpose of this magic being originally designed was just to give people a strong psychological suggestion...

However, the effect still made Lin Zhenxi feel very satisfied, because she had already grasped the strength of her magic when it landed on ordinary people in this world, as well as on those with negative magic resistance like Kinos. Using the least amount of magic power to achieve the most precise effect, this kind of micromanipulation on the magical level was both a challenge and a recognition and honor for every magic user.

The soul of Genos, already in a state of unconsciousness, was rolled into a ball and pressed into the Pensieve. The shallow layer of magic water within the Pensieve churned and accepted the soul's absorption. When the water surface calmed down, Lin Zhenxi leaned over and saw that the self in the Pensieve had pulled up an interrogation room and began to interrogate the numb and dazed Genos.

While the environment within the Pensieve allows the soul to exist without a body, the spiritual power of an ordinary soul diminishes significantly after leaving the body, leaving it with little concern beyond its deepest obsessions. So-called "ghosts," or vengeful spirits, or evil spirits, are the product of a soul's unresolved obsessions after the death of its physical body. Genos is currently in this state, one that should be dead but not quite, and he answers any question honestly.

The speed of thinking is much faster than the speed of language exchange in reality, so all the images in the meditation basin that Lin Zhenxi saw were played at an over-speed. In just a dozen seconds, the interrogator Lin, who was wearing a police uniform in the meditation basin, sorted out the documents, closed the interrogation room, and "released" Kinos from the meditation basin interrogation room.

Kinos's soul emerged from the Pensieve once again, then Lin Zhenxi waved her wand and sent it back into her original body. While Kinos's soul struggled to merge with the clone, which didn't quite match it, Lin Zhenxi used her wand to pull a silver thread from the Pensieve, rolled it into a silver cocoon at the tip of her wand, and touched it to her temple.

The memories squeezed out of Kinos's soul flowed quickly before Lin Zhenxi's eyes like a kaleidoscope, letting her know everything she wanted to know.

This memory didn't involve profound theoretical knowledge, just some relatively simple "what, why." Therefore, with Lin Zhenxi's soul strength, it was easy for her to digest it completely. Even when Lin Zhenxi digested this part of the memory and opened her eyes again, Kinos's soul had not yet fully entered the clone body he had prepared for her, and it seemed to be stuck.

Lin Zhenxi picked up the magic wand and hit Kinos's soul, just like using a hammer to hit a nail, and immediately knocked the milky white soul into the body below.

After a few seconds, Kinos slowly opened his eyes.

But his eyes couldn't even focus. Their eyeballs moved around in their sockets, neither eye looking at the same place. His body was also twitching uncontrollably, as if he were having an epileptic seizure. It looked like it would take some time for him to return to normal.

Lin Zhenxi took a look at Genos's condition and found that he was actually not seriously injured. It was just that his soul was riddled with holes caused by himself, making it difficult to merge. Then he turned around and looked through the memory information he had just acquired.

What interesting things could be found in Kinos's memories? Lin Zhenxi, with the mentality of opening a treasure chest, began to look through Kinos's memories.