Prerequisites for a Successful Soul Transmigration
As mentioned earlier, unlike the Third Research Institute, which has a relatively shallow foundation, the Second Research Institute has a much deeper foundation.
The transformation and reshaping of the physical body is the core research direction of the Second Research Institute.
They are dedicated to exploring how to make the physical body stronger, more perfect, and even beyond the limits of biology.
Ultimately, it was founded by the Dragon Spirit Species Royal Family.
The goal is to give them a better physical body.
After all, for the Spirit Race, the quality of their physical body directly affects their cultivation aptitude, strength, and lifespan.
Without a physical body to contain their souls, prolonged exposure to impure Psychic Energy in an ordinary environment will cause irreversible damage to their souls.
For this reason, the Second Research Institute holds a pivotal position within the Dragon Spirit Species.
It is not only at the forefront of technology, but also a symbol of power.
It can be said that whoever controls the Second Research Institute controls the future of the Dragon Spirit Species.
Naturally, such an important place needs to be protected by a powerful force.
Therefore, a powerful Heaven Realm being trusted by the Dragon King was dispatched to this place to oversee the situation.
After all, the Dragon King is far away in the Pacific Ocean, and he also has official duties to attend to on a daily basis.
He wanted to supervise personally, but it was simply beyond his reach.
As for why this place was chosen to be located in the distant Arctic Ocean?
There are many considerations involved.
First, the Arctic Ocean is located at the northernmost point of the Ruolan Star.
This place is sparsely populated, with almost no trace of activity from other races.
In this way, Sea Race can live in a relatively quiet and safe environment without worrying about external disturbances or threats.
Secondly, the land area of Arctic Ocean is very small; most of it is ice and unfrozen seawater.
For Sea Race, this watery environment is like fish in water.
They can freely transform the environment here using ice and seawater.
In addition, Sea Race is relatively insensitive to temperature changes; neither cold nor heat has a significant impact on them.
Therefore, the low temperature environment of the Arctic Ocean is not a big problem for them.
Finally, the low temperature of the Arctic Ocean has another important advantage: it is conducive to the preservation of corpses and the accumulation of Psychic Energy.
In such an environment, corpses do not decompose easily, and the flow of Psychic Energy slows down, allowing them to be better preserved.
This is undoubtedly a very favorable factor for research.
For all these reasons, when this place was established, the Dragon King, after careful consideration, finally decided to locate it in the remote Arctic Ocean.
Shisui searched through the memories of the umpteenth researcher in front of him, organizing this basic information in his mind.
With these memories, he had already constructed a three-dimensional map of the Second Research Institute in his mind.
The space rippled slightly, and yet another Sea Race's corpse was drawn into the Alternate Space.
He vanished from his spot in a flash, flying towards the core area of the research institute.
At the same time, a thin mist began to spread, following the puppets' advance.
A fog composed of large amounts of Feather Powder began to rise from the shore and gradually eroded the buildings of the Second Research Institute.
The Sea Race shrouded in mist, oblivious and unaware, slowly inhaled the Feather Powder.
Time passed, and after a short while, Shisui arrived at the deepest part of this artificial island.
That's the highest point in all of Iceland, a small, raised hillside with only one four-story building that occupies a huge area.
It is worth mentioning that the roof of the building is shaped like a funnel, concave inward.
According to Kakugan's observation, half of the slow-moving Psychic Energy in the air was converging towards the leak.
The Shisui from Alternate Space easily crossed the defensive shield in front of the building.
In the blink of an eye, we arrived inside the research building.
The first thing you see is a spacious hall that extends from top to bottom, with corridors crisscrossing overhead, and layers of research rooms surrounding it.
For a moment, Shisui found the architectural design somewhat familiar.
His thoughts raced, and he remembered the Hakka earthen buildings he had seen while traveling around the world in his previous life.
However, many crisscrossing corridors have appeared in the air above this research building.
At the same time, unlike the earthen buildings that resonate with the warmth of daily life, this place is filled with a cold, metallic feel and the smell of medical alcohol.
Inside the hall, it seemed that some large-scale experiment was currently underway.
Two-meter-tall rectangular machines stood behind numerous displays.
Now the rectangular machines resemble upright crystal coffins, each containing a body submerged in an unknown solution.
The researchers' noisy discussions mingled with the slight hum of the machines.
Shisui can vaguely capture keywords such as loss rate, completion rate, urgent need, and template.
He speculated that one reason for such a large number of experiments was the arrival of a new batch of experimental materials.
Another reason might be that they wanted to test Human Race bodies to create several prototypes before the Second Prince Yuan Yuan arrived.
This would provide Yuan Yuan with a reference point regarding how to shape his own physical body.
"Laugh!"
Before Shisui could get closer to check, a machine happened to turn on.
From a distance, the experimental subjects inside the machine, once removed from their stable internal environment, instantly collapsed as if about to melt.
In just a few moments, the skin on the body began to turn yellow and rot at a visible speed, just like a freshly peeled apple.
Without the researchers announcing the results, Shisui knew that the experiment had failed.
Just as Shisui turned around, intending to browse the building's archives...
He caught a scent that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The smell came from an unknown solution inside the machine; it was faint, yet it left a deep impression on my memory.
It's not in Shisui's memory, but in "Lou Shisui's" memory.
It seems I guessed right.
Shisui's curiosity was piqued.
Sure enough, there was a reason why this body could accommodate his soul from another world.
After all, after successfully transmigrating, he also managed to influence and transform his body into Ghoul.
This plasticity is extraordinary, and could even be considered one of the prerequisites for his successful soul-transmigration.
How could a child whose talent hasn't even been awakened possess it for no reason?
In addition, the Lou Family, a family that suddenly rose to prominence, was besieged, and then declined, possessed a collection of books within a Spatial Ring.
Even though only one descendant who was old enough to remember things had died, no one secretly killed him.
It's not hard to guess that the force secretly funding the Lou Family is the Second Research Institute.
At that time, Yin City, which had not yet gone to war with the Sea Race, could not tolerate the Sea Race supporting a puppet force.
However, after destroying the Lou Family, in order to avoid a complete falling out, he spared Lou Shisui as an experimental subject.
After all, Lou Shisui was merely an experimental subject with entirely Human Race blood, and in the eyes of the Sea Race, he was ultimately just a consumable.
Even if he isn't killed, it's no different from being dead.
But no matter how much they planned, no one expected that the Ghoul's soul would descend upon this experimental subject.
Inside the research building's database, the intruder Shisui flipped through observation reports on experimental subjects related to Yin City.
His only interest lay in various methods of physical modification.
The ingenious ideas in the minds of those researchers outside are probably even more fascinating than those recorded in the experiments.
With that in mind, he began to calculate whether harvesting the flesh and blood of everyone here would be enough for him to preserve the brains of all the researchers here using his Koukaku.
"If that's still not enough, let's hold off and have another large-scale war to gather more energy."