A little while later, on the beach near the Villa Area.
Jiang Mian withdrew her hand and stuffed A Xiang, whose eyes had rolled white, back into the black coffin.
"How did it go?"
Ye Chenyang, standing beside her, asked with concern.
Jiang Mian said nothing, merely shaking her head.
Just now, she had tried to invade both of their memories.
But the mental barriers Oblivion River had set were even sturdier than she had imagined.
Zhong Zhen in particular—his mind was like a labyrinth of layered mirror images. There was no way to find the core of his consciousness, much less make contact with it.
He had probably become lost bit by bit in exactly that way.
In comparison, A Xiang had been much easier to handle.
After forcibly charging in, Jiang Mian had obtained quite a few fragments of memory.
The price was that A Xiang had fallen into a deep coma for the time being. Without ten days to half a month of recuperation, waking up would be a struggle.
With the special effect of the "Luxury Private Room" added in, that time would probably have to be tripled.
"Their original bodies have already been worn away."
Jiang Mian gave a simple summary.
"Oblivion River took their souls away through the 'Other Shore' and carried out an experiment."
"What stands before us now is new life produced by fusing human souls with calamity bodies—the 'New Humans' they speak of, the Fusion Users in official terms."
"Their bodies are gone?"
Ye Chenyang stroked his chin, a weight settling in his heart.
After becoming Fusion Users, they could actually be almost indistinguishable from their original bodies?
Humans turning into calamities, calamities turning into humans... this world was growing more fantastical by the day.
In his Previous Life, even ten