Chapter 413: Memories × Stone doors × Inside and out
When Joey turned his thoughts from Nen constructs back to the white paper Ging had pulled out, he slowly began to notice a few things.
Everything displayed on the white paper was the Deputy Director's memories. Although there was no sound, watching them in sequence still revealed something.
Especially since these memories were presented entirely as highlights, making what they wanted to know even clearer and more direct.
In the earliest memories, the Deputy Director already looked the way he did now. The only difference was that he had seemed utterly empty back then, as though he had no soul at all, nothing more than a walking corpse.
And back then, instead of the researcher's lab coat he wore now, he had worn a straitjacket used only for severely ill patients.
Restrained, the Deputy Director was taken into one laboratory after another. But no matter what experiments were performed on him, his expression never wavered in the slightest.
He was like a piece of meat, one that could rapidly grow back even after being cut apart.
Joey quickly recognized this condition. It was identical to the patients with immortality disease described in the material he had read.
They needed neither food nor water, had no desires, and had no souls. They simply lived on in that emptiness, without knowing what they lived for.
Only when a researcher in the images placed a blade of Blue Grass before the Deputy Director and used an instrument to feed it into his mouth for him to swallow did everything change.
Light gradually began to appear in the Deputy Director's empty eyes!
But after "gaining a soul," he behaved in the images like a newborn child, babbling as he learned to speak and staggering