Chapter 1300 Phase III Experiment, [Negative Energy Control]
If Xia Duo is allowed to recruit people by himself, he may not be able to find volunteers who are at least high-level mages. People are living well, so why do they need to participate in such a dangerous research?
And he was also a guinea pig being studied!
Even if someone is willing to come, what is the cost?
How much does it cost to buy out a high-level mage's future life, or even his life!
What's more, it's impossible to only need one volunteer!
Dean Bernie is willing to provide volunteers, which is undoubtedly the best news for Xia Duo, and then, the good news continues one after another.
Unlimited time and unlimited special energy supply lines, experimental facilities that can be added at will, and experimental materials that apply for approval.
Such convenient conditions gave Xia Duo the idea of making spell chips again, but the experimental materials were mostly purification potions, healing potions and the like.
Mithril is also available, but it is mainly used as a material for laboratory facilities and equipment maintenance. It is not easy to extract enough from it for chip experiments.
However, Xia Duo also has other ways to achieve this goal by establishing multiple related projects with a greater demand for mithril.
He still needs to think about the specific details carefully, but he already has this idea.
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Dean Bernie is very efficient. On the next day, all the space, personnel, and materials required for the "negative energy downgrade" project were in place.
The first batch of volunteers were not living people, but five corpses.
The goal of the first phase of the project is to allow negative energy to flow through these five corpses without causing more serious consequences, such as flesh and blood atrophy, bone mutation, and undead transformation.
This requires changing the apparent form of negative energy, or precisely controlling its scope of action.
The difficulty is still quite high, but with an almost unlimited supply of corpses, the fifteen researchers can realize any ideas in their minds.
In this way, it took less than ten days for the project team to complete the first phase of the project.
The 5th level spell [Negative Energy Control] is the main achievement of this stage. This spell can not only change the external manifestation of negative energy, but also accurately control the scope of negative energy.
It's a pity that negative energy is negative energy after all. No matter how it changes or how controlled it is, the negative effects on life, even on a corpse, are still difficult to eliminate.
Although the goals of the first phase of the project are not perfect, it can still enter the second phase - living people, and they are all high-level mages!
When Xia Duo first saw that the volunteers were corpses, he thought that even if they were living people in the second stage, they would not use high-level mages right away, but he did not expect that Dean Bernie was so majestic.
Perhaps because he saw the effect of the first stage, he went directly to the high-level mage in the second stage.
However, when meeting the first five volunteers of the second phase, Xia Duo couldn't help but lament that he was still too young.
The first batch of volunteers in the second phase are indeed five high-level mages, but they are high-level mages who are in a dying state due to the influence of the elves' [negative energy erosion].
A high-level mage in this state has lost consciousness and cannot cast spells. Even if he dies, he cannot be resurrected.
Maybe Dean Bernie wanted to recycle the waste, or maybe he was treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. In short, the five volunteers sent this time were all in this state.
Although the excess negative energy on their bodies has long been removed, the impact left by negative energy erosion is difficult to eliminate, and correspondingly——
They also have a special state of being highly resistant to negative energy.
This allowed the experiment to be carried out in a more bold manner, but thanks to the results of the first phase, the condition of the first batch of five high-level mages who had long been unconscious did not deteriorate.
In fact, it’s quite normal if you think about it.
Compared with the unstable state of corpses, living people are in a relatively stable state of elemental balance, even if this balance is abnormal.
In this way, the second stage was completed almost at a flying speed. The five volunteers had just been delivered in the morning, and in the afternoon, Chateau informed Dean Bernie's students to send someone to pick them up.
The third stage is the highlight of the entire project, which requires a high-level mage or archmage in good condition to participate in the experiment.
This puts a lot of pressure on Xia Duo and others. After all, they are living people. They may be talking to you normally one second, but they may die suddenly and suddenly the next second.
"Everyone has been busy for almost ten days. Let's take a day off to recuperate and adjust to a good state. We will continue the experiment the day after tomorrow.
"Although possible death during the experiment is inevitable and allowed, I still hope that everyone will have more respect for life. If possible, the priority should be to save the lives of volunteers instead of using your imagination.
force."
When the experiment reached the living stage, Xia Duo discovered this sign. He was not sure whether it was the influence of negative energy on the experimenter, or whether the experiment triggered evil thoughts that the experimenter himself might not be aware of.
But he needs to remind everyone that ignoring life is equivalent to disrespecting himself and his colleagues. This is also his warning to himself.
For him, the projection plane is certainly a dream, but the experience in it is real. If he indulges himself here, how can he continue to stick to his bottom line when he returns to the main plane?
The so-called caution about independence probably refers to this situation.
Of course, using project cover to gain some benefits from the institute is far from reaching Xia Duo's bottom line.
At least in his opinion, his contribution is fully worthy of the institute's efforts.
Equivalent exchange is not a literal numerical equality, but an equal value judged based on respective values.
For some values that are difficult to quantify, it is all about one intention.
If Chateau thinks it is equivalent, then it is equivalent; if he thinks it is not equivalent, then it is not equivalent.
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After all, we couldn't continue the chip trial production because we were too busy.
Even if he could dig out the mithril needed for the experiment, Xia Duo didn't have the time or energy to do that.
Out of concern about time loops, he needs to check the progress of various projects in the collaborative laboratory every day to avoid suddenly encountering time loops and missing some key information.
Now there is the "negative energy downgrade" project, which takes up most of his time.
Even on this day off, he still has to think about the direction of the next experiment and related details, and exchange ideas with his assistant researchers from time to time.
And Samuel, he also wants to contact Chateau from time to time.
After this day's rest, Xia Duo felt more tired than if he had not rested at all. Of course, he also enjoyed it and never tired of it.
Late at night, he finally wrote down some inspiration on paper that might be used tomorrow, drank a bottle of purifying potion, and then hurriedly packed up and went to rest.