It was as if the terrifying vitality of being a corpse dog was quickly drained from the hole that was dug out of his chest.
He didn't even have a chance to say his last words. In the blink of an eye, Toru Watanabe's body completely lost his strength and fell to the ground, gradually losing all his animalistic characteristics.
but……
The price of raising the coherence rate to too high is.
Even though the battle was over, Rosetta still couldn't calm down the killing impulse in her mind.
Even though the memory fragments read by spiritual energy are not fully intellectual and intelligent in themselves, the use of spiritual energy such as 'memory synchronization' is based on confusing the perception of 'self' and temporarily changing the thinking pattern.
on the basis of changes.
Once the coherence rate is increased too high, it is equivalent to dropping a drop of ink in a basin of transparent water. Even compared to the complete and huge memory of more than 20 years, the proportion of these memory fragments that do not belong to you is small.
Even less than 0.01%, but the diluted ink is still ink, after all, it is a foreign substance that is mixed in.
‘Hoo, ho, ho…’
He made a sound like gasping with difficulty.
It was not until a long time passed that Rosetta finally came out of the state of 'memory synchronization', and the first thing he did after coming back to his senses was to immediately take off the rosary beads from his wrist and put them away.
Move aside to prevent psychic energy from passively reading any memories from above and worsening his current mental condition.
Until this moment, the intense fatigue that was forcibly suppressed by willpower surged up from all over the mind and body at the moment when the synchronization was released.
Even though his own will was already strong enough to carry the state of 'memory synchronization', his body, which was almost exhausted after the battle, could no longer hold on.
Rosetta leaned her body against the wall, barely maintaining her standing position.
The spiritual energy he possesses does not belong to the type that greatly enhances the body's recovery ability.
In other words, he was in a state of being unable to resist in a short period of time.
You must know that even if Toru Watanabe is killed, there are still three or four corpse dogs in this area that have not been solved. If they come here at this time...
Rosetta frowned, realizing that maybe this was a crisis more likely to kill him than the battle with Toru Watanabe.
——Under such circumstances, what will be the key to his victory?
He raised his head and glanced at the phone booth not far from the ruins in the alley, but after thinking for a while, he shook his head and thought to himself: 'No, calling the police is not a good idea, even if you don't say anything,
The efficiency of their actions, just looking at the situation where these corpse dogs in the old city are killing people wantonly and no one is taking care of them, anyone with some brains can deduce that there must be a high-level insider in the police.'
'At least in my capacity, most people in the police are not trustworthy.'
Rosetta didn't dare to take any chances in this matter that was very involved. Not only did he not dare to trust the police, but they were also involved in this incident. After speaking out, he was most likely to become his helper.
He also dared not repay Reiko Arakawa's trust.
Judging from the information obtained so far.
Yingzhou's new religious group "Shenzu Hui" is using "Razor Clam Pharmaceuticals", a local pharmaceutical company in Yichuan City, to conduct human experiments on a certain drug called "Gospel Medicine" in the old city, and "Corpse Dog"
This monster is a by-product of the experiment.
The reason why they can continue their experiments here is because some high-ranking police officers are colluding with them as a protective umbrella. If you think about it further, behind the prison break, it is very likely that the police people are covering up for them.
At least from Rosetta's perspective, there does not seem to be a third party other than 'black' and 'gray'.
"So...the only one I can trust is myself?"
There was severe pain all over her body. Rosetta, who had barely recovered some physical strength through rest, stood up and looked at the body of Toru Watanabe on the ground. The iron-gray dim light belonging to spiritual energy in his pupils was...
It suddenly became intense.
It is different from the "power" of "avoiding death" obtained by Watanabe Tetsu as a "resurrectionist" after returning from the Underworld.
Rosetta's 'psionic power' is more likely to be due to the fact that he is born as a 'dead person still alive'. The ability generated by attaching to the soul can still be activated even if the physical strength is completely exhausted and the body is seriously injured.
.
Although so far, his spiritual power has not been given a definite name, and its effectiveness can only affect himself and dead objects that cannot resist.
But after finishing the 'Memory Synchronization', it seemed that this act of manipulating memory had allowed his spiritual energy to grow. Rosetta vaguely felt that through his spiritual energy, he seemed to be able to do a brand new thing.
.
Just under the increasingly dark sky.
Looking at Toru Watanabe's completely lost luster, but still scarlet-red Beast Moo, an indescribable hunger derived from 'psionic energy' arose from the bottom of Rosetta's heart, just like before he awakened to spiritual energy.
It was the same during that period, every cell in his body wanted him to gorge himself.
He couldn't help but bend down and touch those eyes with his fingers.
And at that moment, a change suddenly emerged from his body.
In the form of rapidly spreading blood vessel-like lines, his spiritual energy broke through the limitations of the body's container, extended to Toru Watanabe's body, and densely covered it in a grid around the initial center point of the eyeball.
His entire head.
The mind is the storage center of human memory.
Even monsters like corpse dogs still continue this structure.
And at the moment when the blood vessel network representing spiritual energy covered Watanabe's head, suddenly, endless illusions came to him,
But that is different from the feeling when ‘memory synchronization’ occurs.
If the former is like a first-person perspective, belonging to 'Rosetta's own story, then the countless fragmented memory fragments transmitted through psychic links at this moment are like a story described from a third-person perspective.
.
Although Rosetta could still feel some emotional resonance from it, he was not mixed into the 'foreign thing' because of it.
Click.
When I suddenly came back to my senses from the illusion of memory.
An imperceptible breaking sound sounded quietly.
Lowering her head to look at Toru Watanabe's head, Rosetta discovered that it was covered with dense cracks, like a fragile object.
With a thought in my mind, I retracted the vein-like lines extending from my fingertips.
The next moment, just a breeze blew by, and Toru Watanabe's entire head turned into fly ash and shattered into gray-white powder.
Until the end, there was only one sharp canine tooth glowing with iron color, which fell to the ground with a clang, and Rosetta reached out to pick it up.
There is information about ‘it’.
The moment it was touched, psychic energy had already been sent to Rosetta's mind.
In a form that could not be seen by others, lines of descriptive writing slowly emerged before his eyes.
[Name: Fang of Tangliu]
[Carved by spiritual energy, a manifestation of memories extracted from corpses]
[Through different methods such as grinding, piercing, transplanting, and wearing, you can obtain different powers in recollection]
[As food directly, after grinding it into powder and mixing it with water, you can gain half of the physical quality of the original owner during his lifetime, and inherit part of the power of the ‘Tangle Current’]
[After using it to pierce the human body, there is a certain possibility that the subject will die and be resurrected as a 'cadaver dog', with a very low probability of making the subject a 'new human being' ('resurrected person')]
[If it is transplanted as a denture, after long-term exposure, there is a high probability that it will be transformed into a 'cadaver dog' and inherit its ability to develop 'kin'. 】
[When worn as an accessory, the aura emitted by the host will naturally be regarded as the aura of the 'Head Dog'. It has a strong oppressive force on all corpse dogs that are not 'Head Dogs' and can issue simple commands to them.
.]
[(Note: Depending on the progress of grinding and taking, the effects of the other three abilities will be affected by the integrity of the Tangle Fang. Once the loss exceeds 75%, all other effects will be completely lost)]
When she saw the last effect of 'Tangliu Fang', Rosetta's heart finally calmed down, and she could also understand that 'Extracting Memories and Embodiments' seemed to be developed after her spiritual power had grown.
Brand new function.
"It's just...does it have to be a powerful object that I kill with my own hands?"
Somehow, he also vaguely felt the limitations of his spiritual energy. If he were ordinary people who had not experienced the tempering of death, their soul quality was far from enough to support the extraction of his spiritual energy.
Under the increasingly gloomy sky, Rosetta rubbed the sharp fangs in her palms, her eyes lowered, but a strong murderous impulse emerged in her heart. She couldn't help but think: "I just don't know what's going on in this guy Ishiizaki's mind."
What does the extracted memory object look like?"
He forcibly stopped thinking about it.
He knew that given his current physical condition, it was extremely difficult to move. If he didn't leave, even with the shock of Tangliu Fang, there might still be an accident.
Even the remaining cadaver dogs remaining in this area are still a problem.
But when it came to this, he could only hope that another plan prepared beforehand could solve the problem.
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"Ding dong".
At this moment, at the scene of the death of a certain cadaver dog, the screen of a mobile phone that the deceased had dropped on the ground suddenly lit up, indicating that the scheduled email had been sent.
At the same time, in the police station, Akira Fukuyama and several colleagues opened their mobile phones one after another. They opened the email that was sent by someone who didn't know who it was. Then, their pupils shrank and they saw the pictures that were written by Rosetta herself.
Photos taken of those 'cadaver dogs'. This chapter has been completed!