Chapter 859: The Student with the Problem
Chapter 859: The Student with the Problem
“The name of the student involved... Shi Ruizhi, 9th year...”
I pulled up the basic information of this student and scanned it briefly.
This batch of people was basically hand-picked by Millian personally, and this Senior Shi Ruizhi was the same.
She was not a member of a family, and nothing wrong could be seen from this data alone.
Subsequently, my gaze returned to the moment this incident occurred, which was not long ago, when Shi Ruizhi was performing the Structuring Ritual.
To still be performing the Structuring Ritual at this stage, it had to be said that she was indeed among the later batches.
And it was exactly while this ritual was being conducted that the accident occurred.
I leaned in front of the earth vein imaging.
I did not see any redundant small movements, and there was nothing unusual about this girl named Shi Ruizhi.
The personnel assisting her on the side was Pei Huan.
One could see that when the incident happened, she was also extremely panicked.
After all, it was her first time encountering this situation as well.
“Yes... it was at this moment... she... she became like that...”
At this time, Pei Huan also looked like she was in a bad way.
After all, this was a student she had personally guided by her side.
For such a problem to suddenly occur was undoubtedly a massive blow to her.
As the imagery continued, I finally saw exactly what happened to this girl named Shi Ruizhi.
I saw her expression change slightly, as if she didn't quite know how to describe it.
She forcibly halted the progress, and then her gaze turned toward Pei Huan on the side as if seeking help.
Seeing the situation, Pei Huan stepped forward to support her.
She originally thought it was just a failure of the Structuring Ritual and was just about to offer some comfort, but in the next moment, Shi Ruizhi's body began to tremble as if out of control, and then she collapsed on the ground.
This was clearly a phenomenon of losing control over herself.
No matter how Pei Huan pulled at her, she could not support her to stand up.
What followed next... was a relatively bloody scene.
Her body seemed to have lost control; flesh and skin split open, and the blood vessels hidden deep beneath the flesh and skin squeezed out from under the skin in curls, and were then forcibly burst open under extremely terrifying blood pressure.
Subsequently, her undying nature also completely lost control.
The split flesh and skin began to "heal," but in essence, they were constantly "proliferating."
In just a short while, she completely lost her human form.
And such a scene instantly frightened everyone around, including Pei Huan on the side.
Even though this was only a re-enactment of an earth vein projection, the images presented made the other students, including Yi Rui, unable to bear watching further.
However, I still insisted on watching until the end, including the reactions of everyone in the earth vein imagery and the emergency measures.
I even examined in detail the process mentioned by Dainiel, where she was killed and then resurrected.
There was nothing wrong with the Resurrection Spell.
Just as Dainiel said, after using the Resurrection Spell to rule out problems with the physical shell, then ultimately... the problem truly lay within her life essence.
The result also seemed obvious.
A problem had occurred with her life essence, meaning that the physical information that allowed her to be herself had completely collapsed.
The flesh and blood of a physical shell in reality is the outward expression of the life essence.
Therefore, what a person looks like basically does not change much.
Even those Transcendent means similar to the Disguise Technique are merely temporary spell effects.
The reason the posture of the girl before my eyes was so "tragic" was mainly because her life tier was very high.
It was just like the taller a building is, the more violent its collapse.
She was already in her 9th year.
In another year, she would nearly be graduating.
Her undying nature had, at this moment, become her death warrant.
As the mutation in her life essence abruptly arose, everything else crashed down along with it.
And looking at it from another aspect, changes to the body occur in two ways.
One aspect is a mishap with the physical shell itself, similar to genetic mutation, radiation variation, or even plastic surgery and so on.
The other aspect is a change in the life essence, thereby causing an incidental change in the physical shell.
For example... when a boy enters the Witch Academy, after accepting his first Magic Power Source, he completes a racial metamorphosis of his life essence, making him look like a completely different person before and after.
And the first step of my Self-generating Magic Power project experiment borrowed this type of process.
Therefore, if this kind of accident had occurred during the "Witch-transformation Reconstruction Metamorphic Spell" stage, I might really have suspected there was a problem with our experiment.
But now that this problem had occurred during the "Structuring Ritual" stage, I truly did not understand.
Structuring actually refers to shaping Self-generating Magic Power and then "placing" it onto the witch species concept within the life essence.
With such a clearly directed step, exactly which part was touched that caused the life essence to deconstruct?
So, this was simply impossible!
After once again confirming that the problem did not lie with me, my gaze also became cold.
“Take me to see this student named Shi Ruizhi. Where was she sent now?”
“It's the nearest infirmary over there. I'll lead the way,” Yi Rui spoke from the side.
“Mhm, I'll trouble you then.”
I nodded, signaling to Yi Rui that we could go now.
Seeing her take out a flying broom, I also took out my own broom which I hadn't used for a long time.
After all, I hadn't used this kind of "vehicle" for a short while.
Usually, it was either teleportation or more teleportation.
But for ordinary people, flying on a broom was actually the most common behavior.
“Strange... is it that far to the infirmary from the training ground? This training ground probably has many injured personnel during normal training; was it necessary to go so far?”
I inquired in some confusion.
“Um... the training ground itself has its own infirmary division, but after this side was partitioned for our experiment, only the most basic staffing was temporarily left behind. The professional personnel here were unable to provide treatment for this kind of condition, so she could only be transferred over there first. Actually, it's not that far. We've flown over and can already see the place,” Yi Rui said to me while pointing ahead.
“Over there, huh...”
I looked at the infirmary building ahead with a look of realization.
After following Yi Rui and the others inside, we also quickly arrived at the special care room.
Originally, this special care room did not allow students to visit.
After all, the people who could be sent here were basically very special existences.
It could be an infection with a specific and highly contagious biological virus, or a special curse that was easy to spread, or even the person themselves falling into something like a berserk state, unable to control themselves and requiring forced enforcement......
Although these "diseases" sounded ridiculous, they weren't strange once one thought about the "good stuff" inside so many witches' private laboratories.
Witches with a habit of collecting were not a few.
However, Big Sis Bai—the Transcendent mentor—had also come along this time.
Naturally, they wouldn't block us here, nor could they.
After all, these special symptoms were basically just at the level of a light drizzle for a Transcendent mentor.
Transcendent Witches were more qualified than all the medical volunteers, part-time physicians, and healers here to take over the treatment of these accidents.
As soon as we entered, we smelled a very complex odor.
The smell of disinfectant wasn't very heavy; after all, in such a medical room, functions like sterilization basically relied on special sterilization spells solidified within the room.
But within this complex odor, the smell of blood was very strong.
And that Shi Ruizhi we had been looking for was currently lying atop a very special medical table.
Her entire body was crudely fixed upon it to prevent the "patient" from causing further harm to herself at this moment.
Her body was still extremely distorted, her frame still constantly undergoing mutations.
Her body was connected to many drainage tubes for nutrient solution.
It was precisely these special high-concentration nutrient solutions that were keeping her last breath of life suspended.
After all, no matter how high the life tier was or how much the undying nature self-healed, she could not be infinitely regenerative.
Therefore, the continuous injection of nutrient solution was especially important.
Although this method kept her life suspended, all of this was similarly the source of her pain.
The Transcendent mentor responsible for handling things on the side was absolutely a professional existence, because I could feel that she had already cut off the physical feedback of pain from reaching the other party's life essence.
It could be considered to have reduced her pain from the root.
So although Shi Ruizhi was fixed to the table at this moment, she was not as violent as seen in the earth vein projection earlier.
Her struggling was mostly due to the body's instincts.
“Who are you? Didn't you see I'm busy!”
Seeing our group burst in, the several Transcendent Witches originally responsible here looked sideways at us and questioned.
“Apologies for the interruption. I brought them here mainly to visit this student who had the accident.”
At this moment, Big Sis Bai stood out, utilizing her advantage as a fellow mentor.
“I'm not just saying this, sister, but you've really come at a bad time.”
One of these two witches gave a somewhat helpless sigh and spoke to Bai Yu.
“These few look a bit familiar. You must be the leader of the experiment accident this time, right?”
“Truly sorry for causing trouble for the mentors.”
The several students led by Yi Rui hurriedly spoke to apologize.
“Fine, the attitude of admitting the mistake is okay. It's just that this trouble you've caused is quite big.”
“Can you tell us how the situation is? Can she still be rescued?”
Big Sis Bai also spoke to ask the key point directly.
“In all probability, no. It involves the essence of her soul-substance. Her physical information has been lost and collapsed. We can only use spell methods to maintain her body for a short time so it won't completely decay.”
“Has it already gone deep to this level? May I ask if the cause leading to this condition can be analyzed?”
Big Sis Bai continued to press.
“Cause? Isn't the cause precisely the experiment of this group of fellows?”
The witch on the side responded without a second thought.
“I mean, if the experiment cause is ruled out, what other methods could cause this situation?”
Big Sis Bai continued to press.
“Ruled out... Oh, I see what you mean. You think it wasn't their doing, right?”
“Actually, I'm not very clear either. Soul-substance is a very fragile existence. Wanting to make a person like this is actually quite simple from a Transcendent perspective—for example, special elixirs, life curses, spells involving soul-substance like Displacement Spells or Destruction Spells; there truly are many.”
“Specifically, even I cannot judge. After all, I'm not a Transcendent forensic doctor. I'm not skilled at things like identifying injuries.”
This witch shrugged, indicating she was also powerless, and then continued performing "repairs" on the student's body.
But this repair seemed to have no end.
Without solving all this from the root, a conclusion could not be reached.
“Is there really no solution at all?”
At this moment, I stepped forward to inquire.
“Of course there is. Just kill her directly. Save us the trouble and save her from a life worse than death,” the other witch spoke as if joking.
“You're Little Han, right? I heard the one that had the problem this time was the Self-generating Magic Power project you initially led. Speaking of which, you should know a thing or two, right?”
At this moment, the witch responding to me appeared a bit surprised after seeing me, but recognized me in an instant.
After all, in the Witch Academy, I was the only acknowledged "Lesser Witch."
“I am very clear on the overall flow of the experiment. It is absolutely impossible for such a vile situation to occur. So I suspect it might be caused by some other external factors.”
I was somewhat helpless, but could only explain euphemistically.
“Even Little Han isn't clear? When I went to learn about the situation, I heard your experiment touched the essence of life, right?”
“Naturally it did... Alright, I knew this matter couldn't be explained clearly.”
I gave a sigh and spoke.
After all, the correlation between these two was simply too large.
The less one understood the principles within, the more one would associate them together.
It was the same logic as calling experiments involving the essence of life "forbidden experiments"; there was nothing wrong with it as a verbal address.
Within my Great Tree of Knowledge, there were more detailed records of the Interpretation of Life.
Among them was the mention of calling the experiments of the first Interpretation of Life "forbidden experiments."
After all... in past history, the awe life held toward the essence of life came from the heart.
“It looks like your understanding of the essence of life should be very deep, Little Han? After all, someone who can lead the experiment for the Self-generating Magic Power body talent shouldn't have a very poor level. How about you come and try?”
Seeing that I no longer intended to argue, a witch on the side suddenly suggested.
“Me?”
I instinctively pointed to myself.
“I'm not exactly specialized in this field either, am I?”
“Just to the extent of trying. Anyway, if you let us continue, this student can ultimately only be in this state worse than death.”
“I... I'll try...”
“Wait, are you really letting Little Han do it? Professional matters should naturally be done by professionals. Little Han, ignore her, she's joking with you.”
Seeing me agree, the other witch hurriedly spoke up.
Otherwise, this really would become a joke.
“It's fine. Coincidentally, I indeed have some accomplishments regarding the essence of life. I am very curious: since you two sisters know her problem lies within her life essence, why don't you strip her life essence from her physical shell?”
After all, in my view, since the root cause was known, continuing to work on other irrelevant matters here was indeed very strange behavior.
“Strip?”
Hearing my words, these two witch sisters were visibly speechless for a moment.
“Are you certain? And then what after stripping it? Wait for her to enter the earth vein cycle or fall into a dream like the Expansion Realm? Her life essence is not a Soul, Little Han. Do you not know even this bit of common sense?”
“Hmm?”
Being told this, I was also somewhat dazed.
In this instant, I somewhat understood... I seemed to not be on the same wavelength as the other party.