NEC Chapter 87: Undead Science Research Center

Whether it could be transmitted to people in the future or not, it would still require a long and distant process.

Before that, East Xia would have to continue exchanging materials and products through this slow, inefficient, and painful method.

The reporter from the Life Sciences Research Center sat down, and immediately after, the representative from the Undead Science Research Center stood up.

Well, although it sounded absurd, East Xia had indeed established such an institution.

Over the past period, the Undead Science Research Center had mainly been organizing and analyzing the undead spells, supporting materials, related potions, and various undead mage knowledge that Chen Mo had heard about and sent back. This belonged to research without physical objects.

However, during Chen Mo's last Sacrificial Altar activation, that is, when East Xia sent Chen Mo the Shuttle all-terrain vehicle, Chen Mo had sent back a research specimen to his homeland.

Skeleton Little White!

That's right, because of multiple "open fractures" throughout its body, although it was undead, it was still "alive," but had lost its ability to move independently. Little White had been sent back by Chen Mo.

Little White's intelligence was quite limited, about the level of a child of several years old.

However, first, Chen Mo had repeatedly shown it the crescent blade and spiked hammer symbol on his chest, instructing it many times, "When you see this symbol, remember to be obedient, to submit to management, and to accept arrangements."

Second, with Little White's state of high-level paralysis below the chest, it couldn't move even if it wanted to, and could only be at their mercy.

Little White still remembered the shocked and horrified expressions of those people when they first saw it.

There was no helping it. At that time, knowing that Chen Mo was fleeing with the Cloudmist Domain team, when this skeleton suddenly appeared, the on-duty Stargazing team members were nearly scared out of their wits.

Fortunately, after the false alarm came wild joy.

Little White enjoyed treatment that it had never received from the underworld to the human world. To study Little White, several masters even abandoned their core research projects and began this unique "undead" research.

Some research results were also reported at this monthly meeting.

"First, research from the second division of the Undead Research Center shows that undead specimen zero, skeleton 'Little White,' does not possess vision, hearing, taste, smell, and other senses in our biological concept. Among the traditional five senses, it only has the most basic sense of touch."

"This sense of touch is also extremely dull!"

This was not surprising at all. A skeleton without eyes, eardrums, tongue, or nasal cavity lacked all functional organs, so where would it get sight, hearing, taste, or smell?

As for touch, how could bones compare to nerve-rich skin? It would be good enough if it could tell when something touched it.

"However, multiple comprehensive tests demonstrate that undead creatures have a special comprehensive perception ability. We currently cannot accurately describe it, but we can confirm that undead creatures can produce very clear perception of external images, sounds, odors, and other elements."

"Most of these perceptions are far stronger than ordinary humans on Blue Star, such as nighttime dynamic perception, or ultra-low and ultra-high frequency sound waves, which Little White can keenly detect."

The charts on the big screen listed a series of professional comparative data. The leaders couldn't understand them, but they knew that Little White could "see" farther than themselves.

Based on the above foundation, several more research topics had emerged, such as research on undead perception outlets and pathways, research on whether undead perception could be interfered with by different factors. What interested the attendees most was a project from the second division on "virtual representation of undead perception."

Professor Lu pushed his glasses and said somewhat nervously, "We noticed a very interesting phenomenon. Little White's 'sight' is clearly a perception completely unrelated to eyes, but when it needs to aim, it still instinctively brings the scope close to its eye socket."

The big screen showed a video where technicians had covered Little White's eye sockets in various ways, yet Little White would still aim in the standard visual manner.

The next experiment was even more interesting. Researchers had restricted Little White's right arm bone, making it completely impossible for the right limb holding the gun to reach in front of the skull.

When researchers gave the command for Little White to shoot, Little White struggled to reach toward its head with its right hand, trying to bring the gun's front sight to those dark eye sockets.

It could never reach, but Little White fired accurately when the command time arrived.

"Actually, no matter what material we use to cover Little White's eye sockets, or even its entire front face, its shooting accuracy remains consistently stable."

"Our division proposes two hypotheses. First, this special phenomenon might come from the undead's 'habits' from when it was alive, forming some kind of instinct that the undead completely inherited."

"Second, this might be a form of camouflage behavior, pretending to use the 'eye' position to look at you, thereby hiding its true perception core."

"Currently the sample size is too small, and further verification will be needed."

Throughout the entire Undead Research Center report, because of this hint of "absurd scientific feeling," the meeting hall was filled with a cheerful and relaxed atmosphere. Everyone pointed and commented on this completely fresh phenomenon with continuous amazement.

The third division's research direction was undead movement specialization, focusing on analyzing how skeletons moved without skeletal muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and other connective tissues, motor neurons, synovial fluid, and other supporting elements.

The fifth division's research direction was undead intelligence specialization, focusing on analyzing Little White's short-term memory ability, long-term memory ability, logical ability, judgment ability, analytical ability, and so on.

It was said they were currently teaching addition and subtraction within ten, and Little White was learning with great difficulty.

The sixth division's project was undead behavioral studies, including vigilance toward weapons or other creatures, reactions to discovering unfamiliar objects, whether it would show curiosity toward various lights and sounds, whether it would step in puddles when it saw them, whether it would pop bubble wrap when given some, whether it had obsessive-compulsive disorder about alignment, and so on.

Of course, there was also the most important first division.

Through disassembling, connecting, observing, and testing Little White piece by piece, they verified the claims in Morton's handwritten "Undead Mage's Notes" that Chen Mo had copied, that undead creatures had an absolute core that was not only the command center of the undead but also the energy source for all actions.

It could not be observed, but it truly existed.

"This essence of the undead, because we have no reference point here, can only be translated using some virtual terms."

"Currently researchers have proposed various translation terms such as soul flame, spirit source, life box, soul fire, death energy core, dead engine, and so on. No consensus has been formed yet, and leadership may need to make a determination."

The Cabinet's Executive Cangming gave a light snort, "You people just like to curry favor in these unimportant places. What, you want to give me naming rights too?"

"What does Little Chen say?"

Everyone was stunned for a while before realizing that this Little Chen referred to Chen Mo.

After all, they had never seen him in person, so hearing the cabinet leader call him so intimately was momentarily disorienting.

"The Wanderer once mentioned 'Little White's soul fire,' but at the time it was just..."

Executive Cangming waved his hand.

"Follow his terminology! Next!"

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