Chapter 13: The Darksider Species (Part 1/2) (1/2)

Chapter 13: The Darksider Species (Part 1/2)

Luo Nan flew through a couple of rooms before discovering that the situation here was approaching that of the corridor. The rooms had little opened holes with faint white smoke pouring out in an unending stream. The concentration here was even higher since the space was smaller.

Many soldiers were entrenched within the smoke, all of whom were fully armed. Their facial expressions did not change; it was clear that they were extremely familiar with situations such as these.

Of course the smoke was certainly not poisonous.

Due to the feeling of crisis from before, Luo Nan paid special attention to the effects of the smoke on his soul form. However he was unable to detect any anomalies from observing his current state.

He pushed his suspicions to the bottom of his heart. Then he concentrated on the sensation he would feel when passing through walls.

So this was what it’s like to have an out-of-body experience?

He used various methods to pass through seven or eight walls, one after another, in order to further verify his state.

His grandfather’s Formatting Theory largely incorporated the study of Metaphysics. During ordinary times Luo Nan would study metaphysics, and he would study a bit of philosophy, ideology, and mystic arts from books. Turns out it wasn’t a waste of time now that he was in his current state.

Anyway, Luo Nan had researched and discovered this before in ancient records. From the perspective of his mystical arts knowledge, he was far from reaching the level of perfection with his current abilities. The death-from-a-thousand-cuts experience he had from the coldness of the external world when he left his body gave him lingering fears lasting even now. He absolutely needed to rely on the “external gas-tank”, the burning wraith, in order to maintain his cruising flight.

Needless to say, the feeling between being pulled by a sled dog and riding a flying nimbus was completely different. There was a large distinction between being passive and taking control.

Upon leaving his body, Luo Nan continued to purely rely on his willpower in order to conduct movement. He wasn’t used to it of course. He made quite a few redundant thoughts and actions several times.

The most important thing was that he had yet to truly adapt to this Soul Form and observe this world.

Since Luo Nan had deeply researched the nervous system in the past, he quickly discovered that the traditional five senses, sight-hearing-smell-taste-feeling, had underwent a substantial change in their operational mechanisms on the soul plane. Audio and visual processes in this plane were really inefficient.

Luo Nan was like a radar system under his soul form. He received various frequency bands at all times from the external world. The quantity of arriving information and signals were plentiful, already exceeding that of what the nervous system of a normal human body could receive and process.

If Luo Nan were to cling to the body’s usual process, the majority of these signals would automatically be washed away; only a few signals would be inputted into his nervous system and processed, and the resulting format would be derived from the five senses after processing by his main body.

Not even mentioning the issue with the majority of the frequency signals being swept away and wasted, there would exist a large distortion phenomena upon processing the signals due to his nervous system lacking “real” stimulation.

He had already lost his sense of touch to say the least.

“It seems that it would be better to process these signals directly.”

But if he were to compile and interpret the signals directly, a bigger problem would be formed.

Luo Nan painstakingly collected what he sensed. He was immediately sent into a crashing tumble from the quantity of chaotic information in the surroundings. It appeared that adapting to “life” in the soul plane was quite the endless process.

He had to change his thought process. The levels and range of his soul senses had broadened and increased…… It was like he was a typical radio. It would be possible to hear a few interesting things amidst the static and noise.

This was an extremely new experience for Luo Nan. He didn’t mind expending a bit of energy in order to refine the process.

Then a few intermittent keywords caught his attention at this very moment.

Luo Nan had discovered a tiny deflection happening ahead of him from being stirred telepathically. In this circumstance with his senses released, Luo Nan was assaulted by the sound of noisy clamor that had reflected off of several metal walls.