If we consider Cowen as a large plush pillow, then Austin is the person lying on it. Whether
someone lying on a plush pillow is truly relaxed and resting, or tense and stiff, seeking a sense of security, is quite discernible with careful observation.
After Austin had been lying on Cowen for a full ten minutes, Tang San, whose shift had been taken over by Ma Hongjun, was the first to realize that Austin wasn't resting.
"Little Austin, Little Austin, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Tang San moved to Austin's side, patting his back with concern.
However, the moment Tang San's hand touched Austin's body, he instinctively frowned; something was wrong with Austin.
First, his muscles were tense and stiff. When a person's muscles are in this state, it basically means that the brain has lost control of the body.
Secondly, there was the breathing. Even with his entire palm pressed against Oschin's back, Tang San couldn't feel any rise and fall in Oschin's body due to breathing.
Realizing that Oschin's problem might be more serious than he had imagined, Tang San immediately pulled Oschin off Cowen's back and laid him flat on the ground.
But before Tang San could do anything else, Oschin, who had been lying motionless on the ground and had even stopped breathing, suddenly coughed violently, then sat up abruptly, his face flushed, gasping for fresh air.
While Oschin was struggling to breathe to save his life, let's examine what caused him to become so distressed.
It all started with fear. Fear is a very peculiar feeling for humans. Some fears that don't exceed the psychological threshold of the person experiencing them can make them stronger, but some fears that exceed the threshold of the person experiencing them can completely destroy a person's mental world.
For the first time in both his lives, Oschin was confronted with a scene of countless corpses piled up together. The fear he experienced undoubtedly exceeded his fear threshold to some extent. His powerful and active mental energy kept the scene he had only glimpsed for a long time etched in his mind.
As time passed, the image not only didn't become blurry but became even clearer. The fear, like a pack of wolves drawn by blood, relentlessly pursued Oschin, who tried to escape. Hiding in the Omniscient Library, Oschin allowed his body to rest, but he couldn't find mental relaxation.
To use a perhaps imperfect analogy, Oschin emerging from the Omniscient Library was like a patient suffering from severe depression. He knew his mental state was wrong and wanted to seek help, so he tried to ask for help, but clearly, his pleas were deliberately ignored by the teachers. With no other option, Oschin could only try to escape this fear on his own.
The most effective way to break free from one kind of fear is to place oneself in an even more intense form of fear.
Since Oschin was terrified by the lives lost by others, to overcome this fear, he might as well confront the real fear of life slipping away. Oschin believed that his survival instinct would allow him to overcome the obstacles in his heart.
To make the threat of death more real, Oschin chose to use his soul power to control his body's breathing system. The malfunctioning respiratory system would gradually suffocate Oschin, and the lack of oxygen would cause problems with his control over his soul power. In other words, when Oschin felt his body desperately needing fresh air, he would not be able to freely release his control over his breathing system.
By leaving himself no way out, Oschin would truly face the threat of death after the onset of oxygen deprivation. This would maximize his will to survive, thus fundamentally breaking the heavy mental shackles imposed by seeing so many corpses of his kind for the first time.
"Huff, huff," Oschin breathed heavily for a full minute after being freed from suffocation before gradually calming down. Seeing that all the students had stopped meditating and gathered around him, Oschin had no time to explain why he was in such a sorry state.
Waving his hand, Oschin signaled to Cowen to show the students the situation in the village he had filmed.
While the students gathered around watching the footage from the soul-guided camera, Oschin took out a spare detection soul tool and a soul-guided array plate from his storage belt. Based on his memories, Oschin knew that the perpetrator of the village's carnage was most likely an evil soul master.
Although theoretically the evil soul master who caused all this should be far away from the village by now, it was better to be safe than sorry. Oschin needed a detection soul tool with a longer detection range to ensure the safety of his team. After all, the power and unpredictability of evil soul masters were well-known, and for a team composed of Great Soul Masters and Soul Venerables, facing an evil soul master capable of wiping out an entire village head-on was not a wise choice.
The soul-guided array plate in Oschin's hand had a very simple function: an integrator. Two identical soul tools could be connected through this array plate to achieve a functional amplification effect.
This soul tool integration array was a method that Oschin found in the Omniscient Library, using the quantity of soul tools to compensate for their power. While a small number of integrated soul tools offered little advantage over higher-level ones, a large enough number could unleash astonishing power. After connecting
two detection soul tools using this array, Oschin increased their detection radius from four kilometers to six kilometers, allowing him to scan a village five kilometers away from the temporary camp. As
he carried the integrated detection soul tool and control tablet up to the foam metal lookout tower, Oschin noticed that the students gathered to watch the video Cowen had filmed looked extremely grim.
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