dmims 0072 My head feels itchy.
0072 My head feels itchy.
It feels itchy...
".......ah!"
Zhou Yun stared at Kleist and suddenly let out a startled roar.
"Ah!!" Kleist was startled and hurriedly retreated, and the other gladiators surrounding Zhou Yun also took a step back.
Onomamus couldn't help but reach out, place his hand on his forehead, and shake his head.
Angron scratched his head helplessly.
Anglong looked at Zhou Yun, but he didn't sense any further pain from his brother.
The only pain he felt was that burning, searing agony. Other than that, Angron felt no pain from the Butcher's Sting.
Was it because the pain of the Butcher's Nail was overwhelmed by Zhou Yun's original pain?
Although he didn't know what was going on, he breathed a sigh of relief after realizing that Zhou Yun was alright.
"Hahaha!" Zhou Yun couldn't help but chuckle as he looked at Kleist's panicked and frightened expression.
As Zhou Yun's laughter rang out, the surrounding environment suddenly fell silent.
All the gladiators stared wide-eyed at Zhou Yun.
"How amazing! You can still laugh after being hit by the Butcher's Nail. Could it be that your witchcraft has worked in some way?" Onomamus exclaimed in amazement.
"You bastard! You're trying to scare me!" Kleist was stunned for two seconds before realizing what Onomamus was saying: Zhou Yun hadn't been overwhelmed by the anger brought by the Butcher's Nail; he seemed to be alright.
Kleist punched Zhou Yun in the shoulder.
Zhou Yun used a bit of effort to suppress the smile on his lips.
He didn't actually mean to scare Kleist.
Having just regained consciousness, he was genuinely startled, which is why he couldn't help but exclaim... Something's not right with the Butcher's Nail.
"Are you really alright?" After withdrawing his fist from Zhou Yun's shoulder, Kleist looked at the terrifying silver implant coiled on Zhou Yun's skull and couldn't help but ask.
"...If I had to say, I'm a little hungry."
Zhou Yun took a moment to assess the situation and said:
"Do you have anything to eat here?"
"I'll go get you some food sticks." Anglong looked at Zhou Yun and saw that he seemed to be unaffected in terms of both speech and behavior, so he nodded and turned to get Zhou Yun some food.
Zhou Yun lowered his head and began to carefully feel the effects of the Butcher's Nail on him.
He felt a distinct foreign object in his skull. He reached out and touched it, and felt a worm-like metal braid coiled on his head. The base of the braid pierced his skull and penetrated deep into his brain tissue.
It's itchy...
But... tsk...
It doesn't hurt.
It doesn't hurt at all.
It wasn't because the trials of the Golden Throne had made Zhou Yun numb to the pain of the Butcher's Nail.
It really doesn't hurt at all.
No pain was injected, no anger was felt, and no other sensations were felt.
even......
Zhou Yun's psychic powers were being used normally, and there was no loss of control as seen in other psychics who had the Butcher's Nail implanted.
He briefly examined his brain with his psychic powers and was certain that the Butcher's Nails had replaced parts of his brain tissue and merged with his nerves.
The installation went smoothly, and Butcher's Sting is working correctly, but...
But there was absolutely no strange feeling, only a slight sensation of something foreign, and also—
Sizzle————
Zhou Yun suddenly reached out and placed his hand near his temple.
sound----
He had just heard a sound; the sound traveled through the Butcher's Nail into Zhou Yun's mind.
+......My friend? +
+......Yakshas are everywhere, you are their guardian....+
+....Emperor.......Dao....+
+....The mighty phoenix, fierce as the sun, strikes down upon the black sun.....+
Fragmented, incoherent sounds entered Zhou Yun's mind through the Butcher's Nail, then vanished in the blink of an eye, like... like accidentally receiving a different signal while answering a phone call...
Signal.....
Some memories suddenly surfaced in Zhou Yun's mind; they were memories belonging to the War Dog Think Tank.
We had that suspicion before.
A voice rang out; it was the voice of Vorias, the chief strategist of the War Dogs, who was blind in both eyes.
We had doubts about the true function of the Butcher's Nail.
We made some discoveries in Genna.
Yes, Genna.
Zhou Yun remembered; that planet existed in the War Dog Think Tank's memory.
Genna is a planet with billions of inhabitants who once submitted to the Empire but later rebelled again.
No, the claim of billions of people is a lie.
The indifferent, ruthless, almost robotic Genna people appeared before Zhou Yun.
Then, the Genna's body was disassembled inch by inch in front of Zhou Yun.
The vast majority of Genna people are androids, a hybrid of cyborgs and flesh, and in the gray matter of their brains are metal spikes similar to Butcher's Nails.
There are only about a thousand true Gennadians, who hide in life support pods and use these neural implants to control billions of android bodies.
+We studied this neural implant and found that our psychic energy interferes with something inside it—a signal, a psychic signal.+
Yes, this neural implant is essentially a signal receiver that receives psionic signals from the subspace, allowing humans in the dark age of technology to control hundreds of millions of android bodies with their own minds.
In his memory, Volias looked at Zhou Yun, and then at the remaining think tank members of the War Dogs.
The neural implants in this bionic skull are almost identical to the Butcher's Nail in Angron's brain; they both originated from the same standard construction template.
Or, to put it more bluntly, it's the Butcher's Nail.
The Vorias in memory did not continue speaking.
But both the think tank at the time and Zhou Yun now understand many things.
Why can't psionicists implant Butcher's Nails?
Why does the Butcher's Nail malfunction simply because a spirit is near a psychic?
Because the Butcher's Nail is essentially a signal receiver, the psionicist interfered with its signal reception, causing the nail to go berserk and pump uncontrollably pain into the host's brain...
But this raises another question.
The Genna people who had the Butcher's Nails implanted did not exhibit rage or bloodlust; on the contrary, they were extremely calm, as if they had no emotions whatsoever.
This indicates that rage and bloodlust were not the initial design of the Butcher's Spike, but rather that other psionic signals were introduced into the Butcher's Spike, altering its nature...
Angron and the World Eaters implanted with Butcher's Nails were enslaved like the Genna enslaved androids.
So, where does the psionic signal that connects to the Butcher's Sting in Angron come from?
Just as the think tanks were about to continue their investigation, one of the World Eaters' apothecaries used Genna technology to recreate the Butcher's Nail and implant it into the World Eater's brain.
The World Eaters, their rage overwhelming them, destroyed the entire Genna, leaving nothing behind...
It was practically like covering up a body...
Now that the nail has been implanted in Zhou Yun, all the doubts of the War Dog Think Tank have been resolved.
So that's what happened...
You treacherous second brother, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, you're incredibly cunning. You even know how to cover up a corpse...
No wonder the Emperor concluded that Angron was beyond saving after just one glance.
The psionic signal behind those nails likely originated directly from the Brass Throne, from Khorne.
The moment the nail is implanted, the recipient is already a slave to Khorne.
That inexplicable physical enhancement and extreme rage are probably the true nature of Khorne's blessing.
This is why Zhou Yun cannot take away the souls of those who have been implanted with the Butcher's Nail, unless their will can resist the erosion of the Butcher's Nail and offer their faith to him.
Because those souls had already been marked by Khorne long beforehand.
These were just ordinary gladiators; Khorne's enslavement of Angron was probably a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand times more severe.
The fact that Angron could endure Khorne's mental enslavement for so long is already proof of the Primarch's extraordinary will.
The Butcher's Nail was ineffective against Zhou Yun because Zhou Yun himself occupied the frequency band. The nail could only receive signals from the Golden Throne and not from the Brass Throne.
The sounds he had just heard also seemed to be psionic signals from near the Golden Throne.
Zhou Yun has now changed the course of the future to some extent; the nail that was supposed to be implanted in Anglong's body has been implanted in Zhou Yun's brain.
As it stands, the nail doesn't seem to have any effect on Zhou Yun.
Other gains... Zhou Yun had just recalled some of the War Dog Think Tank's memories, as well as the Emperor's memories.
He naturally acquired the skills from both of their memories.
The Warhound Think Tank's memory granted Zhou Yun a psionic spell called "Mind Chains," one of the psionic spells frequently used by the Warhound Think Tank members. It tightly connects the warriors' minds, allowing them to communicate and coordinate effectively on the battlefield.
Then, the Emperor's memories granted Zhou Yun skills...