Chapter 1809

After having a preliminary idea, Shiler almost tried it without stopping. To ensure the safety of the attempt, he did not leave the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters but stayed with Professor X, so that if any accident occurred, he could still pull back from the brink.

The gray mist soon changed the magnetic field around Shiler according to Shiler's requirements, and at the same time, another personality besides Greed, who controlled the body, floated up.

If he did this on a normal day, there would be two results. If Greed was willing to get off work, he would be replaced, and another personality would take over the body. But if the personality currently controlling the body was unwilling to return to the high tower, other personalities couldn't come up.

But this time, Greed had another feeling. He felt like the water at the top of a water pipe. When the faucet was turned on again, he could seek another place to live outside, instead of having to stay in the body.

Following this feeling, Greed's ghost successfully detached from the body. According to Professor X's observation, it had been tuned into a mutated soul, which is the so-called ghost.

And in the subsequent attempts, Shiler discovered that this ability was actually not that convenient. It also had various limitations, and he discovered a very peculiar phenomenon, which was that pathological personality traits were more suitable for becoming ghosts and would be more powerful after becoming ghosts.

Shiler and Professor X discussed this point. The two top psychologists believed that the words "vengeful spirit" and "resentful spirit" that have appeared since ancient times in human history are not without reason.

When humans are in extreme emotions, brainwaves will change. According to Professor X's observations over the years, extreme negative emotions are more powerful than extreme positive emotions, and the changes in brainwaves are more intense. In other words, emotions such as anger, resentment, and hostility will change human brainwaves to a greater extent.

The two guessed that human brainwaves in extreme negative emotions are more easily influenced by the magnetic field, making them more likely to turn into ghosts. The ghosts they turn into also cause changes in brainwaves, producing special properties and becoming more powerful.

In the abyss under Shiler's high tower, there are also many personality traits that basically do not act independently but represent the most extreme negative emotions, such as resentment, killing, destruction, sabotage, etc.

These cannot even be called personality traits because the nature of their existence dictates that they have no reason, and they cannot float up through normal channels. Most of them are mixed in with pathology, more like accelerants for violent behavior.

The ghosts formed by these fragments at the deepest part of the abyss can be completely called vengeful spirits, and they are the kind of evil spirits that pursue souls and take lives.

Of course, other personality traits are not unable to turn into ghosts, but it is of little significance to become a ghost. There are two main reasons: the first is that ghosts have no body, which is very inconvenient for doing many things.

And existing in a void state is relatively dangerous. Not to mention anything else, many natural phenomena in astrophysics can destroy ghosts without leaving any residue. The reason ghosts are afraid of light is that solar radiation will affect the magnetic field and electromagnetic waves.

Another problem is that personality traits that are close to positive or neutral cannot possess others.

It was said before that the change in brainwaves when humans have negative emotions is greater, while the change in brainwaves when in positive emotions is smaller.

This leads to a longer and more difficult time required for synchronization with brainwaves during positive emotions, while synchronization with negative emotions is much simpler. Therefore, it is the ghosts formed by extreme evil emotions that are easier to possess others.

Ghosts without a physical form cannot influence any matter in reality, so possessing others' bodies through brainwave synchronization becomes the strongest means of attack. In other words, only ghosts formed by evil qualities are meaningful.

But then again, Shiler has never been a martial arts fighter. He is accustomed to solving all problems before fighting. If he has to fight, most of the time it's just going through the motions.

So what is the necessity of letting those completely irrational evil qualities out to turn into evil spirits? Without letting them out to fight, Shiler can still get things done.

Just then, Shiler found the key point.

Shiler can carry gray mist, gray mist can generate a magnetic field, and a magnetic field can influence ghosts. So can he let these ghosts that have detached from the body carry the gray mist to continuously generate a magnetic field that can control other ghosts?

Turning into a ghost himself to go out and fight, and from then on gaining an ability to control ghosts, are two completely different things.

After parting with Professor X, Shiler experimented with the ghost of the out-of-control child he had encountered with Nick at the base before, and found that it was indeed as he expected.

Each of Shiler's ghosts can carry a portion of the gray mist, which is carrying a magnetic field control device. All ghosts wherever he goes will be influenced by the magnetic field, thus being driven by him.

Simply put, Shiler became the King of a Hundred Ghosts.

But Shiler still had one experiment to do. After all, the essence of him doing so many things was not to strengthen his own combat effectiveness, but to be a better psychologist in the world of superheroes, and to specialize more effective treatment plans for the difficult and complicated diseases of superheroes.

So Shiler found Eddie.

Shiler's vision was to use ghosts carrying the gray mist magnetic field to approach patients, and then use the special magnetic field to influence the patients' brainwaves, so that they would be spared from compulsively recalling those terrible memories, thereby stabilizing their mental state so they could accept other treatments.

But the trouble with this therapy is that once the patient feels the ghost's magnetic field, they will inevitably see the ghost, so they must not be afraid of ghosts.

People who are not afraid of ghosts in this world are in the minority. According to Shiler's understanding, the members of the Avengers are all more or less afraid of ghosts, even Natasha has a kind of Russian superstition, and most others are somewhat afraid of jump scares.

This is something that can't be helped. Fear is originally a kind of danger warning. In a sudden attack, no matter what the opponent is, humans are more or less going to be afraid.

That's why Shiler chose Eddie because Eddie has a good partner, and that is Venom.

Venom is not human, fear is not his instinctive reaction, he is even less afraid of ghosts, and can timely help the host dispel the fear of ghosts.

This can make Eddie both influenced by the magnetic field and not react too intensely when seeing a ghost, not scaring himself into trouble. He is simply the best test candidate.

Just like that, Shiler tricked Eddie into accompanying him on a business trip.

Then why did he bring Stark along? The answer is actually very simple. Treating patients first requires a stable treatment environment. The zombie virus must be solved.

Shiler was busy observing the experimental results and had no time to get an antidote for the zombie virus. Since the nanobots were made by Iron Man in the original work, it's better to bring an Iron Man along, so there's no need to worry about the zombie virus raging.

Thus, Eddie and Stark were tricked by Shiler respectively. Although the arrival of Helen and Spider-Man was not in Shiler's original plan, with Helen, solving the zombie virus became an even simpler matter.

On the edge of the Bronx in New York, in a temporary base made of an abandoned food truck, Helen, Eddie, and two Spider-Men were discussing how to solve the problem of the terror revival on Earth.

"Those zombies indeed don't bite anymore, but we still face two serious problems. First, they activated the transmitter and brought so many monsters to this universe. The Avengers of this universe will not sit idly by."

"When the superheroes come over, if these zombies possessed by ghosts and gone crazy hurt them, there won't be so many ghosts to possess the superheroes of this universe, and the zombie crisis will still break out in this universe."

"Second, the original universe cannot just be left alone. There are still many zombies there that haven't been solved. If we solve it one day later, the zombie virus will infect a larger range. We must solve the first problem quickly, and then go back to solve the second one."

Spider-Man's train of thought was very clear. He pointed out the biggest problem these people faced so far. Everyone fell into contemplation, wanting to find the most efficient solution.

Helen frowned and said, "This is a typical trolley problem. If we don't let the ghosts control the zombie superheroes to go crazy, they will purposefully bite people and spread the zombie virus. But if we let the ghosts control the zombie superheroes, they will go crazy like this, which will definitely attract the Avengers of this universe. By then, the tragedy will be staged again."

"It's already enough." When zombie Spider-Man spoke, his voice was much lower. He said, "I left the plan to outsiders other than you, but now everything is beyond my control. I don't know if they have come to this universe."

"Perhaps you should find a way to leave." Zombie Spider-Man stared outside the food truck and said, "The zombie virus will not escape from these two universes, so even if the tragedy happens many times, it will not affect your universe."

"Don't say silly things." Spider-Man raised his tone and said, "We have to save you and both these universes. We are doing just that."

At this time, Helen touched her chin and said, "Do you think it's possible to combine mysticism to look at this matter?"

Both Spider-Men looked at her at the same time, and Eddie also cast his gaze on Helen's face. Helen analyzed: "Indeed, we can use scientific methods to explain ghosts, but mysticism is also real. I am one of the users of divine power."

"Mysticism has studied ghosts for much longer than science. Since the conclusions drawn by science also conform to mystical customs, does it prove that some methods of dealing with ghosts in mysticism are actually useful?"

"For example?"

"Exorcism." Helen thought while saying: "Ghosts possess the zombie superheroes, so we will get some things that ghosts hate, drive them away from the crowd, or simply make them very weak."

"In this way, we can cooperate with the healthy Avengers of this universe to catch the zombie superheroes possessed by ghosts. As long as the matter in this universe is solved, we naturally have sufficient time to solve the problem of the zombie universe."

"But the problem is, what are ghosts afraid of?"

Helen's gaze fell on Eddie's face. Eddie glared at her and said, "Why are you looking at me?"

"Does this still need to be asked? Looking at that scared look of yours, you must watch a lot of ghost movies. Hurry up and think, what are ghosts afraid of?"

Eddie mumbled, wanting to say "You are slandering me out of thin air," but Venom betrayed him and spoke before Eddie: "That's right, he occupies my time watching blood-and-gore movies every weekend night, insisting on watching those ghost movies from the last century, and every time he is so scared that he spills my cheese balls all over the floor."

"Shut up! Parasite!"

"I'm telling the truth! Apologize quickly!"