Chapter 643 Academic Ethics

The experimental subjects randomly selected on the street do not need to spend money, will not pose any threat to themselves, and the chance of being detected is almost zero, why don't you give it a try?

Evil thoughts swelled in Joan's mind, almost breaking his moral bottom line.

"No! Never do that!"

Joan suddenly turned his back, gritted his teeth, and tightly covered the hot and swollen deformed eyeball on the back of his neck, restraining the urge to commit crimes and forcing himself to calm down.

For spellcasters like Joan, due to their extraordinary abilities, the laws that are mainly used to restrict ordinary people actually have very limited binding force on them as a group. In many cases, what can really prompt them to respect social order is only in their hearts. moral bottom line.

Once the desire is out of control and breaks through this moral bottom line, the damage caused by the caster to the social order is much greater than that of ordinary people.

Joan feels that as a person, especially a "social person", he should have the minimum respect for his personality and moral bottom line.

If he breaks through this bottom line, he doesn't know what will happen to others. For a person with a strange blood like him, he will definitely sink deeper and deeper on the road of anti-society and anti-humanity, and eventually become a monster who does all kinds of evil and has no conscience.

Joan doesn't like himself like that, so he doesn't allow himself to test on the edge of the moral bottom line, doesn't allow himself to use innocent passers-by as targets, and experiment with a very cruel spell.

Destroy the health and happiness of the innocent, and take no pleasure in it himself.

Since we don't plan to complete the last research and development link of "aphasia" in a criminal way, how to solve this realistic dilemma?

In any case, Joan had to test his newly invented spell on a living experimental subject, and it was impossible to confirm whether the "aphasia" was really effective without passing this test.

Joan paced back and forth in the bedroom.

Experimenting with passers-by is against his principles, so how about experimenting with heinous death row prisoners?

Joan was still a little hesitant about this idea, not entirely out of moral considerations, but more importantly, he didn't have access to death row prisoners, and he didn't know who to deal with.

jailer? Warden? Midgard City Hall?

Thinking about it makes me feel troublesome and a headache!

It's too troublesome to experiment with human prisoners, so what about goblins, orcs, gnolls and the like?

The physiological structure of these humanoid creatures is similar to that of humans, and nine out of ten are not good things, and there is no need to feel guilty about using them for experiments.

Of course, these evil creatures are not easy to mess with, and you need to take some risks if you want to capture them alive. Moreover, Joan just came to Midgard City for a few days, and it is not clear where the above-mentioned evil humanoids appear nearby. It is necessary to find someone to inquire.

Thinking of this, Joan went downstairs to the kitchen to find Mrs. Anderson who was preparing lunch, and wanted to talk to her about this issue.

As soon as he reached the stairs, a fat black and white cat ran towards him, rubbed it skillfully on Joan's feet, and meowed coquettishly.

Joan picked up the cat and touched it, and suddenly he was inspired.

The "aphasia technique" is not limited to be effective only on humanoid creatures, as long as it is a creature that produces sound through vibration, it can be used as a test subject, such as chickens, ducks, cats, dogs and other small animals.

Since it is inconvenient to experiment with living people, why not go to the market and buy some live chickens and ducks as experimental subjects?

If the "aphasia technique" is indeed effective on chickens and ducks, it would not be too late to consider conducting human experiments in the next step; on the contrary, if it still doesn't work on chickens and ducks, it shows that this spell is not perfect enough, and it is necessary to go back and revise it.

The more Joan thought about it, the more she felt that this method was feasible, so she walked into the kitchen with the cat in her arms, briefly explained her plan to Mrs. Anderson, gave her four silver dugas, and asked her to buy a few puppies when she went grocery shopping in the afternoon. The cock is back.

Joan specifically emphasized buying roosters because roosters are more lively than hens, and their crows are louder.

Mrs. Anderson had lived near the university for half her life, and she had rented apartments to young people who majored in arcane magic. She had long discovered that most of these spellcasters had certain eccentricities, and she was not surprised by Joan's request. Four young roosters were brought home and kept in cages in the backyard of the kitchen.

Joan thanked the landlady, and then happily ran to the backyard, squatted next to the chicken coop, put her hands on her knees, and carefully looked at the four little roosters.

The roosters were pecking at the corn kernels, when they saw Joan coming over, they first looked at him vigilantly while pecking at the rice, and stared at him for a while, the roosters probably felt too bored, so they didn't bother to talk to him.

Joan is not bored. Through careful observation, he confirmed that the four young roosters were all healthy, and they occasionally made cooing noises when they pecked at the rice, which showed that there was no problem with their vocal cords.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he also cast "advanced internal vision" to check the physical condition of the roosters with the help of magic, and the results confirmed his observation conclusion.

Joan spread out the notebook he had prepared a long time ago, put it on his lap, wrote down the date with a pencil, and then numbered the four little roosters according to their appearance characteristics, namely: big flower, second flower, little white and little yellow .

Next, Joan selected "Xiaobai" as the first experimental subject, took out a small piece of black agate, and tried to cast the 2-ring "aphasia technique" he invented on it.

"Nucumna!"

Joan chanted an elf mantra representing "weakening and maiming", and pointed at the little rooster with white feathers in the cage. The black agate in his hand buzzed and trembled, and then shattered into dust.

Under the guidance of spells and black agate, the magic net around Joan resonated, using countless slender magic threads as channels to extract high-concentration negative energy, following the direction of Joan's fingers, it turned into a pale A beam of light is directed at the coop.

The roosters in the cage felt the eerie aura coming along with the negative energy flow, and they were all so frightened that they fluttered their wings and crowed repeatedly.

The negative energy flow seems to have eyes, bypassing other attacks, automatically tracking the white-feathered rooster designated by Joan, quickly invading its body, gathering at the throat, and eroding its vocal cords.

"Xiaobai"'s throat seemed to have been splashed with a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid. He was still gurgling and screaming just now. After being eroded by the "aphasia", he immediately lost the ability to speak. He twisted his neck in pain and opened and closed his mouth, but he couldn't even make a syllable. Can't send it out.

Seeing the uncomfortable look of the little rooster, Qiao An felt strange. In order to study the "aphasia technique", there is no way to do it. I can only say "I'm sorry" silently to "Xiaobai" in my heart.

"Xiao Bai" was of course very uncomfortable being turned dumb for no reason. Fortunately, according to Joan's observation, the "aphasia technique" did not cause any collateral damage other than destroying the rooster's vocal cords.