I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

Chapter 225 The Path of the Knowledge Insect

This time, what came to mind directly was not the scene I had been deeply immersed in before.

It is a memory.

Moreover, these are not memories primarily focused on Laurena.

The scene that Lu Yuan "saw" was from bottom to top.

The field of vision was very low, as if one were crouching in a small space looking out.

The surrounding walls are transparent and curved, with a slight refraction that distorts the outside world into a blurry patch of color.

It's glass.

From the user's perspective, the owner is currently inside a glass bottle.

The bottle opening was open, revealing a yellowish light shining from above.

Then a face lowered.

The outline was distorted by the glass wall, but Lu Yuan still recognized it.

Her chestnut hair was casually tied back, and she had light brown eyes and a fair complexion.

It's Lauren.

Her face appeared very large due to the refraction of the glass, taking up the entire upper part of her field of vision.

She held several scrolls in her hand, leaned against the worktable, and then looked down into the bottle.

Just look at "yourself" like this.

In that instant, Lu Yuan understood that he was experiencing the memories of a knowledge-derived insect.

What Lauren left behind is the insect's memory, and so on. Why would a knowledge-derived insect have memories?

In a moment of distraction, a violent surge of rationality struck, making Lu Yuan's head feel heavy.

[Sanity: -3...88/120]

No, I need to stay calm and rational.

At this moment, Laurene spoke up.

The sound came in through the bottle opening, and was distorted somewhat by the reflection of the glass wall, but every word was still clear.

"The supervisor's experimental direction is problematic."

Her tone didn't sound like she was talking to herself, but rather like she was talking to something inside the bottle.

Talk to yourself.

"He's having you and humans mutually nourish each other: the insects consume the host's knowledge, and the host acquires new knowledge from the insects' excrement. Sounds perfect, right?"

Laurina's lips twitched slightly, her expression becoming somewhat serious.

"But the price was that the host's brain was riddled with holes. Those students eventually couldn't even remember their own names."

She unfolded a scroll and held it upright in front of the bottle opening so that "she" could see the contents.

"What if we try a different approach?"

Her finger pointed to a line of words on the page.

"I won't let you into my body. I'll nourish you externally and restrain you externally. I'll use my own knowledge as an anchor point to establish a contract first, and then feed you additional knowledge."

She paused for a moment, as if carefully choosing her words.

"Domestication, domestication."

"If that could be done... knowledge could be refined, stored, and released at any time, without costing lives."

After speaking, Laurinna did not immediately take action.

She looked at "herself" in the bottle and remained silent for a few seconds.

Then she opened the first volume and began to read.

The voice was slow, each word deliberate, as if reading a story to a child who couldn't understand.

It is the most basic common sense of alchemy.

Elemental classification, material properties, and reaction conditions.

Lu Yuan could sense that Laurina's words were not heard by ear, but were transmitted through the insect's perception.

As Lauren's voice faded, the "self" inside the bottle became increasingly active.

It wasn't excitement; it was the instinctive reaction of being fed when hungry.

The knowledge being recited was like the aroma of food wafting in from the bottle opening. "Myself" was unconsciously moving closer to the source of the sound, and the frequency of my body's movements was increasing.

The screen started shaking.

Then it breaks.

The darkness lasted for two or three seconds.

A second scene then appeared.

[Sanity: -5...83/120]

It's still the perspective from inside the bottle.

But the bottle was changed.

It was larger than the last one, and there was a label on the bottle. Lu Yuan looked at it from the inside and could see the reversed handwriting, which was Laurina's handwriting, but the content was illegible.

Laurena's face reappeared above the bottle opening.

This time, her expression was completely different.

His eyes were full of anticipation.

The expression Lu Yuan had seen at the alchemy workshop—the kind of expression she would have after she had done something and confirmed a certain conjecture.

Unable to contain her excitement, yet trying to appear calm.

"The twenty-first experiment."

Her voice was a bit faster than in the previous scene.

"I think I've discovered a completely new way of applying knowledge. If it really works, it might become a new approach."

She took a deep breath, as if organizing her thoughts.

"Based on its own knowledge reserves, it is possible to tame... no, I mean, to contract with the knowledge worms! This method is effective, but it seems to have an upper limit."

She tapped her finger on the rim of the bottle, as if she were calculating something.

"Using alchemy as my anchor, I can only contract a maximum of twelve, which is far less than I anticipated."

Laurinna paused for a moment.

"But—the amount of knowledge they can store is actually greater than mine."

Lu Yuan could sense from the insects that there was more than just "himself" in the bottle.

There were other similar creatures nearby, huddled in different corners at the bottom of the bottle, pulsating quietly.

Each one carries a different "flavor" of knowledge.

Laurinna tapped the bottle neck twice more with her fingers.

"However, in vitro feeding is still too slow at the moment..."

She frowned, as if pondering a technical problem.

"We need to find other ways. We need to refine the knowledge and speed up the process of nurturing it."

Even as she spoke, she couldn't hide the smile on her face.

"This plan might be feasible. If a balance can truly be achieved, please call me Laurena, the Queen, the creator of the super-invincible genius knowledge new path."

As Lu Yuan listened to this memory, his eye twitched involuntarily. If Laurene knew this, he would probably be killed to silence him...

Then, the screen shattered again.

This time, the darkness lasted even longer.

But Lu Yuan was not feeling well, because during this period of darkness, countless invisible fragments of memories came rushing in.

This memory has nothing to do with humanity; rather, it is a vague "understanding."

This allowed Lu Yuan to now know what the Knowledge Derivative Worm is, to understand Laurina's contractual thinking, and to know more.

This inhuman experience caused Lu Yuan's forehead to be covered in cold sweat.

Before Lu Yuan could react.

A third segment surged in.

[Sanity: -8...75/120]

As soon as the image appeared, Lu Yuan sensed something was wrong.

It was no longer the quiet atmosphere of a laboratory.

Instead, they panicked.

The perspective is still from inside the bottle.

But the bottle was shaking.

Laurina's face flashed by in the reflection of the glass wall.

Her expression was completely different from the previous two paragraphs—her brows were furrowed, her lips were stretched into a line, and there was no excitement in her light brown eyes, only something that Lu Yuan recognized.

The calm that comes after making a decision.

And it's the bad kind.

The bottle was put down.

With a "whoosh," a slight vibration was transmitted from the bottom of the bottle.

Then Laurena reached in.

The fingertips precisely held "oneself".

The feeling of being lifted up was strange. From the insect's perspective, it was as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down, and light was pouring in from all directions, no longer filtered by the glass wall.

For the first time, Lu Yuan saw the complete laboratory from the perspective of an insect.

It's the room where he's standing right now.

But it hasn't been emptied yet.

The cabinet was crammed with things, an alchemical array hung on the wall, and a tea set and half a loaf of bread sat on the small table by the window.

Laurena held up "herself" and brought it in front of her.

Then she spoke.

The sound was very soft.

"This is not something I can touch."

She bit her lip.

"They've all gone mad."

Lu Yuan wasn't sure who she meant by "everyone's gone crazy".

Student? Mentor? Or what she herself is about to do?

Laurena took a deep breath.

Then he pressed "himself" onto his forehead.

The field of vision suddenly darkened.

It's not the kind of darkness where you close your eyes. It's the kind of darkness where all senses are cut off at the same time.

"Self" passed through the skin.

It went through the bones.

They entered a world that Lu Yuan had never seen from this perspective before.

It's not something you see with your eyes.

It is the instinctive perception of the insect of knowledge, a vast and surging ocean woven from countless pieces of information.

But this is not the sea of knowledge, because the aura of knowledge is too similar, so this is Laurinna's brain.

What was she doing? Before Lu Yuan could figure it out, the perspective of the Insect of Knowledge made him momentarily dazed.

To be precise, it drove the insect of knowledge mad.

From the insect's perspective, the entire memory and knowledge of an eighteen-year-old alchemy genius resembled a city lit up with countless lights.

Lu Yuan could sense the insects' instincts screaming wildly, wanting to eat.

There's food everywhere here.

An endless supply of food.

But it struggled and restrained itself at the same time.

It is clear that it is bound by a contract.

Laurene's mental anchor was like a chain around her neck, pulling her tightly and preventing her from speaking.

Then a tremendous force pushed "itself" downwards.

It wasn't Laureina's power.

It's something deeper inside.

"Self" was pushed past the deepest level of Lauren's memory, passing through a gap that shouldn't exist—

come down.

An endless fall.

Colors surged in from all directions.

The magnificent sea, composed of words, unfolds in the field of vision, boundless and limitless.

Every word is shining, and countless lights are flowing, colliding, and intertwining underwater.

A sea of knowledge.

Lu Yuan's consciousness trembled violently within the insect's memory.

He's been here before.

That aura—an aura formed from boundless knowledge—was something I would never forget in my lifetime.

The insects are sinking.

It sinks deeper and deeper.

The things carried on her body—Laurena's entire research data, everything about the knowledge-derived insects—were gradually stripped away from "herself" as she sank.

Like ice melting in hot water, it dissolves layer by layer into this sea.

But at the last minute.

Before "self" completely dissipates.

A sound emanated from the last trace of memory carried by the insect.

It's Lauren's voice.

She erased all memories of the Worm of Knowledge from her mind.

Only one sentence was left.

"Only those who have traversed that place and survived can find a trace of themselves here."

Then the insect's consciousness completely vanished.

The video clipping occurred.

Lu Yuan suddenly came to his senses, staggered backward, and bumped his waist against the wooden cabinet behind him with a dull thud.

He was bent over, his hands on his knees, panting heavily.