Reiki

"you……"

There was a light of expectation in Huber's eyes, her expression was still timid, but she couldn't help but step forward, stood up from behind Chu Ge, took a deep breath, and stammered, "Do you know who I am?"

"I know something, your name is Amber, and you are from the South Island."

Director Mu manipulated the body of the tiger, lay down, waved like a friendly big cat, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, little girl, we won't hurt you."

"I'm not a little girl."

Amber bit her lip, shook her head vigorously, and said sadly, "I have probably lived for thousands of years, enough to be your grandma's grandma's grandma."

"This..." Director Mu was speechless for a while.

"Amber, in the outside world, being someone's grandma's grandma's grandma is not a good word." Chu Ge reminded with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, we don't mind, and we don't really think you're good enough to be our 'grandma's grandma'."

Director Mu continued to smile, "We still think that you are just an ordinary little girl and shouldn't bear such heavy pressure."

"No, this is my fate."

Amber mustered up her courage and said frankly, "I am an 'Eternal Life', a unique heterogeneous species. Wherever I go, it will bring disputes and disasters. Everyone is trying to gain my abilities or destroy me. Don't you think so?"

"Hahahaha, little girl of true friendship, do you really believe in the absurd immortality?"

Director Mu laughed and said, "No, in the eyes of our soul shifters, there is no 'eternal person', or you are not 'unique' at all, we have encountered some existences like you. "

"What!"

A stone stirred up thousands of waves, and Chu Ge and Hu Po's eyes widened at the same time.

Chu Ge couldn't wait to say, "Director Mu, what you said is the truth, there really are immortals like amber, then, that's good, the value of amber is not so great, everyone doesn't have to cling to her! "

"No, although in a sense, they are all immortals, but the way to achieve immortality is different.

This is the first time we have encountered a carbon-based life entity like Amber that achieves immortality through infinite cell division, replication and multiplication. "

Director Mu said, "I'm talking about achieving immortality through the method of 'moving the soul', that is to say, after the flesh and blood body fails, replace it with a brand new body, in an attempt to escape death through this method. ruling."

"this……"

Chu Ge couldn't believe it, "Can it still be like this?"

"Of course, this is the so-called 'seize the house'!"

Director Mu said, "Otherwise, why do you think the soul-shifting technique was invented? Is it true that someone is so boring and wants to get into the body of a cat or a dog all day without waiting for a good human body?

"In fact, the origin of the soul-moving technique is some superpowers who have cultivated their souls to be extremely powerful. They long for immortality, but they cannot preserve their flesh and blood. The body can be renewed at any time—it’s a pity that these guys’ purpose was not achieved, and their souls withered and died in the end, but they unintentionally opened up a new field of soul shifting and created the soul shifters we know today.”

Chu Ge was stunned when he heard this: "You mean, there really existed guys whose souls 'infinitely transferred', so why did their souls still wither?"

"You are also a soul transferer. Just ask yourself this question. Don't you think that every time you transfer your soul, it feels very refreshing, easy, and comfortable? During the process of soul transfer to different brains, you Wouldn’t your memories, emotions, ways of thinking, and self-awareness be affected in the slightest?”

Director Mu shook his head and said, "No, matter and consciousness complement each other. The so-called soul is originally a lightning spark conceived in the fleshy lump of the brain. As the saying goes, 'If there is no skin, there will be no hair'. Replace the brand new brain. Consciousness must also be different.

"Bai Ye's consciousness has only been in the mouse's brain for a few months, and it has changed from an excellent agent who is absolutely loyal to human civilization to an existence of 'half human, half mouse, superman and super mouse'. Fortunately, you put him in time. The soul was saved, otherwise, in another year and a half, I'm afraid he will become the most terrifying rat king.

"In the same way, you only stayed in the underground world for ten days and half a month. Think about it for yourself. During the few days when you just returned to the human body, was your thinking mode completely normal?"

Chu Ge was a little confused.

Until now, he dare not say that his thinking mode is absolutely normal.

A person's thinking, personality and memory are originally affected by various experiences. His soul once got into the body of a mouse and experienced so many thrills in the underground world.

"The so-called soul, whether it is fluctuations, magnetic fields or the purest energy, has problems of exhaustion, dissipation and interference, and most of human memory is a kind of messy redundant data."

Director Mu said, "Guys who call themselves the 'spirits of all things', in the final analysis, all evolved from a kind of hairless monkey. Our consciousness upgrade speed is too fast, so fast that the brain is far behind. pace.

"The human body and brain are designed to be used for a maximum of one hundred years, and the soul and brain cannot be separated for a long time - just like a mobile phone with a battery embedded in the motherboard.

"It sounds reasonable to try to realize the immortality of the soul through multiple soul transfers, replacing a brand new body, but in fact, every time the soul is transferred, the soul will be greatly disturbed, and, with the stored in the soul There are more and more redundant data, and the emotions derived from these memories are becoming more and more rich and contradictory. In the end, no matter how fresh the replacement flesh and blood is, the soul will collapse.

"We have encountered several soul shifters whose souls have collapsed. They are all smart people who tried to achieve immortality in this way. Now, they have all become dull-eyed, drooling, and don't even know the answer to one plus one. dementia and madmen."

"However, Amber is not crazy." Chu Ge said.

"That's right, that's why we don't believe that she is really an immortal." Director Mu said.

"Maybe not eternal life, but her body has lived for at least thousands of years." Chu Ge said.

"And what about the soul?"

Director Mu smiled and said, "This involves such a boring question as 'what is a human being', if human beings depend on flesh and blood, the way my partners and I are now is probably nothing. Above are humans."

"I understand what you mean, Director Mu, but Amber is different from those unlucky soul movers you mentioned. In the past thousand years, she has not changed her body." Chu Ge emphasized.

"This again depends on the definition of 'replacement body'."

Director Mu said, "A very classic problem - if a cargo ship carries a large amount of materials for repairing and building a ship when it goes out to sea, when it is riding the wind and waves at sea, every time it encounters damage to the ship, it will repair it by itself until it reaches the destination. When the ship landed, all the parts on and off the ship, even if the toilet and every screw on the ship were replaced several times, then, is the ship arriving at the destination the same ship as when it set off?

"In the same way, if Amber really achieves immortality through rapid cell renewal, is she now the same as she was thousands of years ago?

"Unfortunately, my soul-shifting partners and I believe that as the cells in my body are replaced one after another, the current Amber is no longer the South Island witch of thousands of years ago. Even in the depths of her brain, she still retains Some flashbacks from the past, but her sense of self and thought patterns are absolutely new, just an innocent young girl with a dark fate."

Director Mu looked at Amber, and said slowly and sincerely, "Here comes the important point. The point is, my fellow soul shifters and I, based on our own experience in transferring souls, think that even if we dismantle Amber into pieces and squeeze The so-called "immortal blood" gives us the ability to live forever. The cells in our body can divide, replicate and proliferate wildly, and our souls can never live forever.

"It won't take a thousand years, but in just a hundred years, brand-new memories, emotions, and thinking patterns will surely occupy our brains, and in a subtle way, erode our self-awareness and turn us into another guy who is beyond recognition .

"Everything we love, protect, and fight for today will be abandoned by this new existence; he will tire of everything we enjoy today, and like a child overturning blocks, he will wantonly destroy and even destroy. Total destruction; he would treat us today as an insignificant interlude in his long life, thereby obliterating the whole meaning of our existence.

"Therefore, on the way here, I have already discussed with my fellow soul shifters. No, we don't believe in the so-called 'eternal life', and we will not allow our unique and precious life to become a part of the long memory of the immortal. boring game."