V2/Chapter 24: The Ultimate Answer of the Universe is Love
Whether the soul really exists, no matter in which world, is a highly controversial topic.
Ai Yue certainly believed that the soul did exist. After all, if it didn't exist, his own transmigration could not be explained at all. However, as for how to concretize this abstract concept and apply it to scientific research, it was not something that could be solved by just saying "believe".
After all, here, "belief" can't change anything.
"I don't believe in miracles... Well, I didn't believe it before." Mobius continued, but she looked at Ai Yue again and finally changed her words, "The success rate of fusion warrior surgery was basically zero before you intervened. But even so, we still have so many successful cases. Should we attribute them all to miracles?"
"I think there must be an important factor that cannot be quantified at work." Seeing that Ai Yue did not speak, Mobius continued, "The appearance of Aponia fills the last gap in this theory, allowing me to draw this conclusion - regardless of whether the soul really exists, the strength of the mental power does affect the outcome of the operation."
"Does mental power have a specific quantitative unit now?" Ai Yue asked.
"The specific standards are still in the drafting stage, and the relevant mental power detection equipment also needs someone to develop it." Mobius glanced at Ai Yue, "But our strongest equipment developers are working on it for you, so how can they care about my needs?"
"Then wait a little longer." Ai Yue patted her shoulder, "If not, I'll make you a temporary one later."
"You said so. Starting tomorrow, I will call you three times a day to urge you to do it." Mobius immediately smiled with satisfaction. "Okay, let's get back to business. There is another piece of data to prove my theory."
She opened another file, and soon, countless films filled the display screen, all of which showed different brain scan results, each one was different.
"The normal ones at the top are the brain scan results of several fusion warriors, including me." Mobius' finger slid down along the top results, "And the ones below are arranged from lightest to most severe according to the degree of distortion of the failed cases."
Mobius was considerate enough to write down the results of the failed cases on the edge of the film, from "direct death" at the beginning, to "still possessing the basic structure of the human body", and finally to "completely deformed and transformed into bestiality". One can see a normal brain gradually shrinking and twisting, and finally even developing into a weird mutation. It is completely impossible to tell that it was once a human brain. Even ordinary people who don't understand scientific research at all will feel terrified when seeing this series of changes.
"There is a positive correlation between the degree of brain erosion and the degree of distortion," Ai Yue nodded. "That's within my expectations, but how do we prove the causal relationship between them?"
According to Mobius, there is an obvious causal relationship between the distortion of the brain and the distortion of the body. The degree of distortion of the brain determines the degree of distortion of the body. However, it is also entirely possible that such a causal relationship is the other way around, that is, the degree of distortion of the body determines the degree of distortion of the brain.
Obviously, these films alone cannot reveal the role of mental power or the soul.
"Yes, it is because we cannot rely on failed cases alone to prove whether the mental breakdown caused the complete deformation of the body, or the excessive deformation of the body caused the complete mental breakdown, so we need an actual case," said Mobius. "If there is a person who can still maintain rationality after entering the super-transformation state, my theory will be truly established."
"Kosma is indeed the best candidate. Vishnu's genes have growth potential, and they are controllable to a certain extent." Ai Yue nodded, "But for overweight and super mutation, there are still many uncontrollable difficulties that need to be solved, so you'd better not think about Kosma."
"I haven't considered using him for experiments," Mobius laughed, "because he's not the best choice yet."
"You'd better take it easy." Ai Yue glanced at her and knew what Mobius was thinking. "You seem to have shrunk quite obviously in the past few days. You've even started wearing high heels."
He glanced at Mobius's feet - before, she would never choose to wear high heels into the laboratory, but now in order to maintain her height, she had to change into this uncomfortable thing.
"Oh, I've been discovered after all," Mobius sighed hypocritically, and finally stood up. "Don't worry, I have more important scientific research projects ahead of me. I won't do this kind of experiment. If the hypertransformation is irreversible, then even if I can be reborn, I'm afraid I won't be able to eliminate its side effects. Before there are enough suitable test subjects, I can't let my precious brain be damaged."
After saying that, she smiled and stood in front of Ai Yue, gesturing the difference between the two of them: "After putting this on, I am a little taller than before. No wonder some people like to wear this kind of thing."
"If you die a few more times, you'll have to walk on stilts." Ai Yue said expressionlessly, "It's decided. When it's your birthday, I'll give you a pair of stilts as a birthday present."
"You, are you doing this on purpose?" Mobius rolled her eyes. "Don't you even know how to compliment someone?"
"You still care about this kind of thing?" Ai Yue sneered, turned around and walked outside, "I'll leave Kosma's blood with you, remember to save it."
"He seems to be always available, so why not just look for him when I'm done with him?" Mobius didn't care at all, and at the same time, an idea came to her mind.
'If I go to see Kosma in the name of Ai Yue, can I really trick him into going to the operating table?'
"Don't use my name to cheat people," Ai Yue knew what she was thinking as soon as he saw her expression. "If I find out, I will send all your research funds to Vill-V!"
After saying this, Ai Yue left Mobius's research institute.
But the words the other party said still echoed in Ai Yue's mind.
Mobius didn't know that what Ai Yue cared about most in her words was not the soul or the spirit, but "emotion".
He vaguely remembered that in the original plot, Kosma's first overweight transformation occurred after Ato's death, and his disappointment and anger towards Fire Moth and Kevin reached their extreme.
In the next generation, Otto also proposed a similar theory, believing that as long as the emotions are strong enough, one can break free from the original constraints of the Herrscher and rely on one's own will to control the power from the Honkai.
Plus the "fragment of will" from an unknown person hidden in the Honkai energy...
'Could it be that feelings are really the ultimate answer?'