Quadruple split.

Chapter 1036 The so-called soul

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Academy City Comprehensive Library, the thirty-ninth area, the fourth forbidden area
Accompanied by a hazy twilight flash, two figures quietly appeared in this mounting space that had been sealed off by some invisible force long ago, covering all surveillance methods.

One of them was Mo Tan, who was drenched in cold sweat because of being in the [■ Infected] state for a long time, the character's body repeatedly collapsed and then forcibly restored to its original state.

The other one is the former Pope of the Dawn Sect, Saint Luke Tifero, who is gray-haired, wearing a gray robe, and has two goatees.

"Okay, we're back."

The old pope, who had lost his youth again, grinned, and patted Mo Tan's shoulder vigorously: "Look, even if you leave my nineteenth holy step, your body still hasn't collapsed."

Mo Tan breathed a sigh of relief, curled his lips and said, "I'm not worried about this, after all, you old man is a 'half-step myth' fierce person, even if you can come up with something that goes against common sense, it's not surprising."

"Then your half-dead virtue..."

Tifero raised his eyebrows, and asked with a smile, "Are you worried about what bad effects our 'plan' will have on you?"

"Perhaps there is a reason for that."

Mo Tan sighed, and murmured with a complicated expression: "To be honest, I don't even know what I'm worried about. If I can, at least for me now, I really don't want to think about those messy things. ... But then again, are you sure you believe what I said just now, which is almost a fantasy?"

Tiferro shrugged and said indifferently: "Why don't you believe me? You have no reason to lie to me, although what's been discovered since I was a child that there are some problems in my soul, and these problems have left you in our world The control of your body may have become an independent existence now, and the dreaded power on you is the residue of that problem' This kind of thing is really outrageous, and you probably didn't fully explain it for the convenience of my understanding or other reasons The truth, but that doesn't stop me from trusting you."

Mo Tan smiled dryly and twitched the corners of his mouth: "That's really... Thank you for understanding..."

"There is nothing I don't understand, just as I can't imagine a country that can't perceive elements, has no gods, and everyone's physical fitness is extremely weak, but miraculously exists countless or convenient, or esoteric, or extremely destructive tools Hei Fan, you don't know how the world you are in now is... um, amazing?"

While deliberating over his words, Tifero slowly said to Mo Tan: "Perhaps in your world, the word soul itself is an unknowable false proposition, but in my cognition, something like soul is always It exists, and although this knowledge belongs to the most advanced subject in occultism, fortunately, I have paid a little attention to this aspect in the process of searching for salvation, so I can understand."

Mo Tan nodded, and then said dryly: "May I ask, what do you mean by 'paying a little attention'?"

"Specifically, it's not that there are people in this world who are more accomplished than me in terms of soul, but they must be very, very few. Hey, don't show such an annoying expression. I'm born to learn things quickly, and I don't like it. .”

Tifero waved his hand embarrassingly, and continued: "In short, in the world you and I are in now, there are many ways and means to affect the soul or simply tamper with it, for example, through some Divide one's soul into several parts by means of shady means, and attach them to various possessions. In this way, even if one of them is destroyed, it is still possible to complete the "resurrection from death" thing. "

Mo Tan frowned and asked curiously, "Undead magic?"

"It's black magic, that thing is much weirder than undead magic."

Tifero shook his head slightly, and then touched the tip of his nose again: "Uh, it seems that I can't say that completely, anyway, that's the thing."

And Mo Tan immediately raised another doubt: "Wait a minute, I can understand what you just said about dividing the soul into several parts, but there is a problem in it. For example, for example, when I was a child During the period, the soul was divided into several parts, and then I was beaten to death by you just now as the main body, so wouldn't the memory of me who was "resurrected" through those souls stay in my childhood? "

Tifero did not give an answer immediately, but asked instead: "Why?"

"Because you think, I can actually call it a 'brain', right? Hands, feet, and a heart are all tools, but the core of everything is the brain, like Gundam... Uh, well, you don't know what Gundam is, Just like an engineering tank."

Mo Tan tried hard to make the other party understand his thoughts, and said with gestures: "Assuming the 'brain' is the driver of this chariot, then the body is the car itself, so strictly speaking, the existence of Hei Fan In fact, it should be 'Black Brahman's brain', because even if I lack arms and legs, I am still Black Brahman, but if I lose my brain, I am not, so do you understand?"

"Understood, what you mean is that the soul has no brains."

Tifero made a succinct summary, then shook his head and said: "I have a different opinion on this. I think that although the brain is a very important component, the most essential existence is still the 'soul'."

Although he is not a staunch materialist, and he doesn't have much respect for Mr. Darwinda (does this topic really have something to do with Mr. Da), Mo Tan still shook his head: "It's hard for me to understand, uh , or accept your explanation, after all, in my opinion..."

Tifero briskly interrupted Mo Tan, and asked the latter with a smile: "In your opinion, only memory, personality, and other things determined by the brain are 'you' and 'Hei Fan'. Is it right?"

After a moment of silence, Mo Tan nodded hesitantly: "Not exactly...but it's probably like this."

"In that case, let me give you an example."

Tifero smiled, and said leisurely: "Suppose, I have almost omnipotent power that is countless times stronger than now, and then at this very moment, I will transform you into you through the power that I knew that day. It became a placenta."

Mo Tan glared at him fiercely.

"Uh, well, turned you into a baby."

Tifero coughed lightly, changed his words quickly, and continued: "Then erased all your memories and sent you to any family that lacks children for adoption. In this way, first of all, you will become As a baby, you have no memory, and secondly, depending on the environment in which you grew up, that baby’s life will be completely different from what you have experienced in the past, then the problem comes..."

Mo Tan didn't let Tifero finish his sentence, but squinted his eyes and answered quickly: "What you want to ask is, is that person... still me?"

"Yes, you are indeed very smart."

Tifero chuckled, and then directly gave his own explanation: "Look, I directly overturned your hypothesis about the 'existence of Black Brahman' just now, and killed what is in your mind now, but can you say that person is not 'Black Van'? Of course you can't say that, and the reason why you can't say that is the soul in my eyes."

Mo Tan fell into silence.

"In other words, even if I have the creator-like ability to create a living body that is exactly the same as the young man in front of me in terms of memory, personality, and body, that person is not Black Brahma."

Tifero smiled, then stroked the tip of his beard and said with a smile: "It's a bit far away, now let's go back to your question just now, I can tell you very clearly that even if you are 1 year old Take out a part of your soul and die at the age of 20, so as long as you can 'resurrect' with that part of your soul, then you are still the same you at the age of 20."

Mo Tan's eyes widened in surprise, and he asked puzzledly, "Why?"

"Because no matter how fragmented the soul is, it still has the characteristics of 'completeness', or in other words, even if the soul is no longer 'complete', as long as they have been complete, there will be a kind of relationship between them that even I can't understand. Explanation link."

Tifero laughed, shaking his fingers and said: "And decades of memory, even a weak soul is enough to carry it, unless..."

Mo Tan subconsciously held his breath for some reason, and asked softly, "Unless what?"

"Unless this 'complete' feature is completely broken."

Tiferro looked serious, and said lightly: "But that is a deeper concept than 'separating the soul', or a delusion, I think that if you can run wildly at a speed that exceeds the speed of Condensation It’s not realistic to be young.”

【Isn't it realistic...? 】

For some reason, even though what Tifero said was very reasonable, and he even gave a fashionable example of "faster than the speed of light will turn back time" quite ahead of time, Motan still subconsciously felt a sense of uneasiness, and this The source of his uneasiness was his deep doubts about what Tifero said.

In the end, before he could open his mouth to question, the old pope himself questioned it first...

"But according to what you said before, if a part of you is really separated by... er, don't mind me just describing it casually, the soul that is 'polluted' is separated, then according to the characteristics of the soul, you should also be able to perceive it all the time. , resonate, or sync the memory of the 'other', but in reality you're pretty darn clueless other than knowing that 'the thing' might actually exist."

Tifero tapped his forehead in distress, and after a while he sighed deeply: "Well, I must admit that this question really stumps me."

"You can think on the bright side."

But Mo Tan shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Since I can't perceive that side, then if... I mean, if 'there' really exists, wouldn't it also be unable to perceive my side."

Tiferro nodded and smiled optimistically: "That's true, otherwise the plans we made would be meaningless."

"Seriously, you old man can't think of a way to use a super magic spell or something to find out all the things in this world that have the same characteristics as the state I was in just now?"

Mo Tan squinted his eyes, and teased the old man in front of him who couldn't be serious no matter what: "Aren't you a myth?"

"It's a half-step myth! Half-step, do you understand what half-step means?"

Tefero gritted his teeth, blew his beard and stared and said: "If you have completely entered the Mythical Stage, then you will be in the realm of the true god! That is the realm of the true god! I am such a pious person, how dare I sit on an equal footing with my lord!"

[Fart your mother, what the hell are you afraid of?Oh yes, you dare not confront Xiao Xia Lian head-on, you are so cowardly. 】

Tifero: "..."

Mo Tan: "..."

A moment later
"Can I kill you to silence you?"

Tifero asked Mo Tan cautiously.

"You can give it a try. I guarantee that by this time tomorrow, most of the 'outsiders' will know about your crap."

Mo Tan replied to the old Pope with a half-smile.

"Don't mind, don't mind, I'll just say that, and you'll just listen to it..."

Tiferro shrank his neck, then coughed lightly, and said seriously: "And even if I enter the Mythic Stage, I'm afraid I can't do what you said."

Mo Tan narrowed his eyes: "How do you say?"

"Although it's just a hypothesis, if I'm not wrong, after entering the myth, the power should be enough."

Tifero looked down at his loose skin and hands with many age spots with complicated eyes, and murmured: "But I will probably be rejected by this world..."

"Exclusion?"

Mo Tan blinked in confusion.

"There is no doubt that there is a god in this world, but do you think 'there is a god in this world'?"

Tiffero lightly uttered a sentence that sounded quite profound.

"I understand."

Mo Tan nodded, then frowned lightly and guessed: "Could it be that you have already been able to break through to the complete myth level, but you have stayed at the current level just because you don't want to be rejected by this world. ?”

Tifero laughed, waved his hands and said: "That's not true, I really can't pass that threshold, what I told you just now is just a faint premonition, the reason why I take it seriously is because I am a bad person. His premonitions have always been accurate.”

Mo Tan shrugged: "Simply put, even that kind of thing can't be done by God."

"That's right, but if it's an existence beyond mythology... Maybe it can perfectly grasp the whereabouts of your polluted soul..."

"Hey, hey, you're trying to collapse the power system! There's still something on the myth?!"

"I'm not sure if I have, but... I vaguely felt that power once..."

"What power?"

"A power that is above God, above everything, and above everything."

Chapter [-]: The End
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