I am the king of fighting!

Chapter 230 Research on the Brain

“Tick, tick.”

The sound of something liquid sliding down the wall echoed in the empty room.

【I'm alive?】

The unknown man opened his eyes in confusion, with a hint of inexplicable fear in his eyes.

What caught his eyes was the high ceiling, the floor and walls inlaid with bright white tiles, which were a bit dazzling under the light. A lot of blood, hair, teeth, and pieces of flesh were scattered all over the floor. The intense pain from his skin and brain made it impossible for him to think too much...

"You're awake."

A smiling face appeared in front of him. The man took a breath and the air got stuck in his throat. He kept making vague noises and his body twisted wildly. He looked down and saw a huge chest covered with thick hair and emitting a strong smell of body odor.

"Ah!" He screamed and fainted.

"Tsk." Lin Xi put his left hand on his chin, supported his left arm with his right arm, and looked at his experimental results. After a while, he clapped his hands and said, "It's decided. I'll call you Si Zai."

The original four-eyed boy finally has a name, which is a cause for celebration.

"Without being able to interfere with the mind, the bloody operation would be too torturous for those with weak wills."

He muttered to himself, feeling somewhat helpless for a moment. After Si Zai regained consciousness, the guy immediately committed suicide in a strange way. He had originally planned to perform a minor transformation to save his life, but during the bloody operation, his transformation addiction came back, and he applied some of the problems left over from before on a living person.

First of all, the pituitary gland. He had never touched either himself or Sudum. Si Zai said that once the pituitary gland began to change, the consequences were completely random. The sudden rapid development of breasts, milk, and a large amount of body hair proved one thing: the body's response to hormones is much greater than imagined. Hormones are not the more secreted, the better. Under normal circumstances, it is better not to modify them.

Then there is the exploration of the brain, which is more complicated.

As we all know, although the brain weighs only 2% of the human body, its blood flow accounts for 15% of the total blood flow of the heart, and its oxygen consumption can be as high as a quarter of the body's oxygen consumption. In addition, brain cells begin to increase in infancy and continue to increase until they reach the adult level and are no longer renewed. Even after the brain is damaged, new connection loops can only be formed through rehabilitation exercises to compensatory restore some of the dysfunctions.

To put it bluntly, brain cells will only die slowly after the brain is fully developed and mature, and the less they are used, the faster they die. So congratulations to all the handsome guys who read novels, liking to think is a good habit that will reduce the occurrence of brain diseases.

He speculated that the instinct of biological evolution would reject organs that would greatly increase the burden on the body. After the brain is formed, it is overburdened and naturally stops growing after reaching its limit, completely closing the growth channel. Therefore, the main reason for whether the brain grows or not is the body's ability to bear it.

But even without considering the brain structure, Lin Xi still didn't dare to increase brain cells at will. Even if a bloody operation could do it, he only dared to create a secondary brain to assist thinking, because the brain consumed too many nutrients and was inextricably linked to various parts of the body. The balance was very delicate. Ordinary humans might die quickly due to inexplicable problems in the brain, not to mention carrying out transformation under desperate circumstances?

The soul, mental strength, and consciousness seem to be separated from the body, but everything is based on the body and cannot be separated. Even the mental parasite Vega needs a body. Even if it will limit his own power, he dare not survive alone as a spirit. It can be seen that there is no soil in this world for pure spiritual bodies to live freely.

Lin Xi could glimpse some mysteries in those wronged souls. In the past one year or so of his life in Hong Kong Island, he knew that the wronged souls were often born out of obsession. Without gathering together, the ordinary wronged souls who died unjustly had almost no influence on the present world. Even if they had much attachment, resentment, and reluctance to the present world, they would still disappear quietly without anyone noticing.

How long the wronged souls can stay depends on their obsession, that is, the emotions and memories produced by the body in the last moment of life. However, after leaving the body, the obsession cannot be preserved permanently, and may even fade away much faster than expected.

After losing its obsession, the conscious body cannot obtain emotions through the physical body. It is just a piece of wood that is indifferent to everything. It would not be surprising even if it disappears.

Lin Xi speculated about this: Could the ocean of consciousness on Earth be created by the Earth itself? I'm afraid not.

To put it narrowly, consciousness comes from thinking, emotion comes from the body, and the combination of the two is human nature. If the earth itself has a sufficiently active mind and has produced human nature, it would not be possible for it to stay in its established orbit for countless years, selflessly revolving around the sun.

More importantly, he had read the character settings on the official SNK website. Orochi, the boss who was called the Will of the Earth by the Eight Heroes, was described in subsequent settings as 'a super life form produced by nature and with an unknown time of birth', which meant that his relationship with the Earth was actually like that of a mother and child, and had nothing to do with the Will of the Earth.

In the 97's appearance animation, Orochi clearly said "I am complete", and then was beaten into a dog by the three sacred artifacts and sealed again. This kind of decline in character quality actually tells players very clearly that Orochi is not that special to the Earth.

If the Earth really has enough thinking ability, and puts the giant snake and humans together, it is hard to say which of the two children the Earth will give up.

Even after awakening, the Eight Heroes who followed Orochi's will, except for the demonic man Storm Goenitz, all others were quite skeptical about whether to exterminate humanity. Even the three members of the band, the Shichikasha who committed suicide in exchange for the arrival of Orochi in a parallel dimension after the extermination of humanity, said with a dejected look on their faces, "It seems a bit boring."

Based on the above information, Lin Xi can speculate with a high probability that those consciousnesses that disappeared for no reason probably entered the ocean of consciousness of the earth and became part of it.

Having personally come into contact with the Earth's consciousness, he could even imagine that the birth of the giant snake was probably inseparable from the development of mankind.

I have gone so far in this topic, but actually I just want to talk about why Lin Xi is afraid of modifying his own brain. If there is a problem with his brain, he will have no room for error, and he will not have time to add any points. He will directly become the soul of an innocent person who committed suicide. It is so unfair that it cannot be more unfair.

He had never thought of doing human experiments before, after all, it was too cruel. It was Ah Hua who broke the impasse for him. After his big cat's body was transformed, its brain developed too rapidly. In less than two months, its intelligence was comparable to that of a teenager. It could understand most human languages, but due to different concepts, it still lived like a cat.

Then we return to the original conjecture. The body's ability to bear weight affects the growth of the brain. So when the body becomes stronger, can the limitations of the brain be removed?

Ah Hua gave him an answer, and he found more clues in himself. After becoming a fighter, his memory, spatial perception, and thinking speed became better and better, proving that his brain did not stagnate like ordinary people, but instead began to grow slowly as his body became stronger.

Conclusion: While the brain affects the body, it is also affected by changes in all aspects of the body.

After coming up with the theory, Lin Xi still lacked a test subject to verify the conclusion. Guess what? Hey, Si Zai stepped forward and volunteered to contribute to the development of human society.

Of course he couldn't let Si Zai's efforts go to waste, so he immediately gave the volunteer a full set of treatment, which took thirty-seven hours. The volunteer's strongest state was even better than Sudum's, and his physical fitness alone was comparable to his. The brain that was stimulated to grow quickly mastered the power of the body and also derived stronger mental power, trying to pretend to be unconscious and deceive him.

He is at his weakest now. After his body weakened, his stimulated brain has not changed. The high demand for nutrition causes brain cells to die at a high speed. After falling into coma seven or eight times in a row, this guy can't even remember his own name. Those brain cells have long been dead.

Like Sudum, during Sizi's transformation, he developed a strong fear of him, which has been engraved into his instincts, just like many animals that will go into shock when they see a predator. Without strong enough willpower, no matter how strong the strength and brain are, they can only pretend to be dead when facing him. After becoming weak, they dare not even look at him, as if he were some evil god from the Cthulhu series.

"It is correct to reasonably stimulate the growth of brain tissue. If the brain structure is not changed, there will be no obvious side effects. It can accelerate the changes in the body and increase mental strength. However, deletion and modification are currently taboos. After the increase in brain tissue, it is impossible to distinguish which part of the memory and function it represents. When the skull undergoes a large number of changes to the body, it needs to be broken open and expanded..."

Lin Xi wore gloves and wrote furiously in a notebook. His good memory was worse than his bad pen. Moreover, since others had not undergone bloody surgery, there was no way for them to replicate his notes even if they got them.

"The above information was provided by volunteer Si Zai, Si Zai will live forever."

After leaving a period, he nodded with satisfaction, closed the notebook, stuffed it into the plastic file bag together with the pen, picked up Sizai who was lying in a pool of blood, and there was a flash of lightning. Sizai trembled all over. After the missing nutrients were artificially supplemented, the pain on his face was relieved. He threw Sizai into the cage, holding the plastic file bag, opened the specially purchased fire hose with one hand, and flushed his own warehouse frantically, flushing all the filth hanging on the tiles into the sewer.

Standing at the door of the warehouse, Lin Xi's expression was almost squeezed together. He didn't feel anything when he stayed inside, but after coming out and smelling the fresh air, the smell inside was so stinky that it was scary. He fled away from the vicinity of the warehouse, took off his white coat, and ran straight to the nearest bathroom. He used half a bottle of shower gel before he could barely suppress the smell on his body.

After cleaning up and burning the stinking white coat, he went to the kitchen alone, grilled some meat, prepared the sauce, and then sat in the restaurant to feast on it.

"It's a bit lonely to live alone..."

After eating and drinking, he was too lazy to wash the dishes. Anyway, the servants would come to clean them early tomorrow morning, so he just threw them into the sink and lay lazily in the yard.

Chun-Li and Guile had left two days ago, Du Yao and Luo Qixi had long since disappeared, and Sudum was still in Hong Kong Island, but he had moved out for a while. All of a sudden, he was the only one living in the huge Deep Blue Martial Arts School, and he felt quite uncomfortable.

Oh, you mean Si Zai? Is it also considered a human?
In three days, the preliminary results of the Street Fighter tournament will be announced, and he should prepare to go to South Korea to participate in this Street Fighter tournament. Time flies.

It seems that Ah Hua and Si Zai can only be left to Hong Hu to take care of. Tsk, I don’t know if that big nose guy can take good care of Ah Hua. After all, after Ah Hua’s transformation, her strength is actually quite good. Oh, by the way, there is another person who can help take care of them——

Lin Xi turned over and stood up. He felt that there was a fighter approaching his martial arts gym, so he sensed it carefully.

"Abel?" When he walked to the front yard, the doorbell rang. When he opened the door, it was indeed the big man with scars all over his body. He took the initiative to ask, "What's the matter?"

After not seeing him for ten days, this ill-fated Shadow Luo clone looked much more confused.

"Mr. Lin, I feel a little... a little..." He tried to explain his feelings clearly, but he stood at the door and couldn't find the Chinese words he wanted to say.

After all, I have only started learning Chinese for more than two months.

"At a loss?" Lin Xi added, and then said, "Come in." He politely took Abel to the tea room, poured a cup of hot tea, took a sip, and asked again, "What happened?"

"I'm going to meet Abel. I mean, the... real guy." Abel finally said it in English. He was about to meet another 'Abel'. To be precise, that other person was the original. He was just a new clone who was temporarily activated and given the same memory and personality.

The love for Feilong movies, the memories of getting along with his benefactor, the precious memories after joining Interpol... everything seems like a dream.

"You should speak English. I can understand you." Lin Xi was in a rare good mood and wanted to chat with someone, but the poor Chinese and occasional English made her emotions incoherent, so she spoke quickly.

Abel nodded and continued, "I want to know, Mr. Lin, what do you think about this matter?" In his opinion, the strongest person he knew was Lin Xi, and the most handsome person was also Lin Xi. At important junctures in his life, he instinctively wanted to seek advice from the other party.

"Me?" Lin Xi stroked the teacup and smiled softly, "What do you think is living?"

"Alive?" Abel was stunned for a moment before he slowly answered, "My heart is beating, I have my own goals, I try to live the life I want, and I have real memories..."

As he spoke, his voice became very low.

The Japanese version of SNK's official website has the settings of all the characters in The King of Fighters, but the Chinese version does not, so I can only take screenshots of the Japanese version. However, I can probably see the Chinese characters for "supernatural life form", so it shouldn't be a problem to understand...

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