Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 703 You're a Bit Too Legendary

After Monica finished speaking, she raised her head, crossed her arms in front of her chest, and gave me a "praise me" look.

The crew cabin fell silent for a moment.

After a long while, Zoe finally spoke softly, "As expected of a legendary doctor, she is indeed different."

Monica's tail tip stiffened.

Gaia burst out laughing, and Monica couldn't sit still any longer. She shouted in protest, "Wait, don't laugh! I'm serious! This plan is feasible! Don't laugh!"

Gaia rubbed her stomach as she spoke, "Okay, okay, we won't laugh, you can continue~"

Monica glared at her angrily before explaining, "You might not know, but we recently acquired some technical documents from the Mechanical Sanctuary."

Gaia and Zoe turned to look at Beatrice and couldn't help but laugh out loud again.

"Wow, none of you are listening properly! That document contains information on replacing the body with machinery. Beatrice's body is about to break down, right? Just amputate the parts that are breaking down, replace them with steel ones to make do for now, then put her body in the stellar furnace to burn it clean, and then take it out and use it. Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

When this plan was presented, all three of them were somewhat stunned.

Monica's words seem to make some sense.

This plan, in terms of each step alone, seems feasible and there doesn't seem to be any problem, but...
But when put together, it just feels so absurd!

The three of them were caught in a strange cycle of "something feeling wrong, but not being able to pinpoint what it was."

After a while, Zoe seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stood up: "I wasn't wrong! You see, she also suggested putting it in the stellar furnace! Good ideas always come from the same mind!"

Gaia: "."

Beatrice: "."

Monica: "?"

Finally, Beatrice hesitated for a long time before weakly saying, "Um... is there a more conventional option? This treatment plan is a bit... a bit..."

That's a bit too much of a legend.

She now understood why Gaia and Zoe reacted so strongly when they heard that the legendary doctor had arrived.

This legendary doctor is truly legendary; even the treatment plan he proposed was so extraordinary.

Gaia nodded in agreement: "I also disagree with this plan to split up."

Her expression turned serious: "Have you considered this question: after Beatrice's amputation, where did the contamination come from? In her mouth, in her neck, or at the stump?"

Beatrice listened in disbelief; how did this topic suddenly become so bizarre?

“That should be the cut, right? After all, it’s connected to the stomach there,” Zoe replied hesitantly.

However, Gaia shook her head.

"You have to understand that pollution is not a complete physical existence. Otherwise, Beatrice's small body could not contain so much pollution. In other words, the appearance of pollution is related to her subjective consciousness. Her will solidified the erosion of the Sea of ​​Ignorance into pollution, and her breath was just a way of manifesting it."

"In other words, even if you amputate all the limbs of her contaminated body, she can still spit out contamination from her mouth. Even if you separate her mouth, she will still spit out contamination from what she thinks is her 'mouth'!"

This statement is quite surprising, but upon closer examination, it is indeed true.

Superhumans do indeed live in the material world, but their very existence is a distortion of reality. For example, the fact that Nora can still speak even though she's just a head is illogical.

Without lungs, how can we breathe? Without breathing, how can airflow pass through the vocal cords? And where does the sound come from?
Not to mention, she couldn't even say whether her vocal cords were in the upper or lower part of her neck.

But she could speak. She felt that she could speak, and the people around her thought that it was "normal" for her to be able to speak, so she really could speak.

This is indeed cognitive interference, but the extraordinary individuals have already crossed the high wall of reality and have an "anchor point" in the sea of ​​ignorance. Their stable and firm cognition can slightly change the real world.

In terms of their behavior, the world seems to be more "tolerant" of them.

But this can also cause problems, as seen in Beatrice's case, where the discrepancy between her perception and reality can lead to the failure of many treatments.

“I even think your treatment method is not as good as Gwen’s, after all, she really can heal people.”

The Silent Church's use of flails for proselytizing is no joke; they can genuinely use the flail as a link to stir up the sea of ​​ignorance and forcibly instill (hammer) knowledge into the minds of others.

Gwen simply replaced the indoctrination of doctrine with the indoctrination of healing power, which makes perfect sense from a transcendental perspective.

"So I'm not even as good as Gwen!?" Monica took two steps back in shock, muttering to herself in disbelief.

Gaia and Zoe both laughed.

While Monica, Gaia, and Zoe were discussing treatment plans, Beatrice, standing nearby, seemed to be deep in thought.

Although she was surprised to see Monica, she remained calm and composed.

Those are living, breathing aliens. Even under normal circumstances, let alone in their current terrible state, their rationality would be shaken.

But no, I didn't feel anything at all.

"Could it be because of the whispers?"

Beatrice bit her lip. She hadn't sought help from that strange entity again, yet she still received this stable effect. Why was that?
Is it
Beatrice turned her head and looked at Castel, who was getting closer and closer.

The legendary doctor was unable to come up with a stable treatment plan until the very end. She came up with a few more methods later, but they were all rejected because they were too outrageous.

In the end, the plan was simply to "observe and see first."

To put it simply, I haven't gone crazy yet; we'll see when I do.

The airship docked at Castel's airport. The group opened the hatch and cautiously looked at Beatrice: "Do you want to come down blindfolded?"

"Uh, why?"

“Castel has a lot of new things, machinery, factories and stuff; you might be intimidated by what you see.”

Beatrice scratched her head, somewhat bewildered. After all, she came from the Rhineland and had seen everything from steam engines to factories.

Not to mention that she later became the Pope of the Mechanical Sanctuary. Although it was just a title, she had seen many of the Sanctuary's relics, including beings like the Gear Sage. What could possibly frighten her?
Has Hughes become an evil god? Has Castel stood up?

Beatrice was amused by her own thoughts, and her mood actually relaxed a lot.

As for something as large as the Sky Veil Beast, it might indeed frighten her, but she came by airship and had already seen it from the air; there were no such enormous creatures on the island.

She is, after all, the pope of two major churches and the empress of an empire. It's just an industrial city; it won't scare her.

(End of this chapter)