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Patient Zero hesitated for a moment:

"leave--"

"It's probably a technology that can launch people out of the universe. At least from the perspective of other observers, the person who has undergone 'separation' has completely disappeared and can no longer be observed."

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This answer was beyond Fang Bailu's expectations:

"But this does not conform to the law of conservation of mass and energy - you can't annihilate a human being or this mass out of thin air; it must have been transformed into another form and continued to exist."

Even if he possessed the Double Helix Tree, it did not mean that Fang Bailu had reached the realm of omniscience: he still did not possess the knowledge in this field, unless he devoured the next scholar who had a rich reserve of knowledge in this area.

He could only rely on the little understanding he had from his previous life to answer his questions.

Embarrassment once again appeared on the face of Patient Zero:

"As I said before, I am a half-baked person. If you ask me these questions, I certainly can't tell you the answers."

"Parting is like a bullet in a magazine - but the technology to make this 'bullet' has not been preserved in the New World... Even the method of how to make gunpowder has been lost."

Fang Bailu shook his head slightly - he knew that what Patient Zero said was the truth. At least, that was what the old man firmly believed in his heart.

Fang Bailu could not give a reasonable explanation for the sudden disappearance of the clay man: perhaps it was the result of some ultimate weapon in the "Golden Age" or "Wandering Age", and the clay man might not have been really "launched out of the universe".

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Fang Bailu suddenly realized something:

"Wait...you mean to say that the old humans all performed this 'parting' on themselves?!"

To understand in what he heard...

This separation sounds closer to a more thorough "suicide" than conventional means.

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Patient Zero nodded:

"Most of it...believe it or not, it was extremely chaotic."

He didn't seem to like what Fang Bailu was implying.

Fang Bailu continued to explore this topic - he did not believe that humans who had created such brilliant achievements would choose such a weird way to perish:

"So what will happen after the 'farewell' is carried out?"

Patient Zero raised three fingers:

"There were probably three mainstream views at the time: I will now slowly introduce them to you."

Fang Bailu realized the subtext of this sentence:

"That means you can't even be sure what will happen - after 'separation', it's most likely just death."

Patient Zero neither nodded nor shook his head:

"I believe that after you listen to my introduction, you will have a different opinion."

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Chapter 350: Farewell (Part )

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Patient Zero retracted his hand and extended his first finger again:

"The first thing that happens is what we call the 'reincarnation.'"

"Before you understand the 'reincarnation', I want to ask you a question: Have you ever experienced death?"

Fang Bailu thought of his head that was cut off from his torso:

"According to the old standards, I have been medically dead for at least a long time. But if we use the standards set by the Microcomputer Taoism Research Society, I have been alive all my life."

Less than 25% of the brain tissue is left, or there is no longer any copy of the neural network; for the Microcomputer Science Research Society, it is considered death.

Patient Zero smiled:

"Then you must not know what it feels like to die."

Fang Bailu frowned:

"I see you are a great talker: and you fancy that you are witty."

Patient Zero seemed to enjoy this minor offense:

"I can tell you this - after performing 'Separation', humans who enter the state of recovery can make up for all the regrets in their lives."

"To make it easier for you to understand... from now on, I will call humans who have entered the Resurrection State 'Resurrectionists'."

Rebirth...Rebirth?

Fang Bailu suddenly realized that there were two other words before this word:

"Oh - it goes round and round, huh?"

"It's a loop: right? A time loop. So they can 'make amends'."

Patient Zero nodded with satisfaction:

"I wanted to compliment you on your acumen - but as you said, this is not a very difficult puzzle; you have the answer, literally."

"Death... Many, many people are afraid of death, afraid of its coming. Because we don't know what it is--"

"But in reality, everyone has experienced what death is like."

"Before you and I were born: the universe had already passed through thousands and thousands of years - since I was not born at that time, then I was immersed in death at that time."

Fang Bailu didn't like the meaning of his words:

"You mean: to equate the state of 'death' with the state of 'unborn' - before life is after death."

Patient Zero continued:

“If you enter the recurrence: then you will know that apart from our short and long life…there is nothing else in the universe.”

"In the 'resurrection', the dead will return again and again to the beginning of their life - but with the memory of the past life."

"There is no real death: when the life of the Resurrectionist ends, it is the beginning of another life."

Fang Bailu thought of a similar analogy:

"Isn't this rebirth? Soul travel? Going back to the past with consciousness? I've read a lot of similar novels—"

"But what you mean is undoubtedly trying to impose a so-called 'soul'-like existence: will an egg, sperm, or embryo have enough brain tissue to accommodate memories? And even if we leave this aside. According to what you said - after hundreds or thousands of lifetimes... one day, the memory of this 'Resurrectionist' will exceed the limit of his brain capacity."

"You're suggesting that there is some medium, beyond the body and brain, even beyond time and space, that carries memories? Let me be clear: I think the idea of ​​a soul existing apart from the body is absurd."

Through those high-power lenses, Patient Zero's eyes seemed to be somewhere else:

“Whether humans have souls—whether there is some spiritual substance that transcends the weight of matter: I don’t know. Perhaps humans will never find the answer to this question.”

"But I can be sure that the principle of 'reincarnation' is definitely not what you said."

Fang Bailu waved his hand, signaling him to speak quickly.

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"We all know that there may be no such thing as 'time' in the popular sense - although everything passes by us like flowing water."

“‘Time’ is a concept that humans have created and defined through language: to help us understand the world… to protect our consciousness and shape our thinking.”

“So ‘time’ could of course just be an illusion in human cognition – it’s even possible that we can change this cognition through the brain itself.”

Fang Bailu suddenly realized that in his memory, there were literary works similar to what Patient Zero said:

"Oh! You mean 'The Drunken Man'. I've read that novel."

Patient Zero nodded:

"It seems that your knowledge is more extensive than I thought - this way, I can save myself a lot of trouble."

"You should understand what I mean better..."

"Those who have been reborn, they don't have an invisible or intangible 'soul' from outside or inside their bodies to preserve this memory for them."

"Quite the opposite: The Reincarnators use their brains and consciousness to 'time travel'."

"When they die, they will return to the moment when their life began - and before they die, they can also jump to every set node in their life."

"For the vast majority of people, I don't think there's anything to complain about in this way of existence."

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After a brief silence, Fang Bailu responded:

"...You know, the way to immortality in my hand is the 'Double Helix Wonderful Tree'."

Patient Zero raised his glasses slightly, waiting for Fang Bailu's next words.

"I know the human body well: even if I can't express it completely in words, but—"

"At least I haven't discovered that humans have...brain organs like in novels. If they did, you wouldn't be here talking to me right now. In the Golden Age, you would be able to travel through time and correct all the mistakes."

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Patient Zero agrees:

"You are correct about the human body: whether it is the original human body or the organs cultivated by the technology we have later - humans do not have the ability to travel through time relying solely on the mind, consciousness and brain."

“It doesn’t fit in with the way the physical world works. It doesn’t make sense: maybe you could say that.”

Fang Bailu said: "I guess you are going to say 'but'."

Patient Zero couldn't help laughing:

"Haha... You're right - although the involvement is very complicated, we finally found out... It would be more correct to say that this technology cannot be achieved before the 'separation' occurs."

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"As I said before: 'Separation' is a means of extracting humans from the world and launching them into the outer universe—"

"If, before the separation, the brain is modified with the corresponding technology, it's not something particularly powerful, just an external brain gland..."

"Then after separation, the situation of 'reincarnation' should occur."

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Chapter 351 Farewell (End)

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Fang Bailu shook his head. He still did not agree with the other party's statement:

"Can it be verified? Have you verified it? The so-called Reincarnators you mentioned - they really are outside the universe, experiencing a seemingly real life again and again: over and over again..."

"Or did they simply die, perish, and disappear?"

"You just made me realize once again that 'Goodbye' is nothing more than a large-scale collective suicide in human history."

The reflection from the lenses obscured Patient Zero's eyes:

“No one can return to our world again: therefore, in the end we are unable to determine the final fate of the Resurrected.”

"But at the same time ... we believe that calculations don't lie."

Fang Bailu was somewhat disdainful of such an answer:

"Really? But you are just a layman who doesn't understand calculations."

"However, I don't mind thinking about this problem according to your way of thinking - assuming that "Separation-Rebirth" is real, and not a suicide method designed to avoid human self-destruction..."