The magnetic field rotation that began in Jujutsu Kaisen

By the time we got back to base, it was almost dawn.

Dong Yangping placed the brain, which was trapped in a magnetic field cage, into a specially made container in the laboratory and let out a long breath.

Shen Er stood to the side, looking at the container with a somewhat complicated expression.

"What do you plan to do with this?"

Dongyang Ping thought for a moment.

"Actually, I wanted to chop it up before, since it really isn't a good thing."

"But I've changed my mind. This is a treasure. It's lived for over a thousand years—actually, I have some doubts about whether it really has lived for over a thousand years."

"Having lived for over a thousand years and ended up like this, I've really wasted my life. And yet, the world is so small, just staring at the world of magic and the little things humans have. It's so boring."

Ninety-Nine Yuki: "???"

Shen Er: "???"

Both of them were somewhat confused.

Dong Yangping didn't say anything more, but instead looked at Tian Ni Mou, who was stuck in Lu Suo's head.

Dong Yangping is now thinking about how to get Lu Suo to work for him willingly.

"I'll keep this for now."

"Okay." Shen Er nodded in agreement, "Anyway, I don't need it right now."

Shen Er seemed to be thinking about something, then glanced at Dong Yangping.

I'm planning to take a vacation.

Dong Yangping was stunned for a moment.

"take a vacation?"

"Okay." Shen Er nodded. "Take Huihui and Hui out for a walk. It's been so long since I've had time to take them out to play."

Dong Yangping clicked his tongue a few times, a maternal smile on his face.

"Go ahead. How long?"

"Two months."

"Okay," Dong Yangping said. "I'll approve the funding. Is ten million enough?"

She raised an eyebrow.

"So many?"

"If you're bringing your wife and kids, of course you want the best."

Dong Yangping patted him on the shoulder: "I'll have Tanaka find you a professional tour guide and arrange the best hotels. Have fun."

Shen Er looked at him with a somewhat complicated expression.

Thanks.

"Don't mention it."

Dong Yangping joked, "If it weren't for you keeping the company afloat this past year, I probably wouldn't even be able to afford a meal when I got back."

Shen Er didn't say anything.

But the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

Shen Er left.

Only Dong Yangping and Jiujiu Youji remained in the laboratory.

Yuki sat in the chair, staring at the specially made container with a somewhat subtle expression.

"Are you really going to keep it?"

"Um."

"Aren't you afraid it will run away?"

"They can't escape."

Dong Yangping pointed to the container, "This thing was specially designed by Yamada. Its magnetic field strength can be adjusted to a hundred times that of the Earth's magnetic field. With my magnetic field blockade, it can't even move."

"What's more, Tian Ni Mou is still stuck up there."

Yuki Tsukumo asked curiously, "What exactly do you want to do?"

Dong Yangping did not answer immediately.

He walked to the window and looked at the sky outside, which was gradually brightening.

"Yuki, tell me, what would a person who has lived for a thousand years lack most?"

Tsukumo Yuki paused for a moment.

"What?"

"Lu Suo".

Dong Yangping said, "It has lived for over a thousand years. It has seen countless people, experienced countless events, and plotted countless conspiracies. It has done everything it should have done and experienced everything it should have experienced."

He turned around.

"So what does it want most right now?"

Yuki Tsukumo thought for a moment.

"have no idea."

"pleasure."

Dong Yangping said, "It does those things not for any grand goal, but simply because—it's bored."

For a madman like Lu Suo, all that talk about the evolution of all humanity and other nonsense is just for fun.

That's understandable, given how long they've lived.

Dong Yangping walked to the container and looked down at the quiet brain inside.

"Having lived this long, I've seen and done everything. All that's left is to find some fun."

Ninety-nine Yuki frowned.

"So you plan to..."

"Let's find some fun for it," Dong Yangping laughed. "Something even bigger."

Dong Yangping raised his hand, and a blue arc of electricity crackled at his fingertips.

Apply lightly to the container.

The electric current penetrated the magnetic field and entered that brain.

A few seconds later, a ripple came from inside the container.

Lu Suo woke up.

Its consciousness returned from its slumber, and it immediately perceived the surrounding situation.

Magnetic field blockade.

Technique seal.

The power of the curse is isolated.

There is nowhere to escape.

"Awake?" Dong Yangping's voice came from outside.

Lu Suo remained silent for a few seconds.

Then it opened, and the sound was transmitted through vibrations.

"What do you want?"

Dongyangping sat down in front of the container and looked at it.

Let's chat.

"What are you going to talk about?"

"Let's talk about your past thousand years."

Lu Suo was stunned for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

"I ask you," Dong Yangping said, "having lived this long, how much do you really know about this world?"

Lu Suo fell silent.

Dong Yangping continued.

"How many bodies have you changed? How many conspiracies have you plotted? How many people have you killed? How much history have you altered?"

"I don't know. But I do know that you don't understand this world as well as I do."

Lu Suo's voice became somewhat strange.

"What do you know? I've met more people than you've eaten meals. Do you think I know more about this world than you do?"

Dong Yangping smiled; the fish had taken the bait.

He leaned back in his chair and looked out the window.

"How much of what you see—those mountains, those rivers, those creatures—have you actually seen?"

"You may have lived for a thousand years, but you've only been to a limited number of places. You've only met a limited number of people. You've only learned a limited number of things."

He turned around.

Do you know how many species on Earth remain undiscovered?

Lu Suo was somewhat confused and remained silent.

"According to the latest data," Dong Yangping said, "humans discover and name more than 16,000 new species every year. That's an average of 44 per day."

"Currently, there are approximately 2.5 million species officially recorded by humans. However, scientists estimate that the total number of species on Earth may be between 10 million and 100 million."

He paused.

"If we include microorganisms, the number could even reach hundreds of billions."

Lu Suo's voice wavered slightly; he truly didn't know these things.

"Hundreds of billions?"

"right."

Dong Yangping nodded. "Conservatively speaking, at least 50% of life on Earth is still living quietly in places you can't see."

Do you know what this means?

Lu Suo remained silent.

"This means that it's not just you; the world we see is only the tip of the iceberg."

Dongyang Ping walked back to the container and looked down at it.

"You think you've seen everything? Have you seen those strange creatures in the deep sea?"

"There's a creature called a carnivorous sponge. It looks like a lump of flesh, but it hunts. There's also the sea pen, which looks like a feather, but it's actually an animal. And there's the siphonophore, which looks like a single jellyfish, but it's actually a colony of thousands of organisms."

Have you seen these before?

Lu Suo fell silent.

Dong Yangping continued.

Human exploration of the ocean is less than five percent complete. The deep sea remains the most mysterious wilderness on Earth.

Do you know what's beneath the deep sea? Do you know what kind of creatures live in those trenches thousands of meters deep?

"have no idea."

"Because you never thought of going to see it."

For the first time, the sound of the lute flute showed some fluctuation.

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

Dong Yangping looked at him.

"I want to say that your vision is too narrow."

"You've lived for a thousand years, yet you've only focused on something as trivial as human evolution. You think that's a big deal because you haven't seen anything bigger."

He raised his hand and pointed to the sky.

"Look up there."

Lu Su looked out the window through the transparent outer shell of the container.

The sky was blue, with a few white clouds drifting by.

"Those stars," Dong Yangping said, "do you know how many there are?"

"There are two hundred billion stars in the Milky Way. There are two trillion galaxies in the universe."

"Two trillion."

He repeated the number.

"In each galaxy, there are hundreds of billions of stars. Around each star, there are planets."

Do you know what this means?

The sound of the clattering was somewhat dry.

"...What?"

"This means that there are countless planets like Earth in this universe," Dong Yangping said, "and countless kinds of life that could possibly exist there."

"Some may be more advanced than us, some may be more backward. Some may look like humans, some may look completely unimaginable."

He paused.

"Some may even possess power similar to cursed power."

Lu Suo's pupils contracted slightly.

"What...what did you say?"

"I said, the universe is so vast, it's impossible that Earth is the only place with life," Dong Yangping said. "If it is, then what power do they use?"

"Cursed power? Or something else?"

"Have you ever thought about what we would do if extraterrestrial life came to Earth one day?"

"A sorcerer? A top-tier one? In their eyes, they're probably just ants."

Lu Suo fell silent. If what Dong Yangping said was true, then his worldview was about to be completely overturned.

Dong Yangping was actually a little uneasy, unsure whether Lu Suo would really be interested in these things.

He was gambling that Lu Suo had never heard what he was saying, and that Lu Suo, having replaced bodies over the past 1000 years, did not possess this kind of knowledge.

In retrospect, it seems he made the right bet.

Lu Suo spoke, her voice filled with disbelief: "You...you're lying to me."

"Why would I lie to you?" Dong Yangping shrugged. "I didn't make this up. You can check the records."

"You haven't never learned about this kind of thing, have you? You've stayed in the world of sorcery for over 1000 years and never gone out?"

Lu Suo: "..."

He really hasn't gone out much.

Dong Yangping smirked: "Times have changed. We need to broaden our horizons and look further ahead. There are just too many interesting things in the world."

"It would take hundreds of years to even scratch the surface."

"Human exploration of the universe is less than that of the deep sea. We haven't even left the solar system, let alone the Milky Way."

He approached the container.

"But you are different."

"You have virtually unlimited lifespan."

"You can wait. Wait for technological advancements, wait for humanity to venture into space, wait for the day when we truly make contact with extraterrestrial life."

"What will you see then?"

"Or you could learn directly, you could switch bodies, you could possess other people's memories, and you could have almost unlimited time."

Lu Suo remained silent.

But his consciousness was fluctuating violently.

Dong Yangping continued.

"Your previous goal was to evolve humanity and assimilate with Tianyuan. But have you considered what would happen even if you succeeded?"

"All of humanity has become sorcerers, possessing greater power. And then what?"

"Continue fighting each other on Earth? Endlessly repeating the same cycle? Continuing to drain each other's resources?"

"Is this interesting?"

Lu Suo remained silent.

"It's boring," Dongyangping answered for it. "It's too narrow."

"The Earth is only so big. Resources are only so plentiful. Human history is a history of fighting for resources. Even if everyone evolved, you couldn't change this fundamental nature."

"But if you broaden your perspective—"

He pointed to the sky.

"Up there, there are unlimited resources. Unlimited space. Unlimited possibilities."

"The endless unknown will captivate you!"

"You can witness humanity's journey towards the stars and the sea."

"Even personally involved."

"Or you could start the Age of Exploration much earlier!"

Dongyang Ping himself was somewhat tempted.

Doing it this way doesn't seem like a bad idea!

Lu Suo's voice became somewhat hoarse: "You... what makes you think I'd believe you?"

Dongyang Ping smiled.

"I didn't ask you to believe me," he said. "I'm just giving you a choice."

"You can stay in this little box forever, or you can choose to come out and come with me to see the bigger world."

"Of course, after you get out, you can't use those disgusting methods anymore. You can't kill people indiscriminately anymore, and you can't plot those schemes anymore."

You have to learn to be a person.

Lu Su remained silent for a long time.

So long that the ninety-nine-year-old Yuki thought it would no longer answer.

Lu Suo: "You... really believe there is other life in the universe?"

"I don't know," Dong Yangping said, "but I want to go and see."

He looked out the window.

"Even if there isn't, it's still more interesting than staying in this small place."

"Exploring the unknown is the greatest pleasure in itself."

Lu Suo fell silent.

Dong Yangping did not say anything more.

He simply stood by the window, looking at the sky.

long after.

The sound of a clapper rang out.

"You're a strange person."

Dongyang Ping turned back.

"Thank you for the compliment."

"I'm not complimenting you," Lu Suo said. "I just feel that you're unlike anyone I've ever met."

Dongyang Ping smiled.

"Would you like to give it a try?"

Lu Suo remained silent.

Then it asked.

"Would you let me out if I wanted to?"

"Yes," Dong Yangping said, "but I need to add something to you."

"What is it?"

"An insurance policy." Dong Yangping raised his hand, blue arcs of electricity crackling at his fingertips. "I'll leave an electromagnetic mark on your soul. If you do anything out of line, this mark can blow your brains to smithereens."

Lu Suo sneered.

"Is this what you call trust?"

"This is a collaboration," Dong Yangping said. "You've lived for a thousand years; you should understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch."

Lu Suo fell silent.

a long time.

"it is good."

Dong Yangping was stunned for a moment.

"You agreed?"

Why not?

Lu Suo's voice carried a hint of amusement, "You're right, I am indeed bored. In these past thousand years, I've done everything I could to have fun, everything I could to do. All that's left is to wait for death."

"But if what you say is true, there are still so many unknowns in the universe—"

It paused.

"Then I'd like to go take a look."

Dong Yangping looked at him.

The brain floated quietly inside the container.

But for the first time, those eyes, formed from the power of the curse, shone with light.

That was the light of hope.

It is also a light of curiosity.

Dongyang Ping smiled.

Welcome to the team.

He raised his hand to break the magnetic field blockade, but Tian Nimu did not pull it out. Instead, he used the magnetic field to isolate most of it.

It retains the function of the Heavenly Reversal Seal.

Dong Yangping didn't want to be hit in the face with a powerful attack.

After all, the opponent has a reversal technique; they might be able to recover even after the electromagnetic bomb is detonated.

After all, it seems that even if someone gets stabbed in the head, they're perfectly fine now.

Yuki Tsukumo watched the whole thing and was completely dumbfounded.

She only came to her senses when Lu Suo was released and floated in the air, curiously looking around.

"You...you really believe in it that much?"

Dong Yangping glanced at her.

"I don't believe it."

"and you……"

"But what it said was true," Dong Yangping said. "It was genuinely bored. In the past thousand years, it had tried everything and experienced everything. All that was left was a yearning for the unknown."

Dongyang Ping paused for a moment.

"And I gave it a sufficiently large unknown."

Tsukumo Yuki remained silent; even she had become interested in what Dong Yangping was saying.

She watched the brain floating in the air, watching it curiously examine the instruments in the laboratory, watching its expression that seemed to say, "I've lived for a thousand years, but I've never seen these things before."

Suddenly I realized that what Dongyangping said might actually be true.

"Then... what will happen to it?"

Dongyang Ping thought for a moment.

"First, we need to find it a body. We can't use that disgusting method again; we need to find someone willing. A corpse should also be fine."

……