Terra's Magnetic Field

"Twenty years have passed and it's another year..." Tallulah took the opportunity to say something she had never said before, without any instruction.

"Twenty years have passed and it's another year..." In reality, Tallulah trembled as she spoke to the attendant holding the white paper. Seeing her absent-minded, the attendant asked again:

"Do you have anything else to add?"

Tallulah's soul was pulled back to the cold reality. She couldn't sing any of the lofty words in her heart, such as "The Little Widow Goes to the Grave" and "Dragon and Tiger Fight". In the end, she could only whisper:

"That's all... That's all..."

Then the attendant handed Tallulah a pen and asked her to sign her name at the bottom of the white paper. Tallulah was troubled by this and almost "wandered into space" again.

Because although she claimed to be the last descendant of the Victorian royal family, she actually could not write Victorian characters at all, and could not even spell her own name... Her education level was only junior high school.

You can't really write "Tallulah Atrias" in Yan Chinese, right?

Tallulah didn't know how to spell her name, so the attendant pointed to a place and taught her how to put her monogram on it.

"Can't write? I'll give you a break. Just draw a circle, right?"

"Okay..." Tallulah agreed, and the sweat from her palms dripped down the pen tip onto the white paper.

Tallulah was about to draw a circle, but her hand holding the pen was shaking, so the attendant spread the paper on the ground for her.

Tallulah bent down, with her big plump buttocks sticking up towards Yelena and the others, and her big tail swaying dishonestly. She used all her strength to draw a circle, fearing that she would be laughed at, and was determined to draw a circle.

But this damn pen was not only heavy but also very disobedient. It just shook and was almost closing, but then it stretched outwards and became the shape of a melon seed.

How can she prove that she drew it herself? Tallulah cleverly gave the melon seed big cartoon-style eyes, and also drew horns and a tail on it, making it look like a dragon bubble based on her...

Tallulah was still feeling ashamed that her drawing was not round enough, but the attendant didn't care. He had already taken out the paper and pen and handed them to Lei Ting to look at.

Lei Ting frowned after taking Tallulah's "masterpiece" and squinted his eyes to see a crooked big melon seed dragon lying under the white paper.

"Tsk tsk..." Lei Ting smacked his lips, "What kind of shit is this painting?"

None of the officials on either side of the stage said a word.

"Haha~" Lei Ting grinned.

The officials in the audience followed the laughter and laughed.

"Don't laugh!" A shout ended all the sounds in the office, and everyone looked in the direction where the sound came from, that is, outside the door.

There stood a red-horned dragon girl in an off-white coat. Tallulah recognized her at a glance and shouted excitedly:

"Master!"

She moved her legs back and forth on the ground and crawled towards Nian on her knees.

"You finally came to save me!"

She acted like the first pupil to be picked up by her parents after school.

Facing this touching reunion of master and disciple, Nian raised her foot and kicked Tallulah who was approaching her two or three meters away, angrily scolding her:

"Don't do such an insult to my intelligence!"

That’s all for today.

Chapter 372: Prefrontal Lobotomy

In 1086 Terra, Saria was transferred to Rhodes Island by Meier. Her war stress trauma became more and more serious. The last battle of her life away from Rhine caused serious trauma to her body and mind. With the consent of Hemer and others, Rhodes Island gave her "corrective" treatment.

In addition to providing treatment for Originium patients, another major business of Rhodes Island is to correct mental illness. It is known as the "Saint Kelsey Mental Hospital". No matter how abstract, crazy, or alternative the patient is, as long as he passes through the hands of the medical department, he can return to "normal"

The correction method does not rely on drugs or psychotherapy, but is to simply and crudely destroy the "frontal lobe" of the mentally ill patient, which is the infamous "frontal lobe resection" in later generations.

While reading Rhine Life's live experiment reports, Kal'tsit became interested in one of the records. The information mentioned that a laboratory of Rhine Life performed a frontal lobotomy on a chimpanzee. The originally aggressive chimpanzee became very quiet and docile afterwards, and did not show any life-threatening symptoms.

This record made Kal'tsit think that this prefrontal lobotomy could be used to treat patients with mania and schizophrenia, turning them from crazy to calm and docile.

It wasn't long before Kal'tsit began her own experiments. She first conducted several experiments on animals, and then she performed surgery on a female mentally ill patient code-named "Ghost Shark".

The effect was as she expected. After the operation, the patient, who was originally very manic, became quiet and docile. He did not cry, laugh, make noise or make a fuss. After the experimental results came out, the doctors in the medical department were very excited. They believed that the mental illness that had troubled mankind for a long time could be solved.

The disease has been conquered by the all-knowing Dr. Kal'tsit!

Later, this operation began to be widely used by the medical department on mental patients, and Saria was able to enjoy the mature research results...

After the removal of Saria's "diseased" frontal lobe, Saria no longer suddenly yelled and screamed about people in the tree or source stones in the sand. She became much quieter than before, and most of the time she sat on the sofa and smiled foolishly, drooling. Hemer commented that Saria was happier than before...

(This is probably a waste of time.)

When Tallulah committed a crime, Kal'tsit, who was responsible for her "re-education", performed the same operation on her as she had on Ghost Shark and Saria.

That’s why Tallulah became like that later…

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"Do you think Tallulah was this stupid and foolish at first? Those of you who knew her in the early years remember how smart she was before..."

Far away from Chernobyl, an electric van was speeding along the wasteland. The car was packed with people of all kinds. Yelena and the others were squeezed in the back seat. Nian was holding the steering wheel, and Talullah was lying in a coma in the passenger seat beside him.

"Snoring~" Tallulah snored with her mouth open, saliva flowing continuously. Nian took out a tissue to help her wipe the saliva on her collar, as if he was taking care of a baby to sleep.

“Hmm…” Tallulah curled up into a ball and sucked her right thumb.

"She has become like this since she was [re-educated] by Kal'tsit and the others. She is dazed all day and I don't know what she is doing... She also has a small problem of sleepiness. Sometimes I wonder if she is really stupid..."

As she spoke the last part of this, her tone started to sound tearful; she still felt guilty about it.

Everyone else in the car was silent. They only noticed that Nian was driving faster and faster, and the scenery outside the window was becoming more and more blurry.

"Xiaota... my clever Xiaota! Quack!..." Nian held the steering wheel with both hands and couldn't help shouting. At this time, the song in the car stereo also reached the most exciting part, which seemed to be a very powerful old song from the East:

"Life has always been like this, wandering in the cold wind looking for warmth~ Don't cry! My loving heart! Tears and "you" don't match, just go forward. I have made up my mind and stride forward like this. Ah~ I want to laugh in my heart. Life seems so pathetic..."

Not far from the van, a piece of rotten flesh was wriggling on the ground. If you look closely, you can easily see that this is W who was beaten to death by Gui Adao before. Even in this inhuman appearance, she can still survive tenaciously. She was smart and fled as soon as she sensed the thunder coming to Chernobyl. After a day and a night of trekking, she escaped to this wilderness...

"Haha! Damn it! I can survive no matter what. So what if you are stronger than me? The one who will have the last laugh will still be me, the peerless devil king!"

Just as he finished his heroic words, meat block W was hit by the high-end white van driven by Nian. The meat block, which was already very small, was instantly exploded into several pieces under the strong pressure of the van and scattered everywhere. W didn't even have time to scream before the white van ran away...

It seems that W still has a long way to go on his road to dominance.

That's it for today

Popular Science: Lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure that removes the connecting tissue of the prefrontal cortex. It is also called white matter resection, prefrontal lobe section, etc.

From 1930 to 1950, lobotomy was mainly used to treat some mental illnesses. It was also the world's first psychosurgery. The treatment targets included schizophrenia, clinical depression and some anxiety disorders, as well as some people who were believed to have signs of mental illness (such as mood swings and juvenile derangement).

The patient is likely to suffer from infantile mental illness after the operation. He may also become moody.

Chapter 373: Judge Epsilon

In Terra 1093, Gui Adao, then years old, embarked on a journey to pursue his dreams.

He didn't tell anyone around him about this, and others just thought he was out on a mission as usual.

It took him more than a month to walk from the border of Yan Country to the desert of Minos, crossing most of Terra. During the journey, he did not use any form of magnetic force, but only moved forward in the simplest way, going to that ancient wasteland as an ordinary human being, just to pursue that illusory dream.

Since he was fourteen, Gui Adao often dreamed of things he had never seen or experienced, such as the ruins of a super-ancient city, groups of giant beasts emerging from the earth, etc. ... Those strange dreams often featured characters he didn't recognize at all. Theoretically, the human brain is unable to create the faces of people it has never seen before, which aroused his interest.

After repeatedly comparing the information in the memory fragments of his dreams, Gui Adao finally locked the super ancient city he dreamed of in the Minoan area. Only there were the landforms and plants he dreamed of.

After a long journey of more than a month, Gui Adao, riding a camel, met a group of Sakota elders in the desert and heard from them what happened decades ago.

It turns out that these old men would return from their hometown of Lateran to a certain place in the desert for a "pilgrimage" every three years, because they had seen the "god" there decades ago.

Gui Adao naturally didn't believe in the legend of the glowing giant.

This was because the group of old Sakota men mistook the two fighting beasts as a fight between giants, after all, some of the beasts were in human form.

Later, Gui Adao continued to move forward along the path pointed out by the old people of Sakta, and finally he came to a place that looked like an ancient battlefield. The terrain here was severely damaged and some of the sand was crystallized.

Gui Adao bent down to observe the charred sand, which was obviously formed by melting and condensing after being impacted by high temperature, which means that a fierce battle really took place in this place in the past.

This made him think carefully about what the old people said before...

Gui Adao closed his eyes and used the power of the magnetic field to explore the crystal area under his feet. Some of the crystal blocks were affected by the leaked power and floated in the air. His keen perception allowed him to quickly discover the huge space underneath this place.

Gui Adao took out the sword from his back for self-defense and struck the ground with 30% of his strength. This strike shook the ground violently! The strong sword energy violently split the crystal area that was originally gathered together into two halves. Gui Adao then jumped into the crack in front of him.

After sinking for several minutes, Gui Adao finally touched the bottom, and then what came into his sight was the ruins of the super ancient city that often appeared in his dreams. The moment he saw this thing, many scenes he had never seen before appeared in his mind, and this time it was the so-called glowing giant fighting with the giant beast.

Perhaps sensing the call of fate, Gui Adao said to the deserted city ruins in front of him:

"Why did I have to come here? ... What has been calling me all this time? What did I dream about?"

He knew that no one would appear to answer his question, so he walked towards the ruins ahead with his questions.

Gui Adao searched every room in the ruins, but did not find anything valuable. After countless years of corrosion, there was nothing left in these ancient ruins, whether it was the technological products of the time or books and other paper products, and it was impossible for fragile things like cloth to be preserved until now.

So there were only two choices before Gui Adao at that time:

One is to return home along the same route, leaving behind the doubts in his mind and returning to his past daily life; the other is to head towards the most conspicuous tower in the ruins, perhaps there will be the answers he wants.

Gui Adao knew that he was not the first person to come to the ruins. As early as when he arrived at the entrance of the ruins, he found old torches dropped on the ground. That thing was obviously not a product of super ancient civilization.

"Maybe it's a tomb robber?" He speculated, and unknowingly walked to the entrance of the tower, which was a stone door more than six meters high and nearly three meters wide.

As soon as he stepped into the tower, Gui Adao was shocked by the scene inside. This was a mysterious building made of giant stone statues, and the walls around the tower were made of all kinds of giant stone statues stacked on top of each other.

The postures of those giants are so vivid that they don’t seem to be sculpted by human hands. It’s more like they have their own lives, and their postures are frozen at a certain moment.

Gui Adao looked at the high platform in the middle of the tower again. There was a device similar to a base on it. There must have been something placed there before, but now it was empty. Maybe the thing he had been looking for had been taken away by others...

While Gui Adao was thinking, the bricks under his feet and the walls around him suddenly began to shake, and the vibration seemed to follow some pattern.

The light from the stone bricks where he stood radiated in all directions, and various glowing patterns began to appear on the surrounding stone walls, like some kind of text that had never been seen before. These words, combined with the reliefs on the side, seemed to be recording some unknown things...

Soon, the originally dim place was covered by flowing light, and the ruins turned into a temple. However, the giant stone statues around made Gui Adao feel that this place was like a mausoleum.

There is no doubt that something in this place was activated after sensing Gui Adao's arrival.

“Ah?! What is this?………………”

Under Gui Adao's gaze, the lights on the four reliefs converged together, eventually forming a three-dimensional projection of a woman's image. He recognized at a glance that this woman was the one he had seen several times in his dreams in the past:

"Pureseth!"

Gui Adao shouted the name of the woman who appeared above him enthusiastically. After catching his voice waves, the woman looked down. Before Gui Adao could say anything further, she said:

"Your presence here... means... that Lambda has failed?..."

The woman's figure floated in the air like an ethereal soul, and the white light flickering on her body was intermittent like a light bulb with poor contact. Gui Adao guessed that this woman should be a pre-recorded video, not a self-aware AI, and could probably only complete some simple interactions.

(Rafi: Want complex interactions?)

Who is Lambda? What is the connection between him and me? Why does this woman named Presace appear in my dreams so often? What is the connection between me and this ancient ruins?

A series of complicated questions popped up in Gui Adao's mind one after another, and he didn't know where to start.

The shadow of Precious flashed down from the sky. Perhaps the processor of this place had found a statement that matched the current situation. Gui Adao listened to what Precious said:

"Lambda's failure was expected. His indecisiveness and sympathy for ordinary people would eventually become the weapon that destroyed his own life..."

"What have you been talking about since just now? Who is Lambda? Why did you lead me to this place?

"Gui Adao shouted at Precious above.

Seeing this, Precious began to explain:

"Lambda is the name our civilization gives to the leader of the blue giant. The giants have existed as the guardians of the earth since long ago. Lambda symbolizes the planet's own [immune system]. It will instinctively reject foreign cosmic beasts and aliens to ensure that this week will not be invaded by alien forces..."

"And the shadow without a fixed color is the planet's [regulatory system]. The purpose of its existence is to maintain the balance between the native species of this planet. It will instinctively kill powerful individuals that may cause ecological disorder..."

"But whether it's Lambda or Lian Ying... they may be provoked by external factors and trigger an [allergic reaction], similar to the disorder of the immune system of a living organism killing healthy cells. Lambda and Lian Ying may also lose control and kill the life that should have been continued..."

"The giants are either guardian gods or demon gods that may cause a world-destroying disaster. The giant war that broke out later also proved this conjecture. Uncontrolled power will eventually destroy all civilizations on this planet..."

"So before civilization was completely destroyed... we used our last bit of strength to create this [Sword of Judgment] to check and balance the power of the Titans... to prevent another Titan War from breaking out... Epsilon (ε) is the judge who punishes the out-of-control Titans..."

"Ah??!" Gui Adao still didn't understand what the woman wanted to say. He roughly knew that giants existed and that they seemed to be able to destroy the world. And that different giants had different divisions of labor? It seemed like that? But the giant war and the sword of judgment were something he couldn't understand at all...

Precious's figure disappeared into the air, and the light from the surrounding walls was retracted into the cracks in the stone. The entire ruins returned to its original dark state.

"Are you kidding me? Explain it to me clearly! Do you want me to go back like this?" Gui Adao stomped his feet, and soon the ground began to shake again.

The platform in the middle of the tower disintegrated under the violent shaking, and the place that was originally buried under the stone base began to rise. In a flash of red light, a sharp red long sword rose from the ground, and the red light emitted by the sword illuminated the entire tower.

"This is... the holy sword of judgment... Epsilon?..." Gui Adao stood there nervously. The super ancient instinct in his genes drove him to go and pull out this ancient thing...

In the desert on the border of Minoa, a woman with a white veil on her head looked in a certain direction. The red light rising from the ground told her only one thing.

The woman pulled back her veil, revealing her to be exactly the same person as Precious who had appeared in the tower before.

"Heh~ After Lambda and Lianying...Epsilon has also been awakened?"