Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

Anna reached out and took off something that looked like a necklace from her neck and handed it to Stark next to her.

"Mr. Stark, after twenty ways of scanning... this item has an active quantum fluctuation frequency band and 226 inactive mechanical fluctuations." After Tony took the thing handed over by Anna, after he scanned it over and over again, Jarvis in the armor finally gave him a scanning report.

"What is this?"

Looking at the lotus-shaped crystal object on the necklace in his hand, Stark asked Anna beside him.

"This is a container." Anna took the lotus-shaped crystal necklace and put it back on her neck. She said to Stark, "Now it contains Dr. Ethan and all the souls who died within a 20-kilometer radius of me."

"Oh!~ Is there really a soul in this world?"

Scientist Stark was surprised by Anna's answer. "I thought those were just legends..."

"Of course this world has souls. And these souls are an important part of this world..."

Anna explained to Stark and gave him some of her own understanding of the essence of life and the soul.

As a time traveler, she might have been a materialist in her previous life, but if she still doesn't believe in the existence of the soul, then she is too foolish.

Stark might be able to beat her in other matters and scientific knowledge, but for Anna, who has personally experienced the soul world and time travel, she is still qualified to talk to Stark about the knowledge of the soul and the essence of life.

Chapter 056 Anna's Outlook on Life

The Marvel world is a world with a soul.

Not to mention the Soul Gem, a treasure embodied by the laws of the universe, even on Earth, there are dimensional spaces such as heaven, hell, and Valhalla where the souls of dead humans live.

After experiencing the world of souls and traveling through time, Anna now has a much more detailed and profound understanding of the soul than those who only see things in a fog.

In her understanding, the soul that people often refer to is actually like a band of light projected from a higher-dimensional entity into the three-dimensional material world, and the human body is the anchor point and container for the wave band of this higher-dimensional world in the material world.

After the human body dies or is damaged, and without an anchor or storage container in the material world, these high-dimensional bands called souls will either find a dimensional space like heaven or hell where they can store souls to continue to exist, or they will directly return to the original body in the high-dimensional space to become one.

Or it could simply dissipate in the material world and the universe... becoming the basic food for the world's upward evolution, and a catalyst for the growth of the universe.

Of course, the reason why the higher dimension is called the higher dimension is that the entity that projects the soul band to the material world below will certainly not only project it to one world at the same time...

Therefore, in many parallel worlds and many multiverses, the same person will have various avatars and equivalents in parallel worlds.

Only after unifying and assimilating all these clones and isotopes in parallel worlds, can the life essence of these lives living in the material world rise to the level of their original high-dimensional life.

Of course, these are too far for Anna and Stark.

Things like assimilating multiverse clones...it's good that they haven't been assimilated by clones from other worlds. These are things that only bigwigs like Eternity and Infinity would consider.

When the understanding of soul and life reaches this point, for sociologists and anthropologists, it is natural to extend from here...

The essence of human life is the physical body or the quantum wave band contained within it.

But Anna can tell you with certainty that the essence of life is not the body that allows you to move, nor is it the hundred-pound carbohydrate container that is the most complex in the universe.

The essence of life is the soul, which is the quantum band that records each person's unique way of thinking, memory, knowledge and moral concepts.

Just like herself, the place where she lived changed from her previous life to this third Marvel world, and her external body also changed to the second Superman's Body of Steel.

But she is still her.

At her core, she is still the ordinary person and otaku who loves comics and games from her previous life.

He did not become a native of the DC world or Marvel world because of his Superman body in this life.

She still considered herself an ordinary member of society. She went to and from school normally every day, and waited for traffic lights when crossing the road like an ordinary person.

Although the strength of her body in her previous life and this life is very different, there is not much change in her inner core.

She is still the same person from her previous life, a little greedy, a little lazy, with ordinary moral values ​​and an ordinary worldview.

Although the power in this life is enough to blow up the entire school, when Anna, the naughty monkey in the small town, is taught by the teacher, she still has to stand still and be scolded when her mother is not watching her.

To her, this Superman's steel body is more like a vehicle she uses to cross the sea of ​​suffering in the Marvel world than herself. And she herself is more like the driver of this Superman body.

It is precisely because Anna has regarded herself as a "driver" over the years, and the difference between her and others is just like driving a truck or a bumper car.

That's why she didn't feel that she was great just because she had Superman's steel body, nor did she feel that she should be superior just because she had Superman's powerful strength.

And since Anna's understanding of life is like this...

As for the understanding of life by people like Stark, their views and emphases are somewhat different.

Because in the minds of people like Stark, as soon as the body dies, professionals will come over, music will start, and the coffin will be lifted...

Then dead is dead.

His life in this world is officially over.

But in Anna's understanding, physical death is just the beginning of the road to death.

True death occurs when the quantum wave band projected by the higher-dimensional entity into the material world returns or dissipates.

If this quantum band is intercepted and preserved before it dissipates, then this life cannot be considered truly dead.

If they could find a carrier to store this quantum waveband later, then for them, it would actually be equivalent to the legendary resurrection.

Like the ever-smiling Agent Coulson in the future Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., who, after being stabbed to death by Loki, was tortured back to life and death by Bokuto and the subsequent S.H.I.E.L.D. team, only to be revived again and again by cyborg technology, repeatedly to the point that even the good old Coulson himself doubted whether he was still the same person.

Another example from the Marvel world is Dumdum Dugan, whom Anna knows.

This man, who was a contemporary of Captain America, was also a member of the Zodiac formed by Leonardo da Vinci, just like Lu Dan. Later, when Lu Dan formed the Howling Commandos, he wanted to increase his survival rate.

Lu Dan used the latest technology to clone a large number of Dum-dum Bullet's bodies, and also synchronized the memories of these clones with Dum-dum Bullet Dugan's real body.

Whenever Dumdum Dugan's body dies outside, one of his clones awakens in the secret base.

The awakened Dumdum Dugan has complete memories and even remembers how he died.

If the revived clone dies again, another clone will be revived.

Over and over again, this is Dumdum Dugan's alternative way of remaining immortal.

Perhaps for ordinary people and conservative anthropologists, the real Dum-dum Dugan died the first time, and Dum-dum Dugan at this time is just a clone with complete memory.

But for someone like Anna, no matter how many times he reawakens, Dum-Dum Dum-Dum Dum-Dum Dum-Dum is still the real Dum-Dum Dum-Dum.

Only memory and soul are the most important things. No matter how many times the body is changed, and no matter whether the body in which the soul resides is still a human body, as long as the soul does not change, then the life will not change.

So for Anna, the most important thing is the soul of a life and the quantum band.

Whether it is Coulson or Dumdum Dugan, as long as the quantum band in their bodies does not change, no matter how many times their bodies are replaced, even if their bodies become plastic alloy, they are still the same person.

But if the soul and frequency band have changed, then even if it is still the original body, it is no longer the original person.

Moreover, for time travelers like her, there are also non-human time travelers in this world who travel through time and become cats, dogs, dragons, monsters, and the like.

If you really care about a body, then there's no point in calling yourself a time traveler, because the moment you cross over, the real you is already dead. The person living in another world is just a native who has inherited your memories and way of thinking.

Chapter 057 Resurrection is the beginning of 'eternal life'

"So what you're saying is that the body isn't important to life... only that quantum band called the soul is the most important thing?"

"So, although you couldn't save Dr. Ethan's body for some reason, you used your necklace to save his 'soul'... Is that right?"

Sitting on the sand dunes facing the sunset, after listening to Anna's long speech about the essence of life and the soul, Stark was still a little surprised at her outlook on life.

"That's it."

Anna said to Stark: "So I am not the cold-blooded person you think..."

"So if, in your opinion, physical death alone doesn't count as true death, and you still have that container that can collect dead souls within a twenty-kilometer radius..."

Stark pointed at the lotus-shaped crystal necklace around Anna's neck and asked, "Then why didn't you kill even one terrorist directly during the operation just now? ...Instead, you asked me and others to do it for you?"

"After all, that doesn't really count as murder for you...right?"

"..."

"Are you stupid?"

Anna looked at Stark, who told her, "That doesn't count as true murder." "I said the body isn't important because they have the means to mass-produce bodies and containers... Do those terrorists have the power of Dumdum Bullet Dugan?"

"When ordinary people's bodies die, they really die. To me, that's real murder."

"Do you still want me to clone a new body for those terrorists?"

Anna held up the necklace around her neck and said to Stark: "I said I saved Dr. Ethan... because I planned to find another carrier for Dr. Ethan's soul in the future."

"Or clone a new body and revive him."

"As for the other terrorists in this necklace, even if their souls have already entered this thing, I still can't spare any effort to resurrect them in this world."

"So you collected so many souls in this thing because..." Stark understood Anna's explanation of the murder, but he was confused as to why she collected '226 inactive mechanical fluctuations' in the necklace...

Stark still didn't figure it out.

"The first reason is, of course, that this is the default function of this soul collection container..." Anna fiddled with the crystal necklace around her neck and said to Stark, "Another reason is, of course, that the experiments of cloning bodies and resurrecting Dr. Ethan require a lot of trial and error volunteers..."

"Look, after all, I've never done anything like this before, right?"

Anna, stroking the necklace around her neck, smiled like an innocent child. She didn't think there was anything wrong with conducting human experiments.

"..."

"So, those terrorists were killed on the spot by me and others, but that doesn't count..."

"They still have to participate in your human experiments after they die, right? Anna."

"Well, you can understand it that way."

Anna wasn't at all embarrassed by Stark's complaints. Instead, she asked him, "Just tell me straight up, Tony, whether you'll participate in this experiment to resurrect Dr. Ethan or not. This is humanity's gateway to immortality..."

Of course, this 'eternal life' does not exist.

After all, whether it's the body or the soul, before a true life transition...

Human beings have limits.

After changing bodies many times, when the excess information in life is too high, even if there are countless physical bodies available, the human soul will basically collapse.

However, as long as the technology for resurrection and rewriting quantum soul fluctuations matures, even if humans no longer evolve in essence, they can still live for one or two thousand years.

Moreover, this extremely long lifespan is exactly what a truly advanced interstellar race should have. Otherwise, there would be no need for us to travel across the starry sea. The knowledge of interstellar civilizations is vast, and a mere hundred years of life would only allow us to learn the elementary school level of their civilization.

Therefore, this kind of "eternal life" of one or two thousand years does not actually prevent Anna from bragging about opening the "door to eternal life" or something like that.

"Uh!~ I will supervise you during the experiment."

Stark had no hesitation about whether to participate in the experiment and directly expressed his willingness to participate.

As for Anna's question about 'eternal life', he could naturally see that it was just a kid's boast.

But if it was just a boast, it wasn't a big deal. The scientists who came to him to solicit funding had boasted much more than this.

After Stark decided to participate in Anna's resurrection experiment, he also raised new questions about Anna's technical reserves.

"But I say, Anna..."

"Did you get hold of that Dumdum Bullet Dugan you mentioned, and the SHIELD android resurrection technology?"

"This is up to you... Tony!"

"You can get it by simply hacking into all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s servers."

Anna didn't feel embarrassed at all about not getting the technology for the resurrection experiment.

After all, when she has a tool named Stark, why should she still compete with Lu Dan in wits and courage?

She just waited at home.

"After all, I'm only 6 years old..."

"Am I right?"

……

Anna was actually well prepared for this conversation.

After all, since last night's party, she has revealed many facts that Stark had not noticed before.

Especially after he arrived in the town, he had super speed, super vision, super hearing, and super perspective. It was hard for Stark not to think about why Anna didn't save Dr. Ethan when he escaped from the cave.

You can't just let Ethan die in front of Stark according to the bosses' script in order to inspire and shock his life... and let him grow up in the cave, right?