Volume 1: The Escape of the Holy Maiden Chapter 45 Souls, ghosts, are dirty things anyway
"Soul. The two simple pronunciations in Gongzimeng's mouth are connected together, forming a word that is intangible but has infinite weight.
Chu Yuesheng and Luo Bingning showed expressions of disbelief at the same time, they obviously didn't accept Gong Zimeng's statement so easily.
The study of the soul has never stopped, hundreds of thousands of years. But even now, even if humans have the technology to transfer memories and seal it as a taboo on the same level as cloning technology, there is still no way for humans to completely strip the soul from the body and obtain a separate, pure soul.
That's right, just like the ball of light in Gong Zimeng's hand, that is the civilization milestone that human civilization has dreamed of for an unknown number of years.
Of course, if the soul is obtained by humans, it may not be Pandora's box that is opened.
After all, whether it was from the past or earlier, as long as it was a story related to the soul, the final ending did not seem to be too good.
Fortunately, Chu Yuesheng and Luo Bingning are not people who are inexplicably fanatical about the scientific progress of human beings, and they are more concerned about why Gong Zimeng took out this soul ball from Lancelot's chest than the significance of the materialized soul to human civilization.
Well, in fact, Chu Yuesheng has another curiosity, that is, Lancelot, as a robot, an artificial creation, where does it come from. If even robots have souls, then wouldn't the humans who created them become legendary gods?
If it weren't for the embarrassing position of human beings in the Galactic Council, the idea just now would definitely make Chu Yuesheng soar to the sky. It's a pity that human beings have only gained a firm foothold in the galactic cultural circle by relying on the humanistic care of those high-level civilizations. If it weren't for the fact that the three ancient people who founded the Galactic Council were all pacifists who opposed disputes and wars, especially forbidding the old interstellar civilization to bully the budding civilization that had just entered the interstellar age, human civilization would probably be destroyed by other civilizations that are more powerful than humans in their fleets soon after coming into contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.
The Galactic Council's protection of civilization is not all-encompassing, they only recognize those civilizations that have the ability to carry out interstellar travel, and those backward civilizations that have not yet taken steps towards the starry sky are not considered human beings by the Galactic Council. If an interstellar civilization discovers that there is a planet with a backward civilization, and if that interstellar civilization is not a friendly observer of civilization or a guide of civilization, but a slave and conqueror, then there will only be two outcomes waiting for that backward planet, either it will be destroyed and all the inhabitants will be killed, or the civilization will be cut off, and all the inhabitants will become slaves of the superior civilization, like cattle will be sold to various planets in the galaxy in batches, and spend the rest of their lives in those places。 If they work hard enough, work hard in a new place, and meet a good master, they will have a chance to transform from slaves to normal citizens, so that in a few generations, these backward civilization natives can be regarded as entering the interstellar age.
Of course, this kind of triple jump fueled by pulling seedlings has serious consequences. That is, these people do not have their own civilization as a backer, they can only be vassals of other civilizations. They are like rootless duckweeds, wandering aimlessly among the stars, helpless.
Well, from whether artificial intelligence is considered a soul or not, it has suddenly turned into a dangerous situation that human civilization once almost encountered, which is indeed a bit far away. So let's get back to the soul ball in Gong Zimeng's hand.
After Gong Zimeng finished answering Chu Yuesheng's question, he began the next step.
Anyway, Chu Yuesheng didn't understand how Gong Zimeng did it, in short, the soul in her hand gradually atomized from a sphere that could be held in her hand, and finally turned into an illusory milky white figure.
This figure has a slightly handsome face, and there is a slight blur in the melancholy eyes under the flowing broken hair, if you add a pair of glasses, it is a proper Wenqing temperament.
The presence of this humanoid figure was not stable, except for the sharper face, the lower body began to become distorted. Except for being able to distinguish where the hands are, where the feet are, and where the body is, I can't see anything at all.
Is this what the soul is not compressed? It seems...... It's really weird.
After all, this is the soul that Gong Zimeng took out of Lancelot's chest, and it is normal for Chu Yuesheng not to know it, or it should be said that he knows that there is a ghost. But from Luo Bingning's really ghostly expression, it can be easily read that she knows this person.
After all, this kind of soul is actually a "ghost", right? In this case, the term "seeing a ghost" seems to be really appropriate.
"Do you know this person?" Chu Yuesheng had calmed down now, he glanced at Luo Bingning with slanted eyes, and asked very casually.
The white figure in front of her shocked Luo Bingning too strongly, squeezing almost all of her brain CPU, making her as sluggish as a transponder. When Chu Yuesheng asked her this question, she just nodded in affirmation, but she didn't have the slightest intention of explaining, she was still staring at the figure in front of her, completely immersed in her own thoughts, unable to extricate herself.
Seeing Luo Bingning's stupid appearance, Chu Yuesheng pouted and gave up his plan to get more news from her mouth. After all, it is a stakeholder, and it is understandable that the degree of shock is much greater than that of Chu Yuesheng, an unrelated person, isn't it.
In the end, it was Gong Zimeng who waved his hand and turned the figure back into a soul ball, and Luo Bingning gradually returned to normal. Without the influence of that figure, she finally broke free from the memories of the past, and immediately showed a scared look.
After coming back to his senses, Luo Bingning's face was pale and terrifying, and his body was trembling slightly. She took a few steps back and sat down on the couch like a fish on shore, her chest rising and falling, panting as hard as she could, trying to calm her chaotic breathing.
It seems that the impression that this figure gives to Luo Bingning is not very good.
Chu Yuesheng handed her the mug that Luo Bingning was holding before, there was still half a cup of hot black tea in it, Chu Yuesheng felt that she needed this now.
Luo Bingning glanced at Chu Yuesheng gratefully, took his cup, and took a big sip of it very hard.
The temperature of the liquid burned her throat, and she couldn't help but look in pain. However, even though she knew that the water in the cup was hot, she still chose to swallow it.
It's sad, but it's not completely unacceptable, as it is for most of life.