"You ......"

Amber's eyes gave off a light of expectation, and her expression was still timid, but she couldn't help but open her legs, stood up from behind Chu Ge, took a deep breath, and stammered, "Do you know who I am?" ”

"Know something, your name is Amber and you're from the South Island."

Director Mu manipulated the tiger's body, lay down, beckoned like a friendly big cat, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, little girl, we won't hurt you." ”

"I'm not a little girl."

Amber bit her lip, shook her head vigorously, and said with some sadness, "I may well have lived for thousands of years, enough to be the grandmother of your grandmother's grandmother." ”

"This ......" Director Mu was speechless for a moment.

"Amber, in the outside world, it's not a good word to be 'grandma's grandma'." Chu Ge reminded a little embarrassedly.

"It's okay, we don't mind, and we don't really think you're good enough to be our 'grandma's grandma'."

Director Mu continued to smile, "We still think that you are just an ordinary little girl and should not bear such heavy pressure. ”

"No, that's my fate."

Amber plucked up her courage and confessed, "I am the 'Eternal', a unique outlier, and everywhere I go will bring strife and disaster, and everyone will try to gain my power or destroy me, don't you want to?" ”

"Hahahaha, true friendship girl, do you really believe in any ridiculous eternal life?"

Director Mu smiled and said, "No, in the eyes of our soul shifters, there is no such thing as an 'eternal', or rather, you are not 'unique' at all, we have met some beings like you. ”

"What!"

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Chu Ge and Amber widened their eyes at the same time.

Chu Ge couldn't wait to say, "Director Mu, you are telling the truth, there is really an eternal like amber, then, that's good, the value of that amber is not so great, everyone doesn't have to hold on to her!" ”

"No, although in a sense, they are all immortals, but the way to achieve immortality is not the same, and it is the first time we have encountered a carbon-based life individual like Amber who achieves immortality through infinite cell division, replication and proliferation."

Director Mu said, "I'm talking about achieving immortality through 'soul transfer', that is, replacing a new body after the flesh and blood have failed, in a vain attempt to escape the judgment of death." ”

"This ......"

Chu Ge was incredulous, "Can it still be like this?" ”

"Of course, this is the so-called 'snatching'!"

Director Mu said, "Otherwise, why do you think the soul transfer technique was invented, is there really someone who is so boring, leaving a good human body and not waiting, but wants to burrow into the body of a cat and a dog all day long?"

"In fact, the origin of soul transfer is that some people who have cultivated their souls to extremely powerful superpowers, longing for immortality, and cannot preserve their flesh and blood, have to retreat to the next thing, hoping that the soul will not be destroyed, and the flesh and blood can be updated at any time - unfortunately, the purpose of these guys was not achieved, and their souls eventually withered and died, but inadvertently opened up a whole new field of soul transfer, creating the soul shifters we know today."

Chu Ge was stunned when he heard this: "You mean, there really are guys whose souls are 'infinite transfer', so why are their souls still withering?" ”

"You are also a soul shifter, you can ask yourself this question, do you think that every time you move your soul is very refreshing, very relaxed, very comfortable? As your soul moves from one brain to another, won't your memories, emotions, ways of thinking, and sense of self be affected in the slightest? ”

Director Mu shook his head and said, "No, matter and consciousness complement each other, the so-called soul is originally a lightning spark bred in the flesh of the brain, as the so-called 'skin does not exist, hair will be attached', replacing a new brain, consciousness will also become different."

"Bai Ye's consciousness has only been in the mind of the mouse for a few months, and he has changed from an excellent agent who is absolutely loyal to human civilization to an existence of 'half human, half mouse, superman and super mouse', fortunately you saved his soul in time, otherwise, in another year and a half, I am afraid that he will become the most terrible rat king.

"In the same way, you have only been in the underground world for ten days and half a month, think about it yourself, in the days when you just returned to the human body, your thinking pattern was completely normal?"

Chu Ge was a little confused.

Until now, he didn't dare to say that his thinking pattern was absolutely normal.

Human thinking, character and memory are originally affected by all kinds of experiences, his soul has once drilled into the body of a mouse, and he has experienced so many thrills and excitement in the underground world, how can he not be affected?

"The so-called soul, whether it is fluctuations, magnetic fields, or the purest energy, has the problem of depletion, dissipation, and interference, and the vast majority of human memories are a kind of disorganized redundant data."

Director Mu said, "The guys who call themselves the 'spirits of all things', after all, have evolved from a kind of hairless monkey, and our consciousness is upgraded so fast that our brains are far from keeping up with the pace.

"The human body and brain are designed to be a machine that can last for a maximum of a hundred years, and the soul and brain cannot be separated for a long time – like a mobile phone with a battery embedded in the motherboard.

"It sounds very reasonable to try to achieve soul immortality by transferring souls many times and replacing them with new shells, but in fact, every time you transfer souls, the soul will be greatly disturbed, and as more and more redundant data is stored in the soul, the emotions derived from these memories will become richer and richer, and they will also contradict each other, and in the end, no matter how fresh the replaced flesh and blood body is, the soul will collapse.

"We've met several soul shifters who have had broken souls, all of whom were clever people who tried to achieve immortality in this way, and now, they have all become dementiac and crazy people who don't even know the answer to one plus one."

"But Amber isn't crazy." Chu Ge said.

"yes, that's why we don't believe she's the Eternal." Director Mu said.

"Maybe not immortal, but her body, at least for thousands of years." Chu Ge said.

"And what about the soul?"

Director Mu smiled, "This involves the boring question of 'what is a human being', if human beings depend on flesh and blood, my friends and I, the way we look now, I'm afraid we are not human beings at all." ”

"I see what you mean, Director Mu, but unlike the hapless soul shifters you mentioned, Amber hasn't replaced her body in the past thousand years." Chu Ge emphasized.

"This, in turn, depends on the definition of 'replacement body'."

Director Mu said, "A very classic question - if a cargo ship carries a large number of materials for repairing and building a ship when it goes to sea, and when it rides the wind and waves at sea, every time it encounters damage to the ship, it repairs itself, and when it arrives at the destination, all the parts of the ship, even if the toilet bowl and every screw on the ship have been replaced several times, then, is the ship that arrives at the destination still the one when it departs?"

"In the same way, if Amber really achieved immortality through the rapid renewal of cells, is she still the same as she was a thousand years ago?

"It's a pity, my fellow soul movers and I both believe that with the replacement of the cells around her body again and again, the current amber is no longer the Austronesian witch of a thousand years ago, even if in the depths of her brain, there are still some flashbacks of memories of the past years, but her self-consciousness and thinking pattern are absolutely new, just an innocent girl who unfortunately bears a dark fate."

Director Mu looked at Amber and said slowly and sincerely, "The point is that my fellow soul movers and I, starting from our own experience of transferring souls, think that even if we dismantle Amber into eight pieces, squeeze out the so-called 'blood of eternal life', and make us all have the ability to live forever, the cells around our bodies can divide wildly, replicate and multiply, our souls will never be immortal.

"In less than a thousand years, just a hundred years, new memories, emotions and thought patterns will take over our brains and imperceptibly erode our sense of self and turn us into another guy beyond recognition.

"Everything we love, protect, and fight for today will be discarded by this new being; He will be weary of what we enjoy today, and like a child overturning a building block, he will wreak havoc and even destroy it completely. He will treat us today as an insignificant episode in his long life, thus dissolving the whole meaning of our existence.

"Therefore, on the way here, I have already discussed with my fellow soul movers, no, we don't believe in the so-called 'eternal life', and we will not allow our unique precious life to become a boring game in the long memories of the eternals."