Chapter 908: The Mystery of Eternal Life
Dr. Li Xinlian said it vividly.
Even Chu Ge was gradually attracted to her.
The jungle seemed to be turned into a rough island, and on the canine-toothed reef on the shore, a bloody girl was healing herself at a speed visible to the naked eye, and hundreds of natives cheered, sang and danced around her.
Uncanny!
Terror!
Mysterious!
Chu Ge raised his wrist and looked at the time.
Knowing that Dr. Li Xinlian was deliberately delaying time, she was suspected of waiting for the rescue of Ms. Golia and the lizardman Slan.
Chu Ge still didn't interrupt her narration.
After all, Chu Ge still has to find the enemy's weaknesses and motives through Dr. Li Xinlian's story, so that he can better deal with the enemy.
"After a few days, it's the strongest time of the year."
Dr. Li continued, "For a whole month, the canoes of the tribe could not sail to the sea to fish, so the tribe had to pick coconuts and dried salted fish for food, and a second festival was held.
"During this festival, Amber was once again dressed up in a flamboyant manner, but instead of being a demon, she took on the form of a 'Storm Goddess' or 'Wave Goddess'.
"The tribesmen are still the same old-fashioned, first shouting at her, shouting and killing, wantonly abusing her, and then worshipping her as a god or a savior.
"Similar festivals were held several times later.
"Sometimes Amber plays the role of the 'Demon', sometimes Amber plays the role of the 'Goddess of Storm', sometimes Amber plays the role of the 'Goddess of Death' and the 'Goddess of Destiny' who control life and death, in short, for most of the year, the Austronesian tribe held a total of eight festivals, and Amber also played eight different roles.
"This kind of festival in which mortals play the role of gods and demons is a very common cultural phenomenon among primitive tribes, and even in modern civilized society, there are tricks such as 'inviting gods to come up'.
"The problem is that in the similar festivals of most primitive tribes, whether it is a priest, witch, shaman or the like who plays the gods and demons, or the audience knows very well that the actor is not a real god or demon, this is just a ritual.
"Even if the audience believes that at the moment of the ceremony, the gods and demons can really possess the actor, but after the ceremony, the actor will still return to the ordinary.
"However, after half a year of study, I studied the language, writing and culture of the Austronesian people in depth, and talked with a large number of Austronesian people, including Amber himself, but found that both the people who threw stones at Amber and Amber herself believed that they were not simply playing in the ceremony, but retelling the past, and Amber was the real god and demon, or even if she 'played', she was only playing her past self!"
Chu Ge frowned: "I don't read many books, can you stop saying so profoundly, what does it mean to 'play the past self'?" β
"Quite simply, perhaps one day hundreds or even thousands of years ago, Amber went berserk and turned into a demon and killed many people in her tribe."
"A few hundred years later, in an unprecedented superstorm, she braved the stormy waves and rescued several drifting canoes.
"In an unaccompanied volcanic eruption, Amber was feared and hated as the 'Goddess of Fire', and in another sudden tsunami, she relied on Amber's healing powers to save the entire tribe, so everyone called her 'Goddess of Hope'.
In short, Amber has lived far too long, almost throughout the thousand-year-old history of the Austronesian tribes, and in her long life she has played a variety of roles, and has been feared, loved, wary, and hated by generations of Austronesians in different guises.
Perhaps, at some point, out of weariness of eternal life, she had given up on herself, changed her temperament, and tried to destroy everything in her sight.
But when she came to her senses, she still loved her tribe and was determined to protect the world forever.
"So, the people of the Austronesians regard Amber as a living god and demon, and those festivals are used to please her or warn her, which is probably the case."
"The long life that runs through the history of the South Island, alive...... Gods and demons? β
Chu Ge showed an incredible expression, and couldn't help but glance at Amber's innocent face, how could he feel unreliable the more he looked?
"Is this true?"
Chu Ge asked Amber, "Do you remember the things you did as a 'god and demon' hundreds of thousands of years ago?" β
Amber shook her head quickly and said timidly, "I don't remember anything. β
"That doesn't make sense, does it?"
Chu Ge said, "Those unchanging boring lives can be forgotten, but how can such an important memory be lost when saving the tribe in volcanic eruptions and stormy waves, or going berserk and killing like crazy?" β
"Maybe it's not slowly forgotten, but actively cleared."
Dr. Li Xinlian made an analogy, "It's like having a computer that has been used for decades, and if you want to keep the system clean and smooth, you also need to clean up junk data regularly, or even deeply 'format', right?" What's more, it's not a matter of decades, it's a matter of hundreds or thousands of years!
"If thousands of years of memories were vivid, the brain would certainly not be able to withstand such a powerful and complex onslaught of data, and it would either explode alive or be severely reduced in speed and become an idiot who cannot think.
"So, Amber doesn't remember exactly what happened in the past, it's normal, but there are hundreds of people in the tribe who can attest to it, especially the wrinkled, slim old people who are dyingβmany old people can attest to the fact that when they were stinking children, Amber is what you see now, and until the end of their lives, Amber is still forgotten on the isolated island of time, and their father, their father's father, sees the same Amber."
"So, you're just because of some ...... Proof of the natives, instigating their own father, betraying the Earth Alliance? β
Chu Ge said, "It's really a rigorous academic spirit!" β
"Of course it's not as rough as you think."
Dr. Li Xinlian snorted coldly and said, "Long before I heard such an astonishing truth from the natives, I collected some amber blood to study the mystery of her super self-healing ability and healing techniques, and as a result, after a few months, I found that some of the blood samples soaked in strong oxidants still maintained their strongest activity, as if they had just been extracted from the body.
"I did a dozen different experiments with Amber's blood, and together with the testimony of the natives, I came to the conclusion that they were neither lying nor were they mass hysteria, and that Amber was an immortal who lived for hundreds or even thousands of years, even ...... Immortal Eternals! β
"Eternals?"
Chu Ge couldn't help but shudder and muttered, "But, why? β
"I don't know."
Dr. Li Xinlian shook her head slowly, "No one knows why Amber lived for so long, I compared her with other Austronesian genetic samples and determined that they are very distantly related - to put it simply, Amber is indeed their ancestors from a long time ago, and their genes are not very different.
"I've observed carefully, Amber's daily routine and food are no different from ordinary Austronesians.
"But the rest of the Austronesians have a normal lifespan, between forty and fifty years.
"Only Amber is the outlier among them, sealed in time alone, and no one knows why.
"With the portable experimental equipment I carry with me, I can only study to this extent at most, and if I want to explore the deeper mystery of eternal life, I have to seek help from the outside world, naturally, who else can I find but my father?"
"You can look for help from the authorities."
Chu Ge frowned and said, "You and the lion king Li Ang, father and daughter, are both well-known figures in society, I don't believe that such a tempting research project as the 'Mystery of Eternal Life' will lack financial and technical support once it is thrown out - the military, the extraordinary association, the Galaxy Foundation, the Special Investigation Bureau, and the world's top 500 companies, who wouldn't be impressed?"
"Even if you don't want such a secret to be known to the outside world, with the scale and technological research and development strength of the Lionheart Group, you can study it yourself behind closed doors, even if you invest the profits of the Lionheart Group for more than ten or twenty years, it is worth the risk, right?
"It's not good to find someone to cooperate with, but to find the notorious celestial organization, isn't this a volley turning seven hundred and twenty degrees into the air and three hundred and six, a fierce man stabbing into the pit?"