Whether science or magic, as a system of technology, its initial starting point is rooted in the simplest rules of thumb. Through long-term accumulation, theoretical verification, experimental comparison, practical testing, and data collection...... After the cumbersome process and so on, a theory can move from conception to reality. This process cannot be omitted or reversed, and the so-called technological progress has always been like this.

Even if you are a genius of the past and the present, you will not be able to escape this iron law in the end.

As a rare woman, Luna Justisa is an outstanding theorist with many original and forward-looking insights into experimental methods. However, she could not break free from the shackles of iron laws, and due to the limitations of the theoretical and equipment environment at that time, the experimental methods she adopted not only did not seem forward-looking, but even felt a little inexplicable today.

"After all, medicine, biology, and psychology were still in a very primitive stage at that time. Even if a theory of being ahead of the ages is proposed, there are only those old antiques with bottles and cans at hand, and there is no better way than to settle for it. So at the urging of the church's higher-ups, the genius saint began to conduct human experiments with crude and casual methods. ”

The corners of her mouth raised an elegant arc, and there was no trace of a smile in her calm red pupils, reflecting the angry girl like a blood-stained mirror.

With a light clapping of his hands, the black-haired and red-eyed demon sneered:

"Don't put on that look, 'What right do you have to criticize others,' Your Majesty the Holy Maiden of Jiel. We both did this kind of thing – buying 'volunteers' from traffickers and orphanages, cutting skulls with scalpels and bone saws, stimulating brain tissue with all sorts of means, observing and recording reactions. Watch as the subject loses everything about being human up close, eventually becoming a pile of dry bones, or simply disappearing into the incinerator. Do you still feel that you are qualified to condemn others?"

"Whether you are qualified or not, that's not something that people like us can decide. But—"

Ji El frowned, and said in a tone as if he was about to spit out:

"The way you talk about everyone else as a fool really makes me afraid to compliment. ”

"I'm sorry about that. ”

Crooking his neck, Li Lin once again pulled the topic to the original track.

"It is very dangerous for a living person to come into contact with the collective unconscious, and to be honest, it is no different from suicide. In the absence of a system theory, in order to find a safe and convenient way, we can only explore it little by little through human experiments. It's inhumane, but from a technical point of view, there's really no better way. ”

Even if a drug is born with the support of detailed and meticulous theory, it must go through a large number of clinical trials before it is actually put on the market, and after passing it, it must go through a small batch of test sales, and according to the feedback reaction, it is finally determined that the drug is indeed safe and effective before it can be put into the market on a large scale.

So what happens when you try your way to a higher level of existence through bloody human experiments, based on rules of thumb alone?

The answer is - a mountain of corpses.

This is an inevitable result.

In order to make up for the shortcomings at the theoretical level, the only way to make up for the gap is to expand the scale and level of experiments, and to make up for the gap by increasing the base. Attempting this crude and questionable method has led to an increase in the mortality rate of the test subjects and the increase in corpses.

"Fortunately, those who died did not die in vain. With the help of a large amount of experimental data, the theory was advanced, and finally the basic theory of the priesthood garments was established. If it continues, it is likely that the priesthood vestments will appear many years earlier. However, just after completing the basic theoretical design of the priesthood vestment, the rare genius, Her Majesty Luna Justisa, was killed in an accident, bringing the entire research to a halt. It took a long time to get back on track. ”

Li Lin spread out his hands, and his face showed a look of regret.

In the next moment, regret and melancholy turned into a hideous sneer.

"Officially, it is recorded that he died in an accident while developing a new technique, but in reality, the genius committed suicide. ”

No matter how hard-hearted you are, no matter how much you use "this is the great righteousness" to convince yourself, no matter how much you pretend to turn a blind eye to the death and tragedy that are close at hand. Man is a human being after all, a creature with a self-will and a heart. After the initial fear, shock, and disgust, the emotions and the mind gradually become numb - this is the self-protection mechanism of the mind, without the existence of this layer of armor called "insensitivity", in the daily nightmares and conscience condemnation, the fragile heart would have collapsed long ago.

But "numbness" is like an anesthetic. Anesthetics can only temporarily block the nerves from transmitting nerve signals to the brain, making people temporarily unable to feel pain, and cannot really improve the symptoms. In the same way, the mind that has been immersed in numbness for a long time will not be truly healed and redeemed, but will slowly decay until it dies.

After completing the basic theory and prototype design of the priesthood vestment, Luna Eustisa also ushered in the day of spiritual death.

Dragging the broken mind, repeatedly muttering "It shouldn't be like this", the rare genius put the magic tool that had penetrated into the deep realm of consciousness on his head, and turned the synchronization rate to the maximum-

The spirit of the individual is the tentacle of the collective unconscious reaching out to the outside world, penetrating into the depths of the realm of the collective unconscious, and the result of synchronization with the depth of the overall consciousness is that it is impossible to distinguish the self, becomes part of the sea of consciousness, and can never return to its original container.

In other words, death.

The self-conceived woman who came up with that theory and led many experiments had to pay for her crimes—and the saint who conceived this idea ended her life in the most painful way possible.

In terms of the end, it was a tragic end, and it's no wonder that the church didn't want to put it in the official archives. No matter how you say it, it is also suicide, how can the public know that the holy woman actually violates the doctrine and wastes the life given by God. So the truth was concealed, and everything ended in an 'accident'. ”

However, the death of one person did not stop the entire Church from going further and further down the path of madness, and even though the person died, the results and ideas left behind by him continued to be perfected.

One is to use the collective unconscious to forcibly pull down the priesthood in reality by the miracles and saintly anecdotes that are recognized by everyone.

The other is to dive into the vortex of the root of all things in the world that lies beneath the collective human unconscious.

"Human beings as individuals are the tentacles of the collective unconscious extending to the outside world, and the collective unconscious of human beings is one of the tentacles of the vortex of roots. Tracing the source of the collective unconscious, going upwards and upwards, eventually reaching the vortex of the root – this is the insight left by Luna Justisa. Well, the general direction is correct, but she does not realize that the collective unconscious itself is also a breakwater to prevent all kinds of world-changing harmful factors from approaching the vortex of the roots. It is simply impossible to reach the root cause through the collective unconscious. After a series of attempts, the church also abandoned this unpromising direction. However, the attempt itself did not stop, it just continued in a different direction. ”

Man is an extension and composition of the collective unconscious.

The collective unconscious is an extension and composition of the vortex of the world and even its roots.

In other words, it is possible for human beings as individuals to go directly to and contact the vortex of the root through the sublimation of self-consciousness, not through the collective unconscious.

Although the possibility of having a zero with many decimal places after zero is so small that it is almost impossible, it is not equal to zero after all.

So they changed the direction of their attempt, and since it is difficult for the average human brain to overcome the barriers of the collective unconscious, it is enough to create a brain from scratch that is specifically designed to open up a vortex to the root. Wouldn't that be more effective than wasting time and energy on the brain, which is destined to make no progress?"

The finger slowly raised, pointing to the delicate, upright, and beautiful girl like a doll, and the voice of the demon tempting the world to degenerate echoed in the underground space.

"In order to create such a brain, in order to gain the way to the vortex of the roots, Homunculus, modeled after Luna Eustisa, is what you really are. ”