Crow's Paradise

After Grigo and Francisco arrived, looking at the corpses of the scorpion and the harpy, they couldn't help but ask Yao Yan:

"Is this Mr. Dopp?"

"Hold it here? Don't you plan to go to his courtyard?"

"No need to bother, you three, just stay here."

Although the conversation between the three people was not loud, the insect-men could keenly sense various vibrations. To the insect-men, their voices were not much different from talking in their ears.

Turning around, Scorpion Man Danian reached out and took out four documents from his clothes:

"Harpy Lenado Dopp, professor of music at Jungle University."

"Now I am Danian Vecina, the scorpion man. I currently have no occupation."

Francisco took the three documents, and Yao Yan took a look at them. It was just like what the other party said. Two documents were the identity certificates of the Harpy and the Scorpion, and one was the proof of consciousness transfer. It had Pictures and names of Lenado the harpy and Danian the scorpion.

The last one was a letter of consent from the school to conduct sky burial ceremonies in this area.

After the comparison, Francisco nodded to Yao Yan and Grigo:

"no problem."

"Well, Ms. Vecina, we need some time to prepare, at least an hour. Are you sure it will be done right now, right here?"

Danian, the scorpion man, opened and closed his mouth and spoke concisely and concisely:

"Go faster."

After looking at each other with Francisco and Yao Yan, Grigo flew up and flew towards the Sky Burial Funeral Home.

When Grigo went to attract the sky-burial crows, Francisco also opened his suitcase, took out his painting tools, and prepared to start his own work:

"Ms. Danian, what kind of composition do you want?"

Danian, the scorpion man, thought for a moment and asked a question:

“Can you draw something that is not there?”

Francisco was stunned for a moment, then responded:

"Okay, what do you want to draw?"

Then, Yao Yan and Francisco saw her taking out a stack of photos and handing them to Francisco.

Although Francisco was not surprised by this situation, he was still a little surprised by this stack of photos.

While Francisco was looking through the photos, Yao Yan also set his sights on the stack of photos.

He saw pictures of various races.

The top one is a photo of the Scorpion Man, with the name "Danian Vecina" on it.

The second picture is "Lenaldo Dopp", a picture of the harpy.

Then, there are deer, hawks, centaurs, elves, and dwarves.

Each of the sixteen photos is of a different race, and each one is labeled with a name.

At this time, Francisco and Yao Yan heard the Scorpion Man's voice:

"Just follow the order, counterclockwise. I am standing in the direction of twelve o'clock, which is the position of my head. The others are lined up counterclockwise from the position of their feet, including me now, just like It’s like a human snake’s tail.”

The moment these words fell, Yao Yan and Francisco both turned their attention to the last photo.

In this photo, there is a humanoid creature with the waist as the dividing line, with a human on top and a snake on the bottom. It has long gray-black hair and its eyes are staring blankly in the direction of the camera.

Francisco couldn't help but glance at Yao Yan, sat down on the ground next to him, supported the wall with his wings, then put the lanyard on the drawing board around his neck, and immediately began to compose a draft.

Yao Yan also walked to the corpse. As a bone picker, the original owner's job was to pick up the fragments of the corpse to make the corpse appear as complete as possible, and to collect the bones of the corpse after the sky burial.

There is some overlap with the work of the undertaker. However, in the Sky Burial Funeral Home, a small place where one person serves two purposes, the original owner actually also undertakes the work of the undertaker.

When Yao Yan came to the body and conducted a complete inspection of the body for the second time, he heard a voice coming from behind.

"In this era and society, the arakkoa have always been accompanied by all kinds of dead people, right? Death, what exactly is it?"

Different from the seductive voice of the harpy in the original owner's impression, the less beautiful sound of insects flooded into his ears.

Yao Yan didn't really care why the other party asked this. He just played with the body to make her form a good-looking posture, but he also responded casually:

"The most common types of death judgments fall into three categories."

"The first category is physical death."

"The second category is the death of spiritual consciousness."

"The third category is the death of social cognition."

These three types of death determinations can be said to be the most common.

However, Yaoyan himself had some ideas regarding these three types of death determinations.

The claws of his right hand were holding the bottom of his beak, and the claws of his left hand gathered some of the feathers on the harpy's wings to the abdomen, forming a small symmetry. At the same time, he continued:

"There is a saying about spiritual consciousness that when humans have consciousness, they have already died once."

"Animal nature, the animal instinct that relies on instinctive actions and physiological feedback mechanisms, has already died once when the self and consciousness are recognized."

"Self-awareness, to use the example that artists like to use, is the emergence of consciousness, a sub-personality of the body, and this sub-personality has eliminated the main personality, occupying the body, and is not the original owner."

"There is also a way of saying that it is the death of the body itself."

Yao Yan swept over the harpy corpses with an indifferent expression, trying to find the internal features of these artificial creations, and continued:

"Character is also a part of human beings. The original desires of human beings are often produced by the body, and then are modified into new desires through the judgment and integration of values, and through various judgments such as permission and resistance."

"In terms of emotions, humans are also greatly affected by the body. In terms of allergic reactions, different individuals are allergic to an allergen in different degrees, or even not allergic at all. The same is true for emotions. Different bodies have different reactions to an irritant. To varying degrees."

"If human beings' spiritual consciousness is not separated from the physical body, it will inevitably be affected by all aspects of the body, most obviously at the decision-making level."

"When a person changes his body, his personality will inevitably change, it just depends on the degree of change."

"Without a body, there will be a lack of desire and stress response, and when making decisions, the results will be different."

"So, this argument holds that the body is also a part of self-consciousness. When the body dies, even if the spirit is preserved or transferred, it has become another person and has died."

Yao Yan's tone was calm, but it made Danian, the scorpion man, show a look of surprise:

"I'm already dead, right?"

Yao Yan did not respond accordingly:

"have no idea."

Judging by different standards, the results are different. Yaoyan had an understanding of the relationship between the body and the spirit, but it was only an understanding. He did not know the detailed quantification and the specific impact.

However, these are not the main points.

The point is.

Why should he answer this man's question?

Now, what drives the consciousness of "Yao Yan" is the set of values ​​that were modeled on the sequence of values ​​during his lifetime.

He doesn't answer just because others ask him. He has no desire to express himself, nor does he have the desire to have others identify with him.

He will answer, naturally there is a purpose.

Even this time, he did not bring the "Ink Crow" with him, nor the ability to spread rumors.

Using stories, myths, and descriptions of legends, Yao said:

"In a certain era in the past, there was a legend that was considered to be the prototype of consciousness transfer technology."

"By eating corpses, you can gain other people's memories."