Quadruple split

Game time PM15:57

Academy City Comprehensive Library, District 39, the Fourth Restricted Book Zone

With a dim light flashing by, two figures appeared silently in the mounting space that had been sealed by some invisible force for a long time, obscuring all surveillance methods.

One of them is Mo Tan, who was soaked in cold sweat due to being in the [■Infection] state for a long time. The character's body repeatedly collapsed and was forcibly repaired as before.

The other one is the ancestor of the Dawn Sect, St. Luke Tefero, who has white hair, wears a gray robe, and has two goatees.

"Okay, we're back."

The old pope, who had lost his youth again, grinned and patted Mo Tan on the shoulder: "Look, even if you leave my nineteenth holy step, your body still hasn't collapsed."

Mo Tan breathed a sigh of relief and curled his lips and said, "I'm not worried about this. After all, you are a 'half-step myth' fierce man. It wouldn't be surprising even if you can come up with something that goes against common sense."

"Then your half-dead virtue..."

Tifilo raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Are you worried about the negative impact our 'plan' will have on you?"

"Maybe there is a reason for this."

Mo Tan sighed and murmured with a complicated expression: "To be honest, I don't even know what I'm worried about. If I can, at least for me now, I really don't want to think too much about those messy things. But having said that, are you sure you believe what I said just now, which is almost like a fantasy?"

Tiphilo shrugged and said nonchalantly: "Why don't you believe it? You have no reason to lie to me, although you have discovered that there are some problems in your soul since you were a child, and these problems have separated from you in our world. 's control may have now become an independent existence, and the terrifying power in you is just the residue of that problem. This kind of thing is really outrageous. You probably didn't fully explain it for the convenience of my understanding or for other reasons. The truth, but that doesn’t stop me from trusting you.”

Mo Tangan smiled and twitched the corner of his mouth: "That's really... thank you for your understanding..."

"There is nothing I can't understand, just as I can't imagine a world that can't sense the elements, has no gods, and everyone's physical fitness is extremely weak, but miraculously exists countless tools that are either convenient, profound, or extremely destructive. What's the world like? Hei Fan, you don't know how...well, magical the world you are in now is?"

While thinking about the words, Tifilo said slowly to Mo Tan: "Perhaps in your world, the word soul itself is an unknowable false proposition, but in my understanding, such a thing as the soul has always been It exists, and although this aspect of knowledge is among the most advanced subjects in the occult, fortunately, I have devoted a little attention to this aspect in the process of exploring salvation, so I can understand it.”

Mo Tan nodded, and then said dryly: "May I ask, what do you mean by 'paying a little attention'?"

"Specifically, it means that there are not no people in this world who have higher spiritual attainments than me, but they must be very, very few. Hey, don't show such an annoying expression. I am naturally quick to learn things, and I don't like it. .”

Tiphilo waved his hand in annoyance and continued: "In short, the world you and I are in now has many means and ways to affect the soul or simply manipulate it directly, such as through some He divides his soul into several parts by shady means and attaches them to various supporting bodies. In this way, even if one of them is destroyed, he can still complete the 'resurrection from the dead'. "

Mo Tan frowned and asked curiously: "Undead magic?"

"It's black magic. It's much weirder than undead magic."

Tifilo shook his head slightly, and then touched the tip of his nose: "Well, it seems that I can't say that completely, but that's it anyway."

Mo Tan then raised another doubt: "Wait a moment, I can understand what you just said about dividing the soul into several parts, but there is a problem. For example, when I was a child, The soul was divided into several parts during the period, and as the subject, I was beaten to death by you just now, so if I was 'resurrected' through those parts of the soul, wouldn't my memory stay in my childhood? "

Tiphilo did not give an answer immediately, but asked: "Why?"

"Because if you think about it, I can actually be said to be the 'brain', right? The hands, feet, heart, etc. are all tools, but the core of everything is the brain, like Gundam... Uh, okay, you don't know what Gundam is, Just like an engineering tank."

Mo Tan tried hard to make the other party understand his thoughts, and said with gestures: "Assuming that the 'brain' is the driver of this chariot, then the body is the vehicle itself, so strictly speaking, the existence of Hei Fan In fact, it should be 'Hei Fan's brain', because even if I am missing arms and legs, I am still Hei Fan, but if I lose my brain, I am not. Do you understand?"

"I understand, what you mean is that the soul has no brain."

Tifilo made a concise summary, then shook his head and said: "I have a different opinion on this. I think that although the brain is a very important component, the most essential existence is still the 'soul'."

Although he is not a firm materialist and does not have much respect for Mr. Darwenda (does this topic really have anything to do with Mr. Darwenda), Mo Tan still shook his head: "It's hard for me to understand, uh , or I accept your explanation, after all, in my opinion..."

Tifilo interrupted Mo Tan briskly, and asked the latter with a smile: "In your opinion, only things like memory and personality that are determined by the brain are 'you' and the person 'Hei Fan' Is it right in itself?”

After a moment of silence, Mo Tan nodded hesitantly: "Not exactly...but that's probably it."

"In that case, let me give you an example."

Tifilo smiled and said leisurely: "Suppose, I have a power that is countless times more powerful than now, almost omnipotent, and then at this moment, I use the power of God knows what to transform you. It became a piece of placenta.”

Mo Tan glared at him fiercely.

"Uh, okay, turn you into a baby."

Tifilo coughed lightly, quickly changed his words, and then continued: "Then he erased all your memories and gave you to any family who needed a child for adoption. In this way, first of all, you changed When you become a baby, you have no memory. Secondly, depending on the growth environment, the life of that baby will be completely different from what you have experienced in the past, and then the problem arises..."

Mo Tan did not let Tifilo finish what he said, but narrowed his eyes and answered quickly: "What you want to ask is, is that person...still me?"

"Yes, you are indeed very smart."

Tifilo chuckled, and then directly gave his own explanation: "Look, I directly overturned your hypothesis about the 'existence of Black Brahman' just now, and killed what is in your mind now, but you can say that that person is not 'Black Brahma'? Of course you can't say that, and the reason why you can't say that is the soul in my eyes."

Mo Tan fell into silence.

"In other words, even if I have this creator-like ability and create a life form that is exactly the same as the young man in front of me in terms of memory, personality, and body, that person is not Hei Fan."

Tifilo smiled brightly, then stroked his beard and said with a smile: "That's a bit far. Now let's go back to your question just now. I can tell you clearly that even if you are 1 year old, If you peel off a portion of your soul and die at the age of 20, as long as you can be 'resurrected' with that stripped soul, you will still be the same person you were when you were 20 years old."

Mo Tan's eyes widened in surprise and asked in confusion: "Why?"

"Because no matter how fragmented the soul is, it still has the characteristics of 'complete'. In other words, even if the soul is no longer 'complete', as long as they were once complete, there will be a kind of relationship between them that even I can't Explanatory connections.”

Tifilo laughed, wagging his finger and said: "And memories of decades of years are enough for even the weakest soul, unless..."

Mo Tan subconsciously held his breath for some reason and asked softly: "Unless what?"

"Unless this 'complete' identity is completely shattered."

Tifilo looked solemn and said calmly: "But that is a deeper concept than the 'separation of souls' thing, or it is a delusion, just like I think if you can run at a speed that exceeds the spread of light condensation, It’s unrealistic to look younger.”

【Isn’t it realistic...? 】

For some reason, even though what Tifilo said was very reasonable, and he even cited the fashionable example of 'super light speed can turn back time', Mo Tan still subconsciously felt uneasy, and this The source of the uneasiness was his doubts about Tifilo's words deep in his heart.

As a result, before he could question it, the old pope himself questioned it first...

"But according to what you said before, if a part of you is really separated by... uh, don't mind me just describing it casually, a 'polluted' soul, then according to the characteristics of the soul, you should be able to sense it all the time. , resonate or synchronize the memory of the 'other party', but in fact you are completely confused except that you know that 'that thing' may really exist."

Tifilo tapped his forehead in distress, and after a while he sighed deeply: "Okay, I must admit that this question really stumps me."

"You can think on the bright side."

Mo Tan shrugged, spread his hands and said, "Since I can't sense that side, then if...I mean if 'that side' really exists, it won't be able to sense my side either."

Tifilo nodded and smiled optimistically: "That's right, otherwise the plans we made would be meaningless."

"Seriously, can't you, old man, find a way to just use a super magic or something to find out all the things in the world that have the same characteristics as the state I was in just now?"

Mo Tan raised his eyes and teased the old man in front of him, who could not be serious no matter what, "Aren't you a myth?"

"It's a half-step myth! Half-step, do you understand what half-step means?"

Tiphilo gritted his teeth, blew his beard and said with eyes wide open: "If you completely enter the mythical level, it will be the realm of the true god! That is the realm of the true god! How can I, a pious person like me, dare to be on an equal footing with my lord!"

[Fuck your mother, what the hell do you dare not do? Oh, yes, you don’t dare to face Xiao Xia Lian head-on, you’re too scared. 】

Tiphilo: "..."

Mo Tan: "..."

a moment later

"Can I kill you to silence you?"

Tifilo asked Mo Tan cautiously.

"You can give it a try. I guarantee that by this time tomorrow, most of the 'outsiders' will know about your nonsense."

Mo Tanpi replied to the old pope with a smile.

"Don't bother me, that's all I say, and that's all you hear..."

Tiphilo shrank his neck, then coughed slightly, and said seriously: "And even if I enter the mythical level, I'm afraid I won't be able to do what you said."

Mo Tan narrowed his eyes: "How do you say that?"

"Although it's just a hypothesis, if I guess correctly, after entering the myth, the strength should be enough."

Tifilo looked down at his hands with sagging skin and many age spots with complicated eyes, and murmured: "But I will probably be rejected by this world..."

"Exclusion?"

Mo Tan blinked in confusion.

“There is no doubt that God exists in this world, but do you think ‘God exists in this world’?”

Tiphilo calmly uttered something that sounded profound.

"I understand."

Mo Tan nodded, then frowned slightly and guessed: "Could it be that you have been able to break through to the complete myth level long ago, and you have stayed at the current level just because you don't want to be rejected by the world? ?”

Tifilo laughed and waved his hand: "That's not true. In fact, I really can't cross that threshold. What I just told you was just a vague premonition. The reason why I take it seriously is because I am a bad person. The hunches are always very accurate.”

Mo Tan shrugged: "To put it simply, even a god can't do that kind of thing."

"That's right, but if it is an existence beyond mythology...maybe it can perfectly grasp the whereabouts of your tainted soul..."

"Hey, hey, you're trying to destroy the power system! There's more to the mythology?!"

"I'm not sure if I have, I just... vaguely felt that kind of power once..."

"What power?"

“The power above God, above all things, above all things.”

Chapter 1029: End