104: Section 104

The simulated personality, Hexi, built into the clone was successfully activated.

Her crystal-clear eyes instantly became lively. Following that, with the unique laziness and playfulness of Hexi, she stretched and Clone Hexi looked around, saying:

"To think you actually succeeded in smuggling me in; the original was right... However, young man, I didn't expect you wouldn't take the opportunity to make a move..."

Cold sweat JPG! —

Seriously. If you hadn't confessed yourself, just looking at that expression of yours—as if you were disappointed in me for not living up to expectations—Ge Men would have actually believed your nonsense!

"Fine, I'll just call you Pipi Xi."

"That's discriminatory!" Clone Hexi was extremely aggrieved.

Ever since the original created me, I've either been conscripted into doing research or treated differently!

You aren't even willing to call me 'sister'!

Hmph! —

When will a clone ever be able to stand up for itself?

And another thing!

The original is the mischievous one! I'm just a clone... what right do I have to be mischievous!

Sob sob sob! —

You guys are teaming up to bully me!

Su Ming had a headache; this tearful expression was incredibly convincing!

What on earth did Hexi stuff into the clone's brain?

"Stop messing around. The smuggling experiment was a success, but the problem is, I don't know the follow-up plan. Tell me, what is your original planning to have you do?"

"Oh..."

Clone Hexi sighed reluctantly but reported truthfully:

"There are quite a few follow-up plans... like analyzing the cosmic constants of this different world, building a model of its universe, exploring resources we can utilize, collecting data from different civilizations, and by the way..."

"Finding a path for the angels that is independent of the Dark Plane..."

Interesting. Clearly, they had their own warnings. The angels had also realized the fact that the Dark Plane was likely unreliable.

Sensing the Mental Subspace opened within the sea of the mind, he could only sigh; as expected of the Angel Civilization that ruled over a region of the universe, they were daring and capable.

Of course.

Only such a partner was qualified for a cheater like Su Ming... In this regard, besides the angels, only Death God Karl could keep up with Su Ming's growth.

However...

Only an idiot would ignore the beautiful angel sisters and specifically seek out Karl, that old schemer full of bad intentions...

That couldn't even be called cooperation!

That was just an experimental supply item voluntarily delivering itself to the dissection table!

While silently mocking the fact that the Super God Universe was rampant with crazy people, on the surface, Su Ming expressed his deepest sympathy to Clone Hexi.

It was truly miserable!

Which of those projects wasn't time-consuming, labor-intensive, and brain-draining? Wasn't this just pure labor?

With a dark expression, Clone Hexi noticed Su Ming's strange look and immediately became unhappy:

"Hey! Kid, that expression of yours is too rude!"

"Oh, sorry then."

"That's way too perfunctory, hey!"

Clone Hexi was so angry she stomped her feet; this kid... he didn't show even a shred of respect!

However...

"Forget it, compared to all that nonsense..."

Clone Hexi looked around the ship with burning eyes, activating her Eye of Insight. Feeling that wasn't thorough enough, she even flew into mid-air to observe it while hovering.

"This ship is so much more interesting! Hehe, sister likes it..."

Whoosh! —

Su Ming leaped into the air, standing beside Clone Hexi.

"How is it? Did you see anything?"

He really wanted to see how Hexi's clone would perform without the original's will inhabiting it.

With a scoff, Clone Hexi said irritably:

"Are you kidding me? This is a living ghost, something more complex than a soul. The difficulty of analyzing this thing is on the same level as analyzing a black hole!"

Speaking of this, Su Ming became interested:

"I remember the Angel Civilization's research conclusions on the soul indicate that a so-called soul is an extremely complex set of philosophical concepts!"

"It has the total expression of neural activity in a sentient being's brain."

"It has the non-local explicit expression of quantum fluctuations and quantum entanglement."

"It has an information dimension, a self-expression integrated from the outlook on life, values, and worldviews formed throughout a sentient being's life!"

"It even has information projection expressions based on a semi-high dimension, extended from the observer's perspective."

"Based on the above arguments, Pipi Xi, in your conjecture, what exactly is a ghost... or rather, a spirit?"

Rubbing his chin in deep thought, Su Ming's question was very tricky.

The angels' research on the soul had approached the theoretical limit.

The only thing that hadn't been verified was merely the high-dimensional information disturbance based on the observer effect.

Setting that aside, the soul didn't have much mystery in the eyes of the angels, but... ghosts, they had never seen this thing before!

After a while, Clone Hexi guessed with slight hesitation:

"Perhaps after a sentient being dies, during the process of the soul leaving the body, it is eroded by some kind of cosmic negative energy, inadvertently fitting the rule logic of the negative universe, and subsequently, the soul's form is distorted... Souls are very fragile. Without a living body to regulate it, the distortion of the soul's form also distorts the very foundation of the soul!"

"Externally, this manifests as deepened obsessions and a paranoid mindset, to the extent of extreme hatred for all life."

"Furthermore, I even suspect..."

"During the process of the soul deforming into a ghost, because of this obsession, the ghost tends more towards being a high-dimensional observer. Otherwise, you can't explain where the ghost's ability to interfere with reality comes from!"

Su Ming leaned back slightly, gaining a new understanding of Hexi's genius.

Even if it was a replicated simulated personality.

Once Hexi's logical thinking was loaded, it was just that unreasonable!

Encountering a ghost for the first time, she was able to provide a logically consistent conjecture, even though it wasn't perfect and had various issues.

But...

The conjecture itself was sound!

Chapter 119: The Essence of Ghosts! Pipi Xi's Progress

Clone Hexi was not Su Ming; she didn't have the ability of Wall-Piercing Insight.

The Eye of Insight alone had poor parsing efficiency when facing things not recorded in the database and still had to break through existing cognitive barriers.

In short.

As for ghosts, Su Ming, who often watched the operation of the Dead Remains Furnace, had an extremely deep understanding of them.

If the world itself did not have a reincarnation mechanism.

And, if materialist logic had not been completely overwhelmed by idealist logic.

Then, under normal circumstances, once a sentient being died and the neural signals of the brain no longer participated in activity, the self-consciousness that the soul relied on for thinking would inevitably become blurred, desensitized, and even rigid!

After the soul detached from the physical body, it would gradually radiate and disperse from a high-frequency quantum information state to lower energy levels.

Until that soul was diluted by the infinite volume of the universe, and when it was diluted to the point of approximating cosmic background radiation, the traces of that soul's existence would be completely cleared!

Therefore.

Throughout the whole process, the soul had no consciousness.

Usually, this process would last for about seven days, but...

Accidental disturbances could happen anytime!

An obsession before death that was too heavy, the strong emotional drive of other life forms, the nourishment of Yin energy naturally bred by the surrounding environment, or even world-level collective consensus, etc.

If any of the above factors took effect, it would be a different situation.

The soul would passively absorb cosmic negative energy during the process; after all, that was the final remnant of a sentient being, and it still had basic survival instincts.

And the process of absorbing cosmic negative energy was the process of extremely strengthening the obsession, and even more so, the process of the soul becoming a ghost!

This led to.

The more the soul became a ghost, the deeper the obsession.

The deeper the obsession, the more unstoppable the trend of the soul becoming a ghost!

Ultimately, this caused ghosts to gradually demonstrate the potential of a strong observer, and only then did they possess the ability to interfere with reality!

Therefore.

Clone Hexi got one thing wrong.

It wasn't that ghosts had extraordinary power because they tended towards being high-dimensional observers; rather, they had to ascend to become strong observers before they could interfere with reality.

For a first-order ghost to possess the essence of tending towards a high-dimensional observer.

Su Ming estimated that it would require at least a Ghost King level!

But in reality...

The ghosts on his own ghost ship, including Midnight, didn't even have a single one at the Wraith level!

After listening to Su Ming's detailed explanation, Clone Hexi exclaimed:

"The physical rules of the Known Universe are too rigid; otherwise, we should have discovered such miracles as ghosts long ago."

Su Ming found it hard to keep a straight face.

Really?

The physical rules of the Super God Universe are rigid?

So, you call a world that can briefly steal the position of the Great Universe's will with its own will "rigid physical rules"?

Principal Taikong: Where is it not rigid? If it really weren't rigid, would Ge Men be facing a mental twilight after such a short time?

Before Su Ming could speak, Clone Hexi immediately changed the subject:

"According to what you said, this ghost ship itself is also a strong observer?"

"Yes, the midnight rose and Midnight herself can be considered two sides of the same coin, mutually reflecting each other! And because she was born in this world, Midnight also has an additional trait of a ship spirit."

"Well, I don't care; you're hiding a beauty in a golden house, aren't you!"

"Damn! You could have at least said I was hiding a ghost!"

That damn thing is a ghost; a human can't, at least, shouldn't, be like that, alright!

However.

After this encounter, Su Ming finally confirmed.