The Empire of Twilight, the "City of Waiting", the Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty, Diesel asks to see you." Director Jon reports to Black Sharp.

Black Fengrui thought to himself: What are you looking for me? The whole Twilight Empire, who doesn't know that I'm a light substitute for nothing? But it was boring anyway, so he nodded: "Let him in." ”

As soon as Diesel entered, he saluted honestly, and looking at his sincere and frightened appearance, Black Edge couldn't help but feel funny. The steward had a chair for Diesel (anyone who saw his face would have thought he was too weak to stand on his feet).

"Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

"Your Majesty, in fact, I didn't come to you this time, but I wanted to ask Master Christo for advice."

Black Sharp was surprised, but still said, "Get up, someone is looking for you." ”

Christo peeked out of his ear and turned to Diesel leisurely: "Hello, what's the matter with me?" ”

Despite having heard of the new Majesty's parasites, Diesel was even more cramped. You know, otherworldly creatures are the culprits who trample on the world! He cautiously asked, "Lord Christo, have you thought about why otherworldly creatures don't have souls?" ”

As soon as he heard this question, Black Sharp also came to his senses.

What kind of life are otherworldly creatures? Why can't all kinds of common sense in the Qiankun world be applied to them?

Christo stretched out his longer body and approached quietly, until he was still ten centimeters away from Diesel's face. Diesel was not a necromantic creature, and he could feel the cold, as if the temperature on his body had been stripped away by the translucent pipes. He suddenly remembered that Christo, like Xue Duo, was a pioneer in the Otherworld, and it was easy to kill him.

When Diesel's cold sweat was about to ooze, Christo spoke: "Of course I thought about it, but I'm not the kind of character who gets to the bottom of it. After all, the concept of 'soul' is only used in your world, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

"Yes, otherworldly beings are beings that we cannot understand. Any intelligent life has the ability to think independently, has its own memory and personality, which is what we call spiritual imprints, and logically speaking, you who can talk to me should also have a soul. But if I use the [Soul Eye] to observe from the soul level, I can only see Your Majesty, but I can't see you. It's as if I'm talking to bugs, and they don't have souls. ”

(Black Sharp listens with relish, and then Chief Jon leans over and whispers, "Your Majesty, forgive me for being unaccompanied, and please summon me if necessary.") "After getting His Majesty's approval, he left gracefully)

"However, under our experiments, some insects infected by otherworldly creatures have a soul reaction. It stands to reason that bugs have no intelligence and should not have souls. ”

"You guys?" Black Edge interjected: "The Dusk Empire was established after the 'Doomsday Confrontation', where did you find samples infected by otherworldly creatures?" ”

"That was when I was in the Dark Church."

Christo pulled back the conversation: "You mean that otherworldly creatures and insects, these two soulless beings combine to produce souls?" Have we turned on their wisdom? ”

"Yes, it's actually quite easy to understand." Diesel pulled out two things, one was a finger-sized soul gem, and the other was a blood bone. "Soul gems and blood bones are pure. First of all, the soul gem is compressed from pure spirit sons, and the blood bones are condensed from resentment. Resentment is a strong negative mental imprint. ”

He brought the blood bones and soul gems into contact. I saw the blood and bones burst into red light, and the red slowly seeped into the gem, forming a wonderful pattern. With a hula, the gem ignited, forming a soul fire.

"The spiritual imprint is the essence of the personality, as long as the spiritual imprint is not extinguished, the soul fire can be ignited on any soul gem to achieve the effect of infinite rebirth, and the lich's lifebox is exactly this principle. Necromancers can artificially create necromantic creatures by imparting their own spiritual imprints to corpses and constructing virtual personalities. ”

Christo shrank back: "In other words, we are equivalent to necromancers?" ”

Diesel blinked, but did not answer.

Christo shrank halfway and froze: "Slow, shouldn't we be equivalent to blood and bones?!" Are we spiritual imprints?! "It was so excited, flashes of light flashed through it.

"It's understandable. To be more precise, it is a creature that has only a spiritual imprint but no soul, so it can be explained. ”

"In your mind, this is just a wild talk!" Christo writhed back and forth, as if pacing in mid-air: "Without a soul, how can a spiritual imprint exist?" ”

"The soul is one energy, so just find a substitute for another energy. Your spiritual imprint is attached to various energies such as light, heat, electromagnetism, etc., so you have 'supernatural powers'. There is a similar situation in our world, where elemental beings are attached to the elements with their spiritual imprints, so they are born with the ability to use 'magic'. 'Ability' and 'Magic' work the same way, so you can create a magic pattern for Your Majesty. ”

"Do you think we have any similarities with elemental creatures?"

"That's the most interesting part, I heard that there is a 'gene' in the other world? Genes determine what we look like, and it makes sense that the genes of otherworldly creatures and elemental creatures are different. The use of fire as a body and the use of heat energy as a body may be two different branches of evolution. ”

Christo was silent, as if in thought.

"I was recently compiling the Soul Overview, and I was stuck in a bottleneck, when I suddenly learned about one of the most shocking discoveries in the academic world this year. The Dark Church used the 'Starry Night Lens' and spent five years finally cracking the spiritual imprint of otherworldly creatures. ”

The damage caused by the "Doomsday Confrontation" is too great, the Qiankun world cannot be beaten in vain, many forces are seeking a way to win, and the Dark Church is by no means the first, and it will never be the last. Capturing the enemy's ** samples for research, this matter of otherworldly creatures has also done a lot, of course Christo will not complain. It is now intrigued by the discoveries of the Church of Darkness.

"There is a low-level command in the spiritual imprint of the otherworldly creatures: kill all living beings in the Qiankun world. It's even tied with survival**, which seems to explain the crazy aggressiveness of the otherworldly creatures. ”

"In other words, 'hating the world' is in our genes...... Who wrote it? ”

Diesel hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't think in this dangerous direction. Unfounded speculation is too dangerous for the spirit brand, the spirit is more fragile than you think, and as a soul mage, I still have the right to say that. I think that for example, 'beasts fear fire', and 'hatred of the world' may just be an instinct, which was gradually formed by otherworldly creatures when they evolved, presumably going back to the distant past. Now there is an argument in the academic circles that this is not the first 'doomsday confrontation', and it is likely that it happened once or more in ancient times, so that the two worlds formed a grudge, which eventually led to the extreme hatred of the otherworldly creatures towards the Qiankun world. This also involves the 'rulers of the old times', and further research is all taboo, and even Oskol has not succeeded in probing it. ”

Seeing that Christo was silent, Diesel smiled again: "You said that you are not a character to get to the bottom of it, so you must not go through history." ”

"Of course, but I have one more question, and you just have to answer me...... What if someone actually wrote a directive? I really still care, that command is our fate, but I really hope that fate is up to me! I've risked my life to open the genetic lock, and I've put in so much effort that I can't just kill you! Answer me, Diesel, is there really a possibility that someone wrote a command on our genes to treat us as biological weapons? ”

("Hey!") Black Sharp tugged at Christo. The old partner seems to be really excited, and even blurts out a secret like "opening the gene lock")

"Do you have faith, Lord Christo?"

"Yes. We are burned ashes, and the gods blow their breath upon us, watching us dance involuntarily, and they take pleasure in it; When they get tired of the game, we fall into the void and return to the arms of Selens, the Silencer. Do you mean ...... Are the gods writing the instructions in our genes? ”

"If you blame the gods for everything, there will be no scholars in the world." When Diesel said this, he exuded an arrogance that was enough for him to talk and laugh in front of the Otherworldly Vanguard. It's just that he quickly remembered the difference in strength between the two sides, and smiled humbly and flatteringly: "I'm thinking about another aspect." You say you're burned ashes, so what exactly are you burning? ”

"It's the world, right? Or a creator god with an unknown surname? At this point, the legend is very vague, and I don't know very well, does it matter? ”

"I think that by figuring this out, we can figure out the meaning of the existence of otherworldly creatures. I just associate the word 'fragment' with the belief of elemental beings who think that the world is a living being called 'Gaia'. There is no need to appear as a god, the world itself has consciousness, and we are all part of that consciousness. When we do something that harms the world, the world will punish it in every way, until the act is eliminated (or the perpetrator himself). ”

Diesel took out a relatively large piece of blood and bone, moved the soul fire that was still burning in his hand, and launched the [Soul Death]. After sitting in the office for so long, his magic level was still there, and he controlled the explosion to a very small range, only to see the solid blood and bones shatter in response, and shards were scattered everywhere.

A large piece of spiritual imprint, shattered into many spiritual imprints.

Christo let out a long sigh.

That's the answer it seeks?

Otherworldly beings are part of a larger body of consciousness?