What is memory.
Memory is the process of classifying and storing past experience information, and recall is the extraction of this information. Memory is the basic function of human thinking. Without the ability to remember, humans will lose everything they rely on for survival, including self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and various technical information.
In ancient times, human beings believed that their souls and memories, thoughts and wills existed independently of the body. If the body was destroyed, the human soul and memories would still exist, and the thoughts and will would be immortal. This was also the beginning of the afterlife and ghost legends.
But in fact, as far as Mycroft's world is concerned, memory and thinking will all have carriers. Specifically, they are the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, hippocampus, striatum, amygdala, temporal lobe and parietal lobe. If brain tissue such as leaves has extraordinary power, then the soul will also carry part of memory and thinking.
The destruction of the body is equivalent to the destruction of the soul, and memory is no exception.
—Unless, the ultimate intention of the soul is reached.
Only by reaching the ultimate meaning of the soul can the soul exist independently of the body and survive forever. Memory will also get rid of fragile brain tissue, neural networks, brain cells and synapses, reaching a state close to immortality, even if it is thousands of years ago. Years later, all the memories are still fresh.
But even if it is so immortal, it is not truly immortal.
And Joshua is now facing a dangerous situation that can erase his 'immortal memory'.
At this time, the warrior transformed into a giant silver cocoon. His thinking never stopped from beginning to end, but he had no spare energy to pay attention to the outside world. Joshua now seemed to be in a bottomless abyss. He held a torch called will, but the surroundings The infinite darkness swallowed up the light, making his thinking sluggish and sluggish, his memory gradually disappearing, and the sparks were about to be extinguished among the shadows.
Because the power coming from Joshua himself is irreversibly destroying the foundation of his self - that is, the memory of the warrior as Joshua.
"Black hole hairless theorem..."
Inside the giant silver cocoon, the warrior's will was pressed to its limit, and a glimmer of knowledge about the research on massive celestial bodies in his previous life flashed through.
The so-called hairless theorem of black holes, specifically, is that no matter what kind of black hole, when it is completely formed, only the three physical quantities of mass, angular momentum and charge will be left, and the other information is the so-called ' The hair' was lost in the extreme compression and collapse of matter. No matter what glorious history the black hole's predecessor was, or how shocking its past was, the moment it became a black hole, it only had those three left. physical quantity.
This is actually easy to understand, because the essence of a black hole is matter compressed to the extreme. It does not have any complicated structure that can record information. Naturally, it is impossible to extract information. In a sense, a black hole has no 'memory' A celestial body, as an aggregate of matter, it is so pure that it has lost its 'self'.
What Joshua is encountering now is actually a problem similar to 'a black hole has no hair'.
When the warrior became a legend, he chose the stars as his future path. Joshua used stars as energy furnaces and white dwarf matter as armor. From the beginning, he built his body into the ultimate weapon in the material world. From the very beginning, Joshua defeated countless veteran legends. The indestructible degenerate material shell allowed him to withstand countless powerful attacks, and also allowed Joshua to defeat many enemies who had become super life forms earlier than him.
At that time, the warrior's body was not entirely composed of degenerate matter. His thinking center and various special organ modules were assembled from various extraordinary alloys. However, as Joshua's assimilation with the power of steel increased, It is getting closer and closer to 100%, and the composition of his body is getting closer and closer to pure degenerate matter. When the Void Vortex encounters the Creation Nebula and instills a large amount of power, this process is intensified.
If you choose the stars as your path, you will naturally have the power of the stars and the destiny of the stars.
Before he was completely ready, Joshua had to undergo his most important transformation in the void - getting rid of low-density matter and becoming a completely degenerate super life form.
And the price you need to pay for this process is yourself.
Joshua's power is too strong, his mass is too great, and his material compression is too pure. Therefore, in the middle of the transformation, the carrier of his own memory and even his soul will be erased by the power of steel that is constantly purified, just like himself. Like a black hole that wipes out all information, it becomes a pure aggregation of steel power. Pure proton-neutron aggregates will not form brain tissue structures like synapses and hippocampus, let alone the computing center of a supercomputer. There is nothing left for Qiao Xiu in the degenerate matter that is constantly compressed and collapsed. space and room for thinking and remembering.
Buzz, buzz. The vibrations from the microcosm of matter are continuous. It is the 'sound' of electrons being merged into protons by strong gravity and converted into neutrons. It is compressed with the collapse of matter in the silver cocoon of Joshua's incarnation. Keep ringing - this simple and direct process of transformation destroys all the original structures of the matter in it. Whether their predecessors were core reactors or psychic jump engines, now they are just pure, constantly compressing, transforming and degenerating. State matter, the information stored in it has long been completely destroyed and no longer exists.
However, this process is not one-way. The silver metal ball sometimes shrinks and sometimes expands, and the transformation of degenerate matter also begins and returns with the expansion and shrinkage, because the mass is not enough to completely transform itself into Pure neutron degenerate matter, the transformation of the silver cocoon is always difficult to achieve full success.
But this is a lucky thing for Joshua, because if he really starts to transform extremely smoothly, then the day when the transformation is completed will be the day when his self-will and even his soul completely dissipate. Being in the darkness like now and constantly fighting with your own power is the only way to successfully cross this step.
After all, he has not yet transformed into a black hole, but is only located in the gap between the matter of a white dwarf star and a neutron star. Only in this way can Joshua engrave his own mark on his increasingly pure power of steel and obtain another self-reconstruction. opportunity for the thinking organ.
In the darkness of the silver cocoon, the warrior's self-will is still fighting silently.
"By manipulating electromagnetic force and interfering with microscopic material structures, we can construct stable modules that can store information."
"Using the soul as a bridge, it runs through various information storage points to form a link network that can ignore ultra-high-density matter."
"Diffuse divinity, completely tear divinity into pieces, disperse it in the soul network, and achieve instantaneous information transmission regardless of distance."
From scratch, it took nearly twenty days to create an 'information storage module' that was extremely inconspicuous even in the microscopic world. It was formed from a small amount of electrons and protons mixed with a continuous neutron fluid, and then linked bit by bit to make the whole silver giant Cocoon, the 'soul network' clearly visible even from a macroscopic perspective takes shape.
The further back he goes, the faster Joshua rebuilds his thinking organ. In the final stage, with the help of his soul network, he has been able to maintain his own memory, and even simply smashed the divinity he could control, and used it to As the material, he forged an extraordinary thinking structure that could ultimately ignore distance and have no delay.
Countless information storage modules are like ganglia in the human brain, and the divine soul network is equivalent to a neural network. At this time, Joshua has completely become an ultimate life form that is unimaginable to ordinary humans, because he The basis of thinking is no longer the microcurrent and neural network of ordinary life.
Joshua's soul is with his body, and he no longer needs such things as a brain and a thinking center, because every part of his body is a node where he stores information and memories, and is a carrier of his thinking. In a certain sense, On the Internet, Joshua has achieved his original vision of 'immortal power'. From now on, as long as all his substances cannot be completely destroyed and all records in the information storage module are eliminated, one day the warrior will eventually be resurrected and once again Come into the world.
In the center of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Ground, in the light of the silver sky that illuminates the entire plane, the ruling will does not care about the Winterfort Academy team that is slowly cruising in the distance, as well as the teams of major forces carrying out cleanup work in various parts of the plane. , but looked at the giant silver cocoon shrouded in its own light with great seriousness.
Every time it collapses, every time it expands, which area of matter has been transferred to other areas, and what kind of movement the basic particles in which area have undergone, the ruling will records every change in the silver cocoon in detail, and it calculates the changes based on this information. Does Joshua's will still exist, and is he always ready to take action to rescue the soldier's self-will
Although it believes that Joshua can control his own power and take this most important step of transformation, this does not mean that it will not save the defeated warrior. At most, it will greatly reduce its influence on the opponent. The expectations have removed Joshua from his position of highest authority in the Sacrifice of All Realms, the First Successor of the Saint.
But what is gratifying is that judging from the current reaction, Joshua has finally completely controlled his own power and maintained his will in the long battle with himself.
"Congratulations, Joshua."
Only then did it express its heartfelt congratulations to the silver cocoon: "You have completely taken a big step towards infinity. This move alone is enough to leave your name in the multiverse."
"Thank you very much, Ruler of Will."
After a long time, a deep voice with strong electromagnetic noise came from the silver cocoon: "Although it must have been an accidental collision, thanks to Igor, Nostradamus and you have been shielding my body. Gravity, otherwise, it would definitely not be so easy for me to reconstruct my thinking system this time."
Joshua meant these words sincerely - fortunately, the old pope immediately discovered the giant cocoon of Joshua's incarnation in the void, and used a different space seal to completely isolate the warrior from the material world. Fortunately, everyone in order to avoid causing any natural disasters , has always been careful to seal the giant cocoon of the warrior incarnation. Otherwise, Joshua would be able to obtain a large amount of material supplies even in the void, thus making it more difficult for him to reconstruct his thinking network.
Think about it, countless scattered and solid materials hit the surface of the silver cocoon under the action of strong gravity, and emit nuclear bomb-level energy that is better than most extreme spells. This situation has always been inside the giant cocoon. For the warrior who reconstructs the core of his thinking, it is simply disastrous. Just a few more times can interrupt his construction process and force him to start over.
"It's all about order."
In response to Joshua's thanks, the simple-thinking Will of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field did not say anything in reply. It just searched the database and gave a prompt based on the relevant information: "Joshua, your current body energy level If it is too high, its mere existence may cause devastating disasters to the material world.”
"According to the information from the Era of Light, you should create an incarnation to replace your body and walk in the human world, and continue your activities in the human world."
"Incarnation?"
Hearing this word, Joshua couldn't help but recall his recent trip to the world of Siberia.
At that time, because the world of Siberia was still just a world of medium and low demons, he purposely only used his soul to descend and carry out possession and incarnation... Unexpectedly, after returning to Mycroft's world, he would still have to use his incarnation to walk in the world.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Joshua himself also knew that with his great improvement in strength at this time, he could no longer be as leisurely and indifferent as before. The superficial isolation stance alone was no longer enough to eliminate the terrifying gravity brought by his huge mass. If he If we still go to Moldavia in our true form, maybe... no, it will definitely turn the entire territory into a sunken basin, and even the entire northern land's crust will undergo drastic changes.
Today's Joshua is still in the form of a giant silver cocoon. The warrior has spent most of his energy in constructing a new thinking module. In order to adapt to this completely different thinking organ in a short period of time, he cannot change quickly. Forming the commonly used Iron Giant form, it is estimated that it can only maintain the status quo for a few months or even half a year. Thinking of this, Joshua did not hesitate. He was immediately ready to take action, preparing to mobilize the original material to create a powerful enough incarnation.
But at this moment, Joshua's will suddenly stagnated.
"Wait a minute, I forgot to put the body of the 'Unknown Mechanic' back into the world of Siberia!"
In the world of Hyboria, when he and Fatrolvi officially fought inside the world, the steel puppet that came in the form of Joshua tore up the space, and directly attacked the galaxy giant in the form of the time pusher with his body, trying to drag the opponent into a decisive battle in the void. , at that time, in order to protect the safety of the steel puppet, Joshua's body took the puppet and the body of the unknown technician in the puppet into the body and kept it safely.
But later on, Fatlolvi stirred up time and looked back on the past again and again. He even observed the possibilities of the future, and together with Joshua, destroyed 'destiny' into a mess. In the repeated bombardments of each other, Fatlolvi was beaten unconscious, and Joshua also forgot that there was a substitute and a Siberian body in his body.
In addition, Joshua had a premonition that he was going to advance, so he hurriedly planned to return to Mycroft's world to make more solid preparations. He should have thought of it at this time, but he encountered another person in the middle of the process. The changes in the Void Vortex... Everything was too coincidental. The majestic energy poured into the body, accelerating Joshua's state, and made him ignore it.
As for now, the bodies of both the steel puppet and the unknown mechanic have been compressed into degenerate matter during Joshua's advancement, becoming the raw material for the warrior's new body.
"Fortunately, I'm fairly familiar with creation, otherwise it would have been embarrassing."
In the center of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Field, the surface of the giant silver cocoon suspended in mid-air moved slightly, and then a few material particles the size of a pen tip rose from it. This seemingly inconspicuous material particle shattered into two halves in mid-air, and one half occupied the Most of it, and only a tiny bit of the other half. Under Joshua's control, the two material particles, one large and one small, began to expand rapidly. One of them transformed into a tall, black-haired man who seemed to be made of steel in mid-air, while the other transformed into a He became an ordinary Siberian boy, obviously still a carbon-based creature.
With Joshua's current control, as long as he has raw materials, he can use relevant information to create various incarnations anytime, anywhere, whether it is a combat body similar to a steel puppet or an ordinary carbon-based humanoid , although the unknown mechanic's body was absorbed by him, as long as there is enough information, he can naturally create an identical one and return it to him.
Of course, the nameless mechanic's soul is still recuperating in Joshua's soul abyss. It will probably take some time before he can regain control of his body. After he fully recovers, Joshua will naturally ask him if he wants to return to his body. If not, then the warrior will recruit the other person and let him continue to study puppet-related matters at Winterfort Academy. If so, then he will send the other person back to the world of Hyboria and let him get along with his compatriots. .
"Just passing by."
Joshua has not forgotten the black mist lingering around the Void Vortex and the possible existence of Alpha Sanctuary. In order to completely erase this "darkness among the stars" from the multiverse, he will inevitably return to that area again. Explore the realm of time and space.
Of course, that will all happen later. Reminded by the will of the ruler of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site, the incarnation that Joshua had just created—the tall black-haired man—moved his hands and feet, then turned his head to look to the east, where the faint sound of human voices could be heard. That was the voice of a visiting team from Winterfort Academy, and there was a lot of life in it that was very familiar to Joshua.
Thinking of the owner of those auras, Joshua, who had not walked in the world in person for a long time, raised the corners of his mouth unskillfully and put on a rather stiff but sincere smile.
After all, he had just returned home.
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