There are still five chapters today, two chapters are updated as standard, and three additional chapters are updated. I won’t sleep until I finish writing.
"Bite him." Xiao Ran dropped the prisoner holding the knocked-out Dorsia military soldier on the ground, and calmly said to the hesitant Qingren: "What is missing in your body is a kind of name." It is the energy of runes, and the people who carry the most of this energy on the earth are humans. Runes are the source of power for the body you are driving. In order to maintain sufficient power, you must regularly absorb runes from the outside world."
"But first I want to tell you, if you refuse to absorb runes from the outside world, then what you will extract every time you drive the machine will be your own runes, and if a person does not have runes, then there will be no It means that this person will die, so whether it is for yourself or for the country, you must be ruthless to absorb the runes belonging to others."
Haruto looked at Xiao Ran blankly, then lowered his head to look at the Dorcia soldiers lying on the ground. He unconsciously took a step back and asked hesitantly: "Do I have to look like a vampire as long as I fly Unit 1 from now on?" Do I absorb other people’s runes in the same way? Use other people’s lives in exchange for the power I get??”
"It's roughly like this. In exchange of equal value, I think you should understand that you have become a superhuman being without paying any price, but if you want to continue to drive Unit 1 to get the power you want, then you must pay accordingly. something in exchange for this power.”
Xiao Ran looked at Qingren's twinkling eyes and said again: "But you can rest assured that even if this prisoner is absorbed by you once or twice, there will be no problem with him. We have captured more than a dozen prisoners. Change it." It can persist for a long time. Currently, we need to absorb runes like a vampire. Because we know too little about rune energy, we can only use this more direct method. Maybe there may be other methods in the future. The method can replenish the rune energy."
"Of course, you can only use this method until you find a better way. After all, this is a time of war. Those who shoot at us are our enemies, so even if they are really killed by you, you will use all the talismans. Those who died due to Wenxuan were their rightful destination. These people who should have been killed survived in this way. Isn't it their luck?"
"You can be soft-hearted towards yourself, but you must be firm and ruthless towards the enemy. Every time they attack us, it may lead to the sacrifice of the people around you. As a person who participated in the war and survived to this day, everyone is in the hands of They are all stained with the blood of others, so in a war you must clearly understand that either you die or I die, so now, do you choose to die of them or yourself."
Qingren closed his eyes and took a gentle breath. After clenching his fists, he opened his eyes and nodded firmly to Xiao Ran: "I have already thought about it. I want to protect this place. I want to be with the person I like. Keep going, so I will survive, and I will protect everyone and survive together."
Saying that, Qingren squatted down firmly, grabbed the hand of the unconscious prisoner, opened his mouth, and bit it down. Suddenly, Xiao Ran saw strange patterns appearing on Qingren's face, and there were also strange patterns in his eyes. A flash of crazy colors flashed until Haruto's body was so soft that it fell to the ground without any reflection.
The current situation is that Xiao Ran doesn't know whether Haruto's consciousness has been transferred to the body of the Dorcia military soldier, because this soldier is still lying on the ground just like Haruto's body, without any trace of it. It means to wake up. Seeing this scene also made Xiao Ran reach out and touch his chin, falling into thinking.
In the explanation of this world, rune energy is an information particle that is smaller than an atom, DNA. Memory, blood, etc. are all composed of runes. In other words, human beings are basically equal to the aggregate of rune energy, self-propelled rune energy.
But in the plot, Haruto, whose soul was almost exhausted, did not suffer physical collapse due to the lack of runes. If DNA and blood are really made of runes, then why are there no symptoms of anemia, the body turning into a ball of rotten flesh, or turning into dots of light and disappearing from the world, but only weakness and broken memories? The state of brain death or direct death is completely incompatible with physical collapse.
Haruto's madness in the state of missing runes is simply a reflection of the inability to suppress the needs in the body, but it is not clear whether it is a physiological need or a spiritual pursuit, but Xiao Ran feels that it is more like a spiritual and spiritual pursuit. The longing for the soul, to put it bluntly, is equivalent to fainting from hunger, but it is not the stomach, but the soul and spirit.
Xiao Ran once watched an old movie City Hunter. In it, the protagonist Meng Bo was in a state of starvation and saw everything he could eat. He jumped at it completely uncontrollably, so Xiao Ran felt that this was how Haruto went crazy. thing.
Xiao Ran is not a professional technician or researcher, so he certainly cannot study the true nature of rune energy, but he can use his own experience, memory, knowledge and everything else to speculate on what the rune energy is more biased towards. First of all, rune energy must be a kind of biological energy that can be restored in some way. This can also be seen from the plot.
The way of recovery can be to absorb humans, or even self-repair and supplement. Judging from the performance in the plot, memory is the most directly reflected in rune energy, because driving the body will cause memory Broken, but the memory will continue to grow with the passage of time. This can be regarded as a relatively alternative reply.
Secondly, rune energy is not directly related to the body. Haruto's body did not collapse, which is the key evidence. Haruto bites Elf many times in the animation, but there is no such thing. Seeing that El Elf is missing some arms and flesh, and has not been sucked out of the blood like a real vampire, does this mean that the rune energy has very little direct relationship with the body, or even Doesn't it matter
Thirdly, even if Haruto is possessed by El Elf, he will still experience missing runes and damaged memory when piloting Unit 1. But the key is that he is using El Elf’s body, which is indeed broken. It is really my own memory, instead of extracting the runes from Elf's body as energy supply to Unit 1, and it can also pass Unit 1's rule that Sakimori Academy students cannot pilot the unit. This is worth pondering. , it can be seen that the so-called login may be authenticated in the form of soul.
In fact, after thinking about the above three points, you can understand that the rune energy of the human body should be regarded as an energy system belonging to the soul, and its more direct manifestation is such things as spiritual power and vitality. Judging from Xiao Ran's own physical condition, if Machine No. 1 really consumes mental power or vitality, it will be equal to Xiao Ran's endurance value and mental value.
But if Xiao Ran's mental power returns to zero, he will faint. What if he does not faint but becomes a negative number? Then Xiao Ran's body may become an idiot directly because all the power has been drained, that is, brain death. This looks exactly the same as the final result of the former test pilot of Unit 1, Noboru Noe.
And if under some unknown protection measures, when the main donor's mental power is completely exhausted during the continuous battle, other powers, such as vitality, may begin to be extracted, such as the mental power and vitality of the secondary donor continue to As the energy supply for Unit 1, once it escapes that unknown protection, the death of the main donor is inevitable.
People in this world may not know much about this kind of power, but Xiao Ran happens to know about another race of primitive demons that also feed on similar power.
In fact, it seems that there are too many similarities between the magic messenger and the original demon. The magic messenger is called an existence on the other side of the world, and the original demon is also a product of another dimension and is eaten by them. 'Humans will become idiots, but the key is that they can occupy human bodies and exist. Isn't it very similar
It is precisely because they are too similar that Xiao Ran has such speculations. However, it seems that all the speculations can be consistent with the current situation, so Xiao Ran's idea is not necessarily wrong. If the only one at this time If the birdman in Macross F were here, he might actually be able to tell Xiao Ran the truth about the rune energy. (.)