V2/Chapter 9: I saved the world today
After analyzing most of the scientific research projects related to the Herrscher of Sentience with the help of the Herrscher Core, Ai Yue finally understood how terrifying the Herrscher of Sentience is to humans.
Mental plague, as the name suggests, is a contagious mental "disease". People infected with this disease will have their minds distorted, resulting in personality distortion, emotional extremes, and even mental breakdown.
Moreover, the conditions for the spread of this plague are extremely simple. Although it is impossible to pull people into dreams across a long distance through the Internet like keyword hypnosis, as long as you talk to a patient infected with the mental plague for more than ten minutes, the plague will spread to the other person.
The most terrifying thing is that the Herrscher of Sentience can use the keyword hypnosis to freely control the time of activation of the mental plague effect, and this kind of mental illness cannot be detected by existing scientific and technological means during the latent stage.
In other words, if she was patient enough, she could wait until the mental plague spread all over the world, and then use the Internet to completely detonate it, thus plunging the entire human civilization into chaos and ultimately reducing it to ruins.
However, perhaps out of the arrogance of the Herrscher, or perhaps because she thought this method was too time-consuming, the Eighth Herrscher did not use this method, otherwise it would have been difficult for Ai Yue to find her trace in a short time like before.
However, although the mental plague is terrifying, it is not impossible to be a panacea for human evolution, because its impact on the mind mainly depends on what kind of spiritual suggestions are hidden in the original "virus".
For the Eighth Herrscher, she would naturally choose to fill it with negative content such as "hatred" and "despair", but if on the contrary, positive information is recorded into it, then would the mind plague also produce completely opposite results?
This is the question that Ai Yue has been thinking about for the past three days - the technical difficulties of the mental plague itself have been overcome by him, but Ai Yue cannot be sure whether this technology can produce good results.
From ancient times to the present, the discussion about human nature has never stopped. Countless thinkers, philosophers, and educators have conducted countless studies and discussions on this complex and mysterious field, but so far no conclusion has emerged that can convince everyone.
The only thing that everyone can admit is that human nature is complex - there are no two exactly the same people in the world, and naturally there is no unified standard that can be applied to everyone.
Any attempt to restrain humanity and to use a certain standard to constrain everyone's behavior will ultimately lead to immeasurable consequences.
Ai Yue can certainly spread the improved Mental plague to the whole world. He can even go a step further and use subtle means to complete the spider web dream that the Eighth Herrscher failed to complete and bring everyone under his control.
At that time, he could even make people all over the world achieve the ultimate outcome of mutual understanding with just a thought.
But Ai Yue was also very clear that it was nothing but a way of deceiving himself. If he really did such a thing, let alone becoming light, it would be considered too little of their business if he was not destroyed by the light.
This is not a data-based game, and good intentions do not necessarily lead to good results. Ai Yue does not have a reload button to make amends after making a mistake.
Once the mental plague spreads, even Ai Yue cannot be sure of the consequences. Perhaps humans can really rely on this method to achieve spiritual sublimation, making the earth closer to the perfect country of his dreams, but it is also possible that uncontrollable distortions will occur, causing the entire civilization to be destroyed.
The lesson of Aponia is still echoing in Ai Yue's mind. Therefore, even after controlling the top leaders of the Fire Moth, Ai Yue asked Prometheus to monitor their every move 24 hours a day to prevent any unexpected changes.
It is precisely because of this understanding that the Mental Plague is still at the last step of the project completion and has not been truly under Ai Yue's control.
After solving the problem of the Fire Moth's top leaders, no one in this world could stop Ai Yue from doing anything, but this also meant that no matter what consequences his plan might cause, Ai Yue had to take responsibility.
Elysia's answer also made him start to re-examine the matter.
Human spiritual sublimation is a must, but the plague of the soul is, after all, just one of the alternative options.
'Use the authority you have to conduct experiments on a small scale first.'
"What's wrong? You look so weird." Ai Yue's expression did not escape Elysia's observation. She leaned over curiously, "It's as if you have made some important decision."
"Elysia, you just saved the entire human civilization very likely." Ai Yue patted her shoulder seriously, "Incredible, you are worthy of being the second strongest Fusion Warrior!"
"Eh? What?" Elysia looked at Ai Yue in confusion, but Ai Yue was already walking outside with a relaxed pace. "Wait, explain it clearly, what does it mean to save humanity?"
It was naturally impossible for Ai Yue to tell Elysia about the Mental Plague. No matter what the final outcome of this matter was, he had decided to bear it alone. After all, only a savior could shoulder such a heavy responsibility, and everyone else just had to work hard for him.
Of course, the most important thing is that although Elysia just said that she is not opposed to the transformation of all mankind, if she knew the specific content, she would probably point the bow and arrow directly at Ai Yue's forehead.
'Having said that, isn't it time to find a way to improve my own strength?'
'But I always feel weird about modifying my own body, so I'd better choose the rich people's method first.'
After reactivating the research on "portable nano armor", Ai Yue returned to his home.
"Welcome back, Dr. Ai Yue." Prometheus greeted him at the door as usual, but for some reason there was a "holding back laughter" soybean emoticon hanging above his head. "Please make sure to rest early."
"Oh, I'll go to bed now." Ai Yue nodded, not paying attention to Prometheus's strangeness. "Don't play so many games at the same time at night, otherwise the cooling system will be too noisy."
"Don't worry, Dr. Ai Yue." Prometheus looked at Ai Yue's back as he went upstairs, and the emoticon on her head changed to "laughing". "You shouldn't have to worry about the noise for a while."
Ai Yue did not hear the second half of Prometheus's words, otherwise he would have been more or less alert and would not have waited until a figure threw him onto the bed before he noticed anything.
"Ah, Aponia?" Smelling the strong smell of alcohol on the other person and the familiar touch coming from his body, Ai Yue immediately recognized the other person's identity, "Why are you in my house?!"
"I don't know," Aponia showed a completely different side from her usual calmness at this moment, with a hint of coquettishness, burying her head in Ai Yue's arms, "I'm drunk."
Although she said this, her hands moved very swiftly. Ai Yue tried to stop her, but she was completely unable to stop her hands from searching her body up and down.
"Wait, something's wrong! Why did it suddenly become like this... Hey, don't touch there!"
The construction quality of the Fire Moth was very solid, so no one noticed that the Prometheus' cooling system was much noisier than usual tonight.
(TL: Holy~)
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