Chapter 426 Residual Memories

Regardless of whether Hao Ren's mouth was beyond saving, in any case, after he explained the source of the two brain cores, Mu Lu and Zhuom both said that they were very useful, but they had to be tested before they could be activated. After all, they were the remains of individuals who had died 200,000 years ago. If something went wrong, it would be a real case of brain damage. It would be a big joke to rashly connect consciousness to it.

After breakfast, Hao Ren decided to test the activity of the two brain cores. However, due to the lack of necessary equipment and environment in the central hall, he sent the two brain cores to the space station laboratory, and also connected the consciousness of the eldest son, Zhuom, to the laboratory mainframe. Mu Lu also went to check the situation. Now he was squatting on the open space inside the laboratory, awkwardly twisting his body: "It's a bit... cramped here."

Hao Ren looked up at the ceiling and shrugged at Mu Lu: "You know, this place has a floor height of more than seven meters. In my opinion, this height is as open as a convertible. I don't know what the Creation Goddess was thinking when she made you so tall."

Mu Lu squatted on the ground, but his expression was very serious: "This body bestowed by the Mother is the most proud thing, and I don't think it is inconvenient in the slightest."

Then he added in a low voice: "But the Mother said that she hadn't seen many naturally evolved creatures when she created us, so the scale may be a bit problematic..."

This was a large laboratory, and the crystal core research station had plenty of such wide spaces. Hao Ren chose to conduct the test here not only to allow Mu Lu to enter, but also because the largest "Source Blood Culture Tank" in the space station was also located here. This roughly elliptical room was divided into upper and lower floors. The upper floor was a large annular platform with good observation positions and the main control facilities of the laboratory. Looking down from the annular platform, you could see the lower floor of the laboratory: half of its area was occupied by a huge, swimming pool-like container. This container was embedded in the floor of the laboratory, with a volume of thousands of cubic meters. Inside the container, the bright red source blood surged slowly, like the nanite swarms Hao Ren had seen in the Grey River, day and night.

Mu Lu was squatting on the lower floor of the laboratory, close to the source blood culture tank, his head protruding from the edge of the annular platform on the second floor: thanks to this platform, Hao Ren was finally able to meet this giant's gaze.

Hao Ren ordered the laboratory mainframe to activate several main devices. He put Dou Dou in the sink next to the operating seat and earnestly instructed her: "Don't go out, just watch. You must call Daddy when you want to go out, understand?"

The little mermaid slapped her tail hard, stirring up a string of water splashes: "Oh, I know!"

"Don't fiddle with the operating table, you can't understand it anyway. Come over and watch the child," Hao Ren grabbed Lily's tail and dragged the girl over, "Stop her when she's trying to die."

"I didn't expect you to have created so much source blood," Mu Lu's voice rumbled from the edge of the platform. He observed the situation in the source blood culture tank with surprise, and he knew that this culture tank was not the only one in the space station, "Your cultivation method seems to be more advanced than that of the Holletans."

Hao Ren came to the edge of the platform, holding the railing and looking down at the container filled with blood-colored liquid: "At the beginning, we only had a little bit, just a few test tube doses, but after providing it with enough nutrients and electric field stimulation, it began to proliferate exponentially. Source blood is truly an incredible thing. It is composed of something similar to a cell but not a cell. Those particles can devour and transform almost everything... making people can't help but think of nanite swarms. To be honest, if I didn't know that this thing was the source of life, I'm afraid everyone would associate them with disaster. Its nature is too dangerous."

"Anything out of control is dangerous, not just source blood," Mu Lu put his hand several meters above the culture container. His fingers moved slightly, and the red liquid seemed to sense it and followed the fluctuations, "So the first thing Mother thought of after learning that the guardians had fallen into a frenzy was to stop them... The thing that can create all things must have the ability to destroy all things, and destruction is much easier than creation."

Hao Ren looked up at the center of the laboratory ceiling: This laboratory, like other places in the crystal core research station, was also built from a large number of crystals and magical devices. In the center of the room's dome was a large cluster of beautiful crystal clusters hanging down like crystal lamps. That crystal cluster was the "mainframe" of this laboratory.

Now, a large number of mysterious runes were floating on these crystal clusters. The runes eventually converged into the eldest son Zhuom's status prompt: (⊙_⊙).

"It's not quite customary to transmit consciousness back and forth in the space station," Hao Ren smiled at the crystal cluster, "Get ready, now we start the next step."

Two brain cores that had just been taken out of the container were suspended on the zero-gravity platform at the edge of the annular platform. They seemed to be more energetic than when they were first sent to the space station, but there were no more obvious changes. The two brain cores regularly released a faint red light in mid-air, one bright and one dark, seemingly echoing each other.

Hao Ren activated the connection program.

A series of mysterious runes lit up below the zero-gravity platform. Several slender objects made of crystal, like probes, detached from the platform and gently touched the surface of the brain cores with their spikes. Streams of light then connected the brain cores to several surrounding crystal prisms. A slight, melodious chime like a wind chime sounded in the air: this chime was the unique operating sound of the magical equipment made by the Xi Ling God System.

"The connection has been established," Hao Ren glanced at the equipment parameters, "For safety's sake, I left a firewall between the brain cores and you, so you can only browse the contents of the brain cores in read-only mode. Try to connect and see."

The eldest son Zhuom oh-ed and began to tentatively probe his consciousness into the two brain cores, and the wind chime sound in the room became slightly faster. A large amount of complex data and runes floated on the surface of the crystal prisms all over the annular platform like flowing water, initially chaotic, but quickly stabilized.

"How's the situation?" Hao Ren asked nervously.

"There are only scattered residual memories, and even if they are combined, they shouldn't form consciousness," Zhuom's voice was filled with loss and regret, "They died too long ago, there's nothing that can be read out."

Hao Ren opened his mouth, but said nothing. Vivian, who was next to him, sighed softly for a long time: "Is that so... so they really can't be saved."

These two brain cores were taken from Izhaks' hometown world. Elizabeth discovered them and once used them as a temporary energy source for the Demon King's Castle. They were the remains of an eldest son who strayed into another world. Hao Ren had originally hoped to extract the memory of the eldest son who died 200,000 years ago from the brain cores, but now it seemed that it was indeed impossible.

Although the data terminal had tested the physiological activity of the brain cores and determined that this ancient biological tissue was still "alive," there was no doubt that its memory and consciousness were beyond recovery.

Hao Ren put these regrets aside for the time being and refocused on the present: "It should be impossible to transfer your entire soul into these two brain cores: we only have these two brain cores available now, without matching organs. If we don't use a neural network to combine the two brain cores into a whole, they won't be able to exert their full performance. So my plan is to use the brain cores as something like a 'conversion station.' Your soul will still be retained in the mainframe of the crystal core research station, and then connect you to the brain cores through the equipment, using them only to convert your mental signals. As for how to amplify these signals to the entire planet... I have set up many antenna arrays on the surface of Tanagus. These antennas were originally used to clear the Wrathful Spirits. Now that the Wrathful Spirits have been cleared almost, I can modify these antennas slightly to rebroadcast your mental power. It should be similar to the effect of those tentacles."

Lily nodded in agreement: "Yeah, the other eldest sons are still using wired, and you'll be using wifi from now on!"

Hao Ren pressed Lily back: "Be good and watch the child—but that's right, as long as you can broadcast your mental power to the entire planet, you can start reshaping the ecosystem."

Zhuom thought for a while: "Although I don't understand what wifi is, your theory is worth a try."

"Before that, let's first test the effect of controlling source blood through these two brain cores in the laboratory," Hao Ren said as he released the suppression of the source blood culture tank: this set of suppression devices was to prevent the source blood from becoming too active, "You inject your will into the brain cores, and then create some primitive cells in the source blood. The equipment will record the whole process."

The safety grid around the source blood culture tank rose silently, and at the same time, several crystal prisms representing the suppressor turned from bright to dim. After these devices changed their state, the large amount of red liquid in the culture tank quickly became active at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The degree of their surge increased by a whole fold, and they began to surge out of the culture tank as if they wanted to break free from their restraints: but they were all blocked by the light curtain emitted by the safety grid.

In an uncontrolled state, these things were indeed extremely dangerous.

The eldest son Zhuom immediately began to try to control these source blood according to Hao Ren's instructions. The moment his spirit intervened in the source blood...

In the sink next to the operating table, Dou Dou suddenly widened her eyes, as if sensing something, and looked in the direction of the culture tank.

The source blood in the culture tank instantly calmed down completely, as if dead.