There was a green land, a vast ocean, and … a map.
A huge map blocked the sky. Lin observed the changes on it. Aside from a green mark in the center of the map, the rest of the map was white.
The white symbolized the area covered by the cold. After so many years, there was no change at all. If she zoomed in on the map, Lin could see the dinosaur continent in the distance, as well as the ocean between the two continents.
This world had been completely frozen into ice.
With that in mind, Lin closed the map and looked down at the land below. At a higher altitude, the land seemed to be a single piece, but if she got closer, she could see that the land was divided into many areas.
In each area, there was a large number of vine-like plants. They grew together to form square green houses.
As long as the doors of these houses were opened, she could see some scenes inside the houses made of vines.
The scenes inside were ever-changing. There were dinosaurs, landscapes, and other creatures. In each area, there was a Skeleton Dragon or Emerald Dragon. They were opening these vine houses one by one in order.
After seeing the scenes inside, they would sometimes be sad, sometimes happy. The emotions of these dragons were constantly changing like the scenes inside …
In fact, these were their memories.
This was a special dream that Lin recently came up with. When the Skeleton Dragon or Emerald Dragon grew old, they could choose to enter this special area in the dream. Lin found that these old dragons liked to reminisce about the past. They would always talk about how they were when they were young, whether it was happy or painful. They liked to talk about it.
That was why Lin allowed them to see the past in the dream. Each vine house represented their age. From the beginning of their lives to the present, they could see everything they had experienced.
This caused many dragons to be immersed in their memories of the past. Some of them stayed in the room to look at the past for days and nights. However, because dreams had a time limit, they wouldn't stay in the room for too long.
But all of this was extremely precious to these dragons. Whether it was the Skeleton Dragon or the Emerald Dragon, they all believed that they could not take anything away after death. But until they were reborn as eggs, they would always retain their memories.
While they were looking at their experiences, Lin was also observing these dragons' … brains.
Every time these dragons saw something that would evoke a certain emotion in them. Their memory area would be especially active. Observing these areas, Lin could see the changes in the information of various substances.
Researching this might be able to realize his previous plan.
Was it really possible?
What Lin wanted to do was to allow the skeleton dragon to enter the 'realm of a pompom' even after its death, but there was a prerequisite for that: the 'soul' they believed in was real.
Now, Lin believed that if there was a soul, it would be able to maintain its brainwaves even after they left the body. The brainwaves would have the ability to think like a normal creature …
However, such a thing seemed unlikely, because the thoughts of living creatures were mainly maintained by the activity of their brain cells and the large amount of secretions within them. Brain waves are just one of the things that occur when brain cells are active.
It was like the blood of living creatures. Living creatures relied on blood to live. However, blood could not appear on its own. Similarly, brain waves should be the same. Brain waves alone could not form thoughts.
However, Lin would never completely deny something without first trying it out.
So … how should he test it? Extract the brainwaves from the brain alone?
Skeleton dragons did not have a structure that specialized in releasing brainwaves, and Lin did not know what kind of brainwaves would be considered as the kind of brainwaves that had thoughts of a soul.
It was a very complicated problem, so he might as well do an experiment to see if they had a soul or not.
Right now, Lin was staring at a skeleton dragon. This skeleton dragon was quietly waiting in front of a house of vines, looking at the scenery inside. Its thoughts were constantly changing …
This skeleton dragon was nearing death. It was looking at something that it used to care a lot about. The contents of the house showed that they accidentally fell into a dinosaur's' trap 'when they were hunting, and the whole team was wiped out.
It seemed to care a lot about this incident. After that, the skeleton dragons adapted this incident into a story to teach future generations.
Although the skeleton dragons did not have the concept of deceiving their own kind, they were still very familiar with 'deception'. Even if their own kind would not deceive themselves, other creatures in the forest would. Some of the smarter dinosaurs would set up traps, and even plants could be deceived.
In such an environment, they had to be very careful. However, the skeleton dragons had never thought of imitating these deceptions on their own kind. It felt very good.
But for the white skeleton dragons, this was very difficult to do.
Lin had previously selected some peace-loving white skeleton dragons to live on an island. Although the world was now frozen, Lin had also built a space for them like this canyon. Although they could unite and live together peacefully, Lin found that after they gave birth, their offspring were problematic. Some of the offspring would start killing their own kind when they were very young.
It seemed that a group of peaceful individuals had to be continuously bred for many generations to improve. It was better to pick out those that were hostile to their own kind.
Because they were the last of the white skeleton dragons, they should not be like before …
While Lin was thinking, the old skeleton dragon below began to weaken. It was very close to death, and if one looked at the map, its organs were slowly shutting down.
In Lin's dream, not only could she see the two continents, she could also see some very small changes in the environment. For example, the changes in the skeleton dragon's body. Lin could see that every organ in its body had begun to turn red.
And the white in the map meant that the brain waves were changing. Originally, the brain waves were spreading across the nerves of the whole body, but now they were slowly shrinking and retreating to the head.
If there was a soul, she might be able to see it here. Indeed, there were some strange glowing phenomena in the graveyard similar to brain waves, but she did not know if it had anything to do with this. If it did, Lin should be able to see that the white area inside the skeleton dragon's body was slowly leaving and moving outside.
Even if there was only a small amount, Lin could see it.
But …
Lin noticed that the white area in the skeleton dragon's brain was also slowly disappearing. The process was very slow, but she did not see any sign of the white area trying to leave …
In the end, only a little bit of the white area was left. It was scattered around the brain, and then little by little … disappeared …
As for the Skeleton Dragon in the dream, its figure faded and disappeared, just like its brainwaves.
Lin switched the map to the other side, showing the skeleton dragon's appearance. Indeed, there were no brain waves flying out of the skeleton dragon's body. Lin used the brain of dreams to detect brain waves. If she switched to the colored eyes, she could see a lot of light, but there was already a lot of light around, and none of it flew out of the skeleton's body.
But maybe it was an individual problem? After all, the amount of light Lin saw in the graveyard was not equal to the amount of corpses. Generally, there was a big difference.
Lin decided to continue experimenting. This time, she would try the emerald dragons.
Most of the young dragons who had survived were now very old, so Lin had a lot of 'test subjects'. And if the dragons continued to die, it would also help the environment here.
But recently, the emerald dragons seemed to want to use something called a 'coffin' made of stone to store corpses instead of simply burying them. But the coffin could not decompose quickly, so it was stopped.
Lin soon found an emerald dragon who was very old and immersed in memories. They could now enter dreams. Although Susumi did not spread the news about the pompom, she had built some statues in the palace. This caused the emerald dragons to speculate, and some emerald dragons began to worship the pompom. The same went for the descendants of Susumi and Mukla.
They called the descendants of the king 'princes', but this was the same for both sexes.
Lin also tried letting the gnomes enter the dreams to take a look, but they did not seem to be particularly interested.
Now, Lin was no longer looking at the old emerald dragon's memories. Instead, she was looking at the various things that happened in the canyon recently. Its life was slowly draining away …
Just like before, Lin watched its life continue until it stopped moving. Its brain waves slowly disappeared. No brain waves came out of its brain, and there was no sign of a soul …
It seemed that this dragon was not good enough.
Lin then continued to observe the changes in some of the nearby skeletal dragons and emerald dragons. Most of them were the same, their brain waves did not leave their bodies.
But Lin still saw some of the dragon's brain waves leave their bodies, but it was not a whole piece like the skeletal dragons imagined. Instead, it was still in the shape it was when it was alive … Lin saw some scattered brain waves, and there were only a few of them. They quickly disappeared in the air.
This did not look like a soul …
Lin had to continue experimenting with the next method, which was to extract a complete brain wave from a dragon.
Now, these dragons seemed to have entered a dream, but everything was presented in their own minds. The Dream Brain was only transmitting the dream world it created into their minds, and their minds would read the information and present it.
What would happen if their brain waves were forcibly extracted from their minds?
Lin did not know what would happen to their souls. The only thing she was sure of was that if it did not succeed, the creatures whose brain waves were extracted would definitely die. Floating astronomy.
PS: Thank you ~ Long Yinyue ~ 10000 ~!
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