Chapter 1577 The Essence of Life

This question excited Joan.

He immediately started to conduct experiments, and the final answer was similar to the conclusions of a series of experiments on "flying insects and beasts" in the morning.

When Joan casts "Bug Incarnation" to become a swarm of insects other than bees, the blood essence of demons and devils will endow the insects with corresponding subspecies and supernatural abilities.

When Joann turns into a swarm of wasps, the effect of the devil's blood essence is the same as before, and what is transformed is a swarm of 11,000 "mutated wasps" with devil subspecies, but the devil's blood essence will turn Joanne into a swarm of yellow spring bees !

To be precise, it is a colony of 110 Huangquan bees. Joan's own spiritual will directly becomes the hive will of the bee colony.

Although using "Devil's Essence and Blood" to cast "Incarnation of Insect Swarm" will reduce the size of the swarm to one percent of the normal situation, there is an advantage - Joan's incarnation of "Yellow Spring Bee Swarm" has "parasitic "ability!

The "incarnation of the swarm" strengthened by the "devil's blood essence" actually has the function similar to the 4th ring "parasitism", but it cannot stay in the host body forever like the "parasitism". Automatically break away from the host and return to human form.

Considering that "Insect Swarm Incarnation" is only a third-level spell, and besides "parasitic", the Huangquan bee swarm form has other uses, and its combat effectiveness is not bad, Joan thinks this strengthening method is quite useful.

So far, Joan has completed the first phase of research.

According to this framework, Joan can replace devils and demons with other alien creatures, such as celestial creatures; on the other hand, he can also collect more "summoning" and "calling" spells, and replace them to participate in the experiment, the operation process Much the same, but the final experimental results should also reflect similar laws.

Joan thought so at first.

But after in-depth thinking, he found that the research framework he designed was not as perfect as he thought, and there was at least one serious flaw.

The problem was with the "scourge beetle".

This spell is an irreplaceable core element for Joan's research framework.

Other variable elements, such as the type of alien creature, "summoning" and "calling" spells, no matter how they are rotated, are arranged and combined around the invariable element of "disaster beetle" condensed blood essence.

But the problem is that not all alien creatures have flesh and blood, such as the four elements of water, fire, wind, and earth. There is no such thing as blood in the body, and the "disaster beetle" is useless. The one designed by Joan This set of research framework is stuck and cannot be advanced to the next link.

how to solve this problem?

Elemental creatures, undead creatures, and constructed creatures, although they are all called "creatures", their forms of existence are far from ordinary creatures, and it is impossible to find the physiological activities corresponding to ordinary creatures in their bodies. Spells aimed at flesh and blood organs are all ineffective against them.

Joan had to give up the "disaster beetle".

The core configuration of this spell has been fixed, and no matter how optimized it is, its scope of application is unlikely to expand to elemental creatures, undead creatures, and constructed creatures.

Abandoning the "disaster beetle" is equivalent to giving up the idea of ​​"condensing blood essence". After all, no one can squeeze olive oil from stones.

Joan is no stranger to this dilemma, and it is very similar to the dilemma faced by "Blood Interpretation" back then.

"Blood Interpretation" and "Disaster Beetle" have similar principles, they both try to find the essence of life from blood.

Joan later realized that blood is not the only carrier of the origin of life, so he invented the "myth analysis technique", which is also applicable to elemental creatures, undead creatures, and constructed creatures that are not flesh and blood. Substances that can replace blood essence should also be found on living things, undead creatures, and constructs.

Assuming that this kind of substance really exists, then it must be the concentrated expression of vitality, and it is more suitable than flesh and blood as an objective standard to strictly judge whether an object is an inanimate "object" or a living "creature".

Joan turned to look at Duo'er who was wiping the tea set.

"Duo'er, as a constructing creature, what do you think is the factor that makes you leave the ranks of objects and enter the category of creatures?"

"Because I can move my body, Mr. Vader!" Duo'er replied with a smile, and twisted her slender waist to show off her flexible figure.

"A moving object is a living thing? According to this, the moon that has been revolving around our world since ancient times is also a living thing?"

Qiao An's questioning made Duo'er stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said:

"That's different, Mr. Vader, the moon can only revolve around our world in a fixed orbit, without the awareness of changing the laws of motion."

"Although I am a created golem, I have been restricted by my master with many rules that cannot be violated, but I still have a certain degree of freedom."

"For example, at this moment, I can freely decide to raise my left hand or my right hand. Even a slave in shackles in a plantation still has the freedom to decide whether to breathe. Mr. Vader, our freedom is what separates us from objects. A key factor in elevating the category to the biological category."

"In other words, if even a minimum of free will doesn't exist, it's not a living thing, but an object? I don't think that's right."

Joan shook his head and continued to question.

"According to what you said, a brain-dead person has stopped thinking, but still has a heartbeat. Isn't he considered a living person?"

"Mr. Vader, I believe that freedom includes not only active will, but also passive instinct. People whose brain stops thinking, as long as they still have instinctive physiological activities, they are still in a state of survival."

Duo'er solemnly emphasized: "It's like the immature fetus in the mother's womb, maybe it doesn't know how to think, but it can already follow the instinct to absorb nutrients from the mother's placenta, so even the unborn fetus should be considered a living person , You can’t take this little life away at will.”

Joan glanced at Duo'er in surprise.

I really didn't expect that a golem like her, who has no fertility, is actually an "anti-abortionist".

Joan had different views on this, but he didn't want to deviate from the topic, so he continued to ask Duo'er: "Then where does the 'freedom' that is the criterion for judging life and death, which is what you call will and instinct, come from? The brain, or the heart?"

"It has nothing to do with these flesh and blood organs, Mister Vader, I believe that freedom comes from the soul."

Duoer answered seriously.