Chapter 34: Noldrei: Aside From a Little Improvement, There's No Other Improvement
Aside from knocking Raiden Mei out with a club at the beginning, Noldrei hadn't really done anything too immoral.
Or, in the eyes of future people, these things didn't even count as moral issues.
Siegfried thought they were just messing around.
But the fact was that Noldrei had easily grasped the key things, and everyone was acting on their own and sending themselves here.
He himself had also become one of the tower-senders.
He had seen many similar strange stories, and he wasn't encountering the various strange situations brought about by Honkai energy for the first time.
But the person in front of him was difficult for Siegfried to figure out. What this person was doing seemed to be completely nonsensical.
But his personal abilities were just too strong. This kind of nonsense had become an action that truly affected reality.
'No, I have to take Kiana away from this demon's lair!'
Siegfried thought and thought, but he couldn't find a way to change his own situation. Even Otto hadn't come up with this kind of ability that could directly change a person at the genetic level, and after the change, they could still retain all the memories of the original person.
It was like...
Re-customizing a body.
During the time he was Spike, Siegfried was really just a little dragon with no abilities. Other than his appearance, he was a pet with no abilities at all. This made him truly experience the feeling of being ordinary and powerless.
When Cecilia passed away, it felt like he was sinking into the sea, unable to breathe, and the surrounding light seemed to be swallowed up little by little by the surrounding darkness.
The process of various complex emotions and personal feelings being constantly amplified made Siegfried unwilling to recall the feelings of that time.
However, these feelings still often came to him when he was sleeping.
But today, Siegfried felt another kind of fear in his life.
It was different from the feeling of losing Cecilia, different from the feeling of being unable to breathe as if he was sinking into the sea.
It was more like in that instant, he had instantly approached an unprecedented 'celestial body', and that celestial body was emitting endless power.
That power seemed to have turned into countless hands that grabbed him, making him unable to move.
That power began to constantly tear at him as an 'individual'.
All the power he struggled to exert turned into the power of the other party attacking him. In that instant, the fear that Siegfried felt was unprecedented.
'Too insignificant...'
It was as if there was a huge celestial body far exceeding the size of Earth, and a giant eye opened on that celestial body. At the same time as he saw that eye, he was also infected by the information emitted by that eye.
Kiana might not have such special and sensitive abilities. At this time, she was just a slightly stronger Kaslana.
But Siegfried's combat sixth sense, which had been honed for many years, and various mysterious feelings were reminding him that it was an unprecedented world that he had never encountered before.
A normal computer system upgrade can only work on the software system.
But suddenly, a computer comes out and says that everyone is weak, and it will show you how to upgrade the hardware graphics card itself.
The moment he learned about his own genes, Siegfried had a feeling of being in a daze.
Did 'he' create new genes to replace the old 'me', or did I create new genes myself?
But if that were the case, how could these genes not affect my consciousness?
'Is the current Kiana still the original Kiana?'
Siegfried didn't sleep all night. All his energy was focused on thinking about the feelings he had when he was forcibly transformed. What was just a moment of fear for others, but for him, that moment was infinitely stretched and deeply imprinted in his mind.
Because he was the strongest among the group of people whose bodies had been changed, and he was also the one who had been most deeply affected by this change.
'Future people, just because they say they are human, does that really make them human?'
Noldrei didn't know that the person who felt his abilities most deeply was the newly arrived Siegfried Spike.
This was actually the kind of life that future people in his era had.
No. 03 said that he was ordinary, but he was actually not ordinary.
If he was really ordinary, he wouldn't have the ability to travel through time and space without damaging himself. He said he was ordinary precisely because he had the full gene library of humans from 130,000 years in the future.
03 is human, and human is 03.
If Noldrei knew about that feeling of fear, he could easily point out which point in the future, which era of humans was experiencing that pain.
These pains were deeply imprinted in human consciousness and passed down through generations.
Actually, no one was sleeping.
The house wasn't big, but it was very clearly divided.
Noldrei lived on the top floor, in a room where the sun would shine in the morning.
Kiana was arranged by him to live opposite.
There had to be a first-come-first-served order. The two best rooms had already been taken, so the side guest room downstairs could only be for the other three.
Siegfried, who had arrived last, was sitting in the living room without any sleepiness.
Was it really okay to just let Siegfried sleep on the living room sofa? He was still the father of the crown princess.
Kiana didn't go to sleep obediently. She still had some questions she needed to ask Noldrei.
After all, her current body always made her feel afraid.
To put it simply, it was like...
'I'm too strong, and I don't understand why I'm so strong. It's too strong, to the point where I suspect that my body has some kind of independent consciousness. And it has nothing to do with me, the "outsider"?'
This twisted and strange mentality made Kiana involuntarily come to Noldrei to clarify this matter.
She explained her situation somewhat awkwardly, and she also thought that she was being a bit dramatic.
'Maybe in the eyes of future people, I'm just making a fuss over nothing?'
"Huh? I thought you wouldn't be able to feel it. You're actually such a thoughtful girl?"
A strange blob that was rolling around on the bed said something very strange.
"You tmd... I! Phew!"
Kiana was almost about to explode with anger, but she immediately restrained her anger. That little bit of panic she had instantly disappeared without a trace.
"Just tell me what's going on with me?!"
She was too lazy to look at anything and sat down on the floor, not wanting to move.
"You just need to remember one sentence: 'Matter is primary, consciousness is secondary.' Future humans have grasped the 'true essence of the primacy of life', and are the most intelligent of all living things."
For some reason, the white-haired dumpling girl heard an extremely proud feeling from his tone.
Kiana was used to Noldrei's contemptuous behavior, and this was the first time she had seen him give such a high evaluation of 'humans'.
"Wh... what does that mean?!"
She scratched her head awkwardly, indicating that she didn't understand at all.
Noldrei seemed particularly tolerant at this time and advised, "If you don't understand, just remember it. Your spirit and thoughts are the highest product of matter. Don't underestimate its own power. Why do you think proteins had to create a strange life that could control them?"
"Go back to sleep. If you have time, you might as well consider changing your brain."
Noldrei rarely showed an attitude called 'gentleness'.