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Chapter 943 21 Grams of Soul

"How is this possible..."

Just when everyone was silent for a long time, Hu Meng suddenly muttered to herself. She rushed to the video player, pressed the play button, and locked the video on several frames in a loop.

One of the sections shows the scene where Pride gouged out his eyes and merged them into the pupils on his forehead, forming a three-pupil eye.

Looking at this scene, Hu Meng asked himself with a puzzled look on his face: "If there are three eyes, it can be understood as a partial mutation of the body, but how could he have merged the other two eyes with the eye on the forehead? It's incredible. If only we could dissect it..."

Having said that, Hu Meng's eyes subconsciously turned to Qin Zhong, with a glimmer of desire in her eyes.

"I really..."

Hearing Hu Meng's mumbling, the expressions of everyone present froze, and many people were secretly surprised.

When everyone was in a heavy mood, Hu Meng actually thought about dissecting that Arrogant. Just kidding, Arrogant almost destroyed the entire 749th Bureau and the Kyoto government forces by himself!

"Haha, Hu Meng, believe me, you will get what you want." Looking at Hu Meng's longing eyes, Qin Zhong did not feel unhappy, but a warm feeling surged in his heart.

At this time, the only one who could continue to believe in him and think that he could deal with arrogant people was probably Hu Meng. Even Xiao Yingyong, Chi Xinru and others would not think so.

"Great! This guy's body structure must be different from humans..."

Hearing Qin Zhong's words, Hu Meng's eyes flashed with excitement. She nodded, then looked back at the video, chattering non-stop, "Xiao Yibai stabbed Pride right in the heart, but not only did he not die, there's not even a sign of internal damage. Add to that his third eye, and I seriously suspect he might be a cyborg. In other words, he probably only has a human appearance, but not a human structure. It's truly amazing..."

After hearing the conversation between Hu Meng and Qin Zhong, the originally tense and depressed hearts of everyone present suddenly relaxed.

Yes, Hu Meng has been thinking about how to use that terrifying black-haired man as a test subject for analysis, and Brother Qin is also full of confidence and promised to help her kidnap the man, so what are they worried about?

When the enemy comes, we will fight them; when the water comes, we will block it with earth. For perverted enemies like this, let Brother Qin, who is even more perverted, deal with them.

As small characters, we just need to put ourselves in the right positions and help Brother Qin get rid of some annoying minions.

"This guy doesn't look very human. Could he be an alien?"

After relaxing slightly, Xiao Yingyong regained his curious personality and glanced at the arrogant person in the picture. "His blood-colored energy is quite strange. It looks extremely bloody. Maybe it's the work of aliens."

"It's hard to say. I kind of agree with Hu Meng. It looks like this guy doesn't look like a normal human, but more like a cyborg."

Qin Zhong said softly with a serious expression, "However, I'm very curious about this guy's weak spot. Xiao Yibai's sword attack was clearly intended to trade injury for life, but he ended up being more seriously injured than that arrogant guy. If it weren't for Yinsi's wood-type healing ability, I'm afraid Xiao Yibai would have been the one to lose this battle."

"The source of his power lies in the vertical pupil on his forehead. I guess his weak spot is also there."

After watching the scenes several times, Hu Meng said seriously, "However, his final shadow resurrection technique was indeed strange. A shadow is just a projection of light. How could it possibly possess combat power, and be so strange?"

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"This, perhaps, I can explain."

Hearing Hu Meng's words, Qin Zhong suddenly said, "I have a superpower called Shadow Control. I can manipulate shadows to freeze the enemy's body shape and even control their movements. I feel that the mystery of these shadows is likely related to the soul of the creature."

"soul?"

Qin Zhong's words stunned everyone present. My goodness, even though it is the end of the world, talking about the soul still makes people feel so weird.

You know, even before the end of the world, there were a large number of scholars who devoted themselves to the study of the soul and believed that the soul exists.

But at the same time, there are also many people who say that the soul does not exist at all.

This debate lasted for too long. Now, after hearing what Qin Zhong said, everyone fell into deep thought. Does the soul really exist?

Aliens have appeared, and we've all experienced the end of the world. Besides, it doesn't seem too strange that humans have souls, right?

"If that's the case, I think Brother Qin is right!"

Just as everyone was puzzled, Hu Meng slowly spoke, "Before the apocalypse, Dr. McDonnell of Country M conducted a controversial experiment. He designed a special beam balance, placed six terminally ill patients on the scale, and recorded their weight changes at the moment of death..."

"What's the result?" Xue Yue, who was fascinated by what she heard, couldn't help but ask.

Hu Meng smiled slightly. "At the moment of death, these patients lost about 21 grams of weight. MacDonnell speculated that this 21 grams might be the weight of the soul. To confirm this, MacDonnell conducted the same experiment on 15 dogs. The dogs did not lose any weight at death, so we believe that dogs do not have souls."

"I've heard of this. This idea is very popular abroad, and it's even been used in movies like 21 Grams and Seven Pounds..."

Hearing Hu Meng's words, Qin nodded and said, "However, it is said that no laboratory can capture the moment when the soul leaves the body, so it is impossible to officially determine whether the soul exists."

"Having said that, we do have a new idea now."

Hu Meng smiled faintly. "If the human soul is hidden in the shadow, it is a kind of existence similar to light and shadow waves. However, this light and shadow wave is very strange. No matter what method is used, it cannot be stopped from dissipating. Pride uses super powers to solidify the light and shadow waves of human beings, making them material and possessing combat power."

Hu Meng paused for a moment, then pondered, "And you said that in this situation, you can only deal with your own shadow. That makes even more sense. After all, your soul has a close and unique connection with you, so you can only defeat your own soul yourself. No one else can help!"

"Yeah, that makes sense."

Qin Zhong nodded thoughtfully, but soon frowned again: "Then why is my shadow only half as powerful as I am? I find this situation inconsistent. It seems that the lower the combat power, the stronger the copied shadow warrior is!"

Hearing Qin Zhong's question, Hu Meng smiled. "That's very simple. I guess this problem must be related to the strength of the soul. The stronger the body and the more resilient the soul, the weaker the combat effectiveness of the copied shadow. Of course, this difference is only relative."

"If that's the case, then some things can be explained!"

After listening to Hu Meng's explanation, Qin nodded. "I said that there were many zombies and mutant beasts in the woods at that time, but I was the only one affected. The shadow warrior appeared, which is consistent with what you said about animals having no souls."

"That's how it should be."

Hu Meng nodded seriously, then his expression suddenly changed: "The soul is too mysterious. Brother Qin, next time you encounter this kind of situation, remember to bring back a shadow so I can study it..."

When talking about new things, Hu Meng's expression became extremely enthusiastic, which made Qin Zhong and others shudder.