Chapter 456 Speculation on Rune Energy
"Bite him." Xiao Ran dropped the prisoner holding the knocked-out Dolcia Military State soldier on the ground, and said calmly to the hesitant Haruto: "What's inside your body What is missing is a kind of energy called runes, and this energy is carried most by humans on the earth. Runes are the source of power for the body you are driving. In order to maintain sufficient power, you must regularly absorb the runes of Outside World."
"But first, I want to tell you that if you refuse to absorb the runes from Outside World, then what you draw every time you drive the machine will be your own runes. If a person does not have the runes, it means that this person will die, so whether it is for yourself or the country, you must be ruthless to absorb the runes belonging to others."
Haruto stared blankly at Xiao Ran, then lowered his head to look at the Dorcia soldiers lying on the ground. He unconsciously took a step back and asked hesitantly, "Do I have to absorb other people's runes like a vampire as long as I drive Unit 1 in the future? Use other people's lives in exchange for the power I get??"
"It's roughly like this. In exchange of equal value, I think you should understand that you have become a superhuman being without paying any price. But if you want to continue driving Unit 1 to get the power you want, then you must pay something corresponding in exchange for this power."
Xiao Ran looked at Haruto's twinkling eyes and said again, "But you can rest assured that even if this prisoner is absorbed by you once or twice, there will be no problem. There are still more than a dozen prisoners we have captured., it can persist for a long time. Currently, we need to absorb runes like a vampire because we know too little about rune energy and can only use this more direct method. Maybe there may be other ways to replenish rune energy in the future."
"Of course, until you find a better way, you can only use this method. After all, this is a time of war, and those who shoot at us are our enemies, so even if they are really killed by you extracting all the runes, it is their rightful fate. These people who should have been killed survived in this way, and it is also their Luck, isn't it?"
"You can be soft-hearted towards yourself, but you must be firm and ruthless towards your enemies. Every time they attack us, they may cause the sacrifice of those around you. As a person who has participated in the war and survived until now, everyone's hands are stained with the blood of others, so in the war you must clearly understand that either you die or I die. So now, do you choose to die for them or yourself."
Haruto closed his eyes and took a gentle breath. After clenching his fists, he opened his eyes and nodded firmly to Xiao Ran: "I have thought about it for a long time. I want to protect this place and go on with the people I like. So I will live and protect everyone to live together."
As he spoke, Haruto squatted down firmly, grabbed the hand of the unconscious prisoner, opened his mouth, and bit it down. In an instant, Xiao Ran saw strange patterns appearing on Haruto's face, and a flash of crazy color flashed in his eyes, until Haruto's body was so soft that there was no reflection on the ground.
The current situation is that Xiao Ran has no idea whether Haruto's consciousness has been transferred to the body of the Dolcia Military State soldier, because this soldier is still lying on the ground just like Haruto's body, with no intention of waking up. Seeing this scene also made Xiao Ran reach out and touch his chin, falling into thinking.
In the explanation of this world, rune energy is a kind of information particle that is smaller than atoms. DNA, memory, blood, etc. are all composed of runes. In other words, human beings are basically equal to the aggregate of rune energy, self-propelled rune energy.
But in the plot, Haruto, whose soul was almost overdrawn, did not suffer from physical collapse due to the lack of runes. If DNA and blood were really made of runes, then why did he not suffer from anemia, the body turning into a ball of rotten flesh, or turning into dots of light and dissipating from the world? Instead, he only suffered from weakness and memory fragmentation until he was brain-dead or died directly, which is completely incompatible with physical collapse.
Haruto's madness in the state of missing runes is simply a reflection of the inability to suppress the needs in the body, but it is not clear whether it is a physiological need or a spiritual pursuit, but Xiao Ran feels that it is more like a spiritual and soulful desire. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to fainting from hunger, but it is not the stomach, but the soul and spirit.
Xiao Ran once watched an old movie City Hunter. The protagonist Meng Bo in it was eating everything he saw when he was starving, and he threw himself at it completely uncontrollably. Therefore, Xiao Ran felt that this was how Haruto went crazy.
Xiao Ran is not a professional Technicians researcher, so he certainly cannot study the true nature of rune energy, but he can use his own experience, memory, knowledge and everything else to speculate on what the rune energy is more biased towards. First of all, rune energy must be a kind of biological energy that can be restored in some way. This can also be seen from the plot.
The way of recovery can be to absorb humans, or even self-repair and supplement. Judging from the performance in the plot, memory is the most directly reflected in the rune energy, because driving the body will cause the memory to be broken, but the memory will continue to grow as time goes by. This can be regarded as a relatively alternative kind of recovery.
Second, there is no direct relationship between rune energy and the body. The key evidence is that Haruto's body did not collapse. Haruto bites El-Elf in the animation many times., but I have never seen El-Elf with any missing arms or flesh, nor has the blood in the body been sucked out like a real vampire. Does that mean that the rune energy has very little or even no direct relationship with the body?
Thirdly, even if Haruto is possessed by El-Elf, the runes will be missing and the memory will be damaged when driving Unit 1. But the key is that he is using the body of El-Elf. The broken memory does belong to his own, rather than extracting The runes in El-Elf's body serve as energy supply 1 Unit 1, and they can also pass Unit 1 that prohibits Sakimori Academy students from piloting the machine. This is worth Takuma, and it can be seen that the so-called login may be authenticated in the form of the soul.
In fact, after thinking about the above three points, you can understand that the rune energy of the human body should be regarded as an energy system belonging to the soul. The more direct manifestation is Mental Power, something like vitality. Combined with Xiao Ran's own physical condition, if Unit 1 really consumes Mental Power or vitality, it will be equal to the endurance value and mental value of Xiao Ran's attributes.
But if Xiao Ran returns to zero, then Mental Power will faint. What if it does not faint but becomes a negative number? Then Xiao Ran's body may become an idiot directly because all its power has been drained, that is, brain dead. This looks exactly the same as the final result of Unit 1's former test pilot Yano Kuruomi.
And if under some unknown protection measures, when the main donor Mental Power is completely depleted during the continuous battle, other powers, such as life force, may begin to be extracted. For example, the secondary donor Mental Power and life force continue to serve as the energy supply for Unit 1. Then once out of that unknown protection, the death of the main donor is inevitable.
People in this world may not know much about this power, but Xiao Ran happens to know another race that also feeds on similar power - Primal Demon.
In fact, it seems that there are too many similarities between the Demon Envoy and Primal Demon. The Demon Envoy is called an existence on the other side of the world, and Primal Demon is also a product of another dimension. Humans who are 'eaten' by them will become idiots. The key is that they can occupy human bodies and exist. Isn't it very similar?
It is precisely because they are so similar that Xiao Ran makes such speculations, but now it seems that all the speculations can be consistent with the current situation, so Xiao Ran's idea is not necessarily wrong. If the birdman in Super Dimension Fortress Frontier is here at this time, maybe he can really tell Xiao Ran what the rune energy is.
This is the first chapter today. Now Yi Zui is completely on his knees. He finally passed the book, but another silver alliance hit him. Yi Zui was completely thrown away by a few blocks. Now Yi Zui is far away from the front. The monthly ticket for a book is still more than 150 votes short. I don't know if I can surpass him in the last few hours. Now Yi Zui owes everyone ten updates. Thanks to Markzheng's leader for the reward, he has become the first leader of Mecha Wars Infinite now. Thank you.
There are still five chapters today, two chapters are updated as standard, and three additional chapters are updated. I won't sleep until I finish writing.