Chapter 1936: Underground War Billions of Years Ago
Although the other man's eyes had long since burned into two pitch-black holes.
Meng Chao still reached out and gently brushed over his comrade's brow and eyes, making as if to close his eyelids and send him upon his eternal journey home.
Then, Meng Chao inserted two fingers into his comrade's eye sockets.
Feeling the seams in the skull within, he applied a little force and pulled apart the skull, which had been burned brittle and crisp.
Meng Chao concentrated on studying his comrade's skull.
In particular, the way the dried brain matter was distributed along the inner surface of the skull.
His extensive combat experience led him to a conclusion.
This comrade had not suffered an external attack. Rather, his brain had been purely overtaxed, his brain cells operating under prolonged overload and triggering Human Spontaneous Combustion.
Meng Chao recalled the heart-piercing, bone-boring pain, the headache that had burned like fire, which he had felt during his countless Future Deductions.
He also thought of Su Mu Lian, "Jackal" Kanus, and others like himself who possessed Doomsday Memory.
After pondering for a moment, he formed a bold hypothesis.
Could this comrade, like himself, have just experienced tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, millions of Future Deductions?
It was just that this comrade clearly did not possess a formidable brain that surpassed the Divine Realm, and could not sustain the computational power needed to endure countless cycles of reincarnation.
In the end, unable to withstand the side effects of Super Computation, his brain overloaded, and he burned himself to death.
And if Meng Chao had not, at the final moment, remembered the warning of the "mummy" Lei Zongchao and narrowly avoided taking that final step, he likely would have followed this