Uchiha Gen was feeling a little uneasy as well. Not because he knew someone was talking about him, but because he was currently tumbling back and forth inside a black hole.
The chaotic spacetime currents could not break through his physical defenses, but they constantly altered the direction of his fall. All sorts of bizarre images flickered before him, and he even saw a slime fighting an evil dragon.
"Meow my ass, this is freaking insane!"
As he fell faster and faster, some fragments of those images crashed directly into Uchiha Gen's mind. The forcibly invading memories knocked him unconscious on the spot.
In the darkness, he became an observer as scene after scene unfolded before his eyes. The first was inside a laboratory, where two bearded men in white coats were chatting.
Uchiha Gen had not received much schooling in his previous life. He had barely made it through nine years of compulsory education and had not become one of the ones left behind by quality education. He could not understand a single word those foreigners were saying.
But something strange happened. Although he could not understand their gibberish, he somehow miraculously grasped the meaning behind it.
"There are eighty-six billion neurons in the human brain. Isn't that remarkably similar to the universe? Could it be that humanity itself is a microscopic universe?"
"What nonsense are you spouting? If humans are universes, then why do we each possess different souls?"
"Isn't that perfect? It just explains overlapping universes and the multiverse."
"Then what about infinite universes?"
"Maybe people die, but their souls live on?"
"...You're hilarious, buddy. If I had an imagination as rich as yours, you should apply to be a priest at a church instead of doing research here!"
"Science needs rigor, brother, but we also need