After leaving the Catacombs, the two humans found a park and sat down. The small fountain in the park was still running, clear water continuously pouring from the jug held by a beautiful statue.
There were some water lilies in the fountain. They were still alive, but there were no other living things in the pool.
Strangle held three skulls in its tentacles, washing them in the fountain as though rinsing hot pot meat. That golden blood did not look like good stuff, since Eternals' blood should have been red.
The surviving Eternals from before had already been transformed. They had become a new species.
After seemingly facing the universe's "ultimate truth," they had returned to their happiest, most carefree state.
That was the state of mindless beasts.
The more one knew and thought, the more troubles one had. Humans were the same. Sometimes, madness was instead a form of release.
"Eek."
Strangle sent a message, telling its host that it had cleaned those brains. Probably.
"Then let's begin. But be careful. The moment you notice any changes in yourself, stop reading their memories." Su Ming sat silently on a stone bench. Beside him was Doom, watching the Symbiote. The latter had no idea what he was thinking, only appearing intensely focused.
Put simply, Strangle read memories by simulating neural connections to the foreign brain tissue it had consumed, activating them in batches with bioelectricity to select the corresponding memories.
Eternals and humans had the same brain structure, only theirs were slightly larger and heavier.
That meant human research findings could be applied when dealing with their brains.
Human memories were divided into declarative and non-declarative types. The former involved things like riding a bicycle or using chopsticks, and was also called body memory.
The latter was the part that