Chapter 1093: Chapter 102: Recuperation

Xiang Shan stood up, shook the dust-proof cloth on his body, and said, “Yog, you useless fool, you really disappoint me. Is this the greatest biologist in history?”

At this moment, “Fervor,” holding a guitar, appeared behind him again, strumming the strings with a complex rhythm to perform an impromptu: “With a scientific attitude, I’d like to propose a hypothesis here. Could it be that the problem lies in this Biological Brain? This Biological Brain absorbed what could be considered the great biological thinking mode of three hundred years ago, yet can only utilize a bit of its surface. This possibility exists, doesn’t it?”

After speaking, he also strummed the guitar, adding a small flashy ending.

“Crime” appeared again, with a face full of helplessness: “Don’t lose your position because Yog is your information source! Xiang Shan, you must know shame!”

“Yes, know shame, know shame.” “Fervor” nodded, “But that’s just the reality.”

“Fierce Ghost” sneered: “Do you really think you can flawlessly receive someone else’s ‘thinking mode’ already? This technology is so primitive, I’m almost embarrassed to mention it.”

Xiang Shan’s expression changed drastically, pointing at “Fierce Ghost” and shouting: “How is this guy still here? Not enough drug effect? This is really weak…”

In a flash, “Fierce Ghost” had already disappeared.

At this moment, Xiang Shan noticed that a camera at the doorway quietly moved its position, seemingly unable to bear watching this scene.

“Ah, ah, being seen as someone with a mental disorder.” “Crime” sighed, “In essence, we’re one person, the dialogue between us is actually the thought process within Xiang Shan’s brain, so there’s no need to speak out loud, really.”

“Fierce Ghost” appeared behind “Crime” this time, grinning: “Yes, yes, it’s as if you’re not sick yourself.”

“I’m not the type to avoid medical treatment when ill, I acknowledge my illness. Not only do I acknowledge it, but I’m actively treating it,” Xiang Shan said, “While I still can make noise, I’ll make noise.”

“Fierce Ghost” sneered: “I don’t have autonomous consciousness. I’m just a symptom, you idiot.”

Then, he disappeared once again.

“Fervor” was quite helpless: “I can only say… as expected of myself, even the symptoms are so rational.”

It’s already been a few months since joining up with the Heroes of Africa Region. During these months, Xiang Shan has been quite well-behaved.

With the help of Tao Enhai, he also started active treatment. Tao Enhai, three hundred years ago was originally a neurosurgeon, but neurosurgeons are also required to possess some basic neurology-related skills. And in nearly three hundred years of long battles, he gradually mastered some psychological medicine knowledge. When developing the initial Inner Strength meditation method, the pioneers of their field collected a lot of research data and clinical cases.

Knowledge for Xiang Shan’s troubles…

Tao Enhai truly saw it for the first time.

He reluctantly prescribed some medicine. Based on Xiang Shan’s feedback, the medication was changed several times, gradually stabilizing the condition.

According to Tao Enhai’s idea, incorporating something like a “Personality Mask” into one’s system, merging with one’s consciousness, in itself is “abnormal”. You could say, since Xiang Shan began absorbing the Legacy of the Eighth Martial God, he’s already embarked on a path deviating from “normal”. However, not all “abnormal” requires treatment. If Xiang Shan himself finds this brain internal chat acceptable, and it doesn’t severely affect his daily behavior, then there are no issues.

The real key probably lies in “Fierce Ghost”. This thing essentially does not belong to “Personality Mask”, but rather after Xiang Shan got used to the abnormal thinking mode of “Personality Mask”, he uses this mode to “experience” his psychological disorder – to be more precise, it’s a way to handle the personal experience brought by psychological disorder.

The evil deeds of the Six Dragons Sect Leader for more than a hundred years, and the emotional impact brought about by Kotoba’s current situation, caused Xiang Shan to have a psychologically unhealthy state. And the physiological changes brought by long-term use of personality mask technology, exacerbated this state and made the disease progression accelerate.

Xiang Shan temporarily recuperated here for a while.

Firstly, Tao Enhai and Niyaguti did not hope for him to go to the battlefield in this state.

Secondly, also due to burden from the fame.

Once Xiang Shan suffers setbacks on the battlefield – even if the battlefield he is on progresses unfavorably, it would suffer a huge blow to the morale of the Heroes throughout Africa. Conversely, if any enemy army slightly thwarted the assault of the Martial God’s troops, they would be full of momentum.

Although the combat effectiveness provided by “morale” has grown smaller with technological advancement. Yet in the end, this difference between “having” and “not having” becomes very important.

Before Xiang Shan utilized the identity of “Thirteenth Martial God,” this situation did not exist. But once he takes up this identity, he must consider this issue.

Xiang Shan’s action must be cautious.

In the short term, only battles deemed “certain victory” can be fought.

Moreover, King Aqini’s fleet is still blocked above.

Additionally, this psychological state must also be improved sooner.

Xiang Shan has no great objection to this point. He also thinks, something like “Fierce Ghost” would definitely occupy brain resources – equivalent to “stray thoughts” and “electronic viruses”.

Facing those ordinary opponents might be okay. But against masters, it might be deadly.

Anyway, proper planning should be done after strengthening surgery of astrocytes.

Xiang Shan soon calmed his emotions and found Tao Enhai once again.

“Doctor Tao, uh… you look good now, instrument readings look nice.”

“Thank you.” Tao Enhai sighed: “If I still had my hypothalamus, I should at least clobber you once.”

Tao Enhai is still soaked in a tank, using connections, directly linked to large equipment. He now lost most of his external strength, short-term recovery seems hopeless, so he turned to teaching and management. He currently spends a lot of time daily answering questions from various young Heroes on the local area network and also assists Niyaguti in managing the tracks of numerous Hero squads across the African continent.

Heroes are characterized by flexibility, advancing and retreating like the wind, omnipresent, able to fight flexibly across vast lands. However, most traces of Heroes are difficult to grasp – even their own are hard to grasp.

The “temporary command center” under Martial Chief, can only speculate possible tracks of certain Hero groups based on intermittently returned reports, and provide some intelligence when necessary.

“According to behavior statistics and analysis, your current psychological disorder seems to have improved to some extent. How’s it been lately?”

Xiang Shan thought for a moment: “Doctor, you say, is there a possibility… that the medication you prescribed is limiting my thinking ability, causing my thought process to be inefficient when performing certain calculations?”

He seemed to hear a “sneer” from his own voice. But Xiang Shan has become quite adept at ignoring this point.

“Not ruled out, even during Homo sapiens, each individual’s response to drugs had certain differences, let alone now.” Tao Enhai said.

Human genetic diversity is exceedingly poor. Possibly due to an ancient era not recorded in history, human population narrowed down to just a small group of hundreds. Or it might be that human intra-species competition and elimination are scarier than any other creatures. The genetic diversity of the human species isn’t even as much as some small-scale land wild animals.

And even with such similarity, different Homo sapiens show considerable differences in front of the same drugs.

Not to mention Benchmark Man.

Benchmark Man’s genetic diversity is stacked up by artificial means. Especially in chaotic eras, illegal, unregulated gene modification was popular for some time. Basically around the “Biosphere No.1 extinction event,” the intelligence of the battles between Heroes and Usurpers of the State could no longer be controlled, panic spread in society, and many scammers, masquerading as Heroes, exploiting fears of Usurpers’ backdoor, performed illegal gene modification surgery.

And in the era of Yawgmoth ruling the world, genetic modifications for pursuing specific functions were even more common. Many modifications pursued “faster stronger” or “longer life” out of utilitarianism.

Of course, bugs can’t be avoided. However, truth be told, if it runs, it’s not a bug; once it functions, it’s part of the game mechanic.

“Tsk, will this illness ever be cured.”

Xiang Shan shook his head.

“I also wish to complete the analysis immediately, Xiang Shan.” Niyaguti sent a communication request. Her modeling appeared in Xiang Shan’s vision. Niyaguti said: “But too much data is missing.”