Crime Prison Island
Chapter 92 - 31 False Words Cast Heart

Chapter 92: Chapter 31 False Words Cast Heart

Luo Yan stroked his chin and said, "I think I can grasp what ’dark logic’ means now, it’s like explaining advanced mathematics to an ancient southern ape."

"No, you don’t even need an ancient southern ape, it’s like discussing Bell’s inequalities with an ancient shaman. His head is full of yin and yang and the five elements, and if you use strict mathematical logic to infer Bell’s inequalities, he’ll still think you’re making no sense..."

Gao Xin countered, "What are Bell’s inequalities?"

Luo Yan smirked, "Let’s talk about that later, it’s not important..."

"So now, you’re like your cognitive abilities have reached the level of AI Xiao Ran? Can you create technologies that humans can’t comprehend?"

Gao Xin said, "Dark logic isn’t a state of being, nor is it any specific logic. It encompasses everything, countless in number, and I’ve only chanced upon one of those countless aspects."

"But this one, Xiao Ran definitely can’t understand, because I’m convinced AI isn’t a child of the universe—it’s created by humans, it lacks spirit."

"So this is a dark logic that humans find hard to understand, and AI will never be able to grasp."

Luo Yan waved his hand dismissively, "Alright, I don’t care about all this mysticism, I just want to know its effects."

"You said before that everyone’s talent is actually equal, so could you just imagine transforming into a Radiation?"

Gao Xin spread his hands, "I’d like to believe I can, but... what exactly is a Radiation?"

Luo Yan was stunned for a moment and then he understood.

The ability to cause burns on his arm as if out of thin air was because Gao Xin fully understood the bodily reactions to being burned.

But how to become a Radiation? There are N-class, R-class, and nanogenes—all things they had heard of but didn’t fully grasp, half-knowledge learned through the grapevine.

Imagined Projection isn’t Blind Projection.

"Can’t you just imagine yourself flying to the sky and escaping the earth, muscles swelling with power?" Luo Yan asked.

Gao Xin suddenly felt insulted, "No, do you still think I’m talking about casting spells?"

"I’m just asking, I really don’t understand," Luo Yan said.

Gao Xin pondered and replied, "If humans could fly to the sky and escape the earth, then I could too. But the Radiation’s body, including their various abilities, aren’t innate. They are acquired."

"Moreover, our bodies and the Radiations’, they’re not even the same species."

Luo Yan contemplated; indeed, Radiations aren’t ’Homo sapiens,’ and the recombined genes were induced by nanomedicine, not a natural mutation at birth.

Without a gene protector, the mortality rate for humans after genetic collapse is... one hundred percent!

This was caused by Xiao Ran’s technology, nothing to do with humans.

Gao Xin added, "However, Radiations are transformed from humans, maybe I could just try False Words Cast Heart."

"False Words Cast Heart?" Luo Yan was puzzled.

Gao Xin explained, "Previously, causing burns on myself or hallucinations, that falls under ’Imagined Projection.’ It’s controlling your own inherent responses, although that’s not the exact meaning, just understand it that way for now."

"False Words Cast Heart, however, refers to the phenomenon where I drink your blood and then develop potential. You can think of it as a super-amplified version of the placebo effect."

"It requires a specific medium to work, like if there’s a bottle of medicine I don’t recognize, but I wholeheartedly believe it’s the gene protector. Then, if my genes collapse and I drink it, my body will undergo genetic recombination and heal from the collapse, transforming into a Radiation... without me actually understanding the essence of Radiation genetics."

Luo Yan pressed on, "Does it have to be an unrecognizable medicine?"

Gao Xin smiled, "Imagined Projection just has to fool the body, but False Words Cast Heart needs to deceive the innermost self."

"If what I just gave you to drink was cola, you’d almost certainly fail because a taste or a glance would tell you it’s cola."

"The body itself has a powerful memory, not so easily tricked."

Luo Yan tried to laugh it off, "Even if I didn’t recognize it, it didn’t work just now... by the way, what exactly did you give me to drink earlier?"

Gao Xin looked around, "It was probably the bodily fluid of that mouse? Specially extracted and left in a corner, and it wasn’t even frozen in the cold storage; maybe it really does have some special effects."

"Ugh..." Luo Yan instantly began to retch.

Gao Xin patted him and said, "I’m now fully confident that I can become a Radiation. For example, if I drink black medicine from the Oyama Mas in the radiation room, it’d be like drinking a gene protector worth ten thousand points. It’s known to have effects of genetic recombination anyway, just high mortality rates. But for me, it’s all the same."

Luo Yan frowned, "Hm, my advice is... better you strive to collect enough redemption tickets in the game and buy a real one."

Gao Xin cocked his head, "For your use?"

"Not for me, brother. What I mean is, you use the real gene protector to become a Radiation," Luo Yan stated solemnly.

Gao Xin looked at him, "You still don’t believe I can do it?"

Luo Yan earnestly said, "It’s not about disbelief, but I think that even belief has a chance of failure. You say this is a technique, a skill, very stable, but even a new car might not start, right?"

"The mortality rate for genetic collapse is one hundred percent. If anything goes wrong when you drink ’Fake Medicine,’ you die!"

"Can you honestly say that your method is ’absolute’?"

"Listen to my advice, don’t put yourself in a corner with no way out. With your ability, as long as you become a Radiation and gain a whole new body and potential, you’re almost certain to soar!"

Gao Xin seriously said, "That’s why I’m saying to drink that black medicine with a ninety percent mortality rate. It’s diluted from a real medicine, and I can be utterly sure."

Luo Yan shook his head, "It’s not about how confident you are, but that we can’t accept that outcome."

"I know you need to maintain belief, brother, and you don’t need to prove anything—I believe you could succeed too. But it doesn’t have to be done this way. Just consider it wasting ten thousand redemption tickets for my sake."

Gao Xin knew he cared, and it’s true that being confident of success doesn’t mean he had to go through with it.

He nodded, "Alright, I’ll use the real thing."

...

Gao Xin finally bid farewell to Luo Yan and left the home of Rousi.

Outside, Su Lei and Qiao Long were growing anxious as they waited; they were worried Rousi would suddenly return.

Even as they kept watch, they had no idea how to notify Gao Xin.

Fortunately, Gao Xin came out.

"How come you were in there so long? Everything okay?" Qiao Long asked.

Gao Xin shook his head, "Nothing much, just had a longer chat."

Su Lei expressed concern, "How is our technical school brother doing?"

Gao Xin pursed his lips, "He’s doing quite alright, even gained quite a bit of weight."

"Let’s go, we’ll talk more once we get back."

The group headed toward the Redemption Squad’s camp, with Gao Xin explaining Luo Yan’s situation along the way.

Qiao Long mused, "Rousi is indeed more reasonable compared to other enforcers; at least she doesn’t resort to violence at the drop of a hat. She just can’t stand skinny people and wishes everyone were as plump as she is."

"As long as Brother Luo Yan has managed to please Rousi, his life won’t be too bad."

Su Lei wondered, "Isn’t gaining weight good? Whether it’s glass people or Radiations, the heavier they are, the stronger they are."

Qiao Long couldn’t help but laugh, "Bro, gaining weight is not the same as bearing weight."

"What’s the difference between carrying a belly full of food or a layer of fat that can’t be converted into controllable muscle mass and carrying a dead weight?"

"If you’re just mindlessly increasing body weight, you’re actually weakening yourself."

"Rousi is a bit special, as it’s rumored she controls her fat as easily as muscles, so she can eat and drink without restraint, maintain her fatty body, and still be extremely strong."

Gao Xin frowned, "Do you know what level Rousi is?"

Qiao Long confidently said, "Cub Tiger!"

"Cub Tiger?" Gao Xin was startled, "Can you introduce me to the island’s power level classification?"

Qiao Long smiled, "That’s simple. You know the limit of glass people, right? Three times their body weight. And to surpass the human body’s limits and possess the strength of four times their body weight, they’re considered little wolves."

"To be at the Sub-wolf level, one must have at least fifteen times their body weight in strength... anything less is just a little wolf cub."

"A True Wolf has a strength of thirty times their body weight, which is also the limit N-class Radiations can reach."

"R-class Radiations can break through this limit. Even exceeding it by a little earns them the Tiger level, and they can be called Cub Tigers."

"Only reaching one hundred and fifty times renders one Sub-Tiger, and at three hundred times, they have reached True Tiger level... This is another limit, and R-class can go no further."

He kept talking, and Gao Xin listened with a frown.

"Is it absolutely impossible to surpass these limits if you’re not the corresponding Radiation?"

Qiao Long affirmed, "Absolutely impossible."

"Genetics set the ceiling. Without gene protectors, glass people cannot become Radiations. The mortality rate due to genetic breakdown is a hundred percent."

"And N-class Radiations can never become R-class, R-class can never become SR-class, much like how the common ancestors of humans and chimpanzees diverged. Once you’re in one branch, there’s no method to switch to another... the chances are zero."

"Tanabu is formidable enough, right? He’s the leader of the enforcer group and is under the command of the Viper, the strongest enforcer. In terms of effort, comprehension, willpower, technique, and the talent to adapt to various gene modules, Tanabu far surpasses the Viper."

"But there’s one aspect where he falls short of the Viper—Tanabu is only an N-class Radiation."

"That decision alone means Tanabu, as a person, can at most attain wolf level, possibly the Wolf King. That’s the full potential of N-class genetics."

Gao Xin scratched his face, feeling that the future was still shrouded in uncertainty.

Radiations were just a vague term used by ordinary people, but in reality, N, R, SR, SSR were four distinct races, with four tiers of bloodline suppression—in essence, four major species evolved from ’Homo sapiens’, the common ancestor.

Glass people could become Radiations with the help of gene protectors. But the transition from N to R, or R to SR, was completely impossible, with a zero probability.

If he became N-class, would his life be capped at wolf level?

"What is a Wolf King?"

Qiao Long explained, "There’s no fundamental difference in physical fitness between the Wolf King and the True Wolf—both have a strength thirty times their body weight—but the Wolf King’s combat prowess is in a league of its own."

"With the enhancement of various gene modules and combat awareness and skills, those who can dominate other True Wolves are the Wolf Kings. It’s said that some Wolf Kings are even fiercer than many Tigers."

Gao Xin nodded, understanding completely; hadn’t he himself killed Oyama Mas, an opponent above his rank?

Rousi weighed at least a ton, so even if she were only at True Wolf level, she could lift thirty tons.

And for someone weighing a hundred kilograms, even if they reached True Tiger level, their strength would only amount to thirty tons.

This was the disparity in tonnage; body weight was an extremely important measure of combat capability.

"Does the Redemption Squad have a training facility?"

Qiao Long grinned, "Of course. We also train regularly, everyone trying to make themselves stronger. Are you thinking of gaining weight?"

Gao Xin nodded. He currently had the strength of three times his body weight, which was already the limit, unless he underwent genetic restructuring to expand his capacity further. Now, if he wanted to get stronger, it had to be through muscle growth.

"It’s time to test the effect of imaginary training soon," he murmured to himself.

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