I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 76 - 72: Toward Reason?

Chapter 76: Chapter 72: Toward Reason?

2:00 PM.

Chen Yun, having descended from the subway, followed the directions out of exit B at the Huaxi Dam subway station.

He still had to walk about 800 meters.

Nearby was the Huaxi Hospital of Shu City, one of the top hospitals in Shucheng, right next to the renowned Huaxi Campus of Sichuan University.

After a long-overdue phone call with his mother, and seeing it was nearly 1:00 PM, Chen Yun decided to visit this top-ranking hospital as planned in his Short-term Plan 4.0.

His main purpose was to see whether souls truly existed.

While sitting in a cave on Laojun Mountain, tending a campfire and watching the rain, he couldn’t help but ponder the existence of souls.

During his time on Laojun Mountain, he had attempted to sense the presence of souls in corpses but ended up perceiving nothing.

However, the conditions there were quite limited.

There were not enough bodies, and the time since their deaths had been too long.

Reliant only on such scant observations,

Chen Yun could not conclude that souls didn’t exist in the world, or that his current spiritual perception was inadequate to detect them.

Maintaining a rigorous attitude, he needed more observations, considering a sufficient number of variables.

Of course, Chen Yun was quite skeptical about whether this trip would yield any results.

After all, not every moment at the hospital involved death.

Even if, on average, a few people might die each day in a hospital, such an average wouldn’t solve the problem due to high sample variability.

Which province, which city, the status of top-tier hospitals, medical standing, the specialties they excel at...

All these factors influenced the daily mortality rate at top-tier hospitals, indirectly affecting Chen Yun’s observations on the emergence of souls post-death.

Thus his itinerary for today included not just Huaxi Hospital but also several other top-tier hospitals nearby and possibly some nursing homes with higher mortality rates.

He planned to increase the number of samples as much as possible to ensure a tangible perception of the individuals who had died.

Thinking thus,

Chen Yun stepped out of the subway station and followed the navigation westward for a bit over 800 meters until the hospital gates appeared before him.

The hospital spanned over 500 acres, obviously not something Chen Yun could fully perceive at once with his spiritual perception limited to roughly 80 meters in radius.

Moreover, some areas were not accessible to the public.

However, 80 meters of perception range wasn’t small either, and if planned wisely, he could still survey the entire 500 acres.

Thinking this, Chen Yun charted a route for himself based on the approximate map displayed on the navigation.

All he needed to do was follow Huanxin Lane, Limin Lane, Telecom Road, and Public Road.

This would roughly allow him to brush past the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth inpatient departments, the emergency department, and the infectious disease inpatient department, covering all those areas in one go.

With this thought, Chen Yun quickly began his planned traversal.

Under such a methodical approach, the hospital grounds were divided into several smaller sections.

Chen Yun’s 80-meter radius of detection came into useful play; moving back and forth, he essentially brought most of the hospital areas under his monitoring.

Though incapable of surveying the entire area in one go, by breaking it into smaller zones and sensing along their peripheries, an 80-meter range was entirely sufficient.

Soon, Chen Yun had completed his planned route.

He knew the general layout of the entire hospital by heart.

But Chen Yun’s face became unnaturally calm.

As anticipated, he hadn’t perceived any souls, which was secondary.

The calm was because, along the way, he had seen too much.

The walls of the hospital had heard the most prayers.

Holding the reverence for life, the desire for health, the hope for miracles, and the resilience and acceptance of suffering from patients, their families, and medical staff.

Here, the prayers were more sincere than anywhere else.

Chen Yun’s Emotion Perception Ability felt something different than usual here.

The doctor’s pressure, responsibility, and fatigue, the patient’s fear, anxiety, and helplessness... these emotions were unprecedentedly intense1

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The sufferings of humanity were magnified, and the most basic and embarrassing emotions were released.

All of this was clearly perceived by Chen Yun, with his perception ready to seek souls.

This caused Chen Yun, having finished his preset route, to stand in front of the hospital’s entrance, silently falling deep into thought.

At the time he perceived all this,

At first, he couldn’t help but feel some sadness, but then he felt a coolness in his mind, and all the sadness became blurred.

The sadness hadn’t disappeared but was suppressed by a stronger emotion that wouldn’t allow disturbance.

That emotion was named rationality.

This almost instantly calmed Chen Yun down.

And the calmness almost seemed excessive.

However, in this state, he felt that perceiving other things in the Transparent World 3.0 became even clearer.

Chen Yun understood.

His current mental state was quite strange, appearing to have lost much of his capacity for empathy. It was as if he had elevated himself high above, completely detached from the human species.

But upon close reflection, it wasn’t quite so.

The capacity for empathy was actually still there; he could feel and understand those devout prayers and the negative emotions bred from suffering.

It was just that there were no more reactions, making him seem careless.

This was because his ability to empathize was controlled by his own rationality.

His strong rationality currently soothed all fluctuating emotions, allowing him to enter a state of absolute calmness and indifference.

He was neither pleased by external goods nor saddened by personal miseries1

When dealing with cult followers on Laojun Mountain, he had found it difficult to feel any emotional disturbance due to the loss of lives.

He had thought that it was because he was sufficiently indifferent and rational towards the enemy. But now, he realized that this rationality was always present.

Whenever emotions slightly threatened to influence his judgment, he would immediately become rational.

This also seemed to be a new ability brought about by his fourth slumber evolution.

This was undoubtedly the most correct and reasonable mechanism, not absolutely strangling personal feelings but often maintaining rationality to avoid impulsiveness.

It was much like Saitama in "One Punch Man."

His personality wasn’t as rigid and naïve, but the sense of detachment was almost identical, with an added touch of relishing righteous revenge.

It was like his upgraded personality post-upgrade, after shedding some extreme emotions, while at home - not perfect, but also not disliked by Chen Yun.

Rational, yet decisively resolute.

Detached, yet also enjoying righteous revenge.

Such a personality seemed contradictory.

But on careful consideration, there was no person in the world without contradictions in their personality.

Personality is diverse and layered, with strong situational dependencies and dynamic changes according to circumstances.

Everybody is like this, living their lives entangled in contradictions.

Thinking this, Chen Yun shook his head helplessly.

All in all, he felt that this personality1 centering on rational control with personal emotions not extinguished, was reasonable and acceptable.

The personal integrity he needed to uphold still existed.

Thinking thus, Chen Yun didn’t ponder further.

He opened the morally questionable map navigation and continued searching for his next target.

Hua Xi Hospital had not revealed any souls, so he needed to try other hospitals and nursing homes.

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