Every Step of Human Progress is a Painful Accumulation

Tesla ignored Noldrei's strange understanding of "wealth gap."

She couldn't imagine what would be used as currency in the future, but at this time, Tesla chose to forget the humiliation she had just suffered.

In Tesla's bright third eye, Noldrei's body wasn't simply an orderly arrangement of DNA like a normal human. Instead, it was like a chaos where various proteins were flying freely.

He was just barely maintaining this organic human form.

Tesla even saw some inexplicable inorganic solids surging back and forth in his body.

'Where exactly is his core?'

She couldn't find any place under his skin that was the same as a human's.

"Before we talk about your own matters, I have to ask you. What do you think is the strongest sensory organ on a primitive human body? Skin? Muscle tissue? Ears? Or... eyes?"

Tesla thought about it seriously and replied, "It should be the eyes. If I lost my other senses, I could endure it for a while, but if I lost my sight, I'm afraid I would find it very difficult to accept."

He nodded and continued, "The long-term suppression of sensory organs will, in turn, cause a certain degree of pleasure from that sense. This is an inevitable result of the biological flesh. What I was watching just now were videos related to your sexual repression reversal. There are many kinds of them, what you call strange fetishes."

Noldrei looked at Tesla, who was only wearing a simple coat, and said calmly, "The same is true for your body. The eyes, as a key sensory organ, actually have a theoretical limit. You should know that light is a type of electromagnetic wave. Theoretically, if the Herrscher of Thunder can control electricity, then she should be able to control light."

"So I implanted the Herrscher core into your spinal cord. Through further intertwining and linking of the nerves, I built a system in your body that can sense photons and electrons. Under the effect of this system, the eyeball connected to your brain has the function it should have."

"In this way, you can see the world you have never seen before. For example, you can use your eyes to observe this tentacle."

As he said this, he began to transform his body and create a tentacle.

The eyeball on Tesla's forehead became brighter and brighter. She quickly saw the molecular structures in the tentacle constantly splitting, merging, and gathering, gradually forming a protein structure she had never seen before.

Under this layer-upon-layer of structural transformation, a tentacle that could make all kinds of movements, like a snake's body, appeared.

"This, this... it's incredible... it's so beautiful."

The power of that material transformation was so beautiful that it captivated Tesla, a natural researcher, and made her unable to extricate herself.

Noldrei's body was like a never-ending treasure, always able to create bodily tissues that she couldn't imagine.

"Your body was created by me like this."

Even without Noldrei's explanation, the current Tesla could see the transformation and reshaping of genes.

Tesla subconsciously tightened her grip on her clothes. She swallowed and asked nervously, "I have a question I want to ask you. I want to ask, how do you know these protein structures and the changes in gene chromosomes? How do you confirm that these things are what you want?"

This was what she couldn't understand the most. Tesla couldn't imagine what kind of strange limbs would appear if she randomly modified her body. She couldn't imagine whether randomly set proteins would conflict with other parts of her body.

The existence of prions was exactly like this, so Tesla didn't dare to modify herself casually.

She was afraid that she would accidentally change the internal genetic balance of her body. Not only would she not get a new body, but she would also be killed by her own power first.

Even Welt Yang was only able to turn into Welt Joyce because the Herrscher of Reason core contained all of Welt Joyce's DNA information.

"Well... do you want to hear it? It's not a good story. It's something that happened in your future."

Noldrei seemed to be starting to understand some of the pain of the primitives. He was gradually realizing how afraid these humans, who couldn't control their own DNA changes, were of environmental changes.

"Not a good story? Then I want to hear it!"

Under the pressure of the Honkai, Tesla had never considered the question of whether the future would come.

She was very curious about the future that Noldrei spoke of. She also knew that this would give her a chance to better understand things related to herself.

Noldrei then began to search for those historical records in his gene bank.

"Do humans like you, the earliest ones, have the ability to change their own genes? Of course not. Humans would have to rely on machines and external objects to do these things. And to use this ability to create new organs for humans, it's necessary for human genes to be diverse."

"Tesla, under what conditions do you think human genes would undergo diverse changes in a short period of time?"

Tesla pondered for a moment and replied, "One is to extract them from other organisms and then implant them through human experiments. The other is that humans themselves mutate... Wait, are you saying that humans mutated enough genes at some point?!"

Her expression suddenly changed. She immediately understood what Noldrei meant by "not a good story."

Only the genes that had been changed and tested by humans themselves would be recorded and then used by the next generation of humans.

This meant that a major event that caused the genes of all of humanity to mutate had occurred in the future.

"Are you talking about nuclear war?"

The only result that Tesla could think of was this.

But who knew that Noldrei would directly shake his head and deny this result.

"The radiation pollution brought by nuclear war is just an inducement. Most of the chromosome mutations caused by nuclear radiation are chaotic, disordered, and unreplicable. These mutations will only lead humans to death, not to produce more diverse genes."

"What I'm talking about is something that accumulated in human society afterward."

Noldrei's explanation not only didn't clear up Tesla's confusion, but it made her even more terrified of the future world.

"After the nuclear war, the humans who were intact and could survive the radiation became the most precious treasures. Their genes could be used as important research materials, so a 'good person' could directly become 'currency'."

"Qualified human genes have a high value as currency."

Noldrei's explanation was so cold. It was as if he could see that real human-eat-human era had happened.

Tesla had never imagined that the future would take such a strange turn.

'Human genes can be used as currency?'

'This kind of history, this kind of future...'

Even if Noldrei didn't say the rest, Tesla understood what kind of things would happen.

The diversity of human genes would increase explosively, like capital appreciation.