El agente insensato

Capítulo 26

"People think that way just because certain parts of the picture happen to resemble a rabbit. Humans always have an extraordinary ability to make connections. It's like when you go to a tourist attraction, the tour guide will often point to this rock and say it looks like a turtle, and that rock looks like an elephant. You'll look at it and think it looks very much like one. But a rock is a rock. It doesn't grow that way to look like a turtle."

“Indeed, why does Liu Er unconsciously draw the Three Rabbits picture? Why does he feel uncomfortable if he doesn’t draw it? The harder he draws, the deeper the marks he leaves, the more pleasure he feels… It’s all so that another Liu Er can be born. Just like Sun Yu, Liu Er is his successor, but Sun Yu has no relation to Liu Er at all, so there’s no reason for him to go to such lengths. But if it’s the genes themselves acting for the sake of inheritance, then it makes sense,” I said in a low voice.

“So it’s not that the Monkey King’s legacy is passed down from generation to generation, it’s just… just…” Liang Yingwu sighed again.

I remained silent, feeling dejected.

Looking back now, Liu Er's background is truly pitiful.

His father was a rapist, and his mother became a harlot. It turned out that neither of them were by nature, but were influenced by some kind of gene. They were the victims of this gene's desire to reproduce.

Why did Liu Er lose his abilities for a period after undergoing a mutation? Presumably, it was because his brain needed to concentrate energy for further transformation and modification. After the modification was complete, the mission of drawing the Three Rabbits diagram became deeply ingrained in Liu Er's soul, and whether intentionally or unintentionally, he would frequently draw this damned pattern everywhere. Of course, the modified brain allowed Liu Er to survive better; if humanity were still in a primitive era, he would be more easily mistaken for a god or immortal. But the most fundamental purpose of all this was still the propagation and strengthening of a certain gene within him.

Liu Er believed himself to be the successor to the Monkey King, different from all other living beings, standing at the pinnacle of biological evolution. But in the end, all the ups and downs of his life, his emotional fluctuations, the meaning of his existence, and even the lives of his parents, were determined by a single gene. He became a puppet tool for genetic reproduction!

I can imagine the blow that Six Ears, who was overjoyed and full of ambition after returning from "Qi Tian Gui Suo," suffered.

That's why he had no desire to see me, left Shanghai, and wandered the world. He needed a long time to think about and find the meaning of his existence.

But not only him, but Liang Yingwu and I, and even all human beings and all living beings, aren't we all just shells carrying genes?

What does survival really mean to us?

I believe that every researcher at Agency X who knows about this matter will be troubled by it for quite some time.

Only by truly finding meaning in life can one live on with unwavering resolve. Once this is understood, no matter how great the difficulties, one should not hesitate or retreat!

Perhaps I should be grateful that I encountered this "atavism" at such a young age. Rather than living a life of ignorance, I'd rather start thinking now.

Why do humans live?

Why do humans live?

The End