Chapter 2318 - 2321: Athena, Your Memory Can Disappear Now!

In an instant, Athena, sitting atop the circular altar, not only had her beautiful face change color, her lovely eyes stared at Shen Qiang in terror. The many Huaxia Sea Demons around them all felt a chill shoot down their spines, and in that split second it was like every hair on their bodies stood on end.

"Dominating! Lord Dragon Emperor is crazy badass!"

"I don't really get what just happened, but if something can make the War Goddess's expression change that drastically in a heartbeat, in this world, it's probably only Lord Dragon Emperor who can pull that off!"

"So after all that, is Lord Dragon Emperor just trying to say that fate decides everything?"

The many Huaxia Sea Demons had strange looks in their eyes.

But Athena's beautiful eyes, which had been filled with shock, gradually turned to disappointment. Then she looked at her left arm, which no longer obeyed her commands, and said, "What exactly did you do?"

Shen Qiang smiled and said calmly, "I thought you'd be more interested in my Dao Fruit."

"If you feel like talking, I don't mind knowing. But isn't your ability just immortality? Isn't it just that you can also guarantee that other people within a certain range won't die either? It's a rare ability, sure, but not enough to scare me."

As Athena spoke, Shen Qiang's smile grew even more brilliant.

"I call it the Operating Room."

Raising his brows slightly, Shen Qiang's eyes danced as he laughed and said, "Because I'm a Doctor. What I'm best at is surgery. So I needed an operating room that could ensure my patients wouldn't die under any circumstances. I traded six years of youth and hard work for this. That's the rule of Heavenly Dao rewarding diligence."

Athena's gaze was very calm as she said, "Your ability can control my memories?"

Shen Qiang smiled and shook his head. "No. But don't forget, I'm a Doctor. I know the human body like the back of my hand. Take memory, for example. As early as the 1950s, Medical Experts already discovered that memories are stored in the hippocampal region of the human brain. As long as the hippocampus is removed, humans will lose their memories."

At the instant she heard this, War Goddess Athena stared at Shen Qiang in horror and said, "What are you going to do?"

"Confirm the scope of your memories and preserve your brain to the greatest extent possible." Shen Qiang looked at her with a smile and said evenly, "Because I'm someone who doesn't believe in coincidence, and someone who never places hope in prayer. So I'm not going to gamble and assume that Qingxuan's memories will be stronger than the memories you already have."

"Nor will I naively imagine that you, with Qingxuan's memories, will somehow become Qingxuan. So the best solution is to remove the brain tissue that carries all of your memories."

War Goddess Athena exclaimed in terror, "Impossible. Once the head is opened, I'll die. You'll gain nothing."

"You've been dead too long. You're already out of touch with the times." Shen Qiang smiled.

The War Goddess stared at Shen Qiang in horror and said, "In my memories there are Secret Techniques, treasures, secrets…"

"Not important." Shen Qiang said with a smile. "Because what I want is only Qingxuan. And besides, I absolutely refuse to believe that a Goddess who's determined to slaughter all descendants of the Divine Race, vicious and ruthless, would have some special fondness for me. In your eyes, all Immortals and Demons are the source of chaos. As long as we're not all dead, the world will never know peace."

The War Goddess looked at Shen Qiang and suddenly sneered, "Fine, let's say you have a point. But have you considered that if you really manage to cut out the part of my brain related to memory, you've still failed? Because even if your Qingxuan comes back to life, she won't be able to remember anything. She'll just be a useless husk!"

Hearing this, the Sea Demons nearby instantly agreed with their eyes.

"Yeah, someone without a memory region can't remember anything. Isn't that just trash?"

"Damn, in that case wouldn't you have to worry all the time that this Qingxuan you resurrected might forget Lord Dragon Emperor at any moment? If someone tells her that Lord Dragon Emperor is her enemy, wouldn't she try to stab Lord Dragon Emperor in the back?"

"Lord Dragon Emperor must be insane. If that's how it ends up, what's the point of bringing back a useless woman? All this effort for nothing!"

And just as the Sea Demons changed their minds and their eyes filled with disappointment—

Shen Qiang laughed. "Goddess, you've been dead too long. You really are behind the times. Human memory storage, if you get down to fundamentals, should be considered as stored in the neurons. Scientists have run experiments: they analyzed the structure of 13 neurons in a mouse brain and used 1 TB of data, equivalent to 1000 GB of data on a computer or phone."

"And an adult human brain has a hundred billion neurons!"

"Hard to understand, right? But that's okay, I can tell you very clearly: those 100 billion neurons in the human brain are not all used for storage. Which means, hypothetically, even if we only use one-tenth of those neurons—ten billion neurons—for information storage, the data they could hold would be equivalent to 760 million TB!"

"Even if we used the current top-end 8 TB hard drives to store that data, we'd need 95 million drives. Stack them up and they'd be about 3,895,000 meters tall—roughly the height of 4,703 Burj Khalifa towers, the tallest building in the world."

Wisdom Goddess Athena was completely lost, staring blankly at Shen Qiang, totally unable to understand what he was saying.

But the many Great Sea Demons nearby instantly exploded.

"Holy crap, I knew it! No wonder humans are so sneaky—their brains are all supercomputers!"

"That's terrifying. My phone has 128G of storage and I can already keep a ton of little videos on it. If it were all text, it'd be enough to read for five hundred years."

"This is insane. Humans are basically unbelievable beings! They're so strong it's like they've got cheat codes turned on!"

Amid their shocked exclamations—

Boom!

With a crash, the Steel Fork dripping with bloody aura in Sea Demon King Wang Yujiang's hand slammed straight into the Sea Emperor's chest, knocking him back over a hundred meters, smashing the rocks loose and sending smoke billowing.

Boom!

The Sea Emperor shot into the sky again, roaring in fury, "All of you will die here today!"

And almost at the same time—

Around the entire Temple, countless Great Sea Demons had appeared. At the forefront of the many Sea Demons in all directions, absolutely formidable Great Sea Demons were unleashing an earth-shaking aura.

"If you're willing to let me completely take control of everything, I can guarantee I'll help you escape this place, and none of your people will die." War Goddess Athena said in a deep voice, "But if you cut away the parts of my brain that belong to my memories, all you'll get is an empty shell, completely unable to help you. All of you will die here."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang rose calmly to his feet with a smile. While adjusting his cuffs, he said confidently, "Most of the information humans receive through their senses is filtered before it's stored in the brain."

"What remains is temporarily stored in the hippocampus, staying there for anywhere from a few seconds to a few weeks. That's short-term memory. The portion deemed extremely important can then be passed on from the hippocampus to the long-term memory regions."

"The reason I've been telling you all this is just to further confirm whether your memory regions, as a Goddess, differ from those of Ordinary humans. But unfortunately, the human brain is obviously very perfect—you haven't transcended it. So, my apologies. Your memories can be erased now!"