Player Reload

"Walking Dead?"

Joker said softly, "If something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it can be considered a duck.

Similarly, if the person who survives thinks like me, behaves like me, and is dominated by my personality, then he is me."

Eugene scoffed, "You’ve replaced someone else’s body, brain, player ID. How is this different from deceiving yourself?"

"Human red blood cells renew every 120 days. Stem cells, every two months. Epidermal cells, 2-4 weeks. Other cells, as long as six or seven years, as short as one year."

Joker shrugged, "In up to seven years, a person is completely renewed from the inside out. Would you consider your past self a stranger?"

"No, but you didn’t mention, brain cells cannot regenerate."

Eugene gritted his teeth, "The brain’s neural structure doesn’t change. What you’re talking about with possession, rebirth, consciousness transfer—it’s just like showing the possessed person’s brain a movie based on your life."

"Correct, which is why I have brought this out."

Joker chuckled lightly, nudging with his toe the red USB-shaped object he had thrown on the ground earlier, "The relic biochip from the ’Cyberpunk’ universe, capable of rewriting the brain’s neural structure in a few months to achieve perfect possession.

Combined with my skill, a perfect possession is achievable."