The Forbidden Knowledge

## This is an excerpt of Felida's diary.

I am willing to know everything.

Confusion is what I can bear to no extenct.

I always discover the answer to my questions.

To see the truth, I can make any sacrifice.

“What does a star look like?”

I watched the stars with a telescope.

They’re not star-shaped. They are round, like balls.

The teacher scolded me. “It’s something that you should know later. Now, the stars are star-shaped.”

He taught me how to draw a star.

I was angered by the way he perceives knowledge.

It was not until I came up with that question that I realized that it’s not so easy to get the truth.

What is death?

“Death is like... sleeping forever?”

“Emm...why do you ask this?”

“Nobody knows.”

I went to the morgue. Actually, it was not open to the public. I stole a staff’s identity card. It was the first time I had broken the rule.

I...couldn’t figure it out.

They looked so much like sleeping humans... but they are so little like humans. It seems that something crucial in humans are absent in them.

Each of them, young or old, had a cause of death. It was mainly the failure of some organs.

I appreciate many people. They agree to donate some of their organs for the benefit of others. However, not a single person can donate all the organs.

Is there a dead person whose organs are all perfect?

I asked my biology teacher.

“Well...that’s a weird question. I don’t think so. Death is a chain reaction, starting from the failure of one or several organs. There is no fire without any sort of ignition, you know.”

Really?

People all die of organ failures... but you cannot simply draw the conclusion. It’s an incomplete induction.

I have to solve this problem. Sooner or later.

I realized that this problem may be too difficult for us humans, so I created one AI after another in an attempt to get the final answer.

Full Auto AI. More than one trillion times faster than the fastest biological brain. Powered by quantum supercomputers.

Strange things happened. After entering the code, the computer did work but it would automatically format itself after a few hours of operation. Even the most advanced AI would do the same thing. These programs were actually prevented from performing self-destruction in the source code...Why is this problem so...fatal to them?

I have no choice but to resort to magic.

I searched the library of the school of magic. There is some sort of magic called necromancy, but this type of magic is categorized as dark magic and whoever uses it would be instantly expelled from the school.

I searched for necromancy books everywhere, and I finally found one. It was located in the Bitcity Museum. I again broke the rule, cut off the signal of the monitor and memorized its pages. Although the book is titled “Advanced Necromancy”. The contents are quite easy for me... I have to agree that, this book sees life from an entirely different perspective.

From this book I learnt a lot about life. Although the subject is necromancy, it actually entails arousing the remaining will of life in the dead . For example, to reanimate a skeleton, the key criterion is that the organic substance in its bones is still present. I might have focused so much on death, but ignored the question of life.

However, it still didn’t answer my key questions...

I failed to make any progress. I had better spend all these time studying my major, fire magic.

Things started to change after the union of CFBU and TE...

I came across a Termish girl called Zeszy. She seemed as thirsty for knowledge as I did. When I asked her major, I didn’t expect that she also majored in a type of magic concerning life: the blood magic.

“Blood is an intersting thing. It is widely thought as something very horrible, but it is blood that conveys the resources vital for life. In a word, blood is the life liquid.”

“And what do you think about death?”

“Actually I am also doing a project about reversing death. For me, death is caused by an organism’s unstoppable trend to get back to the inorganic world. If we would be able to re-arouse the trend of life, it would be feasible for us to reverse death. I’m trying to achieve this with blood...but it is so difficult...”

I never thought that there would be another one in the world that is so passionate about the forbidden knowledge. I also feel shocked by her in-depth understanding about life and death.

Together with her, I would be able to find the ultimate answer.