Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 359 Love

Xuanyuan Muze was pulled out by Brickqin with a look of surprise. The two then began to tour the research facility along the corridor. After a while, Xuanyuan Muze asked with difficulty, "Mr. Brickqin, you and Dean Gulasga... are lovers?!"

Brick replied matter-of-factly, "Of course, do you have any questions, sir?"

"If I may ask, between you and Dean Gulasga, who is the husband and who is the wife?"

Brick thought for a moment and then explained, "I should be considered a wife, because I was female before I underwent the modification, but that's really unnecessary. After all, those of us who have undergone genetic modification don't really have a gender. The main reason why Gulasga and I came together is because we were attracted to each other."

"You have no gender?! No wonder I can't see any gender differences here." Xuan Yuan Mu Ze stared in surprise, then asked again, "If you have no gender, then... how do you live together?"

"Of course it's because of love! Why would you ask such a stupid question? Do you think it's abnormal?"

Xuanyuan Muze asked doubtfully, "Isn't the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races very averse to homosexuality? I thought no one would date here."

When Brickkin heard the question, he laughed and said, "You have clearly confused the concepts of love and mating. Love and mating are completely different things. Homosexuals are just a group of patients whose sexual orientation has been forcibly reversed due to genetic locks. In fact, in our definition, they still essentially crave the pleasure of reproduction."

"What do you mean? Are you saying that love isn't a feeling between people of different genders?"

So Brick explained earnestly: "Love is a product of reason, something that remains unchanged over time. Even in the multiverse, such feelings are rare. Gender is just a division of labor that has evolved as life develops."

Just as humans differentiated into men and women for reproduction, if you have any knowledge of genetics, you will find that males, who are more advantageous in survival, are actually fewer in number than females at the genetic level. Remember what we said before? The gene chain is a book with limited capacity, and genes are words with prescribed font sizes and dimensions. In the reproduction of a species, someone will always make a sacrifice, and in human reproduction, it is the females who make the sacrifice.

To preserve genetic integrity as much as possible, females retain as many genes as possible at the genetic level. This results in their "books" being filled with unnecessary genes. At the same time, the reproductive organs of females are far more complex than those of males for reproduction. During pregnancy, their brains become confused due to hormonal fluctuations, and in severe cases, it's no different from being on drugs. Hence the saying, "Pregnancy makes you stupid for three years." Therefore, women are actually less capable of surviving than men. As the saying goes, you can't have everything. Being a jack-of-all-trades and master of none means that women's physical and intellectual potential is significantly lower than men's. Of course, this statement is not absolute, as there are always exceptions who break traditional rules through hard work.

However, you can also understand it this way: women are the chosen inheritors of the species for propagation, while men are the warriors and main force for development prepared by genes after their genes were deliberately deleted to protect the group. The allocation of sex is the most crucial link in passive evolution, the greatest genetic engineering in nature. Both men and women are indispensable and interdependent, allowing for division of labor and cooperation within the population and enabling more energy to be devoted to autonomous evolution. But truly advanced life forms... are actually genderless. Advanced civilizations capable of autonomous evolution generally use in-vitro fertilization technology to increase their population because the reproductive gene constitutes a very large proportion of the 'book,' making it one of the biggest obstacles to life advancing to higher levels.

In fact, I must remind you that once the gene lock is triggered, your genes will consciously distort your aesthetics, trying to feminize men as much as possible to stop your development. Of course, the genes' original intention is to prevent you from continuing down the wrong path, but good intentions have backfired. After all, a hedgehog without its quills is just a lump of tender meat in the eyes of other civilizations. So, as we've said, autonomous evolution is always the most important criterion for judging whether life is advanced, without exception!

Xuan Yuan Mu Ze asked, puzzled, "But is it really okay to live a life without gender, where one is neither male nor female?"

Brick scoffed, "So, is it really good for men and women to live a life of intrigue and backstabbing under the control of hormones and the brain, wasting a lot of energy and resources on self-destruction? In fact, in our eyes, you are no different from drug addicts. Believe me, my friend, we have experienced your lives before we chose to live the life we ​​have now."

I understand you don't like our lifestyle because you haven't truly experienced it, but I still want to remind you: look at this planet. We can freely reshape the universe, while you struggle even to survive. Don't think we're miserable; you can't imagine our happiness.

After being mocked again, Xuan Yuan Mu Ze became unhappy and retorted, "But we also have love, the kind of emotion you consider high-class."

Brick shook his head and said, "I've said before that love has nothing to do with mating. Think about it, when you first fall for someone, isn't it because of their appearance? Isn't your so-called love just a product of hormone stimulation in the brain? It's no different from animals in heat. All of this is just an illusion created for reproduction, but love is different."

Love takes time to develop. It only emerges after you and your partner have lived together for a long time, after the initial passion has faded and everything has returned to rationality. When you examine your partner and find that you can accept her flaws and everything about her, that she respects you and you respect her, that there are no real secrets between you, that you both love each other and even after the test of time, you still choose her, and she chooses you for life—that's what true love is. This is why the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races promotes the ten-year marriage system; ten years is enough time for you to figure out if your partner is truly right for you.

Love is the attraction between souls, a product of rational emotion. Of course, you might argue that rationality cannot be accompanied by emotion. While I truly cannot explain the details to you, rational individuals do experience emotions, albeit less intensely. This is why rational individuals tend to live much longer than others, as the absence of extreme emotional fluctuations prevents the body from being ravaged by hormonal imbalances, leading to better health. Conversely, individuals addicted to 'pleasure' tend to have shorter lifespans than their peers because they are led by their emotions. Of course, nothing in this world is absolutely beneficial; 'too much of a good thing is bad, and extremes lead to their opposites.' You should understand this principle better than I do.”