The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 15 Brain Death

Jiang Hui then realized how foolish she had been and how she had almost done something stupid. Otherwise, according to the binding time of the space knot, she would probably have bought the hospital gown and taken it with her, or waited until the next day to be discharged.

"Did you bring any clothes with you?" Xu Jia asked again.

Jiang Hui nodded. The original owner's memories were quite clear, because she brought only a few frequently used personal items with her when she came from the inner star system. Most of her valuables that were inconvenient to move were left in the house her parents left her in the inner star system, and she had applied to the local administrative region for and received permission to temporarily seal them.

This spatial kiosk is one of the two spatial kiosks that the original owner brought with her. The original owner has been using it since childhood, and vaguely remembers that it contains a lot of daily necessities, including clothes. She can just take one out and wear it later.

"That's good, then there's no problem. You can go home after you've been discharged. Remember to take your medication, and report any problems to the hospital immediately," Xu Jia patiently instructed.

As the conversation was drawing to a close, Jiang Hui decided to stand up and see the other person off. After all, she wasn't really too sick to get up.

"You... I see you—" The other person took a few steps, then suddenly stopped: "What have you been wanting to ask me all this time?"

Although it wasn't very obvious, there's a clear difference when someone is hesitant to speak, and she could easily tell. The girl seemed confused, even troubled, by something.

Upon hearing the question, Jiang Hui subconsciously touched her face. Was it really that obvious? She had gone to great lengths to resist asking, but in the end, someone still noticed.

"What are you worried about? Is there anything wrong with your body? If so, you must tell us immediately. You can't hide anything. The ingredients of the mental stabilizer are special. The initiation solution is the basis for taking the medicine. If your body or nerves cannot adapt to the subsequent absorption, there will be serious problems." Xu Jia said to Jiang Hui very seriously.

"Of course not," Jiang Hui thought to herself. Otherwise, she would have said so long ago, instead of being so hesitant. She was still wondering whether she should voice her question, because it seemed very out of place in the context of the situation. She was afraid that something like Frye's terrified scream for help would happen again—the scene was simply too much to bear.

"After I fainted from excessive blood loss that day, I briefly felt that my mental energy had lost connection with my body, and it felt... like my soul had left my body." Jiang Hui seemed to be trying very hard to describe that state.

"Now that I'm awake, I don't feel that way anymore, but why do I always feel like my mental energy and body aren't in sync? It's like there's something else mixed in, and I don't feel comfortable," Jiang Hui said, half-jokingly.

It's true that her head is throbbing and twitching, but more importantly, she wants to probe into something deeper, which is what she most wants to know right now.

Xu Jia listened quietly without answering her immediately, but her hands stopped moving, and she unconsciously turned to face the girl on the bed.

"Soul? That word is quite archaic. Have you considered specializing in classical Chinese language and literature in the future? But we don't say it that way anymore; that's probably a fictional term. You mean brainwaves, right?" Oh, thank you for pointing it out. If it's that level of classical Chinese, she feels she can manage it too.

"I'm also a bit unsure how to answer that. Even today, when we can study every internal organ of the human body down to the smallest detail, the brain remains an area that humanity cannot fully understand." "Take your injury the other day, for example. You injured two lobes of your brain, which appears to have caused functional damage. However, physical injuries to the brain are relatively easy to repair completely with surgery and a treatment chamber. But we cannot determine whether your brain region is also affected simply by looking at the condition of your brain organs, because a person's brain region refers not only to the brain itself, but also to the constantly changing magnetic field region formed by the electrical waves emitted by all brain tissues."

"And this magnetic field is actually the source of spiritual power as we understand it."

Jiang Hui has not studied mental power on her own yet, so she only listened with a vague understanding and tried her best to comprehend it.

Xu Jia paused, knowing that explaining this might be difficult to understand. After all, even the current generation of elites hadn't fully analyzed the mental capacity of the brain, and the theories they offered were rather abstract and vague. So, she decided not to confuse the child and quickly changed her approach, saying, "After your brain injury that day, we treated you and, through testing your vital signs and brainwaves, determined that your brain was unaffected. Who would have thought..."

Little did she expect she was a time traveler. She genuinely had no idea where she was, what had happened, or even that she herself had transmigrated. Jiang Hui added inwardly.

"...Later, with further treatment, we basically restored your disordered brain function." From what they said, they diagnosed her symptoms as brain dysfunction; the disordered brainwaves affected the brain's magnetic field, causing temporary memory loss.

"However, the effects of brainwave disorder cannot heal on their own in a short time, which is why you need to take mental stabilizers, otherwise your brain area and mental capacity will also be affected."

Xu Jia returned to Jiang Hui's side at some point, took out a stack of what appeared to be her medical records from a storage compartment behind her, frowned as she flipped through a few pages, and then handed them to Jiang Hui. Unfortunately, much of the data and terminology was too technical, mixed with a large amount of interstellar jargon, making it difficult to understand even with her eyes hurting, so she had to give up.

"It is understood that brainwave disorder is one of the most difficult diseases to define accurately, and it can also cause different complications. The feeling that your mental energy is separated is probably because the brainwave fluctuations were too large at the time, causing your mental energy to slightly deviate from the range of brainwaves, which is what you call the soul splitting."

Jiang Hui was startled: "If a person's spiritual energy leaves their brainwaves and can't return to their body, wouldn't they never wake up?" If that were the case, the original owner might have experienced this—her spiritual energy leaving her brainwaves and not returning to her body—and then somehow she floated in. Could it be that she really did possess someone else's body?

However, Xu Jia denied her idea the next moment: "Theoretically, it's not impossible. But you may have made a common-sense mistake. Although mental power exists based on the brain, it is not a necessary condition for a person to live. A person without mental power can live normally. As long as the brain is functioning normally and brain waves are still present, even if mental power is lost, a person's consciousness can still be maintained."

"Only people whose brainwaves have completely disappeared can be considered brain dead."

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PS: The original owner was truly brain dead, dying from sudden brain arrest. May she rest in peace. However, Jiang Hui, without God's perspective, would still care about this issue.

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