Soul Bank
by Yanxian Zhao ︎︎︎Few days ago, my doctor told me part of my soul had dissolved caused the body malfunctioning. I ridiculed, “ Soul doesn’t exist but consciousness. I will become earth again by dissolve in various micro-organism when I am buried.” The doctor said, “Soul, consciousness whatever we phrase, it is all quantum substances, they resonate to generate information. Everything is information. You lack of quantum, the Soul Bank will fix you.”
“Soul Bank?” I got surprisingly, “Where is it? By how? Possible to recover naturally?”
“Afraid not. Body and soul rot simultaneously.”
Here I am at this mysterious-humongous-mirror cube. I trembled, are these souls illicitly captured or collected? Am I still me after fusing other’s soul?
With many worries and doubts, I entered like a flash through the impeccable mirror, into a room with absolute emptiness.
“Anyone home?” I shouted out loud.
“Don’t need to shout, we know you are here.” A voice float to my ear, I turned to the voice seeing a man floating.
“I am here for…”
“We know,” he said, “soul-check, then quantum analysis.”
“Ok, but..” I look for an exit or entrance, at that glimpse, he disappeared the room already changed with same white and emptiness.
“Ka!!!” like thousands of thunders flashed rush in and puncture my brain. Next moment, I was back as nothing really happened.
“Checked.” He looked at somewhere also nowhere, “Transplant some purified mermaid souls, then you are as good as a new born baby.”
“I don’t want it.” the situation made me angry.
His did not bother. “Rot as mortals, I don’t care. But mermaid-soul-transplant is rare, I forgive your rudeness.” He gazed at my face, “ Think twice about your decision.”
Knowing my life is at steak, I calmed down, “Could you answer my questions first?”
“shoot.”
“When this Soul Bank was started? How to collect and store the souls? What is purified soul? Can I maintain my integrity?” I rushed them all out.
“You…” he smiled sarcastically, ” We’ve been established for 200 years, only publicly known recently. We have donors since beginning. Purifying the soul means removing information in the quantum which is memories in reference. Quantums varies by individuals; The transplant is inoperable without removing information, the most difficult part lies in finding a match. As for integrity of the soul, depends on perspectives, does the information represent the soul or the quantum? “
Quantum or information, such a dilemma. Information defines us; the quantum is the energy, carrier, generator and essence. “Isn’t removing memory an murdering act?” I asked.
“Well, they vanish anyway. Think about reincarnation, information needs to be cleansed for souls to be renewed and rebirth.”
I couldn’t argue. “So you can create a soul with what you store?”
“We did experiments, but failed. That is too advanced than refuelling souls. Do you know the equations of energy conservation, momentum conservation, and mass conservation? We couldn’t breakthrough the equations yet. We know so little about the marvellous nature,” He sighed.” aren’t you curious about the mermaid?”
I hesitated and said,” let’s do surgery.” mermaid seemed unimportant.
I was floating in globe room after replied, yet, same emptiness.
“nap, everything will be fine.” His voice came in and I napped like a baby.
I woke up without knowing time and was outside the building. Everything seems better in my body, I felt no pain or suffering during the procedure. But how would I know? I tried to see whether I am still what I was, but I didn’t know how to.
With all these confusions, I started my journey home.