togophonebook #176 - The secret and essence of the super god gene! Achieve genetic ascension!
#176 - The secret and essence of the super god gene! Achieve genetic ascension!
Under the night sky.
In the mountains some distance from Juxia City.
Luo Fu sat alone on the roof of an antique-style building.
Days ago, after agreeing to Du Kao's offer to become a tutor at the Super Seminary, replacing Sun Wukong, and giving the recruits of the Xiongbing Company a lesson.
Luo Fu began preparing for this moment.
And today was the time for him to complete this mission.
Thinking about the past few days, ever since learning that he was about to serve as a tutor at the Super Seminary and teach the Xiongbing Company a lesson.
Di Lena had approached Wu Zhao more than once, offering various bad ideas, trying to get Wu Zhao to use all her seductive skills, hoping to make Luo Fu bedridden.
Unfortunately, Luo Fu was not like his predecessor, living a decadent life and indulging in women.
Even if he was, Luo Fu's recovery ability would not allow him to suffer from back pain, weak hands, and weak feet because of Wu Zhao.
I wonder what kind of expression Di Lena, full of suspicion and hoping that Wu Zhao could drain him dry, would have if she saw that his condition was not affected at all.
Luo Fu didn't have to wait long.
In just a few minutes, Luo Fu felt several figures sneaking quickly towards his location.
At the same time that Luo Fu discovered the members of the Xiongbing Company.
A bullet fired from a gun flew towards Luo Fu in a flash of lightning.
It's just a pity that this bullet, which could cause damage to super soldiers, seemed to have exhausted all its kinetic energy the moment it was about to approach Luo Fu, and fell to the ground with a 'ding'.
His gaze instantly locked onto Qi Lin's direction.
Under Luo Fu's control, the invisible and intangible gravitational force instantly reversed the gravity of the earth.
With a cry of surprise, Qi Lin's figure suddenly rose from the ground and flew high into the sky. The sniper rifle in her hand was also instantly twisted into a spiral by an invisible force field, completely losing its function as a weapon.
After connecting to the External Brain Substitute once before, although Luo Fu has not yet developed a method to manipulate the percentage valve value.
However, that connection allowed Luo Fu's own abilities to achieve a leap-forward improvement.
Without mentioning anything else, Luo Fu can already play tricks with the manipulation of gravity.
For example, right now, on Qi Lin's body, Luo Fu's gravitational methods are so exquisitely executed that they are simply like telekinesis that moves with the mind.
Whether it's offsetting the gravity on Qi Lin's body and sending Qi Lin into the sky, or twisting the force field to turn Qi Lin's sniper rifle into scrap iron, these are all gains after connecting to the External Brain Substitute.
Seeing Qi Lin flying towards the sky.
The members of the Xiongbing Company, who were about to sneak up on Luo Fu, immediately couldn't care less about hiding.
"Qi Lin."
Du Qiangwei exclaimed, at the moment she was resolving the micro wormhole, preparing to go to the sky to save Qiangwei.
An invisible force instantly enveloped the micro wormhole opened by Du Qiangwei.
A huge sense of crisis in the dark made Du Qiangwei stop in her tracks instantly.
She had a feeling that if she stepped into the micro wormhole at this moment, she would usher in a regretful end.
Through the observation of dark energy, Du Qiangwei clearly felt that an invisible twisted force field was shrouded in front of the micro wormhole she opened.
If she really dared to step into it, she would be twisted by this force field in an instant.
Du Qiangwei's biggest trump card, the micro wormhole, was completely restrained by Luo Fu's force field.
Du Qiangwei, worried about Qi Lin flying into the sky, could only loudly instruct Ge Xiaolun: "Xiaolun, seal the energy operation of Chi You."
"Wait!"
Luo Fu suddenly spoke, interrupting Ge Xiaolun's unspoken silence.
"Are you sure you want to use your ability to interfere with me? I'm not afraid to tell you, I have arranged an extremely complex force field turbulence on Qi Lin's body. This force field turbulence, if triggered but not released, once it loses my control, with Qi Lin's mere first-generation super soldier physical fitness, I'm afraid she will be torn to pieces in an instant!"
Facing such a dilemma for the first time, Ge Xiaolun, who was still just an ordinary college student at heart, immediately looked at Du Qiangwei helplessly and said: "Qiangwei, I… what should I do?"
"Bastard, you really make Grandpa look down on you. What kind of ability is it to threaten with women? If you have the ability, fight Grandpa one-on-one."
Seeing this, Liu Chuang raised the God-Slaying Giant Axe in his hand and provoked Luo Fu.
Just a glance at Liu Chuang, and the gravity on Liu Chuang's body seemed to have instantly increased countless times. His legs went weak, and he sank deeply into the earth. Then, the whole person disappeared in an instant.
"You… what did you do again?"
Du Qiangwei was still facing Luo Fu for the first time, an opponent that made people unable to cope.
"I have been constantly increasing the gravity he is subjected to by geometric multiples, causing him to sink into the ground. Now, he should be almost a hundred meters underground, right?"
Luo Fu's understatement made the members of the Xiongbing Company shudder.
Zhao Xin even shivered subconsciously and said: "This… this guy has buried Chuangzi alive."
Du Qiangwei seemed to suddenly react and shouted: "Cheng Yaowen."
Cheng Yaowen's gene type is the Heart of the Earth, which is the ability to manipulate the earth and even celestial bodies.
Du Qiangwei obviously wanted Cheng Yaowen to use his own ability to dig out Liu Chuang, who was deeply trapped underground.
However, after a moment of silence, Cheng Yaowen suddenly gasped for breath.
"No, no, Liu Chuang is no longer a hundred meters underground. He is now three hundred meters underground and is constantly going deeper. Moreover, there is a very terrifying gravity on his body, pulling him constantly towards the center of the earth. I can't resist this increasingly strong gravity at all."
"As expected of the Demon God Chi You, we can't deal with him at all."
Ge Xiaolun said in a daze: "Qiangwei, let's… let's retreat. This Chi You is too terrifying, we can't beat him at all."
"Shut up."
Du Qiangwei's eyes turned red with anger.
The Xiongbing Company, which was placed with high hopes, suffered such a miserable blow in its first mission. What made Du Qiangwei even more unacceptable was that Ge Xiaolun, the absolute main force of the Xiongbing Company, actually wanted to desert.
Glaring at Ge Xiaolun angrily,
Du Qiangwei gritted her teeth and said: "Xiaolun, use your ability immediately, quickly."
"But… but… Qi Lin is still in the sky. What if… what if something happens to Qi Lin?"
"Believe me, Qi Lin will be fine!"
Du Qiangwei didn't know where the confidence came from.
However, her words undoubtedly worked on Ge Xiaolun.
As Du Qiangwei's lapdog, Ge Xiaolun rarely refuted Du Qiangwei's requests.
At this moment, facing Du Qiangwei's confident remarks, Ge Xiaolun was obviously trying to gamble.
But at the moment he was about to speak, Luo Fu preemptively said: "Are you sure that Qi Lin will not be torn apart by the chaotic force field? Are you sure that Liu Chuang can survive underground… now it's five hundred meters, can he survive five hundred meters underground? These are your comrades, are you really going to use their lives to gamble?"
As expected, the indecisive Ge Xiaolun fell into hesitation again with Luo Fu's words.
Du Qiangwei looked at Luo Fu angrily and said: "You guy, you have pursued Qi Lin anyway, I don't believe that you will really use Qi Lin's life to threaten us, Xiaolun."
Turning his head to look at Ge Xiaolun, Du Qiangwei said angrily: "What are you waiting for? Hurry up!"
"Maybe I can't bear to kill Qi Lin, but what about you? Du Qiangwei?"
The moment Qiangwei's name came out of Luo Fu's mouth, Ge Xiaolun completely panicked.
"You… what did you do to Qiangwei?"
Seeing Ge Xiaolun's distraught appearance, Luo Fu said: "Why don't you ask her yourself? After all, she is also your captain and has the ability to control the spatial micro wormhole. Why doesn't she take action herself when her teammates are in danger, but just stands there and keeps giving orders? And she doesn't even move."
"Qiangwei, you…"
Ge Xiaolun panicked and subconsciously moved towards Du Qiangwei's direction.
At the moment Ge Xiaolun approached, Du Qiangwei said anxiously and loudly: "Don't come over, stop, don't approach me."
"You… Qiangwei, what exactly happened to you?"
Ge Xiaolun's movements stopped abruptly, but he became more and more worried about Du Qiangwei's safety.
Glaring at Luo Fu's direction dissatisfied, Du Qiangwei said in a deep voice: "My surroundings are now filled with countless chaotic force fields. These force fields prevent me from transferring my position through the spatial micro wormhole at all. Moreover, if you approach me, you will also be caught in these force fields."
"Then… then what do we do now?"
Ge Xiaolun asked in a panic.
"Defeat this guy, he is the one who caused all this. As long as we defeat him, everything will be fine."
Du Qiangwei's words made Ge Xiaolun muster unprecedented courage.
Clenching the Void Greatsword in his hand, Ge Xiaolun rushed towards Luo Fu without hesitation.
"A reckless man."
Just as Luo Fu was a little disappointed with this Galaxy Force.
A burst of intense stellar energy exploded before Luo Fu's eyes.
"You're quite the actor, huh? Try the goddess's flare bombardment."
The exploding flares instantly erupted with dazzling brilliance.
But Luo Fu, who was at the forefront, had his surrounding gravitational fields completely block all the damage, keeping it at bay.
Whether it was the light, high temperature, or radiation from the stellar energy, it was all distorted by gravity and refracted in other directions.
"Damn, is this thing so tough?" Di Leina, who had ambushed Luo Fu, was genuinely surprised.
You should know that she had personally witnessed the battle between Luo Fu and Sun Wukong.
But Sun Wukong's attacks were able to hurt Luo Fu back then.
In a short period, Luo Fu's control over gravity had not only increased, but even the degree of concealment had impressed Di Leina.
"Is this the temperature of the sun? It doesn't seem like much, huh? It doesn't even seem as fiery as Xiao Zhao's passion. What do you say, Goddess of the Sun?" Luo Fu looked at Di Leina with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.
Di Leina instantly realized that Luo Fu was subtly reminding her that he had discovered her previous attempt to seduce Wu Zhao, encouraging her to use her seductive skills to keep Luo Fu bedridden!
Forcing a dry laugh, Di Leina pretended to be clueless and said, "I have no idea what you're talking about. Don't slander the goddess."
"Is that so?" Luo Fu smiled slightly, silently distorting the light and concealing the visual effects of opening the Seven Deadly Sins Eye and the Kaleidoscope Sharingan in his forehead.
Among the members of the Super Soldier Program, the power of the Seven Emotions and Seven Sins instantly fell into Luo Fu's control.
First and foremost, Ge Xiaolun, who had mustered unprecedented courage because Du Qiangwei was threatened, was enveloped by a sudden surge of jealousy the moment he was about to rush in front of Luo Fu.
Inside the Super God Academy.
"Chief, Luo Fu has once again demonstrated abilities we were previously unaware of. This is an ability to directly interfere with emotions. Ge Xiaolun's state has already been manipulated."
Lian Feng and Yu Qin were constantly monitoring the exercise process, and the safety of the Super Soldier Program members was their top priority.
Ge Xiaolun, the Power of the Galaxy, was even more important.
"It seems that there are still many secrets about Luo Fu's genes that we don't understand," Du Kao said with a grim expression. "Is there any way to help the Power of the Galaxy escape this manipulation?"
"We are conducting verification," Lian Feng replied without turning her head.
But the next moment, Lian Feng's tone suddenly changed.
"Not good, Luo Fu can manipulate more than one emotion. Ge Xiaolun has fallen into the desire for reproduction."
"Du Qiangwei has also been manipulated."
"Zhao Xin has fallen into a rage."
"Cheng Yaowen is shrouded in jealousy."
Lian Feng reported one bad news after another.
Du Kao frowned and said, "In that case, this exercise is meaningless. Lian Feng, Yu Qin, find a way to help the Super Soldier Program shield themselves from this emotional manipulation."
"General, Luo Fu's new ability has touched our blind spot of knowledge. The demon civilization is more adept at emotional manipulation. It's possible... perhaps Luo Fu's ability to control emotions was obtained from Morgana!" Lian Feng speculated.
Unfortunately, Lian Feng still didn't understand the demon civilization enough.
Although there is Hei Feng among the demons who can manipulate nightmares,
even demons are far inferior to Luo Fu when it comes to direct emotional manipulation.
After all, demons can only change a life's emotions from the genetic level. This change is based on demon genes and is irreversible. It can completely change the disposition of a life that has been transformed into a demon, but it cannot be manipulated anytime and anywhere.
More importantly, although demon genes have a strong influence on individual consciousness, if the individual's will is strong enough, it can resist the influence of demon genes.
But Luo Fu's manipulation of the emotions of the Super Soldier Program members was almost certain, effortless, and had a feeling of lightness.
Even the Super God Academy, which had been watching the entire exercise, did not realize what Luo Fu's ability was all about.
The power of the Seven Emotions and Seven Sins fell into Luo Fu's control.
At this moment, the Super Soldier Program had become like a puppet in Luo Fu's hands.
He only needed to fluctuate slightly, and the Seven Emotions and Seven Sins between the members of the Super Soldier Program would allow him to sit back and watch the tigers fight.
It must be admitted that the difference in the mental state of these Super Soldier Program rookies, who have not yet experienced the baptism of war and are even more unclear about what the real blueprint of the universe looks like, is simply lamentable.
Luo Fu only slightly fluctuated Ge Xiaolun's emotions, and Ge Xiaolun, who had been rushing towards him aggressively, quickly changed direction and rushed towards Qiangwei regardless.
In addition to Ge Xiaolun, the members of the Super Soldier Program also showed their ugly side under Luo Fu's ability to manipulate emotions.
The only one who was not affected was probably Di Leina.
However, this was not because Di Leina could really ignore Luo Fu's ability to manipulate emotions.
But Luo Fu was deliberately not bothering her for Wu Zhao's sake.
"You..." Di Leina, who had been arrogant at first, was really frightened when she saw her comrades being driven crazy by Luo Fu.
She could accept being defeated herself, and could accept that her skills were inferior, but she could never accept the feeling of having her own Seven Emotions and Seven Sins manipulated by others.
"Don't... don't come over here. If you dare to approach me again, I'll tell Xiao Zhao that you're bullying me." Di Leina, who was frightened, actually had a hot head and threatened Luo Fu with Wu Zhao.
Luo Fu smiled dumbly and said, "Isn't that just right? Xiao Zhao even can't wait for it. In that case, your besties will be able to realize their childhood dreams."
"What childhood dream?" Di Leina was really thick-skinned. Obviously, in this situation, the first thing she was curious about was what her and Wu Zhao's childhood dreams were.
With a strange look on his face, Luo Fu said, "Wasn't your childhood dream to be together forever? Even if you marry someone, you have to marry one person?"
"Damn, you... you actually covet the beauty of the goddess me."
"Compared to beauty, I'm actually more interested in your body?" Luo Fu smiled evilly and approached Di Leina.
Just when Di Leina thought Luo Fu was going to play for real, and was so frightened that she began to talk nonsense.
A huge force instantly slammed into Di Leina's abdomen.
The powerful force, in theory, was enough to blast Di Leina away, but a reverse force came from behind Di Leina, forcing Di Leina to bear this punch with her divine body.
The terrifying power even caused Di Leina to open her mouth and spit out a large mouthful of blood with a wail.
"You... you bastard." In a painful groan, Di Leina knelt down softly.
No one noticed, including the Super God Academy and Mao Shen, who was always responsible for Di Leina's safety, that the blood that Di Leina spat out because she had taken a punch from Luo Fu disappeared into thin air the moment it hit the ground.
Reaching out and rubbing Di Leina's soft hair, Luo Fu said, "Goddess, just stay here and lie down peacefully. I'm going to get rid of your comrades."
"Stand... stand still, the goddess me hasn't lost yet."
Just as Di Leina struggled to get up, a huge gravity instantly pressed down on her body. Di Leina, who was already kneeling on the ground, immediately let out a scream and was crushed into a prostrate position, lying dead on the ground.
On the other side, Ge Xiaolun, who rushed to Du Qiangwei, suddenly let out a scream, followed by one tearing wound after another appearing silently around him.
Along with the participation, the future Earth Lord God, the Power of the Galaxy in the three major god-making projects, did not even exert half of the effect that should have conformed to his identity, and became the last god-making project to fall after Liu Chuang, the God of War of Nuoxing, and Reina, the Light of the Sun.
The three major god-making projects fell one by one in front of Luo Fu.
Similarly, the blood flowing from the tearing wounds on the Power of the Galaxy disappeared without a trace before it hit the ground.
When Liu Chuang was buried a hundred meters underground, Luo Fu had already taken the blood of this God of War of Nuoxing in the forefront.
Luo Fu, who had completed the goal of collecting the three major god-making projects, did not let go of the others in the Super Soldier Program.
Du Qiangwei, who was wrapped in a chaotic, invisible force field, had obviously tried her best to maintain a still posture, but when Luo Fu changed the position of the force field, Du Qiangwei also followed in the footsteps of the three major god-making projects.
Once again, the task of collecting the blood sample of Space-Time Rose was completed.
Luo Fu was very fair and severely injured the remaining Super Soldier Program warriors one by one, and silently took the blood of all the super soldiers in the Super Soldier Program.
When the last one, Qi Lin, who was thrown into the sky by Luo Fu's force field at the beginning, also fell heavily on the ground due to the fall from a high altitude, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.
This exercise ended with the annihilation of the Super Soldier Program.
Inside the Super God Academy.
Lian Feng keenly noticed Du Kao's gloomy expression and said, "General, please rest assured. Although the injuries caused by Luo Fu would be fatal to ordinary people, they can be easily healed for Yu Qin. They will be able to recover quickly."
Du Kao shook his head and said, "What I'm worried about isn't this. Luo Fu doesn't have the motivation to kill the children of the Super Soldier Program, but... these children can't even handle a Luo Fu who isn't serious. Can they really protect the Earth?"
"General, do you want to increase the intensity of training next?" Lian Feng hesitated for a moment before guessing.
"No, compared to simple training, I'm thinking that if Luo Fu were responsible for improving these children's strength in actual combat, wouldn't it be faster? After all, we don't have much time left," Du Kao said with a sigh.
"But... General, if that's the case, these children..."
"Don't worry!" Lian Feng was interrupted by Du Kao before she could finish speaking. "I believe Luo Fu will have a sense of propriety, and besides, Yu Qin is there, isn't she?"
Originally, she wanted to say something, but feeling Du Kao's firm expression, Lian Feng finally chose to remain silent.
"Notify Luo Fu that this exercise is over. Oh, and don't forget to have Luo Fu dig Liu Chuang out from underground."
In the mountains outside Juxia City.
After receiving Lian Feng's notification that the exercise was over, Luo Fu didn't show any signs of movement.
Suddenly, the ground where Liu Chuang had sunk rose up, and then a figure in a sorry state instantly emerged from underground.
However, even after emerging from underground, Liu Chuang no longer had the strength to speak. His whole body was covered in wounds, and there were countless fractures.
From being dug out by Luo Fu from hundreds of meters underground until he received Yu Qin's help, Liu Chuang remained unconscious.
After completing this exercise, Luo Fu didn't stay in the mountains. He didn't even wait for the people from Super God Academy who were responsible for taking the Super Soldier Program members back.
Instead, he directly chose to return to his villa using his Kamui ability.
As for the Super Soldier Program members, who were all injured to varying degrees, and most of whom were unconscious, Luo Fu believed that the people from Super God Academy and De Nuo would not let them encounter danger.
As soon as he returned to his villa, Luo Fu couldn't wait to start researching the blood of these Super Soldier Program members that he had just obtained.
Wanting to replicate the ability of a super soldier by studying their blood might be possible for second-generation or lower, but starting from the third generation, it would be wishful thinking.
After all, whether it's a third-generation warrior or a god, the truly valuable part of their abilities isn't their bloodline or genes, but the various devices in the dark plane.
But that doesn't mean that the blood of super soldiers has no research value.
From the moment the dark plane and super genes combined, pure genes and bloodlines were indeed no longer the foundation of a super soldier.
But genes and blood still contain the secrets of this gene model.
Compared to not being able to obtain the dark plane, the genes and bloodlines are more like Su Mali, who stole a genetic copy of the Power of the Galaxy and injected it into himself.
This simple and crude method did not allow Su Mali to obtain the abilities of the Power of the Galaxy, such as anti-void, because it could not be registered.
But the bloodline injection did give Su Mali a weakened, several-times-less-powerful Undefeatable Body.
You should know that the Undefeatable Body is one of the top gene models in the Super God Universe.
Luo Fu never thought about obtaining the dark plane of these Super Soldier Program gene models.
His abilities were already enough to protect himself. Obtaining the blood of these gene models was just to analyze more secrets and knowledge of the gene model.
As a member of the Sharing Space, he was at least from a technology-oriented world.
Luo Fu didn't want to be completely reduced to a burden.
Especially after seeing the predecessors such as Evil Ghost Luo Fu, Inhuman Luo Fu, and Uchiha Luo Fu, who had found their own paths by sharing each other's abilities.
Luo Fu was even more determined to combine the abilities gained from sharing with the characteristics of his own world to create a path that belonged to him.
Previously, Luo Fu researched the second-generation gene engine and used the gene engine as a computing unit to create a celestial computer like the Universe Brain. This was one of Luo Fu's research achievements.
And the Three Major God-Making Projects were the next focus of Luo Fu's research.
For several days in a row, Luo Fu, who had been holed up in the villa, was either playing those popular games with Wu Zhao, or completely immersed in the research of super gene blood.
Through the research on the blood of the Super Soldier Program members, Luo Fu discovered that each gene model did not split from a certain stage.
Genes are an extremely mysterious system that affects the whole body.
Whether it's the Three Major God-Making Projects or other gene models, they have been heading in distinctly different directions since the first generation.
Du Qiangwei's Time-Space Rose Gene, Ge Xiaolun's Power of the Galaxy, Liu Chuang's Nuo Star God of War, and Di Lena's Light of the Sun.
Each of these four gene models with the potential for the fourth generation has embarked on a unique path since the first generation warriors.
To put it simply, these gene models themselves are like a huge technology tree.
Trees face the sun, with branches, leaves, flowers, and roots, but each gene model is like a different species of tree, which will grow different results.
But after comparing them, Luo Fu found that these gene models had been locked from the beginning.
Unless there were loopholes left in the background, it would be impossible for the same super gene to have a second owner.
Of course, this refers to special gene models, at least second-generation or above. Ordinary first-generation don't have this setting at all.
Just like Qi Lin, this first-generation super soldier, her gene model belongs to the universal version.
As long as there is this genetic inheritance, they can awaken after reaching a certain level. On the other hand, the Three Major God-Making Projects, Time-Space Rose, Cheng Yaowen, and others, their gene models are unique. From the beginning of awakening, they far surpassed the concept of ordinary first-generation. Even if they are still first-generation in terms of power level, they are unique.
And the Power of the Galaxy backup that Su Mali obtained was because this backup was unlocked.
The more Luo Fu researched, the more he discovered how incredible the Super God Gene System developed by the God River Civilization was.
The genes themselves contain an extremely large storage space.
These huge storage spaces were not used by the creators of the God River system to store various abilities. They have a stronger dependence on the dark plane.
Once the dark plane is closed or even blocked, whether it is a third-generation warrior, a third-generation god, or a fourth-generation god body, they will be reduced to the level of a second-generation warrior.
However, compared to them, the fourth-generation god body has more powerful abilities.
In Luo Fu's view, the so-called super warrior is already a masterpiece of the second generation. The third-generation warriors, third-generation gods, and fourth-generation gods have actually lost their original intention.
What they are pursuing is no longer gene ascension, but transforming themselves into a special existence that seems to be a God River body, but in fact, completely deviates from the category of the God River body.
The essence of God, as He Xi said, is like a joystick, relying on the various powerful devices in the dark plane to flaunt their power outside.
Everything loaded in the dark plane is the foundation and essence of a god.
Starting from the third generation, who possesses the dark plane, the so-called warriors and gods are essentially like guardians and users of the dark plane.
After the fall of the Holy Kesha, the Holy Knowledge Treasure can be passed on to Angel Yan, which is evident.
While immersed in cracking the mysteries of genes, Luo Fu quickly received Du Kao's request for help again.
He hoped that Luo Fu could help Super God Academy train the warriors of the Super Soldier Program.
At first, Luo Fu intended to refuse.
But after thinking about it, Luo Fu agreed very readily.
That was because the blood that Luo Fu had obtained from the Super Soldier Program warriors in the previous exercise was no longer enough.
For Luo Fu, this fledgling scientific research rookie, the consumption of super soldier blood was very large.
More importantly, Luo Fu discovered that once the blood of a super soldier leaves the body of the super soldier, its vitality will continue to decline, like decay. This is an irreversible process.