Yu Liang quietly watched as Zong in front of him trembled all over, though this wasn't from his own consciousness.
He was already dead, losing all his autonomous consciousness after he spoke those two sentences. Now, only his shell was responsive to external stimuli.
Decomposition was happening to his hand, his body cage, the U-disk flesh connective tissue and everything else that constituted this humanoid entity. The rate varied, but the end was the same; dust in the air.
The scene evoked memories of a film, maybe Transcendence, in which the protagonist gradually broke down into her most primitive cells. However, it was not because she had maxed out her brain's potential, but because the humanoid creature in front of her couldn't handle the massive influx of information.
Receiving the knowledge of an entire civilization's technology was too strenuous for a single "brain". It could only catch a glimpse of the hope for the future in the instant of reception completion.
