"You're crazy! Your whole family is crazy!"
"Is it just the gangs here, or are the women this rude too?!"
Lin Yu's face darkened slightly.
But having experienced the power of his only skill, Mechatronics Engineering, he quickly and readily checked his new skill.
"Skill: Mimic Personality"
"Level: LV1"
"Description: A special talent—or illness?—that allows for the temporary alteration of one's own personality, simulating and embodying the personality of another."
This was the second skill Lin Yu had acquired.
Previously, he had tried various methods, but he had never been able to trigger any other skill clues. Unexpectedly, he had stumbled upon this one.
And it was obvious that this skill was different from Mechatronics Engineering; he didn't feel any knowledge or techniques appearing in his mind.
However, looking at these words and carefully considering them, he gradually developed a unique feeling.
"Change personality? Become a psychopath, is that it?"
Gradually understanding the effect of this skill, Lin Yu's face darkened again.
Mimic Personality wasn't like Mechatronics Engineering, which involved knowledge and techniques. This was more like a special ability.
Of course, according to the description, calling it an illness wasn't wrong either.
He could clearly feel that he could now cause a certain transformation in his own personality, creating a completely different new personality with a distinct character, thinking, and worldview.
Similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder, but not a split, rather a temporary change in one's own personality.
But what use was this thing?
To impersonate a psychopath?
"No… maybe it does have considerable use."
Temporarily suppressing his aversion to becoming a 'psychopath,' adhering to the principle that simply becoming a psychopath shouldn't qualify as a skill, Lin Yu pondered for a moment, finally understanding the skill's purpose.
Personality, even when compared to 'soul,' is perfectly analogous. It represents a person's self-awareness, feelings, emotions, character, thinking, and worldview.
Different people view things from completely different perspectives, with different personalities, preferences, and strengths, which is why there's the saying that there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.
And personality, thinking, and worldview are the most important factors in determining a person's 'inspiration.' Different thinking patterns and perspectives lead to different results, resulting in different inspirations in fields such as painting and writing.
This is true for literary creation, scientific research, and design!
By changing his personality, he could design and create from the perspective of different personalities, ensuring he would never lack inspiration or new ideas.
And with the ability to upgrade skills, as long as he continued to upgrade skills like Mechatronics Engineering, he would never lack knowledge and skills. The only thing he might lack was inspiration and ideas.
Mimic Personality filled this last potential shortcoming, making him invincible in both literary creation and scientific research and development.
Moreover, personality changes naturally include preferences and perceptions.
If he simulated a personality that extremely enjoyed reading, a personality that extremely enjoyed a certain type of knowledge, a personality filled with intense curiosity, would he still need to worry about being unable to concentrate on studying and research?
Interest is the best teacher. Strong interest and curiosity could allow him to transform into a nearly obsessive scholar and researcher when needed.
Furthermore, a personality's worldview and interests are also a manifestation of talent.
The same brain, when interest, pursuit, energy, and thinking patterns are focused on a certain aspect, will naturally perform better in that aspect.
So, to a certain extent, the Mimic Personality skill could be called a divine skill.
And this was just the initial skill.
Don't forget the biggest use of his light blue panel was to upgrade skills.
Right now, it just simulates a psychopath, but what if it levels up a few more times?
By then, even if the use remains the same, it would be equivalent to a superpower, wouldn't it?
"Try it?"
Understanding its benefits, Lin Yu immediately became eager to try it.
He immediately tied up Rupert and then tried to use the skill.
The manifestation of Mimic Personality was indeed more like a special ability; it wasn't knowledge and experience, but an instinctive behavior like breathing and walking.
At the same time, it couldn't arbitrarily modify the personality. The meaning of mimicry was obvious: to simulate a specific target. Therefore, all he could do was create desires and needs, causing the personality to change in the desired direction.
It was indeed similar to the form of personality splitting caused by avoidance, except that Mimic Personality wasn't splitting, but mimicking.
"Then let's start with a personality that's good at fighting. The mech is just a mech; my body is too lacking in self-defense capabilities. And piloting a body-interactive mech requires sufficient combat skills…"
Lin Yu quickly decided on his goal.
Since he had already fallen out with Rupert's human trafficking organization, a fierce battle was inevitable, so he should try to improve his combat ability first.
He couldn't hide in the mech all the time.
And Dawn wasn't equipped with any long-range weapons. The biggest advantage of this first-generation mech was its thick armor and powerful strength, coupled with the body-sensing and myoelectric interaction mode, making close-quarters combat ability indispensable.
"Skilled in close-quarters combat… valiant…"
With a thought, his mind was like a boiling pot, countless memories, thoughts, and ideas began to surge, combining and associating themselves, without any rules, becoming a raging brainstorm.
Speaking of valor, he inexplicably thought of heroes, and from heroes, inexplicably associated with various historical figures, generals and warriors.
Then he subconsciously wanted the best, and then thought of the number one warrior in the world.
There were many random number ones in his memory, but the common ones, the ones that left a deeper impression on him, a pure layman who wasn't a history buff, with clearer and more intuitive images…
Lin Yu clearly felt that his heart was gradually changing, the surging thoughts and memories in his mind becoming fewer and fewer, and the emerging images finally settling on a blurry image.
"I've drifted through life, only regretting not meeting a wise lord. If you don't disdain me, I'd like to pledge my allegiance to… ah, spit."
This sentence suddenly popped into his mind, and he almost blurted it out unconsciously.
Lin Yu shuddered, forcibly suppressing this inexplicable impulse, slammed his fist on the table, and angrily said, "A true man born between heaven and earth, how can he remain depressed and subservient for long!"
The air…
was silent.
Two strange gazes fell on him like blades.
"What are you looking at? I just thought of a line from a TV show."
Lin Yu glared back at Rupert with a dark face.
After saying that, he realized his self-address was a bit strange, so he closed his mouth, ignoring everything else, and carefully experiencing his state.
First, his most fundamental consciousness was clear.
But this clarity was more like a deep-seated clarity. Externally, his thinking, personality, and worldview had undergone a huge change.
If he didn't deliberately restrain himself or exit his current state, his actions would be driven by this new personality. If he deliberately restrained himself, his own personality could always take over or return to normal.
"So, the personality I'm mimicking now is…"
Recalling the urge he couldn't suppress just now, Lin Yu's face twitched slightly.
Unsurprisingly, he was probably now some kind of number one warrior who liked to pledge allegiance to a foster father.
Of course, it was only what he 'thought' it was.
After all, the personality was only fabricated and altered according to his impression in his mind.
His impression and understanding of this person, besides the title of 'the number one warrior of the Three Kingdoms,' only included various scenes of pledging allegiance to a foster father, which explained the urge he had just now.
(End of Chapter)