The heavy rain gradually subsided, and the dark clouds slowly dispersed. The rare fresh air surged between the sky and the earth that had been swept away by all the dust due to the heavy rain. It was dusk at this time, and you could see the dim sunlight disappearing at the end of the horizon and the deep blue sky. The stars looming in the middle.
The Hyborians had not seen such a pure sky for a long time.
On the muddy ground, Joshua grabbed the core puppet that had been chopped into a human stick. The puppet's huge hands relaxed a little to avoid accidentally crushing this precious material.
A soul puppet with self-awareness, in other words, a soul puppet that can be called an 'intelligent life' - Joshua had imagined this possibility at the beginning. After all, the source of the soul core is the soul of ordinary people, and soul puppets already have it. The potential to become intelligent life.
But Joshua didn't expect that there would be just that one in the hunter army. According to his estimation, this kind of existence should be the upper level of the soul puppet, responsible for giving orders and judging the situation. How could he personally fight
But this kind of thing has nothing to do with Joshua. He doesn't care about the social structure of the soul puppet. He only needs to search for the other party's information. From this point of view alone, having a soul is not a bad thing. It is even better, because there is no need to waste time. Decode it with your mind.
The silver light in his hand flickered again. Joshua used the power of steel to forcibly connect the soul of the core puppet, and began to build an information link bridge, preparing to search for information deep in the other party's heart.
At this time, the warrior has a deeper understanding of the power he holds. Through the "information link" ability of the power of steel, he has become more and more skilled in searching for souls and searching memories. Moreover, because of his gradual understanding of the particles of steel, Regarding the relationship between superpowers, Joshua already roughly understands how so-called 'authority' is used by ordinary people.
If the source of the steel particles is what Joshua imagined, and it is the fragments of the remains of the Steel Python after the world was shattered, then these fragments of the world will undoubtedly be attracted to other worlds, and the particles and the demonic tide will be swept away together. After passing through countless worlds, he was intercepted and absorbed by the souls of the creatures in them, turning an ordinary person into a superpower.
But what if this world is a low-demon world and no one has a soul? In fact, this is not a big problem, because the soul is only the best interceptor, but it is not the only one. In addition to the soul, the body of intelligent life itself, as a life derived from the power of steel, can naturally absorb steel particles. It is just a probability. relatively low.
However, the result of using the body to absorb the particles of steel will create a situation like the Siberian world, where the particles of steel are lodged in a certain physical organ. If this part of the organ is removed, the superpower will naturally disappear, but because of the steel particles Due to the existence of particles, superpowers who originally had no souls will quickly give birth to souls to control this power. The particles will slowly transfer to the souls and eventually merge into one.
Once the soul is born, everything can enter a virtuous cycle. With the birth and death of the soul, the energy concentration of the world will increase rapidly, and the increase in energy concentration can in turn speed up the birth of souls. More souls can intercept more souls. The more particles of steel, the more quickly the world absorbs other powers that destroy the world, becoming stronger and bigger.
This is a perfect virtuous cycle. Ordinary people will gain extraordinary power. In the end, the entire race will be born with souls, and the world will have more and more authority, and the energy concentration will become greater and greater... Although, everything is It is based on the destruction of other worlds, but it is indeed the case. Joshua even speculated that this is the origin of some of the world's extraordinary powers.
The essence of authority is actually the embodiment of some extraordinary ability. Ordinary people without magic power and fighting spirit can only use their own vitality and physical strength to activate it. Once they have a soul, they can use their mental power to activate it... As for the original power, People with extraordinary abilities, when they gain superpowers, only need to use magic and fighting spirit, because the essence of magic and fighting spirit is actually the aggregation of many powers, but the former is extremely primitive, while the latter has become something that can be trained. An order system that can be continuously advanced.
Joshua's power of steel is advanced by condensing vitality and fighting spirit. His power itself is the greatest super power, the most powerful condensation of authority. If the strongest super power obtained by ordinary people is E to S, then he is at least SSS, even beyond that.
After the 'Information Link Bridge' was set up, Joshua ignored the struggle of the core puppet in his hand. He forcibly broke the opponent's mental barrier and entered the depths of its soul.
Soon, he had browsed through the life of this core puppet.
"...it was just created not long ago?"
The huge puppet buzzed, and Joshua scanned the other party's memory of only thirty-one days, and he couldn't help but understand in his heart: "No wonder it behaves like an ordinary soul puppet. It turns out that it has not had time to develop a unique 'personality' and 'self'."
This core puppet was born in a large industrial site in the center of the world. It was created at the same time as other hunter-killer armies, and was born with the mission of commanding the entire army. Its soul core is specially made and has dozens of times the capacity of other soul puppets, so it can be responsible for commanding the entire army. In addition, its spiritual power is about a hundred times that of ordinary puppets, even if it has dozens of All superpowers combined would be crushed by it in terms of pure mental attacks.
Until now, this puppet is still resisting Joshua's invasion... But how can the mental power of a mere ordinary person a hundred times affect the warriors? This kind of struggle was as powerless as mosquitoes and ants. Joshua patiently calmed down the opponent's struggle, and then continued to analyze the soul.
He is looking for the source of the puppet's self-awareness, mentally scanning every detail in the opponent's information library.
So, not long after, Joshua heard a mechanized voice.
"Load 'Overlord' permissions. Load 'Disciples' data package."
Accompanied by the noisy sound of metal collision in a large industrial base, a soul puppet's calm and smooth voice sounded: "Congratulations, number Alpha-7739, you will become the core of the second hunter army. Obtain junior managerial authority.”
“Praise be to the Creator, praise the mover of time, praise be to our Lord.”
The owner of the memory, the core puppet that had just been created at that time, numbered Alpha-7739, also repeated the pious prayers in the same plain and emotionless tone.
“Praise be to the Creator, praise the mover of time, praise be to our Lord.”
This is the origin of self-awareness.
"… Belief?"
Joshua interrupted the mental connection with the core puppet. The huge head of the puppet showed no change in expression, but the black-haired boy who walked out of the cockpit on the back of the puppet had a puzzled look on his face. The two bodies controlled by Joshua looked at him at the same time. The body of the core puppet was dilapidated and no longer resisting, with doubts in its eyes.
"Soul puppet actually still has faith?"
Because of this unexpected message, Joshua did not hesitate to deepen the connection with the other party's soul - he wanted to see where and what existence was directly connected to this core puppet!
Far away, in the center of the world of Hyboria, is the information processing center numbered 0-003.
There is not even half a soul puppet walking in the huge trapezoidal steel building, because this entire fifty-five-meter-high giant steel creation is a huge aggregate of puppet consciousness condensed from more than 7,000 soul cores.
Information Center No. 0-003 is responsible for the dispatch, transfer, personnel integration and project planning of all puppet gardens in the southwest of the world. It is directly under the Supreme Center and is the third level of the entire soul puppet sequence. It has the ability to directly mobilize fifteen large-scale puppets without reporting. The industrial base has jurisdiction over more than fifty agricultural and mining sites, and more than three hundred insect-shaped micro-machines are responsible for its daily maintenance and dust cleaning.
The information hub is virtually indestructible. With energy, even without maintenance, with its solid basic structure, the 0-003 information center can continue to operate for more than seven hundred years, until the necessary parts age and are damaged. However, now, a strange low roar suddenly came from the core of the information center that was supposed to never malfunction, and along with this roar, a weak vibration began to shake the structure of the entire information center, and then became more and more violent.
Click, click, bang! Inside the center, some precision instruments were damaged due to violent vibrations, parts exploded, and the micromachines that were performing maintenance work inside all stopped running. Their surfaces flashed with blue electric light, as if inside their bodies. The energy system is out of control like that.
Outside the information center, countless busy soul puppets stopped because the fluctuations in the instructions suddenly disappeared... But an instant later, crazy alarms sounded in their receivers!
"High-risk information pollution! High-risk soul pollution! Foreign souls are invading the information center! The pollution level is rising rapidly and is about to break through the firewall. It is recommended that the information center numbered 0-003 self-destruct. It is recommended that the information center numbered 0-003 self-destruct— Countdown to self-destruction, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—"
At the moment when the extremely urgent alarm started, the observation devices of all the surrounding soul puppets suddenly went dark, and then were activated again under some kind of power... But even if they were activated again, they still could not see the external environment, they could only see black. And in this pitch-black screen, a pair of pupils shining with silver light are gradually emerging from nothingness, as if to replace the eyes of these puppets.
But just when the silver eyes were about to be fully revealed, the information center No. 0-003 also completed its self-destruction. Only a low buzzing sound was heard. The reactor located directly below the information center was completely overloaded, and a burst of extremely bright light was heard. Electric sparks flashed across the inside and outside of the entire building, burning all the equipment along the way. At the core of the information center, energy lightning flashed everywhere, and energy flows twisted and twitched randomly in the atmosphere. In the core processor, seven Thousands of soul cores all collapsed and destroyed themselves in the surging energy turbulence, and the internal temperature of the building instantly exceeded 300 degrees, becoming like a furnace.
All storage equipment and servers were physically destroyed. Fragile precision equipment was instantly scrapped after being subjected to lightning overload and high temperatures of 300 degrees without any damage. There was no longer any opportunity to exploit it. At the same time, other information centers They all also received this news, and they all temporarily blocked access to external information and began to strengthen their firewalls.
On the other side of the world, Joshua, who had just had some clues but then completely lost contact with the other side, frowned in displeasure.
"What kind of mental barrier firewall is this? Why is it so powerful?" He said with a hint of confusion in his tone: "Is it possible that the technology of the soul puppet is really such that even I can't break through it?"
"No matter how I connect, the screen is black... It seems that the soul puppet's technology is indeed stronger than I thought."
At this time, Chariot and others had slowly crossed the swamp area where a lot of electric charges were still accumulated, and came to a position behind Joshua. They looked very nervous, but they still slowly approached, but just When the three of them were preparing to walk through a complex swamp terrain, the giant puppet and the black boy turned their heads together. They responded with electronic sounds: "Chariot, is there any news about the puppet's 'belief' in the resistance army?" ?”
"What is faith...?"
Looking at the blank faces of Chariot and others, Joshua felt that asking them would probably have no results, but there was no point in continuing to search for the soul of the core puppet - the link between the other party and the distant place seemed to be broken, and Joshua could not continue to pass through. The information track detects messages, and even if the connection is maintained, it is useless. The firewall is too strong, and he will not be able to break in for a while.
"The Believer Packet, and that prayer..."
Ignoring the frightened chariot behind him, Joshua whispered to himself: "If I guess correctly, the special soul core structure innately combined with some restricted authority can create a person with partial self-will. The soul puppet, and when the puppet has a soul, it will be loaded with a data package called 'believer' to cultivate belief in a certain existence."
"Creator, mover of time, master, if you hear this title, do you mean..."
The warrior pondered for a few seconds, frowned, and whispered: "Behind these soul puppets, is there a god who created the 'puppet'?"
but why? Even Joshua, who is not very interested in becoming a god, knows that if you want to provide faith for a god and allow it to receive spiritual assistance that can resist divinity, the believer must have a firm will and a complete soul. , the firmer the will and belief, the more pure the help provided, and the more complete and powerful the soul, the greater the amount.
The belief of soul puppets is the data package implanted in the underlying program. This firmness is undoubtedly better than that of most people, but their souls... To be honest, Joshua feels that it cannot be called complete at all, it can only be said to be barely there. That's all, no matter how pure this amount is, it won't be able to provide much help.
And, if faith is really needed, why not design some 'faith gardens'? Just like the 'Plantation Garden', 'Industrial Garden' and 'Mining Garden' specialize in harvesting food, industrial products and raw materials, the 'Faith Garden' specializes in brainwashing ordinary Siberians and superpowers, allowing this group of brainwashed people to be confused. Offerings, which then serve as faith batteries to provide large amounts of faith. No matter how you think about it, this design is better than spending dozens of souls to create a defective self-aware puppet and let them provide faith.
"No, maybe there is such a garden, but I just didn't see it."
After temporarily suppressing this unreasonable doubt, Joshua felt that there was no point in continuing to think in this regard. At present, it seems that the situation in the world of Siberia is getting more and more interesting and complicated. The soldier couldn't help but snorted when he thought of this, and he didn't know whether it was interesting or unpleasant.
The Siberian people and the soul puppets, the superpowers and the rebels, the destruction of the civilization of the previous generation, the origin and end of the war, the puppets with self-awareness and belief, the spiral tower in the center of the world, whether it exists or not, the gods hidden behind the scenes... And most importantly, Steel Python was expelled from the world.
There are really more and more secrets in the world of Siberia hidden in the center of the great whirlpool of the void. Joshua can't help but have a hunch. He feels that all these are connected. The expulsion of Siberia, the python of steel, is definitely not without reason. It was an unprovoked accident, but a planned man-made action. The existence that accomplished this initiative was probably the person who created the current situation in the world of Hyboria.
—It’s really interesting. Whether it’s a person or a puppet, an individual or a civilization, the world in which this commission is set exceeds my imagination time and time again.
And just behind Joshua, the trio of chariots were carefully observing the entire battlefield.
As bystanders of this battle, they did not receive any attacks. At most, they were a little frightened. Neither the earthquake swamp nor the heavy rain and thunder affected their location. It is not known whether Joshua did it deliberately. . At this time, the chariot looked around the front, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
Everywhere you look are the remains of puppets.
Buried in the earth, the puppet was shattered by the shock, dumped in the water, scorched by thunder, stuck in the swamp, unable to move, the soul core was blown out, there was no remains at all, the puppet was blasted into powder by the huge iron fist ...Within a radius of several thousand meters, the ground was in a mess and was ravaged into a mess. Dirty engine oil mixed with muddy water surged in the gaps in the soil, and an unpleasant iron smell could be smelled.
In just ten minutes, an entire army of ten thousand hunters was wiped out, leaving only half of the puppets in the opponent's hands that were probably broken... And the chariot knew that this was not the limit, because when the torrential rain fell, When the thunder roared, he saw strong winds surging in the surrounding atmosphere, and more than a dozen prototypes of tornadoes emerged in the gloomy sky. But for some reason, Joshua did not continue to create tornadoes, but used his next ability. .
Speaking of abilities. Chariot couldn't help but raise his head and look behind the huge puppet. On the constantly rotating steel ring, six gems were shining brightly. The six colors of silver, green, white, gold, red and black are operating regularly, and extremely powerful energy surges in the air, creating energy particles of various colors that float away.
If a gem means a super power as powerful as before, then these six gems are priceless treasures, and they also mean the power to completely destroy the hunter army and the resistance army - The giant puppet and boy in front of me are dangerous enough to kill the entire resistance army on their own!
Moreover, the other party seemed to be very dissatisfied with their killing of labor puppets.
But what can be done... The old man, who has already entered old age and has basically experienced the entire history of the rise and fall of the resistance army, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Unlike those ordinary young superpowers who know nothing, Chariot certainly knows that those labor puppets working on the periphery of the place are the parents of their superpowers!
This matter was almost clear when the first baby in the resistance was born - when everyone saw the woman with a swollen abdomen and who was originally suspected of having a malignant disease giving birth to the baby in pain, everyone in the resistance Smart people will almost understand how life came into this world... And when they discovered that the labor puppets in the plantation also gave birth to babies, the middle and high-level leaders of the resistance almost knew the origins of themselves and others.
At the beginning, the original resistance army wanted to save some labor puppets from the garden, but these ordinary people had long been brainwashed into human puppets without intelligence and self-will. Saving them was not just killing them. , and also a resource reserve that oppresses all other superpowers. After realizing his own powerlessness, in order to prevent other superpowers from overestimating their ability to rescue the labor puppets after knowing the truth, and thus triggering turmoil within the resistance, the leader deliberately made a clear distinction between superpowers and ordinary people. Limit, only rescue those children with super powers.
As for the subsequent massacre, it was just to complete the goal. After so many years, most superpowers no longer regard ordinary Siberian people as human beings. They really believe that they and workers are not the same species, and they feel comfortable killing them - some even find that such slaughter can relieve stress. Actually fell in love with this behavior.
It's so... sad.
"Why, Chariot, you look very bad."
Suddenly hearing the voice of a strange young man, the old man was startled, but after all, he was also a veteran member of the resistance, so he calmly turned his head and said with a hint of awe: "The Puppet Master... I’m a little uncomfortable.”
At some point, Joshua's humanoid puppet had come to the side of the Chariot trio, ignoring Blast who was so nervous that he didn't dare to say anything, and talking about it to the left and right, seemingly looking at the scenery, only the Chariot. He also had enough psychological quality to dare to talk to this young man who killed an entire army of hunters with one person.
"Before, when the unlocker repeated my question, I noticed that you were the only one who didn't show disapproval."
The soldier said calmly. He did not pay attention to the slightly changed expression of the old man beside him, but continued: "You answered my question very calmly. It is simply incredible that you can live to old age in such an apocalyptic situation... You He should be a veteran of the resistance, so I want to ask."
"What do you think of this world?"
Joshua asked, his words sincere and curious.
"How about it?"
At first, Chariot was a little surprised why the other party asked this question. He originally wanted to answer casually, but when he was about to speak, the old man's throat suddenly rolled and no sound was made... Chariot took a deep breath. He took a breath, but it was still difficult to suppress the intense emotions that suddenly surged from his heart.
Sadness, pain, despair, exhaustion, just thinking about his life for decades, Chariot wanted to roar, lament, and cry - but in the end, none of this happened, this strong old man just bit Ya, forced himself to calm down, and then replied softly in a flat voice without any fluctuation: "Not very good."
-Of course.
—How can it be good
—How can there be any good in this kind of bullshit life? !
—Is there even the slightest bit of this damn world I can get used to? !
Chariot wouldn't be able to say this kind of general venting statement. The old man's tone was calm. Even though his heart was filled with ups and downs and huge waves, he did not show any excessive emotion: "It's really too hard."
—More than just hard work, it’s simply hell. Traveling back and forth in the hot world, leading a group of newcomers who don’t know anything to fight dangerous enemies, plundering food, raiding gardens, killing their own kind, and watching themselves getting worse and worse. The older I get, the stronger my enemies become... I really want to die to avoid suffering.
However, the old man feels that it is enough for him to bear the negative emotions alone. He does not need to vent them, contaminate other people, and bring psychological shadow to the younger generation... If you don't know, you don't know. Ignorance can be considered happiness. This is enough. Just killing people, no big deal.
Chariot closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Absolutely cannot stop. We cannot stop plundering and rescue operations, and the resistance cannot have conflicts. Even if they kill their parents and compatriots, even if they give up a lot of things, the resistance must continue to move forward... Because if the current world is desperate, then , then staying where you are and doing nothing is eternal despair.
We can't stop, we absolutely can't, we must continue to resist, destroy the soul puppet's garden, and enhance our own strength... When we are strong enough, we can attack the center of the world. We must keep moving forward, because there is hope only in the front, as long as we hesitate If you decide, you will sink into the abyss.
This is the sorrow and determination of the weak.
Chariot opened his eyes and said nothing. He exhaled and his expression became firm again.
He thought the topic was over, but when the old man raised his head, he saw a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.
"Really, you really know."
Joshua looked at this extremely strong old man, whose heart was as if it were made of real steel. He did not sigh or appreciate it, but just said in the same tone, "It is indeed a bad world."
"Take it."
Accompanied by the clang of something falling off, under the shocked gaze of Chariot, the six-colored gems behind the huge puppet fell off from the rotating steel disk with a casual finger of the black-haired boy, six fist-sized gems. The gems gradually shrank in mid-air, and finally condensed into six thumb-sized translucent crystals. In the centers of these six crystals, six colors of steel were flickering.
Subconsciously taking over the six crystals, the moment Chariot came into contact with them, he felt countless complex information emerge in his mind, and this information was rapidly being simplified layer by layer, and finally turned into something that even he could Clearly understood illustrations and explanations... He didn't have time to take a closer look. He could only know that this was probably a way to exercise his spirit and strengthen his superpowers. After realizing this, the old man raised his head in shock, but he did not see the black hair. The figure of the young man.
The chariot hurriedly turned his head to look at the giant puppet. He happened to see the giant steel puppet, already fifteen meters high, slowly rising into the air under the rotation of the steel wheel, and then straight into the sky.
Joshua has left.
Joshua said nothing and didn't need to say anything.
Since the Siberia Resistance Army knows what it is doing and what it has chosen, since the Siberia Resistance Army has the determination to give up and move forward, since the Siberia Resistance Army just wants a hope.
Then he gives them the seeds of the future and hope.
It was originally a superpower unit formed by the condensed flesh and blood of countless superpowers. It belonged to their compatriots and could only be returned to the original owner. The superpower training methods that were added later were just deduced casually, so it was no big deal.
That's enough.
Enough to change this bad world.
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