"Master Nostradamus, please advise the Earl..."
Starfall 839, May 5th, evening, Wanjie Sacrificial Site, Yanhai Underground Cavity Practice Center.
In the hall of the research institute, a white-robed researcher asked the person beside him in an almost prayerful tone: "This is a joint research institute after all, so be careful as much as possible. He is a legendary strong man and is not afraid of experimental failure, but we No, if one person fails, the entire cavity will be implicated... "
The researcher's tone was sincere, even a little tearful, and behind him, many researchers nodded in unison with lingering fears.
"Yes, yes, that's right!"
"Although I know that every powerful warrior is a master of controlling life force, I didn't expect..."
"It's too dangerous, really, it's obviously unnecessary..."
Scattered words spread among the crowd, and listening to these words, an old mage who seemed to have just been sent here and didn't quite understand the situation had a helpless expression on his face. He sighed and said softly: "Okay. I understand, you should be quiet a little bit." Then, he turned his head and asked the white-robed researcher doubtfully: "What is Joshua doing again? And even if you are afraid of something going wrong, you can just give your opinions directly, he is still Very easy to talk to.”
After the white-robed researcher and the others behind him looked at each other, they turned their heads and replied quite confidently: "We don't dare!"
Then, his tone quickly softened: "Master, Lord Earl, his experiment is too dangerous and immoral... Please let him stop the experiment. If it doesn't work, let His Majesty the Emperor come and persuade him... This is really a bit beyond the pale." Our area of thinking… ”
—So you people dare to give me opinions
Nostradamus, who was called over by emergency communication, frowned slightly, feeling that he seemed to be regarded as a typical example of a good talker - but unfortunately, he was really good at talk. So after listening to the complaints of the researchers, the old mage just shook his head and replied helplessly: "Israel? It's strange that he can persuade them. Two guys who keep dragons as pets and are not human at home, they The danger in my eyes is completely different from that of you people."
"As for now... Okay, I'll ask about the situation, but you guys, please come up with a plan for 'alternative ecological environment transformation' as soon as possible. We will cooperate with the elves and Guantian White Tower to let the natural teacher personally create this perfect The natural realm is not for you to waste resources.”
After finishing speaking, the old mage stepped towards the practice room located in the center of the research institute amid the cheers of a group of researchers. As he walked, he whispered to himself: "These mage are just too young and inexperienced. There is so much fuss over everything, I really should add more life experience... "
Soon, he entered the area that all the researchers in the Cavity Research Institute were afraid to approach. He opened the door of the fourth practice room, and the thick air began to exchange.
"Joshua, why did you suddenly change your temper and start experimenting-"
Nostradamus was about to speak and ask what his friends were up to. How could they frighten the researchers who were chatting and laughing with the undead and dissecting World of Warcraft alive? But just as he walked into the practice room, he saw clearly When the things were placed layer by layer around him, the old mage couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
"The truth is above all, what the hell is this?!"
What appeared in front of the old mage were densely packed and quietly stacked 'bodies'.
human body.
The silver square practice room is actually located in a small artificial demiplane, connected to reality through a magic door. When necessary, the magic connection can be cut off directly to prevent the results of failed experiments from contacting the outside world. Because of this, the area of the practice room is actually very large, as large as a medium-sized city square.
But now, in such a huge area, there are many translucent spindle life-sustaining crystal cabins densely placed, and inside them are 'bodies'.
The reason why it is not said to be corpses is because these bodies are still alive. Nostradamus sensed that these bodies can still breathe and are still undergoing metabolic cycles in their bodies. Groups of silver light groups are flying in the air. Many silver fairies are happily replenishing each life-sustaining crystal cabin with necessary nutrients to maintain its activity.
If it were just the body, it would not be enough to shock Nostradamus. He was also a legendary strongman who had experienced the orc battlefield. He had seen the mountains of corpses in Jingguan, let alone one who was still alive
What really made him speak out were the various weird and strange humanoid creatures mixed among these similar human bodies.
Among them, there are prosthetic people whose bodies have been replaced by part of the puppet structure, and whose biological parts coexist with machinery.
Among them, there are synthetic humans whose bodies have been completely replaced by mechanical puppet structures, with only the brain, brainstem and spine existing - and even these are partially assimilated.
In addition, there are lycanthropes that have part of their body assimilated with monsters, almost beastly lycanthropes, whose internal organs have been replaced with artificial extraordinary organs, and basically only the shell is the original product - even the brain has been replaced. A pure mechanical existence that becomes a magical mechanical structure.
Countless various and peculiar human models are placed in the crystal cabin. They close their eyes and emit a series of bubbles from time to time, as if they are breathing. There is no doubt that all of these bodies are alive and none of them are dead.
And in the center surrounded by these human bodies, in the middle of the entire fourth practice room, a man who was sitting on a chair and seemed to be thinking about something noticed the arrival of his friend. He stood up slowly, turned his head, and said with some surprise. : "Nostradamus? Why are you here?"
"The researchers who were called over - those researchers were so frightened by you that they almost cried."
The old mage passed through the crystal cabins and came to Joshua. He looked around the entire practice room with a serious expression: "I was still wondering why, but now I can explain... What are you planning to do? Human experimentation ?You don’t need to do this kind of thing a long time ago, right?"
"Of course not, where are you thinking... I am thinking of a suitable new body template for the guardians."
Joshua waved his hand and looked a little embarrassed: "I accidentally made too many, so I had to save them all first and wait for William and the others to come over to see which one is more suitable."
"Is it for the guardians? Indeed, that explains it."
Nostradamus immediately realized that the person in front of him was indeed the guy responsible for making the new bodies of the guardians of the large information database. He had the power of creation, let alone a mere human body, even if it was to build a small planet, it would probably be enough. A matter of time. It's just that the way this body is placed is too eye-catching, it's almost like a pile of corpse specimens soaked in preservatives.
And, the most important thing is not this.
"Joshua, you are just creating new bodies for the guardians. There is no need to do such... unnecessary experiments, right?"
Nostradamus slowly approached a crystal cabin pillar. He stared at the artificial body of the star that had been transformed by World of Warcraft organ transplantation and mechanical construction. He suppressed the slight dissatisfaction rising in his heart and said in a solemn tone: "Humans... are not like this. Those guardians have transformed themselves into non-human beings. We must turn them back into humans instead of turning them into another kind of non-human beings."
Perhaps it is for this reason that those researchers who are not afraid of anything are so afraid of this practice room. They are not afraid of these simply living bodies without self-will, but they are afraid of these individual bodies. The meaning behind the body.
When Joshua heard this, the expression on his face gradually calmed down and became serious. He frowned and said in confusion: "Is there any?"
It's just prosthetic body modification, consciousness uploading, a little bit of genetic modification and cloning projects, and at most some World of Warcraft or artificial biological organ transplantation - isn't this a normal thing
"This is not normal at all."
Seemingly noticing the confusion behind Joshua's expression, Nostradamus shook his head cautiously. He walked up to the warrior, glanced at the surrounding crystal cabin, and pointed at a metal skeleton with a series of spines. Instead, the body whose eyes were replaced with mechanical prosthetic eyes said seriously: "This kind of transformation should not be decided by you for them, but should be allowed to be decided by themselves. Even if it is not easy to use and very fragile, we should do our best. Possibly provide them with the first human bodies."
"Actually, it's not just for the guards."
In this regard, Joshua scratched his head and couldn't help feeling a little helpless - because the old mage was too righteous in his words, he didn't know whether to reveal the subsequent plan.
—After he finished making the bodies provided for the guardians, on a whim, he planned to deduce the life sublimation process of everyone in Mycroft's world... a sublimation process that could be universalized and allow everyone to obtain a certain amount of extraordinary power.
He had a sudden idea and wanted to try to create a 'Primarch' with perfect extraordinary power talent.
The result of this recommendation was a total of one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine bodies with completely different physical structures, but they all maintained roughly the human form.
Whether it is prosthetic body modification, consciousness uploading, cloning, genetic modification or organ transplantation, for Joshua, it can only be regarded as daily life, similar to the neighbor's child getting a pair of glasses. After all, in his original world, Whose child has not undergone several genetic modifications since childhood? Prosthetic implants and mechanical bodies are just a part of life for soldiers. Everyone has the right to freely assemble body components and organ functions.
But is this too advanced ethical concept a bit too much for them? Shouldn't it take a few more years to change the public impression bit by bit
Not really—Joshua didn’t think so.
Whether it is Nostradamus or other Mycroft researchers, they just haven't turned a corner. The transformation they feel uncomfortable with now actually started thousands of years ago and is subtly changing the entire world. Race.
What is the difference between a so-called prosthetic person and an alchemist who uses magical constructs to replace his own body? Even Barnier, doesn’t he have a magic prop prosthetic eye? And animalization, genetic modification, and even cloning, to put it bluntly, aren't they transplanting the internal organs of monsters, modifying one's own life form, and copying one's own body as a backup alchemist and magician? If nothing else, Joshua knew that there was an alchemist in his exploration team who followed this path.
The synthetic human and will upload that made Nostradamus express his obvious disgust, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than the lich's phylactery, the soul's lich transformation - in fact, his own soul's ultimate intention can achieve something similar to this The only thing is that the carriers are different, one uses magic power, the other uses machinery, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each other, that's all.
The extraordinary beings in Mycroft's world have already done these seemingly strange things, but in essence they are exactly the same... because in the end, what everyone wants to achieve is the same thing, and that is the evolution of human beings themselves.
The speed of natural evolution, even with magical acceleration, takes tens of thousands of years. As far as humans are concerned, their physique and extraordinary strength talents have not changed for tens of thousands of years - if they want big changes, at least It will take hundreds of thousands of years, until Mrs. McLord's entire race has entered the void. Only then will humans naturally evolve the ability to better adapt to the void, and have more powerful extraordinary talents.
But at that time, the ashes of human civilization were probably covered with tropical rain forests, let alone evolution... The speed of natural change is too slow. As long as civilization still exists, humans will never stop transforming themselves. They will use various means to accelerate their evolution and strengthen the process, whether it is vaccines, antibodies, implants of existences similar to the black mist like the Sanctuary Civilization, or transforming themselves into half-magic and half-mechanical life forms, it is the same. matter.
Even the three extraordinary power cultivation systems of magic, fighting spirit and holy light can almost be seen as the path and process of human beings gradually transforming themselves and gradually sublimating themselves.
The reason why Joshua wanted to design the 'Primary Body' was to try to see if he could use his rich experience to directly create a transformation route that could be popularized to most human beings without any consequences. He wanted to artificially It accelerates this process and improves the starting foundation of human beings, so that all human beings have a certain amount of extraordinary power from the moment they are born, and become the 'Silver Race' with silver-level strength as soon as they reach adulthood.
He wanted to achieve something that should happen gradually over hundreds of years in one step - but now it seems that the step is too big, and it may only make people scared.
"It seems that these transformations can only be renamed and put into the enhanced exchange list... Let's wait a few years to think about the perfect original body of mankind."
The warrior thought this, but he was not particularly anxious. He knew that as time went by and the tide of magic and chaos gradually came, these meaningless fears would dissipate like smoke and dust. By that time, human beings must sublimate as soon as possible. , become stronger, and no longer have any extra time and energy to think about unnecessary problems.
"Although it's a bit excessive, it's still wrong."
At the same time, after taking a brief look at the fourth laboratory, Nostradamus couldn't help but asked strangely: "Joshua, if we are just exploring human body modification, we shouldn't make those researchers so scared - they After all, they are all gold-level mages, so there is no reason to be so timid... What are you still doing? Their expressions seem to think that you will blow up the entire cavity."
"Probably because I caught and dissected a small giant void beast."
Joshua said lightly, and he motioned for the horrified old mage to raise his head and look at the experimental table behind him.
There, on the steel plate shrouded in the hazy mist of steel power, there was a piece of dark gray biological tissue that was constantly squirming, twitching, and constantly generating various joints, mouthparts, and translucent cysts of flesh and blood. , although it was cut open, it was still alive. The power of countless steels turned into probes and liquids, going deep into this indescribable tissue to analyze its structure. And above the many tumors and exposed ganglia, there are densely packed golden eyeballs that are squirming crazily - but these seemingly terrifying visual organs reveal an extremely frightened look.
'help me! 'Nostradamus seemed to hear such a voice.
"Some time ago, I went back to the Siberia world to take a look at the situation, and found that there were many small void beasts appearing in the void there, so I caught one back - of course, it was only a part of flesh and blood, and its body was still with my body. Suppression, pretty good."
Joshua stepped forward and patted the giant void beast that was squirming crazily and seemed to want to split and spread, spreading its body and assimilating the flesh and blood of the experimental platform. The warrior looked at the opponent as if he was in shock and stopped. After taking all the actions, he continued: "To be honest, I originally just wanted to see if the flesh and blood of the Void Beast could be transformed into some useful biological weapons, but as a result, I discovered a lot of interesting information. "
"what's the message?"
After swallowing his saliva, Nostradamus stared blankly at the flesh and blood of the giant beast with gray eyes, which seemed to have completely given up thinking. He subconsciously asked: "Is it possible that it is still related to the evil god?"
And Joshua nodded happily: "That's right."
"It has something to do with the evil god."
The new volume is still refining the outline, so updates are slow.
(End of chapter)