The familiar face, the slightly familiar voice, and the completely unfamiliar physique were the first impressions Timurette gave me again.
"The letter was given directly to you? Didn't it leak that I was here?"
"Of course, I came directly after I got the letter. Is there really a relic of Ham... sage civilization?"
"Of course, how else would I come to you. The maid with me should be a pure artificial soul, didn't you find it?"
"Really or not, my current research direction is not this. I heard that the research on pure artificial souls has not been smooth, and now there are results?"
"Not smooth?"
To be able to get to this point, if Timmy has no secrets, it will be strange, and the strangeness in his soul can not be concealed, but there is no need to struggle to the end, especially after reaching a contract with the God of Wisdom, our cooperation has reached a new level.
And when something is spread on the table, the identity of little Timoret is not a big deal, but after knowing his identity, I was surprised that he didn't know about artificial soul research.
As far as I know, in the Spiral Tower, the largest relic of the sage civilization, there is a tombstone inscribed with the three "crimes" of this race. , the creation of life."
But now little Timoret tells me that their research on artificial souls is not going well, which undoubtedly arouses my curiosity.
"Well, it hasn't been smooth all the time. In fact, it is still impossible to get around the essence of the soul. No one except the creator can create the essence of the soul out of thin air. Pure calculation and accumulation cannot reach the level of the soul. If you want to create an artificial soul, you need to activate it. He, let it become an active soul, with all kinds of emotions and possibilities of evolution, can only integrate more natural souls, which obviously has entered the evil way."
"... Isn't that the same as the Necromancer?"
Using the soul as a material to construct new soul creations, playing with the structure of the soul and the body, was not the patent of the necromancer in the past.
"Yeah, the innovative technology that has worked so hard is actually left over by others, which is simply a mockery of the technicians of the sage civilization, but as far as I know, at least before the end of civilization, there should be no such technology. What a great leap forward."
I nodded. I can barely be considered an expert in the study of souls. I can also make some guesses about the technology of sage civilization to build artificial souls. It can be seen from Timmy's words that their artificial souls are made of artificial souls. Pure computing power forms logical ability, but like a computer in another world, no matter how much calculation accumulates, if it does not form a qualitative change, it still cannot be called a complete "human".
"In this way, it is somewhat similar to Taring, able to make logical inferences, but without self and emotion."
"Anything similar is a set of techniques. You thought those mages wouldn't rob tombs."
"puff."
I burst out laughing, and the images of wise men wearing golden monocles and robes were suddenly replaced by honest and strong men with shovels and Luoyang shovels.
In fact, many ancient technologies and magics came out this way. It’s true that magicians are good at bad luck. A lucky little thief, mountain villager, and farmer found the ruins by chance, and after the news spread, those magicians ran more than What fast, in other words, this time it is not far from the kingdom of mages, and there will be no mages organizations participating.
"Just like that, shouldn't it touch taboos?"
In my impression, the civilization of the sages was destroyed by divine punishment, and because of the existence of the regular cleaning system of jihad, the gods are still very uncomfortable to mortals, and ordinary death is not directly punished by divine punishment.
"Simple technology is fine, but they have developed artificial body and soul preservation technology. You know the Babel Tower, um, it's the Babel in the Cape, that is actually the Soul Preservation Center, among which countless In the cubicle, the brains and souls of the wise are kept, and they can still study in it, just waiting for the regeneration sequence."
Regeneration sequence? I seem to have heard an interesting word. With Timilet's explanation, I finally know what the big engineers did back then.
Different from the mainstream archaeological discourse of the masters on this civilization, since they are called sages, those great engineers are not fools without foresight, nor can they do stupid acts like immortality of the whole people. After all, people with a little foresight know the carrying range of the world. is limited.
But they still go too far. They evaluate the value of "people". Those who reach a certain threshold can get immediate immortality. Others wait in line for regeneration in the Tower of Babel, and determine the interval and lifespan of resurrection according to the value. , according to the needs of the society to increase the population and decrease the population, and in this way, the speed of expansion has indeed reached the same level as the population, but there is one thing they have not figured out clearly.
"So, doesn't it mean that all souls are imprisoned in the Tower of Babel? There are only newborn babies who come out of reincarnation, but there are no deceased people who return to reincarnation. The total number of souls occupied by the sage civilization will continue to increase, and it will definitely be As a result, the balance will be destroyed, and it is impossible for the chaos side to allow a unified civilization to appear. The reduction of the dead will directly lead to the reduction of Styx’s resources, which will directly threaten the circulation of the lower planes, and the gods on the order side…”
"How can seekers of truth worship the gods, and how the restricted world view can explore the truth of the world, so mages and engineers just show respect for gods. Similarly, sages do not believe in gods, and even some people have begun to study gods. There are those who catch the gods, and there are gods who think that they lack faith and have fallen, and there are several who have seized the throne, and there are not a few gods who fell because of this.
Needless to say the rest of the words, people will die if they die, and if they die to this point, they offend the two camps at the same time, and they directly understand the foundation of the holy war and determine their destined fate.
"It seemed that the Seven Great Tongtian Pagodas were all destroyed back then. All those who thought they had obtained immortal souls all re-entered the reincarnation at the same moment, and all the records were gone. Even if they were able to survive under the punishment of God, it was a deadly plague against the race. It took everyone's life, and the civilization of the sages has come to an end."
There was some sigh in Timurett's words, but there was not much sadness from personal experience. For him, he just inherited the knowledge and memory of the sage, not his own experience, but more just lamented those mysteries. and loss of knowledge.
There is no need to mention the past, but if it is related to the future, it is necessary to ask more questions. Since Katarina came from that ruin, there must be something wrong there.
"That is to say, the artificial soul of the year was only a technology similar to Taling, and it took a lot of natural souls to make the artificial soul obtain itself?"
"Yes, but it's hard to tell clearly. After so many years, maybe the technology has become more perfect. By the way, we also had a tower spirit in those days. He is the highest masterpiece of artificial soul, and his computing power is extremely amazing, and he can independently manage the countless living compartments in the tower."
"Does he have an ego?"
"No, that is strictly forbidden. First of all, to create an artificial soul with self and feelings, it is necessary to destroy other natural souls. The stronger the artificial soul, the more natural souls it needs, which is equivalent to a large scale. , and once the seven star sages... that is, the title of the seven super towers of the towers of the sky gained their own self, who rules who really doesn't know."
Hearing this, I laughed dumbly. I was worried that the artificial intelligence I created would kill me. Sure enough, it is not only the human family on earth, but human nature is really universal.
"Ha, this plot is really familiar. The next scene will not be the terminator of the Skynet war."
[Beep! The Crow's Mouth title is activated.]
The system is always making such boring jokes, and I'm a little tired of it. Looking back now, those crow's mouths and so on were all tricked by the system.
[No kidding, the Sage Civilization back then had more than seven towers, the eighth… the largest tower, was not far from you.]
"What?"
[How do you think Katarina got here?]
"My X, couldn't you have said such a big thing sooner?"
[You didn't ask, cough, it should be said that you did not meet the conditions to trigger the task... How many messes do you think there are in my memory bank.]
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In the deepest part of the mountains and canyons, the ruins marked Z-8 have already begun to operate.
"Civilization Reconstruction Plan" is his name. For the sake of confidentiality, no one who has nothing to do with the plan knows nothing about this tower.
There is no shortage of wise men in the sage civilization. People of insight have already seen the fate of destruction, so how could they not be prepared? This tower of Babel will only be activated automatically two thousand years after the death of all the other seven tower spirits.
For some reason, the first awakening of Babel Tower Z8 did not go smoothly, and was quickly put into a deep sleep again. More than ten years ago, a reckless adventurer entered the ruins and took away an important component. , so that the entire Babel Tower will start running again.
The Babel even extends underground, which should have been filled with the souls and brain tanks of great engineers, elite workers, and soldiers, but more than half of the compartments are empty.
And in the deepest part of the ground, at the spire of the Babel Tower, in front of Z8's Soul Throne, several black-robed mages are moaning in pain, their skulls have been opened, and their bare brains are exposed to the stimulation of electric current. the secret.
But the master here has ignored them, and its eyes have been turned to the void, where there is a distinguished guest, waiting for its invitation.
"Your Majesty, perhaps, we already have a common goal."
After a long time, there was a response from the other side of the void.
"At least, we already have a common enemy, the false and hypocritical gods!"