MTL - Overturned Tower-Chapter 39 Mechanical Angel (Thanks to the lord of Huangshan Xiaoyuci for feeding)

Russell was deeply shocked by the almost cruel beauty of the deer head.

The body suspended in the air is reminiscent of a suffering saint.

And if you think about it this way, those messy pipes and cables are like dense metal thorns, or like a sea of ​​fire that has condensed into steel.

After most of the body is missing, the gender and age characteristics of the deer head portrait become blurred.

"He" looks like a beautiful girl, but he has huge antlers that only a stag has. The quiet and heavy temperament on his body is full of the reliability of an elder, but "his" face is immature like a child.

Even from this point of view, the antlers, which shone like silver and were wrapped in tinfoil, could not be judged as the spiritual relatives of the deer head. Because it is entirely possible that the characteristics of the deer head's spiritual relatives are also destroyed, and the antlers are completely mechanical external extensions instead of ordinary antlers coated with a layer of metal... This is all possible.

Like a Venus with a broken arm, it is beautiful because of its incompleteness.

And at this moment, the head portrait of the deer is not so breathtakingly beautiful...it's better to say that it has some kind of divinity.

"'Hi, Russell.'"

The overlapping voice sounded again.

The mouth of the deer head did not move, and the eyes remained closed. Because there is no chest that can rise and fall with breathing, it is not even possible to be sure that "he" is really alive.

Several old-fashioned synthetic sound devices sounded simultaneously in the corner of the space: "'You can call me 'mentor', 'sage', 'leader'...Of course, I prefer people to call me 'Deer Head' directly.' "

"...Hello, Head Deer."

Russell put away his intimidated mood and responded seriously.

And at the moment when they form a dialogue.

A soft, whisper-like voice sounded in Russell's heart:

【I will always watch you】

[If you need my help, just call my name... I will open the 'door' for you]

Is this... telepathy?

Russell was a little confused for a moment, what is the spiritual power possessed by the deer head statue.

But he quickly realized the nature of this ability: "This is... Cyberghost?"

This is not using psychic energy to talk to himself, but quietly hacking his own chip, causing him to have such auditory hallucinations.

It's like the sound that sounds directly in the brain when playing videos, movies, and games in the chip.

The deer head is like a cyber ghost... Said such words to himself in Russell's chip.

The so-called cyber ghost means that when psionic hackers and cyber detectives dive into the network matrix, if the main body dies suddenly or the network is disconnected, and they do not wake up in time, they will always wander in the matrix world and become homeless.

Ordinary psychic detectives only dare to use the script on the disc to attack other people's prosthetic bodies, but usually dare not directly attack the opponent's chips.

The chip itself is a one-way firewall. It is easy for consciousness to enter, but difficult to exit. If you are not the top psychic detective, you will basically become a vegetable if you dare to enter the body.

However, Cyberghost doesn't have such a taboo-it's a big deal to change the body to live.

Better than wandering the Matrix.

【almost】

The soft whispering voice continued.

[My consciousness has long been divided into countless parts, each of which resonates with each other. Based on different uses, there are different restrictions]

[For example, when we were talking, the 'impression' you formed of me was a shadow]

[As long as you still remember my appearance and my voice, then when you call me and talk to me, the 'I' here can hear you]

Hearing this, Russell suddenly realized something.

"Could it be that the strange virus in the Tower of Babel..."

【Yes, that's me too】

The head of the deer replied without concealment.

No wonder it has an irresistible, yet invisible, and intangible medium... So far, Russell still doesn't know through which medium the virus spread by those mercenaries entered the first-class cabin.

But it would be reasonable to say that this "virus" was alive from the very beginning.

Russell also understands why the virus can only be used once and then self-destruct... It is the deer head itself that makes it self-destruct.

It is also very simple that it cannot be disassembled and cannot be analyzed. Because the virus itself is only an intermediary, allowing the consciousness of the deer head to enter the target. This is actually tantamount to putting an elite psychic hacker in, and the hacker will directly destroy himself after completing the task.

And soon, Russell also means, what does this mean—

If we were talking about elite psychic hackers, they could go deep into every level of the network and learn different secrets through different boards.

So if the head of the deer can be split infinitely, it can also mean that he is "everywhere".

It's almost like a runaway artificial intelligence...

"You are doubting whether the head portrait of the deer is out of control intelligence, right?"

Bad Day guessed what Russell was thinking at a glance.

He found a tube at random, sat on it and crossed his legs: "Actually, the deer head is much older than us. When I entered the Tower of Babel, when your father and mother entered the Tower of Babel, she That's it.

"And in the older past, she was also a member of the Tower of Babel. She was a living person."

Russell notes that Bad Day uses "she".

"You said it used to be? Could it be that the current leader... is an undead?"

"That's not too much, but do you think——does the leader's current posture be called alive?"

Bad Day asked back.

Russell shook his head.

He couldn't even judge whether the person hanging on the wall just closed his eyes or had lost his life.

"Before she became like this, she was only fourteen years old. At that time, she was already an elite, fighting on the front line of the war between the Holy See and the Mage Tower."

"...Mage Tower?"

Russell repeated.

He replied uncertainly: "Master... Is that what I understand?"

He even thought that the words "mage" and "magic" were all legends... or ancient names for psykers.

【Yes】

The deer head then replied.

[Mage not only existed, but still exists now. It’s just that they are all on the ground, living alone and in pain]

"On a land polluted by radiation and curses?"

[Yes, because the mages were defeated - in the battle with the Holy See]

[That was January 1, 1100, the second wizard war, the war between the wizard and the Holy See. It can also be called the war of teachings. It is a war that has been fought so far. No one knows why it happened, but neither side backed down. In the end, it almost destroyed the world.]

With the soft voice of the deer head sounded.

The history Russell had never heard of emerged out of thin air with knowledge and slowly poured into his mind.

—Everyone in this world is born with the ability to contact the collective subconscious, the difference is whether they can realize it.

This ability can be awakened only after the "most unforgettable day" that can completely change a person.

"...Wait, isn't this the spiritual awakening?"

Russell's ears trembled suddenly, and he couldn't help blurting out.

【-Yes】

The deer head figure affirmed.

But unlike Psionics, which is different for everyone... If Psychic is a stand-alone simulation building game, then Spells is an open world game.

After each mage awakens, he will arrive at the "Primary Wasteland" in his dream. It is the collective subconscious of all people in the world intertwined, a dream with countless possibilities.

They can travel in any direction, through the woodland, or the snow field, or the maze of countless doors, or the endless fall, or the candy house in fairy tales... After any trip into a dream, the consciousness They will stay in place and get "spells".

Spells are far less powerful than psionics. But spells can be taught and inherited—just emulate the same adventure tracks, and you can get the same spells.

From making the flames cold, bending the steel for no reason, to bursting the eyes of those who stare at them thousands of miles away, making the people living in a certain land sterile for life...or making the people who were cut into pieces rejuvenate, Or walk on the clouds... Or, build a sky-high floating tower. The nature of the spell is related to the experience in the dream; and the dreams of all people are related to the "common consciousness" of all people.

"The sky-reaching tower..."

Russell murmured again.

He vaguely realized something.

【Yes, it is the predecessor of the floating island】

[Today's floating island is a rebuilt mage tower that can float in the air]

The head of the deer gently tells the truth of the world—

[And the Holy See also has a special power, they call it "Holy Order"]

[As the name suggests, only by following the teachings and morals can one gradually obtain mysterious power. The purpose of this power is to enable them to do good deeds better]

[This was originally quite good, the Holy See has been doing its best to do good. But since the mid-term of the Faith War, the Holy See began to try to pursue the principle of holy order when it was completely unable to resist the mages—after all, the mages have long understood the nature of their own power, but the Holy See has no idea about it]

[Unfortunately, someone really got the answer. The essence of the power of the Holy Order is actually "personal subconsciousness"; and the **** they believe in is "the sum of consciousness of humans, elves and even dragons"]

[You can think of it this way, Russell. Assuming that there is an ignorant mechanical god, whose thinking is the sum of all intelligent creatures, and whose greatest desire is to make as many individuals as possible to survive... then if he cannot directly interfere with the world , will support his agent]

[That is, the special individual that He recognizes ~www.novelbuddy.com~ that is beneficial to the survival of the group]

[Either be upright enough, or have divine wisdom, or be compassionate enough, or have enough leadership and kindness...]

[The person who makes "as many people as possible happy" will be given a gift. These are the so-called saints. And the mage's dream is actually the dream of this "god"]

[However, the scholars of the Holy See realized through further research...their "god" does not have individual consciousness. His standards for judging saints are very rigid, they can use technological means to bypass the judging mechanism, and then deceive God]

[It is like extracting active ingredients from herbal medicine, maximizing the efficacy of the medicine while reducing meaningless side effects. If the Holy See can directly edit the will that most conforms to the judgment of "God", it will be able to obtain the most power of holy orders—even the purity of the power of holy orders obtained by true saints is far inferior to them]

Hearing this, Russell only felt his scalp go numb.

[So the Holy See decomposed the consciousness of some real saints, extracted the "effective ingredients" that can obtain the power of the holy order, and confirmed forty-five kinds of holy orders that can obtain the highest purity under the condition that the mutual components do not conflict as much as possible. "Personality models" with different powers, functions and uses, and store them in a server named "Holy Code"]

[At that time, embedded chip technology was not yet popular, so the church used special wireless technology]

[One thousand selected experimenters wear a floating ring to receive the wireless signal sent by the "Holy Code" server, and artificially add "divine will"...]

【—Then, the "angel" descended】

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