Endless Debt.

Chapter 902 Sparks
What is life?

On the way forward, Saqin kept thinking about this question in his mind.

From a biological point of view, the so-called life is an organism with the characteristics of cell organization, metabolism, growth, development, heredity, and reproduction.

Before the ether invaded the material world, such a theorem may be an iron law, but the world now is completely different from the world it used to be. Now Sachin lives in a world transformed by the ether, and the definition of life is not limited to All kinds of expositions in biology, they have some more mysterious and mysterious things.

soul.

From a scholar's point of view, the so-called life is body, mind, and spirit, the composition of the trinity. Every sublimation person regards the soul as his own treasure, until one day, the original thing is excavated, and the soulless person Also born in this world, they found that the soul is not the key to determine themselves.

So what is life?

Regarding this part of the debate, the scholars in Raymond Gayton were divided into several factions, and everyone often blushed, accusing and roaring at each other at the top of their throats.

Saqin doesn't like this kind of fierce debate. He prefers to think quietly by himself, but no matter how he thinks, he still can't find an accurate answer.

It's powerless and infuriating.

"Is the so-called life really created by the so-called god?" Sometimes Saqin couldn't help doubting it.

Saqin can copy embryonic cells one by one, and can create a group of terrifying alchemy creatures, but he alone cannot create human beings, and create another living intelligent individual.

Standing in the empty courtyard, the dark green light illuminates the hatching cabins one by one. They are densely arranged like insect egg cases, and curled up figures are wrapped in the transparent liquid.

From young babies to full adults, there are everything in the hatch. After years of research on the soulless, Saqin has indeed achieved good results. These individuals in front of him are all soulless, pure human beings in the true sense.

They are indeed pure, but also full of flaws.

Scholars tried to guide these soulless people, but their eyes were dull, and they rarely responded to external stimuli, just like walking dead.

These soulless people are indeed living individuals, but they seem to be missing something crucial, confused, mindless and without wisdom.

Because there is no soul, the alchemy matrix cannot be implanted in their bodies, so it is difficult to adjust the day after tomorrow.

Shaking off these disturbing thoughts, Saqin tried to focus on the present. Not far ahead, a man stood there quietly, looking down at the soulless people in the incubator, the scholars around him, and him. Maintaining a certain distance, his expression was full of respect.

Saqin walked over, he opened his mouth to use the familiar title to address the person in front of him, but in the end he saluted him like other scholars, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty."

The man turned around. He was wearing the same robes as other scholars, and he was thrown into the crowd. It was even difficult to distinguish him. For this reason, he put on an exquisite golden mask and had a laurel crown on his head.

He has been called many things in the past, but nowadays people usually only call him by that name.

King Solomon nodded slightly, and then moved his eyes to the hatching cabin in front of him again. Through the transparent container, he could clearly see the baby soaked in the nutrient solution.

It is only about seven or eight months old, its abdomen is still connected to the umbilical cord, its eyes are closed, and its body is curled up, like an insect in a cocoon, waiting to turn into a butterfly.

King Solomon's voice was indifferent, without any emotion, "You shouldn't have kept this from me, Saqin."

Saqin didn't say a word, just lowered his head slightly, and Suzie beside him also showed embarrassment, holding Saqin's arm with both hands.

"You violated the code of ethics,"

Saqin took a deep breath, went through the words he had prepared in his mind, and said, "This is to seek the truth."

He was about to continue talking, when he noticed the people around him, Saqin said again, "Everyone leave first."

The scholars looked at each other and left the place without a word, even the awakened soulless ones.

"I'm just trying to find a way to create a real life, a living, soulless person with advanced intelligence, not these lumps of unexamined meat."

Sa Qin tried to suppress his emotions and said rationally, "I completely copied these embryos according to the template of the human body blueprint, but they seem to be missing something..."

"So you gave up cultivating embryos and used this natural birth method to create soulless people?"

King Solomon interrupted Sachin sharply.

Saqin froze in place, while Susie turned her head away, not daring to look at King Solomon.

"Saqin, I am not angry because you have violated the ethical regulations," King Solomon said again, "The so-called ethical regulations are only to limit those mediocre people. For us, in order to explore the boundaries of truth, what we have committed Are there still fewer taboo crimes?"

King Solomon's voice lowered, "What makes me angry is that you tried to deceive me."

Saqin was silent for a while, and then said, "Over the years, I have tried many methods, but there has been no progress. I began to suspect that maybe my attempts were not wrong, and these are the correct answers."

That's a bad idea.

"Perhaps, pure human beings are what we see before our eyes. They are muddleheaded, godless and ignorant, no different from ordinary beasts. The involvement of the ether has transformed our bodies and brains, thus endowing us with wisdom. set us apart from the beasts."

King Solomon still looked at him without saying a word. Sa Qin did not dare to look at him, and the image of King Solomon once appeared in his mind.

Saqin could hardly remember how his little brother became what he was in front of him, maybe it was the day he put on this mask and called himself King Solomon.

It was as if he had changed into a different person, becoming unrecognizable and extremely strange, and maybe this was what Hill was like before, but for so many years, he had been hiding his ambitions so well that no one noticed.

"After repeated trial and error, we made some irrational attempts, just like ignorant worship rituals. Since we don't understand where the technical flaws are, we try again with the mature route."

Susie's voice paused and continued, "We no longer use embryos for cultivation, but natural pregnancy and childbirth..."

"I need the truth, Suzy."

King Solomon's invisible eyes cut Susie's body like a knife.

"I...I want a child of my own, that's all."

Susie was never good at lying. Facing the coercion of King Solomon, she forgot what Saqin had taught her and said frankly, "He was determined to be a dead baby before he was born. I just want him to live." come over."

Speaking of this, the corners of Susie's eyes were a little red, and she grabbed Saqin's arm tightly. Even though Susie missed her little brother no matter how much, just like the scene in front of her eyes, everything is not what it used to be.

This time, King Solomon didn't say any more reprimands. After a long time, a faint sigh came from under the mask, and he turned his head to look at the hatching cabin beside him.

"Does he have a name?"

"Not yet," Saqin shook his head, "but I plan to use the name on the initial picture scroll."

King Solomon asked again and again, "If you succeed, how do you plan to treat him? Are you connected by blood? Or are you a scholar and his experimental product?"

"I haven't thought about these things. After all, all this has not been successful, and I don't have the energy to think about those superfluous things."

Sa Qin walked to the incubator and whispered, "I still don't understand, what is missing here?"

"You should talk to me about this." King Solomon's tone softened.

"With you?" Saqin smiled, "Do you still remember the last time we met? It's been a few years ago. You have been studying in the Golden Palace for too long. I don't have time to wait for you .”

A strange silence enveloped the three of them. After a long time, King Solomon put aside those disturbing emotions and asked from an absolutely rational perspective.

"Do you understand the usefulness of the soulless?"

At this point, Saqin couldn't help putting away his emotions, and replied with the same rationality, "According to what we deciphered from the original scroll, as pure human soulless people, although they cannot be implanted into the alchemy matrix , but a perfect vehicle...a perfect vehicle for the devil."

"Do you think the devil will notice what's going on here?" King Solomon asked again.

"I... I don't know."

Saqin shook his head, "They are so weird, omnipotent, and restricted everywhere."

King Solomon nodded slightly, and suddenly he approached Saqin, and the faces of the two were infinitely close, until only the other's gaze was left in each other's sight.

Behind the mask, Saqin saw the infinitely bright starlight.

"Very good, senior brother."

Suddenly, King Solomon's tone softened, he changed his title, and then took off his mask in front of Sa Qin.

At this moment, Saqin's heart was inexplicably suspended. He hadn't seen King Solomon's true face for a long time, and even once suspected that the body under the mask had already been deformed into some unknown existence.

Fortunately, behind the mask is still a familiar face, but compared with the youthful appearance in memory, he is undoubtedly more tired and weathered now.

"I'm very worried about you. I'm worried that you are too stubborn to be taken advantage of by the devil."

King Solomon, or... Hill, while expressing his concerns, he opened the hatch and took the baby out of the nutrient solution.

"I have always felt that there is a mysterious link in the birth of life. Just like when an engine burns, it needs a little spark to ignite the fuel. Artificial life also needs this spark."

Hill held the baby to her chest, "and the devil is very good at providing that spark."

"I've always been wary of the devil." Speaking of the devil, Saqin's attitude became tough.

"very good."

Hill held the baby and shook it gently. He could feel the baby's body temperature, and he could also feel his breathing and heartbeat, but he just couldn't really wake up.

He was originally a dead baby, and his golden soul had long since dissipated, but Saqin did not give up. Now that the balance of the trinity of body, mind, and spirit had collapsed, he transformed into a soulless person through a series of techniques, trying to endow its newborn.

Hill said suddenly, "I might be able to wake him up."

Sa Qin was stunned for a moment, then looked at him in disbelief, "Are you sure?"

Hill asked, "Aren't you curious about what I've been researching in the Golden Palace?"

"It's time to show you."

As Hill spoke, he snapped his fingers, and the supreme power belonging to King Solomon was released. Raymond Gayton responded, and the space where the three of them lived was distorted and distorted, plunged into darkness, and then dispersed again.

When everything became clear, they had left the cultivation room of the soulless and arrived in a blue and quiet space.

Saqin was in a daze for a moment, and after a few seconds, he realized that this was the place where Hill was crowned King Solomon, but this place had changed too much from what he remembered, especially in the high-density ether environment. ...

"Ether Realm?" Saqin doubted.

"Well, I turned this place into the overlapping point of the material world and the ether world, so as to obtain a steady stream of ether to provide energy for my research."

Solomon walked towards the side with the baby in his arms. At the same time, he did not forget to ask, "Don't go inside, keep going, and you will completely step into the ether world. You know the danger inside."

Saqin looked up at the arrayed artificial stars, the day-like ball of light was at the core, and looking at the end of this blue and quiet, Saqin could not help but shudder.

"You can get a steady stream of ether here, so what about the devils? Aren't you afraid that they will use this to invade?"

For Saqin's question, Hill just smiled, but did not answer, Susie pulled LSqin's arm, motioning him to follow Hill.

After becoming an overlapping point, the space here has been completely distorted and changed. In the strangeness, Saqin could only follow behind Hill, and after he led the way, Saqin and Susie stepped on the upward ladder again. The aligned stars also became clearer, as if I was approaching them.

It was also at this moment that Saqin noticed the stone slab standing under the stars.

The material of the stone slab itself is not special, it is just an ordinary rock. After years of torture, its surface is covered with fine cracks, and the edges and corners have also been polished smooth, leaving layers of textures that have changed over time.

Even without any professional knowledge, when ordinary people see this stone slab, they will clearly realize its age.

Saqin took a few steps forward quickly, with a little excitement in his heart, gently stroking the smooth surface of the stone slab, and felt a cool feeling coming from his palm.

There is nothing special about this slate, but if there is anything worth noting, it is a series of complex patterns engraved on the slate. It has experienced a long time with the slate. The bright colors on it have long since faded, and the lines that can be blurred Here, still revealing strong emotions, it seems to be telling some great epic long forgotten.

"Start scroll."

Saqin murmured, he was immersed in an inexplicable emotion, and after a long time, he turned his head to look at Hill, "Do you keep it here as a souvenir?"

"Basically," Hill said, "after all, that's what made me King Solomon, didn't I?"

Saqin chuckled twice and didn't say anything more.

Hill is indeed a genius. After discovering the original thing, he was keenly aware of the existence of the ether world, and in the days that followed, he actually broke through the barriers of the material world, successfully penetrated into the ether world, and from it I brought back this slate called the Beginning Picture Scroll.

Such achievements alone are not enough for Hill to wear the sacred crown. What really determines all this is the information that Hill deciphered from the stone tablet.

That is a secret buried deep in their minds that must not be revealed, and it is also the truth that reveals everything in the world.

"Saqin, after reading the secret on the original picture scroll, I have been thinking about one thing, how can we get rid of this damn reincarnation," Hill also walked over, holding the baby in one hand, and stroking the baby with the other. The cold slate, "Good news, I thought of it, and it succeeded, um... It's not a complete success, it's still the last step."

Saqin felt infinitely uneasy in Hill's words, and he asked, "What have you done?"

"Since this world is the hunting ground of the devil, and they harvest our souls endlessly, then as long as we open up a new world and leave this hunting ground, can't we get rid of them?"

Hill didn't have a risac, and still talked on his own.

"I have already done it. I poured countless souls into the true nothingness at the border of the etheric world, and one of them found a brand new world."

Hill's voice gradually became stubborn and hard.

"New world."

Sa Qin's eyes were a little dazed, and Hill's words were a bit too impactful for him.

A brand new... new world?

Saqin felt that something was wrong, and soon he thought, "Wouldn't the devil follow us? So as to find a new hunting ground."

This move undoubtedly brought disaster to another world.

"This is the most perfect plan I can imagine, Sachin."

Hill became indifferent, as if putting on a mask again, he continued, "Now, the soul with coordinates needs a container, a carrier that can perfectly carry it."

He looked down at the baby in his arms, and Hill said, "Regaining the balance of body, mind, and spirit may allow him to survive."

Saqin stared blankly at Hill, for a while he didn't know what to say, let alone act, but at this moment, Susie on the side questioned him instead.

"Then after he comes back to life... who is it? Is it the soul, or a newborn existence?"

"Humans don't have a soul," Hill said. "For us, the soul is more like a special and precious product after the ether has deformed us. That's why the devil is so obsessed with it."

"That is to say, it is not the spirit that really dominates us, but the heart."

Hill reached out and touched his chest, and put his fingers on the baby's heart, "Consciousness, character, self, in my opinion, these are more like things that are slowly formed based on the sum of a person's experience, The soul will record all of this... Now that soul is carrying the records of the other world, and when they are put together, it may burst out a spark that awakens the 'heart' and brings him back to life."

"What's your decision?"

Facing Hill's inquiry, Saqin didn't know how to respond. This series of conversations completely disrupted his expected words.

"Isn't this too much of a coincidence? Hill," Saqin stared at him, his eyes wandering repeatedly between Hill's face and the baby in his arms, "You disappeared for so long, and now you suddenly appeared and said these words to me. "

Hill shook his head indifferently, "I can definitely use other soulless people."

A ridiculous laugh sounded from the side, but only Hill could hear this laughter. Similarly, only Hill could see the devil walking slowly, holding a cane, just like Hill saw him for the first time That way, maintain an elegant posture.

"You are really suitable to be a devil, Hill," the devil praised him, "you are full of lies, and you don't change your face."

Hill ignored him, as if he couldn't see him, and the devil was not angry, just lowered his head, gently stroked the baby's forehead, and whispered in his mouth.

"The perfect vessel, the vessel to escape the prison."

"No... no, it can't be like this," Saqin shook his head suddenly, and he cursed angrily, "Hill, you bastard, you are the one who violates the ethics regulations and is extremely cold-blooded!"

Hill didn't refute, but just looked at Suzy, "I can bring him back to life, do you want to try?"

Susie did not answer, she let go of Saqin's hand for the first time, and walked towards Hill, she opened her arms, Hill did not resist, and sent the baby back to Susie's arms.

"Does he have a name?"

Hill asked that he had been immersed in his research for too long, not only did he not attend Sachin's wedding, nor did he witness the birth of the baby.

"Yes, it's a special name, just like Wolfgang Gold," Susie shook him gently in her arms, humming from time to time.

Susie couldn't help laughing as she spoke, "I chose the name, a line I typed out randomly on a typewriter, and the surname is derived from the name deciphered on the original picture scroll."

Hill immediately guessed the name, "The first person to come back from the dead?"

Suzy nodded with a smile, then her smile froze and broke.

The roaring etheric reaction erupted from one side of the space, followed by the rupture of the space, and the winding fissures bloomed one by one. A pure white, bloated, maggot-like monster entered along the winding fissures, and the terrifying breath rose and spread. .

Its face has no facial features, but only a mouthpart that is struggling to open. The throat is full of twisted blade-like teeth, and it makes a series of piercing calls. Only the same pale arms also protruded from behind the cracks in the winding path.

Numerous palms pressed the edge of the maggot's body, tearing it apart and expanding it abruptly, revealing more parts of the body, and saw countless mournful figures hanging on the surface of the maggot, as if they had grown on the maggot's body. Together, the limbs twisted randomly.

Power that was extremely noisy and vaguely beyond glory erupted from this monster, and the crazy air flow ruthlessly beat everything in its path.

Suzie screamed and rolled on the ground with the baby in her arms, and Sachin rushed over and barely shielded her.

For a moment, as if the end was approaching, everything in the field of vision collapsed, except for the stone slab that was still standing, and Hill who was facing the monster.

"Mammon?"

Hill heard the exclamation of the devil beside him, and through him, Hill judged the identity of the comer.

The misfortune of this world, the throat that swallows the abyss.

(End of this chapter)