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Chapter 681 Void Sea Abyss and Professionals (5300)

The virtual world is attached to the existence of life.

Without life, there is no soul, no thoughts and dreams, no beliefs and attachments, and no delusion and resentment... No matter good or bad, good or evil, they must exist in the world after all, and then everything that follows will come.

If the material world is fragmented and all life perishes, even if the virtual world can last for a while, it will eventually disappear with the wind, just like the corpse of a person can still exist for a long time after death, but one day, the flesh and blood will rot into mud, and the bones will also be destroyed. Broken into ashes.

but……

Is this really the essence of the virtual world?
If it is said that the virtual world in ordinary people's cognition is the reflection of the material world... Then, why is there such a reflection of the virtual world?

Moreover, the reflection must have a carrier.

If we say that the material world is the person who looks in the mirror, the virtual world is the phantom in the mirror...

Then, what is the essence of the mirror itself that reflects this shadow?

"That is the foundation of the endless and deep void, which was called 'the abyss' and the 'virtual sea' by the pre-epoch civilization."

Adalbert took a piece of paper from the laboratory table and drew a schematic diagram for Ian with a black pen. He explained in detail: "The virtual world that we humans can perceive is essentially just this boundless space. A foam in the sea is a gleam of fire in this infinitely deep abyss."

"But the sea itself is incomparably empty and meaningless, so it is called the void sea."

"How to say..." He thought for a while, but couldn't think of other more suitable adjectives for a while, but Ian said at this moment: "It's like the planets in the universe-the planets are small, but they are just objects in the infinite deep space." There are a few dust particles, but the empty space of the universe is the real void, and it has no meaning other than to carry the dust and exist."

"Yes!"

Hearing Ian's description, Adbert happily wrote down the words 'void' and 'empty sea' on the paper: "I just said that the words of pre-epoch civilization must have their meanings—in general, void Even if the realm is broken, there is still a virtual sea, but generally there will be no life in the virtual sea, unless another virtual realm can be found at the other end of the endless virtual sea."

"However, just like some powerful monsters and sublimators on Terra, even if Terra is broken, they can still enter the void and soar, there are also some powerful beings in the void that can swim in the void."

"The blood demon is such a virtual creature."

"Unfortunately, apart from the virtual world derived from Terra, there is no other great virtual world at present... I originally thought that Terra was the only life world, and the virtual world was also the only one."

Speaking of this, Yadbert felt a little regretful: "But now, it seems that the Star Prison may be blocking our way to the other side of the void and other stars, and also cutting off the link between the virtual realm and other virtual realms. Completely block the Void Sea as well."

Ian sighed too.

In the world sealed off by Prisoner Star Prison, even the Void Realm and subspace are locked. The Void Realm is indeed a bubble in the Void Sea, but now this bubble is all in the Deep Sea.

"Anyway."

Adbert is not as emotional as Ian. After all, he still can't fully understand the horror of Prisoner Prison, so he shifted the topic: "The prototype of the Dead River Armed Forces'Void Sea Blood Demon' is an extremely powerful The devil...it is one of the scariest monsters in the void, second only to the 'Twilight Demon' in the depths of Yanjiang and the 'Silence Demon' at the bottom of Tranquility Sea."

"It was born after the 'Karin Flower Incident', and it originated from the survivors' fear and hatred for the Karin Flower at that time, so it has some of the characteristics of the Karin Flower...It can quietly corrupt people's souls , and engulfed it, turning it into an incarnation of oneself, and this avatar will continue to spread pollution, demonizing the people in a whole small town and turning them into puppets of oneself."

"It's meaningless to kill the incarnation of the blood demon's material world. It will be reborn again and again with the soul of the devoured. It can only be killed by going to the deepest subspace maze 'Dream of the Blood Sea' in the void."

"At that time, the whole of Yanjiang was still licking the wounds after the apocalypse-level crisis. The blood demon born in a remote city was unstoppable for a while, allowing it to grow."

"Several demon hunters with ancient inheritance drank the blood of the great demon. They turned into a part of the blood demon, and finally joined hands in the dream to kill them and killed themselves one by one."

"The hunter's blade and shield that killed the demon are still enshrined in the ancestral land of Yanjiang. The blood of the curse that never dries up flows on it, which can easily melt the will of a sublimated person."

"But the blood demon is immortal. As long as human memory is immortal and the events related to the flower of Karin and the blood demon are not completely forgotten, it will not die. All 'demons' are immortal. They will follow Fear, awe and hatred are reborn, and continue to grow...Flying Flame just wants to use this characteristic of immortality, as well as the power that can erode the soul of others, to create the "Blood River Armed Forces" that represent the blood of immortality. "

"But in the end it still didn't work." Ian concluded, he touched his belt: "Viscount Avak was only reborn a few times, and his memory and soul were polluted by the other's soul, and he became irritable and irritable. It's all changed...almost to another person."

"If I kill him a few more times, that guy will completely degenerate into a demon."

"Yes."

Adalbert sighed deeply: "But it can't be said to be a failure-although the Dead River Armed Forces can't create an immortal person, it can also create a brand new Gorefiend...so I want to kill it as soon as possible. destroy."

"But if you are guarding." Dead Lord stared at Bai Zhimin, who was frowning slightly, as if he was convincing himself: "Maybe...it's acceptable."

"...I was just thinking."

Ian did not directly respond to the 'trust' that Adalbert expected.

He just untied the belt around his waist and made the robe looser. The young man stared at the dark river of death, muttered to himself, and asked another question: "Since fear, hatred and despair can be catalyzed in the void Out of the 'demon'."

"So trust, hope and joy, can they catalyze 'angels'?"

"The dead king...is a man-made god."

"So, can humans also create real 'angels'?"

"This..." Facing Ian's question, Adalbert was stunned for a moment. It's not that he hasn't thought about it, so he smiled bitterly: "Ian, even I know that compared to happiness, joy and hope This kind of fragile and short-lived emotion... is still depressed, and the confusion and grief are more permanent."

Even a naive researcher, after becoming a dead king, will know these helpless truths.

——Human beings are always unsatisfied creatures. The desires of the people spread, and the irrepressible emotions intertwine and accumulate, and they will weave the prototypes of many monsters in the void.

The Void Mechgod patrols the Void, sweeping away the 'prototypes' bred in many big cities, but in those remote places, where the Void Mechgod does not patrol... monsters will be quietly bred.

Born out of human desire itself.

"This is the nature of us human beings, or most creatures." Dead King concluded: "Only when you are not satisfied will you crave, and you will be vigilant because of pain. If you have always lived in a happy place, even I... …I don’t even think about going to the academy for advanced studies, holding back my breath to make everyone look at me with admiration, and studying hard day and night.”

"That's the nature of living things. But it's not unchangeable."

Nodding slightly, Ian thought of Huaiguang Church.The clergy of the Huaiguang Church will always have hope, stick to the light, never lie, and never betray the trust of others.

There is also the Church of Spiritual Equipment, their priests can even transform their own brains and thinking, replace their bodies, the instinct of flesh and blood is meaningless, they can be happy all day, and depressed all day, just look at their own idea.

They are all gradually trying to abandon the imperfect nature of human beings, and in a sense, eradicate the soil where demons are born.

As for the Resurrecting Cult and the Hall of All Souls... Although Ian is not familiar with them, they must have similar techniques.

Their clergy must be special.

"It seems that the four orthodox religions have indeed been fighting against another disaster that may destroy human civilization. The Mechanism of the Void is also one of the most important components of that line of defense."

When he came back to his senses, Ian realized something in his heart: "If things like demons are flooded, it may be another apocalypse-level disaster—it's just that this disaster does not originate from alien civilizations and fire seeds, but from Civilization of Terra itself."

"No wonder, even if sublimators constitute the main body of world power, they will not completely abandon the people, but create order as much as possible... It is no wonder why all the nobles on Terra want to fight against cults, resist blood sacrifices and torture .”

"If this world is reduced to the abyss of hell, then countless demons will also manifest in the world, and the sublimated will not be spared."

Ian casually picked up the tape measure on the table and tied it as a belt. He placed the Dead River weapon in front of the experimental table: "But even so, turning the power of demons into weapons... This is also a way of thinking."

"Phase ether armament may be the future direction of development. For me, this ether arm that can be reduced into a part of body clothing is exactly what I need."

"So." Adbert also approached the experiment table: "Do you want to recreate a dead river armed force that is not so evil?"

"It should be said to change a function. This technology itself should not be divided into evil and good."

Ian stared at the Dead River Armed Forces in front of him with deep eyes: "Phasematic Arms must be the development trend of etheric Arms in the future. Physically constructed Arms are too expensive, and it is not easy to modify and reorganize them. Unlike Phase Arms, which can be easily Reuse and build upon the phase."

"Feiyan grasped the opportunities of the times, and we can just touch them across the river."

"But that's not the current task, let's put it aside for now, we need to learn more about the virtual world."

Shaking his head slightly, Ian changed the topic back: "Adbert, the biological technology I gave you, and a supporting psionic network... I think, as a technology for daily human communication, it may still have some flaws. , but if endowed with dead souls, perhaps we, dead kings, can better listen to the voices of dead souls.”

"I hope you can study this technology more, it will be a good thing for us and those souls."

"Is that so? Well! I will definitely work hard!"

Ian noticed that Adbert's spirit jumped up in an instant, and what Ian described might be very attractive to him... But in fact, Ian is just drawing cakes.

Of course, the psionic network can work on the souls of the dead, but the greater effect is still the foundation of the territory management system... After the emergence of the phase intelligent AI, how to let the AI ​​connect to every individual with an artificial soul, only the psionic network A technology.

However, different sayings can inspire different efficiencies. For Adalbert, only those dead souls that he thinks he is worthy of can make him exert [-]% of his energy.

Inducing the young and innocent researcher of the dead king to work hard for his own purpose, it feels... not fun.

Next time Ian on!

What?Conscience hurts?
Don't be ridiculous, there is no such thing as a lord and a laboratory supervisor, is it a basic operation to squeeze the lords and researchers?

What's more, this is just the beginning... For Yadbert, the boy has higher expectations.

"He will find out...discover the true value of that document."

After explaining the task to Adalbert, Ian began to prepare for the sabotage operation in Midra Territory.

inside the laboratory.

Adbert picked up the thick stack of documents that Ian had left for him, and began to carefully browse through the contents.

At the beginning, he was still thinking about which monsters were spliced ​​together to form a synthetic beast.

But soon, he discovered that besides splicing, this strange creature named 'Blood Hunter' had many new technologies.

High-speed growth-catalyzing glands—glands that can secrete a large amount of hormones that promote physical growth, and accelerate the growth and development of blood hunters. Excessive secretion of large amounts of hormones will lead to impaired lifespan and failure of body organs.

Polymer-strengthened bones—derived from the skeletal structure of crystallized life, make the bones more flexible and adaptable, which is a prerequisite for biological deformation to change the structure.

Artificial high-tenacity muscles - derived from metal-based life, strengthened by design, stronger than the existing muscles of the Terra people, muscles with the ability to resist mechanical damage, both in terms of density and toughness, and the ability to exercise for a long time It surpasses all existing non-Warcraft creatures, but metal-based life requires high body temperature to maintain normal operation, and energy consumption and regeneration speed are also a big problem.

Whole viscera regeneration system - the regenerative gene taken from life with strong regenerative ability such as starfish lizards, so that all viscera have the ability to regenerate, even the heart has a spare blood circulation organ as a substitute, as long as more than 60.00% of the organs are not destroyed Being able to continue fighting... The price is that the organs are easily deformed, and kidneys may grow where the liver should have been regenerated.

In addition, there are sensory transformations that transform taste, smell, and vision, defensive transformations aimed at the scale structure, and tail blade transformations aimed at the stomach structure... Basically, it can be said that although the blood hunter looks like a simple two The stitching of a Warcraft actually includes a lot of biological technology.

And these biotech...

"Requires very, very little sublimation material!"

"Moreover, the materials it needs are also very cheap, which is completely different from the price of normal Warcraft materials. It can also add some source quality adaptability!"

When Adalbert saw these materials, his brain froze suddenly.

Yes, even if all of these transformation methods are added, it cannot be compared to the sublimator, and even the Terrans themselves have similar technologies.

For example, "high toughness muscle", the original muscle structure of Terra people is very perfect, forcibly increasing the output and toughness will cause the internal circulation to become unbalanced and need to be rebalanced.

Adding these enhanced organs is nothing more than icing on the cake.

This is why in Terra, bioalchemy tends to focus on 'source quality', because it does produce better results and the effect is better.

Being able to create a new sublimation organ is the beginning of a new bloodline.

In addition, the Terrans are too perfect, and it is difficult to go further in terms of basics.

Therefore, the intensive research on genes and common organs is a blank area.

Adalbert originally thought so too—strengthening the already strong Terrans could not cross the gap between ordinary people and sublimated people, and the effect was not obvious.

However, these strengthening methods using a part of the source material, coupled with the 'arcane way' that Ian mentioned to him before...

All people have souls, and they all have 'new human beings' who can manipulate a part of the power of source matter... They can completely rely on the adaptability of this newly transformed body to the source matter, and through practice, strengthen their own bodies again!
In that way, as long as all these biotechnologies are matured and the side effects are discarded... the Terrans with such a brand new body will not be too different from the sublimated ones!

Although it is only a relatively weak power in the first energy level, and it is on par with the Wavebreaker, at least it has reached the bottom line of the 'sublimation'!

Moreover, because there is no precedent of any monster bloodline, they can completely choose their own future direction after they have practiced to a certain level, without being limited by the true shape of the bloodline.

Not to mention, one already possesses the physical strength of the first energy level before practicing the true form of the blood, which is enough to suppress most of the side effects and distortions, making the path of sublimation more stable and reliable.

You can choose the future according to your own preferences... Such an individual may be called a 'professional'!
"Where did Ian get these technologies... This can not only be used to transform wild beasts as a tool of war, but also can be used to transform humans."

Adbert muttered to himself: "Also, the biological structure of this 'Blood Hunter' can indeed be further optimized."

And that's what Ian was aiming for.

Whoring for nothing, of course, is mutual.

Ian intends to prostitute the "new artificial soul technology" that may be available in the future from Ian the swarm, so Ian the swarm must also hope that his blood hunter will get some improvements.

In this way, it is a relationship of mutual guidance, rather than one party simply asking for and the other party simply giving.

A win-win situation is the healthiest cooperation.

Ian (Peace Parallel World) wins twice!

"As expected of you, Yadbert, I just pointed out a starting point for you, and you can think of a way by yourself. In addition to cyber transformation, the new enhancement between potion and genetic modification is also a kind of road."

Outside the laboratory, Ian, whose eyes were shining with cyan brilliance, smiled slightly, and the cyan crown of stars appeared faintly: "For others who already have potential, bring a new road possibility, and lead to a better future... Probably, it is the essence of the desire in my heart."

He turned his head and left the laboratory.

There is still a lot of preparation and intelligence work to be done before the raid on the Midra Autonomous Region.

In the night, the guiding star is flickering slightly.

It is glowing.

(End of this chapter)