above the sky

Chapter 714 A Kind of Bad Ian (6900)

It's hard for Miles to imagine that he, who originally escaped from the Avak Territory, actually won the attention of the local lord through his outstanding psychic abilities after arriving in the new territory.

And this lord was the kind person who had helped him back then, and even invited him to join a mysterious scientific research project, making him an important member of Chonglingjiao, a new religious organization.

"I was so unlucky that I was able to change my luck after coming to Nanling. I not only made like-minded friends, but also found the meaning of life in my work. Now it is necessary to work in Xiahuiling Psychic Research Laboratory less important positions.”

"As for duties..."

"It's being studied."

Ever since Miles manifested his psychic powers in the Black Swamp area in order to save his fellow workers, he has become a big hit in the local gathering area—the leaders of the local gathering area are all smiles, this selection is excellent anyway , and other pioneers also have more bragging rights. After all, there is a psychic in our district. Are there any other districts?
But for Miles himself, being the research subject of Xiahui Ling is actually quite a comfortable thing.

He did not leave the settlement area where the pioneers gathered, and he was still working normally with everyone to open up wasteland, but sometimes, people from the research institute would take him to the Xiahui Territory for various data measurements, and Miles was at that time He would also buy some special goods from Xiahui collar for his fellow workers, as well as tools that were difficult to buy in the gathering place. This behavior faintly made him the most famous person in the whole gathering place except for the person in charge.

The process of being studied is not painful, it is nothing more than being swept by a few lights, lying on a metal bed and being poked like a piece of pork, and receiving various hypnotic guidance to try to use psionic powers - it sounds like Troublesome, vaguely inhuman, but in fact, compared to the hard work of opening up wasteland and sleeping in the wilderness, Myers would rather be studied all his life.

At least the food is good!
Of course, as a person from Azure City, Myers is also very clear about how terrifying those truly 'inhuman' experiments are...

And thinking of this, Miles would always inexplicably think of the Bai Zhimin director of Xiahui's laboratory.

It's not Lord Silver Peak, but a young researcher who calls himself "Guying". He looks very immature. Although he is older than himself, he feels younger than the Lord.

At first, Miles thought that the other party was the elder brother or elder of the Lord Silver Peak, because he was too focused on technology and did not know the world, but in the end he found that the two parties were not the same kind of people at all.

Although Guying's skin is paler and looks like a dead soul, in fact, he is far more gentle and kind than the lord, and he is also quite kind to himself.

Simply put, he's a great guy.

No, not just to myself... Miles even saw it in the research institute, and the old shadow would talk to himself about the radish in the hydroponic dish, cheering for its growth with joy, not at all like a The person in charge of the big laboratory is like a little boy who is growing plants for the first time.

And Lord Silver Peak, who is also a high-level alchemist...

The feeling he gave Miles was completely different.

That handsome young man who usually faces the leaders with a smile and is very friendly, but in private in the research room is always frowning slightly, always thinking about something.

The way he looks at himself is intriguing, anticipation mixed with a cool, almost icy scrutiny, and he never hides it.

It has not been a short time since he came to Xiahui Territory. Myers can be sure that, as the lord, Ian undoubtedly loves his territory and everyone in it. It is to attract investment, and he also proposes various new technologies, and spends a lot of money that other lords can use to enjoy themselves to invest in the construction of the territory.

For this reason, his life is also very simple. He spends almost all day in the research institute except for dealing with government affairs, and has almost no private life.

Compared to this, even the researcher Guying can only follow in his footsteps - Guying will still stare at the radish seedlings in a daze, occasionally giggling at the hydroponic dish, and the lord has no time to stop at all.

This is undoubtedly love.

But this kind of love is not the same... It feels like a cold sun, shining on everyone, but it is difficult to give people a warm feeling.

According to his younger sister Cynthia, the lord gave him the feeling that they were lucky enough to meet Grand Duke Sorin once.

even……

"More terrifying. More terrifying."

Afraid, terrible.

Miles chewed on the word.

In the continent of Terra, if a lord can be feared and frightening, it is actually a blessing. At least it will avoid many unnecessary troubles and maintain the stability of the territory.

If the lord is just blindly amiable and loved, it will cause great trouble.

Just like a person, if he only has a smile, he will not be able to smile one day. Only when he is wearing armor and holding an 88mm anti-aircraft gun in his hand, he is still a sublimator and can fly to the sky and escape from the ground, making people fearful and fearful. The people around laughed for a long time.

Moreover, a character like Ian's is quite popular for those who like to "know that you have to die".

On the first day of participating in the "Experimented Project", Miles knew that the reason why he was being studied was because, as a resident of the Grand Duchy, he had an "artificial soul" in his body.

His artificial soul also caused his psychic power to be ineffective from time to time.

And one's own psychic power is even more crucial. It is instructive for some key psychic power facilities in the territory and is of great reference value.

Therefore, it is necessary to study.And the lord also told him clearly that no matter whether he agrees or not, he will use various methods to research.

All this, Miles knew from the very beginning.

He accepts this.

There's no need for a determined leader to resort to dishonorable means, is there?He was not polite to himself, nor polite to the other party, not to mention that the other party did show kindness to him, and he still remembered this kindness.

Grand Duke Thorin and Viscount Avak are both using people to conduct experiments, and Ian is no different from them in this regard. Even the technology he uses for experiments may be obtained from the Azure City Laboratory.

But at the very least, Ian will tell people in advance, and even try it on himself first.

Miles couldn't say no, and he was compensated.

"The experiment is over? Miles, come and learn swords with me!"

After leaving the research institute, the young swordsman heard a hearty voice. The person who came was Qing Chao, who was also the "teacher" appointed by the lord for him.

According to what Qing Chao said, his talent in swordsmanship is quite good. Although he is not as good as him, he is considered a genius.

Not to mention, with psychic power, Miles' swordsmanship thickness and defensive ability will far surpass him.

Of course, the most important thing is that Qingchao appreciates him very much—people who are willing to stand up for their comrades, and even awaken psionic abilities, are undoubtedly trustworthy people, who would not appreciate it?

In this way, teachers of the second energy level are placed in the outside world, and tuition fees of more than [-] Thalers a year are indispensable. As compensation, they are completely qualified.

However, he is said to be a teacher, but he is actually barely half a classmate.

After learning the sword with Qingchao, Miles has to go to Xiahuiling's newly opened school to learn some basic knowledge.

—You call me a teacher!I call you a classmate!Let's talk about each other!

In fact, in terms of mathematics, Myers' talent is obviously stronger than Qing Chao's. It is estimated that in a month or two, Qing Chao will teach Myers swordsmanship and Myers will teach Qing Chao mathematics.

Leaving aside literacy and basic mathematics, the most interesting thing about Xiahuiling is actually the 'miscellaneous lessons' on history and geography.

Knowing how big the world is and the history of the world you live in cannot improve people's actual abilities, but it can broaden their horizons.

When Miles knew that the South Ridge and the West Territory where he was located were just a corner of the entire Terra continent, the inexplicable shock in his heart, and the feeling that he was extremely small compared to the world, was the first time in his entire life. appeared.

During that time, Miles even spent money to buy a map of the world. He just looked at the names and terrain on the map obsessively, imagining the customs and customs in the far corners of the world, thinking about whether there would be people living there, and then What kind of Warcraft and ecology are there.

That was his dream, the reason why he wanted to use a sword to earn a living, and went to the world outside the Azure City—in Azure City, he just had a vague idea, but in Xiahui, this idea gradually turned into a dream. Reality gradually became clear.

imagine.Imagination and curiosity are the most important things in human beings.

"In the future, I will consider making a terra ball, make it into a toy, and sell half of it and give it to everyone in the territory. Or popularize a rough map of the world, and strive to let Xiahui lead every child, and every family will have one."

After the lord saw that Miles was interested in the world map, he rarely showed a smile from the bottom of his heart. He explained to Miles his next plan in detail: "Imagination about the distance in front of the map is the beginning of curiosity. If To be able to long for the land on the other side of the world is the foundation of dreams."

"Children will imagine how to conquer distant and unknown places, and fantasize about the beautiful and beautiful scenery in the distance. You can call it ambition or desire, but what I want to cultivate is this kind of thing, whether it is good or bad, it is stronger than Insensitivity, because ignorance breeds ignorance."

"Myers, do you want to go to the Holy Mountain or the Nine Cold and Silent Mountain? It's all right, as long as you want to, you can do it, the premise is 'really desire'."

True, of course it is true.

Will he get there one day?

Although the cold sun was not warm, it clearly pointed out the way ahead.

The young swordsman stared at the map in his hand, his heart was filled with something called 'confidence' and 'expectation'.

Something so beautiful.

……

"The new version of the artificial soul, by comparing and optimizing the 'Grand Duke collar version of the artificial soul' like Myers and the 'primitive brain attached' of the Sequoia natives, in addition to the original functions, an additional part of the 'psychic network' has been added. , a part of the 'meditation method foundation', a part of the 'spiritual equipment core adaptability' and a part of the structure of the 'joint force of all souls'."

"In addition, the new version of the artificial soul has eliminated the original 'dead king' function with a strong sublimator as the core, and revised it to the 'temporary underworld' function with the 'spiritual tool core' as the core. This aspect of the function Still researching, because the energy source in the territory cannot support it, it is only an experimental version at present, and we will wait for the development of the new energy furnace core before considering the actual operation."

This is the result of Ian and Adalbert working overtime for two weeks, almost day and night.

It has to be said that with a living entity like Miles as an observation object, it is like putting an advanced engine in front of a group of mechanical engineers, and among them there is a former developer of this engine with a There is a full set of blueprints.

In this way, it is difficult to think about the efficiency of replica learning.

The essence of the artificial soul is to directly carry a part of the psychic matter through the "brain-attached structure". As a "soul seed", it is continuously nourished by the holder's thinking, and finally breeds a soul that belongs to the holder.

This is not a very difficult technique, what is difficult is how to make this soul stable and not collapse, and to have various functions.

In the laboratory, the experimental subjects were not human beings, but several captured monsters.

Warcraft below the second energy level have no obvious intelligence. Even at the second energy level, the intelligence is relatively primitive, and it takes a long time of training and learning to barely approach humans.

In other words, implant artificial souls into them, and the feedback can be observed quickly.

The first warcraft implanted with an artificial soul, the "Steel Arm Ape", already had the intelligence close to that of a human child. After receiving the artificial soul for a week, its thinking was obviously much sharper. When Ian and others came to observe it, He will not cringe because of instinctive fear, on the contrary, he will carry out various measurements very cooperatively.

One of the standards of wisdom is 'knowing current affairs'.It's not just that you will run away when you see the strong, but you will try to blend in, learn, and become one of them when you see the strong.

This steel-armed ape obviously possessed intelligence, and it even began to learn how humans usually walk upright, and tried to tidy up its nest in the laboratory to make it more tidy.

Don't get me wrong—wisdom doesn't make people like cleanliness.

Gibbon just found out, and the other researchers would be happier if they cleaned up their nest.

"One week, the artificial soul is just a sign, and it starts to assist the brain to think and connect the various thinking areas, which can bring such an obvious impact on Warcraft."

Ian watched every move of the steel arm ape, and he said to Adbert beside him: "I have a guess that is not a guess, but let me ask a question first—why did the pre-epoch civilization design Warcraft?"

"Huh? Hmm... I think it might be the result of some kind of biological tool becoming wild?"

Adbert was stunned for a moment. After learning about Ian's adventure in the South China Sea Great Labyrinth, he also knew part of the information about Warcraft and Tinder from the pre-epoch civilization, so he gave a relatively normal guess: "Like crystals The dragon is obviously a sheltered creature made by the pre-epoch civilization to imitate the real dragon in order to survive in the extreme environment. But the strange thing is that any kind of real dragon known so far has a different structure from the crystallized dragon. "

"Well. I guess, this is because the crystallized dragon should imitate some kind of more ancient dragon, at least the second-generation true dragon, not the third-generation and subsequent true dragons that we are familiar with in Terra civilization."

Ian nodded slightly. He stared at the steel arm ape, and said softly: "But not all monsters are tools... Some monsters are obviously born with a certain intelligent structure, but they need a soul to perform perfectly."

"Adelbert...I'm just talking about a possibility."

"If we say that on a planet or a continent, the source matter and spiritual matter on it are so rich that all creatures on it can naturally have souls."

"Then, can the intelligent creatures on this planet still possess wisdom after leaving such an environment?"

"The so-called 'smart creatures'..."

"Will it become a monster?"

Adalbert blinked, then panicked.

"Ian, what do you mean..." He swallowed, and said incredulously: "You mean, there are many monsters on our Terra, which are probably... the alien wisdom that came with the fire. life'?!"

"Just a guess."

Closing his eyes, Ian didn't deny it, nor did he confirm it.

He just thought and speculated: "It is completely impossible to say that all the billions and billions of monsters on the Terra continent were all derived from Terra."

"Some low-level monsters may have been born in the land of Terra, and they are also recorded in the literature of the pre-epoch civilization, while some monsters are powerful and perfect, but there are no such ancient legends, and they do not have some tool characteristics. manufacture."

"It is also extremely difficult for the fire seed to catalyze this kind of creature that obviously has an ancient evolutionary history."

"After all, if it is not an important creature, why is it necessary to engrave it in the tinder and design it to be preferentially catalyzed?"

That being the case, there is only one answer.

Many intelligent monsters with great potential are probably those aliens who lost their souls and lacked wisdom, so they degenerated into beasts.

It is also the 'alien' that Ian has always wanted to find after knowing the truth about Tinder and aliens in the past.

Ian has always been very strange. If there is really a spark like Karin's flower that tries to integrate into or even invade the world of Terra, then there must be a milder flame that simply wants to reproduce its own civilization on a foreign planet.

In that case, with the tolerance of Terra civilization (mainly because it is too chaotic and the sublimators are too strong, no one can discriminate against anyone), how many alien tribes should exist?

Just like goblins and real dragons... Although goblins are real local life forms, their form of existence is very alien.

But the research results over the years have pointed out an incredible possibility for Ian.

—— Alien intelligent life, those aliens, have long been integrated with the system of Terra sublimators.

However, it is as a 'material'.

Of course, from the perspective of genetic inheritance, sublimators who carry a part of the genes of alien creatures may also be called half aliens in terms of blood... From this point of view, the blood of aliens, I think It is impossible to cut off.

But from a civilized point of view...it's really a great tragedy.

"Warcraft cannot be given artificial souls."

Ian said so, his tone calm: "There are enough intelligent races in this world, and there are intelligent beings in Warcraft, for example, the White Silent Governor of Icewind Valley, as the fifth energy level, he has his own Its lair is still cultivating the intelligent species 'butterfly man'... He must have noticed the source of the huge potential behind him."

"His existence itself is the last remnant of an alien world in another world."

"So, He chose to integrate into humans very smartly. After all, this is not their hometown, and they can no longer create a second hometown. This is the path that Terra Warcraft should take, integrating into humans, not re- Create a few more independent factions."

Otherwise, the process of unifying Terra will take a lot of trouble.

"Ah."

Even Yadbert would not express objections at this time, he just quietly stared at the intelligent steel arm ape in front of him, showing complicated eyes.

"If one day, we also have to flee and leave our homeland..."

He whispered to himself: "Then, will we in alien planets also become such beasts?"

"do not think too much."

Ian shook his head and said: "It seems that there are no human-faced beasts on Terra now. Don't think too highly of intelligent life, and don't look too low. Some people have brains and are not as good as beasts."

"Compared to this, who is the first batch of artificial souls for?"

This is indeed a problem.

Artificial souls are obviously the sooner they are popularized, the better. Among other things, even souls have a lifespan, which at least allows people's souls to enter the core of spiritual equipment and preserve them for a longer period of time.

Before man-made souls, people died when they died. After man-made souls, people still have a chance after death.

What a pity that there is this technology, but it died before it became popular.

"Give it to the old man first?"

Adalbert also thought the same way, Ian nodded: "Then give those old people who are dying, let them cultivate artificial souls before they die. In this way, we can also observe whether the new version of artificial souls It has the stability of the Dadu collar version."

"Moreover, in this way, there are also many cases that can be publicized within Chongling Sect, which can greatly increase the cohesion of the sect."

"This works the best... The specific candidates are up to you to decide. After all, this is a research conducted by you, and I will not interfere."

Adalbert took a deep look at Ian.

At this time, the young man's tone didn't have the slightest reverence for life and death, only the arrogance and overlooking that he used it as a tool to manipulate. Those aging leaders were like test subjects in his mouth. He gave them hope after death, just In order to observe your purpose, whether your tools are easy to use.

But Ian really brought hope.This is true and cannot be changed by any 'attitude'.

There was an almost icy light in the eyes of the young lord, but deep in the eyes, there was a burning desire for the new future brought about by artificial soul technology.

He had seen such a desire in Duke Thorin.

But Ian is different from Grand Duke Thorin.

"He is always looking at the future, and the Grand Duke is just to prove the past is correct."

After Ian left, sitting in front of the radish seedlings he had planted himself, the white-haired researcher of the Dead King lay in front of the petri dish, staring at the emerald green leaf seedlings in front of him.

Adbert murmured: "The Grand Duke just wanted to prove that his teacher, Inaiga II, was in the right direction—they once had the hope of changing the entire civilization of Terra, and it was the imperial people who gave up this gift of God. He is not trying to make people live better, he just wants to make the people of the empire regret it, make the emperor regret it, and make everyone regret like him for the rest of their lives."

"And Ian, although he is the successor of the first knight, he doesn't care about these at all. He has his own goal, although I can't understand it, to go to the high sky and break the Prisoner Star Prison, but for this goal, He can do anything and take advantage of everything."

【Souls...】

The dead king softly asked the soul in his body: [Do you think it is really good for me to help Ian in this way, reproduce the artificial soul, and recreate a different Hades from the Grand Duke...? 】

The souls did not answer.The souls couldn't understand Ian either.

They just believed in Adalbert.If Adalbert believed, so did they.

"Forget it." Adbert sighed, and he stood up: "Just look at this petri dish and the agricultural building... I also believe in Ian."

"Although he is a bit bad, but in the world of Terra..."

"A bit bad, but already a relatively good person."

……

Recently, Roland, who has been exploring at the mouth of the gorge, finally finished his work. He even led a group of dwarf brothers to build a prototype park at the mouth of the gorge. , The foundations inside the park have been laid a lot.

He returned to Xiahui Territory, and was rewarded by Ian again - not only because he completed the task, but also because Roland set up a line for Ian with the dwarves of Falling Star Hill.

This is the true meaning of Ian's assessment for him: If a technician really wants to find, there are still many alternatives. If Roland can't even use his own relationship, it proves that he is destined to be a low-level researcher as a researcher.

Without their own team organization ability, without personal connections, and even unable to find brothers and sisters, what would this kind of researcher do?
He only eats money!

But now, Roland has successfully proved his ability and wisdom.

He was about to go home and show off to his father, Moda, to prove his abilities.

But just after returning home, he learned a piece of news that terrified him.

——His father fell into critical illness a few days ago, and now he is unconscious and is receiving urgent treatment in the ward.

(End of this chapter)