binary dead train

Chapter 383 What is Glory?

"you succeeded."

Trent's lair, this is the first sentence of the old goat after seeing Turing.

"Come in, both of you."

It personally ushered in Turing and the excited Iliad.This was already the second day after that battle. For some reason, Turing felt a sense of loss on the old beast in front of him.

"Mr. Trent..."

"I know, come with me."

Trent interrupted Iliad, and brought the two of them back to the secret room again.

"You succeeded, little Blazer. I think, after defeating Keek, this has brought you a lot of glory, right?"

"Of course!" When I mentioned this, Iliad became more and more excited, "Now more than 20 sponsors have come to the door, and the Great Holy Grail has opened the peripheral industry chain based on Blaze's existing image. Soon Blazer will be famous throughout Puniska... No, he has already done it now! Everyone said that it doesn't even need to go through too many challenges to directly reach the hunting level!"

"Not bad... not bad, a new star in the arena..."

Trent murmured, looking at Turing's appearance at the moment.

After the battle with Sangtu Jike, his body size skyrocketed again. Although his body length of more than ten meters could not be compared with the semi-erect old fighting beast due to the problem of his physiological structure, he was not far behind.

"But you know, the glory I'm referring to... isn't these things."

The excited Iliad suddenly misfired: "Huh?"

"The glory of the fighting beast... that is a kind of creed, that is a kind of acknowledgment of existence, it is a kind of sublimation moment to be witnessed. Blazer, when you defeated Kik, you felt that moment Is it?"

Turing, who had been silent since entering the door, tilted his head, a little confused about what the old fighting beast wanted to say.

"Thousands of spectators... And behind the cameras, thousands of families, Puniska, Anting District, behind their screens, there are thousands of spectators who have witnessed the birth of a new legend. ...Aren't you volatile? From a criminal who no one cares about, to achieve today's glory...Aren't you excited for that moment?"

Turing tilted his head, not quite understanding what Trent wanted to express, but the old fighting beast shook his head again: "Forget it, just treat yourself as an old man talking to himself. What you want is here .”

It pulled out the machine, placed it in front of a man and a beast, and connected it to the power supply.

"You have completed the transaction between us, then it's time to get your reward. This machine comes from the royal beast decades ago, and it is a simplified equipment provided by the Great Holy Grail for the royal guard."

Now that the topic is coming, Iliad stepped forward quickly, tried to turn on the machine, and clicked on the graphical interface: "These machines...are all made by the Great Holy Grail? They are not controlled by humans?"

"The Great Holy Grail here should not refer to the 'Great Holy Grail' itself, but the people in the Great Holy Grail facility, or an organization, a regime, that is, the Tumi Chamber of Commerce, or... the temple." No need for Tren Special, Turing answered the Iliad's question.

"That's right, the Unlimited Arena is controlled by the Wangting Guard, which is affiliated with the Tumi Chamber of Commerce, and the temple supervises the Great Holy Grail, and... Consciousness Reincarnation. And this machine is provided by the Temple to the Wangting Guard to manage the Unlimited Beast machine."

"The temple...wait a minute, so the two researchers who came to the house that day...are people from the temple?"

"Did you realize it now?" Turing glanced at Iliad, "They obviously don't belong to the same organizational structure as the Royal Guards, and that Manik is very afraid of their identities."

"I don't know what conflicts exist between the royal court guards and the temple researchers. In short, after today, you will gain some freedom, but be careful not to be noticed by outsiders, especially the royal court guards."

Trent came to the machine and told the two how to use it.

The name of this machine is "Simple Graphical Stack Integrator", but it was called "Soul Roulette" in the mouth of the royal court guard who originally held it.

It can install or uninstall the "cage" program used to control the evil beasts of the royal court, realize the docking and physical exchange between two stack bodies, and other functions related to stack body management.

When Turing, who was already curious about the technology of "stack body", asked "whether it is possible to read and change consciousness", the old fighting beast smiled:
"This is just a management debugging instrument specially provided by the temple for the Royal Guards. The function you mentioned may be available, but it may be something that can only be done by the Holy Grail. And such technology can only be held in the in the hands of the Great Grail."

At this point, Turing has become more and more clear about the technology of this world.

At the beginning, he thought that the Tumi Chamber of Commerce held two technology trees in its hands, namely Synthetic Beast and Consciousness Transmission.

But now it seems that the superstructure of this world is essentially composed of two main components: the Tumi Chamber of Commerce and the Great Holy Grail, or the temple.

The Tumi Chamber of Commerce mainly masters the biotechnology of synthetic beasts, while the consciousness technology is in the hands of the temple.Judging from all signs, the temple is obviously higher than the Tumi Chamber of Commerce, but it does not interfere with the rule.

As for consciousness technology, if consciousness can be reproduced, can it also be copied?Is it read and modified as code, or is it a manifestation of a "soul", like... the train of the dead?
These questions have been buried in Turing's heart since he entered this world, waiting for answers. Although the capabilities of this machine are not as powerful as he imagined, it is enough to satisfy his thirst for knowledge and needs.

Under the guidance of the old fighting beast, Iliad connected Turing to the "soul roulette" and helped him uninstall the background program "cage" located in the stack body.

It is a wire harness interface that can be connected to the stack body, just like a real uninstaller. I don’t have any feeling about the peeling off of the "cage" program. I only confirmed it after experimenting with the Iliad controller. effectiveness.

At this moment, the sense of being controlled that had been lingering in Turing's heart was finally erased, and the anxiety that had always existed in his heart was also erased.

"Then, I will give this instrument to you. Maybe the law enforcement officers on the road will find it inappropriate, so I suggest you pack it up and leave. Next... let's talk about the second transaction."

Pushing the "soul roulette" to the Iliad and Turing without any nostalgia, Trent didn't go straight to the point, but asked another weird question:

"Brazer, what do you think glory is?"

What is glory?
The old fighting beast's sudden question made Turing a little puzzled, but thinking of the other party's words after entering the door, Turing replied thoughtfully:
"I think this thing is valued by the arena and the unrestricted beasts, but in my opinion...the so-called glory, honor, is just a sense of satisfaction."

"Oh?" Trent narrowed his eyes, "I'm looking forward to your explanation."

The topic that the old fighting beast suddenly opened made Iliad quite curious. After hearing what Turing said, he lowered his head and was thinking about something.

"Complete a goal, achieve a thing, get what you want... After these things have a happy ending, they will give people a sense of satisfaction. But the term 'glory', it is more ritualistic, not just getting something , complete a goal of equal satisfaction."

"It is promoted to the affirmation and realization of self-worth, and when an individual realizes social value, he will be affirmed by the environment. The difference lies in whether this 'glory' is given to oneself by oneself or by others. However, in the final analysis, this This emotion is still a sense of satisfaction, even if it rises to a certain height. And many times, it is accompanied by benefits. Without benefits, there is no glory at all. This is a complicated topic, and it cannot be solved in one or two sentences. Make it clear."

After the last word fell, Iliad's eyes lit up and he nodded in approval, but the old fighting beast stared at Turing and did not speak for a long time.

After a while, it slowly opened its mouth:
"Ah... so you understand it this way... If it was Sangtu Jike, he might rush up and try to crush you to ashes. Maybe I would do the same thing ten years ago, but... I didn't Think, you're 'overlooking' the whole of Puniska, 'overlooking' the whole of the Colosseum."

"This is my understanding. It's just that after seeing the last moment of Sangtu Jike, I hesitated, because I didn't understand what kind of thing could make it fight so hard at the moment before death. Stretch out your hand with all your strength to grab it. Or is it just a pity that the purpose has not been realized?" The scene of Sangtu Keke crawling towards the statue of the Lord of the Arena with the skeleton before his death has not dissipated in Turing's mind .

A pair of heavy bones, a corpse whose temperature gradually dropped, staggered and crawled in the bloody water, which caused a certain degree of shock to Turing, whose sensibility had returned to his brain.

"You are right... This is indeed a complicated topic. Everyone has their own 'glory' in their hearts, and 'glory' also comes with benefits, as well as a lot of complicated emotions and factors..." Trent His paws overlapped, "On the topic of glory, Santu Jike once had a disagreement with me."

"In my eyes, glory is defeating opponents in the arena, winning cheers and praises. Those are affirmations from the world. They make me feel...alive. And Zang Tujike once believed in this, until later, Years after Kejaka's death, the legend of the 'Hall of Valor' spread among us."

"The Hall of Valor that Zang Tujike said...is it not an abstract thing, but something concrete?" Turing's four pairs of red eyes flashed.

But Trent spread his paws: "Who knows?"

"After Kjaka's death, Yassen Crow also disappeared. Everyone said, all the beasts said, they went to the Hall of Valor, the highest glory of the unrestricted beast, where we can wash away our past , all the glorious unrestricted beasts have their own place there. I didn't believe these rumors, but..."

"But Sangtu Jike believed it?" Iliad said.

"That's right, it quickly changed its view of glory, and many fighting beasts have changed. In order to go to the legendary Hall of Valor, they fought for it. After that, Zangtu Keke stayed behind at the plundering level. come down."

"It thinks that the secret I hold in my hands will cause the Hall of Valor to collapse and bring glory to Chaos, so it stays here, at the level of plunder, and wants to kill me, so that the secret will always be just a secret. "

"But you got 'Homecoming' later, this milestone saved you from the death competition, so Zangtu Jike stayed and took care of you."

"That's right." Trent nodded at Turing, "This is the whole story, the reason for telling you is because I don't want to bring these things to the grave, and also to let you have a better understanding of that secret. Learn more about..."

"So what is that secret?" Iliad, who was feeling confused about the content, was about to run out of patience.

"Kill me, and you will know."

(End of this chapter)