Endless Debt

Alchemists can create a perfect body, but they cannot create the soul that makes the body move.

Teda's research not only promoted the progress of the world, he simply shattered the high wall that hindered all alchemists. He made this cold body move. Not only did she have human consciousness, she could also learn on her own. And through constant interaction with people, one’s own personality is developed.

Boluogo even speculated that maybe Amu had a real soul.

Artificial soul.

This sounds terrible. A unique soul is no longer unique. No one knows what kind of changes this will bring to the world.

But...did TEDA really do it?

Boluogo had doubts about this. If TEDA could really give the body a soul, then the one standing here now would not be him, but Nathaniel.

"I need to know the inside story... at least know what's going on." Bologo's voice was emotionless.

"Huh? Why do you think she has a personality?"

TEDA raised another question. As if he encountered difficulties, he picked up the data sheet posted to the side and analyzed it.

"It stands to reason that Aimu does not have such a thing as a personality. This is just her imitation of human behavior."

"But I felt like I was facing a real person. If I just listened to the voice, I wouldn't have thought that Aimu was not a human being."

The more Boluogo thought about it, the more he felt a silent fear. The boundary between humans and machines became blurred in Aimu.

"It's like... it's like Amu really has a soul. Under the steel body, there is the shadow of another person."

Boluogo said in a strange way. After finishing speaking, he himself froze on the spot, and then the familiar feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger.

If according to what Teda said, Aimu does not have a personality, and everything about her is just an imitation of human beings, then Aimu is imitating the same person from beginning to end, a person whom Boluogo doesn’t know, but Aimu is very fond of that person. It is absolutely familiar, imitating it perfectly in both the whole and the details.

Until there is no difference between her and that person.

"You shaped Aimu after your daughter, right?" Boluogo whispered.

Teda didn't have much reaction to Boluogo's words. He found a chair for Boluogo and motioned for him to sit down. Then Teda pulled up a whiteboard with complex graphics drawn on it and several stickers on it. toilet paper.

Roughly speaking, this should be a design drawing of some kind of alchemical weapon. Its complexity is far greater than the mechanical watch in Boluogo's pocket. The precise alchemical matrix is ​​spread across every corner of the metal.

"Do you know about perpetual motion machines?"

Teda asked. In this situation, Boluogo felt like he was in class.

"I know," said Burlogo.

"That's good. A perpetual motion machine is a wonderful device that can continue to operate forever as long as a certain amount of energy is input. But every alchemist knows that it absolutely does not exist. The properties of a perpetual motion machine directly violate Learned the most basic rules of alchemy."

The old eyes fell on Boluogo, and Boluogo continued what Teda said.

"This violates equivalent exchange and conservation of energy."

This knowledge is all written in "Golden Discourse". Bologo feels that every condenser should read this book. It can be regarded as a popular science book on alchemy.

“When designing Aimu, I have always been troubled by how to make her run stably and continuously. She needs a stable ether source, so I designed something close to a perpetual motion machine.

Of course, it is not a perpetual motion machine and cannot run endlessly. It also needs maintenance and replenishment, but its properties are more similar to a perpetual motion machine. "

TEDA picked up a mechanical structure similar to a heart on the workbench. It was fixed on the base like a souvenir.

"This is the first generation of perpetual motion core I designed. It can be driven by a very small amount of ether to absorb a large amount of surrounding ether, injecting it into the perpetual motion core to provide ether for Aimu's actions.

In this way, it continuously absorbs ether from the environment with a small amount of ether and reserves the excess ether, thereby achieving almost perpetual motion. "

"This sounds quite like my resurrection. When I die, I also need ether to resurrect. If Aimu is in an ether vacuum environment, when the ether reserve completely disappears, she will also enter dormancy. Right ?"

Boluogo looked at the Perpetual Core in TEDA's hands. As expected of the former minister of the sublimation furnace core, TEDA could actually design such a thing.

"Yes, the Perpetual Motion Core needs ether to absorb ether. When there is no ether, it will stop." TEDA said.

"But what does this have to do with Aimu's 'soul'?" Boluogo asked.

Teda was surprisingly patient. He just explained slowly. It seemed that he had been planning to tell Boluogo all this early, or in other words, he knew that Boluogo would definitely ask about all this.

"Because Amu's soul is in her heart, in this eternal core."

Lifting the Iron Heart, the magnificent alchemical matrix shone on Tida's body. As the ether was injected into the perpetual core in his hand, Boluogo felt that the ether around him was being mobilized.

The fluctuations of the ether are not violent, but calm and soothing, like a gurgling stream, gradually pulling away from the ether and pouring into the core of constant motion.

"Amu's...soul."

Boluogo stared at TEDA, and TEDA actually admitted all this.

"What the Perpetual Motion Core needs most is stability and absolutely stable operation. For this reason, its 'start button' is very important. So what is more stable than the Philosopher's Stone?"

TEDA opened the Perpetual Core, and the precise mechanical rows were unlocked. There was a small groove in the structure of the ventricle, where a philosopher's stone originally existed.

"That's the Philosopher's Stone that I condensed myself. Theoretically, it would take hundreds of years for it to completely disappear naturally. In order to avoid damage, I also carefully protected it."

TEDA's voice was filled with fanatical joy. He held the Perpetual Core in his hands and stroked the cold metal affectionately.

"The initial energy that makes the core of perpetual motion come from the scattered, golden power when the Philosopher's Stone disappears."

Alchemists believe that the human soul is an extremely pure ether. After the Philosopher's Stone disappears, the ether turns into nothingness and returns to the world.

Based on all this, TEDA designed Aimu's power source.

Perpetual core.

Even if the Perpetual Core finally stops one day, it will be at least hundreds of years later, and it itself can be replaced, continuing the beating heart, and even reaching true eternity.

"So, whose is this philosopher's stone?"

Boluogo looked at the enthusiasm in Teda's eyes. He was like a gold digger holding gold in his arms. Under the extreme desire, his spirit and even his body showed a strange morbid feeling.

"Is it your daughter, Alice Argentet's?"

Teda was completely frozen, and it took a long time for his muscles to relax. He put down the Perpetual Core in his hand and looked at Boluogo with a gloomy look.

"The Philosopher's Stone is a condensed entity of the soul. It contains secrets far beyond our knowledge. However, research is prohibited due to ethical regulations.

But is this really prohibited because it violates ethics, or did someone discover something in the Philosopher's Stone and want to bury the secret forever? "

Teda's expression was calm, but his tone was full of madness, and the aura he exuded actually frightened Boluogo for a moment.

It is not a fear, but an almost crazy, fanatical pursuit of the truth of knowledge.

"Did you know? In fact, from the Philosopher's Stone, we can barely see the traces of his life and the reverberation of his memory, just like the tombstone after death of a human being, which records everything.

That's it, the mysterious soul contains our thoughts and memories. After we die and leave the body, the solidified philosopher's stone should also record all of this. "

Hearing this, Boluogo understood everything, and he whispered, "Is this why Amu is so human-like?"

"yes……"

TEDA woke up from his feverish state. He leaned against the workbench and looked down at the mechanical heart in his hand.

"I don't know why. It may be that her philosopher's stone is used as a power source, causing the echo in the philosopher's stone to affect Aimu. Aimu's behavior is becoming more and more like her... Obviously Aimu has never seen her. ."

"She has a little bit of your daughter in her," Borlog said.

"But she's not my daughter, she just... looks too much like her."

"So the more this happens, the more you have to control your emotional investment in the tool, but you still can't control yourself and let her become your student. This is deceiving yourself." Boluogo commented coldly.

"But she's really cute, isn't she?"

Teda raised his head and asked, looking lost.

Boluogo didn't know who she was referring to, Alice or Aimu. I'm afraid even Teda himself didn't know.