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"It's really amazing."

Xiaozhen, or the wise Prince Alsiel is sitting at the desk, listening to Director Daxi's report.

After the Prince ordered a raid on the headquarters of the Mutual Happiness Mutual Aid Association, all the Happiness Associations across the planet were sealed off and shut down.

Such a mighty action shocked the whole Xiyiqi at once.All the major media were asking what happened, and all kinds of rumors were spreading all of a sudden.The most common and popular saying is that the Common Happiness will evade taxes, which has attracted the wrath of the planet's top management. In addition, there are also rumors on the Internet that the funder behind the Common Happiness Mutual Aid Association is plotting against the law, and the Common Happiness is colluding with the Saidi people to embezzle the planet's property and so on.

Director Daxi's progress is extremely fast. On the one hand, there is almost no resistance from the Common Happiness Mutual Aid Association, obediently waiting to be arrested; on the other hand, he is a financial director working for the Happiness Association.When the investigator of the Intelligence Agency asked the treasurer to talk about what she knew, he thought that he would get the same words as other members of the Fortune Club who talked about the belief and hope he got from the Fortune Club. Finance exhaled a breath of relief, "Tell me, what do you want to know?"

Then the chief financial officer talked for the whole afternoon in the manner of why did you come to ask me. The investigators only knew what kind of case they were involved in after hearing the first three sentences. Adjusted to the highest level, Director Daxi immediately came to the scene to listen to her confession, and then there was a planet-wide suppression of the Common Happiness Mutual Aid Association.

So the common happiness will really be dug out a big problem.

According to the accountant's self-report, she has dealt with as many as 14 people from Xiyiqi alone.Without exception, these people will sign an organ donation agreement after joining the membership.According to the Xiyiqi tradition, after the organs of the deceased are extracted by relevant medical institutions, their bodies will be sent to Nocturne Mountain for incineration. Brainwave conducts illegal copy scans and keeps copies of their consciousness.And the happiness will promise that their consciousness will enter a perfect world without any pain and level difference, and get real happiness.

"This is the reason why Common Happiness was able to lure a large number of members into joining. Members indeed no longer fear death, because Happiness promises that their consciousness will be preserved even if they die."

Sure enough, I guessed right. "It's forbidden," said the prince.The consciousness of intelligent creatures is extremely difficult to retain. This is not a simple AI personality simulation, but the thinking mode, the body and the memory from birth, and the precise extraction of the original life action mode. This is the real consciousness retention, or Soul extraction, this technology is regarded as an absolute taboo in the Galactic Federation.

"Yes, according to the current data, the Common Happiness Association has retained and extracted the consciousness of at least [-] Xiyiqi people."

"Are you sure?" the prince frowned.He knew what that number meant.Under the current level of galactic technology, the risk of electronic consciousness retention is extremely high.Consciousness is entirely dependent on the organ of thought - the brain.Once detached from the brain, there is a high probability that consciousness will collapse and go wrong.This kind of large-scale consciousness retention operation means a large number of deaths in a sense.

The chief gave him an answer. "According to the statistics of the Common Happiness Association, their consciousness preservation operation has a loss rate of about 30%, which means that the consciousness of more than 4 people was destroyed during the extraction process. The Happiness Association did not inform members of these details." Daxi The director's tone was a bit shaky, "The supporter of this technology is the Black Box Society."

More than 4 lives were lost.

Sure enough.The prince said: "Apart from inducing members to illegally retain their consciousness, have they done anything to deal with these consciousnesses?"

"They stored the consciousness of these successfully retained members in the illegal site on Nocturne Mountain."

"Store? Did nothing?"

"Yes, judging from the current records, the Happiness Association is only storing it." Director Daxi said, "If the Happiness Association has not falsified records, these consciousnesses have not undergone any manipulation after being collectively stored."

"..." The prince stood up and took a few steps on the spot.

"What else?" asked the Prince, about the murder of me, for example.

"In addition to this, your Highness collected tax evasion, tax evasion, land occupation, environmental protection and other issues. Of course, thanks to these, we can take action immediately." Director Daxi's eyes flickered, obviously she felt that these things had nothing to do with the illegal activities that had been found out. Consciousness retention is still too small in comparison.

What, the murder of me was not found?

The prince asked again: "The funder behind the Common Happiness Association is the Chongyu tribe. How is the Chongyu tribe's reaction now?"

"Very cooperative." Director Daxi said, "The Zhongyu Tribe handed over the data of the funds in the first place, severed all ties with the Happiness Association, and actively cooperated with us in investigating the case. They demanded a thorough investigation of the Happiness Association."

"..." the prince said, "President Taxi is from the Chongyu tribe, didn't the patriarch say anything?"

"No. The Chongyu tribe implores the Investigation Bureau to conduct a thorough investigation and not let any lawbreakers go."

"Don't you think everything is going too well?"

"Your Highness, what do you mean?"

"Leaving aside the Chongyu tribe, Common Happiness has always had a lot of supporters for its good psychotherapy services. Haven't they even protested now?"

"All members are very cooperative, and no one has acted excessively." Director Daxi's eyes became sharper, "Your Highness, I understand what you mean. I will order people to pay attention to their movements."

"It's a bit too much to confess all the biggest sins hidden by Happiness just because of a financial matter." Even eighteenth-rate novels would not write this way.

"Your Highness, we will continue to investigate."

"Since the consciousness has been extracted, the focus of your investigation should be whether they have used their personal consciousness to cover the bodies of other living people."

"Yes."

The prince sat back at the table, "Director Daxi."

"exist."

"If you were given a chance to retain your consciousness, would you be willing?"

"Your Highness, the body will eventually perish, and everyone is afraid of death. What's more, we Xiyiqi people are currently under the shadow of this terrifying mutation catastrophe." Director Daxi replied: "If you can make your own cognition Retained in some form, I admit, it's hard to refuse. But—" The Siiki woman paused, her hard face showed disdain, "I thought my life was closely related to my free body Inseparable. Not to mention the exaggerated risk rate of this retention technology, digitizing consciousness retention means that they can completely destroy me as long as they smash the memory card, and I don’t like my life being taken care of like this.”

This director is more interesting than imagined.

"Okay." The prince stood up and said, "Let me go meet that President Tasi again."

……

……

President Tasi was locked in a closed single cell.

From the prince's point of view, the culprit who organized the illegal consciousness was a little too calm.When he saw the prince, he still had a smile on his face, as if he could leave here unscathed right away.

"President Tasi, is this what you call psychotherapy?" The prince projected a stack of evidence on the holographic screen, "Using this high-risk retention of consciousness to deceive the public?"

"Deception?" President Taxi smiled, "How can this be deceitful? Just like I told you in advance, I just pointed out the way forward for them."

"High-risk illegal consciousness extraction?"

"His Royal Highness, among our members are dying people who are being eroded by the crimson mutation, and there are also desperate people who have lost hope in life because of the loss of relatives and friends, but now, they know that they will no longer die alone in the dark, It's about being able to live in a different way, and even reunite with their relatives and friends. Isn't this the best psychotherapy?"

This guy is too frank. "This is a heresy prohibited by the Galactic Federation."

"No, the Galactic Federation doesn't understand the pain of our Xiyiqi people at all!! We Xiyiqi people are losing their compatriots every day!! Aliens have no right to interfere with us! The path of the Happiness Society is the people suffering from mutations path of hope."

fart. "30% loss rate." The prince said angrily, "Have you informed those victims? You are committing a massacre!!"

"This is the necessary price for being able to transcend death." President Taxi grinned, "Massacre? No, people who receive consciousness extraction are already dying. Is there any difference between dying early and dying later?"

"Over 4 people have had their consciousness destroyed by you while they were alive."

"But there are also 10 people saved by us. They have passed through death and are about to usher in the coming of common happiness."

Common happiness?What did the prince notice, "Common happiness?? What are you trying to do by centralizing the consciousness of so many people?"

"For the blessing of God Baimang." President Taxi said.

"what?"

"Because it is the sacred place where the first queen descended, just like the song sang." President Taxi's tone rose, "We Xiyiqi people are the chosen people, this is our destined great cause .”

The place where the first queen descended is called Nocturne Mountain, and the storage point of these consciousnesses is also Nocturne Mountain.The prince stared at him, "Is there anything in Nocturne Mountain?"

"Why don't you go and see for yourself?" President Tazi looked at him meaningfully, "Maybe your friend is there too."

my friend--

boom! ! !

The prince suddenly lifted President Taxi up, "What did you say?"

"This is a great cause to save everyone." President Taxi said with a big smile, "We will finally usher in this gift of blessing."

(What did you do to my friend!!)

Xiaozhen suddenly entered a thought order into President Taxi's mind.That was not words, but a coercion of absolute obedience.But President Tassie was still laughing endlessly, his consciousness was a vortex mixed with noise, and there was nothing but harsh, sharp laughter.

"Your Highness??" Director Daxi broke in.

In front of her eyes, President Tasi was thrown heavily against the wall, and he was still laughing wildly.The prince's face was livid and thoughtful.

"Your Highness?"

"Take me to see those extracted consciousnesses." The prince ordered, "Go to Nocturne Mountain."

……

……

Nocturne Mountain, the place where the first queen descended.

This beautiful and majestic mountain is located just southwest of the city.

When they came to the foot of the mountain, the smoke was swaying and rising in the mountains, like the tentacles of the sea creatures spreading everywhere, which came from the cremation furnace beside the mountain.It is a long-standing tradition on the planet to return the dead of Siiki to the arms of the first queen in the Holy Land.

This mountain range is strange and familiar to the prince. The smoke of the dead makes the air turbid. The mountain behind the smoke shows a deliberate irregularity, as if deliberately getting rid of the natural beauty. Wild, grand, Spectacular, let everyone standing at the foot of the mountain naturally feel reverence.

The first queen designated this place as a forbidden area, and with the crematorium nearby, the people of Xiyiqi regarded it as a taboo and would never come here.

Conte said that simply setting foot here would be disrespectful to the Queen by disturbing the dead.Along the way, the young guard exuded an air of fear.

Under the guidance of Director Daxi, they came to an arch at the bottom of the mountain.Gray stones are scattered all around.People from the Happiness Club opened a channel here, and several guards from the Bureau of Investigation were guarding the door.As soon as the prince walked into the corridor and saw the broken patterns on the stone wall, he immediately understood where it was.

Like Mount Tita in Hope Township, this is another relic of a lost civilization.

"The communicator lost its signal," Conte said.Hearing this, Director Daxi picked up the communicator and glanced at it and said, "My signal is gone."

"Well, sure enough." The prince whispered.Both the floor and the stone walls on both sides are carved with fine geometric figures, scenes that seem familiar.

The further he walked, the more he could feel the twist of time and space. "Be careful, it's different here than outside."

Conte asked in confusion: "What?"

The dimensions here show signs of being distorted.Perhaps, this is the reason why the first queen made this place a forbidden area.

There should have been a dead end at the end of the corridor, but when they reached the end, a new road appeared, like a new scene refreshed according to the horizon.Afterwards, they arrived at the secret base of the Happy Society in the mountains.

In the middle of the room, under the faint light curtain, a regular octahedron is slowly rotating in the air.

It is a creation made of white crystal material, and countless fine lines can be vaguely seen all over its surface, and the glow is clear, just like the stars on the vast star map.

"This is--"

"According to the records of the Happiness Club, the successfully extracted consciousness of the members of the Happiness Club is stored in this octahedron."

One hundred thousand consciousnesses.

One hundred thousand souls.

The continuation of one hundred thousand lives.

No, thought the prince looking at the octahedron, it was not just for storage.

This regular octahedron is just the projection of a high-dimensional matter, and the shadow of a high-dimensional device.

These consciousnesses have been involved in an unimaginable set of algorithms, interactions and overlapping probabilities, and all consciousnesses are now in a state of quantum superposition.Each consciousness is an independent universe, and the collection of [-] consciousnesses is equal to the overlapping superposition of [-] universes, countless possibilities that are difficult to count, and the collision of consciousness is like the stardust of the universe.

He could almost imagine the scene inside the octahedron, where countless entangled threads spread across the starry sky, like billions of glistening galaxies, and each silver thread was an elusive possibility.One hundred thousand consciousnesses, one hundred thousand souls, one hundred thousand people who are dreaming, one hundred thousand codes of derivative calculation, they themselves have turned into a chaotic state of superposition state.Countless threads are intertwined with each other, connecting the time gap left by this lost civilization, the past and the future, the present and the parallel present.Just for the second he stood here and stared intently, hundreds of millions of threads of possibility have been derived.It is like the silver thread under the spindle of fate, weaving countless superimposed possibilities into a beautiful and fleeting pattern, just like the tail of a meteor gliding across the sky.

This is an unimaginable collection of quantum superposition states.

It can only be achieved here, only when these one hundred thousand lives are gathered, and only in the relic space where the lost civilization distorts the fourth dimension.

So beautiful, so majestic, yet so fragile.

Chief Daxi asked, "Your Highness, are we going to take it away?" She stretched out her hand to touch the octahedron.

"NO!! DON'T TOUCH IT!"

This is a collection of quantum superposition states of consciousness.It cannot be moved, cannot be observed, once it leaves this place, once it is observed, it will collapse and destroy.

A dream that cannot be broken by outsiders.

There is only a thin line between death and life.

My friend Liu Xingquan, my friend Captain Madara, they are all inside.

Xiao Zhen thought sadly.

Although he was only standing in front of the regular octahedron, Xiao Zhen could still feel the faint fire of consciousness of his two friends, like a small gleam flickering in these one hundred thousand souls.

they are inside.

And I can't do anything.

Nothing can be done.

Any interference with the octahedron from the outside would be a catastrophe.All quantum superpositions of consciousness will dissipate like dry dew.

Nothing can be done.

"Your Highness, what's the matter with you?" Conte asked carefully.

"..."

"Your Highness?"

"Go back." The prince said, "Strictly guard this place. Without my order, no one is allowed to come near." He asked Chief Daxi again and again, and the chief responded one by one.

When they returned to the corridor, the prince walked in front with a sad expression, and Conte and Director Daxi followed behind him without knowing where he was.At this time, two clear dialogues echoed in the corridor.

Conte's voice sounded first. "The communicator has lost signal."

"My signal is gone too." This is Director Daxi's response.

Conte shouted blankly: "I didn't speak just now!!"

Director Daxi said suspiciously: "I didn't say anything, wait a minute, the conversation just now seems to have happened not long ago."

There will be time-warped civilization relics, so the black box will be selected here.

The prince did not speak, he lifted his steps and walked out of the arch.It was night now, the night sky was dotted with stars, two reddish satellites were slowly moving in the mist, Yequ Mountain was still surrounded by the curling smoke of the dead, red, yellow, and silver volatile particles were shining in the mid-air.

When he returned to the palace, Mr. Cat was waiting for him in his room.

"On the second day of being the prince, you finally found out the actual organization of the black box here. You did a good job."

Xiaozhen said: "I know where Liu Xingquan and Captain Madara are."

Mr. Cat: "Yes."

"You already knew, right?" Xiao Zhen said coldly, "Actually, you already knew what the black box would do to Liu Xingquan."

,"I know."

"You know, and then didn't tell me anything."

"Because Liu Xingquan is a very necessary bait."

"Bait?" Zhen said, "Is that how you target my friends?"

"Xiaozhen, I know he is your important friend." Mr. Mao's tone slowed down, "But they have been eyeing Liu Xingquan for a long time. He is the savior of Hope Township, and his identity is destined to be so. There is no way something to avoid."

"I've been eyeing it for a long time. So, you knew it a long time ago, and you deliberately sat back and let the black box kidnap Liu Xingquan, right?"

"This is an opportunity to destroy their plot, so I sent Captain Madara to protect him."

"Yeah, great, you took the life of another friend of mine."

"Xiaozhen, please calm down."

"Calm down? After learning that you deliberately used my friend as a bait, and now put him in such a dangerous situation that no one can save??" Xiaozhen stared at it, "Oh yes, you also caught my other friend friend."

"That's why I didn't tell you at first. Because you couldn't calm down and accept it. Liu Xingquan and Captain Madara..."

"No one can save them, can they?"

"Yes."

"Hehe, anyway, you will always be the unattainable supervisor who keeps secret until the end, right? I don't want to talk to you now, you can go out."

Mr. Cat paused, his tone soft, "They'll be fine, I know."

"go out."

"Xiaozhen..."

"go out!"

Mr. Cat closed his mouth. It glanced at the prince who turned his head away, and left the room without a sound.