Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1164 Personal Accident
"Hmm? Good morning, Your Excellency the King of Rome. Are we going to carry out our mission?"

“???” Shangluo’s expression became strange.

"Eh? Your Excellency the King of Rome, what's wrong with you?"

"Do you remember the last thing? Do you remember what happened before you woke up?"

Titus went, but Titus never came back.

The signal about Titus disappeared completely after the tram he was riding stopped. According to the management, Phaethon redeployed Titus locally, but the result shocked them greatly:

"I have been assigned a mission to support Her Majesty Victoria and am heading to Edo."

"No, you've been there." Phaethon stood beside him, staring at him.

"I've been there? I don't have any memory of it! Wait, I have a recording device on me. Eh? Where's my body? Why is my consciousness in the space of Cyberlania? Wait! Could it be that I..."

"You think you're dead, don't you?" Phaethon pressed his forehead. "But what's happening now may be more terrible than death - your continuity is interrupted. If it was just death, it would be easy to deal with. We can just resurrect you in Cyberlania. However, your memory cannot be carried over from the moment before your death. This means that what we are activating here is the last mark you left in Cyberlania, not the complete you."

All signs indicate that Titus is in great danger in Edo. Even the newly activated backup has discovered:

"It's over! What you activated was my separated soul! It's my backup! What about my real body? Didn't it come back with me?"

This backup was what the Romans relied on to escape from the cycle of life and death - the soul essence of these phlogiston soldiers had already separated from their bodies. Because the essence was not in the body, the destruction of the body would not lead to the extinction of the soul.

When the physical body is destroyed, their true spirit will fly directly into the soul essence of Cyberlania and be reborn in cyberspace. The whole ship of people that Shangluo picked up, who died suddenly due to the huge pressure difference of phlogiston, were resurrected in this way.

In this way, the deep-rooted Romans would not die so easily. If conditions permit, they can even be resurrected on the spot. Instead of leaving from Cypernia, they can use various methods to take effect directly in the local area.

For example, the Hydra troops like him used a multi-headed approach to disperse and store the "consensus" of Titus's self-consciousness locally. When one of the individuals was annihilated, the consensus of the other individuals could directly fill it in and maintain the continuity of consciousness. The key means to make all this feasible is to "taint" the uniqueness of the soul through the blood of the Titan creation Hydra, making the soul replicable. Because this model based on complementarity requires multiple identical souls to be connected to each other.

However, this mechanism has failed for Titus. The part of his soul that he separated has lost contact and can only be connected to the archive it left in Cyberlania.

This "archive" does not have self-awareness in essence, it is just a little bit of true spirit. Just like the wisp of consciousness of Zhang Sanfeng who served as an instruction manual for Shangluo before, it is just the result of the main body being divided into spirits - as for how to divide the spirits, this is still the gift of Xudela's blood. Xudela, who has nine heads, has the ability to disperse his consciousness into nine brains, so that the self-identity of all brains remains consistent.

"Wait, which Titus is that?" Shangluo asked Phaethon next to him.

"It's the most important 'Raven', the one closest to the essence of all the clones. If this one is gone, the other Titus would probably be in extreme pain now. Wait, let me ask."

Phaethon went outside to a place with good signal and dialed the number. In a few minutes, she came back.

"Your guess is correct. The remaining Titus seem to have suffered a huge mental shock and entered a state of suspended animation, with no signs of recovery. Some of them can't even be contacted."

"We are in trouble." Vidulia's voice came out, "Is there anyone here who can kill the Phlogiston Submersible? Is the magic ineffective?" "I think there is such a possibility." Shang Luo touched his chin, "Perhaps, Xu Fu secretly used magic to suppress his soul, making it impossible for him to return."

"Is there still such a spell?"

"Yes." Shang Luo nodded. "Similar spells are very common in the Conferred God War - for example, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation can directly make his soul fly away. However, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation requires immortals and magic weapons. Although Xu Fu's style of doing things makes it possible for him to set up the formation, it seems difficult for him to set up such a high-level formation by himself. Or, he may have obtained the Hunyuan Golden Bowl."

"What's that?"

"It is a magic weapon of the island immortals, not the Kunlun immortals. Theoretically, Xu Fu is in the territory of the island immortals, and he may really have the Hunyuan Golden Bowl in his hand. As long as Xu Fu uses magic to cut off the three flowers on his head, his immortality magic will probably be ineffective."

"So he's really dead???" Victoria couldn't believe it. This was an elite operator of the Roman Empire, one of the few internal guards he knew well, how could he die here?
[Excuse me, I don't think we should jump to the conclusion that he's dead. We should first find a way to rescue Titus.]

"Can it be rescued?" Shangluo asked.

[We can only think so. What remains here is only a trace of consciousness, not the real body. This trace of consciousness is only used to recover souls. It is very unstable. The more you think about it, the easier it is to dissipate. If you think it is necessary, we should try to save Titus.]

"Need I say more? Of course we have to save him." Shang Luo answered without hesitation, "Let's not talk about friendship and cooperation. Just for the safety of the operation itself, we must ensure that he can come back safe and sound. Otherwise, how can we capture Xu Fu? If one person dies when we go up, then even if we put all our extraordinary powers into it, it will probably be useless. And..."

Shang Luo looked out the window and said, "This means Xu Fu has appeared. If we don't take action now, when will we take action?"

【Do you want to go in person? 】

"No, I'll just watch. But let everyone who can go go, and I'll be the reserve. Xu Fu has already revealed his whereabouts, right where the tram stopped. Let's go there now."

"Hmm?" Titus suddenly felt his body lighten. "Strange, how come I'm flying?"

The next second, he saw the dim lights of the tram he was riding in. He also saw with his own eyes that the conductor lowered his head and took out the sign.

"Why am I outside the car! Am I not sitting in the car? My butt."

"Your butt? It shouldn't hurt anymore." The old man in black robe suddenly appeared behind him. "Your butt is under the bus. This bus has been suspended due to a personal accident. And you are already dead."

"Impossible! I can only be killed on public transportation! This is my fate!"

"Your fate is under my power."

"Then you can't kill me!" Titus refused to believe that he was dead, "My soul has been divided into 9 parts!"

"Three souls and seven spirits, right? Including the archive, there are 10 in total. The three souls are Taiguang, Shuangling and Youjing. Taiguang is the one who wants to live forever, Shuangling is the one who wants to serve the country, and Youjing is the one who wants to eat dog meat noodles. Guess which one you are?"

(End of this chapter)