dark moon

Chapter 423 Mechanical Sincerity

A pilgrim team of more than 20 people walked quietly in the deserted city full of machinery. Every pilgrim was barefoot, and the soles of their feet were on the ground, contaminated by sand, cut by gravel, and bloody. Mixed with mud, the soles of their feet were covered, but the pilgrims gritted their teeth and persisted. Their firm will gave the group a sense of ascetic pilgrimage.

All the pilgrims wore no clothes and walked naked in the sun. However, compared with the initial coquettishness, after the process of meditating on the grace of God, these people seemed to have really figured it out, and their behavior changed. Generous and comfortable, as if he has really turned into a mechanical body and is no longer troubled by the unique shyness of humans.

"We didn't change their thinking, which even the Supreme Mastermind can't do. We just used psychological suggestions to further strengthen their faith while they meditated on divine grace and opened their hearts, allowing them to abandon their bodies and join our will. More determined."

"Hmm...is there any difference?"

"The essential difference is that if you want to strengthen their will, first of all, they need to have this idea. If they don't want to join us at all, no amount of psychological hints from us will be of any use. Secondly, we need them to trust us and take the initiative to open up their Mind, so that we can help them strengthen their will. After all, this is not mind reading. Even if they don't open their mind, we have no way of knowing. In this way, the steps to help them strengthen their will will lose their due effect."

"Huh?" Shuer frowned, "Help them?"

"Yes, Mr. Seure, maybe you think that these steps are done for ourselves." The Maximilian humanoid smiled humanely and shook his head, "From a certain perspective, this is not wrong. , but the main purpose is to help themselves. The final reincarnation ceremony is not as easy as imagined. It is a very complicated and dangerous process, and it will fail if you are not careful."

"Well, then you become a defective species?" Shuer said thoughtfully, "No wonder there are far more defective species than your members."

"So you also know about the defective species." The Maximilian humanoid was stunned for a second or two, and the processing device responded, "It seems that Mr. Seure knows more than what we analyzed."

"Oh, it's just a coincidence. It's a matter of luck. It's a matter of luck." Xiure smiled mysteriously. He was telling the truth, but the expression he made made people think that this sentence was meaningful.

"Well, it doesn't matter if it's a coincidence or not. Since we've already talked about this topic with you, we don't intend to hide it anymore. Indeed, once the reincarnation ceremony fails, it will lead to incomplete uploading of thoughts and loss of a lot of data in the middle. Those reincarnated in this way are only the so-called defective species, which do have part of human consciousness, but it is very incomplete, only slightly better than artificial intelligence, we cannot treat such members as the same kind, we can only divide them separately."

"Why did it fail?" Xiuer asked, "Can't we improve the technology and increase the success rate of transformation?"

"These previous steps were carried out in order to increase the success rate." Maximilian pointed forward, "The Tower of Babel is here, let's go in and talk about it." In fact, Xiu Er had already noticed it without his reminding, after all A huge tower stands in front of it, even if you want to ignore it, it is difficult.

Observing when entering and exiting, the Tower of Babel is taller than expected. The height is estimated to be more than 400 meters. The top reaches straight into the clouds, looming, making the tower full of mystery.The bottom of the tower occupies a large area, covering one or two square kilometers. The tower is covered with windows and is divided into obvious levels. A rough count shows that there are about forty or fifty floors.

Shuer suddenly had a strange idea. Fortunately, the levels were counted from top to bottom. If it were the other way around, Maximilian and the others would probably have a lot of trouble introducing them. Imagine, I am from the seventh floor of 130... ...No, it's the sixth floor of 130... Wait, let me count, okay, I'm Maximilian from the fifth floor of 130. Well, just thinking about it makes me feel stupid.

"Uh, Mr. Seure, is there any problem?" The strange smile on Seure's mouth puzzled Maximilian, "Or do you have any other opinions?"

"No, no, no, it's nothing. In our world, because the usable area of ​​the ground is many times larger than that of Brown Star, the architectural style is more inclined to plane expansion. In this way, only some special buildings, such as the Mage Tower, can be expanded three-dimensionally. So it's a little strange to see it." The honest character of the clergy?It doesn't exist, Shuer replied smoothly without blinking, "However, every world and every different civilization has its own style. We have also encountered strange races that built cities deep in the ground, so It’s nothing, I just lost my temper temporarily.”

What's so strange about us dwarves?Xiure seemed to hear someone's silent roar. It must be an illusion. Well, just ignore it.

"That's good. I'm worried that you have any special taboos." After the pilgrims entered, the door of the Tower of Babel closed automatically. Maximilian quickly took two steps forward and stood in front of the door, using his eyes. Aiming at the equipment on the side of the door, a few seconds later, the door opened again. He turned around and asked slightly hesitantly, "Mr. Seure, please come in, uh... Excuse me, do you need me to keep the tower door open for a while?" "

"Ha..." Xiure paused in his advance, turned around and looked at Maximilian up and down with a half-smile. The two of them kept this posture for more than ten seconds before he chuckled and said, "You are seriously?"

"Yes." There was not much expression on Maximilian's metallic face, but his tone was very sincere. "We really hope to have such an opportunity to communicate with civilizations from other worlds, so we do so with full sincerity. The invitation sent out and everything I said to you before are all true. Oh, remember that Mr. Seure chose the method of making an oath just now. Is this a very common method of commitment in cross-border communication? Then I can do the same..."

"No, this is only an effective way of making a promise to the clergy - well, that is, people like us - and the target of the oath must be the true God. Of course, what the true God is can be discussed later. However, if before If you have never done this before, there is no need." Shure waved his hand, interrupting Maximilian's oath, "I have a question, if you put us in undefended like this, aren't you worried about what we will do?"

"I don't want to hide it. I know the purpose of human beings, including the purpose of the girl named Delia. We can also roughly guess the purpose, but we are not actually worried about these. On the one hand, according to the control center and calculation center I presume that you are someone we can communicate with. As long as we show our sincerity, you will not rashly do something that may easily cause conflicts. On the other hand, even if you really intend to do this, at most it will only destroy our relationship. The system in the [-]th Tower Area cannot have an impact on the Supreme Master Brain, because if you want to contact the Supreme Master Brain, unless he takes the initiative to contact you, you can only enter the top floor. It is a forbidden area that even we cannot enter. I think you can even No matter how powerful we are, we can’t force our way in, so we have nothing to worry about.”

(End of this chapter)