dark moon

Chapter 429 Reincarnation
The eighth floor of the Tower of Babel is a dimly lit space. There are less than twenty rooms on the floor. The interior space of the room is large, but almost all of it is filled with machinery. Machines of different sizes make the room filled with only There is a space for a treatment bed at the door. Almost as soon as people enter the door, they will lie down on the treatment bed.

A dozen robotic arms hung down from the top of the room. Various surgical tools were installed on the top of the robotic arms, which looked creepy.However, according to the shadow chasers' understanding of the world and Wei's introduction, similar treatment beds are all in this shape. It is not that the mechanical camp is particularly scary. It will feel scary, just because it is rare and there are many strange ones.

Maximilian did not bring the shadow chasers to watch in the reincarnation room. It is said that although the reincarnation ceremony does not require a sterile environment, it must be dust-free. Shadow chasers who are not wearing special work clothes are not allowed to enter. However, he still put the chasers in the reincarnation room. The shadow casters were brought to a small room. Several light screens on the wall showed the images in the reincarnation room.

Within a few minutes, the first group of pilgrims were brought to the treatment bed in the reincarnation room. Soon, these people fell into a coma. According to Maximilian, this was the last sleep for the pilgrims. When they When they wake up again, they either successfully reincarnate into a mechanical body, or they lose part of their consciousness and become a defective body with incomplete consciousness, and they don't even know who they are.

"The next scene will be a little bloody. Are you sure you want to continue watching?" Maximilian glanced at Delia and asked Shuer, "The basic process is to open the skull, take out the chip carrying the memory, and at the same time, Consciousness is uploaded to the artificial thinking system. The process of uploading thoughts and deriving memories is mainly carried out in the electronic network. If you just look at it, you can only see the process of opening the skull and taking out the chip, but not anything substantial. .”

"I actually have a question." Xiure tapped his thigh and asked with a frown, "The so-called memory chip should be used to carry memories. In this case, why do people on the floating city die from life after accidental death? When the archives revives, do we have to re-introduce memories and forget everything that happened in recent years?"

"Because people are dead."

"Huh?" Shuer asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"The people who can be resurrected from the Life Archives are all humans who died abnormally. They have experienced the pain of dying, and their consciousness also thinks that they are dead. If they are not allowed to completely forget the fact that they have died, even if they replace the copied body, they will be able to resurrect. If awakened, they will die again the moment they are awakened. This is an instinctive reaction of the body and there is no way to change it. Therefore, the backup memory can only be overwritten once to make the consciousness forget the fact that they have died. In fact, there is a solution. For example, if you back up your memory once a day, you will lose the memory of that day even if you die. But unfortunately, with the current technology, every time you back up your memory, it will have a great impact on the memory chip. A new memory chip will only back up two copies. It will be damaged after about ten times, so the above habit is generally only done once every three to five years to prevent the chip from being damaged before the life is over."

"Well, since the damage to the backup memory is so great, why not directly erase the memory of this period from the chip? This is much more convenient than the backup memory."

"It's not possible with existing technology. Overall coverage is simple, but selectively deleting memories is many times more difficult." Maximilian shook his head and said, "The probability of direct chip damage is extremely high, and no one dares to do so. Not even our machines would dare to do this."

"What will happen if it is damaged?" Shuer asked, "Will it lose its memory?"

"It's not that simple. The application of this technology has been popularized many years ago, probably nearly a thousand years ago. Every child will be installed with a memory chip as soon as he is born. It was originally intended to assist memory and enhance learning ability. In recent years, It took ten years to apply it to the field of resurrection. Long-term reliance on memory chips has caused part of the functions of the human brain to be replaced by memory chips. If the memory chip is damaged, the brain will lose its ability to think and become a pure idiot."

"Eh? Can't you replace it with a new one?" Moria asked curiously, "Or try to repair it?"

"Unfortunately, it cannot be replaced. The brain is a very unique organ. The memory chip it can recognize is unique. Other chips cannot recognize it at all, and other people's memories cannot be imported into this chip."

"Huh, interesting." Shuer raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully, "Just like a soul can only adapt to one body?"

Several shadow chasers looked at each other, which was very interesting. Parvatija's life science research results showed that the soul is the soul, the memory is the memory, the body stores the memory, and the soul and the body complete thinking activities together, which is completely It's two different things. Generally, there will be no loss of thinking ability after memory is erased.However, in this world, the two are entangled. Either the two worlds are different, or there are other hidden secrets in this technology.

"Wei."

"Your Excellency, Commander, it's very strange." Wei's volume was very low, ensuring that only Shuer could hear it. "There is indeed chip manufacturing technology in the data, but there is no scalable research, no, not even basic research data. None, it’s like the technology came out of nowhere.”

"Oh, I know." It seems that there is indeed a secret behind this, but Xiuer does not intend to ask. After all, it has nothing to do with the purpose of the shadow chasers. Xiuer no longer dwells on the problem of the memory chip and turns to Rao. He looked at the bloody scene on the light screen with interest, and of course, he blindfolded Delia.

The operation on the treatment bed was very fast. In a short time, the pilgrim's skull had been sawed open, and the brain under the skull was exposed to the air.In the middle of the slightly beating brain, a prism-shaped crystal the size of a thumb seems to have been integrated with the brain. Many blood vessels extend from the brain and cover the surface of the brain, making the two inseparable.At the same time, there were no pilgrims on the other light screen. There was only a spherical metal body the size of a human head fixed on the operating table. It should be the head of a mechanical body, but it was not finely processed and its appearance could not be seen.

On the display screen in the room where the metal body was located, various data scrolled upwards at a rapid speed, so fast that even the dynamic strength of the shadow chasers could not be clearly seen. After staring for a while, I felt dizzy, and finally had to give up.

"This is uploading thoughts. It's a very complicated process. I actually don't understand the content of the data very well." Maximilian stared at the light screen nervously and said, "His reincarnation process has been very smooth so far. It is considered a good one." At the beginning, I hope that these pilgrims will all be reincarnated successfully, and more than 20 companions can be added at one time, which has not happened for many years."

"Where can things go wrong?"

"It's now." Maximilian said without looking back, "The process of uploading thoughts is the most prone to problems, followed by the introduction of memory chips."

"Have you not tried to strengthen research in this area and improve the success rate?" Shuer asked pointedly, "Including humans, if it were us, we would definitely do our best to research the breakthrough of memory chips. Technology, this is equivalent to extending their lifespan, but they don’t do this, ha, it’s very strange.”

"It's not surprising that neither of us can research because all related technologies have been sealed by the Supreme Master Brain. He said that this technology will not help our current situation, but will instead drag us down. Although we don't know the reason, the Supreme Master Brain is not There will be mistakes, so everyone is willing to obey the orders of the Supreme Master Brain, and no one will touch the relevant research. As for humans, the technologies they left behind have been screened by the Supreme Master Brain. There is no basic research, and they want to make breakthroughs. , you can only start from scratch.”

"No wonder." Xiure squinted his eyes with a half-smile. Although he didn't say a word, his brain was spinning rapidly.

In the picture on the light screen, the mechanical arm finally successfully peeled off the prismatic crystal from the brain, and quickly passed it to the next room where the metal sphere was placed. The metal on the skull of the metal sphere bounced upwards, revealing the dense wires and circuits inside, and a Clearly reserved slots for inserting prismatic crystals.The robotic arm inserted the prism into the slot accurately, the head-shaped sphere was re-sealed, and current began to flash through the position of the visual collector.

"Huh?" Xiu Er was taken aback, looked at Maximilian beside him and asked, "You also use memory chips to store memory? I thought it was using special mechanical equipment."

"It is not impossible to simply use electronic equipment to store memories, but the success rate is astonishingly low and it is too impractical. Directly using memory chips is the most convenient and safest way. Maybe in the future, after the Supreme Mastermind lifts the technical ban, it will It will develop to that point, but it can only be like this temporarily." Maximilian said helplessly, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with using memory chips. Its shell is very strong and not easy to be damaged from the outside. In this way Even if our bodies are destroyed, we can recycle the chips and replace them without losing memory or damaging the chips like humans do. In a sense, we are immortal."

"But, the import you just mentioned, didn't you import the memory in the memory chip into your system?"

"No, on the contrary, because it is made for the human body, it is necessary to introduce a modification program into it and adjust its settings so that it can work normally without the human body. It is precisely because of the need to modify it that it can easily cause it It was damaged and turned into a mutilated body."

"I understand." Shuer whispered to himself, and began to tap his thigh again and fell into a trance. No one knew what he was thinking, but everyone knew that whenever he entered this state, it meant that he had to make a decision. .

The eyes of the metal head have lit up, and text for communication has begun to appear on the screen. This means that the reincarnation of the first pilgrim has been successfully completed. However, Shuer has lost interest in this. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly asked : "You several centers said that you want to sit down and talk with us, which is no problem, but I want to know what your purpose is."

"Just in time, this is what the centers want to know." Maximilian's visual collector finally moved away from the screen and turned to Shuer's face, "What do you want?"

"We? Hehe, we want to go to the top and communicate directly with the mastermind."

　It was difficult to control the pace. The Reincarnation Ritual was supposed to end in three chapters, but it ended up in five chapters.Fortunately, it is finally over, and there is no tragedy like Yara, which often involves dozens of chapters with one plot.Alas, changing habits is such a troublesome thing. I hope I can become more and more proficient at it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)