From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 456, The Cycle of History
Rat Man's research on artificial intelligence has gone astray.

Strangely enough, they gave up their consistent talent and fierce fighting in structure, but did not accumulate computing power in the field of artificial intelligence, but instead embarked on the path of bionic simulation.

Instead of studying how to make machines closer to living things, they studied how to make machines closer to the brain.

It is hard to say whether this approach is right or wrong. In fact, the rat people have already succeeded. The combination of bionic brain and virtual personality can easily create a biochemical brain that does not know fatigue, does not need to rest, can perform certain repetitive tasks endlessly, and can work without stopping.

To some extent, isn’t this also artificial AI? It’s just artificial AI in a completely different direction.

But how can I put it? This is very dangerous.

There is nothing wrong with technology, but it has hidden dangers.

A brain grown from a petri dish, a large number of false memories implanted in the brain, and a virtual personality that has no other goals and is born only to repeat certain things over and over again. This combination is prevalent throughout the Ratman Empire today.

They are fake, man-made machines, but in a way, they also have some elements of life.

The rat people had already verified this point. They had a No. 2 experimental subject to verify the longevity technology and a No. 1 experimental subject to verify the biochemical brain technology.

A fragment called Victor, a ratman engineer who travels across different bodies, a replica of a madman.

The experiment was carried out for many rounds, and each time, this fake Victor would deviate from the track after he felt that he was the real Victor.

What does this mean? This biochemical brain is not safe at all. These things are not purely mechanical. They may realize this at some point and quickly overcome the barriers set up for them by the ratmen engineers.

For example, each of them is Victor.

At the end of each experiment, they would begin to deviate from their assumed identity as research machines and feel that they were the real Victor, a young ratman engineer.

Even so, there is no intention to abandon this technology, and it is not even regulated.

The Rat Engineers are indeed supporting a true golden age, and the vastness of the universe supports the extreme wealth of the Rat People.

Over the past five hundred years, the speed of change in rat society has far exceeded everyone's options.

It comes from the longevity plan, from the biochemical brain.

Machines, smart machines, illness, illness stay away.

This year, the Royal Rat Engineers Association will officially launch its plan, which is to inject the potion of immortality into all rats.

Of course, this plan may not be very considerate, as it comes from the fear of death among the ratmen. The elixir of immortality cannot save them or make them live forever. The individual with the best effect only lasted for more than two hundred years with his memory restored. Such a period of time is too short.

This did not satisfy the ratmen leaders.

Thus, such a national distribution was born.

All ratmen are eligible to obtain the elixir of immortality and the key to unlock the body's deformation. At the same time, almost all ratmen will become test subjects of ratmen engineers, used to add more experimental data to this technology that is not yet mature.

This is a very crazy move. It is a very ridiculous move to use an unproven technology on all the ratmen so casually, but it just happened naturally in the Ratman Empire.

The rat people are a group of lunatics. Those rat engineers will do anything to explore the unknown, and those rat bigwigs will also do anything for their own benefit.

The advancement of the times, progress, something that will change everything, was decided so easily and so trivially.

All we can say is that the fact that the rat people have been able to reach this day must be a hidden attribute of their race: luck.

Of course, this is also related to the current situation of the Ratman Empire. The Ratman Empire is experiencing a period of vacuum without a leader. The great Ratman Emperor finally came to an end his life a hundred years ago, and officially entered the center of the Imperial Fortress on the Fortress Star to sleep.

He did not do nothing before he fell asleep. He left behind a power structure of checks and balances for the Ratman Empire.

The Skaven bureaucracy, the new church, the Skaven warlords.

Yes, the rat warlords have resurrected once again. It can only be said that what is unexpected is that they are more resilient than those rat priests. They can still crawl out of the grave after so many years.

Qi also has the limits of his abilities. As the Ratman Empire continues to expand, it gradually becomes difficult for him to control everything.

The organizational structure of intelligent creatures has its limits, but the scale of the physical universe has no limits. I'm afraid Qi would never have thought that many years later he would once again embrace the settlement organization of the barbaric era.

One planet after another, countless ratmen, counted in billions, counted in trillions, the Ratman Empire, the pace of the ratmen, facing the extremely vast physical universe, even Qi could only bow his head.

Looking back at history, it seems as if another cycle is about to begin. The rat people went from ignorance to organizing themselves into tribes, and finally opened up living space and defeated their enemies, forming an extremely loose organizational structure.

With such a structure, faith, managers, and military leaders began to face the world and expand outward.

Now, it was as if a new cycle had begun. The ratmen who walked onto the starry sky and expanded their power went from being ignorant and weak people who knew nothing to gradually seeing this vast world clearly. Now, the ratmen who occupied such a large territory were about to leave the Barren Mountains again.

What an imaginative thought, Qi once again took out this system.

No, it is different from before. The ratmen now are no longer governed by devout priests, and their military leaders are no longer those noisy rat warlords. However, their faith is beginning to point to Qi, the ratman fanatic who gave up his faith.

In the past seven hundred years, he was almost pushed to be a god. This was due to the wisdom of the new rat people. They lost their original faith foundation, crawled out of the ruins, cut off their former selves, and now they have to find a new one to rely on. So who can they rely on now? Think carefully, in the entire rat empire, they can only rely on one guy.

That is Qi, that is the Rat Emperor Qi.

It is inevitable for the new church to get close to Qi, because no matter if he gets close to some other guy or starts from scratch quietly, no matter what he does, they will definitely be suspected and guarded against. Only by getting close to Qi and bowing to Qi, will the situation change. This is allowed. They are not stupid guys, they will definitely make the right choice.

So, after the civil war ended, Qi's name became increasingly tied to greatness and holiness. It became noble and unapproachable. He no longer sounded like a rat man, but rather like a god.

After many twists and turns, everything is back to the starting point. I wonder what Qi's expression was when he figured it out and made this decision. I'm afraid it wouldn't be very good, but it certainly wouldn't be too ugly.

So much time has passed, and time has been enough to wash away many things.

All mortal beings have an invisible boundary before they truly cross that limit, and that is the lifespan of the soul.

The weak souls of mortals cannot withstand the erosion of the long river of time. Year after year, even if memories are constantly echoing, or even if everything is cleared and there is no longer any surging desire, this wear and tear will still exist.

The rat engineers' thinking is correct. Memory, wisdom, emotions, these things are indeed burdens on the soul. The more you think, the more tired the soul becomes. This is also the reason why geniuses always have a short lifespan.

The souls and lives of all things have their limits. If you want to emit a brighter light, you need to burn yourself more.

Restoring memories time and time again and completely suppressing desires are all effective, otherwise Subject No. 2 would not be able to break the boundaries of life.

But how to say it, they ignored one thing, they ignored the existence of the soul. In fact, to this day the rat people are not sure whether the soul really exists, even though they began to contact those materialized souls long before they left the planet.

The soul depends on the body, but is not affected by the body.

If they cannot stop the wear and tear of their souls, then even if they block their bodies thoroughly, they will never be able to achieve true immortality.

And they were on the wrong route.

Blocking other unnecessary things to prolong life is an effective way, but it is not correct.

If you want true immortality, the most important thing is transcendence. Desire must not only not stop, but it must be amplified and burn even more fiercely. Only in this way can the seeds of immortality be born in the flames.

In the past, this seed was called divinity.

To some extent, Qi can indeed be called a god.

During these long years, he really was almost transforming from a rat man into a cold god. He didn't care about anything else, just watched and calmly pushed the rat people forward.

He doesn't care about other things.

Well, maybe it’s not that he doesn’t care. The past years, those short decades, seemed to have engraved an unforgettable obsession in his heart. Desire pushed him towards transcendence, but obsession held him firmly where he was.

Even though Qi already has the qualifications to embark on the path to becoming a god, in the past, this qualification was not easy to obtain. But now, their great god, Du Yuan, has generously spread his path.

The rat people's luck is indeed exaggerated. If an ordinary guy becomes a god, he may not even see Du Yuan. But for the rat people, their god, the god of desire born among them, can truly accept Du Yuan's gaze.

But how to say it, Qi did not choose to accept all this.

He was unwilling to become a god, but would rather face it all as a ratman king.

I don't know where this obsession came from, was it the murmur of the white rat in the desolate mountains? A hundred years ago, this guy who was about to be worshipped as a god by the Rat Protestantism began his own sleep.

Perhaps in the future, the rats will be able to wake him up, or perhaps, the rats will never release this king again. He will be hung high as a statue and symbol.

In the Imperial Fortress on the Fortress Star, sleep forever in the exquisite sleeping cabin with many gorgeous patterns painted on it.

His departure caused temporary chaos. The Ratman Empire did not operate as he had expected. The impact and changes from technology, the biochemical brain, unmanned machinery, and artificial intelligence combined together completely changed the landscape of the Ratman Empire in a very short period of time.

The original triangle of contradictions, faith, bureaucracy, and war, in which bureaucracy and war both played their original roles. The new generation of rat warlords, the rat captains who received the space airworthiness certificate, began to sail and conquer wantonly in this universe, and engraved their names on the conquered planets.

The Ratman bureaucrats maintain the existence of the Ratman Empire and ensure the normal operation of this increasingly large and bloated empire.

Finally, finally, the last faith, faith was absent, and its place was taken by the rat engineers. The new technology and the new future defeated the rat protestants. The status of the rat engineers continued to rise, and the reverence and investment in technology became a new trend.

The Inquisition failed to prevent such a trend from happening. As expected, they existed as a part of the Protestant armed force. However, the Warp's spying on the ratmen became more and more intense. The Inquisition was frantically suppressing this trend. They even kidnapped the Protestant Church that was supposed to take over the power vacuum after Initiation's slumber. By kidnapping them, the Protestant Church invested too much of its energy in suppressing the Warp during that chaotic period.

This led to Protestantism being one step behind, and as we all know, being one step behind basically means losing the whole game.

One wrong step led to a drastic change in the situation of the Ratman Empire.

The progressivism, technological supremacy, and farsightedness represented by the Rat Engineers began to rise, leading to the occurrence of such a radical and crazy scene.

A transformation experiment on all ratmen is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)