Above the Pirate King

It's better to get Archibald out first, and listen to him later!

Immediately, Archibald said seriously, "Now you put your two hands, one hand on the top of the crystal ball, and keep it under the crystal ball. Just do it on both sides, and then exert force with both hands at the same time, and twist it in the opposite direction!!"

Arthur did!

"Crack!"

Immediately, under Arthur's twisting, the crystal ball once again burst into dazzling colorful light!

Immediately afterwards, in the thin tubes connected to the jumping devil fruit inside the crystal ball, the transparent liquid began to flow backwards, and all of them slowly flowed into the devil fruit.

In an instant, the devil fruit stopped beating!

The next moment, a dazzling black light shot out from the Devil Fruit, reflected in front of Arthur through the crystal ball, forming a hole about ten meters in size!

Through the hole, Arthur saw Archibald at a glance!

And seeing this, he was dumbfounded!

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Originally, Arthur thought that a brain in a vat, no matter how big it is, it won't go anywhere!

After all, the brain of a normal person is only that big, even with equipment and the like, it can't be that big!

But looking through the hole, the scale really made Arthur a little surprised and speechless!

First of all, what he saw was a city!

An empty mechanical city with no lights and a slightly gloomy look!

Unlike ordinary cities, this city is not spread out on the ground, but wrapped in a spherical shape. From the sky to the ground, from left to right, from front to back, there are silver-white metal walls full of mechanical sense.

Arthur estimated that the city was at least ten kilometers in size!

And in this city, what surprised Arthur the most was the brain that was almost a kilometer in size in the center of the city!

This brain is no different from the general brain from the outside, but from the countless lines extending to the brain in every corner and direction of this mechanical city, it can be seen that this brain is the center of this mechanical city!

Just as Arthur was looking at the city in surprise.

suddenly!

A white projection appeared at the entrance of the cave!

With a big head, white hair, a thin body, and an old-looking face, Arthur recognized him at a glance. He was the Archibald that Arthur had seen from a blood tester!

"Thank you!" Archibald smiled and saluted after seeing Arthur.

"No!" Arthur waved his hand subconsciously and responded.

"I know you should have a lot of questions now, please come in with me first, let's have a good talk inside!" Archibald's projection turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation!

Seeing his gesture, Arthur walked into the mechanical city without thinking too much.

Soon, under the guidance of Archibald's projection, Arthur passed through a long metal passage, and came to the one-kilometer-sized brain in the center!

"Crack!"

The moment Arthur reached the brain, a metal gate about ten meters long and five meters wide opened in front of the brain.

Then, under the leadership of Archibald, Arthur walked into the metal gate!

As soon as he entered, he looked at another head!

A brain that is similar to the huge brain that Arthur saw from the outside, but with an extra crystal cover, and a brain filled with many unknown liquids!

"This is the real brain in a vat, and it is also Archibald's current body and the center of this mechanical city!" Arthur looked at the brain in front of him, which was also connected with many lines, but it was only the size of a normal human brain. suddenly said.

"Yes, this is the result of my research, and it is also my current body, a brain in a vat!" Archibald listened to Arthur's words, said with a smile, and then made a gesture of invitation, saying , "Come and sit!"

Immediately, a set of metal tables and chairs rose up in front of Arthur!

Seeing this, Arthur pulled out the chair and sat on it, while Archibald sat opposite Arthur.

"I think what you want to ask now is, what is a brain in a vat, right?" Archibald said with a slight smile.

"Hmm!" Arthur was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

Indeed, although he has learned about the brain in a vat from many aspects, and has guessed some by himself, he does not actually have a real cognition, so he really wants to ask what the brain in a vat is!

"Brain in a vat... It starts with the Tik Kingdom six hundred years ago!" Archibald sighed, showing a very humane expression of memories, and said,

"Six hundred years ago, I was the chief scientist of the Kingdom of Tik, and I was best at the research of biology, brain, machinery, and communication. At that time, I carried out many research projects at the same time, one of which was the brain in a vat. !"

"The brain in a vat project was originally initiated because of a brain hole of mine! If a person takes out his brain and puts his brain in a nutrient solution after his body dies but before his brain dies, it can give In the container that provides nutrients to the brain, his activity is always maintained, so is that person alive?"

"Based on this crazy brain hole, I began to study the so-called brain in a vat, to study how to make a person's brain survive in a container filled with nutrient solution!"

"However, when this research was carried out about [-]%, the Tik Kingdom encountered the greatest crisis in history, the attack of the world government, and because of this, the Tik Kingdom was destroyed!"

"As for me, I escaped from the Tik Kingdom after a near-death experience, and escaped for almost ten years before I got rid of the pursuit of the world government and stayed in the safe house where you got the blood tester! "

"I think you have seen what happened later on the projection in the blood tester, so I won't say more!"

"In short, the so-called brain in a vat is actually a technology that uses special equipment and special nutrient solution to keep the human brain alive after the body dies, maintain the ability to think, and make a person live forever in disguise!"

Listening to Archibald's explanation, Arthur nodded.