High Above

  Chapter 637 Exoskeleton armor and the weight of inheritance (7800)

   Obviously, this is a match.

  The soul-grabbing ability of the dead king is essentially aimed at the souls of those "people" who recognize their consensus. After people die, they store those artificial souls in their own bodies to form various structures.

  After the evolution of this soul-grabbing ability, in the future of the spiritual disaster path, in the generation of the gods of Terra, it evolved into the "attraction ability".

At that time, no matter where the deceased was in Terra, or for whatever reason, as long as he signed a contract with a certain dead king, or believed in a certain spirit god, after his death, his soul would be destroyed. The power of the spirit **** was protected and sent into the core of the spirit god.

However, those who are not believers, have no consensus, and have not carried out soul shaping on the way of spiritual disaster, their souls cannot join any spiritual **** because their souls have an irregular shape in the original ecology. ', just waiting to float in the virtual world and nature, waiting for nature to dissipate.

  At that time, people often blamed the gods angrily, why the souls of the unbelievers were not protected, and the gods just watched them dissipate indifferently...

   To be honest, this is purely technical.

Leaving aside the fact that human souls have been dissipated in this way for countless years in the past, in the age of the gods, if you choose to follow the consensus of a spirit god, that is, believe in this spirit god, you will gradually convert your soul into one that is compatible with that spirit god. The appearance of spirit and spirit.

   In this way, they can join the other party's collective after death, and fit together to form a structure of the kingdom of God that will not dissipate.

  This is a hard condition. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, the shapes don't match up, is it hard to plug it?

The soul of an unbelievers is not in any shape, and it cannot fit the structure of any spirit god—you must know that because of the similar consensus among spirit gods, believers can actually keep each other temporarily for a period of time, and when the time comes, they can hand it over to each other , This is also the reason why many subordinate gods and great gods will take shape in the future age of the gods.

  By the way, it is also a belief to firmly want to build a better future and lead the people to live a better life. It is also a consensus to firmly reject the existence of the gods and think that the generations of gods are a mistake.

   Some spirits and gods are rushing to ask for it.

In the future of the path of spiritual disasters, the souls of Terra people have basically been standardized. Just from the shape of the virtual spirit body, you can tell who the believers are and which consensus approvers they are. Basically, there is nothing Ian now sees these 'unowned ectoplasmic aggregates'.

   But now, big guy, even Ian's soul is like this ball.

   And the new ability of the silver chip...

   "This is the first time I've encountered masterless source quality."

  Ian thought about it: "Perhaps, it already has such a power? It's just that I never triggered it, so it's only showing up now?"

   It's possible, but it doesn't matter.

The two 'calculation units' and 'supply units' that appeared in front of Ian formed a triangular structure, and they were linked together to form the simplest 'auxiliary calculation module' to assist Ian in speeding up calculations of various problems .

  Because it comes with a supply unit, this module doesn’t even require Ian’s daily effort to maintain it, as long as he occasionally finds some psionic materials to recharge it.

   "My computing speed... Well, although it is not as good as my main control terminal back then, at least it has the computing power of a general high-end intelligent host, and it can carry a rudimentary artificial intelligence."

  Ian immediately began to study with great interest.

  The calculation unit transformed from a silver chip is essentially a pure ectoplasmic computing structure, which is very sophisticated and complex, and has high requirements on the quality of ectoplasmic matter. The second energy level is the minimum bottom line.

   Even so, among the three second-level powerhouses killed by Ian, one of the soul quality did not meet the standard and could only be used as a supply unit for energy supply.

  Its computing power is actually very low compared to the second-level sublimation as the raw material. After all, there are two second-level sublimators! Add up to a high-energy smart host?

  Ian suspects that the Setar Empire has long been able to produce hosts with similar computing power, otherwise, it would not be able to cultivate its own combat artificial intelligence.

   Purely in terms of computing power, there is no advantage except that it can directly assist Ian's brain acceleration with the soul state.

  But Ian noticed that this calculation unit comes with a set of logical calculation methods...

   In other words, its algorithm is extremely advanced, and it can handle many problems that would cause general intelligence to crash—at least, it won’t be like the combat intelligence of the Setar Empire, which can’t even tell the enemy apart.

   Moreover, Ian discovered that this calculation unit seems to be able to be brought into the material world.

As long as an ordinary spiritual environment is created in the material world, after being transformed by a silver chip, a computing unit with a very stable structure can exist for a long time, and if there is a supply unit to supply energy, it can even serve as an extremely useful mobile computing power provider device.

  The problem is... If it were Earth, such a portable main-level computing device might have many uses, but on Terra, what else can use its computing power?

  Ian can answer exactly that question.

"artificial intelligence…"

  The young man muttered to himself in the void: "The third-generation artificial intelligence I copied in the armored training base...Because it cannot be miniaturized, there is still a difficult auxiliary combat artificial intelligence in actual combat!"

   "And now—I've sidetracked this problem!"

  Ian suddenly discovered that all this was a match made in heaven! Whether it is the dead king, the artificial intelligence or the silver chip, maybe they all have the same source from the beginning!

  Obviously, both the calculation unit and the supply unit are components manufactured by the silver chip to assist itself in calculation and completion of tasks.

  If according to normal logic, if you want to improve yourself, then Ian should continue to hunt and kill the existence of the second energy level and others, turning their souls into his own parts.

   But to be honest... isn't this the dead king?

  This is also the reason why Ian felt a little weird at first, and subconsciously felt that this ability matched the dead king...because the two are actually exactly the same in essence!

   It would be better to say, because the developer of the Dead King technology, Grand Duke Sorin, originally inherited the spiritual fire plan of his teacher Inaiga II, and Inaiga II was the holder of the silver chip of the previous generation...

   "The silver chip is the prototype of the dead king and the spirit god, and the dead king can even be said to be just a poor imitation of the silver chip."

The silver chip converts the ectoplasm of the unowned soul into special response units, just like making raw materials into corresponding chips and industrial products, while Grand Duke Sorin's artificial soul is just to make the souls of ordinary people into regular stones, It is convenient to pile up into a castle.

  However, the raw materials of the former are extremely rare, even if the emperor wants to get too much, it is not easy.

  The latter has developed a technology that allows all intelligent life in this world to have a soul.

  The two complement each other, and it is hard to say that the two are not related.

  That's Ian's opinion, and probably true.

  Inaika II must have noticed the ability of the silver chip long ago, but he also knew that even if everyone in the world except himself was killed, enough souls would probably be there, and they would not be able to break through the Star Prison.

   After all, on the road of spiritual disaster, Ian raised the souls of all the people in the entire Terra continent, and the power of the Void Breeding Evil did not fly out.

  With the amount of souls of all beings on Terra decades ago, this ability is meaningless at all.

  That's why Inaiga II used the power of the silver chip as a prototype to design the sparkling spaceship plan of the Spirit Tinder.

   But he obviously didn't solve the technical problem of how to transform the unowned psychic matter or soul into related 'units' without relying on the silver chip.

  And the most important unit source, that is, the problem of unowned ectoplasm has not been resolved.

  The Grand Duke Sorin inherited Inaiga's unfinished last wish, and through man-made souls, manufactured a large number of souls with corresponding shapes in advance, bypassing this technical problem, and achieved the "dead king".

  So the soul-grabbing ability that comes with the dead king's ability can cooperate with the silver chip... Maybe it's not a coincidence.

  It is a family that has been passed down for two generations, or even more generations, and finally gathered in the hands of Ian...

   Technological breakthrough.

At this moment, Ian really felt the weight of a kind of inheritance—it was precisely because of the research of the predecessors and the accumulation of relevant results that he, the successor of the inheritance, could step on the shoulders of giants, Looking at a more distant world.

  He was silent for a while.

   Then, Ian quickly turned his thoughts back to artificial intelligence.

  As long as Ian can develop the connection port problem between the computing unit and the core structure of Terra artificial intelligence, then he may be able to solve some of the problems that artificial intelligence cannot be miniaturized.

   On the contrary, he can also use the structure and algorithm of the calculation unit to optimize Terra's artificial intelligence in turn.

Do not.

Ian even suspects that the artificial intelligence completed in the hands of Inaiga II and the subsequent development body may not be purely mechanical artificial intelligence, but a psionic artificial intelligence with a part of spiritual structure... Just like the fire of the spirit Just like the unit combination ability of simulating silver chips, artificial intelligence is likely to be an intelligent computing module that simulates the combination of a large number of computing units!

  If this is the case, then the matter of optimizing artificial intelligence through computing units will be unexpectedly simple!

  However, there must be corresponding technical problems in this area. Ian has never received any study and education in this area before. It may be troublesome for him to start over.

   But, that's not really a problem either.

   "Adelbert! He has a complete set of psychic research materials of Grand Duke Thorin!"

In an instant, Ian thought of the dead king with high morals. In this gentle young researcher, he must have the technology related to how to imitate the silver chip to change the structure of the soul, and he must also have a full set of psychic related technologies—I don’t know. Knowing, foreseeing, and the various technical difficulties and difficulties that he will encounter, for him, I am afraid that he has already solved it, and he is even quite skilled in the technology!

   and other incognito opponents also arrived at Nanling. Together, the two parties may be able to quickly create the psychic artificial intelligence that Ian expected!

   "The planning of the territorial order may not require as many people as imagined..."

Ian stared at the psychic computing module in front of him, and he murmured softly, with an inexplicable excitement in his tone: "If it can be done, I, who has assisted artificial intelligence, can completely achieve the perfect planning and coordination of the territory's resources. Allocation... the construction speed will be increased by several levels!"

   "And, not talking about the future, just the present."

   "With host-level computing support, I can create more things!"

  Computational power does not represent pure calculation speed, but can help Ian reduce the energy consumed by pure digital calculations, better focus on precision, and create some creations that require relatively high precision.

  In this way, with the operation precision of the sublimator, and the alchemy workshop of Leon...

   "Maybe, I can plan a few months or even half a year in advance..."

   "Create exoskeleton power armor!"

  The night passed quickly.

  The night in Lai'an City was not quiet. The white soldiers patrolling around the castle stood on the top of the castle. The scarlet one-eyed and bright black armor all night announced that this place was about to usher in great changes.

As for the middle level, whether it is the former Lai'an City Guards that are about to be disbanded and mourned, or the various chambers of commerce that are working overtime overnight and preparing to open warehouses and release food in the morning, it is impossible for them to get a good night's sleep. .

  For ordinary people, just the existence of the new lord is enough to make them think about the future with anxiety.

  The anxiety of the former was dissipated in the busyness and fear. Gul observed several members of the guard who complained the most, and forced them to be taken away overnight, even the family members had no time to take them with them.

  Anyway, people are still alive, and it is not difficult to move in the future. When someone moves their heads, there will be no future.

  He is a smart person, but he dare not really wait until the morning - when they leave in the morning, the result is likely to be similar to those rebel mountain people who were just ignited by a beam of light just after they escaped from the city.

  The lord just said that they were allowed to leave... but he didn't say whether it was in the form of flesh or ashes!

   He did leave alive. The two teams of six Bai Zhimin soldiers who were lurking behind them at night did not shoot in the end, but came back to report the matter to Ian.

   For the latter, this simple anxiety about the future is quickly erased.

  Because Ian started to distribute food.

Terra 773, October 25th, at 11:25 noon, because the whole city needs to be notified, and it is indeed a very troublesome thing to transfer and sort the grain from various warehouses, so the time for grain release is still unavoidable dragged behind.

Seeing that everyone is working hard and doing their best to act according to the instructions. It is only because of lack of ability that they did not fulfill the requirements. Ian was tolerant and did not kill people. They are a bunch of waste snacks, work harder next time, otherwise, don't be in charge, and all go to the fields to farm.

And next time, being scolded is actually a great thing for the fearful people to breathe a sigh of relief—they are really afraid that Ian will point a rechargeable rifle directly at his head without saying a word Come on.

  And to be honest, being scolded by Ian...maybe not a particularly uncomfortable thing.

Today, on Xiahui Avenue, where many damaged buildings have been demolished—that is, the avenue leading directly from the city center to Leon Castle—there are four or five teams of White People soldiers patrolling, and on the small square on the side of the avenue, The grain loaded in wooden boxes and barrels was like a mountain, and there were even many cooks cooking porridge, pancakes and broth directly on the side of the road.

The aroma is wafting, and each person is limited to one portion of cooked food. A family of three is limited to one bucket of flour for free. If you pay, you can buy a box of sorted grain combination boxes with bacon, cheese, and oiled food at a discounted price. Bread, dry noodles, flour and a small piece of butter, each household can only buy once.

  【It is strictly forbidden to jump in line, take too much, take repeatedly, violators will be punished with whips】

  A notice board hangs at the front of the square, and an employee of the chamber of commerce repeats it loudly with a loudspeaker every half a minute, warning latecomers.

  Of course, his voice was not as loud as the screams of some people behind him who planned to steal chickens and dogs, jumped in line to sell more, and were being severely whipped by soldiers.

"Help!"

   "I dare not, I really dare not!"

   "I will never do it again next time, please forgive me—"

   Compared with notices and warning signs, screams are more vigilant.

  It’s like a warning sign by the river saying that you can’t fish or swim ten thousand times, but there will always be fishermen and drowning boys passing by, just like monkeys with water...

   Only the real and immediate pain of others can make human beings vigilant from the bottom of their hearts.

   And among these people who were whipped, there are naturally some who are really cheap, who deserve to die if they don't take advantage of it...

   There are also some props that sound loud, but actually have no power at all.

   All in all, under the sun at noon, amidst the noisy screams and notices, the residents of Laianling happily welcomed the food at a discounted price.

-happy? President Xilin's head was changed.

  As for the quality of the bought food... Is it possible to eat this kind of thing that was obviously temporarily taken out of the warehouse of the chamber of commerce...

The cook next door didn’t have enough goods, so he took a box from the box behind him as raw materials, cut up large pieces of bacon, and then threw them into the pot for stewing, or chopped them into pieces. Inside the rye cake, that was apparently picked at random.

  Maybe the bacon is a little old, and the wheat cakes are evenly oiled, and some are not even coated at all.

   But in general, at this time, if you still expect to eat good meat, noodles and rice, it's not easy to get a little bit of your head.

   You know, you can still afford meat here!

In a place like Terra, it is impossible for a lot of valuables with unknown ingredients to come out just because the free food is of mediocre quality, screaming that they can’t live and can’t eat—even the spies of Flying Flame can’t do this , It makes people suspicious for no reason, although the guards here may not kill people because of such a trivial matter, but it is indispensable to pull them down and hang them up for a smoke.

  Ian and Scott stood on the roof of a building not far away, watching this scene.

   "If this goes on, it is impossible for every household to have one box."

Flipping through the data sheet, Tie Zhimin looked at the gap on it with some concern: "Today, everyone may be a little scared, because the people who come here are all courageous adult men or old men and old ladies—but tomorrow, everyone in the city will probably come. .”

"The food stored by the Chamber of Commerce in Xilin may not be enough today. He has indeed hoarded a large amount of food, but his storage is still far behind the needs of the city. Because of the war and food disaster, Lean led Residents will definitely retaliate and buy a lot of food as savings..."

"Um."

Ian nodded slightly. He watched as another person who sneaked around and wanted to get another free lunch was caught by the guards, hung up and whipped ten times, and couldn't help sighing: "When people are hungry, they will commit crimes. Look That guy looks well-dressed, and when there is food in peacetime, he will definitely not take advantage of it like this."

  “When a man is full, he has room for morality.”

He turned his head to look at the road leading to the agate stone plain led by Leian, and said in a calm tone: "I know what you said, in fact, I have already prepared in the imperial capital, and entrusted the channel of the platinum iridium workshop. Bought a whole caravan of food, enough to feed the whole city for half a year."

   "Originally, it was thought of as a supplement to the lack of harvest and a future reserve. Now it is a time of war, and it is just used to buy people's hearts."

   Not only to Scott, but even to the soldiers of the White People and those from the chamber of commerce, Ian has always been straightforward.

He never planned to do anything on the surface. After all, the new lord wants to buy people's hearts, even the most ordinary residents of Lai'an City can see it—but the problem is that with Ian's personal image, even if he doesn't buy People's hearts may have a favorable opinion bonus, not to mention spending food to buy people's hearts?

   There is even a little more straightforward cuteness of young people.

   "The convoy has arrived in Nauman City, and Colonel Mayova has sent someone to **** it. If there is no accident, the batch of food will arrive tomorrow."

Ian's eyes are deep, he can always see the future, and make corresponding preparations in advance, so that the plan is linked together without any omission: "Today is to tell everyone in Lai'an City that I can bring food, Those who can bring stability, say that today’s share is over after the distribution, and the essentials will come again tomorrow, and those who want to repeat the claim will be hanged and beaten, and it doesn’t matter if they are beaten to death—although I don’t think any idiot will do this.”

   If he really wanted to die, then Ian couldn’t do anything if he didn’t want to kill someone. If he didn’t listen to the lord’s warning during the war, there would be big problems if he didn’t kill him.

He gave Scott instructions: "After making sure that every household in the city has corresponding grain reserves, take out a batch of specials from the inventory every ten days to stabilize the price of grain in the city, and find an opportunity to catch a typical killer." Yes, publicly executed in the square, telling everyone not to challenge the bottom line of food policy during wartime."

  "I really can't find a typical example. I went to catch a flying flame spy and said that they planned to burn the granary for publicity and acting. After burning an empty warehouse to arouse public anger, you can publicly execute him."

   "This trick is very useful. Viscount Grant should use it often, right? You definitely will."

   "Yes, sir!" Hearing this, Scott was no longer sleepy—he was familiar with using the flying flames as a target!

Viscount Grant basically kills him every one or two months, and the effect is very good. The public execution of Feiyan's spy in Nanling is a serious modern sacrificial ceremony, which can really boost morale. Can increase output.

   "If there are corrupt staff."

  Ian continued: "Don't rush to catch it. Wait until our policy may cause public protests, focus on publicizing it, and then kill it. This can hedge against opposition to radical policies."

   "Remember, everyone has value, including moths. If you kill them on the spot, the loss cannot be recovered. Viscount Grant just relies on instinct to throw the pot into flames, and we must use this effect scientifically."

He can be regarded as cultivating Scott's ability to handle things in this area - the other party will be his deputy in the future, and he will have to know everything from war to people's livelihood. There is indeed a gap in talent in this area, but most of it is tempered. , he believed in Scott's ability.

   "I see, my lord!"

  Scott nodded quickly, and wrote these down in his notebook. The handwriting was fast and steady, neat and beautiful.

  While Scott was writing notes, Ian could not help but lose himself in thought as he watched the long line of people on the street.

  Although the grain production in Nanling has decreased, because there is too much grain in the Great Plains of the imperial capital, as long as the freight is unimpeded, it is basically impossible to suffer from famine... The problem in Lai'an City is actually not the lack of grain, but the cut off of cargo transportation channels.

   Moreover, there will indeed be people like Xilin hoarding goods.

   Sublimators may not do such trivial things, because in their view, the people themselves are their property, and there is no need to use this method to squeeze out wealth—but ordinary people will also exploit ordinary people.

   It doesn’t mean that with sublimators, rich people will stop exploiting ordinary people, and vice versa.

  But compared to sublimators, who are a bit far away from the lives of most ordinary people, the exploitation of the same kind may be a little heavier.

   These are two different questions.

   But there is a benefit in Terra, which makes Ian quite relieved.

  —Can’t solve other sublimators, and can’t solve you?

  In Terra, it is too easy to hang people from street lamps.

Chambers of Commerce and other merchant organizations must rely on sublimators. Even if they become rich and become sublimators, their identity will automatically become merchants and become sublimators. The way of thinking will not be the same, and the value of property accumulated in the past will also lose its attractiveness. Power, the alienation of capital will be completely covered by the greater alienation of the sublimator.

  In addition, the technology tree is too crooked. Industrialization, assembly lines and professional industrialization have existed from the beginning, and are controlled by a national organization composed of top sublimators, which cannot form a surplus of private capital.

  So from the beginning, there was no possibility of any capitalism sprouting in Terra.

   "I don't know whether it is good or bad. Forget it, the different world should not follow common sense. Since there is artificial intelligence and various pre-epoch technologies... Maybe it should develop by leaps and bounds from the beginning."

   This is Ian's final answer - step by step is simply funny in Terra.

   And this time, the opening of the warehouse to release the grain was undoubtedly a great success.

  For such a generous Ian, the residents of Laian City commented, 'Long live the lord! '.

Yes. Due to the reformation of the previous era, the people of Terra Continent have generally good intelligence and basically no natural intellectual disability. They can all see that after the new lord of his family has ruthlessly rectified the city management, he began to buy people's hearts up.

   As for whether it is really rich in background, or swollen face to pretend to be fat... They don't care.

  In short, buy it first, they are really hungry.

   To say something immoral, Ian is actually quite grateful to people like Xilin.

  After the reform of the Black King, there is a large granary in the central plain. It is too difficult for the empire to simply starve to death. If it wants to buy people's hearts with the simplest method of food, I really want to thank the businessmen who are obsessed with interests.

   Otherwise, Ian really can't think of any way to impress the citizens of Laian who can eat enough to subconsciously recognize their legal right to rule.

   But now, everything is going well.

A good beginning is half the battle.

   "Scott."

  Thinking of this, Ian said: "Lead the team next, and we will go to the workshop area to catch people."

   "Yes! Your Excellency!"

  Scott responded without any hesitation, and then didn't say a word, but looked at Ian with a little expectation with a calm face, waiting for instructions.

   "Scott."

Ian turned his head helplessly: "Don't be so obedient at this time - at this time in the future, you should ask me 'Why arrest people'... Oh, this is really not good. But you should at least say 'Go arrest Who's it?"

   "Yes, my lord." Scott said, "Who are we going to catch?"

  Ian answered the conversation smoothly: "Go and catch the workers in those workshops and blacksmiths. They have been out of work for a long time, and now it's time to catch them all and work."

   "Yes, my lord."

   This time Scott learned: "But what work?"

Ian nodded with satisfaction: "Of course it is to build some cutting-edge equipment that you can use. The next thing we have to do is to stabilize the city of Le'an, wait for the enemy's counterattack, and the real development after the attack, so we must Before the counterattack comes, strengthen our side as much as possible."

   "Huh." This time Scott really didn't quite understand: "Welcome to counterattack? The rebel mountain people's forces around Laian Territory have basically been wiped out, right?"

   "We killed so many people, don't you think there is no counterattack?" Ian shook his head slightly: "With the support of Flameland, the rebel mountain people can barely be regarded as a whole now, and they will definitely react."

   "Just wait, two weeks at the fastest, one month at the slowest, most of the rebellious mountain people... are coming!"

   It will be a little more at night!

  (end of this chapter)