High Above

  Chapter 681 Void Sea Abyss and Professionals (5300)

  Virtual environment is attached to the existence of life.

  Without life, there is no soul, no thoughts and dreams, no beliefs and attachments, and no delusion and resentment... No matter good or bad, good or evil, they must exist in the world after all before everything that follows.

If the material world is fragmented and all life perishes, even if the virtual world can last for a while, it will eventually disappear with the wind, just like the corpse of a person can still exist for a long time after death, but one day, the flesh and blood will rot into mud, and the bones will also be destroyed. Broken into ashes.

but…

   Is this really the essence of the Void Realm?

  If it is said that the virtual world in ordinary people's cognition is the reflection of the material world... Then, why is there such a reflection of the virtual world?

   Moreover, the reflection must have a carrier.

  If we say that the material world is a person who looks in a mirror, and the virtual world is a phantom in the mirror...

  Then, what is the essence of the mirror itself that reflects this shadow?

   "That is the foundation of the endless and deep virtual world, which was called 'the abyss' and the 'virtual sea' by the civilization of the previous era."

Adalbert took a piece of paper from the laboratory table and drew a schematic diagram for Ian with a black pen. He explained in detail: "The virtual world that we humans can perceive is essentially just this boundless space. A foam in the sea is a gleam of fire in this infinitely deep abyss."

   "But the sea itself is incomparably empty and meaningless, so it is called the virtual sea."

"How to say..." He thought for a while, but couldn't think of other more suitable adjectives for a while, but Ian said at this moment: "It's like a planet in the universe-although a planet is small, it's just a speck of dust in the endless sky Particles, but the empty cosmic space is the real void, apart from carrying the dust and existing, it has no meaning at all.”

"Yes!"

Hearing Ian's description, Adbert happily wrote down the words 'void' and 'empty sea' on the paper: "I just said that the words of pre-epoch civilization must have their meanings—in general, void Even if it is broken, the Void Sea still exists, but generally there will be no life in the Void Sea, unless another Void Realm can be found at the other end of the endless Void Sea."

   "However, just like some powerful monsters and sublimators on Terra, even if Terra is broken, they can still enter the void and soar, there are also some powerful beings in the void that can swim in the void sea."

   "The blood demon is such a virtual creature."

   "It's a pity that apart from the virtual world derived from Terra, there is no other great virtual world at present... I originally thought that Terra was the only world of life, and the virtual world was also the only one."

Speaking of this, Yadbert felt a little regretful: "But now, it seems that the Star Prison may be blocking our way to the other side of the void and other stars, and also cutting off the link between the virtual realm and other virtual realms. Completely block the Void Sea as well."

  Ian also sighed.

   In the world sealed off by Prisoner Star Prison, even the Void Realm and subspace are locked. The Void Realm is indeed a bubble in the Void Sea, but now this bubble is all in the deep sea.

   "In short."

Adbert is not as emotional as Ian. After all, he still can't fully understand the horror of Prisoner Prison, so he shifted the topic: "The prototype of the Dead River Armed Forces'Void Sea Blood Demon' is an extremely powerful The devil...it is one of the scariest monsters in the Void Realm, second only to the 'Twilight Demon' in the depths of Yanjiang and the 'Silence Demon' at the bottom of the Tranquility Sea."

"It was born after the 'Karin Flower Incident'. It originated from the fear and hatred of the survivors for the Karin Flower at that time, so it has some of the characteristics of the Karin Flower...It can quietly corrupt people's souls, And engulf it, turn it into an incarnation of yourself, and this incarnation will continue to spread pollution, demonize the people in a whole small town, and turn them into puppets of yourself."

   "It is meaningless to kill the incarnation of the blood devil's material world. It will be reborn again and again with the soul of the devoured person. It can only be killed by going to the subspace maze 'Dream of the Blood Sea' in the deepest part of the virtual world."

   "At that time, the whole of Yanjiang was still licking the wounds after the apocalypse-level crisis. The blood demon born in a remote city was unstoppable for a while, allowing it to grow."

   "Several demon hunters with ancient inheritance drank the blood of the great demon. They turned into a part of the blood demon, and finally joined hands in the dream to kill them and killed themselves one by one."

   "The hunter's blade and shield that killed the demon are still enshrined in the ancestral land of Yanjiang. The blood of the curse that never dries up flows on it, which can easily melt the will of a sublimated person."

"But the blood demon is immortal. As long as human memory is immortal and the events related to the flower of Karin and the blood demon are not completely forgotten, it will not die. All 'demons' are immortal. They will follow Fear, reverence and hatred are reborn, and continue to grow...Flying Flame just wants to use this characteristic of immortality, as well as the power that can erode the soul of others, to create the 'Blood River Armor' that represents the blood of immortality."

"But in the end it still didn't work." Ian concluded, he touched his belt: "Viscount Avak was only reborn a few times, and his memory and soul were polluted by the other's soul, and he became irritable and irritable. It's all changed...almost to another person."

   "If I kill him a few more times, that guy will completely degenerate into a demon."

"yes."

Adalbert sighed deeply: "But it can't be said to be a failure-although the Dead River Armed Forces can't create immortal people, they can also create a brand new blood demon...so I want to destroy it as soon as possible. "

   "But if you are guarding." Dead Lord stared at Bai Zhimin, who was frowning slightly, as if he was convincing himself: "That may be...acceptable."

   “…I was just wondering.”

  Ian did not directly respond to the 'trust' that Adalbert expected.

He just untied the belt around his waist and made the robe looser. The young man stared at the dark river of death, muttered to himself, and asked another question: "Since fear, hatred and despair can be catalyzed in the void Out of the 'demon'."

   "Then, can trust, hope and joy catalyze an 'angel'?"

   "The dead king...is a man-made god."

   "Then, can humans also create real 'angels'?"

"This..." Facing Ian's question, Adbert was stunned for a moment. It's not that he hasn't thought about it, so he smiled wryly: "Ian, even I know that compared to happiness, joy and hope A fragile and short-lived emotion... or depression, confusion and grief are more permanent."

   Even a naive researcher will know these helpless truths after becoming a dead king.

  —Human beings are always unsatisfied creatures. People's desires spread and irrepressible emotions interweave and accumulate, and they will weave the prototypes of many monsters in the void.

  The Void Mechgod patrols the Void, sweeping away the 'rudiments' bred in many big cities, but in those remote places, where the Void Mechgod does not patrol...the monsters will be quietly bred.

   Born out of human desire itself.

"This is the nature of us human beings, or most creatures." Dead King concluded: "Only when you are not satisfied will you crave, and you will be vigilant because of pain. If you have always lived in a happy place, even I... I also don’t think about going to the academy for advanced studies, holding back my breath to make everyone look at me with admiration, and studying hard day and night.”

   "It is the nature of living things. But it is not unchangeable."

  Nodding slightly, Ian thought of Huaiguang Church. The clergy of the Huaiguang Church will always have hope, stick to the light, never lie, and never betray the trust of others.

There is also the Church of Spiritual Equipment, their priests can even transform their own brains and thinking, replace their bodies, the instinct of flesh and blood is meaningless, they can be happy all day, and depressed all day, just look at their own idea.

  They are all gradually trying to abandon the imperfect nature of human beings, in a sense, eradicating the soil where demons are born.

  As for the Guild of the Dead and the Hall of Souls... Although Ian is not familiar with them, they must have similar techniques.

   Their clergy must be special.

   "It seems that the four orthodox religions have indeed been fighting against another disaster that may destroy human civilization. The Void Mechanism is also one of the most important components of that line of defense."

When he came back to his senses, Ian realized something in his heart: "If things like demons are flooded, it may be another apocalypse-level disaster—it's just that this disaster does not originate from alien civilization and fire, but from Thailand. La civilization itself."

"No wonder, even if the ascendants constitute the main body of world power, they will not completely abandon the people, but create order as much as possible... It is no wonder why all the nobles on Terra want to fight against cults, resist blood sacrifices and torture. "

  "If this world is reduced to the abyss of hell, then countless demons will also manifest in the world, and the sublimated will not be spared."

  Ian casually picked up the tape measure on the table and tied it as a belt. He placed the Dead River Armament in front of the experimental table: "But even so, turning the power of demons into armament... This is also a way of thinking."

   "Phase ether armament may be the future direction of development. For me, this ether arm that can be reduced into a part of body clothing is exactly what I need."

   "So." Adbert also approached the experiment table: "Do you want to recreate a dead river armed force that is not so evil?"

   "It should be said to change a function. This technology itself should not be divided into evil and good."

Ian stared at the Dead River Armed Forces in front of him with deep eyes: "Phasematic Arms must be the development trend of etheric Arms in the future. Physically constructed Arms are too expensive, and it is not easy to modify and reorganize them. Unlike Phase Arms, which can be easily Reuse and build upon the phase."

   "Feiyan grasped the opportunities of the times, and we can just cross the river by touching them."

   "But that's not the current task, let's put it aside for now, we need to learn more about the Void Realm."

Shaking his head slightly, Ian changed the topic back: "Adbert, the biological technology I gave you, and a supporting psionic network...I think, as a technology for daily human communication, it may still have some flaws, But if it is endowed with souls of the dead, perhaps we, kings of the dead, can better listen to the voices of the souls of the dead."

   "I hope you can study this technology more, it will be a good thing for us and those souls."

   "Is that so? Hmm! I will definitely work hard!"

  Ian noticed that Adalbert's spirit jumped up for a moment, and what Ian described might be very attractive to him...but in fact, Ian is just drawing cakes.

Of course, the psionic network can work on dead souls, but the greater effect is still the foundation of the territory management system... After the emergence of phase intelligent AI, how to make AI connect with every individual with an artificial soul, only the psionic network technology too.

  However, different sayings can inspire different efficiencies. For Adalbert, only those dead souls that he thinks he is worthy of can make him show 200% motivation.

  Inducing the young and innocent researcher of the dead king to work hard for his own purpose, it feels... not fun.

  Next time Ian continues!

What? Conscience hurts?

   Don't be ridiculous, there is no such thing as a lord or a laboratory supervisor, is it a basic operation to squeeze the lords and researchers?

   What's more, this is just the beginning... For Yadbert, the teenager has higher expectations.

   "He will find out...discover the true value of that document."

  After assigning the task to Adalbert, Ian began preparations for the sabotage operation in the Midlar Territory.

  Inside the laboratory.

  Adbert picked up the thick stack of documents that Ian had left for him, and began to carefully browse the contents.

  At the beginning, he was still thinking about which monsters this synthetic beast was spliced ​​together.

  But soon, he discovered that besides splicing, this strange creature called 'Blood Hunter' had many new technologies.

  High-speed growth catalyzing glands—glands that can secrete a large amount of hormones that promote physical growth, and accelerate the growth and development of blood hunters. Excessive secretion of large amounts of hormones will lead to impaired life expectancy and failure of body organs.

  Polymer-strengthened bones—derived from the skeletal structure of crystallized life, making the bones more flexible and adaptable, which is a prerequisite for biological deformation to change the structure.

Artificial high-tenacity muscles—derived from metal-based life, strengthened by design, stronger than the existing muscles of the Terra people, and muscles with the ability to resist mechanical damage, both in terms of density and toughness, and the ability to exercise for a long time are far superior Now there are all non-warcraft creatures, but metal-based life requires high body temperature to maintain normal operation, and energy consumption and regeneration speed are also a big problem.

Whole viscera regeneration system—the regeneration gene taken from life with strong regenerative ability, such as starfish lizards, allows all viscera to have the ability to regenerate, even the heart has a spare blood circulation organ as a substitute, as long as it does not destroy more than 60% of the organs The organ can continue to fight... The price is that the organ is easily deformed, and the place where the liver should have been regenerated may grow a kidney.

In addition, there are sensory transformations that transform taste, smell, and vision, defensive transformations for the scale structure, and tail blade transformations for the stomach structure... Basically, it can be said that although the blood hunter looks like a simple two The stitching of Warcraft actually includes a lot of biological technology.

   And these biotechnologies…

   "Requires very, very little sublimation material!"

   "Moreover, the materials it needs are also very cheap, which is completely different from the price of normal Warcraft materials. You can also add some source quality adaptability!"

  When Adalbert saw these materials, his brain suddenly froze.

  Yes, even if all of these transformation methods are added, it cannot be compared to the sublimator, and even the Terrans themselves have similar technologies.

  For example, "high-toughness muscles", the original muscle structure of the Terra people is very perfect. Forcibly increasing the output and toughness will cause the internal circulation to become unbalanced and need to be rebalanced.

   Adding more of these enhanced organs is nothing more than icing on the cake.

  This is why in Terra, bioalchemy tends to focus on 'source quality', because it does produce better results and the effect is better.

  Being able to create a new sublimated organ is the beginning of a new bloodline.

   In addition, the people of Terra are too perfect, and it is difficult to go further in terms of basics.

  Therefore, the enhanced research on genes and common organs is a blank area.

  Adbert originally thought so too—strengthening the already strong Terrans could not cross the gap between ordinary people and sublimated people, and the effect was not obvious.

  However, these strengthening methods that use part of the source material, coupled with the "Arcane Way" that Ian mentioned to him before...

  All people have souls, and they all have a 'new human' who can manipulate a part of the power of source matter... It is entirely possible to rely on the adaptability of this newly transformed body to the source matter, and through practice, strengthen your body again!

  In that case, as long as all these biotechnologies are matured and the side effects are discarded...Tara people with such a brand new body will not be much different from sublimated ones!

  Although there is only a relatively weak power in the first energy level, and it is on par with the wave breaker, at least it has reached the bottom line of the 'sublimation'!

   Moreover, because there is no prior blood of monsters, they can completely choose their own future direction after they have practiced to a certain level, without being limited by the true shape of the blood.

   Not to mention, before practicing the true form of the bloodlines, one already possesses the physical strength of the first energy level, which is enough to suppress most of the side effects and possible distortions, making the path of sublimation more stable and reliable.

  You can choose the future according to your own preferences... Such an individual may be called a 'professional'!

   "Where did Ian get these technologies... This can not only be used to transform wild animals as tools of war, but also can be used to transform humans."

  Adelbert muttered to himself: "Moreover, the biological structure of this 'Blood Hunter' can indeed be further optimized."

   And that's what Ian was aiming for.

  White prostitution, of course, is mutual.

  Ian intends to prostitute from Ian the Swarm's possible "new artificial soul technology" in the future, so Ian the Swarm must also hope that his blood hunter will get some improvements.

  In this way, it is a relationship of mutual guidance, rather than one party simply asking and the other party simply giving.

  Win-win is the healthiest cooperation.

   Ian (Parallel World) wins twice!

"As expected of you, Yadbert, I just pointed out a starting point for you, and you can think of a way by yourself. In addition to cyber transformation, the new enhancement between potion and genetic modification is also a kind of road."

Outside the laboratory, Ian, whose eyes were shining with cyan brilliance, smiled slightly, and the cyan crown of stars appeared faintly: "For others who already have potential, bring a new road possibility, and lead to a better future... This probably , is the essence of the desire in my heart.”

  He turned his head and left the lab.

   Before the raid on the Midra Autonomous Region, there is still a lot of preparation and intelligence work to be done.

  In the night, the guiding star is flickering slightly.

   It's glowing.

  (end of this chapter)