High Above

   Chapter 714 Kinda Bad Ian (6900)

  It was hard for Miles to imagine that he, who originally escaped from the Avak Territory, had gained the attention of the local lord through his outstanding spiritual abilities after arriving in the new territory.

   And this lord is still the kind person who helped him in the past, and even invited himself to join the mysterious scientific research project, making himself an important member of Chonglingjiao, a new religious organization.

"I was so unlucky that I was able to change my luck after coming to Nanling. I not only made like-minded friends, but also found the meaning of life in my work. Now it is necessary to work in Xiahuiling Psychic Research Laboratory less important positions."

   "As for the duties..."

   "is to be studied."

Ever since Miles manifested his psychic powers in the Black Swamp area in order to save his fellow workers, he has become a big hit in the local gathering area—the leaders of the local gathering area are all smiles, this selection is excellent anyway, And other pioneers also have more bragging rights. After all, there is a psychic in our district. Are there any other districts?

  As for Miles himself, being the research subject of Xiahui Ling is actually quite a comfortable thing.

He did not leave the settlement area where the pioneers gathered, and he was still working normally with everyone to open up wasteland, but sometimes, people from the research institute would take him to the Xiahui Territory for various data measurements, and Miles was at that time He would also buy some special goods from Xiahui collar for his fellow workers, as well as tools that were difficult to buy in the gathering place. This behavior vaguely made him the most famous person in the whole gathering place except for the person in charge.

The process of being studied is not painful, it is nothing more than being swept by a few lights, lying on a metal bed and being poked like a piece of pork, and receiving various hypnotic guidance to try to use psionic power - it sounds troublesome , there are still some vaguely inhuman, but in fact, compared to the hard work of opening up wasteland and sleeping in the wilderness, Myers would rather be studied all his life.

   At least the food is good!

  Of course, as a member of Azure City, Miles is also very aware of how terrifying those truly 'inhuman' experiments are...

  Thinking of this, Miles would always inexplicably think of the director Bai Zhimin of Xiahui's laboratory.

   It is not Lord Yinfeng, but a young researcher who calls himself "Guying". He looks very immature. Although he is older than himself, he gives people the feeling that he is younger than the Lord.

  At first, Miles thought that the other party was the elder brother or elder of the Lord Silver Peak, because he was too focused on technology and did not know the world, but in the end he found that the two parties were not the same kind of people at all.

  Although Guying's skin is paler and looks like a dead soul, in fact, he is far more gentle and kind than the lord, and he is also quite kind to himself.

   Simply put, he is a very nice person.

No, not just to myself... Miles even saw it in the research institute, and the old shadow would talk to himself about the radish in the hydroponic dish, cheering for its growth with joy, not at all like a big The person in charge of the laboratory is like a little boy who is growing plants for the first time.

   And Lord Silver Peak, who is also a high-level alchemist...

  He gave Miles a completely different feeling.

  That handsome young man who usually faces the leaders with a smile and is very friendly, but in private in the research room is always frowning slightly, always thinking about something.

  The way he looks at himself is very intriguing, anticipation mixed with an almost icy calm scrutiny, and he never hides it.

It has not been a short time since he came to Xiahui Territory. Myers can be sure that, as the lord, Ian undoubtedly loves his territory and everyone in it. It is to attract investment, and he also proposes various new technologies, and spends a lot of money that other lords can use to enjoy themselves to invest in the construction of the territory.

   For this reason, his life is also very simple. He spends almost all day in the research institute except for dealing with government affairs, and has almost no private life.

  Compared to this point, even the Guying researcher can only follow in his footsteps—Guying will still stare at the radish seedlings in a daze, occasionally giggling at the hydroponic dish, and the lord has no time to stop at all.

   This is undoubtedly love.

   But this kind of love is not the same... It feels like a cold sun, shining on everyone, but it is difficult to give people a warm feeling.

   According to his younger sister Cynthia, the lord gave him the feeling that they were lucky enough to meet Grand Duke Sorin once.

even…

   "More frightening. More terrifying."

   fear, fearful.

  Myers chewed on the word.

  In the continent of Terra, if a lord can be feared and frightening, it is actually a blessing. At least it will avoid many unnecessary troubles and maintain the stability of the territory.

  If the lord is just blindly amiable and loved, it will cause great trouble.

Just like a person, if he only has a smile, he will not be able to smile one day. Only when he is wearing armor and holding an 88mm anti-aircraft gun in his hand, he is still a sublimator and can fly to the sky and escape from the ground, making people fearful and fearful. The people around laughed for a long time.

   Moreover, a character like Ian's is quite popular for those who like to understand "you have to die".

  On the first day of participating in the "Experimented Project", Miles knew that the reason why he was being studied was because, as a resident of the Grand Duchy, he had an "artificial soul" in his body.

  My own artificial soul also caused my psychic power to be ineffective from time to time.

  And his own spiritual power is very crucial, it is instructive for some key spiritual power facilities in the territory, and it is of great reference value.

   Therefore, it is necessary to study. And the lord also told him clearly that no matter whether he agrees or not, he will use various methods to research.

   All this, Miles knew from the very beginning.

   He accepts this.

   There's no need for a determined leader to resort to dishonorable means, is there? He was not polite to himself, nor polite to the other party, not to mention that the other party did show kindness to him, and he still remembered this kindness.

  Grand Duke Sorin and Viscount Avak are both experimenting with people. Ian is no different from them in this point. Even the technology he uses for experiments may be obtained from the Azure City Laboratory.

   But at the very least, Ian will tell people in advance, and even try it on himself first.

   Miles couldn't say no, and he was compensated.

   "The experiment is over? Miles, come and learn swords with me!"

  Leaving the research institute, the young swordsman heard a hearty voice. The person who came was Qing Chao, who was also the "teacher" appointed by the lord for him.

  According to what Qing Chao said, his talent in swordsmanship is quite good. Although he is not as good as him, he is still considered a genius.

   Not to mention, with psionic power, Miles' sword skill thickness and defensive ability will far surpass him.

  Of course, the most important thing is that Qing Chao admires him very much—people who are willing to stand up for their comrades, and even awaken psionic powers, are undoubtedly trustworthy people, who would not appreciate it?

  For such a second-level teacher, it is indispensable for the outside world to pay a tuition fee of more than 1,000 talers a year. As compensation, it is completely qualified.

  However, he is said to be a teacher, but in fact he is barely half a classmate.

  After learning the sword with Qingchao, Miles has to go to the newly opened school in Xiahuiling to learn some basic knowledge.

  —You call me a teacher! I call you a classmate! Let's talk about each other!

  Actually, in terms of mathematics, Miles is obviously more talented than Qing Chao. It is estimated that in a month or two, Qing Chao will teach Myers swordsmanship, and Miles will teach Qing Chao mathematics.

   Leaving aside literacy and basic mathematics, the most interesting thing about Xiahui Ling is actually the 'miscellaneous lessons' on history and geography.

  Knowing how big the world is and the history of the world you live in cannot improve people's actual abilities, but it can broaden their horizons.

When Miles knew that the South Ridge and the West Territory where he was located were only a corner of the entire Terra continent, the inexplicable shock in his heart, and the feeling that he was extremely small compared to the world, was the first time in his entire life. appeared.

During that time, Miles even spent money to buy a map of the world. He just looked at the names and terrains on the map obsessively, imagining the customs and customs in the far corners of the world, thinking about whether there would be people living there, and then What kind of Warcraft and ecology are there.

That was his dream, the reason why he wanted to earn his life with a sword, and went to the world outside the Azure City—in Azure City, he just had a vague idea, but in Xiahui, this idea gradually turned into reality , gradually becomes clear.

   Imagine. Imagination and curiosity are the most important things in human beings.

"In the future, I will consider making a terra ball, make it into a toy, and sell half of it and give it to everyone in the territory. Or popularize a rough map of the world, and strive to let Xiahui lead every child, and every family will have One."

After the lord saw that Miles was interested in the world map, he rarely showed a smile from the bottom of his heart. He explained to Miles his next plan in detail: "Imagination about the distance in front of the map is the beginning of curiosity. If To be able to long for the land on the other side of the world is the foundation of dreams."

"Children will imagine how to conquer distant and unknown places, and fantasize about the beautiful and beautiful scenery in the distance. You can call it ambition or desire, but what I want to cultivate is this kind of thing, whether it is good or bad, it is stronger than Insensitivity, because ignorance breeds ignorance."

   "Myers, do you want to go to the Holy Mountain or the Nine Cold and Silent Mountain? Either way, as long as you want to, you can do it, the premise is 'really desire'."

   True, of course it is true.

   Will he get there one day?

  Although the cold sun is not warm, it clearly points out the way ahead.

  The young swordsman stared at the map in his hand, his heart was filled with something called 'confidence' and 'expectation'.

   Incomparably beautiful things.

  …

"The new version of the artificial soul, through the comparison and optimization of the 'Grand Duke collar version of the artificial soul' like Myers and the 'original attached brain' of the Sequoia natives, in addition to the original functions, an additional part of the 'psychic network' has been added. , a part of the 'meditation method foundation', a part of the 'spiritual equipment core adaptability' and a part of the structure of the 'joint force of all souls'."

"In addition, the new version of the artificial soul has eliminated the original 'dead king' function with a strong sublimator as the core, and revised it to the 'temporary underworld' function with the 'spiritual tool core' as the core. This aspect of the function Still researching, because the energy source in the territory cannot support it, it is only an experimental version at present, and we will wait for the development of the new energy furnace core before considering the actual operation."

   This is the result of Ian and Adalbert working overtime for two weeks, almost day and night.

It has to be said that with a living entity like Miles as an observation object, it is like putting an advanced engine in front of a group of mechanical engineers, and among them there is a former developer of this engine with a There is a full set of blueprints.

   In this way, it is difficult to imagine that the efficiency of re-enactment learning is not high.

  The essence of the artificial soul is to directly carry a part of the psychic matter through the "brain attachment structure". As a "soul seed", it is continuously nourished by the holder's thinking, and finally gives birth to the holder's own soul.

  This is not a very difficult technique, what is difficult is how to make this soul stable and have various functions.

  In the laboratory, the experimental subjects are not humans, but several captured monsters.

  Warcraft below the second energy level have no obvious intelligence. Even at the second energy level, the intelligence is relatively primitive, and it takes a long time of training and learning to barely approach humans.

  In other words, implant artificial souls into them, and the feedback can be observed quickly.

The first warcraft implanted with an artificial soul, the "Steel Arm Ape", already had the intelligence close to that of a human child. After receiving the artificial soul for a week, its thinking was obviously much sharper. When Ian and others came to observe it, He will not cringe because of instinctive fear, on the contrary, he will carry out various measurements very cooperatively.

  One of the standards of wisdom is 'knowing the current affairs'. It's not just that you will run away when you see the strong, but you will try to blend in, learn, and become one of them when you see the strong.

   This steel-armed ape obviously possessed intelligence. It even began to learn how humans usually walk upright, and tried to tidy up its nest in the laboratory to make it more tidy.

   Don't get me wrong—wisdom doesn't make people like cleanliness.

  Gibbon just found out, and the other researchers will be happier if they clean up their nest.

   "In a week, the artificial soul is just a sign that it starts to assist the brain to think and connect the various thinking areas, which can bring such an obvious impact on Warcraft."

  Ian watched every move of the steel-armed ape, and he said to Adalbert on the side: "I have a guess that is not a guess, but let me ask a question first—why did the pre-epoch civilization design Warcraft?"

   "Huh? Hmm... I think it might be the result of some kind of biological tool becoming wild?"

Adbert was stunned for a moment. After learning about Ian's adventure in the Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea, he also knew part of the pre-epoch civilization's information about Warcraft and Tinder, so he gave a relatively normal guess: "Like a crystallization The dragon is obviously a sheltered creature made by the pre-epoch civilization to imitate the real dragon in order to survive in the extreme environment. But the strange thing is that any kind of real dragon known so far has a different structure from the crystallized dragon. "

   "Well. I guess, this is because the crystalline dragon should imitate some kind of more ancient dragon, at least the second-generation true dragon, not the third-generation and subsequent true dragons that we are familiar with in Terra civilization."

  Ian nodded slightly. He stared at the steel arm ape, and said softly: "But not all monsters are tools... Some monsters are obviously born with a certain intelligent structure, but they need a soul to perform perfectly."

   "Adelbert...I'm just saying a possibility."

   "If we say that a planet or a continent, the source matter and spiritual matter on it are so rich that all creatures on it can naturally have souls."

   "Then, can intelligent creatures on this planet still possess wisdom after they leave such an environment?"

   "The so-called 'smart creatures'..."

   "Will it become a monster?"

  Adbert blinked, then panicked.

"Ian, what do you mean..." He swallowed, and said incredulously: "You mean, there are many monsters on our Terra, and they are probably..."alien intelligent life" that came with the fire ?!"

   "Just a guess."

   Closing his eyes, Ian didn't deny or confirm.

  He just thought and speculated: "It is completely impossible to say that the billions of monsters on the continent of Terra were all derived from Terra alone."

"Some low-level monsters may have been born in the land of Terra, and they are also recorded in the literature of the pre-epoch civilization, while some monsters are powerful and perfect, but there are no such ancient legends, and they do not have some tool characteristics. manufacture."

   "And it is extremely difficult for the fire to catalyze this kind of creature that obviously has an ancient evolutionary history."

   "After all, if it is not an important creature, why is it necessary to engrave it in the tinder and design it to be preferentially catalyzed?"

  In this case, there is only one answer.

  Many intelligent monsters with powerful potential are probably aliens who have lost their souls and wisdom, and thus degenerated into beasts.

   It is also the 'alien' that Ian has always wanted to find after knowing the truth about Tinder and aliens in the past.

  Ian has always been very strange. If there is really a kind of fire like Karin's flower that tries to integrate into or even invade the world of Terra, then there must be a more gentle kind of fire that simply wants to reproduce its own civilization in a foreign planet.

  In that case, with the tolerance of Terra civilization (mainly because it is too chaotic and the sublimators are too strong, no one can discriminate against anyone), how many alien tribes should exist?

  It’s like goblins and real dragons... Although goblins are real local life, their form of existence is very alien.

  But the research results over the years have pointed out an unbelievable possibility for Ian.

  —Alien intelligent life, those aliens, have long been integrated with the system of Terra's sublimation.

  However, in the capacity of'material'.

Of course, from the perspective of genetic inheritance, sublimators who carry part of the genes of alien creatures may also be called half aliens in terms of blood... From this perspective, the blood of aliens, if you want to It's impossible to cut off.

  But from a civilized point of view...it's really a great tragedy.

   "Warcraft cannot be given artificial souls."

Ian said so, his tone calm: "There are enough intelligent races in this world, and there are intelligent beings in Warcraft, for example, the White Silent Governor of Icewind Valley, as the fifth energy level, he has his own Its lair is still cultivating the intelligent species 'butterfly man'... He must have noticed the source of the huge potential behind him."

   "His existence itself is the last remnant of an alien world in another world."

"So, He chose to integrate into humans very smartly. After all, this is not their hometown, and they can no longer create a second hometown. This is the path that Terra Warcraft should take, integrating into humans, not re- Create a few more independent factions."

   Otherwise, the process of unifying Terra will take a lot of trouble.

"Um."

   Even Yadbert would not express objections at this time, he just quietly stared at the intelligent steel arm ape in front of him, showing complicated eyes.

   "If one day, we also have to flee and leave our homeland..."

  He whispered to himself: "Then, will we in alien planets also become such beasts?"

"do not think too much."

  Ian shook his head and said: "It seems that there are no human-faced beasts on Terra now. Don't think too highly of intelligent life, and don't look too low. Some people have brains and are not as good as beasts."

   "Compared to this, who is the first batch of artificial souls for?"

   This is indeed a problem.

  Artificial souls are obviously the sooner they are popularized, the better. Among other things, even souls have a lifespan, which at least allows people's souls to enter the core of spiritual equipment and preserve them for a longer period of time.

  Before there is an artificial soul, people are dead when they die. After artificial souls, there is still a chance after death.

  It is a pity that there is this technology, but it died before it became popular.

   "Give it to the old man first?"

Adalbert also thought the same way, Ian nodded: "Then give those old people who are dying, let them cultivate artificial souls before they die. In this way, we can also observe whether the new version of artificial souls It has the stability of the Dadu collar version."

   "Moreover, in this way, there are many cases that can be publicized within Chongling Sect, which can greatly increase the cohesion of the sect."

   "This works the best... The specific candidates are up to you to decide. After all, this is a research that you presided over, and I will not interfere."

  Adbert took a deep look at Ian.

At this time, the young man's tone didn't have the slightest reverence for life and death, only the arrogance and overlooking that he used it as a tool to manipulate. Those aging leaders were like test subjects in his mouth. He gave them hope after death, just In order to observe your purpose, whether your tools are easy to use.

  But Ian really brought hope. This is true and cannot be changed by any 'attitude'.

  The young lord's eyes flashed with an almost icy light, but deep in the eyes, there was a burning desire for the new future brought about by artificial soul technology.

   Such a longing, he had seen in Grand Duke Thorin.

  But Ian is different from Grand Duke Thorin.

  "He is always looking at the future, and the Grand Duke is just to prove the past is correct."

  After Ian left, he sat in front of the radish seedlings he had planted himself, and the white-haired researcher of the Dead King lay in front of the petri dish, staring at the emerald green leaf seedlings in front of him.

Adbert murmured: "The Grand Duke just wanted to prove that his teacher, Inaiga II's research direction is correct - they once had the hope of changing the entire civilization of Terra, but the imperial people themselves gave up this god-given gift. The savior. He is not trying to make people live better, he just wants to make the imperial people regret it, make the emperor regret it, and make everyone regret like him for life."

"Although Ian is the successor of the first knight, he doesn't care about these at all. He has his own goal, although I can't understand it, to go to the high sky and break the Prisoner Star Prison, but for this goal, He can do anything and take advantage of everything."

  【Souls...】

  The Lord of the Dead asked the soul in his body softly: [Do you think it is really good for me to help Ian in this way, reproduce the artificial soul, and recreate a different Hades from the Grand Duke...? 】

  The souls did not answer. The souls couldn't understand Ian either.

   They just believed in Adalbert. If Adalbert believed, so did they.

   "Forget it." Adbert sighed, and he stood up: "Just look at this petri dish and the agricultural building... I also believe in Ian."

   "Although he is a bit bad, but in the world of Terra..."

   "A bit bad, but already a relatively good person."

  …

Recently, Roland, who has been exploring at the mouth of the gorge, finally finished his work. He even led a group of dwarf brothers to build a prototype park at the mouth of the gorge. , The foundations inside the park have been laid a lot.

  He returned to Xiahui Territory, and was rewarded by Ian again—not only because he completed the task, but also because Roland set up a line for Ian with the dwarves of the Fallen Star Hills.

   This is the true meaning of Ian's assessment for him: If a technician really wants to find, there are still many alternatives. If Roland can't even use his own relationship, it proves that he is destined to be a low-level researcher.

   Without their own team organization ability, without personal connections, and even unable to find brothers and sisters, what would this kind of researcher do?

  He only eats funds!

   Now, Roland has successfully proved his ability and wisdom.

  He was about to go home and show off to his father, Moda, to prove his ability.

  But just after returning home, he learned a piece of news that terrified him.

  —His father fell into critical illness a few days ago, and now he is delirious and is receiving urgent treatment in the ward.

  (end of this chapter)