Soul of Burning Steel

In this multiverse, many species are far more fertile than humans.

Even though human beings have a 24/7 estrous hormone system, when it takes nine to ten months for a childbirth, and each childbirth is mostly one child, the fertility of human beings is actually very weak in nature, especially human beings are still creatures of flesh and blood , can not reproduce without interruption in a lifetime, generally speaking, two or three times is a lot, and there are even some individuals who do not have the ability to reproduce with each other.

Of course, this is only relative to some particularly high-yield species... Each species has its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of reproduction. Generally speaking, the longer the natural lifespan, the fewer births, and the shorter the natural lifespan. The more babies are born-so for some intelligent species with a natural lifespan of more than three thousand years, humans may be a little more difficult to give birth than Zerg.

In any case, as the most basic part of a society of intelligent life, reproduction creates the foundation of race, it determines the form and social tendency of a civilization, and even determines the direction of its collective will. Changing the reproductive process or essence of a race can undoubtedly change the shape of the entire race from the most basic level, no matter whether the change is accelerated or slowed down.

Few races have such courage to make any major changes to the reproduction process of their own race - not because they are afraid of the unknown, but because they sincerely believe that the reproduction process of their race is a natural evolution of thousands of years. Wannian finally arrived at the perfect form without any replacement.

But humans are different.

Mrs. Micro, make a change.

Starfall 858, January 1, 7:34 AM UTC, Mycroft World, Far South Eternal Lake, Lange City Central Hospital.

A young man waited anxiously outside the operating room. He was walking back and forth in the corridor, like a tireless walking machine. You can see that there are boxes of ice cream piled up in the trash can beside him. It is conceivable , how much ice cream the nervous gentleman ate while waiting.

It can be seen that he likes to eat vanilla flavor.

This man looks to be in his early twenties, looks handsome, very young, has black hair, and his eyes are quite rare purple red, he raises his head from time to time, glances at the closed door of the operating room, and glances at the wall by the way On the notice board, that line of elegant elf handwriting.

【No smoking in the hospital】

"Who can smoke!"

He angrily murmured to himself, "Take the smell of cigarettes to meet the child for the first time—I'm not mentally handicapped."

Obviously, this gentleman—no, now you can say 'this father', and now the reason for waiting in the hospital is already obvious. He is waiting for his wife to give birth to the crystallization of their love. However, this process can basically only rely on the efforts of the mother alone, and as the father, he can only be like a chocobo suffering from anxiety disorder, no different from a waste.

I don't know how long it took, but the red light in the operating room finally turned green, and an elf doctor who looked relaxed and not too tired walked out of it.

"Mr. Fafnir Chris, the operation was successful, and the wife and child are healthy."

Stopping Fafnir who wanted to enter the operating room, the elf doctor sighed and comforted the other party: "Oh, you can't go in now, your wife is a...well, elf after all. I mean I mean, that scene might be a little ugly, it's just... you know, kind of weird."

"What's wrong!" Mr. Fafnir stared angrily: "You are questioning my love for Vera?!"

"...No." The elf doctor was interrupted and couldn't give any follow-up warnings, so he could only shake his head and said, "Okay, but to be honest, I will never understand the weird orientation of you humans..."

This time, he didn't stop him.

Although very imposing, when Fafnir entered the operating room, he was still cautious and light-footed, afraid of disturbing anyone, but soon, a slightly weak and cheerful lady's voice came from inside.

"Honey, is that you?"

"It's me! It's me!"

Hearing this voice, Fafnir immediately lifted his spirits, and then rushed to the small ward. The next moment, he saw a group of radiant, very petite figures lying on a special white crystal operating table ( Two slaps), while several elf doctors and nurses on the side were removing micro-surgical tools with relevant characteristics.

"The difficulty of the psychic separation operation is not as high as imagined, it feels quite simple."

"Compared to being born, it was really difficult to conceive them in the first place... I really don't understand, cross-species is fine, how can they (humans) be in heat across body types?"

"Hey, don't tell me that, the patriarch of the Lange tribe, didn't he just marry a lady Hai Long who has the blood of Thunder Dragon? That's also cross-species, cross-body type."

"But the dragon has human transfiguration, and the patriarch is also a druid, who can transform into a beast—it's easy to say."

Fafnir can naturally hear these undisguised conversations, but he has no time to argue with these people about what is called a Platonic spiritual love, nor is he too lazy to explain to these people what is meant by "dependence fusion"-that is more than pure blood fusion. It is more thorough, and directly merges from the soul, giving birth to the next generation of soul thinking of the two.

It’s just that the process is a bit troublesome, if it weren’t for the fact that the Mycroft civilization has been exposed to a lot of pure energy and spiritual life in the past ten years, for example, the champion of the gold single group of the first Multi-Galaxy Civilization Invitational Tournament, ‘Amond Civilization’ , and got their assistance in the research, otherwise, it would be really a big problem for humans and fairies who didn't have this function to give birth to offspring.

"How is it, dear?"

Since the psychic separation operation was successful, and the goblin was not infected, the doctor did not stop Fafnir from approaching. He came to the white crystal operating table and stared at it nervously, because the spirit The wind goblin seemed a little weak after part of the quality was separated.

"I'm fine. I just want to act normally. I guess I'll have to wait a few days."

It can be seen that this wind fairy has long blue hair, her pale golden eyes make her delicate and cute, and a pair of lattice wings that look like the energy shield of a void battleship proves that she is a fairy who is close to the new era , she was holding a small light spot in her arms at this time, her face was filled with the brilliance of motherhood-but the whole goblin was only the size of a palm.

Several doctors who were about to leave looked at Fafnir with vain eyes. They always felt that this was a crime, but they couldn't find any evidence.

For goblins, separating part of their psychic matter is like separating part of their flesh and blood. In fact, Fafnir has already separated part of his own psychic matter, but that was all a few months ago. Almost recovered.

"In short, our child is very healthy!"

Saying so, the wind goblin named Vera happily raised the light spot in her hand, and Fafnir carefully used her magic power to transform it into an invisible gentle stance, replacing her overly large hand , holding up the spot of light that was only as big as the nail of his little finger.

"Yes... I feel... a very stable energy frequency, very good, great!"

"Cough, cough."

And when the husband and wife were talking sweet words, pouring out their feelings for each other, and even began to look forward to the future of the child, accompanied by a light cough, at first the elf doctor came slowly, squinting his eyes, looking at the medicine in his hand. A document, followed by a serious look, as if it was a routine: "Congratulations, the operation was successful, mother..."

Speaking of this, he got stuck, he didn't know whether to say 'son' or 'female', but the doctor is an elf after all, and he passed this paragraph with a modulation that seemed to be singing: "...According to this 'New Mike' Rove Fertility Act', I have to ask your opinion, and I think you all know the content."

"All in all, do you agree with us to perform the ritual of 'spiritual machine companionship' for newborns?"

Is there even a question?

Fafnir and Vera looked at each other first, and then said in unison: "We agree!"

But having said that, Mr. Fafnir Chris was still a little nervous. He swallowed, looked at the light spot in his hand, and said to himself a little suspiciously: "However, my child can really do it now." Do you want to enter the companion ceremony? I mean, it should be okay to come back when you grow up, right?"

After all, according to the information he had received before, the most primitive divine machine companionship ceremony required taking out a part of the newborn's body to perform the ceremony, and then put it back into the newborn's body to achieve companionship. And my child... After all, it is special, maybe when he or she grows up, he or she will have a semi-human body, but now, it is a pure demon body.

Is that okay too?

"no problem."

The doctor had obviously thought about similar issues a long time ago, he shrugged and said: "The old ceremony three years ago, in general, borrowed from the traditional rituals of that adult's family, although it can achieve a 100% stable resonance rate, But the parents of many children thought it was too bloody, and it might be harmful to their children, so they always refused. So soon, two years ago, there was a brand new method that did not take out a part of the body, but directly performed rituals from a distance. gone."

"And now, our technology has improved again."

Saying so, a faint blue light of time and space appeared in the doctor's hand, and soon, a test tube containing a silver light like a nebula inside, like a miniature galaxy, appeared out of thin air, and was held by the doctor. In hand: "By referring to the highest creation of the 'Sanctuary Civilization', the structure of the 'Black Mist', plus some unique technologies of Mycroft, we have developed the 'Phase Reagent', and use this to carry the divine machine companion Not only do you not need to take out a part of the body, you also don’t need to directly perform the ceremony on the newborn, you only need to inject the spiritual core of the divine mechanism into a reagent, and the newborn will be accompanied by the divine mechanism.”

"In the past, the sanctuary civilization called this ritual an 'artificial protoss'. I think it makes sense-but we have more weapons than them, haha."

After so many years, many top-secret information has gradually been made public, and now it has become a joke between doctors and patients to reconcile the atmosphere.

After hearing the doctor's explanation, both Fafnir and Vera breathed a sigh of relief—it wasn't that they were rigid, but that their child was indeed in a special shape, and it couldn't bear too much damage when it was born, but soon , the doubts of the new students reappeared: "But doctor, our child is so young... Isn't this phase reagent too big?"

The doctor sighed, and he handed to Fafnir the core test tube of the Divine Mechanism that had been turned into a phase reagent in his hand, and then made a gesture of 'putting it in'.

After a while, Fafnir still couldn't react, but Vera at the side understood it. She was stunned at first, and then shocked: "Put it...pretend it?"

She glanced at the test tube, and at this moment, a phantom of a baby carriage appeared: "The bottle... the villain in the bottle?!"

"Otherwise, can it still be injected? It's not a balloon."

The doctor didn't care about the shock of the two of them: "The phase reagent is the best culture medium for the phase life during the growth period, at least it is much better than if you put it outside. Moreover, in the process of growth, it gradually develops with the God-machine symbiosis, the resonance rate between him and God-machine will definitely reach a very high level in the future, and it is not difficult even to break through the "measurement limit of 100%". Believe me, we have done more tests in this area than you can imagine. "

Not to mention the two people who are holding the test tube and the newborn light spots, their faces are tangled, and they don't know how to 'put it in'. The angle of view is stretched, leaving the hospital in the city center and coming to the whole Lange City.

It can be seen that people come and go on the street, there are all races and forms of life, there are humanoid life of flesh and blood, and mechanical individuals with iron and steel frames, ghosts and winged intelligence in midair Life flies, and these creatures in different forms, some even from different worlds and civilizations, without exception, all turn into human forms and walk in the human world.

It stands to reason that it should be relatively difficult to distinguish the purebred Mrs. Micro among all living beings, but it is not the case.

It can be seen that on the street, beside or behind almost every Mrs. Micro, there is a semi-spiritual body floating in different shapes. They are either humanoid, or weapon-shaped, and there are even animals, monsters, and objects. , musical instruments, or other various odd-shaped geometric bodies. Any existence with this kind of semi-spiritual companion is undoubtedly Mrs. Microroe.

Even seven or eight-year-old children have corresponding spirit bodies floating around, protecting and guiding playful children to avoid danger—human children may not know what is dangerous, but as their companions , best playmate, guide and weapon.

Regardless of whether they will not need this kind of guidance in the future, but at least for now, the 'God Machine' will open up a safe and smooth path for them before they grow up.

Of course, not all Mrs. McCormick choose to be accompanied by a magic machine. At least, there are still some people who look at this sudden half-body spirit body with doubts.

"How can you ensure the safety of this companion?"

They always ask like this, their tone is full of doubts, and even fierce attacks: "You have no way to make sure, right? If the magic machine will backfire, wouldn't ordinary people like us without extraordinary power be sure to die?"

For various reasons, they always refuse to change, but their doubts are not wrong. At least, in the process of developing the God Machine Companion, the developers have thought of this problem earlier than them.

And the answer to this question is 'it doesn't matter'.

not safe? It's not safe. There is no such thing as 100% safety in this world. If you want absolute safety and tranquility, then you can only suggest death... Ah, death is not considered peaceful, because the absolute strong, even the dead are annihilated in the void, they can forcibly reverse the situation Entropy and time drag people back forcibly.

Even the original human body is not safe - all kinds of genetic diseases, all kinds of natural defects, and even the natural shortcomings conceived in the embryo are more dangerous than man-made, striving for perfection. Don't talk about other things, toothache, stomach disease, digestive problems, cancer... Which one of these things is not painful, which one is not dangerous?

Moreover, compared to the magic machine that has never had any problems so far, what humans should be most wary of should be other things-such as car accidents, exploring different worlds, accidentally bumping into sharp objects, learning spells, etc. Leading to backlash, over-sharpening fighting qi and causing life to decline... The whole world has died from the cultivation of extraordinary power, and the number of people who died from their own swords is unknown, and there is no one who does not learn magic fighting qi, and does not use weapons and tools.

You know, God knows how many people died suddenly every day when they practiced madness.

But the magic machine can avoid most of the above dangers.

They are spirit bodies and weapons that are associated with human beings. When they perform the accompanying ceremony, they can transform the body of the accompanying person to make it reach a natural and perfect state. He can avoid sudden attacks, remind dangerous areas, and before the spell backfires To warn, when the spell is backlashed, bear it together, and practice fighting spirit can also guide the companion. If the companion insists on going his own way, at least he can help the other party prepare a suicide note (some of them will choose to notify the city guards or the companion's parents).

Maybe in the future, when the magic machine is accompanied, something bad will happen, cause some bad situation, for example, a group of useless people who rely on the magic machine for everything will come out - but such people will not be able to do it even if they don't have the magic machine. Relying on his parents to gnaw at the old is a waste in the final analysis, and the magic machine will at least prevent him from making mistakes because of the waste.

As for the magical mechanism that backfires on the companion... It's not impossible. For example, the companion is too useless, and the magical mechanism is really unbearable. It is indeed reasonable to be angry and resist. But in the final analysis, the magic machine is the spirit body bred and bred in the companion's own soul and body. If you have to say it, it really backlashes. This situation has not yet happened and cannot be used as a counterexample.

Of course, there are also some people who don't try the magic machine companionship not because of such shallow reasons.

Outside the Lange City Central Hospital, a middle-aged man who didn't look too old looked at the hospital with complicated eyes. He could sense that his son and daughter-in-law were among them, for his... grandson or granddaughter? Forget it, let him go.

All in all, they are rejoicing and having fun.

But as a 'grandfather', he has various emotions in his heart.

"Mysterious machine..."

The former Chris Radcliffe, now Filstner Chris let out a long breath: "Is this destiny?"

His father wanted it. For rights, for carrying responsibilities.

He doesn't want to. For freedom, to escape responsibility.

His son knew nothing of all this and grew up to this day.

And his grandson got it without knowing it.

The longing and desire that have been entangled for four generations, the cause and effect and cycle that have been entangled for four generations, is once again linked to the person who holds the blood of the Radcliffe family. He can even hear that it has not yet been born. My own magic machine is cheering and ringing, and the ritual that was born out of the contract of the Radcliffe family is excited because of touching the blood of the original owner.

"Lucky little guy, my grandchild... is different from me who escaped responsibility and is not qualified to own it. You don't know anything about it, and you don't need to bear any responsibility... because someone has already cut off the bloodline Destiny allows you to grow freely."

And the chain of cause and effect belonging to the Radcliffe family is finally linked to all human beings, and even all intelligent life in the future.

The middle-aged man sighed with relief and sighed silently, while the blond lady beside him gently put her hand on the back of her husband's hand - she thought it was because the other party was feeling emotional because he was going to be a grandfather, so this A lady named Sophie said softly: "Don't sigh, old guy, this is all a good thing."

"Yeah. It's all a good thing. Wait, you bastard, I'm not old!" Chris subconsciously echoed, and after Chris reacted, he pretended to be angry at his wife who covered her mouth and chuckled: "I'll let you know tonight I’m amazing—give Fafnir another younger brother and sister!”

"...Yeah. It's all a good thing."

In the sky above Lange City, a winged girl with blue hair and black wings looks down on the whole city. No. 3 stares at the central hospital in this city with complex eyes, watching the 'human' and 'fairy', 'physical life' and 'phase' In the scene of "life" giving birth to offspring, I don't know whether it is helplessness or gratification. I shook my head: "Is it possible that the blood of the Radcliffe family is born to like inhumans? Even goblins can do it... ...But it's all good."

"If I hadn't allocated resources to carry out relevant research... Hmph, these two little guys, do you really think that you can find out the method of 'merging with dependencies' so quickly to conceive offspring? This breeding seems perfect, my train of thought Sure enough, there is no problem."

With the efforts of her and countless others, the mode of human reproduction has changed.

——It’s all a good thing.

The artificial intelligence behind all these developments nodded slightly, then she turned her head and looked at the entire Lange City.

Naturally, a large number of accompanying magic machines came into her eyes.

"...It's really unexpected that there is still such a day."

No. 3 looked at the creation of her former mother world, and gradually developed into what it is today. She watched the magic machine, with the efforts of her and the people in the Moldavian Lord's Mansion, gradually become the Mycroft civilization. Things that are indispensable in the future, the feelings in my heart, apart from comfort, there is also a little bit of complexity.

All the hard work and struggle has paid off...but that man, can he see it now?

Surely he can. Sure.

"Joshya, the current multi-dimensional galaxy is not peaceful... Not only that, but people's hearts are starting to crumble a bit."

Thinking of this, No. 3 will naturally open the magic net. As a humanoid spiritual terminal, one of the central administrators of the magic net, and a high-ranking member of the Mycroft civilization, she will naturally be able to connect to the entire multi-dimensional galaxy and know many secrets that ordinary people cannot know.

It can be seen that in the major forums, there are many slightly anxious posts and anonymous communication strings.

[Recently, the Multi-Galaxy Joint Conference was held, and even the third Multi-Civilization Invitational Tournament was suspended. Is something big going to happen again? 】

[During the conference, the Magic Net will crack down severely, and the following words are strictly prohibited in the discussion (links attached)]

[I heard that there was another natural disaster on the other side of the multi-dimensional galaxy. The netizens around Biros Galaxy have no news. Some time ago, they were playing online in the big arena. In the middle of the game, they suddenly disconnected. I have been used to it for the past few years.]

[Pray for blessings, donate money, netizens in the world are one family, we are all members of the big league]

[What's the use of praying donations? The official aid has been sent out long ago. I heard that the legendary swordsman and the new pope led the team. Now ordinary people like us can just wait for the news]

【Sigh, although I know it's far away from us, but I don't know why, I always feel panic...】

On the 3rd, I browsed the anonymous discussion thread. Compared with the serious forum that guides public opinion, this kind of place only applies for a series of intervals and conducts secret discussions, so as to truly express everyone's thoughts—even though the darkness and chaos are about to invade. It is not fully informed to the public, but the increasingly tense social situation and numerous trends will always make some sharp people nervous and guess something.

"Brandon, Loranda has been on the side of Biros Galaxy as a vanguard for almost three years. The Sacrificial Field of Myriad Worlds and the shadow space where the Shadow Sage connects all worlds has indeed made communication a lot easier... But if they Without blocking, the evil gods can also easily invade all walks of life."

Thinking of this, No. 3's complexion darkened slightly: "And as the interpreter of the big information base, the bearer and manager of the magic net, I can only stay behind... I always feel that I can't help everyone, so I can only make a fuss." Things about the divine machine."

But there is no way to be unwilling, even if he has obtained the inheritance of the god of the sky, reached the legendary realm in the general sense, and became the second legendary powerhouse in the Lord's Mansion besides Joshua, but No. 3 is still very clear, I am not good at fighting at all, and I can't help others much in this regard.

Thinking of this, she subconsciously opened a private and highly confidential forum, and she could see that there were hardly a few people in this simple forum, and the latest two posts were only a few days ago.

But the content of the post is particularly shocking.

The first post was made by a user whose ID is 'Loving·Physical Missionary·Friendly', and the content of the post is exactly the scene of the 'Biros Galaxy' that was mentioned in the previous anonymous discussion thread.

It was a star field on the edge of the Biros Galaxy. It was originally desolate and uninhabited, but under the repeated confirmation of the knowledge takeover, the explorers of Mycroft unearthed a large-scale pioneer of the era of the magic sage here. relics.

But now, the original world of relics has become the current fortress star field-centered on the entire pioneer relics group, large tracts of void fortresses and world fortresses, like walls made of steel, will The entire star field is tightly blocked, becoming an extremely strong fortress group.

At least hundreds of civilizations are transfusing blood towards this place, constantly building fortresses, and it can be seen that there are dozens of different styles in this large fortress community, mixed with almost all extraordinary powers and their corresponding The derived power, the incomparably powerful extraordinary fluctuations, even distorted the light of this star field, causing the entire side of the Biros Galaxy to shine with distorted rainbow light.

The second post was posted by a user whose ID is 'Sword of the Short Guard', and the content of the post was an interpretation of the internal documents of the Pioneer-level ruins in the Biros Galaxy.

[This is a civilization named 'Balord', left before the brink of destruction, the civilized suicide note, the content is very long and complicated, it expounds the history and development process of their entire civilization, as well as their key technologies, which is more important I have uploaded the information to the Omega area of ​​the unified information database, enter the corresponding secret key to browse]

[However, for us, the most important information is not those materials, but their remorse and emotion before their demise]

['We made a wrong decision to lower our civilization level to avoid the destruction of the evil god... It was really a big mistake. After we castrated ourselves into a second-level civilization, the evil god would not take the initiative to take action, but this It doesn't mean that the family members will ignore us, and the more the family members, the more evil gods will pay attention... Sure enough, just like the "sage" said, escaping will not solve the problem, it will only be solved by the problem. ’]

[Recently, there have been a lot of negative comments on the magic net, as well as related statements from evaders who have undermined self-confidence. Among them, there are even many acquaintances, counting on entering the world of Sanctuary, when the ostrich escaped from the invasion of evil gods ... Seriously, it was the last moment. It is a refuge for survivors after our defeat, not something to escape. No one can live in it for nothing without bloodshed. I hope you can arrange it and guide me about it Public opinion, strictly investigate pessimistic speech]

This user's speech was very intense, and he seemed to be really angry. Although he didn't say harsh words, his words were very harsh.

[It's useless to escape. As the man has always said, only by facing the suffering can we gain a chance of survival - no victory will come without a reason, we must fight to gain a chance for the safe start of the world of Sanctuary in the future. 】

"Yeah, just like that man said..."

Suspended in the sky, No. 3 raised her head, she looked at Gao Tian, ​​her gaze pierced the sky, and went straight into the void: "It's just like what you've always said."

"It's just, when will you appear in front of us, really, and say this yourself?"

The artificial intelligence knows very well that it won't be too long... In the depths of the magic net, at the core of the great vortex of creation, the huge pulse is getting faster and bigger.

"This year is the eighth year since you left the normal multi-dimensional galaxy and went to the maelstrom of creation."

This year is the eighth year that Joshua Van Radcliffe entered the maelstrom of creation.

The coming time is coming.

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