Soul of Burning Steel

At the beginning, Joshua had great expectations for the rebels in Siberia, that is, the group of superpowers, because of the unknown mechanic.

In the blood-stained diary, there are recorded the thoughts and conclusions of the unnamed technician for more than 20 years. The Siberians that Joshua learned from it are a person who has in-depth research on technology, can create soul puppets, and can control souls. Great civilizations undergoing precise transformation, their soul research is no less than that of the Mycroft world, to the point where it can be called art-although this art is used on their own heads, so what? Method?

There are countless works created by the imagination of high-intelligence artificial intelligence destroying the world. Even in the Mycroft Continent, some alchemists called on spellcasters to be vigilant against the abuse of high-intelligence artificial souls. At the beginning of the advent, Joe Xiuya felt that the world of Siberia was such a world. The soul puppets defeated their mother, the Siberians, and used it as a material and tool for their own reproduction, a typical civilization destroyed by their own creations.

In contrast, the existence of fighting soul puppets recorded in the unknown mechanic's book, according to Joshua's guess, should be the remnants of the civilization of the Siberians in the past. They should have the same technology and culture, otherwise it would not be possible. He could fight with each other all year round. In his imagination—or, in the imagination of the unknown mechanic, the Siberian rebel group should be a 'civilization'.

But this kind of imagination is gradually changing as Joshua's understanding of the world deepens.

At the beginning, it was a soul test on the children in the garden: According to the fact that the children can play and sing nursery rhymes, Joshua felt that the Siberians should have maintained the most basic civilization, but then he discovered that those There are no continuous memory fragments in the children's brains, it is almost blank, their singing and playing are completely similar to manipulating puppets, just like the current soldiers control the body of the unknown mechanic boy.

The second change is to leave the garden area. After entering the breeding area, Joshua immediately discovered that the air in this world was extremely bad, and it could even be said to be very unsuitable for life. As for why such an environment was formed, he had seen a similar cause in the memory of the sixth abyss. It was definitely a tragic and abnormal war that could even ravage the world to such an extent. This is also in line with the speculation that the soul puppets and the Siberians once launched a war.

However, can such a harsh environment really sustain the consumption of a large civilization? Joshua once looked down from the highest point of the world, and he clearly knew that there were only sporadic green spots in the whole world, and there was no large-scale suitable living environment.

The third time was the moment when the 'Magic Arrow' shot at countless civilians after the battle was roughly over.

From that moment on, Joshua clearly understood that his imagination of the remaining Siberian civilization was completely wrong.

For a civilization, the population may occasionally be a burden, but it is definitely not a disadvantage. If you want to support a complete knowledge system and a cultural society, you must have enough people.

If there is a civilization that is also proficient in the soul behind the Siberian power user team, then they must know that those ordinary people who are stunned can be saved, just like the unknown technician, who is not only proficient in maintenance technology, but can even survive through a long period of time. The mental work of the people cultivates the soul. In this way, in the long run, of course, they will not choose to destroy the resources in the hands of the enemy, but try to take the resources into their own hands.

This is also why Joshua said that he had thought about many reasons for their massacres, but never thought about the reason for the race: after all, maybe the Siberian civilization behind the team does not need these populations at present? But even if it is not necessary, race will never be used as an excuse, but war, unbearable and other reasons.

But it turns out that everything is similar to another guess, that is, there is no nameless mechanic or the 'civilization' that Joshua imagined behind the Siberian superpower team.

Because of the unknown mechanic, Joshua had too many expectations for the rebels in Siberia. It wasn't until just now that he finally realized that these seemingly spiritual rebels were actually just fugitives who escaped from the hands of soul puppets. The gathering of rebels is not a Siberian civilization army or special forces at all. Only when 'Chariot' told him about his knowledge of the rebel army in person, Joshua could clearly understand this fact and erase it. own wrong imagination.

anger? dissatisfied? They are all gone. Joshua is just lost now, and he still has some regrets, because the mother body of Siberian civilization has most likely been completely destroyed. What is left is just a group of fugitives without civilization, history, and inheritance.

They can't even understand the word 'history', even Joshua can't help it with spiritual resonance, because their language and concepts don't have the past and history... Their living conditions are too harsh, The bad environment, the siege of robots, the ignorance of themselves... They should really not know that those ordinary people can be saved, and they don't know that those people are human just like them... But with their conditions, Even if they are saved, they don't have the resources to cultivate them, because they all need to rob the soul puppet garden to survive.

The Siberian rebels can't even be called nomads. They are just a group of homeless fugitives. They don't have any ability or opportunity to produce new things. Their future is gloomy. Can go on like this.

Until now, Joshua had a relatively clear understanding of the situation in the world of Siberia today, so he said the three sentences before.

"You are not human." "You are not human." "You are not human."

Whether it is a soul puppet, or an ordinary person in Siberia, or the super-powered resistance army of Siberia, they alone are incomplete as a civilized individual. Soul puppets have the ability to reconstruct planting areas in a barren world, produce food, and repair the world. ability, but they are rigid puppets, without humanity and wisdom, and act according to orders and rules. Most of their technology should come from the pre-Siberian civilization, and there is no future to speak of.

The Siberian rebels have shown obvious communicability and intelligence. Their actions are quite organized and they have even learned to work as a team. However, as a nascent group of fugitives deformed by oppression, they did not produce things. They don’t even know the relationship between themselves and ordinary people. In fact, even nomads can produce. They are still civilized, but the efficiency is not high, and the existence of the rebels is just existence, let alone civilization. It is now in danger and may be destroyed at any time.

Ordinary people in Siberia are farmed livestock. They have no intelligence, and their ability to think and associate is blocked. They don't even have the freedom to choose death. What about human beings?

The above three are all torn and broken, and they cannot be regarded as complete intelligent and civilized individuals. Joshua's evaluation of them is an objective statement of facts. He did not insult anyone, and he did not intend to express his own Angry, on the contrary, he even extinguished the anger caused by the 'magic arrow' killing a large number of Siberians... because they really have nothing to do, and for a group of people who are fleeing at the end of the road, this is the only choice.

The soil of civilized spirit no longer exists, so how can we demand morality at this time?

Of course, these are tentative views.

Joshua can't rule out that he discovered some new information later, which can reverse all impressions from the beginning to the end, because there are many doubts now, for example, where are the square communication buildings in the garden area connected to? You know, those are just pure information transfer stations, without a central core for thinking. If this is the case, then who is giving the task to the soul puppet?

The team system of the Siberian Rebels is very complete. There are attackers, defenders, long-range and large-scale attackers, attack blasters, means of transportation, and invisible support and spirit unlockers. This team system is too mature In Joshua's opinion, there are definitely a few in the rebel army who are similar to unknown technicians and have the knowledge of civilization inherited from the previous generation of Siberians.

"It's complicated."

Sighing, Joshua raised his head, and by the direction of the wind and cloud flow, and the comparison of the surrounding environment when he fell from the sky, he immediately judged where he was: located in the southeast edge of the world of Siberia. So, he immediately lowered his head and looked towards the northwest of the world, that is, the direction where the spiral tower and the countless steel buildings were located.

The center of the world where the spiral tower is located is the only place in the entire Siberia world with large-scale man-made buildings. If there is a place where there may be a truly perfect civilization, then it must be there. If there is a steel python thousands of years ago, it must be there. Only there will be historical records of the time when Siberia was kicked out of the world.

Logically, he should start now, but it's not yet time. Joshua looked around, and he saw people from the Siberia Super Team standing in front of him. The expressions of these people were nervous, and they seemed very embarrassed... They actually didn't understand what Joshua said before, because their The language is actually very imperfect, they only know that this seemingly powerful young man in front of them-they think Joshua's carbon-based puppet is the main body-seems very dissatisfied with themselves.

But Joshua is no longer dissatisfied. If it is said that he was angry because his original expectations were too high, then now that he knows the tragic truth behind the rebels, he naturally has no expectations... Without expectations, there will naturally be no emotions. At this moment, Joshua was just a little regretful. He sighed and said, "Do you want to go to the garden area to save those children?"

"Go, it's there."

The huge metal puppet turned sideways slightly, making way for a path. Joshua waved his hands casually, and immediately the remains of countless soul puppets on the ground were moved to the sides, leaving a path free. , the seven people headed by the chariot did not dare to say soliciting words, but swallowed, and ran quickly towards the garden area, and the eyes of the thin boy called 'Pegasus' lit up again Green light, the speed of the super team suddenly accelerated a lot.

Looking at the backs of the departing power users, Joshua turned his head, and then slowly walked towards the edge of the breeding area, the huge black wall. He walked very slowly, because every time the soldiers fell , all the wreckage of the soul puppets on the ground would tremble slightly. He took a step forward, and the wreckage seemed to be dragged along. He moved one step forward, and Joshua took two steps forward. The metal fell off to the ground, Joshua walked forward step by step, and various unqualified metal materials left the dragged queue.

Until Joshua reached the gap in the giant wall, only a piece of high-grade alloys and precious metals selected from the remains of countless soul puppets, weighing less than half a ton, was left. The silver and half-green metal block turned into a ring, slowly floating and spinning behind Joshua's puppet body, on the metal ring, inscriptions appeared one after another out of thin air, a strange force was generated, and a huge buoyancy was generated. Make the heavy puppet body float up.

Joshua's height gradually increased, and he was still walking forward step by step, as if walking on an air ladder. He rose to 700 meters in the air and looked into the distance.

Then he saw what he had sensed earlier on the ground.

At the end of the horizon, the smoke and dust rising like giant pillars supporting the sky... And, in the smoke and dust, an extremely cold metal light shone.

To be honest, it is a good thing that you are willing to discuss the plot, but I hope book friends can be more rational. It is impossible for Joshua to understand the truth of the world as clearly as the background of reading games, and it is impossible for me to write all his psychology. , His understanding of Siberian civilization comes from the unnamed mechanic, and the unnamed mechanic is an extraordinary special case... If you have any doubts, I hope you can read the next few chapters, and it’s really boring to scold directly, or keep arguing, because if you are serious Look, you know that I didn’t belittle the Rebel Army, I wrote their reasons very well, and I didn’t discredit them, otherwise you wouldn’t speak up for the Rebel Army—it’s just that Joshua didn’t know the specifics behind the Rebel Army at that time. What is the situation? He guessed that it was a civilization, but it was not. Just such a small understanding error can cause a huge difference in cognition.

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