A familiar face, a slightly familiar voice, and a completely unfamiliar physique were the first feelings that Timiret gave me again.

"The letter was sent directly to you? Didn't leak that I'm here, right? ”

"Of course, I came straight to the letter as soon as I got it, there really was Hamm... A relic of the civilization of the Sage? ”

"Of course, I wouldn't have come to you. The maid who was with me was supposed to be a pure artificial soul, didn't you notice? ”

"Really, my current research direction ....... is not this, I heard that the research of pure artificial souls has not been smooth, and now there are results?"

"Unsmooth?"

To be able to get to this point, little Timmy is strange if he doesn't have a little secret, and he can't hide the strangeness of his soul, but there is no need to dwell on some things to the end, especially after reaching a contract with the god of wisdom, our cooperation has reached a new level.

And with some things on the table, Timiret's identity is not a big deal, but after learning about his identity, I am surprised that he does not know about the study of artificial souls.

As far as I know, in the spiral tower of Babel, the largest relic of the sage civilization, there is a tombstone inscribed with the three "crimes" of this race, and of course, it is not wrong to say that the results - "the immortality of the whole race, the artificial soul, and the creation of life." ”

But now that Timiret Jr. has told me that their study of artificial souls is not going well, this undoubtedly arouses my curiosity.

"Well, it's always been very uncomfortable, and in fact, I still can't get around the question of the essence of the soul, and no one can create the essence of the soul out of thin air except the Creator. Pure calculation and accumulation cannot reach the course of the soul. You want to create an artificial soul. To activate him. To make it an active soul, with all kinds of emotions and the possibility of evolution, can only be integrated into more natural souls, which is obviously entering the evil path. ”

“…… Isn't that the same as a necromancer? ”

Using the soul as a material to construct a new soul creation, playing with the structure of the soul and the body, wasn't it the preserve of necromancers in the past.

"Yes, the innovative technology that has been worked so hard to make is actually left over by someone else's play. It's a mockery of the technologists of the sage civilization, but as far as I know, at least until the end of civilization, there shouldn't be any great leaps and bounds in this area of technology. ”

I nodded, I can barely be regarded as an expert in the study of souls, and I can also make some guesses about the technology of the sage civilization to build artificial souls, and it can be seen from Timmy's words that their artificial souls use pure computing power to form logical abilities, but they are like computers in another world, no matter how much calculations are accumulated. If it cannot form a qualitative change, it still cannot be called a complete "person".

"That's it. Somewhat similar to Taling, able to make logical inferences, but without ego and emotion. ”

"Anything similar, it's a set of techniques. You don't think those mages will rob tombs? ”

"Poof."

I burst out laughing, and the images of wise men wearing robes with gold-threaded monocles were suddenly replaced by honest and strong men with shovels and shovels on their backs.

In fact, a lot of ancient technology and magic came out like this, and it's true that mages are good at bad luck, a lucky thief, mountain people, and farmers accidentally found the ruins, and then after the news spread, those mages ran faster than anything, in other words, this time it is not far from the country of mages, and there will be no mage organization to participate.

"If that's the case, it shouldn't be taboo, right?"

I have the impression that the civilization of the sages is destroyed by divine punishment, and because of the existence of the regular cleaning system of holy war, the gods still have a high degree of discomfort towards mortals, and ordinary death is not directly punished by divine punishment.

"It's okay to have this technology alone, but they've developed artificial body and soul preservation technology, you know the Tower of Babel, well, it's the Tower of Babel at the Cape, that's actually the Soul Preservation Center, and in the countless compartments, there are brains and souls of wise men, and they can still study in them, just waiting for the regeneration sequence."

Regeneration sequence? It seemed to be an interesting word to hear, and with Timiret's explanation, I finally knew what the great engineers had done.

Unlike the mainstream of the mage's archaeological discourse on this civilization, since they are called sages, those great engineers are not fools without foresight, and they can't do such stupid deeds as immortality for all, after all, people with a little foresight know that the carrying range of the world is limited.

But they still do it very much, they evaluate the value of "people", those who reach a certain threshold can obtain direct immortality, and other people's wait in the Tower of Babel to wait for regeneration, determine the interval of resurrection and the number of years of life according to the value, increase the population and decrease the population according to the needs of society, and so on, the speed of expansion is indeed agreed with the population, but there is one thing that they have not thought clearly.

"Isn't that the equivalent of all souls being imprisoned in the Tower of Babel? There are only newborns who come out of reincarnation, but there are no dead who have returned to reincarnation, the total number of possessed souls of the sage civilization will continue to increase, which will definitely lead to the destruction of the balance, and it is impossible for the chaos side to allow the emergence of a large unified civilization country, and the reduction of the dead will directly lead to the reduction of the resources of the Styx, which will directly threaten the circulation of the lower plane, and the gods on the order side ......"

"How can truth-seekers worship the gods, and how can a limited worldview explore the truth of the world, so mages and engineers only show respect for the gods, and in the same way, sages do not believe in gods, and even some people have begun to study them. There are gods who have captured gods, there are gods who have fallen because of lack of faith, and there are several gods who have seized the throne, and there are not a few gods who fell because of this. ”

Needless to say, people will die when they die, and they will die to such a point, offending the two camps at the same time, and directly understanding the foundation of jihad by the way, and also determining their doomed fate.

"Back then, the Seven Great Babel Towers seemed to have all been destroyed, and all the souls that thought they had obtained immortal souls were all reincarnated at the same moment, and all the records were gone, even if they could live under the punishment of the gods, the deadly plague against the race took everyone's lives, and the sage civilization also came to an end."

There was some sighing in Timiret's words, but there was not much sadness in his personal experience, for him, it was only the inheritance of the knowledge and memory of the sage, not his own experience, but more just lamenting the loss of those mysteries and knowledge.

There is no need to talk about the past, but if it is about the future, it is necessary to ask, since Caterina is from that ruin, there must be something wrong there.

"In other words, the artificial soul back then was just a technology similar to Taling, and it took a lot of natural souls to make the artificial soul gain self?"

"Yes, but it's hard to say, after so many years, maybe the technology is better. By the way, back then, we also had a tower spirit, and the name of the tower spirit of the mage tower was inherited from our Babel Tower Spirit, he is the highest masterpiece of artificial souls, and his computing power is extremely amazing, and he can independently manage the countless living compartments in the tower. ”

"Does he have an ego?"

"No, that is strictly forbidden, first of all, to create an artificial soul with self and feelings, it is necessary to destroy other natural souls, the more powerful the artificial soul is, the more natural souls are needed, it is equivalent to large-scale murder, and once the seven star sages ...... It's the title of the seven Babel Towers that have gained their self, and who rules and who really doesn't know. ”

When I heard this, I was dumbfounded, worried that I would be killed by the artificial intelligence that I created, and it was really not only the human beings on the earth, but human nature was really universal.

"Ha, this plot is really familiar, the next scene, it won't be the Skynet War Terminator."

【Beep!】 The Crow's Beak title is activated. 】

The system always makes such boring jokes, I'm a little tired of it, and now that I think about it, those crow's mouths and whatnot, the system cheated me.

[No kidding, there were more than seven Babel Towers and the eighth ...... That is, the largest Babel Tower, which is not far from you. 】

"What?"

[How do you think Caterina came from?] 】

"I'm X, can't you have said something so big earlier?"

[You didn't ask, cough, I should say that you didn't meet the conditions to trigger the task....... how much mess do you think there is in my memory bank.] 】――

In the deepest part of the mountain valley, the ruins of the Z-8 building have already begun to operate.

The "Civilization Reconstruction Project" is his name, and for the sake of secrecy, no one who has anything to do with the project knows nothing about this Babel.

There is no shortage of wise men in the sage civilization, and people of insight have already seen the fate of destruction, how can they not prepare, this Tower of Babel, only two thousand years after the fall of the other seven tower spirits, will be automatically activated.

And for some reason, the first awakening of the Tower of Babel Z8 was not smooth, and it was quickly put into a deep sleep again, and more than ten years ago, a reckless adventurer entered the ruins, took an important component, and made the entire Tower of Babel start working again.

The Tower of Babel even stretched underground, and it was supposed to be filled with the souls and brains of great engineers, elite workers, and soldiers, but more than half of its cubicles were empty.

And in the deepest part of the earth, at the underground spire of the Tower of Babel, in front of Z8's soul throne, several black-robed mages were groaning in pain, their skulls had been opened, and their bare brains were stimulated by electricity to reveal all the secrets

But the master of this place has ignored them, and its eyes have turned to the void, where there is an honored guest, waiting for its invitation.

"Perhaps, we already have a common goal."

After a long time, there was a response from the other side of the void.

"At least, we already have a common enemy, the vain and hypocritical gods!" (To be continued......)