The sea is turbulent.

Huge ice floes collided with each other and burst into a deep and dull roar, passing through the water and the wind, and into distant places.

The biting cold wind hung over the sea, swept up the tide, and threw it on the surface, and a large number of ice crystals rose and fell in the water, accompanied by a crisp bell between the roar of countless ice floes.

Above the cloud-covered sky, there was a faint flow of electric light, signaling the approach of the storm.

And above the sea, at some point, it was covered with a layer of bleak white in the cold wind.

The frozen waters turned into ice, covered with snow, and adorned with countless criss-crossing fissures, exposing the deep waters below, which stretched all the way to the end of heaven and earth.

And just above the sea of ice, two straight lines of footprints stretched forward.

All the way to a place where you can gaze at the outline of the continent.

It came to an abrupt end.

Ye Qingxuan raised his head and stared at the land covered in gray mist in the distance.

"Ahead, is it the Caucasus......

"That's right. ”

Bach's beard was covered with fine frost and he spat out a fiery snort: "Where the gods are." ”

"I'll just take care of the rest. ”

Ye Qingxuan glanced back: "I've already been 'escorted' here, so I won't worry that I will regret it next, right?"

"No, what should be done is not done. ”

Bach shook his head, smacked his pipe on the sharp edge of ice beside him, knocked out the frozen tobacco and ashes, and filled it again: "Before you go, there are still people who want to see you." ”

"Where are the people?"

Bach bowed his head and lit his pipe: "Calculate the time, it should be soon." ”

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan turned around.

A rift into the distance opened behind him.

In the roar of the hurricane, a black dot emerged from the air, and then the black dot spread rapidly, swallowing the frost wind, forming a wind crater that led to another world.

Wind tunnel?

Just when Ye Qingxuan was stunned, in the wind cave, a palm slowly stretched out.

Immediately afterward, the emaciated silhouette emerged.

As if the proposition of 'long-distance human teleportation', which proved to be unsolvable, was broken, someone came across thousands of miles, and finally, stepped on the sea of ice, and the old and decayed clothes were revealed in the hurricane.

As the hurricane dissipated, the aging and peeling silicone skin was revealed, as well as the broken circuits and machinery behind the peeling skin, as hideous as a ghost.

"First meeting, the successor of Dr. Ye. ”

The only 'human' in the history of the world who has achieved long-distance teleportation stood in front of Ye Qingxuan, and let out a strange tone with electric noise.

His robe, which was no longer visible in its original color, was swept up by the wind, revealing the emblem engraved by the Maker on the back of his hand, revealing his inhuman nature.

Ye Qingxuan suddenly said: "Peter?"

"Exactly. ”

The first Red King, the only non-human on the East Asian immigration ship, the intelligent observation machine 'Peter' had the jaw head.

In a brief silence, he stared at Ye Qingxuan's face.

Behind a pair of aging and faded colloidal eyeballs, old observation equipment is faintly revealed, still flashing with a monotonous rainbow light.

Being looked at by him directly makes people uncomfortable.

Ye Qingxuan frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"You have the same eyes as your ancestors, the eyes of a true human. Peter replied, "Before he killed Xiao Huan, he had the same look in his eyes as you." ”

Ye Qingxuan's eyes turned cold, and he looked at Peter silently.

Peter looked at him too.

There was no expression on the broken face.

"Explain your purpose, Peter. ”

Ye Qingxuan said coldly: "If you want to make me unhappy, congratulations, you succeeded." ”

"Actually, it's not, Mr. Ye. ”

Peter finished his long gaze, his inhuman eyes drooping, and there was no expression in his aged and cracked face.

"Allow me, then, to explain what I am here for. ”

He stretched out his arms, revealing just the right amount of affinity, standard enough to be included in a textbook: "In my body, there are sixteen micro-computing centers. Hundreds of years later, there are still seven still working. ”

"For hundreds of years, I have followed my mission to try how to understand humanity, even when I am asleep.

There have been forty-one times when I almost thought I understood you. However, as it turned out, I didn't.

Until I realized that maybe this line was an abyss that an old model like mine could never cross. ”

He looked at Ye Qingxuan and told him, "But this is different for Charles. ”

Ye Qingxuan's eyes became more and more indifferent:

"What do you mean?"

"I'm trying to explain to you the nature of the Charles, the Charles, and how they became the Charles you know. ”

Peter's tone was still calm, and perhaps there was no hesitation or back-down for something like him: "Do you know how a machine like me can do something that resembles human thinking?"

"Humans call this process 'operations'. ”

"In the beginning, it all started with two kinds of judgments, 'none' and 'non-none', that is, 0 and 1. And these two judgments form 'AND gate', 'NOT gate', 'OR gate' and so on in my crystal circuit.

Hundreds of millions of such minimal foundations form a 'logic valve', and then an equal number of 'logic valves' form the structure of an operational center.

Finally, the sixteen hubs mobilize the central I, II, III databases according to the preset logical chain to form the 'I', what you call 'Peter', that is, the '7th Generation Humanoid Observation Collector Ω4 Type, standing in front of you. ’

It was structurally destined that I was very different from humans.

The same is true for the Shire.

It's just that his logical center is beyond the reach of a backward model like mine. ”

Ye Qingxuan did not speak.

Just look at him.

For human beings, just a moment later, Peter seemed to have completed a long deduction and thought, and bowed his head clearly: "It seems that in order for you to further understand what I mean, I also need to uncover the essence of the 'Sacred Cauldron' for you. ”

According to Ye Qingxuan's reaction, after sorting out the lack of information he knew, Peter jumped the topic in another direction.

"Let's start at the beginning. ”

"From the very beginning of humanity, the moment we set foot in this strange world. ”

"Ninety percent of science and technology, grain storage, relatives, hometown...... After losing everything that could be lost, humanity was reborn and the miracle that did not exist on Earth - the ether.

A creature that has nearly overturned quantum mechanics entirely. ”

At Peter's raised fingertips, a bit of aether crystals slowly emerged, and the aether that was confined to the force field pulsed, revealing a crystal texture that had never been seen before.

"Although their own rudimentary structure is not even comparable to 'mycoplasma', it is this kind of existence that is almost impossible to count as a living being, but has advantages that all living beings referred to by humans do not have.

They are capable of observing and interfering with the world across multiple dimensions at the same time, subverting the foundations of thermodynamics by simply relying on the energy generated by the vibrations of the air.

For humans, no, even for intelligent machines, this is a miracle that cannot happen in a dream.

Therefore, in that case, how to develop and utilize the ether has become a top priority for mankind. If we fail to grasp the power of the ether, we are in danger of extinction for our survival.

And in the end, across the two continents of the east and west, mankind came up with the solution of the 'sacred cauldron'.

In short, treat all the Aether as one, and use the properties of the Aether to try out a planetary scale and implant it into the interface, which is known as the 'Sacred Cauldron'.

And the name of this computing module is the 'Great Source', a vast memory formed by the convergence of all the aetheric void consciousness. ”

"Unfortunately, as you know, it didn't turn out as one would like. ”

What Peter was referring to, Ye Qingxuan was of course clear.

For the consequences caused by the Sacred Cauldron, there are few people who have a clearer understanding of the overall situation and inherited the memories of the Ye family.

And what Peter said next was not what he expected.

In other words, it revealed a secret that Ye Qingxuan had never thought of.

"We underestimated the instinct of the aether as a living being, its ability to balance and correct errors, and the moment the Cauldron was implanted, it produced changes that we never expected. ”

Peter looked at him, his tone still calm: "While humans observe the aether, the aether also observes the humans. ”

"Observation?"

"That's right, observation. ”

Peter said, "Everything that happened is preserved in the Great Source's record, including the struggles between human beings, and the ...... of human beings Memory.

Countless messes of data are stored in large sources. ”

At that moment, something flashed through Ye Qingxuan's mind, causing him to blurt out subconsciously:

"—Yellow Spring!"

In a way, there is nothing wrong with this understanding. ”

A three-dimensional simulation was projected in Peter's hand, like a closed circular reactor, and a new force was added to the calm of one of the stagnant waters.

Then, into chaos.

"When a positive vector is generated, the negative vector does not enter a state of dispersion as we expected, but instead converges into one place, forming another core with a large amount of messy data.

In the projection, the calm reactor reacts in the chaos, the clear one rises, and the turbid one descends...... That look is the origin recorded in the Book of Returning to the Ruins.

Ye Qingxuan whispered: "The one with a hundred eyes ......"

"And the Moon of Silence. ”

Peter adds: "It may be said that mankind has forged the sacred cauldron with hope for the future, but the sins of mankind and the resentment of the dead have formed the Hundred Eyes."

And the struggle between the Sacred Cauldron, the Hundred Eyes, and the Silent Moon has plunged Dayuan into uncontrollable chaos...... The world it is today. ”

In the long silence, an old and broken book emerged from Peter's hand.

It seems to have been stored and carefully preserved, but it is still difficult to resist the erosion of time, and at this moment it is even more loose as if it will completely fall apart at the slightest touch.

It was the ancient scroll that Ye Huo had given him to create the behemoth of the Order.

I don't know how many times I've read this book, and even the gaps on every page have been memorized, Peter ** its broken cover, his voice is calm:

Mankind thought that he had found Eden, the paradise, but then brought with him the original sin of mankind itself. ”

Ye Qingxuan closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

"Tell me, what does this have to do with the Charles?"

Peter smiled brokenly.

It was as if he already knew the answer in his heart, and then, in one sentence, he said: "Thousands of years ago, with the help of silicon crystals and circuit boards, human beings were able to make our origins......

Why do you think the same thing won't happen here?"

Ye Qingxuan did not speak.

"For hundreds of years, the Aether has never stopped recording humanity, countless people have lived and died, and all memories have been recorded in it, forming a vast chaos under the agitation of the Divine Cauldron and the Hundred Eyes.

The music created by countless musicians, the mental causes that have been integrated, the aetheric projection prepared according to their own consciousness, the 'Chapter of Fate', and the etheric parasite, the scepter, are like constantly throwing firewood into the kettle.

Only the last spark is missing.

And in this chaos, finally came the birth of intelligence.

Mr. Ye, it was the arrival of human beings that gave consciousness to Dayuan.

It floated in the Great Source, stuck on the edge of slumber and wakefulness until the end of its long gestation, and by the power of the Divine Cauldron, it was born out of the mortal womb of the earth, and appeared in this world in human form, raised by Abraham, endowed with humanity by him.

He himself is the ultimate result of the most perfect natural disaster created by Dayuan in imitation of human beings, the son of the dragon vein. In the same way, it is also the answer that Dr. Ye has sought all his life, a clear proof of the existence of the 'soul'.

His name, 'Charr,' is your eldest brother, Abraham's adopted son.

When he is determined to renounce his human identity, he can reign over the entire Great Source as a natural disaster, no, as a god!"

"Now, do you understand what kind of existence the Charr is?"

Peter looked at him: "As long as he is serious, the existence and destruction of the world is only a thought of him." The reason why he didn't destroy the human world at once was probably only for some purpose that we don't yet know. ”

In the silence, Ye Qingxuan raised his eyes and responded:

"I see. ”

Peter bowed his head and asked, "Have what I said, then, changed your mind?"

"Nope. ”

Ye Qingxuan shook his head, but his eyes became more and more quiet, as if there was a sea of ice that was silent for thousands of miles.

"Thank you, then, for listening to my final observations on behalf of the Crew Committee. ”

Peter smiled and leaned over:

"The final sequence of tasks for Ω4-88659 hostname 'Peter': 'Long-term observation of the Great Source and analysis of its evil consequences' and 'Existence of the Soul' have been completed. ”

In this way, the last shackles were untied.

Peter looked up, and the mutilated face, which had barely been maintained, was shattered completely, revealing the intricacies of machinery and layers of rust that were impossible for humans underneath.

For some reason, after taking off the human face, this posture looks much more agile.

After the ruptured colloidal eyeball, the observation equipment was still looking at Ye Qingxuan.

Peter's tone was calm: "Later, can you please fulfill his promise to authorize the unit to be formatted and shut down permanently in place of Dr. Ye?"

"Shut down?"

Ye Qingxuan didn't expect that Peter appeared here just for such a result.

"That's what you want?"

"That's right. ”

Peter bowed, "This is something that only you, the last member of the committee, who have the central core and supreme authority, can do. ”

“...... Okay, I promise you. ”

In the faint noise of mechanical operation, Ye Qingxuan seemed to have hallucinations, and the stiff face that exposed the rusted steel moved.

It seemed to laugh.

"Just now, I seem to have generated the wrong data of 'understanding humans', and perhaps the result of this calculation is called 'thanks' in human terms. ”

He lowered his head and saluted Ye Qingxuan in a human way: "Thank you, Mr. Ye." ”

"—Give me your right hand. ”

After Ye Qingxuan hesitated for a moment, he stretched out his right hand, and then was clenched by Peter's raised hands. After the cracked silicone, the material of the steel is exposed, and when touched, you can feel the hallucinatory temperature, which is quickly replaced by the coldness of the steel itself.

And between Peter's hands, countless ethers converged out of thin air, dancing in an overclocked sound that was difficult for human ears to hear, and in an instant, interweaving music theories that were so complex that ordinary people could hardly read them in their lifetimes, and finally, gathered at Ye Qingxuan's fingertips.

Ye Qingxuan heard the clicking sound coming from his body, which was the abnormal sound emitted by the operation center when it was overheated, and a trace of pungent smell emanated, as if it was about to be scrapped in the next moment.

But when Peter's hands were parted and withdrawn, there was an ancient and simple ring of power on his index finger, and the crystals made of ether were filled with countless neon-like magnificence.

Through the power ring, Ye Qingxuan seemed to be able to feel the pulse of the whole world. Sensation spreads out of the shell, merging into the ether, and encompassing the entire world along thousands of slender branches.

Thousands of miles away, you can hear the loud sound of the aetheric torrent in the dark world.

"Third admin account 'Yello', transfer complete. ”

Peter bowed: "Now, you are the true King of Yellow." ”

Before Ye Qingxuan could speak, he saw that the 'Crown of Thorns' he took out of his arms, an ancient antiquity made of brass, represented the crown of thorns of supreme authority in the Order!

At this moment, along with his movements, it was put on Ye Qingxuan's head.

Along with the slight pain of his scalp being punctured, Ye Qingxuan seemed to feel that hot iron juice was pouring into the subtle wound and running on the skull, interweaving a complex and subtle alchemy matrix.

Soon, the crown of thorns fell apart above Ye Qingxuan's head, turned into dust, and dissipated into the air.

Instead, the blazing light slowly rising above his head formed a thorn-like aura under the compilation of countless music theories.

With the blessing of that aura, Ye Qingxuan heard the loud sound of the ether net.

In the depths of the huge crystal cube, the phantom of the ancient copper kettle quietly appeared.

It was the blessing of the Divine Cauldron, which had been fully integrated into Ye Qingxuan's music theory at this moment, just like after the Yellow King's authority was unsealed, all the movements unique to the Red King had already appeared in the 'Land of Nothing', and they could be called at will with just one thought.

Extravagant, it seems that the power to move the whole world is in his hands!

"Second administrator account 'Rubrum', transfer complete. ”

Peter declared, "You will be the king of the red of the new generation." ”

"Last ......"

He looked back at Bach, who had been silent all along.

Bach bowed his head and spread his arms.

Blood gushed out.

At that moment, Peter raised his iron hand and stabbed it into his chest, cutting through the flesh and blood, and before Ye Qingxuan could react, he had already withdrawn it.

With his heart.

The heart is iron.

At this moment, in Peter's hands, the steel heart was beating slowly, and the blood-colored indicator light was flashing with monotonous fluorescence, and the music theory emitted from it made Ye Qingxuan unbelievable.

"I didn't expect that, did I?" Bach smiled reluctantly: "The founder of the Xiaoyuan School, once one of the students of the fourth generation of Bach......"

"I've been wondering when this day is coming, but I didn't think it would be today. ”

He looked at the young man in front of him, raised his hand, covered the crack in his chest, sat down on the ground, and gasped with relief: "Ye Qingxuan, you will be a better Qing King than me." ”

Peter held the steel heart in his hand and looked at Ye Qingxuan.

In silence, Ye Qingxuan stretched out his arms, allowing Peter to cut through his clothes and skin, implanting the steel heart into the hollow of his chest, replacing the heart originally formed by the ether, and began to work again.

"First administrator account 'hyacinthum', transfer complete. ”

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan felt his body burst in the chaos.

The endless darkness is torn apart by the light of his burst, the eternal silence is broken, light and fire sweep through everything, and the initial vector moves the world around.

Those who are clear rise, and those who are turbid fall.

This is heaven and earth.

A terrifying glow like the creation of heaven and earth burst out from the deepest depths of the etheric realm, and as the Holy City shattered, a blazing sun rose from the burning wreckage.

Countless forces poured in, like a torrent, submerging the land of nothing.

Then, it was swallowed up by a scepter large enough to contain the future.

In the projection from the future, the scepter of nothingness brews the grand melody of creation.

The music theories of countless saints emerged from it, weaving themselves into the projection of the 'Sacred Cauldron', and as a link, they stretched in all directions, forming a sea of blue-gold inside the 'Aether Web'.

And the crystal cube that drew on the endless lapis ocean, representing the net of ether, was expanding and multiplying wildly, and in an instant, it expanded to hundreds of times its original size, and even if it wasn't for Ye Qingxuan's deliberate suppression, it could continue to grow forward.

And just inside the Crystal Cube, the projection of the Divine Cauldron still turns from virtual to real, allowing the Aether Web to mobilize its own endless music theory, and the two merge into one place.

The massive altar was based on this, rising from the crystal.

He holds the scepter of the Yellow King and wears the crown of the Red King, and sits on the throne of the Blue King.

Ye Qingxuan's etheric incarnation was revealed.

The kingship, which was once divided by mankind to avoid dictatorship, is united and placed in the hands of the same person.

"If the Charr were gods who once became humans, then you are now human beings who have become gods, and you are their equals. ”

Bach raised his hand, his pale lips from excessive blood loss, and smoked his pipe, finally saying goodbye.

"Don't forget what I said to you, Ye Qingxuan, don't forget. ”

"I will. ”

Ye Qingxuan bowed his head, glanced at him one last time, and then stretched out his palm to Peter, who was smiling and leaning over: "Peter, according to the agreement between you and Ye Huo, I will give you an order with supreme authority."

- Formatted, never rebooted. ”

On top of that inhuman face, a smile of relief appeared at this moment.

"So, the countdown begins-"

A calm voice came from his throat, not the hoarse and old voice, but as if he had returned to hundreds of years ago, when he was sitting in front of Ye Huo.

As the indicator flashes, an arithmetic hub shuts down, and the final countdown is running.

Peter stared at Ye Qingxuan's figure that turned to leave, and sat down on the ground.

A serene smile appeared on the face of the iron.

"Farewell, Mr. Bach. ”

"Well, goodbye. ”

Bach sighed softly, and before the end of the last time, he asked the question that he had never dared to face: "Do you think Ye Qingxuan can really succeed?"

"The arithmetic center thinks that success may not exceed 0.03 percent, but 'Peter' thinks he will. ”

"Why?"

"Waiting and hope, aren't these two of the most beautiful words for human beings?"

Peter smiled and closed his eyes one last time.

These are the final words.

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