The eighth floor of the Tower of Babel is a dimly lit space, there are less than twenty rooms on the floor, the internal space of the room is very large, but almost all of them are filled with machinery, and the machines of different sizes leave only a treatment bed at the door in the room, and almost as soon as people enter the door, they will lie down on the treatment bed.

More than a dozen mechanical arms, hanging from the roof of the room, with various surgical tools mounted on the top, looked creepy. However, according to the understanding of the world by the shadow chasers, coupled with Wei's introduction, similar treatment beds are all of this shape, and it is not the special horror of the mechanical camp, it will feel terrifying, just because it is rare and strange.

It is said that although the reincarnation ceremony does not require a sterile environment, it must be dust-free, and the shadow-chasers who are not wearing special overalls cannot enter, but he still takes the shadow-chasers to a small room with several light screens on the wall, showing the images in the reincarnation room.

Within a few minutes, the first pilgrims were taken to the healing beds in the reincarnation room, and soon they fell into a coma, and according to Massimilian, this was the last time the pilgrims slept, and when they woke up again, they were either reborn as mechanical beings, or they lost part of their consciousness and became unconscious defective beings, not even knowing who they were.

"The next picture is going to be a bit bloody, are you sure you want to keep watching?" Maximilian glanced at Delia and asked Shure, "The basic process is to open the skull, remove the chip that holds the memory, and upload the consciousness to the artificial mind system. Among them, the process of uploading thoughts and exporting memories is mainly carried out in the electronic network, and if you just look at it, you can only see the process of craniotomy and the process of removing the chip, but you can't see the substantive things. ”

"I actually have a question. Xiuer slapped his thighs and asked with a frown, "The so-called memory chip should be used to carry memories, in that case, why do people in the Floating City have to reimport memories when they are recovering from the Life Archive after they die unexpectedly, and they don't hesitate to forget everything that has happened in the last few years?"

"Because people are dead. ”

"Huh?" Shul asked, puzzled, "what do you mean?"

"Those who can be revived from the Life Archive are human beings who have died unnaturally, they have experienced the pain of dying, and the consciousness also thinks that they are dead, if they are not completely forgotten the fact that they have died, even if they change the duplicate body and reawaken, they will die again at the moment of awakening, this is the instinctive reaction of the body, there is no way to change, so the backup memory can only be overwritten once, so that the consciousness forgets the fact that it has died. In fact, there are solutions, such as backing up once a day, so that even if you die, you will lose the memory of the day, but unfortunately, with the current technology, every time you back up your memory, the impact on the memory chip is great, a new memory chip, if you do more, it will be damaged about 20 times, so the above habit is generally only carried out once every three to five years, so as not to damage the chip first before the end of its life. ”

"Well, since the damage to the backup memory is so great, why not just erase the memory from the chip during this time? ”

"The existing technology can't do it, and the overall coverage is simple, but it is many times more difficult to selectively delete and modify the memory. Massimillan shook his head and said, "The probability of directly causing damage to the chip is extremely high, and no one dares to do this, including our machinery." ”

"What happens if it's damaged?" Shure asked, "Will you lose your memory?"

"It's not that simple, the application of this technology has been popularized since many years ago, about nearly a thousand years, every child is born, a memory chip will be installed, originally to assist memory and enhance learning ability, in recent decades it has been applied to the field of resurrection. Long-term dependence on memory chips has led to a part of the functions of the human brain that have been replaced by memory chips, and if the memory chips are damaged, the brain will lose the ability to think and become a pure idiot. ”

"Eh, can't you get a new one?" asked Moria, curiously, "Or try to repair it?"

"Unfortunately, it can't be replaced, the brain is a very unique organ, and the memory chip it can recognize is unique, other chips can't recognize it at all, and other people's memories can't be imported into this chip. ”

"Heh, interesting," Shul said thoughtfully, raising an eyebrow, "like a soul can only adapt to one body?"

Several of the shadow chasers looked at each other, which is very interesting, the results of Parvadiga's life science research show that the soul is the soul, memory is memory, the body stores memories, and the soul and the body work together to complete the thinking activity, which is completely different things, and generally does not appear to be the phenomenon of loss of thinking ability after memory is erased. However, in this world, the two are entangled, either the two worlds are different, or there are some hidden secrets in this technology.

"Wei. ”

"Your Excellency, it's strange. Wei's volume was very low, making sure that only Shul himself could hear it, "There is indeed chip manufacturing technology in the data, but there is no extended research, no, not even basic research data, as if this technology came out of thin air. ”

"Oh, I see. It seems that there is a secret behind this, but Shul does not intend to ask, after all, this has nothing to do with the purpose of the shadow chaser, Shuer no longer dwells on the problem of memory chips, but looks at the bloody picture on the light screen with interest, and of course, blindfolds Delia's eyes.

The operation on the treatment table was very fast, and in a short time, the pilgrim's skull had already been sawn open, and the brain under the skull was exposed to the air. In the middle of the slightly beating brain, a prismatic crystal the size of a thumb seems to have merged with the brain, and many blood vessels extend from the brain and fill the vigilant surface, making the two inseparable.

At the same time, on the other light screen, there were no pilgrims, only a spherical metal body the size of a human head fixed on the operating table, which should be the head of a mechanical body, but it was not finely processed, and its appearance could not be seen.

On the display screen in the room where the metal body was, all kinds of data were rapidly scrolling upward, and the speed was so fast that even the dynamic strength of the shadow chasers could not be seen clearly, and after staring at it for a while, I felt dizzy, and finally had to give up.

"It's a very complicated process of uploading thinking, and I don't really understand the content of the data. Maximan stared at the light screen with some nervousness and said, "His reincarnation process has been very smooth so far, it is a good start, I hope this group of pilgrims will be successfully reincarnated, and more than twenty companions can be added at a time, it has not appeared for many years." ”

"Where are they prone to problems?"

"It's now. Massimilian said without looking back, "The process of uploading thoughts is the most problematic, followed by the introduction of memory chips." ”

"Haven't you tried to strengthen your research in this area and increase the success rate a bit?" Shuer asked meaningfully, "Including the human side, if it were us, we would definitely go all out to research the breakthrough technology of memory chips, which is equivalent to extending their lifespan, but they didn't do it, heh, it's a strange thing." ”

"Not surprisingly, neither of us can study it, because all the related technology has been sealed by the Supreme Mastermind, and he says that this technology will not help us in the current situation, but will drag us down. Although I don't know the reason, the Supreme Mastermind can't make mistakes, so everyone is willing to obey the orders of the Supreme Mastermind, and no one will touch the relevant research. As for the human side, the technologies they left behind have all been screened by the supreme mastermind, and without basic research, if they want to break through, they can only start from scratch. ”

"No wonder. Shul squinted his eyes with a smile, and although he didn't say a word, his brain was spinning rapidly.

In the light screen, the robotic arm finally succeeded in peeling off the prismatic crystal from the brain, and quickly transmitted it to the next room where the metal sphere was placed, and the metal in the skull part of the metal sphere bounced upward, revealing the dense wires and circuits inside, and a slot obviously reserved for inserting the prismatic crystal. The robotic arm inserts the prism into the slot accurately, the head-shaped sphere is re-sealed, and the position of the vision collector begins to flash current.

"Huh?" Shul was stunned for a moment, looking at Massimilian beside him, and asked, "You also use memory chips to store memories?" I thought it was using special mechanical equipment. ”

"It is not impossible to store memories simply with electronic devices, but the success rate is surprisingly low, and it is too impractical, and the direct use of memory chips is the most convenient and safest way. Maybe in the future, when the Supreme Mastermind lifts the ban on technology, it will develop to that point, but for now, it can only be done temporarily. Maximilian said helplessly, "Actually, if you think about it, there is nothing wrong with using a memory chip, its shell is very strong and not easy to destroy from the outside, so that even if our body is destroyed, we can recycle the chip to replace the body, and it will not lose memory or damage the chip like humans, in a sense, we are immortal." ”

"However, the import you just said didn't import the memories from the memory chip into your system?"

"No, on the contrary, because it is made for the human body, it needs to import a modification program into it, adjust its settings, and make it work normally without the human body, and it is precisely because it has to be modified that it can easily cause it to be damaged and become a mutilated body. ”

"I see. Shul muttered to himself, and began to tap his thighs again into a state of trance, no one knew what he was thinking, but everyone knew that every time he entered this state, it meant that he had to make a decision.

The metal head's eyes lit up, and the text began to appear on the screen, indicating that the rebirth of the first pilgrim had been successfully completed, but Shur had lost interest in this, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly asked, "You centers said that they wanted to sit down with us, and that's fine, but I want to know what your purpose is." ”

"It just so happens that this is what the Centers want to know. Maximi's visual collector finally moved away from the screen and turned to Shull's face, "What do you want?"

"We, heh, we want to go up to the top and communicate directly with the mastermind. ”