The pilgrim procession of more than 20 people walked quietly in the empty but mechanical city, each pilgrim was barefoot, the soles of their feet were on the ground, polluted by mud and sand, cut by gravel, and the soles of their feet were covered with blood mixed with mud, but the pilgrims gritted their teeth and persevered, and their firm will made the group really have a bit of ascetic pilgrimage.

All the pilgrims walked naked in the sun without any clothes, but after meditating on the grace of God compared to the initial twisting, these people seemed to have really figured it out, and behaved freely, as if they had really become mechanical bodies, and were not bothered by the shyness peculiar to humans.

"We didn't change their minds, not even the High Mastermind, but we strengthened their faith with psychological cues while they meditated on the charity and opened their hearts, and made them even more determined to give up their bodies to join us. ”

"Hmm...... Does it make a difference?"

"The essential difference, if you want to strengthen their will, you first need that they actually have this idea, and if they don't want to join us at all, no amount of psychological hints will be of any use. Secondly, we also need them to trust us and take the initiative to open their hearts, so that we can help them strengthen their will, after all, this is not a mind reading, even if they do not open their hearts, we have no way of knowing, so that the steps to help them strengthen their will will will lose their due effect. ”

"Huh?" Shul frowned, "help them?"

"Yes, Mr. Schul, perhaps you think that these steps were done for our own sake. Maximilian smiled humanly and shook his head, "From a certain point of view, this is not wrong, but the main purpose is to help themselves." The final reincarnation ritual is not as easy as imagined, it is a very complicated and dangerous process, and the slightest carelessness will fail. ”

"Hmm, and then become a defective species?" Shure said with a mutter, "no wonder there are far more defective species than your members. ”

"Turns out you also know about defective species. The Massimian figure was stunned for a second or two, and then the processing equipment reacted, "It seems that Mr. Schul knows more than we analyzed. ”

"Heh, it's just a coincidence, it's a matter of luck, it's a matter of luck. Shul smiled mysteriously, he was telling the truth, but the expression he made people think that this sentence was meaningful.

"Well, it doesn't matter if it's a coincidence or not, since we've talked to you about this topic, then we don't plan to hide it anymore, indeed, once the reincarnation ritual fails, it will lead to incomplete mental uploads, and a large amount of data will be lost halfway, so that the reincarnation is just the so-called defective species, which does have some human consciousness, but it is very incomplete, only slightly better than artificial intelligence, we can't treat such members as the same kind, we can only divide them separately. ”

"Why did it fail?" Shul asked, "Can't you improve your technology and increase the success rate of conversion?"

"The previous steps were carried out in order to increase the success rate. Maximilian pointed ahead, "The Tower of Babel has arrived, let's go inside." ”

In fact, there was no need for him to remind him, Shuer had already noticed it, after all, a huge tower stood in front of him, and it was difficult to ignore it.

In the observation of entering and exiting, the Tower of Babel is higher than expected, the height is estimated to be more than 400 meters, and the top reaches into the clouds, looming, making the tower full of mystery. The base of the tower covers a large area, one or two square kilometers, and the tower is full of windows, which are clearly divided into layers, roughly counting, about forty or fifty floors.

Shuer suddenly had a strange idea, fortunately, the level count is from top to bottom, if it is the other way around, it is estimated that Massimilian will be much more troublesome when they are introduced, imagine, I am from the one hundred and thirty-seventh floor...... No, it's one hundred and thirty-six floors...... You wait, let me count, well, I'm Maximilian from the one hundred and thirty-fifth floor, well, it's stupid just to think about it.

"Well, Mr. Schul, is there any problem?" said the strange smile on Sauer's lips puzzled Maximilan, "or do you have any other opinions?"

"No, no, no, it's nothing, in our world, because the usable area of the surface is many times larger than that of the brown star, so the architectural style is more inclined to plane expansion, so there are only some special buildings that expand in three dimensions, such as the Mage Tower and the like, so it will be a little strange to see it. "The honesty of the clergy does not exist," Shul replied without blinking, "However, each world, each different civilization, has its own style, and we have encountered strange races that build cities deep in the earth, so it's nothing, it's my momentary gaffe." ”

What's so strange about us dwarves? Shul seemed to hear someone's silent roar, it must be an illusion, well, just ignore it.

"Well, I'm still worried about your special taboos. After the pilgrims entered, the gate of the Tower of Babel closed automatically, Maximan quickly took two steps forward and stood in front of the door, pointed his eyes at the equipment on the side of the gate, and after a few seconds, the door opened again, he turned around and asked with a slight hesitation, "Mr. Shull, please come in, uh...... Excuse me, do you need to keep the tower door open for a while?"

"Heh......", Shuer paused as he moved forward, and looked Maximan up and down with a smile on his face, and the two of them had been in this posture for more than ten seconds before he chuckled and said, "Are you serious?"

"Yes. There wasn't much expression on Maximi's metallic face, but his tone was very sincere, "We really hope to have such an opportunity to communicate with civilizations from other worlds, so we send an invitation with full sincerity, and everything we have said to you before is also true." Oh, I remember that Mr. Scheuer chose the method of vows, is this a very common method of commitment in cross-border exchanges? Then I can do the same......"

"No, it's only a valid form of commitment to the priesthood—well, people like us—and the oath must be made to the true God, of course, what the true God is can be said later, but not if it hasn't been done before. Shul waved his hand, interrupting Maximi's oath, "I have a question, don't you let us in like this unguarded, don't you worry about what we're going to do?"

"I don't want to hide it, I know the purpose of the human race, including the purpose of the girl named Delia, we can guess approximately, but we are not really worried about this, on the one hand, because according to the calculation of the control center and the calculation center, you are the object of communication, as long as we show our sincerity, you will not rashly do something that can easily cause contradictions. On the other hand, even if you really plan to do this, at most, you will only destroy the system of our 745 Tower District, and you will not be able to affect the Supreme Mastermind, because if you want to contact the Supreme Mastermind, unless he takes the initiative to contact it, you can only enter the top layer. It's a forbidden place that we can't even enter, and I don't think you can force your way into it no matter how strong you are, so we have nothing to worry about. ”