As the Tower of Babel flown – or rather glide – it gradually began to approach the ground.

The footage captured by the spherical camera became clearer, and the ground under Russell and Flower's feet began to "become transparent".

"Do you want to see it clearly?"

Huatan turned her head and saw Russell staring intently at the ground, so she said, "You can just talk to it and ask it to zoom in on the camera closer—the deer head, bring the camera closer."

"There's no internet here, right? Can the deer head also control the facilities here?"

Russell looked up and asked in some surprise.

He also thought that the Tower of Babel was controlled by Flower Touch, or some kind of automatic system. As a result, Hua Touch just sat next to him, and he was really the same passenger as himself

"The deer head can't speak now, don't ask her."

The evil smile on Flowertouch's face showed again: "After all, there is no device here that can synthesize sounds, and as a procedural virus, even if she hears it, she can't talk to you directly.

"Back then, there was no artificial intelligence technology that is as advanced as it is now. But computers have been reinvented by church scholars for some time back in the Shari'ah Wars – but we called it 'personal terminals for computing.' It is used to distinguish it from the personal terminal of the gods, the personal terminal for healing, the personal terminal for combat, and other equipment."

"It turns out that the cyber church at that time was already so cyber." Russell was a little surprised.

"The Church is the biggest driver of electronic technology - you know, mages don't need it. Spells are not something that can be optimized by calculation, and this transcendent power only has a transcendent status when it is in their hands.

"In the same way, the power of the nobles consisted in the taxation of their subjects; The power of the ministers lies in their management of commercial, military, and agricultural activities. Inventions that can increase the combat effectiveness and productivity of individuals uncontrollably are not conducive to the maintenance of the kingdom's rule.

"For example, the factory assembly line - the size, output and type of production that all factory owners can open at that time, and the number of employees that can be recruited are strictly limited. At that time, there were still some cross-border armed frictions on land, and firearms technology may have been more developed than it is now. And the control of firearms is not much stronger than it is now.

"At that time, there were even strict controls on armour, horses, and anything that weighed more than a kilogram.

"When I was traveling around the continent, there was a classic joke that the best weapon to use was a 0.9kg one-handed sword. And how to restrain the other party? The answer is to hang a counterweight ball on the hilt of the opponent's sword, and then you can report the opponent.

"After that, an armoured sheriff on a giant horse, armed with a rifle and a hammer, will rush to arrest him."

Hua Touch sighed with emotion: "The church was not called a cyber church at that time, and there was no such thing as 'cyber ascension'. Their ideas may seem a little naïve now..... They hope that by researching automated assembly line technology, the factory can easily replace the work of ten people with only one person. That way, people don't have to work endlessly."

"Isn't that unemployment?"

"Indeed. However, it was only after the invention of this technology that the scholars of the Church became aware of it. But after discussing it, they found that the problem was unsolvable - as long as they promoted the development and iteration of technology, it would inevitably be accompanied by the unemployment of old workers. But as long as technology is promoted, most people can profit from it.

"So the church had another way of thinking... They plan to exhibit generational technologies that allow society to iterate completely, and make everyone's work meaningless. In other words, they do not intend to promote new technologies from generation to generation and keep eliminating old workers, but they intend to make up a technology that is 50 or 100 years ahead of time, so that everyone can relearn new technologies equally, and in this way, they want to achieve fairness.

"—and they really can. Because they weren't strictly invented from scratch. When I was on earth, 'archaeology was a forbidden science, but there were always people who participated in it. Because of the ancient technology dug up from the ruins with

Papers sold to scholars always fetch surprisingly high prices.

"This kind of 'adventurer' is the easiest profession for ordinary people to climb to the sky. And it is precisely because there are a lot of ancient technologies as references, and there is no practice to optimize them, that the technology on the side of the church is so advanced and subtle and not practical."

"It's kind of outrageous, yes." Russell looked down at the ground, a little absent-mindedly responding.

"Indeed."

Flower Touch agreed, "I think so too."

She sensed Russell's distraction, and followed Russell's gaze to the ground, "Oh, you're looking at them bowing down to you.

"Why, looking down on a mortal as small as an ant, does it make you think of yourself as a god?"

"I just think.........

Russell gazed at the land and whispered, "Their eyes were filled with hope and fear at the same time. It's bizarre."

"It's normal."

Flower Touch said lightly, "You were born from Sky Island, so you don't have any concept of this.

"But for these savages who have been on land since birth, who feel the scarred earth, who barely survive from the authority of nature, and who can only barely maintain civilization through things such as 'books' that still existed in the land age, or by word of mouth traditions and simple knowledge

"Now you are a true god. You are the angel of cleanses born in the divine realm and descended from the divine realm."

"—it's not just that."

Russell suddenly said, "In their blood... For this shape of the aircraft, there is an unconcealable fear.

"More than 100 years have passed...... In such a difficult living environment, the people who witnessed the war back then have long since died. But they will do their best to preserve the knowledge and skills they have mastered in the 'glorious civilizations'. And they also passed on the destruction brought by this type of aircraft when they landed. "That's why people bow down and pray. It was not a prayer for the gospel and salvation, but a prayer for me not to destroy them."

Approaching this distance, Russell could easily sense the emotions stirring in the hearts of those who whispered.

It was a "frequency" that Russell had never been exposed to.

Compared to the Sky Islanders, their minds have become simple and dull. Unlike the people of the Sky Island, when they think, fear, pray, and bow down in just a moment, their hearts can turn a thousand times, and their emotions change and fluctuate so slowly.

They have adapted to this land with no new changes, and even their way of thinking has coexisted with the slow pace of nature. It's like in their "evolution" in just 100 years, the body naturally turned off part of the brain's authority to reduce the body's energy consumption and save resources.

Even in such a humble and arduous work, even in places where it is extremely difficult to survive, people are praying to the "gods" for the continuation of their lives, and doing their best to pass on even a small part of "civilization".

The so-called "gods" fight to the death and destroy each other because of those empty hatreds, fears, jealousies, and greed.

"I'm a little confused, Flower Touch."

Russell muttered in a low voice, "Which side is the human?"