Obviously, this is a fit.

The soul-snatching ability of the Dead King is essentially an ability to collect those artificial souls in one's body after death, forming various structures for the souls of the 'people' who recognize its consensus.

After the evolution of this soul-snatching ability, in the future of the Spiritual Calamity Path, in the generation of the gods of Terra, it has evolved into the 'Channeling Ability'.

At that time, no matter where the deceased was in Terra and for whatever reason, as long as he signed a contract with a certain deceased king during his lifetime, or believed in a certain spirit god, then after his death, his soul would be protected by the power of this spirit god and sent into the spirit god's core.

However, those who are not believers, who have no consensus, and who have not been soul-shaped on the way to the spiritual calamity, because their souls are in an irregular shape of the original ecology, so they cannot join the 'kingdom' of any spiritual gods, and they just wait to wander in the void and nature, waiting for nature to dissipate.

At that time, there were often angry accusations against the gods as to why the souls of the unbelievers were not blessed, and the gods simply watched them dissipate indifferently......

Truth be told, it's just purely technical.

Not to mention that in the past countless years, the human soul has dissipated in this way, and in the age of the gods, if you choose to follow the consensus of a spirit god, that is, believe in this spirit god, you will gradually transform your soul into the same appearance as that spirit god.

In this way, they can join each other's collectives after death, and they can be merged together to form a structure of the kingdom of God that will not dissipate.

It's hard condition. It's like a puzzle, the shapes don't match, is it hard to plug in?

The soul of the unbeliever is not of any shape, and cannot fit into the structure of any spirit god - you must know that because of the similar consensus between the spirit gods, believers can actually keep each other for a period of time, and wait for the time to transfer to each other, which is also the reason why many subordinate gods and great god systems will be formed in the future era of gods.

By the way, it is the same belief that we firmly want to build a better future and lead the people to a better life, and even that we firmly reject the existence of the gods themselves, believing that the gods are a mistake.

Some of them are the spirits rushing to ask for them.

In the future of the Spiritual Calamity Path, the souls of the Terra people have basically been standardized, and just by the shape of the Void Spirit, you can see who the believers are, which consensus recognizes, and there is basically no such 'ownerless spirit aggregate' that Ian sees now.

But now, the big guys, even Ian's soul is like this.

And the new capabilities of the silver chip......

"This is the first time I've encountered an ownerless essentia."

Ian pondered: "Perhaps, it already has such power?" It's just that I've never triggered, so it's only being rendered now? ”

It's possible, but it's not important.

The two 'computing units' and 'supply units' that appear in front of Ian form a triangular structure, which are linked together to form the simplest 'auxiliary computing module' to help Ian speed up the calculation of various problems.

Because it comes with a supply unit, this mod doesn't even require Ian to spend his strength to maintain it, as long as he occasionally finds some psionic materials to recharge it.

"My calculation speed ...... Well, although it is not as good as the main control terminal of my year, at least it has the computing volume of a general high-level intelligent host, which can carry the primary artificial intelligence. ”

Ian immediately began to study it with great interest.

The computing unit transformed from the silver chip is essentially a pure spiritual computing structure, which is very precise and complex, and has high requirements for spiritual quality, and the second energy level is the minimum bottom line.

Even so, among the three second-level powerhouses killed by Ian, there was also one whose soul quality was not up to standard, and could only become a supply unit for energy.

Its computing power is actually very low compared to the second-level sublimators who are raw materials, after all, they are two second-level sublimators! Add up to only one high-energy intelligent host?

Ian suspected that the Sertar Empire would have been able to produce a host with similar computing power for a long time, otherwise, there would be no way to cultivate its own combat artificial intelligence.

In terms of pure computing power, there is no advantage other than the fact that he can directly use the soul state to assist Ian's brain to accelerate.

But Ian noticed that this computing unit came with a set of logical calculations......

In other words, its algorithms are extremely advanced enough to deal with many of the problems that would cause normal intelligence to freeze - at the very least, it won't be like the Battle Intelligence of the Sertar Empire, which can't even distinguish between enemies.

Moreover, Ian found that this computing unit seemed to be able to be brought into the material world.

As long as an ordinary spiritual environment is created in the material world, after being transformed by the silver chip, the computing unit with a very stable structure can exist for a long time, and if it has a supply unit to supply energy, it can even be used as an extremely useful mobile computing power provider.

Here's the problem...... If it were Earth, such a portable primary-level computing device might have many uses, but what could be done in Terra to harness its computing power?

Ian is the answer to that question.

"Artificial Intelligence ......"

The boy muttered to himself in the Void: "That third-generation artificial intelligence that I copied at the armored training base...... Because it can't be miniaturized, it's still difficult to combat an artificial intelligence that assists in combat! ”

"And now - I've solved it on the side!"

Ian suddenly realized that it was all a match made in heaven! Whether it's the Dead King, the Artificial Intelligence or the Silver Chip, maybe they all came from the same source from the beginning!

Obviously, both the computing unit and the supply unit are parts made by the silver chip to assist itself in computing and completing tasks.

If it is according to normal logic, if he wants to improve himself, then Ian should constantly hunt down the second level and existence, turning their souls into their own parts.

But let's be honest...... Isn't this the Dead King?

This is also the reason why Ian felt a little strange at first, and subconsciously felt that this ability was a good match for the Dead King...... Because the essence of these two is exactly the same!

It's better to say that because the developer of the Dead King's technology, Grand Duke Thorin, was originally the inheritance of his mentor Inaga II's Spirit Flame Project, and Inaga II was the holder of the silver chip of the previous generation......

"The silver chip is the prototype of the Dead King and the Spirit God, and the Dead King can even be said to be just a clumsy imitation of the silver chip."

The silver chip converts the ownerless soul spirit into a special unit, just like making raw materials into corresponding chips and industrial products, and the artificial soul of Grand Duke Thorin is nothing more than making ordinary people's souls into regular stones, which can be easily piled up into a castle.

However, the raw materials of the former are extremely rare, and it is not easy for the emperor to get too much.

The latter, on the other hand, has developed the technology that can give all intelligent life in this world a soul.

The two complement each other, and it's hard to say that the two aren't related.

That's how Ian sees it, and that's probably what it is.

Inaga II must have been aware of the silver chip's ability a long time ago, but he also knew that even if all the people in the world except himself were killed, it was estimated that the soul he had saved would be like that, and he would not be able to break through the Prison Star Prison.

After all, on the way to the Spiritual Calamity, Ian raised the souls of everyone in the entire Terra Continent, and the power of the Void Breed did not fly out.

With the soul power of the beings of Terra decades ago, this ability was meaningless.

Therefore, Inaga II used the power of the silver chip as the prototype to design the Tinder spaceship project of the Spirit Tinder.

But he apparently did not solve the technical problem of how to transform the ownerless spirit or soul into the relevant 'unit' without relying on the silver chip.

And the most important source of the unit, that is, the problem of the ownerless spirit, has not been solved.

The Grand Duke of Thorin inherited the unfinished wish of Inaga and created a large number of souls shaped in advance through artificial souls, bypassing this technical problem and achieving the 'Dead King'.

Therefore, the Soul Raider that comes with the Dead King's ability can be combined with the silver chip...... Maybe it's not a coincidence.

It's a ...... that has been passed down for two generations, if not more, to finally converge in Ian's hands

Technological breakthroughs.

At this moment, Ian really felt the weight of a kind of inheritance—it was precisely because of the research of his predecessors from generation to generation and the accumulation of relevant results that he, the successor of the inheritance, was able to step on the shoulders of giants and look at the more distant world.

He was silent for a moment.

Ian then quickly shifted his mind back to the AI.

As long as Ian can develop the problem of linking the computing unit to the core structure of Terra's AI, then he may be able to solve some of the problems that AI cannot be miniaturized.

On the other hand, he can also optimize Terra's artificial intelligence through the structure and algorithms of the computing unit.

No.

Ian even suspected that the artificial intelligence and subsequent development completed in the hands of Inaga II were probably not pure mechanical artificial intelligence, but psionic artificial intelligence with a partial spiritual structure...... Just as the Flame of the Spirit is the ability to simulate the combination of units of silver chips, artificial intelligence is likely to be an intelligent computing module that simulates the combination of a large number of computing units!

If this is the case, then optimizing AI through computing units will be surprisingly simple!

However, there are certainly technical challenges to this area, which Ian has never studied and educated before, and it can be difficult for him to start over.

However, this is not really a problem either.

"Adbort! He has a full set of psionic research materials for Grand Duke Thorin! ”

Ian instantly thought of the Dead King who had too high morals, this gentle young researcher must have the relevant technology in his mind on how to imitate the silver chip to change the structure of the soul, and he must also have a full set of psionic related technologies - he didn't know, he could predict, and the various technical problems and difficulties that he was about to encounter, for him, I am afraid that they have already been solved, and even the technical problems are quite proficient!

When the incognito other party also arrives at Nanling, the two sides join forces, and I am afraid that they can quickly create the psionic artificial intelligence that Ian expected!

"The planning of the territorial order may not require as many people as imagined......

Ian stared at the spiritual computing module in front of him, and he muttered softly, with an inexplicable excitement in his tone: "If it can really be completed, I, with the assistive artificial intelligence, can completely achieve perfect planning and allocation of the resources of the territory...... The construction speed will be increased by several levels! ”

"And, not about the future, just about the present."

"With host-level computing power, I can build more things!"

Computational power represents more than just the speed of computation, but can help Ian reduce the energy consumed by pure number crunching, better focus on precision, and create some creations that require higher precision.

In this way, with the operational precision of the sublimator, there is also the alchemy workshop of the Lean Ling......

"Perhaps, I can plan months or even half a year in advance......"

"Build an exoskeleton power armor!"

The night passed quickly.

The night in Ryan City was not quiet, and the soldiers of the White People patrolling the perimeter of the castle stood on the top of the castle, and the scarlet one-eyed black armor that was bright all night was a sign that the place was about to usher in great changes.

As for the middle level, whether it is the original Lai'an City Guards who are about to be disbanded and mourned, or the various chambers of commerce that work overtime overnight and prepare to open warehouses and release grain in the morning, they will not be able to get a good night's sleep.

And for ordinary people, the mere existence of a new lord is enough to make them think about the future with unease.

The former's uneasiness was consumed by busyness and fear, and Gul observed some of the most complaining members of the convoy and forcibly took them away overnight, without even having time to take them with their families.

Anyway, people are still alive, and it is not difficult to move in the future, but when people move their heads, there will be no future.

He was too smart to wait until morning—if they did, they would probably end up like the rebel mountain people who had just escaped the city and were ignited by a beam of light.

The lord just said and allowed them to leave...... It's not in the form of flesh or ashes!

He did leave alive. The two squads of six White Folk soldiers who lurked behind them at night finally did not shoot, but returned to report the incident to Ian.

And for the latter, this simple anxiety about the future was quickly erased.

Because Ian started to give out food.

On October 25, 773 in Terra, at 11:25 p.m., the time for releasing grain was inevitably delayed because it was necessary to notify the whole city, and because it was indeed a very troublesome matter to transfer grain from various warehouses and carry and sort it.

Seeing that everyone was working hard and doing their best to follow the instructions, just because of their lack of ability, they did not complete the requirements, Ian was tolerant and did not kill a lot, but called all the high-ranking members of the Chamber of Commerce over and reprimanded them, and then told them that this group of waste snacks should work hard next time, otherwise, don't be in charge, and all go to the field to farm.

And next time, being scolded is actually a great relief for the worried people - they are really afraid that Ian will not say a word and directly aim a charging rifle at his head.

And to be honest, scolded by Ian...... Maybe it's not something particularly uncomfortable.

Today, four or five squads of White Men soldiers patrol the Boulevard Xiahui, which has been demolished and many of its dilapidated buildings – the avenue leading from the city center to Château de léon, and on the small square on the side of the avenue, there are mountains of grain loaded with wooden boxes and barrels, and there are even many cooks who stew porridge and pancakes and boil broth directly on the side of the road.

The fragrance is wafting, each person is limited to one cooked food, and a family of three is limited to one bucket of flour for free, if you pay, you can buy a box of sorted grain combination boxes at a discounted price, which contains bacon, cheese, oiled pastry, dry noodles, flour and a small piece of butter, and each household can only buy it once.

[It is strictly forbidden to cut in line, take more, take it repeatedly, and those who violate it will be punished with caning]

A sign hung at the front of the plaza, and a chamber employee repeated it aloud every half minute with a megaphone, admonishing latecomers.

Of course, his voice was not as loud as the screams of some of the people behind him who were planning to steal chickens and dogs, cut into the queue and sell more, and were being whipped by the soldiers.

"Help!!"

"Don't dare, really don't dare!"

"I won't do it again next time, spare me-"

Compared with the signs and warning signs, the screams are more alarming.

It's like a warning sign by the river that says you can't fish or swim 10,000 times, but there will always be anglers and drowning boys, just like monkeys with water......

Only the real, immediate pain of others can alert human beings from the heart.

And among these whipped people, there are naturally some who are really cheap, and they deserve to die if they don't get a little cheap......

There are also some people who sound loud, but in fact they don't have much power to fight.

All in all, under the noon sun, amid the noisy and lively screams and announcements, the residents of Lai'an Ling happily welcomed the grain at a discounted price.

- Are you happy? President Xilin's head was changed.

As for the quality of the food bought...... Can this kind of thing, apparently taken out of the chamber of commerce's warehouse, be edible......

The cook next door didn't have enough goods, so he took a box from the box behind him as a raw material, cut up large pieces of bacon and threw it into a pot to stew, or chop it up and throw it into the wheat cake, which was obviously selected at random.

Maybe the bacon is a little old, and the wheat cake is unevenly greased, or even some are not coated at all.

But in general, it's all at this time, and I still expect to eat good meat, noodles and rice, which is somewhat bad for my head.

You know, you can still afford to eat meat here!

It's impossible for a place like Terra to pop up a bunch of expensive objects that don't know the ingredients because of the average quality of the food they give for free, and they can't live or eat them - even a Flying Flame Land spy can't do this, and it makes people suspect that although the guards here may not kill people for such a trivial matter, it is indispensable to pull them down and hang them up for a smoke.

Ian and Scott were standing on the roof of a building not far away, watching the scene.

"If this continues, it will not be possible to have one box per household."

Flipping through the data sheet, Tie Zhimin looked at the gap above with some concern: "Everyone may still be a little scared today, but it is estimated that the whole city will come tomorrow - it is estimated that the whole city will come." ”

"The food stored by the Chamber of Commerce in Xilin may be a little insufficient today, he did hoard a large amount of grain, but his storage is still much worse than what a city needs, because of the war and food disaster, the residents of Lai'an Territory will definitely retaliate and buy a large amount of grain as a saving ......"

"Hmm."

Ian nodded slightly, he watched as another sneaky person who wanted to get another free lunch was caught by the guards, hung up and whipped ten lashes, and couldn't help but sigh: "When people are hungry, they will sin." Looking at that guy's well-dressed appearance, when there is food in peacetime, he will definitely not take advantage of it like this. ”

"Only when people are full of food can they have room to be moral."

He turned his head sideways to look at the road leading to the Agate Stone Plain in Lean, and his tone was calm: "I know what you said, in fact, I have been prepared in the imperial capital, entrusted the channel of the platinum-iridium workshop, and bought a whole fleet of grain in the Great Plains, enough for the whole city to eat for half a year. ”

"Originally, it was intended to be used as a supplement to the poor harvest and a reserve for the future, but now in times of war, it is just used to buy people's hearts."

Not only to Scott, but even to the White People soldiers and those in the Chamber of Commerce, Ian has always been outspoken.

He never intended to do anything on the surface, after all, the new lord wanted to buy people's hearts, even the most ordinary residents of Ryan City could see it - but the problem was that with Ian's personal image, even if he didn't buy people's hearts, he might have a favorability bonus, not to mention that he really spent food to buy people's hearts?

There's even a little more straightforward cuteness of young people.

"The convoy has arrived in Nauman, and Colonel Mayova has sent someone to escort it, and if nothing else, the grain will arrive tomorrow."

Ian's eyes are gloomy, he can always see what is going on, and prepare accordingly in advance, so that the plans are interlocking without the slightest omission: "Today is to tell everyone in Ryan City that I can bring food, can bring stability, and after sending it, I will say that today's share is over, and the essentials will come back tomorrow, and it doesn't matter if you want to repeat the collar and hang it up and beat it to death—although I don't think any fool would do that." ”

If you really have to find death, then Ian can't help it if he doesn't want to kill people, and if he doesn't listen to the lord's warning during the war, if he doesn't kill, there will be big problems.

He instructed Scott: "After making sure that every household in the city has a corresponding reserve of grain, take out a batch of special sales from the stock every ten years to stabilize the price of grain in the city, and find an opportunity to catch a typical kill, and publicly execute it in the square, telling everyone not to challenge the bottom line of food policy in wartime." ”

"I really can't find a typical example, I'm going to catch a Flying Flame Land spy, and say that they plan to burn down the granary, promote acting, and burn an empty warehouse to arouse the anger of the people, and then you can execute him publicly."

"This trick is very useful, Viscount Grant should use it often, right? You definitely will. ”

"Yes, sir!" Hearing this, Scott is not sleepy - he is familiar with using the Flying Flame Land as a target!

Viscount Grant basically kills every one or two months, and the effect is very good, and the public execution of the Spitterland spies in this place in Nanling is a modern sacrificial ritual, which can really boost morale, and maybe increase production.

"Suppose there are corrupt staff."

Ian continued, "Don't rush just yet. When our policies are likely to provoke popular protests, focus on propaganda and then kill them, so that we can hedge against the opposition of radical policies. ”

"Remember, anyone has value, including moths, and it is irreparable to kill them on the spot. Viscount Grant only relied on instinct to throw the pot off the ground, and we had to use this effect scientifically. ”

He is cultivating Scott's ability to deal with this aspect of things - the other party will be his deputy in the future, from fighting wars to people's livelihood, there is indeed a gap in people's talent in this area, but most of them are exercised, and he believes in Scott's ability.

"I see, sir!"

Scott nodded hurriedly and wrote these down in his notebook, the handwriting was fast and steady, neat and beautiful.

As Scott writes his notes, Ian can't help but fall into deep thought as he gazes at the long lines lining the streets.

Although the grain production in Nanling has decreased, because there is too much grain in the imperial capital of the Great Plains, as long as the freight is smooth, it is basically impossible to have a famine...... In fact, the problem of Laian City is not that there is no food, but that the transportation channels for goods are cut off.

Moreover, there will indeed be people like Xilin who stock up on goods.

The sublimators may not do such frivolous trifles, because in their opinion, the lords themselves are their property, and there is no need to use this method to extract wealth—but ordinary people will exploit ordinary people too.

It's not that with the sublimators, the rich people don't exploit the ordinary people, and vice versa.

But compared to the existence of sublimators, which are a little far away from the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people, the exploitation of the same kind may be a little heavier.

These are two different kinds of questions.

But there's a good thing about Terra, and Ian is quite pleased.

- Can't solve other sublimators, can't solve it?

In this place of Terra, it's so easy to hang a street lamp.

Merchant organizations such as chambers of commerce must rely on the sublimator, even if they become sublimators when they are rich, their identity will automatically become businessmen and become sublimators, and the way of thinking will no longer be the same, the property value accumulated in the past will also lose their attractiveness, and the alienation of capital will be completely covered by the alienation of sublimators.

In addition, the scientific and technological tree is too crooked, industrialization, assembly lines and professional industrialization have existed from the beginning, and the state organization composed of top sublimators is under the control of the superfluous ones, which cannot form a surplus of private capital.

So from the very beginning, there was no possibility of the germ of capitalism in this place.

"I don't know if it's good or bad. Forget it, the other world shouldn't follow common sense in the first place, since there is artificial intelligence, there are various pre-era technologies...... Maybe it's time to make a leap from the start. ”

That's Ian's final answer - step-by-step is hilarious in Terra.

And this time, the opening of the warehouse and the release of grain was undoubtedly a great success.

For such a generous Ian, the inhabitants of Ryan City commented, 'Long live Lord Lord!' ’。

Be. The people of the Terra Continent are generally intellectually okay due to the transformation of the previous era, and they are basically not born with intellectual disabilities, and they can all see that their new lord has begun to buy people's hearts after ruthlessly rectifying the city's management.

As for whether it is really rich in heritage, or is it a swollen face and a fat man...... They don't care.

Anyway, they bought it first, they were really hungry.

To put it mildly, Ian is actually quite grateful for people like Xilin.

After the reform of the Black King, there was a large granary in the Central Plain, and it was too difficult for the empire to simply starve people to death, and if it wanted to buy the hearts of the people by relying on grain, the easiest way, I really had to thank the merchants who were interested in profits.

Otherwise, Ian really couldn't think of any way to impress the well-fed Ryan Lords and make them subconsciously recognize their legitimate right to rule.

But for now, everything is going well.

A good start is half the battle.

"Scott."

Thinking of this, Ian spoke: "Next, lead the team, let's go to the workshop area to arrest people." ”

"Yes! My lord! ”

Scott answered without hesitation, and then didn't say a word, just looked at Ian with a calm face and a little expectation, waiting for instructions.

"Scott."

Ian turned his head a little helplessly: "Don't be so obedient at this time - at this time in the future, you should ask me 'why did you arrest people'...... Oh, that's not good. But you should at least say, 'Who are you going to catch?' ”

"Yes, sir." Scott said, "Who are we going to arrest?" ”

Ian answered smoothly, "Go get the workers in the workshops and the blacksmiths." They've been out of work for a long time, and it's time to get them all out and work. ”

"Yes, sir."

This time Scott learned: "But what work? ”

Ian nodded in satisfaction, "Of course, it's to build some cutting-edge equipment that you can use." The next thing we have to do is nothing more than to stabilize the city of Laian, wait for the enemy's counterattack, and the real development after the attack, so we must strengthen our side as much as possible before the enemy's counterattack comes. ”

"Huh." This time Scott really didn't understand: "Meet the counterattack? The forces of the rebel mountain people around the Ryan Territory have basically been wiped out, right? ”

"We've killed so many people, we don't think we didn't fight back, right?" Ian shook his head slightly: "The rebel mountain people, with the support of the Flying Flame Land, can barely be regarded as a whole now, and they will inevitably react. ”

"Wait, two weeks at the earliest, a month at the slower, most of the rebel mountain people...... It's coming! ”

It's a little more in the evening!

(End of chapter)