Chapter 280: A Seemingly Normal Step
Meditation space, mimicry sea of consciousness
At this time, the part representing the 'subconscious' has only about one-fifth of the whole of the 'iceberg', and the rest has become a part of the self and computing power;
And what Nesta needs to complete next is to digest the last of the most 'stubborn' 'submarine icebergs' and make them completely exposed.....
The first thing to be carried out is the transformation of the nervous system outside the brain;
Because, after the emergence of digital visualizations, there is no need for them to continue to maintain a high degree of differentiation for the sake of functionality, and they can also embark on the 'road of omnipotence', obtain a broader space for evolution, and become a part of the thinking and provide a part of the computing power for the digital visualization.
It's still a grinding process, starting from previous experiences, and if it is done in a state of life, it will take about five to six years, but if you stay in retreat and meditate, it should be about a few months.
Half a year passed in a flash, and Nesta, in the culture chamber, opened his eyes again, and he tried to move his body in a limited space, in a viscous liquid, and observed the flow of 0s and 1s in the visualization body at any time.
At this time, the neural connections, including the spinal cord, and the body, have in fact all disappeared, and they have all been transformed into functional cells, and the body has not changed much, but has a sense of agility.
And then there is the blood involved in the transport of nutrients, the transport of vital gases, and the most stubborn 'nail' brain.....
In the excitement, he still suppressed the idea of starting the next step immediately, and decided to be cautious, first try to 'turn back', and if there is no problem, continue to complete the follow-up road.
The first thing to try is the 'brain' running the body without any involvement, and this is the most important step related to whether the complete transformation of the body is feasible.
Nesta has found a way to put the brain into a brief period of sleep that seems feasible.....
For the first time, Nesta gave the order to all the components of the 'brain' in meditation to 'sleep completely for three seconds, and the center of the body will be taken over by the digital elves until the brain is awake again';
As a result, after a buffer period, the brain slowly goes into dormancy (without interrupting the supply of nutrients.....
The activity of the cortex gradually decreases until it is completely stopped, the nerve function tends to stagnate, and the electrical signals disappear.
Gradually, Nesta's life activities also seemed to be dying out step by step......
Finally, when the brain and all the functions associated with it have completely gone into hibernation, his mind has also completed a 'death' in an instant.
Nesta's mind did stop for a while after his brain stopped, but as the digital sprite in the meditation space took over all the activities of his body without any obstacles, he was able to wake up again as soon as possible;
As a result, a pair of cold eyes containing extreme reason and endless desire opened suddenly, and then a tyrannical momentum suddenly rose from the meditation room.
Three seconds is both short and long, and Nesta, who has no abnormalities in himself, is just concentrating on using his super high thinking speed to buy time to make all kinds of attempts......
'I'm more complete, but I have a little more stuff and I also seem to be missing the most important part?' ’
I'm also stronger, and I seem to be able to do things like this. ’
As he was thinking, the intact elven body in the cultivation cabin suddenly began to undergo drastic deformation......
The complete wolf body, then the blade-toothed beast, the sea monster sent by the fangs, and the bear in the forest, these dissected and truly understood the monsters, in the blink of an eye, were quickly reproduced by him with their bodies;
Then Nesta suddenly 'disintegrated', and hundreds of billions of cells floated independently of each other in the culture chamber like blue-green algae in the sea, with only a lone brain, and a few pieces of blood that meandered in an unknown length, wrapped in blood vessels, and strangely stuck in place, floating in the culture fluid.
But even so, the connection between the cells still exists, and the 'self' belonging to Nesta has maintained an almost indistinguishable existence in this continuing relationship.
However, the energy consumption in the culture chamber suddenly skyrocketed by more than ten times, and a large amount of cave wolf cell liquid, forcibly extracted by Nesta without any scruples, all turned into the previous transformation, and the energy needed to maintain the operation of its own cells at this time.
'Individual cells must be more versatile and powerful.....
'Blood, a troublesome thing, will be a weakness in the event of disintegration, and must be banned... Can the transport of nutrients and life gases, as well as the metabolism of waste materials, be replaced by osmotic pressure between cells? ’
'Active respiration is maintained by body surface tissues, mimicking the functions of plant respiratory holes and marine parotid glands on the skin, and establishing a direct circulation from the body surface to the body; ’
"And as an auxiliary, you can also arrange a comprehensive and operating totemic system in the body, or a solidified spell state, so that the innermost layer of the body can obtain the required gases and absorb the required nutrients;
'Try.... Local success comes at the cost of higher energy consumption and improved efficiency.....
The next step is to establish a set of intercellular circulation system from the outside to the inside and then from the inside to the outside according to this model. ’
'Hmm, it's the Cave Wolf Cell Fluid that keeps me running right now?' It's a good thing, it shouldn't be wasted on the weak guys, it can be my food and energy in the future; ’
'Organs are also burdensome, their respective functions are scattered throughout the body, they no longer need to exist, and the brain also needs to complete the transformation as soon as possible.... But it's too late now. ’
'Reproductive function.. I don't have any offspring yet, and Ishshara loves it, so I have to keep it..... Where is Aishara? ’
'It doesn't seem to be in the main department.... She's also starting to waste time on the weak, and she has to come over and retreat with me..... The brain center is about to wake up, so let's do it later. ’
The short, long three seconds finally came to an end......
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"Alert! Alert! The flow of the cave wolf's cell sap is out of the control of the mother tree! ”
"Alert! Alert! Tree Spirit Cultivation Chambers No. 336 to 1354 are about to be cut off from the supply of advanced energy! ”
The girlish mechanical sound resounded throughout the No. 1 Mother Tree at this time, and woke up hundreds of elven witch doctors here;
At that moment, their faces suddenly became nervous, and they put down everything in their hands one after another, and they all rushed to the central control room.
But just three seconds later, the mother tree's 'pseudo-intelligent program' made a sound again,
"Alarm dismissed, alarm dismissed, energy flow returned to normal ....."
"Report the end point of the anomalous flow." The witch doctor on duty in the control room did not let his guard down, but asked for specific information about the 'pseudo-intelligence' while manually checking the changes that had taken place before.
"Under review...... After the review, the end point of the flow is located in Meditation Room 09, Block 1 at the top of the tree. ”
"District 1 09? It's a place of retreat for pioneers, how many years have it been....."
"Yes, Your Excellency the Pioneer is in Meditation Room 09, Sector 1, and has been in retreat for ** years."
Although the witch doctor was talking to himself, the stupid 'pseudo-intelligence' still answered the question dutifully.
"I didn't ask you... Forget it, check the vital signs of Your Excellency the Pioneer and see if there is anything wrong. ”
"Checking.... After the inspection, it is in good condition and everything is normal. ”
"That's a good thing, but what about it? The embryos were almost in danger....."
"Sorry, I didn't know."
Just as the witch doctor was confused and the pseudo-intelligence was busy apologizing, more than 100 witch doctors rushed in, and then asked one after another and learned the specific situation.
"It's kind of weird..... Let's report it to the lady first, in case something goes wrong with the pioneers...."
"What can go wrong, less nonsense..... However, I'll report it now. ”
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Nesta did not know the years in his practice, and the years did not end in his absence, and the Republic continued to run steadily, and indeed grew stronger and stronger day by day.
Time back, temporarily leave the meditation room, and focus on the new speaker who has just taken power....
Eshara, who has long been at the heart of the republic, is by no means a political rookie, and she deeply understands that she is different from her predecessor, and understands that her president, the head of the council, does not actually have the absolute prestige of her husband Nesta.
So, despite all the ambitions and plans in his heart, Aishara did not rush to seek any great feats or huge policy changes when Fuichi came to power.
She believes that in the current period, many things will just continue at the pace that their partner has set when he is in power.
What I need is to make real achievements in some aspects that are not critical, but are enough to attract the attention of 'people', and in this way, in the hearts of citizens and in the eyes of various departments of public power, the first imprint that belongs to them when they are directly in power.
And when there are more such 'small successes', she can do what she really wants to do.
Therefore, it is now necessary to go through a familiarization stage, not only to find the right 'stepping stone', but also to let the dignitaries understand their own style of doing things;
After all, although she has always been in a high position, she has never established a de facto command relationship with most departments except the military, so a corresponding adaptation period is still necessary.
With this in mind, she summoned many important officials and representatives of the army, the ruling government, the Law Office, the People's Yuan, and the Workers' and Peasants' Commercial Research Institute, and grasped the specific situation of the country from another perspective and more comprehensively.
To put it simply, the total number of citizens in the Republic at this time was 71,348, including 3,001 tree elves, 1,508 ancient tree spirits, 56,137 elves advanced by trolls, and 10,702 trolls;
It can be seen from this that the 'Elf Project for All' has achieved a lot, and it is expected to make itself a true 'Elven Realm' in about 70 years of the Rune Calendar.
Of these citizens, more than 50,000 live in the main area, and the remaining 20,000 live in 11 cities and fortresses in the Black Forest and the northern plateau.
At the grassroots level in various regions, at this time, it is in the era of alternating between the old and new rules, and although the past 'Ten Troll Squad' model still exists, it has changed in name only due to the passage of time;
For example, the expansion of the number of mouths, the diversification of industry types, and the increasingly formed demand for diversified partners have all had a huge impact on traditional models such as the 'Ten Troll Squad';
The 'local government' model, which has been carried out in the 'pilot' for a long time, has shown strong adaptability and vitality.
Relying on its own flexibility, it has expanded from the 'pilot area' on its own and has been learned by more and more regions.
However, because the process of its expansion has not been arranged as a whole, and due to the mixing of new and old grassroots organizations, there are some institutional and functional chaos at this time.
Aishara silently jotted them down and made them one of the 'options', deciding to take the time to get to know the more specifics and even take a field trip.
In addition, the attribution of individual citizens in terms of 'extraordinary occupations' was also obtained in this series of meetings, and a relatively detailed data was obtained;
In this regard, the categories that the Republic now has are not rich, or even 'rare', and there are only three categories of pure witch doctors, war witches, and pure warriors.
Among them, there are a total of 1,343 pure witch doctors, and except for a few 'deviant' people, the vast majority of them are deeply engaged in the field of scientific research;
And these witch doctors can be divided into three categories according to their origins:
One, the naturalized witch doctor in the tribal era;
This part of the witch doctors was already extremely talented, and at this time, all of them had been promoted to the second order, and they were accumulating towards the third order.
both, the witch doctor facilitated by meditation;
These witch doctors have different talents, some are qualified to be equal to the former, and some are forcibly employed by meditation methods, it stands to reason that they should have differentiated the difference in rank according to their qualifications at this time;
However, Nesta has taken a different approach to the application of implants, and 'human' has artificially smoothed out this qualification limitation;
Therefore, now that they have all completed the advanced and obtained roughly the same qualification platform through the 'Elven Body', their future achievements will not be limited by the innate differences they once had.
the three, the witch doctors contributed by the first and second batch of tree elves;
These two groups of tree elves account for the vast majority of the number of witch doctors, and their respective ranks and promotions can be roughly divided by their age when their level of effort is not very different;
Today, the first batch of elves has not only all been inaugurated as witch doctors, but most of them have reached the second order, and a small half of the second group of elves have completed their inauguration;
And as they continue to grow older, the witch doctor level of all the tree elves will gradually move towards the second order, and even the laziest of them will probably be able to complete this step before entering the prime of life;
In this way, it is not in vain that the Republic has invested a huge amount of resources in its embryonic and juvenile years.
In terms of quality, there are 4 third-order, 783 second-order, and 556 first-order in pure witch doctors at this time, and both in terms of individual rank and quantity, are in a steady and estimable growth;
The former mainly depends on age, but the individual's degree of effort also has a certain reference value, the hard-working guy can always get faster improvement than the lazy guy, and the latter depends on the cultivation cycle of the mother tree.
Let's look at the war witch aspect.....
They are transformed from the "witch medicine disciples" in the past, and there are a total of 5,853 of them at this stage, and because of the intentional training in the past, the vast majority of them are scientific research and education individuals, and only a few are active in the military, legal and political departments, or civilians, but no matter in that aspect, the role they can play is important to the mother's question.
The pure warrior is the collection of all the remaining mouths except for the little trolls and elves;
This is actually a bit helpless, whether they are civil servants, sergeants, or domestic workers and farmers, but in terms of the definition of transcendence, they can be summed up in terms of warriors at this time, which is also one of the clear proofs of the lack of the 'transcendent system' of the republic.
In terms of cultivation, the exercise of the body and will, as well as the integration of the armored core and the external nervous subordinate, are the focus of the warriors at this stage;
As for the form of combat, armored warriors and various large-scale totem armaments are the mainstream.
However, as the number of researchers increases, some witch doctors have begun to ponder the feasibility of the rest of the directions, so there should be more subdivisions in the future.
The meeting lasted for several days, and of course the contents of the reports were not only the above, but also the army building, weapons research and development, northern intelligence, and so on, which were also learned by Aishara one by one.
By the end of this series of reports, she had finally clarified the priorities of various things, and had a rough determination of the focus of her work in the near, medium and long term.
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In a secluded area on the edge of the headquarters, there is a large courtyard with elegant scenery and small springs flowing throughout;
In addition, some totem tree houses of different heights and shapes, but with a strong natural atmosphere, exist in the landscape, they are large or small, standing or lying, on the side of the stream, and in the fruit forest.
At this time, in an area of the courtyard, an elf with the appearance of a girl was strolling through the path among the flowers with a wheelchair;
And in the wheelchair he pushed, there was a blue-skinned troll....
It didn't take too much scrutiny to tell from the flabby, black-spotted skin, from the tired eyes, from the mouth pursed by the loss of teeth, and from the completely lost muscles on her body, that the girl was pushing an old troll who was in a dying period.
The old troll's name is Feodosta, a true living history that existed long before Nesta was born;
He suffered too many injuries in his prime, and even had several rebirth experiences after breaking his hands and feet, and faced several deaths, and always relied on his self-healing ability to survive.
But the price is that after ending his prime and entering old age, his body only maintained stability for a few years, and he quickly entered the near-death stage at the age of 270......
"Sir, how is the sun today?"
A light voice sounded from behind the old troll, and there was a sense of 'youth' that he felt envied and faintly jealous.
"Well... Whew... Good sun... Whew..."
Panting like bellows, the old troll replied with difficulty,
"There's... And many things.... You... Why... to take care of.... I'm like this.... Forgotten old guy ....."
"Nonsense, how are you forgotten? I'm willing to listen to the old gentleman tell the story of the past~"
The elven girl leaned down, brushed away the dry hair that was blown by the wind for him, and continued in a tone full of anticipation,
"Let's talk about it again~ I want to hear more about you and about the past of 'teeth'."
"Good.. Good.. Back in the day.. And Nesta ... Bub... Go to war .. It's all small scenes... When I was younger... Fight... It's a fight of life and death...."
The old troll was clearly willing to speak, and even though it was difficult to express himself under the drag of his body, his old face was now cheerful, and longing for the physique of his prime.
"Arms... Broken three times... Broken leg twice... Ha... But it's broken... And much more... But forgot..."
"In the mountains .... Warcraft.... Almost killed..... But survived..... Ahem, ahem... Ahem...."
Talking about the past, talking about the difficult life in the wilderness, the old troll seems to have enough energy, and a little bit of vitality belonging to the past is faintly revealed;
But then, he was interrupted by a violent cough, and he felt the destruction of this body again.
So, a deep wave of regret and reluctance crept into the old troll's heart, and was revealed through his cloudy eyes....
"It's a pity....."
"What a pity? What a wonderful past you have! No need to go to school~ No need to do homework~ It's so magnificent! ”
"Haha.. Hurt too much... I'm dying... Old age... Injuries from the past. Devour too much... There's no more of a chance..."
The girl was inexplicably a little sad when she heard this, she was still young, and she didn't know how to hide her emotions, even if there were some tears in her eyes.
Although the sadness came inexplicably, she was also smart, and she only understood the source of her mood in an instant......
'Obviously, everyone has a chance to go further, and obviously life is getting better and better.... Why do they have to die? ’
Theoretically, trolls will last about 30-50 years in old age, and the span depends mainly on the physical exertion of the prime of life;
After this period of old age, they will enter a 'near-death period' in which they have difficulty moving and cannot take care of themselves in diet and excretion, which may span about a few years.
In addition to the difference in 'self-care' ability, the difference between 'old age' and 'near-death period' is also reflected in the 'advanced potential'.
Among them, although the former's body has begun to weaken, it is still stable on the whole, so it can be further promoted to an elf, and in one fell swoop, Shou Yuan will return to the 'prime elf' stage, so as to obtain a long rest of his life;
But the latter completely lost the possibility of training, whether it was the improvement of the will or the tempering of the body, which was not something that the dying trolls could complete.
Therefore, at this stage when the whole country is rushing towards the road of elvedom, they seem to have become outcasts of the times, and they can only wait for death under the care of the Department of Welfare.....
The elf girl is still a student in the Central School, and taking care of the old gentleman in front of her is the social practice homework she chooses in the school;
The place at the foot of the city is called the 'Republic Nursing Home', and it houses about 43 dying old people, which is the total number of trolls in the country at this stage.
Here, these old men who are dying enjoy generous treatment and adequate care, but the road ahead is broken, the future is extinct, and there is actually no hope at all;
They can only spend the last days of their lives in emptiness, and then embrace death when everyone is running towards a better future.....
The elven girl would love to help them, but she is too young and a tree elf body, but she is still some way from becoming a witch doctor.
'Could it be... Can we just watch them die like this? ’
The thought of a girl who feels very incompetent and hopes that she will grow up soon;
Coincidentally, at this time, there was a lady at the top of the political arena, who also had similar but somewhat different thoughts in her heart....
'No, you can't just watch these seniors die slowly.....
Although there is no such saying in this world, after taking office and steadily transitioning for a while, Aishara also began his own strategy;
Among them, the 'Dying Troll Problem' was the first 'stepping stone' that Ishshara chose.....
The number '43' is definitely not much, and birth, old age, sickness and death are also the normal cycle of life, but if you put it in the current environment, then this kind of 'death' seems a little 'unfair' and cruel to these dying old trolls.
So at the very least, Ishshara wanted to organize forces for an effort, not give up on them in disregard as he is doing now;
After all, no matter how good the care of old age is, it is not as good as giving them a hope.....
Therefore, Aishara made this matter one of the important targets of attention at this stage, and gathered a group of witch doctors to start a targeted and time-racing research.
The time is estimated to be only 5 to 7 years, and there have been dying trolls in the dying period year after year, but in the end, she hopes to win a chance for them, a chance to stand on the same platform as the rest of the citizens and see the future;
And if you still can't find an answer within this period, then you don't need to study it again....
This is because these 43 people are already the last in the country, and this group will completely disappear from the 'demographic' statistics of the Republic within a maximum of ten years.
The idea is not completely certain, but there is only a little inspiration based on the 'ancestral altar', not only whether it can be done, so more forces are needed to participate.
As for whether it will succeed.....
Aishara is actually not very confident, but there is a difference between those who have worked hard and those who have not, and after all, there is a difference in mentality.