After listening to the music for a while, Nesta plans to go out and have a look...

Before leaving, Azhara pointed to a cabinet and said that it contained some interesting gizmos that had been born in the kingdom over the years, and that it might be his amusement.

Nesta opened it now, and sure enough, he saw something strange inside, but after scanning it with his senses, he immediately understood what it was all about;

Surprised and picking out a few of them that seemed useful, Nesta decided to try to use them first.....

He first picked up a palm-sized box with an external nerve connector and a slim slot on the side, and there were other smaller cards that seemed to be stuffed into that slot.

Nesta looked up and down, picked up one of the cards and slipped it into the slot, feeling a dense notch on it as if it was recording something.

Then, according to his mastery of the internal structure, he deliberately pressed a few buttons, and then melodious music sounded from within;

Obviously, this is a music player, and it is not like a 'totem radio', but more like a 'CD player' in the previous life, which obtains music by reading cards with fine lines;

Moreover, this thing has two listening modes: 'public release' and 'brain reception', and Nesta has always been a good elf with a sense of morality, so he grew a 'braid' of his own, which was mechanically connected to the totem after adjustment;

So in an instant, the musical experience became different, and no sound was leaked to the outside world, as if the sensitive hearing had become an ornament;

This is obviously something that 'earbuds' can't do, and it is one of the main reasons why the Republic is gradually phasing out the 'in-ear listening mode'.

Nesta thinks it's a good thing, and although the music isn't necessarily her favorite genre, it has a unique freshness in the world.....

So, he flicked his braid behind him at will, and the player connected to the end of it suddenly swung like a hammer, but soon it was controlled by the braid and settled;

Nesta then took out a few more cards and stuffed them into his body, and walked a few other types of machines and went out in anticipation....

Nesta and Azhara's dwellings, although still 'treehouses' in nature, are no longer in the shape of trees, and they are not detached households, but share a community-like mega-building with their 'local government';

Therefore, he did not choose to 'jump off the building' as he once did, but came to the outside world by taking the equipment from the room to the bottom of the building;

The device was opened directly facing the street, and when closed, it left no trace of the 'door'.

So, he took out a cube the size of a fist and lowered it to the ground, and then a tube reached out of his chest to meet it, and began to supply it with initial energy;

With the supply of energy, the totem group placed in a specific position began to exert force, and the seeds that had been placed in the cube began to take root and sprout, and gradually formed a variety of things with a distinct mechanical sense, and then connected to each other to form a whole.

It seemed to be a car, narrow in the front and thick in the back, with a streamlined structure full of speed, like a fighter jet that had been stripped of its wings;

In addition, there is a large spout in the tail section, which seems to be a component used to provide additional power ....

Nesta got into the car and found that there were also two control modes, 'Manual' and 'Neural Control', but at this time, his nerves were connected to the player, and although it was possible to split it into a new one, 'driving' was a long-lost experience after all, so I couldn't help but want to try it manually.

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Nesta went out for several days, during which he mixed in with different faces and different groups, and under the combined effect of visual senses and transcendent perceptions, he understood the changes in the Republic headquarters from the inside out, from the bottom to the top;

Of course, his operation was carried out in the center.....

The central system of the headquarters no longer identifies individuals by their simple appearance, but collects various signal characteristics emitted by individuals, and then crosses and screens them through internal registered information.

And almost every individual is in the range of its identification at all times, not to monitor, but to confirm the consistency of the signal source.

For example.....

If Nesta transforms into a non-existent entity and is within the Headquarters, the Nexus will send an 'Unknown Signal Intrusion' warning and notify the Security Department to respond;

If he chooses an identity that actually exists, and is in the headquarters or the rest of the garrison to disguise himself, the center will send a 'duplicate signal source' warning and also notify the garrison department to conduct a 'human' screening;

If the disguised individual happens to be no longer in the area, it will be reported against the entry and exit records and the estimated time of mission completion, and will also be transferred to the 'human' identification process.

Although this screening method cannot confirm his identity when he is completely transformed, it will also cause some trouble due to the procedure set by him, and Nesta herself is not as thorough as the black family really does not need to disguise;

As a result, he retains his core signal when transforming, so that the center can always confirm his identity and avoid harassment after being screened.

This is how he was able to embark on this 'expedition'.....

The number of citizens in the republic has increased to more than 190,000 in the past 23 years, and 180,000 of them live in the main area, the vast majority of whom are still underage elves, but the cityscape has also changed dramatically due to the increase in the number of mouths.

At this time, the most eye-catching thing in the headquarters is the large building composed of functional magic plants and a small amount of metal materials;

Nesta's perception swept down the streets, revealing that these buildings were comprehensive office buildings, scientific research centers, military production bases, and production lines for important materials, which contained many of the Republic's key industries;

In addition, there are a much larger number of complex buildings, that is, the kind of community buildings where he and Eshara live at this time, which not only have hundreds of houses with considerable space, but also some service areas such as bars, fighting stations, reading rooms, maintenance centers, and so on.

These buildings are usually more than 100 meters and less than 300 meters high, and all of them are below the intersection of the trunk and canopy of the mother tree.

Each building is composed of several to dozens of functional areas to form the core, and the rest of the various branch structures are extended, combined and reconstructed around these cores, and then this seemingly integrated but actually separable building is formed.

Its exterior is often green and purple and gold, the former is the original crown tiled on the outside of the building, which is a unique way to save energy for these buildings with plant characteristics;

The latter, on the other hand, seems to be a color preference, and many buildings are outlined in gorgeous purple gold, and it has to be said that after looking at it for a long time, Nesta also feels gorgeous from the changeable purple gold.

A three-storey traffic system is arranged at the horizontal distance between the buildings, and the highest part is a high-altitude semi-enclosed passage that surrounds the outer edge of the building or is connected to each other, which is specially used by pedestrians to shuttle between buildings;

Below it is the urban public transport system, where the carriages that have completely abandoned the moose power and replaced them with totem locomotives are driven at high speed on the empty rails that pass between the buildings;

Below, there is the ground lane, which is not very high, which is quite wide according to the previous life, but it is not very spacious for the tall elves and the various means of transportation tailored for them;

In the case of Azara's car, which is more than 13 meters long and 5 meters wide, there are only four in parallel on the main street.

However, there are no traffic lights, no crosswalks, and almost all the elves driving various vehicles are speeding at speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour;

Fortunately, the three-dimensional layout of urban traffic and the extraordinary reaction and agility of the elves made the impact of three or four hundred kilometers per hour on the senses similar to that of humans in the previous life, so that there were no traffic accidents.

This is especially true for a man as strong as Nesta, who, after the initial excitement has passed, the ground speed car can no longer bring him any sensory stimulation;

After all, more than ten times the speed of sound has been experienced with the body, and the current speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour is really infinitely close to ordinary walking.

Of course, his purpose is not all about drag racing.....

Over the course of a few days, Nesta split more than a dozen bodies, met all sorts of friends at the same time, and traveled with them to various places and saw a lot of real life beyond the written materials......

Almost all of the offices in the headquarters are running 48 hours a day, but the workers within the department have time to spare, supported by a shift system, a division of labor, and a high degree of automation.

Here, vagrants do not exist, and neither do active or passive workaholics;

Each citizen in the prime of life has a relatively stable job, and there are only 12 hours of normal on-the-job time in a day, 12 hours of semi-compulsory study time, and the remaining 24 hours of light hours are freely allocated by them....

So, he and his friends went to listen to music, participated in reading exchange meetings, participated in the writing of stage plays, and showed a wave of music 'creation';

The script written by Nesta was shocked by his companions, and everyone thought that his brain was really too big;

But in terms of music, there is nothing good to say.....

The part that was 'plagiarized' from the memories of his previous life was criticized as 'not imaginative enough', and that the vocal range of the repertoire he composed was too narrow;

The part that was forcibly created based on computing power was criticized as a soulless showmanship, saying that it was impossible to hear any emotion and gain the slightest emotion from it;

Of course, Nesta's path as a musician came to an end....

Of course, he didn't care.

Some of his friends took him to the 'Invention Seminar' and took Nesta to see all kinds of practical or impractical totemic combination ideas and objects;

In addition, there are also many entertainment projects such as bars and dance halls, and I have a good experience of the elf-style 'nightlife';

Not only that, but activities such as hand-to-hand combat in the ring, unlimited armored fighting, drag racing, and plane racing have also been seen many times, all of which seem to be very popular projects, and his dozen or so bodies have been pulled by different groups to play, and some have even participated in a few.

He had a lot of fun, but he also saw some big or small problems.....

For example, the emotion brought by art, the satisfaction brought by invention and creation, the freshness brought by making friends, and the excitement brought by competition often end in love in elves.

It's really hard for Nesta to judge too much......

After all, they have neither delayed nor lost their minds in pleasure, and the kingdom, which has been transformed from a tribe of trolls into a transcendent society in just a hundred years, has been devoid of this notion of 'moral or immoral' from the beginning;

Especially, in the current era after fertility and sexuality have been completely separated, all kinds of habits in society have become more and more free.

However, it is not really chaotic, and the regulations that were introduced in the early years, based on the 'fixed partner system', have played a good role in curbing and not making all this too exaggerated.

The core of this type of regulation is 'sexual limitation' and 'abstinence', which advocates such acts only among regular partners, and stipulates that each citizen cannot have more than 4 partners;

At the same time, the rules prohibit pleasure in which more than five individuals participate, pleasure that lasts longer than three days, pleasure that occurs with non-siblings, and pleasure in the process of physical harm that exceeds a certain limit;

However, the use of Druyin's shapeshifting abilities in the process is neither prohibited nor encouraged, and does not interfere with the choice of the partner's gender.

And so on and so forth....

Although Nesta did not personally participate in the outroe of this kind of repertoire, which often took place after various entertainments, she was able to learn about the views of many of her compatriots on such restrictions.

He learned that the vast majority of citizens who had emerged from the tribal era, including witch doctors and warriors, believed that this was a rather draconian rule, but that they were generally willing to follow the rules out of trust in decision-makers and the deterrence of punitive measures such as confinement;

Tree elves, on the other hand, are more receptive and more willing to follow the rules when they are instilled in the education system from an early age, who have been instilled with the concept of 'fixed partners' and 'limited abstinence' from an early age.

Therefore, although the elves' concept of such affairs is far more open than that of Nesta in his previous life, after all, the situation is generally controllable, so Nesta does not think of using stricter restrictions to regulate it;

After all, while it is possible to make society run in the way he agrees, it is also possible to give rise to stronger desires under pressure.

In addition, elves and humans are not the same race, have huge physical differences, and do not share the same history, so there is no need to forcibly transplant some moral concepts that are not necessarily the truth.

It took Nesta half a lifetime to figure it out, and if he had just crossed that moment, he wouldn't have been so angry at this time.

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In addition to the 'humanistic' aspect, Nesta's perception has swept through something more detailed.....

Now, 23 years later, the witch doctors have initially established an overall urban operation system with five mother trees as the core and room for expansion.

This system is divided into several parts, such as the 'physical defense side', the 'offensive side', the 'sensory deception side', the 'energy defense side', the 'energy side', and so on.....

For example, when the whole headquarters is in the air, or in the eyes of the outside world, there are no high-rise buildings at this time, and there is no hustle and bustle of civilization, and it seems that it is just a simple and ordinary forest;

The cause of this phenomenon is a system of confusion based on a series of perceptions such as sight, hearing, and smell, which was named 'Lock' by the witch doctors, and was part of the 'defense system' in the early planning.

In addition, there are also 'kinetic energy protection barriers' and 'energy interference barriers' that also act on the defensive end;

The former is a huge armor layer that costs a lot once it is used, but the advantage is that it can be recycled and degraded and reused afterwards;

The latter is a manifestation that mimics the Ancestral Altar, an energy barrier generated based on the stereotyping and stabilization of spell energy, and is subdivided into various forms such as wind blade barrier, flame barrier, water barrier, and negative effect barrier, which can be used to hedge the effect or disrupt the system to resist the invasion of most spells, but it also has shortcomings such as lack of stability, energy consumption that cannot be recovered, and rigid patterns.

The vast majority of buildings on the surface today are the origins of this system, and they still retain the ability to be transformed into attack platforms, which can be transformed into weapons to participate in attacks when necessary;

Below the surface, most buildings share a foundation formed by the fusion of the roots of the mother tree, which are linked to the roots of the building, forming a monolithic fortress with more defense and more usable space than the surface.

There, there is a mother tree center, a metal reserve and a solid nutrient storage warehouse;

The former is the core of the algorithm operating in the headquarters at this time, and the latter has countless reserves of metal ingots, solidified bodies of concentrated nutrient liquids, etc.;

In addition, the spare elf cultivation room, frozen dormancy room, metabolism lowering sleep room, data backup, and dormant military and civilian production lines have also been transferred underground to deal with crises that may or may not occur in the future;

There are also more than a dozen urban energy and nutrient centers, as well as the corresponding control systems, which are also operating in the underground under layers of protection, a large number of elements are extracted from the ground and from the atmosphere, they are first converted into powdery solids, and then formed into a concentrated liquid in a certain proportion, and then processed into denser solids for storage;

These nutrients support the operation of the underground totem core, which in turn is connected with the underground totem pole and connected with the branch cores in the buildings on the ground under the overall planning of the algorithm.

With the upgrading of algorithms, the space required for totems is increasingly reduced, and the energy efficiency ratio is greatly improved, and the cores at all levels can be more powerful even if they maintain the same scale as before, let alone expand more and more now?

Today, it is these totemic cores of various levels that integrate a large number of functional plug-ins that support the operation of the entire city.

From the perspective of urban structure, whether it is the rows of high and low buildings on the ground or the five huge ancient trees, they actually form a community underground, and form a fortress with obvious ambitions and planning to lift off as a whole;

And at the bottom of the fortress he found a large number of cavities reserved for the power generation end, which was obviously in preparation for the future to open to the sky and even beyond the atmosphere, but he didn't know when he would actually do it.....

At the same time, Nesta is happy to see these situations, but not satisfied with seeing them, and hopes that more rigorous information protection measures will be established.

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After a few days of leisurely time, Nesta left his friends and began to prepare for the next phase.

First of all, he was preparing to set up a research institute or laboratory, because he had a hunch that the kind of 'vision' that he and Eshara had found by mistake would play an important role in connecting matter, magic, and totem.

Therefore, he does not plan to return to his official position for the time being, but intends to devote his energy to research, trying to explore the more fundamental rules of connection between magic and matter, which is indeed an aspect that has been missing from the magic system.

However, this 'first' must not be immediately unfolded now, after all, 'cheating' requires him and Azhara to work together, and the latter does have his own work to do now;

Therefore, the formal exploration may not be carried out until the veteran witch doctors, represented by fangs and thick teeth, and Freya are promoted;

Now, they are more or less in the heat of the moment, and when all their cells except the brain have been transformed, Nesta intends to carry out the 'second', that is, to assist them in completing the promotion quickly;

In addition, the two witch doctors, Fangs and Rough Fangs, also had the intention of retreating, and after discussing with Nesta, they decided that after reaching the fifth order, they would completely abandon their management duties and concentrate on studying the magic experiment project...

It is also a pity that high-level witch doctors are stumped by government affairs, and the ruling government, factories, farms, etc. actually have this drawback, and many positions are more or less wasteful to be performed by 'people';

After all, with the upgrade of the mother tree center, many programmatic affairs no longer need to be handled by the elves themselves, and can be completely handed over to the machinery to carry out on its own.

Conceived of such a prospect and concerned about 'strong intelligence', Nesta later submitted a formal written document as a member of parliament, in which he presented his ideas as well as suggestions for the limits that should be established in the process.

Therefore, in the ensuing discussions, based on the current situation and imagination, the parliament preliminarily demarcated the distinction between 'strong intelligence' and 'weak intelligence', and reached a consensus that 'no matter what the conditions, machines must not be given independent will'....

Under this consensus, the various central systems and branch systems of the republic will be limited to specialized intelligence that 'makes decisions and acts within the established procedures';

They will only act in a specific area and will only be able to focus on one thing, and will be helpless about things that are outside the scope of the pre-programmed program.

In particular, the combination of 'brain algorithms' and intelligence centers is included in the strictest 'total ban' items;

Under no conditions, no individual or organization should attempt to experiment with this or similar algorithm structure as the goal of the intelligence center.

It is unknown whether this is unfounded, and it is not known whether Qiang Zhi will set off such waves in the story of his previous life in the face of magic, but the country that belongs to the elves does not have the need to risk himself, and this muddy water is still not wonderful.

After considering and partially completing these things, with the unhindered stability of the fifth-order state of Aisara, the two of them decided to find a few high-level demonic beasts in the original target to try their hands;

In the prediction, the fifth-order witch doctor should be able to complete the harmless capture of the 'higher individual' by a single person, so the two decided to check it out with a list of serious injuries first.....