Hao Ren had never thought that he would be able to communicate with another intelligent being in such a strange way. He was in his own mental world, contacting another spiritual entity, and this spiritual entity was, in a sense, an invader in his mental world. What was even more amazing was that this intelligent being did not even know that it was an invader. It did not even know how it got there.
The communication in the mental world was very efficient, but no matter how efficient the communication was, it could not allow Hao Ren to get too much useful information from the Godslayer. During the conversation, the intelligence of the Godslayer told Hao Ren everything it knew. Its honest attitude even made Hao Ren wonder if it was the true body of the evil weapon. After the conversation, Hao Ren had a rough idea of what this thing was, but he was disappointed to find that this consciousness was actually very ignorant.
"So you have been in a state of chaos ever since you were created? You can think, but you don't? " Hao Ren asked curiously. He was still puzzled by some of the words the Godslayer used. A sword, no matter how intelligent it was, would never have the same worldview as a normal person.
"I receive information, I remember it, I observe everything that happens, but I don't process it." When the Godslayer first communicated with Hao Ren, it was still a little stumbling, as if its vocabulary was not enough to describe its situation. But now, it seemed to have absorbed enough knowledge, and its expression became clearer. "I can sense my own existence, and I can sense everything around me, but I have never … thought like I did today."
"It sounds like a simulated AI program suddenly gained real intelligence," Hao Ren muttered.
According to the Godslayer itself, it had been in a state of numbness ever since it was created. It had the foundation of intelligence and the ability to think, but its mind was almost static. It was like a surveillance program in standby mode, running but not processing anything. It had never considered who it was, and it had never considered the meaning of its existence. It had never even been curious about anything in this world. Without curiosity and exploration, it would not question anything. This meant that it could not be considered as a true intelligent being.
But today, it suddenly began to think.
"You only started thinking today?" Hao Ren looked at the magnificent black mountain on the sea curiously. He could not believe that such a magnificent giant in the spiritual world was actually an ignorant and childish guy. "Why? Did something suddenly activate your intelligence? "
"I had intelligence from the beginning, but I only started using them today," the Godslayer corrected seriously. "But I don't know why. I'm just … curious about it. Oh, curiosity, what a strange feeling. "
"Do you know that you once killed a god?" Hao Ren asked. "Err, you may not know what 'god' means …"
The Godslaying Sword interrupted him, "I know. I have absorbed some of the knowledge that you are willing to open to me from your sea of consciousness. I know what you are talking about. Looks like I'm a weapon that's been used before, and I've displayed the effects of my design. "
This was the Godslayer Sword's own evaluation of the "deicide incident".
Hao Ren asked about the deicide incident, but he got very little: the Godslayer Sword did not know who made it, and when it developed consciousness, it was already a weapon in the hands of the treacherous children. And when it came to a weapon, no treacherous child would talk to it as seriously as Hao Ren did. Even its original user only saw it as a weapon, just an abnormally powerful one. The Godslayer Sword was used numbly, breaking through the defenses of the gods on the battlefield, destroying the power of the goddess of creation, and finally killing the god. But other than a series of memories from the battlefield, it did not know much more about the treacherous children than Hao Ren did.
"I was placed in a complicated container, and I could not see what it looked like on the outside. Every time the container was opened, I was on the battlefield, and then quickly cut into various bodies, and then put back into the container. "This was how the Godslayer described its' life 'back then." I couldn't have known too much. I feel 'sorry' for this … Should I use this word? "
Hao Ren shook his head. "You don't have to be sorry, it's not your fault."
He then sorted out his thoughts, and asked the question that concerned him the most, "What is the whisper?"
Now he was almost sure that the treacherous children were like the crazy demon hunters, they were all bewitched by some kind of "voice" deep in their hearts. The demon hunters were influenced by the whisper of the Godslayer Sword, and the treacherous children seemed to be influenced a little more, but in essence, it should be the same thing. So what was this "whisper"? Hao Ren once thought that it was the will of the Godslayer Sword at work, but now he realized that the Godslayer Sword itself was a very simple mind, and the "whisper" naturally could not be its doing.
The Godslayer Sword was silent for a while, it was organizing its words to explain the problem, and finally it said, "That's an echo."
"An echo?" Hao Ren was stunned, he did not understand.
"It's the echo of the soul. It's something that's produced passively. It's a thought produced by the dark side of their hearts." The Godslayer used a series of cryptic words. "The 'whispers' aren't made by me, nor are they made by anything else. They hear the voice of their own hearts."
Hao Ren was a little confused at first, but he quickly understood what the Godslayer Sword meant.
"In other words … the Godslayer Sword is actually an 'echo wall'?!" He was almost talking to himself. "Those demon hunters only hear their own hearts, but these hearts are magnified and distorted? Then, those treacherous children hear the same thing? "
"I don't know," the Godslayer Sword answered honestly. "But based on the knowledge that you have opened to me, I think it should be so. No one instigated them to do anything, it was they who created a commanding voice for themselves. "
Hao Ren tensed up a little. "Then, the babbling I heard before was also an echo?"
The Godslayer Sword's answer confirmed his guess. "I have not spoken to you before, and this is the first time I have spoken to you. So, what you heard before could only be the echo of your own heart. "
"But what I heard was chaos, all kinds of noises, not even a complete sentence," Hao Ren gradually felt strange. "Is that my heart?"
The Godslayer Sword still only had one answer. "I don't know."
Hao Ren suppressed the doubts and uneasiness in his heart. "Well, I will discuss this with the others when I get out of here. Looking at you, you probably can't explain the entanglement of cause and effect between you and the goddess of creation … But can you tell me about the situation when the goddess of creation fell? "
He felt weird when he said this. He was asking a killing weapon to describe the scene of a murder from the perspective of a weapon. This situation was too f * cking weird!
"I … I don't know how to describe this. I don't really understand the concept of death." The Godslaying Sword sounded troubled. "I'm just a tool, and I've been used where a tool should be used. The god you speak of did indeed die under my blade, but I don't know why she died, and I don't know why my user did it. According to what you said, my user was bewitched by the 'whispers' in his heart? But even those whispers were not made by me, and I don't even know what you all heard. I am just … according to what you said, an echo wall. "
"Then try to recall something else," Hao Ren said patiently. "Don't think too deeply into it. Just talk about the scene, like the goddess of creation's expression when she fell, did she say anything, what your user did before he made his move … Damn, why does it sound more and more perverted?"
The Godslayer Sword did not know what "perverted" meant, but it still answered the question honestly. "The scene at that time? It was a long time ago, let me think … The goddess of creation was very calm when she died, this should be worth mentioning. I have killed many people, but never in a situation like that. The goddess of creation seemed to know what was going to happen, and I think she was even looking forward to it, because before my user made his move, she said something. "
Hao Ren immediately asked, "What did she say?"
"She said, 'Finally, it has to be like this.'"
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