"They also extracted a large number of souls." Liliana narrowed her eyes and reminded me of something that I had almost forgotten.
"The soul itself is a set of highly efficient calculation rules. A person's memory is the database, their self-awareness is the application software and the front desk, and the soul is the underlying calculation rules and operating system. A carbon-based organism's brain's' hardware 'calculation ability is limited by its biological structure. Once it performs calculations that exceed its limits, all kinds of biological self-protection mechanisms will be activated. Shock, coma, fatigue, inattention, and all kinds of physiological phenomena will prevent the brain from performing calculations that exceed its physical limits. In most cases, the soul relies on the physical body to survive, so the soul's processing of information is also limited to this level."
I didn't make a sound and quietly listened to Liliana explain to me. I didn't expect that this person in front of me, who was always chattering and jumping up and down, would have such a quiet and serious side to her. Right now, she looked like a knowledgeable and intelligent teacher. I suddenly realized that this person in front of me probably knew much more than the most knowledgeable person in human history. She had directly studied in front of God's textbooks.
"Under normal circumstances, the soul's calculation ability is limited. But since there are normal circumstances, there are exceptions. Boss, you know, there are some souls that don't rely on a physical body." Liliana suddenly winked cunningly and waited for my reaction.
"Souls that don't rely on a physical body?" I thought for a moment and came to a sudden realization. "Energy creatures! Spiritual creatures! "
"There's also the glowing sister who sleeps in Boss's head all day long." Liliana nodded. "The souls of non-physical creatures have a unique advantage in calculation because they don't need to rely on physical organs to process data. Thus, their souls can take on all the calculation tasks without any limitations, overheating, or energy consumption. Their minds are limitless and they can think through every problem countless times in an instant. In terms of efficiency, the souls of non-physical creatures are the most efficient calculation machines …"
"Wait, that's not right." I suddenly thought of something. "Why do I feel that this doesn't match the current state of Alaya's intelligence?"
Liliana rolled her eyes. "This is also because of the weakness of energy creatures. The Law of Life is fair. Every living being has their own weakness. Energy creatures can process data extremely quickly, but because their thought processes can't be fixed and they lack physical restrictions and rules, their thoughts are often in a state of endless loops. Sometimes, they diverge too much to ask questions, and in the end, they come up with a completely different answer. Alright, now it's the same state of Alaya's intelligence. "
I: "…"
"For the three main lifeforms, this is the situation in terms of thinking ability, or rather, data processing ability: Silicon-based lifeforms and their subspecies' main thinking ability originates from their physical organs. Their soul serves as the operating system, and their thoughts tend to be precise, linear, highly efficient, and have low tolerance. Their weakness is that their thought processes are too linear, and they lack flexibility and variability. Carbon-based lifeforms and their subspecies' thinking method is similar to silicon-based lifeforms. Their advantage in data processing is fuzzy calculations, nonlinear processing, variability, and the ability to make connections. However, their weakness is that their efficiency is low, precision is limited, and they often make unexpected mistakes. As the saying goes, brain-dead children have a lot of fun. Energy lifeforms and all similar non-corporeal lifeforms have all their thought processes directly supported by the operating system known as the soul, and they are executed by the will on the surface. They are as fast as a solid-state hard drive that has been detached from its mechanical structure. In fact, they have even detached from their solid-state hard drives. Their advantage is that their thinking speed is limitless, and their degree of non-linearity even surpasses that of carbon-based lifeforms. Furthermore, they will never burn. Their disadvantage is that they are in a state of endless loops, and their thoughts are unnecessarily divergent. They often have personal downtime, and their reactions to things that happen in the real world are always delayed by half a beat. This is also the reason why people with mental illnesses have a wide range of thoughts. Their thoughts are so broad that they can't even tell what they are thinking."
I thought about it and felt that based on this standard, Shallow shallow was probably the kind of person whose soul was out of her body for twenty-three hours a day … and Sylvia's soul was probably never in her body. Alaya's intelligence seemed to have increased recently because she found a trick: living in my mind helped her reduce the number of times she was in a daze.
After Liliana finished explaining the science to me, she then returned the topic to the huge equipment in front of us. "The Melovans may not have learned directly usable starship mainframe technology from the Empire, but they were probably able to find such conventional knowledge from the public database. That was why they forcibly separated the soul from the body of ordinary carbon-based creatures. The human brain could be used as a fuzzy processing component in the mainframe, while the lack of computing power was made up for by a solidified soul server. After separating the soul from the body, the former was no longer bound, and with a certain degree of modification, it might be able to explode with sufficient computing power. The Melovans must have also used some other 'processing' methods to completely turn ordinary souls into operating systems. The connection between the two was replaced by other equipment of their own creation. I don't understand the specific process, after all, I only understand the knowledge related to the form of life, but I can be sure that according to the method I have described, everything is feasible. "
I didn't know how to evaluate the Melovans' "pioneering work". Perhaps in their own eyes, this was an unprecedented creation of genius — using imitation technology to separate the brain and soul of the indigenous people, creating their own operating system, and using this operating system to completely replace the mainframe of the Empire's starships … and they even succeeded. To them, this was probably a great victory.
In that case, the new power that Barrian obtained probably meant that he had finally created enough "human mainframes" and completely controlled the Royal Navy back then.
"There must be a place like the Soul Furnace somewhere here to create servers." Liliana frowned as she looked around at the processor matrices that were connected using human brains. These processors were the hardware of the Melovans' mainframe, and the original souls of these brains had been extracted and made into operating systems and auxiliary processors. They no longer had their memories and personality as humans, and had been turned into these half-dead machine parts … Liliana was right, there must be another assembly plant somewhere here, used to transform the souls of ordinary carbon-based creatures into isolated "tools" similar to the souls of energy creatures. She had named this place the Soul Furnace, and she was absolutely right. However, at this point, we were no longer able to track the workers to find other areas. The Soul Furnace and the human brain factory must have a strict zoning system, and we didn't find anything related to soul engineering in this factory — the closer we got to the depths of Barrian's criminal base, the tighter the security measures, to the point that they themselves didn't know the situation in the other area. Liliana and I spent a total of three hours before we finally found the entrance to the so-called Soul Furnace — it was actually in a deep underground cave dozens of kilometers away from the base.
Unlike the typical industrial base like the human brain factory, the Soul Furnace looked more like a religious site where evil rituals were held. This was a deep cave that was hundreds of kilometers underground. The interior was vast and circular. Although the light in all directions wasn't dim, the light purple fog that lingered here and the faint mournful wails that came from the wind shrouded everything in a gloomy atmosphere. The huge cave was filled with crystals that were arranged in a complicated pattern. These crystals were probably the equipment that the Mellowans used to store and transform souls. I guessed that these equipment were most likely stolen from the Empire — back then, the 15th Heaven was proud of its Mystical technology, and the highest technology that the Mellowans had stolen from the 15th Heaven was naturally Mystical knowledge. For things like soul extraction and transformation, Mystical technology had an advantage.
In the boundless circular cave, there were huge, bottomless cracks everywhere. Steam was rising from the cracks, and it seemed that this place was already close to the magma layer. In the center of the cave, there was a deep well that went even deeper. I couldn't see the end of it at all, and I could only see a faint red light at the bottom. At first, I thought that it was magma, but after Liliana went down to investigate, she told me that it was actually a gigantic Soul Crystal. Furthermore, she saw a large number of crisscrossing crystallized networks at the bottom of the cave, which meant that the Soul Furnace we found was only one of many furnaces — just as I had guessed, Barrian had built many similar hellish factories like this.
We also found the Soul Servers that had been assembled. With their outer shells, they looked exactly the same as the main servers of the Empire's starships. They had a common interface and a standard outer shell, but when we opened these outer shells, we found that instead of a psionic structure, there were large clusters of sorrowful clouds and crimson Soul Crystals. The Mellowans used these crystals that had a strong binding effect on weak energy to imprison souls, and they used the interface they created to connect the crystals to the psionic data terminals. Just like that, they continuously produced the main array of their starships.
"According to Turazzo, they have been carrying out this plan for almost a thousand years. Every year, the new population of the three slave donor planets would be taken away," I calculated silently. "But until now, Barrian has basically controlled all the starships of the Empire … In this process, how many people have died because of failed modifications?"
"I want to throw him into the fourth zone and burn him in the furnace for ten thousand years." Liliana pressed her hand on an exposed Soul Crystal, as if she could talk to the sorrowful soul inside it. As a demigod of the God of Life, she was really angry. "Life should not be wasted like this … The light purple clouds around here are all the souls that have collapsed because of failed modifications. They have accumulated to the extent that they have materialized. The Mellowans did not disperse these souls because the latter could be used as energy and 'amniotic fluid' for this furnace. They burned these souls like firewood to save resources!"
Now, all the mysteries had been solved. The truth about Barrian controlling the Royal Fleet, the truth about the natives that were taken away, and the truth about the brainwashing education — because the natives that were brainwashed would lose their will to resist, the weakening of their will on the surface would also weaken the resistance of their souls. Hence, the Mellowans were able to increase the success rate of their mainframe construction. Liliana and I did not stay in the Soul Furnace for too long. The atmosphere here made us feel very uncomfortable, but we still managed to obtain some additional information at the end. Under the extremely high failure rate of modifications, the Mellowans not only created large mainframes, but also used the 'leftovers' that were not completely damaged to create small mainframes in order to 'reduce costs'. They used small Soul Crystals and human brain cores to replace the control system in the Empire's single-soldier battleships and single-soldier vehicles, thus controlling the entire Royal Fleet from top to bottom!
"We have to tell Sandora this news as soon as possible." After carefully leaving the Soul Furnace, I discussed with Liliana. "We have to think of a way to eliminate the threat of the Royal Fleet. But now that they are being controlled by the mainframe of the human brain … Damn, the psychological pressure is also a problem. Also, we have to think of a way to stop the activity in this place. "
I looked into the distance. Those huge human brain factories and dismantling factories were undulating on the horizon, like angular mountains. I did not know what their production efficiency was, but I was sure that there were countless similar hells on this planet. Every second, there were people being transported from slave donor planets being dismantled and turned into spare parts for the Mellowan warships. The rate of production here was the same as the rate of increase in the population of the slave donor planets.
There was a massacre every second!!
No matter what, before the Empire launched an all-out attack, we had to stop these facilities. Not only to save lives, but also to reduce the number of starships from the old Empire that we had to face. Although it seemed that Barrian had taken control of the entire Royal Fleet of the old Empire, looking at the state of these factories, I reckoned that he still needed more human brain mainframes. No matter what he needed, we could not let him continue to get what he wanted!
"If we destroy them directly, it will be very difficult to destroy all the bases in one go. Also, we might not know if there are similar bases on other planets. We also don't know where they have hidden the finished mainframes …" Liliana immediately started thinking quickly. Her mind, which was filled with strange and dark thoughts, was working at high speed. "This will make Barrian even more vigilant, and he might even suspect that it is a rebel organization … We should disguise it as an accident or a mysterious disaster. A mysterious disaster that causes all the research bases to stop working … Viruses, plagues, mutated creatures … These methods are effective, but they might not be able to stop all the factories. After all, we can't find where the other factories are."
I thought for a while and thought of all kinds of emergency handling practices. "Then let the Melovans have the wrong impression that there are hidden dangers of similar accidents in other factories. They will naturally stop these projects."
Liliana smiled slyly. "I'm good at this … Since they are doing biochemistry, the contamination of the experimental samples will definitely be more troublesome than the infection of the workers."
Liliana's mind was spinning. She had unlimited motivation when it came to these bad ideas. It was as strong as a Nanfu battery. She decided to spread two types of viruses in this research base. One was targeted at the Melovans and had a shocking fatality rate. The other was targeted at — the slaves that were sent over.
However, the second virus was not fatal. It would only cause symptoms of illness, and at the same time, it would appear as a variant of the first virus. Liliana's plan was to use this method to make the Melovans mistakenly think that their slave donor planet was suffering from a viral plague. This way, they would not be able to confirm whether the other "mainframe raw materials" were still safe. They might even doubt whether the mainframes that had been built in the past were still reliable. Perhaps they could quickly find out the situation, but at least in the near future, these factories would have to stop working.
Some "mainframes" that could be infected by biological viruses. This was probably one of the weaknesses of the Melovans' project.
"In the early stages, they should temporarily isolate all the infected personnel and slaves for examination. However, if they find that the virus cannot be cured, they will have a plan to eliminate the infected personnel. At least, they will not hesitate to eliminate the slaves." A ball of green light lingered in Liliana's hand. She was making those "cute and deadly little guys". "So, I have to carefully adjust this thing to make them look tricky, but 100% curable. The Melovans will not execute the 'raw materials' when they can be cured. After all, even if they see the slaves as crops and livestock, they are still cultivated at a cost. "
"You really see the dark side of all kinds of human nature …"
I looked at Liliana, slightly speechless. This "compassionate pope" who represented God understood the most about all kinds of human nature's filth. She was never afraid to use the greatest evil to guess the lower limits of other people's behavior, and every time, she would always be able to grasp these lower limits perfectly and use them as her own weapons. Evil people need to be dealt with by evil people — Liliana was the one among us who was the best at dealing with evil people. Her twisted psychology was simply too effective in dealing with those who were not twisted enough.
"Alright, this is it." Liliana snapped her fingers, and the green light in her hand gradually subsided. Then, from the last bit of light, a large group of colorful butterflies flew out!
I looked at the beautiful, rainbow-like butterflies in amazement. They danced under the bright sunlight, beautiful, light, and cheerful. It could be described as a beautiful sight. However, they were killing tools created by Liliana — Liliana always liked to make the killing tools she created so beautiful.
"Leave the rest to these little guys. I have given them the most basic intelligence. They will try their best to find other similar bases on this planet to make the illusion of the virus infection more realistic." Liliana had a motherly smile on her face as she looked at the butterflies flying further and further away under the sunlight. "They will dissipate into the air and water. As long as they do not leave these bases, they will be able to proliferate without limit. Although they are small creations that were created in a few minutes, they are surprisingly cute."
I: "…"
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