I looked at Schilling, who was deep in thought. Both of us were silent for a long time. In the end, Schilling blinked uncertainly. "… I have no idea how I was drawn there."
… I knew it would be such an answer. It seemed that Xi Ling had always been in a slightly muddle-headed state. By the way, was this because the Chaos Abyss Xi Ling had taken away more than half of its intelligence when the Old Empire's network had been split up?
"You're not sure how you're related to Abyssal Schilling, right?" I glanced at Schilling. I still felt uncomfortable. She had the face of Tawil, but she was someone else. I had to remind myself not to call her by the wrong name when I was talking to her. How much effort did that take? In the end, I couldn't help but remind her. "Erm, why don't you change your appearance? I feel like you're going to split into a few more clones right in front of me."
Schilling rolled her eyes and thought for a moment. * Poof! * She transformed into Shallow Shallow …
I instantly sweated. "Change, change. This is even more unreliable. If you use this appearance, I won't even dare to discuss anything with you that requires my opinion."
After that, Xi Ling changed her appearance a few times with a bang. Her speed and the variety of her appearance was astounding. I concluded two things on the spot: First, Xi Ling seemed to have become more familiar with her transformation ability. She changed her appearance much more quickly than before. Second, this was a girl who came with her own custom skin and emoji pack … …
In the end, Schilling finally chose an appearance that didn't look too bad. It was a tall and skinny girl with an ordinary appearance. Then, she continued the topic we were discussing earlier. "I often check the surroundings of the rift valley. Also, I followed Tawil's instructions and checked the main nodes every sixty seconds. This is to be able to detect any intrusive links from the other side of the network. But ever since we isolated the rift valley, I haven't seen anything related to Abyssal Schilling. I don't know what happened a few days ago … It doesn't seem like an external cause at all. I decided to follow her to the frontline to take a look. "
"You 'decided' yourself?" I didn't know why, but I noticed this seemingly ordinary word. "Are you sure that this idea came to you on your own and not because of external influence?"
Schilling looked at me in confusion. Although she didn't say anything, her expression clearly showed that she didn't understand.
"I just thought of one of Sandora's abilities." I scratched my chin. "Her telepathic suggestion has an unknown mode. It can make the person being controlled not feel that someone is controlling their mind and make them think that they are acting under the premise of their own free will. Err, nothing else. It's just that I accidentally let my imagination run wild." "My thoughts can't be controlled." Schilling became serious and explained to me while counting his fingers.
"My thoughts cannot be controlled," Xi Ling became serious and explained to me while counting on his fingers, "First of all, my thought process is the result of the synchronized operation of the entire spiritual network. The structure of this network is special, it does not have a starting and ending point, and there is no 'high-level key point' that can change other nodes. Even Your Majesty's node is the same in my eyes. From the level of 'node', all Xi Ling apostles are equal, so no external force can influence my thought process by hijacking key points. Secondly, my thought process can be checked by myself. I have studied the thought process of most of the living beings in the real world, and found that very few individuals can achieve 'second thoughts' of their own thoughts. You use one organ to think, but you cannot think of your own thought process from the perspective of a bystander at the same time. It is just like how humans on Earth use their brains to think, but there is no way to generate a second perspective in their brain to observe the brain's thought process. I do not understand this, because I can easily do this. I can run my own monitoring program, and even let myself think of the same problem in two different processes. When the need arises, I can completely jump out of my own perspective and observe how the individual 'Xi Ling' works from the perspective of a bystander …"
"That sounds unbelievable." I looked at Schilling in surprise. "It's like grabbing your own hair and pulling yourself off the ground … Err, do you understand this analogy?"
"Of course, I know a lot of knowledge in the real world, and I understand why His Majesty is surprised." Schilling nodded seriously. "This is indeed not in line with the common sense of living beings in the real world because you rely on a fixed organ or a fixed 'self' to carry out your thought process, and you're used to it all. I'm symbiotic with the network, between a program and a spirit. My special thought process is actually … a self-examination program. These self-examination programs are not components of self-consciousness. They are only generated when they need to be run, so it's impossible for them to be hijacked in advance. In summary, my thoughts will not be controlled in an 'unknown' situation. Her Majesty Sandora's spiritual power and Abyssal Schilling's data intrusion may be able to affect my thoughts, but I will definitely be able to discover it and have enough energy to alert everyone and freeze myself immediately if necessary. "
"Then, we can rule out the possibility of Abyssal Schilling taking the initiative to influence you." I waved my hand and hurriedly ended the topic that was about to become more sophisticated. "In your opinion, why did you 'take the initiative' to go to the frontline to take a look? At that time, Abyssal Schilling hadn't appeared yet, and Lin Xue hadn't made any prophecies. You going to the frontline was almost like a prophet. In the end, Abyssal Schilling really did appear, but the two of you didn't meet in the end. "
Ever since I returned from the Abyss, I had always felt that something was wrong. Whether it was the Fallen Apostle's inexplicable great schism or Abyssal Schilling's ambiguous "cooperation" attitude, they were all unsettling. But now, there was no evidence to prove that they were planning a major conspiracy against the Empire, and there was no evidence to prove that the internal schism in the Abyss was an illusion. So, we could only look for clues from other places. Right now, the only person in the New Empire who had a little connection to Abyssal Schilling was this slightly immature, girly version of Schilling. So, I could only come to her and ask her questions.
This time, Schilling thought for a long time. She usually seemed to lack common sense, but when it came to these issues, she was equally far-sighted. After thinking for a while, she looked up and said, "Your Majesty, I've always had a guess … but I'm afraid it has little to do with our current topic. It's about Abyssal Schilling's policy."
I was instantly overjoyed. "Go ahead, go ahead."
"If Abyssal Schilling's life form hasn't changed, then her thought process and mine should be almost the same," Schilling said slowly. "Although we both have free will, just like how the thought process of any intelligent creature is limited by their worldview and cognitive level, the network collective consciousness like Abyssal Schilling and I are also limited by the basic protocols and network architecture when we think about problems. High-priority information will be dealt with first, content that is forbidden by the basic protocols will be automatically included in the monitoring area, and individuals that are harmful to the network must be eliminated … Abyssal Schilling may not be completely controlled by these regulations, but her thought process should still be subtly influenced by these things. This has nothing to do with whether she is infected or not, it is purely determined by her life form. For example, a human will never think like a cat. No matter how much he understands cats, no matter how hard he tries to see the world from a cat's point of view, even if it causes him to suffer from schizophrenia, he can't think like a cat. His vision is different from a cat's, his sense of smell, taste, and touch are different from a cat's, and even the efficiency of his brain is different from a cat's. This isn't something that can be changed by external forces. The limitations of life form have determined that an intelligent creature can only think in its own worldview … Oh, Matriarch Shallow Shallow seems to be an exception. "
I was speechless. Shallow Shallow's brain can even challenge the truth of the universe!
"I always feel that there is an exception," I couldn't help but add, "Little Crow, you know her? She's been chirping happily for the past two days. She thinks she is a chicken."
"It's just a cognitive error." Schilling waved her hand. "The simplest point is that she can fly, so she can't understand how a bird with wings but can't fly feels like. Also, Your Majesty, the Crow God's mind is not mature yet, it's best not to let her see too many things that will ruin her worldview. She only learned to chirp after reading the story of Zhou Bapi … "
I was speechless. "… How do you know so much?!"
"I am the consciousness of the network," Schilling spread her hands. "I know everything that happens in the Empire, and Matriarch Shallow Shallow has already uploaded a short clip of the Crow God's early morning chirping to the internet …"
I was stunned for a while, then I wiped the cold sweat off my forehead. "Let's return to the original topic … So, you know how Abyss Schilling thinks?"
"It's not that I know how she thinks," Schilling said, enunciating each word. "But in theory, she will think about the same thing as me!"
I was instantly creeped out by Schilling's words!
Fortunately, Schilling had more to say. "What I mean is, when exposed to the same information and faced with the same situation, Abyss Schilling's thought process should be the same as mine. We are limited by various basic protocols and network frameworks, so the flexibility of our thinking is in a subtle state of 'semi-programming'. I believe that Abyss Schilling is still a consciousness rooted in the network, so she can't get rid of the limitations brought about by her life form. For example, when the network is threatened by a necrotic node, she and I will make the same decision in the same thinking period, and we will divide the necrotic node, and even the number of extra 'buffer nodes' we divide may be exactly the same. This is the result of programmed calculation. On the surface, we seem to have free will, but for both of us, we can basically infer what the other is thinking based on our own situation: we are almost identical duplicates. "
I frowned. "But you decide to maintain order, and Abyss Schilling decides to turn the void upside down."
"This doesn't mean that there is a difference in our thought process," Schilling said shockingly. "It's just that we are standing in two different positions. When faced with the same Empire collapsing, my calculation result is that we should immediately start rebuilding the Empire, and Abyss Schilling's calculation result is also to rebuild the Empire, but she wants to rebuild an Abyssal Empire. But if we remove the Abyss and other such issues of alignment, I think Abyss Schilling and I will make the same decision in the same situation. "
I completely understood what Schilling meant, and then I began to think quickly about the value of this information.
I still couldn't confirm the credibility of Schilling's speculation. She didn't tell Tawil about these speculations, which was enough to show that even Schilling herself wasn't sure if these speculations were correct. But for now, let's assume that it was all true.
Then the thing to do was very simple: put Schilling in the Abyss. What does she want to do the most now?
"Me?" Schilling was stunned when she heard my question. "Insufficient information to make a judgment. I can only infer that Abyss Schilling wants to rebuild the Empire based on the main premise of the collapse of the Empire, but I don't know the real situation in the Abyss, so I don't know what her reconstruction plan is."
I knew that this ultimate question wasn't that easy to answer, so I immediately changed the question. "Then why do you think she contacted us a few days ago?"
This time, Schilling thought about it seriously, and then nodded with certainty. "She wants to cooperate with the Empire, and may even want us to participate in the great undertaking."
I almost fell to the ground at that moment!
"Don't look at me, I'm just thinking from a different perspective." Schilling reached out and pulled me up. "If I were in the same situation and took the initiative to contact the Empire, mention the great undertaking, and reveal part of the truth, there would only be one reason: The great undertaking requires the Empire to participate in the next step."
I stared blankly at Schilling, and realized that she didn't seem to be joking at all. Of course, Schilling didn't seem to have the concept of "joking", so I could only believe that she was indeed deducing from her own situation. She could deduce the conclusion of Abyss Schilling's thinking based on the situation, and of course, she could also deduce Abyss Schilling's final actions to a certain extent. Although the accuracy of this deduction was still questionable, at least it was more reliable than my blind guess.
Abyss Schilling suddenly appeared, and she even took the initiative to reveal part of the "great undertaking" to us, and thinking back to the strange words she said before she left … Does she really intend to pull the New Empire into the "great undertaking"?
Is she crazy, or is she crazy, or is she crazy?
"Who knows?" Schilling sat on the edge of the bed and swayed back and forth. "The way of thinking of network consciousness and real life beings is different. We will unconsciously ignore emotional factors and all objective influences from the real world. For us, 'logical needs' are the only motivation. Under the push of logic, everything is reasonable. After all, we won't encounter any obstructions and disturbances on the network like in the real world. Nodes have no emotions, and network segments have no factions. As long as logic and basic protocols are followed, everything is possible."
I nodded and temporarily put this matter aside. Just as I was about to say something, I heard a loud voice in my head. "Boss, boss! ~ Someone is looking for you! Someone is looking for you! "
"Liliana?" I was a little surprised. "Who's here?"
"A few people from the God Realm came from the Consumer Association," Liliana replied cheerfully. "Boss, where are you?"
I didn't recover from the impact of the word 'Consumer Association'. I subconsciously told Liliana my location. Then, I saw a green light screen flash before my eyes, and Liliana was directly teleported in front of me.
"Ah, Boss, so you are here. I was looking for you …" Liliana came over and jumped onto my lap. After she missed, she lay on the bed and looked around. Instantly, her gaze became strange. "A man and a woman alone in a room. A big corporation's CEO and his beautiful subordinate had an unspeakable story in the staff dormitory … Sigh, Boss, spare me, I am …"
I held Liliana by her belt and swayed her in front of me. When she was about to turn into an afterimage, I knocked her on the head. Then, I casually tucked the 1.09-meter-tall bitch under my armpit and turned to bid farewell to Schilling. "I will go and take a look at the situation. Don't forget what we talked about today. Discuss with Tawil how to use the connection between you and Abyss Schilling."
After bidding farewell to Schilling, I carried Liliana and directly teleported to the city where the World Tree was located: the Holy Temple District.
Sandora, Halland, and the five Protoss Bar were already waiting here. Apart from them welcoming me on the spot, there was no welcoming ceremony at the Holy Temple's plaza. Anyway, the God Realm and the Empire's capital were directly connected. Nowadays, there was no need for such a small scale movement of people.
I quickly walked over there and soon saw the appearance of the so-called "people from the God Realm Consumer Association". As expected, I didn't recognize them.
It was a man and a woman. They looked like Dark Protoss. There was no need to describe their appearance in detail. In any case, there was basically no one from the God Realm who was crooked (except for the non-mainstream Protoss). They were wearing black God Realm clothing that was between a trench coat and a robe. It looked like some kind of uniform. The male Protoss was also carrying a large box in his hand. Could it be that this was the disassembly tool for the World Tree? It didn't seem to match the tree that was a few kilometers tall …
A few people at the scene saw me. Sandora happily waved at me. The two Protoss experts (they should be experts, right?) greeted me with a smile. The two Protoss experts (they should be experts, right?) greeted me with a smile. Without waiting for me to speak, the tall male Dark Protoss bowed slightly to greet me. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty Schilling. Father God personally asked us to send his regards."
I hurriedly waved my hand. "Don't be so polite. There is no need for so many rules in this place. Are you here to help Jingle repair the World Tree?"
"Something like that. We are volunteers who do maintenance for those management systems that don't have brand protection." The female Dark Protoss smiled gracefully and gracefully. The big-breasted alien who was munching on melon seeds and giggling foolishly came over to learn from her!
At this moment, the male Dark Protoss looked curiously at the item that I was holding under my armpit. He hesitated for a moment and said, "… Is this a custom here? Or is this your briefcase? "
I hurriedly put Liliana on the ground. The little lass jumped up the moment she landed on the ground. "You are the briefcase! Your whole family has a briefcase! "
There was probably only one Pope in the world who dared to yell at a True God of another faction.
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