How did the Mercury Lamp move?
When Big Sister asked me this question, I was stunned for a moment because it involved too many things. Just on the surface, it included mechanics, energy, the soul, material science, and bionics. After going through more than a dozen subjects in my mind, I suddenly realized that I was overthinking things.
I didn't know if I should laugh or cry at this moment … Usually, I didn't overthink things.
"Because of the Rose Mother?"
I used a question, but my tone was very certain. There was nothing uncertain about this. The source of the Mercury Lamp's power had nothing to do with the spring on her back. Although I would usually twist it out of boredom, the fact that she had never exploded with a hundred thousand horsepower was irrefutable proof. The spring was like a key to her. The thing that truly moved the doll's body and gave her the ability to function like a living person was the Rose Mother hidden within her body.
That thing was essentially a fragment of the Philosopher's Stone, and the Philosopher's Stone was the ultimate miraculous item that alchemists would never be able to see in their entire lives. In legends, it was the stone that could reverse karma and create life. The magic and mysteriousness contained within it was enough to distort the world. The "Stairway of Glory" in front of the Jingle Temple was filled with that thing … You could see how amazing it was.
Including the last sentence I said, it was still amazing.
Of course, the fragments of the Philosopher's Stone were slightly weaker than the complete Philosopher's Stone. They couldn't create a real soul out of thin air, but with a medium, they could create an artificial soul. That was the Rose Mother's "heart." The Rose Mother provided the moving dolls with energy and soul, giving them the ability to simulate the functions of a "living being." Of course, this was all my analysis based on my own understanding. The information that Jingle had found for me regarding this artificial soul technology weighed more than 15 kilograms, and that wasn't even counting the illustrations. I even felt like dying after taking a look at it …
What was certain was that the prototype Mercury Lamp also used such an energy core. Why did I feel like I was already treating that little person as something strange?
"It's true that the Rose Mother is the Mercury Lamp's soul energy source, but Raven and Jingle both checked it. It's not broken."
I scratched my head in confusion. We had already eliminated this problem from the very beginning. Why did she bring it up now?
"The Rose Madonna is normal and her body isn't injured. However, the Mercury Lamp is unable to move. The only possible problem lies in the interaction between the Rose Madonna and the Mercury Lamp." The older sister placed her index finger on her chin and drew circles. Every time she drew a circle, I would shiver — it was purely a conditioned reflex. "Actually, you should have guessed it long ago. Even I, who doesn't usually watch anime, thought of it."
"Mercury Lamp's body is flawed in the first place. Her abdomen is missing. I heard from a blood elf arcanist that alchemical creatures are very sophisticated systems. They can even self-destruct because of a misplaced symbol on their body. It goes without saying what the fatal defect of Mercury Lamp means. Even if she has a complete artificial soul, that body can't move …"
"I understand." The older sister hinted to this extent that even a fool would understand. "It's just like a broken computer. Even if we have a genuine system with a few hundred USD, the PCI slot of the computer can't be used without a graphics card, right?"
"It can be used." The older sister corrected me seriously.
I stumbled. "Sis, don't worry about this!"
However, I understood what the older sister meant. Mercury Lamp's body was flawed in the first place. There was a problem with the hardware, so even if she had software, she wouldn't be able to operate it. An artificial soul wouldn't be able to provide energy to an incomplete carrier because the latter's driver might not be able to be installed …
But why was Mercury Lamp still alive and kicking and even had the energy to play oriental bullet screen wars with Alaya?
The answer made me sad: it was because of her obsession with her father.
Obsession was something that couldn't be explained clearly. Three years ago, I had always thought that obsession could at most give a person the courage to go to a dead end. At most, it would create a Fuehrer, Hitler, and in the end, he committed suicide. But later on, I learned that obsession could also be turned into real power — for example, Anveena.
Whether you believe it or not, a large part of Anveena's transformation into an undead was the effect of obsession. It was the kind of obsession that stubbornly believed that she was still alive and stubbornly longed to live forever after a sudden death. It was the instinctive power of the soul, and even Anveena herself didn't realize the existence of this obsession. Most undead creatures came into existence like this. Many of them didn't even know that they were dead, just like Anveena. We'll talk about this later on the path of the supernatural …
And Mercury Lamp also had an obsession. This obsession originated from the day her consciousness was born. I don't know if Rozen had written something similar to the "Three Laws" in advance for every rose girl. After Mercury Lamp gained consciousness, she only saw Rozen's back before he abandoned her, and after that, she couldn't extricate herself and vowed to find her father. In my opinion, this didn't make sense at all. That old bastard built a body for Mercury Lamp, but it was still incomplete. It didn't even have a driving mechanism, and it was missing a lot of parts. If it were me, I would've already gotten angry with him. But for Mercury Lamp, such a broken body, and the blurred back that Rozen left behind before he abandoned her completely drove her to a dead end. She actually relied on her obsession to make up for the huge flaw in her body structure, driven by the obsession of "looking for her father", and climbed up with a broken body …
In fact, I didn't even dare to imagine how Mercury Lamp had managed to survive the first few days of her life when she had been tossed into a room filled with broken human body parts and gradually covered in dust. Just how much effort did she have to put on her body that had been cut in half? Just how much effort did she have to put on her extravagant black dress …?
Rozen, oh Rozen, you went against the heavens and changed your fate. You practiced forbidden techniques that violated the natural balance. You have no respect for the elements. You let the shadows corrode your soul. You even became an enemy of the righteous. In the end, you failed the Heavenly Tribulation and turned into a wisp of smoke in a lightning storm. You didn't lose anything … Anyway, according to Jingle's calculations, that old bastard should be dead by now. I don't think he'll come back to protest no matter what I say, right?
I said this purely to help Mercury Lamp vent her anger. In the end, I still have to thank that unprecedented Trap King. Although he abandoned the Trap King, Mercury Lamp was born because of him, and I knew that Mercury Lamp didn't like to be pitied …
At this point, the truth was revealed. Mercury Lamp's broken body was originally unable to function. It was impossible for her to achieve 400% synchronization with the normal Rose Mother. However, Mercury Lamp used her obsession to "find her father" to make up for the flaws in her body. It was equivalent to putting a patch on her body. This spiritual power allowed her to move like a normal puppet, but now …
The patch was deleted, and she couldn't rebuild it.
The moment she decided to come back, this puppet's obsession to "find her father" came to an end.
Thinking about this, I realized that the first person to reflect on this matter was me. I was the one who made Mercury Lamp's obsession to "find her father" collapse for the first time. I told her that Rozen might have been punished by the world's laws because he peeked into the Gate of Truth, and I mentioned it more than once. Every time I mentioned it, Mercury Lamp would fly into a rage, but at the same time, every time I mentioned it, she would accept the reality more.
"What should we do now? Unless there's a typographical error in the world's laws maintenance regulations that Jingle found, Rozen is already dead. And if Mercury Lamp finally chose to come back, it's impossible for her to have the obsession she had back then. This situation is no longer something that can be solved by an expert in any field. "After figuring out the details, I could only shrug my shoulders at my elder sister." Mercury Lamp's father is really unkind. "Rozen was unkind, extremely unkind.
Why didn't I know that learning alchemy and engineering was so awkward? If you gave up halfway, I could have helped you take care of Mercury Lamp, but just as I was about to succeed, that old bastard Rozen jumped out and insisted on protecting the copyright … Thinking back to when Cao Xueqin almost died before he finished writing "Dream of the Red Chamber", Gao E helped him write the sequel "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Shou wrote the complete "Records of the Three Kingdoms" in the Jin Dynasty, and Luo Guanzhong wrote the doujinshi "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the Ming Dynasty, and nothing happened. From this, it could be seen that western alchemists weren't as magnanimous as eastern literati …
Of course, thinking about all these random things wouldn't help, but other than letting my imagination run wild, there was really nothing I could do at this critical juncture. And Sandora was standing next to me, and just like me, she also didn't understand alchemy …
"Your Majesty, there are currently three plans, and all of them are feasible, but there's no guarantee of success." A group of experts and scholars surrounded the doll girl and discussed for almost two hours, and at this time, a representative was finally sent to report to me and Sandora.
At this time, I finally showed an expression of relief. As expected of an expert. Don't look at how it took them more than an hour to come up with a plan, but the moment they opened their mouth, it was at the third chapter. Now I really wanted to know if they waited until now to release the plan, and it was at the third chapter, was it to rush up the rankings …
"Start with the one with the highest success rate." I hurriedly said before Sandora could open her mouth. She was used to hearing bad news first, so that she could mentally prepare herself to deal with any difficulties in advance, but I preferred to hear good news first. First, it would give me a good mental state to deal with the troubles later, and second … if the best news already made me despair, I would directly fall asleep at the last two.
"The one with the highest success rate is body reconstruction and soul reconstruction. We will completely extract Mercury Lamp's spirit from the artificial soul carrier known as the Rose Mother. Goddess Jingle will completely seal this spirit into a new soul, and then we will put the new soul into a healthy body. This kind of success rate is almost 100%, and we have rich experience in this field …"
"But during this process, Mercury Lamp's original body and her Rose Mother will be destroyed," I shook my head, feeling a little troubled. "You can't understand her feelings. Mercury Lamp will not accept this kind of thing. Even if Rozen is already finished, she will not agree to this proposal."
After all, if even the artificial soul that "father" left for her was destroyed, then it would not just be a problem of losing a tooth … Mercury Lamp will fight me to the death.
However, if the remaining two plans were unreliable, this would be the only choice.
"The second plan is to repair the body," said a raven. All ravens looked the same in my eyes — they looked the same in everyone's eyes, so I won't say their names. "Mercury Lamp is an alchemy creature. Her body is damaged, which caused her artificial soul to be unable to merge with the carrier. As long as we can repair the missing part in her abdomen, she might be able to recover in the form of an ordinary Rose Mother."
"That's a good idea!" I immediately clapped my hands, "If such a simple idea works, why did you guys spend so much time thinking about it? Can't you just make a part of her body? Tell me, do you want to use porcelain or titanium alloy? "
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a murderous aura next to me. I turned around and saw that Mercury Lamp, who was in a semi-conscious state, was gnashing her teeth … What kind of terrifying sixth sense is this?
"The situation is not that simple," the magical girl … uh, Raven said with a worried expression, "Compared to creating an alchemy creature, repairing the latter is more troublesome. Because every alchemist will integrate a lot of personal skills and habits into the product when creating their own alchemy creature, and the later generation will have to understand every special part of the product. After all, Rose Mother is not from the production line …"
I expressed my understanding. A porcelain worker in the Song Dynasty would probably only earn a few pieces of flatbread to make a furnace of plates. But if one of those plates were broken, we would have to use a monthly salary of hundreds of thousands to find an expert to glue it back …
"In other words, with your skills, you can't guarantee that the restoration of Mercury Lamp will be 100% as good as the original one?" I frowned, "For you guys, alchemy is not a high-end skill, right?"
"We are not good at alchemy …"
The raven in front of me, who looked exactly the same as Silvia, said embarrassedly. I was used to seeing the slow-witted version of the silver-haired one, and now that I suddenly saw one who was smart, I was not used to it.
"What?" I was confused on the spot, "You guys can pull Dalaran down with one hand, but you don't know alchemy?"
That raven became even more depressed, "Don't modern humans not know how to drill wood to make fire?"
I was speechless.
Why is this raven's mouth so bad?
"If you guys don't know this' low-level 'alchemy, then how are you going to repair Mercury Lamp's body?"
"It isn't difficult to find a mage who is good at alchemy in the World of Azeroth, but the alchemy in the World of Azeroth is more focused on the creation of various magic potions and magic crystals. I don't know how skilled their alchemists are in creating items, and I don't even dare to guarantee that the alchemy principles of the two worlds are interchangeable. Thus, the success rate of this second method is still unknown. However, this method is actually the safest one, because the entire process doesn't involve Mercury Lamp's soul. Even if the experiment fails, she won't be harmed in any way."
"This plan is feasible." I had confidence in the second plan on the spot, and looking at the expression on Sandora's face, she also thought so.
The most important thing is that there is zero risk. No matter how many times we experiment, it won't harm Mercury Lamp's body. If it really doesn't work, I can recruit a few divisions of alchemy experts from the millions of worlds. I don't believe that such a powerful Dimensional Empire can't even repair a Rose Maiden!
I'm just afraid that after they repair Mercury Lamp, she might transform into a Mercury Mammoth, Mercury Godzilla, Mercury Decepticon, or some other strange existence …
"The third plan … Uh, this is the information that Bubble just sent out. It wasn't originally within our consideration. Do you want to hear it?"
"I do." I nodded. "That girl studies 2-D all day long. Maybe she has some insights, and we have a backup plan."
"She suggested that we go find the seven dragon balls …"
I should have thought of that earlier …
I arrived at the platform in the middle of the "Throne of Kings". Mercury Lamp was drowsily sleeping there. She seemed to sense my arrival, and her eyelashes trembled twice. The doll girl slightly opened her eyes and looked in my direction, a little confused.
It's over, this girl can't even recognize me!
"Stupid human, your face is too close!"
I coughed awkwardly on the spot and hurriedly retreated.
"The treatment plan is out." While Mercury Lamp was awake, I hurriedly told her about Raven's two plans. That's right, two plans! Mercury Lamp seriously listened to everything, and her calm expression didn't show any sadness or happiness.
I didn't know what to say, so I added, "I'm afraid you won't like either of the two plans. If it really doesn't work, I'll let them think of something else. We have a lot of powerful people anyway."
"No need." Mercury Lamp shook her head and slightly closed her eyes. "I know, if it wasn't because of my willfulness, with your strength, you wouldn't need to go through so much trouble, right? For you, even creating a new life only takes a moment, so it's fine … I can roughly guess what happened to my body … Stupid human, fix me. "
Looking at the strange and sickly President Shui, I suddenly had a huge doubt in my heart. This girl, could it be that on the way back, she picked up some strange things and ate them? This isn't your personality at all!
When I voiced out my doubt, it immediately triggered a strong resentment from the little puppet, "If it wasn't for the fact that I don't have any strength right now, I definitely wouldn't let you go!"
In the end, the treatment plan for Mercury Lamp was the second one. Kael 'thas and Jaina received our orders to start recruiting the most outstanding alchemists from all over the world. Although the Vidis Empire also used magic as one of its main powers, their world didn't have any alchemy technology, so they couldn't help. Laura, on the other hand, could provide some help. Alchemy also existed in her world. Although we might not be able to find an alchemist, the technical information she provided would definitely be very useful. Further away in the new world, where the "macro world" network had just been established, the new inspectors were also worried that they wouldn't be able to receive missions to raise their reputation. Now that they received the news, they all eagerly signed up and did their best to collect alchemy knowledge from their world …
A small puppet affected the hearts of countless people in countless worlds. I faintly felt that this was no longer an ordinary treatment …
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