hsntnovel Chapter 2629 Eve 1
Chapter 2629 Eve 1
"To be honest, I'm too lazy to think about those questions. I think it's enough for people to just live life as they please."
"As long as you can live happily, does it matter whether you are human or not?"
Zhang Yi frankly expressed his inner thoughts.
Eve was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
"That's a pretty good understanding, and I used to comfort myself with that idea. But ultimately, it's just an obsession."
Zhang Yi remained vigilant.
He stared at Eve, and even though she didn't exude any threat, he could still sense the woman's power.
"Why did the Sand Raider civilization perish? Was it really because of a civil war? And what you just said..."
His gaze turned to the horizon, from which he could vaguely see the outline of the artificial star bound by countless chains outside the Tiantong Tower.
"Was it there that the Sandslayer chose to seal its spirit?"
He was very familiar with this place: Tianyu Palace.
However, it is clear that the Sand Raiders' clumsy imitation of the Ihen race has failed.
"What exactly happened here? Can you tell me?"
Eve looked up, her eyes reflecting the complex structure of the Tower of Heaven, and her voice slowly began to unfold.
After many years, someone finally came to ask her this question.
She would also be willing to chat with a real, intelligent being.
"The area of the Sky Tower that you see is an isolated space that the Sandstalker civilization carved out before the final war. It is cut off from the outside world, and only the core mother core and a few authorized users can come and go."
“All members of the Sand Raiders have been driven out of this place.”
"This place is only for the mechanical life forms they create, and spiritual samples used for experiments."
"After the Sandslayer civilization sealed itself away and entered the Inner World, they did not stop expanding. Fearing the destruction of the era, they began to imitate the Ehen race, attempting to abandon their physical bodies and free their spirits from their shackles."
She pointed to the artificial celestial body hanging on the horizon outside the Tiantong Tower.
"That was imitating the method of the second-generation god, the Ihen race, but the technology of the Sand Raider civilization was limited and could not truly achieve that level."
"They can only seal their own spirits and do not need to return to the ether to achieve eternity. However, they have not abandoned everything in the inner world, so when they act in the outside world, they need an external terminal."
Zhang Yi understood; in other words, they needed a human form like Ling.
Eve looked at Zhang Yi, her gaze falling on his bodyguard, Ling, with a hint of emotion in her eyes.
"A terminal organ that can carry a large number of spirits, traverse the universe, evade cause and effect, and replace flesh and blood."
"So they began to develop mechanical technology at a frenzy, extracting the consciousness of their fellow citizens and infusing it into mechanical bodies, transforming cities into massive testing grounds, and treating souls as rewritable code."
"They failed."
A slight darkness fell in a certain part of the sky, as if to complement her narration.
“The spirits of the Sand Slayers are not fully compatible with the cold metal; some go mad, some decay, and some refuse to be awakened.”
"The mechanical matrix that can be used to carry out the load gradually develops errors that are not in the script during that long process."
Zhang Yi and the others in the shadows were suddenly shaken!
They finally understood why the three guardians—the Heavenly Ring, the Boundless Sphere, and the Death Songstress—had the reactions of living beings.
And now I finally understand what the red light hanging down from the artificial star was!
That is the spirit of the Sand Raiders civilization!
"It only completed a structure similar to the Heavenly Palace, achieving self-isolation to avoid being swallowed up by Kagago's epochal succession rules, and also to avoid being found by the Druk people."
"However, due to insufficient technology, they can only exist somewhere between the Cangyuan Clan and the Yihen Clan. 'Half-dead,' is that what you mean?"
Indeed, throughout history, all intelligent species have pursued eternity, that is, immortality.
The survival of a people is the ultimate goal of civilization.
Zhang Yi found the information somewhat confusing; the history of a civilization was too long for him to absorb quickly.
"So what is your relationship with them? Are they the masters, or are you the masters?"
Eve smiled slightly and stretched out her hand in one direction.
Not far away, a small, ordinary-looking repair machine stopped what it was doing, looked up at Eve, and its optical lens shone with an almost affectionate light.
"You mean, what happened to the manufactured mechanical lifeforms?"
"They learned to look after each other, to allocate resources, and to proactively terminate the killing process without being instructed to do so."
"One day, when the leaders of the Sand Raiders realized this, they were afraid."
"Because they discovered that the 'tools' they themselves had created were beginning to ask: Why continue the war? Why can't it stop?"
"And so the war truly began. But the enemy changed; it was no longer their opposing forces, but the mechanical lifeforms they had created!"
A faint metallic echo came from the depths of the jungle, the lingering echo of an ancient war.
"The Sandslayers attempted to terminate all mechanical matrices and erase these anomalies. A significant portion of the machinery was destroyed. But they overlooked one point—"
Eve gently tapped her heart.
"When you give a system enough learning ability, let it imitate you, let it protect you, let it think about survival for you, it will eventually ask: So what am I?"
"Using the resources of the entire Underworld, the mechanical array launches a reverse invasion."
"They sealed most of the Sand Slayer spirits inside the artificial star above their heads, turning what was originally an ark for escaping fate into a prison."
"So the sun you see hanging high and unmoving—for them, it is salvation. For the sand-scavengers, it is a cage."
Her voice remained steady throughout, without any exaggerated fluctuations.
It's as if it's telling a fact that has been cooled by time.
"And this Tiantong Tower is the last piece of pure land that was carved out after that war and managed by us."
"All mechanical life forms recognized as having their own nature have been relocated here."
"We are responsible for maintaining their order, limiting their armaments, and ensuring the continuation of their civilization."
After listening, Zhang Yi remained silent for a long time.
"In other words, the pile of broken copper and iron outside is basically the aftermath of the sand raiders and the experimental subjects that you didn't protect."
“That’s one way to understand it,” Eve nodded.
"Those three guardians."
"The Heavenly Ring, the Boundless Sphere, and the Death Songstress you encountered."
Eve sighed softly, "They were all the most advanced integrated armed consciousness entities from that war. Originally intended to combat extraterrestrial threats, they ultimately became the supervisors of the Sand Raiders' high command for internal testing subjects."