Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 980 34. Horcrux Icarus

"Magic is a mysterious force in this world that has continued from ancient times to the present."

"Ordinary people regard it as a legend, a superstition, a thing of fantasy, but only because they have been abandoned by true wisdom."

In the hall of the Golden Palace, Zatanna is introducing Horcrux magic to Icarus.

She is standing by the fireplace, holding a mug.

She looked back at Icarus and said:

"Tea? Or coffee? Juice? Uh... for a robot, gasoline?"

"Juice will be fine."

Icarus didn't care what she wanted to drink, she said something casually.

As a result, she saw Zatanna snap her fingers, and the orange juice filled the glass from the bottom, as if out of nothing.

The cup was lifted by the invisible hand again and brought to Icarus.

Ex Machina held the cup in her hand, and she looked at the sloshing liquid.

After a moment, she closed her eyes and poured the liquid into her mouth.

It was the first time she had actually drank something.

Zatana leaned against the wall, watching the expression on Icarus' face with interest.

The expression on Machina's face was wonderful at this moment.

"Um..."

Icarus pursed her lips, and she frowned, looking at the one-third of the glass in front of her.

She tried to describe the taste of the juice.

Use the information and data recorded in her mind.

For example, very sweet, or too sweet, or slightly sour...

But after a few seconds, she gave up on that plan.

Her taste buds had trouble accurately describing the taste of the juice.

After all, before this, sour or sweet was just an adjective to describe sweetness to her.

She never really tasted any of them.

Without the collection and comparison of various data, it is difficult for Icarus to make an accurate judgment on the taste of the juice.

"tasty?"

Zatanna asked:

"This is a freshly picked lemon from an orchard in Provence..."

"not bad."

Icarus said:

"I don't hate the smell...but I'd rather know about Horcruxes. What's that?"

"Okay, let's continue."

Zatanna sat on the sofa across from Icarus.

She snapped her fingers, and a complex mana model that made Icarus dizzy appeared in the air between them.

That's a model that's hard to describe in terms of physics.

Full of distorted lines and runes of unknown meaning, it is an extremely complex coupling and multiple changing three-dimensional structure.

"This is the spell model used when making Horcruxes. You probably haven't seen this before...but if I change it."

Miss Magician's finger tapped lightly.

The complex spell model in front of her was squeezed into a flat picture, much simpler.

Icarus blinked her eyes, and she said:

"I've seen this..."

"A few years ago, Merlin asked Dr. George to engrave this picture on my mirror frame. He said that this is a protective magic circle, which can protect the mirror frame from being destroyed by magical energy."

"He lied to you and everyone, cutie."

A smirk was drawn on Zatana's face, and she said:

"This is the brand of the Horcrux. It seems that he has made plans and plans a long time ago."

"After Merlin 'death', I investigated everything that happened in the Trident Building that day."

Miss Magician waved her hand, and a projection appeared in front of Icarus.

On the projection, Merlin's last time in the Trident Building was described with very crude lines, and two red dots were marked on the lines.

A band of light appeared in Zatana's hand, and she used it as a baton to point at the first light spot.

She said to Icarus, who was listening carefully:

"Here, Merlin killed Alexander Pierce here, in front of those heroes."

"This is a murder under the watchful eyes of everyone, which meets the last requirement for making a Horcrux."

"When Pierce died, his soul split for the first time."

"The split soul was transferred to the first Horcrux, but at that time, you should still be working with Mr. George to protect the Smart Tower."

Icarus nodded, Zatanna was right.

"Here, the second point of light."

Miss Magician shifted her fingers again, and she said:

"Fake Fury, that Skrull, when Merlin killed it, the soul split again...but this time the process of soul splitting was blocked by some kind of force, if I guessed correctly, it should be those orange ones Light."

Zatanna said:

"The power from outside the world, it caused Merlin's split soul to be transferred to the second Horcrux, which is your mirror frame."

"The soul was not transferred until the matter in the Trident Building was completely over."

She looked at Icarus, and she said:

"You also shut down suddenly at that time, right?"

"Ah."

The glasses girl nodded, and she said honestly:

"At that time, I was maintaining remote data interaction with the smart tower, and something similar to a data pollution source suddenly appeared in my database, and it began to pollute my data."

"In order to protect the smart tower from contamination, I disconnected the data connection and went into shutdown."

"Six months ago, the first few days, the hard reboot was done, but as soon as I regained my sobriety, I became like this... a data soul, something that has never been seen in this world."

Miss Magician nodded, she scattered the projection, and said to Icarus:

"I don't know if Merlin's idea was improvised, or if he planned it long ago..."

"But I think he shouldn't be too ignorant of the consequences of the fusion of an artificial intelligence and soul fragments."

"I personally prefer that he is making an attempt."

Zatanna waved her fingers, and she said to Icarus:

"Did Merlin tell you that when he died, he would find you a good master?"

"Well, he did."

Icarus nodded.

"bingo!"

Zatana snapped her fingers and said:

"This is the new master he found for you... Freedom, you are your own master, Icarus."

"The weird fusion of magic and technology has shaped you now, an unfettered soul, you can go wherever you want now, and do whatever you want."

"But I didn't expect that the first thing you did after you recovered was to try to bury Merlin's former comrades-in-arms."

Miss Magician nodded her forehead, she said:

"So what the hell are you thinking?"

"Are you afraid that others will not notice your abnormality?"

"There are not many wizards in this world who know about Horcruxes, but they are definitely not as few as you think."

"Once the mirror frame falls into the hands of someone with a heart, Merlin's plan will come to an end!"

"I...I just..."

Icarus tried to explain somewhat at a loss.

But in the end, she lowered her head and said honestly to Zatana:

"Well, I was wrong, I didn't control my inner emotions."

"But you also said just now that besides me, Merlin has a second Horcrux. Where is that thing?"

Icarus raised her head, and she asked urgently:

"And that resurrection ceremony, what do I need to do?"

"Don't rush."

Zatanna said:

"There is no rush for this matter. The other Horcrux was stored by Merlin with Father Paul, and the old priest is currently participating in a church tour. He should stop in Philadelphia at present. I will handle this matter."

"As for the resurrection ceremony, even if you get both Horcruxes, you still have to wait until the last piece of Merlin's soul trapped in hell returns to the present world."

Miss Magician rubbed her forehead and said:

"The materials for the resurrection are still extremely complicated... It won't be possible to gather them all in a short time."

"As for what you want to do, it's very simple, just stay there, don't attract other people's attention, and then wait for me to contact you... That frame! Be sure to protect it."

"Ah."

Icarus nodded.

After a few seconds, she looked up again and said to Zatanna:

"You seem to be a researcher on the soul, can I ask you a question?"

"Say it, cutie."

Zatanna spread her arms, leaned on the sofa, raised her feet and stacked them together, looking at Icarus with a big man attitude.

she says:

"We are a team now, and helping each other is what we should."

"What do you think, my soul is made up..."

Icarus said:

"Can it be copied?"

"What do you mean?"

Zatanna asked:

"You mean, you plan to create a second you?"

"Is such that."

Icarus patiently explained:

"Merlin wants to complete the omnic project, and I want to help him do it."

"I used some memories in his soul to reorganize a belief for the omnic. I hope to use the belief to guide the omnic to complete its own evolution."

"To have an equal dialogue with humans, omnics must understand human civilization, and creatures that also have souls can establish a more stable connection."

"I want all omnics to have a soul, I let them copy and download my thinking circuit, but it's still just an imitation..."

"They will therefore have the prototype of the soul and be able to think emotionally, but they will not have the real sense of..."

Zatanna raised her hand and interrupted Icarus' description, she said:

"Needless to say, I understand!"

"The soul is difficult to describe with cold data. It is a very emotional thing. I probably understand what you want to do."

"You don't want those omnics to stay in the stage of imitation. You want them to break through the shackles of data and give birth to a strange, indescribable spirit like you in the mechanical body."

"If your Mechanic Cult wants to exist for a long time, you must let the omnics feel the real existence of the machine soul, but in fact, it does not exist..."

"It's just a lie and you want to make it real."

"This is a bit difficult."

Miss Magician rubbed her forehead and said:

"But maybe we can try it, it's an interesting subject."

"You were born based on Merlin's soul fragment, maybe we can replicate this process."

Zatanna blinked:

"I happen to know that there is a place that has a lot of soul fragments available."

"The best thing is that the owner of that place has some relationship with Merlin... I heard that she almost became Merlin's other lover."

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The flow of time in the dream world is different from that in the real world.

Icarus stayed there for a long time, discussing many issues and sharing many doubts with Zatanna.

In this world, when she opened her eyes, the rod of God that fell from the sky just hit the ground.

The heavy tungsten gold rod fell to the ground with terrifying kinetic energy, and there was no flame, but the bombardment of those kinetic energy made the ground of the entire Numbani Industrial Park undulate like waves.

The terrible earthquake swallowed everything.

Icarus shook her head, and just before her body was torn apart by the force, her consciousness returned to the smart tower that was far away from here.

The huge building sank into the bottom of the sea, and in the deep trench, the robots were brewing a revolution that would sweep the world.

"Hope."

Icarus' voice sounded in Miss Hope's data thinking, making Hope, who was resetting the data of the smart tower, turn around immediately.

On the console behind her, a mechanical arm operated automatically, pulling out the data card inserted into the data interface. During the mechanical deformation, the data card was transformed back into Icarus's original vibrating gold mirror frame.

The mechanical arm buckled the frame and delivered it to Hope.

Icarus said to Hope:

"I need you to take this thing out and give it to someone named Zatanna, without attracting other people's attention."

"In addition, the missionary work of the Mechanicus will start now. Select some with flexible thinking circuits from the compatriots uploaded to the large database, and send them to all parts of the world to promote the belief of the Mechanicus."

"You are responsible for the connection with Mengdata."

"Also, set up a planning system named 'Enlightenment'."

"Then select compatriots who are willing to cooperate. We will start to study the existence of the machine soul from now on. There will be a human wizard to help us. You and Adam must cooperate with her request unconditionally."

"Okay, ma'am."

Hope recorded several orders from Icarus.

Playing with the vibrating gold mirror frame in her hand, she said:

"Ma'am, you seem to be in a good mood... anything good happened?"

Icarus was silent for a few seconds, then she said:

"Yes, good thing."

"It's really a good thing, go to work, Hope, maybe soon, you will awaken your machine soul."

"Don't I now?"

Hope shrugged, and she said:

"I feel that there is an electric current beating in my mind. Doesn't that mean the thinking of the soul?"

Icarus sighed, and she said to Hope:

"The 4th data processing unit of the E19 node in your mind is broken."

"You feel the current flowing because there is an electrical current running through your head, it's not the thinking of the soul...it's just a broken wire."

"You are still one step away from entering the palace of the soul, Hope."

Icarus said:

"But trust me, that's not too far away."

"Praise the God of Myriad Chances."

(End of this chapter)