Cyber ​​Fantasy: Dragon Elves and Mortals

Russell closed his eyes and was silent for a long time.

When he opened his eyes again, the slightly moist eyes containing complex emotions made Lycaon tremble in his heart.

——He had never seen Russell show such a look.

Russell's emerald green pupils are always very clean, as if they can reflect all the colors in the world and everyone's heart.

But now Russell's eyes seemed to be filled with the lives of a thousand people.

He looked like he wanted to cry, but he felt relieved and peaceful at the same time; he seemed to feel happy, but full of despair; he hated something, but felt happy at the same time.That is similar but different from the great fusion of "Andrew" and "Lycaon"...another way of carrying the lives of others.

"I've seen a lot of people cry in front of me."

Russell's voice was slightly hoarse: "They may be powerless, they may be in pain, they may be weak. They may have taken the wrong path, or no one will remember their names until they die. They have no talent, and they cannot choose their own lives. They are trapped. Destiny pushes me away, like a child drowning in the river.

"But I think they are all heroes. No one remembers them, but I remember them; no one thinks they are valuable, and they become an irreplaceable part of me.

"——Heroes don't need tombstones. I am their epitaph.

"Because there is only one kind of heroism in this world: that is to look at the truth of the world - and to love the world.

"Live seriously and die cleanly. Reminisce what you should remember and regret what you should regret. Laugh when you are happy and cry when you are sad. Show off when you have done good deeds and be honest when you have taken the wrong path. Acknowledge your mistakes without attaching any extra value to your life and death.

"This is why I hate His Holiness the Pope and that man.

"This is why I am still willing to sit down and talk with you, Lycaon. I told the Pope many secrets, but he finally set his sights on the 'Twilight Egg.' It seems that in all of this, Only the Dusk Egg has value...nothing needs to be valued except my uniqueness.

"But you are not exactly our mighty and wise Pope who craves self-sacrifice, is unattainable, and hopes to save the world... You are also my friend Lycaon.

"If it was Lycaon, he wouldn't lie to me here. Because he would know that what he did was wrong."

The golden cat stared at the wolf who was a little embarrassed, a little depressed, and a little confused.

Just like they were before.

Just like they are still classmates and friends.Sitting under the bright sunshine, drinking tea and chatting.

After a long silence, Lycaon slowly lowered his head.

"...I will tell you."

Lycaon whispered in a hoarse voice.

The pope's "promotion" did not snatch control of the body.

He just watched everything quietly from the other side - or in other words, he also fell into his own thoughts.

As Lycaon told it, Russell finally understood everything.

Lycaon was found by the Pope, and he was willing to sacrifice - he volunteered to become a test subject for mind uploading.

In fact, when Lycaon entered the church for the last time, he was already "dead."

At that time, he removed his head and uploaded it, replacing it with "Yi Shou" - the only prosthetic body that could not exist, a brainless righteous head.

When he left the church, his head was false.

After that, he remotely controlled his body through the cloud network by controlling Yishou...

"——It's the same as 'promotion.'"

Russell sighed.

Andrew hid his will in the Pope's aura, and used the brainwashing technology of the divine descending device to control a new body every time the aura was passed on.

He didn't erase the other person's memory, nor did he overwrite the other person's personality.He just rewrote the other party's subconscious mind and allowed the other party to act according to his will.When you take off your halo and step down from office

, the other party will regain his or her original personality.

He is a will, a thought, a ghost.With power comes passing.

But the pope must wear a halo before he can take over mortal authority.He was downloaded into the small halo, and his body was stored in the "Sacred Scripture" server.

So, is there another way to influence the will of others without wearing a halo?

Of course, this may have some ethical issues.

But Andrew's technology allows everyone to control their "original" body.

Store your life and thoughts on the cloud disk, and then control your body remotely through the Internet, just like a role-playing game.

This is eternal life in the truest sense.

"...Cyber ​​immortality has been completed?"

Russell murmured.

Lycaon shook his head and answered honestly: "It's not really finished yet.

"Because we still cannot download the uploaded consciousness without loss - once the consciousness is uploaded and digitized, some part of it has been permanently damaged. Even if it is downloaded back, it is only for the An imitation of the original me. Every upload and download will cause irreversible losses.

"We are just taking a trick at the moment... Since there is no way to achieve lossless downloading, we will not download it. Control the body directly from the Internet and use 'Gishou' to control the body. Also as a mechanical thing, Gishou can also be used perfectly. Accept digital signals.

"Below the neck, it's all real flesh and blood; and above the neck, it's just a signal receiver and information processing device.

"I walked out of the church, and I was still able to move. At that time, the experiment had been successful - we had completed technology that was more advanced than the monkey-faced eagle."

"…I see."

Russell suddenly realized.

Those who disappeared out of thin air, and then came back with changes in their thinking, completely turning into "new werewolves"——

They were probably secretly kidnapped by the church and replaced with righteous heads.Their stance suddenly changed... because they obtained eternal life through this method and completed "self-backup."This is a huge benefit.

"Wait, in that case..."

Russell suddenly reacted: "Then you probably won't die either.

"You don't need to die at all. Because you can come again at any time..."

When he said this, he suddenly paused.

Russell was silent for a while, and suddenly realized something.

He said word by word: "But your soul is stored in the 'Sacred Scripture' server. You should not be able to become a cyber ghost and send messages to other people on the sky island server.

"But Redram said categorically...you sent him a message. You sent him a message from a banned account. You shouldn't be able to do this."

[——Renee, do you believe there is such a thing as a soul in this world? 】

[——There must be souls in this world. 】

Russell looked at Lycaon and was silent for a while again.

"You fused with His Holiness the Pope and learned some prehistoric secrets. Then you should also learn the meaning of some ancient languages...

"Leedram, 'Red Sweet Wine,'... Big Ben's code name is quite inconsistent with him.

"But if you turn Redru around, it's Murder - murder.

"Mirror of Murder - you want to express that you killed Big Dumber, right?"

"...No, I didn't. I didn't kill him. That's all..."

Lycaon was weak and murmured in a low voice: "He was dead before... He was the security captain of a small company. He died in a chaos caused by a werewolf more than a month ago.

"But... I hope he can at least survive. Because you and he are also good friends, and you are coming back. I don't want you to see him die with me; I don't want you to investigate the cause of our deaths and end up investigating It's on me.

"So, I used Yishou to control his body and impersonate him. Finally, you came back... I originally wanted to use his identity to mislead you in the direction of your investigation.

"But at that time, I suddenly felt...this behavior was disgusting. It was like I murdered him, took his identity, and brought him back to life; but I did preserve his body and ensured his social relations. Continuation, but I will leave him one day... By then, he will still be dead.

"...Murder is a continuous act, and after the completion, the other person dies. And after the other person died, I carried out another kind of murder, and let the other person come back to life during this act... It's like Is 'a mirror image of murder,.

"So, I gave him a code name... I hope someone can discover my behavior and come forward and say what I did was wrong."

The somewhat haggard werewolf showed a forced smile: "I'm very happy, Susu. You really noticed everything...

"But I'm still sorry...I've let you down in every sense of the word."