The Exorcist Boy: The Book of Conviction

Chapter 149 The Secret of Immortality

The soul application technology originally came from the immortality experiment in the age of mythology, for which the old humans did many wrong things.

But in the end, the human beings of the old age woke up, because they found that even the gods could not resist the annihilation of time.

Immortality is a false proposition.

However, the immortality experiment has still produced a series of inhuman experimental results.

Among them is the soul parasitic technology of human beings... clone human soul grafting experiments...

But it is a pity that when they realized this, the three days of darkness in the age of mythology had already arrived, so the old humans who escaped to the Ark of Utopia also happened to transport this technology to the Ark of Hope.

And by accident, it also happened to come in handy in the future catastrophe.

In the age of mythology, humans discovered that the soul is real and the only source that gives life.

Just as the "Old Testament" said, the soul comes from the garden of Eden created by the gods, the only fruit on the tree of the world.

When the fruit matures and falls to the ground, it will turn into a seedling of the soul and come to the world, bringing new hope for human reproduction and inheritance.

After the souls have experienced reincarnation in the world, the decayed body will release the constraints on the souls and let them return to the Garden of Eden.

Then it was absorbed by the roots of the World Tree again, repeating the cycle like this.

And the soul will go through a journey in the world, and it will experience emotional tempering such as emotions, ups and downs, and this is also the nourishment of the World Tree.

The above process constitutes the order of the cycle of life and death in human society, so this is the order of life and death described in the "Old Testament", and the cycle of rebirth with the world.

However, when the Three Days of Darkness in the Age of Myths came, the Ark of Utopia left the main world, and naturally lost the protection of the Garden of Eden.

After the death of human beings, the soul has nowhere to return, and has become a lonely ghost wandering in the exiled land.

There is no other option but to dissipate itself in the long river of time, let alone enter the cycle of afterlife.

It just so happened that Utopia Ark was penetrated by an unknown force, and more than 1/5 of its population was lost. The people on board prayed all day long, but there was no response.

Therefore, the atmosphere of despair in the ark is getting heavier and heavier, and the Land of Hope has a faint tendency to develop like the Land of Despair.

In just a few days, the surviving human beings were unwilling to face this cruel fact, and under the influence of growing anxiety, several man-made riots occurred in Utopia Ark.

Under pressure, [Earl] opened the lifeboat and released a large number of humans who wished to return to the main world. They would rather choose death than face a future of nothingness.

A small number of [Earl] followers who wanted to maintain the human seed stayed on the ark.

Hoping to restore the broken utopia with their own efforts, they chose to fight against despair.

But at this time, the vast majority of human beings have already set foot on the lifeboat, and the manpower of the Utopia Ark is becoming more and more scarce. At this time, the human soul application technology called the taboo art appears.

[Earl] has always been a very mysterious place. There is no record of his footprints in the old mythology era, but such a mysterious person became the captain of Utopia Ark.

At a critical moment, he did not know how to gather a large number of souls of the dead floating in the ark, and at the same time ordered Utopia to activate the banned soul application technology.

It took a lot of stored resources to make undead dolls in batches, and then find a way to seal the soul in them as a driving force.

The so-called Undead Crew was created.

"But... since these undead crew members have already lived to this day, doesn't that mean that they are no different from eternal life?"

After listening to Lu'er's description, Snow subconsciously looked at the stunned undead crew members below.

"Captain, do you really think that existence like this is eternal life? If they are still conscious, then I believe they will definitely choose death without hesitation."

This is the failed result of the immortality experiment.

This kind of eternal life is actually very painful... although the soul has not suffered any severe torture.

But as memory with consciousness, they will move forward on a road that will never see the future.

I was sealed in a puppet without the five senses, day after day, doing work that could not see the future.

Can't live, can't die, who would expect such eternal life?

The eternal loneliness with no end in sight is the scariest thing in this world.

"This is no different from the demon created by the Earl of the Millennium."

Snow muttered to himself in a daze, from this point of view, eternal life is also a kind of torture!

"That's different, every member of the Undead Crew has voluntarily embarked on this path.

It is not painful sorrow and torture that support them to continue on this hopeless road.

It is a seed called hope. "

Luer's tone suddenly became serious.

The original undead crew was not like this, they essentially just replaced the soul with a new body.

Although many senses are lost, they can still communicate fluently, and even the emotions stored in the soul affect them.

When they became the Undead Crew, they had "hope" in their souls.

They hope to restore this damaged utopia, retrieve the eternal energy of the ark, and allow the few humans who are still on it to continue to multiply.

Be the seed of a new world.

But day after day, year after year passed, until they stopped recording the time, until the last human on the Utopia Ark died of old age and transformed into an undead crew member.

The last human seed on Utopia's Ark disappears.

Only the soul confined in the puppet is doing more and more meaningless work day after day.

Unlike the demons of the Earl of the Millennium who use sadness and pain as their driving force, what the Undead Crew Club supports them is the last glimmer of hope in their souls.

So they will not kill people, and there is no possibility of evolution, let alone the birth of new ideas.

They can only let the long river of time wash away their souls bit by bit, until their feelings, ego... gradually fade away.

Slowly, the undead crew members changed from dolls who could talk freely and even laugh and laugh, into tireless and emotionless machines.

Later, they forget their identities, give up their memories, and turn their souls into empty blank slates.

Only the last "hope" is kept in their souls, and only in this way can the undead crew continue to operate.

Until the day Utopia Ark was completely repaired, more than [-]% of the undead crew members fulfilled their last wish.

[Earl] On that day, they restarted their last sliver of self, allowing them to see the repaired Utopian Ark and the internal environment that had been completely deserted.

Although the "hope" has been achieved, everyone can no longer support it to go on.

More than [-]% of the undead crew members will choose to disintegrate themselves when they are finally awake, so as to free their souls.

But there are still a group of staunch supporters of [Earl], and believers who are not willing to let mankind sink.

They chose to stay in the end, at the cost of their own eternal life and not being able to reincarnate, and they will be entrusted forever among the puppets whose souls cannot be freed.

These are the members of the undead crew who are busy under Snow, and they are also the last batch of souls who saved mankind in the age of mythology.

They have no ego, no memory, no emotion, abandoned the past and lost the future.

It's just working as a machine that can only obey orders.

They are willing to dedicate themselves to this ark and to the future of mankind until their souls can no longer bear the scouring of time and completely dissipate under the passage of time.

But the Utopia Ark had already lost its energy at that time, and it was almost impossible to operate.

So [Earl] issued an order to put them into a deep sleep and keep their souls.

If Utopia is lucky enough to get a glimpse of the future, then wake them up and continue according to the plan that has been made.

If there is no hope, then let them sleep like this until they perish forever in sleep.

This is the truth about Utopia Ark, the undead crew.

As for why they have the same five-pointed star as the devil, the answer Snow got from Luer also surprised him.

Because the pentagram was the symbol of the believers in the age of mythology, they believed in the gods and gained the power of the gods, so as to get the marks given to them by the gods.

The black pentagram was not originally created by the Earl of the Millennium at all, but a symbol handed down from the age of mythology.

In the age of mythology, believers walked in time instead of gods. They had a firm will and pious beliefs, and they communicated with the pentagram in exchange for a response from the gods.

In other words, only those who are truly devout can put the pentagram on their body, otherwise, this kind of thing will become poison.

For those who are not believers, if you use this thing without authorization, the divine power that does not recognize you will burn every inch of your body to death.

However, after the fall of the gods, no one can tell how much power this pentagram mark still has.

But even so, it can be seen that the Earl of the Millennium's demon manufacturing technology did come from the Utopia Ark.

It is very likely that the group of people who fled to the lifeboat back then said they took away the soul application technology copy.

It's just that the Earl of the Millennium may have made some changes with his own strength, making it take two paths that are completely opposite to the original undead crew.

"So it is also an application of the soul, so does the captain still think that the methods of the undead crew are a symbol of evil?
The undead crew have persisted until now, and what they believe in is "have hope", not pain and sorrow.

If they don't have a firm belief in their hearts, their souls will not be able to nourish the energy that drives the dolls, let alone become undead crew members. "

After hearing Luer's words, Snow opened his mouth in shock, not knowing what to say.

Looking at the undead crew members who were still working unmoved below, he was greatly shocked.

They have lost their names, lost everything about themselves, even if [Earl] stood in front of them, he could no longer recognize their faces.

In the long time, their souls have begun to dissipate slowly, leaving only a phantom silhouette, so Snow can only see the pure white light.

For now their souls are only souls, and there is nothing else.

But they still look forward to the day when the mission of Utopia Ark will be completed. For this reason, they endured a long loneliness for more than a thousand years... until they lost even this feeling.

"Captain, the undead crew members will need relief, in fact, the moment Utopia Ark docks, their "hope" has already been fulfilled.

Going home... to see the continuation of human beings and the establishment of a new world, even though the world below may be illusory and wrong. "

But they can't do that yet, because the only one who can give the order to set them free is Snow as the captain.

He is the highest authority holder of the Undead Crew Association, but if he does this now, then the next sailing of Utopia Ark will forever lose hope.

The undead crew will control the physical operation of the entire ark. Even if Luer is the main control system, it still needs human hands to perform operations on her behalf.

What's more, the undead crew members each have their own duties, and have become instincts that have been honed day after day for a long time even if they have no self.

Utopia Ark is at present, without them, it will be difficult to run smoothly.

However, the souls that are about to be wiped out really need to take a rest forever, while they are still on the earth, they can still see their own hometown.

"Please let them die in this world.

Captain, even if it is to free them as soon as possible, please help them find a successor who can rest assured. "

Luer's tone was much sadder. At this moment, Snow felt that she was not a mechanical artificial skill, but a human being with emotions.

"What about you! Do you also want to be freed?"

Snow believes that the unknown artificial intelligence has also spent a long time of solitude. It must be able to survive for such a long time, and it must be as indelible as the undead crew.

Luer, do you expect to be relieved? "

Snow didn't get an answer to this question, because Luer chose to remain silent.

But sometimes our artificial intelligence lady will look at the body soaked in the storage tank, and she wonders if she was once a human being?
Anyway, since the birth of her memory and self, she has been with this utopian ark all the time.

She is familiar with every grass and every tree here.

But when she heard Snow's question, a thought that did not exist in logic suddenly began to revive.

She doesn't necessarily need relief, but she wants to go out and see...as a human being.

(End of this chapter)