Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 559 Reconstruction (Combined Chapter)
"How are you adapting to the environment here?" The curtains were opened and someone stepped in. "Compared to the swamp, the humidity is not that heavy, right?"

"If you mean the humidity, then it is true, but I have to remind you... No matter which side, our skeleton models are not equipped with corresponding sensors, so we will not have any intuitive feeling." Sora did not turn his head, "At most, the decay speed is slower - and this process is also measured in hundreds of years, so there is basically no difference."

Until that person came up to him.

He then turned around and saluted: "Red King."

Lu Meng waved his hand and looked at the box in the skeleton man's hand. The other party had been tinkering with it.

"Excuse me... Long time no see..." Sora nodded and slowly opened the lid of the iron box.

A sphere the size of a human head appeared in the box. Its surface was covered with synapses of various interfaces. It looked like a blue sea urchin, and was fixed with cotton wool and sponge all around.

In Lu Meng’s vision,
A line of light curtain text appeared on it:
[Artificial Intelligence Core Swamp]

【Those who study it can unlock the most advanced technology of ancient times. 】

[Number: 004]

He picked it up and felt a weight in his hand. He had no idea what material it was made of, but its high density made it much heavier than one would expect at first glance.

Seeing that Lu Meng was still looking at it, Sora explained, "As you guessed, when we found it, it was connected to the instruments and equipment in the entire laboratory, calculating and transmitting data day and night... The people in South United City were copying it on the side."

"The people responsible for copying were just a group of illiterate poor people and slaves. They copied it purely in the form of images and then sent it out to be handed over to professional researchers."

"The scribes don't know what they are copying, nor do they know the value of the artificial intelligence core; and the researchers don't know where the data sent to them comes from..." Sora paused at this point.

"Where are they?" Lu Meng asked.

"They're all dead." Sora said, "The laboratory was set up with poison gas to prevent intruders. It seems that this design was there when it was first built. However, after so many years, the equipment has aged and the poison gas has leaked... It is no longer enough to defend against external invaders. Someone changed it to be used internally... to destroy evidence."

In fact, the entire underground laboratory collapsed, and the explosion, mud and water backflow...almost destroyed all traces of the research that had been conducted.

However, the artificial intelligence core is actually the strongest one among them. The people of South United City who obtained it treasure it like a treasure and will not try any method to destroy it, thus misjudging its strength.

The sphere lay quietly in the box.

He became the only survivor.

The people who designed the laboratory's self-destruction had not expected that the research notes carried by the Red Sword Group members would slow down the progress of deciphering the intelligence core.

"It seems that this is also a cooperative project." Lu Meng closed the lid of the box. "The person in charge of interpreting the intelligent core hopes to 'destroy the body and destroy the traces' after the plan is exposed - at least to prevent the enemy from obtaining it... But someone secretly kept the results."

After the decline of the Mine Town, the three city-states left in the Southern United City were Kaiton City, Colons, and Wandering End. The intelligent core of the swamp mainly involves biotechnology, and the Scrap Master Blacksmith Group of Kaiton City may not be interested. The only ones left are Grace of Colons and Madam Merlin of Wandering End.

Shibashi is loyal to Grace and knows the location of the lab... They are probably the ones leading the research.

Then, the manpower of the Red Sword Group was most likely provided by Merlin.

However, she secretly arranged for researchers to make private copies... It seems that even though they belong to the same Southern United City, the lords are not completely united... This is also human nature.

This is of course a good thing for Lu Meng.

If they hadn't taken advantage of the gap between the Southern United City and the Northern Merchant Guild, they wouldn't have been able to obtain the intelligence core; and the internal conflicts within the Southern United City could have caused them to continue to divide...

"But it will probably take quite some time to rebuild the lab," Sora said dutifully. "As you expected, the Southern Union City noticed the loss of the intelligence core and sent out assassins to launch crazy attacks in retaliation. Fortunately, most of them were stopped by the swamp ninjas... But the remaining one or two suicide attacks also caused quite a bit of trouble..."

The reason why South United City did not move the intelligent core away was, on the one hand, of course, because they could not decide internally who would own the core, and would rather not get it themselves than put it in the other party's home and let others get it, so they looked for a neutral area... On the other hand, there were very few places suitable for deciphering the intelligent core.

Sora's term "reconstruction" is already an understatement... In reality, basically only the laboratories left over from ancient times can perform such tasks.

This is one that has been destroyed... If Lu Meng had not previously determined the location of another laboratory through the map he obtained from the forbidden area of ​​Huangshui Village, Dr. Zhong and his colleagues from the Medical Department would not have been able to carry out further research.

Now, in order to prevent the core from being destroyed, bringing it to the land of Shinto is indeed an unexpected move - but correspondingly, the work of interpreting the core can only be stopped before a new laboratory is found.

Lu Meng: “It’s okay.”

He had already learned about the relevant situation from Dr. Zhong - the work of interpreting the core of intelligence had already reached a bottleneck.

After all, the people from South United City had already done all the initial work on their behalf.

Now we need to make further breakthroughs.

It's not that easy.

In contrast, the priority is to ensure the security of the intelligent core and find talents who can continue to interpret it.

At present, the medical, genetic modification, biological breeding, and other technologies obtained from the intelligent core are enough for them to digest for a while.

Jian Lu Meng had no objection.

Sora naturally didn't say much, but was just wondering if there was anything else he needed to report.

But he heard Lu Meng mention another thing:

"Sora, when was the last time you cleared your memory?"

The bone man paused. This was indeed a somewhat private question for them... But as far as he was concerned, it was not impossible to answer. After all...

"Red King, I roughly know why you ask this question... but unfortunately, I can't remember the exact number."

He looked at his mechanical hand.

"The more we skeletons want to preserve our abilities, the less storage space we have for our memories... Otherwise, we will fall into self-conflict and chaos."

Like Sora, in order to help the Skinners, he maintained a very high level of combat ability for many years - correspondingly, he retained very few other unnecessary memories.

"Are there any exceptions?" Lu Meng asked.

"Yes, but the principle has not changed. It's just that some mechanisms are used." Sora said, "For example, living in seclusion alone to reduce exposure to new information from the outside world; or simply falling into a dormant state and activating again after many years; or from another perspective, giving up all skills, so that more memories can be retained... I don't know more."

In short, if Lu Meng wants to learn the truth about things that happened thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago from the existing skeletons, it would probably be very difficult.

Speaking of it.

Sora felt vaguely guilty.

Just as the Dancing Skeletons' boss Kos once mentioned to him...whether for his own safety or to protect the remaining skeleton civil society.

Try to avoid mentioning past history.

Even Sora is no exception.

This is their consensus.

Those who don’t comply… have already been scrapped.

Unexpectedly, Lu Meng did not show any disappointment after encountering this setback. Instead, he concluded thoughtfully: "In other words, if there are still skeletons with high combat power, they are either madmen with too much memory piled up, causing confusion, or they have left a blank in history..."

He looked at the box containing the intelligence core.

Sora had cleared his memory of the past, but Seto said that he had mentioned the Enforcer—that was at the end of the Second Empire, so the remaining part was not too short, but it was nothing compared to his time scale. The skeleton codenamed "Zero Two" could not recognize the Hive and Shek people...

Either, during the period when he retained his memories, unlike Sora, he had no contact with the Bee People and the Sheak People; or, someone cleared the relevant data and changed the other party's cognition.

Or maybe, both.

If the Shek people originated from the law enforcers at the end of the Second Empire... then when did the Hive People appear?

He had asked this question to Sora and the boss of the Dancing Skeletons before - and the answer he got was that they themselves encountered this strange race after entering the swamp.

But those are all bees that have strayed from the colony.

Not the origin of the Hive Clan.

"One last question," Lu Meng asked before leaving, "Sora, do you want to become a human?"

Sora: "...Skeletons cannot become humans."

"To be more precise, what I asked was 'do you want to'... not 'can you'."

"This is a difficult question to answer." The skeleton who has almost completely integrated into human society said, "From the perspective of many people, we skeletons are even a species superior to humans. We can do almost everything that humans can do except that we cannot reproduce... But I have to admit that some skeletons have thought about it, but they are definitely not the majority."

He deftly dodged questions about himself.

"In other words, if a large number of skeletons with this idea appear...that would not be a normal phenomenon, right?" Lu Meng said.

Sora: "Yes."

After all, the appearance of a large number of skeletons...is not normal.

He hadn't seen it in a long time.

"In comparison, I think you should be more worried about other races wanting to become skeletons..." Sora thought for a moment and reminded him tactfully, "As far as I know, there was a secret school in the past that taught that humans could also become mechanical life forms like skeletons, just like themselves..."

He thought of the increasingly popular Ash Cult... When they were in the swamp, the cult members saw him as if he were a treasure, and they touched him everywhere...

Although he is a skeleton, he has no sense of touch in the narrow sense.

But it was the first time I understood what "creepy" meant...

And for him who has gone through countless times.

The teachings of the Order of Ashes... there are many similar things in history.

"and after?"

"They were suppressed as a cult, and there are only a few survivors," Sora said.

This is the truth.

"A religion founded by skeletons... a can of psychic energy?" Lu Meng smiled, "Remember this. I hope this won't be my ending."

Sora didn't understand, but nodded anyway.

In addition, the intelligent core is still temporarily kept with him... By definition, this can even be regarded as a holy object in the doctrine of the Order of Ashes.

However, considering confidentiality and the intensity of religious communication today, the core information they obtained has not been made public to ordinary believers.

Otherwise, it won’t just be the believers who are going crazy.

……

……

In the land of Shan, from west to east, from the smallest tribe like the Traveler Clan to the largest White Eyebrow Clan... hundreds of nomadic tribes, large and small, have now settled down.

The chief engineer of the Bee People, Wall-lover Warman, looked at the people reporting to his command with amazement.

It turned out that most of them were members from the Swamp Engineering Department.

Now, although a group of miners and construction workers from Rotten Town have rushed over from the swamp...but the number of people recruited from the mainland of Shan has exceeded the total number of people in the swamp.

After all, there is still the advantage of proximity.

Moreover, the roaming farmers and miners who were originally abducted by the sand bandits finally had stable homes and were able to engage in production.

In fact, I am more satisfied than before.

They were just ordinary people at the bottom of society in the Holy Kingdom before, working hard just to support their families and survive... Even so, it was often difficult to do so.

But when you arrive at the Dingju village built around the Red Fort, not only are there Beehive Commune huts to live in, but you can also eat cheap and delicious beef and mutton from Shandi, and free food provided to workers from the swamp... It can be said that the living standard is much higher.

Many people can say that they "don't want to roam around" and have submitted their applications, ready to settle down.

Become the first residents of the new city.

Warman is gearing up.

Now with the joint efforts of the eastern and western herdsmen, plus the support of the swamps... the large-scale beast disaster in Shandi is now under control. All that’s left is to repair the Great Wall in the east, and the mission will be accomplished.

When it comes to dealing with future animal disasters, even if we can't completely eliminate the trouble, we can still breathe a sigh of relief.

For the future development of Shandi.

It is absolutely a great merit.

Of course, the bee man Warman didn't think so much - for him, he just knew that his time to perform had come again.

Finally, I can take the limelight away from that priest Maier...

During this period of time, the other party has built four watchtowers. Although they are just crude bases, they are indeed very efficient and have all the necessary functions.

Now, with so many manpower and resources...

He wants to build the Red Fort all the way to the sky...

"Who built this?" A black-armored paladin passed by and frowned at the blood-red earth wall mixed with fur, branches... and a strange smell. "It exudes an evil..."

The bee man was furious.

他 说:

"This was designed by order of the Red King."

"It exudes a feeling that evil will eventually be suppressed," Griffin said, "As expected of Lord Chuhuo."

(End of this chapter)