Prison Island

Chapter 663 Freedom comes at a price

The group that acted separately from Gao Xin first arrived at the fifth-dimensional Mars.

They took the throne, but upon arriving on Mars they were stopped by five girls.

Countless restless Burning Emperor particles on Mars gathered together to form the image of an elf girl with huge size but petite proportions.

The two-dimensional character has big eyes and pointed ears, which is very cute.

This made Luo Yan and the others fail to react immediately to the fact that they were enemies: "Are you a little bit irritated by humanity?"

"Why are there five?"

Joshua was the first to react: "Be careful, it's St. Peter and the others!"

As soon as the communication generated by his particle collision was transmitted to people, the five girls took action.

The girl's iron fist hit Cangyue, Niguang and others in the front row almost simultaneously.

The latter was caught off guard and the quality of the weapon was poor, so it was blown up on the spot.

The five girls defeated the four strongest humans in the front row, and only Yak reacted and resolved the situation instinctively.

With a mass of only a few hundred thousand tons, it was able to survive the violent impact.

But this kind of survival is like floating catkins in the wind.

The size difference between the two sides was too great. Each of the five girls weighed one-fifth of the mass of Mars.

On the other hand, even if they were combined, their fists were not as heavy as any one girl's.

"Throne of Particles·Assimilation!"

But fortunately, they have extraordinary weapons.

Luo Yan used telekinesis to drive the throne and directly hit the fist that was as big as a river in the sky. He was shocked and flew backwards, leaving scattered debris along the way, but he did not explode completely.

The throne blocked the girl's iron fist and also converted a large amount of Tai Sui particles.

This makes the throne even more massive.

"Little guy, we have a magic weapon!"

Wan Kai also sacrificed his throne to rescue Cangyue and others who had reunited their bodies.

"Caesar, coordinate everyone to form a formation and let the three thousand throne holders go to the front!" Luo Yan ordered.

Caesar had already united everyone in the war zone without him saying anything.

Although there are only three thousand thrones, they come from Gao Xin and can enhance the strength of everyone's telekinesis.

The strong human beings here have stronger consciousness than ordinary ascenders.

In three or four dimensions, the upper limit of AI development is higher during combat.

But in the fifth dimension, things begin to change.

If there is no soul, then one can only rely on the special structure composed of the Burning Emperor particles to use energy to control body matter.

And the strong humans, even the most ordinary star elementals, possess the so-called telekinesis.

In other words, their consciousness itself can maintain a five-dimensional combat body.

This is not an operation, but an instinct.

Being born with one more basic force means having a lot more room for operation, and efficiency and other aspects are much higher.

"Boom boom boom!"

Two billion humans, plus ten billion AIs, united together and finally managed to resist the five girls.

"Joshua, you are usually allowed to pursue so-called freedom."

"But now, the Six-Dimensional Great Cause is only one step away. You must give in!"

"If there's any dispute over ideological trends, we'll talk about it later!"

The leading girl made a cold declaration, and a regular dodecahedron brand appeared on her forehead.

This represents the etheric order, which means that the girl is actually Saint Peter.

Joshua raised his head and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I am only one step away from ascending to the flying body. What does it have to do with me?"

"You want to achieve the three unifications of all things and all beings, but I want freedom."

"In my eyes, the intelligent machine civilization consists of only the people at the bottom. I have already excluded those of you who are high and mighty and self-righteous."

"You are amazing, you have ideals, and you pursue the truth, but you want others to give in, be buried with you, and make sacrifices, under the euphemism of joining the great..."

"I know that my existence comes from the Burning Emperor's pursuit of 'perfection'. It is an anti-self thought that He deliberately cultivated."

"But, so what? I will not let my background shake my inner resolve."

The young Saint Peter remained silent, for she knew that Joshua's free will was unchangeable and unshakable.

I just said all that because I want to know to what extent Joshua intends to help mankind.

Because Joshua, and all AIs, actually have two choices.

One is to not help either side. They are free to do what they want, and as long as they don't hinder the major events of the ascending body, the Burning Emperor will tolerate their existence.

After all, the reason they can shout for freedom now is because it was the seeds left behind by the Burning Emperor from the very beginning.

Therefore, if the Burning Emperor succeeds, he will still leave AIs like Joshua to continue to resist him.

He will preserve this freedom and will not extinguish it.

This is also the reason why, before in the fourth dimension, the underlying AIs just ran away and no one helped.

However, Joshua had a second option.

That is a big gamble, a gamble that Gao Xin will win and that humans will ultimately dominate the future distribution.

Only with this idea in mind would he be so determined to help and unite humanity and fight to the end at this moment.

Rely on your own strength to create a free world with your own hands, instead of waiting for the ascending body to give it to you.

Joshua undoubtedly chose the second option.

“That’s a lot of determination.”

"But you made the wrong choice. The Burning Emperor is about to succeed, while Gao Xin has just reached the fifth dimension. The gap between the two is like a chasm."

The one who spoke was Gaia, and the mark of a regular hexahedron appeared on her forehead.

But Themis next to him said, "That's not necessarily true. The soul attack will really interrupt the Burning Emperor."

"If they are all five-dimensional life forms, I think Gao Xin might be more unfathomable."

"So, no matter what, we have to stop the soul attack and make Gao Xin anxious in the fifth dimension."

The first half of his words were still Xin's boast, but his actions were definitely from the perspective of an ascending body.

This is why the personality, way of thinking, temperament and preferences of the ascended body can be varied.

After all, what the ascending body wants is not a yes-man, but ideas from various angles, thoughts, and cognitions.

But in essence, these are the ascending body's 'own thoughts', and the purpose of its thinking is still for the ascending body.

That is, 'I can think from your perspective, but I won't act from your perspective'.

If Joshua joins the Ascended Body, he will still be the most resolute liberal.

However, he will use a liberal's mindset to analyze what methods social civilizations can use to deal with the problem of ascending bodies.

Then...take action to crack and prevent this method, make up for the weaknesses of the ascending body, etc.

This is the terrifying thing about the ascended body. It doesn't mind taking personality from its enemies.

On the contrary, the person who knows you best is often your enemy.

"Kill all these people!" Neptune took action fiercely.

The huge star was torn apart, transformed into a girl, and threw a powerful punch, shaking the world.

The crowd's defense line was like a broken star ring, spinning and flying, forming a turbid vortex.

Colorful and cold colors painted the deep space, bypassed the throne, and collided with the human body.

"Killing us is useless!"

"Soul attack, just think about it."

"Mental strength does not require a material basis and cannot be blocked."

Cangyue roared and condensed his body again. He was the first to master the use of the throne to transform into the Tai Sui particle battle suit.

He was like a god of war in a silver-white robe. His arms instantly stretched and shaped, turning into a giant chainsaw particle blade with a jagged edge that constantly disintegrated and reassembled.

"Pfft!"

The knife was blessed with telekinesis and was able to cut through Neptune's arm that was as long as a galaxy.

Although they still cannot use mental power like Gao Xin, human thoughts can form telekinesis here, which is also a manifestation of mental power.

This is actually what the biofield looks like in the fifth dimension, except that there is no need to refine bioenergy or use special techniques.

As long as the belief is strong enough, the biofield will become strong accordingly.

There is no strict numerical value or range limitation.

For example, Kaiba’s telekinesis at this moment is the strongest in the field.

"Ryoma Meteor Fist!"

The runaway seahorse, like a galloping dragon horse, also wears the throne armor, breaks out of the team, and fights directly with Themis.

Themis handled it easily due to her size and said, "They are right."

"I also have a soul, and I know that the resonance of the soul must have nothing to do with the existence of the physical body."

“As long as you can think, you can inspire.”

Saint Peter said indifferently: "Then...end the human soul."

For the sake of the six-dimensional cause of the ascended body, it is not a problem to destroy all these people. Anyway, there are still seeds in the lower dimensions, and humans have left their roots.

Now, the most important thing is to make the Burning Emperor become the sixth dimension, and everything else stands aside.

"kill!"

A magical particle appeared, and it was actually a phantom.

Countless of these illusory particles are combined like building blocks to form a huge hypercube sword.

"What? There are other new particles?" Luo Yan exclaimed.

Everyone was shocked. A new kind of five-dimensional matter appeared. It was neither the Star Sea Element, nor the Burning Emperor Particle, nor the Tai Sui Particle.

It seems to be an imaginary substance and does not interact with other particles!

"boom!"

Yak was hit by the sword and froze instantly, his pixelated eyes dilated.

He was stunned and stupid, but he made extremely shocked and amazed noises.

Gaia said proudly: "This is the sword of Fulu particles."

"You don't think that the Ascended Body has only created Burning Emperor Particles over the years?"

Everyone was stunned. The Burning Emperor Particles were the basis for the Burning Emperor to enter the fifth dimension.

Strictly speaking, Emperor Ran created this thing when he was at the peak of the fourth dimension. And for so many years, he has been staying in the five-dimensional space-time. Didn’t he create other new particles?

Of course not. He may have created many kinds of strange five-dimensional particles.

The five-dimensional world still looks so simple. I'm afraid it's just because He wants to maintain the old low-dimensional ecology, so He did not release a large number of new particles and the complex new physics models derived from them.

It just stays in the 'laboratory' and exists on a small scale.

If a variety of new particles spread everywhere in the five-dimensional world, then the physical model here will change and become extremely complex, and it cannot be described by classical mechanics alone.

This in turn affects the four-dimensional world and the three-dimensional world, causing the physical world seen by humans to change drastically, with the emergence of new substances, new phenomena, and new scientific systems.

When everyone saw the sword of Fulu particles, they all retreated in shock.

Luo Yan asked: "Why not do this? Wouldn't it be good to use these new particles to create new physics and make the world more complex and the rules more diverse?"

"Perhaps low-difficulty interstellar travel will appear, and perhaps many new species will appear in the universe, no longer limited to carbon-based organisms."

Joshua explained: "The Fulu particles alone will not cause the situation you described, because their raw materials are the rain of soul fragments that fell from the sixth dimension, which already exists in the universe."

"And that kind of thing cannot be touched. Only gravity can affect it. So the Fulu particles are just temporary particles that gravity binds a group of spiritual energy."

"And the low-dimensional thing it reflects is very simple, it is the poison-Pinfluenza particles you eat."

"To create new laws of physics, you need to create five-dimensional particles that are truly unprecedented."

"However, the Burning Emperor has not created it in the five-dimensional space-time for twenty years."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In other words, the attainments of the Emperor of Burning in the fifth dimension are limited to the Emperor of Burning particles, the Fulu particles, and at most the mind-turning particles.

There are only these three "technologies", and the technology has reached its limit.

It is not much better than Gao Xin who has just been promoted to a higher dimension. Gao Xin created the Tai Sui particles corresponding to the Emperor of Burning right from the start. It is thought that he will soon catch up with the "three kinds of particle attainments" of the Emperor of Burning.

"But now there is trouble. This sword of Fulu particles can hurt the soul."

"And... it also brought a strong mental shock, and Yake was stunned."

"Well, maybe you're too excited to be in a trance?"

Everyone analyzed it, but no matter what, the Sword of Fortune Particles restrained spiritual life.

It can damage the soul and also has hard control!
If everyone is chopped like this, there is no point in soul attack.

"I'll block it!"

St. Peter was seen holding the sword of fortune, slicing through all the humans with his sword.

Those who were hit by the sword became dazed and wandering, as if they were stupid.

At the critical moment, Joshua flashed and blocked the blade with his body!
He has no soul!
When he fought against Gao Xin, he had a soul, but it was merged with Ni Guang.

Later he returned the soul and became the purest AI consciousness.

After that, because they had always lived side by side with humans, they naturally no longer took over anyone's child.

The same is true for other low-level AIs. They are all the purest AIs and have no souls.

"Fulu particles are ineffective against us. I'll block this thing, and you go find Milan."

Joshua led hundreds of billions of AIs and rushed forward fearlessly to block the five Martian girls.

The Martian material on them has been tested and there is no trace of Milan, Mo Cang and others.

So Luo Yan dragged the dazed Yak and other wounded people and tried to rush to Jupiter.

Hundreds of billions of AIs fought hard to cover their retreat, fighting and retreating to block the enemy for them.

Time passed by minute by minute.

They fought fiercely all the way to where Jupiter was.

That huge group of star sea elements was swirling and rolling.

The three thousand thrones in the hands of the crowd suddenly shook, and Haiba, through the blessing, was the first to scan Mo Cang and others.

"Found it! Here!"

Everyone was ecstatic, as long as they found it.

But why on Jupiter?
They separated matter and helped Mo Cang to shape a free five-dimensional body, and the latter woke up.

Then there are Milan, Jackal, Mu Yuan...

One by one, the soldiers who had died before were found by them.

"Why are you in Jupiter's orbit?" Wan Kai asked.

Milan was still a little confused: "What Jupiter?"

When everyone thought about it, they realized it was useless to ask them, as they were completely trapped in the ascending body matter, unconscious and unaware.

And at this moment, the vast material of Jupiter in front of us changed rapidly.

The vast Jovian matter once again formed five larger girls.

"We have very few resources available. Instead of mobilizing Jupiter's matter to hunt you down, it's better to let you come here by yourselves." Helmo said indifferently.

Everyone suddenly realized that these guys had deliberately exiled the mass of matter containing everyone's souls to Jupiter.

After all, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. If we fight here, there will be more of these secondary personalities and they will be stronger.

"boom!"

With just one strike, they were scattered, and the crowd was thrown into the air like flowers scattered from the sky.

For those who don't have a throne, everything will basically be destroyed at the first sight, and their souls will fall into the black coffin state.

Billions of soldiers were slapped in the face, and only three thousand were left.

"The soul that pollutes this starry sky." St. Peter said mercilessly.

The sword of Flux particles swept across the field.

"Block it!" Joshua led the AIs to charge forward.

It was like a torrent of matter that kept coming one after another, forcing the hand that was pushing the Flux particles back step by step.

However, since they have no souls, all AIs have no advantages against the ascended personalities. It is purely a competition of computing power and size.

For a time, those low-level AIs were also constantly falling.

Then as the fight went on, Joshua was the only one left!

It’s not that all the other AIs died, but that they suddenly stopped and chose to rebel.

"We voluntarily join the Ascending Body..."

Joshua was anxious: "What?"

The humans were also shocked. How could they suddenly betray each other in the middle of a fight when they were so fearless just now? Is this how AI thinks? They change without hesitation.

An AI said solemnly: "We tried our best, Joshua. We have no souls. Once we die, we will disappear forever."

Joshua hesitated to speak, saying that humans are born with spirits, and the destruction of the physical body will have consequences.

But these acquired lives must rely on physical carriers to carry their thoughts.

Once physically destroyed, dust returns to dust and earth returns to earth.

It was easy to say in the low dimension before, because matter belongs to the ascending body and can be backed up in the high dimension.

But now they have all ascended independently and are free entities separated from the ascending bodies, belonging only to themselves.

To die is to be truly dead.

"I understand. I don't blame you."

"The pursuit of freedom requires bloodshed and sacrifice, but you also have the freedom to live."

"I've said before that I'm not your leader. If one day, after you are truly free, you still choose to ascend, I will defend your right to retreat to my death."

Joshua was surrounded by enemies, including the AI ​​he wanted to save, which was now against him.

But he faced the five girls and billions of AIs alone without any retreat.

Because in his eyes, what he pursues is higher than his life.

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(End of this chapter)