You've become the warden, and you're telling me I'm an undercover agent?

Chapter 243: Heretics of the Mechanicus
"Even though he's become a major threat, his body is still so weak."

Chu Zhiyuan sighed at Hong Tianbo, who was lying naked on the instrument.

After Hong Tianbo was recovered, his consciousness sank again and he was placed in the laboratory of former chief engineer Bocas.

The former's body disintegrated from the inside due to Chi Ping's attack, and was then repaired by liquid alloy. At this time, his body surface was covered with silver lines.

As soon as these liquid alloys were extracted, his body would immediately fall apart.

Only Hong Tianbo's chest was still heaving. Where was the trace of the majesty of God's first apostle?
"If we implant emotional anchors into it, how far is he from the perfect final model?" Chu Zhiyuan asked Bocas.

"Do you have any other candidates?" Bocas looked at him.

At the three emotional anchors of the moment, Pulao had his own ideas;

Yuanyuan was held down by Lebai and could not be recalled;
The situation is the same for He Zhao.

"There is another person." Chu Zhiyuan smiled meaningfully.

"Who?"

"Tan Zhikui."

"Is he suitable?" Bocas didn't know any Tan Zhikui, because Tan Zhikui was just a plaything for Chu Zhiyuan to spy on human nature when he was bored. It happened that the Mechanical Church had just moved into Star City and was short of manpower.

So, it was a "good thing" for Tan Zhikui, giving him the opportunity to understand the greatness of mechanical will.

"Definitely suitable," Chu Zhiyuan replied. "He possesses both strong emotions and faith in machinery."

Tan Zhikui, before becoming a cyborg, was a doctor.

After witnessing numerous deaths and injuries in the hospital, he began to ponder the meaning of life. He was then bewitched by the Mechanicum, believing that flesh and blood are weak and only the spirit is eternal.

Therefore, he devoted himself to the Mechanical Church and gradually completed the transformation. Now only the brain is retained.

But after losing his flesh and blood, his experience as a "human" also disappeared, and a mechanical will was born in his body.

The will of "human beings" is becoming increasingly weak, but it is too late to regret now.

As the emotional anchor of the final machine, he fits the bill. He possesses extremely strong emotions and extremely powerful obsessions.

That night, someone went to summon Tan Zhikui.

Tan Zhikui made a lot of preparations, cleaning the machine body and applying oil;

Replace the perfect energy source;
She combed her hair meticulously before going to meet Chu Zhiyuan.

"Monsieur Bishop."

Tan Zhikui, dressed in a suit and tie with shiny leather shoes, came before Chu Zhiyuan. The former attached great importance to this meeting and dressed himself very neatly, with not a single wrinkle visible on his straight suit.

Chu Zhiyuan was very satisfied with Tan Zhikui's performance. He glanced at Bocas, meaning: Look, this is the person I support.

As a pure scientific researcher, Bocas had no idea what Chu Zhiyuan meant, but the brain connected to his think tank quickly gave him the answer, and Bocas blurted out:

"Based on your micro-expressions and movements, it seems like you're showing off to me."

Some things become meaningless once they are revealed.

Chu Zhiyuan felt a little embarrassed, so he had to turn the topic back to the final model:

"Do you know why I called you here?"

Tan Zhikui nodded and said, "When I came here, the brothers in the church already told me about it."

"Do you have any personal ideas?" Chu Zhiyuan asked again.

Tan Zhikui spoke in a sincere tone and with a serious attitude:

"It is the honor of my life to be part of the final machine and to contribute my all to blaze a trail for the great mechanical will."

Chu Zhiyuan was very pleased and subconsciously wanted to share it with Bocas, but when he thought of his previous performance, he immediately stopped.

"Just try to control your desire to show off," Bocas said in a calm tone.

Chu Zhiyuan could only feel the veins on his forehead throbbing, but he managed to hold it in. "Then, let's get started." Chu Zhiyuan looked at Bocas.

"I want to confirm your beliefs and your feelings one last time," Bocas said to Tan Zhikui.

"I accept all tests." Tan Zhikui's voice was still sincere and steady.

Tan Zhikui's emotions come from his fantasy of the Mechanical Church. Under the interference of mechanical will, the Mechanical Church completely conforms to his ideal.

This kind of emotion is extremely difficult to fake. Although Bocas cannot do it like Mang, he can still roughly judge whether the other person is lying by observing micro-expressions.

"What do you think of mechanical modification?" When Bocas asked, the high-speed camera in his eye was magnifying Tan Zhikui's expression and judging the authenticity of his words by the direction of his facial muscle texture.

Tan Zhikui said without hesitation:
"In my understanding, people with flesh and blood will gradually develop differences, strengths and weaknesses, and even classes due to their innate factors such as identity, talent, and appearance.

"Human beings made of flesh and blood cannot achieve absolute equality!
"However, mechanical transformation provides the possibility for absolute equality. Once everyone has completed the transformation, their physical qualities, appearance, and recorded knowledge will be the same.

"In this respect, mechanical transformation provides the basic conditions for absolute equality."

Chu Zhiyuan glanced at Bocas, who nodded, indicating that Tan Zhikui was not lying.

This shows that Tan Zhikui believes this from the bottom of his heart, which is very good.

But Chu Zhiyuan didn't know that Tan Zhikui's ideas were much more profound than he imagined!

When the Mechanical Church was first founded, the first Pope held the same idea as Tan Zhikui, to create a world where everyone is equal.

A world without differences and conflicts of interest!

He tried to complete the transformation of all mankind and put everyone on the same level.

The first Pope did practice according to his own ideas, but after his death, his ideas were abandoned by everyone in the church.

The reason is very simple. The top leader wants everyone to be equal, but the second-in-command has worked hard to climb to his current position. How can he be willing to do that?
By analogy, the third and fourth in command, and other church members above the middle level basically did not support the first Pope, but obeyed him only because of his reputation.

But as soon as the second Pope came to power, he canceled many of the first Pope's policies.

Not only that, they also developed something amazing.

As mentioned earlier, all the Transformed followers in a region are connected in parallel, and they have a master switch, which is the Cardinal.

Once the cardinal dies, the mechanical bodies of the remaining believers will also stop functioning.

All the cardinals are connected in parallel, and their master switch is the Pope.

As a result, the hierarchy in the Mechanicus is very strict.

This is completely contrary to Tan Zhikui's philosophy, but they don't need Tan Zhikui to be pious to the real Mechanicus.

All they needed was Tan Zhikui's piety towards his imaginary church, and they just needed the human emotions underlying this piety.

"You're pretty good," Bocas commented.

Tan Zhikui bowed his head and said devoutly: "Flesh and blood are weak, but machines are eternal!"

Soon, Tan Zhikui was taken to the laboratory and saw Hong Tianbo still tied to the test table.

The Cardinal looked at Tan Zhikui, patted his shoulder gently, and whispered in his ear:
"It's time to become eternal."

After saying that, the Cardinal and Bocas left the laboratory. Bocas's assistant would complete the experiment under Bocas's command.

Watching the two great figures walk out of the laboratory, Tan Zhikui gently stroked the energy core in his chest and whispered:
"Mechanical eternity."

Then, several sharp blades popped out from his armpits, torso, and arms. With just a few turns and jumps, he easily cut several incompletely transformed experimental assistants into several pieces, and their intestines and blood flowed all over the floor.

He took out a tube of life potion 1.0 given to him by Chi Ping from his chest and injected it into Hong Tianbo's body!
Then, Tan Zhikui calmly looked at Chu Zhiyuan and Bocas, who were shocked outside the laboratory. Bocas's emotions were quickly calmed down by his mechanical body.

In an extremely pious tone, he said to Hong Tianbo on the test bench:

"Come, eliminate the heretics who have gone against the will of the First Pope!"

(End of this chapter)