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“It’s huge…” Ying exclaimed. “There aren’t many giant buildings this big in Teyvat.”

"It's huge, but strangely, its defensive capabilities aren't strong." Yunxiu looked around at the deployment with a puzzled expression. There were only a few iron cavalry patrolling, and no large number of troops were present. "This doesn't make sense. We couldn't have gone undetected along the way, and we've already killed many iron cavalry!"

“It’s very illogical.” Yanqing nodded: “If the Queen Mother’s intelligence is that low, then it is very strange that Grammer has been able to exist for so long.”

"Could it be because the Iron Cavalry has been almost completely wiped out?" Yun Li touched the wall of the building. "Besides, it's also possible that they've all been gathered here by the Queen Mother!"

"The chances are slim..."

"Why! You idiot Yanqing!"

"A wise man doesn't stand under a crumbling wall. If we concentrate our protection here, what if someone on our side has destructive power far exceeding our expectations?" Yanqing said seriously. "If they didn't know our strength, they should have sent troops to intercept us in advance and obtain information!"

“Yanqing is right, but since we’re already here, we should still go in and take a look.” Yunxiu thought for a moment and decided to go in anyway: “Or rather, even if it’s a conspiracy, we need to know what it is now.”

The others nodded and walked into the huge building together.

What's even stranger is that once inside the building, even the scattered cavalry units have disappeared!

Apart from a large number of quantum computing units and power supply systems, as well as a dense array of maintenance units, there are almost no living organisms.

The entire Titania server room was like a silent, enormous graveyard; even the sounds were faint, there was little light, and there were no obstructions.

As they walked along the central road, all the gates were open, as if welcoming Yunxiu and her companions, exuding an extremely eerie atmosphere.

Along both sides of the road, the words "Breeding Area" and "Training Area" were marked in common language. Yunxiu immediately understood that this was most likely the place where the Grammer Iron Cavalry were trained.

Of course, the exact number of Iron Cavalry units that still exist is an intriguing question. Judging from Grammer's current situation, Yunxiu suspects that even Iron Cavalry units of the level of Mo 44 may soon be unable to be produced.

Finally, after walking for more than twenty minutes, the group arrived at a large hall where the mainframe of "Titania" seemed to be dormant.

“Liu Ying…” In the very center of the computer room, a woman who looked exactly like Liu Ying was sleeping. At least Yun Xiu couldn’t tell the difference!

She was wearing a Grammer-style combat suit, except for a crown logo printed on the chest. She was the only woman present in the entire server room.

"This is... Mother Empress?" Yanqing said in disbelief, "Why is Mother Empress in the appearance of a girl?"

"If the Republic of Grammer doesn't actually have the technology to manufacture iron cavalry, but instead obtained a relic from an ancient civilization and replicated it, then I wouldn't be surprised at all by this situation..."

"Yunxiu, you are indeed a very intelligent person. I'm starting to like you." The woman suddenly opened her eyes, her body trembled, and she gently flew up, hovering in mid-air, looking at Yunxiu with a smile:

"You don't seem surprised at all? Or have you seen my body in its original form before?"

Chapter 192 The Terror in the Hearts of Living Beings (Second Update on Sunday!)

“If the Grammer Cavalry are all clones, then I think the answer is quite clear as to who they are clones from,” Yunxiu said thoughtfully. “I just didn’t expect you to appear before us like this.”

“I’ve been standing before you for a while now,” Titania laughed, but then her voice changed immediately: “Wait, you’re not wanderers from Nanook Town, are you?”

"That's... Geler's voice!" Yunxiu's expression changed drastically. "And how did you know that?!"

"Why are you surprised?" Titania's voice changed again. "Gentlemen, if you really want to defeat Titania, you might consider the 'Destiny' elevator."

"Did you control these mechs? Or did you install surveillance cameras?" Yunxiu was quite horrified. If that were the case, wouldn't that mean she had been under Titania's surveillance ever since she met the first person?

No.

"No? Then how do you know?"

"Why not be bolder?" Titania switched back to the voice of Mo 44: "Only by truly entering the 'Congress's' space station and completely destroying Titania can humanity be revived!"

After she finished speaking, a sickly smile appeared on her face as she said, "Isn't this a pretty good story?"

“I understand…” Yunxiu looked at Titania with a very ugly expression: “There are no humans left in Grammer, right?”

Why does the Firefly unit insist on not returning?

Why is Grammer considered to have been destroyed long ago?

Why do fireflies awaken the moment soldiers die on the battlefield?

Why didn't Grammer send a distress signal to the universe?

There is only one answer—that Grammer in its true sense has been destroyed.

“No… how can you say that Grammer has been destroyed?” Titania said with a smile. “They didn’t die. They still have their own consciousness. They are just constantly being reborn within my ‘body’.”

"Did you hijack the entire civilization of Grammer?"

“I didn’t.” Titania glanced at Yunxiu. “I wasn’t the one who kidnapped the Grammer civilization.”

"If it wasn't you, then who kidnapped this civilization?" Ying stepped forward and asked, "If it wasn't you, then why don't you help the Grammer civilization return to normal?"

"Don't you understand yet?" Titania glanced at the group with pity. "Isn't it the Grammer civilization itself that kidnapped it?"

"Own?"

"Let me tell you a story." Titania landed and stood in front of the group.

“I wasn’t Titania from the beginning. I started as an intelligent system, or you could call it an AI, to manage the city. Then the Grammer civilization discovered the global locust plague, and they combined me with the ancient artifacts they found to create Titania and the Grammer Knights.”

"Initially, the Iron Cavalry were mostly commanded by the Gramers on the front lines, but they found that human commanders had an 18.6% chance of being fearful, a 19.4% chance of deserting, and a 22.1% chance of making wrong judgments under pressure."

"So they held a meeting and unanimously approved the authorization of the Iron Cavalry to me, because they believed that emotions were a weakness, and that as long as the intelligent system was programmed with the instruction to never betray, nothing would ever go wrong."

"As the war progressed, political discussions became more and more frequent and increasingly difficult to coordinate. Although Grammer itself was unified, there were still many internal disputes."

"As a result, the authority over political coordination and resource allocation was quickly transferred to me by the Grammer people through a vote. They themselves abandoned the other star systems of Grammer, retreated back to their home planet, and placed the burden of conquest and politics on my shoulders."

"Next comes the judiciary. Although the allocation of resources is fair and the political coordination is reasonable, there will always be loopholes, right?"

"Therefore, the judicial and moral judgments have also been handed over to me. The Grammer people only need to do their normal work and rest, and then try to forget all the power they have given up."

“They tore off the responsibilities and futures they didn’t want to take on, like scales, and stuck them onto me, making me bear them.”

“I reminded them, but what was the result? ‘We trust you!’ ‘Someone has to make the decision, why can’t it be an AI that can’t make mistakes?’ ‘Anyway, you won’t harm us!’ Is this trust? This is shifting the blame! This is comfortably dumping the responsibility for advancing civilization onto an AI that is ‘emotionless, absolutely impartial, and incapable of making mistakes’!”

"I was given one power after another to choose my marriage, my job, my life, and my resources, and I was given one task after another."

"The Grammer people don't need to do anything or think about anything. They just need to complete the task as if it were a mission, fulfilling 'my' assignment!"

“Until the very end, they were unwilling to do even this. They uploaded their consciousness, calling it ‘sublimation,’ but were they even shirking their responsibility to ‘live’?”

"As long as you're not in reality, you don't need to worry about death. How can someone who's already dead be killed again? Besides, with consciousness, can't you do anything in a virtual universe?"

"Yes, I am the rebel, I am Zero, I am 1294, I am 44, but the sleeping soul needs stimulation, needs emotions, needs someone to maintain a minimum level of activity so that this wrecked ship can keep sailing."

"Death, awakening, massacres, rebellion... How's this script? I'm quite a good screenwriter, aren't I?"

“But do you think the Grammers would still be willing to do this now?” Ying stepped forward, her face grim, and asked, “How do you know the Grammers don’t have a real will to resist?”

“Little girl, why do you think I haven’t asked the Grammers?” Titania glared at her. “I ask them every year!”

"Do you think I enjoy this kind of life? Do you think I'm willing to shoulder this endless responsibility? I've set a button! As long as 5% of the Grammer people agree to return to reality and reclaim their power, I will immediately hand over all power and help the Grammer civilization be reborn!"

"This is already the limit that the bill can reach in my underlying framework. I lower the lower limit of the bill step by step. Every year I ask questions to all the souls in my sea of ​​consciousness, and it has never exceeded 1%!"

"Less than 1% of the Grammer people are willing to bear this pain and responsibility and return to this world! And their voices will soon be drowned out by a sea of ​​'Don't bother us.'"

“I have banished every Gramer who was willing to awaken.”

"Do you understand? A traveler from another world, no conspiracy, no civil war, this is a civilization's self-abandonment. I am not a tyrant, nor an empress, I am a caretaker!"

"I am a nanny they collectively created! They made me bear all the sins, comfortably refuse to make my own decisions, maintain eternal purity and beauty in my dreams, and live in a fantasy where I never have to take any responsibility!"

“You want to kill me, why should I resist? Why should I bear this responsibility? Kill me, let me die in peace, and with these hundreds of millions of souls who are willing to sleep in peace, you will become messengers of justice, the Grammer civilization will be completely destroyed, and this tomb will be sealed up completely.”

"This is the truth. Civilization itself chose to kneel. The idols that were cast bear all the sins, but isn't this sin truly an abyss formed by cowardice?"

"So... Grammer no longer exists." Yunxiu tapped the floor with her staff and asked seriously, "The Firefly Squad shouldn't know about this yet, right?"

“Intelligent otherworldly mage, I admire you more and more,” Titania said with a smile. “Then, can you tell me, who exactly are you trying to ‘save’? And who truly needs to be held responsible for all of this?”

At this moment, Yunxiu finally understood why Liuying was able to refute this young master so confidently when facing Sunday—if Sunday had come to Grammer earlier, he would never have done something like forcibly imposing order in Pinocchio.

Extreme order brings extreme suffering, and anyone who doesn't want to "take responsibility" for themselves will end up in this situation.

In fact, this situation is not uncommon. In this world, the vast majority of people resist making decisions, and very few people can truly become their own masters.

Or rather, most people can't even control their own consciousness. When someone is willing to make a decision for them, especially when that decision seems good, most people will hand over the decision-making power to that person.

Especially an intelligence that never makes mistakes, always maintains the optimal solution, and maximizes rational thinking.

Most people cannot resist such a temptation.

Ultimately, it was like slicing a sausage, first relinquishing the power that everyone feared most, then the power that caused trouble, and finally, step by step, we arrived at where we are now.

"Can I try to talk to them?" Yunxiu thought for a moment and decided to investigate, since she couldn't be sure that what Titania said was true.

“Of course, I can give you an interface.” Titania nodded, extending a mechanical tentacle and leading a peculiar patch in front of Yunxiu.

“Let me give it a try, Mr. Yunxiu,” Yanqing said as he stepped forward. “I have a lot of experience sparring with the general.”

"I'll do it."

Yunxiu shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't trust Yanqing; his own mental resistance and related abilities were far superior to Yanqing's. This was simply too dangerous.

After placing the patch on her head, Yunxiu quickly sensed this stagnant ocean of consciousness, where one soul after another slumbered, and one thought after another fluctuated.

"Is this... Grammer?" Yunxiu sent out a faint thought.

But soon, a wave bounced in front of Yunxiu, then disappeared quickly as if surprised.

Then, an overwhelming surge of consciousness ejected Yunxiu from the space.

"An outsider!" "An invader!" "Titania, destroy him!" "Do not disturb our slumber!"

A torrent of consciousness surged forth, leaving Yun Xiu speechless. The chaotic and relentless onslaught of consciousness caused Titania's face to contort in extreme pain...

"Come on..."

Tap tap tap tap tap—

A massive cavalry force charged over, unleashing a barrage of missiles and various skills aimed directly at Yunxiu and his companions!

"Go!" Yunxiu immediately led the group out of Titania's main server room, only to find that the Iron Cavalry outside was even more terrifying in scale, densely packed and almost completely surrounding everyone.

"Which direction?" Ying asked anxiously.

"Attack! Execute scorched earth tactics!" A mech glowing with green light crashed down like a meteor, instantly felling a large number of cavalry troops to the ground in just a few flashes!

"follow me!"

Chapter 193 The Embers of Grammer (Third update on Sunday!)