People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

An apostle of the abyss saluted towards the depths of darkness, then he turned around and looked at the Phoenix lying on the ground, and the same voice as Phoenix came out from under the mask!

"It turns out they really have the ability to kill gods... Fortunately, I didn't do it myself."

Looking at the ground now, where is the figure of Phoenix? What is lying there is just a wooden puppet!

Phoenix summoned the puppet back into his hand and slowly retreated into the darkness.

……

At this moment, everyone in the Snow Mountain was worried about the Heart of God on the Frost Nail, and didn't know how to deal with it.

Originally they wanted to give it to the princess, but the princess was very concerned about the power of the Frost Nail contained within it. It was a power from the gods of the sky, and she was worried that it would get out of control one day.

Now that she carries the entire civilization of Shal Findnir within her, she must carefully make every choice that may affect the future.

Except for her, all the knights present possessed the Eye of God bought wholesale from the God of Wind, which could not match the Heart of God of Snow Mountain.

Although the Snow Mountain nominally belongs to Mondstadt, Barbatos actually has little control over the Snow Mountain. His previous authority was scattered across the land of the Snow Mountain with the withering of the Silver Tree, but now his authority is concentrated on the Heart of God in front of him.

Ying and Shen Qin were also unwilling to accept its power.

Ying cannot be bound to the snowy mountains, her journey is not over yet.

Shen Qin also has an Academy City to take care of, and he is also worried that the Heart of God will conflict with the system hidden somewhere in his body.

"So, why is it that the Heart of God, which almost everyone wants, has become something that everyone dislikes here?" Amber complained, and then looked at Paimon, "Why don't you give it a try, Paimon?"

"No, no, Paimon doesn't need this! I still have to travel with Ying." Paimon waved his hands quickly.

Albedo said thoughtfully: "In fact, there is another suitable candidate on the snowy mountain, and that is the honeysuckle tree. It is rooted in the snowy mountain and controls the power of the snowy mountain's earth veins. It was revived by Durin's power, and even the power of the Frost Nail has a deep connection with it."

Shen Qin looked at the princess and said, "Let it become the god of the snow mountain. Is this possible?"

The princess closed her eyes and communicated with it, which was rooted in the earth veins. After opening her eyes, she shook her head and said, "No, because it has not fully recovered. Under the nourishment of Durin's power, it should have regained consciousness long ago, but the Abyss Cult extracted a large amount of Durin's power and earth vein power from its body, and even its authority over the snow mountain was stolen, so it is still in a dormant state."

"In order to awaken its consciousness, someone must control the power of Durin and the power of the earth veins and spend a long time nourishing it. I can control part of the power of the earth veins, but the power of Durin..." She looked at Albedo.

Albedo: "I can affect Durin's power for a short time, but I can't control him for a long time."

So things are now caught in a vicious circle. Someone still needs to accept the power of the Heart of God and become the God of the Snow Mountain in order to awaken the Honeysuckle Tree.

La~ la la la la~ la la la la~ la la!

Barbara's singing voice rang on Shen Qin's bracelet, which was the ringtone he set himself.

Shen Qin raised his wrist. It was a video request from Lisa.

The previous disturbance of the earth veins was caused by the Abyss Cult extracting the earth vein energy.

"Wow? Lisa!" Shen Qin accepted the video.

"Oh, my little cutie, have you solved the trouble on the snow mountain? I see that the blizzard on the mountain has stopped, and the energy shield covering it has also disappeared." Lisa's beautiful face appeared on the screen, very close, but even at this fatal angle, it was difficult to conceal her beauty.

"Where are Qin and the others? Are they all fine? No one is missing any limbs or anything, right?"

Shen Qin scanned the crowd with his camera: "The problem is half solved, everyone is fine, where are you now? We need to talk to you about something."

"I'm at the foot of the snowy mountain right now! All of you Knights who have a say have gone into the mountains, so I had to come all the way from Academy City to take charge. I'm so tired!" The background behind her kept changing. With the sound of a car door closing, she said, "I'm in the car now, alone. You guys can talk."

Qin came over and briefly told her about the Snow Mountain God's Heart, and then issued an order: "Let the Knights block all entrances to the Snow Mountain and post a notice saying that the Snow Mountain crisis has not been completely resolved."

"clear."

"No one should have entered the mountain yet, right?"

"No, they are all worried that the blizzard will come again."

The Knights can delay Shen Qin and his men for a while, but the snow mountain is too big, there are many places that can enter the mountain, and the border line on the Liyue side is also very long.

Moreover, the environment inside the snow mountain is much better now. The snow line only reaches the halfway point of the highest peak. Most of the snow below the snow line has melted, so entering the mountain is no longer a difficult task.

The longer the time drags on, the greater the risk of God's Heart being exposed.

At least once the Fatui know of its existence, they will surely have evil intentions, and other forces will find it difficult to resist the temptation of obtaining a powerful god and a two-hundred-mile snow-capped mountain territory.

Albedo glanced at Haro and Dabai, and said to Shen Qin: "I have a bold idea."

"What?" Shen Qin tilted his head and looked at him in confusion.

"When the princess controlled the power of the earth veins to help Durin five hundred years ago, she was essentially a collection of information. In this case, can we also use the code to deconstruct the three powers within the Heart of God and create a control device to control the authority of the Snow Mountain God through the code?"

Shen Qin's eyes lit up. This method seemed feasible!

The Abyss Cult must have used technology and ruthlessness to create the Heart of God. No matter how bold they are, they dare not use the Abyss energy to directly contact the earth veins, otherwise they will awaken the dormant Heavenly Justice, and Heavenly Justice may rush into their lair and slap them in the face.

Tianli: You guys are the only ones still causing trouble, right?

With these two slaps, their five hundred years of planning would probably be wasted.

Since the Abyss Cult can use technology to create something like the Heart of God, it is not impossible for Shen Qin and others to use the Heart of God using technology.

And with the princess here, she can not only control the power of the earth veins, but also knows all the technological inheritance of Shar Findnir, which can help them a lot.

Shen Qin looked at Albedo: "Do you remember the special code we captured from Ying's body when we studied the terminal network last time? It seems to be quite compatible with the power of the earth veins. The super terminal has been calculating that special code for some time, and now it is a qualified coder. We can let it use that special code to participate in our research."

Chapter 192: The soul has no brain, but it can fucking think!

It is very common to write a system in multiple coding languages. Now there is the first coding language mastered by Shen Qin and Albedo, the second coding language used by ancient civilizations when utilizing earth veins, and the coding language of Shar Findnir mastered by the princess.

After a discussion, several people decided to use Shen Qin's coding language as the base and system framework, and then use two other coding languages ​​to implement functional filling.

But before they could start writing the system, they needed to find a way to deconstruct the three forces using code.

"The Heart of God, like the Eye of God, can be seen as the holder's external magical organs. So how does the holder establish a connection with them? Is it a physical connection or an information connection?" Shen Qin asked.

Albedo disagreed with his statement: "I think the meaning of the Eye of God and the Heart of God is like a key that can be used to open people's control over magic power. Some holders of the Eye of God can also use magic power after obtaining the Eye of God. This may mean that their control rights have been opened."

Then he looked at the princess again: "The princess is an example. Her control over the power of the earth veins has been opened since she awakened in the earth veins."

"It is worth noting that the Eye of God is exclusive to each holder. Even if someone else gets it, they cannot activate or use it. Therefore, there must be a mutual matching process between it and the holder. Only when they match can it be activated."

When Albedo said that the Eye of God is exclusive to its holder, Shen Qin thought of Ye Tiandi Wanye, the only person in the game who could use two Eyes of God. His Wind-type Eye of God is his own, and his Thunder-type Eye of God is from his deceased friend. However, when he blocked the Thunder God's "Five-spice Knife", he simultaneously activated the power of the two Eyes of God.

Rather than a physical connection, the connection between the Eye of God and its holder is more like a connection of mind, spirit, and soul, but these three things are too mysterious and ethereal.

Just like the earth in the previous life, the question "Do humans have souls? If so, what is the mass of the soul?" is a completely unanswerable question with the technology in the early 21st century.

But there is a soul in Teyvat.

Spirits, ghosts, spirits, ghosts, they are all the same thing.

And Inazuma's Yurakusai also said that ghosts and memories are actually the same thing that comes from the earth veins.

Memory is information that can be recorded by the earth veins, so what is the concept of ghosts?

Because ghosts have one more thing than just memory - self-awareness and thinking.

It's amazing, isn't it? Self-awareness and thinking depend on the physiological structure of the brain, but ghosts don't have a brain. How do they think?

Shen Qin felt a bit of a headache and found himself a bit funny for trying to use science to explain the question of "why the soul can think".

But the princess was a living example standing right in front of him, telling him that although the soul doesn’t have a brain, it can actually think!

So is it possible that the soul can think by relying on an external brain?

Wait... He remembered who had compared the ley lines to the human brain... It was Barbatos! His original words should have been like this -

"You can think of the ley lines as a person's brain. The information stored in them is the person's memory..." (Chapter 138)

So if the earth veins are really a brain, then the sources of the soul's self-awareness and thinking ability can be traced. They are all connected to the earth veins, and the earth veins can be used as a brain to think!

When the information collection representing a person is located in the information flow of the earth vein, they are just simple information, but when they leave the earth vein and come into reality, they are connected to the brain of the earth vein. Their previous memories shape their self-awareness, and the brain gives them the ability to think. From then on, they become souls!

Except for the princess, who is an outlier with self-awareness and thinking ability in the earth veins.

The living people they had met in Shar Findenir before were not collections of information without any thinking ability, but real souls.

Shen Qin suddenly felt that everything made sense.

The Hall of Rebirth is the one that has the most to do with souls. In addition to being responsible for funerals in the realm of the living, they are also responsible for the "rebirth" of the realm of the dead - sending souls wandering on the vague boundary between life and death back to the earth veins, making them pure, self-less collections of information.

Back to the current question, since the soul is real, the authority to control magic should be bound to the soul. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense that the princess could control the power of the earth veins while she was still in the soul state.

Then the eyes of God and the heart of God match a person’s soul.

But how can we find a human soul to bind with the Heart of God in front of us?

Shen Qin fell into thought. Everyone saw him lower his head and fall silent while chatting. Albedo and Sucrose, who were familiar with him, immediately understood that he had a new inspiration.

In order not to disturb him, they all remained quiet. Albedo and Sucrose stayed beside him, while the others talked a little further away.

The princess glanced at the trio over there and said to Ying, "I always thought that the leader of your team should be you or Qin, but later I found out that the leader is actually the weakest ordinary person among you."

"He is no ordinary man!" Paimon said seriously, "Behind him stands the entire Mondstadt! Well... now we can say that half of Liyue and a small part of Winter Solstice are also included."

Princess: "I know Mondstadt. The people who came to the snow mountain the most were Mondstadt's adventurers. Through their words, I know a little bit about Mondstadt. Liyue... More than a thousand years ago, a very scary person came from the southwest. He was so powerful that even the earth veins could only record vague information about him! And he seemed to be aware of my existence, but he didn't communicate with me. He stayed in the snow mountain for half a day and then left. He has never come back since then."

“So powerful that even the earth veins can’t record information? That’s really amazing!” Paimon’s eyes widened in surprise. “But there are immortals in Liyue, who should be as powerful as demon gods... on the level of Tevarin and Durin.”

"No, the information of Tevarin and Durin was fully recorded, so I discovered the special power in Durin's body. The powerful man who visited is definitely stronger than the ordinary demon god!"

Paimon: "Stronger than the Demon God! That might be Liyue's Rock God Morax, but I heard that he only comes once a year, so he probably doesn't have time to wander around the snowy mountains for half a day."

"I don't know who he is either. All I know about the world outside the Snow Mountain comes from the words and memories of adventurers. Oh, right!" She suddenly thought of something. "I know about the Winter Solstice you mentioned. In recent years, many Winter Solstice Fatui have come to the Snow Mountain. They are stationed near the Sleeping Dragon Valley and have been studying Durin's heart, saying they want to revive it."

"The Fatui! It's those bad guys again! I heard from my friends in the Knights that they are doing all kinds of evil in Teyvat. When Ying was doing commissions from the Adventurer's Guild, she had encounters with them several times. But later they withdrew a large number of people from Mondstadt, and now they are basically nowhere to be seen in Mondstadt."

Ying said beside her: "I will report this to Qin immediately."

Chapter 193: Gaga - Machinery - Gaga

"The Fatui? They really are haunting us!"

Ying took the princess to tell Qin about the Fatui's plan on the snowy mountain. Amber, who was standing by, spoke angrily first.

The Fatui are the old rivals of the Knights. They are still okay in Mondstadt. Although their attitude is a bit arrogant, at least they will not openly oppose the Knights.

But when you meet them in the wild, they will not be polite when they attack you. Amber has fought with them in the wild many times.

But when they returned to the city to raise their objections to the envoys from the Kingdom of Winter, the other party's reaction made the Knights even more annoyed.

"The Fatui? How is that possible? We didn't give them any orders to come to Mondstadt. Maybe you ran into a treasure-stealing group disguised as the Fatui!"

"You said you brought back evidence? The emblem of the Fatui? What does that prove? Can't someone else forge evidence?"

"Well, we are very busy and don't have time to play with you guys... You think my attitude is bad? You can complain to my superiors, otherwise you have no right to order me to cooperate with your inexplicable work."

"Or do you Mond want to openly declare war on us, Winter Solstice? Haha - I'm ready to fight you anytime~"

The Knights were all very angry, but Mond at that time was too weak in front of Solstice. He was so weak that he had almost no say and could only endure the tyranny of the Messenger of Solstice.

But now it is different. The bolter, sky shield and sentry system, flying skateboard and Sun Destroyer developed by Shen Qin have raised Mond's strength to a higher level. Coupled with a clearing operation against monsters and the Abyss Cult and a combat operation against Tevarin, the remaining troops of the Knights have undergone two training exercises and also flexed their muscles to other forces in Teyvat.

They can now stand up to the Fatui a little better.

Therefore, Qin spoke directly at this time: "I will negotiate with the messenger of Winter and warn the Fatui to immediately stop their actions in the snowy mountains. If they insist on their wrongdoings, don't blame the Knights for not holding back."

Paimon shared with the princess her and Ying's travels and complained about the bad things that the Fatui had done. After listening to her, the princess felt that the relationship between the different forces outside the snow mountain was too complicated.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Knights and the Fatui are enemies, but they have reached a cooperation in the construction of the Academy City led by Shen Qin.

However, she herself did not realize that things in the snow mountain were also a mess.

Shar Findenir, the God above the sky, the Honeysuckle Tree, and the Cult of the Abyss, these four are all big troubles.

"By the way, we never knew your name, and we have always called you 'Princess'." Paimon suddenly spoke.

"Eh?" The princess was startled and blinked. "Call me Princess Xingyin, or just Xingyin."

Paimon said seriously: "Then I'll call you Xingyin. It sounds more intimate this way."

"Okay." Xingyin nodded with a smile.

It is indeed more appropriate to be more casual among friends.

Seeing Ying seemed to be hesitant to speak, she took the initiative to ask: "Ying, do you want to say something?"

Ying said nervously, "Well... I just want to ask, have you seen the person who lifted the seal of Xingying Cave in the information flow of the earth vein? Is the other party a boy with golden hair like me?"