The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

"Ah?" The earth spirit was listening to a story so well that he was stunned for a moment, not knowing how the topic came back to himself.

"I see. That's how it is."

Kristen sighed and gave up some of her unrealistic ideas.

"Well, your idea is indeed unrealistic. A dormitory of four people can be divided into five chat groups. How can they form a civilized group? How can they fanatically believe in something?"

"Conflict is the main color of civilization, because it is also one of the driving forces of civilization development. I have seen many worlds dominated by the power of faith, and those worlds are basically fighting every day."

"Many gods ignited the flame of faith and soon fell and became remnants in the astral world."

Senior Planeswalker Miku has the final say on this.

It’s just that the way Miku described it just now was a bit strange, four people and five chat groups… Well, there are exactly four people in the carriage now, so when will five groups be opened?

Oh yes, there is also a robot, so doesn’t that mean we need more groups?

Miku realized that the three people in the car were misled by the example he gave and said speechlessly:

"Yeragond is very lucky. There is no one else in the world who believes in the divine fire to compete with her. Her actions of protecting Kjerag for thousands of years have also accumulated enough devout believers among the Kjerag people. She has a solid foundation and is expected to last for quite a long time."

"..."

Hold on for a long time? Could it be that the subtext of this sentence is that sooner or later you will give up?

Both Arturo and Kristen, and even the Earth Spirit, thought of this from Miku's last words.

"Yes, if you embark on the path of believing in the divine fire, your eventual fall is inevitable. It's just a matter of time."

"I have also told Yelagund about this."

Miku said in a very certain tone.

"..."

For a moment, the other three people in the carriage fell into silence. Although they had not been in Kjerag for a long time, they did not feel the hospitality from every Kjerag person.

However, the simple and honest character of the Kjerag people, as well as the completely different outlook on life from people in other countries on this land due to the lack of Originium disasters, also left a deep impression on Christen and the other two.

Especially Arturo, who was able to perceive other people's thoughts. It was the first time she met so many people with pure hearts.

If she had been born in Kjerag instead of Ratlan, her life might have taken a completely different path.

And all of these will disappear one day in the future with the fall of Yelagund... This kind of thing gives people a very bad feeling.

"About a few thousand to tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years." Miku said the "short" in the length of time.

"..." The atmosphere in the carriage was paused for a moment because of what Miku said, and then it eased a lot.

Once again, Kristen felt the stark difference between a Terran and Miku in their perspectives on time.

The current Terra species has only been around for 13,000 years, and it has only been a short time since it formed a civilization from tribes and entered modernization.

"Haha, this change is also the change I promised. Kjerag is not suitable for real bourgeois reform. He is too small. No matter how strong SilverAsh's ability is, it is useless. This is determined by the nature of class." Miku laughed.

"So you made Kjerag carry out religious reforms and turn it into a religious country like Lateran?" As a big capitalist, Christen immediately understood what Miku said.

This kind of small country with few people is indeed more suitable for the religious regime of Lateran. If Kjerag's output is more abundant, perhaps it can really become a new holy city, just like Lateran.

"Well, the most important thing for any reform is suitability rather than correctness. In other words, suitability is correctness." Miku nodded and ended the topic with a change of tone:

"Anyway, that's it. Okay, let's go."

Hearing Miku's words, driver Arturo in the driver's seat immediately and skillfully started the ignition... and then he struggled for a long time without success to start the engine of the heavy truck.

"Is it broken? Or has it been stored for too long?" Arturo wondered as he tried the startup process again.

"It's only been a few days since the holiday." Miku, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at Arturo, who was busy in the driver's seat, with some surprise.

The order is correct, and all the instrument panel tests have passed. Why can't the last step be started?

Miku, in a weird way, hit the control panel at a 45-degree angle, but not only did he fail to fix it, but instead, the dashboards that had passed the inspection and had normal data went out one after another, and even the car's power supply system stopped working.

"..."

"..."

"..."

A strange silence lingered in the carriage that had become dim due to the lights being turned off.

After a while, the Earth Spirit finally asked quietly:

"The battery is dead?"

"How can nuclear power come from? It's out of power." Miku immediately retorted, and then kicked the off instrument in front of the co-pilot hard.

This time it came on, but it was a red light, and the data on the dashboard became confusing.

If it was just out of power just now, then it is completely broken now... at least that's what the Terrans think.

Fortunately, through this rough action, Miku also understood where the car was broken.

"The machine soul is unhappy? How long have you been born? Why is it unhappy after being left alone for a few days? Come, let's discuss it."

Miku said to BT, words that no one else at the scene could understand.

In fact, there was no need for Miku to say anything, because BT, who was in the image of a technician robot, had already inserted his universal plug into the data port of the car.

Then he explained to Miku the cause of the car's failure with a "beep beep" sound.

"Oh, it's not because it was left there for a few days that he was unhappy, but because there was no cargo in the carriage?"

Miku scratched the back of his head after figuring out what the machine spirit of the truck was unhappy about.

Now, there is only Di Ling's antique motorcycle in the cargo box of this vehicle. Considering the load capacity of this vehicle, it can be considered empty.

As a result, the machine soul was unhappy because the empty car had no goods to carry... From some perspectives, the machine soul of this car is really dedicated.

It's only been a few days since the birth of the machine soul? Miku didn't remember using the ritual to create the machine soul when he built this car.

Could it be that what was born was not a machine soul but an electronic demon? Then this electronic demon has a really weird temper.

Miku looked at Arturo, who was most likely the culprit, with some surprise.

"Master, what are you looking at me for? I'm just a tower wizard. Although I know some programming skills, I'm definitely not capable of programming this kind of AI." Arturo explained quickly.

...Yeah, my majors don't match, next one...

So Miku turned his gaze back to Kristen.

Although she didn't know what Miku was talking about, she could sense that Miku was trying to put the blame on someone else. Christen immediately raised her hands in surrender and said:

"Although I have always been curious about this car, I have been following you all day and have no time to study it."

"Yeah, actually there's no need to study it. I'll just package the data of my car and send it to you when the time comes." Miku did not continue to doubt Christen.

Although this golden retriever is highly suspicious, I have been walking her around without a leash.

As for the earth spirit, it is even more unprofessional.

Miku looked somewhat curiously at the snow-capped mountains outside. Ever since Yelagund gave the oracle for religious reform, the aurora in the sky had never disappeared.

...Okay, I found the reason...

Miku understood why this car was born with a machine soul and was a little amused, but he couldn't blame Yelagund.

Because in addition to the outflow of divinity, another reason is that this car was made by Miku himself.

Not wanting to dampen the enthusiasm of the car's newly born machine soul, Miku turned his attention back to Arturo.

“……”Arturo shuddered all over as he was stared at by Miku.

"You and the Earth Spirit go down and buy some local specialties," Miku said to Arturo.

"How much?" Arturo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Buy as many as you can. It's best if you can fill up the carriage," said Miku.

"...Can the ones with a short shelf life be used?" Arturo asked.

Many of Kjerag's specialties have a short shelf life...at least outside of Kjerag's climate, they will go bad in a few days.

Don't fill up the truck and then have it all stink when you unload it.

"Don't worry, this car is professional, just buy it."

It seemed that Miku's praise made the car's machine soul very happy. The dashboards that had been erroneous returned to normal, and the engine that had been unable to start finally started with a loud bang.

"Okay..." I didn't expect that the car I was driving would have such a unique AI, Arturo, who accepted this task.

Unfortunately, even if the post station was emptied and the specialty products from the nearby town of Tulikam were sold to the outside world, it would only be enough to fill half of the cargo box of this super heavy truck.

Although it was not full, it was enough for the machine soul in the truck who was in a hurry to transport the goods. Even the engine made a roaring sound representing joy... What a destined truck driver.

Having confirmed that he could set off, Miku declined the plan of the staff of Kalan Trading to transfer goods from other places in Kjerag, and left the post station where all the goods had been moved away.

Headed to the next destination.

0: How to appease a naughty child

Because of the cooperation agreement signed by Arturo, Miku and his party were able to use the territory of the Perrochi family to cross Kjerag directly instead of going around Kjerag in half a circle.

According to the Earth Spirit, this way of traveling can save at least one day of travel... and this is calculated based on the speed of this car. If other means of transportation are used, more than one day will be saved.

Although this road that crosses Kjerag is not accessible to ordinary vehicles...it is not even for vehicles.

However, these rugged mountain roads are not easy for this super-heavy truck, which is loaded with enough cargo and has a large machine soul.

None of that is a problem.

I don’t know if it’s because the car’s machine soul has done a lot of things for me, so Arturo, as the driver, has no sense of accomplishment.

It was too bumpy and my butt hurt from sitting on the chair.

Arturo mustered up his courage and asked Miku to change the driver.

After asking Christen and Di Ling, Miku learned that they were also interested in driving this "tempered" car.

"Reluctantly" agreed to Arturo's request...even Miku himself touched the steering wheel for a while.

As a result, whether it was Christen or Diling driving, although the ride was bumpy, it was at least safe.

In Miku's hands, it turned into a thrilling journey of death.

Especially when Miku smashed the dashboard while driving, the other three people tightly grasped all the fixed equipment they could hold.

According to Miku, this is a naughty kid who needs discipline. You can't be too nice to it and you need to train it well.

Otherwise, this naughty car will be soaring into the sky… In the eyes of Christen and the other two, this car was already soaring into the sky under Miku's operation.

Even when it came down the snow-capped mountains and onto the plains, this truck turned into a grumpy iron "naughty child" in Miku's hands, doing all kinds of drifting, tilting its head and sticking its butt out.

Seeing this car driving in a crazy manner that seemed like it would roll 1080 degrees on the spot in the next second, other vehicles driving on the wilderness basically stayed as far away from it as possible, as if they were afraid of being implicated.

Also because Miku felt that the car's naughty soul needed to be properly trained, the steering ball was almost entirely in Miku's hands during the second half of the journey.

The ride was so bumpy that the car just stopped in the parking lot of an inn.

Di Ling and Arturo rushed out of the cockpit like a whirlwind, squatted beside the tires and vomited all over the place.

Arturo had done things in her life that made her regret, but giving up the ball was definitely the thing she regretted most.

Even Christen, whose body would not feel unwell due to such dangerous driving, had a stiff expression.

"So, do you at Rhine Life accept used cars?"

Knowing that the machine soul of this car was targeting him, Miku asked Christen who was about to get off the car to relax.

"? Are you going to sell this car to me?"

Slightly startled, Kristen stopped immediately.

During manufacturing, Miku stated that the vehicle used Originium energy that was in line with the Terran technology tree.

But Miku's inadvertent remark before, "How can a nuclear power be out of electricity?", indicates that the energy system of this car is very likely to be the same as the "decomposition beam", which is in line with the technological level of the Terrans, but it is the kind of black technology that no one has pointed out yet.

In addition to the energy system, this car must have some other things that are considered black technology in the eyes of Terrans like Kristen.

For example, this car-mounted AI that gets angry... Christen doesn't understand why Miku calls AI "machine soul". Is this another name for AI?

"To be precise, AI is AI, and machine soul is machine soul, but because of the mutual exclusivity between the two, you can treat them as the same thing."

"If there is a difference, it's that machine spirits are easier to coax, while AIs are harder to coax."

Miku explained to Kristen.

Judging from your expression, this AI called Machine Soul doesn't seem easy to please!