People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"——In human legends, there is a being called 'Adam Ruani'. He is not a real great god, but a spiritual original man (Adam). People can gain knowledge through Adam and get infinitely close to God with the help of Adam. However, the existence of Adam is derived from the dreams of all humans."

"Pandora, in fact, celestial bodies also dream. The dreams they dream are the concrete mental landscapes, the colorful worlds inside the planets - oh, but in today's Age of Gods, the surface is also covered with fantasy dreams of planets. ... And the gods and fairies are all extensions of their spirits. They were originally the result of the birth and continuous evolution of their will and imagination."

"And this spiritual realm, Gaia, is where those achievements are collected and prepared to evolve again. - If you still don't understand, just think of this as a dream, a dream of God, nature, and stars that continues in the 'box'. I am also a 'dream', a messenger sent by my master to manage nature and make the planetary system better!"

"God's messenger?" Pandora looked at Fairy Ellie with a certain admiration. Suddenly... she found a problem, and then looked at Fairy Ellie hopefully, "Hey, wait, I am also in a dream now. So... I was also asked by God to be a messenger? Oh, it seems like he suddenly entrusted me with such an important task. I am not ready yet..."

"Ah, sorry - actually, Pandora, you being pulled in was totally unexpected."

"Hey hey! Can I still wake up and get back outside the box?"

Pandora suddenly had a bad feeling.

Fairy Ellie smiled and said, "There is no such setting for the time being, dear Pandora, you may have to wait for more than a thousand years before it comes out."

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Outside the universe.

Qin Xuan, who was operating the ship's center, received feedback, "——Huh?"

"Brother Qin Xuan, did you succeed?" Miyu next to him looked at him, and after carefully examining his expression, she discovered that it wasn't serious, but he seemed to be surprised by something.

"It was a success - or rather, it was much better than the planned design. Not only did it replicate the global spiritual samples, it also completed the construction of the spiritual realm. It's a big step towards completing the three-realm construction project of the Mirror Celestial Sphere Gaia. By the way... it also pulled in the consciousness of the executor Pandora herself."

"Hey, if we bring Pandora in, then what about those outside......?"

"Yes, originally, there was no function designed to deliver things midway. In order to increase the success rate, the functions need to be streamlined as much as possible. The function of collecting various samples from the outside has already occupied a large part," Qin Xuan called Chaos.

"——Chaos, do you have extra resources to redesign the box now?"

Chapter 307: The cycle of life and fate

[There are no "extra resources" as you think, and once the plan starts, all temporary changes are impossible and both parties must comply. Our adjustments can only be within a controllable range. ]

[If you need it, the external detection function is still there, which is more than enough to grasp the situation of the 'Pandora Clay Doll'. ]

"Eh? Now that we have so many data samples, the box's functions should be able to continue to be used, right?"

[Not for a long time to come. The current situation is that the amount of data collected per unit time is too much, and the device needs to shut down its external functions for continuous calculation. ]

In other words, the 'Holy King of Heaven' collected too many things at one time, so that the memory of Pandora's Box filled up an entire disk and the RAM almost exploded.

"You just said that the detection function is still there. Does that mean Pandora's body on Earth is still safe and sound? But her consciousness has entered the box, right?"

[The sample collection ceremony was too large and caused a major earthquake, and the entire site has been completely buried. However, the immortality technology of the clay doll's body cannot be broken by anything other than the "power of God", and it will gradually recover its ability to act independently. If you are worried about this, there is no need to worry. As for her spiritual elements, they have completely entered the device, and what is left in the body outside is just some "remnants". 】

"The remains?"

[To use the terminology of your equipment, it is a 'cache', 'surface data for easy access'. The puppet technology data stored in your ships also mentions the brain mechanism. The residual image can be said to be a collection of surface information, lacking the deeper part.]

The puppet technology Chaos mentioned refers to some puppetry information preserved by the association, most of which comes from Aozaki Touko.

Orange summarized the brain's memory system operation module in four steps: "remember", "save", "play", and "recognize". Remembering is to transform the impression of what you see into information and input it into the brain; saving is to remember the information; playing is to call out the saved information, that is, recall; and recognizing is to confirm whether the played information is the same as before.

If any one of these four parts fails, memory impairment will occur. Depending on the part that fails, there will be different symptoms of memory impairment. For example, if "remembering" fails, you can save and remember previous memories, but you will not be able to remember any subsequent memories from then on; for another example, if "recognition" fails, you will lose the sense of reality of memory and even doubt that "the previous self is not yourself".

Pandora's body was directly missing some information.

"Just to confirm, what would be defined as 'deep information'?"

[It is the "purpose" and "meaning of life" of your organic life forms. According to the standards of that clay doll, it is most likely the "memory of God."]

Qin Xuan frowned. Does that mean Pandora outside will wake up automatically and then forget the memory of God? This reminded him of Ainsworth's puppet defect. When the personality of the deceased is replaced by the puppet, the memory of "important things" will be lost.

Darius was the developer of this technology. He constantly used replacement to pass on his spiritual concepts to the descendants of Ainsworth, developing uses using the remnants of the box?

If this is the case, Darius is destined to be just a remnant of the very first generation... No, the point is that Pandora has lost her memory of God and the box is temporarily closed, so the first generation Darius will become the new executor and take over the process of opening Pandora's Box?

Is it a coincidence? Is it fate?

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On Earth, time leaped forward again. After several generations, the gods began to disappear, and human civilization gradually flourished.

In Western Europe, there was a young alchemist named Darius Ainsworth, who later became the ancestor of Ainsworth. However, at this moment, he was just a little-known person. While traveling around, he got a piece of information - there was a rumor that a living person had been dug out of a certain underground mine.

"Buried alive? ... Was it an accident?"

Darius heard about this and went deep into the wall alone, and found a girl embedded in the wall with her clothes. Darius didn't know that this was Pandora, and she was not buried alive by accident, but had been "buried for many years".

However, he did not think much about it at that time. He was still a young man with a bottom line and a dream of alchemy, a rookie in alchemy. He just thought that saving people was the most important thing, so he dug her out and vacated his own residence to accommodate her, waiting for her to wake up.

But to be honest, Darius was still particularly surprised that Pandora had no external injuries on her body and her clothes were intact.

"Well……"

Until one moment, Pandora made a sound, her eyes were half open, revealing dull pupils, as if they had no focus.

"Oh! You're awake, how do you feel?"

In the room, the young man Darius was unaware of Pandora's abnormality. "I'm sorry to have moved you here without permission. Anyway, this is my workshop, which is a relatively safe place... Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Darius Ainsworth. I don't know if we can speak the same language, but if possible, how about telling me your story?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Pandora closed her eyes and ignored him.

"Ah..." Darius was silent for a while in embarrassment. "Then let me tell you about mine first. I'm an alchemist, although I'm still a novice... I use the 'flow of all things' as the basic concept, and modify the five elements to achieve the effect of material conversion... Well, this is what I'm studying."

Darius looked again, but Pandora still didn't react. "Haha... (You) probably have no interest in this kind of thing, right?"

Then Darius explained his passion and his ideals. "I'm heading to the south, where it is said that there is real alchemy (Atlas Academy). Oh, and the east, for example, in the ancient Shenzhou continent, there seems to be something called alchemy... According to ancient books, it seems that the elixir of immortality is being refined? And..."

"Fool."

Pandora, who had been silent, spoke up.

"Ah, my head hurts," Pandora recalled her memories, her stories... She seemed to have been wandering for some purpose... She couldn't remember, she had been wandering without a destination, for decades? Hundreds of years? Thousands of years?

She recounted these empty memories, "Anyway, whether it's alchemy or something else, isn't it just the study of immortality (me)? It seems I have to wait until the next generation..."

So, Pandora reached out with her bare hands to the fireplace in the room, where a blazing fire was burning.

Chapter 308 The Eternal Price

"When you (humans) are able to kill me, come and wake me up."

As Pandora spoke, she reached out to the flames in the fireplace, picked up a handful of burning firewood and stuffed it between her arms. The flames bypassed the protection of her clothes and licked her skin. Fierce heat and piercing burning pain spread between her arms. The orange flames devoured her body, spread between her arms, and raised flames.

"What... No, what are you doing!" The young man Darius was horrified. He didn't know that Pandora was immortal. In his opinion, this action was no different from self-immolation. "Put down the firewood!"

Darius picked up a thick cloth from his side and waved it hard. It took him a while to put out the fire that was about to spread.

"Huh... why would you do such a thing!?" Darius asked. He didn't care whether Pandora's actions would cause the fire to spread to his workshop. He was just confused by the reason why Pandora committed suicide.

"...Isn't that what you (humans) want? I...have a human appearance, but I'm not a human...You're afraid and terrified of an undead doll like me."

Pandora thought about the reason why she was buried underground - she had no memory of God, so she no longer remembered God's instructions to her not to get close to humans. So in Pandora's impression, during her endless wandering, she finally couldn't help but get close to human settlements. After a long time, people soon discovered that she couldn't grow...

Suspicion, disbelief, incomprehension, rumors, malice, fear... In the following time, in a period of time that seemed extremely short to Pandora, humans completely dissipated the trust they had built with her. The way they looked at her was no longer the way they looked at a normal girl, but instead the way they looked at an unknown monster in human skin.

Unfortunately, they had no way to deal with Pandora. They did not understand the power of God, and they could not open Pandora's Box, so they could never kill Pandora. They could only bury her.

"...Anyway, I don't need to say much about the ending," Pandora said tremblingly. She picked up a cube box from the ground, "It's always been underground... Even in that state, I still can't die! - It's all because of this!"

The cube box was thrown into the fireplace. The fierce orange flames enveloped the box, but it could not destroy it at all.

That's Pandora's box.

This is also the whole meaning of the name Pandora.

"Please, is there anyone who can open the box? My 'death' is inside... If the box is not opened, after the destruction of humanity and the world, I will be the only one left... in the endless darkness..."

"—!"

Only then did Darius realize that the various abnormalities Pandora had shown before were not accidental. Pandora was God's creation, so she could be immortal forever. However, humans are born fragile, suffer from impermanence, but pursue eternity. What humans persevere in pursuing is precisely the reason why Pandora despaired.

After all, even if humans suddenly gain eternity, it is still unknown whether this eternity is in line with what humans imagine.

In a certain Atlantic Lostbelt, everyone has gained an unimaginable lifespan, even eternal lifespan, and has lived for thousands of years without decay. ... And it is precisely this kind of life that has caused some of the humans to become tired of this unchanging, day-to-day life, and they are willing to destroy the Lostbelt in order to usher in a different tomorrow.

Eternity is not scary.

What is scary is that there is no change, and things remain unchanged forever.

Darius sensed Pandora's despair based on this, and staring at the box in the fire, he stretched out his hand, "Ahhh——"

Hands were burning.

This was the first time in his life that he suffered such severe burns.

"What are you doing……?"

"——It's the law of nature!" Darius endured the pain and took out the hot black box. "The flow of all things... birth, aging, sickness and death should be equally bestowed on all living beings! Even you should be the same... I swear - I will definitely open this box!"

Darius looked at the sobbing Pandora and said, "But who should I pray to... God, please let this poor girl sleep peacefully..."

Suddenly, Pandora's lips moved subconsciously, "Chronos..."

"Huh? What?" Darius just heard what Pandora read.

"!" Pandora was also stunned. Why did she subconsciously say this...? Was that the god she often prayed to before?

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In the distant deep space, the airspace outside the universe, black holes absorb matter at an extremely fast speed and evaporate themselves at an extremely slow speed.

The Star Gate Project is more than halfway through its progress. The outer shell that originally wrapped the star has been completely split and reorganized, and then the special space-time structure of the black hole is used to forge an inter-galactic transmission link device. It is expected to be completed in about two Earth years.

Illya gazed at the flow of cosmic phenomena through the porthole. The ship she was on was farther away from the black hole, and the light continued to twist and turn towards the bottomless abyss within. From afar, it seemed as if there was a layer of light that gave the black hole a peaceful virtual image, while the distant view on the other side was a brilliant and colorful cloud-like galaxy. What she saw was the light emitted by billions of stars tens of thousands of years or even longer ago.

This was just a small part of the astronomical knowledge she had learned during these three years or so.

——Since they are trapped in space for six years, they naturally cannot give up their studies. Qin Xuan believes that the wish-making function of the "Little Holy Grail" is ultimately limited, and one cannot simply skip the process and go straight to the result, knowing the result but not the reason. Under his urging, Illya began to learn general subjects, astrology, magic, martial arts and other miscellaneous things.

And she was the main target of Qin Xuan's urging. Because the other two did not need to be urged, Chloe had a high talent for magic, higher than Rin Tosaka and Luvia, and Miyu specialized in alchemy, especially good at complex engineering, and could replay the entire process of the dimensional boundary submarine from design to completion in her mind, so Qin Xuan simply let her be a ship engineer.

"Ah, so it seems that I am the only one who is lagging behind?"

Illya thought so. She was still learning and she hadn't even decided what her future direction would be.

Feeling vaguely anxious, she left the bridge and came to the outside of the central control room, where she suddenly heard some noise.

ps I actually found a novel I wrote 5 years ago on the cat station... It turns out I'm not a novice (I feel like I'm in another world) (Dead memories start to attack me)

Chapter 309 The flames will go out...

The central area is where Qin Xuan works. Miyu is also a permanent staff member there, and Chloe goes there for a short period of time every day.

She, Illya, is the only one who comes here the least, and there is no use for her here.

"Are you ready?" - This was Chloe's voice in the room.

"Ah... not yet..." - the low voice was from Miyu.

"We agreed that we would take turns one by one, Chloe, so stop thinking about snatching Meiyu's spot." - It was Qin Xuan's voice.

"But, Miyu always does so much, it's not fair! Space is too boring, we can't miss out on experiencing new ways of playing that only adults can do, right?..."

Illya was distracted. What were they doing? What were they doing? Emmmm... I always felt that she must have misunderstood. Even though Chloe often overacted, in this kind of work environment, it should not be the kind of play she thought. Forget it.

So she gave up the move to push the door.

The next second, new movement was heard. It was Chloe's excited cry - "It's finally my turn, wow! It's in... As expected, ah ah, it's like... I've ascended to heaven all of a sudden!"

"!?" As soon as she finished speaking, Illya raised her arm, decisively opened the door, and looked inside anxiously, but was surprised to see that the scene was not what she had imagined.

Chloe was wearing an armor-like metal device on her head, and next to her were the neatly dressed Qin Xuan and Miyu. They were surrounding a huge cube box model, which projected many simulated scenes of the mirrored celestial sphere.

This is the result of the continuous analysis and calculation of the Earth samples collected from the internal mirror sphere as the functions of Pandora's Box were gradually released over the past three years. The mirror sphere is divided into three parts. The spiritual realm and the throne of the sky are located on the outside, the place of soul reincarnation is located on the inside, and the outer side is the earthly world as the material world. However, the latter two have only been modeled and there are no corresponding samples. This is the first version of the three-world model... No, it's a test version.

Since it is a beta version, there are not many places that can be operated. It is basically the scope of the spiritual realm. The management center of that place is the World Tree and Ellie. Since the World Tree "server" in the test process cannot run without Ellie, most of her power is retained in the tree. The only small part that can act outside is the fairy Ellie that Pandora saw when her consciousness entered the box.

So... this amount of power is barely enough to maintain it, and as for transforming the spiritual realm, it is considered to be beyond one's ability. So in the past three years, Qin Xuan has developed an "Observer" device that can transmit spiritual power along the World Tree. Since the observer involves the World Tree and is the final authority operation terminal, the use of the equipment is limited to one person. Every time Miyu uses it, she can use her own engineering work experience to directly project the entire design process in her mind and quickly complete various buildings.

That speed is that of a fully automatic super printer, so Qin Xuan is inclined to give it to her.

The current rotation system was something Chloe had to work hard to get. As for why Chloe felt this was so comfortable... probably because no one could resist the appeal of the "world editing mode".

"Hey, it seems I disturbed you guys...?"

Illya looked around for a long time outside the door, and she touched the ends of her hair beside her cheek to hide her embarrassment. In the end, she still misunderstood something at the last moment.