Chapter 19: Born of Expectation
At the beginning, Joshua had great expectations for Sibeya's rebels, that is, the Psychic Group, because of the unknown mechanic.
In the blood-stained diary, there are records of the thoughts and conclusions of the unknown mechanic for more than twenty years, from which Joshua learned that the Siboya people are a great civilization with deep research on technology, capable of creating soul puppets, capable of precise transformation of souls, and their research on the soul is even no less than the world of Mycrove, to the point of being called art—although this art is used on their own heads, but what can be done?
For the works created by the destruction of the imagination of the world by the highly intelligent artificial intelligence, there are countless works on the earth, even in the Microf continent, there are some alchemists who call on the casters to be vigilant against the abuse of the highly intelligent artificial soul, at the beginning of the arrival, Joshua felt that the world of Siboya is such a world, the soul puppet defeated his mother Xiboya, so as to use it as a material and tool for its own reproduction, a typical civilization destroyed by its own creation.
On the other hand, the existence of fighting with the soul puppets recorded in the Nameless Mechanic's book should be a remnant of the civilization of the Siboya people in the past, in Joshua's guess, they should have the same technology and culture, otherwise they would not be able to fight each other all the year round, in his imagination - or in the imagination of the nameless mechanic, the Siboya rebel group should be a 'civilization'.
But this imagination is gradually changing little by little as Joshua's understanding of the world deepens.
At first, it was a soul test for the garden children: based on the fact that the children could also play and sing nursery rhymes, Joshua felt that the raised Siberians should maintain the most basic civilization, but then he found that the children's brains did not have any continuous memory fragments, almost blank, and their singing and playing were completely similar to manipulating puppets, just as the current warriors controlled the body of the nameless mechanic boy.
The second change was to leave the garden area. After entering the breeding area, Joshua immediately found that the environment of this world was extremely harsh, and it could even be said that it was very unsuitable for life to survive, as for why such an environment was formed, he had seen a similar cause in the memory of the Sixth Abyss. It was definitely a terrible anomaly, and it could even ravage the world to such an extent, which was also in line with the speculation that the soul puppets and the Siberians had started a war.
However, can such a harsh environment really sustain the consumption of a large civilization? Joshua once looked down from the highest point in the world, and he clearly knew that there were only sporadic green dots in the whole world, and there was no large-scale suitable living environment.
The third time was the moment when the 'magic arrow' shot at countless civilians after the battle was roughly over.
From that moment on, Joshua clearly understood that his imagination of the remnants of the Siberian civilization was completely wrong.
For a civilization, population may occasionally be a burden, but it is definitely not a disadvantage, and in order to support a complete knowledge system, a cultural society, there must be enough people.
If there is a civilization behind the Siboya superpower team that is also proficient in souls, then they must know that those stunned ordinary people can be recovered, just like the nameless mechanics, who are not only proficient in maintenance technology, but can even exercise their souls through long-term mental work, so that in the long run, of course, they will not choose to destroy the resources in the hands of the enemy, but try to take this resources into their own hands.
That's why Joshua said that he had thought of many reasons for their slaughter, but never of race: after all, maybe the Siberian civilization behind the squad didn't need these people at the moment? But even if they don't need to, they will never use race as an excuse, but war, inability to bear, and so on.
But it turns out that everything is similar to another speculation, that is, behind the Siboya superpower team, there is not a single nameless mechanic and Joshua's imaginary 'civilization'.
Because of the nameless mechanic, Joshua had too much expectations for the rebels of Siberia, and it was not until just now that he could understand that these seemingly spiritual rebels were actually just a collection of fugitives who escaped from the hands of the soul puppets, and they were not the army of the Xiboya civilization at all, special forces, until the 'chariot' personally told him that he knew about the rebels, Joshua could clearly understand this fact and erase his false imagination.
Wrath? Dissatisfied? It's all gone, Joshua is just lost now, and there are still some regrets, because the mother body of the Xiboya civilization has a high chance of being completely destroyed, and what is left is just a group of fugitives with no civilization, no history, and no inheritance.
They couldn't even understand the word 'history', not even if Joshua resonated with his spirit, because their language, their concept, there was no past and no history...... Their living conditions are too harsh, the poor environment, the encirclement and suppression of robots, and the ignorance of themselves...... They should really not know that those ordinary people can be saved, and they don't know that those people are all human beings like them...... And with their conditions, even if they are saved, they will not have the resources to cultivate, because they themselves need to survive by robbing the Soul Puppet Garden.
The Siboya rebels are not even nomads, they are just a group of homeless fugitives, without any ability or opportunity to produce new things, their future is bleak, and they have no other way but to live like this, but they can only go on like this.
It was only now that Joshua had a relatively clear understanding of the current situation in the world of Sibeya, so he would say the previous three sentences.
"You're not human." "You're not human." "You're not human."
Whether it is a soul puppet, or a Xiboya ordinary person, or a Xiboya Super Resistance, they are presented separately, as a civilized individual are incomplete, soul puppets have the ability to reconstruct the planting area, produce food, and repair the world in the barren world, but they are rigid puppets, without humanity and intelligence, and act according to orders and rules, most of their technology should come from the former Xiboyan civilization, and there is no future at all.
The Siboya Superpower Resistance has shown obvious communicability and intelligence, their actions are quite orderly, and they have even learned to work as a team, but as a newborn, deformed group of fugitives due to oppression, they have no ability to produce things, and they don't even know their relationship with ordinary people, in fact, even nomads can produce, they are still civilized, but not efficient, while the existence of the rebels is only existing, let alone civilized, they are now in danger, and they may perish at any time.
And the ordinary people of Xiboya are even more raised livestock, they have no wisdom, they are blocked from the ability to think and associate, they don't even have the freedom to choose death, what can we talk about human beings?
The above three are all torn apart, broken, and not complete intelligent and civilized individuals, Joshua's evaluation of them is an objective statement, he did not insult anyone, nor did he intend to express his anger, on the contrary, he even extinguished the anger generated by the 'magic arrow' killing a large number of Sibeyans...... Because there is really nothing they can do, and for a group of people who are on the run, this is the only option.
The soil of the civilized spirit no longer exists, so how can we be strict with morality at this time?
Of course, these are tentative observations.
Joshua does not rule out that he has discovered some new information later, which can change all impressions from beginning to end, because there are many doubts now, such as where are the square buildings used for communication in the garden area? You know, those are just simple information transfer stations, and there is no central core for thinking, so who is the one who gives the task to the soul puppet?
The team system of the Siboya Resistance is very perfect, there are attackers, defenders, long-range, large-area attackers, there are attack and blast, there are means of transportation, as well as stealth support and spirit unlockers, this team system is too mature, Joshua believes that there are definitely a few similar to nameless mechanics in the rebels, who have the knowledge of the previous generation of Xiboya civilization.
"It's complicated."
Sighing, Joshua raised his head, and immediately judged where he was by the direction of the wind and the clouds, as well as the contrast to his surroundings as he fell from the sky: on the edge of the southeastern direction of the world of Siberia. So, he immediately lowered his head and looked at the northwest of the world, that is, the spiral tower, and the direction where the countless steel buildings were.
In the center of the world, where the spiral tower is located, it is the only place in the entire world where there is a large-scale man-made structure, if there is a real perfect civilization, then it must be there, if there is a historical record of the time when the steel python Siboya was kicked out of the world thousands of years ago, it will only be there.
It stands to reason that he should have left now, but not yet. Joshua looked around, and he saw the members of the Siboya Super Squad standing in front of him, their expressions nervous and uneasy, looking very cramped...... They didn't actually understand what Joshua had said before, because their language was actually very imperfect, and they only knew that the seemingly powerful teenager in front of them, who they thought of Joshua's carbon-based puppet as the essence, seemed to be very dissatisfied with themselves.
But Joshua was no longer dissatisfied, if he was angry because his original expectations were too high, then now that he knew the tragic truth behind the rebels, then he naturally had no expectations...... There is no expectation, naturally there is no emotion, at this time Joshua is just a little regretful, he sighed, and said, "Do you want to go to the garden area to save those children?" ”
"Go ahead, there it is."
The huge metal puppet turned sideways slightly, making way out of the way, Joshua waved his hand casually, and suddenly the remains of countless soul puppets on the ground were moved to both sides, leaving a way, and at this time, due to the might of the warriors, the seven people led by the chariot did not dare to say anything like solicitation, but swallowed their saliva and quickly ran towards the garden area, among which the thin boy called 'Pegasus' had a green light in his eyes again, and the speed of the super team suddenly accelerated a lot.
Looking at the backs of the departing superpowers, Joshua turned his head, and then slowly walked towards the edge of the breeding area, the black giant wall, he walked very slowly, because every time the warrior's footsteps fell, the remains of all the soul puppets on the ground would be slightly shocked, he took a step forward, and the wreckage seemed to be dragged forward, Joshua took two steps forward, and suddenly countless metals in the wreckage that could no longer be used fell to the ground, Joshua walked forward step by step, A variety of substandard metal materials left the queue that was towed.
Until Joshua walked to the gap in the giant wall, the high-grade alloy and precious metal selected from the remnants of countless soul puppets were only a piece weighing less than half a ton, and under the transformation of some powerful force, this piece of half-silver and half-green metal turned into a ring, slowly floating behind Joshua's puppet body and spinning, on the metal ring, one after another inscription appeared in the sky, and a strange power was generated, producing a huge buoyancy that made the extremely heavy puppet body float.
Joshua's height slowly increased, and he was still walking forward step by step, as if walking on a staircase of air, he rose to seven hundred meters in the air, looking into the distance.
Then he saw what he had already sensed on the ground.
At the end of the horizon, the smoke and dust that rose like a giant pillar of heaven...... And there's the icy metallic glow that shimmers in the smoke and dust.