Embers Ad Infinitum

As soon as they saw this tall, strange "robot", Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong's hearts skipped a beat at the same time. Every pore on their bodies closed involuntarily, and all their hairs stood up instantly.

At this moment, the same term flashed through their minds:

"Monks of the Order of Monks!"

This is a very dangerous creature in the dust. It also has a name:

"Eternal Man"!

According to the internal textbook of "Pangu Biology", before the destruction of the old world, human beings had made breakthrough progress in certain fields of science and technology. Among them, the most outstanding, admirable and desirable one was "consciousness uploading".

This technology can upload human consciousness into a specially designed robot bionic chip through special equipment, so that humans can get rid of the limitations of the fragile body, no longer age, no longer sick, no longer hungry, and no longer affected by the passage of time. As for death, it only requires regular maintenance or replacement of the carrier to achieve immortality at the level of consciousness.

However, before the old world was completely destroyed, the scientific and technological achievements in this area still had many flaws, and they were never officially applied and only existed in laboratories.

When the old world was destroyed and the era of chaos came, a group of robots calling themselves "Eternal People" suddenly appeared on the earth.

They used imaginations, ways of thinking and other strong evidence that were completely consistent with human beings to make the remaining people begin to believe that they had indeed been human beings and that consciousness could live forever.

But according to those "immortal people", all the technology for "consciousness uploading" was lost in the catastrophe. Now there are only a few devices left that can be used. There is only one factory that can produce "bionic chips" that can carry human consciousness and The corresponding robots, but they cannot reversely crack them, they only know how to use these to create "immortal people" to a limited extent.

Therefore, the purpose of their walking on the earth is to call on mankind to unite, reversely crack the device, reproduce the corresponding technology, so that everyone can gain immortality, end the dark age, and enter a new world.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't know how it developed at that time. They only knew that it was recorded in the textbook:

“As time goes by, the ‘Immortal Man’ gradually exposes many problems. This is not because they are malicious, but because the technology is far from mature enough.

“One of the most obvious problems is that when a person loses the various feelings brought by the physical body, he also loses the various motivations for human beings to struggle for survival.

"Many 'immortal people' began to feel that life was boring and meaningless, and developed very serious mental problems. The crazy 'immortal people' brought a new round of extremely serious harm to the already fragile human group at that time. .

“Although the remaining ‘immortal people’ did not go crazy, they became very confused, and they began to seek comfort from various religious relics left over from the old world.

“In the end, they took a certain religion as the main body, absorbed useful things from other religions, and created a brand new religion with self-consistent but extremely twisted doctrines that could help them solve their psychological problems.

"They call themselves monks and call the hidden stronghold where the 'consciousness uploading' equipment is hidden the Pure Land of Glass."

These robot-looking monks are not afraid of light weapons and possess powerful firepower. They are like an exoskeleton device with human intelligence. They are dangerous creatures that ordinary humans cannot fight with a small team - even if they use heavy weapons, they may have to fight. Only with the cooperation of dozens or hundreds of well-trained people and proper tactics can they have a chance to defeat a monk.

When Jiang Baimian summarized the more dangerous human beings before, he did not mention "immortal people". This is because members of the major forces above the dust and wilderness wanderers regard these monks as another kind of creature, different from A completely different creature.

Of course, the monks of the Monk Order are not too aggressive towards humans, and in many cases, they are even friendly enough.

But the problem is that consciousness cannot be created out of thin air, and the monks who have lost the ability to reproduce will lose one if they are destroyed.

In order to maintain the "population" and maintain the religious order, the monks are active in various wildernesses, looking for "destined people".

If they find it, they will "transfer" the target back to the Pure Land of Glass, asking the target to give up their physical body and upload their consciousness into the robot's bionic chip.

Among those "destined people", a small number are full of desire for "eternal life" and have no resistance. Most of them dare not try due to the shortcomings of "immortal people" in the circulation. But as long as they are favored by the monks, it is not up to them whether they are willing or not.

This quickly brought the order of monks into disrepute, almost into disrepute.

At the same time, it may be because of certain flaws in the "Immortal Man" technology that many mechanical monks have certain and different problems - when they encounter specific scenes or even hear specific words, they will be unable to control themselves and become deformed. Being crazy takes a while to calm down, just like having a trigger-type mental illness or a trigger-type personality defect.

This unstable state makes many humans on the earth regard the mechanical monks as scourges.

For these reasons, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong had such a big reaction when they discovered that there was a mechanical monk opposite.

——Only monks of the monk order like to wear monk robes and cassocks outside their bodies. Ordinary intelligent robots will not have such needs and "hobbies" at all.

Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao simultaneously aimed the muzzles of their "Berserker" assault rifles at the iron-black robot wearing a red cassock, their foreheads covered with cold sweat.

They know that the weapons they carry cannot threaten the other party at all, and the other party is not as dangerous and able to target as the bandit leader who wore a military exoskeleton device before.

Facing the mechanical monks, they had no chance of winning in terms of equipment. The reason why they aimed was mainly due to conditioned reflex.

At this moment, they can only pray silently in their hearts, hoping that they are not the "destined one".

The next second, the one-meter-nine-meter-tall robot wearing a tattered monk's robe and a red cassock turned its dark, cold face slightly to the side and glanced at them with flashing red eyes.

The mechanical monk said nothing and walked silently to the man who fell to death.

A cold and emotionless voice then sounded:

“All living beings are suffering, why do you insist on not realizing it?

"Follow me to return to the Pure Land, abandon the physical body, and achieve the supreme enlightenment. You will understand that the four elements are empty and the enlightened one will exist forever."

After saying that, the mechanical monk clasped his hands together and chanted in a low voice:

"Namo Anuttarasamyaksambodhi." (Note 1)

When Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong saw that the other party ignored them, they looked at each other and began to retreat silently and silently.

At this moment, the mechanical monk in red cassock kept his posture unchanged and once again made that cold and emotionless voice:

"Why don't the two donors wait for a moment?

"Although you are not related to my Buddha, all living beings have Buddha nature. It is not a bad thing to listen to the scriptures."

Hearing the word "no fate", Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were secretly happy and breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, they were afraid of angering each other, so they could only stop retreating.

——Since the monk has no intention of attacking or converting, and just wants to teach, it is better to listen casually than to fight desperately.

Jian Shang Jian Yao and Long Yuehong stopped. The mechanical monk looked at the corpse on the ground and continued:

"Although you are stubborn and unrepentant, I, Buddha Bodhi, am compassionate and cannot bear to see you exposed in the wilderness without relief.

"I will save your soul. May you completely get rid of the body and be reborn in the pure land."

Long Yuehong watched quietly, and Shang Jianyao's voice suddenly sounded in her ears:

"How do you plan to transcend?"

The mechanical monk stretched out his right hand and pointed his palm at the corpse.

Then, he raised his left palm and whispered:

"Namo Anuttarasamyaksambodhi, the great mercy and compassion, saves all living beings, the blazing pure fire burns your shackles..." (Note 1)

While chanting, the mechanical monk's right palm spurted out streams of blazing white and rich flames, instantly igniting the corpse.

And these flames seemed to stick to the surface of the corpse and could not be extinguished no matter what.

After doing this, the mechanical monk in red cassock turned around and walked towards Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Two benefactors, a poor monk named 'Pure Dharma' and a 'monk'."

Seeing that Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't respond, he suddenly sat down cross-legged, flicked his cassock, and said in a cold and emotionless voice:

"sit down."

Shang Jianyao hesitated for a moment, took a few steps forward, and sat on the ground in the most convenient position for jumping.

Long Yuehong slowed down for a few seconds, walked to the same position, and sat down.

The mechanical monk who called himself "Monk" Jingfa flashed red in his eyes, nodded slightly and said:

"I wonder what the two donors know about my Buddha Bodhi?"

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong shook their heads at the same time.

The mechanical monk Jingfa was lifeless, and his cold voice was somehow solemn:

“I, Buddha Bodhi, am one of the thirteen rulers who rule the years and rule this world.

“He is the Lord of January, the beginning of all things, the germ and incarnation of consciousness.”

Note 1: The religious classics found by the monks were all fragments, so it is normal for there to be errors in Buddha's name, teachings, and collage with other religious teachings. Well, this is also to distinguish it from actual religion, to avoid trouble.

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