High Above

When Roland returned to his home, his father Moda had fallen into a delirious state of mind.

He was lying on the bed, muttering some incomprehensible words to himself all the time, which could not be connected into sentences at all, and he was very excited from time to time.

Several doctors and monks from the Huaiguang Church are trying to calm Moda's emotions, but it is obvious that this disease that has penetrated deep into the brain is difficult to treat. Even if they use some sublimation skills, it can only make Moda calm for a while.

"what happened?"

Even a good-tempered person like Roland was anxious. As soon as he returned home, he went to his father's bedside, then turned to look at the medical staff aside and asked patiently: "My father's condition was still improving when I left. I thought he had already thought about it...he could have given me a slap at that time!"

"I'm sorry, sir, but your father..."

The medical staff hesitated, but finally shook their heads: "Your father has been under the influence of quite powerful spiritual energy. If he has been in the illusion all the time, or if he has regained consciousness after being broken, his spirit can be restored." Back to normal."

"But your father has never come out. Although he broke free from the illusion, he would rather live in the illusion. He is clearly awake, but he still doesn't want to wake up... This contradictory state has hurt him too much."

Roland froze on the spot.

How could he not know about his father's condition? Lord Ian told him in detail how he cracked the conspiracy of the former Lord Ryan and how he deceived Steward Moda and harmed the territory. Helping Steward Moda break away from Ila's psychic power was one of the steps. At that time He also breathed a sigh of relief and was very grateful to Ian for helping his father get out of this confusion and not having to be deceived by Baron Ryan.

But now it seems...his father is actually willing to continue to be deceived?

this……

Not surprising.

Roland is no longer a child. He knows very well that sometimes, people already know that it is the 'right' thing, but people just want to choose the 'wrong' thing. If mistakes can bring good memories, then why do you have to do the right thing?

But he didn't expect that his father would be so persistent.

He wanted to die with the illusion in his memory.

"Dad, why..."

Lying next to the bed, Roland held Moda's hand with extremely complicated emotions. If possible, he really hoped that his father would get up and slap him again, while the aging man in front of him could only mutter to himself and repeat some fragmented words.

"So you're just waiting? Waiting for your father to die?"

At this moment, Roland heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.

Following gentle footsteps, Ian came into the room. He lowered his eyes, looked at the surprised head of the engineering department, and said calmly: "Even if your father wants to die... there is no reason why you should obey his wishes. Bar?"

"If you are really such a good boy, then your father didn't want you to leave the Ryan Territory, so why did you go to Fallen Star Hills against his wishes?"

"I……"

Ian's words indeed revealed the most difficult point for Roland right now - what he was most anxious about was that his father didn't want to live anymore.

The reason why Roland works so hard and achieves success is that he hopes that through his own efforts, his father can regain his will to live in the world again.

But who knew that just after he made his achievements, his father would already become like this? Moreover, even if he uses extreme measures to bring his father back to life, Namada will still choose to die one day.

Is this really good?

"Don't think about these questions."

And Ian seemed to be able to see through Roland's current conflicted heart. He smiled slightly and said calmly: "As the lord, I will make the choice on your behalf."

"Don't worry about whether your father will blame you in the future, and whether what you did violates human ethics or morality. I will do it."

Ian turned his head and said to Adebert beside him: "Old Shadow."

And Albert nodded. He unfolded the box in his hand, took out a test tube, and sucked it in with a syringe.

"You are all the property of me, the lord, and my possessions. You are all my currency, but don't think that you can choose the ending of death at will."

Roland was a little bewildered as he watched Gu Ying approaching his father with an injection. He could instinctively understand that the alchemy potion in this injection might be able to save his father - and this was the lord's own decision, not his. He went against his father's wishes.

He didn't need to do anything, just watch from the sidelines. Ian had obviously known about his father's situation for a long time and had made special preparations.

yes. His lord is so smart and foresight, how could he let himself who works under him face such a dilemma?

It is always so comfortable to work under Ian. He will prepare everything for everyone. As long as everything is carried out according to his plan, everything will end well.

…

"Let me do it, my lord."

Standing up, Roland made up his mind and stood in front of the old shadow, while Adlbert turned his head and looked at Ian.

Ian raised his eyebrows. He didn't say anything more, but just prompted: "Have you ever learned spinal injection? Gu Ying is a sublimator. He can send medicine in with his bare hands, but you are not."

Roland was stunned for a moment, but he persisted: "You must have thought about it. If it doesn't work, just let me take action. This is my choice and the responsibility I should bear. I don't need you to shoulder it on my behalf."

"OK."

Ian nodded slightly, while Adbot shook his head and sighed, with an expression like 'Ian has seen through everything', and then took Roland to inject Moda with medicine.

"Turn your father over."

Dead King researcher Ju Judao: "He is still in good health, but his brain is diseased. He is considered mentally dead - and we will try to use another alternative method to restore some... of his normal thinking ability."

"You know, whether it is depression or mania, it will directly affect people's thinking and emotions. As long as normal thinking ability can be restored, maybe your father will not be so eager to seek death?"

This is a comfort and a judgment. Roland knew very well that the other party wanted to make him relax. He was indeed a gentle man.

But what he thought was actually very simple.

"wanna die?"

Cooperating with Albert to fix Moda Steward, and then assisting him to inject the tube of blue medicine into the spinal cavity, his eyes were deep: "You useless dad, you will never be able to let me follow your instructions in this life." Whether it’s the fact that I became a mechanical engineer or the fact that you want to die but I don’t want you to die, this is true!”

And after injecting the medicine.

Visibly, Steward Moda's condition has improved a lot.

At least he was no longer delirium, and his breathing was much calmer.

"Wait, then."

Ian narrowed his eyes, his eyes flashed, and then said: "It will take effect in a few days, and Steward Moda will be able to wake up by then."

"Roland, don't disturb your father now. I know you have many things you want to ask me. Let's go out and talk."

To be honest, Roland had nothing to ask Ian.

This is probably one of Ian's shortcomings. He always instinctively thinks that everyone is the same as him and has abundant curiosity. For example, Roland would want to know what medicine Ian used to revive his father. .

But in reality, how could ordinary people think so much - shouldn't an alchemist lord have this ability? It is normal for Ian to take out any medicine to solve any problem at any time.

That’s what’s written in the story!

Therefore, Roland did not have any questions about the 'artificial soul potion'. Instead, he swore allegiance to Ian quite formally - not just in a work relationship, but to the lord himself, the name Ian.

This made Ian, who had prepared a lot of rhetoric, quite depressed.

"Are they really not curious?"

After leaving Roland's house, Ian complained to Adelbert: "This is a completely unknown medicine with no explanation of its efficacy, no clinical trial certificate or guarantee - Roland was so relieved that he didn't even ask. ask?"

"Isn't this normal? People are about to die, and the lord is kind enough to give you a potion to save people. Who would ask the other party at this time what kind of potion he brought out?"

Adalbert looked confused. He shook his head and said, "Ian, you seem to have less emotional intelligence than me when you say this!"

It was difficult for Ian to accept being told by Albert that he had no emotional intelligence.

And Albert pursued: "And, Ian, according to your habit, wouldn't you only carry out this plan after you are sure that you can definitely rescue Moda Steward?"

He understands Ian. Ian indeed made this plan after foreseeing that Moda's affairs were stable.

Manager Moda happens to be an old man, an acquaintance of Ian's, a mentally ill person with severe brain disease, a person who is about to die, and will definitely die if he doesn't use medicine.

No matter from any point of view, Manager Moda is the most suitable person to use the first batch of 'artificial souls'.

Therefore, as soon as he learned about Moda's management situation, Ian classified him as a target of artificial soul experimental subjects and conducted precognitive screening.

And it was impossible for Adelbert to choose any other candidate.

As for the results...

Just have to wait.

Four days later.

Manager Moda regained consciousness from his coma.

There were many people in the small room. Except for Roland, Ian, Scott and Adbot were all present. In addition, Qingchao was guarding the goal outside, and Old Farr came here immediately after handling the government affairs.

Now that things have happened, Xiahui's entire government team has gathered here.

In this way, no matter how careless Roland is, he can understand that the medicine injected into his father is undoubtedly a very important thing... It can even be said to be an experiment that affects the future decisions of the entire territory.

Not only that... Roland, who had already communicated with Manager Moda, had indeed discovered something abnormal about his father.

"Lord Lord?"

On the bed, Manager Moda raised his head, his somewhat scattered eyes regrouped, and looked at the white-haired young man standing beside his bed: "You are here... What a wonderful potion, I feel now... I am sober and alert as I have never been before. calm."

The old man's tone was calm and his expression was gentle, and there was no trace of the melancholy and decadence in the past: "The extremely depressed time in the past felt like a dream. Was the me in the past really me? Or was it the other way around? …”

Roland also looked at his father with some worry - he thought that Steward Moda would seek death and survive after he woke up, or he would blame himself for interrupting his journey to death.

However, after the old man woke up, he actually gave him a hug and told him frankly that he had made a mistake during that time. His mind fell into irreversible darkness, so he looked at everything in the world without the slightest color.

But now that the color has returned and he has seen such outstanding achievements of his child, how can he be willing to die again?

Because it was so beautiful and the reversal was so straightforward without any foreshadowing, Roland even suspected that Ian had given his father some cheering potion.

But apparently not.

Because Ian is also a little surprised, this expression cannot be faked.

"I didn't expect that you seem to have completely returned to the state you were in when we first met."

Ian walked into the bed. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Manager Moda: "Do you have any doubts? The medicine given to you is a brand-new experimental product that can... create a part of your soul to replace the brain disease. thinking area, thereby reversing your depression caused by changes in your brain.”

"I don't have the slightest doubt, I'm just grateful for your kindness to me, sir."

Steward Moda shook his head slightly. He paused for a while, and then said in confusion: "I just have an extremely clear and real memory in my mind - I can feel that my sadness and pain at that time were real. And now my peace and relief are real too.”

"But, can just a little soul and a little repair really make such a huge change? I have already gone to death once, sir, so I dare to ask, is this because you want me to survive? So an element of 'peace and relief' was added to the soul that was given to me?"

The old man and the young man looked at each other. After a few seconds, Steward Moda lowered his head and sighed with a smile: "Of course not. You won't do it. It's not because you don't want to, but it's not necessary."

"So I'm just confused. Is this newly acquired soul really my soul?"

"In other words, is it 'me' that was the decadent and self-defeating person in the past, or is it 'me' now with this person who can calmly examine his wrong ideas?"

This is a very good question.

What exactly is ‘I’? Is it the body, or is it the soul?

In the continent of Terra, everyone regards the soul as themselves...both are 'I'.

The thoughts of the soul are undoubtedly one's own thoughts.

However, the boundary between the second energy level and the third energy level is actually the thinking of integrating the 'soul and body'.

In other words, before the third energy level, the soul and the body think differently. There are different ideas between the two ‘I’s.

Because the body is affected by hormones, the mind of the body relies on the brain and is subject to change without even realizing it.

The soul is only derived from memory and obsession, but it is also easy to fall into extremes and paranoia.

This is where legends of inner demons, visions, and demonic temptations come from.

Both kinds of thinking and wisdom have limitations, but they can make up for each other.

For sublimators, they need to integrate the two, defeat the demons in their hearts, and turn the two into nourishment for the 'heart's light'.

The "heart light", which represents the "unified wisdom of body and soul", is the ticket to "gnosis and truth" and "true wisdom".

Therefore, theoretically speaking, the soul's thinking cannot completely represent a person.

The wisdom of the soul and the thoughts of the soul are essentially a replica of the body's thinking and then give birth to a 'higher echo'!

It's like a person uploading all his thoughts to the network through machinery. The network contains his complete wisdom and thoughts, but his body still has thoughts.

On earth, the body is naturally the most important thing, so compared to the body, the thoughts in the network are echoes.

In essence, isn't the soul a natural 'thought upload' based on spiritual matter and source matter?

But in Terra, because the essence of the uploaded data of the soul is still uploaded to the natural database of one's own body, the two can be regarded as one... higher than the ordinary echo, but it needs to reach the third energy level to become consistent. .

So...it's a mirror image!

——Yes, echoes and mirrors!

The reason why his family was demoted and exiled to Nanling, and the plan of Axel, the defender of the land!

Staring at the dazed but still calm old man in front of him, Ian suddenly felt enlightened.

It turns out...this is also an echo!

The third energy level, the integration of the soul and the body, is essentially the process of sublimating the echo into a mirror image, and then the mirrors face each other and merge into the true self!

But now Manager Moda's doubts, to put it bluntly, are that a relatively normal soul has been born in an abnormal body. The two are similar but not unified, so they are not mirror images, but more similar to echoes.

Naturally, the soul, which is an echo but can think normally, will be puzzled by the body that has almost lost the ability to think normally.

"It seems that I understand a little bit why the empire asked the Gnosis Academy to support the research behind the Avak Territory - Emperor Axel, this guy, his real purpose may not be to invade Isengard or... Other people’s bodies!”

After seeing through this, a waterfall of information flowed in Ian's heart at the moment. He extracted all kinds of information from the silver chip and his own memory, feeling that he had revealed layers of fog shrouding the truth.

The events that I originally thought were very clear have been stripped of a layer of clothing and become more real and clear.

The plan of Earth Keeper Axel was finally exposed in front of Ian's eyes when he created an artificial soul and observed the contradiction between soul and body!

"His research on echoes and mirrors is essentially digging into the nature of the 'soul'! He is looking for the origin of physical thinking and spiritual thinking, looking for the difference and unity between the two, and wants to find the 'third energy level' The real mystery'!"

"For the third-level powerhouse, the unifying point is the 'dream'."

"But this answer is definitely not enough for Axel. This is the answer that can only 'liberate' himself. It is Zi Han. He wants to find a greater consensus, and the dead king's 'revenge and protection consensus' 'It's not enough. He wants to find a broader 'consensus' that can be accepted by everyone in the entire empire."

"A 'standard answer'!"

"What is his purpose? Does he also want everyone in the empire to have artificial souls, and even break through the third energy level? But he does not want to create a dead king... So, he wants to create a large number of A soul with the essence of the third energy level? But this is impossible, because apart from the 'consensus', the most important thing is the 'firm belief' thinking. Without this, even if it is integrated, it is still a fragile ordinary person."

"There must be some other purpose."

Thinking like this, Ian was stunned for a moment.

Because he suddenly thought of what Manager Moda said to him just now.

[My lord, so I dare to ask, is this because you want me to survive, so you added the elements of 'peace and relief' to the soul you gave me? 】

yes.

The echo can be tampered with and some information added...

Suppose that Axel, the Earthkeeper, wants to find a way to influence the thinking of everyone in the entire empire based on research on artificial souls and echoes...

Maybe that explains what he's been doing? !

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