Sword of Daybreaker

There seemed to be a gentle breeze blowing on his face.

How long has it been to breathe so easily? How long haven't you been lying down so comfortably? How long hasn't it been so safe, all the pain and fatigue have been gone, all the old illnesses seem to have healed.

In memory, similar feelings seem to have happened decades ago.

"This child is blessed with the land. He bears the grace of the goddess of harvest ..."

Suddenly, a voice settled deep in the memory suddenly broke into my mind, reorganizing the confused and loose thoughts, the feeling of indistinguishable illusion from reality suddenly disappeared, and the wind blowing on my face became real Get up, and faintly scent of green grass and mud penetrated into the nostrils. Norris suddenly opened his eyes.

The endless green field stretched out of sight. Indeed, a breeze blew across the ground. The grass blades waved in the breeze, and in the distance stood strange mountain peaks that seemed to be spliced ​​by color blocks. Magnificent formulas and rune arrays can also be seen between the clouds. A round of giant sun is slowly moving across the sky, and he is lying in this strange world.

Norris woke up in this strange place and stared at everything in front of him in confusion.

Some vague memories began to linger in his mind. He remembered the figures shaking before his eyes, remembered the whispers of Margarita and Bertila beside the bed, and remembered that he was walking at the end of life. With a long sigh, accompanied by constant confusion, he rose from the grass and stood up.

He found that his body had never been more flexible than before.

There is a small dirt **** nearby, and you should see more when standing high. Norris stepped towards that side. He easily walked to the top of the dirt slope, and then found it across the slightly undulating hills. Someone is smoking.

A large beautiful city is lying quietly on the plain, surrounded by jewel-like rivers and lakes.

A voice suddenly came from the side: "Does it look good? They made it based on what it looks like in memory."

Norris was startled by this voice. He immediately turned his head to look, but saw that there was an extra figure beside him. It was a young girl who had never seen before, wearing a simple white dress, as if Long snow-like hair hung down to the ground. She stood there, looking out at the beautiful strange city in the distance. A simple and happy smile appeared on her face.

Noticing Norris' gaze, the girl turned back and gave a bright smile: "Hello, my name is Naritir."

Then she pointed behind Norris: "He's Duval!"

Norris turned back in doubt, but saw that there was no longer a figure behind him. It was an old man in a simple robe. He had a kind face and a smile, and nodded slightly to himself.

"I ..." Norris opened his mouth, but he didn't know where to start. He looked at everything around in confusion, and finally shook his head. "Is this the kingdom of God? The kingdom of Goddess of Harvest?"

"This is not a kingdom of God, but it is also a very good place," said the girl who claimed to be Naritiel with a smile. "But we are only responsible for getting you here, and someone will explain the specific situation to you."

Norris frowned. "Someone?"

Naritiel smiled and nodded: "He's here."

As soon as the words fell, the girl who claimed to be Naritiel and the old man named Duvalt had disappeared in the sight of Norris silently. The latter rubbed his eyes subconsciously. When he just put his hand down, he saw a The familiar and burly figure had stood in front of him, and looked at him with a gentle smile.

"Your Majesty!" Norris immediately recognized who the other party was, and called out in surprise, "how do you ..."

"I'll see you," Gao Wen nodded with a smile. "Sorry, I didn't arrive in time in the real world."

"Real world?" Norris blinked and looked around. "Do you know where this is? I woke up and found myself lying here ..."

"This is the mental space formed by the Empire Data Network," Gao Wen said with a smile. "Norris, it seems that you usually have no time to pay attention to this aspect."

Norris frowned. "I've heard people mention it ... but why am I here?"

"In short, you are dead in the real world, a few hours ago," Gao Wen said quietly, looking into the eyes of the old man, "but I am good at making claims in a different form. ' Live '. "

...

Explaining it all didn't take a lot of effort, and after knowing what happened to him, Norris was silent for a while.

Looking at the silent Minister of Agriculture, Gao Wen said after a short pause: "I heard from Beltila that she had privately suggested that you use the life replacement spell to draw vitality from volunteers, but you refused Now. "

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is something that cannot be started," Noristan said. "Some things can never be regarded as a price, even the lives of volunteers. The temptation of this thing is too great. This kind of behavior is allowed, even if it is acquiesced, it will lead to its rapid abuse. Some people will be forced to become 'volunteers' or forced to become 'death criminals' ... "

As a person struggling from the bottom of society, Norris has seen too many similar things. A missionary will easily weave a civilian offense, and then "reasonably and legally" invade his land and houses, even wealthy. Businessmen will also be extorted by divine power and royal power. It is necessary to “voluntarily” donate money to the church or the king after three shortfalls, let alone a more precious life than that?

He believes that Gao Wen, who built the "Cecile Order" by himself, must know these things better than him.

"Your judgment is correct," Gavin told Norris. "Bertila made a mistake, and I'm glad you didn't get in there."

"But you still let my soul 'live' and live in this 'mental space'," Norris looked around and couldn't help but say, "I want to know, you only intend to do this on me Or do you plan to apply this technology? "

Even though Norris had read books and served as a church attendant, he could not escape the shackles of civilian thinking. However, after being the agriculture minister for so many years and witnessing the establishment of a country, he has already learned to use it. Looking at things from a deeper perspective behind Gao Wen's move to retain his soul, he vaguely felt that there should be more consideration.

"This is a longer-term plan," Gao Wen said calmly. "I call it the 'Immortal' plan.

"In short, after acquiring the key technologies of the Immortal and setting up the narrator's neural network, I intend to build a special 'soul database' to retain outstanding or outstanding people in the form of a network mind So that they can have the opportunity to continue to serve the empire, these people are called 'immortal'.

"You are the first, Norris.

"This is also some of the preparations I have made for future world changes. The world we live in is not very peaceful. As a country that is not strong enough, we must prepare more."

"Immortal ..." Norris repeated the words of Gao Wen subconsciously, but could not help showing a hint of worry, "but I worry that this will affect our social order in a sense, and it is also a way of getting longevity in the Internet. A kind of "life chip", and according to you, the "immortal" itself had a special status and influence before his death. Would such a thing ... be abused? "

"Any good thing is at risk of being abused, the only difference is whether they have a chance to be controlled, and it is easier to get at least than the immortal plan of the state system, which is at least dependent on the state system. "Control," Gao Wen's questioning of Norris was not unexpected, he said frankly, "the government office will establish a set of management processes to ensure that the" immortal "will not be in line with the real world social order. Conflict Of course, this may take a long time, and in the long future, these systems will also undergo destruction and repair again and again, all of which are under our consideration.

"And as the first immortal, Norris, I ’m sorry that we did n’t get your consent before this. The subsequent immortal will follow the voluntary principle, and will clearly formulate the responsibilities, rights and Obligation is also an important part of getting the immortal plan under formal control.

"In addition, in order to prevent the immortal from affecting the social order in the real world, Norris, I will take back your position as the Minister of Agriculture. There will be a successor to replace you in the real world in accordance with legal procedures, and you can be a limited consultant. We will run this way for a while to participate in the affairs of the Office of Government Affairs to observe whether such a process is reasonable. If something goes wrong, we can also slowly adjust it.

"Finally, the immortals living in the narrator's neural network will also be constrained by social order. You should have seen that there are cities in this world and naturally there will be residents in the future. They are connected to the network as 'short-term residents'. 'Users', and as immortals of this world's 'long-term residents', the Office of Government Affairs will set up a management organization similar to the real world in this special world. At that time, you will find that living here and living in the real world are not too Big difference."

Norris listened to every word of Gao Wen seriously, he imagined what kind of future it was, but found that even with the expanded vision of these years, it is difficult for him to keep up with Gao Wen's thinking, he only It can be roughly imagined that some disruptive and unprecedented "foreground" worlds are divided into two. The real world and the mental space in the network run simultaneously. Countless people live in these two worlds at the same time. All knowledge and ideas will be unprecedented. The efficiency is exchanged and shared. The immortal lives in the network for a long time, which may even give birth to a new "ethnic group", and one of the biggest challenges that Cecil will face in the future may be to achieve a balance between this new ethnic group and social order ...

Some challenges are worth looking forward to.

At the same time as Norris struggling to conceive the future, Gao Wen's mind was also ups and downs.

Project Immortal ... This is a bold and ambitious plan.

Outstanding talents will be protected, valuable knowledge will be used more thoroughly, and it can also play a huge reward and motivational role. At first glance, almost all advantages.

But the risks are also hidden in these exciting advantages.

As Norris feared for the first time, this subversive, soul-immortal technology is likely to conflict with the existing social order, and the danger of abuse and loss of control will occur someday in the future.

To this end, Gao Wen must lead the Office of Government to formulate a lot of rules and regulations to constrain the immortal, strictly control channels, prevent it from blocking the flow of classes in the real world, prevent it from destroying the relatively fair social order that cannot be easily established, and prevent it Be a vent to runaway power ...

But even with high risks, Gao Wen decided to start the plan and make it one of the important "reserve forces" of the Cecil Empire.

The world is not very peaceful, and humans ... are not such powerful species in this uneven world.

Elves with a long history and rich heritage, extremely powerful individual dragons, mysterious and powerful immortal siren ... There are too many races superior to human innate conditions, and they also have extremely advanced civilization.

Their other common feature is their long life and exceptional ability to live.

As long as any individual lives to adulthood, he can accumulate the knowledge and technology of human generations.

Although the relationship between the Cecil Empire and these forces is good at this stage, this does not give Gao Wen the peace of mind, because he also remembers how the dragons recently saw through the investment plans of the Cecil Empire and Trade scheme. Although the Dragon Dragons finally agreed to join the Cecil settlement area, on the surface it seems to have fallen into the Cecil currency siege. However, there are various signs that the Archbishop Balogel did not fall into the "trap" at all. Since the dragons can see through the Cecil investment plan from experience, they must be no strangers to human's little tricks in currency. The light acceptance of the settlement area can only show that ... they don't care about it.

Behind them may be the dragon of Tallund. In the depths of their mountains, there may be buried the ancient conquerors of the entire continent.

Gao Wen hopes to maintain long-term peace with those races, but there is a saying he is clear: If you want peace, you must have peace capital.

The Cecil Empire needs some "special details" that belong to humankind.