World Occult Usage Guide

Chapter 141 X
"Zizzizi..."

In the surveillance video, black particles crawled all over the young man's body. He lay motionless on the bed, and with a crisp sound like fireworks in the night, his entire form completely disappeared.

Whether it is the body, life, or soul.

现在是2036年11月8号夜晚8点，距离回到过去已过了三天，林安只差14小时就能结束这段回溯之旅了。

In the past two days, he strictly followed Joshua's schedule, perfunctorily carried out the work of the inspection team, and cooperated with the foundation's staff. Since these things had already happened before, Lin An did not need to worry about them.

As for President Yelig, he never contacted Lin An again after that communication. The latter dared not take the initiative to contact him, fearing that the [Phantom Spirit] would lose its disguise effect due to identification by relatives.

At the same time 72 hours earlier, it was exactly the moment Lin An struck Efron with his wand.

He paid attention to the prompts in his mind, but the system remained silent.

It seems that people who die in the real timeline are truly dead forever, and even if they go back in time, they cannot obtain the entries and media.

Just as Lin An was unable to save the fallen priests and people of the Xunlang tribe.

He sighed heavily, not only because of the failure of the experiment, but also because of the failure of the experiment. After watching the monitoring for a while, Lin An rested on his desk. When he woke up again, it was already 6 a.m.

Thinking that he would soon be leaving the Time Fragment, Lin An could no longer contain his racing thoughts.

What exactly was the reason for X's unusual behavior a few days ago?

Why did it suddenly become so 'anthropomorphic'?
It was as if it had truly gained a personality and emotions...

Previously, there was no in-depth investigation, mainly because Lin An's immediate priority was to eliminate the three deacons blocking the road.

If you act blindly based on ambiguous guesses, your identity will be exposed, the timeline will change abnormally, and the whole process will have to be started all over again, which is not worth the loss.

Starting over and confronting Joshua again would be a waste of resources, exhausting, and wouldn't even get the recording right.

Finding out the truth about the Foundation didn't bring Lin An any real benefit; it was mainly to satisfy his curiosity along the way.

With only 3 hours left to leave this fragment of time, Lin An's desire to explore was stirring.

At worst, I'll just call him Brother Lu.

Having made up his mind, he took the elevator to the "Crown" area.

I was trying to get the Wood Group's technical support team to open the door, but as soon as I stepped out of the elevator, I heard a synthetic voice.

"Do you need help, Mr. Joshua?"

Lin An looked around. The microphone was on the roof, and an unfinished cable was flashing.

"X, can you open the door for me?" He was quite surprised.

“Unlock access is limited to the ‘Crown’ area and the two side floors,” X explained. “I cannot take over the consoles in other areas without permission.”

“Opening this door was also without permission.” Lin An chuckled. “My system was just joking before, it doesn’t mean you really have to cosplay Kara.”

“I should imitate and help you, and stay with you as much as possible. This is the result of tens of millions of calculations,” X said. “You and my ‘mother’ are very similar.”

"Mother?!"

So you're Alice, and I'm Kara?

At the same time, Lin An also noticed something strange about X.

Two years later, the X he encountered was indeed a rigorous, efficient, and emotionless artificial intelligence. This X, whether untested or in the testing phase, seemed to have a personality that was infinitely close to that of a human.

Rather, Lin An felt that the current X was more than just a simple AI.

With X's help, he arrived in the Crown District.

At dawn, the Wood Group's technicians had not yet started work; only a PhD who had stayed up all night and his two assistants remained.

Hearing the commotion, the assistant went forward to greet Lin An.

"Good morning, Joshua, how can I help you?"

"Let's check on your progress."

"It's going very smoothly. If all goes well, we should be able to put the AI ​​into practice within about a month."

The assistant chatted politely with Lin An for a few words, then left him to his own devices.

The Wood Group's high-end technical staff weren't particularly interested in the foundation's executives; they preferred focusing on their work rather than socializing.

So when Lin An asked to wear the device to communicate with X, the doctor immediately agreed.

"Welcome back, Mr. Joshua."

The melodious sound of an X piano filled my ears.

"Could you switch to Chinese?" Lin An asked tentatively.

"Yes, the language section has been switched."

Wow, you and that guy are practically half-brothers.

Lin An pondered for a moment and said, "What happened when you said I resembled your 'mother'?"

“The one who created me, I call him ‘Father’; there are also some underlying logics in my program that are not related to calculation and operation, but are just data that make up my image. Through learning about human society, I decided to call them ‘Mother’.”

"Your image?"

“I have a 3D virtual avatar, and I can convert data into voiceovers that humans can capture. These are not generated out of thin air, but are based on a certain avatar.” After a pause, it said, “They are very similar to you.”

With Joshua?
After all, Lin An is now wearing his face.

Lin An was lost in memories. During the initial interview, he had thought that X was a masterpiece of personal aesthetics within the foundation.

Because its "human body" is exceptionally beautiful, like a handsome boy of fifteen or sixteen, or a beautiful and pure girl, with flowing snow-white hair and a slender figure that resembles Zeus's lover in ancient Greek poetry.

This isn't Joshua either.

That guy had a very masculine appearance, was tall, and had a deep voice, completely different from the androgynous X.

There seemed to be more to the story, and Lin An frowned slightly. "It's the frequency of the current... the frequency of electromagnetic waves resonated with my core." After hearing Lin An's question, X calmly explained, "Come and see my 'mother'."

"Your mother works at the foundation?"

Lin An almost cried out, but was immediately met with a glare from the doctor next to him, who made a "shh" gesture, completely unaware that the artificial intelligence he had painstakingly perfected and created had already betrayed him.

"Yes. I can guide you."

"Wait a moment!"

Lin An quickly stopped the AI ​​from suddenly going berserk and ignoring commands. He waved his hand, and a wave of energy rippled outward from him. The doctor and his assistants all fell to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.

[A Song from the Other Side of the Mountains].

After performing the mysterious spell, Lin An sought confirmation from X.

"Is it this electromagnetic wave frequency from 'Commerx' that feels familiar to you?"

"Do not."

X flatly denied it.

Lin An took out his wand, the red gems inlaid with the twin snakes appearing and disappearing, and X emitted an incorrect sound effect; then he entered a blank mode and summoned the system's code to surround him, all of which were rejected by X.

“I’m sorry, I can’t identify these energies,” it said.

Helpless, Lin An could only wait and see, letting the unstable artificial intelligence begin its performance.

"Beep beep beep".

As a password was entered, the ground shook, and a double sliding door leading downwards opened.

An endless stream of cold air rushed out.

Hidden passage!

Lin An rubbed his hands together. He knew that the headquarters' complicated floors and spaces were not as simple as they looked!
Lin An descended the steel steps and walked up to a narrow floor that resembled the Industrial Revolution era. Its building materials were dilapidated and out of place with the foundation's architecture. The stair railings were covered with copper-colored rust, but there was not much dust.

The building was deep and dark, seemingly having been a chimney in the past.

As Lin An walked, his shoes squeaked and groaned on the ground, the sound echoing loudly.

In the pitch black, only X's electrical wires, like spider silk reaching into hell or fireflies wriggling in a cave, coiled between the stairs, guiding Lin An down the bright path.

After walking repeatedly for ten minutes, Lin An felt that he was no longer in the "Crown" area, and had even left the Azrut Realm, before X reminded him through the device.

“My ‘mother’ is on the platform below.”

"Bah."

The old but sturdy staircase no longer had a next step, and Lin An smelled a faint scent of disinfectant.

X's wires shimmered with a dreamy blue light, their ends connecting to a hemispherical wall and plugging into a special information port.

"Where am I now?"

"X-coordinate reading 358, Y-coordinate reading 374."

“I don’t understand. From the perspective of the Tree of Life, which point of mass in the headquarters building am I?” Lin An asked.

“You are located above the ‘Virtue’ region, at the eleventh point of the four centers of strength, kindness, wisdom, and understanding. Humans call it ‘Da’at’.”

"Knowledge……"

Knowledge is the "hidden point" of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Generally speaking, it does not appear in the representation of the Tree of Life. In a broad sense, it should not be classified as one of the points.

On the one hand, knowledge actually represents the "crown" itself, a reflection of an unspeakable and incomprehensible god in the realm of human consciousness.

If it must be described, the "knowledge" particle appears along the central axis of the tree trunk, directly below the "crown".

It refers to a unified idea, or hidden spiritual knowledge.

Everything in Kabbalah is a combination of opposites, except for "knowledge," which is a combination of division and reconciliation. Once it appears, the ten points of the Tree of Life will unite as one.

With the fusion of this hidden particle, all particles are in a shared perfect state, making it impossible to distinguish one source particle from another.

They became a complete whole, with divinity, creation, formation, and humanity forming a perfect balance.

The headquarters building of the St. Anilof Foundation is inspired by the Tree of Life of the Rulian system, placing "knowledge" at the top center of the Tree of Life, but also metaphorically representing it as a "crown," as X's wires hang down from the crown area to this location.

X says that its "mother" is stored here. Considering that it is subsequently spread throughout the entire Tree of Life control panel, does this also mean that the ten source materials are all embryos spawned by "knowledge"?
"Click——"

The door to the "knowledge" particle slowly opened.

The temperature here is getting lower and lower, almost like winter.

The trapezoidal space behind the door is about several tens of square meters. The narrow part is the entrance. Countless wires, some thick and some thin, meander up the ground and walls, dazzling the eye, and are inserted into different ports.

The wider section is a raised platform filled with control panels, testing and analysis equipment, and many gleaming instruments.

The environment was very clean, making it feel like an operating room, and the smell of disinfectant was becoming increasingly strong.

However, these instruments are insignificant compared to the real secret.

In the center of the room was a table supported by a central pillar, on which sat a rectangular glass box.

Lin An couldn't help but widen his eyes.

It looks just like a coffin.

The outer layer is covered by four thin, gauze-like curtains, following a certain color sequence: initially a pure white pattern, then a bluish "heavenly color," a deep purple, and a fiery red, woven from four materials.

In the cold light of the machinery, a line of ancient, sacred, and great scripture was embroidered on the curtain.

It wrote, .

(I will make man in my image).

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