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Chapter 1123 Are these two eggs holy souls?
This discovery stunned the company's top management, because based on the ancient intelligence collected by Talma, they believed that perhaps a 'mythical' era really existed on Earth in the distant past.

In the old days, there existed an ancient Eastern kingdom with a rich system of myths and legends. In addition, other countries and regions also had their own different myths and legends.

They used Talma's powerful computing capabilities to reverse engineer what the Earth looked like millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years ago.

Even with Talma's current incredible computing power, it still took them ten years to perform this calculation, but they ultimately came to a shocking conclusion.

That means the mythological era truly existed. Before their current advanced technological path, this planet was home to brilliant civilizations of cultivation, fantasy, and Western magic, among others.

However, each civilization was wiped out by a sudden catastrophe, and the origins of these civilizations, tracing back to their source, may all have come from sinkholes.

Upon learning this news, the company's employees were both overjoyed and terrified. They were overjoyed because they might have found the ultimate secret of this world. If there really was a cultivation civilization, its theories might have many that could complement their technological civilization, bringing them closer to the truth.

What terrified them was that, according to Talma's reverse deduction, all the civilizations that had ever existed had humans. Scientists had previously made detailed deductions about the accidental nature of the origin of human beings, believing that if life truly evolved from the soup of life, then even if there were intelligent life again, it would never be in the form of humans.

However, in Talma's reverse calculation, regardless of the civilization, the humans within it are just like they are now.

This further confirms the arguments of those former cults, namely that the world is a game, and they are either players or NPCs, pre-designed creations of a higher dimension.

Otherwise, how could they all be human beings, and all human creatures that look similar?
What frightens them even more is that even such a brilliant cultivation civilization was wiped out by a sudden catastrophe. Could their current technological civilization survive such a catastrophe?
Was that catastrophe a random occurrence caused by the natural workings of the universe, or a reboot of their servers by a higher-dimensional ruler?

The company's employees couldn't sleep after learning this, so the next day, the leaders of the ten major companies held a joint meeting to try to find the location of the sinkhole and obtain more information about the world.

They restarted Talma's super-deduction mode, repeatedly verifying the results, and finally concluded that the sinkhole might be a different existence from this world; it is 'real'.

The process of arriving at this conclusion involved extremely complex calculation logic. Even the most astute human scientists could not possibly decipher Talma's deduction process records. However, they trusted Talma's computational logic, since it had calculated so many things very accurately in the past.

According to Talma, sinkholes are singularities at the intersection of the real and virtual worlds. In essence, they do not exist in a fixed location on Earth, but rather they open at a specific time and in a specific place under the coupling of cause and effect.

At that time, people living on a 'virtual' Earth will have the opportunity to enter the sinkhole.

Here's the interesting part: when the company's people asked Talma how to get into the sinkhole, Talma used its own algorithm to calculate, but got no result, indicating that it was powerless to do anything about it.

In the end, the company issued a reward to collect various ancient artifacts and books from the public. Finally, they found a divination method similar to the I Ching on a lost ancient book. They imported this algorithm into Talma, and Talma gave them the result the next day.

Talma said that this ancient book is a deduction method from the era of cultivation civilization. It seems simple, but in fact, if you calculate based on the movement of stars, the model range is larger and the calculation is more accurate. It is a high-end algorithm that is much better than its previous algorithms. It was through this algorithm that it found the location of the sinkhole.

Or rather, it refers to the time and location when the sinkhole will appear next.

So the company staff began preparations in earnest. Because they didn't know the situation inside the sinkhole or how many dangers it might pose, they prepared advanced exploration devices and weapons that could adapt to various environments.

In fact, because their research on silicon-based life is highly advanced, the military had already ruled out the mode of human action in armor a long time ago, and even commanders have been gradually replaced by artificial intelligence in recent years.

However, scientists from the company stated that they have no idea what's happening inside the sinkhole. Perhaps the purely silicon-based life forms would malfunction, and if the electronic components or something else were to break down, the silicon-based life forms would be completely unable to function.

So after a heated discussion, the company rushed to produce a wearable mech with purely mechanical underlying logic. The core operating principle of this mech is only the power supply and physical mechanical operation module, similar to the exoskeleton devices of the old era.

However, with today's advanced technology, there have been qualitative leaps in materials and energy. In fact, as long as the wearer's abilities are strong enough, they can put up a fight against silicon-based combatants with similar speed and strength.

The reason it can be said to be able to put up a fight is because the human body operates through physical mechanical transmission, which has too high a latency. Moreover, due to the advanced technology, few people in this era practice martial arts or design skills, making it difficult to compete with highly advanced AI-controlled combat mechs in terms of the precision and detail of combat.

In a millisecond, AI can perform hundreds of millions of calculations based on the battle situation to arrive at the best course of action, something that humans cannot do.

Moreover, humans wearing armor are limited by their physical bodies, but silicon-based life forms, provided the materials are good enough, have a potential that humans cannot match when piloting mechs.

The troops selected by the company today are elite forces, trained by talented professionals at great expense.

In fact, the scientist's wisdom was later proven, because the silicon-based life forms collapsed as soon as they entered the sinkhole, not because of the failure of their electronic components as previously thought, but because the quantum computing components crashed.

The accompanying scientists believed that a strange force existed in the sinkhole that could eliminate active quantum particles, as well as some particles they did not yet understand, so the new silicon-based warriors were completely unusable.

However, the older, technologically advanced mechs, when worn by soldiers, did not seem to affect their movements much.

The company's senior management had a clear objective for this sinkhole expedition: not only to explore the sinkhole and study the origins of prehistoric civilizations, but also to extract from it something that could determine the future of the world.

From ancient information, Talma analyzed that the ancient man named Lu Feng brought out a sacred soul from the sinkhole. According to his analysis, the sacred soul should be the most important thing in the sinkhole. Perhaps the rise of those civilizations in history was because someone brought out a sacred soul from the sinkhole.

People have also wondered and asked Talma if there are many holy souls in the sinkhole.
Talma's calculations conclude that there should only be one Holy Soul. After the destruction of a civilization in history, the Holy Soul itself may not have perished, but returned to the sinkhole. The Holy Soul is like the origin of a civilization, and also its end.

People didn't know the process of Talma's calculations, but they trusted his judgments greatly, believing that their primary target in the sinkhole should be the Holy Soul.

Therefore, the tactical squad was given a strict order: they must find the Holy Soul in the sinkhole.

At the joint meeting of the ten companies, the number one man summarized all the investigation results and presented Talma's latest calculation results, and finally the vote began. After unanimous approval, the sinkhole operation officially started, leading to the scene that Lu Li was witnessing.

The tactical squad leader is named Thomas. He is thirty-five years old and was once a shooting enthusiast and combat expert. He is a rare person in this era who dislikes the fully immersive games developed by companies and prefers to study sports in real life.

Although there is no longer war in this era, he is a tactics enthusiast who often searches for old materials online to study. Later, through the company's systematic training, he has developed considerable tactical skills.

Under his leadership, they successfully broke through four patrols of Black Iron Guards, killed the faster rats and some strange creatures, and finally made it here after many dangers.

Although he was a military enthusiast born in peacetime, he honestly said that he had only regarded the sinkhole operation as an adventure game before entering, and he did not expect so many people to die.

Before he led his team down into the pit, he had hundreds of brothers behind him, but now he only has a dozen or so left, which has made him feel depressed and heavy-hearted.

Moreover, as he explored, he became increasingly confused by the company's instructions. After all, he was told to find the Holy Soul, but even Talma didn't know what the Holy Soul actually looked like.

The final conclusion is that 'a sacred soul is something you can tell at a glance is not an ordinary thing.'

Thomas was now convinced that he had found the Holy Soul.

In such a spacious and unique hall, on that ceremonial pedestal, there is a round object enshrined. What else could it be but a sacred spirit?
However, he never expected that he would be able to find two holy souls at once!
Talma analyzed that there was only one Holy Soul, but he thought Talma was wrong. After all, he saw many pedestals, but they were mostly empty, except for two pedestals on the inner side with one red and one black 'egg'.

He believed that perhaps someone from each era took a sacred soul from here, and those sacred souls did not return to the sinkhole, which is why those pedestals were empty. They were lucky, and by this era, there were still two sacred souls left.

He just didn't know if there were some kind of mechanism set up here that allowed them to take only one Holy Soul and not more. Otherwise, why did the ancients only have one Holy Soul?
"Captain... is this the Holy Soul? How come there are two of them?"

"Yes, could there be a mistake? Is this the spirit beast egg from the cultivation civilization that Talma mentioned?"

“Yes, according to Talma’s speculation, the Holy Soul might be formless and intangible, and therefore quite portable, right?”

"..."

The team members chatted amongst themselves, while also cautiously observing their surroundings, fearing that some Black Iron Guards might rush out.

When they first entered the ruins, they thought the technology and civilization were unparalleled, and they didn't think the slow-moving Black Iron Guards were any threat. But when they opened fire on the Black Iron Guards, they found that their weapons couldn't leave a single scratch on them.

On the contrary, several brothers who fired live ammunition were killed by ricochets due to the wall's bounce. In the chaos, some of them clashed with the Black Iron Guards and were easily pierced through their high-alloy armor by the rusty spears.

If Captain Thomas hadn't remained relatively calm, reorganized the team, attacked the joints of the Black Iron Guards to slow their advance, and allowed them to retreat in an orderly fashion, who knows how many more casualties would have occurred.

The ruins contained more than just the Black Iron Guardians; they had also encountered other bizarre creatures, including one that could spew out concentrated acid that could corrode their armor. People inside were said to have dissolved within two seconds of coming into contact with the acidic substance.

"Shut up! Talma also said that if it's a Holy Soul, we can tell at a glance!"

Thomas interrupted his teammates' discussion, pointing to the two eggs on the stage, "Look, isn't this ritualistic enough!? If this isn't a sacred soul, what else could be a sacred soul!?"

The team members looked at each other. One of the younger team members wanted to say something in rebuttal, but a middle-aged man pulled him back and gave him a wink.

Actually, no one present was sure, but after hearing Thomas's words, they were all willing to believe that this was the Holy Soul, because the ruins were too eerie and constantly moving, fraught with danger. Of the hundred brothers who entered, only seventeen survived.

Although Thomas felt that these people were too incompetent and useless in combat, he was also a little scared and didn't want to stay in this damned place any longer.

Now that we've seen two strange eggs, who cares if they're sacred souls or not? As long as we can get the job done, that's fine.

Therefore, he felt that these two eggs should ideally be sacred souls, or at least they should be.

Everyone had similar thoughts; they didn't want to stay in the sinkhole any longer and wanted to leave as soon as possible. So, within a few seconds, everyone nodded.

Seeing that everyone had agreed on the same story, Thomas began to probe the two eggs to see if there was any danger.

After studying it for a while, he found that the egg had a bouncy texture and a peculiar feel, which was indeed unlike any substance known to humankind. It really had a soul-like quality, which made him even more convinced that it was a sacred soul.

Lu Li and Lu Xueqing felt something was off, but when the person arrived, they exchanged a glance and decided it was best to hold back for now.

Since these people were able to get in, they might have a way to get out. They might as well pretend to be inanimate objects and let the other party carry them out to see what's going on.

"Captain, should we carry one on our backs, or both?"

One team member asked, meaning that Talma's analysis indicated there was only one Holy Soul, and if they were to lie, wouldn't it be best to only carry one out and say they had only found one?

(End of this chapter)