Overturned Tower

"...I'll tell."

Lycaon spoke in a low voice with a hoarse voice.

The pope's "elevation" did not take control of the body.

He just quietly watched everything from the other side - or rather, he also fell into his own thinking.

With Lycaon's narration, Russell finally understood everything.

Lycaon was brought up by the Pope, and he was willing to sacrifice—he volunteered to be a test subject for mind uploading.

In fact, when Lycaon entered the church for the last time, he was already "dead".

At that time, he removed his own head and uploaded it, and replaced it with a "prosthetic body"—the only prosthetic body that could not exist, a prosthetic body without a brain.

When he left the church, the head was fake.

After that, he used the cloud network to remotely control his body by manipulating the prosthetic head...

"—just like 'promoting'."

Russell sighed.

Andrew hid his will in the pope's halo, and used the brainwashing technology of the divine descendant device to control the new body every time the halo was passed on.

He didn't wash away the other party's memory, nor did he overwrite the other party's personality.He just rewrote the other party's subconscious mind and let the other party act according to his will.When taking off the halo and resigning, the other party will regain his original personality.

He is a will, a mind, a ghost.Pass with power.

But the pope must wear the halo before he can take over the mortal authority.He was downloaded in that small halo, and his body was stored in the "Holy Code" server.

So, is there another way...to influence the will of others without wearing a halo?

Of course, this may be ethically problematic.

But Andrew's technology is to let everyone control their "original" body.

Store your life and thoughts in the cloud disk, and then remotely control your body through the Internet... just like a role-playing game.

This is eternal life in the true sense.

"...Cyber ​​immortality already completed?"

Russell murmured.

Lykaon shook his head, and replied honestly: "It hasn't really been completed yet.

"Because we still can't download the uploaded consciousness again without loss - when the consciousness is uploaded and digitized, a certain part of it has been permanently destroyed. Even if it is downloaded back, it is only right' The imitation of the original self. Every upload and download will cause irreversible loss.

"We are just taking a chance at the moment...Since there is no way to achieve lossless downloading, then we will not download it. Directly control the body from the Internet and use the 'yishou' to control the body. The same as a mechanical thing, the righteous head can also be perfectly Receive digitized signals.

"Below the neck, it's all real flesh and blood; but above the neck, it's just a signal receiver and information processing device.

"I walked out of the church, and I was still able to act. At that time, the experiment was successful-we completed a more advanced technology than the monkey-faced eagle."

"……I see."

Russell suddenly realized.

Those who disappeared out of thin air, and then came back with a change in thinking, and completely became the "new werewolves"——

They should have been secretly robbed by the church, and then replaced with righteous heads.

Their position suddenly changed... because they obtained eternal life through this method and completed the "self-backup".This is a huge benefit.

"Wait, since that's the case..."

Russell suddenly reacted: "Then you shouldn't die either.

"You don't need to 'die' at all. Because you can come again anytime..."

When he said this, he suddenly stopped.

Russell was silent for a while, and suddenly realized what had happened.

He said word by word: "But your soul is stored in the 'Holy Code' server, you should not be able to become a cyber ghost and send messages to other people on the Sky Island server.

"However, Redram said conclusively...you sent him a message. You still sent him a message from a banned account. You should not be able to do this."

【—— Renee, do you believe that there is such a thing as a 'soul' in this world? 】

【——There must be souls in this world. 】

Russell looked at Lycaon and was silent again for a while.

"You merged with His Excellency the Pope and learned some prehistoric secrets. Then you should also know the meaning of some ancient languages...

"'Ledram', 'Red Wine'... the code names of Big Ben are quite inconsistent with him.

"But if you turn Redrum upside down, it's Murder—murder.

"The mirror image of murder—you mean to say, you killed Big Stupid, right?"

"...No, I didn't, I didn't kill it. That's all..."

Lycaon was weak, and murmured in a low voice: "He was dead before... He was the security captain of a small company, and he died in a chaos caused by the 'Werewolf' more than a month ago.

"But... I hope he at least survives. Because you and he are also good friends, and you are coming back. I don't want you to see him die with me; I don't want you to investigate the cause of our death and end up with Investigation came to me.

"So, I used Yishou to manipulate his body and play him. Finally, you came back... I wanted to use his identity to mislead you in the direction of your investigation.

"But at that time, I suddenly felt... this behavior is disgusting. I seemed to murder him, and took his identity, and brought him back to life; but I did preserve his body and ensure his social relations. continuation, but I will leave him one day... At that time, he will still 'die'.

"...murder is an ongoing act in which the person dies after it's done. And I do 'another murder' after the person dies, and bring the person back to life during the act...like is a 'mirror mirror image of murder'.

"So, I changed his code name... I hope someone can find out what I did and stand up and say what I did was wrong."

The haggard werewolf showed a reluctant smile: "I'm very happy, Susu. You really noticed everything...

"But I'm still sorry... In every sense, I have let you down."

Chapter 82 Secrets shared by the Pope

Now that it is known that the promoter of "Lycaon's death" is actually the Cyber ​​Church...

Then Russell understood everything.

Why did Lycaon die because of cutting his wrists, but his head disappeared;

Why did Lykaon's head show no signs of decay when it was put into the secret base a few days later, as if it had been refrigerated immediately after being separated from the body;

Why can't the three sages and the cameras all over the island be able to capture what happened in the middle...

Lycaon's body was indeed cut to death.

Because it is always risky to replace the body's life with the "righteous head".What's more, Lycaon didn't have the determination to live.

In order to let himself die on a social level, after arranging everything, he issued the command to "cut his wrists" on his body in the bathtub at home.

After the body died, the sheath took the prosthetic head—he had returned to the church, and he could indeed do such a thing.

But Lycaon did not expect that the company would investigate the cause of his death for so long.In order to appease his companions, he took the head kept in the church and asked the sheath to send it back at a time when they would all go to the "secret base".

"...Those criminals wearing the 'werewolf headgear' are actually Yishou under the headgear."

Russell asked softly.

Lykaon nodded wearily: "Yes."

There was a sad but relieved chuckle on his face: "As expected of you... did you guess that?"

"Well. There are several reasons for wearing that kind of full-coverage headgear, such as not wanting others to recognize your identity... This is the most superficial answer.

"The deeper answer is that you plan to confuse your own existence, making the 'werewolf headgear', an element that is easy to be imitated by others, become synonymous with werewolf, and make him a symbol of the event 'werewolf'. You plan to pass this behavior that increases the number of 'wolves'."

This is also the part that Russell guessed before.

But even Russell found himself undercounting a little.

"But there is a deeper reason - because what you really want to hide is not 'who you are'. Because under the hood, it is not anyone's face at all... but the mechanical meaning used to manipulate the body head.

"That's not someone. It's just nothingness..."

When Russell said this, he paused slightly.

He suddenly thought of himself.

Beneath his own mask, too, there was nothing.

And he is also hiding his identity and resisting the company; he is also using the social identity of others to replace the existence of others; his purpose is also to subvert the company's lies, break the cognitive cage, and awaken people's sense of resistance...

He's not really that different from a werewolf, except Russell doesn't want the world to be messed up.

"I see."

Russell suddenly laughed out of relief: "So I am a 'werewolf'."

"……what?"

Instead, Lycaon began to lose track of Russell's thinking.

"A person in wolf's clothing is neither a wolf nor a human, but a werewolf... In the same way, the me who plays the role of another is neither the other nor me, but another person between the other and me." a being."

Russell sighed.

Russell had had this idea long before his relationship with Delphinium.

At that time, Russell hadn't completed the psionic transfer, hadn't built the incomparably brilliant spiritual sanctuary, and didn't even realize the fact that he was not "Russell".

Because of this, he questioned himself, began to doubt his own existence, and grieved at his own emptiness and hypocrisy.

later……

It was a long time before Russell finally came to terms with his many identities.

These masks are all his.He is "I," Russell, and equally anyone he remembers.

But now, he has once again returned to the state of looking at mountains or mountains.

"Even if you wear a wolf head, you won't become a real wolf; if you control your body through the prosthetic head, that's not your original and true self..."

Just as Lycaon was about to say something, Russell chuckled, put his finger in front of his lips, and made a silent gesture.

"Relax. I don't mean to deny you, Lykaon. The fixed loss caused by uploading thoughts will indeed make you no longer the real you...

"—But, will the search for 'a pure enough self' affect anything?

"Nothing matters, I feel. I am different every moment... Not to mention, my psychic energy itself is constantly sucking in different lives. I am the least qualified to question other people' whether pure.

"So... Lycaon, and His Excellency the Pope. I think there is nothing wrong with your invention, really.

"After the thoughts are uploaded, they are no longer downloaded, but only calculated in the cloud and completed in the server... This is indeed an evolutionary direction of human beings. Not only will I not block it, but I will greatly appreciate it."

Russell said seriously: "The only thing I want to prevent is that you plan to cause chaos around the world and use the lives of ordinary people to fight against the company."

Speaking of this, Lycaon's face became blurred again.

The Pope's "elevation" emerged from him.

"...you convinced me, Russell. In that case, I have nothing to hide.

"Then let me explain thoroughly... what exactly is the church's 'Great Integration' plan."

The old man was very sure and said very solemnly: "People need to know the truth. They have the right to die soberly.

"You think the company is too powerful, Russell. The seven giants are not the seven demon gods. The so-called head office is like a fish shadow gathered by countless sardines. Every function of it is composed of countless employees. his strength comes from the 'group'.

"And these employees will obey the company's domination because they are living in the field called 'market'. The company, which has complete control over currency, resources and output, manipulates every personal life.

"But as long as everyone denies the system - when the 'credits' lose the 'credits', the only power left in the corporation is that which comes from the 'crowd'.

"And if the employees also rebel against the company's domination, then the giant will collapse. We can completely re-establish human beings' own order on the ruins of the head office... currency, army, government. And to do this One point, it is necessary to make everyone reject the operation mode of the 'Big Seven'. In this process, bloodshed is inevitable. I am just trying to wake people up... The confusion caused in this process, and even War, in which all blood is shed, is the price that must be paid in order to reach the true end.

"The world cannot be divided into seven, but should be one; people can no longer squander resources like this, but should accept unified allocation. In order to achieve this goal, 'Great Integration' is a necessary step. The significance of the werewolf plan is to detonate in advance A hundred years later, the end-time civil war... let people fight for a common purpose while they still have spare time.

"This civil war will probably kill about [-]% of the population...but that [-]% will be the least socially significant because the 'Great Integration Project' will preserve the lives of all worthwhile people. As such, this war The purification of the low-end population has been realized, just like the reenactment of the battle of teaching methods.

"And after this war is over, only about 20.00% of people will be reborn and get their bodies again. They will get seven times the living area and the resources of the world. Their desires can be adjusted, and they no longer need to consume How many resources are lost. Even a small saving in the use of resources can expand the future that was originally only a few decades to at least 300 years.

"Also, the lifespan of the world is not limited to that.

"—you told me many secrets before, Russell. Then I'll give you one back.

"As I said before, the turmoil caused by the exhaustion of planetary resources will cause worldwide panic. It may usher in war, division, suspicion, hatred... making it impossible for human beings to unite and accept great integration.

"But you may not have thought that this is the purpose of the dragon itself?"