So the Doctor was very smart; he knew he couldn't take power in the Council of the Fathers because the Council of the Fathers wasn't a place that valued 'wisdom'.

How can you conduct academic research with this bunch of insects? So the PhD student simply defected.

Returning to Tinari in the story, he was actually interested in the topic of mechanical life, but he couldn't accept the way the Church conducted research on this topic.

His actions regarding live animal dissection and brain research were manic and frivolous, showing no respect for life.

Sino looked on calmly. In fact, he had also been used as an experimental subject by the Order of the Church.

That's why he couldn't control his anger when facing the Great Sage that day; he wouldn't normally act like that.

His master helped and guided him, and he also received his master's true teachings, which refer to dry humor.

Tina's ancestors lived and helped each other with "Barokashuna", so he could not accept this behavior.

Lin Qiu also added a note here, saying that "Barogashuna" is the real "Great Dog of the Desert", not the race of Tinali, which can be considered as correcting the name of Tinali.

[Tinari: "Life is not a consumable, nor should knowledge be a crown and a scepter. This is where my dissatisfaction with some scholars lies, and it is also the reason why I left the Council of the Fathers."]

"Can one truly achieve anything by placing oneself above other life forms and studying pure life with impure motives?"

At this time, people didn't know much about the actions of the Kyoto Shinkai, but those who had seen 'Happy Birthday' didn't have a good impression of the Kyoto Shinkai.

Seeing that even though the Sumerian people dislike the Church of Christ so much, they feel a sense of closeness to the Church of Christ as if they were "one of their own," while their hatred for the Church of Christ grows even stronger.

In fact, Tinari was absolutely right; the Council of the Sages under the rule of the Great Sage was exactly like that.

He treats life as a consumable commodity, and this applies not only to animals but also to the Sumeru people. His rule by humans is a joke because he places himself in a position superior to humans.

Knowledge has long been a bargaining chip for the sages to exercise their power; it is their crown and scepter.

So how can you manage Sumeru when you're dealing with these insects? It's perfectly understandable that Tina left in a fit of anger.

However, Tina was not as extreme and fanatical as the Doctor. Although she left the Order of the Church, she did not leave Sumeru and continued to silently protect it.

In fact, even Setare, the Great Sage's lackey, could not accept the Council's actions, but she lacked their decisiveness and was ultimately swept along.

It's contradictory that the Church of Christ keeps talking about wisdom, yet it can't retain truly wise people.

Kavi, Tinari, Elhesen, Farusan, and many other geniuses either left the Council of the Church or were marginalized from the center of power.

The land of wisdom cannot contain wisdom, therefore 'wisdom' is the enemy of the god of wisdom.

Fortunately, Nasita's rise to power has made these problems disappear, but the 'chronic issues' still need more time to be gradually improved. The biggest problem for the Faith Council right now is the lack of personnel.

They're so short-staffed that even Lin Qiu has to ask him to help out from time to time. That's why Nasida is his boss.

Back to the story, while the traveler and Tinari were chatting, the mechanical crab actually made them coffee.

This is quite unexpected; it can even make coffee! Those big front paws must struggle to hold a water cup, right? Or does it have tiny paws attached to its front paws? So cute!

In that light, it really is more useful than Paimon... Paimon just eats.

If Paimon were around, forget about making coffee; it would be a miracle if she didn't point at the traveler and say, "Go cook me a couple of dishes."

Since the crab did a good deed, Tinali naturally had to reward it.

Kind-hearted Tinari even wanted to help replace its parts, as they were old, worn, and had very little energy left.

But the mechanical crab refused, seemingly keeping the parts for another purpose.

Tinaly didn't insist, and went to rest after handing over the shift to the travelers.

The next day, the group continued their investigation deeper into the cave and discovered something amiss inside. They entered the cave.

Inside is a secret laboratory, and in the center of the cave is a huge jar filled with the energy of the earth's veins.

This device endlessly extracts energy from the earth's veins, which disrupts the earth's natural cycle. The lack of timely repair of the earth's veins has led to the current situation.

It's fortunate that it was discovered; otherwise, if it had been kept pumping, the 'contaminated area' would have continued to expand.

This extraction efficiency would be too erotic if personified, cough cough.

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Character Voice Lines - Lin Qiu: About the Order Academy

"There are only about 10% of the scholars left. Mona has come at just the right time. Let's get to work, my dear maid."

Chapter 519 Abatuyi

The travelers and the Tinari felt dizzy just standing in front of this jar-shaped device. This was caused by the erosion of the earth's vein energy, which would cause irreversible damage to the body over time.

For the mechanical life form crab, it doesn't matter, and the same goes for Paimon.

This makes readers even more suspicious that Paimon is a mechanical life form. How can she be so powerful?

Paimon, who conceals dark power, reveal your true form before me!

[Tinari: "Traveler, take Paimon and leave first. I'll figure out how to turn this off."]

Kind-hearted Tinari planned to let the travelers leave first, as it was too dangerous here, and he would take on the dangers himself.

Paimon said worriedly, "But... even the Tinari can't avoid the effects of the ley lines, can they?"

"We must stay here too! We can't leave Tinari here alone!"

Stop arguing. If you ask me, since Paimon is unaffected, then the Traveler and Tinari should go out, and Paimon should stay behind to conduct research.

The only problem with doing this is that Paimon's intelligence isn't quite there yet; he might not figure it out even by the time the Traveler leaves Teyvat.

Fortunately, there was a mechanical crab that was more useful than Paimon. It was unaffected and even led the Traveler and the others to the location of the 'secret door'.

Peering through the 'secret door,' I discovered there was another laboratory inside.

There was another person lying on the bed (or table?) in the lab, quietly wearing large engineering glasses.

Paimon: "Are you extracting ley lines here? Stop that machine right now!"

The man didn't reply, as if he were fast asleep.

Based on experience reading prophetic books, readers are instantly on high alert.

As expected, Tinari pronounced the other party dead.

[Tinari: "...His body has no temperature."]

This person is dead; the death was caused by long-term malnutrition and overwork.

No one knows when he died, or even who he was.

However, this is a laboratory, so there should be experimental data here, and we can learn some information from it.

Tinari gave the last few mechanical parts to the mechanical crab as a token of gratitude for its guidance, and then searched for experimental data with the traveler.

Inside the lab, they found a two-year-old 'videotape,' which was used by Sumi Technology specifically to record the research process.

Upon opening the videotape, the image showed the man lying on the bed, still in good health, searching for something in the laboratory.

【???:“Kakata, Kakata? Really, where did you go in such a short time?”】

At the man's call, the mechanical crab came over; its name was 'Kakata'.

[Kakata: "Gurgle?"]

【? ? ?: "Oh, you're here! Come and see, this is our new home!"】

Two years ago, it seems that this was around the time he had just moved here.

[Abtuyi vowed: "I, Abtuyi, will make a name for myself here and make those old fogies in the Theological Seminary look at me with new eyes!"]

The Order of the Church was mentioned again, and wasn't it precisely two years ago that research on mechanical life was halted?

Sure enough, Abatui's talk of making a big splash was about research on 'mechanical life'.

[Abtuyi: "I will use machines to simulate organs, making electricity flow like blood; a steel-cast heart will beat continuously, and a brain filled with components can think like me."]

"At that time, you will be able to understand human language and live among humans. You will not be monotonous and boring machines, but real, living beings!"

Kakata doesn't understand, but that's okay, Abatu will make it understand.

After watching the video, Tinari remembered that there was indeed a junior in the Suron sect named Abatui who was expelled from the Church for researching mechanical life.

This sentence piqued the reader's interest: Tinali looks young, but he's actually a senior figure?

In fact, in a place like the Order of the Instruction, age and seniority are not directly related; whether someone is a senior depends on their academic dedication.

This is why Farusan keeps emphasizing that she is a senior; she doesn't mean to emphasize that she is 'old'.

She wanted to tell everyone that she was still alive, that her knowledge and scholarship remained, and that she had not been left behind by the times.

Because of the "blank century," she was quite sensitive to academic matters, but in other aspects, she was out of step with the times. If her knowledge was also abandoned, she would become a "lonely person."

That's why Farusan keeps emphasizing her status as a 'senior'. It's not that she particularly likes the title; she doesn't actually care about empty fame or power.

Incidentally, among the Sumeru F4, the one that looks the longest, Elhesen, is only bigger than Tinari, while the one that looks the smallest, Seno, is actually the biggest.

Of course, I'm referring to age, not the length of the name.

Tina was also quite worried about his age, because although he was young, he was academically accomplished and for a period of time people kept asking him to take photos with them, as if he were some rare animal.

Readers really want to complain about this: 'Aren't you one?'

Even excluding your genius level of reaching such an academic standard at the age of eighteen, your race is indeed very rare!

If it were us, we'd want to take a picture with you too! Can we hold your tail and ears while taking the picture?

There's no time to complain about this, the next plot point is the second videotape, this time from six months ago.

In the illustration, Abatui is repairing Kakata, seemingly because Kakata made a mistake while making coffee.

Abatui pondered the reason: was it because Kakata itself was inconvenient for brewing tea, or was there a problem with the parameters he had set?

He didn't consider that this might be a precursor to the emergence of 'life', no longer 'precise', and prone to 'mistakes'—errors that 'life' can make.

Life is full of mistakes, but it also teaches us to learn. After that, Kakata learned how to make coffee.

Readers now understand why Kakata makes a cup of coffee while the Traveler and Tina are thinking; that's what it usually does.

In the illustration of the memory, Abatui is thinking as he replaces Kakata's parts.

"It's okay, I replaced the part for you, you're fine now."

After comforting Kakata Abtui, he began to talk about his dream.

"I had a dream yesterday that you could talk."

The illustration doesn't show Abatui wearing a Void Terminal; he's secretly conducting research behind the backs of the Faith Council, so how could he possibly be wearing one?

Because he was no longer wearing the Void Terminal, Abatui regained his right to dream.

Note that he 'restored' the right to dream, not 'gained' it.

The Sumeru people are born with the ability to dream; they haven't 'lost' their dreams, but rather they've been deprived of them.

It is precisely because of this act of deprivation that the Church is called a 'valve'.

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Character Voice Lines - Tinari: About Age

"Ah...who would have thought that Dolly is older than me."

Chapter 520 Loving You More Than Loving Myself

[Abatui: "Those people in the Cult, didn't they always say things like 'mechanical intelligence is just an extension of statistics'? They were all stunned to see you could chat with me."]

The statement "Mechanical intelligence is merely an extension of statistics" is not well understood by some readers, but scholars do.

The general idea is that AI intelligence is pseudo-intelligence; it doesn't think, it simply coordinates data and information 'online' and then retrieves answers to provide responses.

This kind of intelligence can only be considered an extension of statistics, not true intelligence. That's why scholars were surprised that Kakata in his dream could actually speak and communicate.

"It's a pity it was just a dream. Looking at your carefree attitude, you wouldn't even notice anything amiss, let alone chat with me. Even if I were gone one day, you probably wouldn't sense anything wrong."

This statement left everyone speechless, because he was truly gone. Had Kakata shown any unusual behavior? Nothing had been found yet...

To be honest, it's become less like a machine and more like a small animal. Is this an experimental result?

Readers couldn't be sure, so they had to keep reading.

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