Chapter 521

Mechanical Reincarnation, as the name suggests, is a special technology that turns humans into machines.

And this technology is not only an important part of Dorothy's creation plan, but also a prerequisite technology that must be clicked before the decisive battle with the final disaster beast Leviathan.

After all, the witches need to fight Leviathan after it completely destroys the world, which means that by the time of the decisive battle, the old world is already considered perished.

And weak humans don't have the ability to survive in a world that has completely died, let alone fight.

Flesh is weak, machinery ascends.

The human body really has no superiority compared to a mechanical body; humans have to eat, breathe, have three urgencies, and are afraid of cold and heat; it is simply full of weaknesses.

And a mechanical body is much more convenient; even on the remains of a dead world where humans cannot survive at all, a mechanical body can still stand firm and fight tenaciously until the last moment.

They won't feel bitter, nor will they know fatigue; as long as the energy is sufficient, they don't need to eat, don't need to sleep, and because there is no pain, they don't fear injury; even if they are severely damaged in battle, they can go back to the factory and replace them with spare parts and be a good man again.

Is this combat power not much stronger than the weak human flesh?

Of course, even now, there is actually quite a bit of human mechanical modification technology in the Magic Republic, such as prosthetics, magical equipment, or the heroic spirit weapons used by heroic spirits, etc.

But each of these technologies can only be considered modification, not reincarnation; these are completely two concepts.

To understand the difference, one must mention the connection between the body and the soul.

All intelligent creatures, whether humans, elves, or dwarves, are composed of almost the same things, both possessing bodies and souls, and speaking of souls, the soul structures of everyone are almost the same, with no difference.

The reason why there is a distinction between humans, elves, and dwarves is because everyone's body structure is different. The reason why humans are humans is because that human body gives humans such a clear self-cognition.

Then the question comes, if you throw a human soul into an elf's body, then is this newly born existence a human or an elf?

For this question, witches once did an experiment. They threw the soul of a fanatical human supremacist into an elf's body and observed his reaction.

At first, after he just woke up and found that he had changed his race, he was very angry and firmly believed that he was a human. He shouted that race is the same as gender, not just a physiological characteristic, but more importantly, it depends on the heart; as long as he firmly believes that he is still a human, then he is a human.

Only, after this person returned to the human empire of his hometown, was guarded against by human compatriots in every way, and was squeezed out, and then went to the elf world and very easily integrated into the elf tribe, slowly, this person's cognition began to change.

He was no longer that fanatical human supremacist; he began to not be so repulsive to elves, especially when he met a gentle and beautiful female elf in the elf tribe and the two formed a family, his position began to shift more obviously.

Even in the later period, when this elf tribe went to war with the human empire, this person chose to stand on the side of the elves and began to wield weapons toward his former motherland.

From that moment on, the result of the experiment was very clear; he was no longer a human, but had already become a true elf.

As long as I still firmly believe that I am a human, then I am a human?

This kind of statement has a certain truth, but the problem is that people's cognition is never unchanging; the you of the previous moment who firmly believed in something might be overturned by your own hands in the next moment.

It is similar to the "wear and tear" of growth that Dorothy and Adam once discussed. This "wear and tear" brought about by changing one's identity and race is much more intense than growth.

Perhaps there really are people who can withstand such an experiment and always firmly believe that they are still humans. For example, Dorothy feels that her old father Adam can definitely pass the test easily; Adam has a mysterious obsession with the identity of "human," and he can really do it, preferring to face death directly and reincarnate for a hundred generations rather than not being a human.

But such people are destined to be rare; the vast majority of people can only drift with the tide, and eventually forget their original intention in this subtle wear and tear, and be completely assimilated.

The human heart, or consciousness, or wisdom, or self, although hidden in the soul, does not mean that it will only be affected by the soul; the body also has a considerable degree of influence on it.

After all, the body will affect the shape of the soul, and the soul will convey this transformation to wisdom.

Therefore, the difference between modification and reincarnation comes out.

No matter how you modify, you are always a human, but once you reincarnate, you really don't do human things anymore.

However, modification has limits.

In recent years, in the Magic Republic, prosthetics have become very common things, and can no longer be considered a trend, but have become a necessity for people's lives.

Even though this thing was originally invented to help those disabled people better restore normal life, with the progress of technology, the functions of prosthetics are also evolving rapidly, and even have long surpassed the original flesh.

Mechanical eyes possess higher clarity than human eyes, larger and farther fields of vision, and stronger perception capabilities...

Mechanical arms are far stronger and more powerful than human arms, and even more dexterous and precise...

Therefore, when a disabled person wears a good prosthetic and runs faster and does better than you, a healthy person, then who is the disabled person?

Of course, perhaps some people say I don't compare, just treat life with a normal heart, but can people really achieve absolute non-comparison when they are alive?

Even if you don't compare with people, others will compare with you, or compare you with others, such as work...

It's the same delivery, originally you delivered 100 orders a day, and you were the delivery king in this area. Besides you, others delivered at most 90 orders a day, so you were often praised by the boss, and occasionally had small bonuses.

But suddenly the second place who delivered 90 orders had a car accident one day, his legs were scrapped, and then he replaced them with leg prosthetics. From then on, relying on the power of prosthetics, he now easily delivers 200 orders a day, and you changed from first place to second place. How do you feel?

Well, second place is also quite good, still quite excellent, life should be lived, anyway you didn't lose anything, you are happy for others living better.

Then, when the third place saw that the second place's prosthetics were so useful, he hardened his heart, gritted his teeth, and directly replaced his originally intact legs with prosthetics?

How do you feel when you are surpassed again and become third place?

After that, everyone replaced them with prosthetics, what should you do?

When the delivery industry finally had a hard requirement that you must implant leg prosthetics, what should you do?

Involution is everywhere.

Fortunately, in the Magic Republic, because the Machine Sect controls all machine monks and even prosthetic doctors, the review of prosthetic modification surgery is very strict, so the situation has not deteriorated to that extent.

But on the other side, the Radiant God Kingdom, the situation is completely different. Prosthetics are rampant there, modification is rampant, and there even appeared a situation where if you want to find a normal job, you must first take out a loan to give yourself a full-body prosthetic modification, and you have already carried astronomical debts that you have to pay back for decades before you even work.

Even because your prosthetics are outdated after a few years and you can't compete with your colleagues, you have to face the risk of being laid off, and you have to take out a loan to replace them with more advanced prosthetics, thereby carrying heavier debts.

There, I don't know how many people have had their implanted prosthetics removed to pay off debts because they couldn't pay back the loans, and they became disabled people wandering the streets, relying on begging for a living.

This technology, which was originally intended to benefit humanity, has now become the source of pain for those people.

Why do the people of the Radiant God Kingdom believe in the Radiant Church so piously and are hostile to the Magic Republic? A large part of the reason is because prosthetic technology comes from the Magic Republic; they created this "taboo" technology, thereby turning the world into purgatory.

People there don't hate the powerful people and companies that exploit them, but they hate technology itself very much. Even if they can't live without technology, this doesn't prevent them from hating or even cursing the Machine Sect and the Magic Republic that brought technology to this world.

Well, people there really believe from the bottom of their hearts that technology is the technology of the devil, an evil technique that lures humanity to fall and thereby bear sin.

After all, the ending of the vast majority of modified people who have implanted too many prosthetics is not very good; they almost all went crazy, as if possessed by a devil, becoming no longer what they originally were, and some even killed people indiscriminately on the street, creating various destruction.

And this symptom is called "Soul-Eating Syndrome" in the Radiant God Kingdom, meaning their souls were devoured by the devil.

Similarly, because of the existence of Soul-Eating Syndrome, more people believe that prosthetics are the devil's technology, and the people of the Radiant God Kingdom who fear the existence of Soul-Eating Syndrome believe in the Radiant Church, which is the only one that can give them "redemption" from Soul-Eating Syndrome, even more piously.

But, in fact?

The so-called Soul-Eating Syndrome is just because those guys rolled too hard, completely exceeding the safety threshold of "modification," and they forcibly carried out modifications that exceeded their own consciousness endurance limit, eventually leading to the collapse of self-cognition.

After all, you only have hands and legs as prosthetics, you can still firmly believe that you are a human, but when you have modified your whole body except the brain, or even the brain, can you still firmly believe that you are a human?

At that time, you are more like a robot than a human, right?

This can be considered basically reincarnated as a robot.

Therefore, under this day-by-day self-doubt, eventually one day, your spirit collapses, your cognition as a human collapses, and you start to think you are a robot.

And in this era, there are also real robots, and there are many, all engaged in some of the most bitter and tiring work that no one is willing to do. In layman's terms, it is no different from slavery.

Then as an "awakened" robot, seeing the streets full of "compatriots" being enslaved by these "aliens," what will you do?

Well, some people may still be able to turn a blind eye, or plan slowly, and those who are slightly more fierce probably want to "liberate" their compatriots on the spot.

Of course, the thinking may be more extreme, collapsing to the point of having no logic at all.

Therefore, before the apocalypse, the Radiant God Kingdom often had "Soul-Eating Syndrome patients" making trouble, and their country often had some so-called "robot human rights organizations," shouting every day that robots are also people, robots also want human rights, want wages, want holidays, etc.?

These confusing behaviors simply make normal people full of question marks. What is the meaning of giving robots wages and holidays?

But in the eyes of those potential "Soul-Eating Syndrome patients," they are serious; they are fighting for the interests of their "compatriots," which is very noble and great, directly standing on the moral high ground.

Well, after all, although these people didn't finally lose control, in fact, their mental state is basically all mental illnesses in the human category.

Mental patients have a lot of fun; this is normal.

The Witch World forbids intermarriage with other apocalyptic races mainly to guard against the influence brought by such identity conversion. After all, who knows which side these mixed-race children will eventually be loyal to.

Even powerful witches are so taboo about such wear and tear, so it is clear that the risk of such "reincarnation" is obvious.

Of course, this so-called Soul-Eating Syndrome is actually not completely unsavable; there is still the possibility of avoidance.

And these two solutions are none other than the two main forces of the Magic Republic today, the Magical Equipment Knights and the Armed Heroic Spirits.

The magical equipment of the Magical Equipment Knights can actually be said to be a type of prosthetic, just a higher-level prosthetic, but the Magical Equipment Knights rarely appear with Soul-Eating Syndrome.

This is because the threshold for Magical Equipment Knights is very high, and the review is strict; you must meet the mental standards before you are allowed to evolve to the next step of magical equipment.

Therefore, the Magical Equipment Knights are actually walking the path of Adam; as long as my personal will is firm enough to fear no wear and tear, then naturally I can resist the influence brought by reincarnation.

And the Armed Heroic Spirits are walking another path. Although the personal will of the heroic spirits is not weak, it is definitely not as strong as the Magical Equipment Knights, and they can control the armed body composed entirely of machinery to act without wear and tear, because someone helped them resist this wear and tear.

This is also the means by which the Radiant Church fools the people; they claim that the power of God can resist the "devil's curse," but in fact, they use the faith power of believers to anchor those who have lost control due to the collapse of self-cognition.

Heroic spirits are the same; they are all worshipped and respected by all the people of the Magic Republic. People believe that they are all heroes and good people, and such faith engraves a thought steel seal in the consciousness of the heroic spirits.

Perhaps their personal consciousness will be shaken in this reincarnation wear and tear, but as long as that faith steel seal is still there, they will not forget who they are and what mission they have.

Of course, this approach, although it looks beautiful, is actually just fighting poison with poison.

After all, reincarnation will cause wear and tear to people, so won't faith?

Heroic spirits are no longer humans; they are more like heroes of the Magic Republic. They have long been worn out by such faith and have long become the appearance of faith.

Therefore, except for the first batch of heroic spirits, the Magic Republic has never increased heroic spirits on a large scale. Everyone who meets the conditions for boarding the Monument of Heroes will be asked for their personal opinion: can you accept such wear and tear, and are you willing to be a hero who guards the motherland and the people even if you are worn out?

Although such an inquiry can basically only get one answer; after all, it is impossible for those who meet the conditions for boarding the Monument of Heroes to refuse. They have already sacrificed themselves for the motherland and the people once, so are they afraid of the second time?

They are all true heroic spirits.

Of course, in fact, besides these two methods, there is a final method, which is as long as everyone is a mental patient, then there are no mental patients, right?

Well, as long as all humans collectively reincarnate into robots, then it is actually that everyone is not a human, and there is an extra brand-new intelligent robot race.

And this is what Dorothy wants to do next.

Under normal circumstances, this path is a dead end and cannot be walked. After all, if you want collective reincarnation, you must first kill the whole world.

But now, isn't this abnormal? This is the apocalypse, and everyone will die sooner or later.

Then, flesh is weak, machinery ascends.

.... Mechanical Reincarnation...