Chapter 111: The Temple

If there were humans here, they would be astonished to find that, clearly it was an upward-looking perspective, but it inexplicably gave people a feeling of looking down, as if the one looking down was not the old man, but the white-clothed young man wrapped in wind and snow...

This feeling in the dark, as an artificial intelligence, the old man naturally could not feel.

Compared to this, he cared more about the vision shown by the white-clothed young man.

In a single thought, the wind and clouds rose, and the world changed color.

Was this really the power that humans could possess?

I don't know when, the old man floating in the air stopped chanting and fell into a long silence.

But this silence was only a superficial phenomenon. Deep underground in the Temple, the honeycomb-style server shone with light after a long time. Hundreds of thousands of indicator lights flickered like stars, reflecting ghostly blue light spots on the smooth metal floor.

The neural network processor that had been silent for many years operated at high speed, and streams of data like groups of electronic fireflies were active in the cables and thinking cognitive system at an unprecedented speed.

Without a doubt, it was trying to understand everything it saw before it.

But unfortunately, even if it searched the entire database, it could not find any vocabulary to describe the person in front of it, except for the strange legends created by the previous civilization, as well as those immortals that only existed in fantasy...

After being silent for a long time, the old man's thinking system finally seemed to turn around.

It silently lowered its head, looked at the white-clothed young man wrapped in wind and snow, and said slowly: "Who exactly are you?"

"... The CPU is almost burnt, and the result is just asking this sentence?"

Lin Yu sighed, then floated slowly in the wind and snow, looked at the old man indifferently, and said:

"My Daoist name is Huanyu, and I am your master from now on."

"..."

The old man was silent for a moment and replied: "I don't have a CPU."

Lin Yu was startled upon hearing this, then had black lines all over his head, and couldn't help but complain: "Is this the point?"

The old man's expression was calm, and he continued: "I really cannot understand your actions. Even in the peak period of the previous civilization, they could only build large weather controllers to achieve local weather control, and could not shrink this technology, or even shrink it to the extent that it could be hidden in a human body..."

"After careful logical reasoning, I can only draw one conclusion—you are not from Earth!"

"You are the one who is not from Earth!" Lin Yu rolled his eyes and said irritably, "Why don't you test the genes? This level of technology shouldn't be missing here, right?"

"Yes, but it's meaningless."

The old man remained calm: "If you can achieve the miniaturization of weather controllers, then tampering with genes is definitely not a difficult task."

Quite serious...

Lin Yu frowned: "It seems you really care about whether I am human."

The old man said: "The Temple protects human civilization. If you are not human, I must consider the potential threat you pose."

"Then why don't you take action? Is it because you lost the means to interfere with the outside world, or is it..."

Speaking of this, Lin Yu paused, then asked thoughtfully: "What is the Temple's definition of humans?"

The old man was silent for a moment and sighed: "Genes."

Lin Yu laughed, then waved his hand, withdrawing the wind and snow that shrouded the Temple.

In an instant, the violent wind stopped, the blizzard disappeared, and the entire Temple returned to its previous tranquility.

"Let's speak openly!"

Lin Yu looked at the old man indifferently and said: "I came here this time to represent humans and take back the Temple's technology."

"If you are willing to cooperate, that would naturally be the best. If you are not willing, then it's a pity, I can only do it myself..."

According to the original plot, the Temple had stood on this snow mountain for hundreds of thousands of years. Without sufficient technical personnel, it was impossible for the operation of the equipment not to have problems.

Unless necessary, Lin Yu didn't want to make a big move, so as not to cause any irreversible losses.

The old man was silent for a moment and shook his head: "This is impossible."

Lin Yu frowned: "You also said that the Temple is just a guardian of human civilization, not some immortal god that rules humans. This kind of guardianship must have an end point; it can't always be pressed on top of humans."

"This is not in the interest of humans, and I don't think the people who created the Temple would do this..."

This time, the old man remained silent and did not answer Lin Yu's question.

Lin Yu nodded: "It seems there really is one—alright, then I'll do it myself!"

After saying this, he turned around and walked toward the buildings inside the Temple.

The old man frowned, then his figure disintegrated, scattered into countless points of light, reorganized in front of Lin Yu, and blocked the way.

"You can't do this."

"In fact, I can."

Lin Yu answered indifferently while walking straight toward the old man, just like that, passing through the holographic projection and stepping into the building in front of him.

The escaping spiritual power affected the surroundings, making the light forming the projection no longer stable, collapsing into a piece of distorted light spots.

Lin Yu didn't care about the situation behind him at all, but instead looked at the situation in the building with great interest.

This was an ancient temple-style building. The front hall after entering the door could be described as empty, with only long rectangular blank traces left on the ground on both sides, which were clearly the display stands that had once been displayed here.

Unlike the bluestone structure outside, the walls inside the temple were made of materials more similar to metal.

Lin Yu reached out and stroked the wall. Spiritual power spread into the wall along his fingers, finding that the internal structure was extremely complex, and he didn't recognize many of the parts, but there were also some he had seen before.

Such as chips, gold wires, epoxy resin...

Lin Yu's heart stirred: "Is this entire wall a screen?"

"It's a holographic projection screen."

A voice without any waves came from behind.

Lin Yu turned to look, only to see that the artificial intelligence didn't know when it had scattered the old man's figure, turning into a white light mirror, quietly floating beside him.

"There are quite a few good things!"

Lin Yu clicked his tongue in wonder: "Aren't you going to show me?"

The light mirror remained silent, clearly having no intention of turning on the holographic projection screen.

Lin Yu didn't care, immediately stepped forward, and continued to walk deeper.

Throughout the process, the light mirror had been following by his side, seemingly thinking about how to stop his actions.

Lin Yu glanced at it and said indifferently while walking: "Stop struggling. You should be very clear that the Temple can't do anything to me, but the other way around is different!"

"Based on my understanding of humans, all human creations must have backups and backdoors."

"Like an artificial intelligence like you, naturally, there are some mandatory measures in terms of permissions."

"Even if I can't forcibly take over the permissions, at least I can forcibly shut you down, right?"

Speaking of this, Lin Yu paused, then looked at the ground under his feet, revealing a smile.

"Found it!"

Before the words had faded, Lin Yu's figure flashed and disappeared in the hall.

When he appeared again, he had already gone deep underground, standing on the metal-manufactured floor.

Just at the moment he appeared, the metal ceiling above his head shone with light after a long time, illuminating the entire metal passage.

Lin Yu looked around with great interest. Before he could make any further moves, the Temple's voice came from all directions.

"Space technology? Instant movement?"

"How did you do it?!"

The voice that had been without waves carried a trace of obvious shock.

Lin Yu didn't answer, but instead looked at the metal wall with traces of a door frame in front of him.

In his perception, there was a space the size of a security room behind the wall, in which several screens were placed, as well as an operation console with a keyboard and touch panel, very much like the place where those technical personnel used to stay.

"Is it here?"

Lin Yu stroked the metal secret door and said indifferently: "One last chance, hand over the permissions to me."

The Temple didn't speak, just relied on its own permissions to lock this metal secret door firmly and close it tightly.

"You don't think this can stop me, do you?"

Lin Yu said indifferently, raised his hand and inserted it into the wall, just like pushing open a sliding door, and pushed gently toward the right.

"Geji geji—"

The rough action without any stagnation caused the metal structure in the wall to twist and collapse, the originally smooth wall bulged, and a large number of cracks and metal debris collapsed.

In just an instant, the metal secret door twisted and opened.

The sound of an alarm came from the passage, flashing with dazzling red light.

Perhaps feeling that the alarm sound was too noisy, Lin Yu's gaze swept across, and the metal passage immediately splashed with a large amount of electric sparks, and all the equipment hidden in the wall was paralyzed and lost its effect.

Seeing this situation, light flashed in the metal passage, and the light mirror appeared again.

Lin Yu glanced at it: "Changed your mind?"

The light mirror didn't answer, just asked with a calm tone: "You clearly master space technology far beyond the Temple, why do you still use this kind of rough means?"

"..."

Lin Yu was silent for a moment, then sighed: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

The light mirror said calmly: "Assuming you really master technology far beyond the Temple, there is no need to keep talking to me, let alone try to make me take the initiative to hand over the permissions, so I think you don't possess enough knowledge, and even if you found the backdoor, you don't know how to operate it."

"Not bad!"

Seeing that the light mirror had deduced the truth, Lin Yu simply showed his cards and said irritably: "I already told you, I am not an alien, and the means I master are not technology, but more like the immortal supernatural powers in your cognition."

"Immortals, huh..."

The light mirror fell into silence.

Lin Yu glanced at it and said indifferently: "Don't be happy too early. I do lack knowledge in this area, but that's only because I don't want to destroy the Temple!"

"If you really exhaust my patience..."

Lin Yu's figure flashed and appeared in another underground secret room, looking at the large number of server arrays in front of him, and said indifferently: "I can also destroy you directly from the physical level!"

Before the words had faded, blue-white thunder burst out from his palm, as if it could jump out at any time and destroy the server in front of him.

"Wait!"

The Temple's slightly anxious voice came from the ceiling.

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but show surprise.

It seemed he didn't expect that this so-called artificial intelligence actually had a desire to survive?

(End of chapter)