Chapter 866 Immortal Plan

There seemed to be a gentle cool wind blowing on his face.

How long has it been since you breathed so easily? How long has it been since you lay down so comfortably? It's been a long time since I've been so peaceful and comfortable - all the pain and fatigue are gone, and all the old ailments seem to be healed.

In memory, similar feelings seem to have been decades ago.

"Blessed is this child with the land, he bears the grace of the goddess of harvest..."

All of a sudden, a voice that had settled in the depths of my memory suddenly burst into my mind, rearranging the chaotic and loose thoughts together. The feeling of not being able to distinguish the illusory reality suddenly dissipated, and the wind blowing on my face became real. Up, and the faint smell of green grass and earth penetrated into his nostrils - Norris suddenly opened his eyes.

The endless green field stretches out in sight. There is indeed a breeze blowing on this land. The grass leaves waves in the breeze. In the distance, there are peculiar peaks that seem to be spliced ​​together by color blocks. A magnificent array of formulas and runes can also be seen between the clouds, a giant sun with soft rays of light is slowly passing through the sky, and he is lying in this unfamiliar world.

Norris woke up in this strange place, looking at what was in front of him in bewilderment.

Some vague memories began to linger in his mind. He remembered the figures shaking in front of his eyes, the whispers of Margarita and Bertila beside the bed, and he was walking at the end of his life. With a long sigh, along with the rising confusion, he got up from the grass and stood up.

He found his body more flexible than ever - a feeling he hadn't felt in years.

There is a small dirt slope nearby, and you should be able to see more things from a high place. Norris walked towards it. He walked to the top of the dirt slope with ease, and then found that on the opposite side of the slightly undulating hills, there was something unexpected. There is smoke.

—A large beautiful city lies quietly on the plain, surrounded by jewel-like rivers and lakes.

A voice suddenly came from the side: "Does it look good? They made it according to the appearance in memory."

Norris was startled by the sound, he immediately turned his head to look, but saw a figure beside him at some point. It was a young girl he had never seen before, wearing a plain white dress with a head like a The long snow-like hair fell to the ground. She stood there, looking at the beautiful and strange city in the distance, with a simple and happy smile on her face.

Noticing Norris's gaze, the girl turned her head and showed a bright smile: "Hello, my name is Naritel.

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Then she pointed behind Norris: "He's Duwart!"

Norris turned his head in doubt, but saw that there was a figure behind him at some point. It was an old man in a simple robe. He had a kind face and a smile, and nodded slightly to himself.

"I..." Norris opened his mouth, but didn't know where to start. He looked at everything around him doubtfully, and finally shook his head, "Is this the kingdom of God? The kingdom of Goddess of Harvest?"

"This is not the kingdom of God, but it is also a very good place," said the girl who claimed to be Naritel with a smile, "but we are only responsible for bringing you here, and someone will explain the specific situation to you."

Norris frowned. "Someone?"

Naritel nodded with a smile: "He's already here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the girl who claimed to be Naritel and the old man named Duvalt had disappeared from Norris' sight without a sound. The latter rubbed his eyes subconsciously, and when he put his hand down, he saw a A familiar and burly figure was already standing in front of him, looking at him with a gentle smile.

"Your Majesty!" Norris immediately recognized who the other party was, and subconsciously called out in surprise, "How do you..."

"I'll see you," Gao Wen smiled and nodded, "It's a pity that I didn't arrive in time in the real world."

"The real world?" Norris blinked, looking around. "Do you know where this place is? I woke up and found myself lying here..."

"This is the mental space formed by the Imperial Data Network," Gawain said with a smile, "Noris, it seems that you usually don't have time to pay attention to this aspect."

Norris frowned: "I seem to have heard people mention it...but why am I here?"

"In short, you have already died in the real world, something happened a few hours ago," Gawain looked into the eyes of the old man and said in a calm tone, "but I am presumptuous to make an assertion and let you in another form' survived."

...

It didn't take Gawain a lot of effort to explain all this clearly, and after learning what happened to him, Norris fell silent for a while.

Looking at the silent agriculture minister, Gawain said after a short pause: "I heard from Bertila that she had privately suggested that you use the life replacement spell to draw vitality from volunteers, but you refused. already."

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is something that can't be started," Norristan said, "something can never be considered a price, not even a volunteer's life. The temptation of this thing is too great. Allowing this kind of behavior, even tacitly, will lead to its rapid misuse - someone will be forced to become a 'volunteer', or forced to become a 'death penalty'..."

As a person struggling from the bottom of society, Norris has seen too many similar things. A missionary will easily fabricate a crime for a commoner, and then "reasonably and legally" occupy his property and house, even the rich The merchants of the monarchy will also be extorted by theocracy and kingship, and they will “voluntarily” donate money to the church or the king every few moments—even with money, let alone life that is more precious than that?

He believed that Gawain, who had personally created the "Cecil Order", must know these things better than him.

"Your judgment is correct," Gawain said to Norris. "Bertiera made a mistake, and I'm glad you didn't slip into it."

"But you still made my soul 'live' in this 'mind space'," Norris said, looking around, "I wonder if you're only going to do this on me. , or do you intend to apply this technology?"

Although the former Norris had read books and served as a church attendant, he could not escape the shackles of common people's thinking, but after being the Minister of Agriculture for so many years and having witnessed the establishment of a country with his own eyes, he had already learned how to use it. Looking at things from a more profound perspective-behind Gawain's move to preserve his soul, he vaguely felt that there should be more considerations.

"This is a more long-term plan," Gawain said frankly, "I call it the 'Immortal' plan.

"In a nutshell, after acquiring the key technology of the Eternal Sleeper and building a neural network for narrators, I intend to build a special 'soul database' to preserve outstanding or outstanding contributions in the form of network minds , so that they can have the opportunity to continue to serve the empire, these people are called 'immortals'.

"You're the first, Norris.

"This is also my preparation for future changes in the world - the world we live in is not very peaceful. As a country that is not strong enough, we have to prepare more."

"Immortal..." Norris repeated Gawain's words subconsciously, and couldn't help but show a trace of worry, "But I'm worried that this will affect our social order - in a sense, obtaining access to the Internet Longevity is also a kind of 'life chips', and according to what you said, the 'immortal' itself has a special status and influence during his lifetime, can something like this... also be abused?"

"Any good things have the risk of being abused, the only difference is whether they have the opportunity to be controlled, and compared with Bertila's private and easy-to-manipulate life-changing spells, at least the immortal plan that relies on the state system is easier to get. Control," Gawain was not surprised by Norris' questioning, he said frankly about his thoughts, "The Government Affairs Office will establish a set of management procedures at the same time to ensure that the 'immortals' will not be incompatible with the social order of the real world. Conflict - of course, this will take a long time, and in the long future, these systems will also undergo destruction and repair again and again, and these are all under our consideration.

"As the first immortal, Norris, I'm sorry that we didn't ask for your consent before this - subsequent immortals will follow the voluntary principle, and will clearly formulate the responsibilities after 'soul regeneration', Rights and obligations, which are also an important part of bringing the Immortal Project under formal control.

"In addition, it is also to prevent the immortal from affecting the social order of the real world, Norris, I will take back your position as Minister of Agriculture, and there will be a successor to replace you in the real world according to the legal process, and you can take a limited form of consultant. Participate in the affairs of the Council of Ministers - we will run this for a while to see if the process is reasonable, and if there are problems, we can adjust it slowly.

"Finally, the immortals living in the narrator's neural network are also bound by the social order. As you should have seen, the world has cities and will naturally have residents in the future - they are connected as 'short-term residents' The 'users' of the network, and the immortals who are the 'long-term residents' of this world, the Government Affairs Office will establish a management organization similar to the real world in this special world, and then you will find that living here is also living in the real world. Not much different."

Norris listened carefully to every word of Gawain. He tried his best to imagine what kind of future it would be, but found that even with his eyes widened over the years, it was difficult for him to keep up with Gawain's ideas. Can roughly imagine some subversive and unprecedented "prospects" - the world is divided into two, the real world and the mental space in the network run synchronously, countless people live in these two worlds at the same time, all knowledge and ideas will be Communicate and share with unprecedented efficiency. The immortals have lived in the network for a long time, which may even give birth to a new "ethnic group", and one of the biggest challenges that Cecil will face in the future may be to achieve a balance between this new ethnic group and the social order...

Some challenges are worth looking forward to.

While Norris was trying to conceive of the future, Gawain's mind was also fluctuating.

The Immortal Project... a bold and ambitious project.

Outstanding talents will be protected, valuable knowledge will be more thoroughly utilized, and it itself can play a huge rewarding and motivating role, which, at first glance, appears to be almost all merit.

But risks also lie deep within these exciting advantages.

As Norris feared for the first time - this subversive technology that immortalizes souls is likely to conflict with the existing social order, and there is a danger of abuse and loss of control one day in the future.

To this end, Gawain must lead the Government Affairs Department to formulate a lot of rules and regulations to restrain the immortal, strictly control the channels, prevent it from blocking the flow of classes in the real world, and prevent it from destroying the relatively fair social order that was finally established. To be an outlet for out-of-control power...

But even though there were a lot of risks, Gawain still decided to start this plan and make it one of the important "reserve forces" of the Cecil Empire.

This world is not very peaceful, and human beings... are not such a powerful species in this not very peaceful world.

Elves with a long history and rich heritage, giant dragons with extremely tyrannical individual strength, mysterious and powerful immortal sea monsters... There are too many races with superior innate conditions than humans, and they themselves have extremely advanced civilizations.

Another feature they have in common is their long lifespan and exceptional ability to live.

Any individual who lives to adulthood can accumulate the knowledge and skills of generations of human beings.

Although the relationship between the Cecil Empire and these forces is good at this stage, this does not allow Gawain to rest easy, because he still remembers how the Dragonborn not long ago saw through the investment plans of the Cecil Empire and trade program. Although the Dragonborn finally agreed to join the Cecil settlement area, on the surface, it seemed that they fell into the currency siege of the Cecilians, but there are various signs that the Grand Duke of Balogel did not fall into a "trap" at all. ——Since the Dragonborn can see through the investment plans of the Cecil people from experience, they must be familiar with the tricks of human beings in terms of currency. They accept the settlement area lightly, which can only show that...they don't care about it. .

There may be the giant dragon of Tal Lund standing behind them. In the depths of their mountains, there may be buried "ancient super martial arts" that cannot be defeated by all humans on the continent.

Gawain hopes to maintain long-term peace with those races, but he is very clear about one sentence: if you want peace, you must have the capital of peace.

The Cecil Empire needs some "special heritage" belonging to human beings.

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