Chapter 983 Goodbye, Old Friend

The whole underground base was full of jubilation.

Xiangshan stayed in the reception room, listening to the noise outside, and couldn't help but sigh: "What's going on..."

This is an underground base, which was originally a station. Right above here is a national park in central Africa - this area is the most worth visiting in the 21st century.

To go up from here, you have to take a long escalator.

And this group of knights, based on this station, continued to dig down and expanded a reliable underground base. .

The base is buried more than 200 meters deep. At this distance, the daily activities of the base are basically impossible to be sensed by people on the ground. In addition, there are also knight teams stationed on the ground to monitor the activities of the government nearby.

In addition, there are several secret passages in the base, which can ensure that when necessary, the warriors who cross the world can be directly launched - but they are rarely used. According to the process, every time they launch, they will blow up a large section of the corridor to ensure that no enemy can find this place directly. After that, they need to dig a new road, which is very troublesome.

In the base, most knights use prosthetics that are close to the shape of Homo sapiens. It looks like a group of people wearing tights and various exaggerated mechanical helmets, like a cosplay convention of mechanical geeks.

The prosthetics used by ordinary knights are all for combat, and "daily life convenience" is something that needs to be considered later.

Those prosthetics also take up a lot of space when they move around in the base.

When these knights rest in the base, they will withdraw from their combat prosthetics and use the standard base bodies provided by the base. Their combat prosthetics will be entrusted to maintenance personnel for a number of complex maintenance including stress relief and repair of minor damage.

After using the base bodies, the base seems a lot more spacious.

However, Xiangshan still uses his own first-level prosthetic body. According to the etiquette of this era, unless he takes the initiative, as a "visitor", the host here will not take the initiative to ask him to change the prosthetic body. This is also the etiquette that the head of the sect should have when foreign knights visit other sects.

According to the guiding ideology of the fourth martial god, knights still pay great attention to the cultivation of new culture.

Xiangshan looked outside through the reception room. In the center of the base, in an open activity space, many knights gathered together and chatted about something - although there was no sound, judging from the noise of the electromagnetic environment, most of them were chatting happily. Not only that, they kept gesturing with their hands, as if they were practicing moves and exchanging martial arts.

Xiangshan originally thought that it was unwise to train boxing without prosthesis. But after a few glances, he saw the way. These guys are different from the few entry-level apprentices he brought with him. They have already broken away from the gains and losses of ordinary moves. What they gestured with their hands is also discussing more abstract "attack and defense strategies" and "game theory".

These highly abstract results can be applied to most martial arts.

"The level is pretty good..." Xiangshan whispered.

- But why...

"I guess you are now thinking about why they don't practice this in the virtual space, right?"

Xiangshan turned around. The speaker in the reception room just started. Then, an access request popped up. Xiangshan's own internal martial arts were already extremely powerful, so he naturally agreed without hesitation.

Then, he saw Nia Guti's figure.

Nia Guti chose a more aged virtual image. Based on her image when she was forty years old, she added gray hair. Her face was similar to when Xiangshan first saw her, similarly haggard and tired.

Xiangshan used his fingers to make a smile on his face: "As expected of an old friend, you know me so well."

Niaguti also smiled: "After so many years, you haven't changed..."

"What has changed?"

"When humans face 'real' and 'virtual', their mentality is obviously different."

"Really? But I think that 'the electrical signal obtained by the artificial eye' and 'the electrical signal obtained by the computer reading the memory' are almost the same thing."

"Do you still want to say, 'The electrical signal generated by the retina stimulated by light is no different from the electrical signal obtained by the artificial eye'?"

Xiangshan opened the protective eyelid of the artificial eye to the maximum so that he could make a "wide-eyed" expression: "Is there a difference? We have made so much effort, isn't it to achieve 'no difference'? Do you think I want to kill Lao Chen's suggestion of 'directly injecting image signals into the higher functional areas of the brain'?"

Niaguti couldn't help laughing. Xiangshan also laughed.

Xiangshan said: "It's you, old friend."

Niaguti turned her head away. Xiangshan saw that the camera also tilted slightly.

Nia Guti said: "No matter how close you are to reality, or even beyond reality, humans have an instinctive pursuit of their own 'natural form'. Their instinct only matches that natural form, and any state that deviates from that natural form will make their instinct uncomfortable - I know you want to say, 'That's because their instinct is too backward'. But this is human."

Xiangshan muttered: "It's as if I'm not a human anymore."

"Those who are one step ahead are geniuses, those who are two steps ahead are crazy... and what about you?"

"The concept of an innovator must be three steps ahead."

"'Innovators must be three steps ahead in their ideas.'...Xiang Shan often said this, and I have remembered it." Nia Gudi rubbed her forehead, "I'm sorry, I don't know what your self-perception is like. . I still can’t treat you as Xiang Shan was my friend.”

Xiangshan crossed his arms and asked, "Is this your first face-to-face interaction with the God of War?"

"This is not the first time." Niyaguti said, "I have seen the Second Martial God, the Fourth Martial God, and the Sixth Martial God. When the Seventh Martial God failed, I stayed in outer space for a while and then returned to Earth. . This is not far from where I was born. You may not understand it, but for me, it may be a comfort. I would rather fight to the death."

Niyaguti sighed again: "Those who died as war gods don't even have their own names... They would rather be covered by titles like 'Number of Numbers'."

Xiang Shan said: "It seems that after so many years, you haven't changed much."

"After all, I am over three hundred years old." Niyaguti said: "Based on the life cycle of Homo sapiens, I am no longer just an old lady. I even live longer than most countries and most dynasties. People like us can’t change. That’s too tiring.”