Chapter 1233 Videotape, Kakata and Abatoi, Love, Death and Robots

After packing up the camp, everyone headed north along the water.

In the silent jungle, the energy of the earth veins became more and more agitated. Giant yellow flowers that were ten times larger than the bamboo hat bloomed one after another, and their green flower stems were as thick as arms and thighs.

On the shore, the Xumi Rose reflected a purple halo in the water, and more and more out-of-control ancient machines appeared in front of everyone again.

They seem to use the dark cave tunnels formed by the roots of the dense forest as a nest to obtain energy.

This road is the only access to the depths of the contaminated area.

The crowd was unable to avoid these ancient machines and had to fight again.

The main force in the battle is still Ying and Tinari.

Jiang Yi and Paimeng are responsible for being alert to the surrounding environment to see if there are any unknown enemies hiding.

After clearing out the enemies, enter the cave made of tree roots.

Gray energy mist floated, corroding people's bodies. Continuing forward, the cave became brighter and wider.

Tree roots of different sizes and thicknesses weave a dome. Yellow flowers like slender trumpets grow along the roots and vines. Rust-colored metal pipes are half-buried in the grass, water, and hillside.

Metal pipes converge from all directions and are connected to a huge disc instrument erected on the hillside.

The lamps were either placed on the ground or hung on the roots of the trees in the dome, illuminating the cave with golden, sun-like light.

This is the source of the earth energy overflow.

"This device... is drawing the earth veins, and it is drawing the earth veins endlessly." Tinari walked up to the moss-covered metal disc and looked at the energy tank with a metal frame on it.

The liquid earth vein energy overflowed the tank, and because of the rich elements of the Sumeru Rainforest Grass, it showed varying green colors. The leaked liquid energy vaporized into mist after leaving the tank, bringing up a tide of energy.

Like a violent storm and huge waves, it swept through everyone's bodies and spread into the distance.

This made Tinari's tone serious and angry: "Who did this? Don't you think about the consequences before doing this? If you keep destroying the flow of the earth veins like this, the earth veins can't even repair themselves."

"Everyone, please leave first. I'll figure out how to turn this thing off."

Even if one is the holder of the Eye of God, facing an energy impact of this level, the body may suffer irreversible damage because it cannot adapt to the energy concentration.

It's no different from being attacked by elemental life.

"Let me do it!" Jiang Yi stepped forward and stood in front of Tinari. "You can't avoid the influence of the earth veins. There is no control device here. You go look for it nearby. I will deal with the energy leakage here."

A burst of spore dust floated out from his body and covered the tank. Mycelium instantly multiplied, forming layers of wide mushrooms like a sea of ​​clouds, obscuring the tank.

The surrounding energy concentration instantly returned to a safe level.

Jiang Yi felt as if he had drunk some fine wine, and his whole body felt refreshed.

"Tree King Holy Body Mushroom? No, the color has changed a little..." Tinari's eyes changed as he looked at the magical scene.

What is this cat...

"Gulu, Gulu!" The mechanical crab next to it signaled everyone to follow.

"It seems to know where the controls are..." Paimon looked at the mechanical crab running deeper.

"Chase it..." Tinari suppressed his curiosity, glanced at Jiang Yi, and followed the mechanical crab.

In the deeper caves, there are splashing rapids and waterfalls, and huge lotus leaves as big as platforms grow that will not collapse when stepped on. In the cracks of the cliffs, there is a rainbow bridge of materialized energy that will only appear when you step on it.

This is a huge research room. The wooden platform is filled with various instruments. The vertical blackboards are densely covered with formulas and words. In the middle, on a wooden bed made of banana leaves, a person is lying.

He was skinny, with bags under his eyes, and was wearing the uniform of the Sulun school of the Sipantama Academy of the Jiaolingyuan.

"His body has no temperature..." Tinari reached out and touched the man's skin. "Long-term malnutrition and overwork caused him to fall down and never wake up again."

As a ranger who also worked as a doctor, he could almost tell the cause of death at a glance.

The Sulun School, the initiator of the mechanical life project, wants to use knowledge to create a "new and useful" life to help humans "conquer nature."

In some ways, this concept is similar to that of the ancient kingdom that created countless ancient machines.

Tinari glanced at the blackboards around him.

The subject of mechanical life was once all the rage, but no matter how the modules were replaced, the machines were still essentially receiving and executing instructions, and could not have "autonomous consciousness" like humans or other creatures. Therefore, enthusiastic scholars performed unlimited live dissections on animals to explore the differences between machines and natural life.

Because the experiments were extremely cruel, research on mechanical life was abolished by the Ministry of Education.

"Gulu, gurgle..." The mechanical crab asked Tinari for reward again.

As a reward for the mechanical crab bringing everyone here, Tinari took out the mechanical parts and handed them to the mechanical crab.

The mechanical crab happily walked to the side, took out parts one by one, and performed strange movements.

Jiang Yi tilted his head, his eyes piercing through the body of the Su Lun School's death scholar.

"Has the soul returned to the earth veins?" He followed the mysterious connection, and the spores turned into a bridge between life and death, and traced it.

Tinari, Ying and Paimon walked towards another large cave next to the laboratory where experimental data were stored.

The metal energy pipes continued to spread, and on the cave platform, the tables and chairs were filled with books, potions, and various documents.

Jiang Yi followed and read quickly, reading ten lines at a glance.

The tiny spores in the sky form tiny eyeballs, projecting thousands of sights. Subtle elements sweep across the text, and all the text, images and formulas are recorded by the elements.

The more powerful and precious the knowledge is, the brighter the light of the elements will be. This is the theory of "canned knowledge". At this moment, these elements engraved with knowledge turned into streams of light, and in an instant...

Knowledge flows into Jiang Yi's mind one by one.

These experimental notes that filled the entire room, all the knowledge was read by him in just ten seconds, and he organized and archived them, extracting useful knowledge.

In fact, in addition to the wise words written by humans, the entire rainforest and the world, all the elements are telling Jiang Yi the mysteries of nature.

The memories of the earth, the forest, the wind and the rain, and the accumulated knowledge, flood into my mind all the time, which means I am gaining enlightenment all the time.

"The Sulun school once made a device called 'videotape' to record experimental images." Tinari found several videotapes with date numbers on them, the earliest of which was two years ago.

"This device is expensive and not very stable, so it is only used in some laboratories and is not open to the public."

"Of course, now... it is outdated technology."

"I only heard before that the recording method of Liyue Jade Slip is stable, clear, efficient, and colorful... Later, I borrowed Kelai's Jade Slip and used it, and it was indeed true."

"The scholars who claim to be the wisest in Teyvat must have been unable to accept that Liyue has surpassed them in video recording methods, and they cannot replicate them."

"They will probably impose short-term restrictions by not allowing the disclosure of experimental data and prohibiting the use of foreign products for video recording."

"It is also possible to attribute all the credit for the Liyue Jade Slip technology to the 'God of Man'. It was the wisdom of the gods that guided the people of Liyue to replicate the Jade Slips."

Tinari saw it very clearly.

Jiang Yi touched the jade gourd on his neck. Not bad! Mr. Tinari, please praise me again, and I will give you a jade slip right away.

Well! Tinari stopped praising.

He fiddled with the tape and put it on the projector to play.

The screen was dark all around, white vertical lines and noise appeared from time to time, and the image began to play with a somewhat faded and dark color.

There is a kind of beauty that is full of age.

Perhaps because this natural hiding place is hidden and quiet enough, the sound recorded in the video is very clear.

The edge of the platform is covered with brown mushrooms that are taller than humans.

Scholars of the Sulun School are having a conversation with a mechanical crab.

"Kakata... So you are here! Come and take a look, this is our new home!"

"I, Abatoi, will show my talents here and impress those old-fashioned people in the House of Lords!"

So the mechanical crab's name is Kakata? Paimon thought to himself.

Abatoi... Tinari remembered this name. It was one of his juniors who was expelled from the House of the Decrees for researching mechanical life.

Abatoi was actually older than him, but in the academic field, those who achieved more were ranked first, and those who entered later usually referred to those who were more senior as their seniors.

He was still interested in "mechanical life" itself, but he did not like the attitudes and research methods of the scholars at that time.

"Listen carefully Kakata, I want to create mass-producible mechanical life here, and the technology used is different from any previous one."

"I will use machinery to simulate organs, so that electricity can flow like blood; a heart made of steel will keep beating, and a brain with dense components will be able to think like me."

Abatoi wears a mechanical eye mask. The spiral caliper-like lenses on the eye mask can measure data and have some functions of a "void terminal".

He danced and expressed his grand ideals to his companion, his creation, Kakata.

Kakata made a puzzled sound.

Abatoi didn't care. Instead, he was extremely excited and shouted loudly: "The inspiration from the ruins, the research banned by the Council of Edicts... I hope everything can take root here. By then, you will be able to understand human language and live with humans. Not a monotonous and boring machine, but real life!"

He could almost dream of a world like that.

Yes!

After giving up the void terminal, he found that he seemed to be dreaming.

This shameful thing that people are too embarrassed to say out loud seems to be a lie from the House of Lords.

Not being able to dream is a manifestation of rationality and wisdom, and it is the glory of the people of Sumeru that they do not dream.

That's ridiculous.

It's like denying my research.

No one can refute the decision of the Fatwa Council or question its decision.

Even if the words of the sages are wrong.

"It doesn't matter. You will understand, one day you will understand..." Abatoi reached out and touched Kakata's head.

The videotape ends.

Tinari took out another volume, a video from half a year ago and watched it.

Jiang Yi's expression changed slightly.

He slowly walked to the side, stretched out his claws towards the earth veins, and grabbed a large number of souls constructed from memories from the River Oblivion and the Styx, the realm of life and death.

Abatoi.

The power of eternity surged in Jiang Yi's hands, fixing the soul and gradually awakening the other party's consciousness.

"You...where is this..." Abatoi's soul looked around, as if waking up from darkness.

"Don't talk, don't ask questions. You should know that you are already dead, and I will take your soul, so you will be my 'accomplice' for the time being!" Jiang Yi smiled teasingly, "Liyue has a saying, 'to be an accomplice to a tiger's wrath', do you understand?"

Abatoi looked at the cat in front of him, or rather the cat that called itself "Tiger".