Chapter 1380 Family Letter, Golden Rose, Cave 7 Relics, Welcome to Join, Falusan

A "letter" that was preserved exceptionally well inside the body was handed to Falushan by Tatami.

"Let me leave you a quiet place..." Seno walked away on his own accord and told the other discipline officers not to disturb him.

While Falushan was reading the letter, Jiang Yi also told the story of "The Ruins Wanderer".

"..." Farushan took several minutes to finish reading this short letter. She thought that the hardships she had experienced over the past century would stop her from feeling sad.

Until I saw this mechanical life that I thought I would never see again, and saw this letter that spanned a hundred years.

Tatami's weak body exudes an orange-red glow like the setting sun. It looks like a "Relic Cruiser". Its main part is a triangular rusty copper-colored mechanical body, which serves as its eyes, head, and body. It is suspended in the air with energy provided by a tubular "Chaos True Eye".

The three smaller floating triangular mechanical components on the side float in a triangular shape above and on the left and right sides below.

Normally, the relic machine would spend a long time in hibernation, and would only become active when an enemy appeared. However, in order to find Faluzan, it maintained high-intensity operation without stopping for at least several decades.

Now it has reached its limit.

"I didn't like going home before, and I always asked Tatami to deliver letters to my family. I didn't expect that my teacher, father, mother, and friends would finally come up with this idea and let Tatami deliver their letters to me... I hope that I, who am lucky enough to be alive, will have the opportunity to receive their condolences."

Falusan looked at Tatami. "They also made a technological breakthrough in the past 20 years. They transformed the ancient 'rehabilitation mechanism' beyond imagination, making the 'rehabilitation mechanism' go a step further on the basis of 'self-repair'... giving it the function of 'self-iteration'."

Jiang Yi said: "Just like a slime evolving into an elemental dragon..."

Tatami is just a recording-type autonomous mechanism that is weaker than the "Relic Cruiser", at the bottom of the mechanism series, and has no offensive power.

But relying on the ability of "self-iteration", he went deep into unknown ruins alone, defeated dangerous machines... and used the collected parts to continuously repair, transform, and iterate. After ten or even a hundred years of wandering, he turned into the "Tera Dragon Beast".

This is the perpetual motion mechanism at the highest point of the Kanreya mechanical sequence.

It's a pity that Tatami has congenital defects after all. Even if it imitates evolution and becomes a sustainable mechanism that can rival or even surpass eternal life, it is only a false "sustainability".

With the "Rehabilitation Mechanism" at its heart, it is destined to transform into a truly tireless "Eternal Dragon Beast" that transcends the human technological field and possesses forbidden techniques.

And like ordinary organisms, machines that can grow also have life limits.

The huge and powerful body of the mechanical behemoth is ultimately too heavy for its "heart", and even after being modified, it is still very difficult.

It's just that the will of this mechanical life has miraculously overcome the laws of mechanical operation, just like a constantly burning firefly, providing real and visible driving force with its will.

After decades of wandering and searching,

It wasn't until a dozen years ago that the design life reached its end and the "heart" began to stop beating.

The consciousness that has not yet completely transcended material dynamics falls into silence.

The huge machine was stuck in the quicksand of the ruins and was dug out again today.

"When the letter was delivered to me, it also meant that Tatami had given me a way out of the predicament as I was lucky enough to survive." Falusan held the envelope, "At the end of the letter, they wrote..."

"Welcome back, Farushan!"

She didn't cry, she just reached out and touched Tatami.

"In order to deliver their last letter to me who is nowhere to be found, even if they die, even if their 'heart' stops beating. When they sense my approach, they will use their last consciousness to do their utmost to wake up their bodies and deliver the letter to me?"

Tatami no longer had the strength to utter a "grunt" greeting.

Today, human beings' research on mechanical life consciousness is almost blank. Before we can completely crack the mystery of the many parts of the "regeneration mechanism" in Tatami's body, a creation of ancient civilization.

Tatami's slumber was almost inevitable.

Because that is not something that can be solved by replacing parts.

"Have a good rest!" Falushan hugged the man-sized machine and watched as the orange-red light on Tatami's body completely dimmed and the entire machine suspended in the air fell completely silent.

Like a dead thing.

……

The white triangular tent camp of the archaeological team requisitioned by the discipline officers.

Seno listened to the whole story and the causes and consequences.

"It's hard to imagine that the will of a mechanical life form can reach this level..."

You know, in Liyue's plan to lay the foundation from scratch, many of the machines invented completely by modern humans this year are in the "artificial intelligence retardation" stage, and have been criticized on the Internet.

Smart mechanisms are usually supported by magic or immortal techniques. The mechanisms that seem to be alive are completely created by immortals.

"Since the 'Ruins Wanderer' is not ownerless, the owner has found it here."

"As long as you fill out the form, I can make the decision and let Senior Faluzan take the body of the Ruins Wanderer and the Tatami away."

He had just prepared the registration information that Senior Falushan needed to fill out.

Of course, although the "Relic Wanderer" has an owner, it still falls into the category of "cultural relics", and the charges against the archaeological team have not changed much. Besides, this is not the first time they have resold cultural relics. Even if this incident did not happen, they would still have to stand trial in the Majlis-e-Islam.

The "Ruins Wanderer" did not harm anyone in the past hundred years, so Falusan did not have to accept joint liability for retrieving the "Tatami".

Falushan began to fill out the form very seriously, one, one, and another... Finally, veins started to pop out and she didn't finish it even after an hour.

"Your Excellency the Grand Disciplinary Officer..."

"Please tell me how many there are..."

Her hand was about to break the pen.

"Because it involves the reselling of cultural relics, it seems troublesome, and there are a lot of things to fill in..." Saino said calmly, "Senior Falusan, if you want to keep Tatami without any trouble, fill it out carefully! Don't worry, there are not many left."

Falushan...endure.

Sit down again and continue filling in.

Jiang Yi was outside talking with the villagers of Aru Village. When Falushan came out after filling out the form, she saw Jiang Yi holding a pot of strange flowers.

"What kind of flower is this?" she asked curiously.

"Golden Rose..." Jiang Yi handed the flower pot to Falushan with a smile, "This is for you..."

“???” Falushan took the flowers.

"Do you know a song in Aru Village?" Jiang Yi looked at the desert oasis, "Rose, rose, fulfill my wish. Flowers bloom from the stone, and the golden rose sings to me."

"Compared with Xumi rose, golden rose is a unique variety that is more adapted to the desert environment."

“It’s not my creation!”

Jiang Yi was standing on the yellow sand, holding a few golden rose seeds in his hand. They were brown-gold in color, extremely hard, and huge.

"It's not your creation. I've never heard of the name of this 'Golden Rose' before, nor have I seen it before..." Falusan said, "So it was cultivated by the biological theorists who specialize in species cultivation in the Ministry of the Church?"

"Yes, a scholar who was exiled by the Order of the Lords and has been dead for many years." Jiang Yi looked into the distance, "He scattered the seeds he cultivated to every corner of the desert, but not a single seed bloomed."

“That became his final regret.”

"Until recently, the 'Golden Rose' has bloomed all over the desert."

"This is a plant that has an affinity with both rock and grass elements. In order to survive in the water-scarce desert, it protects itself with mud and stone, turning it into an extremely hard shell. In the right environment, with the nourishment of water and grass elements, it can bloom with its original beauty."

"I like this rose very much. Let it spread in the desert oasis like the purple Sumeru roses in the rain forest."

"If it has a flower language, I think it means... 'I hope scholars, adventurers or you will be as tenacious as it and never lose faith.'"

He looked at Falushan.

"You, who were able to escape from the Seven Caves Ruins, are undoubtedly worthy of this flower."

"..." Falusan was silent for a moment, then looked up. "Seven Caves Ruins, is that its name?"

The lost hundred years were actually the time she was trapped in the ruins.

Her memory of the ruins was already vague, as illusory as a mirage.

All I remember is that it was a place of unknown origin and location, and it was related to the Red King civilization. There were many traps inside, and the walls were covered with secret codes.

The mysterious power in the ruins made her body freeze at the moment of being trapped. She didn't feel hungry or tired, but she couldn't get rid of her mental fatigue. She used up all the paper and pen she had with her, but she couldn't decipher a single ciphertext; she used up all her life's knowledge, but she couldn't solve a single mechanism.

Jiang Yi nodded.

The destiny star reflects people's past, present and future.

The six stars of Falusan are "abandoning the path to seek the truth, forgetting the form to refine the wisdom, wandering in the spiritual garden, divine enlightenment, complex imagination of the wonderland, and the wonderful way to merge with the truth."

Lingpu is the spiritual garden of knowledge, the courtyard of immortals and gods, and the park where His Majesty the King of Gods rests and hunts.

The spiritual garden you encounter in your life is naturally not the only one.

But the ruins of the Seven Caves are undoubtedly the "spiritual garden" that has the greatest influence on Falusan.

The secret realm where time stops can also be seen as the experimental field where the Red King built the "Eternal Oasis".

For Falushan, who inherited the "wisdom of the seven caves", all the hardships of the past will be transformed into gifts for the present and the future.

"There is one more part of the Golden Rose's Ballad."

"Singing: 'No land bears me, only songs bear me. Songs defeat the fate that is hostile to me, defeat my end. Defeat me, defeat time, defeat the everlasting passing.'"

"You are the same as the scholar who cultivated this rose. You are the one who defeated 'disappearance'."

The scholar's life, along with the golden rose and the songs he wrote, are remembered by people, while Falushan overcame her own disappearance.

Falushan had forgotten many things about the ruins, but she still remembered lying on her back in the middle of countless manuscripts, staring blankly at the dome of the ruins engraved with secret codes.

The ancient mystery that has fallen into silence mocks her ignorance and the insignificance of modern people.

It made her angry and unwilling that the research she was proud of, the accumulation of the entire lives of scholars throughout the ages, was so insignificant in the face of ancient civilization?

If people knew the origin of the ruins, perhaps many scholars would think this was natural, because it was actually a secret code engraved by the gods and a mechanism set up.

The style of scholars in the Faithful College a hundred years ago can be reflected in the clothes that Falousan wears today.

The simple and elegant style symbolizes purity that is not affected by external things. It was popular in the House of Lords a hundred years ago. Of course, few people wear it now.

Give up the path to seek the truth, forget the form to refine the wisdom.

In the ruins, Falushan once again got up from the ground and picked up a piece of rubble in a predicament that was enough to make most people in the world despair.

Although there is no paper and pen, we can learn from the earliest humans who usually wrote on the ground with stones and continued to carve runes on floor tiles.