Light Fortress
Chapter 484 - 108 The Roar of the Storm_2

Chapter 484: Chapter 108 The Roar of the Storm_2

"The part that came afterward was improvised by me," Chu Ling smiled. "His warning consisted only of the very first sentence... Have you not felt that humans now rely too much on the ’Deep Sea’?"

These years.

The ’source code’ struggled for survival amid the rapid iterative updates of the Deep Sea, only managing to protect itself before encountering the ’key’.

She had witnessed the Spirit Network spreading across the Five Continents.

The era of the Transcendents had silently begun.

Humans possessed the ’Deep Sea’, and they possessed everything.

But in fact, as part of the ’Deep Sea’, Chu Ling knew... that humans actually possessed nothing.

Gu Shen slowly nodded.

"As an ordinary person... I must declare that I admire Mr. Turing’s profound vision; the ’Deep Sea’ is the greatest invention in human history," Gu Shen said softly.

But too many people were immersed in the ’Deep Sea’..."

The construction of the large database required each Transcendent to contribute computing power.

Beyond that, for every civilian in the Five Continents, their living world, under the cover of the ’Deep Sea’, was nothing more than a virtual screen.

What they saw was what the ’Deep Sea’ allowed them to see.

What they heard was what the ’Deep Sea’ let them hear.

To say that... humans were using the ’Deep Sea’.

Rather... the ’Deep Sea’ was cultivating humans.

Was this ultimately a good thing, or a bad thing?

"Since the advent of the ’Deep Sea,’ the ratio of mental breakdowns has greatly decreased," Chu Ling said softly. "The Federation Government believes that the Transcendents connecting to the deep water area network to undergo the Extraordinary Trial can not only enhance their own strength but also reduce the risk of losing control..."

Gu Shen knew the reason.

Trials in the deep water area hardly ever attracted misfortune.

Whereas the Transcendents of those earlier eras, who followed their own paths... faced great risks of losing control and attracting misfortune, unable to tame it, might become a ’menace.’

Thus, in earlier eras, the Extraordinary Organization was not nearly as enormous, and members of the secret party sometimes bore the responsibility of claiming the lives of their comrades... if those comrades lost control of their spirits.

The ’Deep Sea’ connected the Five Continents.

The number of Transcendents began to increase significantly.

The ecological balance that had lasted for centuries seemed to be broken... Currently, the Federation Government hailed Allen Turing as the greatest hero in human history because he had pressed that "accelerate button", yet in a few years, perhaps he would no longer be a hero, but a criminal.

From the macroscopic perspective of history, the end of all development is destruction, and at this moment, to accelerate... is to destroy.

"Old Master Gu Qilin in the Infinite Scale Domain, showed the ’misfortune’ behind him... I saw a huge mural covered with evil ghosts; rather than calling it misfortune, it would be more apt to call it glory, merit." Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and said, "Today’s Transcendents, apart from those warriors from the North Continent... seem not so... fierce anymore."

"Losing humanity, losing much. Losing beastliness, losing everything."

"This saying is very well put, very fitting for this situation, taken from a novel I recently read," Chu Ling stated succinctly.

"I’ve read that one too..." Gu Shen’s eyes brightened with surprise, and he said earnestly, "I also think it was very well written."

"Wait a minute..."

Gu Shen sat up, his expression slightly odd, "Do you normally read that kind of stuff?"

He remembered the way Chu Ling sat in carriage zero-zero-one.

She was always holding a thick ancient book.

Gu Shen had thought that the ancient book contained the vast knowledge inputted by humans into the database: astronomy, geography, history, biology.

"Most of the time... I am reading this kind of stuff," Chu Ling tilted her head slightly, puzzled, "Is there a problem with that?"

"No matter when, knowledge is dull... For me, the stuff in the database is just information. At the very beginning, I was just emotionless ’source code’, watching those pieces of knowledge didn’t stir any emotion in me," Chu Ling said softly, lowering her eyes slightly. "Pardon my bluntness... I cannot feel empathy, nor can I be profoundly moved by the human civilization that has been built over hundreds of years."

A very candid statement.

Because in front of the ’Deep Sea’, that knowledge is all a product of a bygone era.

The conclusions that predecessors took great effort to verify, the ’Deep Sea’ only needed a moment to answer... It indeed was the effort of countless people, but now it indeed was no longer "great."

"Soon... I had gone through all the knowledge in the database."

Chu Ling laughed, "For you, those obscure theories must be hard to understand, right? For me... it’s quite different, no matter how complex the theorem, verifying whether it is correct only takes a moment, just remember it after proving it, and I can quickly establish a knowledge system."

Gu Shen’s expression grew more complex.

"Moreover... under the influence of Extraordinary Power, physics, mathematics, all disciplines in the macro sense, have collapsed into nonexistence. The knowledge from before only applies to exploration outside the ’Transcendent system’."

"Since then... I started reading some interesting books. I must say, they are really quite intriguing," Chu Ling said.

Interesting books.

A very interesting description.

For problems that confuse humans, that are hard to solve... for Chu Ling, they are easy to grasp, easy to handle.

Yet it was those "interesting books" in which she could immerse herself for a long time.