In a laboratory inside the Iron Mechanicus Church, a new apostle opened his eyes from the operating bed in the transformation room.
"Yuna, how do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
An old voice came from the side, with concern in the voice.
"Teacher, I'm fine, and I feel great. I've never felt better than now."
Yuna, who was still a little unfamiliar, managed her body and sat up from the operating table. As she answered, she looked at a mirror beside her.
What is reflected in the mirror is a very beautiful beauty, with blond hair and black eyes, fair skin and beautiful appearance, with exquisite facial features and no flaws, as if she is a carefully carved work of art, with an otherworldly aura.
The beauty of holiness.
This is a beauty that Yuna is very familiar with. After all, she can see this face every time she looks in the mirror. However, looking at it today, it is obvious that this face is still as beautiful as usual, but in her eyes, she feels something strange.
strangeness.
This feeling was very strange, as if she was not looking at her own reflection at the moment, but with another familiar stranger.
However, Yuna was not alarmed by this. After all, this difference in self-perception was a normal phenomenon after the apostles had just completed their transformation.
Flesh and flesh are bitter and weak, and machines soar.
In the past, their thoughts and souls were trapped in the body of bitter flesh for a long time, controlled by various hormones and animalistic natures, and could not be free. But now she has completely got rid of the shackles of the mortal body and gained true freedom. This
This new freedom will inevitably collide with some small habits that have been developed for a long time in the past, resulting in this sense of dissonance.
Well, usually it only takes a few days to get used to this situation before you get used to it again.
At that moment, Yuna closed her eyes and started a self-examination of her body.
In fact, the main thing is to get used to this new brain.
Before this operation, her whole body prosthetic transformation had already reached 95%, and the last five percent of flesh and blood was actually the brain. For this final transformation, she uploaded her soul and consciousness, and then removed them.
The last brain was replaced with the latest and most powerful micro-differential optical brain, and finally the uploaded soul and consciousness were re-downloaded into this new optical brain, thus achieving complete mechanization.
I have to say that this new brain is very useful. No matter how optimized the previous human brain is, it will still be a drag on the advanced prosthetic body, making it impossible for her to exert the full performance of this prosthetic body. Otherwise, the brain
It will be overheated due to excessive information processing, and it may become brain-burning if you are not careful.
But now, let alone just exerting the performance of the prosthetic body, even if the prosthetic body is overloaded, the optical brain is still able to handle it easily, and even feels a little cold.
Well, this prosthetic body should be updated step by step and replaced with a more advanced one.
But that will have to wait until she gets used to this new brain.
The most taboo thing about upgrading an apostle is to renovate and update too many bodies at once in order to save time and effort. Doing so will aggravate your own cognitive impairment. In severe cases, your personality will collapse and you will feel that you are no longer yourself.
Therefore, normally, one component should be updated for a period of time, and then the next one should be replaced after being completely adapted to it, so that the whole body can be replaced in one round, and then the second round of updates can be started.
Although this method is slow, the risk will be much less.
Although Yuna feels that she can actually change a lot in one go, there shouldn't be any problem with her personality, after all...
"Forget it, teacher, it's impossible for her to allow me to act recklessly. I'd better continue to act like a good kid."
This holy lady of the Mechanicum thought so in her heart.
She has been trained as a saint by the Mechanicus since she was a child. For this reason, the Mechanicus even bypassed the alliance's equality law for her and secretly gave her the most advanced genes and the best talents before she was born, hoping that she would grow up.
When he grows up, he can become a great scholar who can lead the Mechanicus to achieve new breakthroughs in mechanical technology.
In this regard, Yuna did not disappoint everyone's expectations. She was really good and a genius. When she was 10 years old, she even solved a material problem that had troubled many scholars in the mechanical field for hundreds of years. At the age of 15, she had become a
She became the chief nun of the Technical Department of the Mechanicus. Now, at the age of 18, she is already the most prestigious person in the Mechanicus, second only to the Pope. It can be said that she is just waiting for her teacher, the current Pope, to return to the Kingdom of God, the Lord of All Machines.
Then she will be the next pope.
Therefore, although she is young, Yuna is actually at the top of the world. Power, wealth, fame, knowledge, beauty and other things that are beyond the reach of others are within easy reach for her.
And gaining all this too early actually made her outlook on life completely different from that of ordinary people.
Sometimes Yuna also thinks about whether she is still a human being. After all, she always feels that she may not be the same species as other people. Sometimes it is really difficult for her to understand the brain circuits of these similar people and why they are like that.
madness.
But now, she has finally reached adulthood and can ascend mechanically, and she is finally no longer a human being. God knows how hard she has waited for this day.
Human beings are really boring and stubborn. Those fools only know how to rigidly follow the rules. They clearly know that her talents and abilities will be fine even if they ascend early, but they are unwilling to take risks. This is a waste of her precious life.
of several years.
Obviously if she had switched to an optical brain a few years earlier, she would have been able to break through many mechanical bottlenecks in the past few years.
"Fortunately, I have found several pastimes to pass the boring time in the past few years."
Thinking of this, Yuna pursed her lips and smiled, and then the optical brain automatically connected to a darknet account on Skynet.
[09: These ten years of life have made me fully realize that human beings have limits, so I don’t want to be a human anymore. 】
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! She posted such news.
And her speech quickly made the darknet group chat become active.
[10: Wow, you are indeed my 9th sister. She is amazing. I am still picking up garbage in the wilderness garbage dump to grow up. I don’t know when I will be able to become a human being. 】
[11: Ignorance, flesh and blood is a treasure given to us by God. How can a rigid machine compare with a body that has been tempered for thousands of years? You will regret it sooner or later, No. 9. You can come to me then. 】
[07: Don’t run away, you fertile creature. I will definitely find your location this time. The hunting arrows have already locked onto you. 】
[04: Congratulations, you are freed from the shackles of your weak flesh and blood. I hope you, Xiaojiu, can move faster on the road to pursuing knowledge. 】
【05:I think I know who you are.】
.............
Looking at the lively group chat, Yuna smiled and said nothing.
Compared to the boring but stupid priests and nuns around the Mechanicum, she still prefers socializing with netizens.
Although this group is called Wings of Freedom.
Surprisingly, the current Saint of the Mechanicus and the next Pope of the Mechanicus are actually cadres of the terrorist organization Wings of Liberty.
If such news were exposed, it would probably make the headlines on Skynet in a matter of minutes, and then be questioned by countless netizens as fake news. After all, why did the Holy Lady create her own rebellion?
But the reality is so illogical. Yuna is really one of the envoys of the Wings of Freedom. Even the Wings of Freedom has developed so fast in recent years without her fueling the fire.
Although she has almost been appointed as the next pope, Yuna has no interest in leading the Mechanicus, which smells like an old man. As mentioned before, she feels that the many rules of the Mechanicus have been constraining her.
, preventing her from being free.
She desires to reform the Mechanicus and even the entire Alliance.
After stopping the water, Yuna turned her attention to the teacher on the side again.
Although she felt that most of the people around her were stupid monkeys, she still had a certain respect for this teacher.
But at this time, she had just gained a new brain, and with the advanced prosthetic eyes she had installed long ago, she was able to spot the abnormality of this decrepit old man at a glance.
Although the teacher is the Pope of the Mechanicum, he himself is a Pure Carnal Sect. He has not been transformed at all, so the years have left very obvious traces on him.
He is really old.
However, the teacher has always been in good health, and his physique is even strong enough to knock down a mechanical knight with his bare hands.
In fact, to this day, Yuna still doesn't quite understand how her teacher, a pure flesh sect who could almost be said to be a "spiritually rich person", could become the pope of a sect like the Mechanicus that believes in mechanical ascension.
She once asked the teacher this question, and in response to her question, the teacher just smiled and said jokingly while stroking his thick white beard.
"In a drag racing race involving a bunch of lunatics, there has to be someone sober enough to step on the brakes in time, right?"
Yuna thinks that although this sounds reasonable, does a group of monkeys driving a toy car really need someone to step on the brakes?
Really, if the teacher had ignored those annoying stupid monkeys who always failed to teach and kept repeating their mistakes, and if he had devoted all his energy to academic research, his achievements would have been higher.
.
Forget it, the teacher is already old and has only a few years left to live, so it’s better not to provoke him.
Yuna thought so in her heart, and then maintained her usual good-kid persona.
"Teacher, are you worried? Is there any trouble in the sect recently? Or is it the matter about the Black Hole Spirit Ruins?"
She asked, looking like she was trying to share the teacher's worries.
She could see that the teacher was absent-minded. Today was obviously the day of her mechanical ascension. If this was a normal situation, the teacher's attention would be all on her, but now the teacher was distracted, which was very abnormal.
It couldn't be that he was really suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She said that the teacher should stop being a human being as early as possible. The philosophy of the Pure Body Sect is really stupid.
Although her face was concerned, Yuna was complaining in her heart.
She was actually planning to give him a mechanical ascension secretly when the teacher wasn't paying attention. After all, it would be a pity if the teacher's talent really dies of old age. She will need an assistant who can keep up with her for her future research.
As for the risk of mechanical ascension, come on, are you doubting the faith of a pope?
Teacher, his mind is definitely a strong one in this world, not inferior to those fantasy-level apostles, and there is no risk to him in mechanical ascension.
Yuna's new mind was planning such a plan to honor the deceased, although she was still well-behaved and sensible on the surface.
When St. Anthony heard the concern of the apprentice in front of him, he was also stunned, and then shook his head, sighing in his heart that the observation power of the mechanical body was terrifying, and then lamented that time is not forgiving, he is really old, and he was even in front of the apprentice.
I can't hide my worries anymore.
So should I tell Yuna?
He hesitated for a moment. He was worried that this disciple was too young and might not be able to withstand the impact, especially since she had just been promoted to an apostle and was already mentally unstable.
But Yuna is his successor after all, there are some things she really needs to know, and the child's spirit is indeed much more stable than he thought, and he is not that fragile.
So, after much hesitation, he finally spoke.
"Yuna, do you believe in the Lord of All Machines?"
Saint Anthony asked tentatively.
Yuna: "......"
Miss Saint's new brain almost shut down at this moment.
She thought about many possibilities for the teacher's abnormality, but she never thought about this issue.
She felt that maybe she should take back her comment about the pope's firm faith. At the same time, she felt that the teacher was indeed suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It was a pity that he really couldn't be forced to ascend at this time.
"Praise the Lord of all opportunities, teacher, what's wrong with you? How could you ask such a blasphemous question?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yuna clenched her fists and praised the great Lord of All Machines loudly, and then said this to the teacher in a panic.
Of course, these are just acting skills.
After all, it is well known that the Mechanicus does not believe in the Lord of All Machines, but only believes in mechanical technology itself. The so-called Lord of All Machines has long been Lao Huangli, but this is the truth, but as a saint and a pope, she and her teacher absolutely cannot
Frankly questioning the spiritual totem of the Lord of All Machines.
"Okay, Yuna, there are no outsiders here. You don't need to act. Your kid has never believed in the Lord of All Machines, has he?"
But the old man waved his hand to interrupt the apprentice's performance. Although his eyes were old but not cloudy, he stared at the apprentice in front of him and asked seriously.
"Teacher, do you believe it?"
When the teacher exposed her performance so bluntly, Yuna also gave up her performance. She asked this question with an expressionless face.
Saint Anthony felt bitter about this.
"Yeah, I didn't believe it before either. I only believed in mechanical technology itself and knowledge."
And Yuna keenly discovered the key point in the teacher's words.
"Before, that meant..."
Miss Saint looked at the teacher in surprise, wondering what was wrong with him.
"Well, now I really believe it, because the great Lord of All Machines has returned."
St. Anthony's expression gradually became fanatical. He reached out and clenched his fist and hammered his chest three times, and then praised him devoutly.
"Holy, strike the holy hammer three times to give supreme praise to the Lord of all machines. He is the master of machines and the salvation of the world."
Yuna: "......"
The saintly lady looked at the teacher who seemed to be a little crazy in front of her. At this moment, the horror that she had never experienced before as a human enveloped her newly acquired apostle body.
What the hell, teacher, he is crazy. The Mechanicus has existed for tens of thousands of years, and the Lord of All Machines has never appeared. It is just an ancient legend of the destroyed Winter Empire. It is now the Alliance era.
Can the lost gods of the past still fake their corpses?
Guang Nao's rationality told Yuna that this was absolutely impossible, but the trembling from her soul and heart could not be faked.
At this time, Yuna's electronic eyes flashed a few times, and she received a new message. This was another small darknet group, and the group name...