As the Tower of Babel flew - or glided - it gradually began to approach the ground.
The images captured by the spherical camera became clearer and clearer, and the ground under Russell and Huazhuo's feet began to "become transparent."
"Want to see it more clearly?"
Hua Huo turned around and saw Russell staring at the ground intently, so he said, "You can just tell it directly and ask it to zoom in a little bit - Deer Head Image, zoom in a little closer."
"There's no internet here, right? Can the deer-headed statue also control the facilities here?"
Russell raised his head and asked in surprise.
He thought that the one controlling the "Tower of Babel" was Huachu, or some kind of automatic system. But Huachu was sitting next to him, and he was really a passenger like him.
"The deer-headed statue can't speak now, so don't ask her."
The evil smile appeared on Huachu's face again: "After all, there is no device that can synthesize sounds here. As a program virus, even if she heard it, she wouldn't be able to talk to you directly.
"At that time, artificial intelligence technology was not as developed as it is now. But as early as the religious war, computers had been re-invented by church scholars for a period of time - but we called this a 'computing personal terminal' at that time.
It is distinguished from the 'divine personal terminal', 'therapeutic personal terminal', 'combat personal terminal' and other equipment."
"It turns out that the Cyber Church at that time was already so cyber." Russell was a little surprised.
"The church is the biggest promoter of electronic technology - you have to know that mages don't need this kind of thing. Spells are not something that can be optimized through calculation, and when this extraordinary power is only in their hands, mages can
Have a transcendent status.
"Similarly, the power of the nobles lies in their taxation of the people; the power of the ministers lies in their management of business, military, agriculture and other activities. Inventions that can increase personal combat effectiveness and productivity uncontrollably are unreasonable.
Conducive to the kingdom maintaining its rule.
"For example, factory assembly lines—the size of the factory that all factory owners could open, the output and the type of production, and the number of employees they could recruit were all strictly limited. At that time, there were some cross-border armed frictions on land, and firearms technology
Perhaps it was even more developed than it is now. And the control over firearms is not much better than it is now.
"At that time, there were even strict controls on armor, horses, and all weapons weighing more than one kilogram.
"When I was traveling around the mainland, there was a classic joke - that the most useful weapon is a one-handed sword weighing 9 kilograms. And how to restrain the opponent? The answer is to hang a weighted ball on the hilt of the opponent's sword.
, and then you can report the other party.
"After that, law enforcement officers wearing armor, riding giant horses, and carrying rifles and heavy hammers will rush over to arrest him."
Huachu felt a little emotional: "The church was not called the Cyber Church at that time, and there was no term for 'Cyber Ascension'. Their ideas may seem a bit naive now. They hoped to research automated assembly line technology so that the factory could use only one
One person can easily complete the work of ten people. In this way, people don’t have to work endlessly.”
"Wouldn't that mean you'd be unemployed?"
"Indeed. But the church scholars only realized this after they invented this technology. But after they discussed it, they found that this problem cannot be solved - as long as they promote technological development and iteration, it will inevitably be accompanied by
The unemployment of old workers. But as long as the technology is promoted, most people can profit from it.
"So the church had another idea... They planned to develop generational technologies that would allow society to completely iterate, making everyone's work meaningless. In other words, they did not plan to promote new technologies from generation to generation.
Instead of constantly eliminating old workers, we plan to cobble together technologies that are fifty or one hundred years ahead of schedule, so that everyone can equally relearn new technologies, and achieve fairness through this method.
"——And they can really do it. Because they are not inventions from scratch in the strict sense. When we were on the ground, archeology was a taboo subject, but there were always people participating.
Because the ancient technology excavated from the ruins and
Documents sold to scholars always fetch astonishingly high prices.
"This kind of adventurer is the easiest profession for ordinary people to reach the sky in one step. And it is precisely because there are a lot of ancient technologies as a reference and there is no practice to optimize these technologies that the church's technology is so advanced.
And subtle ones are not very practical.”
"It's a bit outrageous to say so." Russell replied absentmindedly, lowering his head and looking at the ground.
"really."
Hua Chu agreed: "I think so too."
She noticed Russell's distraction, so she followed Russell's gaze to the ground: "Oh, you are watching them kneeling before you.
"Why, looking down at a mortal as tiny as an ant, does it make you think of yourself as a god?"
"I just think...
Russell stared at the land and murmured in a low voice: "Their eyes are filled with hope and fear at the same time. It's very strange."
"It's normal."
Hua Chu said lightly: "You were born on an empty island, so you have no idea about this.
"But for these people who have been on the land since birth, feeling the earth full of scars, and barely surviving from the authority of nature, they can only rely on books and other things that still existed in the land era, or oral traditions and simple
knowledge to the savages who can barely maintain the existence of civilization.
"Now you are a true god. You are the pure angel who was born in the divine world and descended from the divine realm."
"——It's not just that."
Russell suddenly said: "In their blood... there is an unconcealable fear of aircraft of this shape.
"More than a hundred years have passed... In this difficult living environment, those who witnessed the war have long since died. But they will do their best to leave behind the knowledge and technology they mastered in the once glorious civilization. And
They also passed down the destruction caused by the arrival of this type of aircraft. "That's why people will kneel down and pray. That is not a prayer for the gospel and salvation, but a prayer for me not to destroy them."
At this distance, Russell could easily sense the emotions stirring in the hearts of those who whispered.
That is a "frequency" that Russell has never been exposed to.
Compared with the people on the Sky Islands, their emotions have become simple and dull. Unlike the people on the Sky Islands, their hearts can change thousands of times in just a moment. When they think, fear, pray, and kneel down, their emotions change and
The fluctuations are so slow.
They have adapted to this land with no new changes, and even their way of thinking has become symbiotic with the slow pace of nature. It is like their bodies have naturally shut down part of their brains during their "evolution" in just a hundred years.
To reduce body energy consumption and save resources.
Even if it is such a humble and arduous life - even in a place where it is extremely difficult to survive, people are praying to the "gods" for the continuation of life and doing their best to pass on even a small part of "civilization".
But the so-called "gods" fight and destroy each other to the death because of empty hatred, fear, jealousy, and greed.
"I can't tell the difference, Huazhu."
Russell murmured in a low voice: "Who is the human?"