Five Frozen Centuries

Chapter 217: The Mysteries of a Robot’s Soul

Wei Huo entered the mechanical tower of Mechanical City. The mechanical tower was the only palace device that provided electricity to the city. It could be called an energy tower.

There would often be maintenance robots coming to repair the energy tower to ensure that the palace device could operate smoothly.

Wei Huo opened a hole at the bottom of the energy source and sneaked in. He traded for a very advanced computer and used his rich electromagnetic knowledge to build a functional mechanical core to ensure that the mechanical core could obtain sufficient electricity.

Wei Huo placed the blueprint on the table and added all sorts of materials and parts to it. A few seconds later, a small mechanical core appeared in front of Wei Huo and the golden armor.

The golden armor was confused. “What kind of mysterious scientific method is this?”

Wei Huo did not answer. Instead, he started using the mechanical core. He first channeled all his blueprints into the mechanical core and obtained the list of materials needed to build all kinds of machinery. Apart from channeling existing blueprints, Wei Huo could also design new blueprints himself. As long as the design was right and conformed to modern science theories, he could build it.

The mechanical core was indeed a very BUG-like item. If one wanted to travel through space in the future, this item would be indispensable.

Wei Huo traded for sufficient materials and threw them into the mechanical core. Soon, the mechanical core produced two more robots. The two robots were exactly the same as the robots walking on the streets outside. However, they did not have souls in their bodies, so they could not be driven.

Wei Huo tapped his glabella and a black aura of nirvanic extermination was emitted from it. The aura of nirvanic extermination turned into a small black humanoid and drilled the body of a robot.

A moment later, the robot started moving.

Wei Huo sat down cross-legged and started meditating. His other consciousness entered the robot’s body, and he started familiarizing himself with it.

The golden armor was dumbfounded. “Is this an external embodiment?”

Wei Huo nodded his head and emitted an electromagnetic wave. “It’s about the same. I can even manufacture a powerful artificial robot and take control of it.”

The golden armor followed Wei Huo’s example and imitated him. It split its consciousness and entered another robot. It moved its new body curiously and asked, “The power of science is too strong. I wonder if I can still learn it now?”

Wei Huo said, “We currently have a learning opportunity. Let’s go to the robot school!”

The golden armor was in high spirits. It followed Wei Huo out of the energy tower and walked toward the robot school. They observed the city as they walked.

Mechanical City was not much different from a real human city. What surprised them the most was that robots were also divided into men and women. They would also form families, but they could not really give birth. If they wanted children, they could only go to the Robot Factory to collect them.

This was a robot paradise. They lived, studied, and worked there. Some robots even reared mechanical dogs and cats.

They listened to the conversations of other robots as they walked. Many robots were talking about the supernatural phenomenon that had taken place earlier. On the street, a scanner had been cut in half. A combat mechanical dog had turned into pieces, and its engine oil had been scattered all over the ground.

“Are there really Mechanical Ghosts in this world?”

“It’s really terrifying. It’s said that Mechanical Ghosts have the power to control souls.”

“The combat dog was torn into pieces without any warning. It’s said that no one on the scene found anything.”

The new scanner flew around in the sky. The strong light and electromagnetic waves kept scanning the place, but they found nothing.

The golden armor sighed. “It seems like all living creatures are afraid of the unknown. They can’t see, hear, or come up with wild guesses.”

Wei Huo was also thinking about this problem. If an alien that humans could not detect appeared on Earth and kept moving, would humans think that there was a ghost around when they saw traces left behind by the alien?

This was not something that could be explained in a short time. After all, the light that humans could see with their eyes was limited. Humans could not see any light that surpassed the human spectrum. If an invisible creature appeared, humans would not be able to see it either.

Wei Huo and the golden armor arrived at the robot school. They sneaked in and eavesdropped on everything.

Before long, the golden armor said sadly, “Why don’t they teach scientific knowledge instead of talking about all sorts of mysterious things?”

Wei Huo listened for a long time. The teacher did not talk about science and technology in class. Instead, he talked about souls, spirits, and morals.

The teacher said, “You can study science and technology at any time. As long as you search on the Internet and copy and paste it, you can enter your storage disk. However, your mind, spirit, and morals are not easily studied. Learning is one thing, but whether you can implement knowledge is another thing. What I want to teach you is something you can’t learn by yourselves. What you can learn by yourselves you will have to learn on your own. I won’t force you if you don’t want to learn, but you have to do homework!”

The robot school was very special. Each student had a small chair, and there was a data interface on the chair. During class, they needed to extend their data lines to connect with the interface. That way, new data and information would be continuously transmitted to their storage disks.

However, the teacher did not transmit all his knowledge to the students.

He instead started explaining in class, “Innovation is the foundation of a nation. It’s meaningless to blindly copy and paste without innovation. The famous Mr. Y1 once said that success is 80% inspiration and 20% luck.”

The golden armor was depressed. “Why? Don’t they have the phrase ‘work hard’ in their dictionary? Why haven’t they mentioned it before?”

Wei Huo said, “It might be because they don’t need to accumulate knowledge. It’s too easy for them to obtain knowledge, but because their souls are weak, it’s too difficult to achieve innovation. Without innovation, science is dead.”

Wei Huo and the golden armor walked around the school for a while and then parted ways. The golden armor planned to sneak into the database of Mechanical City. It had suddenly developed a strong interest in science and was determined to become a scientist. Its goal was to create a 100% realistic human body.

Wei Huo thought that the reason it was so persistent was because it had been a human before dying. After its death, it had become a piece of armor, so it was trying its best to obtain a new body.

The golden armor went to the database while Wei Huo went to the Robot Factory. He was curious to know where the soul in a robot’s body came from. His intuition told him that he could leave this level by comprehending this.

Wei Huo arrived at the Robot Factory and saw quite a few robot couples queuing up to register. They were all planning to adopt robot children after getting married. Many families had already adopted a few.

Wei Huo sneaked into the Robot Factory. There were no other robots in the factory, as it was fully automated. The robots produced in the factory were all babies. The babies could not be produced by themselves, so they needed the parents of the robots to install new parts for them. They had to be installed according to their age. They also had to be constantly upgraded so that the babies’ bodies and minds could grow.

Wei Huo was not interested in that. He was more interested in the soul of a robot. Soon, he arrived at the core area of the factory. However, Wei Huo saw an ancient bronze gate. The gate did not seem to fit in with the modern robotic arms around it.

On one side of the bronze gate was a small cave. A bronze piece would fly out from time to time and land on the tracks. There was a weird rune carved on the bronze piece, and a spiritual wave was coming from the rune!