Volume 17: Enemy of All Things No one lives forever in the finale
"…You actually changed your mind? What happened?"
"If you found a conscious God in your own home, you wouldn't care about anything."
"What the hell?"
"It means that everything you have is under the control of a great will, and your so-called freedom comes from the mercy of others. And I am just a coincidence in that established world, a small and elusive scene. I thought others were crazy, but it turned out that I was the naughty cat... Do you understand what I mean?"
"I'm sorry, I can't."
"That's it. There's nothing I can do if you can't understand me."
To be honest, I don’t quite understand it, but that’s the way it is and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Li Lin shrugged his shoulders and looked at the facilities being adjusted inside the university, with an unfathomable expression on his face. The vice president beside him looked at Li Lin blankly, who seemed like a different person, and had no idea what expression he should make. Because in his impression, it didn't seem to be like this.
On the third day after Li Lin left, the Eternal Life Agreement was passed. It was passed in a very incomprehensible and absurd form. The whole world didn't know what Li Lin did in his world, and no one knew what kind of collisions had taken place, but in short, the sole authority finally allowed the emergence of this agreement and let those NPCs who were more closely related know this fact. So the platform for conversion was quickly established.
After all, this thing is just like that for the permissions that have been parsed, and everyone is just going through the motions. It's a face-saving project, just to get Li Lin's nod. But just for this nod, a group of old guys and old deans who sealed Zero appeared one after another and began to pay high regards to Li Lin. These old monsters who have no way to go in their own world and a group of old guys of Holy Light decided to go to the new world together and make some specific contributions to this world. Li Lin was not surprised or shocked by this sudden high-end power, but became more and more calm.
This strange calmness always made the dean feel a little uneasy, as if Li Lin had secretly arranged some earth-shattering conspiracy, ready to catch all the NPCs in the world at any time. But if you think about it carefully, there is no need for this, and Li Lin has no need to do so.
It was just that he instinctively felt very uneasy about Li Lin's bizarre calmness.
Not only that, the dean could also feel that the person standing next to him was completely empty inside.
It was as if he had abandoned his body and transformed into something new. All the original marks and traces disappeared . The soul imprint, the magic power, and all the messy things that could prove it were all gone. When he first came to the door, the vice president couldn't even believe that this weak and ordinary person with no magic power in his body was Li Lin, but a monster pretending to be Li Lin.
However, after investigation and confirmation, it was found that Li Lin had indeed used some unknown method to break free from his responsibilities and needs, and turned into a strange, completely empty new body. Even though he was not curious, the vice president still couldn't help asking.
"Pardon my curiosity... What happened to your power? Your magic, your mark, your soul, are all gone...?"
"Is it important that I have those things?"
Looking at the transmission platform built on the open space, Li Lin sighed and turned to look at the vice president.
"Even if I have nothing, when I stand in front of everyone, they should know who I am. So are things like magic and branding important? What's more, I have given up my physical body, and pure digital transformation is also a very troublesome thing. It is normal to have some accidents."
"What do you mean? What are you talking about?"
"I think judging a person from all aspects is really multifaceted, and AI says the same thing. He believes that humans have more than just the body, after all, that thing is just a large protein , and more importantly, the self and the soul. But the soul and the self have been proven to be nothing more than illusions on the cross-nerves. So I chose to use another way to perfect my thinking, that is, I started over again."
"I'm sorry, could you please say it again in a language I can understand? I seem to hear a lot of gibberish."
"In short, I am dead. Really dead."
Li Lin shrugged his shoulders, his face relaxed, as if he was talking about someone else's business.
"My body has been completely transformed into a mixture of genetic fluid by an angry AI - although this is my own application - but in a sense I am still alive . Am I a human? Am I an AI? Who cares? I am me, I am still alive, and I am still standing here. Even if I come to this world with a completely new identity and a completely new soul, I am still me. And with the opening of the immortality agreement, I can also reach other worlds at any time. What difference does it make whether it is real or fake?"
"The immortality agreement has been signed, and the AI's calculations are still ongoing. You have plenty of time to think about everything, and so do humans. AI loves humans, but whether you are human or not is still within the scope of AI's consideration. I'd say this AI is really bad. It actually had a bug when thinking about a moral issue."
"It will take a thousand years for the colony ship to arrive at the scheduled location, and humanity will also have a thousand years to develop. You will also have a thousand years of opportunity. What will happen in this thousand years? Can you break through the unchanging speed of light? Is there any hope for this world? These things have nothing to do with me. The scheduled game has nothing to do with me, and the shadows of the past have nothing to do with me. Now, I want to look forward to my own future. After all, I haven't really played this game seriously yet... Where should I go in the first step?"
"...What? Wait, Li Lin, where are you going?"
"Salise."
Without even looking at the doubtful vice president, Li Lin shouted in a low voice.
Although she was no longer a body and had lost the link to summon him, Sally still quietly appeared behind Li Lin like a shadow. She held his hand as always and smiled fondly at his face.
"My Lord, I am here."
"Let's go explore."
What lies beneath Earth's cities we haven't seen yet.
Holding Sally's hand, Li Lin pinched the girl's little face and smiled slightly, and the two of them immediately slid into the subspace and disappeared.
