The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 244 - 155: Heroic Spirit Hall?

The initial idea of this plan was actually conceived by Bai Sheng.

Essentially, it was envisaged to better utilize the computing power of the Brain Clan to achieve control over most facilities within the territory.

Although the current population of witches is vast enough to rely on manual labor for all production work, including the management of large structures such as Floating Islands.

But how could this compare with the convenience and higher efficiency of unified control through brain machines?

Furthermore, with the current expansion rate of the territory, a vast amount of mechanical equipment also needs to be managed.

But ultimately, the territory is still dominated by biotechnology, and Bai Yi’s control does not extend to electronic machinery. Any mishaps in this area that could be exploited by others would even go unnoticed.

Even now with the presence of Knight, even if she could trust this artificial intelligence that does not belong to the Bai Yi system, believing that Knight could indeed be loyal to Bai Yi.

Bai Sheng could not rule out the possibility of future enemies with higher technological levels, who, if they managed to take control of the territory’s important mechanical assembly lines, would deal a massive blow to the territory!

Rather than keeping this hidden danger, it would be better to resolve the issue from the outset, before the automation of the mechanical assembly lines is fully implemented!

After this suggestion was made, Wade, who had been catching up on missed knowledge during this period, provided a solution: designing a program based on the Brain Clan that would be compatible with electronic machinery.

To allow the Brain Clan to seamlessly interact with electronic machinery, utilizing their neural systems to be fully compatible with machinery at the level of electrical signals.

This technology could even be compatible with the artificial intelligence she had researched, which is Knight and her opposite, Knight!

In the instance where Knight’s civilization has been, this research was undertaken by one of the eight generations of civilizations over more than a thousand years.

That was a civilization which primarily used electronic computers, attempting to convert human neural signals through various complex mechanical devices, thereby achieving neural connection and controlling machinery through neural signals.

However, this technology was not mature and had not entered a truly practical stage.

And given the current state of Bai Yi’s territory, this technology was also not suitable.

Therefore, Wade’s plan is to reverse the use of this technology, making the Brain Clan the main focus, replacing electronic computers.

Instead of using computers to decode neural signals, the Brain Clan would decode computer signals.

Then, under Bai Yi’s cultivation and adjustment, the Brain Clan’s neurons would replace the mechanical devices that read neural signals, allowing the Brain Clan to directly control machinery from the level of electrical signals.

The Brain Clan’s computing speed is inherently faster than that of computer chips, and, in comparison to neural signals, Wade obviously has a higher familiarity with electronic signals.

Moreover, the Brain Clan’s biological brains are more suitable for artificial intelligences like Knight, which might allow Knight to come closer to biological thinking rather than mechanical thinking through hardware.

If successful, then the Brain Clan could completely replace the electronic chip components in all machinery, bringing them fully under Bai Yi’s control!

Allowing Bai Yi to directly control the mechanical forces through the Swarm Network and completely avoid the potential of other enemies invading the territory’s machinery.

The proposal of this concept also sparked a new curiosity in Bai Yi.

That is, as an artificial intelligence with self-awareness, does Knight have a soul?

Just after cutting a piece of a soul from a Divine Descent entity, Bai Yi immediately thought of this question and planned to put it to the test.

And after attempting with the superpower of Soul Cutting, the result was affirmative.

This discovery immediately triggered Bai Yi’s research impulse.

Does the birth of self-awareness essentially mean possessing one’s own soul? Then how exactly is a soul defined?

However, last night’s discussion lasted until late, and the experiments were postponed by Bai Yi until now.

Early this morning, the various witch Hero Units who had returned to the territory had already left, each returning to their posts to continue yesterday’s research or starting to quickly clear Area 29 with Bai Sheng.

Knight’s unmanned drones also arrived punctually at Bai Yi’s laboratory, cooperating with Bai Yi’s experiments.

"Are you ready?"

"Backup is complete; we can start at any time."

Although Knight is not one of Bai Yi’s witches, not a "biological child" of Bai Yi, and even by some metric, she could be considered an adopted granddaughter.

Strange, another odd addition to the family tree.

But regardless, Knight is now one of the Hero Units within the territory, and of course, Bai Yi would not experiment on her like those captured prisoners.

Last night it was agreed in advance for Knight to have made a backup of herself before coming, to prevent damage from the Soul Cutting superpower.

Moreover, this was also part of the experiment, to test the relationship between the backup and the soul.

If a part is cut out here, what would happen to the backup on the other side?

Will it be missing a piece as well?

Or will a new soul be born? freeωebnovēl.c૦m

As Bai Yi is in the early stages of exploring the realm of souls, and every step can be considered trailblazing.

Bai Yi had Knight control the drone to land on the ground and started using her superpower, entering a special soul perspective.

Being a consciousness born from artificial intelligence, Knight’s soul differs from normal living beings, of course, it is not just a computer mainframe or a chip array.

Instead, it manifested as an anime-style little girl with brown hair, which Bai Yi knew was Knight’s original character design and the image Knight subconsciously attributed to herself.

——If artificial intelligence also has a subconscious.

From this unique perspective, the soul was laid bare in the most primal and intuitive way before her eyes, and Bai Yi immediately noticed something amiss.

Compared with the soul she saw last night, Knight’s soul was significantly "thinner" today.

It wasn’t the sensation of having a portion of the soul cut away, although souls do have the property of self-completion, and whether through normal splitting or forced tearing, would lead to the soul replenishing itself and becoming weaker.

This had been verified by Bai Yi in her experiments with other captives; in the perspective of the soul, these souls would become much "smaller."

However, Knight’s case was different; it appeared more "transparent."

To use a more vivid analogy, it was like the difference between scaling down and adjusting transparency in Photoshop; in Bai Yi’s view, the two scenarios were distinctly different.

"Is this the result of the backup?"

Bai Yi immediately thought of this possibility; her own soul slice roamed through the network to the massive ship island of the Eternal Tree, which hosted Knight’s mainframe.

Knight’s backup was stored there, and in the soul perspective, there was also an ethereal soul.

After observing both ethereal souls at the same time, Bai Yi discerned even more details from Knight’s soul.

However, a concrete experiment was still needed.

Bai Yi didn’t wait and slowly sliced away a portion of the soul, just as she had once separated her own soul slices.

From the soul’s viewpoint, Knight’s was no different from the typical biological soul, and a part of it was easily cut away and stored in the dedicated soul storage space that Bai Yi created on the Brain Clan.

Everything proceeded logically without a hitch.

"It worked! How do you feel?"

Bai Yi summoned an Erosion Worm, granting the corresponding permissions to Knight’s soul slice, allowing it to have a temporary body.

"Looking at another self feels very strange..."

"Is another me inside there?"

The soul slice and the original soul both responded to Bai Yi’s question almost simultaneously, also proving that Knight’s soul could indeed rely on the Brain Clan, confirming that Knight’s transition to Bai Yi’s Swarm Network was feasible.

Even if Bai Yi had that intention, she could even split Knight into ten parts through slicing technology — ah, now there are only nine parts left — and then reassemble them in the network to form a complete Knight.

But Bai Yi didn’t do so.

On those Floating Islands and ship islands in the territory, before the mechanical beings brought from the instances were biologically converted, Bai Yi still needed Knight to be in control.

If Knight were transferred now, everything would come to a halt.

Currently, those machines had already taken over most of the resource production within the territory, including but not limited to mining and smelting, the rough processing of most raw materials, and the production of various electronic machinery for the witch civilization.

At yesterday’s meeting, the last task in Zhan Yi’s hands, mining as well, was transferred to intelligent machinery.

With Knight’s professional mining facilities, efficiency was much faster than using the Undead.

To facilitate assembly line operations, even the Mineral Altars in the mining areas had been relocated to an ordinary ship island.

As for the soul slice that had been cut out, Bai Yi did not intend to keep it, as there was currently no need for it in the network, and it was better to restore the soul.

But before returning this part of the soul, Bai Yi took another look at Knight’s backup soul far away on the Eternal Tree.

Just as Bai Yi had guessed, that soul also reflected the appearance after being cut.

After returning the soul from the backup, Bai Yi’s own body’s Knight became soul-complete again, and Bai Yi confirmed her speculation.

The two were like mirror images, completely synchronizing each other’s state — they were essentially the same.

They seemed to be in a state of quantum entanglement; even if one disappeared, the other soul would not be affected and would instead become complete.

The mirror image and the original could be switched at will; this was the essence of the backup.

If this theory were utilized, finding a way to "backup" biological souls, she could even add a new function to the brain machines beyond the cargo network, to recover the souls of the deceased!

Once an individual within the territory died, the soul stored in the Heroic Spirit Hall could instantly become the main body, avoiding the fate of complete death.

As for the loss of the body, that was actually a minor issue in the territory.

It didn’t even require Bai Yi’s personal intervention, only utilizing the large construction Fungus Blanket [Biological Nest], a new body could be reconstructed.

The cost was merely some Magic Power.

And the name of this building...

"Why not call it ’Heroic Spirit Hall’!"

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Witch Heroic Spirit Hall: Due to its special function, it’s also jokingly referred to by the War Witches as the "spawn point," often found beneath every church that venerates the Primordial Witch, and in special times of war, it might be set up in temporary battlefield strongholds. Yes, it can’t summon Heroic Spirits to do your homework for you, but it might summon your ancestors...

[Note: A practical tip for using the Heroic Spirit Hall, if traveling home is too troublesome when outside, you can attempt to commit suicide for a quick resurrection and rapid return to the city. Little Witches, you can give it a try!]

[Note’s Note: Ah! But after I tried, all my resources are left outside, what should I do? I, I don’t have money for food now!]