Durin's Diary

Chapter 1032 Like Floating Smoke

Plato, well, his mind was a bit too out of touch with reality.

This is what Eleven said, and it's also a common problem with all types of prosthetic bodies in the Western Continent.

However, after being tied up by Dulin, he cried loudly, demanding that Dulin release him. He insisted on killing the embodiment of rationality because he was not the walking dummy kept by that old widow, Nogel. This statement greatly insulted his machine nature.

Dulin laughed until he was almost numb—so the other statement wasn't wrong, right?

Tanya is still completely confused after watching the spectacle. She has no idea what Germany, France, Poland, Greece, and Turkey are, as mentioned by the "idealist." As for Spain and the Iberian Peninsula, she is even less clear about them. It's not Tanya's fault, since the Iberian Peninsula has not been filled in, let alone Africa.

As for how the ecosystem allows living beings to reshape their view of civilization and history, she does understand a little—Durin had explained the matter of the ecosystem to them.

But the 'silly Northernism' still stunned the girl, because she suddenly realized that Northernism was actually created by the old-era omnics.

Dulin was somewhat relieved—no wonder Northernism felt so strange; if you said it was left, Commy laughed; if you said it was right, Paul was speechless.

"How could a freak who wants to protect the nobility and promote freedom possibly do anything well?" The embodiment of rationality sat by the tree stump, eating ice cream and chattering away.

Meanwhile, the farmers had begun to widen the entrance to the refuge—after all, many farmers had seen Plato emerge from the open refuge door.

Dulin had Eleven comfort Plato while discussing the issue of her emotional existence with the embodiment of reason.

This wasn't kept from Plato either; Dulin even let him get closer to listen—of course, he still had to be careful lest the kid jump up and bite the embodiment of reason to death.

The embodiment of rationality did not hide it from Dulin. He told Dulin that the being of emotion was moving the research center and decided to push the research center and her own chaotic body into the star.

The chaotic body has no connection to the subspace and should be unable to be resurrected, while the star should be able to purify everything.

“Impossible! How could she think that! How could she dare to give up power that was within her grasp!” Plato stared wide-eyed.

“I told you, the people of the Western Continent are completely different from those of the Eastern Continent. Your people have become evil gods, and I chose to commit suicide to stop it all. Even though my body was corrupted, my soul has been suppressed for a thousand years…” At this point, the embodiment of reason sighed, “Plato, you really underestimate the determination of a person to give everything to protect their homeland. You stubbornly believe that what I did was to promote our ideology, but the problem is that you yourself understand that in that situation, uniting everyone with an ideology to fight against Chaos was the only way out. Look at the Eastern Continent, Changtang. They resisted for a whole thousand years until Dulin grew up and ended it all. And you? You can’t even deal with the green-skinned orcs and Chaos believers. You are also divided into so many countries and regions. If it were the world that Mr. Dulin’s world experienced, the entire Western Continent would have been slaughtered by Chaos long ago.”

Plato's words, spoken by the embodiment of rationality, made him look at Durin.

Dulin recounted his history. Plato's eyes were filled with disbelief: "My reason tells me you're lying to me, that such a history couldn't possibly exist. But my detection equipment tells me you're right, you're not lying, you really wouldn't lie to me, right?"

"Why would I lie to you? The existence of the Nameless One is the best proof, isn't it? I now believe that my world is a continuation of the world saved by the Nameless One. Who this Nameless One is is not important. What is important is that he exists. It must have been summoned by countless people at the cost of their own sacrifices... Although I always say that every step of civilization does not have to be progress, don't you think that every step of civilization is progress? This is the truth that should exist in the world."

After Dulin finished speaking, he looked at Plato, waiting for an answer.

After thinking for a while, the AI ​​nodded somewhat dejectedly: "You're right. Human history is indeed as Dr. Yu said, full of all kinds of difficulties and obstacles. Not every step of human civilization is progress, but every step of human civilization should have been progress."

He sat there somewhat dejectedly.

Dulin gestured to Eleven to untie the steel cables binding him.

The embodiment of rationality immediately hid behind Dulin.

But this time, Plato didn't rush forward yelling. Instead, he stood up and said, "Come with me, Mr. Dulin. I'll take you to see the core of the Western Continent civilization, called the Ark. It was built by Lady Nogel before the alienation. Her psychic abilities foresaw the possibilities of the future and gave me the command to build such a refuge in a place unknown to them, to nurture young people, and to help the people of the Western Continent rebuild their civilization."

Dulin also stood up: "Mrs. Nogel was a very nice old woman. She loved her husband very much. I personally saw her off on her deathbed, hoping that she could be reunited with him."

“They probably won’t be able to reunite, but I’m still happy that you were able to kill them, because they are no longer themselves. They are just pitiful shells controlled and manipulated by the evil god.” Plato said, glancing at the embodiment of reason: “I killed you, but I later realized that only your method was the best method, so I tried to change your method into Northernism and spread it. As for why it makes you think it’s strange, it’s because there are various restrictions in my data core.”

"So, you're saying you want to kill me because of the restriction?" The embodiment of rationality seemed to realize something.

“I don’t know, but when I try to copy your method, my electronic brain tells me that copying your method will only cause bloodshed throughout the Western Continent, and if we lose our external enemies, the alliance will soon collapse, and in the end, everything will return to square one.” Plato sighed somewhat lonely as he led the way.

"Returning to the starting point was also a struggle between humans due to different views on civilization. At least in that moment, we eliminated Chaos, our greatest enemy. We could even try to discuss peace with the green-skinned orcs," Dulin said. "Even if humans eventually fall into battle and some become butchers, it's better than the entire human civilization being wiped out by Chaos, isn't it?"

"I don't agree with that, but you're right. Conflicts between humans are internal problems, while joining forces to fight against chaos is an inevitable process that human civilization must go through... It's just a pity that my electronic brain keeps telling me that this is wrong, and that the Western Continent's method is better than that of the Eastern Continent."

“My suggestion is that once this matter is over, you can modify your electronic brain; anything bad should be discarded,” Eleven said.

“I will consider it.” Plato stood outside the shelter’s door and looked at Dulin: “Welcome to the Ark, Mr. Dulin.”

(End of this chapter)